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Holiness in words
A strategy for reading Heschel's major works, as well as a new route to understanding religious writing in general: a lucid study of modern religious and ethical thought using literary criticism.Holiness in Words: Abraham Joshua Heschel's Poetics of Piety is both an introduction to reading Hesche...
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Machado de assis, blackness, and the americas
Examines the reception of Brazil's most-canonized writer in the United States to shed light on questions of Blackness and hemispheric American experience.Considered a genius in his own lifetime, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is Brazil's most canonized writer. Yet, he remains a contes...
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An introduction to the sociology of juvenile delinquency
This basic overview of juvenile delinquency in the United States emphasizes the connection between delinquency and other problems faced by "at risk" children in America.This is a challenging book that makes no attempts to oversimplify and trivialize the highly complex subject of juvenile delinque...
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The knowledge context
The Knowledge Context adds an important, new dimension to the study of publishing and the distribuition of knowledge in the international arena. Drawing from more than a decade of research, Philip G. Altbach examines a variety of issues including international copyright, textbooks, technological ...
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Essays in ancient greek philosophy vi
An anthology devoted to the intellectual developments that led up to the philosophy of Plato.This collection of essays on early Greek philosophy focuses on the natural and moral philosophy and the intellectual developments that led up to the philosophy of Plato. Studies of the philosophies of Ana...
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Crossing digital fronteras
Demonstrates the liberatory potential of Latinx Digital Humanities at Hispanic-Serving Institutions and in Latinx Studies classrooms.Crossing Digital Fronteras is about liberatory possibilities and digital technologies in the classroom. The book centers critical Latinx Digital Humanities to illus...
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The challenge of facework
This book addresses the cross-cultural variations in the conceptions of face and facework from a multidisciplinary communication perspective. Facework represents one of the most important theoretical concepts available to us in contemporary communication literature as it encompasses a dynamic net...
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Anthropology and civilizational analysis
This volume brings social and cultural anthropologists into dialogue with historical sociology and illustrates the continued potential of the concept of civilization for all participants.The concept of civilization has a long but checkered history in anthropology, and anthropological materials ha...
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Signifiers and acts
Situates Lacan's theory of the subject within contemporary philosophical debates over freedom and agency.In Signifiers and Acts, Ed Pluth examines Lacan's views on language and sexuality to argue that Lacan's theory of the subject is best read as a theory of freedom and agency-a theory that is es...
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Inside the undergraduate teaching experience
Shows what kind of changes college faculty make to their teaching and why they make them.The image of college faculty members as abstracted, white-haired, tweed-jacketed professors, mumbling lectures from notes that were yellowed by twenty years of repeated use is still pervasive. In this view, c...
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Get your ass in the water and swim like me
The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me celebrates the African American oral tradition of toasting, one of the key roots of contemporary rap. Jackson was among the few to appreciate the profane energy and beauty of this rhymed...
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Occasional deconstructions
Argues that deconstruction is not a critical methodology or theory but that which makes any act of good reading possible.In Occasional Deconstructions, Julian Wolfreys challenges the notion that deconstruction is a critical methodology, offering instead a number of reintroductions or reorientatio...
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Juvenile correctional reform
This book addresses the divergent reform agendas that have shaped American juvenile justice systems during the last two decades. Testing and extending the theory of social reform developed by Ohlin, et al. in their study of Massachusetts' juvenile justice reform, McGarrell investigates the proces...
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Mencius and masculinities
Looks at the Confucian classic Mencius from a feminist perspective and uncovers the "maternal thinking" within the work.In this innovative work, Joanne D. Birdwhistell presents the first gender analysis of the Mencius, a central text in the Chinese philosophical tradition. Mencian philosophy, par...
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In the brightness of place
Drawing on a range of sources in philosophy and literature, but with particular reference to the work of Heidegger, makes a compelling case for the importance of place in philosophical discourse.The work of Jeff Malpas is well-known for its contribution to contemporary thinking about place and sp...
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Friedrich hölderlin
Hölderlin's essays and letters constitute essential documents for an understanding of the transitional period from neo-classical poetics to what can only be characterized as a unique and, in its frequently experimental structure, essentially modernist poetics. This book contains virtually all of ...
