Metaphor and Musical Thought ePub "The scholarship of Michael Spitzer's new book is impressive and thorough. The writing is impeccable and the coverage extensive. The book treats the history of the use of metaphor in the field of classical music. It also covers a substantial part of... Ler mais Ver o produto Formato ePub Editor University of Chicago Press Lançamento 21/12/2015 Download imediato 33,59 € Download da versão digital
The Accommodated Animal Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales - ePub Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hellhounds. But the word “animal” itself only appears very rarely in his work, which was in keeping with sixteenth-century usage. As Laurie Shannon reveals in The Accommodated... Ler mais Ver o produto Formato ePub Editor University of Chicago Press Lançamento 02/01/2013 Download imediato 22,14 € Download da versão digital
Death Be Not Proud The Art of Holy Attention - ePub The seventeenth-century French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche thought that philosophy could learn a valuable lesson from prayer, which teaches us how to attend, wait, and be open for what might happen next. Death Be Not Proud explores the... Ler mais Ver o produto Formato ePub Editor University of Chicago Press Lançamento 21/12/2016 Download imediato 29,78 € Download da versão digital
Best Laid Plans Cultural Entropy and the Unraveling of AIDS Media Campaigns - ePub We see it all the time: organizations strive to persuade the public to change beliefs or behavior through expensive, expansive media campaigns. Designers painstakingly craft clear, resonant, and culturally sensitive messaging that will motivate... Ler mais Ver o produto Formato ePub Editor University of Chicago Press Lançamento 18/08/2016 Download imediato 26,70 € Download da versão digital
Extraterritorial Dreams European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century - ePub We tend to think of citizenship as something that is either offered or denied by a state. Modern history teaches otherwise. Reimagining citizenship as a legal spectrum along which individuals can travel, Extraterritorial Dreams explores the history... Ler mais Ver o produto Formato ePub Editor University of Chicago Press Lançamento 10/06/2016 Download imediato 22,14 € Download da versão digital
The Shape of Life Genes, Development, and the Evolution of Animal Form - ePub Rudolf Raff is recognized as a pioneer in evolutionary developmental biology. In their 1983 book, Embryos, Genes, and Evolution, Raff and co-author Thomas Kaufman proposed a synthesis of developmental and evolutionary biology. In The Shape of Life,... Ler mais Ver o produto Formato ePub Editor University of Chicago Press Lançamento 14/12/2012 Download imediato 32,11 € Download da versão digital
Islam and Modernity Transformation of an Intellectual Tradition - ePub "As Professor Fazlur Rahman shows in the latest of a series of important contributions to Islamic intellectual history, the characteristic problems of the Muslim modernists—the adaptation to the needs of the contemporary situation of a holy book... Ler mais Ver o produto Formato ePub Editor University of Chicago Press Lançamento 21/07/2017 Download imediato 22,89 € Download da versão digital
Sound Diplomacy Music and Emotions in Transatlantic Relations, 1850-1920 - ePub The German-American relationship was special long before the Cold War; it was rooted not simply in political actions, but also long-term traditions of cultural exchange that date back to the nineteenth century. Between 1850 and 1910, the United... Ler mais Ver o produto Formato ePub Editor University of Chicago Press Lançamento 05/06/2009 Download imediato 25,96 € Download da versão digital
Political Standards Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy - ePub Prudent, verifiable, and timely corporate accounting is a bedrock of our modern capitalist system. In recent years, however, the rules that govern corporate accounting have been subtly changed in ways that compromise these core principles, to the... Ler mais Ver o produto Formato ePub Editor University of Chicago Press Lançamento 09/11/2015 Download imediato 22,14 € Download da versão digital
Not without Madness Perspectives on Opera - ePub Opera often seems to arouse either irrational enthusiasm or visceral dislike. Such madness, as Goethe wrote, is indispensable in all theater, and yet in practice, sentiment and passion must be balanced by sense and reason. Exploring this tension... Ler mais Ver o produto Formato ePub Editor University of Chicago Press Lançamento 22/11/2012 Download imediato 47,37 € Download da versão digital
