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Hints for lovers
Hints for Lovers explores the romantic rules of engagement by providing a detailed strategy to help readers successfully navigate and improve their own personal relationships. It offers a light-hearted take on how to find and maintain love in any era. The author frequently examines the fundament...
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The red book of heroes
” Life is not all beer and skittles...and all books are not fairytales. In an imperfect state of existence, the poetry of it is that we cannot have all things as we would like them. “-Andrew Lang Perhaps in a perfect world, there would be no need for heroes, though such existence is unheard of. I...
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The prairie
Taking place just a few years after the Louisiana Purchase, The Prairie follows Ishmael and Esther Bush as they travel west from the Mississippi River with their fourteen children, Ellen Wade, a doctor, and Esther’s brother. While searching for a place to camp, the group meets Natty Bumppo, a le...
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An anglo-american alliance
An Anglo-American Alliance: A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future (1906) is a novel by Gregory Casparian. Written while the author, an Armenian-Turkish artist, was living in New York City, An Anglo-American Alliance: A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future is a recently redisc...
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The ruby of kishmoor
The Ruby of Kishmoor (1908) is a deceptively simple story by renowned author and illustrator Howard Pyle. From the very beginning, it concerns itself with the mystery behind appearances, with all that lies hidden beneath the veil of a first glance. “You may never know what romantic aspirations m...
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Romance
Romance (1903) is a novel by Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad. One of just three collaborations between two of the greatest English language novelists of the twentieth century, Romance plays to the strengths of each author to weave a tale of adventure, bad luck, and political intrigue. Adapted i...
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Rape of the lock
The Rape of the Lock (1906) is an epic poem by English literary icon Alexander Pope. Known for his caustic wit and satirical outlook as much as he was for his formal expertise, Pope is arguably the most important English poet of the eighteenth century. His work influenced such figures as William ...
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Laurus nobilis
Laurus Nobilis: Chapters on Art and Life (1909) is a collection of essays by Vernon Lee. Published at the height of her career as a leading proponent of Aestheticism and scholar of the Italian Renaissance, Laurus Nobilis: Chapters on Art and Life follows in the footsteps of Walter Pater, a pionee...
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Leviathan
Written by one of the founders of modern political philosophy, Thomas Hobbes, during the English civil war, Leviathan is an influential work of nonfiction. Regarded as one of the earliest examples of the social contract theory, Leviathan has both historical and philosophical importance. Social co...
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Lord tony's wife
An aristocrat and his daughter are targeted by a former peasant who hides his true identity to ingratiate himself into the world of French royalists. After gaining their trust, he attempts to marry the girl, but she’s already eloped with another. Pierre Adet is a French peasant who becomes obs...
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Hawaiian legends of volcanoes
Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (1916) explores Hawaiian folktales and myths collected by W. D. Westervelt. Connecting the origin story of Hawaii to the traditions of other Polynesian cultures, Westervelt provides an invaluable resource for understanding the historical and geographical scope of Haw...
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Artificial violence
Artificial intelligence and humanity's disruption to Earth systems presents us with both real and imagined violence. Understanding the gap between the two is vital to navigating the promise and perils of AI and the future of the Anthropocene.
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Repair across africa
Examines repair as a dynamic social, material, cultural, and economic practice. Spanning diverse African contexts, it explores how mending connects labour, urban lives, and historical memories, revealing the artisanal skills and relational dynamics that underpin everyday acts of material care and...
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Legacies of british slavery in australia and new zealand
This book investigates the legacies of British slavery beyond Britain, focusing upon the colonisation of Australia and New Zealand, and explores why this history has been overlooked.
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The birth of the khalsa
A feminist reconsideration of Sikh identity, discussing its original egalitarianism and current hypermasculine quality, which is harmful to both men and women.Sikhs trace the genesis of their religious rites, prayers, dress codes, and names to Guru Gobind Singh's creation of the Khalsa in 1699. T...
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Critical and dialectical phenomenology
Critical and Dialectical Phenomenology shows how continental philosophy is currently practiced in the United States.This book draws together some of the most important recent work in the areas of semiotics, critical theory, epistemology, and psychology. It contains a new essay by Karl-Otto Apel o...
