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Order, crisis, and redemption
A critical reflection on the limitations of Carl Schmitt's political theology, reconsidered in light of the current crisis of the liberal democratic order.Recent events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the invasion of Ukraine, the rise of right-wing populism, the growing economic inequality and po...
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Poems on life and love in ancient india
The oldest surviving anthology of lyric poems from India, the Sattasai presents the many aspects of love and provides a realistic counterpart to the Kāmasūtra.An elegant translation of the Sattasaī (or Seven Hundred), India's earliest collection of lyric poetry, Poems on Life and Love in Ancient ...
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Freedom is not enough
Shows the surprising ways T. S. Eliot's work sheds light on—and proves useful to—the contemporary struggle for a freer and more just world.How does literature from the past speak to the present? What can we, as readers committed to combatting oppression, learn from figures whose writing we love b...
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Political rhetoric, power, and renaissance women
Deals with women in political power during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, Catherine de Medici, Mary II) and about the gender-based stereotypes that were produced rhetorically about them.The authors examine the political rhetoric of a number of powerful women of...
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From deluge to discourse
Proposes a sweeping theory of flood myths, applies it to a particular text, the Mu T'ien-tzu chuan, and opens up the world of Chinese fiction to an entirely new type of analysis based on a psychoanalytic theory of the symbol.Starting with a reevaluation of the critical scholarship done on the Chi...
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Understanding mantras
Understanding Mantras explores the origin, nature, function, and significance of mantras within the bounds of the Hindu tradition. It analyzes the use of mantras in the Vedic age, in the great theistic movements of Saivism and Vaisnavism, and in Tantra. A brief introduction by Alper outlines the ...
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From wounded knee to checkpoint charlie
A historical analysis of the transatlantic relations of the American Indian radical sovereignty movement of the late Cold War.From Wounded Knee to Checkpoint Charlie examines the history of the transatlantic alliance between American Indian sovereignty activists and Central European solidarity gr...
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Shankara and indian philosophy
According to Advaita-Vedanta, God or Brahman is identical with the inner self (the Atman) of each person, while the rest of the world is nothing but objective illusion (maya). Shankara maintains that there are two primary levels of existence and knowledge: the higher knowledge that is Brahman its...
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The story is true, second edition
Delves into the meaning of stories, their tellers, and those who experience them.In The Story Is True, folklorist, filmmaker, and professor of English Bruce Jackson explores the ways we use the stories that become a central part of our public and private lives. Describing and explaining how stori...
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The other side of gridlock
A detailed study of political gridlock in Congress, offering an alternative perspective for evaluating its persistence and charting a course for change.Drawing upon a wealth of congressional data from 1953 through 2006, this study offers new insights into the politics of gridlock, one of the more...
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Standing in the intersection
Unpacks the myriad ways rhetorical and communication theories and feminist intersectional approaches impact one another.Winnerof the 2013 Best Edited Book Award presented by the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG) Building on the decades of work by women of c...
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The book of nine elixirs
sucked two small drops of blood& I suddenly sawthe lust of his attack& felt itsmost seriousmisunderstandingof my life.
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White banners
Examines the fall of the Syrian Umayyad caliphate and the rise of the 'Abbasid state, predominantly from the view of the local inhabitants of medieval Syria.Using Arabic, non-Arabic and newly available local Syrian sources, this richly detailed study examines the central events of medieval Islami...
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Between conviction and uncertainty
Explores the philosophical context within which psychotherapy functions.At a time when scores of seemingly incompatible theories and methods are competing for ascendancy in psychotherapy, one could argue that the crucial intellectual and moral dilemmas of this field are largely philosophical in n...
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The insular tradition
"A breadth of interdisciplinary voices" discuss how geographical insularity - specifically that of Britain and Ireland - has affected artistic tradition.A generously illustrated collection, The Insular Tradition explores the various ways in which tradition becomes part of our definition of insula...
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Islamic messianism
The first comprehensive study of the idea of the Mahdi, or divinely guided messianic leader.The topic of this book is vital to the understanding of contemporary developments in Iran and other areas of the Islamic world in which Shi'ism is a significant social and religious force. Islamic traditio...
