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The face of things
Engages Levinas and Heidegger on the provocative issue of an ethics of things.Here's a book that dispels the traditional tendency of philosophy to ignore the alterity of things. Drawing on two major figures in the continental tradition-Levinas and Heidegger-author Silvia Benso engages them on the...
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Hermeneutics, citizenship, and the public sphere
This book sheds new light on the question of democratic politics by proposing a hermeneutic conception of citizenship and the public sphere. At the same time, it presents a critique of the postmodern arguments advanced by Richard Rorty, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Jean Baudrillard. Questioning a d...
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Drops of inclusivity
A critical view of race relations on the island of Puerto Rico from 1898 to 1965.Drops of Inclusivity examines race and racism on the island of Puerto Rico by combining a wide-angle historical narrative with the individual stories of Black Puerto Ricans. While some of these Afro-Boricuas, such as...
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Theories of international cooperation and the primacy of anarchy
Argues the state and not markets should be the center of analysis when attempting to explain international cooperation.Challenging the standard liberal explanations for international cooperation in the field of international relations, this book contends that despite numerous efforts and the pass...
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Painting modernism
Studies the influence of the plastic arts on the major writers of Latin American modernism.Painting Modernism demonstrates the influence of painting and sculpture on the work of the major writers of Latin American modernism. Through his analysis, Ivan A. Schulman, a foundational figure in the fie...
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If creation is a gift
Brings an ecotheological perspective to postmodern gift theory.What if our world were considered a gift? Extending postmodern gift theory to ecological and ecotheological concerns, Mark Manolopoulos explores how "creation"-the what-is-can be seen as a gift. Creation, when viewed in a radically eg...
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Democracy in an age of corporate colonization
According to Deetz, our obsolete understanding of communication processes and power relations prevents us from seeing the corporate domination of public decision making. For most people issues of democracy, representation, freedom of speech, and censorship pertain to the State and its relationshi...
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The white indians of mexican cinema
Examines the filmic representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity and its role in mediating racial politics in Mexico.Honorable Mention, 2024 International Latino Book Award in the Best Academic Themed Book, College Level – English category The White Indians of Mexican Cinema theorizes the developme...
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The catcher in the loft
A novel of political intrigue and coming of age, centered in a torture operative who is a fugitive and his unsuspecting daughter who must shelter him.Inspired by the case of a torture specialist in 1980s South Korea who from 1988 to 2000 was a fugitive in his own house, The Catcher in the Loft (p...
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A sourcebook in classical confucian philosophy
Applies a method of comparative cultural hermeneutics to let the tradition speak on its own terms.Roger T. Ames's A Sourcebook in Classical Confucian Philosophy is a companion volume to his Conceptual Lexicon for Classical Confucian Philosophy. It includes texts in the original classical Chinese ...
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The bhagavad gītā
An interlinear edition of the spiritual classic that provides devanagari, transliterated Sanskrit, and English versions of the Gītā.For years, this edition of the Bhagavad Gītā has allowed all those with a lively interest in this spiritual classic to come into direct contact with the richness and...
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At home in the world
Explores how Darwin's theory of human nature can inform educational philosophy.Challenging conventional understanding of humans as selfish and competitive at their core, At Home in the World asserts that we have evolved as a profoundly social species, biologically related to the rest of the natur...
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Rivertime
Journeys on the world's rivers, from a naturalist's point of view.In this engaging travelogue of our world's rivers, great and small, poet and biologist Mary A. Hood reflects on rivers as creators of place. Recounting her journeys along portions of the Mississippi, the Danube, the Amazon, the Yan...
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Bombay before bollywood
Traces the development of Indian cinema from the 1920s to the mid-1990s, before "Bollywood" erupted onto the world stage.Bombay before Bollywood offers a fresh, alternative look at the history of Indian cinema. Avoiding the conventional focus on India's social and mythological films, Rosie Thomas...
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The t'ai-chi ch'uan experience
The leading proponent in America of the Wu style discusses the spiritual and aesthetic meanings of t'ai chi ch'uan.In her previous book, T'ai-Chi Ch'uan: Body and Mind in Harmony: The Integration of Meaning and Method, Sophia Delza describes the Wu Style with careful directions and illustrations ...
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A man of little faith
A poetic and philosophical negotiation of the alternatives of atheism and religious faith.In A Man of Little Faith the French poet and philosopher Michel Deguy reflects on the loss of religious faith both personally and culturally. Disenchanted not only with the oversimplifications of radical ath...
