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Djinn
The gripping memoir of a young man's struggle with his sexuality and Muslim identity, culminating in his rise to the Dutch Parliament.From a young age, Tofik Dibi feels "it"-a spirit, or djinn, that follows him everywhere. Where "it" goes, "they" go-his classmates, his colleagues, all the people ...
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Gender after lyotard
Examines Lyotard's writings in light of contemporary feminist theory.The revolutionary French thinker Jean-François Lyotard indicates in many of his writings that one of the most significant philosophical problems is the problem of gender. In spite of this, feminist thinkers in both the continent...
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Agency and ethics
Explains why military interventions with humanitarian goals consistently fail.Why does political conflict seem to consistently interfere with attempts to provide aid, end ethnic discord, or restore democracy? To answer this question, Agency and Ethics examines how the norms that originally motiva...
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Mediating the power of buddhas
Analyzes a seventh-century ritual manual that provides both a rich source of information of medieval Buddhist life and addresses the ongoing concern of how an adherent can encounter the power of a buddha.Mediating the Power of Buddhas offers a fascinating analysis of the seventh-century ritual ma...
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The first presidential communications agency
The history of FDR's Office of Government Reports.This book explores a forgotten chapter in modern U.S. history: the false dawn of the communications age in American politics. The Office of Government Reports (OGR) was created in 1939 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, but after World War II Con...
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Dreaming and the self
Anthropological perspectives on dreams around the world.Drawing upon original fieldwork, cultural theory, and psychological research, Dreaming and the Self offers new approaches to the self-particularly to subjectivity, identity, and emotion. Through an investigation of dreams in various cultures...
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Socratic ignorance and platonic knowledge in the dialogues of plato
Argues that Socrates' fundamental role in the dialogues is to guide us toward self-inquiry and self-knowledge.In this highly original and provocative book, Sara Ahbel-Rappe argues that the Platonic dialogues contain an esoteric Socrates who signifies a profound commitment to self-knowledge and wh...
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Dreaming in the classroom
The essential guide on how to teach about dreaming.Dreaming in the Classroom provides teachers from virtually all fields with a uniquely informative guidebook for introducing their students to the universal human phenomenon of dreaming. Although dreaming may not be held in high esteem in mainstre...
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Continental theory buffalo
Revisits, reassesses, and reclaims the legacy of May '68 in light of our present cultural and historical emergency.Continental Theory Buffalo is the inaugural volume of the Humanities to the Rescue book series, a public humanities project dedicated to discussing the role of the arts and humanitie...
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Rediscovering god with transcendental argument
Provides a comparative philosophical study of the thought of the two principle theorists of monistic Kashmiri Shaivism, Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta, and also formulates a conception of the nature of philosophy as a means of intercultural and interreligious dialogue.Rediscovering God with Transce...
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Tokugawa confucian education
Presents the philosophy and values of Hirose Tanso, a scholar, educator, and poet whose well-articulated educational program was partly responsible for the relative ease with which Japan emerged from hundreds of years of self-imposed isolation and became a powerful modern nation.This book present...
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Encounters of mind
Discusses the journey of Buddhist ideas on awareness and personhood from India to China.Encounters of Mind explores a crucial step in the philosophical journey of Buddhism from India to China, and what influence this step, once taken, had on Chinese thought in a broader scope. The relationship of...
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Constructing the nation
Philosophers and social theorists of color examine how racism can creep into defensive forms of nationalism."What does it mean today to be an 'American' when one does not represent or embody the norm of 'Americanness' because of one's race, ethnicity, culture of origin, religion, or some combinat...
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God in post-christianity
Argues for a new elemental and sensory experience of God.God in Post-Christianity combines Eastern and Western influences into a dazzling survey of the contemporary theological landscape. Reading "the age of the Spirit" as "the age of the Breath," the book argues for a material, elemental, and se...
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Where we find ourselves
Explores the universal longing for home, illuminated through the essays, poetry, and fiction of forty Jewish women writers from around the world.In this remarkable collection of essays, stories, and poems, Jewish women writers from around the world offer diverse perspectives on the idea of home. ...
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Buddhist fundamentalism and minority identities in sri lanka
This examination of Sri Lanka's ethnic and religious minorities links the past with the present through a treatment of Sinhala-Buddhist fundamentalist development in the late nineteenth century and its hegemony in the late twentieth.Buddhist Fundamentalism and Minority Identities in Sri Lanka exp...
