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Kant on happiness in ethics
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Kant's treatment of happiness in ethics. It considers the definition of happiness and the possible roles happiness may serve in ethics. It argues against critics who maintain that Kant's deontological ethic rejects happiness and against critics who a...
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The inside story
This book explores what is meant by claims of religious understanding and truth. It argues that at the end of the twentieth century we are undergoing a revolution in our thinking about ourselves and our place in nature, and that the worldview pervading modern culture is dissolving because it has ...
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The history of al-ṭabarī vol. 11
Although this volume deals with the part of al-Ṭabarī's History covering the years 12 and 13 (633-35), in the caliphates of Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq and ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, the narratives contained in it, which are lengthy and detailed, are concerned with the first Muslim conquests in Iraq and Syria....
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Coping with terrorism
A comprehensive examination of multiple dimensions of terrorismTerrorism is imprinted on Western society's consciousness. Nearly every week a terrorist attack occurs in the world. The academic world, in attempting to understand terrorism, has often been limited to descriptive work rather than ana...
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Christianity without god
Argues that Christianity does not require its supernatural aspects.Christianity without an omnipotent god, without a divine savior, without an afterlife? In this bold and hopeful book, theologian Daniel C. Maguire writes that traditional, supernatural aspects of Christianity can be comforting, bu...
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Ecotheology and the practice of hope
Looks at how ecotheology has created a new vision of the natural world and the place of humans within it.Is there any hope for a more sustainable world? Can we reimagine a way of living in which the nonhuman world matters? Anne Marie Dalton and Henry C. Simmons claim that the ecotheology that aro...
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Social change in iran
A multi-level insider's look at the changes transforming contemporary Iran.Social Change in Iran is an inquiry into the recent changes in Iran, blending scholarly analysis, eyewitness accounts, and the author's personal experiences. It tells the stories of everyday people, be it young men and wom...
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Ancient and medieval concepts of friendship
Charts the stages of the history of friendship as a philosophical concept in the Western world.Focusing on Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics and Epicureans, and early Christian and Medieval sources, Ancient and Medieval Concepts of Friendship brings together assessments of different philosophical a...
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Precipice or crossroads?
Comprehensive treatment of the challenges faced by America's public research universities, and of what those challenges may mean for the nation.President Lincoln signed the Morrill Land-grant Act in 1862, launching a nationwide project in public higher education that would build democracy, prospe...
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Emperor yang of the sui dynasty
A reappraisal of Emperor Yang of the Sui dynasty, finding that his legacy provided the foundation for the celebrated civilization of the Tang dynasty.Looking at the life and legacy of Emperor Yang (569–618) of the brief Sui dynasty in a new light, this book presents a compelling case for his impo...
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Marx, hayek, and utopia
Develops a critique of utopianism through a comparison of the works of Karl Marx and F. A. Hayek, challenging conventional views of both Marxian and Hayekian thought.This book develops a critique of utopianism through a provocative comparison of the works of Karl Marx and F. A. Hayek, thus engagi...
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Dubious facts
An innovative approach to historical records assesses how evidence claims and policy arguments were put forth in the royal courts of early China.What were the intentions of early China's historians? Modern readers must contend with the tension between the narrators' moralizing commentary and thei...
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Postcolonial narrative and the work of mourning
A cross-cultural analysis of the work of Coetzee, Harris and Morrison, demonstrating that the fundamental task of postcolonial narrative is the work of mourning.Sam Durrant's powerfully original book compares the ways in which the novels of J. M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison memorial...
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Buried ideas
Four Warring States texts discovered during recent decades challenge longstanding understandings of Chinese intellectual history.The discovery of previously unknown philosophical texts from the Axial Age is revolutionizing our understanding of Chinese intellectual history. Buried Ideas presents a...
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Information experience
Information isn't simply read or used, rather it creates a holistic experience for users.Information Experience provides a usable framework for developing information products and design thinking practices for a wide range of projects, including application development, content creation, instruct...
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The history of al-ṭabarī vol. 6
The sixth volume of the translation of al-Ṭabarī's History deals with the ancestors of Muḥammad, with his own early life, and then with his prophetic mission up to the time of his Hijrah or emigration to Medina. The topics covered mean that this volume is of great importance both for the career o...
