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Birds of Two Worlds

	Autor: Greenberg Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: ISBN: 978-0-8018-8107-7 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 387.1 zł	Nasza cena: 387.1 zł Kup teraz!

For centuries biologists have tried to understand the underpinnings of avian migration: where birds go and why, why some migrate and some do not, how they adapt to a changing environment, and how migratory systems evolve. Twenty-five years ago the answers to many of these questions were addressed by a collection of migration experts in Keast and Morgan's classic work Migrant Birds in the Neotropics. In 1992, Hagan and Johnston published a follow-up book, Ecology and Conservation of Neotropical Migrant Landbirds. In Birds więcej...

Venice Reconsidered

	Autor: J. Martin Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-7308-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 122.5 zł	Nasza cena: 122.5 zł Kup teraz!

This work offers a portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the 13th century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican and its society as rigidly tripartite and hierarchical, the scholars in this volume present a more fluid and complex interpretation of Venetian culture. Drawing on a variety of disciplines - history, art history, and musicology - these essays present innovative variants of the myth of Venice - that więcej...

Environmental Protection & the Social Responsibility

	Autor: Hay Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: ISBN: 978-1-933115-03-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 142.1 zł	Nasza cena: 142.1 zł Kup teraz!

Everyone agrees that firms should obey the law. But beyond the law - beyond compliance with regulations - do firms have additional social responsibilities to commit resources voluntarily to environmental protection? How should we think about firms sacrificing profits in the social interest? May they do so within the scope of their fiduciary responsibilities to their shareholders? Is the practice sustainable, or will the competitive marketplace render such efforts and their impacts transient at best? Furthermore, is the practice więcej...

Liquid Assets

	Autor: Fisher Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-1-933115-09-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 132.3 zł	Nasza cena: 132.3 zł Kup teraz!

Liquid Assets shows that the common view of water as an inevitable cause of future wars is neither rational nor necessary. Typically, two or more parties with claim to the same water sources are thought to play a zero-sum game with each side placing a high emotional and political value on the ownership of the water. However, Franklin Fisher and his coauthors demonstrate that when disputes in ownership are expressed as disputes about money values, in most cases, the benefits of ownership will be surprisingly small. By assigning więcej...

Ending Hunger in Our Lifetime

	Autor: C. Runge Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-7726-1 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 97 zł	Nasza cena: 97 zł Kup teraz!

At a time in history when conflict erupts daily in far-flung corners of the world, ending severe deprivation may be critical to global peace and stability. Yet we are far from reaching the goal of reducing hunger by 2025. The authors of this book bring good news: hunger can be banished in our lifetime. They first distil what is already known about fighting hunger and then report on important research findings and projections that show it can be done, through new and renewed institutions, scientific innovation, global economics więcej...

Dwarfism

	Autor: B. Adelson Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: medycyna i zdrowie ISBN: 978-0-8018-8122-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 97 zł	Nasza cena: 97 zł Kup teraz!

This landmark volume is the first to trace the exciting developments in the field of dwarfism research and treatment over the past century - particularly during the past fifty years. Dr. Betty M. Adelson, a psychologist, has unearthed and synthesized the most significant information about dwarfing conditions, from articles written a century ago to current books and specialized databases. Highlighting the outstanding contributions of Dr. Victor McKusick and several of his colleagues, Dr. Adelson reveals how dwarfism specialists więcej...

Time for Searching

	Autor: H. Feingold Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 1992 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-5123-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 93.1 zł	Nasza cena: 93.1 zł Kup teraz!

Volume IV: A Time for Searching. In 'A Time for Searching', Henry Feingold chronicles the turbulent period between 1920 and 1945--when Jews were poised to enter the mainstream of American life--and explores issues that would preoccupy America's Jewish community for the rest of the century. Despite the specter of anti-semitism, signs of success and acceptance were everywhere. więcej...

