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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 378 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-33372-7
EAN 9780674333727
The novel is the most important form of Western art. It aims to represent the totality of life; it is the flagship that literature sends out against the systematic thought of science and philosophy. Indebted to Lukács and Bakhtin, to Auerbach and Ian Watt, Guido Mazzonis Theory of the Novel breaks new ground, building a ...
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Wisdom Won from Illness
Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
Wisdom Won from Illness brings into conversation two fields of humane inquiry'psychoanalysis and moral philosophy'that seem to have little to say to one another but which, taken together, form a basis for engaged ethical thought about how to live.Jonathan Lear begins by looking to the ancient Greek philosophers for insight into what constitutes the life ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 230 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97143-1
EAN 9780674971431
Tensions between religious freedom and equality law are newly strained in America. As lawmakers work to protect LGBT citizens and women seeking reproductive freedom, religious traditionalists assert their right to dissent from what they see as a new liberal orthodoxy. Some religious advocates are going further and expressing skepticism that egalitarianism can be defended with ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 270 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97139-4
EAN 9780674971394
Chinas labor landscape is changing, and it is transforming the global economy in ways that we cannot afford to ignore. Once-silent workers have found their voice, organizing momentous protests, such as the 2010 Honda strikes, and demanding a better deal. Chinas leaders have responded not only with repression but with reforms. Are Chinas workers on ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 832 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-66039-7
EAN 9780674660397
Maghas The Killing of Shishupala, written in the seventh century, is a celebrated example of the Sanskrit genre known as mahakavya, or great poem. This adaptation from the epic Mahabharata tells the story of Shishupala, who disrupts Yudhishthiras coronation by refusing to honor Krishna, the kings principal ally and a manifestation of divinity. When Shishupala ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-66042-7
EAN 9780674660427
In 1752, the Bengali poet Bharatchandra Ray completed a long narrative poem dedicated to the glory of Annada, Shivas consort and the divinity who, as her name proclaims, 'bestows the bounty of rice.'A poet well versed in Sanskrit, Persian, and Hindi'all of which enrich his work'Bharatchandra took up the literary performance genre ma?galkavya and thoroughly ...
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Success and Suppression
Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 640 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97158-5
EAN 9780674971585
The Renaissance marked a turning point in Europes relationship to Arabic thought. On the one hand, Dag Nikolaus Hasse argues, it was the period in which important Arabic traditions reached the peak of their influence in Europe. On the other hand, it is the time when the West began to forget, and even actively suppress, ...
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Freud
In His Time and Ours
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 530 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-65956-8
EAN 9780674659568
Élisabeth Roudinesco offers a bold and modern reinterpretation of the iconic founder of psychoanalysis. Based on new archival sources, this is Freuds biography for the twenty-first century'a critical appraisal, at once sympathetic and impartial, of a genius greatly admired and yet greatly misunderstood in his own time and in ours.Roudinesco traces Freuds life from his ...
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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 Americas 'good war.' Yet for millions of GIs overseas, the war did not end with Germany and Japans surrender. The Good Occupation chronicles Americas 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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