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Hegel and capitalism
Examines Hegel's unique understanding and assessment of capitalism as an economic, social, and cultural phenomenon.Bringing together scholars from varying perspectives, this book examines the value of Hegel's thought for understanding and assessing capitalism, both as encountered by Hegel himself...
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Liberating revolution
Provides a novel conceptual and practical theory of revolution, engaging previous theories of revolution, contemporary continental philosophy, and systems theory.Liberating Revolution challenges the idea that we understand what revolution is. All current understandings of revolution are different...
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China's america
A fascinating look at Chinese perceptions of the United States and the cultural and political background that informs them.2011 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner of the 2011 Best Book Award presented by the Chinese American Librarians Association What do the Chinese think of America? Why ...
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The violence mythos
Presents a powerful thesis on the nature and significance of violence and its mythos in Western culture, and offers an alternative interactive mythos that bridges the mind/body split inherent to most theories of violence.The Violence Mythos presents us with a powerful thesis on the nature and sig...
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The crucible of public policy
Relates the dramatic role of New York courts in shaping public policy on key reform legislation in the progressive era.The Crucible of Public Policy: New York Courts in the Progressive Era relates the dramatic story of New York State courts, particularly the Court of Appeals, in deciding on the c...
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The partition of palestine
Some seventy-five years after the boundaries of the British Mandate for Palestine were set, the State of Israel still lacks a defined territory and agreed-upon boundaries, except for its boundary with Egypt. This book examines this unusual situation, concentrating especially on the perceptions of...
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Creating a college that works
Examines the life of education activist Audrey Cohen and her founding of Metropolitan College of New York.In 1964 educational activist Audrey Cohen and her colleagues developed a unique curricular structure that enables urban college students to integrate their academic studies with meaningful wo...
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Lacan in the german-speaking world
Addresses Lacan's reception in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, offering new perspectives for American readers.This book offers a selection of the best work on Lacan that has been published over the past ten years by RISS, a Swiss journal of Lacanian studies. Though focused on Lacan and Freud, ...
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Schelling's organic form of philosophy
Locates in Schelling a new understanding of our relation to nature in philosophy.The life and ideas of F.W.J. Schelling are often overlooked in favor of the more familiar Kant, Fichte, or Hegel. What these three lack, however, is Schelling's evolving view of philosophy. Where others saw the possi...
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Local party organizations in the twenty-first century
Demonstrates how local political parties have retained a role of critical importance in American politics.While the media pay the most attention to the actions of the national political committees, political scientists have long emphasized the key role of local party organizations. Despite sweepi...
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The visionary moment
Explores and critiques the metaphysics and ideology of the visionary moment as a convention in twentieth-century American fiction, from the standpoint of postmodernism.In The Visionary Moment, Paul Maltby draws on postmodern theory to examine the metaphysics and ideology of the visionary moment, ...
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Posts and pasts
Deconstructs the field of postcolonial studies.In Posts and Pasts: A Theory of Postcolonialism, Alfred J. Lopez argues for a formulation of postcolonial studies which diverges in three significant ways from current academic and institutional practices: 1) the postcolonial as diasporic, constitute...
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The challenge of eastern asian education
Provides specific examples of Asian educational practice that may have relevance to the United States.The Challenge of Eastern Asian Education highlights how Asian education policy and practice challenge American schools. The book focuses on innovations that the nations of the Pacific Rim have de...
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The sound of vultures' wings
Explores the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition.The Sound of Vultures' Wings offers the first in-depth exploration of the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition, which is based on the liturgical song-poems of the twelfth-century Tibetan female ascetic Machik Labdrön (1055–1153). Chöd is a musical-m...
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In dewey's wake
Leading scholars evaluate the importance of Dewey's work for our times.In a pluralistic tapestry of approaches, eminent Dewey scholars address his pragmatic philosophy and whether it should be reinterpreted, reconfigured, or "passed-by," so as to better deal with the problems posed by the twenty-...
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The resource room
There are few comprehensive textbooks available to special educators responsible for developing, implementing, and monitoring resource room programs. McNamara's book fills this void by providing teachers and administrators with helpful, practical information and by exploring the role of the resou...