History of My Life 1 & 2 vols

	Autor: Giacomo Casanova Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 1997 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8018-5662-4 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 83.3 zł	Nasza cena: 83.3 zł Kup teraz!

This double volume is the first part of Venetian Casanova's memoirs, translated from the French between 1966 and 1971. His rich and varied life is recalled in an unabridged work which also includes notes on the social, biographical and geographical background of its genesis. więcej...

Non-Germans under the Third Reich

	Autor: D. Majer Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-6493-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 528.2 zł	Nasza cena: 528.2 zł Kup teraz!

Under the legal and administrative system of Nazi Germany, people categorized as 'Fremdvolkische' (literally, 'strange people') were subject to special laws that restricted their rights, limited their protection under the law, and exposed them to extraordinary legal sanctions and brutal, extralegal police actions. These special laws, one of the central constitutional principles of the Third Reich, applied to Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, non-Europeans: anyone perceived as different or racially inferior, whether German citizens or więcej...

Writing History Writing Trauma

	Autor: D. LaCapra Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2000 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-6496-4 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 73.5 zł	Nasza cena: 73.5 zł Kup teraz!

Trauma and its often symptomatic aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In this study, Dominick LaCapra offers a broad-ranging, critical enquiry into the problem of trauma, notably with respect to major historical events. In a series of interlocking essays, he explores theoretical and literary-critical attempts to come to terms with trauma as well as the crucial role that post-traumatic testimonies - particularly Holocaust testimonies - have assumed in recent thought and writing. In więcej...

Global Eighteenth Century

	Autor: F. Nussbaum Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-6865-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 263.6 zł	Nasza cena: 263.6 zł Kup teraz!

Historians have generally come to accept the idea of a 'long eighteenth century,' one thatextended from circa 1660 to 1830. In The Global Eighteenth Century, editor Felicity Nussbaum and the contributing authors take this idea one step further, positing an eighteenth century that is 'wide' as well as long, reaching beyond Europe into the African diaspora, the Americas, the Levant, China, India, and Oceania. Showcasing the work of twenty-one leading scholars in literature, world history, art history, geography, and environmental więcej...

Experimenting with Humans & Animals

	Autor: A. Guerrini Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-7197-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 63.7 zł	Nasza cena: 63.7 zł Kup teraz!

Experimentation on animals and particularly humans is often assumed to be a uniquely modern phenomenon. But the ideas and attitudes that encourage the biological and medical sciences to experiment on living creatures date from the earliest expression of Western thought. In this work, Anita Guerrini looks at the history of these practices from vivisection in ancient Alexandria to present-day battles over animal rights and medical research employing human subjects. Guerrini discusses in-depth key historical episodes in the więcej...

Stronger than a Hundred Men

	Autor: T. Reynolds Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-7248-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 122.5 zł	Nasza cena: 122.5 zł Kup teraz!

Like many apparently simple devices, the vertical water wheel has been around for so long that it is taken for granted. Yet this "picturesque artifact" was for centuries man's primary mechanical source of power and was the foundation upon which mills and other industries developed. Stronger than a Hundred Men explores the development of the vertical water wheel from its invention in ancient times through its eventual demise as a source of power during the Industrial Revolution. Spanning more than 2000 years, Terry więcej...

Western Construction of Religion

	Autor: Dubuisson Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-7320-1 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 151.9 zł	Nasza cena: 151.9 zł Kup teraz!

Anthropologist and historian of religion Daniel Dubuisson contests Mircea Eliade's theory of the existence of a universal "Homo Religiosus" and argues that "religion" as a discrete concept is a Western construct, an invention of 19th-century scholars who created it as a field of scientific study. Before that time, there was little attempt to step outside religious experience and objectify it. In fact, the difference between "secular" and "religious" as understood in the West is meaningless więcej...

Political Philosophy & the God of Abraham

	Autor: T. Pangle Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-7328-7 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 195 zł	Nasza cena: 195 zł Kup teraz!

