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Human being in depth
This book shows that science and religion should not be antagonistic since both relate to each other in the search for unity and truth. Swami Ranganathananda believes that the modern age demands the meeting of the challenges of life with an adequate philosophy. That adequacy can be ensured only i...
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Women on the verge of home
Interrogates the comfortable and stable contours of "home," asking what it means to women in different social, class, sexual, ethnic, and racial contexts in different times and places.This book explores the idea of "home." Using feminist scholarship and ethnographically grounded readings of histo...
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Prison of women
A translation of women's testimonies about their experiences in the prisons of Spain following the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 collected by Tomasa Cuevas, herself a surviving victim of the Francoist prison system.Prison of Women presents oral testimonies of women incarcerated following t...
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Life as insinuation
A holistic reinterpretation of Santayana's thought in terms of a dramatic philosophy of life.In this book, Katarzyna Kremplewska offers a thorough analysis of Santayana's conception of human self, viewed as part of his larger philosophy of life. Santayana emerges as an author of a provocative phi...
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Literary anatomies
This book shows how imaginative literature brings women's medical experiences back to lived moments in living bodies, where readers can, perhaps, better understand what it feels like to be someone else. The authors provide four sections that discuss birth, abortion, miscarriage, and fertility; br...
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Dramas of solitude
Brings the insights of narrative theory to bear upon the genre of nature writing, to explore the social or ethical purposes of solitude in stories of retreat in nature.What do stories of nature tell us about the social or ethical purposes of solitude? And what do stories of solitude reveal of the...
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Staging women's lives in academia
Argues that institutional change must accommodate women's professional and personal life stages.Staging Women's Lives in Academia demonstrates how ostensibly personal decisions are shaped by institutions and advocates for ways that workplaces, not women, must be changed. Addressing life stages ra...
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Irish and african american cinema
How these two cinemas portray complex and changing notions of national and racial identity.Focusing on two film traditions not normally studied together, Maria Pramaggiore examines more than two dozen Irish and African American films, including Do the Right Thing, In the Name of the Father, The C...
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Philosophy, social theory, and the thought of george herbert mead
This book brings together some of the finest recent critical and expository work on Mead, written by American and European thinkers from diverse traditions. For English-speaking audiences it provides an introduction to recent European work on Mead. The essays reveal the richness of Mead's thought...
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Spirituality in hospice palliative care
Explores the end-of-life spiritual needs of people who do not identify with traditional religions.This groundbreaking book addresses the spiritual aspect of hospice care for those who do not fit easily within traditional religious beliefs and categories. A companion volume to Religious Understand...
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The autobiography of a language
Explores the links between language, cultural identity, and creativity through the works of Emanuel Carnevali, one of the first Italian American authors to attain literary recognition.The Autobiography of a Language is an exploration of the deep and powerful ties between language and identity, fo...
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The disordered body
A fascinating look at how three epidemics of the medieval and Early Renaissance period in Western Europe shaped and altered conceptions of the human body in ways that continue today.The Disordered Body presents a fascinating look at how three epidemics of the medieval and Early Renaissance period...
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Hartshorne and the metaphysics of animal rights
Charles Hartshorne is one of the premier metaphysicians and philosophers of religion in the twentieth century. He has written extensively on animals, both as a philosopher of nature and as an expert on bird song. Since the publication of Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method in 1970, he has d...
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Nixon and israel
New insights into the cementing of the American-Israeli relationship during the Nixon years.Using a wealth of recently declassified American and Israeli documents, Nixon and Israel argues that ideational and psychological factors are an important complement to standard geopolitical explanations o...
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The demon's daughter
This sixteenth-century work has a modern sensibility, presenting characters' inner worlds and understanding love as the fullest realization of the individual.The Demon's Daughter (Prabhavati-pradyumnamu) is a sixteenth-century novel by the south Indian poet Pingali Suranna, originally written in ...
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Collecting objects / excluding people
Combining aesthetic and political history, explores the influence of Chinese people and objects on American visual culture.In Collecting Objects / Excluding People, Lenore Metrick-Chen demonstrates an unknown impact of Chinese immigration upon nineteenth-century American art and visual culture. T...
