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The largest category of representational art recovered from many ancient Indus sites is terracotta figurines. In this lavishly illustrated book, Sharri R. Clark examines and recontextualizes a rich and diverse corpus of hundreds of figurines from the urban site of Harappa to reveal new information about Indus ideology and society. After more than eighty years ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 41,70 €
ISBN 978-0-674-41716-8
EAN 9780674417168
Empires on the Waterfront offers a new spatial framework for understanding Japan's extended transition into the modern world of nation-states. This study examines a largely unacknowledged system of "special trading ports" that operated under full Japanese jurisdiction in the shadow of the better-known treaty ports. By allowing Japan to circumvent conditions imposed on treaty ports, ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
ISBN 978-1-934510-38-4
EAN 9781934510384
Digital information and communication technologies (ICTs) foster innovative means for communication but also require a buildup in physical space for infrastructure. New Geographies, 7 presents historical perspectives, theoretical framings, and new design paradigms to aid in understanding the hybrid virtual and physical spaces that ICTs need. Almost fifty years after the spatial experiments with the ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 600 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-41706-9
EAN 9780674417069
Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson have gathered Emerson's most memorable prose published under his direct supervision, enhanced by additional writings. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Prose is the only single-volume anthology that presents the full range of Emerson's written and spoken prose-sermons, lectures, addresses, and essays.Upon its completion, The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-74393-9
EAN 9780674743939
Under the microscope of recent scholarship the universality of Greek tragedy has started to fade, as particularities of Athenian culture have come into focus. Miriam Leonard contests the idea of the death of tragedy and argues powerfully for the continued vitality and viability of Greek tragic theater in the central debates of contemporary culture.The ancient ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-96751-9
EAN 9780674967519
For Descartes, knowledge exists as ideas in the mind that represent the world. In a radical critique, Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor argue that knowledge consists of much more than the representations we formulate in our minds. They affirm our direct contact with reality-both the physical and the social world-and our shared understanding of it."A ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-41664-2
EAN 9780674416642
John Milton is regarded as the greatest English poet after Shakespeare. Yet for sublimity and philosophical grandeur, Milton stands almost alone in world literature. His peers are Homer, Virgil, Dante, Wordsworth, and Goethe: poets who achieve a total ethical and spiritual vision of the world. In this panoramic interpretation, the distinguished Milton scholar Gordon Teskey ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-96768-7
EAN 9780674967687
Asia Inside Out reveals the dynamic forces that have historically linked regions of the world's largest continent, stretching from Japan and Korea to the South China Sea, Indian Ocean, and the Middle East. Connected Places, the second installment in this pioneering three-volume survey, highlights the transregional flows of goods, ideas, and people across natural and ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-50438-7
EAN 9780674504387
Many of the West's best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh's literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-96770-0
EAN 9780674967700
Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity; Smith as an apologist. Istvan Hont, however, finds significant commonalities in their work, arguing that both were theorists of commercial society and from surprisingly similar perspectives.In making his case, Hont begins ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-73677-1
EAN 9780674736771
orty years after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision legalizing abortion, Roe v. Wade continues to make headlines. After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate cuts through the myths and misunderstandings to present a clear-eyed account of cultural and political responses to the landmark 1973 ruling in the decade that followed. ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-72533-1
EAN 9780674725331
John Medearis argues that democracies face challenges which go beyond civic lethargy and unreasonable debate. Democracy is inherently a fragile state of affairs because citizens create the very institutions that overwhelm them. Hostile threats are the product of their own collective activities, and preserving democracy will always entail struggle.Is infrequent voting the most we can ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-74395-3
EAN 9780674743953
Senior citizens from all walks of life face a gauntlet of physical, psychological, and social hurdles. But do the disadvantages some people accumulate over the course of their lives make their final years especially difficult? Or does the quality of life among poor and affluent seniors converge at some point? The End Game investigates whether ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-72906-3
EAN 9780674729063
This compact history traces the computer industry from its origins in 1950s mainframes, through the establishment of standards beginning in 1965 and the introduction of personal computing in the 1980s. It concludes with the Internet's explosive growth since 1995. Across these four periods, Martin Campbell-Kelly and Daniel Garcia-Swartz describe the steady trend toward miniaturization and ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-74412-7
EAN 9780674744127
Noise, as we usually think of it, is background sound that interferes with our ability to hear more interesting sounds. In general terms, though, it is anything that interferes with the reception of signals of any sort. It includes extraneous energy in the environment, degradation of signals in transit, and spontaneous random activity in receivers ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-73689-4
EAN 9780674736894
August Weismann's 1892 theory that inheritance is transmitted through eggs and sperm provided the biological mechanism for natural selection. In this full-length biography, Frederick Churchill situates Weismann in the swirling intellectual currents of his day and shows how his work paved the way for the modern synthesis of genetics and evolution.The evolutionist Ernst Mayr considered ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-99690-8
EAN 9780674996908
Statius's Silvae, thirty-two occasional poems, were written probably between 89 and 96 CE. Here the poet congratulates friends, consoles mourners, offers thanks, admires a monument or artistic object, and describes a memorable scene. The verse is light in touch, with a distinct pictorial quality. Statius gives us in these impromptu poems clear images of Domitian's ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-99686-1
EAN 9780674996861
Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus, 86-35 BCE), a Sabine from Amiternum, acted as tribune against Cicero and Milo in 52, joined Caesar after being expelled from the Senate in 50, was restored to the Senate by Caesar and took part in his African campaign as praetor in 46, and was then appointed governor of New Africa ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-88402-403-3
EAN 9780884024033
Anthony F. Aveni gathers specialists from diverse fields to discuss temporal concepts gleaned from the people of Mesoamerica and the Andes. Essays address how they reckon and register time and how they sense time and its moral dimensions. To them, time is a feature of the process of perception, not just the sharp present ingrained ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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PVP: 31,20 €
ISBN 978-0-674-50476-9
EAN 9780674504769
Inequality and poverty have returned with a vengeance in recent decades. To reduce them, we need fresh ideas that move beyond taxes on the wealthy. Anthony B. Atkinson offers ambitious new policies in technology, employment, social security, sharing of capital, and taxation, and he defends them against the common arguments and excuses for inaction.Inequality is ...
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