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African-centered pedagogy
Integrates the historical, cultural, political, and developmental considerations of the African American experience into a theory for the educational achievement of African American children.What can teachers, administrators, families, and communities do to create schools that provide rich learni...
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Birth and death of the housewife
First English translation of Paola Masino's Nascita e morte della massaia, her most controversial novel that provoked Fascist censorship for its critical portrayal of marriage and motherhood.Stepping out of her beloved trunk full of bread crumbs, dust, spider webs, books, and ragged funeral ornam...
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Flash points
A compelling, intimate account of how US foreign assistance in war zones and developing countries does not achieve its intended goals.Honorable Mention, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the Political Science Category From the hot savannah of Malawi to the cold, damp gray of Kosovo ...
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Intergenerational programs
Provides a rarely-seen portrait of intergenerational programs in Japan, including an overview of similar programs in the United States, of growing interest as our population ages.The "intergenerational programming concept," now garnering increased interest in America, has been applied to Japanese...
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Many mahābhāratas
A major contribution to the study of South Asian literature, offering a landmark view of Mahābhārata studies.Many Mahābhāratas is an introduction to the spectacular and long-lived diversity of Mahābhārata literature in South Asia. This diversity begins with the Sanskrit Mahābhārata, an early epic...
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Cambodian buddhism in the united states
The first comprehensive anthropological description of the Khmer Buddhism practiced by Cambodian refugees in the United States over the past four decades.Cambodian Buddhism in the United States is the first comprehensive anthropological study of Khmer Buddhism as practiced by Khmer refugees in th...
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The politics of presidential impeachment
Argues that impeachment may no longer be an effective check on overreach by American presidents.The Politics of Presidential Impeachment takes a distinctive and fresh look at the impeachment provision of the US Constitution. Instead of studying it from a legal-constitutional perspective, the auth...
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Economic transition and political legitimacy in post-mao china
Traces the role of ideas in Chinese economic reform from 1978 to the present, exploring the conversion of China's policymakers to capitalist economic thinking.Tracing the role of ideas in Chinese economic reform from 1978 to the present, this book explores the conversion of China's policymakers t...
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Coming together
Archaeologists, anthropologists, and classicists discuss how urbanization first emerged in strikingly different sociopolitical contexts in North America, Europe, and the Near East.The pursuit for universally applicable definitions of the terms "urban" and "city" has frequently distracted scholars...
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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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Mipam on buddha-nature
A comprehensive overview of Tibetan Buddhist thinker Mipam's work on emptiness and Buddha-nature.Mipam ('ju mi pham rgya mtsho, 1846–1912) is one of the most prolific thinkers in the history of Tibet and is a key figure in the Nyingma tradition of Buddhism. His works continue to be widely studied...
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Taking america off drugs
Argues for the superiority of behavioral treatments over drug therapies for psychological problems.In this highly provocative book, Stephen Ray Flora maintains that we have been deceived into believing that whatever one's psychological problem-from anxiety, anorexia, bulimia, depression, phobias,...
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Counternarratives
Relying on local, self, and historical studies, the author argues for better—not best—practices in teaching and teacher education.Representing more than two decades of Robert V. Bullough Jr.'s research into the problems of teaching and teacher education, this book presents a set of guiding princi...
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The pursuit of wisdom and happiness in education
Explores the nature and role of wisdom in education.Modern scholarship has struggled to come to terms with the meaning of wisdom and its significance in the field of education. This book examines the importance of pursuing wisdom in schools by turning to ancient and medieval sources for clarifica...
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Children on playgrounds
This book focuses on key issues and current research evidence of links between children's behavior in outdoor play environments and children's development. Specific attention is given to ways that outdoor play environments are extensions of other development settings, like the classroom or family...
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Gandhi's ascetic activism
Discusses Gandhi's creative use of ascetic practice, particularly his practice of celibacy, for nonviolent activism.More than six decades after his death, Mohandas Gandhi continues to inspire those who seek political and social liberation through nonviolent means. Uniquely, Gandhi placed celibacy...
