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Strangers in Our Midst
The Political Philosophy of Immigration
- Harvard University Press, 2016
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PVP: 38,85 €
ISBN 978-0-674-08890-0
EAN 9780674088900
How should democracies respond to the millions who want to settle in their societies? David Miller's analysis reframes immigration as a question of political philosophy. Acknowledging the impact on host countries, he defends the right of states to control their borders and decide the future size, shape, and cultural make-up of their populations.It is not ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
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PVP: 22,40 €
ISBN 978-0-674-65990-2
EAN 9780674659902
Some see the internet as a Wild West where those who venture online must be thick-skinned enough to ensure verbal attacks in the name of free speech protection. Danielle Keats Citron rejects this view. Cyber-harassment is a matter of civil rights law, and legal precedents as well as social norms of decency and civility must ...
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Corruption in America
From Benjamin Franklin s Snuff Box to Citizens United
- Harvard University Press, 2016
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PVP: 20,35 €
ISBN 978-0-674-65998-8
EAN 9780674659988
When Louis XVI gave Ben Franklin a diamond-encrusted snuffbox, the gift troubled Americans: it threatened to corrupt him by clouding his judgment. By contrast, in 2010 the Supreme Court gave corporations the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections. Zephyr Teachout shows that Citizens United was both bad law and bad history.
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
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PVP: 25,40 €
ISBN 978-0-674-65989-6
EAN 9780674659896
The first book in many years to take in the full sweep of national fiction, The Dream of the Great American Novel explains why this supposedly antiquated idea continues to thrive. It shows that four G.A.N. "scripts" are keys to the dynamics of American literature and identity--and to the myth of a nation perpetually under ...
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Track Changes
A Literary History of Word Processing
- Harvard University Press, 2016
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PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-674-41707-6
EAN 9780674417076
Writing in the digital age has been as messy as the inky rags in Gutenberg's shop or the molten lead of a Linotype machine. Matthew Kirschenbaum examines how creative authorship came to coexist with the computer revolution. Who were the early adopters, and what made others anxious? Was word processing just a better typewriter, or ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
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PVP: 14,90 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05229-1
EAN 9780674052291
Presented in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture, composed of 60 short prose pieces that vary wildly in style and theme, offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental, writing in a vein that anticipates later masterpieces.One-Way Street is ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
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PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-674-65999-5
EAN 9780674659995
Charles Walker examines the largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empire, led by Latin America's most iconic revolutionary, Tupac Amaru, and his wife. It began in 1780 as a multiclass alliance against European-born usurpers but degenerated into a vicious caste war, leaving a legacy that still influences South American politics today.
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Coup d'État:
A Practical Handbook, Revised Edition
- Harvard University Press, 2016
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PVP: 27,15 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73726-6
EAN 9780674737266
Edward Luttwak's shocking 1968 handbook showed, step-by-step, how governments could be overthrown and inspired anti-coup precautions around the world. In addition to these instructions, his revised handbook offers a new way of looking at political power one that considers the vulnerability of stable democracies after prolonged economic distress.Coup d'État astonished readers when it first appeared ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 864 páginas
PVP: 49,50 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73796-9
EAN 9780674737969
Widely considered the definitive edition of Emily Dickinson's poems, this landmark collection presents her poems here for the first time "as she preserved them," and in the order in which she wished them to appear. It is the only edition of Dickinson's complete poems to distinguish clearly those she took pains to copy carefully onto ...
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McNeill, J. R. / Engelke, Peter
The Great Acceleration
An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945
- Harvard University Press, 2016
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PVP: 22,40 €
ISBN 978-0-674-54503-8
EAN 9780674545038
The pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a new age the Anthropocene. Humans have altered the planet's biogeochemical systems without consciously managing them. The Great Acceleration explains the causes, consequences, and uncertainties of this massive uncontrolled experiment.The Earth has entered a new age the Anthropocene in ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
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PVP: 35,35 €
ISBN 978-0-674-74384-7
EAN 9780674743847
Ian Shapiro makes a compelling case that the purpose of politics should be to combat domination, and he shows what this means in practice at home and abroad. This is a major work of applied political theory, a profound challenge to utopian visions, and a guide to fundamental problems of justice and distribution.Ian Shapiro makes ...
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Saving the Media
Capitalism, Crowdfunding, and Democracy
- Harvard University Press, 2016
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PVP: 20,35 €
ISBN 978-0-674-65975-9
EAN 9780674659759
Julia Cagé explains the economics and history of the media crisis and offers a solution: a nonprofit media organization, midway between a foundation and a joint stock company, supported by readers, employees, and innovative financing such as crowdfunding. Her business model is inspired by a central idea: that news, like education, is a public good.The ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
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ISBN 978-0-674-08893-1
EAN 9780674088931
A woman will one day occupy the Oval Office because women themselves have made it inevitable, says best-selling historian Ellen Fitzpatrick. She tells the remarkable 150-year story of the candidates, voters, activists, and citizens who, despite overwhelming odds against women in politics, set their sights on the highest glass ceiling in the land.
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The Myth of Race
The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea
- Harvard University Press, 2016
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PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-674-66003-8
EAN 9780674660038
Although eugenics is now widely discredited, some groups and individuals claim a new scientific basis for old racist assumptions. Pondering the continuing influence of racist research and thought, despite all evidence to the contrary, Robert Sussman explains why when it comes to race too many people still mistake bigotry for science.
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From Shame to Sin
The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 316 páginas
PVP: 35,95 €
ISBN 978-0-674-66001-4
EAN 9780674660014
When Rome was at its height, an emperor's male beloved, victim of an untimely death, would be worshipped around the empire as a god. In this same society, the routine sexual exploitation of poor and enslaved women was abetted by public institutions. Four centuries later, a Roman emperor commanded the mutilation of men caught in ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
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PVP: 37,45 €
ISBN 978-0-674-50495-0
EAN 9780674504950
One of political philosophy's most trenchant and inventive critics challenges the field's normative turn, arguing that the study of politics should focus on real politics, where normative judgments arise from concrete configurations of power. Raymond Geuss shows how this can be done without succumbing to a toxic relativism or abandoning utopianism.Raymond Geuss is one of ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1008 páginas
PVP: 48,00 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05809-5
EAN 9780674058095
A great, sprawling, ancient and unique entity, the Holy Roman Empire, from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a millennium later, formed the heart of Europe. It was a great engine for inventions and ideas, it was the origin of many modern European states, from Germany to the Czech Republic, its relations ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 608 páginas
PVP: 46,70 €
ISBN 978-0-674-50494-3
EAN 9780674504943
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 across the Persianate world. The work is at once ...
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Democracy's Slaves
A Political History of Ancient Greece
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 186 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-66007-6
EAN 9780674660076
The ancient Greek statesman is a familiar figure in the Western political tradition. Less well known is the administrator who ran the state but who was himself a slave. Challenging the modern belief that democracy and bondage are incompatible, Paulin Ismard directs our attention to the cradle of Western democracy, ancient Athens, where the functioning ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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PVP: 35,70 €
ISBN 978-0-674-74390-8
EAN 9780674743908
Torture is banned because it is cruel and inhumane. But as Shane O'Mara writes in this account of the human brain under stress, another reason torture should never be condoned is because it does not work the way torturers assume it does.In countless films and TV shows such as Homeland and 24, torture is portrayed ...
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