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Corbino
A biography of one of America's neglected grand masters.A Sicilian immigrant who trained at the Art Students League in New York, Jon Corbino (1905–1964) was one of the most influential members of the "Sarasota School" of art, a group of painters and artists, many of them expatriate New Yorkers, w...
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Principal succession
This book examines major issues in theory and research related to leader succession. It looks at the persistent problems confronted by people assigned to lead established social and professional groups like those found in schools. The author demonstrates how interaction between new leaders and es...
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Oil in troubled waters
In some coastal regions of the United States, such as western Louisiana, offshore oil development has long been welcomed. In others, such as northern California, it has been vehemently opposed. This book explores the reasons behind this paradox, looking at the people, the regions, and the issues ...
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Avant-gardes in crisis
Charts underexamined genealogies of minoritarian aesthetic responses to the multiple crises of the long 1970s.Avant-Gardes in Crisis claims that the avant-gardes of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are in crisis, in that artmaking both responds to political, economic, and socia...
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Youth development and critical education
Profiles programs for economically disadvantaged, inner-city youth engaged in neighborhood revitalization and community organization programs.Public policy debates about urban crime and the fate of America's crumbling inner cities suggest a need to consider solutions that create conditions for su...
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Snapping beans
Explores the role of the South in Black queer lesbian experiences of hurting and healing.Snapping Beans offers a collective narrative of Southern queer lesbian women and gender-nonconforming persons. Throughout the text, the American South acts as both a region and a main character, one that can ...
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Rebels on the niagara
Offers a detailed account of the political and military history of the Irish American Fenian Brotherhood in the nineteenth century.In what is now largely considered a footnote in history, Americans invaded Canada along the Niagara Frontier in 1866. The group behind the invasion-the Fenian Brother...
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Ecological prospects
Ecological Prospects addresses pressing issues that will shape ecological awareness and activism into the next century. From a variety of perspectives, the book explores topics such as how ecological insight can serve as a management model for appropriate economic development, the possible catego...
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Ozone depletion and climate change
A path-breaking look at the international response to ozone depletion and climate change.Matthew J. Hoffmann explores the fundamental question of who should participate in the global response to ozone depletion and climate change. Blending social constructivist theory with insights from the study...
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Community, culture, and economic development
Newly updated comparative study of economic development policy, and its relationship with local power structures and cultural and social relations, in two Maryland towns.Community economic development is conventionally explained using one of two models: a market model that assumes individuals alw...
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Moral relativism and chinese philosophy
A wide ranging consideration of the work of contemporary ethicist David Wong.Original, influential, and often controversial, ethicist David Wong defends forms of moral relativism. His 1984 Moral Relativity was a study of this concept, and his 2006 Natural Moralities presented a new and sophistica...
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In security
Part airport thriller, part family drama, part love story, In Security explores how those who strive to protect us are often unable to protect themselves.Gary Waldman is a grief-stricken former tennis coach slowly reentering the world after the death of his wife. As he struggles to remain a good ...
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Liberty, property, and government
This book examines the constitutional protection of economic rights through the nineteenth century and the first three decades of the twentieth.The authors grapple with such questions as: how should the commerce clause be interpreted? To what extent did the historical development of eminent domai...
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Poetics of the local
Considers how Irish poets have drawn on discourses of locality to articulate new forms of place and belonging amid Ireland's transforming global identity.Winner of the 2023 Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature presented by the American Conference on Irish Studies Poetics of the Local cons...
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Having a word with angus graham
Critical reflections on the work of Angus Charles Graham, renowned Western scholar of Chinese philosophy and sinology.This volume engages with the works and ideas of Angus Charles Graham (1919–1991), one of the most prominent Western scholars of Chinese philosophy, at the twenty-fifth anniversary...
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Toward gender equity in the classroom
Rather than simply examining gender differences in student performance, this book presents various aspects and considerations of gender equity in classroom teaching through conversations with and observations of eight teachers. It highlights the differences between teacher beliefs and practices, ...
