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Daoism, meditation, and the wonders of serenity
An overview of Daoist texts on passive meditation from the Latter Han through Tang periods.Stephen Eskildsen offers an overview of Daoist religious texts from the Latter Han (25–220) through Tang (618–907) periods, exploring passive meditation methods and their anticipated effects. These methods ...
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Between camp and cursi
Examines how contemporary Mexican literature uses humor to contest heteronormativity.Between Camp and Cursi examines the role of humor in portrayals of homosexuality in contemporary Mexican literature. Brandon P. Bisbey argues that humor based on camp and cursilería-a form of "bad taste" that exp...
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Praises to a formless god
Discusses and translates important compositions by famous Nirguni poets—poets dedicated to the worship of a formless God.Nirguṇ bhakti—devotion to a formless God—has been called a logical absurdity, yet the songs, verses, and narratives of the nirgun poets of North India have played a vital role ...
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Green peony and the rise of the chinese martial arts novel
Explores the development of the Chinese martial arts novel.Martial arts fiction has been synonymous with popular fiction in China from the Qing dynasty on. This book, the first to trace the early development of the martial arts novel in China, demonstrates that the genre took shape nearly a centu...
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Thought knows no sex
Grounded in student experiences at nineteenth-century Alfred University, this social history explores the origins of women's higher education and the rural roots of reform."The essential powers of the spirit are neither masculine nor feminine, but human, sexless. Thought knows no sex." - Jonathan...
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The subject of lacan
An accessible introduction to the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan, intended especially for American psychologists but useful to anyone interested in the work of this important thinker.Written with the American psychological community in mind, The Subject of Lacan provides an accessible i...
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Mystical consciousness
Provides a philosophical account of everyday consciousness as a way of understanding mystical consciousness, drawing on the work of many Western and some Japanese thinkers.This book offers a philosophical account of ordinary consciousness as a step toward understanding mystical consciousness. Pre...
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Creating sustainable communities
Explores efforts aimed at creating sustainable communities throughout the Hudson River region.From Mount Marcy to Manhattan and beyond, the Hudson River region has become an incubator for rich and varied experiments in sustainable living. In this fascinating book, Rik Scarce showcases some of the...
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Give and go
A pickup basketball player looks at the pickup game as a distinctive culture using both personal experience and cultural studies theory.From the city courts of Harlem to the church halls of Indiana, pickup basketball culture is intensely local and reflects the histories and identities of its play...
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The death of empedocles
The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hölderlin's poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays.On the eve of his final odes and hymns, Friedrich Hölderlin composed three versions of a dramatic poem on the suicide of the early Greek thin...
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Recognizing reality
Examines the central ideas of Dharmakirti, one of the most important Indian Buddhist philosophers and their reception by Tibetan thinkers.Dreyfus examines the central ideas of Dharmakīrti, one of the most important Indian Buddhist philosophers, and their reception among Tibetan thinkers. During t...
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Merleau-ponty, interiority and exteriority, psychic life and the world
Explores Merleau-Ponty's approach of taking the phenomenon of the body out of the dualistic constraints of interior and exterior, and the consequences thereof.This book demonstrates how Merleau-Ponty's understanding of the continuity of inner and psychological life (interiority) and the material ...
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Sixty-four campuses—one university
Handsome, fully illustrated history of the sixty-four State University of New York campuses.America's public higher education systems are one of the triumphs of post–World War II society, the workhorses of a truly American invention-mass higher education-that has spread throughout the world. As t...
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Improvisation, creativity, and consciousness
Using insights from Integral Theory, describes how the improvisational methods of jazz can inform education and other fields.Jazz, America's original art form, can be a catalyst for creative and spiritual development. With its unique emphasis on improvisation, jazz offers new paradigms for educat...
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The craft of oblivion
Examines the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization.The Craft of Oblivion is an innovative and groundbreaking volume that aims to study, for the first time, the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization. Oblivion...
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Immigrants and nationalists
In this empirical and theoretical study of nationalism, ethnicity, and immigration, the author compares the reception of large numbers of immigrants in Catalonia, the Basque country, Latvia, and Estonia—developed regions that possess distinct cultures and nationalist movements.Recent years have w...
