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The losing war
Critical analysis of Plan Colombia, a multibillion dollar US counternarcotics initiative.Plan Colombia was an ambitious, multibillion dollar program of American aid to the country of Colombia to fight that nation's recreational drug industry. First signed into law by President Clinton in 2000, th...
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Sacred kōyasan
Takes the reader on a pilgrimage to Mount Kōya, the holy Buddhist mountain in Japan.For more than one thousand years, the vast Buddhist monastery and temple complex on remote Mount Kōya has been one of Japan's most important religious centers. Saint Kōbō Daishi (also known as Kūkai), founder of t...
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Wearing cultural styles in japan
Explores how tradition and modernity coexist in regional Japan, arguing that the rural/urban dichotomy is outmoded for understanding this contemporary society.This groundbreaking collection examines the regional dynamics of state societies, looking at how people use the concepts of urban and rura...
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Justice and law
A collection of essays on contemporary issues in justice and law.This book is a collection of four essays drawn from the Pell Honors Program held at Binghamton University, the State University of New York. Each essay addresses contemporary issues in justice and law. The essays originated as Honor...
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Exploring/teaching the psychology of women
Focuses on how to teach the psychology of women course with emphasis on three main themes: critical thinking skills, integration of knowledge, and multiculturalism.Pedagogical techniques are provided for topics typically discussed in the psychology of women course including heritage of the field,...
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This dagger, my heart
Historical fiction centered around the life and tragic death of the German Romantic poet and philosopher Karoline von Günderrode.In 1806, when she was only twenty-six, Karoline von Günderrode plunged a dagger through her heart. She was a gifted poet and philosopher, a member of the circle of Roma...
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The erotics of corruption
A provocative retelling of the story of political corruption in the modern period.In this provocative retelling of the story of political corruption in the modern period, Ruth A. Miller argues that narratives of political corruption rely upon an explicitly pornographic rhetoric and have been inst...
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Native recognition
Offers a new interpretation of the century-long relationship between the Western film genre and Native American filmmaking.In Native Recognition, Joanna Hearne persuasively argues for the central role of Indigenous image-making in the history of American cinema. Across the twentieth and into the ...
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Keeping house
Food and its preparation play an integral role in this novel of a young Italian woman struggling to find her own identity in a family of strong personalities and colorful figures.Part autobiographical novel and part cookbook, Keeping House tells the story of a young Italian woman struggling to fi...
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From sicily to elizabeth street
For many immigrants, the move from Sicily to a New York tenement was accompanied by rapid, significant, and often surprisingly satisfactory changes in a wide variety of social relationships. Many of these changes can be traced to the influence of a changing housing environment.From Sicily to Eliz...
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Living alterities
Philosophers consider race and racism from the perspective of lived, bodily experience.Broadening the philosophical conversation about race and racism, Living Alterities considers how people's racial embodiment affects their day-to-day lived experiences, the lived experiences of individuals marke...
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Rhetoric and civility
This book relates the concept of civility to rhetorical disposition, and incivility to indisposition. The author discusses classical rhetorical theory and interprets it for use in all interactions, exploring origins in infancy of the rhetorical disposition and the rhetorical indisposition. He pro...
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The classical tibetan language
Among Asian languages, Tibetan is second only to Chinese in the depth of its historical record, with texts dating back as far as the eighth and ninth centuries, written in an alphabetic script that preserves the contemporaneous phonological features of the language.The Classical Tibetan Language ...
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Rambo and the dalai lama
Contrasts two approaches to conflicts and their resolution: the aggressive, confrontative elements of the adversary paradigm represented by the fictional figure Rambo, and the compassionate non-violence of the mutuality paradigm advocated by the Dalai Lama.Rambo and the Dalai Lama suggests that t...
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Reconceiving experience
Presents a new framework for understanding language, thought, and experience, and for carrying out research.Kearns investigates representation and intentional activity to determine how experience contributes to propositional thought and belief, and how experience is based on neural states and eve...
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Work orientation and job performance
With critical attention focused on education, and the teaching profession itself under close scrutiny by federal, state, and local officials and governing boards, a heightened sense of the need to attract and retain good teachers has surfaced as a national priority. Based on data collected on ele...
