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Black women in politics
Examines how Diasporic Black women engage in politics.This book explores how Diasporic Black women engage in politics, highlighting three dimensions-citizenship, power, and justice-that are foundational to intersectionality theory and politics as developed by Black women and other women of color....
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Self-cultivation in early china
An introduction to ancient Chinese ideas on how to live a good life.Self-Cultivation in Early China is an introduction to multiple aspects of the foundational practice of self-cultivation in early China (c.1000 to 100 BCE). Drawing on the Chinese classics and the dozens of scholars' texts (both r...
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Sacred dreams
Offers practical advice and research results on women school superintendents, a field traditionally dominated by men.Although women have dominated the teaching ranks at all levels of education since the turn of the century, men occupy 93 percent of superintendency jobs. Considering the nationwide...
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Outsmarting apartheid
Inspiring oral history of the impact of cultural and educational exchange between South Africa and the United States during apartheid.For almost forty years, under the watchful eye of the apartheid regime, some three thousand South Africans participated in cultural and educational exchange with t...
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Zen sanctuary of purple robes
A fascinating look at a Zen convent throughout its history.Zen Sanctuary of Purple Robes examines the affairs of Rinzai Zen's Tōkeiji Convent, founded in 1285 by nun Kakusan Shidō after the death of her husband, Hōjō Tokimune. It traces the convent's history through seven centuries, including the...
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The trace of political representation
A philosophical analysis of the discourses, practices, and effects of representation in political institutions, focusing on American democracy.The Trace of Political Representation is a philosophical analysis of the discourses, practices, and effects of representation in political institutions, w...
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Dreamworlds of shamanism and tibetan buddhism
Explores shamanic and Tibetan Buddhist attitudes toward dreams.Dreamworlds of Shamanism and Tibetan Buddhism explores the fertile interaction of Buddhism, shamanism, and Tibetan culture with the subject of dreaming. In Tibetan Buddhist literature, there are numerous examples of statements that ex...
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Hurricane andrew, the public schools, and the rebuilding of community
Shows how schools help people to cope with disasters and rebuild their communities.Hurricane Andrew struck South Florida early on Monday morning, August 24, 1992. Widely described as the worst natural disaster in modern U.S. history, the storm left 38 people dead in South Florida, 80,000 homes de...
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Valvèdre
The first English translation of one of George Sand's major novels.An astonishingly modern novel, George Sand's Valvèdre questions traditional Romantic representations of women and exposes the disastrous consequences such notions of femininity have for both male and female characters at a time wh...
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Perspectives on the new age
This book begins with a comprehensive historical section that places the New Age within the context of its predecessor movements. It then focuses on specialized aspects of this subculture, from essays on the convergence of New Age spirituality with women's spirituality, to an essay on how Evangel...
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The step not beyond
This book is a translation of Maurice Blanchot's work that is of major importance to late 20th-century literature and philosophy studies. Using the fragmentary form, Blanchot challenges the boundaries between the literary and the philosophical. With the obsessive rigor that has always marked his ...
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Sexual harassment, work, and education
Supplies new information on the application of sexual harassment laws in schools, colleges/universities, and the workplace.Sexual Harassment, Work, and Education brings new and important research to bear on consensual relationships on college campuses, provides new resources for dealing with sexu...
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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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How trump and the christian right saved lgbti human rights
Traces the Trump administration's surprising support for LGBTI human rights abroad to Trump's indifference and the cynicism and political interests of Christian conservative elites.During the Obama administration, Christian conservatives insisted that securing human rights for LGBTI people abroad...
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Value, beauty, and nature
Argues that, to make progress within environmental ethics, philosophers must explicitly engage in environmental metaphysics.Much of early environmental ethics was born out of the belief that the ecological crisis can only truly be solved by overcoming a pernicious worldview that limits all intrin...
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Religious therapeutics
Explores the relationship between health and religion based on the model offered by the Hindu traditions of Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra.Religious Therapeutics explores the relationship between psychophysical health and spiritual health and presents a model for interpreting connections between reli...
