Publicado por Oxford University Press Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0192803735 ISBN 13: 9780192803733
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The Táin Bó Cuailnge, centre-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's greatest epic. It tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, queen and king of Connacht, and their allies, seeking to carry off the great Brown Bull of Cuailnge. The hero of the tale is Cuchulainn, the Hound of Ulster, who resists the invaders single-handed while Ulster's warriors lie sick.Thomas Kinsella presents a complete and living version of the story. His translation is based on the partial texts in two medieval manuscripts, with elements from other versions, and adds a group of related stories which prepare for the action of the Táin.Illustrated with brush drawings by Louis le Brocquy, this edition provides a combination of medieval epic and modern art.
Publicado por Oxford University Press Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0195148304 ISBN 13: 9780195148305
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - An eminent scientist who stood out among his Victorian peers, Wallace was the co-discoverer of natural selection with Charles Darwin. This insightful biography explores the life of one of the greatest but least heralded scientists of the 19th century. 54 halftones. 23 illustrations.
Publicado por Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0195156277 ISBN 13: 9780195156270
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In a series of writing workshops at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, survivors who were children or teens during World War II assembled to remember the pivotal moments in which their lives were irreparably changed by the Nazis. These 'flares of memory' preserve the voices of over forty Jewsfrom throughout Europe who experienced a history that cannot be forgotten. Ninety-two brief vignettes arranged both chronologically and thematically recreate the disbelief and chaos that ensued as families were separated, political rights were abolished, and synagogues and Jewish businesses were destroyed. Survivors remember the daily humiliation, the quiet heroesamong their friends, and the painful abandonment by neighbors as Jews were restricted to ghettos, forced to don yellow stars, and loaded like cattle into trains. Vivid memories of hunger, disease, and a daily existence dependent on cruel luck provide penetrating testimonies to the ruthlessness ofthe Nazi killing machine, yet they also bear witness to the resilience and fortitude of individual souls bombarded by evil. 'I don't think that there will be many readers who will be able to put this book down.'--Jerome Chanes, National Foundation for Jewish Culture.
Publicado por Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0195158695 ISBN 13: 9780195158694
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - An author with 25 years of experience working on direct marketing campaigns for such companies as Ford, 3M, and IBM explains how to write effective copy, design a winning package, choose a target audience and other important steps in the marketing process. 35 illustrations.
Publicado por Oxford University Press Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 019925799X ISBN 13: 9780199257997
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The question of the legality of humanitarian intervention is, at first blush, a simple one. The Charter of the United Nations clearly prohibits the use of force, with the only exceptions being self-defence and enforcement actions authorized by the Security Council. There are, however, long-standing arguments that a right of unilateral intervention pre-existed the Charter.This book, which won the ASIL Certificate of Merit in 2002, begins with an examination of the genealogy of that right, and arguments that it might have survived the passage of the Charter, either through a loophole in Article 2(4) or as part of customary international law. It has also been argued that certain `illegitimate' regimes lose the attributes of sovereignty and thereby the protection given by the prohibition of the use of force. None of these arguments is found to have merit, either in principle or in the practice of states.A common justification for a right of unilateral humanitarian intervention concerns the failure of the collective security mechanism created after the Second World War. Chapters 4 and 5, therefore, examine Security Council activism in the 1990s, notable for the plasticity of the circumstances in which the Council was prepared to assert its primary responsibility for international peace and security, and the contingency of its actions on the willingness of states to carry them out. This reduction of the Council's role from substantive to formal partly explains the recourse to unilateralism in that decade, most spectacularly in relation to the situation in Kosovo.Crucially, the book argues that such unilateral enforcement is not a substitute for but the opposite of collective action. Though often presented as the only alternative to inaction, incorporating a `right' of intervention would lead to more such interventions being undertaken in bad faith, it would be incoherent as a principle, and it would be inimical to the emergence of an international rule of law.
Publicado por Oxford University Press Inc Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0195153855 ISBN 13: 9780195153859
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The Mandaeans are a Gnostic sect that arose in the middle east around the same time as Christianity. What little study of the religion there has been has focused on the ancient Mandaeans and their relation to early Christianity. Buckley examines the lives and religion of contemporary Mandaeans, who live mainly in Iran and Iraq but also in New York and San Diego. She provides a comprehensive introduction to the religion and shows how its ancient texts inform the living religion, and vice versa.
