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The emergence of the christian basilica in the fourth century
Explores why the Christian basilica emerged.We naturally ask why the Christian basilica emerged. Given its abrupt appearance and immediate standardization, the Christian basilica appears to have been designed for a purpose. If this is so, what we want to know is, [1] for what purpose Christians u...
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Dying to teach
Affirms the power of writing to memorialize loss and work through grief.In Dying to Teach, Jeffrey Berman confronts the most wrenching loss imaginable: the death of his beloved wife, Barbara. Through four interrelated narratives-how Barbara wrote about her illness in a cancer diary, how he cared ...
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Order and agency in modernity
Addresses the relationship between modernity and social theory by looking at the works of Parsons, Goffman, and Garfinkel.In this unique analysis of three prominent theorists of modern sociology, theory is understood as implicitly, but importantly, reflecting especially modern problems of individ...
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Contemporary italian philosophy
Leading Italian philosophers engage issues in ethics, politics, and religion.Italian philosophy provides a long-overdue and much-needed supplement to continental thinking. This book offers some living and lively examples, some for the first time in English, of original thought from the Italian ph...
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Writing widowhood
Explores how memoirs of widowhood can help us understand the reality of bereavement and the critical role of writing and reading in recovery.The death of a beloved spouse after a lifetime of companionship is a life-changing experience. To help understand the reality of bereavement, Jeffrey Berman...
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The demise of the inhuman
Employs a critical Afrocentric reading of Western constructions of knowledge so as to overcome the dehumanizing tendencies of modernity.Winner of the 2015 Best Scholarly Book Award presented by the Diopian Institute for Scholarly Advancement Afrocentricity is the most intellectually dominant idea...
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A parliament of science
Interviews with scientific leaders focus on the challenges, promises, and perils of science and technology.Based on interviews with eighteen prominent scientists and public policymakers from around the globe, A Parliament of Science provides a rich overview of the challenges, promises, and perils...
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Knowing the spirit
A modern spiritual classic on the perfection of the soul by a renowned writer from the Islamic tradition.Ostad Elahi's Knowing the Spirit provides a concise and remarkably illuminating philosophic account of our unique place in the universe: of the creative expressions of the divine Spirit throug...
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Godhead and the nothing
An eminent theologian argues that nothingness is necessary in order to fully actualize the Godhead.Eminent theologian Thomas J. J. Altizer breaks new ground by exploring the ultimate transfiguration of the Godhead as a question of the Nihil or nothingness and God. The Nihil is essential to the fu...
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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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Puerto rico under colonial rule
Essays on human rights in Puerto Rico during the twentieth century.Puerto Rico, one of the last and most populated colonial territories in the world, occupies a relatively unique position. Its lengthy interaction with the United States has resulted in the long-term acquisition of expanded legal r...
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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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The heart and the island
Makes the case for a distinctly Sicilian American literature.In The Heart and the Island, Chiara Mazzucchelli explores the strong bond between Sicilian American writers and the island of Sicily. Self-contained yet connected to the mainland, geographically separated from yet politically united to ...
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A conspiracy of cells
A Conspiracy of Cells presents the first full account of one of medical science's more bizarre and costly mistakes. On October 4, 1951, a young black woman named Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer. That is, most of Henrietta Lacks died. In a laboratory dish at the Johns Hopkins Medical Cente...
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Work without wages
This book expands recent research on the economic significance of household-based production for family consumption and for the wider market. While the importance of women's domestic labor has been generally recognized, the complex articulation between household activities and the changing nature...
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New directions in jewish american and holocaust literatures
Surveys the current state of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures as well as approaches to teaching them.What does it mean to read, and to teach, Jewish American and Holocaust literatures in the early decades of the twenty-first century? New directions and new forms of expression have emerge...
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From italy to the north end
Documents the arc of the Italian American immigrant experience on both sides of the Atlantic.As a young boy, Anthony V. Riccio listened to his grandparents' stories of life in the small Italian villages where they had grown up and which they had left in order to emigrate to the United States. In ...
