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Democratic dilemmas
Explores how to engage citizens in the process of educational improvement.Drawing on three years of field research and extensive theoretical and empirical literature, Democratic Dilemmas chronicles the day-to-day efforts of educators and laypersons working together to advance student learning in ...
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The specter of sex
Genealogy of the formation of race and gender hierarchies in the U.S.Top Three Finalist for the 2010 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association Theories of intersectionality have fundamentally transformed how feminists and critical race scholars understand ...
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Public affairs and democratic ideals
Argues for refocusing attention on publicness and the critical exploration of underlying assumptions that are foundational to the study and practice of public affairs.We live in an era where many citizens feel increasingly uncertain about their futures, having to deal with stagnant wages, globali...
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Shattered vessels
The first book-length study of the Israeli novelist David Shahar.David Shahar (1926–1997), author of the seven-novel sequence The Palace of Shattered Vessels, occupies an ambiguous position in the Israeli literary canon. Often compared to Proust, Shahar produced a body of work that offers a fasci...
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Pigs, profits, and rural communities
Using the pork production industry as an example, this book illuminates the processes and consequences of agricultural industrialization for the social, economic, human, environmental, and political health of the rural United States.This book illuminates the processes and consequences of agricult...
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Blood at the root
Examines the relationship of lynching to black and white citizenship in the 19th and 20th century U.S. through a focus on historical, visual, cultural, and literary texts.In Blood at the Root, winner of the SUNY Press 2009 Dissertation/First Book Prize in African American Studies, Jennie Lightwei...
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The other side of desire
Explores Lacan's theory of the registers through readings of a wide variety of texts.The other Side of Desire puts Jacques Lacan's theoretical constructs to work on texts as varied as Plato's Symposium, Hamlet, Tootsie, and the journals of Sylvia Plath, making the techniques of Lacanian analysis ...
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Reading, writing, and justice
A book for teachers, parents, and other concerned citizens who care about public education, who want schools to be democratic in the best sense, and who seek argumentative ammunition for defending schools and for placing school issues within the larger framework of the long struggle to keep and e...
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Punk productions
A history and social psychology of punk music.Stacy Thompson's Punk Productions offers a concise history of punk music and combines concepts from Marxism to psychoanalysis to identify the shared desires that punk expresses through its material productions and social relations. Thompson explores a...
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Getting lost
Marks the trajectory of the author's work as a feminist methodologist.Winner of the 2008 Critics' Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association In this follow-up to her classic text Troubling the Angels, an experimental ethnography of women with AIDS, Patti Lather deconst...
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The postconventional personality
Cutting edge volume devoted to optimal adult development.Postconventional stages of personality development involve growth well beyond the average, and have become a rapidly growing subject of research not only in developmental psychology circles, but also in areas such as executive leadership de...
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Sacred kōyasan
Takes the reader on a pilgrimage to Mount Kōya, the holy Buddhist mountain in Japan.For more than one thousand years, the vast Buddhist monastery and temple complex on remote Mount Kōya has been one of Japan's most important religious centers. Saint Kōbō Daishi (also known as Kūkai), founder of t...
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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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Young faculty in the twenty-first century
Demonstrates how the success of universities depends on the working conditions of the younger academic generation.Young faculty are the future of academia, yet without attractive career paths for young academics, the future of the university is bleak. Featuring case studies from Brazil, China, Fr...
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Madness and death in philosophy
Demonstrates the significance of the concepts of madness and death for the history of philosophy.Ferit Güven illuminates the historically constitutive roles of madness and death in philosophy by examining them in the light of contemporary discussions of the intersection of power and knowledge and...
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The origin of time
A critical examination of the relationship between the philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Henri Bergson, focusing on the central issue of time.The recent renewal of interest in the philosophy of Henri Bergson has increased both recognition of his influence on twentieth-century philosophy and at...
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The sophists in plato's dialogues
Draws out numerous affinities between the sophists and Socrates in Plato's dialogues.Are the sophists merely another group of villains in Plato's dialogues, no different than amoral rhetoricians such as Thrasymachus, Callicles, and Polus? Building on a wave of recent interest in the Greek sophist...
