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Uncoupling american empire
A cultural studies consideration of marriage and those considered "deviant" in the nineteenth-century American imagination.A radical revision of the politics of race and sexuality within racial capitalism, Uncoupling American Empire provides an original cultural genealogy of how the institutional...
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Impossible democracy
Explores how community action programs used federal funds to sponsor social protest–based community reform.Honorable Mention, 2008 Gustavus Myers Book Award, presented by the Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights in North America Impossible Democracy challenges the conventional wisdom that the W...
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Hartshorne, process philosophy, and theology
This book provides an introduction to Hartshorne's contributions to contemporary philosophy and theology. It also covers some of the current controversies in philosophy and theology that Hartshorne's contributions have generated.The opening chapter is a lucid and penetrating introduction to Harts...
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Not one of them in place
Explores the ways in which Jewish American poetry engages persistent questions of modern Jewish identity.Not One of Them in Place is the first book to examine the ways in which Jewish belief, thought, and culture have been shaped and articulated in modern American poetry. Based on the idea that r...
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Opportunities and dangers of soviet-cuban expansion
Combined with aggressive rhetoric and ideological hostility, the conventional approach to crisis resolution generates only military options and diminishes our prospects for less dangerous solutions. This book explains how a workable, pragmatic, and efficient foreign policy in relation to Soviet-C...
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Islam at the crossroads
Sheds light on one of the most important religious thinkers in the modern Muslim world.Distinguished scholars in Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and Modern Turkish Studies examine the life and thought of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1877–1960) using a variety of approaches-theological, philos...
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The kyoto school
An accessible discussion of the thought of key figures of the Kyoto School of Japanese philosophy.This book provides a much-needed introduction to the Kyoto School of Japanese philosophy. Robert E. Carter focuses on four influential Japanese philosophers: the three most important members of the K...
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The great wall in ruins
This book presents a survey of rural and urban Chinese people examining the dramatic changes in traditional culture that have taken place, and documenting the nature of contemporary Chinese culture. Chu and Ju examine attitudes about family relations, social relations, job preferences and work et...
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Strong hearts, native lands
Uplifting account of the struggle between the Grassy Narrows First Nation and the Canadian logging industry.In December 2002 members of the Grassy Narrows First Nation blocked a logging road to impede the movement of timber industry trucks and equipment within their 2,500-square-mile traditional ...
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The cosmology of freedom
The book shows the connections between the personal and the social dimensions of freedom, and how all the meanings of freedom are functions of the natural cosmos.Neville's The Cosmology of Freedom corrects the tendency to believe that freedom consists in one thing alone, for instance not being co...
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Children on playgrounds
This book focuses on key issues and current research evidence of links between children's behavior in outdoor play environments and children's development. Specific attention is given to ways that outdoor play environments are extensions of other development settings, like the classroom or family...
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Of mice, models, and men
Too much emotion and insufficient fact. This paradox has long characterized the controversy surrounding animal research.Of Mice, Models, and Men is the first exhaustive treatment of all areas-empirical and conceptual-relevant to the use of animals in research. It is also the first study to combin...
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Religious radicalism and politics in the middle east
This book explores in a comparative perspective two fundamentalist waves that have rolled over the Middle East during the last two decades. Jewish and Muslim extremism have had a profound impact on the culture and politics of this important region. One thinks immediately of the Guh Emunism settle...
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Global libidinal economy
Claims unconscious desire plays a constitutive role in global political economy.This is the first book to examine global political economy from a psychoanalytic perspective. It claims that the libidinal-the site of unconscious desire-plays not a supplementary or trivial, but a constitutive role i...
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Taking america off drugs
Argues for the superiority of behavioral treatments over drug therapies for psychological problems.In this highly provocative book, Stephen Ray Flora maintains that we have been deceived into believing that whatever one's psychological problem-from anxiety, anorexia, bulimia, depression, phobias,...
