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Brokering tareas
Provides concrete examples of homework mentorship and positive academic interventions among immigrant families.Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book in Community Writing Award presented by the Coalition for Community Writing Brokering Tareas examines a grassroots literacy mentoring program that con...
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The hagiographer and the avatar
Examines the key role of a hagiographer within a charismatic religious movement.In this biographical study, Antonio Rigopoulos explores the fundamental role of a hagiographer within a charismatic religious movement: in this case, the postsectarian, cosmopolitan community of the Indian guru Sathya...
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Affectual erasure
Comprehensive examination of how Indigenous peoples have been represented in Argentine film.Affectual Erasure examines how Argentine cinema has represented Indigenous peoples throughout a period spanning roughly a century. Cynthia Margarita Tompkins interrelates her discussion of films with the e...
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Visionary worlds
Considers the role and significance of imagination and the myth-making processes that engage human beings in constructing a viable, living world of meaningful relations, beliefs and social interactions.Visionary Worlds examines the role and significance of imagination and the myth-making processe...
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Kāma's flowers
Explores the transformation of Hindi poetry as it reflects a changing society during the period from 1885 to 1925.Kama's Flowers documents the transformation of Hindi poetry during the crucial period of 1885-1925. As Hindi was becoming a national language and Indian nationalism was emerging, Hind...
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Islamic theology and philosophy
Some of the foremost living scholars in Islamic thought have come together to create a standard and definitive work on the subject of Islamic thought. Noted scholars from North America, Europe, and the Middle East offer new and generative interpretations of major themes in the field. They address...
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Hybridity
Critical reevaluation of the concept of hybridity within postcolonial studies.This critical engagement with some of the most prominent contemporary theorists of postcolonial studies reevaluates recent theories of hybridity and agency. Challenging the claim that hybridity provides a site of resist...
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Contemporary italian political philosophy
Highlights and critically assesses the work of contemporary Italian political philosophers.Italy has a rich philosophical legacy, and recent developments and movements in its political philosophy have produced a significant body of thought by internationally renowned philosophers working on quest...
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Religious conscience, the state, and the law
Examines claims to freedom of religion by minority, unorthodox faith groups and how these challenges to the state and the law have contributed to the development of civil rights discourse and practice.This book examines the history and significance of religious freedom claims by minority, unortho...
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Diasporic blackness
Examines the life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg through the lens of both Blackness and latinidad.A Black Puerto Rican–born scholar, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874–1938) was a well-known collector and archivist whose personal library was the basis of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Cultur...
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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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Ecologies of knowledge
This collection of articles provides a comprehensive overview of personal and public issues related to social change and how they shape scientific and technical knowledge.Ecologies of Knowledge provides a comprehensive overview of issues relating to work, politics, and the latest perspectives on ...
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Plato's theory of explanation
Here is the question: what constitutes a good explanation of phenomena? Whereas true being (forms) can be known through dialectic, concrete phenomena can only be explained. An explanation is verisimilar of dialectical knowledge as concrete things are images of eternal ones. Ashbaugh shows how Pla...
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Integral education
Leading researchers and practitioners explore the frontiers of education from an integral perspective.The educational challenges being faced today are driving us toward a new step in the evolution of educational theory and practice. Educators are called to go beyond simply presenting alternatives...
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Deweyan inquiry
Presents John Dewey's theory of inquiry and applies it to various areas of the primary, middle, and secondary school curricula.Deweyan Inquiry brings John Dewey's theory of inquiry together with educational theory and practice. James Scott Johnston uses Dewey's late masterpiece Logic: The Theory ...
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Voice-overs
Writers, translators, and critics explore the cultural politics and transnational impact of Latin American literature.In Voice-Overs, an impressive collection of writers, translators, and critics of Latin American literature address the challenges and triumphs of translation in the publishing ind...
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The unity of wittgenstein's philosophy
Explores the stable core of Wittgenstein's philosophy as developed from the Tractatus to the Philosophical Investigations.Exposing the myth of "the two Wittgensteins," this book provides a detailed account of the unity in Wittgenstein's thought from the Tractatus to the Philosophical Investigatio...
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The buddhist world of southeast asia
A wide-ranging, readable account of the Theravada Buddhist thought and practice in the Southeast Asian societies of Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), Laos, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka.An unparalleled portrait, Donald K. Swearer's Buddhist World of Southeast Asia has been a key source for all those intereste...
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Lord śiva's song
A translation of the Īśvara Gītā, a parallel text to the Bhagavad Gītā that promotes religious inclusion.While the Bhagavad Gītā is an acknowledged treasure of world spiritual literature, few people know a parallel text, theĪśvara Gītā. This lesser-known work is also dedicated to a god, but in th...
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Democracy and the arts of schooling
Arnstine shows how schools have been distracted from education by reformers urging higher standards-the code word for higher test scores. But education is revealed in the dispositions a person has: sensitivity and resourcefulness, amiability and responsibility, taste, wit, and a disciplined intel...
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Boom for whom?
Explores political and educational aspects of Charlotte's nationally praised school desegregation efforts.Bringing a new perspective to Charlotte's landmark school desegregation efforts, Stephen Samuel Smith provides a multi-faceted history of the nationally praised mandatory busing plan and the ...
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Urban citizenship and american democracy
Examines city politics and policy, federalism, and democracy in the United States.After decades of being defined by crisis and limitations, cities are popular again-as destinations for people and businesses, and as subjects of scholarly study. Urban Citizenship and American Democracy contributes ...
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The practice of school reform
Provides practical advice for educators struggling for change.Former high school teacher, school leader, activist, consultant, and now professor of education James Nehring combines vivid case studies with practical suggestions to describe how the system works to thwart good schools and what educa...