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Cognitive self-instruction (csi) for classroom processes
Metacognitive strategies such as cognitive self-instruction have important implications for teaching and learning. Cognitive self-instruction (CSI) has proven successful in improving memory, comprehension, problem-solving, and behavioral self-control of both teachers and students.This book is the...
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Race, ethnicity, and the politics of city redistricting
Nationwide study of the proposal and adoption of minority-opportunity districts at the local level.Why do cities with similar minority populations vary greatly in the adoption of minority-opportunity districts and, by extension, differ in the number of elected Hispanic and black representatives? ...
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City of rhetoric
Examines the relationship of civic discourse to built environments through a case study of the Cabrini Green urban revitalization project in Chicago.Combining a detailed case study of Chicago's Cabrini Green urban revitalization project with the concerns of modern political philosophy and rhetori...
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The call to radical theology
The major death-of-God theologian explores the meaning and purpose of radical theology.In The Call to Radical Theology, Thomas J. J. Altizer meditates on the nature of radical theology and calls readers to undertake the vocation of radical theology as a way of living a fully examined life. In fou...
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Beyond the secular
Investigates, through a critical exploration of Derrida's political thought, the foundations of modern secular discourse in relation to issues of race and colonialism.Through an in-depth, critical analysis of Jacques Derrida's later writings, Beyond the Secular examines the contemporary nexus bet...
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Breaching jericho's walls
An award-winning African-American historian and novelist takes the reader on an exciting journey from a segregated Philadephia childhood in the 1930's to mid-century Paris, Moscow, Cambridge, and Manhattan.A rich narrative recounting the life story of award-winning African American historian and ...
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The question of ethics in our time (with letters from heidegger)
A proposal for individual responsibility in communal life.In this book, Adamczewski has given a proposal for individual responsibility in communal life, the depth and content of which we have barely touched. It contains a subtlety of insight that most contemporary criticisms of nihilism have not ...
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Interpersonal communication in friend and mate relationships
A concentration on communication processes is essential to sorting out fundamental problems in interpersonal relationships. This book provides a general theory of the role of communication in interpersonal relationships that is grounded in the rules perspective and focuses on self-concept and int...
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The struggle for understanding
An in-depth look at Elie Wiesel's writings, from his earliest works to his final novels.Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was one of the most important literary voices to emerge from the Holocaust. The Nazis took the lives of most of his family, destroyed the community in which he was raised, and subjected...
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The transformation of plantation politics
Examines the political and economic changes of recent decades in the Mississippi Delta.The Transformation of Plantation Politics explores the effects of black political exclusion, the sharecropping system, and white resistance on the Mississippi Delta's current economic and political situation. S...
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The history of al-ṭabarī vol. 26
The years 738-745/121-127, which this volume covers, saw the outbreak in Syria of savage internecine struggles between prominent members of the Umayyad family, which had ruled the Islamic world since 661/41. After the death of the caliph Hishām in 743-/125, the process of decay at the center of t...
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Reading kant's geography
Perspectives on Kant's teachings on geography and how they relate his understanding of the world.For almost forty years, German enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant gave lectures on geography, more than almost any other subject. Kant believed that geography and anthropology together provided k...
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Eventful archaeologies
The potential of events for interpreting changes in the archaeological record.What is the role of events when evaluating the long-term significance of the archaeological record? Given that the event is a key mechanism for structural change, are historical transformations always eventful? And what...
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Interstate economic relations
A comprehensive look at the economic relations among states, and how they might be better optimized.In this groundbreaking volume, Joseph F. Zimmerman examines interstate economic relations. He explores the history of congressional and judicial ground rules governing such relations, direct and in...
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Heidegger toward the turn
Leading figures in Heidegger scholarship critically reflect on the dominant topics of Heidegger's thought during the 1930s.Heidegger toward the Turn is the first sustained critical reflection on topics that came to dominate Heidegger's thinking during the 1930s, when his thinking is said to have ...
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The chinese and opium under the republic
Examines China's attempts to control the opium economy in the early twentieth century.In the nineteenth century, opium smoking was common throughout China and regarded as a vice no different from any other: pleasurable, potentially dangerous, but not a threat to destroy the nation and the race, a...