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What moves man
A critical look at the image of human nature that underlies the realist theory of international relations.The realist theory of international relations is based on a particularly gloomy set of assumptions about universal human motives. Believing people to be essentially asocial, selfish, and untr...
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Old tales and new truths
This guidebook to the Bright-Shadow World develops three closely related issues. The first is the position that fairytales and folktales are of value today because they encourage the growth of capabilities important in our postmodern world. Each of us, like the fairytale hero, sets out on his/her...
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Jewish american and holocaust literature
Deepens and enriches our understanding of the Jewish literary tradition and the implications of the Shoah.Challenging the notion that Jewish American and Holocaust literature have exhausted their limits, this volume reexamines these closely linked traditions in light of recent postmodern theory. ...
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Following his own path
Critically introduces the philosophical system of Li Zehou, one of the most significant modern scholars of Chinese history and culture.In this book, Jana S. Rošker offers the first comprehensive overview and exegesis of the work of Li Zehou, who is one of the most significant and influential Chin...
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Extra- and non-documentary writing in the canon of formative judaism, vol. 3
Explores the canon of Rabbinic literature.Rabbinic literature in its formative age, from the Mishnah through the Bavli, ca. 100–600 c.e., is comprised by documents that relate to one another in three ways. First, they are autonomous and self-contained; second, they are connected with one another;...
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Transpersonal knowing
The freshest and most respected thinkers in transpersonal psychology explore the myriad pathways to knowledge.Offering the perspectives of some of the most respected thinkers in transpersonal psychology and consciousness studies, this book explores the farther reaches of knowing, both ourselves a...
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An unprecedented deformation
Philosophical interpretation of Proust based on the work of Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze.French novelist Marcel Proust made famous "involuntary memory," a peculiar kind of memory that works whether one is willing or not and that gives a transformed recollection of past experience. More than a centur...
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Women in transition
Written by leading women scholars, this first and only book published about Lithuanian women details the historical, social, economic, and political issues affecting women during the transition from communism to democracy.Women in Transition addresses the historical, social, economic and politica...
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My beloved toto
Selected letters from Juliette Drouet to her lover, Victor Hugo, offering insights into nineteenth-century French culture as well as an insider's look at the character, behavior, working habits, and day-to-day life of France's most monumental man of letters.My Beloved Toto, a collection of letter...
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The paradox of power and weakness
Offers an alternative paradigm for psychology, one that reflects Levinas's criticism of a self-centered notion of identity. Reveals the secret of an "authentic" altruism through a phenomenology of both power and weakness, and of the paradoxes of the weakness of power and the power of weakness.The...
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Escape from the pit
Originally published in Hebrew in 1944, this fascinating and moving account may well be the first memoir of the Holocaust.At the end of 1944, while World War II was still raging, nineteen-year-old Renia Kukielka published her Hebrew language memoir about the Holocaust. The account may well be the...
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Esther in medieval garb
This comprehensive history, the first to appear in English, gives a vivid portrayal of the Book of Esther's role in the intellectual and cultural life of Jews in the Middle Ages. Much of the study is based on material that exists only in manuscripts, and it introduces many exegetes hitherto unkno...
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Buddhadhamma
Written by one of the most highly regarded monk-scholars in Southeast Asia, this book is a modern distillation of the pivotal doctrines found in the Pali Buddhist canon.Written by a Thai, Theravada monk who has been recognized for his scholarly achievements, Buddhadhamma is a modern distillation ...
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Understanding early adolescent self and identity
Addresses adolescent identity issues and suggests practical approaches to facilitate development and adjustment.What are the major self and identity concerns for early adolescents? What are the applications and interventions that can address those concerns, helping to ease the transition into lat...
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Imaginal memory and the place of hiroshima
Hiroshima claims a crucial yet neglected place in the psychic terrain of our individual and collective memories. Drawing on recent work in depth psychology and Jungian thought, this study explores the ancient art of remembering by envisioning "places" and "images" that are impressed upon the memo...
