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Autor: Juan Du
Shenzhen Experiment: The Story of Chinas Instant City
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 31. januára 2020
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 39,95 €Vaša cena: 37,95 €An award-winning Hong Kong-based architect with decades of experience designing buildings and planning cities in the People's Republic of China takes us to the Pearl River delta and into the heart of China's iconic Special Economic Zone, Shenzhen. Shenzhen is ground zero for the economic transformation China has seen in recent decades. In 1979, driven by China's … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Ezra F. Vogel
China and Japan: Facing History
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 22. júla 2019
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 38,95 €Vaša cena: 37,00 €One of the world's most eminent scholars of East Asia reveals the important touchstones in the long history between China and Japan and argues that for the sake of world stability they must forge a new relationship for the twenty-first century. China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back fifteen hundred years. But today their … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Kate Eichhorn
End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 22. júla 2019
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 22,95 €Vaša cena: 21,80 €Thanks to Facebook and Instagram, our childhoods have been captured and preserved online, never to go away. But what happens when we can't leave our most embarrassing moments behind?Until recently, the awkward moments of growing up could be forgotten. But today we may be on the verge of losing the ability to leave our pasts behind. In The End of Forgetting, … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Susan Ware
Why They Marched: Untold Stories
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 31. mája 2019
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 26,95 €Vaša cena: 25,60 €Looking beyond the national leadership of the suffrage movement, an acclaimed historian gives voice to the thousands of women from different backgrounds, races, and religions whose local passion and protest resounded throughout the land. For far too long, the history of how American women won the right to vote has been told as the tale of a few iconic … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Kolektív autorov
How to Democratize Europe
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 8. mája 2019
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Posielame do 5 až 21 dníBežná cena: 23,95 €Vaša cena: 22,75 €An all-star cast of scholars and politicians from Europe and America propose and debate the creation of a new European parliament with substantial budgetary and legislative power to solve the crisis of governance in the Eurozone and promote social and fiscal justice and public investment. The European Union is struggling. The rise of Euroskeptic parties … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Luke Fernandez, Susan J. Matt
Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings about Technology, from the Telegraph to Twitter
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 31. mája 2019
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 33,50 €Vaša cena: 31,83 €This wide-ranging account of our emotional responses to technologies, from the telegram to Instagram, shows that technology changes not only how we feel, but what our feelings mean. Facebook makes us lonely. Selfies breed narcissism. On Twitter and comment boards, hostility reigns. Pundits and psychologists warn us that digital technologies substantially … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Michael Tomasello
Natural History of Human Thinking
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 1. novembra 2018
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Posielame do 5 až 21 dníBežná cena: 21,95 €Vaša cena: 20,85 €Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals. In this much-anticipated book, Michael Tomasello weaves his twenty years of comparative studies of humans and great apes into a compelling argument that cooperative social interaction … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Wallace Arthur
Life through Time and Space
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 31. augusta 2017
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 29,95 €Vaša cena: 28,45 €All humans share three origins: the beginning of our individual lives, the appearance of life on Earth, and the formation of our planetary home. Life through Time and Space brings together the latest discoveries in both biology and astronomy to examine our deepest questions about where we came from, where we are going, and whether we are alone in the cosmos. … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Claire L. Adida, David D. Laitin, Marie-Anne Valfort
Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 28. septembra 2017
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 30,95 €Vaša cena: 29,40 €Amid mounting fears of violent Islamic extremism, many Europeans ask whether Muslim immigrants can integrate into historically Christian countries. In a groundbreaking ethnographic investigation of France's Muslim migrant population, Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies explores this complex question. The authors conclude that both … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: neuvedený
Muslim Superheroes
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 10. júla 2017
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 29,95 €Vaša cena: 28,45 €The roster of Muslim superheroes in the comic book medium has grown over the years, as has the complexity of their depictions. Muslim Superheroes tracks the initial absence, reluctant inclusion, tokenistic employment, and then nuanced scripting of Islamic protagonists in the American superhero comic book market and beyond. This scholarly anthology investigates … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Roger Waldinger
The Cross-Border Connection - Immigrants, Emigrants, and Their Homelands
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 20. marca 2017
