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New york
A classic work on the history of New York City written by one of America's greatest politicians.Theodore Roosevelt's New York, published in 1891, was one of forty titles he authored during his lifetime. Roosevelt sets out, as he declares in his preface, "to trace the causes which gradually change...
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I and tao
Presents a new view of the Taoist classic, The Chuang Tzu, through the lens of Buber's translation and his philosophy developed in I and Thou and later works."Through competent scholarship, insightful interpretation, and masterful understanding of the present dialogue on hermeneutics, it brings B...
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The wiles of women/the wiles of men
Focusing on gender issues, this book compares and contrasts the treatment of the Potiphar's Wife motif—in which a woman makes vain overtures to a man and then accuses him of attempting to force himself upon her—in ancient Near Eastern, Jewish, and Islamic folklore.One of the world's oldest record...
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The living and the dead
Explores the social treatment of death in South Asian religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and other traditions. Includes material on women and marginalized groups.This collection examines the social dimensions of death in South Asian religions, exploring the ritualized exchanges betwe...
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Unquiet understanding
Argues that Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics merits a radical reappraisal.In Unquiet Understanding, Nicholas Davey reappropriates the radical content of Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics to reveal that it offers a powerful critique of Nietzsche's philosophy of language, nihilism, and post-...
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The other new york
Essays exploring rural New York during the American Revolution.The Other New York provides the first comprehensive look at New York State's rural areas during the American Revolution. This county-by-county survey of the regions outside of New York City describes the social and cultural conditions...
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Becoming immortal
Explores how new organs might be engineered via cloning and reproductive technology to achieve human immortality.Providing the philosophical, practical, and theoretical leverage for abandoning evolution and development in favor of engineering human beings, Becoming Immortal examines the direction...
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Transporting atlanta
Examines the dynamics of Atlanta's transportation crisis.America's worsening nightmare of gridlock is given full attention in this illuminating study of the transportation crisis in Atlanta. Inconveniences and hardships created by too many automobiles and too few alternatives for movement have re...
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Hopes and expectations
Describes in rich detail African American daily life among free blacks in the North in the 1860s.Winner of the 2017 Homer D. Babbidge Jr. Award presented by the Association for the Study of Connecticut History Based on a treasure trove of more than two hundred personal letters written in the 1860...
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Schooling in western europe
Mary Jo Maynes looks to school reform in early modern Europe to show the relevance of early ideas about schooling for understanding contemporary society. She presents the competing perspectives on issues such as the identity and motivations of school reformers, the broad societal changes that mad...
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Dealing with deities
Explores the practice of taking ritual vows in South Asia, a lay tradition prevalent in the region's religions.Drawing on original field research, Dealing with Deities explores the practice of taking ritual vows in the lives of ordinary religious practitioners in South Asia. The cornerstone of la...
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Selected poems
In these idiosyncratic, subtly rhymed and occasionally violent lyrics, Frost runs her tongue along the edge of the knife dividing wit from rage.This book includes poems culled from Frost's five published volumes, An Inhuman Rival, The Choice, An Imagined Experience over the Entrance, I Gathered M...
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The dance of person and place
Uses the concept of "worldmaking" to provide an introduction to American Indian philosophy.Ever since first contact with Europeans, American Indian stories about how the world is have been regarded as interesting objects of study, but also as childish and savage, philosophically curious and ethic...
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A mother's journey and selected photographs
Pulitzer Prize–winning photographs document a single mother's emotional and financial struggles as her son battles a rare form of childhood cancer.This collection of photographs presents photojournalist Renée C. Byer's Pulitzer Prize–winning series, "A Mother's Journey," along with other early an...
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Merleau-ponty vivant
Situates Merleau-Ponty's thinking in the last decade of the twentieth century, both with regard to general context and specific themes.The essays in this volume situate Merleau-Ponty's thinking in the last decade of the twentieth century, both with regard to general context and with regard to spe...
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The essentialist villain
The first book-length study of Bersani's work, tracing the unfolding of his onto-ethics/aesthetics amidst numerous literary, artistic, and philosophical influences.Since his first publications in the late 1950s, Leo Bersani's work has influenced numerous scholarly fields, from studies of French m...
