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The Taming of Free Speech
America's Civil Liberties Compromise
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54571-7
EAN 9780674545717
In the early decades of the twentieth century, business leaders condemned civil liberties as masks for subversive activity, while labor sympathizers denounced the courts as shills for industrial interests. But by the Second World War, prominent figures in both camps celebrated the judiciary for protecting freedom of speech. In this strikingly original history, Laura Weinrib ...
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A Book of Conquest
The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-66011-3
EAN 9780674660113
The question of how Islam arrived in India remains markedly contentious in South Asian politics. Standard accounts center on the Umayyad Caliphates incursions into Sind and littoral western India in the eighth century CE. In this telling, Muslims were a foreign presence among native Hindus, sowing the seeds of a mutual animosity that presaged the ...
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Tamil
A Biography
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 386 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-05992-4
EAN 9780674059924
Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of Tamil'language, literature, and civilization'emphasizing how Tamil ...
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Capitals without Borders
Wealth Managers and the One Percent
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-74380-9
EAN 9780674743809
How do the one percent hold on to their wealth? And how do they keep getting richer, despite financial crises and the myriad of taxes on income, capital gains, and inheritance? Capital without Borders takes a novel approach to these questions by looking at professionals who specialize in protecting the fortunes of the worlds richest ...
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Elusive Refuge
Chinese Migrants in the Cold War
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97151-6
EAN 9780674971516
The 1949 Chinese Communist Revolution is a subject of inexhaustible historical interest, but the plight of millions of Chinese who fled China during this tumultuous period has been largely forgotten. Elusive Refuge recovers the history of Chinas twentieth-century refugees. Focusing on humanitarian efforts to find new homes for Chinese displaced by civil strife, Laura Madokoro ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-66017-5
EAN 9780674660175
In her lifetime Elizabeth Bishop was appreciated as a writers writer (John Ashbery once called her 'the writers writers writer'). But since her death in 1979 her reputation has grown, and today she is recognized as a major twentieth-century poet. Critics and biographers now habitually praise Bishops mastery of her art, but all too often ...
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The Politics of Mourning
Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-73724-2
EAN 9780674737242
Arlington National Cemetery is Americas most sacred shrine, a destination for four million visitors who each year tour its grounds and honor those buried there. For many, Arlingtons symbolic importance places it beyond politics. Yet as Micki McElya shows, no site in the United States plays a more political role in shaping national identity.Arlington commemorates ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 816 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-72664-2
EAN 9780674726642
The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 2: 1920-1928 is the second installment of Harvards five-volume edition of the poets correspondence. Nearly three hundred letters in the critically-acclaimed first volume had never before been collected; here, close to four hundred are gathered for the first time. Volume 2 includes letters to some 160 correspondents: family and ...
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Cuba, Lee; Jennings, Nancy; Lovett, Suzanne; Swingle, Joseph
Practice for Life
Making Decisions in College
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97066-3
EAN 9780674970663
From the day they arrive on campus, college students spend four years'or sometimes more'making decisions that shape every aspect of their academic and social lives. Whether choosing a major or a roommate, some students embrace decision-making as an opportunity for growth, while others seek to minimize challenges and avoid risk. Practice for Life builds a ...
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Next Gen PhD
A Guide to Career Paths in Science
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-50465-3
EAN 9780674504653
For decades, top scientists in colleges and universities pursued a clear path to success: enroll in a prestigious graduate program, conduct research, publish papers, complete the PhD, pursue postdoctoral work. With perseverance and a bit of luck, a tenure-track professorship awaited at the end. In todays academic job market, this scenario represents the exception. As ...
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Nihilism and Negritude
Ways of Living in Africa
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97072-4
EAN 9780674970724
There are two common ways of writing about Africa, says Célestin Monga. One way blames Africas ills on the continents history of exploitation and oppression. The other way blames Africans themselves for failing to rise above poisonous national prejudices and resentments. But patronizing caricatures that reduce Africans to either victims or slackers do not get ...
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Strangers in Our Midst
The Political Philosophy of Immigration
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
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 Millers 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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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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Too Big to Jail
How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 25,40 €
ISBN 978-0-674-65991-9
EAN 9780674659919
American courts routinely hand down harsh sentences to individuals, but a very different standard of justice applies to corporations. Too Big to Jail takes readers into a complex, compromised world of backroom deals, for an unprecedented look at what happens when criminal charges are brought against a major company in the United States.
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Corruption in America
From Benjamin Franklin s Snuff Box to Citizens United
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
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 Gutenbergs 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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 27,15 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73726-6
EAN 9780674737266
Edward Luttwaks 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 dÉtat astonished readers when it first appeared in ...
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