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Political power in america
Introduction to American politics and government, intended for students of political science. Provides a critical examination of both political institutions and political behavior.Analyzing major political institutions such as Congress, the courts, the presidency, and the media, this book chronic...
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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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Doubly erased
A wide-ranging overview of contemporary literary works by LGBTQ Appalachians with a focus on LGBTQ themes and characters.The first book of its kind, Doubly Erased is a comprehensive study of the rich tradition of LGBTQ themes and characters in Appalachian novels, memoirs, poetry, drama, and film....
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Moses mendelssohn and the enlightenment
Moses Mendelssohn, the author of numerous works on natural theology and ethics, was also the first modern philosopher of Judaism. This book places Mendelssohn's thought within the context of the Leibnizian-Wolffian school, the writings of Kant and Lessing and other major figures of the Enlightenm...
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Signifying pain
Explores the therapeutic uses and effects of writing in a post-Freudian age.A deeply personal yet universal work, Signifying Pain applies the principles of therapeutic writing to such painful life experiences as mental illness, suicide, racism, domestic abuse, and even genocide. Probing deep into...
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More than class
Examines the changing texture of power relations in non-traditional U.S. worksites.More Than Class examines the changing texture of power relations in U.S. workplaces, focusing on sites ranging from security booths to bedrooms to mining shafts, rather than the traditional shop floor. The contribu...
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Tuning the student mind
Explores the effectiveness and value of meditation in a college classroom.How can we rethink teaching practices to include and engage the whole student? What would student experience look like if we integrated silence and feeling with empirical analysis? Tuning the Student Mind is the story of on...
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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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Freedom and community
In this book, Loewy grounds communitarian ethics in contemporary terms, particularly as a response to the intractable social problems in the United States and the shocking collapse of the Soviet Union and Soviet-style communism. He goes far beyond his work in ethics to date, moving from a dialect...
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Christianity and human rights
A wide-ranging look at Christianity and human rights.This book addresses the relationship of Christianity and human rights-a relationship fraught with ambiguity. While human rights discourse arose in a Christian culture, it has sometimes stood in opposition to organized Christianity. Christianity...
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Expert witnesses
For the first time a book documents the judicial system's new dependence on social science testimony, especially that rendered by sociologists and criminologists. In Expert Witnesses contributors show that unlike traditional forensics testimony, the intrusion of social science data into judicial ...
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Romantic vacancy
Examines the concept of a poetics of vacancy in Romantic-era literature.Romantic Vacancy argues that, at the cult of sensibility's height, Romantic writers found alternative tropes of affect to express movement beyond sensation and the body. Grappling with sensibility's claims that sensation coul...
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Behind the facade
Explores why authoritarian regimes bother to hold elections.Behind the Façade examines the question of why authoritarian regimes in Southeast Asia bother holding elections. Using comprehensive case studies of Cambodia, Myanmar, and Singapore, Lee Morgenbesser argues that elections allow authorita...
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Islam and the destiny of man
Islam and the Destiny of Man by Charles Le Gai Eaton is a wide-ranging study of the Muslim religion from a unique point of view. The author, a former member of the British Diplomatic Service, was brought up as an agnostic and embraced Islam at an early age after writing a book (commissioned by T....
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Popular justice
Explores the interaction between the presidency and the U.S. Supreme Court.Popular Justice explores the interaction between the presidency and the United States Supreme Court in the modern era. It assesses the fortunes of chief executives before the Court and makes the provocative argument that s...
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Reclaiming time
Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation.The post-2016 election era in the United States is commonly presumed to be an era of crisis. Reclaiming Time argues that the narratives used to make this crisis a meaningful nation...
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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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The internet in the middle east
A surprising look at how the Internet does, and does not, affect public discourse and social practice in the Middle East and Kuwait in particular.Providing one of the first ethnographies of the Internet revolution in the Arab world, The Internet in the Middle East analyzes the ways in which the I...
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Who translates?
Argues for a postrationalist conception of translation based not on the translator's rational control of words and meanings but on a flowing through the translator of voices and textualities.2001 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Translators have long claimed that their job is to "step aside and ...
