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Jewish veganism and vegetarianism
A multidisciplinary approach to the study of veganism, vegetarianism, and meat avoidance among Jews, both historical and contemporary.In recent decades, as more Jews have adopted plant-based lifestyles, Jewish vegan and vegetarian movements have become increasingly prominent. This book explores t...
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Images of thought
Explores the relationship between philosophy and art through the work of Cuban American artist Carlos Estévez.Is philosophy hopelessly opposed to art? Images of Thought answers negatively, claiming that visual images can be used effectively to grasp complex thoughts, and philosophy can be deploye...
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Liberty, property, and the foundations of the american constitution
Here is what the Framers of the Constitution thought about economic rights. To the current debate over constitutional interpretation, this book adds a dispassionate examination of our beginnings. It focuses on the philosophical, political, and social currents that influenced the thought and behav...
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A dose of emptiness
This book is an annotated translation of one of the great Tibetan classics of Mahayana Buddhist thought, mKhas grub rje's sTong thun chen mo. The text is a detailed critical exposition of the theory and practice of emptiness as expounded in the three major schools of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy:...
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Intellectual origins of islamic resurgence in the modern arab world
A systematic treatment of the religious, intellectual, cultural, and social foundations of the Islamic resurgence in the modern Arab world that is grounded in the larger context of Arab and Islamic intellectual history.This is a systematic treatment of the religious, intellectual, cultural, and s...
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Nietzsche and paradox
Translated from the French, this book analyzes the paradoxes that fundamentally characterize Nietzsche's philosophy and texts.Newly translated into English, this book analyzes the paradoxical discourse that flows through and fundamentally characterizes Nietzsche's writings. Examining Nietzsche's ...
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Yoga and phenomenology on consciousness
Brings yogic traditions into dialogue with current philosophical and scientific research on consciousness.In this book, philosopher and yoga practitioner Giulia Moiraghi brings yoga into dialogue with current debates on consciousness in analytic philosophy and cognitive science. The book explores...
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One korean's approach to buddhism
Insights into the experience and philosophy of Buddhism from a Korean perspective.This book presents the author's lifelong study and practice of Buddhism from a Korean perspective. With depth, sensitivity, and candor, Sung Bae Park discusses his country's contribution to Mahayana Buddhism and als...
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Jazz after dinner
Poems of celebration and endurance.From "I Am a Black Man"I am a Black manmy history written with bloodsome sweet songs of sorroware composed for my souland Ican be seen plowing in the fieldsCan be heardhummingin the nightIn these poems of celebration and endurance, Leonard A. Slade Jr. addresses...
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The violent woman
Looks at how violent women characters disrupt cinematic narrative and challenge cultural ideals.In The Violent Woman, Hilary Neroni brings psychoanalytically informed film theory to bear on issues of femininity, violence, and narrative in contemporary American cinema. Examining such films as Thel...
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Thoughtlessness and decadence in iran
Bridges Western and non-Western political thought to address the problem of democracy and political decadance in contemporary Iran and, by implication, similar Islamic societies.Political decay in Islamic societies has for the most part been the subject of structural analyses while philosophical ...
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The living classroom
A paradigm-breaking exploration of how collective intelligence functions in groups, with practical guidelines for teachers.A pioneering work in teaching and transpersonal psychology, The Living Classroom explores the dynamics of collective consciousness in the classroom. In this second edition, B...
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Virality vitality
Reveals the fragility of basic scientific concepts through the unstable relationship between viruses and life, calling for a deconstructive reading to grapple with their theoretical and political effects.Virality Vitality explores the history and present of the life sciences and virology, focusin...
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The italian american experience in new haven
A compelling social history of a vibrant immigrant community, told through interviews and photographs.Using interviews and photographs, Anthony Riccio provides a vital supplement to our understanding of the Italian immigrant experience in the United States. In conversations around kitchen tables ...
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Strengthening the african american educational pipeline
One of the most comprehensive books examining the experiences of African Americans throughout the educational enterprise.2008 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Focusing on pre-K–12 schools, higher education, and social influences, this book examines the following question: What systemic set of st...
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Striving together
Chronicles the development of a framework for collective impact in education through the perspectives of its founders and lessons learned from pioneering sites.In 2006, Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky had been suffering from many of the same challenges facing metro regions across the country. De...
