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Breaking into the all-male club
Women professors of educational administration share their personal stories of being female firsts.Winner of the 2011 Critics' Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association These are the inspiring and illuminating stories of women professors who first broke into the exclu...
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It hurts down there
Tracks the medical emergence and treatment of vulvar pain conditions in order to understand why so many US women are misinformed about their sexual bodies.How does a woman describe a part of her body that much of society teaches her to never discuss? It Hurts Down There analyzes the largest known...
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The history of al-ṭabarī vol. 15
Before the caliphate of the ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān, the Muslim community had grown from strength to strength in spite of a series of major crises—the Hirah, the death of the Prophet, the Riddah wars, the assassination of 'Umar by a Persian slave. But ʿUthmān's reign ended in catastrophe. His inabilit...
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Composition theory for the postmodern classroom
Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom is a collection of the most outstanding articles published in the Journal of Advanced Composition over the last decade. Together these essays represent the breadth and strength of composition scholarship that has fruitfully engaged with critical the...
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Plato's politics of passion
An original reading of three Platonic dialogues concerned with the soul, tyranny, self-knowledge, and the beautiful.Guided by the question "What is Socratic self-knowledge," this study begins with Plato's Charmides because it is within this work, more than any other, that the utility of self-know...
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Gender, ethnicity, and the state
Examines the experiences of Latina and Latino prisoners in New York maximum security prisons, offering a realistic interpretation of the relationship that exists between prisoners, the state, and the civil society within which prisons operate.Gender, Ethnicity, and the State is a study of Latina ...
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Dreaming about the divine
Explores the role of dreams in spiritual work.In Dreaming about the Divine, Bonnelle Lewis Strickling argues that people dream about the divine in forms that fit their current emotional and spiritual condition. Using Jungian psychology and the philosophy of Karl Jaspers, Strickling contends that ...
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The morals and politics of psychology
This book explores the moral, social, and political implications of dominant psychological theories and practices. The analysis entails the therapeutic uses of psychoanalysis, cognitive, behavioral, and humanistic psychology, as well as the practice of clinical, school, and industrial/organizatio...
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The obscure substance of sky
A book of poems and painted images.The poetic writing and images of Alicia Wirt-Fox's The Obscure Substance of Sky are divided into three parts. Each attempts to evoke three distinct realms. "The Obscure" pertains to the hidden, unseen, or arduous aspects of living in ourselves in the world as hu...
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Nafta as a model of development
Examines whether NAFTA will produce increased or decreased wages in the regional trading blocs emerging in Europe, North America, and East Asia as a result of its uniting of high and low wage areas and identifies the winners and losers in various labor markets.This book discusses the North Americ...
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The comparative hermeneutics of rabbinic judaism
Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.The hermeneutics that conveyed the rules of proper reading of the Halakhah formed out of occasional rules and conceptions a single, demonstrably cogent statement, one of entire integrity: a category-formation. T...
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My life at the gym
Personal accounts celebrating the place of exercise in women's lives—and as the site of women's community."Very often, my workouts are the best part of my day," notes feminist writer Jo Malin. My Life at the Gym celebrates women's experiences of exercise and the found spaces for this activity as ...
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Desire of the analysts
Explores psychoanalytic approaches to cultural studies.Why do we continue to desire psychoanalysis? What can this desire contribute to a vital cultural criticism? In Desire of the Analysts, these and other questions are addressed by leading contributors from a variety of fields, including Sharon ...
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Exiles, entrepreneurs, and educators
Compares the political activities of African Americans who settled in Ghana in the 1950s and 1960s with those who settled in the 1980s to the present.After repeated coups and periods of military rule, Ghana is now one of Africa's longest enduring democratic republics. Exiles, Entrepreneurs, and E...
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Ecocomposition
Explores the intersections between writing and ecological studies.Ecocomposition examines current trends in universities toward more environmentally sound work, explores the intersections between composition research-that is, discourse studies-and ecostudies, and offers possible pedagogies for th...
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Roberto esposito
Analyzes key concepts and arguments in the work of one of Europe's leading philosophers.One of Europe's leading philosophers, Roberto Esposito has produced a considerable body of work that continues to have a significant impact on political science, sociology, literature, and philosophy. This vol...