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The self
What are the characteristics and dimensions of the self? Is there a "best" way to measure the self? How does the researcher's definition of the self affect the choice of research measure and methods? These are the questions addressed by this book.Unlike previous books on the self, this one provid...
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Girls' violence
A critical look at the perceived increase in girls' violence from a range of disciplinary and geographical perspectives.This critical collection brings together some of the best contemporary research on the perceived increase in girls' violence. With perspectives from the United States, Canada, A...
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The poetry of georges bataille
Presents a new window into the literary, philosophical, and theological concerns of this enigmatic thinker and writer.Despite its relative rarity, and the condensed brevity of the poems themselves, poetry occupies a striking place in the literary and philosophical oeuvre of Georges Bataille. For ...
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Popular religion and liberation
Liberation theologians either argue for the liberating character of popular religion or they vilify it as alienating and otherworldly. This book takes a comprehensive and in- depth look at the issues, questions, and problems that emerge from the debate among liberation theologians in Latin Americ...
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Supplements
A comprehensive anthology of Heidegger's early essays.This indispensable volume adds for the first time a comprehensive anthology of the most important of Martin Heidegger's recently discovered early essays. Translated by preeminent Heidegger scholars, these supplements to Heidegger's published c...
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Reconstructing citizenship
Provides the most comprehensive analysis of the rise of citizenship conflict in contemporary France.Studying the politics of citizenship reforms and immigration in contemporary France, Reconstructing Citizenship reveals the influential roles played by key figures and institutions in reconstructin...
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Community service and higher learning
Portrays the experiences and development of students as they commit themselves to community service during their college years.In Community Service and Higher Learning, Robert A. Rhoads examines the experiences of students as they commit themselves to community service during their college years....
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The rose cross and the age of reason
Examines the relationship between diverse iterations of Rosicrucianism and the philosophy of the Enlightenment.This new edition of Christopher McIntosh's classic book on the Golden and Rosy Cross order is eagerly awaited. The order stands out as one of the most fascinating and influential of the ...
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Homer's hero
Draws on Plato to argue that Homer elevated private life as the locus of true friendship and the catalyst of the highest human excellence.Offering a new, Plato-inspired reading of the Iliad and the Odyssey, this book traces the divergent consequences of love of honor and love of one's own private...
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In/animate
Documents the groundbreaking art of nationally renowned metalsmith Myra Mimlitsch-Gray.In/Animate surveys the past decade of work by Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, internationally renowned metalsmith and head of the Metal Program at SUNY New Paltz. Curated by author Akiko Busch, the exhibition explores a v...
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Equal natures
Explores how Victorian women writers used the popular science of phrenology to challenge socially constructed forms of power.Winner of the 2024 Best Book Award presented by the South Atlantic Modern Language Association In Equal Natures, Shalyn Claggett argues that Victorian women writers used sc...
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Mixed race students in college
Portrays the diverse experiences and identities of mixed race college students."It's kind of an odd thing, really, because it's not like I'm one or the other, or like I fit here or there, but I kind of also fit everywhere. And nowhere. All at once. You know?" - Florence"My racial identity, I woul...
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Hermeneutics and the voice of the other
Elucidates the major components of Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics found in his later work.Dealing extensively with Gadamer's later writings, Hermeneutics and the Voice of the Other shows neglected and widely misunderstood dimensions of Gadamer's hermeneutics: historicity, finitude, truth, t...
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Intellectuals and the crisis of modernity
This book explores the role of intellectuals in politics and social change from traditional society to the present. Its theoretical structure is based upon six distinct types of intellectual activity. The rise and decline of specific types is analyzed in the historical context of industrializatio...
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Anaximander in context
Places the development of Anaximander's thought within social, political, cosmological, astronomical, and technological contexts.Promoting a new, broadly interdisciplinary horizon for future studies in early Greek philosophy, Dirk L. Couprie, Robert Hahn, and Gerard Naddaf establish the cultural ...
