cambridge university press nov 2022 (59 résultats)

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Ever wondered why your life and health can sometimes be so hard to control Or why it seems so easy for other people Mark Hanson and Lucy Green draw on their years of experience as scientists and educators to cut through the usual information on genetics and lifestyle to reveal the secrets of early development which start to make each of us unique, during our first 1,000 days from the moment of conception. Some surprising discoveries, based on little-known new research, show how events during our first 1,000 days make each of us who we are and explain how we control our bodies, processes that go way beyond just the genes which we inherited. Provoking new ways of thinking about being parents, this book empowers individuals and society to give the next generation the gift of a good start to life and future health.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Explores the possible nature of extraterrestrial life, and how similar it may be to life on Earth.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Natural selection, as introduced by Charles Darwin in the Origin of Species (1859), has always been a topic of great conceptual and empirical interest. This book puts Darwin's theory of evolution in historical context showing that, in important respects, his central mechanism of natural selection gives the clue to understanding the nature of organisms. Natural selection has important implications, not just for the understanding of life's history - single-celled organism to man - but also for our understanding of contemporary social norms, as well as the nature of religious belief. The book is written in clear, non-technical language, appealing not just to philosophers, historians, and biologists, but also to general readers who find thinking about important issues both challenging and exciting.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In this Element the authors review the technique of the change of numeraire in the martingale approach to option pricing. Their intention is to present a reader friendly explanation of the technique itself, and illustrate how it is applied in various fields of quantitative finance as the basis for building option valuation models.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Much has been written on the relationship between the nature of temporal reality and the God of Classical Theism. Despite the popularity of this general area, what the physics and metaphysics of spacetime might mean for specific theological doctrines has received less attention. Recently, however, interest in this rich and dynamic interplay of ideas has seen rapid growth. This Element provides both an introduction to the physics and metaphysics of spacetime and a jumping-off point for understanding how these can - and in fact should - inform both Christian theology and the philosophy of religion more generally. The author will argue that the nature of spacetime raises particular and pressing problems for Christianity, specifically the interrelated doctrines of salvation and eschatology, and explore whether adequate solutions to these problems are available.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The fateful days and weeks surrounding 6 June 1944 have been extensively documented in histories of the Second World War, but less attention has been paid to the tremendous impact of these events on the populations nearby. The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy tells the inspiring yet heartbreaking story of ordinary people who did extraordinary things in defense of liberty and freedom. On D-Day, when transport planes dropped paratroopers from the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions hopelessly off-target into marshy waters in northwestern France, the 900 villagers of Graignes welcomed them with open arms. These villagers - predominantly women - provided food, gathered intelligence, and navigated the floods to retrieve the paratroopers' equipment at great risk to themselves. When the attack by German forces on 11 June forced the overwhelmed paratroopers to withdraw, many made it to safety thanks to the help and resistance of the villagers. In this moving book, historian Stephen G. Rabe, son of one of the paratroopers, meticulously documents the forgotten lives of those who participated in this integral part of D-Day history.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'This book explains what has gone wrong in psychology, and what steps need to be taken for psychology to become a constructive global force.'--.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This new collection enables students and general readers to appreciate Coleridge's renewed relevance now, 250 years after his birth.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - As the first play of the Terentian corpus, Andria has always attracted a special level of attention. It was the first Roman comedy produced after antiquity (at Florence in 1476) and the first translated into English, and it has inspired writers from Jonson and Dryden to Thornton Wilder. It provides an excellent introduction to Terence 's particular style of comedy, noteworthy for its ambivalence in representing the perspectives of woman and slaves and its experiments with a secondary plot line. The commentary is designed both to help students with the basic linguistic and technical problems confronting inexperienced readers of Roman comedy and to open discussion of essential interpretive questions involving the play and its relation to the wider comic corpus, as well as the utility of comedy for furthering our understanding of the Roman world and its values.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'This Companion, written by a diverse group of scholars for an audience of students and professors, considers the history, theory, and aesthetics of the essay form from the sixteenth century to the present'--.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This collection provides a series of essays interpreting and critically evaluating the philosophy of Paul Feyerabend. It includes innovative historical scholarship on Feyerabend's take on topics such as realism, empiricism, mimesis, voluntarism, pluralism, materialism, and the mind-body problem, as well as debates in the philosophy of physics.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A historically situated study of the relationship between music, sound and the sublime, this book embraces familiar works and composers, such as Handel, C. P. E. Bach, Haydn and Wagner, but also explores less familiar repertory and source material. Performers and audiences are also considered as agents and sites of sublime experience.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'In the past two decades, democratically elected executives across the world have used their popularity to push for legislation that, over time, destroys systems of checks and balances, hinders free and fair elections, and undermines political rights and civil liberties. Using and abusing institutions and institutional reform, some executives have transformed their countries' democracies into competitive authoritarian regimes. Others, however, have failed to erode democracy. What explains these different outcomes Resisting Backsliding answers this question. With a focus on the cases of Hugo Châavez in Venezuela and Alvaro Uribe in Colombia, the book shows that the strategies and goals of the opposition are key to understanding why some executives successfully erode democracy and others do not. By highlighting the role of the opposition, this book emphasizes the importance of agency for understanding democratic backsliding and shows that even weak oppositions can defeat strong potential autocrats'--.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - An expansive study of the novel's moral ambivalence toward procreation, from the nineteenth century through modernism to the present.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Explores the cultural, professional and personal contexts that shaped Stravinsky's creativity and formed the backdrop to his acclaimed compositions.