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Race and the Totalitarian Century
Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 410 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97108-0
EAN 9780674971080
Few concepts evoke the twentieth centurys record of war, genocide, repression, and extremism more powerfully than the idea of totalitarianism. Today, studies of the subject are usually confined to discussions of Europes collapse in World War II or to comparisons between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. In Race and the Totalitarian Century, Vaughn Rasberry ...
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Mansfield Park
An Annotated Edition
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 490 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-05810-1
EAN 9780674058101
Jane Austens most ambitious novel, Mansfield Park, has always generated debate. Austen herself noted that debate when she conducted a reader survey, recording her acquaintances mixed reviews in a booklet she entitled 'Opinions of Mansfield Park.' Is this novels dutiful heroine, Fanny Price, admirable? Or is she (as Austens own mother asserted) 'insipid'? Is Fanny ...
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Narayanamurti, Ventakesh; Odumosu, Toluwalogo
Cycles of Invention and Discovery
Rethinking the Endless Frontier
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-96796-0
EAN 9780674967960
Cycles of Invention and Discovery offers an in-depth look at the real-world practice of science and engineering. It shows how the standard categories of 'basic' and 'applied' have become a hindrance to the organization of the U.S. science and technology enterprise. Tracing the history of these problematic categories, Venkatesh Narayanamurti and Toluwalogo Odumosu document how ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54574-8
EAN 9780674545748
Following Frances crushing defeat in June 1940, the Nazis moved forward with plans to reorganize a European continent now largely under Hitlers heel. While Germanys military power would set the agenda, several among the Nazi elite argued that permanent German hegemony required something more: a pan-European cultural empire that would crown Hitlers wartime conquests. At ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-73795-2
EAN 9780674737952
Michel Winocks biography situates Gustave Flauberts life and work in Frances century of great democratic transition. Flaubert did not welcome the egalitarian society predicted by Tocqueville. Wary of the masses, he rejected the universal suffrage hard won by the Revolution of 1848, and he was exasperated by the nascent socialism that promoted the collective to ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 490 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97051-9
EAN 9780674970519
Depictions of the Holocaust in history, literature, and film became a focus of intense academic debate in the 1980s and 1990s. Today, with the passing of the eyewitness generation and the rise of comparative genocide studies, the Holocausts privileged place not only in scholarly discourse but across Western society has been called into question.Probing the ...
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Writing for Hire
Unions, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97140-0
EAN 9780674971400
Required to sign away their legal rights as authors as a condition of employment, professional writers may earn a tidy living for their work, but they seldom own their writing. Writing for Hire traces the history of labor relations that defined authorship in film, TV, and advertising in the mid-twentieth century. Catherine L. Fisk examines ...
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The Poem is You
Sixty Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-73787-7
EAN 9780674737877
Contemporary American poetry has plenty to offer new readers, and plenty more for those who already follow it. Yet its difficulty'and sheer variety'leaves many readers puzzled or overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephen Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s, where critical consensus ends, Burt canvasses American poetry of the past ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 27,15 €
ISBN 978-0-674-65968-1
EAN 9780674659681
The Market has deified itself, according to Harvey Coxs brilliant exegesis. And all of the worlds problems'widening inequality, a rapidly warming planet, the injustices of global poverty'are consequently harder to solve. Only by tracing how the Market reached its 'divine' status can we hope to restore it to its proper place as servant of humanity.The ...
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This Vast Southern Empire
Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73725-9
EAN 9780674737259
When the United States emerged as a world power in the years before the Civil War, the men who presided over the nations triumphant territorial and economic expansion were largely southern slaveholders. As presidents, cabinet officers, and diplomats, slaveholding leaders controlled the main levers of foreign policy inside an increasingly powerful American state. This Vast ...
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Just around Midnight
Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-41659-8
EAN 9780674416598
By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet a mere ten years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become 'white'? Just around Midnight reveals ...
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Who Owns the Dead?
The Science and Politics of Death at Ground Zero
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97149-3
EAN 9780674971493
After September 11, with New Yorkers reeling from the World Trade Center attack, Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch proclaimed that his staff would do more than confirm the identity of the individuals who were killed. They would attempt to identify and return to families every human body part recovered from the site that was larger ...
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Elvis's Army
Cold War GIs and the Atomic Battlefield
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-73768-6
EAN 9780674737686
When the U.S. Army drafted Elvis Presley in 1958, it quickly set about transforming the King of Rock and Roll from a rebellious teen idol into a clean-cut GI. Trading in his gold-trimmed jacket for standard-issue fatigues, Elvis became a model soldier in an army facing the unprecedented challenge of building a fighting force for ...
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The Cold World They Made
The Strategic Legacy of Roberta and Albert Wohlstetter
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 354 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-04657-3
EAN 9780674046573
In the heady days of the Cold War, when the Bomb loomed large in the ruminations of Washingtons wise men, policy intellectuals flocked to the home of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter to discuss deterrence and doomsday. The Cold World They Made takes a fresh look at the original power couple of strategic studies. Seeking to ...
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Blossom, James M.; Boebert, Earl
Deepwater Horizon
A Systems Analysis of the Macondo Disaster
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 204 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54523-6
EAN 9780674545236
On April 20, 2010, the crew of the floating drill rig Deepwater Horizon lost control of the Macondo oil well forty miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. Escaping gas and oil ignited, destroying the rig, killing eleven crew members, and injuring dozens more. The emergency spiraled into the worst human-made economic and ecological disaster ...
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Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium
The Ambiguity of Religious Experience
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 40,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05761-6
EAN 9780674057616
In the Roman and Byzantine Near East, the holy fool emerged in Christianity as a way of describing individuals whose apparent madness allowed them to achieve a higher level of spirituality. Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium examines how the figure of the mad saint or mystic was used as a means of individual and collective ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97105-9
EAN 9780674971059
Laws and regulations are ubiquitous, touching on many aspects of individual and corporate behavior. But under what conditions are laws and rules actually effective? A huge amount of recent work in political science, sociology, economics, criminology, law, and psychology, among other disciplines, deals with this question. But these fields rarely inform one another, leaving the ...
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Body Messages
The Quest for the Proteins of Cellular Communication
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-08894-8
EAN 9780674088948
Whether classified as regulators of inflammation, metabolism, or other physiological functions, a distinctive set of molecules enables the human body to convey information from one cell to another. An in-depth primer on the molecular mediators that coordinate complex bodily processes, Body Messages provides fresh insight into how biologists first identified this special class of molecules ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97141-7
EAN 9780674971417
American law schools extol democracy but teach little about its most basic institution, the Congress. Interpreting statutes is lawyers most basic task, but law professors rarely focus on how statutes are made. This misguided pedagogy, says Victoria Nourse, undercuts the core of legal practice. It may even threaten the continued functioning of American democracy, as ...
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Becoming Who I Am
Young Men on Being Gay
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97159-2
EAN 9780674971592
Proud, happy, grateful'gay youth describe their lives in terms that would have seemed surprising only a generation ago. Yet many adults, including parents, seem skeptical about this sea change in perceptions and attitudes. Even in an age of growing tolerance, coming out as gay is supposed to involve a crisis or struggle. This is the ...
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