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Excellence in communicating organizational strategy
Essays on how organizations effectively communicate strategy to optimize performance.Effectively communicating an organization's strategy is at the heart of achieving high performance. Organizational strategy manifests itself in different ways, employing differing tactics at the competitive, cris...
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Family feuds
Compares the role of the family in the political thought of Rousseau, Burke, and Wollstonecraft.Family Feuds is the first sustained comparative study of the place of the family in the political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Edmund Burke, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Eileen Hunt Botting argues tha...
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Power, constraint, and policy change
Examines how state courts change public policy through an analysis of their influence on state education finance reform.Power, Constraint, and Policy Change analyzes state court influence on state education finance reform. Beginning in the early 1970s litigants began filing suits in state courts ...
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Embodied spirituality in a sacred world
Presents an account of human development from a depth-psychological, transpersonal perspective.Anyone seeking a deeper understanding of human spirituality will find something of value in Michael Washburn's new book. Drawing on a rich variety of psychoanalytic, Jungian, and existential-phenomenolo...
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Past imperatives
Explores central questions in the history and theory of Jewish ethics, namely, the relationship between ethics and law, the relationship between ethics and theology, and the problems and prospects for constructing a contemporary Jewish ethic.Past Imperatives explores the nature and development of...
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The political economy of regulation
This is the first comprehensive study of the history, politics, and economics of the insurance industry in the United States. It is designed as a theoretical challenge to the conventional wisdom in political economy which says that regulation benefits the regulated. In fact, Meier shows that beca...
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Language and politics in julia kristeva
Explores the political implications of Kristeva's theoretical and fictional writings.In Language and Politics in Julia Kristeva, Carol Mastrangelo Bové explores how Kristeva's theoretical and fictional writings contribute to an understanding of contemporary personal and international conflicts. I...
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Moral codes and social structure in ancient greece
An exercise in cultural sociology, Moral Codes and Social Structure in Ancient Greece seeks to explicate the dynamic currents of classical Hellenic ethics and social philosophy by situating those idea-complexes in their socio-historical and intellectual contexts. Central to this enterprise is a c...
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The curriculum
This new edition of the classic text extends the scope of critically-oriented work in curriculum studies.Such was the praise for the first edition of The Curriculum. Now Landon E. Beyer and Michael W. Apple join together with other notable contributors in this new edition to examine a range of is...
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The political theory of salvage
Explores the political and theoretical significance of the use of salvaging discarded materials by social movements during their protest activities.The use of what others have thrown away by those who squat in abandoned buildings, build neighborhoods on seeming wasteland, and occupy public spaces...
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Why europe is lesbian and gay friendly (and why america never will be)
Offers an analysis of the political economy of care in order to explain how lesbian and gay citizens in Europe benefit from equality more than those in the United States.Why Europe Is Lesbian and Gay Friendly (and Why America Never Will Be) examines the differences in politics, policy, and cultur...
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Kant's dog
Situates Borges at the limit of philosophy and literature.Kant's Dog provides fresh insight into Borges's preoccupation with the contradiction of the time that passes and the identity that endures. By developing the implicit logic of the Borgesian archive, which is most often figured as the unive...
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Codes and contradictions
This in-depth look at a diverse group of young women at an alternative high school illuminates issues of race, class, gender, and identity formation, and shows the enormous power of schools to re-orient young women from school failure to success.This book examines the variations in the constituti...
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Words in the wilderness
Blends vivid personal accounts and sophisticated theoretical analysis to make a compelling book about one teacher's experience teaching on an Athabascan Indian Reservation in Alaska.Winner of the 2001 W. Ross Winterowd Award Best book in composition theory presented by JAC and the Association of ...
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A journey into the zohar
An introduction to the Zohar, the crowning work of medieval Kabbalah. Includes original translations and analysis.The crowning work of medieval Kabbalah, the Zohar is unlike any other work in the Jewish canon. Written in Aramaic, the Zohar contains complex mystical exegesis as well as the story o...
