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Europe and Germany

Thompson, Kenneth W.
Europe and Germany
This work discusses the ways in which German unification has affected both itself and the European context. Various problems are discussed, including relationships with America. The contributors include Robert Rudley, Ambassador Berndt von Staden, Sir Peter Marsahll, and Ambassador Anders Thunborg.

CHF 40.90

The Ford Pinto Case

Birsch, Douglas / Fielder, John
The Ford Pinto Case
This book bring together the basic documents needed for reaching an informed judgment on the central ethical question in the Pinto case: did Ford Motor Company act ethically in designing the Pinto fuel system and in deciding not to upgrade the integrity of that system until 1978? The five parts of this book cover the case, cost-benefit analysis, whistle blowing, product liability, and government regulations.

CHF 53.50

Mein Fall

Braun, Robert N.
Mein Fall
Hinter den "Fällen" in der Arztpraxis verbergen sich häufig problematische und belastende Ereignisse. Das Buch enthält 245 solcher Praxiserlebnisse, nach 91 Problemkreisen geordnet und einfühlsam kommentiert. Die Schilderungen stammen aus der Rubrik "Mein Fall", die seit 15 Jahren regelmäßig in der Zeitschrift "Der Allgemeinarzt" erscheint und zu einem wichtigen Forum für die Leser geworden ist.

CHF 102.00

Marina Tsvetaeva

Feiler, Lily
Marina Tsvetaeva
This well-researched, thoughtful, and fair biography of Marina Tsvetaeva especially illuminates that intimate connection between passionate artist and self-destructive woman that, in very different circumstances, also characterized the genius of Sylvia Plath. Against the background of the Russian Revolution, the privations and hardships endured by this uniquely gifted but psychologically damaged Romantic are viewed with a sympathy untouched by...

CHF 89.00

Gendering Welfare States

Sainsbury, Diane
Gendering Welfare States
How can mainstream models and classifications be used in analyzing welfare states and gender? What sorts of modifications to traditional theory are required? These and other questions are addressed in this book - the first to synthesize the insights of feminist and mainstream research in examining the impact of gender on welfare state analysis and outcomes. The text also highlights the effect of welfare state policies on women and men. The in...

CHF 103.00

Late Empire

Wojahn, David
Late Empire
Wojahn delights in generating poems from the flotsam of contemporary culture. This new offering reaches beyond his earlier work and enters more harrowing arenas of experience, exploring the collective and individual human condition via a catalogue of miseries, mishaps and bottled-up memories...' -- 'Publishers Weekly

CHF 25.90

Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as F.T.-Pa

Zipes, Jack
Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as F.T.-Pa
This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of investigating oral folk tales in their socio-political context and traces their evolution into literary fairy tales, a metamorphosis that often diminished the ideology of the original narrative. Zipes als...

CHF 37.90

Ingenium und Individuum

Schmutzer, Manfred E. A.
Ingenium und Individuum
Die Arbeit zielt auf ein neues, sozialwissenschaftlich begründetes Verständnis von Wissenschaft und Technik. Gesellschaftliche Bedingungen, die zu neuen Wissenschaften und technischen Innovationsschüben führen - hohe Mobilität, Individualisierung und Entfremdung von tradierten Verhaltensweisen - werden an drei Epochen dargestellt: Die Begründung "beweisender Wissenschaften" in der Antike, der Universitäten im Mittelalter und die Entstehung neu...

CHF 102.00

Time and the Erotic in Horace's Odes

Ancona, Ronnie
Time and the Erotic in Horace's Odes
This study has much to offer specialists in the field of Horatian poetry in particular and of Augustan literature generally: its nuanced, insightful and provocative close readings of various poems, its successful efforts at problematizing both the poet/lover's perspective and the tendency of Horace's leading modern interpreters to adopt this perspective uncritically, its recognition that certain innovative, feminist perspectives pioneered in t...

CHF 109.00