Scholar Thomas L. Pangle brings back a lost dimension of political theory: the mutually illuminating encounter between skeptically rationalist political philosophy and faith-based political theology guided ultimately by the authority of the Bible. Focusing on the chapters of Genesis in which the foundation of the Bible is laid, Pangle provides an interpretive reading illuminated by the questions and concerns of the Socratic tradition and its medieval heirs in the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic worlds. He brings into contrast więcej...

Walker's Marine Mammals of the World

	Autor: R. Nowak Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-8018-7343-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 102.9 zł	Nasza cena: 102.9 zł Kup teraz!

From the giant bottlenosed whale and the West Indian manatee to the crabeater seal and hourglass dolphin, from the pygmy sperm whale to the spotted-necked otter, marine mammals are among the most fascinating - and most watched - of the Earth's many animal species. Some, such as dolphins, are known for their intelligence, friendliness toward humans and sophisticated social behaviour. In addition, all these animals are sources of fascination for the special adaptations they have undergone for life in and around the water, więcej...

Invention of Cuneiform

	Autor: J. Glassner Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-7389-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 200.9 zł	Nasza cena: 200.9 zł Kup teraz!

As the first known system of writing, the cuneiform symbols traced in Sumerian clay more than six millennia ago were once regarded as a simplistic and clumsy attempt to record in linear form the sounds of a spoken language. More recently, scholars have acknowledged that early Sumerian writing - far from being a primitive and flawed mechanism that would be "improved" by the Phoenicians and Greeks - in fact represented a complete written language system, not only meeting the daily needs of economic and government więcej...

Companion Encyclopedia of the History & Philosophy v 1

	Autor: I. Grattan-Guinness Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-7396-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 142.1 zł	Nasza cena: 142.1 zł Kup teraz!

Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet thedetails of its historical development remain obscure to all but a few specialists. The two-volume Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences recovers this mathematical heritage, bringing together many of the world's leading historians of mathematics to examine the history and philosophy of the mathematical sciences in a cultural context, tracing their evolution from ancient times to the twentieth więcej...

Companion Encyclopedia of the History & Philosophy v 2

	Autor: I. Grattan-Guinness Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-7397-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 142.1 zł	Nasza cena: 142.1 zł Kup teraz!

Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet thedetails of its historical development remain obscure to all but a few specialists. The two-volume Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences recovers this mathematical heritage, bringing together many of the world's leading historians of mathematics to examine the history and philosophy of the mathematical sciences in a cultural context, tracing their evolution from ancient times to the twentieth więcej...

Sunquakes

	Autor: J. Zirker Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-8018-7419-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 97 zł	Nasza cena: 97 zł Kup teraz!

One of the newest branches of astronomy, helioseismology - like its terrestrial counterpart - studies why the surface of the sun vibrates like a bell. Since the 1970s, astronomers have gained spectacular insights into the structure and composition of the sun's interior, transforming the way we understand stellar matter. In "Sunquakes", Jack B. Zirker tells the story of this new science and explains the physics behind these illuminating vibrations. Zirker recounts the discovery of solar oscillations in the early więcej...

Genetic Medicine

	Autor: B. Childs Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: medycyna i zdrowie ISBN: 978-0-8018-7442-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 126.4 zł	Nasza cena: 126.4 zł Kup teraz!

Barton Childs demonstrates that knowledge of the ways both genes and environment contribute to disease provides a rational basis for medical thinking. This "genetic" medicine, he explains, should help the physician use the results of laboratory tests to perceive the uniqueness of the patient as well as that of the family and the cultural conditions in which the patient's condition arose. Childs thus provides a conceptual framework within which to teach and practice a humane medicine. więcej...

Narrative as Virtual Reality

	Autor: M. Ryan Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: Języki obce ISBN: 978-0-8018-7753-7 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 116.6 zł	Nasza cena: 116.6 zł Kup teraz!