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Comic effects
Lewis draws on both humor theories and research, arguing for the development of interdisciplinary methodologies in the study of literary humor. He demonstrates that the sociologist of humor and the comic playwright approach the same subject-humor in and between groups-with different tools, that w...
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Imperialism and human rights
Looks at the language of rights used by diverse interest groups in British-colonized Nigeria.2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title In this seminal study, Bonny Ibhawoh investigates the links between European imperialism and human rights discourses in African history. Using British-colonized Nige...
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Philosophy and literature in latin america
Philosophy and Literature in Latin America presents a unique and original view of the current state of development in Latin America of two disciplines that are at the core of the humanities. Divided into two parts, each section explores the contributions of distinguished American and Latin Americ...
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Women's activism and new media in the arab world
Critically evaluates the rapid changes that have happened in women's lives in the contemporary Middle East due to globalization and the increasing popularity of modern technology and social media use.Following the Arab Spring events in 2011, a number of important women's social movements, as well...
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Hegel on tragedy and comedy
Explores the full extent of Hegel's interest in tragedy and comedy throughout his works and extends from more literary and dramatic issues to questions about the role these genres play in the history of society and religion.No philosopher has treated the subject of tragedy and comedy in as origin...
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Cuban-american literature and art
Explores how Cuban Americans negotiate bicultural identities through cultural production.This groundbreaking collection offers an understanding of why Cuban-American literature and visual art have emerged in the United States and how they are so essentially linked to both Cuban and American cultu...
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Walāyah in the fāṭimid ismāʿīlī tradition
Explores the relationship between revelation and reason in medieval Islamic intellectual history.In this original study, Elizabeth R. Alexandrin examines the complex relationships that can be inscribed between medieval Ismā'īlī thought as an intellectual tradition with a devotional practice of re...
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Self-direction
Relates how the self-direction movement was developed, the research that supports it, how the model has spread across the country and the globe, and recommendations and prospects for the future.In the past, when people with disabilities and older adults needed help with activities of daily living...
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Death and rebirth in virgil's arcadia
Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia is an introduction to the Eclogues, based on sound scholarship but also personally felt and addressed to a popular audience. It outlines clearly the literary and historical background of Virgil's early poems, discusses each eclogue in some detail, and offers ...
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Beyond the subject
An original reading of Nietzsche and Heidegger that paved the way for Vattimo's conception of weak thought.In Beyond the Subject Gianni Vattimo offers a reading of Nietzsche and Heidegger that shows how the premises to overcome the metaphysical Subject were already embedded in their thought. Vatt...
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Fight to live, live to fight
Examines US foreign and domestic policy through the narratives of post-9/11 US military veterans and the activism they are engaged in.While veterans are often cast as a "problem" for society, Fight to Live, Live to Fight challenges this view by focusing on the progressive, positive, and productiv...
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Between exile and return
This innovative study of the modern Hebrew writer, S. Y. Agnon, offers new insight into his literary transformations of Jewish themes and sources. With particular attention to Kafka, Hoffman situates Agnon in the context of twentieth-century literature and examines such central issues in Agnon's ...
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Disciplining women
An interdisciplinary look Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), the first historically Black sorority.Black Greek-letter organizations offer many African Americans opportunities for activism, community-building, fostering cultural pride, and cultural work within the African American community. Disciplining Wo...
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Feminism, foucault, and embodied subjectivity
Argues that Foucault's work employs a conception of subjectivity that is well-suited for feminist theory and politics.Addressing central questions in the debate about Foucault's usefulness for politics, including his rejection of universal norms, his conception of power and power-knowledge, his s...
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The origins and diversity of axial age civilizations
This book presents a new and original analysis of the great ancient civilizations, focusing on the breakthroughs and their institutionalization in Greece, Israel, China, and India. The conditions under which these civilizations developed are systematically explored. For comparative purposes, the ...
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The need for a sacred science
This book deals with the meaning of a science rooted in the sacred, the metaphysical foundation of such science, its contrast to modern science and its pertinence to some of the major issues facing humanity today. In the first part, the author turns to the fundamental question of the multiplicity...
