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Alton b. parker
Provides a fascinating and in-depth look into the life, career and legacy of one of the most important New Yorkers of the Gilded Age.This first full-length biography of Alton Brooks Parker provides an in-depth look into the life, career, and legacy of one of the most important New Yorkers of the ...
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The history of al-ṭabarī vol. 39
Biographical material that al-T'abari appended to his History, bringing together biographies of Companions and successors of the Prophet. Many chapters are devoted to women who played a role in the transmission of knowledgeThe present volume is a collection of excerpts from al-Ṭabarī's biographic...
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Purifying the earthly body of god
An interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between religion and environment in Hinduism.Examining the relation between religion and ecological concern in Hinduism from textual, theological, anthropological, feminist, and eco-activist approaches, this volume brings together an internatio...
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The gift of education
Tells the story of how two philanthropists promised each of the 112 graduating sixth graders at Belmont Elementary, a school in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods, a fully paid college education to the institution of their choice.At the June 17, 1987 sixth-grade graduation ceremony at Be...
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Cinematic cuts
Explores the philosophical, literary, and psychoanalytic significance of film endings.Editing has been called the language of cinema, and thus a film's ending can be considered the final punctuation mark of this language, framing everything that came before and offering the key to both our interp...
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The history of al-ṭabarī vol. 21
Volume XXI of the History of al-Ṭabarī (from the second part of 66/685 to 73/693) covers the resolution of "the Second Civil War." This conflict, which has broken out in 64/683 after the death of the Umayyad caliph Yazīd I, involved the rival claims of the Umayyads (centered in Syria) and the Zub...
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Dead reckoning
A poet and essayist attempt to find their bearings in a civilization lost at sea.Dead reckoning is the nautical term for calculating a ship's position using the distance and direction traveled rather than instruments or astronomical observation. For those still recovering from the atrocities of t...
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Nervous reactions
Addresses how Victorian receptions of Romanticism and Romantic writers were shaped by notions of "nervousness."Nervous Reactions considers Victorian responses to Romanticism, particularly the way in which the Romantic period was frequently constructed in Victorian-era texts as a time of nervous o...
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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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Worldwide pre-raphaelitism
Examines the influence of the Pre-Raphaelite movement on art and literature around the world.Pre-Raphaelitism's influence during the long nineteenth century was far-reaching, affecting artistic and literary thought in places, media, and times far removed from its origins in 1848 London. Worldwide...
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Interpretive approaches to interpersonal communication
This groundbreaking book presents conceptual, theoretical, and applied chapters demonstrating the strengths of interpretive approaches in the study of interpersonal communication. It extends our understanding of interpersonal communication through the incorporation of interpretive and critical th...
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Apropos of nothing
Everything you wanted to know about the Lacanian critique of deconstruction, but were afraid to ask the Coen Brothers.The Coen Brothers' films are rife with figures of absence. In The Big Lebowski, the Dude does nothing. He is put on the trail of a kidnapping that never happened, and solves the c...
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Class, politics, and early industrial capitalism
Ronald Aminzade provides an original analysis of how the development of early industrial capitalism transformed the political landscape in mid-nineteenth-century France and gave rise to the revolutionary political upheavals of 1848 and 1871. In a detailed local case study of the city of Toulouse,...
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Novel pedagogy
Explores Victorian writers' conception of the novel's potential to become serious knowledge and differentiate itself from other educational genres.Is the novel a category of knowledge that merits serious study? Even if the novel has shed the stigma of being mindless entertainment, one might easil...
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Gestural politics
Explores James Joyce's use of parody and humor in his representation of women, gays, and Irish nationalism, and discusses how his complex attitude toward parody and stereotyping is related to his aesthetic vision.Gestural Politics explores James Joyce's use of parody and humor in his representati...
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Jīvanmukti in transformation
Examines the Hindu concept of liberation while living from the perspective of the Advaita Vedanta school from the Upanisads to modern times.Liberation (mukti) is a central concern in Hinduism, particularly in Advaita (nondual) Vedanta, perhaps the best known school of Hindu thought. There has bee...