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The concept of work
This book presents an analysis amd review of work, starting with the Homeric period, then dealing with classical Greece and classical Rome, the early Christians and Jews, the early Middle Ages, the era of Charlemagne, the high Middle Ages, the views of Luther and Calvin, the English and French En...
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Wild diplomacy
Explores how humans and wildlife such as wolves can cohabit with mutual respect in the same territories.2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Starting from a specific case, the spontaneous return of wolves to France and the intense conflicts that event has triggered, the French philosopher Bapti...
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Tracing the path of yoga
A comprehensive and theory-rich investigation of the history and philosophy of yoga, from its Indian origins to the contemporary context.Clear, accessible, and meticulously annotated, Tracing the Path of Yoga offers a comprehensive survey of the history and philosophy of yoga that will be invalua...
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The structure of being
Neoplatonism has sometimes been seen as a species of mysticism. This volume shows that Neoplatonism has, on the contrary, a characteristic and definable structure. It presents the logic of Neoplatonism and carefully distinguishes it from the logic of other forms of philosophy.
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Embracing our complexity
Using the thought of Christian thinker Thomas Aquinas and Neo-Confucian Zhu Xi, explores how to exercise and limit authority.This book discusses what a religiously grounded authority might look like from the viewpoints of the European Catholic Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) and the Chinese Neo-Confuc...
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Charlotte brontë at the anthropocene
Forges a fresh interpretation of Charlotte Brontë's oeuvre as a response to ecological instability.Honorable Mention, 2020 Sonya Rudikoff Award presented by the Northeast Victorian Studies Association In this book, Shawna Ross argues that Charlotte Brontë was an attentive witness of the Anthropoc...
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Psychoanalysis and narrative medicine
Contributors explore the significance of literature and psychoanalysis for medical education and practice.In this pioneering volume, Peter L. Rudnytsky and Rita Charon bring together distinguished contributors from medicine, psychoanalysis, and literature to explore the multiple intersections bet...
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Sufism and american literary masters
Explores the influence of Sufism on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers.This book reveals the rich, but generally unknown, influence of Sufism on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature. The translation of Persian poets such as Hafiz and Sa'di into English and the ...
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Incorporating cultural theory
Uses psychoanalysis to reconsider cultural studies with a focus on wholeness and integration.Incorporating Cultural Theory addresses the status of the body and sexuality in cultural criticism by focusing on issues of sexuality, intimacy, and identity. With a perspective grounded in body politics,...
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Amending the abject body
Examines the implications and meanings of the makeover and aesthetic surgery industry in American popular culture.Feminist theorists have often argued that aesthetic surgeries and body makeovers dehumanize and disempower women patients, whose efforts at self-improvement lead to their objectificat...
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History, narrative, and testimony in amitav ghosh's fiction
Comprehensive overview of the work of Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh.This is the first collection of international scholarship on the fiction of Amitav Ghosh. Ghosh's work is read by a wide audience and is well regarded by general readers, critics, and scholars throughout the world. Born in India, ...
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The jews of vienna, 1867-1914
Ablaze with excitement, effervescent with creativity-late nineteenth-century Vienna was the ideal site for this analysis of the ways in which a sizable and significant group of Jews was assimilated into European society.After leaving homes in the Austrian and Hungarian provinces and migrating to ...
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The experimental arabic novel
Traces the development of the modern Arabic novel from the 1960s to the present.The Experimental Arabic Novel places the modern and contemporary Arabic novel in the context of the modernist-postmodern culture debate in the West. Tracing the development of experimentalism in the modern Arabic nove...
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The structure and agency of women's education
Offers research on educational policies, programs, and practices for adolescent girls and young women, from both comparative and international perspectives.This collection examines the educational policies, programs, and practices that offer and/or deny adolescent girls and young women the opport...
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Interpretive approaches to interpersonal communication
This groundbreaking book presents conceptual, theoretical, and applied chapters demonstrating the strengths of interpretive approaches in the study of interpersonal communication. It extends our understanding of interpersonal communication through the incorporation of interpretive and critical th...
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The history of al-ṭabarī vol. 22
This volume chronicles the history of the Islamic state in the years A. H. 74-81 (A. D. 693-701), after the final defeat of Ibn al-Zubayr in Mecca put an end to twelve years of civil war and reunited the empire under the rule of the Marwānid caliph 'Abd al-Malik. Syria and the Hijaz enjoyed a per...