Publicado por Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0198250576 ISBN 13: 9780198250579
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The most famous challenge to computational cognitive science and artificial intelligence is the philosopher John Searle's 'Chinese Room' argument. Searle argued that, although machines can be devised to respond to input with the same output as would a mind, machines--unlike minds--lack understanding of the symbols they process. 19 essays by leading scientists and philosophers assess, renew, and respond to his challenge.
Publicado por Oxford University Press Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0195155343 ISBN 13: 9780195155341
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The book provides the investing public, real estates practitioners, regulators, and real estate and finance academics with up-to-date information on what modern scholarly research tells us about Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). REITs are credited to allow institutional and individual investors to invest in real estate via a corporate entity. The increasing interest in REITs as indicated by their growth in market capitalisation and institutional holdings in the United States and around the world suggests that REITs are becoming an increasingly important part of investors' diversified portfolio.
Publicado por Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 019818770X ISBN 13: 9780198187707
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Looking at 100 years of terrorism in print--from Conrad on Anarchism in the 1880s to Seamus Heaney and Ciaran Carson on the 'Troubles' in the 1980s--Terrorism and Modern Literature offers a fresh perspective on terrorism's cultural aftermath. In this first extensive study of the phenomenon, Alex Houen explores the historical and political dimensions of writing terrorism in the modern world.
Publicado por Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0192804030 ISBN 13: 9780192804037
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The march of science has been marked through the years by episodes of drama and comedy, of failure as well as triumph, by outrageous strokes of luck, deserved and undeserved, and sometimes by human tragedy. In 'Eurekas and Euphorias, ' Gratzer captures the human face of discovery as he relates many intriguing tales of scientific adventures spanning over two thousand years.
Publicado por Oxford University Press Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0195144708 ISBN 13: 9780195144703
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This book is about trading, the people who trade securities and contracts, the marketplaces where they trade, and the rules that govern it. Readers will learn about investors, brokers, dealers, arbitrageurs, retail traders, day traders, rogue traders, and gamblers; exchanges, boards of trade, dealer networks, ECNs (electronic communications networks), crossing markets, and pink sheets. Also covered in this text are single price auctions, open outcry auctions, andbrokered markets limit orders, market orders, and stop orders. Finally, the author covers the areas of program trades, block trades, and short trades, price priority, time precedence, public order precedence, and display precedence, insider trading, scalping, and bluffing, and investing, speculating,and gambling. 643 pp. Englisch.
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Publicado por Oxford University Press Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0195140753 ISBN 13: 9780195140750
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Spreen and Risser present a comprehensive, critical review of available methods for the assessment of aphasia and related disorders in adults and children. The authors explore test instruments and approaches that have been used traditionally for the diagnosis of aphasia, ranging from bedsidescreening and ratings, to tests of specific aspects of language, and to comprehensive and psychometrically standardized aphasia batteries. Coverage of other methods reflects newer trends, including the areas of functional communication, testing of bilingual patients, psycholinguistic approaches, and pragmatic and discourse-related aspects of language in everyday life. The authors also examine the expansion of language assessment to individuals with non-aphasic neurological disorders, such as patients with traumatic brain injury, lesions of the right hemisphere, the healthy elderly, andinvidulas with dimentia. Taking a flexible and empirical approach to the assessment process in their own clinical practice, Spreen and Risser review numerous test instruments and their source for professionals and students-in-training to choose from in their own use. The introductory chapterscover the history of aphasia assessment, a basic outline of subtypes of aphasia- both neuro-anatomically and psycholinguistically-, and the basic psychometric requirements for assessment instruments. The final part discusses issues in general clinical practice, specifically questions of testselection and interpretation.The book is a thorough and practical resource for speech and language pathologists, neuropsychologists, and their students and trainees.