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Drifting on a read
For almost a century, writers such as Ralph Ellison, Michael Ondaatje, and Ishmael Reed have expressed an affinity for jazz, hearing the music as a model for writing. Jarrett examines their work and the work of others who have brought jazz into language, pushing "interpretation" into the realm of...
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Refugeehood and the postconflict subject
Examines the effects of culturally specific interpretations of refugeehood with an ethnographic focus on CyprusBeing a "refugee" is not simply a matter of law, determination procedures, or the act of flight. It is an ontological condition, structured by the politics of law, affect, and territory....
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Freshwater resources and interstate cooperation
Examines state cooperation over increasingly scarce water resources.Reports from the United Nations suggest that as much as forty percent of the global population could be without adequate freshwater supplies by 2015, leading some experts to predict that future wars will be fought over water rath...
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Nato's durability in a post-cold war world
Examines how NATO has adapted and endured after the end of the Cold War, transforming itself to deal with a host of new security challenges.Why is it that despite the end of the Cold War and the almost constant controversies surrounding the alliance's role in the world, the North Atlantic Treaty ...
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The battered woman and shelters
Explores how standardized images of problems and people inform and shape social services for women who have been assaulted.Arguing that we commonly understand "wife abuse" and the "battered woman" in terms of standardized images of problems and people, the author explores how these images inform ...
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Family matters
Charts new trends in gender studies through a compelling analysis of Igbo society.Prior to European colonialism, Igboland, a region in Nigeria, was a nonpatriarchal, nongendered society governed by separate but interdependent political systems for men and women. In the last one hundred fifty year...
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Disciplining the holocaust
Explores the relationship between disciplinarity and contemporary ethics of scholarship about the Holocaust.Disciplining the Holocaust examines critics' efforts to defend a rigorous and morally appropriate image of the Holocaust. Rather than limiting herself to polemics about the "proper" approac...
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All but forgotten
Study of Thomas Jefferson's legacy in public administration.Thomas Jefferson's contributions to the development of administrative thought and practice in the United States have largely been overlooked in American history. His career in public service and his ideas concerning government and consti...
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Autonomy and judaism
This volume brings together leading philosophers of Judaism on the issue of autonomy in the Jewish tradition. Addressing themselves to the relationship of the individual Jew to the Jewish community and to the world at large, some selections are systematic in scope, while others are more historica...
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Gender, time, and reduced work
This book compares and analyzes different forms of reduced work: conventional part-time employment, temporary employment, job sharing, and work sharing. Through interviews, workers reveal their experiences with reduced work, particularly the extent to which they control their work schedules, how ...
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Clara
Part novella, part philosophy, Clara was Schelling's most popular work during his lifetime, and appears here in English for the first time.This is the first English translation of Schelling's novel, most likely written after the death of his first wife, Caroline, the former wife of August Wilhelm...
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Composition theory for the postmodern classroom
Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom is a collection of the most outstanding articles published in the Journal of Advanced Composition over the last decade. Together these essays represent the breadth and strength of composition scholarship that has fruitfully engaged with critical the...
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Buddhist women across cultures
Illuminates the lives and thought of women in Buddhist cultures, integrating them more fully into the feminist conversation.Scholars and practitioners from a variety of Buddhist cultures, philosophical traditions, and academic disciplines analyze important dimensions of the new cross-cultural Bud...
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Get real
A thought-provoking overview of the many challenges facing higher education and how to deal with them by a leading thinker in the field.Higher education always seems to be in crisis. Governments, foundations, professional associations, and the occasional scornful professor all tend to lament one ...
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The step back
Explores the ethical and political possibilities of philosophy after deconstruction.This original contribution to the ethical and political significance of philosophy addresses a number of major themes-identity, violence, the erotic, freedom, responsibility, religious belief, globalization-and cr...
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The politics of air pollution
Argues that clean air policy is driven by locally oriented economic elites.Who has been at the political forefront of clean air policy development in the United States? In The Politics of Air Pollution, George A. Gonzalez argues that the answer is neither the federal government, nor environmental...
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An ethic of innocence
Offers a feminist theory of ignorance that sheds light on the misunderstood or overlooked epistemic practices of women in literature.An Ethic of Innocence examines representations of women in American and British fin-de-siècle and modern literature who seem "not to know" things. These naïve fools...
