Norges billigste bøker

Bøker utgitt av Princeton University Press

Filter
Filter
Sorter etterSorter Populære
  • - Private Business and Public Purpose in Japanese Industrial Finance
    av Kent E. Calder
    804

    Was Japan's economic miracle generated primarily by the Japanese state or by the nation's dynamic private sector? In addressing this question, this study offers a distinctive reinterpretation of Japanese government-business relations.

  • av Chandler Davidson
    807,-

    Focuses on Texas politics. This work explores the complicated relations between the politically disorganized Texas blue-collar class and the 'rich and the fabulously rich', whose interests have been protected by 'brilliant practitioners of horse trading, guile, the jovial but serious threat, the offer that can't be refused'.

  • Spar 10%
    av Julius Thomas Fraser
    1 172,-

    An interdisciplinary study of time that offers an enormous range of ideas about matter, life, death, evolution, and value.

  • av John Kekes
    677,-

    Develops the view that good lives depend on maintaining a balance between one's moral tradition and individuality. Addressing general readers as well as scholars, this two-part work concentrates on social morality, establishing the conditions all good lives must meet; and discusses personal morality, the sphere of individuality.

  • Spar 15%
    - The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations
    av Miguel de Unamuno
    479,-

    Expresses the anguish of modern man as he is caught up in the struggle between the dictates of reason and the demands of his own heart.

  • Spar 11%
    av Theodore Ziolkowski
    603,-

    Explores five institutions - mining, law, madhouses, universities, and museums - that provide the socio-historical context for German Romantic culture. This book shows how German writers and thinkers helped to shape these five institutions, all of which assumed their modern form during the Romantic period.

  • - Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World
    av Pamela Kyle Crossley
    786,-

    Focusing on three generations of a Manchu family (from 1750 to the 1930s), this book is an attempt to understand the social and cultural life of the bannermen within the context of the decay of the Qing regime. It reveals that the Manchus were growing in consciousness of their ethnicity in response to changes in their own position.

  • - Lyric Aesthetics and the Challenge of Technology
    av Carrie Noland
    677,-

    Taking seriously Guillaume Apollinaire's wager that twentieth-century poets would one day 'mechanize' poetry as modern industry has mechanized the world, this title explores poetic attempts to redefine the relationship between subjective expression and mechanical reproduction, high art and the world of things.

  • Spar 11%
    - Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy
    av Edwin Amenta
    603,-

    According to conventional wisdom, American social policy has always been exceptional - exceptionally stingy and backwards. This title explains why the country's leading role was short-lived. It shows that the New Deal was in fact a bold program of relief, committed to providing jobs and income support for the unemployed.

  • - A Study of Political Decision-Making
    av Barbara Reardon Farnham
    677,-

    Offers both a theory of how the domestic political context affects foreign policy decisions in general and a fresh interpretation of FDR's post-Munich policies based on the insights that the theory provides. This book develops a political approach to decision-making.

  • Spar 12%
    - Nature, History, and Ritual in a Carolina Community
    av Stuart A. Marks
    596,-

    For many Southern men living in or close to rural landscapes, hunting is a passion. But it is not a timeless activity in a cultural void. This title provides an account of Southern hunting.

  • - Kinship, Class Culture
    av Larissa Adler Lomnitz & Marisol Perez-Lizaur
    1 017

    Presents the history of the Gomez, an elite family of Mexico that includes several hundred individuals, and their spouses and the families of their spouses. This book shows how the Gomez have evolved a distinctive subculture and an ability to advance their economic interests under changing political and economic conditions.

  • - From Convenant to Community
    av F. E. Peters
    677,-

    Includes texts and comments on the covenant and early history of the Chosen People and their post-Exilic reconstruction; the career and message of the Messiah Jesus and the Prophet Muhammad; the concept of holiness and of a "kingdom of priests"; and, finally, the notions of church and state and the state as a church.

  • av Joseph S. Wilson & Olivia Messinger Carril
    287 - 1 112,-

  • - The Transformation and Reproduction of an Aveyronnais Community
    av Susan Carol Rogers
    745,-

    Challenges the notion that modernization is a homogenizing process. This book contends that in the course of large-scale transformations communities often reproduce and strengthen distinctive cultural and social features. It focuses on the French farming community of 'Ste Foy' during a period of rapid change (1945-75).