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The power of practice
Situates yoga practice within a musical context in the life and work of famed violinist Yehudi MenuhinThe Power of Practice showcases the pioneering achievements of renowned violinist Yehudi Menuhin (1916-99) and how both disciplines transformed his life and practice. Menuhin's contributions as a...
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Chaosmos
This book shows how writers like James Joyce, James Merrill, and Doris Lessing; scientists like Gregory Bateson, Ilya Prigogine, and David Bohm; and theorists like Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Michel Serres forecasted and initiated a shift away from modernist conceptions of the world as a ...
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Social constructivism as a philosophy of mathematics
Extends the ideas of social constructivism to the philosophy of mathematics, developing a powerful critique of traditional absolutist conceptions of mathematics, and proposing a reconceptualization of the philosophy of mathematics.Proposing social constructivism as a novel philosophy of mathemati...
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Stories of school yoga
Provides firsthand perspectives from yoga practitioners and educators on the promises and challenges of school-based yoga programs.The yoga-in-schools movement has been gaining momentum in recent years as adult practitioners realize the benefit of yoga in their personal lives and want to share it...
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Shut out
Documents the economic, educational, and existential struggles that single mothers in poverty confront in the current welfare climate.Shut Out portrays in vivid detail the economic, educational, and existential struggles that single mothers confront as they fight back against a welfare-to-work re...
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When leaders learn and when they don't
Develops a new and dynamic theory of foreign policy decision making and experiential learning.When Leaders Learn and When They Don't investigates two extraordinary leaders-Mikhail Gorbachev and Kim Il Sung-by employing sophisticated methodologies and advancing a new theory of foreign policy decis...
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The last maharani of gwalior
This is a description of contemporary India and some of its recent history in the form of an autobiography. Rajmata Scindia is a member of the Indian Parliament. As a maharani she had thousands of servants and several enormous palaces. Since Independence, which marked the end of the supremacy of ...
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Regulating desire
Examines the organized efforts to reshape the law relating to young women's sexuality in the United States.Starting with the mid-nineteenth-century campaign by the American Female Moral Reform Society to criminalize seduction and moving forward to the late twentieth-century conservative effort to...
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Essays on hegel's philosophy of subjective spirit
The first English-language collection devoted to Hegel's Philosophy of Subjective Spirit.Although Hegel considered his philosophy of subjective spirit to be of particular importance, it has been the focus of little present-day scholarship, particularly in English. Recent editorial work associated...
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Images of thought
Explores the relationship between philosophy and art through the work of Cuban American artist Carlos Estévez.Is philosophy hopelessly opposed to art? Images of Thought answers negatively, claiming that visual images can be used effectively to grasp complex thoughts, and philosophy can be deploye...
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The history of al-ṭabarī vol. 33
This section of al-Ṭabarī's History covers the eight-year reign of al-Muʿtaṣim (833-42), immediately following the reign of his elder brother al-Ma'mun, when the Islamic caliphate was once more united after the civil strife and violence of the second decade of the ninth century A.D. Al-Mu'tasim's...
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Animal others
Explores questions concerning animals from a continental perspective.Animal Others brings together original contributions that explore the status of animals from the continental philosophy perspective. Examined are the moral status of animals, the question of animal minds, an understanding of wha...
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A clan mother's call
Addresses the importance of Haudenosaunee women in the rebuilding of the Iroquois nation.Indigenous communities around the world are gathering to both reclaim and share their ancestral wisdom. Aware of and drawing from these social movements, A Clan Mother's Call articulates Haudenosaunee women's...
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José ortega y gasset's metaphysical innovation
Huéscar presents a systematic critique of idealism and modernity, framing Edmund Husserl's phenomenological philosophy as the most refined and far-reaching version of idealism. He includes the essentials of the system of categories adopted by Ortega in order to overcome idealism.
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Rethinking life
Fourteen Italian philosophers reflect on how the global experience of vulnerability and precariousness—of which the Covid-19 pandemic is but one example—compels us to rethink life and collective living.This volume gathers fourteen contributions written by Italian philosophers within the context o...
