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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-96764-9
EAN 9780674967649
Anders Engberg-Pedersen shows how the Napoleonic Wars inspired a new discourse on knowledge in the West. Soldiers returning from battle were forced to reconsider what it is possible to know and how decisions are made in a fog of imperfect knowledge. Chance no longer appeared exceptional but normative-a prism for understanding the modern world.Napoleon's campaigns ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-18746-7
EAN 9780674187467
A widely-accepted explanation for India's national unity is a narrative called the bhakti movement-poet-saints singing bhakti from India's southern tip to the Himalayas between 600 and 1600. John Hawley shows that this narrative, with its political overtones, was created by the early-twentieth-century circle around Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal.India celebrates itself as a nation of unity ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-74396-0
EAN 9780674743960
Offering fresh perspectives on perennial questions of ethnicity, race, nationalism, and religion, Rogers Brubaker makes manifest the forces that shape the politics of diversity and multiculturalism today. In a lucid and wide-ranging analysis, he contends that three recent developments have altered the stakes and the contours of the politics of difference: the return of inequality ...
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Conrad, Clifton / Gasman, Marybeth
Educating a Diverse Nation: Lessons from Minority-Serving Institutions
- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-73680-1
EAN 9780674736801
In an increasingly diverse United States, minority and low-income students of all ages struggle to fit into mainstream colleges and universities that cater predominantly to middle-income and affluent white students fresh out of high school. Anchored in a study conducted at twelve minority-serving institutions (MSIs), Educating a Diverse Nation turns a spotlight on the challenges ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-74388-5
EAN 9780674743885
Stephen Bell and Andrew Hindmoor compare banking systems in the U.S. and UK to those of Canada and Australia and explain why the system imploded in the former but not the latter. Canadian and Australian banks were able to make profits through traditional lending practices, unlike their competition-driven, risk-taking U.S. and UK counterparts.This account of ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-36812-5
EAN 9780674368125
Born into slavery in rural Louisiana, Rose Herera was bought and sold several times before being purchased by the De Hart family of New Orleans. Still a slave, she married and had children, who also became the property of the De Harts. But after Union forces captured New Orleans in 1862 during the American Civil ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-04898-0
EAN 9780674048980
The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest provides facing-page commentary on Oscar Wilde's greatest play. Editor Nicholas Frankel highlights the play's relation to the author's homosexuality and to the climate of sexual repression that led to Wilde's imprisonment just months after the play's London opening in 1895."The truth is rarely pure and never simple," declares Algernon ...
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The History of Akbar
Akbarnama
- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 592 páginas
PVP: 46,70 €
ISBN 978-0-674-42775-4
EAN 9780674427754
Akbarnama, or The History of Akbar, by Abul-Fazl (d. 1602), is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history and a touchstone of prose artistry. Marking a high point in a long, rich tradition of Persian historical writing, it served as a model for historians throughout the Persianate world. The work is at once ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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PVP: 38,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-18728-3
EAN 9780674187283
The American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars ranks as one of the leading twentieth-century critics of empiricism a philosophical approach to knowledge that seeks to ground it in human sense experience. Sellars stood in the forefront of a recoil within analytic philosophy from the foundationalist assumptions of contemporary empiricists. "From Empiricism to Expressivism" is a far-reaching reinterpretation ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2014
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ISBN 978-0-674-73675-7
EAN 9780674736757
Despite American education's mania for standardized tests, testing misses what matters most about learning: the desire to learn in the first place. Susan Engel offers a highly readable exploration of what curiosity is, how it can be measured, how it develops in childhood, and how educators can put curiosity at the center of the classroom.Despite ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2014
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ISBN 978-0-674-74409-7
EAN 9780674744097
Human-generated greenhouse gas emissions imperil a global resource: a biosphere capable of supporting life as we know it. What is the fair way to share this scarce resource across present and future generations, and across regions of the world? This study offers a new perspective based on the guiding ethics of sustainability and egalitarianism.Sustainability is ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2014
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ISBN 978-0-674-99644-1
EAN 9780674996441
Theocritus (early third century BCE), born in Syracuse and also active on Cos and at Alexandria, was the inventor of the bucolic genre. Like his contemporary Callimachus, Theocritus was a learned poet who followed the aesthetic, developed a generation earlier by Philitas of Cos (LCL 508), of refashioning traditional literary forms in original ways through ...
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
The Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2014
- Harvard University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 685 páginas
PVP: 43,50 €
ISBN 978-0-674-43000-6
EAN 9780674430006
The main driver of inequality--returns on capital that exceed the rate of economic growth--is again threatening to generate extreme discontent and undermine democratic values. Thomas Piketty's findings in this ambitious, original, rigorous work will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.
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- Harvard University Press, 2014
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PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-674-28438-8
EAN 9780674284388
Lockhart's 'Mathematician's Lament' outlined how we introduce mathematics to students in the wrong way. This book explains how mathematics should be done. With plain English and pictures, he makes complex ideas about shape and motion intuitive and graspable, and offers a solution to mathematic phobia.
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- Harvard University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 23,65 €
ISBN 978-0-674-72599-7
EAN 9780674725997
In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left his life as a writer and professor at Harvard University to enter the combative world of politics back home in Canada. By 2008, he was leader of the country's Liberal Party and poised--should the governing Conservatives falter--to become Canada's next Prime Minister. It never happened.Today, after a bruising electoral defeat, ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 48,65 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97970-3
EAN 9780674979703
What sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona? Theory of the Lyric reveals the limitations of these two conceptions of the lyric-the older Romantic model and the modern conception that has come to dominate the study of poetry-both of which neglect what ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 24,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-07238-1
EAN 9780674072381
The world's most renowned critical theorist who defined the field of postcolonial studies has radically reoriented her thinking. Finding the neat polarities of tradition and modernity, colonial and postcolonial, no longer sufficient, she argues that aesthetic education is the last available instrument for implementing global justice and democracy.During the past twenty years, the world's most ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 27,85 €
ISBN 978-0-674-07233-6
EAN 9780674072336
The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue of its origins a perennial puzzle. Since World War II, Germany has been viewed as the primary culprit. Now, in a major reinterpretation of the conflict, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notions of the war's beginning ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 500 páginas
PVP: 49,50 €
ISBN 978-0-674-06649-6
EAN 9780674066496
The first classics in human history-the early works of literature, philosophy, and theology to which we have returned throughout the ages-appeared in the middle centuries of the first millennium bce. The canonical texts of the Hebrew scriptures, the philosophical writings of Plato and Aristotle, the Analects of Confucius and the Daodejing, the Bhagavad Gita and ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 156 páginas
PVP: 33,35 €
ISBN 978-0-674-58744-1
EAN 9780674587441
The life of the German-Jewish literary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is a veritable allegory of the life of letters in the twentieth century. Benjamin's intellectual odyssey culminated in his death by suicide on the Franco-Spanish border, pursued by the Nazis, but long before he had traveled to the Soviet Union. His stunning account ...
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