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Signatures of struggle
A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations.Signatures of Struggle offers a unique perspective on Israeli literature, bringing Marxist cultural critique to bear on a field from which it has hitherto been absent. Oded Nir m...
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Bringing the nation back in
Argues that concern with the nation and national community will be a key factor in redefining twenty-first-century politics.Bringing the Nation Back In takes as its starting point a series of developments that shaped politics in the United States and Europe over the past thirty years: the end of ...
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The retreat of representation
Examines the notion of Darstellung [representation] in the critical discourse of German Idealism and Romanticism, paying particular attention to Kant, Fichte, Novalis, and Kleist.The Retreat of Representation is the first book-length study to examine the radical new notion of Darstellung in its o...
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Fight to live, live to fight
Examines US foreign and domestic policy through the narratives of post-9/11 US military veterans and the activism they are engaged in.While veterans are often cast as a "problem" for society, Fight to Live, Live to Fight challenges this view by focusing on the progressive, positive, and productiv...
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Mimesis and reason
Excavates the experiential structure of Habermas's communicative action.Complicating the standard interpretation of Habermas as a proceduralist, Mimesis and Reason uncovers the role that mimesis, or imitation, plays as a genuinely political force in communicative action. Through a penetrating exa...
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Land of the oneidas
Presents the history of central New York State from the Ice Age to the present day.The central part of New York State, the homeland of the Oneida Haudenosaunee people, helped shape American history. This book tells the story of the land and the people who made their homes there from its earliest ...
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The politics of expertise in congress
Examines the relationship between technical experts and elected officials, challenging the prevailing view about how experts become politicized by the policy process.CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic BooksNowhere in the U.S. government is the marriage between expertise and politics more normativel...
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Groupthink or deadlock
Argues that too much advice can lead to policy deadlock depending on leadership style.The danger of groupthink is now standard fare in leadership training programs and a widely accepted explanation, among political scientists, for policy-making fiascoes. Efforts to avoid groupthink, however, can ...
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The power of reinforcement
Makes the controversial argument that reinforcement is a real and valuable force in human behavior.2004 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title According to Stephen Ray Flora, reinforcement is a very powerful tool for improving the human condition despite often being dismissed as regarding people as le...
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The cultural power of personal objects
Historical and theoretical discussions that describe and reflect on personal objects from a variety of perspectives.The Cultural Power of Personal Objects seeks to understand the value and efficacy of objects, places, and times that take on cultural power and reverence to such a degree that they ...
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Paradoxes of youth and sport
Highlights the practical benefits and the many problems of youth and sports in the United States.Paradoxes of Youth and Sport explores emergent debates among scholars, youth advocates, and sport practitioners concerning the role of sport in the lives of young people in urban settings. Specialists...
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Whitehead's philosophy
Demonstrates myriad points of connection between Whitehead's philosophy and mainstream philosophical traditions.This volume explores the range of Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy and his relevance to contemporary philosophical traditions. While philosophers and theologians with only a passing ...
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Religion in late modernity
A well-known theologian and philosopher offers a late-modern perspective on religion, one opposed to the received truths of postmodern religious thought.Religion in Late Modernity runs against the grain of common suppositions of contemporary theology and philosophy of religion. Against the common...
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The spike lee brand
A rare look at Spike Lee's creative appropriation of the documentary film genre.In this groundbreaking book, Delphine Letort sheds light on a neglected part of Spike Lee's filmmaking by offering a rare look at his creative engagement with the genre of documentary filmmaking. Ranging from history ...
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The new governance of welfare states in the united states and europe
Detailed examination of the territorial and governance dimensions of contemporary welfare reforms in the United States and Europe.Until recently, studies of changes in the welfare state have tended to focus on transformations in the nature of social policies and their level of generosity. The New...
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Emancipatory movements in composition
Examines liberatory learning practices in the contemporary composition classroom.Emancipatory Movements in Composition provides an overview of the four major disciplines that have, for the last ten years, influenced and guided the direction of composition studies. Drawing on contemporary social a...
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