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Unimportant clerks
Examines the ambivalent, often critical relationship of the New York School poets to bureaucratic culture and the conditions of work.Unimportant Clerks identifies a central tension in the writing of the New York School poets: at times their poetry replicates the ideology of bureaucracy while at o...
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Signs of struggle
Focuses on signifiers of cultural difference, such as sexuality, class, gender, and race, and how they are connected to theories of writing.Synthesizing rhetorical and cultural theory, Signs of Struggle generates innovative approaches to current critical theories of difference, culture, gender, a...
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Friedrich engels and modern social and political theory
Offers a powerful new interpretation of Engels's contributions to modern social and political theory.In this comprehensive overview of Friedrich Engels's writings, Paul Blackledge critically explores Engels's contributions to modern social and political theory generally and Marxism specifically. ...
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Portraits
Explores Elie Wiesel's portraits of the sages of Judaism and elaborates on the Hasidic legacy from his life and his teaching.Elie Wiesel identified himself as a Vizhnitzer Hasid, who was above all things a witness to the testimony and teaching of the Jewish tradition at the core of the Hasidic tr...
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Communicating organizational change
A practical and theoretical discussion of how to effectively communicate organizational change to management, employees, stockholders, and customers.Rapid and volatile organizational change is one of the most profound characteristics of our time. How to communicate the need for and the direction ...
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The history of al-ṭabarī vol. 29
This volume opens when the caliph al-Manṣūr has just defeated the rebellion of Muḥammad the Pure Soul in 145/762-3 and is now securely established in power. The main concerns of the remaining thirteen years of his reign are the building of his new capital at Baghdad, on which al-al-Ṭabarī's text ...
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The good is one, its manifestations many
Presents a twenty-first-century, progressive, liberal Confucianism.Building on his long-standing work in metaphysics and Asian philosophy, Robert Cummings Neville presents a series of essays that cumulatively articulate a contemporary, progressive Confucian position as a global philosophy. Throug...
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Capital in the mirror
Analyzes contemporary capitalism through the products of culture and art for fresh insight into emancipatory possibilities concealed within capitalism's darkest dynamics.Aesthetic objects, crafted as poetic reflections of the contradictory worlds that they inhabit, are simultaneously theorized an...
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Gleanings in europe
France (1837) was the third volume published in Cooper's Gleanings in Europe series, but first in the chronology of his European experience. Less sequential than his other travel narratives, France distills his impressions of French and European culture during his first two years abroad. Exhibiti...
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Humans, animals, machines
Examines the overlap and blurring of boundaries among humans, animals, and machines.In the twenty-first century, the boundaries between both humans and machines and humans and animals are hotly contested and debated. In Humans, Animals, Machines, Glen A. Mazis examines the increasingly blurring b...
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The striking cabbies of cairo and other stories
Challenges existing views of crafts and service workers in Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.This book charts new directions in Egyptian social history, providing the first systematic account of adaptation and protest among crafts and service workers in Egypt in the nineteenth...
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Essays in ancient greek philosophy vi
An anthology devoted to the intellectual developments that led up to the philosophy of Plato.This collection of essays on early Greek philosophy focuses on the natural and moral philosophy and the intellectual developments that led up to the philosophy of Plato. Studies of the philosophies of Ana...
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The art of the watchdog
Expert advice on how any citizen can fight government fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption.Does government fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption make your blood boil?In The Art of the Watchdog, Daniel L. Feldman and David R. Eichenthal show how to fight back. Based on their own work in federal, stat...
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See america
The first history of the US Travel Bureau, which set the precedent for federal involvement in promoting tourism and travel, an activity which continues today.Created in 1937 by Interior Secretary Harold Ickes and given formal status by Congress in 1940, the US Travel Bureau played a seminal role ...
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Moral responsibility in twenty-first-century warfare
Confronts the ethical challenges of warfare carried out by artificial intelligence.2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare explores the complex relationship between just war theory and the ethics of autonomous weapons systems (AWS). One of the c...