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Paradoxes of youth and sport
Highlights the practical benefits and the many problems of youth and sports in the United States.Paradoxes of Youth and Sport explores emergent debates among scholars, youth advocates, and sport practitioners concerning the role of sport in the lives of young people in urban settings. Specialists...
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Abolishing boundaries
Offers new perspectives on modern Chinese political thought.Honorable Mention, 2022 Sharon Harris Book Award presented by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute Focusing on four key Chinese intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century, Abolishing Boundaries offers new pers...
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Argentina noir
An engaging and insightful guide to Argentine crime fiction since 2000.Argentina Noir offers a guide to Argentine crime fiction, with a focus on works published since the year 2000. It argues that the novela negra, or crime novel, has become the favored genre for many writers to address the socia...
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Innovative leaders in international politics
In today's world, national leaders have immense power to make decisions affecting millions of lives, both domestically and internationally. Yet questions about the performance of these leaders, and specifically what psychological or external factors determine whether they will be innovative and e...
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Walls and bridges
A fresh and easy-to-understand examination of some of America's most challenging social issues.Winner of the 2004 Critics' Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association This useful classroom resource for professors wishing to incorporate notions of justice into their cour...
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The gender legacy of the mao era
Shows that the feminist interventions of the Mao era (1949–1976) continue to influence contemporary Chinese women.This book traces how the legacy of the Maoist gender project is experienced or contested by particular Chinese women, remembered or forgotten in their lives, and highlighted or buried...
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The ideology of education
Explores the ideological underpinnings of school choice and other market-based education reforms.Advocates of market-based education reforms (including such policies as choice, charters, vouchers, and outright privatization) argue that they represent ready solutions to clearly defined problems. C...
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An introduction to the study of mysticism
A comprehensive, concise, and easy-to-read introduction intended for undergraduates and general readers interested in the study of mysticism.2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title The purpose of this book is to fill a gap in contemporary mystical studies: an overview of the basic ways to approach...
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Colonialism and cultural identity
Explores diverse cultural identities, both theoretically and through concrete, specific interpretations of selected major texts from former British colonies.This book examines the diverse responses of colonized people to metropolitan ideas and to indigenous traditions. Going beyond the standard i...
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Hindu bioethics for the twenty-first century
Explores contemporary controversies in bioethics from a Hindu perspective.S. Cromwell Crawford breaks new ground in this provocative study of Hindu bioethics in a Western setting. He provides a new moral and philosophical perspective on fascinating and controversial bioethical issues that are rou...
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Issues in evolutionary epistemology
This book provides the fullest philosophical examination of theories of evolutionary epistemology now available. Here for the first time are found major statements of new theories, new applications, and many new critical explorations.The book is divided into four parts: Part I introduces several ...
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In search of the dharma
This is the first and only book in English on modern Chinese Buddhism written by a practicing Chinese monk. Chen-hua provides a rare eyewitness account of Chinese monastic life and Buddhist practices before they were changed forever by the Communist revolution. It begins with his departure from h...
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Kathy goodell
Explores the through-lines in the artist's work across painting, drawing, and sculpture; examining a mystic language that loops between disciplines, coasts, and generations.Kathy Goodell: Infra-Loop: Selections 1994-2020 explores the through-lines in the artist's work across painting, drawing, an...
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Accounts, excuses, and apologies
Proposes a theory and case studies on repairing a damaged or threatened image or reputation.In our constantly plugged-in and connected world, image is everything. People, groups, organizations, and countries frequently come under suspicion of wrongdoing and sometimes require defense. Accounts, Ex...
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Beyond the brain
Beyond the Brain seriously challenges the existing neurophysiological models of the brain. After three decades of extensive research on those non-ordinary states of consciousness induced by psychedelic drugs and by other means, Grof concludes that our present scientific world view is as inadequat...
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The primal wound
Argues that a primal wounding of the human spirit occurs in earliest human life that disrupts fundamental relationships and leads to anxiety, loneliness, and alienation; and shows how this wounding can be redeemed through therapy and through living one's life differently.To many of us, modern lif...