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Organization in a changing environment
This study deals with the interfaces between bureaucratized social service agencies, social workers, and clients. Russell K. Schutt covers significant topics of the history and organization of labor unions. He illuminates important questions concerning the degree to which initially democratic org...
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Constituting communities
Explores how community is defined and how it functions among Theravada Buddhists in South and Southeast Asia.Constituting Communities explores how community functions within Theravāda Buddhist culture. Although the dominant focus of Buddhist studies for the past century has been on doctrinal and ...
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Defining religion
Provides a new orientation to philosophy of religion and a new theory of how religion ought to be defined.In this collection of essays, written over the past decade, Robert Cummings Neville addresses contemporary debates about the concept of religion and the importance of the comparative method i...
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Freedom and ground
A new interpretation of Schelling's 1809 treatise on freedom, demonstrating how the work is an answer to the problem of ground.This book is a new interpretation of Schelling's path-breaking 1809 treatise on freedom, the last major work published during his lifetime. The treatise is at the heart o...
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Desiring emancipation
Uses historical case studies to illuminate women's claims to emancipation and to sexual subjectivity during the tumultuous Wilhelmine and Weimar periods in Germany.Desiring Emancipation traces middle-class German women's claims to gender emancipation and sexual subjectivity in the pre-Nazi era. T...
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Which lessons matter?
Christopher Hemmer offers a model for how U.S. decision makers use the lessons of history to diagnose and make policy choices.As policy makers turn to the lessons of history, to which lessons will they turn? This book offers a model of the analogical reasoning process that helps answer the import...
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Against the despotism of fact
First comprehensive account of the figure of the Irish Celt in modern British and Irish literature.Emerging at a moment of escalating colonial conflict between England and Ireland, the figure of the Irish Celt enjoyed a long and varied career in both English and Irish literature from the late Vic...
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Confucianism in context
A wide-ranging consideration of Confucianism for Western readers.What is Confucianism? This book provides a wide-ranging view of the tradition and its contemporary relevance for Western readers. Discussing the development of Confucianism in China, the work goes on to show the deep impact of Korea...
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Difficult dialogues about twenty-first-century girls
Introduces new conceptual frameworks for girls' studies.Presenting cutting-edge research from transnational scholars and activists, Difficult Dialogues about Twenty-First-Century Girls introduces original methodologies and girl-centered program design to the field of girls' studies. The editors p...
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Olympic industry resistance
A critical look at the Olympics in the postbribery, post-9/11 era, particularly at consequences for host cities and so-called "Olympic education" for schoolchildren.Scholar and activist Helen Jefferson Lenskyj continues her critique of the Olympic industry, looking specifically at developments in...
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Refiguring the body
Examines how embodiment is conceived and experienced in South Asian religions.Refiguring the Body provides a sustained interrogation of categories and models of the body grounded in the distinctive idioms of South Asian religions, particularly Hindu and Buddhist traditions. The contributors engag...
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Higher education for democracy
Uses a cross-national comparison of Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Hong Kong to develop strategies universities should employ to strengthen democracy and resist fascism.Bronze Winner, 2021 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Education Category Democracy and higher education are inextricabl...
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Neo-confucian ecological humanism
Addresses Ming Dynasty philosopher Wang Fuzhi's neo-Confucianism from the perspective of contemporary ecological humanism.In this novel engagement with Ming Dynasty philosopher Wang Fuzhi (1619–1692), Nicholas S. Brasovan presents Wang's neo-Confucianism as an important theoretical resource for e...
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The guitar and the new world
A transformative look at a popular instrument and a hidden chapter of American history.The American guitar, that lightweight wooden box with a long neck, hourglass figure, and six metal strings, has evolved over five hundred years of social turmoil to become a nearly magical object-the most popul...
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Militant acts
Offers a history of the role of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century forward.Militant Acts presents a broad history of the concept and practice of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century to the present. Radicals launched inves...
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Language and learning
This book explores the challenges of teaching an increasingly multilingual and multicultural American school population. Six million American children-one in eight-live in homes where a language other than English is spoken. Most of these children come to school with limited ability in English. M...
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China and the international system, 1840-1949
Examines the images, hopes, and fears that were evoked during China's century-long subservience to external powers.As China continues its rapid ascent within the international system, questions of where it came from have particular relevance. Combining history with international relations theory,...
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