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Mind reeling
Across a variety of genres, shows how mental disorders are depicted in cinema.Mind Reeling investigates how cinema displays and mirrors psychological disorders, such as bipolar disorder, amnesia, psychotic delusions, obsessive compulsive behavior, trauma, paranoia, and borderline personalities. I...
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Hartford's ann plato and the native borders of identity
Upholds Ann Plato as a noteworthy nineteenth-century writer, while reexamining her life and writing from an American Indian perspective.Who was Ann Plato? Apart from circumstantial evidence, there's little information about the author of Essays; Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in ...
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The political thought of hannah arendt
By turns radical and conservative, Hannah Arendt's work confounds the usual categories and defies conventional expectations. This book provides a comprehensive analytical and developmental study of the whole of Arendt's mature political philosophy, focusing especially on the development of her wo...
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Introduction to buddhist east asia
Offers a variety of pedagogical and theoretical essays designed to assist professors in introducing undergraduate students to Buddhism in China, Korea, and Japan.This anthology provides an accessible introduction to East Asian Buddhism, focusing specifically on China, Korea, and Japan. It begins ...
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Manufacturing in the ottoman empire and turkey, 1500-1950
This book provides the first comprehensive history of manufacturing in the Ottoman Empire and its Turkish successor state. As the Ottoman Empire evolved, manufacturing underwent an unusual trajectory. Expansion in the sixteenth century gave way to transformation and adaptation after the Industria...
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The ring of representation
This book asks how we may undertake to represent representation.
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The buddha within
Tathagatagarbha - Buddha Nature - is a central concept of Mahayana Buddhism crucial to all the living practice traditions of Tibetan and Zen Buddhism. Its relationship to the concept of emptiness has been a subject of controversy for seven hundred years. Dr. Hookam's work investigates the diverge...
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Non-discursive rhetoric
Examines the role of image and affect in teaching with new digital technologies and multimedia composition.Technological advances have the potential to create new languages unlike printed or spoken words. The increased textual complexity generated by sophisticated graphics, photos, hypermedia, fi...
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Inquiry and education
Provides a central role for Dewey's talk of education and how it fits into his overall philosophy.Inquiry and Education offers a lucid and challenging interpretation of John Dewey, his critics, and his supporters. Thematically organized, the book focuses on four of Dewey's preeminent concerns-inq...
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Boy-wives and female husbands
A significant contribution to anthropology, history, and gender studies that reveals the denials of homosexuality in traditional and contemporary African societies to be rooted in colonialist ideologies.Among the many myths created about Africa, the claim that homosexuality and gender diversity a...
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Intellectuals at a crossroads
A survey of contemporary Chinese intellectuals.Zhidong Hao's fascinating book, Intellectuals at a Crossroads, examines groups of contemporary Chinese intellectuals, their successes, failures, identity contradictions, and ethical dilemmas. Three categories of intellectuals are studied: organic int...
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Aesthetics of the virtual
Reconfigures classic aesthetic concepts in relation to the novelty introduced by virtual bodies.Arguing that the virtual body is something new-namely, an entity that from an ontological perspective has only recently entered the world-Roberto Diodato considers the implications of this kind of body...
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Get things moving!
Recounts the forgotten but important work of Wayne Coy, the Office for Emergency Management's Liaison Officer, during the early years of World War II.Shortly after Hitler's armies invaded Western Europe in May of 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt activated a new agency within the Executive Offic...
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Apprehending politics
Using penetrating, in-depth interviews, examines the individual political development of young adults in post-1960s America, and the roles that news media play in that development.This groundbreaking book examines the significance of the news media for the political beliefs and behavior of contem...
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Born out of struggle
Demonstrates how critical race theory can be useful in real-world situations.Rooted in the initial struggle of community members who staged a successful hunger strike to secure a high school in their Chicago neighborhood, David Omotoso Stovall's Born Out of Struggle focuses on his first-hand part...
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A level playing field
Examines the legal and political details of school funding reform in New York, Vermont, and Ontario.In this timely work, Jane Fowler Morse reviews the history of school finance litigation in the United States and then examines recent legal and political struggles to obtain equitable school fundin...
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Abby hopper gibbons
The first contemporary biography of Abby Hopper Gibbons, a nineteenth-century American social activist. Involved in a broad range of reform activities, she is particularly known for her pioneering efforts to improve the treatment of women prisoners.This first contemporary biography of nineteenth-...
