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Dark Ghettos
Injustice, Dissent, and Reform
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97050-2
EAN 9780674970502
Why do American ghettos persist? Decades after Moynihans report on the black family and the Kerner Commissions investigations of urban disorders, deeply disadvantaged black communities remain a disturbing reality. Scholars and commentators today often identify some factor'such as single motherhood, joblessness, or violent street crime'as the key to solving the problem and recommend policies accordingly. ...
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The Menorah
From the Bible to Modern Israel
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-08879-5
EAN 9780674088795
The menorah, the seven-branched candelabrum, has traversed millennia as a living symbol of Judaism and the Jewish people. Naturally, it did not pass through the ages unaltered. The Menorah explores the cultural and intellectual history of the Western worlds oldest continuously used religious symbol. This meticulously researched yet deeply personal history explains how the menorah ...
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Ezrachi, Ariel; Stucke, Maurice E.
Virtual Competition
The Promise and Perils of the Algorithm-Driven Economy
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 300 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54547-2
EAN 9780674545472
Shoppers with Internet access and a bargain-hunting impulse can find a universe of products at their fingertips. In this thought-provoking exposé, Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice Stucke invite us to take a harder look at todays app-assisted paradise of digital shopping. While consumers reap many benefits from online purchasing, the sophisticated algorithms and data-crunching that make ...
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The Good Occupation
American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 380 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-54570-0
EAN 9780674545700
Waged for a just cause and culminating in total victory, World War II was America's good war. Yet for millions of GIs overseas, the war did not end with Germany and Japan's surrender. The Good Occupation chronicles America's transition from wartime combatant to postwar occupier, by exploring the intimate thoughts and feelings of the ordinary ...
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Steiker, Carol S.; Steiker, Jordan M.
Courting Death
The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-73742-6
EAN 9780674737426
Unique among Western democracies in refusing to eradicate the death penalty, the United States has attempted instead to reform and rationalize state death penalty practices through federal constitutional law. Courting Death traces the unusual and distinctive history of top-down judicial regulation of capital punishment under the Constitution and its unanticipated consequences for our time.In the ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-66015-1
EAN 9780674660151
Every four years, millions of Americans find themselves asking why they choose their presidents through the peculiar mechanism called the Electoral College'an arcane institution that narrows election campaigns to swing states and can permit the loser of the popular vote to become president. Why are a states electoral votes awarded on a winner-take-all basis? Why ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 230 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73478-4
EAN 9780674734784
From the beginning to the end of his career, the critical theorist Theodor W. Adorno sustained an uneasy but enduring bond with existentialism. His attitude overall was that of unsparing criticism, verging on polemic. In Kierkegaard he saw an early paragon for the late flowering of bourgeois solipsism; in Heidegger, an impresario for a jargon ...
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Fixing Medical Prices
How Physicians Are Paid
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 238 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54516-8
EAN 9780674545168
Medical care prices in the United States are not only the most expensive in the world, but there are wide variations in what physicians are paid. Doctors at the frontlines of medical care who manage complex conditions argue that they receive disproportionately lower fees than physicians performing services such as minor surgeries and endoscopies. Fixing ...
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Democracy in Iran
Why It Failed and How It Might Succeed
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54504-5
EAN 9780674545045
The Green Movement protests that erupted in Iran in 2009 amid allegations of election fraud shook the Islamic Republic to its core. For the first time in decades, the adoption of serious liberal reforms seemed possible. But the opportunity proved short-lived, leaving Iranian activists and intellectuals to debate whether any path to democracy remained open.Offering ...
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Obstetrics and Gynecology in Low-Resource Settings
A Practical Guide
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-73124-0
EAN 9780674731240
Responding to the growing need for tried-and-trusted solutions to the reproductive health care issues confronting millions of women worldwide, Obstetrics and Gynecology in Low-Resource Settings provides practical guidelines for ensuring the delivery of quality OB/GYN care to women in resource-poor countries. Including contributions from leading clinicians and researchers in the field, this welcome overview fills ...
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The Animal Game
Searching for Wildness at the American Zoo
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 380 páginas
PVP: 88,20 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73734-1
EAN 9780674737341
The spread of empires in the nineteenth century brought more than new territories and populations under Western sway. Animals were also swept up in the net of imperialism, as jungles and veldts became colonial ranches and plantations. A booming trade in animals turned many strange and dangerous species into prized commodities. Tigers from India, pythons ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 688 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-05834-7
EAN 9780674058347
Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive the cultural and moral excellence of ancient Greece and Rome. This two-volume set contains an ample, representative sample from his enormous and fascinating correspondence with all the leading figures of his day, from popes, ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 736 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97162-2
EAN 9780674971622
Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive the cultural and moral excellence of ancient Greece and Rome. This two-volume set contains an ample, representative sample from his enormous and fascinating correspondence with all the leading figures of his day, from popes, ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 360 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54544-1
EAN 9780674545441
Histories of the book often move straight from the codex to the digital screen. Left out of that familiar account is nearly 150 years of audio recordings. Recounting the fascinating history of audio-recorded literature, Matthew Rubery traces the path of innovation from Edisons recitation of 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' for his tinfoil phonograph in ...
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Vanishing America
Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of Conservation
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 262 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97156-1
EAN 9780674971561
Putting a provocative new slant on the history of U.S. conservation, Vanishing America reveals how wilderness preservation efforts became entangled with racial anxieties'specifically the fear that forces of modern civilization, unless checked, would sap white Americas vigor and stamina.Nineteenth-century citizens of European descent widely believed that Native Americans would eventually vanish from the continent. Indian ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 170 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54513-7
EAN 9780674545137
The passage of texts from scroll to codex created a revolution in the religious life of late antiquity. It played a decisive role in the Roman Empires conversion to Christianity and eventually enabled the worldwide spread of Christian faith. The Scriptural Universe of Ancient Christianity describes how canonical scripture was established and how scriptural interpretation ...
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Law's Abnegation
From Law's Empire to the Administrative State
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 250 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97144-8
EAN 9780674971448
Ronald Dworkin once imagined law as an empire and judges as its princes. But over time, the arc of law has bent steadily toward deference to the administrative state. Adrian Vermeule argues that law has freely abandoned its imperial pretensions, and has done so for internal legal reasons.In area after area, judges and lawyers, working ...
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Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea
The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 440 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-65986-5
EAN 9780674659865
For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times'a period of unprecedented economic growth and of political oppression that deepened as prosperity spread. In this masterly account, Carter J. Eckert finds the roots of South Koreas dramatic socioeconomic transformation in the countrys long history ...
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The Rhetorical Exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes
Progymnasmata from Twelfth-Century Byzantium
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-66024-3
EAN 9780674660243
Progymnasmata, preliminary exercises in the study of declamation, were the cornerstone of elite education from Hellenistic through Byzantine times. Using material from Greek literary, mythological, and historical traditions, students and writers composed examples ranging from simple fables to complex arguments about fictional laws. In the Byzantine period, the spectrum of source material expanded to include ...
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The Old English History of the World
An Anglo-Saxon Rewriting of Orosius
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 500 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97106-6
EAN 9780674971066
The Old English History of the World is a translation and adaptation of the Latin history known as the Seven Books of History against the Pagans, written by the Spanish cleric Paulus Orosius at the prompting of Saint Augustine after the sack of Rome in 410. To counter the pagan and republican narratives of Livy ...
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