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 27,50 €Vaša cena: 26,13 €International migration presents the human face of globalization, with consequences that make headlines throughout the world. The Cross-Border Connection addresses a paradox at the core of this phenomenon: emigrants departing one society become immigrants in another, tying those two societies together in a variety of ways. In nontechnical language, … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Robin Kelsey
Photography and the Art of Chance
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 29. mája 2015
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 43,95 €Vaša cena: 41,75 €Photography has a unique relationship to chance. Anyone who has wielded a camera has taken a picture ruined by an ill-timed blink or enhanced by an unexpected gesture or expression. Although this proneness to chance may amuse the casual photographer, Robin Kelsey points out that historically it has been a mixed blessing for those seeking … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Bežná cena: 21,31 €Vaša cena: 20,24 €One of the most important writers of the twentieth century, Andre Gide also led what was probably one of the most interesting lives our century has seen. Gide knew and corresponded with many of the major literary figures of his day, from Mallarme to Oscar Wilde. Though a Communist, his critical account of Soviet Russia in "Return from the USSR" earned … Zobraziť viac info ►
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Autor: D. N. Rodowick
Philosophy's Artful Conversation
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 6. januára 2015
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 52,50 €Vaša cena: 49,88 €Theory has been an embattled discourse in the academy for decades. But now it faces a serious challenge from those who want to model the analytical methods of all scholarly disciplines on the natural sciences. What is urgently needed, says D. N. Rodowick, is a revitalized concept of theory that can assess the limits of scientific explanation and … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Mira L. Siegelberg
Statelessness: A Modern History
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 27. októbra 2020
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 34,95 €Vaša cena: 33,20 €Today over 12 million people are stateless and millions more are refugees or displaced persons. Mira Siegelberg shows how the much-contested legal category of statelessness generated novel visions of political and legal authority beyond the territorial state, before ultimately empowering the sovereign territorial state as the fundamental source of protection … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Robert A. Novelline
Squires Fundamentals of Radiology
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 1. februára 2018
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 49,50 €Vaša cena: 47,03 €Medical students preparing for a career in clinical practice must become familiar with a wide range of diagnostic imaging techniques and image-guided interventions. They must learn to identify the indications for radiological examination and recognize the role each procedure plays in the workup, diagnosis, and therapeutic management of patients. That … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Adriano Prosperi
Crime and Forgiveness
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 31. júla 2020
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 38,95 €Vaša cena: 37,00 €A provocative analysis of how Christianity helped legitimize the death penalty in early modern Europe, then throughout the Christian world, by turning execution into a great cathartic public ritual and the condemned into a Christ-like figure who accepts death to save humanity. The public execution of criminals has been a common practice ever … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Kolektív autorov
After Piketty
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 26. februára 2019
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 19,95 €Vaša cena: 18,95 €A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year"An intellectual excursion of a kind rarely offered by modern economics. "-Foreign AffairsThomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent years. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from there in exploring … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Richard Baldwin
Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 31. mája 2019
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 16,95 €Vaša cena: 16,10 €The nature of globalization has changed but our thinking about globalization has not. The renowned economist Richard Baldwin argues that the New Globalization is driven by knowledge crossing borders, not just goods. This is why its impact is more sudden, more individual, more unpredictable, and more uncontrollable than before-all of which presents developed … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: David Miller
Strangers in Our Midst: The Political Philosophy of Immigration
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 21. decembra 2018
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 21,95 €Vaša cena: 20,85 €How should Western democracies respond to the many millions of people who want to settle in their societies? Economists and human rights advocates tend to downplay the considerable cultural and demographic impact of immigration on host societies. Seeking to balance the rights of immigrants with the legitimate concerns of citizens, Strangers in Our Midst brings … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Michael Tomasello
Natural History of Human Morality
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 1. novembra 2018
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 21,95 €Vaša cena: 20,85 €A Natural History of Human Morality offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral psychology. Based on extensive experimental data comparing great apes and human children, Michael Tomasello reconstructs how early humans gradually became an ultra-cooperative and, eventually, a moral species. … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: George J. Borjas
