harvard university press feb 2005 (11 résultats)

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mark E. Neely, Jr., vividly recounts the surprising story of political conflict in the North during the Civil War. Examining party conflict as viewed through the lens of the developing war, Neely dismantles the argument long established in Civil War scholarship that the survival of the party system in the North contributed to its victory.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Should teenagers have jobs while they're in high school Doesn't working distract them from schoolwork, cause long-term problem behaviors, and precipitate a 'precocious' transition to adulthood This report from a remarkable longitudinal study of 1,000 students, followed from the beginning of high school through their mid-twenties, answers, resoundingly, no. Examining a broad range of teenagers, Jeylan Mortimer concludes that high school students who work even as much as half-time are in fact better off in many ways than students who don't have jobs at all. Having part-time jobs can increase confidence and time management skills, promote vocational exploration, and enhance subsequent academic success. The wider social circle of adults they meet through their jobs can also buffer strains at home, and some of what young people learn on the job--not least responsibility and confidence--gives them an advantage in later work life.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In a vibrant and passionate exploration of the twentieth-century civil rights and black power eras in American history, Waldo Martin uses cultural politics as a lens through which to understand the African-American freedom struggle.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'Against Essentialism' presents a sociological theory of culture. This interdisciplinary and foundational work deals with basic issues common to current debates in social theory, including society, culture, meaning, truth, and communication. Stephan Fuchs argues that many mysteries about these concepts lose their mysteriousness when dynamic variations are introduced.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The link between homeownership and political involvement, Fischel argues, explains several puzzles, such as why displacement of local taxation by state funds reduces school quality and why local governments are more efficient providers of environmental amenities. He calls for decentralization of the fiscal and regulatory functions of government.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This book discusses how the ability of the U.S. government to implement policies is strongly affected by economic constraints, such as the credibility of the policies, the ability of government to commit to them, the extent to which firms and consumers rationally anticipate their effects, and whether the success of a policy further encourages firms and individuals to behave in intended ways.

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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This book examines the relationship between language and violence, focusing on American literature from the Civil War, World War I, and World War II. Dawes proceeds by developing two primary questions: How does the strategic violence of war affect literary, legal, and philosophical representations And, in turn, how do such representations affect the reception and initiation of violence itself.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This is the first book to challenge the 'broken-windows' theory of crime, which argues that permitting minor misdemeanors to go unpunished only encourages more serious crime. Bernard Harcourt argues that although the broken-windows theory has been around for nearly thirty years, it has never been empirically verified.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Using the urbanized area that spreads across northern New Jersey and around New York City as a case study, this book presents a convincing explanation of metropolitan fragmentation--the process by which suburban communities remain as is or break off and form separate political entities.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In a world of mutually exclusive nation-states, international migration constitutes a fundamental anomaly. No wonder that such states have been inclined to select migrants according to their origins. The result is ethnic migration.But Christian Joppke shows that after World War II there has been a trend away from ethnic selectivity and toward non-discriminatory immigration policies across Western states. Indeed, he depicts the modern state in the cross-fire of particularistic and universalistic principles and commitments, with universalism gradually winning the upperhand. Thus, the policies that regulate the boundaries of states can no longer invoke the particularisms that constitute these boundaries and the collectivities residing within them.Joppke presents detailed case studies of the United States, Australia, Western Europe, and Israel. His book will be of interest to a broad audience of sociologists, political scientists, historians, legal scholars, and area specialists.