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Nietzsche and politicized identities
Essays exploring to what extent Nietzsche's thought can aid us in understanding politicized identities.Contemporary political struggles often find their origins in conflicts based on race, religion and region, gender and sexuality, or class. Given the need for conceptual resources to meet such ch...
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College bound
Argues that first- and second-generation Jewish American writers had an ambivalent relationship with educational success.Jewish American immigrants and their children have been stereotyped as exceptional educational achievers, with attendance at prestigious universities leading directly to profes...
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From menarche to menopause
While menopause is a universal fact of life, the physiological and psychological effects for women are not the same in all cultures. In this comparative and cross-cultural ethnographic study, Beyene examines the concept and experience of menopause among Greek and Mayan peasant women, uncovering s...
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Rational spirituality and divine virtue in plato
Describes a Platonic personal spirituality based on reason that is readily accessible to people today.Michael LaFargue presents an important and accessible aspect of Plato's legacy largely overlooked today: a variety of personal spirituality based on reason and centered on virtue. Plato's Virtue-...
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The integrity of the yoga darśana
Maintains that the Yoga-Sutras do not advocate abandonment of the world, but rather support a stance that enables one to live more fully in the world without being enslaved by worldly identification.The Integrity of the Yoga Darśana centers on the thought of Patañjali, the great exponent of the a...
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Making the case
Analyzes the value of using case-based methodologies to address contemporary social justice issues in philosophy.Making the Case brings together established and emerging philosophers who use case studies to address a variety of contemporary social justice causes. The contributors show both the de...
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Gombrowicz's grimaces
Examines Gombrowicz's modernist aesthetics in the context of his critique of nationalism, his exploration of queer eroticism, and his interest in hybrid and subaltern identities.This timely and much needed critical study is devoted to the writing of Witold Gombrowicz, one of the most important Sl...
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Towards continental environmental policy?
Examines the challenges of environmental governance in contemporary North America.What are the most important transnational governance arrangements for environmental policy in North America? Has their proliferation facilitated a transition towards integrated continental environmental policy, and ...
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Buddha nature
This volume presents the first book-length study in English of the concept of Buddha nature as discussed in the Buddha Nature Treatise (Fo Xing Lun), attributed to Vasubandhu and translated into Chinese by Paramartha in the sixth century. The author provides a detailed discussion of one of the mo...
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School choice policies and outcomes
Provides a clear assessment of all sides of the school choice debate.Perhaps no school reform has generated as much interest and controversy in recent years as the proposal to have parents select their children's schools. Opponents of school choice fear that rolling back the government's role wil...
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Fighting for girls
Cutting edge research into trends and social contexts of girls' violence.Have girls really gone wild? Despite the media fascination with "bad girls," facts beyond the hype have remained unclear. Fighting for Girls focuses on these facts, and using the best data availabe about actual trends in gir...
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The dilemma of modernity
The development of modern culture along subjectivist lines has led to an analogue of psychological narcissism-to philosophical narcissism-in the culture. The intrinsic value of human cultural activity has been lost, and the intellectual foundation of the modern world-view has been destroyed.Cahoo...
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Sovereignty, democracy, and global civil society
Examines the growing power of nongovernmental organizations by looking at UN World Conferences.Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society explores the growing power of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) by analyzing a microcosm of contemporary global state-society relations at UN World Co...
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State-local governmental interactions
Examines the little-explored topic of relations between state governments and their respective local governments.Relations between state governments and their respective local governments are of crucial importance, yet they have remained largely unexplored by scholars. This neglect is all the mor...
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Drunk from the bitter truth
The poems of Anna Margolin (1887–1952), appearing here both in the original Yiddish and in English translation.Winner of the 2007 Yiddish Literature and Translation from Yiddish presented by the Helen and Stan Vine Annual Canadian Jewish Book Awards2007 Runner Up of the National Jewish Book Award...
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The wisdom of trees
Pioneering essays that reveal the significance of new interdisciplinary understandings of trees and forests, especially in terms of their philosophical and ecological dimensions and their importance for addressing the climate emergency.This is the first book to apply philosophical thinking to tre...
