Desire of the analysts

Explores psychoanalytic approaches to cultural studies.Why do we continue to desire psychoanalysis? What can this desire contribute to a vital cultural criticism? In Desire of the Analysts, these and other questions are addressed by leading contributors from a variety of fields, including Sharon ...

Exiles, entrepreneurs, and educators

Compares the political activities of African Americans who settled in Ghana in the 1950s and 1960s with those who settled in the 1980s to the present.After repeated coups and periods of military rule, Ghana is now one of Africa's longest enduring democratic republics. Exiles, Entrepreneurs, and E...

Ecocomposition

Explores the intersections between writing and ecological studies.Ecocomposition examines current trends in universities toward more environmentally sound work, explores the intersections between composition research-that is, discourse studies-and ecostudies, and offers possible pedagogies for th...

Roberto esposito

Analyzes key concepts and arguments in the work of one of Europe's leading philosophers.One of Europe's leading philosophers, Roberto Esposito has produced a considerable body of work that continues to have a significant impact on political science, sociology, literature, and philosophy. This vol...

Leading the learning organization

Provides students, executives, and managers with vital resources to lead their organizations to higher levels of performance.Using examples from companies such as General Electric, IBM, Kodak, and ABB, Leading the Learning Organization integrates the latest advances in strategic change, manageria...

This-worldly nibbāna

A Buddhist feminist social ethics for contemporary times.Offering a feminist analysis of foundational Buddhist texts, along with a Buddhist approach to social issues in a globalized world, Hsiao-Lan Hu revitalizes Buddhist social ethics for contemporary times. Hu's feminist exegesis references th...

Africa, asia, and the history of philosophy

A historical investigation of the exclusion of Africa and Asia from modern histories of philosophy.Winner of the 2016 Frantz Fanon Prize for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought presented by the Caribbean Philosophical Association In this provocative historiography, Peter K. J. Park provides a p...

Deliberative freedom

The first sustained look at the relationship between deliberative democratic theory and the topic of freedom.In Deliberative Freedom, Christian F. Rostbøll accepts the common belief that democracy and freedom are intimately related, but he sees this relationship in a new and challenging way. Rost...

Hocak teaching materials

Comprehensive bilingual dictionary of the Hochunk language.This is the most comprehensive bilingual dictionary ever available for the Hochunk (popularly known as the Winnebagos; orthographically rendered as Hocank) language. Living today in two reservation communities in Wisconsin and Nebraska, t...

The examined life--chinese perspectives

A collection of essays on Chinese ethical traditions, including Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist ethics.This anthology is a collection of essays on Chinese ethical traditions, including Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist ethics. Most of the contributors are philosophers who are trained in both Chines...

Welding technical communication

Explores the teaching and learning of welding through two narratives: the personal narrative, relating the author's experience as a woman learning how to weld, and the academic narrative examining how instructional communication informs students' embodied knowledge and enculturation into a commun...

Yoga and the luminous

A fresh look at Yoga philosophy.Winner of the 2008 Rajinder and Jyoti Gandhi Book Award for Excellence in Dharma Studies presented by Taksha InstituteIn Yoga and the Luminous, a book that emerges from more than thirty years of practice, study, and reflection, Christopher Key Chapple addresses the...

Constitutive criminology at work

Provides the first applications of constitutive criminology, a theoretical framework inspired by postmodernism, to specific areas of criminological practice.Constitutive Criminology at Work reveals the value of applying postmodernist-informed constitutive criminology to issues of crime and justic...

Governance and the public good

Grapples with a variety of policy issues in order to provoke a discussion of the state of higher education in the 21st century.The public good is not merely an economic idea of goods and services, but a place where thoughtful debate and examination of the polis can occur. In differentiating the u...

Super schoolmaster

Traces the controversial poet's thinking about teaching and learning throughout his career.Once described by T. S. Eliot as "first and foremost, a teacher and campaigner," Ezra Pound has received no shortage of critical attention. Super Schoolmaster suggests that Pound still has quite a bit to te...

The politics of turkish democracy

The history of Turkey's difficult transition to a multi-party political system.One of the most significant yet least known periods of modern Turkish history is that of Turkey's second president, İsmet İnönü. Following the death of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1938, Turkish politicians and intellectua...

The little school system that could

Examines, from four organizational perspectives, Virginia's Manassas Park City School's ten-year turnaround.The Little School System That Could is a story about transformation. In 1995, equipped with not much more than a vision of the quality education that urban students deserved, Tom DeBolt, th...

The awakening of modern japanese fiction

Argues that the role of Buddhism in modern Japanese prose literature has been significantly overlooked.The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction is the first book to treat the literary practices of certain major modern Japanese writers as Buddhist practices, and to read their work as Buddhist lite...

University management, the academic profession, and neoliberalism

A unique examination of how faculty and university administrators understand their work and professional identities under neoliberalism.This book examines tensions and challenges in the professional lives and identities of contemporary academics. Drawing on extensive interviews conducted over sev...

The transparency of spectacle

Considers the ephemeral nature of the cinematic experience as we now apprehend it, and examines the ways in which technological advances in film and moving image production have changed this experience over the course of the last thirty-odd years.While agreeing that the "digitization" of the cine...

Flesh of my flesh

Examines representations of sexual violence in modern Hebrew literature, focusing on the ways in which sexual aggression relates to Zionism, gender, ethnicity, and disability.Finalist for the 2021 Best Book in Israel Studies presented by the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies and Concordia Unive...

