Springer nature dez 2011 (160 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women's literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside that of the English vernacular, d…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Stress isundoubtedly one of the major work-related illness and is even more likely in times of economic uncertainty and downturn. Theauthors assess the psychological challenges created by instability and uncertainty and provide a survival…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book offers a new methodology for examining the ethico-political dimensions of religion and film which foregrounds film's social power both to shape subjectivity and to image contemporary social contradictions and analyses three speci…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -On the basis of original, empirically rich, and theoretically sound social research, the chapters in this volume reveal and analyze the complex relations between the secular government of Turkey and the religious persons and society within…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A Frightening Love radically rethinks God and evil. It rejects theodicy and its impersonal conception of reason and morality. Faith survives evil through a miraculous love that resists philosophical rationalization. Authors criticised incl…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -De Lange suggests a new contextually linked building block model to develop theories of the firm in the field of strategy and organizations. Using this approach, she proposes two models: one that is a realistic American version and another…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The 'generation' has been largely forgotten in the fields of sociology and political science, especially regarding global politics. This volume re-engages the concept of a 'generation,' utilizing it to explore how it can help us understand…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -From the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth, tourism became established as a leisure industry and travel writing as a popular genre. In this collection of essays, leading international historians and travel writing experts examine the…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Salamensky investigates Oscar Wilde, his contemporaries, and the public frenzy over his work and life as illustrating the crucial importance of performance in the construction of the 'modern' and our own, postmodern, lives. 210 pp. Englisc…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This is the story of the radical intervention carried out by the Thatcher administration in response to 1986-89 Monopolies and Mergers Commission inquiry into brewing. It describes the creation of big brewers, the official investiga…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Personal consumption accounts for two thirds of GDP, yet recent economic events have emphasised our limited ability to translate consumption patterns into policy. Steven Silver analyses this understudied area, exploring the network members…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The authors provide a systematic analysis of looking beyond the abuses of human rights in the Middle East with a view toward problematizing traditional doctrinal thinking and concepts in the region, ascertaining comparative and historical…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -With inevitable major economic and political transformations ahead, NGOs need to acknowledge and manage their policy dilemmas so that they can anticipate the many inevitable problems that consistently arise in attempting to avoid the retur…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Does empathy help us to be moral The author argues that empathy is often instrumental to meeting the demands of morality as defined by various ethical theories. This multi-faceted work links psychological research on empathy with ethical t…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Pursues the hypothesis that fictional literature has been instrumental in the development and dissemination of European anti-Americanism from the early 1800s to today. Focusing on Britain, France and Germany, it offers analyses of a range…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Looking at representations of the Irish landscape in contemporary literature and the arts, this volume discusses the economic, political and environmental issues associated with it, questioning the myths behind Ireland's landscape, from th…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The study of Hollywood detectives has often overlooked the B-Movie mystery series in favour of hard-boiled film. Hollywood's Detectives redresses this oversight by examining key detective series of the 1930s and 1940s to explore their cont…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Novels by significant Modernist authors can be described as romans à clef , providing insight into restrictions governing the representation of female homosexuality in the early twentieth century. Nair argues that key novels of the period…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Surveying irreverent and controversial representations of the Holocaust - from Sylvia Plath and the Sex Pistols to Quentin Tarantino and Holocaust comedy - Matthew Boswell considers how they might play an important role in shaping our unde…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Early embryonic loss is a continuing social and economic global problem. In human populations the estimates of interruptions early in pregnancy range from 35-60%. In animal husbandry (swine, ruminants) fully 30% of pregnancies fail…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Things We Do and Why We Do Them argues against the common assumption that there is one thing called 'action' which all reason-giving explanations of action are geared towards. Sandis shows why all theories concerned with identifying th…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This study explores two categories-empire and citizenship-that historians usually study separately. It does so with a unifying focus on racialization in the lives of outstanding women whose careers crossed national borders between 1880 and…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -By analyzing the cases present in this volume, the editors develop important steps towards a theory of social change that can adequately address the complex realities and intersectionality of identity (race, gender, class, sexuality, natio…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Comparative study of the writings and strategies of European women in two colonies, French Algeria and British Kenya, during the twentieth century. Its central theme is women's discursive contribution to the construction of colonial nostal…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The dawn of neoliberal rationality in Africa in the 1980s coincided with a massive exodus of skilled Africans to the global North. Moving beyond the 'push and pull' framework that has dominated studies of this phenomenon, this collection i…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This collection offers a distinctly Asian voice for English language education and addresses some of the unique needs of Asian learners in EFL contexts. Teachers and researchers from nine Asian countries present some of the most current an…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -By examining these competing depictions of combat that coexist in sixteenth-century texts ranging from Arthurian romance to early modern medical texts, this study reveals both the importance of combat in understanding the humanist subject…