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Leading the learning organization
Provides students, executives, and managers with vital resources to lead their organizations to higher levels of performance.Using examples from companies such as General Electric, IBM, Kodak, and ABB, Leading the Learning Organization integrates the latest advances in strategic change, manageria...
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This-worldly nibbāna
A Buddhist feminist social ethics for contemporary times.Offering a feminist analysis of foundational Buddhist texts, along with a Buddhist approach to social issues in a globalized world, Hsiao-Lan Hu revitalizes Buddhist social ethics for contemporary times. Hu's feminist exegesis references th...
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Africa, asia, and the history of philosophy
A historical investigation of the exclusion of Africa and Asia from modern histories of philosophy.Winner of the 2016 Frantz Fanon Prize for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought presented by the Caribbean Philosophical Association In this provocative historiography, Peter K. J. Park provides a p...
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A pedagogy of surprise
Combines theory and practice to inspire teachers to embrace a sense of surprise in their classrooms.What would your classroom be like if you could see it as something surprising, novel, and fresh in every moment? What are the unique gifts that students and teachers alike bring to classrooms? Thro...
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Deliberative freedom
The first sustained look at the relationship between deliberative democratic theory and the topic of freedom.In Deliberative Freedom, Christian F. Rostbøll accepts the common belief that democracy and freedom are intimately related, but he sees this relationship in a new and challenging way. Rost...
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Hocak teaching materials
Comprehensive bilingual dictionary of the Hochunk language.This is the most comprehensive bilingual dictionary ever available for the Hochunk (popularly known as the Winnebagos; orthographically rendered as Hocank) language. Living today in two reservation communities in Wisconsin and Nebraska, t...
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The examined life--chinese perspectives
A collection of essays on Chinese ethical traditions, including Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist ethics.This anthology is a collection of essays on Chinese ethical traditions, including Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist ethics. Most of the contributors are philosophers who are trained in both Chines...
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Welding technical communication
Explores the teaching and learning of welding through two narratives: the personal narrative, relating the author's experience as a woman learning how to weld, and the academic narrative examining how instructional communication informs students' embodied knowledge and enculturation into a commun...
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Yoga and the luminous
A fresh look at Yoga philosophy.Winner of the 2008 Rajinder and Jyoti Gandhi Book Award for Excellence in Dharma Studies presented by Taksha InstituteIn Yoga and the Luminous, a book that emerges from more than thirty years of practice, study, and reflection, Christopher Key Chapple addresses the...
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Constitutive criminology at work
Provides the first applications of constitutive criminology, a theoretical framework inspired by postmodernism, to specific areas of criminological practice.Constitutive Criminology at Work reveals the value of applying postmodernist-informed constitutive criminology to issues of crime and justic...
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Governance and the public good
Grapples with a variety of policy issues in order to provoke a discussion of the state of higher education in the 21st century.The public good is not merely an economic idea of goods and services, but a place where thoughtful debate and examination of the polis can occur. In differentiating the u...
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Super schoolmaster
Traces the controversial poet's thinking about teaching and learning throughout his career.Once described by T. S. Eliot as "first and foremost, a teacher and campaigner," Ezra Pound has received no shortage of critical attention. Super Schoolmaster suggests that Pound still has quite a bit to te...
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The politics of turkish democracy
The history of Turkey's difficult transition to a multi-party political system.One of the most significant yet least known periods of modern Turkish history is that of Turkey's second president, İsmet İnönü. Following the death of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1938, Turkish politicians and intellectua...
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The little school system that could
Examines, from four organizational perspectives, Virginia's Manassas Park City School's ten-year turnaround.The Little School System That Could is a story about transformation. In 1995, equipped with not much more than a vision of the quality education that urban students deserved, Tom DeBolt, th...
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The awakening of modern japanese fiction
Argues that the role of Buddhism in modern Japanese prose literature has been significantly overlooked.The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction is the first book to treat the literary practices of certain major modern Japanese writers as Buddhist practices, and to read their work as Buddhist lite...