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Critical theory from the margins
Putting at work a negative pedagogy centered around learning from unlearning, problematizes and boldly challenges today's culturalist discourses, camouflaged racisms, and masked fascisms.Great critical theorists from Marx and Engels to Adorno and Horkheimer not only came from the margins but also...
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Domestic abolitionism and juvenile literature, 1830-1865
Explores why women abolitionists turned to children's literature to make their case against slavery.Deborah C. De Rosa examines the multifaceted nature of domestic abolitionism, a discourse that nineteenth-century women created to voice their political sentiments when cultural imperatives demande...
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Panpsychism
An anthology of readings in panpsychism, spanning two millennia.Panpsychism is the view that mentality extends from humans to animals, insects, plant cells, and other natural bodies exhibiting persisting unity of organization. Formulated in ancient times, it has since undergone a series of reform...
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Potent mana
Brilliant study of the effects of colonialism on the physical, mental, and spiritual health of Native Hawaiians, and their efforts to decolonize through healing and remembering.Brilliantly elucidating and weaving together the forces of indigenous sovereignty, colonialism, and personal health, Pot...
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Inrushes of the heart
A comprehensive introduction to the life and thought of one of the Islamic intellectual tradition's most original and profound authors.Inrushes of the Heart delves deeply into the life and thought of 'Ayn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī (d. 525/1131), a major Muslim philosopher, Sufi master, and religious judg...
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The racial crisis in american higher education
Fully revised, updated edition of the classic text with all new essays assessing the state of race and racial issues in US higher education today.A crisis of immense magnitude persists in higher education in the United States. For this third edition of The Racial Crisis in American Higher Educati...
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Holocaust consciousness and cold war violence in latin america
Examines how community leaders, writers, and political activists facing state repression in Latin America have drawn on and debated the validity of Holocaust terms to describe human rights atrocities in their own countries.This book proposes the existence of a recognizably distinct Holocaust cons...
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Critical voices on special education
The authors of this work address special education's most pressing concern: the inappropriate placement into special education programs of millions of students who fall behind or do not conform well enough to the academic or behavioral standards of today's public schools. Too often, these student...
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Energy and the politics of the north atlantic
Documents how energy resource acquisition has been the driving motivator for European and American international relations.Since the onset of the Second Industrial Revolution in the second half of the nineteenth century, energy has become a key axis of politics and international relations, partic...
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The politics of orientation
Interlinks Gilles Deleuze's critical philosophy with Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to unpack contemporary democratic politics as a contest for complexity-reducing orientation in sense.The Politics of Orientation provides the first substantial exploration of a surprising theoretical kinship and ...
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Vito marcantonio
Explores Vito Marcantonio's unique status as a radical politician from New York City.This is the first study to fully explore Marcantonio's unique status as a radical politician who, despite massive opposition, held high public office for fourteen years. As congressional representative to Harlem,...
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The spiritual writings of amir ʿabd al-kader
A selection of writings by a great nineteenth-century Sufi Shaikh in the direct lineage of Ibn 'Arabi.Behind 'Abd al-Kader's role of brilliant warrior lay another, that of spiritual master in the direct lineage of Ibn 'Arabi, the Shaikh al-Akbar (the greatest shaikh). The thirty-nine texts transl...
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Lesbian philosophies and cultures
The lesbians who have contributed to this book are theorists and activists who write as members of diverse lesbian cultures. Each lesbian has her ways of knowing, her voices, approaches, methodologies, languages. Each lesbian reflects, directly and indirectly, her relations to her own and to othe...
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Orientation to inquiry in a reflective professional psychology
This book approaches professional inquiry in psychology from a perspective that integrates research and practice and prepares students for the diversity of methods employed in the field. It examines a broad range of models and methods of inquiry in both research and practice and provides a framew...
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Engaged jainism
Explores the manifold ways in which Jains and Jain ideas become engaged in social worlds.The Jain tradition, with roots in ancient India but now spread across the globe, is anything but static and monolithic. In Engaged Jainism, an interdisciplinary cohort of academics and practitioners explore t...