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Sappho in the holy land
Essays on the experience of lesbians in contemporary Israeli society.This unique collection examines the experience of lesbians in Israel, providing insight into some of the institutions that have helped shape that experience. The book analyzes and interprets how culturally specific political, id...
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Engaging south asian religions
Looks at Western understandings of South Asian religions and indigenous responses from pre-colonial to contemporary times.Focusing on boundaries, appropriations, and resistances involved in Western engagements with South Asian religions, this edited volume considers both the pre- and postcolonial...
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The future of invention
Examines the concept of rhetorical invention from an affirmative, nondialectical perspective.The Future of Invention links classical rhetorical practices of invention with the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida and proposes that some of the most crucial implications of postm...
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Tuitions and intuitions
Makes the case that philosophy has an essential role to play in the serious study of film.William Rothman has long been considered one of the seminal figures in the field of film-philosophy. From his landmark book Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze, now in its second edition, to the essays collected h...
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The enlightened judgments, ch'ing-ming chi
The first English translation of a selection of legal documents from Sung Dynasty China, this work provides a fascinating look at the legal, social, and economic history of that era.The Enlightened Judgments introduces everyday life in thirteenth-century China. The Sung Dynasty author of the coll...
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Beyond beauty
Traces the decline of beauty as an ideal from early German romanticism to the twentieth century.The American abstract expressionist painter Barnett Newman famously declared in 1948 that the impulse of modern art is to destroy beauty. Not long after that, Andy Warhol was reconciling the world of a...
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Anarchism in korea
A regional and transnational history of anarchism in Korea.This book provides a history of anarchism in Korea and challenges conventional views of Korean anarchism as merely part of nationalist ideology, situating the study within a wider East Asian regional context. Dongyoun Hwang demonstrates t...
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Sex, paranoia, and modern masculinity
How modern conceptions of paranoia became associated with excessive or unregulated masculinity.Sex, Paranoia, and Modern Masculinity explores how twentieth-century conceptions of paranoia became associated with the excessive or unregulated exercise of masculine intellectual tendencies. Through an...
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Cuba
Internationally renowned scholars address the Cuban diaspora from multiple perspectives and locations.In Cuba, internationally renowned artists, philosophers, and writers reflect on the idea of a nation displaced. Featuring contributions from Isabel Alvarez Borland, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, María Cr...
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The floating world
Documents the art and science of three-dimensional abstract artworks created in the 1970s and 1980s by one of the leading innovators of fine art holography.The first-ever catalogue dedicated to light artist and holographer Rudie Berkhout, The Floating World focuses on the transmission holograms B...
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The aesthetics of senescence
Investigates how nineteenth-century British literature grappled with a new understanding of aging as both an individual and collective experience.Shortlisted for the 2020 BSLS Book Prize presented by the British Society for Literature and Science The Aesthetics of Senescence investigates how chro...
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United we stand?
Argues that leaders sometimes promote international conflicts to keep their own military politically divided.It has long been assumed that leaders engage in international conflict to unify their followers-what is often called the "rally 'round the flag" hypothesis. Despite its intuitive appeal, h...
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Ancient wisdom and modern science
Recent advances in a variety of scientific disciplines have revealed the limitations of the Newtonian-Cartesian model of the universe. One of the interesting aspects of this development is the increasing convergence of science and the "perennial philosophy." The new research has led to a critical...
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An introduction to chinese culture through the family
Uses the concept of family, both literally and metaphorically to provide an introduction to Chinese culture.An Introduction to Chinese Culture through the Family covers a central element of Chinese culture, the idea of family, or jia. Written for both beginners and specialists, this book consider...
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Scientific discovery
Kantorovich analyzes the notion of discovery. He views the process as inference and questions whether there is logic or method to discovery. He provides an alternative perspective on scientific discovery that explains the difficulties in finding a satisfactory method of discovery. Within the fram...