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Inner peace, world peace
What can one person do to foster world peace? How does one person's state of mind affect the state of the world? How can the ideal of nonviolence be manifested in daily life? Buddhists have been exploring questions like these for twenty-five centuries, and they are still timely today.Inner Peace,...
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Virginia woolf and the nineteenth-century domestic novel
Traces Woolf's persistent yet vexed fascination with nineteenth-century descriptions of English domesticity and female creativity.In Virginia Woolf and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel, Emily Blair explores how nineteenth-century descriptions of femininity saturate both Woolf's fiction and h...
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A man of little faith
A poetic and philosophical negotiation of the alternatives of atheism and religious faith.In A Man of Little Faith the French poet and philosopher Michel Deguy reflects on the loss of religious faith both personally and culturally. Disenchanted not only with the oversimplifications of radical ath...
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Keeping literary company
A witty, intelligent, first-person account of what Kurt Vonnegut, Jerzy Kosinski, Donald Barthelme, and other important writers of the last three decades wrote, how they wrote it, and what it means for the development of American fiction.Starting in the 1960s, a group of radically new fiction wri...
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Beyond friendship and eros
Explores deep intimate personal relationships between men and women.Culminating a twenty-year personal and scholarly quest, the authors explore the phenomenon of loving relationships (minus the sexual attraction) between men and women. They articulate these relationships as dialogical love in whi...
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Japanese diplomacy
Groundbreaking study demonstrating how Japan's leaders play an important role in diplomacy.A political leader is most often a nation's most high-profile foreign policy figure, its chief diplomat. But how do individual leadership styles, personalities, perceptions, or beliefs shape diplomacy? In J...
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The stork club cookbook and bar book
Relive the glory days of New York's poshest night spot with recipes and drinks you can prepare at your own home!In its heyday, The Stork Club was the "place to be seen" among New York's glitterati. Gossip columnist Walter Winchell held the corner table, recording the comings and goings of the bri...
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Aristotle on artifacts
Investigates Aristotle's views on the ontological status of artifacts in the Metaphysics, with implications for a variety of metaphysical problems.Previous commentators on the Metaphysics have attributed to Aristotle the belief that all living beings are substances. This book challenges the preva...
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The elections in israel 1992
As the momentum toward peace in the Middle East surges and wanes, the intensity of politics in Israel takes on added relevance. There can be little doubt that the historic Israel-PLO peace accord could not have occurred were it not for the turnabout elections of 1992. This volume, the seventh in ...
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Expressions of ethnography
A different approach to contemporary ethnography, embracing the idea that alternative genres may be used to express cultural experience.Expressions of Ethnography embraces the idea that alternative genres may be used to express culture. Using examples of a wide variety of cultural phenomena, cont...
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Confronting evil
Using insights from behavioral science, a Holocaust survivor explores how evil actions can seem "moral" to the perpetrators and how we must alter our thinking to prevent this.Confronting Evil describes Fred Emil Katz's two journeys in response to surviving the Holocaust. One journey is that of a ...
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Rising from the ruins
An assessment of reason, being, and the good in a world fractured by the passage of the Holocaust.Rising from the Ruins is an assessment of reason, being, and the good in a world fractured by the passage of the Shoah, or Holocaust. The historical character of evil that appeared in the Shoah damag...
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Rabbinic judaism's generative logic
First volume documenting Rabbinic Judaism in its formative age.What are the rules of cogency, of coherent discourse, that everybody in the normative documents takes for granted, that is, what defines the self-evidence of the intellectual system of Rabbinic Judaism embodied in the formative canon,...
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Nobility and annihilation in marguerite porete's mirror of simple souls
An in-depth examination of the work of this important medieval woman mystic.This first book-length study of Marguerite Porete's important mystical text, The Mirror of Simple Souls, examines Porete's esoteric and optimistic doctrine of annihilation-the complete transformative union of the soul int...
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Fighting for our health
Insider Richard Kirsch offers a vivid, first-person account of how health care reform came to be.This first-person account brings readers inside the biggest and most consequential issue campaign in American history. Fighting for Our Health recounts how a reform campaign led by grassroots organize...
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