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This Companion guides the reader through the main topics and the most significant methods for practicing Christian theology.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'This book offers a distinctive new account of John Maynard Keyes in his historical context. Peter Clarke considers Keynes' public policy role in terms of how his thinking informed his contribution to policy-making as well as the place of expediency in resolving issues of public policy'--.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A ground-breaking historical ethnography of kinship, religion, and village society in a remote rural backwater of the Roman world.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Narrates the major battles and campaigns of the conflict, conveying the full military experience during the Civil War.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This volume analyzes the cultural and intellectual experiences of Americans during and after the Civil War.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Explores the political and social dimensions of the Civil War in both the North and South.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Far from being solely an academic enterprise, the practice of theology can pique the interest of anyone who wonders about the meaning of life. This introduction to Christian theology - exploring its basic concepts, confessional content, and history - emphasizes the relevance of the key convictions of Christian faith to the challenges of today's world. Part I introduces the project of Christian theology and sketches the critical context that confronts Christian thought and practice today. Part II offers a survey of the key doctrinal themes of Christian theology, including revelation, the triune God, and the world as creation, identifying their biblical basis and the highlights of their historical development before giving a systematic evaluation of each theme. Part III provides an overview of Christian theology from the early church to the present. Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition ofAn Introduction to Christian Theology includes a range of new visual and pedagogical features, including images, diagrams, tables, and more than eighty text boxes, which call attention to special emphases, observations, and applications to help deepen student engagement.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Fusing cutting-edge approaches of systemic-functional linguistics and discourse approaches with Interactional and Applied Pragmatics, this book explores the nature and role of cliches, reimagining this often-disparaged form of language as a means to efficient, effective communication and interaction.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Computational astrophysics combines modern computational methods, novel hardware designs, advanced algorithms, original software implementations, and new technologies, to discover new phenomena and to make predictions in astronomy. IAU S362 summarizes these developments through astronomers in diverse fields sharing their best practice.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Natural selection, as introduced by Charles Darwin in the Origin of Species (1859), has always been a topic of great conceptual and empirical interest. This book puts Darwin's theory of evolution in historical context showing that, in important respects, his central mechanism of natural selection gives the clue to understanding the nature of organisms. Natural selection has important implications, not just for the understanding of life's history - single-celled organism to man - but also for our understanding of contemporary social norms, as well as the nature of religious belief. The book is written in clear, non-technical language, appealing not just to philosophers, historians, and biologists, but also to general readers who find thinking about important issues both challenging and exciting.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'For many millennia, humans have gazed up in wonder at the night-time sky. The full panoply of the Milky Way is an awesome sight. The scale of space is immense. Is there life out there somewhere If so, where, and what form does it take In the space of a couple of sentences, we've already gone from generalized wonder to specific questions. The next step is from questions to hypotheses, or, in other words, proposed answers. Here are two such hypotheses that I'll flesh out as the book progresses: life exists on trillions of planets in the universe; it usually follows evolutionary pathways that are broadly similar to - though different in detail from - those taken on Earth. Going from cosmic wonder to questions about alien life and on to hypothetical answers has been possible for a long time. But the final steps - from hypothetical answers to testing the hypotheses to arriving at an understanding of reality - have so far proved beyond humanity's grasp. That may be about to change. We may be on the threshold of being able to answer the age-old question 'are we alone in the universe ' with a resounding 'no'. But what is the basis of this claim The short answer is advancing technology, and in particular advancing design of telescopes. We'll get to that topic soon. But first, let me reassure you that I'm not alone in my optimism about the imminent discovery of evidence for alien life'--.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Highlights how West Germany leveraged its economic power to become a key pillar of NATO, the European Community, and the global economy in the 1960s and 1970s; how it reduced Cold War tensions with the Soviet bloc; and how it renounced military status symbols such as nuclear weapons.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - An integrative exploration of the concept of beliefs and their applications as studied across the cognitive sciences.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'Urban Undesirables presents urban transition experiences over nearly three decades in Bangalore based on the narratives of the city's street-based sex workers. Sex workers - female, male and transgender - have been omnipresent in Bangalore's streets for decades. However, despite being blacklisted as 'undesirable' and hazards to the 'ideal public', they have their own unique imaginaries and narratives of the city and its mutations. In mapping out their spatial and social ecosystems and experiences with technology, this book redraws, rewrites and relooks at a city and its transformations from their perspectives. The analysis of their experience is anchored to concepts around neoliberal urbanism, gender, labour informality and the politics of technology. The authors take an unconventional journey through their spaces, comrades and battles, through their toil to announce and affirm their individuality and agency, through their empowerment strategies, and through their struggles to reclaim their spaces and assert their identities as informal workers and legitimate citizens of the city'--.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'A Broken Record examines economic reform in the Punjab in the period 1900-47 in an attempt to historicize theories of institutional change and community development. It advances the economic history of the region by analysing microeconomic reform in the province. A close examination of programmes of rural reconstruction in colonial Punjab reveals stark parallels with more contemporary prescriptions of development economics. Simultaneously, a study of the trajectory of legislative change sheds light on the institutional legacies of colonial rule. The book engages deeply with the theoretical scholarship on development and rural uplift that emerges in this period and develops an intellectual genealogy that links colonialism to development studies. It questions the continued valorization of the 'community' despite a lack of supportive evidence and argues that one reason for the continued popularity of ideas of community development and institutional malaise is that both absolve the status quo from blame'--.