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City comp
An exploration of the diverse ways that writing is taught in some unique urban settings.This is the first full-length collection in composition studies to tell the story of teaching and writing in urban universities in cities such as Birmingham, Pittsburgh, Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Atla...
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Philosophical papers
Philosophical Papers is useful for readers interested in the story of twentieth century continental philosophy. The book leads the reader throughout the shifts and turns in the often serpentine development of the philosophical perspectives within continental thought that have now become the legac...
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Ghost faces
Combines psychoanalysis, queer theory, masculinity studies, and cultural studies to explore contemporary manhood in film.Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary Award in the LGBT Nonfiction category presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Ghost Faces explores the insidious nature of homophobia ...
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Classic yiddish fiction
Revisits fiction by the three major Yiddish authors who wrote between 1864 and 1916, exploring their literary and social worlds.Yiddish literature, despite its remarkable achievements during an era bounded by Russian reforms in the 1860s and the First World War, has never before been surveyed by ...
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Manufactured uncertainty
Wide-ranging critique of the epistemological and ethical assumptions that underlie contemporary debates concerning climate change.In this provocative work, Lorraine Code returns to the idea of "epistemic responsibility," as developed in her influential 1987 book of the same name, to confront the ...
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If life is a game, how come i'm not having fun?
Advocates applying a spirit of play to everyday life.In this lively and enlightening book, Paul Brenner suggests that treating life's events and everyday activities as a game would lead to a more socially functional and effective society. Through compelling suggestions and dynamic anecdotes, he c...
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Social threat and social control
This book examines the conflict theory of social control, particularly the threat hypothesis. It asserts that deviance and crime control are responses to social threats such as criminal acts and riots, and to people perceived as threatening such as minorities and the unemployed. The authors use t...
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White horizon
From explorers' accounts to boys' adventure fiction, how Arctic exploration served as a metaphor for nation-building and empire in nineteenth-century Britain.Bridging historical and literary studies, White Horizon explores the importance of the Arctic to British understandings of masculine identi...
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The ethnography of tantra
Presents Tantra from an ethnographic vantage point, through a series of case studies grounded in diverse settings across contemporary Asia.This is the first collection of essays to approach the topic of Tantric Studies from the vantage point of ethnography and lived religion, moving beyond the ce...
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Engaged emancipation
A wide-ranging analysis of the Mokṣopāya, the Indian literary classic that teaches through storytelling how to enjoy an active, successful, worldly life in a spiritually enlightened way.In the Mokṣopāya (also known as the Yogavāsiṣṭha), an eleventh-century Sanskrit poetic text, the great Vedic ph...
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Returning to zhu xi
A reconsideration of Zhu Xi, known as the "great synthesizer" of Confucianism, which establishes him as an important thinker in his own right.Zhu Xi (1130–1200), the chief architect of neo-Confucian thought, affected a momentous transformation in Chinese philosophy. His ideas came to dominate Chi...
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Listening to ourselves
Contemporary African philosophy in indigenous African languages and English translation.A groundbreaking contribution to the discipline of philosophy, this volume presents a collection of philosophical essays written in indigenous African languages by professional African philosophers with Englis...
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Shop floor culture and politics in egypt
Ethnographic study of textile factory workers in Alexandria, Egypt.In Shop Floor Culture and Politics in Egypt, Samer S. Shehata provides us with a unique and detailed ethnographic portrait of life within two large textile factories in Alexandria, Egypt. Working for nearly a year as a "winding ma...
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Writing environments
Including interviews with several of America's leading environmental writers, this volume addresses the intersections between writing and nature.Writing Environments addresses the intersections between writing and nature through interviews with some of America's leading environmental writers. Tho...
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Onto-ethologies
Examines the significance of animal environments in contemporary continental thought.German biologist Jakob von Uexküll focused on how an animal, through its behavioral relations, both impacts and is impacted by its own unique environment. Onto-Ethologies traces the influence of Uexküll's ideas o...
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Leo strauss on the borders of judaism, philosophy, and history
Explores how the thought of Leo Strauss amounts to a model for thinking about the connection between philosophy, Jewish thought, and history.In Leo Strauss on the Borders of Judaism, Philosophy, and History, Jeffrey A. Bernstein explores how the thought of Leo Strauss amounts to a model for think...