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Birth of a national icon
Examines the rise of the intellectual in fin-de-siecle France, setting this important phenomenon against the backdrop of an emerging mass democracy and concentrating on the key role played by the avant-garde.Birth of a National Icon examines the emergence of the intellectual in fin-de-siècle Fran...
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Empire and poetic voice
Explores the relation of post-colonization authors to literary traditions.In Empire and Poetic Voice Patrick Colm Hogan draws on a broad and detailed knowledge of Indian, African, and European literary cultures to explore the way colonized writers respond to the subtle and contradictory pressures...
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Heidegger on science
The first collection of essays devoted to Heidegger's contribution to understanding modern science.Although Martin Heidegger is well known for his work on technology, he is not often discussed in the context of science broadly speaking. This volume is the first to showcase diverse perspectives on...
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Body/self/other
Examines the lived experience of social encounters drawing on phenomenological insights.Body/Self/Other brings together a variety of phenomenological perspectives to examine the complexity of social encounters across a range of social, political, and ethical issues. It investigates the materialit...
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Conflict and peace in the modern international system
This book is an important contribution to the understanding of conflict and peace in the modern world, and to the continuous debate about the best methods to avoid and limit wars. This revised edition has the added advantage of having updated information about international and civil conflicts up...
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The judiciary and american democracy
Examines recent debates in constitutional theory in light of the work of Alexander Bickel.The role courts should play in American democracy has long been contested, fueling debates among citizens who take an active interest in politics. Alexander Bickel made a significant contribution to these de...
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Governmental transparency in the path of administrative reform
How federal management reforms have impacted the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act.The consequences of governmental reform are not always intended. In this book, Suzanne J. Piotrowski examines how federal management reforms associated with the National Performance Review have affec...
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Thomas hobbes
An introduction to Thomas Hobbes as a systematic and not merely political philosopher.Best known for his contributions to political philosophy, Thomas Hobbes set out to develop a coherent philosophical system extending from logic and natural philosophy to civil and religious philosophy. In this i...
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Education and women's work
This book examines the transformations in women's work and education and assesses their effects on women from different social and cultural backgrounds.
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Naturalizing god?
Evaluates religious naturalists' attempts to find a middle path between supernaturalism and atheistic secularism, and explores naturalistic, theistic, and panpsychist solutions.Can nature be considered a religious object? Religious naturalists answer yes, as they seek to carve out a middle path b...
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Language, culture, and power
Provides insights into the impact that eliminating bilingual education programs has on the lives of families and communities. Persuasively argues that linguistic repression is an unwise language policy for a democratic nation.Decades of educational research have documented the best practices and ...
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African fiction and joseph conrad
Interrogates the "writing back to the center" approach to intertextuality and explores alternatives to it.By exploring the relationships between African novels and Joseph Conrad's fiction, this book examines the many discontinuous functions postcolonial revisions of "the canon" can serve. While c...
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Heidegger and the essence of man
Michel Haar argues that Heidegger went too far in transferring all traditional properties of man to being. Haar examines what is left, after this displacement, not only of human identity, but perhaps more importantly, of nature, life, embodiment-of the flesh of human existence. This sensitive yet...
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New york's broken constitution
Examines the significant gaps between what New York State's constitution says and how the state is actually governed and offers ideas for reform.On its face, New York State's constitution is an elaborate and impressive aggregation of processes, powers, mandates, and limits. But many of these are ...
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The other daughters of the revolution
Presents two of the earliest autobiographies of American women.Early in the nineteenth century, New York residents K. White and Elizabeth Fisher wrote and published two of the earliest autobiographies written by American women. Their lives ran along parallel courses: both were daughters of Loyali...
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The king's english
Shows how Alfred the Great's translations of Latin works exposed Anglo-Saxon elites to classical learning and Christian thought while bringing prestige to the king and his West Saxon dialect.In the late ninth century, while England was fighting off Viking incursions, Alfred the Great devoted time...
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Critical theory, public policy, and planning practice
Too often attacked as hopelessly abstract, contemporary critical social theory can help us to understand both public policy and its analysis. In this book, John Forester shows how policy analysis, planning, and public administration are thoroughly political communicative practices that subtly and...
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