  • - Worker Peasantries in Northeast Italy
    av Douglas R. Holmes
    627,-

    Portrays the crosscurrents created at the interface of urban industrial and rural peasant spheres. This book shows how wage labor was adopted by country folk who maintained ties to small-scale cultivation and indigenous traditions. It examines the cultural issues that animate peasant-worker life.

  • - Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England
    av Sandhya Shukla
    542,-

    Analyzes the development of Indian diasporas in the United States and England from 1947 onwards. This work suggests that carefully reading the production of a diasporic sensibility, one that is not simply an outgrowth of the nation-state, helps us to conceive of multiple imaginaries, of America, England, and India, as articulated to one another.

  • - Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America
    av Nan Goodman
    1 248,-

    Drawing on legal cases, legal debates, and fiction including works by James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Charles Chesnutt, thsi book investigates changing notions of responsibility and agency in nineteenth-century America.

  • Spar 16%
    - Democratization and Partisan Change
    av David Lublin
    474,-

    Takes a look at southern politics in the United States which challenges conventional notions about the rise of the Republican Party in the South. This work argues that the evolution of southern politics must be seen as part of a process of democratization of the region's politics.

  • Spar 13%
    - A Sociology of Logic
    av Claude Rosental
    467

    The development of theorems in logic is generally thought to be a solitary and purely cerebral activity, and therefore unobservable by sociologists. This book challenges this notion by tracing the history of one well-known example in the field of artificial intelligence - a theorem on the foundations of fuzzy logic.

  • - Human Nature in the Twentieth Century
    av Andrew R. Heinze
    451

    Recognizes the central role Jews and Jewish values have played in shaping American ideas of the inner life. This book aims to overturn the widely shared assumption that modern ideas of human nature derived from the nation's Protestant heritage. It also provides fresh interpretations of Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, and Western views of the psyche.

  • - From Woodrow Wilson to the Present
    av James Axtell
    423,-

    In 1902, Professor Woodrow Wilson took the helm of Princeton University, then a small denominational college. But Wilson had a blueprint for remaking the too-cozy college into an intellectual powerhouse. This book tells how the University adapted and updated Wilson's vision to transform itself into the prestigious institution.

  • Spar 12%
    - The Man Who Made an Impact
    av David H. Levy
    471,-

    Offers an account of Eugene Shoemaker's life and the way it has shaped our thinking about the universe. This book reconstructs the journey that began with a young geologist's desire to go to the moon in the late 1940's.

  • - Consumer Choice and the Quality of American Schools
    av Mark Schneider, Paul Teske & Melissa Marschall
    613,-

    School choice seeks to create a competitive arena in which public schools will attain academic excellence, encourage student performance, and achieve social balance. This book analyses what parents value in education, how much they know about schools, and how well they can match what they say they want in schools with what their children get.

  • Spar 17%
    av Amitai Etzioni
    472,-

    Challenges those who argue that diversity or multiculturalism is about to become the governing American creed. This book presents evidence that Americans, whites and African Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans, new immigrants and decedents of the Pilgrims, continue to share the same core of basic American values and aspirations.

  • - Child Labor and Education Policy in Comparative Perspective
    av Myron Weiner
    610,-

    India has the largest number of non-schoolgoing working children in the world. Why has the government not removed them from the labor force and required that they attend school? To answer this question, this comparative study looks at why and when other states have intervened to protect children against parents and employers.

  • - Liberal Philosophy in Democratic Times
    av Benjamin R. Barber
    542,-

  • av H. Frederik Nijhout
    766,-

    Offers a comprehensive survey of the many roles that hormones play in the biology of insects. This work discusses topics such as the control of molting, metamorphosis, reproduction, caste determination in social insects, diapause, migration, carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, diuresis, and behavior. It is useful for students and nonspecialists.

  • - Immigrant Life on the Margins
    av Sarah J. Mahler
    610,-

    Chronicles the struggles of immigrants who have fled their homelands in search of a better life in the United States, only to be marginalized by the society that they hoped would embrace them. This book argues that marginalization fosters antagonism within ethnic groups while undermining the ethnic solidarity emphasized by scholars of immigration.

  • - Poems and Prose Poems
    av Alicia Ostriker
    298,-

    Alicia Ostriker Of one substance, of one Matter, they have cruelly Broken apart. They never will touch Each other again. The shining Lovelier and younger Turns away, a pitiful girl. She is completely naked And it hurts.

Gjør som tusenvis av andre bokelskere

Abonner på vårt nyhetsbrev og få rabatter og inspirasjon til din neste leseopplevelse.