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Shared obliviousness in family systems
Introduces the concept of obliviousness to the consideration of family systems—what do families choose to ignore and why and how they do so.The modern family is inundated with information and no family can attend to it all; families must set priorities and remain oblivious to much. Obliviousness ...
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Curriculum differentiation
Sharing methods and orientations of the interpretive paradigm, the contributors to this book sharpen our understanding of the school's differentiating function. They analyze issues and clarify persistent contradictions in traditional studies of curriculum differentiation and tracking by examining...
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Deconstructing sport history
Presents a broad spectrum of critical approaches that question traditional sport history.This groundbreaking collection challenges the accepted principles and practices of sport history and encourages sport historians to be more adventurous in their representations of the sporting past in the pre...
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Red square, black square
This book builds a new vision of the development of Russian revolutionary culture, bringing together fiction, criticism, utopian projects, manifestos, performance and film theory, religious philosophy, and the imaginary space of communism centered around the Mummy of Lenin.Revolution and moderniz...
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P'ungsu
The first scholarly book to address Korean geomancy through an interdisciplinary lens.This book is a milestone in the history of academic research on the development and role of geomancy (fengshui in Chinese and p'ungsu in Korean) in Korean culture and society. As the first interdisciplinary work...
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The imagination of plants
Examines the role of plants in botanical mythology, from Aboriginal Australia to Zoroastrian Persia.Plants have a remarkable mythology dating back thousands of years. From the ancient Greeks to contemporary Indigenous cultures, human beings have told colorful and enriching stories that have prese...
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Jewish feminism and intersectionality
Addresses the absence of Jewish subjects in intersectionality studies and demonstrates how to do intersectionality work inclusive of Jewish perspectives.Jewish Feminism and Intersectionality explores a range of opportunities to apply and build intersectionality studies from within the life and wo...
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Women's spiritual leadership in africa
Inspiring portraits of contemporary African women leaders.Women's Spiritual Leadership in Africa offers portraits of sixteen African women in leadership positions in grassroots, national, Pan African and global organizations, and explores how they choose to "rock the boat without falling out" by ...
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The hoover presidency
These persuasive essays, which are the product of a Conversation in the Discipline held at State University of New York at Geneseo in 1973, offer a definitive reevaluation of the Hoover era in the centennial year of his birth.Leading scholars with access to the presidential papers reappraise Hoov...
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Racial competition and class solidarity
Looks at union organizing and strikes that were either strengthened by interracial cooperation or defeated by racial competition during the period between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement.It sometimes seems that racial conflict is an intractable impediment to class solidarity in the Un...
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The ethnography of tantra
Presents Tantra from an ethnographic vantage point, through a series of case studies grounded in diverse settings across contemporary Asia.This is the first collection of essays to approach the topic of Tantric Studies from the vantage point of ethnography and lived religion, moving beyond the ce...
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Capitán latinoamérica
Analyzes contemporary superhero-themed cinema, television, and web series in Latin America.Capitán Latinoamérica is the first study to examine the unique contribution of Latin American cinema, television, and web series to the global superhero boom. Through an analysis of superhero-themed media f...
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Pushing the limits
By providing new understanding and insights into the backgrounds and experiences of women pursuing administrative careers in education, Pushing the Limits fills a critical void in the existing literature. Sakre Edson's five-year investigation documents the accounts of 142 nonminority and minority...
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Portraits of buddhist women
A collection of stories about women from the thirteenth-century Buddhist work that reveals much about women's status in their society and within Buddhism.A fascinating collection about Buddhist women translated from the thirteenth-century Sinhala Buddhist text, the Saddharmaratnāvaliya, these sto...
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Political obligation in a liberal state
The tension between the individualist view and the communalist view dominates current debate about liberal politics. DeLue establishes a basis for political discourse in a liberal society-an enlarged discourse that allows people of both views to be critically reflective citizens with the necessar...
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History of wyoming county, n.y.
A county history book that includes town histories, biographical sketches, and lithographs of pioneers and homesteads, as well as their Civil War military service.Originally published by F.W. Beers & Company in 1880, History of Wyoming County, N.Y. is still one of the most referenced historie...
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The eclipse of the state mental hospital
Examines the origins, recent history, and future of state hospitals.State hospitals still account for the majority of the state dollars spent on mental health care across the nation. Why do state hospitals persist and expand despite public scandal and professional disapproval? What role does the ...
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Encounter with enlightenment
Examines the influence of Shintoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism on Japanese ethics, with implications for our understanding of various social, economic, and environmental problems.In Encounter with Enlightenment, Robert E. Carter puts forth the East, and specifically Japan, as a sou...
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The aesthetic clinic
Examines experimental art and literature by women alongside psychoanalysis and philosophy to develop a new understanding of sublimation and aesthetic experience.In The Aesthetic Clinic, Fernanda Negrete brings together contemporary women writers and artists well known for their formal experimenta...
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Contemplating friendship in aristotle's ethics
Examines how Aristotle posits political philosophy and the experience of friendship as a means to bind strictly intellectural virtue with morality.In this book, Ann Ward explores Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, focusing on the progressive structure of the argument. Aristotle begins by giving an a...
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Language and limits
Presents a clear and forceful counter-statement about tensions and trends in contemporary English studies, offering at the same time a carefully reasoned critique of rationalistic forces within education and culture generally.What could be more commonsensical than the notion that students need to...