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Deconstruction, its force, its violence
A reappraisal of deconstruction from one of its leading commentators, focusing on the themes of force and violence.In this book, Rodolphe Gasché returns to some of the founding texts of deconstruction to propose a new and broader way of understanding it-not as an operation or method to reach an e...
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A beautiful and fruitful place
Second volume of papers from a well respected annual seminar that showcase the latest research on Dutch colonial history in New York State.New Netherland's distinctive regional history as well as the colony's many relationships with Europe and the seventeenth-century Atlantic world are featured i...
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Portable communities
Looks at the social implications of having constant access to others through cell phones, wireless computers, and other electronic devices.Runner-Up, 2009 Association for Humanist Sociology Book Award "I blog, text, IM, email, and I don't like to be without my cell phone or have to shut it off-ev...
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Prieta is dreaming
A generative, genre-bending collection of nineteen intertwined stories by legendary writer, theorist, and activist Gloria E. Anzaldúa.Best known for Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), Gloria E. Anzaldúa was also a prolific fiction writer. Prieta Is Dreaming, a speculative novel-in-s...
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Taming oblivion
Examines the cultural construction of senility in Japan and the moral implications of dependent behavior for older Japanese.Taming Oblivion examines the cultural construction of senility in Japan and the moral implications of dependent behavior for older Japanese. While the biomedical constructio...
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Landmark yiddish plays
Introduces readers to comic and tragic masterpieces spanning 150 years of Yiddish drama.Offering snapshots of a pivotal era in which the Jews of Europe made the transition from a traditional to a more modern world, the Yiddish plays translated and collected here wrestle with issues that continue ...
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Children's play in diverse cultures
This book illuminates play as a universal and culture-specific activity. It provides needed information about the behavior of children in diverse cultural contexts as well as about the play of children in unassimilated cultural or subcultural contexts. It offers readers the opportunity to develop...
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African-centered pedagogy
Integrates the historical, cultural, political, and developmental considerations of the African American experience into a theory for the educational achievement of African American children.What can teachers, administrators, families, and communities do to create schools that provide rich learni...
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Practice and the human sciences
Argues that the technical model of practice has limited applicability for the practices of care (teaching, nursing, social work, and psychotherapy).Teachers, nurses, psychotherapists, and other practitioners of care are under pressure to substitute specific, prescribed techniques in place of usin...
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Romantic mediations
Investigates the ways in which new technologies and theories of photography, phonography, moving images, and digital media engage with a diverse set of texts by British Romantic writers.Finalist in the 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Social Sciences category Romantic Mediations...
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Desegregating the city
Multidisciplinary perspectives on segregation in the United States and other developed countries.Desegregating the City takes a global, multidisciplinary look at segregation and the strengths and weaknesses of different antisegregation strategies in the United States and other developed countries...
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The challenges of ivan illich
Original essays explore the thought and influence of philosopher, educator, social critic, and theologian Ivan Illich.This unique collection examines the man Utne Reader has called "the greatest social critic of the twentieth century." The essays-all by people Illich has influenced personally-dis...
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Fear, truth, writing
This book describes and examines the fear of exposure one faces when creating for cultural consumption. Examining the work of Cixous, Foucault, Irigaray, Spinoza, Hegel, Hakim Bey, Heidegger, Kathy Acker, Derrida, and Kierkegaard, the author finds spaces where fear and anxiety give way to connect...
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Mothership connections
Contributes a black Atlantic perspective to postmodernism, theology, and metaphysics.Bringing a black Atlantic approach to constructive postmodern efforts to understand and transcend modern worldviews and modern world orders, Mothership Connections draws upon the work of scholars in the tradition...
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Power plays
Identifies the importance of New Deal conflicts, policy networks politics, and ruthless domination as critical events in the creation and early development of the Tennessee Valley Authority.CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic BooksPower Plays provides a conflict model of organizational behavior base...
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Race still matters
Essays debunking the notion that contemporary America is a colorblind society.More than half a century after the civil rights era of the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, American society is often characterized as postracial. In other words, that the country has moved away from prejudice based on skin...
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