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Nature and logos
Exploration of Alfred North Whitehead's influence on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's ontology of nature.This is the first booklength account of how Maurice Merleau-Ponty used certain texts by Alfred North Whitehead to develop an ontology based on nature, and how he could have used other Whitehead texts t...
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They made their souls anew
This is an original, philosophical discussion in which André Neher relates the lives of prominent nineteenth- and twentieth-century Jews to traditional Jewish thought on issues of assimilation, the Holocaust, and liberal intellectualism.
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Organizational communication and cultural vision
This book provides a review and synthesis of contemporary theory and research on organizational culture. Chapters focus on a wide variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to culture, identifying types of organizational cultures, tracing phases in cultural evolution. In addition, sever...
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Taking south park seriously
Collection of scholarly essays on the wildly popular Comedy Central show.Since it came on the air in 1997, Comedy Central's top-rated animated program, South Park, has been criticized for its crude, scatological humor and political insensitivity. However, the program also fearlessly wades into th...
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Hollywood's new yorker
A fresh look at the director's career.When Martin Scorsese finally won an Academy Award in 2007, for The Departed, it was widely viewed as the crowning achievement of a remarkable film career. But what it also represented was an acceptance by Hollywood of a man who became a prestigious auteur pre...
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New directions in education policy implementation
Provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive review of contemporary research in education policy implementation.A companion to Allan R. Odden's Education Policy Implementation, also published by SUNY Press, this book presents original work by a new generation of scholars contributing to educati...
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An ottoman century
This sweeping look at the city and the District of Jerusalem in the 17th century paints a vivid picture of life in an Ottoman province.Based on micro-level research of the District of Jerusalem, this book addresses some of the most crucial questions concerning the Ottoman empire in a time of cris...
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Approaching monumentality in archaeology
Interdisciplinary study of monumental art and architecture in human history.Monumentality is a human phenomenon that has occurred in nearly all times and places. Because of its ubiquity, monumentality is something that has been studied by a large number of disciplines and individuals. Approaching...
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The history of al-ṭabarī vol. 28
The initial years (126-145) of al-Manṣūr's reign presented several significant challenges to nascent ʿAbbāsid hegemony, and the resulting confrontations constitute the central focus of this section of Ṭabarī's Tarikh. After Abu Jafar succeeded his brother Abū Al-ʿabbās as caliph, the second of th...
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Enabling the elderly
Here three gerontological professionals have combined their diverse backgrounds in a timely and urgently needed study of how religious institutions interact with their communities to provide care for the elderly. In an easily accessible and well-written text, actual and potential services are des...
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Man in the cosmos
Explores the relationship between the mystical cosmology of G. I. Gurdjieff and the discoveries and theories of modern science.This book is a collection of essays that try to relate two distinct areas of human knowledge: the mystical cosmology of G. I. Gurdjieff, based, according to him, on ancie...
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Token professionals and master critics
This book addresses literary critics in mainstream institutions who, though they vastly outnumber their colleagues in more prestigious institutions, have little voice in the profession. It examines the structures through which the institution of literary criticism pressures its members to accept ...
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A death of the world
Offers a description of what happens to survivors after a death, based on the effect this death has on the survivor's relation to the spatial and temporal world occupied after the loss of the deceased.A Death of the World offers a phenomenological description of what happens to the world for thos...
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Bone, bronze, and bamboo
Explores how the tremendous wealth of newly unearthed artifacts and manuscripts have changed our understanding of China's past.Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo explores the tremendous wealth of newly unearthed artifacts and manuscripts that have been revolutionizing the study of early China. Leading scho...
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A woman wanders through life and science
Irena Koprowska's autobiography illuminates the struggles of a young immigrant woman to combine family responsibilities and a demanding medical career.Irena Koprowska's autobiography chronicles the life and struggles of an immigrant woman who successfully pursued a career while raising a family. ...
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Between philosophy and non-philosophy
Engages the work and career of the philosopher Hugh J. Silverman.Hugh J. Silverman was an inspiring scholar and teacher, known for his work engaging and shaping phenomenology, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, structuralism, poststructuralism, and deconstruction. As Professor of Philosophy and Compar...
