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Mountains, rivers, and the great earth
Engages the global ecological crisis through a radical rethinking of what it means to inhabit the earth.FINALIST for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Philosophy category Meditating on the work of American poet and environmental activist Gary Snyder and thirteenth-century Jap...
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Political culture and foreign policy in latin america
This book explores the impact of Latin America's political culture on the international politics of the region. It offers a general account of traditional Iberian political culture while examining how relations among states in the hemisphere - where the United States has been the central actor - ...
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The sociobiological imagination
This book presents reports on the uses of sociobiology and general evolutionary theory by members of diverse disciplines: psychiatry, law, management theory, anthropology, economics, primatology, history, political science, ethical philosophy, cognitive psychology, epistemology, socioecology of r...
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Strange writing
The first comprehensive, Western-language study of the important Chinese genre of writing known as "accounts of the anomalies" (zhiguai) in its formative period. The book sets forth a new view of the nature and origins of the genreBetween the Han dynasty, founded in 206 B.C.E., and the Sui, which...
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Risking difference
Looks at the dynamics of identification, envy, and idealization in fictional narratives by Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, and others, as well as in nonfictional accounts of cross-race relations by white feminists and feminists of color.Risking Difference revisions...
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The culture of japan as seen through its leisure
Provides a wealth of information about leisure activities in Japan including sports, travel, theater, music, games, and gambling.The Culture of Japan as Seen through Its Leisure brings together scholars of various disciplines from around the globe to discuss different forms of leisure activities ...
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State power and governance in early imperial china
Offers a new perspective on the first dynasty of imperial China and the reasons for its collapse.State Power and Governance in Early Imperial China delves into the governance and capacity of the state by providing an empirical historical study of the collapse of China's Qin Empire. In contrast to...
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Phanfood
A cookbook for—and by—fans of the rock band Phish.Like the band they follow from city to city, Phish fans have their own history of creativity, which in turn follows them wherever they go-even into the kitchen. Edited by Taraleigh Weathers (Healthy Hippie Magazine) and Pete Mason (Phanart: The Ar...
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Imagining the postcolonial
A comparative study of Latin American and francophone postcoloniality.Imagining the Postcolonial is the first book dedicated to comparative analysis of Latin American and francophone postcolonial identity. Jaime Hanneken examines the disciplinary, theoretical, and political stakes involved in pos...
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Depression and narrative
How the story of depression gets told in print, on screen, and online.Depression and Narrative examines stories of depression in the context of recent scholarship on illness and narrative, which up to this point has largely focused on physical illness and disability. Contributors from a number of...
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The old master
A unique translation of and commentary on the Laozi, based on the oldest edition of the work.This unique, highly contextualized translation of the Laozi is based on the earliest known edition of the work, Text A of the Mawangdui Laozi, written before 202 BCE. No other editions are comparable to t...
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Integral leadership
A groundbreaking book that brings the insights of Integral Theory to business and organizational development.This groundbreaking book offers leaders a way to determine what theories, models, and tools best meet the needs of their organizations. Authors and organizational consultants John P. Forma...
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Imagined families, lived families
An interdisciplinary look at the dramatic changes in the contemporary Japanese family, including both empirical data and analyses of popular culture.The Japanese family is at a crossroads of demographic change and altered cultural values. While the population of children has been shrinking and th...
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The stanzas on vibration
In his Doctrine of Vibration, the author presents a synthesis of Kashmir Shaivism-an overview with Spanda as the central theme. Spanda is the vibratory dynamism of the absolute consciousness. In this book the author focuses on the school of Kashmir Shaivism that presents this doctrine as its card...
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Practice makes practice
This revised edition of the classic text explores the complexity of what learning to teach means.While the research on teacher education continues to proliferate, Practice Makes Practice remains the discipline's indispensable classic text. Drawing upon critical ethnography, this new edition of th...
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Schelling's practice of the wild
Reconsiders the contemporary relevance of Schelling's radical philosophical and religious ecology.The last two decades have seen a renaissance and reappraisal of Schelling's remarkable body of philosophical work, moving beyond explications and historical study to begin thinking with and through S...
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Seeing films politically
In this bold political rethinking of contemporary film theory, Zavarzadeh overturns the dominant concepts that fetishize film as a work of art or simple entertainment. He demonstrates how aesthetic notions obscure the ideological effects produced by viewing films, particularly the production of t...
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Sex on earth as it is in heaven
Offers a new theology of desire and delight based on the Christian hope for bodily resurrection.This work is part of a growing chorus of theological voices raised in support of erotic desire. Although most theologians have concluded that there will be no experience of sexual desire and delight in...
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Leaves of mourning
Examines allegory in Hölderlin's later work, exploring subjects such as Freud and Derrida's views of mourning, and offering original readings of works including Impossible Ode, Mnemosyne, and The Churchyard.
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Phrase
The first complete English translation of Lacoue-Labarthe's most innovative and original work, exploring the very origins of experience, language, desire, and mortality.Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940–2007) is widely acknowledged in his native France and in the English-speaking world as one of the...
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The science of linguistics in the art of translation
Drawing from more than two hundred examples representing twenty-two languages of wide genetic and typological variety, the author guides the reader through a broad collection of situations encountered in the analysis and practice of translation. This enterprise gains structure and rigor from the ...