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Tradition and reflection
This book examines, above all, the relationship between reason and Vedic revelation, and the philosophical responses to the idea of the Veda. It deals with such topics as dharma, karma and rebirth, the role of man in the universe, the motivation and justification of human actions, the relationshi...
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Sexing the text
Charts the emergence of a new kind of heterosexual rhetoric in eighteenth-century British literature, providing a nuanced reinterpretation of gender and its role in the major genres of the period.An important contribution to the study of the history of sexuality, this book examines the emergence ...
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Jervis mcentee
Redefines McEntee's place in the history of nineteenth-century American landscape painting.Jervis McEntee presents new scholarship and color reproductions that redefine McEntee's place in the history of nineteenth-century American landscape painting. The lead essay by exhibition curator Lee A. Ve...
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When the music stopped
A son's coming to terms with his mother's decision to abandon her career as a concert pianist in order to raise her children.This is the story of one woman's decision to forfeit a brilliant career for the sake of motherhood. Once a child prodigy, Gitta Gradova traveled the world as an internation...
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The dybbuk
A comprehensive study of the history and evolution of the dybbuk, from kabbalistic tradition to popular folklore.The Dybbuk is the first comprehensive study of the historical and kabbalistic sources of the dybbuk phenomenon, from the first recorded case of dybbuk possession in Safed in 1571 onwar...
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Resilience
First collection of essays by queer scholars with working-class backgrounds.Academia can be overwhelmingly foreign and hostile to those who have poor or working-class backgrounds. For people who are from the working class and also queer, the obstacles to earning a graduate degree may prove insurm...
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Between speaking and silence
Explores the question of student silence from students' perspectives and challenges the conventional wisdom about silent students.Why are students silent? Using written reflections and interviews, Mary M. Reda examines students' perceptions of speaking and being silent in a first-year composition...
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The fall of the indigo jackal
Contemporary critical theory is brought to the consideration of caste in the Pañcatantra, one of the best-known cycles of Indian tales.Every child growing up in India knows the story of the jackal who fell into the vat of blue dye, and discovering the power of his majestic new appearance, declare...
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A community of one
Complementing recent feminist studies of female self-representation, this book examines the dynamics of masculine self-representation in nineteenth-century British literature. Arguing that the category "autobiography" was a product of nineteenth-century individualism, the author analyzes the depe...
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Beyond discourse
Drawing on the works of Martin Buber and Mikhail Bakhtin, the author explores the roles that dialogue, laughter, and spontaneity play in the education of the whole person.Using Mikhail Bakhtin's concepts of dialogue and carnival, and in connection with the ideas of Martin Buber, Sidorkin explores...
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Transforming process theism
Traces variations of theism in Whitehead's principle works, identifying a major problem in conventional understanding of process theism and constructing an original and provocative solution.Process theism, in a variety of manifestations and modifications stemming from Whitehead's original suggest...
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Notions of the americans
Notions of the Americans in considered Cooper's first work of non-fiction despite a thin overlay of character and plot. Written in the form of a travel narrative, it addresses the widespread ignorance he encountered in Europe about the people and institutions of the United States. It is an exuber...
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Postphenomenology
Critically engages the work of the philosopher Don Ihde.Postphenomenology is the first book devoted exclusively to the interpretation and advancement of prominent phenomenologist Don Ihde's landmark contributions to history, philosophy, sociology, science, sound studies, and technology studies. I...
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At the crossroads
A founding father of modern Israel, Ahad Ha-am (1856-1927) was one of the shapers of the contemporary Zionist consciousness. His career spanned the era of Russian Jewry's nationalist awakening. During the last decade of the nineteenth century, he was the leading theorist of the Russian Zionist mo...
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Immersed in great affairs
A biography of the influential journalist and historian Allan Nevins.Immersed in Great Affairs is the first book-length biography of noted historian and journalist Allan Nevins. In a career that spanned nearly three-quarters of the twentieth century, Nevins won two Pulitzer Prizes, helped draft J...
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The projected nation
Investigates how Argentine cinema has represented rural spaces and urban margins from the 1910s to the present.The Projected Nation examines the representation of rural spaces and urban margins in Argentine cinema from the 1910s to the present. The literary and visual culture of the nineteenth an...
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