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New essays in metaphysics
This volume displays fifteen of the many lively options in the field of metaphysics. The authors, having finished their formal education in the 1960s or later, belong to the generation of philosophers whose rebellion was against those who thought they saw metaphysics in the grand sense to be pass...
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From paesani to white ethnics
Examines the transformations of Italian American ethnic identity in twentieth-century Philadelphia.From Paesani to White Ethnics analyzes the process by which people of Italian descent renegotiated their sense of community and ethnic self-perception in Philadelphia from the late nineteenth centur...
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Paradigm city
Materially grounded analysis of contemporary film, literature, and music in Hong Kong that resists the superficial stereotypes of the "global city."Hong Kong is often cast in the role of the paradigmatic "global city," epitomizing postmodernism and globalization, and representing a vision of a co...
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Aftereffects of knowledge in modernity
Examines the relations among knowledge, politics, aesthetics, and individuality.The relentless accumulation of knowledge is a defining feature of modern life, but what if this feature begins to breed more confusion than enlightenment? Martin Leet examines how the often ambiguous and sometimes des...
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The history of al-ṭabarī vol. 20
This volume covers the vital early years of the second Muslim civil war, when the Umayyad caliphate seemed on the point of extinction. That it survived had much to do with the vigor of the Umayyad Marwān ibn al-Hakam whose initial restoration of Umayyad authority is described here in some detail ...
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Approaching hegel's logic, obliquely
An unprecedented reading of Hegel's Logic that sets this difficult work in a dialogue with literary texts.Winner of the 2020 Hegelpd-Prize presented by the University of Padova Research Group In this book, Angelica Nuzzo proposes a reading of Hegel's Logic as "logic of transformation" and "logic ...
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Volupte
The first English translation of a pre-Freudian psychological novel. The narrator victimizes women while feeling victimized by his own sensualityCharles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-69), who ruled French letters in the nineteenth century, established biographical analysis as a critical method. His...
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Sabina spielrein
Explores the life and work of psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein through a feminist and mytho-poetic lens.Gold Winner for Psychology, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year AwardsLong stigmatized as Carl Jung's hysterical mistress, Sabina Spielrein (1885–1942) was in fact a key figure in the history o...
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The path to no-self
This book shows how, once we have adjusted to the unitive state, the spiritual journey moves on to yet another more final ending.In our major religious traditions, the outstanding milestone in the spiritual journey is the permanent, irreversible transcendence of the self center or ego. The fact t...
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Function, selection, and design
A complete sourcebook for philosophical discussion of the nature of function in biology.This authoritative book, written by the leading experts in the field of the philosophy of biology, brings together the defining literature in the debate concerning proper analysis of teleological concepts in b...
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Stranger in a strange state
Examines why some politicians take the drastic step of becoming a carpetbagger and how that shapes their campaigns and chances for victory.Candidates normally run for office in the places where they live. Occasionally, however, a politician will run as a carpetbagger-someone who moves to a new st...
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The writing of innocence
An original reading of Blanchot's thought with far-reaching philosophical and literary implications.The Writing of Innocence explores the topic of innocence and the peculiar relationship to Christianity in the writing of Maurice Blanchot. Its starting point is that innocence is not a condition re...
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Dante and derrida
Discusses Derrida as a religious thinker, reading Dante's Commedia and Derrida's religious writings together.Reading Dante's Commedia alongside Jacques Derrida's later religious writings, Francis J. Ambrosio explores what these works reveal about religion as a fundamental dynamic of human existen...
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A buddhist in the classroom
A Buddhist perspective on classroom teaching.Sid Brown brings a Buddhist perspective into the classroom to explore the ethical quandaries, lived experiences, and intimacy of teaching. Addressing such topics as attention, community, rage, wonder, consumerism, and simple kindness, Brown demonstrate...
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Privatizing the polity
Presents evidence that the expansion of welfare privatization makes it harder for people to move out of poverty in large numbers.Research on poverty and research on governance currently exist as largely disparate literatures without a framework for building knowledge regarding how policies and pr...
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Literature and philosophy in dialogue
Hans-Georg Gadamer, the major proponent of philosophical hermeneutics, reveals himself here as a highly sensitive reader and critic of the German literary tradition. This is not the work of a specialist as narrowly defined in the typical literary study. Although he is a master of the techniques o...
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Postmodern journeys
Part memoir, part cultural criticism, this fast-paced ride through the postmodern landscape of American popular culture explores how our responses to headline events and popular films help script the ways in which we imagine ourselves and the world around us.In Postmodern Journeys, Joseph Natoli ...
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The history of al-ṭabarī vol. 7
The contents of this volume are extremely significant: The specific events in this earliest period set precedents for what later became established Islamic practice. The book deals with the history of the Islamic community at Medina during the first four years of the Islamic period—a time of crit...
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Letting go
While many books in the popular press deal with relationships, Letting Go is among the first to draw upon scholarly research to offer a theoretical perspective with practical implications. Cahn examines interpersonal relationship disengagement and reengagement by tapping the resources of social s...
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Congress
An insightful reassessment of the relationship between the U.S. Congress and the states.Reassessing the relationship between the federal government and the states, Congress: Facilitator of State Action examines how the U.S. Congress routinely and necessarily devolves power to the states. A host o...
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Higher education systems 3.0
An exploration of multi-campus higher education systems and their role in improving communities and their economies.This thought-provoking volume brings together scholars and system leaders to analyze some of the most pressing and complex issues now facing higher education systems and society. Hi...
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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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