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The dynamics of cultural counterpoint in asian studies
Essays on a wide range of areas and topics in Asian studies for scholars looking to incorporate Asia into their worldview and teaching.Contributors give contemporary presence to Asian studies through a variety of themes and topics in this multidisciplined and interdisciplinary volume. In an era o...
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Theatres of value
Explores the value of Shakespeare for theatrical businesspeople and audiences in nineteenth-century New York City.Theatres of Value explores the idea that buying and selling are performative acts and offers a paradigm for deeper study of these acts-"the dramaturgy of value." Modeling this multifa...
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Zines in third space
Develops third-space theory by engaging with zines produced by feminists and queers of color.Zines in Third Space develops third-space theory with a practical engagement in the subcultural space of zines as alternative media produced specifically by feminists and queers of color. Adela C. Licona ...
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What is enlightenment
A cross-cultural work which reinvigorates the consideration of enlightenment.What is enlightenment? Wei Zhang brings together the fabled consideration of enlightenment by Kant, his contemporaries, and modern respondents such as Habermas and Foucault with the question "What is Chinese enlightenmen...
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Engagement with north korea
Examines how and why nations have persuaded North Korea to cooperate on topics such as nuclear policy.How the world deals with North Korea and its nuclear capability will have ramifications for both regional and global stability. Engagement with North Korea examines the still controversial policy...
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The afterlife of al-andalus
The first study to undertake a wide-ranging comparison of invocations of al-Andalus across the the Arab and Hispanic worlds.Around the globe, concerns about interfaith relations have led to efforts to find earlier models in Muslim Iberia (al-Andalus). This book examines how Muslim Iberia operates...
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The ideology of civic engagement
Examines the organization, regulation, and enactment of civic engagement within AmeriCorps, an American volunteer service program.Over the last thirty years, calls for the civic engagement of the American citizenry, especially young people, have gotten increasingly louder. A clear message has eme...
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City executives
This study explores the work life of mayors, city managers, and other top executives in city government. Based on a survey of 527 city executives and enlivened with numerous anecdotes, the book documents time allocation patterns and work routines.City Executives makes comparisons with previous st...
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Woodstock
The story of Woodstock, N.Y., over the last 100 years and how a small, rural town coped with the many challenges of changing times.Bronze Winner of the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Popular Culture categoryFew towns in America are as famous as Woodstock, New York-although Woo...
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Classical indian philosophy of mind
Addresses the psycho-physical dualism of the Nyaya school of Indian philosophy with references to both Indian and Western philosophy.This book examines psycho-physical dualism as developed by the Nyāya school of Indian philosophy. Dualism is important to many world religions which promote persona...
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Defining and designing multiculturalism
An activist group works to bring a multicultural education program to an urban public school system.Just outside a major urban center on the east coast of the United States an activist group struggled to create a system-wide multicultural education program. Through a seven-year qualitative study,...
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Theosophy across boundaries
Offers a new approach to Theosophy that takes into account its global dimensions and its interaction with highly diverse cultural contexts.Theosophy across Boundaries brings a global history approach to the study of esotericism, highlighting the important role of Theosophy in the general historie...
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John dewey's later logical theory
A study of the development of Dewey's logic from 1916-1937 leading up to his final 1938 book on the subject.By 1916, Dewey had written two volumes on logical theory. Yet, in light of what he would write in his 1938 Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, much remained to be done. Dewey did not yet have an ...
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From binghamton to the battlefield
An annotated collection of over one hundred Civil War letters that trace a Union soldier's transformation from eager recruit to war-weary, battle-tested veteran.From Binghamton to the Battlefield draws the reader alongside Rollin B. Truesdell, a prolific letter-writer and an early enlistee in the...
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On losing the soul
Introduces the notion of the soul and explores some of the indications, causes, and consequences for its being missing, especially in discussions of individuality.The social scientific literature on the self has been marred by a general indifference to the levels of the self that escape observati...
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Casual affairs
Follows the life and career of Sally Benson, acclaimed writer of New Yorker fiction and Hollywood screenplays.In Casual Affairs, Maryellen V. Keefe vividly follows the life and career of Sally Benson, the New Yorker writer remembered by generations of moviegoers for Meet Me in St. Louis, the film...