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American cities and the politics of party conventions
Uncovers the politics involved when a city recruits and implements a presidential convention.Political party conventions have lost much of their original political nature, serving now primarily as elaborate infomercials while ratifying the decisions made by voters in state primaries and caucuses....
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Cinematic cuts
Explores the philosophical, literary, and psychoanalytic significance of film endings.Editing has been called the language of cinema, and thus a film's ending can be considered the final punctuation mark of this language, framing everything that came before and offering the key to both our interp...
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Maternal activism
Demonstrates how individuals can respond to widespread injustice and systemic militarization in society.Maternal Activism tells the stories of women who refused to ignore injustice even though many people urged them to stop their activism by claiming it would harm their children. Molly Rush, Mich...
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Yitzhak rabin's assassination and the dilemmas of commemoration
Examines how Israeli society has commemorated Yitzhak Rabin.How does a society cope with the challenge of acknowledging and commemorating difficult aspects of its past? In Yitzhak Rabin's Assassination and the Dilemmas of Commemoration, Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi develops a timely sociology of comme...
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Gandhi's pilgrimage of faith
Documents the lifelong journey of faith—full of challenges along the way—that made Gandhi the enlightened spiritual leader we revere.Millions around the world revere Mahatma Gandhi, yet only a few know the man Mohandas Gandhi and the internal journey of his soul. This pioneering book fills the sp...
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Taking risks
Explores activist scholarship in relation to feminism and social movements in the Americas.Taking Risks offers a creative, interdisciplinary approach to narrating the stories of activist scholarship by women. The essays are based on the textual analysis of interviews, oral histories, ethnography,...
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Mystical moments and unitive thinking
Provides an alternative to the traditional psychoanalytic explanation of mystical experience by viewing unitive thinking as a line of cognitive development and mystical moments as creative inspirations on unitive ideas.Merkur proposes an alternative to the traditional psychoanalytic explanation o...
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Democratic teacher education
This book captures the spirit, richness, and diversity of democratic teacher educators as they put their ideas into practice in creative and persistent ways. Using a diverse group of democratic educational projects from throughout North America, this volume taps into varied ways teacher educators...
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American diversity
Demographers explore population diversity in the United States.Presenting important work by well-known demographers, American Diversity focuses on U.S. population changes in the twenty-first century, emphasizing the nation's increasing racial and ethnic diversity. Rather than focusing on separate...
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Plotinus and the presocratics
The first book-length philosophical study on the Presocratic influences in Plotinus' Enneads.Filling the void in the current scholarship, Giannis Stamatellos provides the first book-length study of the Presocratic influences in Plotinus' Enneads. Widely regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism, Pl...
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Democratizing technology
The first volume to critically engage the work of Andrew Feenberg.Largely because of the Internet and the new economy, technology has become the buzzword of our culture. But what is it, and how does it affect our lives? More importantly, can we control and shape it, or does it control us? In shor...
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A turbulent south africa
Highlights the continuing social unrest and public protest occurring in South Africa's poorest districts.Frequently praised for its democratic transition, South Africa has experienced an almost uninterrupted cycle of social protest since the late 1990s. There have been increasing numbers of demon...
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Diversity, social justice, and inclusive excellence
An interdisciplinary anthology exploring issues related to diversity, multiculturalism, and social justice.Winner of the 2016 NYASA Book Award presented by the New York African Studies Association When students are introduced to the study of diversity and social justice, it is usually from sociol...
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The philosopher's voice
Explores the relationship between philosophy and politics in the work of Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Marx.This analysis of the relationship between philosophy and politics recognizes that political philosophers must continually struggle to distinguish their voices from others that clamor within poli...
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Authoring a life
Begins as an autobiography, the story of an incest survivor who became an English professor, but it ends with an argument: that we must reconceptualize the language arts curriculum, from grade school through graduate school, if we are to meet the needs of our students, an alarming number of whom ...
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Religious atheism
Calls into question the traditional polarity of theism and atheism.Feuerbach, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, Russell, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, Lyotard, Derrida. Why were these twelve so-called atheist heavyweights unable to wipe God off the table once and for all? Perhaps t...
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