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The ravine
Fictional narrative of a young girl's experiences at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.Set in the Canary Islands at the outset of the Spanish Civil War, The Ravine is the provocative, disturbing account of a child's experience with war. Narrated by an unnamed seven-year-old girl, the story b...
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Words and witness
Connects Holocaust literature and film to other works of "historical horror" in order to examine the limits that trauma imposes upon literary and artistic expression.Narratives of large-scale historical horror and trauma cross a terrible boundary in representation. What forms are adequate to such...
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Colombian peasants in the neoliberal age
Presents a timely discussion of the core problems faced by peasant communities under neo-liberal economics.Presenting the historical, socioeconomic, political, and security conditions experienced by three peasant communities, Colombian Peasants in the Neoliberal Age provides readers with the most...
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The future of (post)socialism
Explores the current and future trajectories of the paradigm of postsocialism.If socialism did not end as abruptly as is sometimes perceived, what remnants of it linger today and will continue to linger? Moreover, if postsocialism is an umbrella term for the uncertain times of various transitions...
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The development of multiplicative reasoning in the learning of mathematics
Two of the most important concepts children develop progressively throughout their mathematics education years are additivity and multiplicativity. Additivity is associated with situations that involve adding, joining, affixing, subtracting, separating and removing. Multiplicativity is associated...
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The political logics of anticorruption efforts in asia
Examines the political dynamics behind anticorruption efforts in Asia.Focusing on Northeast and Southeast Asia-regions notable for political diversity, difficult environments for fighting corruption, and multifarious anticorruption outcomes-this book examines the political dynamics behind anticor...
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Convergences
Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy in dialogue.A range of themes-race and gender, sexuality, otherness, sisterhood, and agency-run throughout this collection, and the chapters constitute a collective discourse at the intersection of Black feminist thought and continental philosophy, conver...
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From blues to beyoncé
Explores how Black women have continually used sound to convey stories and forge community across generations.From Blues to Beyoncé amplifies Black women's ongoing public assertions of resistance, agency, and hope across different media from the nineteenth century to today. By examining recording...
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The wreath of wild olive
Examines the concept of play in Western thought, with special emphasis on the relationship between aesthetics and ethics, and envisions literary discourse as contributing to an alternative mentality based on peace rather than power.Mihai Spariosu's book strikingly intervenes in the debate raging ...
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The perfect rule of the christian religion
A history of the Sandemanians, a little-known but ultimately influential Christian sect in colonial America.Some thought them dangerous, others credited them with recovering original Christianity. The Sandemanians, a sect with roots in the turmoil of eighteenth-century Scottish Presbyterianism, e...
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From news to talk
Explores how journalists think and talk about changes in the news environment, with a focus on the increase in opinion and commentary.From News to Talk examines what journalists think about the movement toward often opinionated, sometimes uncivil, talk in news. It provides an important interventi...
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Asian texts — asian contexts
Provides an overview of some of the great texts of Asian philosophy and religion along with an exploration of the contexts in which they arose.In an increasingly global society, non-Western thought can no longer be an afterthought for educators and their students. Asian Texts - Asian Contexts hel...
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Dante and paul's "five words with understanding"
Argues there is a program of five-word utterances that imitate fallen language in Dante's Commedia.Dante and Paul's "Five Words with Understanding" is the first in a series of publications occasioned by the annual Bernardo Lecture at the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) ...
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Embracing our complexity
Using the thought of Christian thinker Thomas Aquinas and Neo-Confucian Zhu Xi, explores how to exercise and limit authority.This book discusses what a religiously grounded authority might look like from the viewpoints of the European Catholic Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) and the Chinese Neo-Confuc...
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Contesting feminisms
Creates a new space for hybrid feminist analysis of Asian Muslim women's lives.Contesting Feminisms explores how Asian Muslim women make decisions on appropriating Islam and Islamic lifestyles through their own participation in the faith. The contributors highlight the fact that secularism has pr...
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The everyday atlantic
Rethinks the concepts of nation, imperialism, and globalization by examining the everyday writing of the newspaper chronicle and blog in Spain and Latin America.In The Everyday Atlantic, Tania Gentic offers a new understanding of the ways in which individuals and communities perceive themselves i...
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