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Going beyond the pairs
Argues that German Romanticism, Zen Buddhism, and deconstruction, for all their cultural differences, are three expressions of a universal vision.In Going beyond the Pairs, Dennis McCort examines the theme of the coincidentia oppositorum-the tendency of a thing or relationship to turn, under cert...
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Whose tradition? which dao?
Considers the notable similarities between the thought of Confucius and Wittgenstein.In an incisive work of comparative philosophy, James F. Peterman considers the similarities between early Chinese ethicist Confucius and mid-twentieth century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Their enduring legac...
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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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The lord who is half woman
A fascinating study from a modern feminist perspective of an androgynous Hindu god in Indian culture.The designation "Lord Who Is Half Woman" refers to the androgynous Hindu god Ardhanarisvara (also known as Siva-Sakti). While iconographical aspects of this significant image have been addressed, ...
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Physics and the ultimate significance of time
Challenges the conventional view of the nature of time.Physics and the Ultimate Significance of Time challenges the conventional view of the nature of time. The dominant twentieth-century view, supported by Einstein and many of the founders of quantum theory, implies that time is ultimately unrea...
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Commitment in dialogue
Develops a logical analysis of dialogue in which two or more parties attempt to advance their own interests. It includes a classification of the major types of dialogues and a discussion of several important informal fallacies.This book develops a logical analysis of dialogue in which two or more...
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The meaning of irony
Genuinely interdisciplinary in approach, The Meaning of Irony brings together literary analysis and, from psychoanalysis, both theory and case studies. Its investigation ranges from everyday examples of verbal irony-conscious and unconscious-to the complex irony of literature.This book provides t...
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Rebellious histories
Traces the emergence of creative texts focusing on the nineteenth-century slave trade to make sense of the radicalized effects of global capitalism.From the early 1970s to the mid-1990s, playwrights, novelists, filmmakers, visual artists, and prison writers from Sierra Leone and the United States...
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Ethnicity, race, and crime
Examines both historical and contemporary patterns of crime and justice among white ethnics and nonwhite racial groups in the United States.Researchers have long noted that rates of reported crime and punishment are higher for some ethnic and racial groups in the U.S. than for others. Comparative...
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The repose of the spirits
Major new translation of a unique and important Persian treatise on divine names in the Islamic tradition.The Repose of the Spirits is a translation of one of the earliest and most comprehensive treatises on Sufism in the Persian language. Written by Aḥmad Sam'ānī, an expert in Islamic law from a...
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Critical animal studies
Comprehensive overview of key theoretical approaches and issues in the field.Having roots as a specialized philosophical movement at Oxford University in the early 1970s, critical animal studies is now taking shape as a wide-open, multidisciplinary endeavor through which scholars across the human...
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Integral theory in action
Leading scholar-practitioners discuss the strengths, limits, and potential of Integral Theory and the AQAL model.In a world as complex as ours, an integral approach is needed to help sort through a dynamic landscape and respond effectively to individual and collective challenges. Integral Theory ...
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The science of satyug
The first in-depth study of the All World Gayatri Pariwar, a modern Indian religious movement.The All World Gayatri Pariwar is a modern religious movement that enjoys wide popularity in North India, particularly among the many STEM workers who joined after becoming disillusioned with their lucrat...
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Gendering chinese religion
A gender-critical consideration of women and religion in Chinese traditions from medieval to modern times.Gendering Chinese Religion marks the emergence of a subfield on women, gender, and religion in China studies. Ranging from the medieval period to the present day, this volume departs from the...
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Shutdown at youngstown
In spite of the gravity of the problem of mass unemployment and its periodic recurrence in industrial societies, few scientific studies have been undertaken which serve to define the impact of plant closings on workers, families, and the community; to evaluate individual group, or community respo...
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Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and african american narratives
Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmodernist theory.This book explores how African American social and political movements, African American studies, independent scholars, and traditional cultural forms revisit and challenge the representati...
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