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The story of white flight and the neglect of black urban neighborhoods has been well told by urban historians in recent decades. Yet much of this scholarship has downplayed black agency and tended to portray African Americans as victims of structural forces beyond their control. In this history of Cleveland's black middle class, Todd Michney uncovers the creative ways that members of this nascent community established footholds in areas outsid...

The story of white flight and the neglect of black urban neighborhoods has been well told by urban historians in recent decades. Yet much of this scholarship has downplayed black agency and tended to portray African Americans as victims of structural forces beyond their control. In this history of Cleveland's black middle class, Todd Michney uncovers the creative ways that members of this nascent community established footholds in areas outsid...

In this surprising new look at how clothing, style, and commerce came together to change American culture, Jennifer Le Zotte examines how secondhand goods sold at thrift stores, flea markets, and garage sales came to be both profitable and culturally influential. Initially, selling used goods in the United States was seen as a questionable enterprise focused largely on the poor. But as the twentieth century progressed, multimillion-dollar busi...

Sind die westlichen Gesellschaften neurotisch? Christian Kohlross, psychotherapeutischer Coach und Kulturwissenschaftler, bejaht das und unterzieht sie einer psychologischen Analyse. Längst haben Persönlichkeitsstörungen auch von großen Gruppen und Kulturkreisen Besitz ergriffen. Die alarmierende Diagnose dieses Buchs: Narzissmus, Depression, Zwang und Hysterie sind Symptome einer akuten Kollektivneurose, die Europa und die westliche Welt fest...

In recent years carbon dioxide has played an increasingly important role in biomass processing. This book presents the state-of-the-art of a range of diverse approaches for the use of carbon dioxide in biomass valorisation. The book explores cutting-edge research and important advances in green high-pressure technologies. It gives an overview of the most relevant and promising applications of high-pressure CO2-based technologies in biomass pro...

Jesus is not a life coach or a blessing dispenser--but we often treat him like he is. We get burned out on some caricature of Jesus (a caricature that often bears an uncanny resemblance to ourselves) and become mired in anxiety, pride, or despair. Getting Jesus Wrong presents the biblical Christ and reassures disillusioned people that this ...

Schiller war, wie schon Heine wusste, Kosmopolit. Sein Weltbürgertum bleibt freilich, genauer betrachtet, innerhalb der Grenzen Europas. Internationale Experten loten die politischen, literaturgeschichtlichen und ästhetischen Dimensionen von Schillers Europa aus.

Since Barry Stroud's classic paper in 1968, the general discussion on transcendental arguments tends to focus on examples from theoretical philosophy. It also tends to be pessimistic, or at least extremely reluctant, about the potential of this kind of arguments. Nevertheless, transcendental reasoning continues to play a prominent role in some recent approaches to moral philosophy. Moreover, some authors argue that transcendental arguments may...

Tom Sellar is Professor of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at Yale University and the editor of Theater.

International migration presents the human face of globalization, with consequences that make headlines throughout the world. The Cross-Border Connection addresses a paradox at the core of this phenomenon: emigrants departing one society become immigrants in another, tying those two societies together in a variety of ways. In nontechnical language, Roger Waldinger explains how interconnections between place of origin and destination are built ...

China‿s Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was just beginning. China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976‿an epoch of startling accomplishments and disastrous failures, steered by many forces but dominated above all by Mao Zedong. “Walder convincingly shows that the effect of Maoist ineq...

Why do people obey the law? Law deters crime by specifying sanctions, and because people internalize its authority. But Richard McAdams says law also generates compliance through its expressive power to coordinate behavior (traffic laws) and inform beliefs (smoking bans)¿that is, simply by what it says rather than what it sanctions.

Kant declared that philosophy began in 1781 with his Critique of Pure Reason. In 1806 Hegel announced that philosophy had now been completed. Eckart Förster examines the reasons behind these claims and assesses the steps that led in such a short time from Kant‿s “beginning� to Hegel‿s “end.� He concludes that, in an unexpected yet significant sense, both Kant and Hegel were indeed right. “Presents a novel interpretation of the d...

Roisin Cossar examines how clerics managed efforts to reform their domestic lives in the decades after the Black Death. Despite reformers' desire for clerics to remain celibate, clerical households resembled those of the laity, and priests' lives included apprenticeships in youth, fatherhood in middle age, and reliance on their families in old age.

Die etablierten Verfahren zur Durchführung von IT-Sicherheitsanalysen beziehen sich im Regelfall auf technische Systeme. Dieses Vorgehen ist mit einem vertretbaren Aufwand möglich, solange es sich hierbei nur um wenige bzw. eindeutig abzugrenzende IT-Systeme handelt. Herausforderungen treten jedoch dann auf, wenn eine Organisation bzw. die unterstützenden IT-Systeme in ihrer Komplexität zunehmen. Hierbei besteht die Gefahr, dass sicherheitskri...

Für alle, die überlegen, mit dem Rauchen aufzuhören, haben wir den perfekten Begleiter: das Nichtraucher-Tagebuch. Schöne wie motivierende Tipps, Notfall-Übungen, der persönliche Kalender und die wundervollen Illustrationen von Dorina Tessmann helfen dabei, dem eigenen Rauch-Programm auf die Schliche zu kommen. So wird mit dem Stift in der Hand nicht nur die Zigarette besiegt, sondern durch das Schreiben, Kritzeln und die eigenen Ideen das Nic...

MATHEMATICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SET Coordinated by Abdelkhalak El Hami This book explores a variety of relatively simple approaches to academic and practical problems of fluid mechanics. Chapters cover topics from the basics of dynamics, defining the main properties of fluids, to fluid in equilibrium and the treatment of inviscid and viscous flows. In each chapter, different theorems and approaches are discussed to give a detailed revi...

NFC is a world standard since 2004 which is now within every smartphone on the market. Such a standard enables us to do mobile transactions (mobile payment) in a secure way along with many other information- based tap'n play operations. This book has a double role for computer scientists (from bachelor students in CS to IT professionals).

The integrated solutions for Ross/Westerfield/Jaffe/Jordan's Corporate Finance: Core Principles and Applications have been specifically designed to help improve student performance, meaning that students are prepared for and engaged in class, and they can successfully solve problems and analyse the results. McGraw-Hill's adaptive learning component, LearnSmart, provides assignable modules that help students master chapter core concepts and com...

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