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Frameworks for mallarmé
The influence of photography and visual culture on the French poet, journalist, and critic.Countering the conventional image of the deliberately obscure "ivory-tower poet," Frameworks for Mallarmé presents Stéphane Mallarmé as a journalist and critic who was actively engaged with the sociocultura...
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Whiteness at the end of the world
Examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic films express white racial anxiety.The use of Christian apocalyptic myths has changed significantly over the centuries. Initially used by genuinely disenfranchised groups, they are used today as a response to more egalitarian treatment of minorities in ...
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The beach beneath the streets
Examines New York City as a paradigmatic example of the tensions between privatization and public uses of space in the contemporary U.S.Focusing on the liberating promise of public space, The Beach Beneath the Streets examines the activist struggles of communities in New York City-queer youth of ...
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Communication best practices at dell, general electric, microsoft, and monsanto
Highlights successful communication practices at Dell, General Electric, Microsoft, and Monsanto.Through case studies of communication best practices at Dell, General Electric, Microsoft, and Monsanto, this book provides specific and powerful theories for leadership, marketing, and stockholder co...
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North korea under kim jong il
Examines internal changes in North Korea under the expanding rule of Kim Jong Il.North Korea has long been a country of mystique, both provoking two nuclear crises and receiving aid from the international community and South Korea in more recent times. North Korea under Kim Jong Il examines how i...
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What if medicine disappeared?
Argues convincingly, if counterintuitively, that modern medicine has little impact on longevity or mortality.In this thought-provoking book, sociologists Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea ask what would happen if Western medicine were to disappear. Using a rigorous and imaginative method-a t...
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All in the family
A new and provocative argument about monarchism in the Middle East.Michael Herb proposes a new paradigm for understanding politics in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. He critiques the theory of the rentier state and argues that we must put political institutions-and specifically monarchism-at the cente...
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Issues in military ethics
Reflections on, and analysis of, ethical issues facing military service in the United States.Reflecting on a seventeen-year career teaching at military educational institutions of the Air Force, the Army, and the Navy, Martin L. Cook finds a powerful but underappreciated basis for military ethics...
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The problem of free harmony in kant's aesthetics
A study of the first half of Kant's Critique of Judgment.In this book, Kenneth F. Rogerson explores the first half of Kant's Critique of Judgment, entitled the "Critique of Aesthetic Judgment." Rogerson provides an interpretation of arguably the most important issue in Kant's aesthetic theory, na...
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Don juan east/west
An essential guide for those who seek to reconsider the theoretical problems of (trans-civilizational) comparative literature, those who are interested in the literary and cultural history of modern East Asian countries, and those with a general interest in issues of sexuality.From its early prop...
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Judicial review in state supreme courts
Unveils the considerable policy-making powers of state supreme courts.Despite having the final word on many policy issues, state supreme courts have received much less scholarly attention than the United States Supreme Court. Examining these often neglected institutions, this book demonstrates th...
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Transpersonal psychotherapy
Breaches the wall between the psychotherapeutic and the sacred as respected pioneers in the field give their vision of the synergistic potential in these two powerful traditions.Since its original publication in 1980, this book has become a classic in transpersonal psychotherapy. This new edition...
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Moving across differences
Explores how discussion of LGBTQ+ themes in a high-school literature course can foster ethical engagement among students.Grounded in ethnography and teacher research, Moving across Differences examines how an LGBTQ+-themed literature course enabled high school students to negotiate their differen...
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Convicted survivors
Explores the experiences of women imprisoned for killing their male abusers and their treatment by the criminal justice system.When a woman survives a deadly assault by her male abuser by using lethal self-defense, she often faces a punitive criminal justice system-one that largely failed to resp...
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Theosophical enlightenment
This is an intellectual history of occult and esoteric currents in the English-speaking world from the early Romantic period to the early twentieth century. The Theosophical Society, founded in 1875 by Helena P. Blavatsky, holds a crucial position as the place where all these currents temporarily...
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A great undertaking
Explores the social disruption resulting from industrialization in a Chinese coalmining community at the turn of the twentieth century.Jeff Hornibrook provides a unique, microcosmic look at the process of industrialization in one Chinese community at the turn of the twentieth century. Industriali...