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Seeing like the buddha
Considers film as a form of Buddhist ritual and contemplative practice.In this important new contribution to Buddhist studies and Buddhist film criticism, Francisca Cho argues that films can do more than simply convey information about Buddhism. Films themselves can become a form of Buddhist ritu...
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William blake and the moderns
Robert Bertholf and Annette Levitt have assembled thirteen essays that establish Blake as a "central voice molding modern literature and thought." The essays in this volume examine Blake's influence on modern poetry, the modern novel, and modern thought from various critical approaches. This coll...
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Fashionable nihilism
One of America's foremost philosophers reflects on the discipline and its relation to everyday life.Thoreau wrote that we have professors of philosophy but no philosophers. Can't we have both? Why doesn't philosophy hold a more central place in our lives? Why should it? Eloquently opposing the an...
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Black political mobilization, leadership, power and mass behavior
Black Political Mobilization accounts for the political success of black Americans in the South. Minion Morrison returns to Mississippi, the center of much of the political activism of the 1960s, to analyze the remarkable improvement in black electoral participation in the years following passage...
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Struggles for equal voice
Reveals how African Americans used cable television as a means of empowerment.While previous scholarship on African Americans and the media has largely focused on issues such as stereotypes and program content, Struggles for Equal Voice reveals how African Americans have utilized access to cable ...
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Personal religion and spiritual healing
A unique historical study of the personal nature of religion, spirituality, and healing in the twentieth century based on the letters of ordinary people from around the world.The Panacea Society was a small religious community of women that was established in England in the early twentieth centur...
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Yoga and psychology
Explores the influence of yoga in the seminal Indian philosophy of Bhartrhari and in the Western psychology of Freud, Jung, and the transpersonalists, providing unique insights into the differences between Eastern and Western concepts of human nature.Harold Coward explores how the psychological a...
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Anthropology and civilizational analysis
This volume brings social and cultural anthropologists into dialogue with historical sociology and illustrates the continued potential of the concept of civilization for all participants.The concept of civilization has a long but checkered history in anthropology, and anthropological materials ha...
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Reauthoring savage inequalities
Offers rich, wide-ranging counternarratives to social, political, and educational discourses that characterize urban schools and communities as places of despair, revealing the resources and strategies of resistance that teachers, students, and families use to succeed and thrive.Reauthoring Savag...
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A postmodern psychology of asian americans
Challenges existing paradigms of knowledge as they relate to Asian Americans.Focusing on race, culture, acculturation, ethnicity, and ethnic identity-concepts commonly used to account for the behaviors of Asian Americans and other minorities-A Postmodern Psychology of Asian Americans examines the...
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The manifest and the revealed
Offers a new phenomenological method for biblical interpretation that opens up the possibility of an absolute science of scripture.What is scripture and how does it function? Is there a "scientific" way to understand its meaning? In answer, Adam Wells proposes a phenomenological approach to scrip...
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The history of al-ṭabarī vol. 27
By 735 an Arab empire stretched from Arles and Avignon in southern France to the Indus River and Central Asia, and a vital young civilization fostered by a new world religion was taking root. Yet the Muslim conquerors were divided by tribal quarrels, tensions among new converts, and religious rev...
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Walls and bridges
A fresh and easy-to-understand examination of some of America's most challenging social issues.Winner of the 2004 Critics' Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association This useful classroom resource for professors wishing to incorporate notions of justice into their cour...
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Real security
With the end of the Cold War and the extraordinary military competition that characterized it, the meaning of national security is being redefined. This book participates in that task by proposing a new, demilitarized foreign policy based on collective security, and an industrial policy capable o...
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The sāṃkhya system
Explores the Sāṃkhya system and the delicate relationship it articulates between witness consciousness (Puruṣa) and manifest realities (Prakṛti), providing a path to freedom through knowledge.The Sāṃkhya System brings new life to an ancient Hindu system of thought. Sāṃkhya spans the fields of phi...
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Changing the self
This book examines the varieties of self-exchange and factors that can influence it. It takes a much-needed step toward linking the concerns of the academic self-researcher and the consumer of research pertaining to changing the self. Throughout the book, understanding and accounting for change i...