State violence and moral horror

Explores the concept of "moral horror" as the experience of living amidst unjustifiable state violence.Can state violence ever be morally justified? In State Violence and Moral Horror, Jeremy Arnold critically engages a wide variety of arguments, both canonical and contemporary, arguing that ther...

Out of the east

Chronicles how the SED, a once villified political party, transformed itself into a viable national political party.What happened to the ruling communist party of East Germany after the collapse of the Berlin Wall? The Left in Germany describes how the communist party's dissolution led to many of...

The old guard

A brutal and unflinchingly honest portrayal of the effects of concentration camp life on the human psyche.Brutally and unflinchingly honest in its depiction of the effects of concentration camp life on the human psyche, Mieczysław Lurczyński's The Old Guard is one of the earliest works of Holocau...

Anti-music

Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.Anti-Music examines the critical, literary, and political responses to African American jazz music in interwar German...

The highroad around modernism

Discussions of modernism and postmodernism in philosophy and the arts are usually based on a narrow reading of the Western tradition and are not conscious of the narrowness. The modern period, beginning with the European Renaissance, spawned many developments, not just the modernist one in terms ...

Profiles of preservice teacher education

The authors allow students and faculty to speak in their own voices to tell the story of how teachers are prepared for their important roles as educators of the nation's children. This book provides in-depth, personal descriptions of how elementary teachers are prepared in six diverse schools and...

Plato's reasons

Studies Plato's approach to argumentation, exploring his role as logician, rhetorician, and dialectician in a way that sees these three aspects working together.This book explores Plato's implicit understanding of argumentation by reviewing his standing as a logician, rhetorician, and dialecticia...

Germs of death

An analysis of Derrida's early work engaging Plato, Hegel, and the life sciences.Germs of Death explores the idea of genesis, or dissemination, in the early work of Jacques Derrida. Looking at Derrida's published and unpublished work from "Force and Signification" in 1963 to Glas in 1974, Mauro S...

Sacred matters

Explores how objects shape the worlds of religious participants across a range of South Asian traditions.Sacred Matters explores the lives of material objects in South Asian religions. Spanning a range of traditions including Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Buddhism, and Christianity, the book demonstr...

California dreaming

Multidisciplinary study of the citrus industry in Palestine before World War II.The citrus industry of Palestine has often been associated with the myths and ideals of the Labor Movement and its Zionist-Socialist ideology. The Jaffa orange, like the young pioneer and the collective kibbutz, was e...

A voice from elsewhere

Reflections on the enigma and secret of "literature."A Voice from Elsewhere represents one of Maurice Blanchot's most important reflections on the enigma and secret of "literature." The essays here bear down on the necessity and impossibility of witnessing what literature transmits, and-like Beck...

Dynamics of the iranian revolution

Going back to the turn of the century, this book offers a cogent analysis and an objective assessment of the origins and dimensions of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. It reassesses the narrowly focused post-revolution explanations, as it traces the fate of the Pahlavi dynasty to deep-rooted and stru...

African american coping in the political sphere

Explores the influence coping has had on African Americans' political attitudes and behaviors.Psychosocial stressors are a part of the human condition. Individuals experience a myriad of stressors in their everyday lives, and, while many people experience some of the same types of stressors, resp...

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Crisis theory and world order

Uses Heidegger's philosophy to critique and remedy "world order thinking" in international politics.In a call to planetary thinking, planetary building, and planetary dwelling, Norman K. Swazo discusses Heidegger's thought as it relates to issues of global politics, specifically, the domain of wo...

Constructing boundaries

An interdisciplinary study discussing the impact of the national crisis in Mandatory Palestine on relations between Jewish and Arab workers and their respective labor movements.Constructing Boundaries examines the competition, interaction, and impact among Jewish and Arab workers in the labor mar...

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Individuation and identity in early modern philosophy

Philosophy in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries has traditionally been characterized as being primarily concerned with epistemological issues. This book is not intended to overturn this characterization but rather to balance it through an examination of equally important metaphysical, or...

Wars, internal conflicts, and political order

The first comprehensive analysis of the effect the prolonged Arab-Israeli conflict has had on state and society in Israel.This is the first comprehensive research study to analyze and explain the influence the prolonged Arab-Israeli conflict has had on Israel. It focuses on the manner in which al...

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 ...

Writing early china

Considers what unearthed documents reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China.Archaeological discoveries over the past one hundred years have resulted in repeated calls to "rewrite ancient Chinese history." This is especially true of documents written on oracle bones...

Female ascetics in hinduism

Provides both a first-hand look at and an insightful analysis of a little-known world—that of female ascetics in India.Female Ascetics in Hinduism provides a vivid account of the lives of women renouncers-women who renounce the world to live ascetic spiritual lives-in India. The author approaches...

Initiates of theosophical masters

Examines the careers of the most distinguishes disciples of the Theosophical Masters profiled in The Masters Revealed, including George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Alexandra David-Neel, Anagarika Dharmapala, and Isabelle Eberhardt.The author examines the careers of the most distinguished disciples of t...

Sand and traffic

Would you be so terrifyinguncoffined, dried earth caked on your calves, disintegrating in a field among weedslike an animal whose deathmakes a place large and strange?-from Knee Deep in Mud My Mother

The godfather and american culture

A comprehensive look at a classic work of popular fiction and its hold on the American imagination.Mario Puzo's The Godfather is an American pop phenomenon whose driving force is reflected not only in book sales and cable television movie marathons but also in such related works as the hit televi...