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Fit to teach
Examines the construction of gender in public school employment.Honorable Mention, 2006 History of Education Society's Outstanding Book AwardWinner of the 2005 Critics' Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association Jackie M. Blount offers a history of school workers in th...
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Somatic lessons
Looks at narrative in the history of ayurvedic medical literature and the perspectives on illness and patienthood that emerge.In ayurvedic medical practice, the ways in which and the reasons why people become ill are often explained with stories. This book explores the forms and functions of narr...
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The conspiracy of life
Puts Schelling in conversation with twentieth-century continental philosophy.The Conspiracy of Life offers a series of meditations on the philosophy of F. W. J. Schelling (1775–1854), a great-and greatly neglected-philosopher of life. Rather than construing him as a loopy mystic, or as an antiqua...
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Analysis and science in aristotle
Presents a new interpretation of Aristotle's Analytics (the Prior and Posterior Analytics) as a unified whole, and argues that to "loose up" or solve—rather than to reduce or break up—is the principle meaning which best characterizes the Analytics.Offering a new interpretation of Aristotle's Anal...
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Noplace like home
Explores the way that four major works of Russian literature—Gogol's Dead Souls, Goncharov's Oblomov, Zamiatin's We, and Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita—define a cultural "self" for the Russian people. Focusing on the deep cultural currents that pull Russian society in contradictory ways, Nop...
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Confucianism's prospects
Challenges descriptions of East Asian societies as Confucian cultures and communitarian Confucian models as a political alternative to liberal democracy.In Confucianism's Prospects, Shaun O'Dwyer offers a rare critical engagement with English language scholarship on Confucianism. Against the back...
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Modes of learning
A highly accessible reading of Whitehead's writings on education and their connection to his metaphysics.Educators are familiar with Alfred North Whitehead's three stages of education: romance, precision, and generalization. Philosophers are familiar with his metaphysical theories about the prima...
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Spinster tales and womanly possibilities
Looks at changing conceptions of spinsterhood in modern American culture.The spinster, once a ubiquitous figure in American popular culture, has all but vanished from the scene. Intrigued by the fact that her disappearance seems to have gone unnoticed, Naomi Braun Rosenthal traces the spinster's ...
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The making of a mystic
This is a passionate book about a gifted woman. It is written from a psychological viewpoint using the developmental point of view of a number of contemporary developmental psychologists, both men and women. It is a critique of contemporary American shallowness and is an apologia for a feminist e...
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Convenient criticism
Explains why and how local critical reporting can exist in China despite the kinds of media control that are the hallmarks of authoritarian rule.Why and how does critical reporting persist at the local level in China despite state media control, a hallmark of authoritarian rule? Synthesizing ethn...
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Feminist dialogics
Feminist Dialogics examines the structure of four novels (Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, James's The Golden Bowl, Wharton's The House of Mirth and Chopin's The Awakening) through the lens of Mikhail Bakhtin's critical framework. The author draws on Bakhtin's notion of heteroglossia to show h...
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A history of ancient philosophy iv
This book covers the first 500 years of the common era. These years witnessed the revivals of Aristotelianism, Epicureanism, Pyrrhonism, Cynicism, and Pythagoreanism; but by far the most important movement was the revival of Platonism under Plotinus. Here, the historical context of Plotinus is pr...
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Twentieth-century literary theory
The ten topics contained in Twentieth-Century Literary Theory reflect contemporary theoretical interests and guide the reader through fundamental questions, from the formation to the uses of theory, and from the construction to the interpretation of literature. The selected essays cover a wealth ...
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Red november, black november
Red November, Black November is a study of the culture of the I. W. W. movement at the turn of the twentieth century. It analyzes the Wobblies' use of cultural expressions such as songs, poems, and cartoons as a means of educating and unifying workers, and as weapons in the struggle against the r...
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Reform in the balance
Presents the intellectual milieu of mid-Tang China, particularly the conservative defense of literary pursuits and cultural tradition in the face of political and social uncertainty.Anthony DeBlasi offers a remapping of China's intellectual landscape during the late eighth and early ninth centuri...
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