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Making writing matter
Challenging more limited approaches to service learning, this book examines writing instruction in the context of universities fully engaged in community partnerships.In Making Writing Matter, Ann M. Feldman explores how changing scholarship at engaged metropolitan universities offers an opportun...
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The symposium and the phaedrus
The Symposium and the Phaedrus are combined here because of their shared theme: a reflection on the nature of erotic love, the love that begins with sexual desire but can transcend that origin and reach even the heights of religious ecstasy. This reflection is carried out explicitly in the speech...
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Global neighborhoods
Looks at how contemporary Jewish neighborhoods interact with both local and transnational influences.Global Neighborhoods analyzes the organization of everyday life and the social integration of contemporary Jewish neighborhoods in Paris, London, and Berlin. Concentrating on the post-Holocaust er...
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High hopes
In 1901 Buffalo was the national symbol of the country's optimism, pride, and braggadocio. Toward the close of the century, it epitomizes the sense of economic and demographic crisis prevalent in American industrial cities.High Hopes analyzes and interprets the historical forces-external and inte...
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Representing popular sovereignty
Explores the contradiction between the Constitution's importance as a political document with its weakness as a symbol in American popular culture.Using the events of the Constitution's Bicentennial from 1987 to 1991 as a case study, Representing Popular Sovereignty explores the contradiction bet...
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The growth of the international economy, 1820-1960
Here is an introduction to the study of the international economy as a mechanism for diffusing modern economic growth between nations. It is divided into three parts, of which the first examines the workings of the system in the years before 1914. This includes an analysis of the conditions favor...
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Language and the sexes
In a highly readable and lively text, the authors explore the way language mirrors our cultural assumptions, especially those concerned with gender distinctions. Focusing on contemporary issues, they draw on their knowledge of sociolinguistics and other languages to illustrate how sexism may be h...
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Science without myth
This philosophical introduction to and discussion of social and political studies of science argues that scientific knowledge is socially constructed.By looking at science as a social and political activity, researchers have created novel accounts of scientific practice and rationality, accounts ...
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Signs of distinction
Fifty-one unique New York towns with great stories to tell, from L. Frank Baum's and Jello's hometowns to the birthplace of the Women's Rights Movement.Across New York State, small towns and big cities alike have stories to tell. A unique travel guide for history buffs, Signs of Distinction delve...
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The humanistic background of science
The once-lost introduction to the philosophy of science by Philipp Frank (1884-1966), a leading member of the Vienna circle of philosophers and biographer of Albert Einstein.Philipp Frank (1884–1966) was an influential philosopher of science, public intellectual, and Harvard educator whose last b...
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Boundary lines
Systematically addresses the philosophical implications of the postcolonial.In this book, Emanuela Fornari systematically examines the philosophical implications of postcolonial studies. She considers postcolonial critique not as a school or a current of thought but rather as a multiform constell...
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Confucian cultures of authority
Explores a wide range of Confucian-based cultures of authority in China.This volume examines the values that have historically guided the negotiation of identity, both practical and ideal, in Chinese Confucian culture, considers how these values play into the conception and exercise of authority,...
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Jewish civilization
This book explains why the best way to understand the Jewish historical experience is to look at Jewish people, not just as a religious or ethnic group or a nation or "people," but, as bearers of civilization. This approach helps to explain the greatest riddle of Jewish civilization, namely, its ...
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Between witness and testimony
Examines the ethical and pedagogical stakes of representing the Holocaust in books, films, and museum exhibits.The Holocaust presents an immense challenge to those who would represent it or teach it through fiction, film, or historical accounts. Even the testimonies of those who were there provid...
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Shirley jackson's american gothic
Argues that Jackson's anticipation of postmodernism ranks her among the most significant writers of her time.Best known for her short story "The Lottery" and her novel The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson produced a body of work that is more varied and complex than critics have realized. I...
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Singing the himalayan crossroads
Introduces the traditional songs of Himalayan Ladakh through their history, ethnology, poetry, and Tibetan Buddhism beliefs.Singing the Himalayan Crossroads places the traditional song repertoires of the former Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh in both their historical and modern contexts. Although sch...
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