Описание: Written by engaged scholars and practitioners, <em>Transforming Cities and Minds</em> is an ""instrument-for-action"" on the problems faced by U.S. cities that have suffered from decades of disinvestment. The book advocates the concept of reciprocal knowledge: real learning on both sides, campus and city, through a complex network of human relationships. <br><br>Across the country from Camden to Oakland, the contributors engaged with community partners - hospitals, churches, community development corporations, community foundations, and other rooted institutions - to help restore old cities to life. Their collaborative thesis project engaged them with one another and university staff; it may offer a new paradigm for graduate education.
Описание: Looks closely at the debates occasioned by modern Western scholarship on Islam to throw new light on the social and political status of medieval Jews and Christians in various Islamic lands from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries.
Автор: Bloechl Название: Rethinking Difference in Music Scholarship ISBN: 1107026679 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107026674 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 17266.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Two decades after the publication of several landmark scholarly collections on music and difference, musicology has largely accepted difference-based scholarship. This collection of essays by distinguished international contributors is a major contribution to the field. It explores and re-evaluates the key issues, and includes individual case studies and methodologies.
Описание: Drawing on extensive research among the records of the American Historical Association and a multitude of other sources, the author traces the slow fragmentation of the field from 1880 to the divisions of the 1940s manifest today in the diverse professions of academia, teaching, and public history.
Описание: Argues that Saint Jerome was the first to represent biblical study as a mode of asceticism appropriate for an inhabitant of a Christian monastery, thus pioneering the enduring linkage of monastic identities and institutions with scholarship.
Автор: Wearne Название: The Theory and Scholarship of Talcott Parsons to 1951 ISBN: 0521125189 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521125185 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The most influential sociologist to have emerged in the United States, Talcott Parsons developed a distinctive theoretical synthesis which drew on Weber, Smobart, Durkheim and Marx. Drawing on unpublished papers, Wearne describes Parson`s religious background and his education and traces the impact of German and other social theory on his development as a scholar.
Автор: Verrall Название: Collected Studies in Greek and Latin Scholarship ISBN: 1107643007 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107643000 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4275.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Originally published one year after his death, the book collects a selection of articles by the respected Classicist Arthur Verrall (1851-1912). The essays, which include six previously unpublished papers, cover a variety of topics, including Latin verse and Greek history.
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