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The death of classical cinema
A study of three classical filmmakers and the films they made at the cusp of the modernist movement in cinema.The Death of Classical Cinema uncovers the extremely rich yet insufficiently explored dialogue between classical and modernist cinema, examining the work of three classical filmmakers-Alf...
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She comes to take her rights
Examines the contemporary workings of property law in India through the lives and thoughts of middle-class and poor women.Using the contemporary workings of property law in India through the lives and thoughts of middle-class and poor women, this is a study of the ways in which cultural practices...
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Organizing the unemployed
Examines the organization of the unemployed during the Great Depression and demonstrates the linkage between their mobilization and automobile-industry organization.Focusing on Michigan during the Great Depression, this book highlights the efforts of community organizers and activists in the Unit...
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Becoming good parents
Argues that our struggle to become good parents can help us to become good persons.Becoming Good Parents goes beyond a psychological understanding of parenting to include a deeper explication of the philosophical (moral) and existential (spiritual) dimensions of parenting. It counters the contemp...
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Interstate cooperation
First in-depth examination of the various forms of interstate cooperation and their central role promoting a successful federal system of government in the United States.Cooperative interstate relations are essential for maintaining the economic and political union established by the United State...
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Transitions in continental philosophy
This book challenges and renews the discussions that have historically characterized the tradition of continental thought in the areas of ethics, feminism, aesthetics, and political theory. The classical origins of this tradition—phenomenology, existentialism, and hermeneutics—emerged according t...
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Religion and democracy in taiwan
A meticulous study of various Taiwanese religions and their relationships with democratic values and behaviors.In Religion and Democracy in Taiwan, Cheng-tian Kuo meticulously explores various Taiwanese religions in order to observe their relationships with democracy. Kuo analyzes these relations...
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Something akin to freedom
Examines why African American women would choose conditions of bondage over individual freedom.2010 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Why would someone choose bondage over individual freedom? What type of freedom can be found in choosing conditions of enslavement? In Something Akin to Freedom, wi...
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Thematics
This book aims at refocusing critical reflection on thematics in the arts, a topic that has been neglected recently. The volume is divided into four sections: theoretical essays, applications to literature, reflections on thematics in music and the visual arts, and a conclusion.The contributors, ...
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Yonkers in the twentieth century
Traces the economic, political, and social evolution of New York State's fourth largest city during the twentieth century.Yonkers in the Twentieth Century chronicles the decline and rebirth of the fourth largest city in New York State, once known as "the Queen City of the Hudson" and "the City of...
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Was it yesterday?
Explores how nostalgia operates in contemporary US film and television.Bringing together prominent transatlantic film and media scholars, Was It Yesterday? explores the impact of nostalgia in twenty-first century American film and television. Cultural nostalgia, in both real and imagined forms, i...
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The celluloid atlantic
Offers a fresh look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period.The Celluloid Atlantic changes the way we look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period. In the thirty years following World War II, American and Italian film industries came to be an integrated, transnational un...
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This bridge called my back
Fortieth anniversary edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism.Originally released in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back is a testimony to women of color feminism as it emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonia...
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History of delaware county and border wars of new york
A classic history of Delaware County and the border wars written by none other than prominent Gilded Age "Robber Baron" Jay Gould.When Jay Gould died in 1892 he left behind an estate worth the equivalent of seventy-eight billion in today's dollars. He also left behind a reputation as one of Wall ...
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Democratic theories and the constitution
Although the government of the United States is traditionally viewed as a democracy, there is considerable disagreement about what democracy means and implies. In a comprehensive study Professor Edelman examines the three democratic paradigms most prevalent in America today: natural rights, contr...
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Subjects that matter
Argues for postcoloniality as a model for philosophical practice.In this ambitious book, Namita Goswami draws on continental philosophy, postcolonial criticism, critical race theory, and African American and postcolonial feminisms to offer postcoloniality as a model for philosophical practice. Mo...
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The things themselves
Essays on phenomenological encounters with the world.Taking Edmund Husserl's dictum to heart yet finding in it a new direction, The Things Themselves is an attempt to return philosophy to the world and, in so doing, know ourselves and our place in that world anew. The book deals with the myriad w...
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