Immigration Economics
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 20. júna 2014
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 56,00 €Vaša cena: 53,20 €Millions of people--nearly 3 percent of the world's population--no longer live in the country where they were born. Every day, migrants enter not only the United States but also developed countries without much of a history of immigration. Some of these nations have switched in a short span of time from being the source of immigrants to being a destination … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Katherine Benton-Cohen
Inventing the Immigration Problem
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 25. mája 2018
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 29,95 €Vaša cena: 28,45 €In 1907 the U. S. Congress created a joint commission to investigate what many Americans saw as a national crisis: an unprecedented number of immigrants flowing into the United States. Experts-women and men trained in the new field of social science-fanned out across the country to collect data on these fresh arrivals. The trove of information they … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Cass R. Sunstein
Impeachment
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 1. novembra 2017
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 8,50 €Vaša cena: 8,08 €As Benjamin Franklin famously put it, Americans have a republic, if we can keep it. Preserving the Constitution and the democratic system it supports is the public's responsibility. One route the Constitution provides for discharging that duty-a route rarely traveled-is impeachment. Cass R. Sunstein provides a succinct citizens' guide to an essential … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Martin N. Muller, Richard W. Wrangham, David R. Pilbeam
Chimpanzees and Human Evolution
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 27. novembra 2017
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 49,95 €Vaša cena: 47,45 €Knowledge of wild chimpanzees has expanded dramatically. This volume, edited by Martin Muller, Richard Wrangham, and David Pilbeam, brings together scientists who are leading a revolution to discover and explain human uniqueness, by studying our closest living relatives. Their conclusions may transform our understanding of human evolution. … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Quinn Slobodian
Globalists
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 30. marca 2018
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 35,50 €Vaša cena: 33,73 €Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global level. … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Oscar Wilde
Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 11. júna 2018
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 18,95 €Vaša cena: 18,00 €"And I? May I say nothing, my lord?" With these words, Oscar Wilde's courtroom trials came to a close. The lord in question, High Court justice Sir Alfred Wills, sent Wilde to the cells, sentenced to two years in prison with hard labor for the crime of "gross indecency" with other men. As cries of "shame" emanated from the gallery, the convicted aesthete … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Peter Lewis, Johannes Fried
Middle Ages
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 15. mája 2017
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 27,50 €Vaša cena: 26,13 €Since the fifteenth century, when humanist writers began to speak of a middle period in history linking their time to the ancient world, the nature of the Middle Ages has been widely debated. Across the millennium from 500 to 1500, distinguished historian Johannes Fried describes a dynamic confluence of political, social, religious, economic, and scientific … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Pernille Hermann, Kolektív autorov
Old Norse Mythology Comparative Perspectives
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 29. júna 2018
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 32,95 €Vaša cena: 31,30 €Old Norse mythology is elusive: it is the label used to describe the religious stories of the pre-Christian North, featuring such well-known gods as Odin and Thor, yet most of the narratives have come down to us in manuscripts from the Middle Ages mainly written by Christians. Our view of the stories as they were transmitted in oral form in the pre-Christian … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Craig Stanford
New Chimpanzee
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 10. apríla 2018
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 35,50 €Vaša cena: 33,73 €Recent discoveries about wild chimpanzees have dramatically reshaped our understanding of these great apes and their kinship with humans. We now know that chimpanzees not only have genomes similar to our own but also plot political coups, wage wars over territory, pass on cultural traditions to younger generations, and ruthlessly strategize for resources, including … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Stephanie L. Mudge
Leftism Reinvented
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 29. júna 2018
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 38,95 €Vaša cena: 37,00 €Left-leaning political parties play an important role as representatives of the poor and disempowered. They once did so by promising protections from the forces of capital and the market's tendencies to produce inequality. But in the 1990s they gave up on protection, asking voters to adapt to a market-driven world. Meanwhile, new, extreme parties began … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Tamar Herzog
Short History of European Law
Vydavateľstvo: Harvard University Press
Dátum vydania: 1. februára 2018
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 50,50 €Vaša cena: 47,98 €Tamar Herzog offers a road map to European law across 2,500 years that reveals underlying patterns and unexpected connections. By showing what European law was, where its iterations were found, who made and implemented it, and what the results were, she ties legal norms to their historical circumstances and reveals the law's fragile malleability. … Zobraziť viac info ►