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Postphenomenology
Critically engages the work of the philosopher Don Ihde.Postphenomenology is the first book devoted exclusively to the interpretation and advancement of prominent phenomenologist Don Ihde's landmark contributions to history, philosophy, sociology, science, sound studies, and technology studies. I...
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The art of the watchdog
Expert advice on how any citizen can fight government fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption.Does government fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption make your blood boil?In The Art of the Watchdog, Daniel L. Feldman and David R. Eichenthal show how to fight back. Based on their own work in federal, stat...
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Contemporary views of ancient judaism
Compiles some longer review essays and somewhat briefer reviews of single titles from his collected work of the 1990s.Jacob Neusner has presented two-and-a-half-dozen book reviews and Auseinandersetzungen, disputes and debates on the study of formative Judaism. He makes an effort to read the diss...
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Hyperthematics
Presents a new and unique method for developing principles to be applied in creating and increasing value.In this innovative work, Marc M. Anderson presents an account of value and value creation, which both defines value and introduces a method to manipulate value practically. Using this new met...
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A theory of phrase markers and the extended base
Addresses questions of phrase structure and theoretical architecture within a principles and parameters framework.This piece of theory construction within the Government & Binding (GB) approach to syntax focuses on the base component and on the nature of phrase markers. Well-known structural ...
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Viva voce
Firsthand perspectives on the past, present, and future of contemporary Italian philosophy.Through conversations with twenty-three leading Italian philosophers representing a variety of scholarly concerns and methodologies, this volume offers an informal overview of the background, breadth, and d...
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Global capitalism, democracy, and civil-military relations in colombia
Explores the connections between globalization and democratization in Colombia.Through the lens of global capitalism theory, William Avilés examines democratization and civil-military relations in Colombia to explain how social and international forces led to the ostensibly contradictory outcome ...
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Nervous reactions
Addresses how Victorian receptions of Romanticism and Romantic writers were shaped by notions of "nervousness."Nervous Reactions considers Victorian responses to Romanticism, particularly the way in which the Romantic period was frequently constructed in Victorian-era texts as a time of nervous o...
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Seeing like the buddha
Considers film as a form of Buddhist ritual and contemplative practice.In this important new contribution to Buddhist studies and Buddhist film criticism, Francisca Cho argues that films can do more than simply convey information about Buddhism. Films themselves can become a form of Buddhist ritu...
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Grain dust dreams
Explores the history and present-day reality of grain elevators on the Great Lakes.Winner of the 2017 Gertrude H. Dyke Award presented by the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Winner of the 2017 Ernest R. Zimmerman First Publication Award presented by the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society...
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E-co-affectivity
Offers an interdisciplinary investigation of affectivity in various forms of life.E-Co-Affectivity is a philosophical investigation of affectivity in various forms of life: photosynthesis and growth in plants, touch and trauma in bird feathers, the ontogenesis of human life through the placenta, ...
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Counternarratives
Relying on local, self, and historical studies, the author argues for better—not best—practices in teaching and teacher education.Representing more than two decades of Robert V. Bullough Jr.'s research into the problems of teaching and teacher education, this book presents a set of guiding princi...
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Speaking lives, authoring texts
Critical edition of three women's oral slave narratives.Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts is a critical collection of three women's oral slave narratives, Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: A Tale of Southern Slave Life (1861), The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (1866), and Sylvia Dubois, A Biography of The...
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Religious atheism
Calls into question the traditional polarity of theism and atheism.Feuerbach, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, Russell, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, Lyotard, Derrida. Why were these twelve so-called atheist heavyweights unable to wipe God off the table once and for all? Perhaps t...
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Joining the global public
Explores the early Chinese press, which emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and its impact on China's modernization.Joining the Global Public examines early Chinese-language newspapers and analyzes their impact on China's modernization. Exploring a range of media such as...
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American presidential elections
Milton Cummings, Everett Ladd, David Mayhew, Gerald Pomper, and Harvey Schantz analyze presidential elections over the sweep of American history and examine their impact on political parties, public policy, and society.This book analyzes presidential elections over the sweep of American history, ...