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Empowerment through multicultural education
This book reframes questions about student diversity by probing the extent to which society serves the interests of all, and by examining the empowerment of members of oppressed groups to direct social change. It examines the empowerment of children who are members of oppressed racial groups, low...
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Repetition and subjectivity
A bold, systematic account of the role of repetition in shaping modern subjectivity for Kierkegaard, Freud, and Lacan.Repetition and Subjectivity offers an in-depth exploration of the relationship between Kierkegaard's concept of repetition and the psychoanalytic one. Starting from the thesis tha...
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Emancipating cultural pluralism
Examines both the benign and harmful aspects of identity politics.Combining detailed case studies with discussions of deeper theoretical controversies, Emancipating Cultural Pluralism investigates both the benign and harmful aspects of identity politics. This provocative collection delves into so...
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The great war in hollywood memory, 1918-1939
Assesses how America's film industry remembered World War I during the interwar period.This is the definitive account of how America's film industry remembered and reimagined World War I from the Armistice in 1918 to the outbreak of World War II in 1939. Based on detailed archival research, Micha...
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Using language
In a pioneer study of how language is actually used, Dr. Kearns combines the rigor of formal logic with a detailed analysis of natural language patterns. Through this double focus, he develops artificial languages that are syntactically more similar to the spoken word than first-order language it...
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John dewey
A concise, eminently readable introduction to the thought of America's most prominent philosopher.CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic BooksWritten in a manner accessible to non-specialists, this book provides an introduction to all areas central to John Dewey's philosophy: aesthetics, social and pol...
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Overcoming obstacles in environmental policymaking
This book examines why policies and laws intended to protect the environment often do not work. In particular, Gamman addresses the fundamental reasons why efforts to protect natural resources in the developing world generally fail. He describes why environmental initiatives originating in nation...
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Contested nature
Contends that effective biological conservation and social justice must go hand in hand.How can the international conservation movement protect biological diversity, while at the same time safeguarding the rights and fulfilling the needs of people, particularly the poor? Contested Nature argues t...
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Media-ready feminism and everyday sexism
Unique empirically grounded analysis of how audiences negotiate sexism and feminism across media, from popular television shows to dating apps.Feminism can reflect the cultural moment, especially as media appropriate and use feminist messaging and agenda to various ends. Yet media can also push b...
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The rebel nurse handbook
Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award of 2020!“As you will read the stories ahead of the incredible, rock star Rebel Nurses who each have challenged the status quo and chosen the road less traveled, remember that each journey has its own period of self-doubt, fear of failure, and uncertainty of...
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Social work practice and psychopharmacology
Praise for the Second Edition: This is a very well-written book, My students appreciated the down-to-earth style of writing‚ Many of my students are deathly afraid of topics that haveanything to do with biology. [They] were assured by the lack of jargon and the fact that the chapters were writ...
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One (un)like the other
Aims to rethink ethics and transcendence in light of the phenomenology of empathy and social ontology.One (Un)Like the Other responds to the question, "What are the conditions of possibility that make genuine knowledge of other persons-and, therefore, love-possible?" By providing an original inte...
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Jews on the move
Based on data from the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey, the authors examine the high level of mobility among American Jews and their increasing dispersion throughout the United States, and how this presents new challenges to the national Jewish community.
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Musculoskeletal ultrasound cross-sectional anatomy
This spectacular cross-sectional atlas provides a roadmap of normal sonographic anatomy of the musculoskeletal system with optimized images that emphasize spatial relationships and three-dimensional orientation. The book is designed to help novices acquire pattern recognition skills to resolve im...
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Assessment and access
This book treats the major issues of assessment and access as they relate to the Hispanic communities of the United States. For the purpose of increasing Hispanic access to higher education, it explores a variety of developments in educational assessment and test familiarization, both theoretical...
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Hitchcock at the source
Considers the ways in which Alfred Hitchcock adapted and transformed a variety of literary works—novels, plays, and short stories—into film.The adaptation of literary works to the screen has been the subject of increasing, and increasingly sophisticated, critical and scholarly attention in recent...
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The illusion of will, self, and time
Discusses how William James's work suggests a world without will, self, or time and how research supports this perspective.A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of 2016 William James is often considered a scientist compromised by his advocacy of mysticism and parapsychology. Jonathan Bricklin argues Jame...
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Tumor board review
Now in its 3rd edition, Tumor Board Review: Evidence-Based Case Reviews and Questions is the most comprehensive clinical case review book in the field. With hands-on input from current fellows and oncologists, this new edition has been enhanced and reformatted for greater efficiency and practical...
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Transnational research in technical communication
Offers unique story-based insights into the complexities and challenges of transnational and intercultural research.Transnational Research in Technical Communication considers the complexities of intercultural projects from a compelling perspective: first-hand narrative reflections. Readers go be...
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Energy, the modern state, and the american world system
Examines political authority in the modern era as a function of specific energy politics.In this provocative and original study, George A. Gonzalez argues that the relationship between energy and the state, as well as global politics, has become more and more deeply intertwined, reaching somethin...
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Public health
Now in its second edition, Public Health: An Introduction to the Science and Practice of Population Health is expanded in both scope and depth of content to better aid students who are launching their public health studies and preparing for professions in the field. This edition features a great...
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