Is there a significant difference in attitude between immersion in a game and immersion in a movie or novel? What are the new possibilities for representation offered by the emerging technology of virtual reality? As Marie-Laure Ryan demonstrates in this book, the questions raised by new, interactive technologies have their precursors and echoes in pre-electronic literary and artistic traditions. Formerly a culture of immersive ideals - getting lost in a good book, for example - we are becoming, Ryan claims, a culture more więcej...

Concepts of Alzheimer Disease

	Autor: P. Whitehouse Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: medycyna i zdrowie ISBN: 978-0-8018-7757-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 106.8 zł	Nasza cena: 106.8 zł Kup teraz!

As the essays in this volume show, conceptualizing dementia has always been a complexprocess. With contributions from noted professionals in psychiatry, neurology, molecular biology, sociology, history, ethics, and health policy, Concepts of Alzheimer Disease looks at the ways in which Alzheimer disease has been defined in various historical and cultural contexts. The book covers every major development in the field, from the first case described by Alois Alzheimer in 1907 through groundbreaking work on the genetics of the więcej...

George W Bush Presidency

	Autor: F. Greenstein Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-7846-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 97 zł	Nasza cena: 97 zł Kup teraz!

Presidential scholar Fred I. Greenstein brings together a distinguished group of experts to offer an early analysis of the George W. Bush presidency. The authors begin with a look at George W. Bush in the context of his modern predecessors, viewing the Bush White House in comparative perspective and examining the president's political ethos, including a unique insider's view from a recently departed administration official. They then discuss budgetary and economic policy, foreign and national security policy, and the problems więcej...

Globalizing Women

	Autor: Moghadam Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-8024-7 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 63.7 zł	Nasza cena: 63.7 zł Kup teraz!

Globalization may offer modern feminism its greatest opportunity and greatest challenge. Allowing communication and information exchange while also exacerbating economic and social inequalities, globalization has fostered the growth of transnational feminist networks (TFNs). These groups have used the Internet to build coalitions, lobby governments, and advance the goals of feminism. Globalizing Women explains how the negative and positive aspects of globalization have helped to create transnational networks of activists więcej...

Defending Democracy

	Autor: G. Capoccia Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-8038-4 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 171.5 zł	Nasza cena: 171.5 zł Kup teraz!

How does a democracy deal with threats to its stability and continued existence when those threats come from political parties that play the democratic game? In Defending Democracy, political scientist Giovanni Capoccia studies key European nations between World Wars I and II which survived such democratic crises. The in depth analysis of cases of difficult democratic stability such as the interwar democratic systems of Finland, Czechoslovakia, and Belgium highlights the importance of strategies of response by the incumbents więcej...

Neurobiology of Autism

	Autor: Bauman Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: medycyna i zdrowie ISBN: 978-0-8018-8047-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 151.9 zł	Nasza cena: 151.9 zł Kup teraz!

In the decade since the first edition of "The Neurobiology of Autism" was published, research has revealed valuable new information about the nature and origins of autism, including genetics and abnormalities in such neurotransmitters as acetylcholine and serotonin. For this long-anticipated new edition, neurologists Margaret L. Bauman and Thomas L. Kemper bring together leading researchers and clinicians to present the most current scientific knowledge and theories about autism. The contributors cover genetics więcej...

Minding the Spirit

	Autor: E. Dreyer Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-8077-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 67.6 zł	Nasza cena: 67.6 zł Kup teraz!

The birth of an academic discipline is a rare event. Even more extraordinary is academia's acknowledgment that spirituality has scholarly as well as personal dimensions. Inquiry and dialogue are the essence of this new discipline, as it paves the way toward a deeper understanding of what it means to be human within the Christian faith. The twenty-five essays in this volume, originally published in either the Christian Spirituality Bulletin or Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality, offer groundbreaking explorations więcej...

World Religions & Democracy

	Autor: Diamond Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-8080-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 63.7 zł	Nasza cena: 63.7 zł Kup teraz!