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Historical-critical introduction to the philosophy of mythology
Appearing in English for the first time, Schelling's 1842 lectures develop the idea that many philosophical concepts are born of religious-mythological notions.Translated here into English for the first time, F. W. J. Schelling's 1842 lectures on the Philosophy of Mythology are an early example o...
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Zion in the desert
The first book about the only two Reform Movement kibbutzim in Israel.2007 Runner Up of the National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought & Experience Zion in the Desert speaks to the millions of Jewish American baby boomers who at one time in their youth flirted with moving to Israel a...
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The joy of noh
Examines Japanese later life learners involved in Noh theater.Centered on questions of identity formation, selfhood, and the body, this ethnography examines the experiences of later life learners in Japan. The women profiled are amateur practitioners of Noh theater, learning the dance and chant e...
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Moments of disruption
Explores the ethical and political implications of Levinas's and Sartre's accounts of human existence.In Moments of Disruption, Kris Sealey considers Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Paul Sartre together to fully realize the ethical and political implications of their similar descriptions of human exist...
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America's forgotten poet-philosopher
Illuminating study of the ideas and influences of a near-forgotten American philosopher.This book examines the ideas and influences of a nearly forgotten Swedish-American philosopher, John Elof Boodin (1869–1950). A friend and student of William James and protégé of Josiah Royce at Harvard, Boodi...
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A world not made for us
Proposes a nonanthropocentric reassessment of key themes and approaches in environmental philosophyIn A World Not Made for Us, Keith R. Peterson provides a broad reassessment of the field of environmental philosophy, taking a fresh and critical look at three classical problems of environmentalism...
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Forgetful memory
Examines the role of forgetfulness in our understanding of the Holocaust.Much of the discussion surrounding the Holocaust and how it can be depicted sixty years later has focused on memory. In Forgetful Memory, Michael Bernard-Donals focuses on the relation between memory and forgetfulness, argui...
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From conquest to struggle
This book goes to the very heart of the passionate debate over the true character of Christian faith and practice. The advance of liberation theology in the Latin American church has caused international reverberations within both the religious and political worlds. The Vatican was moved to denou...
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The sociology of spatial inequality
A sociological look at the role of space in inequality.2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Sociologists have too often discounted the role of space in inequality. This book showcases a recent generation of inquiry that attends to poverty, prosperity, and power across a range of territories and...
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Legacies of the sublime
Pairs literary works with philosophical and theoretical texts to examine how the Kantian sublime influenced authors in their treatments of freedom and subjectivity through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Legacies of the Sublime offers a highly original, subtle and persuasive acc...
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On monosemy
In this book, the author argues that words should be presumed initially to be monosemic: having a single, highly abstract meaning. Semantic research should first seek a unitary meaning, resorting to polysemy, homonymy or idiomaticity only when an extended attempt fails. Utilizing a large data bas...
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Art, origins, otherness
Addresses the end of art and the task of metaphysics.Though our time is often said to be post-religious and post-metaphysical, many continue to seek some encounter with otherness and transcendence in art. This book deals diversely with the issues of art, origins, and otherness, both in themselves...
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The theory of difference
Key readings by Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, Derrida and Irigaray.Unlike other anthologies in continental thought, this book focuses on a specific issue-the theory of difference-as the most effective way to generate interest and understanding not only of the specific issue in question, but ...
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Grassroots literacies
Examines the grassroots activism of an Internet-mediated collegiate lesbian and gay organization in Turkey.Winner of the 2015 Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship's Book Award presented by the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Grassroots Literacies...
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Educational leadership in an age of accountability
Using Virginia as a case study, examines the role that educational leaders play in the implementation of statewide accountability plans.The insistence by policymakers and politicians that educators be held accountable for student outcomes has resulted in dramatic shifts in the responsibilities of...
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Campaigns against corporal punishment
Campaigns against Corporal Punishment explores the theory and practice of punishment in Antebellum America from a broad, comparative perspective. It probes the concerns underlying the naval, prison, domestic, and educational reform campaigns which occurred in New England and New York from the lat...
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Conservatism and racism, and why in america they are the same
Systematically illustrates the inescapable racism of American conservatism.In this provocative, wide-ranging study, Robert C. Smith contends that ideological conservatism and racism are and always have been equivalent in the United States. In this carefully constructed and thoroughly documented p...