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The ego and the dynamic ground
Maps the course of human development from the earliest stages of ego development to the highest stages of ego transcendence.This new edition is a thorough revision of the first edition. Drawing on both psychoanalysis and analytical psychology and on both Eastern and Western spiritual sources, the...
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Gleanings in europe
In the summer of 1828 James Fenimore Cooper, his wife, and their five children set out from Paris for Switzerland, and Cooper wrote that he experienced a "glorious anticipation," for "a common-place converse with men was about to give place to a sublime communion with Nature."Sketches of Switzerl...
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Sharing the wealth
Documents the ever-larger sums donated by incumbent members of Congress to their parties and other candidates, and discusses the consequences.Winner of the 2009 Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize of the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association While students of American p...
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National identity and global sports events
Explains why cities dig deep in their pockets to host the Olympics and countries breed teams for success on the world soccer stage.National Identity and Global Sports Events looks at the significance of international sporting events and why they generate enormous audiences worldwide. Focusing on ...
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Oppenheimer's choice
Studies J. Robert Oppenheimer's choice to accept leadership of the Manhattan Project.In 1942, J. Robert Oppenheimer accepted the leadership of the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory, which produced the first atomic bomb three years later. This book examines the ethics of Oppenheimer's...
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Democratization and social settlements
Examines the transition to, and consolidation of, democracy in Portugal following the revolutionary events of 1975, during a period of major changes in socioeconomic structure. Nataf emphasizes that not only political institutions but also the fabric of social relations were uprooted, and he comp...
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Contemporary american federalism
Traces the development of the American federal system of government, focusing principally on the shifting balance of powers between the national government and the states.Contemporary American Federalism traces the development of the federal system within the United States from 1789 to the presen...
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A fanny fern reader
The most complete collection of works by the nineteenth century's most famous and groundbreaking woman journalist.In the middle of the nineteenth century, the highest paid and most famous newspaper writer in the US was a woman known to the world as Fanny Fern, the nom de plume of Sara Payson Will...
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The history of al-ṭabarī vol. 8
Volume VIII of al-Tabari's great 40-volume history of the Arabs covers the history of the Muslim community and the biography of Muh'ammad in the middle Medinan years. During this period, Meccan resistance to Islam collapsed, Muh'ammad returned triumphantly to his native city, and the Muslim commu...
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The construction of space in early china
Shows how the emerging Chinese empire purposely reconceived but was also constrained by basic spatial units such as the body, the household, the region, and the world.This book examines the formation of the Chinese empire through its reorganization and reinterpretation of its basic spatial units:...
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Fairy tales
Overturns traditional views of the origins of fairy tales and documents their actual origins and transmission.2009 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Where did Cinderella come from? Puss in Boots? Rapunzel? The origins of fairy tales are looked at in a new way in these highly engaging pages. Conve...
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Faithful to the task at hand
The story of Lucy Diggs Slowe, a pioneering African American figure in sports and educationBorn just twenty years after the end of slavery and orphaned at the age of five, Lucy Diggs Slowe (1885–1937) became a seventeen-time tennis champion and the first African American woman to win a major spor...
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The signifying body
Applies the ideas of Heidegger, Irigaray, and Fanon to literature and film.How do we live ethically? What role do sex and race play in living or being ethically? Can ethics lead to ontology? Can literature play a role in ethical being? Drawing extensively on the work of Luce Irigaray, Frantz Fano...
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Inventing china through history
A critical examination of the rise of national history in early-twentieth-century China.This book describes the rise of national history in early-twentieth-century China. It studies the careers of a group of liberal historians including well-known figures such as Liang Qichao and Hu Shi and lesse...
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The watchman fell asleep
Examines how Israel was caught by surprise in the opening stages of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.Based on many formerly undisclosed intelligence and military documents, the secret protocols of discussions on the eve of the war, and interviews with relevant figures, The Watchman Fell Asleep is a compel...
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