Publicado por Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0198203047 ISBN 13: 9780198203049
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The Labour Party became a major political force during the 1920s. For many the party's enhanced status was associated closely with its leader, Ramsay MacDonald. This study offers a uniquely detailed analysis of Labour in the 1920s based on a wide variety of unpublished sources. Thorough scholarship and distinctive interpretation combine to provide an important examination of a major episode in twentieth- century history.
Publicado por Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0199252009 ISBN 13: 9780199252008
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Corporate governance has become a major issue in business over the last decade. Adrian Cadbury has played a central role in developing policies, good practice, and our understanding of the complex issues involved. In 1992 he chaired the committee, sponsored by the Bank of England, whose Report on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance (commonly known as the 'Cadbury Report') put issues of corporate governance on the map.Ten years on, Cadbury now reflects on issues of corporate governance and chairmanship drawing on his own business and policy-making experience. In the book, he discusses and explains the central issuse of corporate governance; provides practical advice to chairmen and directors on their roles and responsibilities; and surveys the major codes of practice that have been developed in the last decade. He also considers the implications of the current review of company law and speculates on the implications of electronic developments for shareholders' voice and voting, the extent of a company's social responsibility, and the changing relationship between boards, managers, and investors. This book is both an informed commentary and a practical guide. Cadbury's insights will prove essential reading for anybody taking on senior roles in companies and other public organizations, and will provide well-grounded analysis for management academics, students, and advisers.
Publicado por Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0199257434 ISBN 13: 9780199257430
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In this book, a leading observer of the international financial system assesses official efforts to address the problem of financial crises in emerging markets. Professor Eichengreen describes the progress that has been made in limiting the frequency of crises and strengthening theinternational financial system. He also shows that initiatives in this area have unintentionally made life more difficult for the poorest countries. He therefore argues that efforts to limit the threat to the international financial system need to be linked to an increase in developmentassistance. Another place where official efforts have fallen short, the author argues is in creating new ways of resolving crises. He shows that official financing through the International Monetary Fund is part of the problem. The IMF's financial rescues allow investors to escape without losses, in turn encouraging them to lend without due regard to the risks. This only makes the international system more crises prone. That the IMF has repeatedly come under pressure to bail out crisis countries reflects the absence of other acceptable ways of resolving the financial difficulties ofemerging markets. Not lending threatens to expose the international financial system to a disorderly and disruptive crisis. At the same time, radical new alternatives like an international bankruptcy court or international lender of last resort would create more problems than they solved-even ifthere was the political appetite for such ambitious schemes, which there is not. The author concludes that the best way to enhance the efficiency and stability of international financial markets is by pushing for changes to the provisions ofloan agreements that will enhance the capacity ofcreditors and debtors to resolve financial problems on their own.
Publicado por Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0199252912 ISBN 13: 9780199252916
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book explores current thinking on corporate governance by way of an empirical examination of the governance practices of fourteen Japanese companies. The analysis is structured around four principal themes, namely the role of shareholders, the role of the main bank, the role of employees, and the role of senior management in the governance of these companies. The book suggests that a system of reciprocal responsibilities, obligations, and trust within and between companies act as an important means by which most Japanese companies are governed.
Publicado por Oxford University Press Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0195147693 ISBN 13: 9780195147698
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 'A Gilbert is of no use without a Sullivan.' With these words, W.S. Gilbert summed up his reasons for persisting in his collaboration with Arthur Sullivan despite the combative nature of their relationship. In fact, Michael Ainger suggests in Gilbert and Sullivan the success of the pair's workis a direct result of their personality clash, as each partner challenged the other to produce his best work. After exhaustive research into the D'Oyly Carte collection of documents, Ainger offers the most detailed account to date of Gilbert and Sullivan's starkly different backgrounds and longworking partnership. Having survived an impoverished and insecure childhood, Gilbert flourished as a financially successful theater professional, married happily and established himself as a property owner. His sense of proprietorship extended beyond real estate, and he fought tenaciously to protectthe integrity of his musical works. Sullivan, the product of a supportive family who nourished his talent, was much less satisfied with stability than his collaborator. His creative self-doubts and self-demands led to nervous and physical breakdowns, but it also propelled the team to break thesuccessful mode of their earliest work to produce more ambitious pieces of theater, including The Mikado and The Yeoman of the Guards. Offering previously-unpublished draft libretti and personal letters, this thorough double-biography will be an essential addition to the library of any Gilbert andSullivan fan.
