yale university press apr 2017 (22 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 'Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship with trees has many dimensions beyond mere practicality. Trees are so entwined with human experience that diverse species have inspired their own stories, myths, songs, poems, paintings, and spiritual meanings. Some have achieved status as religious, cultural, or national symbols. In this beautifully illustrated volume Fiona Stafford offers intimate, detailed explorations of seventeen common trees, from ash and apple to pine, oak, cypress, and willow. The author also pays homage to particular trees, such as the fabled Ankerwyke Yew, under which Henry VIII courted Anne Boleyn, and the spectacular cherry trees of Washington, D.C. Stafford discusses practical uses of wood past and present, tree diseases and environmental threats, and trees' potential contributions toward slowing global climate change. Brimming with unusual topics and intriguing facts, this book celebrates trees and their long, long lives as our inspiring and beloved natural companions'.

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - It has been seventeen years since Lloyd Schwartz has published a book of original poems, so there is much anticipation from his fans. In 'Little Kisses,' Schwartz takes his characteristic tragi-comic view of life to some unexpected and sometimes disturbing places. Here we find heart-breaking and comic poems about personal loss (the mysterious disappearance of his oldest friend, for example, or his mother s failing memory, or a precious gold ring gone missing); uneasy love poems and poems about family; and poems about identity, travel, and art with all their potentially recuperative powers. The book also contains some memorable translations, jokes, and wordplay, as well as formal surprises, all of which Schwartz s readers have come to relish in his verse. His books have been all too few and far between; this new one after so very long is sure to be greeted by an eager readership.'.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Even though September 11 hovers over this mesmerizing look into the nature of eventsit was the fall of the Twin Towers that inspired Robin Wagner-Pacifici initiallythe richly evocative and thoughtful story she tells scales up to the level of major historical events and it scales down to the micro-level of ruptures in individual lives. Wagner-Pacifici moves back and forth between events experienced with all their vivid, pulsating, and demanding realities, and events understood systematically and conceptually. It is an astonishing achievement: a book that works with events, and a book that builds a model for analyzing them. She makes contact with specific eventful ruptures and turning-points; she analyzes how events erupt and take off from the ground of ongoing, everyday life, and how they move across time and landscapes. What Is an Event gives us a crystalline condensation of idea, image, analysis, and act, teasing out multiple possibilities for conceiving of events in series, in ruptures, in causal mechanisms, in short and long duration, and in their reception by the public. Wagner-Pacifici peppers each chapter with brilliant, vivifying examples: from 9/11 (four air hijackings, with multiple target sites, propelling the event from rupture, to accident, to incident, to attack, to war in rapid fashion, and on to the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the memorial museum at ground zero, and so much else) to the shooting in Camus s The Stranger to the shooting of Trayvon Martin. There is much in between. These examples take on the form of exemplars, models, paradigms. They show the productive pathways that keep events alive and coherent, and uncover the mechanisms by which forces and agents attempt to shape and move events. This book changes the conversation about how history is made.'.

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A groundbreaking history of abolition in the long march toward emancipation from the American Revolution through the Civil War.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 'Zhang Peili: Record. Repeat. was produced in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title organized by the Art Institute of Chicago, March 31/July 9, 2017'--Title page verso.

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Cancer. It's the diagnosis no one wants to hear. Unfortunately though, these days most of us have known or will know someone who receives it. But what's next With the diagnosis comes not only fear and uncertainty, but numerous questions, and a lot of unsolicited advice. With A Cancer Companion, esteemed oncologist Ranjana Srivastava is here to help, bringing both experience and honesty to guide cancer patients and their families through this labyrinth of questions and treatments.

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In July 2009, the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) began publishing book reviews by an individual writing as Barbara Celarent, professor of particularity at the University of Atlantis. Mysterious in origin, Celarent's essays taken together provide a broad introduction to social thinking. Through the close reading of important texts, Celarent's short, informative, and analytic essays engaged with long traditions of social thought across the globe--from India, Brazil, and China to South Africa, Turkey, and Peru. . . and occasionally the United States and Europe.

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Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A provocative examination of how unequal access to reproductive technology replays the sins of the eugenics movement.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In this finely crafted critical biography, Amir Engel provides a corrective to much of the vast literature on the enigmatic, but highly influential, twentieth century figure Gershom Scholem. Engel contends that Scholem s major achievement lies not in his scholarly discoveries but in his creation. Rather than finding the truth of the Kabbalah, he molded the vast literature of Jewish mystical lore into narratives, indeed stories, which entail new truths. Positioning Scholem s narratives in the context in which they were originally told, Engel discusses two interrelated stories: the story of Scholem s life and the story he told in his historiography. Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography describes Scholem s formative years starting with his early adolescence before the First World War and ending when he reached recognition as an established Scholar in the 1950 s. It discusses Scholem s early activism in the Zionist youth movements in Berlin, his activism against World War One, his insistent search for father figures, and his ultimate failures. It continues with a discussion of the crisis Scholem underwent after immigrating to Palestine, his activism and the events that led him to rethink his politics. Finally, it describes Scholem s retreat from politics: his realization that his vision of Zionism was undone by powers much greater than his own. Simultaneously, this book offers a contextualized study of Scholem s major historiographical works. For Scholem s study of the mystical lore cannot be separated from his political activism, his demands to renew a dying nation, and the events he experienced in his life. Among other aspects of his historiography, the book discusses Scholem s interpretation of the Kabbalistic myth of exile, the Messianic misadventure of Sabbatai Zevi, and the aftermath of the Sabbatian debacle. Beyond offering a novel perspective on Scholem, this book opens a unique window onto some of the fundamental questions and problems of the first half of the 20th century in central Europe and in Israel/ Palestine.'.

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Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Translation of: Jaerusalem 1900: la ville sainte aa l'aage des possibles.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - An important reconsideration of landscape photography in 19th-century America, exploring crucial but neglected geographies, practitioners, and themes.

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Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The essential five-volume resource on the painting and sculpture of one of the world's foremost contemporary artists.