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Subject people and colonial discourses
This book rethinks the social processes that violently refashioned Puerto Rican society in the first half of the twentieth century. Santiago-Valles explores how the new regime's socio-economic, political, and signification systems socially constructed the laboring poor of this Caribbean island as...
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A life of solid principles
A translation of the 1843 novella by Edgar Bauer, a significant if overlooked work of German literary history that casts new light on the Young Hegelian movement and, possibly, Karl Marx.In early 1843, the Young Hegelian philosopher and activist Edgar Bauer published a comic novella titled Es leb...
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Sharing the light
Explores historical and philosophical shifts in the depiction of women and virtue in the early years of the Chinese state. Includes an examination of the history of yin-yang theories.Sharing the Light explores historical and philosophical shifts in the depiction of women and virtue in the early c...
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Teaching writing with latino/a students
Engages the complexities of teaching Latino/a students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions.This groundbreaking collection brings together the eclectic voices of two-year and four-year writing teachers at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) throughout the United States to explore the complexities of...
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Navigators
Through excerpts and profiles, this inspiring book presents the experiences of twelve African American artists who teach at traditionally White colleges and universities.Navigators vividly brings to life the stories of twelve African American artists who teach music, dance, and visual arts at col...
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Complexity science and world affairs
Applies complexity science to the study of international politics.Why did some countries transition peacefully from communist rule to political freedom and market economies, while others did not? Why did the United States enjoy a brief moment as the sole remaining superpower, and then lose power ...
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Jewish hearts
Compares the experiences of Soviet/Russian Jewish immigrants to the U.S. during two different time frames.This ethnographic study compares and contrasts the changing ethnic identity of those Russian Jews who settled in Hartford, Connecticut between 1881 and 1930 with that of the Soviet Jews who r...
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Sacred interconnections
Shows the interconnections between postmodernism, religion, politics, economics, and art.This book shows the interconnections between postmodernism, religion, politics, economics, and art. It shows that the awareness of interconnectedness is at the center of the postmodern sensibility. Sacred Int...
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Beyond banneker
An in-depth look at the lives, experiences, and professional careers of Black mathematicians in the United States.Erica N. Walker presents a compelling story of Black mathematical excellence in the United States. Much of the research and discussion about Blacks and mathematics focuses on underach...
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Religious naturalism today
Looks at the history and revival of religious naturalism, a spiritual path without a supreme being.Previously a forgotten option in religious thinking, religious naturalism is coming back. It seeks to explore and encourage religious ways of responding to the world on a completely naturalistic bas...
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Humanism and the church fathers
This study of the foremost patristic scholar in 15th-century Florence is based almost exclusively on manuscript letters and incunabula in Greek, Latin, and Italian. The influence of the revival of patristic studies on the meaning and purpose of Renaissance learning emerges as one of the original ...
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Dao and sign in history
Provides a new perspective on important linguistic issues in philosophical and religious Daoism through the comparative lens of twentieth-century European philosophies of language.From its earliest origins in the Dao De Jing, Daoism has been known as a movement that is skeptical of the ability of...
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Elementary schooling for critical democracy
This book examines the way in which elementary schooling can be used as a means to encourage critical democracy in the United States. It focuses primarily on the dialectical tensions and issues that emerge from the conflicting values of individuality and community through a portrayal of an indepe...
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Ideology, party change, and electoral campaigns in israel, 1965-2001
Explores the turbulent changes in Israel party politics since the mid-1960s.The tumultuous and rapid political change experienced by Israel since 1965 has been reflected in the history of its party system. In this book, Jonathan Mendilow examines the party and party system transformations through...
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New york and slavery
Challenges readers to rethink the way we view the nation's past and race relations in the present.Blending historical narrative with ideas for engaging young people as historians and thinkers, Alan J. Singer introduces readers to the truth about the history of slavery in New York State, and, by e...
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John huston as adaptor
Argues that understanding Huston's film adaptations of literary works is essential to understanding his oeuvre as a filmmaker.John Huston as Adaptor makes the case that adaptation is the salient element in Huston's identity as a filmmaker and that his early and deep attraction to the experience o...
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Dimensions of aesthetic encounters
A novel fusing of multiple approaches and range of examples exploring the dimensions, objects, and import of aesthetic encounters.We encounter in our lives things and situations that elicit from us special forms of attention. They affect and inform us in various ways, drawing us in and holding us...
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Learning peace
At a historic crossroads—just before the dissolution of the Soviet Union—a pioneering group of educators from both East and West came together to do more than talk about change. They lived it.Learning Peace is a compelling and timely anthology of essays that emerged from this unique cross-cultura...
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The many lives of yang zhu
Presents the most important portrayals of the Daoist master Yang Zhu throughout Chinese history, from the Warring States period until today.This volume presents the most important portrayals of an ancient Chinese master, Yang Zhu, throughout Chinese history, from the fourth century BCE till today...
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The active life
A sustained reflection on philosopher John William Miller and the metaphysical presuppositions and implications of democracy.The ancient antagonism between the active and the contemplative lives is taken up in this innovative and wide-ranging examination of John William Miller's effort to forge a...
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The pragmatic turn in philosophy
Demonstrates that the divisions between analytic and continental philosophy are being replaced by a transcontinental desire to address common problems in a common idiom.The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy explores how the various discursive strategies of old and new pragmatisms are related, and what...
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