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The anarchist bastard
A tribute to the Italian American family and its trying bonds of love.Finalist for the 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Autobiography/Memoir Category "I was born in 1944, but raised in the twelfth century." With that, Joanna Clapps Herman neatly describes the two worlds she inhabited while g...
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Reading oprah
An analysis of how Oprah's Book Club has changed America's reading habits.Oprah's Book Club sparked a revolution among readers by bringing serious contemporary novels to the attention of a wider audience. The Oprah's Book Club seal on a book led to instant fame and bestseller status for authors-b...
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Mysticism examined
Mysticism presents a challenge to anyone who is interested in fundamental questions about the nature of reality, knowledge, and how we should live. In this book the author examines questions posed by mysticism. He clarifies the nature of the claims advanced by Western and Asian mystics, and explo...
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Karl popper and the social sciences
The first systematic treatment of Karl Popper's contribution to the philosophy of the social sciences.This is the first book-length exploration of Karl Popper's often-neglected contributions to the philosophy of social science. William A. Gorton situates Popper's ideas on social inquiry within th...
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African fiction and joseph conrad
Interrogates the "writing back to the center" approach to intertextuality and explores alternatives to it.By exploring the relationships between African novels and Joseph Conrad's fiction, this book examines the many discontinuous functions postcolonial revisions of "the canon" can serve. While c...
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The outraged conscience
Motivated by moral outrage, a small number of individuals in America today is vigorously protesting the presence here of accused Nazi war criminals and collaborators. The Outraged Conscience documents their individual efforts.A vital addition to the literature on the Holocaust, this book looks cl...
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Higher education systems redesigned
Brings together scholars and higher education system leaders to highlight concrete examples of system change and realignment to advance student success.Long an afterthought of the American higher education ecosystem, multi-campus systems have become more important than ever. In recent years, lead...
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The occupation of justice
A critical examination of the decisions of the Supreme Court of Israel in cases relating to the Occupied Territories.The Occupation of Justice presents the first comprehensive discussion of the Supreme Court of Israel's decisions on petitions challenging policies and actions of the authorities in...
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Perpetual adolescence
Explores the arrested development of American culture.Arguing that American culture appeals to and is populated by children and adolescents who merely appear to be adult men and women, the essays in Perpetual Adolescence examine the Jungian archetype of the "eternal youth"-the puer aeternus-as it...
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Gender and the journal
This book explores the gendered historical and social contexts and discursive traditions that have characterized journals and diaries in academic discourse. The tension between the term "journal," which has a variety of positive public and scholarly connotations, and the term "diary," which is cu...
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Thirsty city
Explores the evolution of Atlanta's water system and charts the poor urban planning decisions that created the city's current water shortage.Atlanta is running out of water and is in the midst of a water crisis. Its crumbling infrastructure spews toxic waste and raw sewage into neighboring stream...
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The jewishness of israelis
Analyzes a recent report on a survey of the religious beliefs and behavior of Israeli Jews, and of the intense public debate that it produced.In December 1993, the Louis Guttman Israel Institute of Applied Social Research released the results of the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the...
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A history of the concept of god
A history of the concept of God through the lens of process thought.Daniel A. Dombrowski explores the history of the concept of God from the perspective of neoclassical, or process, theism. His neoclassical approach assuages the current crisis in philosophical theism, caught between a defense of ...
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Tracking capital
Offers new ways to read the relationship between culture, ecology, and capitalism.Tracking Capital introduces new ways to understand the entanglement of cultural forms and practices in economic, social, and ecological crises and struggles. Building on the fundamental insights of world-systems ana...
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Reading du bois
A clear, critical, accessible, and ultimately hopeful discovery voyage through the seas of Du Bois's language and ideas.Offering a vision both hopeful and thoughtful, Reading Du Bois is an Afrocentric reexamination of the work of one of the most important intellectuals of our time. Du Bois wanted...
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Tasting coffee
Draws upon the situated work of professional coffee tasters in over a dozen countries to shed light on the methods we use to convert subjective experience into objective knowledge.Winner of the 2023 Distinguished Book Award presented by the Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis section of th...
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