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Engagement with north korea
Examines how and why nations have persuaded North Korea to cooperate on topics such as nuclear policy.How the world deals with North Korea and its nuclear capability will have ramifications for both regional and global stability. Engagement with North Korea examines the still controversial policy...
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Coming home
Examines the social and cultural integration of Russian-speaking Jews and Germans who immigrated to their respective historic homelands.Coming Home provides an extraordinary glimpse into the social and cultural integration of a unique category of immigrants-the returning Diaspora. During the 1990...
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The redskins
Cooper's 1846 novel about the Anti-Rent Wars in upstate New York, now available in a scholarly edition.The Redskins, James Fenimore Cooper's 1846 novel about the Anti-Rent Wars in upstate New York, is now available in a scholarly edition. The final work in the "Littlepage trilogy," The Redskins i...
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From divine to human: dante's circle vs. boccaccio's parodic centers
In Boccacio's Decameron, Cervigni sees a parodic echo of the circles of Dante's Divine Comedy, and asks whether Bocaccio envisions the voyage of the brigata as similar to Dante the Pilgrim's journey toward the center, first the abysmal center of Lucifer, then towards the highest center, God.From ...
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Faith and reason
Explores the mutually dependent relationship of faith and reason in human life and human knowledge.Few words are as widely misconceived as the word "faith." Faith is often set in stark opposition to reason, considered antithetical to scientific thought, and heavily identified with religion. Donal...
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Will to live
Rhe story of a Jewish family's survival in Nazi-occupied Poland by assuming "Aryan" identities.This story of a Jewish family's survival in Nazi-occupied Poland by assuming "Aryan" identities shows the Starkopf family's courage and tremendous will to live. The book documents their journey from War...
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The international eliade
A unique consideration of the work of Mircea Eliade highlighting scholarship from outside the Anglophone world.2008 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title The International Eliade brings together contributors from beyond the Anglo-American milieu to consider the work of Mircea Eliade. Significant new ...
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Leo strauss and the recovery of "natural philosophizing"
Examines how Leo Strauss sought to recover the question of "nature," which he saw as inseparable from genuine philosophy since its inception in ancient Greece.Among the political philosophers of the twentieth century, Leo Strauss is usually singled out for his attempt to revitalize the ancient ap...
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The human figure on film
Offers a fresh approach to the problem of the human figure in an age of digital cinema.The Human Figure on Film asks what it is we look for when we look at human beings projected on a screen. People have appeared onscreen since film was invented. Nothing could be more common, and yet nothing conf...
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New york state government
An expanded and updated edition of the 2002 book that has become required reading for policymakers, students, and active citizens.Robert B. Ward's New York State Government has been expanded and updated to provide a more thorough grounding in the state Constitution, the three branches of governme...
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Portraits of buddhist women
A collection of stories about women from the thirteenth-century Buddhist work that reveals much about women's status in their society and within Buddhism.A fascinating collection about Buddhist women translated from the thirteenth-century Sinhala Buddhist text, the Saddharmaratnāvaliya, these sto...
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When the pot boils
Tells the story of the decline and near bankruptcy of a major American university, and how its dramatic turnaround was quickly achieved.When the Pot Boils examines the decline and near bankruptcy of Drexel University in the late 1980s and early 1990s and its subsequent dramatic turnaround. David ...
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Making the public service millennial
Examines how the new wave of Generation Y public service employees are affecting the dynamics of continuity and change in public management ethics.Making the Public Service Millennial explores how a new generation of public service employees affects the dynamics of continuity and change in public...
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Star trek and sacred ground
Offers a multidisciplinary examination of Star Trek, religion, and American culture.Drawing on a number of methodologies and disciplinary perspectives, this book boldly goes where none has gone before by focusing on the interplay between Star Trek, religion, and American culture as revealed in th...
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A history of mysticism
A history of the world's mystical traditions.This book offers a historical overview of mysticism in the world's major religious traditions. Beginning with a chapter on the nature of mystical experiences, A History of Mysticism then turns to a discussion of mysticism's prehistory in shamanism and ...
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