Can religion be compatible with liberal democracy? World Religions and Democracy brings together insights from renowned scholars and world leaders in a provocative and timely discussion of religions' role in the success or failure of democracy. An essay by Alfred Stepan outlines the concept of "twin tolerations" and differentiation, and creates a template that can be applied to all of the religion-democracy relationships observed and analyzed throughout the volume. "Twin tolerations" means that there więcej...

Genoa & the Sea

	Autor: T. Kirk Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-8083-4 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 171.5 zł	Nasza cena: 171.5 zł Kup teraz!

Genoa enjoyed an important and ever-changing role in the early modern Mediterranean world. In medieval times, the city transformed itself from a tumultuous maritime republic into a stable and prosperous one, making it one of the most important financial centers in Europe. When Spanish influence in the Mediterranean world began to decline, Genoa, its prosperity closely linked with Spain's, again had to reinvent itself and its economic stature. In Genoa and the Sea, historian Thomas Allison Kirk reconstructs the early modern więcej...

Terms of Inquiry

	Autor: Davis Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-8085-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 63.7 zł	Nasza cena: 63.7 zł Kup teraz!

Following World War II, American social science research became increasingly characterized by its adherence to the scientific method. The application of the scientific method and efforts to achieve precision in the social sciences opened the doors to large research programs, particularly in political science and international relations. However, as research became less accessible to the general public, policymakers began to ignore the findings and advice given to them by political scientists. The disconnect between policy więcej...

Sanctified Vision

	Autor: J. O'Keefe Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-8088-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 57.8 zł	Nasza cena: 57.8 zł Kup teraz!

In Sanctified Vision John J. O'Keefe and R. R. Reno explain the structure and logic of the early Church fathers' interpretations of the Bible. These interpretations are considered foundational to the development of Christianity as a religion and offer insight into how the early church fathers thought about Christian doctrine and practice. By analyzing selected portions of patristic exegesis, the authors illustrate specific reading techniques employed by the church fathers to expound the meaning they believed intrinsic to więcej...

American Defense Policy

	Autor: Bolt Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-8094-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 112.7 zł	Nasza cena: 112.7 zł Kup teraz!

American Defense Policy has been a mainstay for instructors of courses in political science, international relations, military affairs, and American national security for over 25 years. The updated and thoroughly revised eighth edition considers questions of continuity and change in America's defense policy in the face of a global climate beset by geopolitical tensions, rapid technological change, and terrorist violence. On September 11, 2001, the seemingly impervious United States was handed a very sharp reality check. więcej...

Selling Intervention and War

	Autor: J. Western Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-8109-1 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 63.7 zł	Nasza cena: 63.7 zł Kup teraz!

Selling Intervention and War examines the competition among foreign policy elites in the executive branch and Congress in winning the hearts and minds of the American public for military intervention. The book studies how the president and his supporters organize campaigns for public support for military action. According to Jon Western, the outcome depends upon information and propaganda advantages, media support or opposition, the degree of cohesion within the executive branch, and the duration of the crisis. Also important więcej...

Disciples of the Desert

	Autor: J. Hevelone-Harper Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-8110-7 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 142.1 zł	Nasza cena: 142.1 zł Kup teraz!

On the periphery of the Roman empire, the sixth-century desert city of Gaza served as a crossroads between Palestine and Egypt. The nearby village of Tawatha was home to the thriving monastery of Abbot Seridos and the renowned anchorites Barsanuphius, known to the people as the Great Old Man, and John. The laity of the area looked to the monks for spiritual leadership, as did other monks, bishops, and religious leaders from as far away as Jerusalem and Constantinople. Having adopted a life of physical isolation, the monks więcej...

Violent Universe

	Autor: Weaver Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-8018-8115-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 112.7 zł	Nasza cena: 112.7 zł Kup teraz!

