Picking Up
"Meticulous . . . [Nagle's] passion for the subject really comes to life." - The New York Times New York City produces more than twelve thousand tons of household trash and recyclables a day. As quickly as it accumulates, it's hauled ...
Hersteller: Farrar Straus and Giroux Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
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Davis, J: Anticipating a Nuclear Iran
This volume assumes the worst: a defensive, aggressive Iran already possesses a nuclear arsenal. How should the United States handle this threat, and can it deter the use of such weapons? Through three scenario models, this study ...
Hersteller: Columbia Univers. Press Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
89,90 CHF
Khalidi, R: Under Siege
Under Siege is Rashid Khalidi's firsthand account of the 1982 Lebanon War and the complex negotiations for the evacuation of the P.L.O. from Beirut. Utilizing unconventional sources and interviews with key officials and diplomats, ...
Hersteller: University Presses Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
55,90 CHF
Garmestani, A: Social-Ecological Resilience and Law
Environmental law envisions ecological systems as existing in an equilibrium state, reinforcing a rigid legal framework unable to absorb rapid environmental changes and innovations in sustainability. For the past four decades, ...
Hersteller: University Presses Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
209,00 CHF
Bachner, A: Beyond Sinology
New communication and information technologies provide distinct challenges and possibilities for the Chinese script, which, unlike alphabetic or other phonetic scripts, relies on multiple signifying principles. In recent decades, this ...
Hersteller: University Presses Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
119,00 CHF
Matar, N: Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam
Henry Stubbe (1632--1676) was an extraordinary English scholar who challenged his contemporaries by writing about Islam as a monotheistic revelation in continuity with Judaism and Christianity. His major work, The Originall & Progress ...
Hersteller: University Presses Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
93,90 CHF
Migdal, J: Shifting Sands
Joel S. Migdal focuses on the approach U.S. officials adopted toward the Middle East after World War II, one that paid scant attention to tectonic shifts in the region. The approach was simple: find a local power that could play Great ...
Hersteller: Columbia Univers. Press Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
73,90 CHF
Simpson, J: Multimodal Treatment of Acute Psychiatric Illnes
The multimodal treatment of acute psychiatric illness involves a set of integrated, systematic interventions that stabilize individuals with severe mental illness and help them avoid unnecessary psychiatric hospitalization. This volume ...
Hersteller: University Presses Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
169,00 CHF
Fukuzawa, Y: Encouragement of Learning
The intellectual and social theorist Yukichi Fukuzawa wrote An Encouragement of Learning (1872--1876) as a series of pamphlets while completing his critical masterpiece, An Outline of a Theory of Civilization (1875). These closely ...
Hersteller: Columbia University Press Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
92,90 CHF
Garmestani, A: Social-Ecological Resilience and Law
Environmental law envisions ecological systems as existing in an equilibrium state, reinforcing a rigid legal framework unable to absorb rapid environmental changes and innovations in sustainability. For the past four decades, ...
Hersteller: University Presses Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
73,90 CHF
Baby Bear
Baby Bear is lost and trying to find his way home. As he walks through the forest, he meets other animals who offer wise advice. Trust yourself. Listen to your heart. Keep walking and you will find your way home. As each encounter moves ...
Doyle, A: Fountain House
Often people with mental illness feel alone in society, with no place to go and little hope. Their isolation can be further perpetuated through typical approaches to treatment, such as case management and psychotherapy. Since 1948, the ...
Hersteller: University Presses Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
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Gemunden, G: Continental Strangers
Hundreds of German-speaking film professionals took refuge in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, making a lasting contribution to American cinema. Hailing from Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine, as well as Germany, ...
Hersteller: University Presses Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
153,00 CHF
Zlotnick, C: Children Living in Transition
Sharing the daily struggles of children and families residing in transitional situations (homelessness or because of risk of homelessness, being connected with the child welfare system, or being new immigrants in temporary housing), ...
Hersteller: University Presses Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
169,00 CHF
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Action Pack
A deluxe boxed set that includes the first three novels in the world of Jack Ryan from #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clancy, the “longtime top gun of the military thriller” (Boston Globe). This deluxe box set includes: ...
Hersteller: Berkley Publishing Group Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
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Children Living in Transition
Sharing the daily struggles of children and families residing in transitional situations (homelessness or because of risk of homelessness, being connected with the child welfare system, or being new immigrants in temporary housing), ...
Hersteller: University Presses Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
58,90 CHF
Cady, L: Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual D
Global struggles over women's roles, rights, and dress increasingly cast the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. When advocates for equality speak in terms of rights and modern progress, or reactionaries ground ...
Hersteller: University Presses Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
55,90 CHF
Kitcher, P: Deaths in Venice
In Mann¿s story (Deaths in Venice), the author Gustav von Aschenbach becomes captivated by an adolescent boy, first seen on the lido in Venice, the eventual site of Aschenbach¿s own death. Mann works through central concerns about how ...
Hersteller: Columbia Univers. Press Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
55,90 CHF
Idema, W: Resurrected Skeleton
The Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi (369--286 B.C.E.) encountered a skull that later in a dream praises the pleasures of death over the toil of living. This anecdote became popular with poets in the second and third centuries and found ...
Hersteller: University Presses Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
93,90 CHF
Huffer, L: Are the Lips a Grave?
Lynne Huffer's ambitious inquiry redresses the rift between feminist and queer theory, traversing the space of a new, post-moral sexual ethics that includes pleasure, desire, connection, and betrayal. She begins by balancing queer ...
Hersteller: University Presses Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