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Miraculous realism
An authoritative study of this postsecular film movement from the French-Belgian border region that rose to prominence at the turn of the twenty-first century.At the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, two movies from northern-Francophone Europe swept almost all the main awards. Rosetta by the Walloon dir...
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Policing narratives and the state of terror
Examines the recent "War on Terror" and the increasing privatization of international policing through the lens of detective fiction and security and espionage narratives.Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, world politics have increasingly mirrored plots of detective novels, with h...
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Popovers and candlelight
Recounts the true story of an entrepreneurial woman who succeeded in a male-dominated industry in the twentieth century.What would you do with your last sixty dollars? If you were Patricia Murphy you'd turn it into a fortune by buying a rundown Brooklyn diner. On the cusp of the Great Depression,...
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The argument of the tractatus
Presents a single unified interpretation of the Tractatus.The Argument of the "Tractatus" presents a single unified interpretation of the Tractatus based on Wittgenstein's own view that the philosophy of logic is the real foundation of his philosophical system. It demonstrates that on this interp...
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Toward a political philosophy of race
Examines how liberal society enables racism and other forms of discrimination.Timely, controversial, and incisive, Toward a Political Philosophy of Race looks uncompromisingly at how a liberal society enables racism and other forms of discrimination. Drawing on the examples of the internment of U...
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Words in blood, like flowers
A philosophical exploration of the power that poetry, music, and the erotic have on us.Why did Nietzsche claim to have "written in blood"? Why did Heidegger remain silent after World War II about his participation in the Nazi Party? How did Hölderlin's voice and the voices of other, more ancient ...
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Returning to judgment
Explores the importance of political judgment in the work of Bernard Stiegler, and argues his approach to judgment marks an important break with continental political thought.Returning to Judgment provides the first extensive treatment of political judgment in the work of Bernard Stiegler and the...
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The japan that never was
Contests conventional wisdom on Japan's postwar economic success and its economic and political problems in the 1990s, providing a new account of these conditions.In this book, the authors address Japan's economic crisis of the 1990s. They argue that most attempts to reconcile Japan's past succes...
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Hidden in the home
This book combines a case study of industrial homework in the electronics industry with a world-systems approach to understanding the role of home-based work in economic development. It spans the period from the nineteenth-century origins of industrial homework to the important role played by hom...
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The politics of ideas
Essays on the need for a more dynamic public philosophy in American politics.This collection addresses the importance of ideas, and ideas of importance, to American politics at the beginning of a new century. On the one hand, the contributors find a distressing absence of ideas in American politi...
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The asymptote of love
Discusses the complexities and paradoxes of love as represented in the history of Western philosophy and Christianity.In The Asymptote of Love, James Kellenberger develops a theory of religious love that resists essentialist definitions of the term and brings into conversation historical debates ...
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Like all the nations?
This is the first study to examine the career of one of the most prominent American Zionists. Intellectually brilliant, socially and religiously committed, Judah Magnes was an inspiring speaker, reformer, and organizer. Sixteen leading American and Israeli scholars here focus their critical atten...
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The confucian creation of heaven
Explores the earliest Confucian texts to find coherent structural principles linking the various facets of Confucian doctrine. Its central theme is that the coherence of early Confucianism emerges only when doctrine is viewed as a function of the unique ritual practice of the early Confucian comm...
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The invasion of canada by the americans, 1775-1776
Presents never before published and translated Canadian Loyalist and American Patriot first-hand accounts of the Quebec Campaign of the Revolutionary War.The Invasion of Canada by the Americans, 1775–1776 offers two significant, insightful, and intriguing first-hand accounts of the Revolutionary ...
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Intellectual capital
Stories from participants in Professional Development Schools.A Professional Development School (PDS) offers unique university-school relationships that can change the culture of learning and add value to students and the community. Initially created in the 1980s, the PDS movement is growing acro...
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Caribbean genesis
Philosophical exploration of Jamaica Kincaid's entire literary oeuvre.By exploring the breadth of Jamaica Kincaid's writings, this book reveals her work's transmutations of genre, specifically those of autobiography, biography, and history in relation to the forces of creation and destruction in ...
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