The Improbability of Othello Rhetorical Anthropology and Shakespearean Selfhood - ePub Shakespeare’s dramatis personae exist in a world of supposition, struggling to connect knowledge that cannot be had, judgments that must be made, and actions that need to be taken. For them, probability—what they and others might be persuaded to... Ler mais Ver o produto Formato ePub Editor University of Chicago Press Lançamento 15/02/2010 Download imediato 47,37 € Download da versão digital
Reclaiming Fair Use How to Put Balance Back in Copyright, Second Edition - ePub In the increasingly complex and combative arena of copyright in the digital age, record companies sue college students over peer-to-peer music sharing, YouTube removes home movies because of a song playing in the background, and filmmakers are... Ler mais Ver o produto Formato ePub Editor University of Chicago Press Lançamento 27/04/2018 Download imediato 16,84 € Download da versão digital
Crisis of the Wasteful Nation Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America - ePub Long before people were “going green” and toting reusable bags, the Progressive generation of the early 1900s was calling for the conservation of resources, sustainable foresting practices, and restrictions on hunting. Industrial commodities such as... Ler mais Ver o produto Formato ePub Editor University of Chicago Press Lançamento 19/01/2015 Download imediato 29,78 € Download da versão digital
Overcoming the Saving Slump: How to Increase the Effectiveness of Financial Education and Saving Programs ePub The great majority of working Americans are unprepared to face the difficult task of planning for retirement. In fact, the personal savings rate has been holding steady at zero for several years, down from 8 percent in the mid-1980s. Overcoming the... Ler mais Ver o produto Formato ePub Editor University of Chicago Press Lançamento 15/10/2009 Download imediato 26,56 € Download da versão digital
Traveling in Place A History of Armchair Travel - ePub Armchair travel may seem like an oxymoron. Doesn’t travel require us to leave the house? And yet, anyone who has lost herself for hours in the descriptive pages of a novel or the absorbing images of a film knows the very real feeling of having... Ler mais Ver o produto Formato ePub Editor University of Chicago Press Lançamento 28/10/2013 Download imediato 20,66 € Download da versão digital
An Image of God The Catholic Struggle with Eugenics - ePub During the first half of the twentieth century, supporters of the eugenics movement offered an image of a racially transformed America by curtailing the reproduction of “unfit” members of society. Through institutionalization, compulsory... Ler mais Ver o produto Formato ePub Editor University of Chicago Press Lançamento 05/06/2013 Download imediato 35,92 € Download da versão digital
Air's Appearance Literary Atmosphere in British Fiction, 1660-1794 - ePub In Air’s Appearance, Jayne Elizabeth Lewis enlists her readers in pursuit of the elusive concept of atmosphere in literary works. She shows how diverse conceptions of air in the eighteenth century converged in British fiction, producing the modern... Ler mais Ver o produto Formato ePub Editor University of Chicago Press Lançamento 22/11/2012 Download imediato 39 € Download da versão digital
West of Sex Making Mexican America, 1900-1930 - ePub Sex can be an oppressive force, a tool to shame, divide, and control a population. But it can also be a force for change, for the legal and physical challenge of inequity and injustice. In West of Sex, Pablo Mitchell uses court transcripts and... Ler mais Ver o produto Formato ePub Editor University of Chicago Press Lançamento 01/03/2012 Download imediato 22,14 € Download da versão digital
Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform ePub Sir Charles Bell (1774–1842) was a medical reformer in a great age of reform—an occasional and reluctant vivisectionist, a theistic popularizer of natural science, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a surgeon, an artist, and a teacher. He was among the... Ler mais Ver o produto Formato ePub Editor University of Chicago Press Lançamento 17/11/2015 Download imediato 26,70 € Download da versão digital
The Comparative Approach in Evolutionary Anthropology and Biology ePub Comparison is fundamental to evolutionary anthropology. When scientists study chimpanzee cognition, for example, they compare chimp performance on cognitive tasks to the performance of human children on the same tasks. And when new fossils are found... Ler mais Ver o produto Formato ePub Editor University of Chicago Press Lançamento 05/07/2011 Download imediato 34,33 € Download da versão digital