Springer nature jun 2007 (80 resultados)

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Jeremy Citrome employs the language of contemporary psychoanalysis to explain how surgical metaphors became an important tool of ecclesiastical power in the wake of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. Pastoral, theological, recreational, and medical writings are among the texts discussed in this w…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Since the mid 1990s, when the general public began using the Internet, governments and commerce have made vast investments in digital communications technology. There has been confusion and sometimes controversy over these, for exam…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This work is a critical reflection on the state of health promotion effectiveness in practice around the world. It examines the meaning of health promotion from regional perspectives, and explores regional strengths and weaknesses in demon…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Shakespeare has been misread for centuries as having modern ideas about sex and gender.This book shows how in the Restoration and Eighteenth century, Shakespeare's plays and other Renaissance texts were adapted to make them conform to thes…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores the varying reactions to the political turmoil in Asia in the late 1990s by looking at external pressures from global actors (the IMF and US security policy), popular protests, the nature of the opposition, and elite coa…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this book, Zirakzadeh examines different types of social movements, from the Greens in Germany to the Shining Path in Peru. The book concludes with a juxtaposition of the three major theoretical approaches and historical findings and pr…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book reveals how and why governance structures, outsourcing techniques and fluid enterprise boundaries will force a management revolution in the Twenty-First century. It draws on academic research and real-world consulting experience…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This collection on peace education includes contributions from an international group of scholars representing a wide variety of geographical conflict areas and exemplifying the multiple venues of peace educational labour. A strong emphasi…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume provides a thorough analysis of Turkey's accession to the EU and contributes to ongoing debates about the future relationship. It is a highly dynamic encounter and both questions and answers related to the accession seem consta…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Using data for India and Peru, the authors compare and contrast four different approaches to poverty analysis at a theoretical and empirical level. The research reveals the implications for measuring poverty and for policy, concluding that…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Japanese leaders and often the media too have substituted symbols for strategy in dealing with Asia. This comprehensive review of four periods over twenty years exposes the strategic gap in viewing individually and collectively China, Taiw…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This study examines how the UN Secretary-General's leadership qualities affect how they address threats to peace and security. The personal traits of all seven Secretaries-General are measured and categorized into one of three leadership s…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume brings together essays on the relations between fiction and the economy, all established or emergent scholars from different fields of expertise. The essays range widely in their respective foci, extending beyond purely literar…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores the rich, complex, literary tradition of the medieval go-between. Idealized going between usually leads to marriage and it develops a new dimension of the much debated question of courtly love and woman's part in it. Cha…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This project advances the existing theoretical work on the CNN effect, a claim that innovations in the speed and quality of technology create conditions in which the media acts as an independent factor with significant influence. It provid…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This is the first comprehensive account of the diversity and complexity of censorship practices in Italy under the Fascist dictatorship. Through archival material it shows how practices of censorship were used to effect regime change, to m…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Thirty-five years ago Roland Barthes proclaimed the death of the Author. For medievalists no death has been more timely. The essays in this volume create a prism through which to understand medieval authorship as a process and the medieval…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In his exploration of the use of intelligence in Ireland by the British government from the onset of the Ulster Crisis in 1912 to the end of the Irish War of Independence in 1921, Grob-Fitzgibbon analyzes the role that intelligence played…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This study discovers how contemporary writers have imagined possible relationships between African American and white women that overcome the stereotypical patterns of racism, using novels and autobiographies and focusing on works by Willi…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book investigates the contested ways in which eighteenth-century German philosophers, scientists, poets, and dramatists perceived and represented China and Africa from 1680 to 1830. Tautz demonstrates in compelling ways that reading C…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The essays in this volume explore the Mediterranean both as a physical and cultural space, and as a conceptual notion that challenges the boundaries between East and West. It emphasizes the Ottoman Mediterranean, by exploring a variety of…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This collection explores how Old French fabliaux disrupt literal and figurative bodies. Essays cover theoretical issues including fragmentation and multiplication, social anxiety and excessive circulation, performative productions and crea…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The intricate diplomacy that led to the peace agreement in Bosnia, known as the Dayton Accords, is here revealed in unprecedented detail. Based on thousands of still-classified government documents and dozens of interviews with key partici…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Guynn offers an innovative new approach to the ethical, cultural, and ideological analysis of medieval allegory. Working between poststructuralism and historical materialism, he considers both the playfulness of allegory and its disciplina…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Establishing a causal link between historical discourse and political change, this important book describes the role of historical discourse in establishing, maintaining, or destroying elite and mass political identities in Soviet and post…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This is a study of modernism, sexuality, and subjectivity in the work of two leading women modernists. Each confronted the aspects of her culture and personal history that resulted in a degraded sense of female sexuality and explored how t…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book offers an in-depth treatment of Woolf's representations of space and place. Eleven essays contribute not only to Woolf studies but also to emergent debates concerning modernism's relations to empire and geography. They offer inno…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book deals with the culture of Catalan resistance to assimilation, through the maintenance of the Catalan language as an expression of identity. This book argues that the Catalans also developed a series of cultural mechanisms…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Through detailed studies, this collection of writings by academics and activists explores the emergence of contemporary lesbian and butch/femme relationships and communities throughout Asia and their location within the context of national…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book looks at the evolution of the Organization of American States (OAS) multilateralism for democracy and the lessons its experience holds for other multilateral contexts. It also tackles the theoretical challenge of bridging the tra…