Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john stephens

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  • HIGH POWER MICROWAVES
    JAMES BENFORD / EDL SCHAMILOGLU / JACOB COTY STEPHENS / JOHN A. SWEGLE / PENG ZHANG
    Following in the footsteps of its popular predecessors, High Power Microwaves, Fourth Edition continues to provide a wide-angle, integrated view of the field of high power microwaves (HPMs). This fourth edition includes significant updates in every chapter as well as a new chapter on High Power Amplifiers. Written by a range of experimentalists, theorists, and applied theorists...

    $3,600.00

  • BETWEEN THREE WORLDS
    JOHN C. STEPHENS
    This book explores the motif of the spiritual journey and its evolution in Western literature. A spiritual journey can be broadly defined as a search for the divine. Such a search can occur either internally as a psychological process or in some cases may involve an actual geographic journey. Spiritual journeys can be conducted by individuals or groups. In exploring this topic,...

    $444.00

  • BETWEEN THREE WORLDS
    JOHN C. STEPHENS
    This book explores the motif of the spiritual journey and its evolution in Western literature. A spiritual journey can be broadly defined as a search for the divine. Such a search can occur either internally as a psychological process or in some cases may involve an actual geographic journey. Spiritual journeys can be conducted by individuals or groups. In exploring this topic,...

    $444.00

  • THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
    JOHN STEPHENS
    In this fascinating study, John Stephens inteprets the significance of the immense cultural change which took place in Italy from the time of Petrarch to the Reformation, and considers its wider contribution to Europe beyond the Alps. His important analysis (which is designed for students and serious general readers of history as well as the specialist) is not a straight narrat...

    $1,620.00

  • RETELLING STORIES, FRAMING CULTURE
    JOHN STEPHENS / ROBYN MCCALLUM
    What happens to traditional stories when they are retold in another time and cultural context and for a different audience? This first-of-its-kind study discusses  Bible stories, classical myths, heroic legends, Arthurian romances, Robin Hood lore, folk tales, 'oriental' tales, and other stories derived from European cultures.  One chapter is devoted to various retellings of cl...

    $1,260.00

  • SUBJECTIVITY IN ASIAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AND FILM
    JOHN STEPHENS
    Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Honor Book Award This volume establishes a dialogue between East and West in children’s literature scholarship. In all cultures, children’s literature shows a concern to depict identity and individual development, so that character and theme pivot on questions of agency and the circumstances that frame an individual’s decisions an...

    $1,340.00

  • CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
    STEPHENS, PIERS / BARRY, JOHN / DOBSON, ANDREW
    This new collection from the leading journal, Environmental Politics, presents an excellent overview of the key themes found in contemporary green political thought since the early 1990s. Bringing together the journal's major work, this new book charts a fascinating period in which environmental politics developed from a marginal position in society and the academy, to its curr...

    $1,320.00

  • CHALLENGING INEQUALITY
    EVELYNE HUBER / JOHN D. STEPHENS
    A wide-ranging examination of how policies, parties, and labor strength affect inequality in post-industrial societies. Not all countries are unequal in the same ways or to the same degree. In Challenging Inequality, Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens analyze different patterns of increasing income inequality in post-industrial societies since the 1980s, assessing the policies ...

    $626.57

  • DEMOCRACY AND THE LEFT
    EVELYNE HUBER / JOHN D. STEPHENS
    Although inequality in Latin America ranks among the worst in the world, it has notably declined over the last decade, offset by improvements in health care and education, enhanced programs for social assistance, and increases in the minimum wage. In Democracy and the Left, Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens argue that the resurgence of democracy in Latin America is key to this...

    $662.39

  • DEVELOPMENT AND CRISIS OF THE WELFARE STATE
    EVELYNE HUBER / JOHN D. STEPHENS
    Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens offer the most systematic examination to date of the origins, character, effects, and prospects of generous welfare states in advanced industrial democracies in the post—World War II era. They demonstrate that prolonged government by different parties results in markedly different welfare states, with strong differences in levels of poverty an...

    $537.04