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Inside the undergraduate teaching experience
Shows what kind of changes college faculty make to their teaching and why they make them.The image of college faculty members as abstracted, white-haired, tweed-jacketed professors, mumbling lectures from notes that were yellowed by twenty years of repeated use is still pervasive. In this view, c...
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Black feminist writing
Draws on the rich history of Black feminist writing to help scholars manage the stress of writing and publishing academic books.Finalist for the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Reference categoryWriting scholarly books is stressful, and academic publishing can be intimidating-e...
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Democratic artworks
Focusing on the political movements of the 1950s and 1960s, this book argues that the arts can strengthen democracy by politically educating citizens.Focusing on a period in which the meaning of democracy came to the forefront of public debate, the fifties and sixties, the author argues that the ...
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Nietzsche, metaphor, religion
Presents a radically anti-foundationalist reading of Nietzsche's philosophy of religion.Nietzsche argued that metaphor is at the basis of language, concepts, and perception, making it the vehicle by which humans interpret the world. As such, metaphor has profound consequences for the nature of re...
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Developments in american sociological theory, 1915-1950
This book presents a comprehensive, extended, and systematic analysis of social theory as it developed between the two World Wars, a period during which major transformation occurred. Centering on the continuities, on the one hand, and discontinuities on the other, in substantive theory, it deals...
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Yoga and psychology
Explores the influence of yoga in the seminal Indian philosophy of Bhartrhari and in the Western psychology of Freud, Jung, and the transpersonalists, providing unique insights into the differences between Eastern and Western concepts of human nature.Harold Coward explores how the psychological a...
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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...
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Reconstructing the civic
Explores the civic activism of the Palestinian minority in Israel for a better understanding of the relationship between civic activism and democratization in ethnic states.Reconstructing the Civic examines the civic activism of the homeland Palestinian minority in Israel. Employing a multi-metho...
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Authority is relational
A must read for anyone who wants to think in depth about contemporary classrooms.Written in an accessible and personal style, this innovative study of authority in education examines scenarios of authority in ways that problematize, augment, and redefine prevalent ideas of how it works. Usually s...
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Sex in transition
Argues that South Africa's apartheid system of racial segregation relied on an unexamined but interrelated system of sexed oppression that was at once both rigid and flexible.Honorable Mention, 2013 Ruth Benedict Book Prize presented by the Association for Queer AnthropologyHonorable Mention, 201...
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The life and death of buffalo's great northern grain elevator
A stunning visual memorial to Buffalo's architectural and industrial history.Archer Daniels Midland got lucky the night of December 11, 2021: a fierce winter wind took out a third of the brick wall of Buffalo's Great Northern Grain Elevator. ADM had wanted to demolish the building since 1993, but...
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The striking cabbies of cairo and other stories
Challenges existing views of crafts and service workers in Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.This book charts new directions in Egyptian social history, providing the first systematic account of adaptation and protest among crafts and service workers in Egypt in the nineteenth...
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Democratic policy implementation in an ambiguous world
Explains the complexities of policy implementation and why attempts to translate new laws into effective and enduring policy sometimes succeed and sometimes fail.The hard part of government is not passing new laws but implementing those laws. Implementation is where high-minded ideas are pushed a...
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Death, ecstasy, and other worldly journeys
A psychological and historical exploration of belief in a spirit world, imperceptible to the senses, as a pervasive and deeply-rooted characteristic of religionBelief in a spirit world, and a blissful or agonizing afterlife, is one of the most pervasive and deeply-rooted characteristics of religi...
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Postcolonial whiteness
Explores the undertheorized convergence of postcoloniality and whiteness.Postcolonial Whiteness examines the interrelations between whiteness and the history of European colonialism, as well as the status of whiteness in the contemporary postcolonial world. It addresses two fundamental questions:...
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Race and police brutality
Disputes standard explanations of police brutality against minority citizens to offer new insights and suggestions on dealing with this problem.What causes police brutality, and why are minority citizens the primary victims? Social scientists often attribute the behavior to poorly managed police ...
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