The universe is filled with extreme events: galactic collisions, supernovae eruptions, and stellar implosions. Although not always visible through optical telescopes, these processes generate x-rays, high-energy particles that travel at the speed of light. The Violent Universe reveals how astronomers use color to understand the energy and intensity of these x-rays - in the process transforming invisible particles into gorgeous images of the cosmos - and how these scientists discover more about the exotic objects that produce więcej...

Revolutionary Acts

	Autor: S. Maslan Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-8125-1 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 171.5 zł	Nasza cena: 171.5 zł Kup teraz!

In "Revolutionary Acts" Susan Maslan shows how theater played a pivotal role in Revolutionary France, positioning the theatrical stage as a battleground on which the people of Paris and the government fought for municipal control. Examining the production, performance, and reception of Parisian plays between 1789 and 1794, Maslan sheds new light on two issues central to the political cultures of Paris and France: the nature of political representation - specifically the problematic relationship between direct democracy więcej...

Beyond the First Amendment

	Autor: Nelson Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-8173-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 161.7 zł	Nasza cena: 161.7 zł Kup teraz!

Americans often believe that the First Amendment and free speech are synonymous and that all restrictions on speech can be addressed by the legal framework of the First Amendment. Political theorist Samuel P. Nelson argues that the current legal framework for free speech actually undermines attempts to resolve many of these issues and that the law of the First Amendment has supplanted the vital politics of free speech. To cut through the confusion, Nelson takes a step back from the First Amendment framework to understand więcej...

Dangerous Liaisons?

	Autor: N. Ellstrand Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-8018-8190-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 97 zł	Nasza cena: 97 zł Kup teraz!

In Dangerous Liaisons? Norman C. Ellstrand examines this and other questions, beginning with basic information about the natural hybridization process. He describes what is known about hybridization between the world's most important crops - such as wheat, rice, maize, and soybeans - and their wild relatives. Such hybridization, Ellstrand explains, is not rare, and has occasionally had a substantial impact. In some cases, crop genes have diluted natural diversity to the point that wild populations of certain rare species więcej...

Romantic Moods Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840

	Autor: T. Pfau Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8018-8197-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 230.3 zł	Nasza cena: 230.3 zł Kup teraz!

Thomas Pfau reinterprets the evolution of British and German Romanticism as a progress through three successive dominant moods each manifested in the "voice" of historical moment. Drawing on a multifaceted philosophical tradition ranging from Kant to Hegel to Heidegger - incorporating as well the psychosocial analyses of Freud, Benjamin, and Adorno - Pfau develops a new understanding of the Romantic poet's voice as the formal encryption of a complex cultural condition. Pfau focuses on three specific paradigms of więcej...

Williams-Beuren Syndrome

	Autor: C. Morris Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: medycyna i zdrowie ISBN: 978-0-8018-8212-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 249.9 zł	Nasza cena: 249.9 zł Kup teraz!

Williams-Beuren Syndrome offers concise, comprehensive coverage of Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) research and its clinical implications, including its genetics and molecular biology, neurobiological and behavioral traits, and medical problems and their management. Each chapter emphasizes how research can be applied to clinical practice. Researchers and clinicians in genetics, pediatrics, and psychiatry/psychology will find in this volume a wealth of current information on WBS, as well as insights into future research possibilities. więcej...

Gods Mountain

	Autor: Eliav Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-8213-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 136.2 zł	Nasza cena: 136.2 zł Kup teraz!

This provocative study of Jerusalem's Temple Mount unravels popular scholarly paradigms about the origins of this contested sacred site and its significance in Jewish and Christian traditions. In "God's Mountain", Yaron Z. Eliav reconstructs the early story of the Temple Mount, exploring the way the site was developed as a physical entity, religious concept, and cultural image. He traces the Temple Mount's origins and investigates its history, explicating the factors that shaped it both physically and conceptually więcej...

History Out of Joint

	Autor: S. Cohen Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-8214-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 185.2 zł	Nasza cena: 185.2 zł Kup teraz!