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Oklahomo
Uses the state of Oklahoma as a case study for how US conservatives have attempted to unqueer America since the 1950's.By exploring the scandal-filled lives of four Oklahomans, this book demonstrates how unqueering operates in a conservative American context. Carol Mason weaves a story about how ...
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Think like an archipelago
A career-spanning assessment of Glissant's work as a philosophical project.With a career spanning more than fifty years as a writer, scholar, and public intellectual, Édouard Glissant produced an astonishingly wide range of work, including poems, novels, essays, pamphlets, and theater. In Think L...
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The recall
In-depth study of the recall, the most important popular device allowing voters to remove unresponsive elected officials from office.The recall, or "election in reverse," is meant to allow voters to remove an elected official from office prior to the completion of his/her term in office. In this ...
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Listening to reading
Contends that "experimental" writing—from Mallarme, Stein, and Cage to contemporary poets of the eighties and nineties—can teach us much about how we write and read both poetry and criticism.Listening to Reading presents two different kinds of writing about poetry-"critical analysis" and "perform...
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Ecology and popular film
Ecocritical takes on popular film.Ecology and Popular Film examines representations of nature in mainstream film while also looking at film itself as a form of nature writing. Considering a selection of mainstream movies that embrace a wide variety of environmental themes, from the Lumières' Oil ...
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Childhood beyond pathology
Brings psychoanalytic concepts to the notion of childhood development with a keen eye to discussions of social justice and human dignity.Winner of the 2020 Outstanding Book Award presented by Division B (Curriculum Studies) of the American Educational Research Association Winner of the 2019 Criti...
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Naked lives
Looks at the experience of being an exotic dancer in different kinds of strip clubs.Is stripping good or bad for the women who do it? According to sociologist Mindy S. Bradley-Engen, there's no simple answer. An exotic dancer's experiences can be both empowering and degrading: at times a dancer c...
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The history of al-ṭabarī vol. 10
Volume X of al-Ṭabarī's massive chronicle is devoted to two main subjects. The first is the selection of Abū Bakr as the first caliph or successor to the Prophet Muh'ammad following the Prophet's death in 632 C.E. This section of the History reveals some of the inner divisions that existed within...
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Cities under austerity
Examines the ways in which austerity policies are transforming US cities.Across the world's most industrialized economies, the financial crisis of 2007 caused a contraction of state budgets and stimulated attempts to reform debt-burdened governments. In the United States, a system of fiscal feder...
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Heidegger from metaphysics to thought
Janicaud clarifies the project of "overcoming" metaphysics, a project that Heidegger himself recognized as open to innumerable misunderstandings, and Mattei inquires into the major Heideggerian texts produced between 1935 and 1969 to detect the cosmic figure of the Geviert, the initial Fourfold w...
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The philosophy of change
An analysis of the philosophy of the Yijing in comparison to modern Western philosophies.In The Philosophy of Change, the distinguished scholar of Chinese philosophy Chung-ying Cheng advances our understanding of the Yijing by analyzing its philosophy in comparison to Western philosophical tradit...
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Sweet solitude
New and selected poems on love, faith, and the African American experience.Drawing deeply from the well of the African American experience, Leonard Slade's poetry addresses a wide variety of subjects and themes, from beauty, family, and nature to racism, religion, and politics. Running throughout...
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Welcome to fear city
Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis.2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title The early 1970s were a moment of transformation for both the American city and its cinema. As intensified suburbanization, racial division, deindustri...
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Religion within the limits of history alone
Shows that pragmatic historicism is a significant intellectual tradition in the history of American religious and philosophical thought.Among the greatest challenges facing religious thinkers today is that created by historicism, the notion that human beings and their myriad understandings of rea...
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Peking university
Discusses the first decades of Peking University and its role in shaping Chinese intellectual culture.Peking University, founded in 1898, was at the center of the major intellectual movements of twentieth-century China. In this institutional and intellectual history, author Xiaoqing Diana Lin sho...
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Effing the ineffable
A meditation on how religious language tries to limn the liminal, conceive the inconceivable, speak the unspeakable, and say the unsayable.In Effing the Ineffable, Wesley J. Wildman confronts the human obsession with ultimate reality and our desire to conceive and speak of this reality through re...
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