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Vernacular catholicism, vernacular saints
A collection of Raj's groundbreaking ethnographic studies of "vernacular" Catholic traditions in Tamil Nadu, India.Finalist for the 2018 Best Book in Hindu-Christian Studies presented by the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies At the turn of the twenty-first century, Selva J. Raj (1952–2008) was ...
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Nietzsche, metaphor, religion
Presents a radically anti-foundationalist reading of Nietzsche's philosophy of religion.Nietzsche argued that metaphor is at the basis of language, concepts, and perception, making it the vehicle by which humans interpret the world. As such, metaphor has profound consequences for the nature of re...
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The federal government and urban housing
A comprehensive history of U.S. housing policy that illuminates the political struggles that have accompanied the nation's effort to assist those citizens who are in desperate need of decent, affordable housing.Since its initial publication, The Federal Government and Urban Housing has become a s...
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In search of the dharma
This is the first and only book in English on modern Chinese Buddhism written by a practicing Chinese monk. Chen-hua provides a rare eyewitness account of Chinese monastic life and Buddhist practices before they were changed forever by the Communist revolution. It begins with his departure from h...
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A history of ancient philosophy ii
In this book Reale presents Plato and Aristotle.At the center of Reale's interpretation of Plato is the fulcrum of the supersensible, the metaphysical discovery that Plato presented as a result of the Second Voyage. This discovery of the supersensible is, in Reale's view, not only the fundamental...
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Kenosis and feminist theology
Using a perspective derived from the philosophy of Gianni Vattimo, Frascati-Lochhead explores the response of feminist theology to postmodern theory.This book addresses crucial issues that postmodern theory has raised for feminism and for feminist theology in particular. Postmodern critiques of m...
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Deciding to leave
The first sustained examination of the process by which justices elect to leave the United States Supreme Court.While much has been written on Supreme Court appointments, Deciding to Leave provides the first systematic look at the process by which justices decide to retire from the bench, and why...
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Citizen teacher
The first book-length biography of Margaret Haley (1861–1939) focuses on her political vision, her activities as a public school activist, and her life as a charismatic woman leader.Finalist for the 2006 History of Education Society's Outstanding Book AwardWinner of the 2005 Critics' Choice Award...
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Love and politics
Argues that love plays an essential—if often implicit—role in Hegel's mature theory of moral subjectivity and political community.Alice Ormiston's Love and Politics argues that modern politics is rooted not merely in the pursuit of power, but that it is essentially underpinned by the experience o...
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Feminism and the postmodern impulse
Analyzes the intersections between feminist politics and postmodern aesthetics as demonstrated in recent Anglo-American fiction.Michael analyzes the intersections between feminist politics and postmodern aesthetics as demonstrated in recent Anglo-American fiction. While much has been written on v...
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Recent marxian theory
Brings together prominent recent analyses within the Marxist tradition that bear on class formation and social conflict in contemporary capitalism and concludes that class relations continue to be important for analyzing the historical trajectory of, and challenges to, capitalism, although not in...
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Deconstructive constitutionalism
Investigates, by way of Derrida's engagements with Kant, how the foundations of modern constitutionalism can be differently conceived to address some of the challenges of the twenty-first century.Deconstructive Constitutionalism explores the relationship between the thinking of Immanuel Kant and ...
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Policy making at the margins of government
Traces the almost century-long struggle between Israel's largest healthcare provider, Kupat Holim, and successive Israeli governments.Who makes public policy in vital services that are paid for by the government but provided by autonomous non-governmental agencies? This book explores this questio...
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Writing-based teaching
Offers candid, first-hand accounts of what it is like to make writing central to teaching in secondary schools and colleges.Written by the team at Bard College's Institute for Writing and Thinking, this book is designed to provide practical guidance regarding the challenges and potential of writi...
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Religious vegetarianism
An anthology of writings on vegetarianism from a wide range of religious traditions.Stretching back more than two thousand years and spanning diverse traditions, religious vegetarianism has an ancient and rich history. In this book, Kerry S. Walters and Lisa Portmess gather writings that reflect ...
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