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Signatures of struggle
A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations.Signatures of Struggle offers a unique perspective on Israeli literature, bringing Marxist cultural critique to bear on a field from which it has hitherto been absent. Oded Nir m...
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Schelling's dialogical freedom essay
Explores Schelling's Essay on Human Freedom, focusing on the themes of freedom, evil, and love, and the relationship between his ideas and those of Plato and Kant.With clarity and liveliness, Bernard Freydberg explores the major themes treated in Schelling's final public work: freedom, imaginatio...
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Fighting colonialism with hegemonic culture
Explores how American Indian businesses and organizations are taking on images that were designed to oppress them.How and why do American Indians appropriate images of Indianness for their own purposes? How do these representatives promote and sometimes challenge sovereignty for indigenous people...
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Not one of them in place
Explores the ways in which Jewish American poetry engages persistent questions of modern Jewish identity.Not One of Them in Place is the first book to examine the ways in which Jewish belief, thought, and culture have been shaped and articulated in modern American poetry. Based on the idea that r...
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Strong hearts, native lands
Uplifting account of the struggle between the Grassy Narrows First Nation and the Canadian logging industry.In December 2002 members of the Grassy Narrows First Nation blocked a logging road to impede the movement of timber industry trucks and equipment within their 2,500-square-mile traditional ...
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Hitchcock's bi-textuality
Uses close readings of Hitchcock's films to combine an articulation of Lacan's theory of ethics with a discussion of recent theories of feminine subjectivity and queer textuality.This book combines three elements: an articulation of Lacan's theory of ethics; a discussion of recent theories of fem...
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Educational oases in the desert
A history of the French schools that pioneered female education in Ottoman Iraq's Jewish communities.During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU), a Paris-based Jewish organization, founded dozens of primary schools throughout the Middle East....
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Enlightenment east and west
This book shows that mysticism is incomplete without scientific rationalism, and that our current social and political projects cannot be completed without assimilating the values and practices of mysticism. It discusses cross-cultural ethics, mysticism and value theory, mysticism and metaphysics...
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Philosophy as stranger wisdom
The first complete intellectual biography of one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the twentieth century, Leo Strauss.What is philosophy and who is the philosopher? What should be the relationship between the philosopher and the city? And what should be the attitude that t...
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The experience of the foreign
"This book is the first authoritative analysis of the theory of translation in German Romanticism. In a systematic study of Herder, Goethe, Schlegel, Novalis, Humboldt, Schleiermacher, and Hölderlin, Berman demonstrates the importance of the theory of translation for an understanding of German ro...
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In the name of terrorism
Traces the shifts in presidential discourse on terrorism since World War II.Winner of the 2008 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Political Communication Division of the National Communication Association The topic of terrorism has evolved into an ideological marker of American culture, one ...
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Unconscious wisdom
Contra both Freud and Jung, argues that the unconscious is not exclusively irrational.In a detailed engagement with the psychoanalytic theories of dreams, conscience, empathy, and creativity, Dan Merkur argues that the superego is an unconscious reasoning process, dedicated to the representation ...
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Rachel carson
Leading scholars explore the full range and current significance of Carson's work.Long before Rachel Carson would become synonymous with environmental activism, she was a nature and science writer, penning The Sense of Wonder for children, and three books about the ocean and its inhabitants-inclu...
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Myth and the making of history
Sheds new light on the relationship between myth and history in ancient China and the central role they have played in shaping early Chinese thought.Myth and the Making of History examines the relationship between myth and history in early China, a topic that has been explored by American paleogr...
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The tyranny of common sense
Elucidates how neoliberalism rules all areas of life and operates as a form of common sense, taking Mexico as a case study.As one of the first countries to implement a neoliberal state apparatus, Mexico serves as a prime example of the effects of neoliberal structural economic reform on our sensi...
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Hunting for justice
Utilizes Greek tragedy to investigate the fundamentally arbitrary and violent nature of justice.A purely political understanding of justice does not convey the cosmological origins of the ancient conception of justice, Dikē, in Aeschylus's Oresteia. Drawing from Walter Burkert's anthropology of t...