Publicado por Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0198297815 ISBN 13: 9780198297819
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The debate between impartialists and their critics has dominated both moral and political philosophy for over a decade. This important new book by a leading author attempts to show both that the dispute between impartialists and their critics runs very deep, and that it can nonetheless be resolved.
Publicado por Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0199247188 ISBN 13: 9780199247189
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - For this edition David Norbrook has provided an extensive introduction which gives an overview of developments in methodology and research since the first edition in 1984, responds to some criticisms, and points the way to further inquiry. Footnotes have been updated to take account of the current state of knowledge, and a chronological table has been provided for ease of reference. Norbrook brings out the range and adventurousness of early modern poets' engagements with the public world.
Publicado por Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0199242682 ISBN 13: 9780199242689
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The book contains contributions from thirteen distinguished moral and political philosophers on the subject of children. These are new essays and are devoted to a subject that until recently has not been extensively discussed by philosophers. Too often philosophers restrict themselves to the consideration only of the relations between adults. Yet the topic of children is an important one for moral and political philosophy. Recent years have seen an increased concern with the needs and interests of young people. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child which accords a wide range of fundamental rights to children was adopted in 1989 and many states, including the United States and the UK, have subsequently ratified the Convention.
Publicado por Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0199256365 ISBN 13: 9780199256365
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Volume XVII of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports, and bibliographical information, which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. Its contributions range widely geographically, chronologically, and in subject-matter. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material.
Publicado por Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0198187424 ISBN 13: 9780198187424
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This is a reprint of the authoritative six-volume edition of the Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Superbly edited by Earl Leslie Griggs, each volume contains illustrations, appendices, and an index.
Publicado por Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0198187475 ISBN 13: 9780198187479
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This is a reprint of the authoritative six-volume edition of the Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Superbly edited by Earl Leslie Griggs, each volume contains illustrations, appendices, and an index.
Publicado por Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0198141955 ISBN 13: 9780198141952
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This is the first complete new scholarly edition for almost a century of one of the masterpieces of Athenian Old Comedy. Olson offers an extensive introduction, a text based on a fresh collation of the manuscripts, and a massive literary and historical commentary. All Greek in the introduction and commentary not cited for technical reasons is translated, making much of the edition accessible to non-specialists.
Publicado por Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0199248486 ISBN 13: 9780199248483
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The rise and fall of city patrons in the Greek East is linked to the fundamental changes that took place during the fall of the Republic and the transition to the Principate. This discursive treatment of the origins, nature, and decline of this type of patronage, and its place in Roman practice as a whole, is supplemented by a reference catalogue of Roman patrons of Greek communities.
Publicado por Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0199248508 ISBN 13: 9780199248506
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Malaria and Rome is the first comprehensive book on the history of malaria in Roman Italy. Aimed at an interdisciplinary readership, it explores the evolution and ecology of malaria, its medical and demographic effects on human populations in antiquity, its social and economic effects, the human responses to it, and the human interpretations of it.
Publicado por Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0198187440 ISBN 13: 9780198187448
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This is a reprint of the authoritative six-volume edition of the Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Superbly edited by Earl Leslie Griggs, each volume contains illustrations, appendices, and an index.
Publicado por Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0198534930 ISBN 13: 9780198534938
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This text presents easy to understand proofs of some of the most difficult results about polynomials. It encompasses a self-contained account of the properties of polynomials as analytic functions of a special kind.The zeros of compositions of polynomials are also investigated along with their growth, and some of these considerations lead to the study of analogous questions for trigonometric polynomials and certain transcendental entire functions. The strength of methods are fully explained and demonstrated by means of applications.
Publicado por Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0198187432 ISBN 13: 9780198187431
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This is a reprint of the authoritative six-volume edition of the Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Superbly edited by Earl Leslie Griggs, each volume contains illustrations, appendices, and an index.
Publicado por Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0198187459 ISBN 13: 9780198187455
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This is a reprint of the authoritative six-volume edition of the Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Superbly edited by Earl Leslie Griggs, each volume contains illustrations, appendices, and an index.