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Exploring unseen worlds
Demonstrates convincingly the extent to which James's psychological and philosophical perspectives also continue to be a rich resource for those specifically interested in the study of mysticism. A critically-sophisticated, yet gripping, immersion into the inner worlds of one of America's foremos...
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The philosopher-lobbyist
The history of John Dewey's leadership of the progressive People's Lobby.John Dewey (1859–1952) was a preeminent American philosopher who is remembered today as the founder of what is called child-centered or progressive education. In The Philosopher-Lobbyist, Mordecai Lee tells the largely forgo...
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Politics in the impasse
Develops a radical politics of community that engages with practical issues such as the Gulf War and the 1992 uprisings in Los Angeles, set against the context of postmodern capitalism.This book contributes a radical politics of community, one that engages with practical questions in the context ...
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Distancing representations in transgender film
Argues that transgender representations in film make it more difficult for cisgender people to understand the experiences of transgender people and for transgender people to fully participate in public life.Distancing Representations in Transgender Film explores the representation of transgender ...
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Land, value, community
Leading scholars critically assess the pioneering environmental philosophy of J. Baird Callicott.Land, Value, Community provides an in-depth critical study of the theories of J. Baird Callicott, one of the world's foremost environmental philosophers. An international group of scholars representin...
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The transatlantic gaze
Tracks the influence of Italian cinema on American film from the postwar period to the present.In The Transatlantic Gaze, Mary Ann McDonald Carolan documents the sustained and profound artistic impact of Italian directors, actors, and screenwriters on American film. Working across a variety of ge...
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Metaphor and meaning
Examines questions of cosmos, society, and self through the metaphors and language of ancient Chinese texts and artifacts.In Metaphor and Meaning, scholars from China, the United States, and Europe draw on Sarah Allan's groundbreaking application of conceptual metaphor theory to the study of earl...
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Five comedies
Two full-length and three one-act plays, translated here for the first time into English.Best known as a novelist, George Sand (1804–1876) was also arguably the most successful woman dramatist in history. More than twenty of her plays were staged in major Paris theaters to widespread popular and ...
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Crisis tv
Wide-ranging, in-depth analysis of Spanish-language television fiction after the 2008 global financial crisis.Crisis TV addresses the motif of crisis that has come to dominate contemporary Hispanic televisual production since 2008 and the onset of the global financial crisis. In almost unpreceden...
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Thinking with irigaray
An interdisciplinary and contemporary response to Irigaray's work.Thinking with Irigaray takes up Irigaray's challenge to think beyond the androcentric, one-subject culture, identifying much that is useful and illuminative in Irigaray's work while also questioning some of her assumptions and clai...
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Essays in ancient greek philosophy ii
Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Volume Two, reflects the refinements in scholarship and philosophical analysis that have impacted classical philosophy in recent years. It is a selection of the best papers presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy during the ...
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Oshun's daughters
Examines the ways in which the inclusion of African diasporic religious practices serves as a transgressive tool in narrative discourses in the Americas.Finalist for the 2015 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions presented by the Journal of Africana Religions Oshun's Da...
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Ronald w. walters and the fight for black power, 1969-2010
Combines history and biography to interpret the last half century of black politics in America as represented in the life and work of a pivotal African American public intellectual.From his leadership of the first modern lunch counter sit-ins at age twenty to his work on African American reparati...
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Unsettling colonialism
An interdisciplinary analysis of gender, race, empire, and colonialism in fin-de-siècle Spanish literature and culture across the global Hispanic world.Unsettling Colonialism illuminates the interplay of race and gender in a range of fin-de-siècle Spanish narratives of empire and colonialism, inc...
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Communicating for development
This book discusses the place of communication in economic development and social change, not only as it pertains to "developing" societies, but also as it relates to the "developed" societies where socio-economic advancement has created a pressing need for social change or the elimination of the...
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