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User-centered technology
Presents a theoretical model for examining technology through a user perspective.Winner of the 1999 Best Book presented by the National Council of Teachers of English NCTE Awards for Excellence in Technical and Scientific Communication User-Centered Technology presents a theoretical model for exa...
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Thinking through confucius
Thinking Through Confucius critically interprets the conceptual structure underlying Confucius' philosophical reflections. It also investigates "thinking," or "philosophy" from the perspective of Confucius. Perhaps the philosophical question of our time is "what is philosophy". The authors sugges...
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Religious radicalism and politics in the middle east
This book explores in a comparative perspective two fundamentalist waves that have rolled over the Middle East during the last two decades. Jewish and Muslim extremism have had a profound impact on the culture and politics of this important region. One thinks immediately of the Guh Emunism settle...
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Nativism overseas
This book examines five of the most influential Chinese-born women writers of the post-war era: Nie Hualing, Yu Lihua, Chen Ruoxi, Li Li, and Zhong Xiaoyang. They have become a dominating force in Chinese literature today, although they presently reside outside their homeland. This book raises a ...
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Meaning in comedy
The festive Elizabethan comedies constitute a unique and dazzling drama, yet they have seldom been studied as a genre, and, except for Shakespeare's plays, they are seldom interpreted. Although successive audiences have found these works delightful, critics at times regard them as rather trivial....
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The trouble with evil
A broadly based analysis of good and evil grounded in examination of the conceptual, philosophical, and theoretical bases of the study of evil within the social sciences.Edwin Lemert investigates the possibility that a consideration of evil will provide new power to explanations of deviance. He l...
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Tradition and the deliberative turn
Reframes the discussion of deliberative democracy in a unique fashion, approaching the debate as a historical conversation.This book changes the narrative regarding democratic deliberation. It does so by bringing to bear insights into the nature of morality and discourse associated with one of th...
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The jews of long island
The first comprehensive history of the development of early Jewish life on Long Island.In an engaging narrative, The Jews of Long Island tells the story of how Jewish communities were established and developed east of New York City, from Great Neck to Greenport and Cedarhurst to Sag Harbor. Inclu...
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Ethics and the discovery of the unconscious
Develops an original and compelling moral psychology that recognizes both the centrality of unconscious motivation and the inescapability of moral responsibility.This book shows why the discovery of the unconscious by Nietzsche and Freud requires a reconception of the concepts of moral agency and...
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A voyage with hitchcock
Extensive meditations on the theme of the voyage in six Hitchcock films: Psycho, The 39 Steps, The Birds, Dial M for Murder, Rich and Strange, and Suspicion.Following from An Eye for Hitchcock and A Dream for Hitchcock, this third volume of reflections upon Alfred Hitchcock's work gives extensive...
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Realistic pragmatism
Recovers classical pragmatism from recent deconstructive interpretations.Nicholas Rescher gives a compact but comprehensive overview of pragmatism that does justice to the doctrine's original realistic and objectivistic purport. By providing a historically faithful version of a pragmatist positio...
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Higher education in crisis
Explores the university's altering landscape, the conflicts over its core values and legitimacy, and the challenge for the university to negotiate the new landscape and to redefine itself within a larger educational context.This book's purpose is clearly realized. In a balanced presentation, the ...
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The love of ruins
Explores issues related to race and religion in Lovecraft criticism.Today, H. P. Lovecraft is both more popular and controversial than ever: the influence of his "Cthulhu mythos" is everywhere in popular culture, his cosmic pessimism has reemerged as a major theme in contemporary philosophy, and ...
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Film voices
Interviews with prominent filmmakers, actors, and others on the art, craft, and business of moviemaking.This collection of interviews brings together major Hollywood directors and actors, independent filmmakers, screenwriters, and others to discuss the art, craft, and business of making movies. W...
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Before the voice of reason
Provides a critique of reason, demanding that we take greater responsibility for nature and other people.Before the Voice of Reason is a phenomenological critique of reason grounded in our experience of the voices that already address us and summon us prior to the emergence of the voice of reason...
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