In "History Out of Joint", Sande Cohen considers the ways in which historical narratives summon up a past and lay down a future in the ever-multiplying intellectual debates of contemporary public culture. As competing factions advance contradictory principles to validate or discredit their preferred accounts of the past and the present, Cohen argues that the fundamental question of how these principles themselves should be addressed - of what truly constitutes the use or abuse of history - has been pushed aside więcej...

Pluralism & Liberal Democracy

	Autor: Richard Flathman Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-8215-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 136.2 zł	Nasza cena: 136.2 zł Kup teraz!

In "Pluralism and Liberal Democracy" one of the country's most distinguished political theorists turns to the task of how best to explain, justify, and encourage the concept, practice, and institutionalization of pluralism. By examining and analyzing the accounts and explanations of four philosophers - William James, Hannah Arendt, Stuart Hampshire, and Michael Oakeshott - Richard E. Flathman augments the theories of pluralism most familiar to students and scholars of politics and political theory. Flathman delves więcej...

Acre of Glass

	Autor: J. Zirker Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-8018-8234-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 97 zł	Nasza cena: 97 zł Kup teraz!

Ever since Galileo glimpsed the moons of Jupiter through his tiny telescope, astronomers have striven to understand how the universe is constructed and how it evolves. Every increase in the size and power of telescopes has led to new discoveries. Within the last century, telescopes have enabled us to learn about pulsars, quasars, gamma ray bursters, black holes, and the acceleration of the universe's expansion. "An Acre of Glass" describes how recent innovations in telescope technology have led to the construction więcej...

Mind Has Mountains

	Autor: P. McHugh Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-8249-4 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 83.3 zł	Nasza cena: 83.3 zł Kup teraz!

From his strenuous opposition to physician-assisted suicide to his conviction that sex-correction surgery for newborns is cruel and misguided, Dr. Paul R. McHugh's opinions are strong and often controversial. In this provocative collection, McHugh demonstrates why he is one of the most thought-provoking figures in the academic world. These pieces argue for a realistic appraisal of just what psychiatrists know and how they know it, with the aim of indicating how such knowledge can best be used not only for better patient więcej...

Global Eighteenth Century

	Autor: Nussbaum Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-8269-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 83.3 zł	Nasza cena: 83.3 zł Kup teraz!

Historians have generally come to accept the idea of a "long eighteenth century," one that extended from circa 1660 to 1830. Felicity A. Nussbaum and the contributors to this volume take this idea one step further, positing an eighteenth century that is "wide" as well as long, reaching beyond Europe into the African diaspora, the Americas, the Levant, China, India, and Oceania. This collection of essays adds a crucial historical element to the emerging concept of the global. więcej...

Nation Building

	Autor: Fukuyama Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: ekonomia ISBN: 978-0-8018-8335-4 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 73.5 zł	Nasza cena: 73.5 zł Kup teraz!

Best-selling author Francis Fukuyama brings together esteemed academics, political analysts, and practitioners to reflect on the U.S. experience with nation-building, from its historical underpinnings to its modern-day consequences. The United States has sought on repeated occasions to reconstruct states damaged by conflict, from Reconstruction in the South after the Civil War to Japan and Germany after World War II, to the ongoing rebuilding of Iraq. Despite this rich experience, there has been remarkably little systematic więcej...

World Must Know

	Autor: Berenbaum Wydawnictwo: John Hopkins University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-8018-8358-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 97 zł	Nasza cena: 97 zł Kup teraz!

"The World Must Know" documents the compelling human stories of the Holocaust as told in the renowned permanent exhibition of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Drawing on the museum's extensive collection of artifacts, archives, and eyewitness testimonies, and augmented with more than two hundred period photographs, this book serves as an enduring reminder of the moral obligations of societies and individuals. This second edition is enhanced with new insights and updates based on archival więcej...

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