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University management, the academic profession, and neoliberalism
A unique examination of how faculty and university administrators understand their work and professional identities under neoliberalism.This book examines tensions and challenges in the professional lives and identities of contemporary academics. Drawing on extensive interviews conducted over sev...
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The transparency of spectacle
Considers the ephemeral nature of the cinematic experience as we now apprehend it, and examines the ways in which technological advances in film and moving image production have changed this experience over the course of the last thirty-odd years.While agreeing that the "digitization" of the cine...
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Flesh of my flesh
Examines representations of sexual violence in modern Hebrew literature, focusing on the ways in which sexual aggression relates to Zionism, gender, ethnicity, and disability.Finalist for the 2021 Best Book in Israel Studies presented by the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies and Concordia Unive...
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State violence and moral horror
Explores the concept of "moral horror" as the experience of living amidst unjustifiable state violence.Can state violence ever be morally justified? In State Violence and Moral Horror, Jeremy Arnold critically engages a wide variety of arguments, both canonical and contemporary, arguing that ther...
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Out of the east
Chronicles how the SED, a once villified political party, transformed itself into a viable national political party.What happened to the ruling communist party of East Germany after the collapse of the Berlin Wall? The Left in Germany describes how the communist party's dissolution led to many of...
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The old guard
A brutal and unflinchingly honest portrayal of the effects of concentration camp life on the human psyche.Brutally and unflinchingly honest in its depiction of the effects of concentration camp life on the human psyche, Mieczysław Lurczyński's The Old Guard is one of the earliest works of Holocau...
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Anti-music
Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.Anti-Music examines the critical, literary, and political responses to African American jazz music in interwar German...
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The highroad around modernism
Discussions of modernism and postmodernism in philosophy and the arts are usually based on a narrow reading of the Western tradition and are not conscious of the narrowness. The modern period, beginning with the European Renaissance, spawned many developments, not just the modernist one in terms ...
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Profiles of preservice teacher education
The authors allow students and faculty to speak in their own voices to tell the story of how teachers are prepared for their important roles as educators of the nation's children. This book provides in-depth, personal descriptions of how elementary teachers are prepared in six diverse schools and...
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Plato's reasons
Studies Plato's approach to argumentation, exploring his role as logician, rhetorician, and dialectician in a way that sees these three aspects working together.This book explores Plato's implicit understanding of argumentation by reviewing his standing as a logician, rhetorician, and dialecticia...
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Germs of death
An analysis of Derrida's early work engaging Plato, Hegel, and the life sciences.Germs of Death explores the idea of genesis, or dissemination, in the early work of Jacques Derrida. Looking at Derrida's published and unpublished work from "Force and Signification" in 1963 to Glas in 1974, Mauro S...
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Sacred matters
Explores how objects shape the worlds of religious participants across a range of South Asian traditions.Sacred Matters explores the lives of material objects in South Asian religions. Spanning a range of traditions including Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Buddhism, and Christianity, the book demonstr...
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California dreaming
Multidisciplinary study of the citrus industry in Palestine before World War II.The citrus industry of Palestine has often been associated with the myths and ideals of the Labor Movement and its Zionist-Socialist ideology. The Jaffa orange, like the young pioneer and the collective kibbutz, was e...
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A voice from elsewhere
Reflections on the enigma and secret of "literature."A Voice from Elsewhere represents one of Maurice Blanchot's most important reflections on the enigma and secret of "literature." The essays here bear down on the necessity and impossibility of witnessing what literature transmits, and-like Beck...
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Dynamics of the iranian revolution
Going back to the turn of the century, this book offers a cogent analysis and an objective assessment of the origins and dimensions of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. It reassesses the narrowly focused post-revolution explanations, as it traces the fate of the Pahlavi dynasty to deep-rooted and stru...
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A wild and sacred call
An ecopsychological, ecospiritual exploration of humankind's relationship with the rest of nature.Our current ecological derangement is not only a biological crisis but more deeply a crisis of consciousness, culture, and relationship. The core ethical responsibility of our contemporary era, there...
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African american coping in the political sphere
Explores the influence coping has had on African Americans' political attitudes and behaviors.Psychosocial stressors are a part of the human condition. Individuals experience a myriad of stressors in their everyday lives, and, while many people experience some of the same types of stressors, resp...
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