Описание: The 2012 presidential elections represented the second consecutive defeat for the Republican Party, and the fourth defeat out of the last six presidential elections. In recent years both Republican and Democratic strategists and pundits have spoken of an emerging Democratic Party "lock" on the Electoral College and speculated that even in the wake of Republican victories in Congress, presidential candidates are still at a major disadvantage due to the party's increasing demographic and geographic isolation. This prediction flies in the face of population shifts of the last several decades from Democratic regions (Upper-Midwest and Northeast) to Republican-leaning regions (South and Southwest); at the same time, it seems to follow from demographic changes favoring an increase in the minority vote. In fact, there is an initiative to convert Texas to a Democratic state by mobilizing Latino and Black voters. In Altered States, Thomas Holbrook looks at electoral change in presidential elections since 1972, documenting the magnitude, direction, and consequences of changes in party support in the states. He finds that the Democrats do not have a "lock" on the Electoral College, but that their position has improved dramatically over the past forty years in a number of formerly competitive or Republican-leaning states in the Northeast, Southeast, and Southwest. Republican candidates have made many fewer gains, mostly improving their position in "misplaced," formerly Democratic states, such as Kentucky and West Virginia, or in already deeply Republican states in the Plains and Mountain West. Holbrook looks at the ways that changes in the racial and ethnic composition of the state electorates, migratory patterns from large Democratic states to Republican-leaning states, and changes in the public's level of education and occupational status, state party identification, and ideology drive these changes. Additionally, he explores the extent to which the Republican "problem" stems from the geographic concentration of party support. While Democratic concentration in major metropolitan areas tends to put them at a disadvantage in House races, as Republican votes increasingly are concentrated in fewer states where they win by wider margins, they may be "wasting" more Electoral College votes than Democrats, whose supporters are more efficiently distributed.
Автор: David Pantalony Название: Altered Sensations ISBN: 9400730616 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400730618 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 27251.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Prolific instrument maker Rudolph Koenig built, in 19th century Paris, one of the more influential scientific workshops in the history of acoustics. This book provides a detail portrait of his vibrant atelier, a place of construction, commerce and experiment.
Автор: Craik Название: Shakespearean Sensations ISBN: 1107559499 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107559493 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This lively and accessible collection of essays explores the ways Shakespeare and his contemporaries imagined literature`s impact on audiences` bodies, minds and emotions. Readers and theatregoers have always sought out literature for its emotional power, and this book shows how seriously early modern writers took their relationships with their audiences.
Автор: Craik Название: Reading Sensations in Early Modern England ISBN: 140392192X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403921925 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: How did Renaissance literature affect readers` minds, bodies and souls? In what ways did the history of literary experience overlap with the history of humours and emotions? This work argues that a new aesthetic vocabulary based on the theory of the passions was formulated in the Renaissance to describe the affective power of literature.
Автор: Astrid M. L. Kappers; Jan BF van Erp; Wouter M Ber Название: Haptics: Generating and Perceiving Tangible Sensations, Part II ISBN: 3642140742 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642140747 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Constitutes the proceedings of the conference on Haptics: Generating and Perceiving Tangible Sensations, held in Amsterdam, Netherlands in July 2010.
Описание: Originally published in 1863, On the Sensations of Tone remains a central text for the study of physiological acoustics and aesthetics. In it, the influential German scientist Helmholtz (1821-94) applies physics, anatomy and physiology to analyse the perception of consonance and dissonance. This English translation first appeared in 1875.
Автор: Astrid M. L. Kappers; Jan BF van Erp; Wouter M Ber Название: Haptics: Generating and Perceiving Tangible Sensations, Part I ISBN: 3642140637 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642140631 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Constitutes the proceedings of the conference on Haptics: Generating and Perceiving Tangible Sensations ,held in Amsterdam, Netherlands in July 2010.
