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Educating for an ecologically sustainable culture
Exposes the faulty assumptions that underlie modern education in the areas of moral education, creativity, and intelligence, showing how these assumptions must be changed in order to produce an ecologically sustainable culture.This book is a wake-up call for environmentalists who need to consider...
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Reality crumbs
First book-length collection of the work of the celebrated Israeli poet.Reality Crumbs is the first book-length collection in English of the work of the celebrated Israeli poet, playwright, and filmmaker Raquel Chalfi. Versatile and unpredictable, Chalfi's often visionary and dramatic poetry has ...
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Insight into value
This book presents a systematic working out of the basic concepts of phenomenological psychology through an interdisciplinary synthesis of gestalt psychology and existential phenomenological thought.The author's theory returns to psychology's foundations and interrogates the psyche itself, applyi...
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The living classroom
A paradigm-breaking exploration of how collective intelligence functions in groups, with practical guidelines for teachers.A pioneering work in teaching and transpersonal psychology, The Living Classroom explores the dynamics of collective consciousness in the classroom. In this second edition, B...
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The testimonial uncanny
Examines how colonial and postcolonial violence is understood and conceptualized through Indigenous storytelling.Through the study of Indigenous literary and artistic practices from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, Julia V. Emberley examines the ways Indigenous storytelling ...
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Conservation of endangered species in captivity
This multi-disciplinary approach to conservation of endangered species in captivity is organized taxonomically and by scientific discipline. The seven taxonomic groups included are invertebrates; fish, reptiles and amphibians, birds, marine mammals, primates, and other mammals. Within each taxono...
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Discipleship or pilgrimage?
This interpretive history and critique of educational philosophy offers a reexamination and reconstruction of John Dewey's vision.Discipleship or Pilgrimage? is an interpretive history of the field of educational philosophy-what it's been, where it is now, and what it ought to be. Implicit in Joh...
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Detecting men
Looks at how detective films have reflected and shaped our ideas about masculinity, heroism, law and order, and national identity.Detecting Men examines the history of the Hollywood detective genre and the ways that detective films have negotiated changing social attitudes toward masculinity, her...
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Abortion policy
In the first study of its kind, Jerome Legge provides a reasoned and dispassionate summary of the procedures and effects of abortion. The ethics of abortion have been widely discussed by philosophers, social scientists, and health professionals. Until now, however, little has been devoted to the ...
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Liberty and community
This book examines the competing visions of liberty and community in Canada. Focusing attention on constitutional debate in Ontario after the Confederation of 1867, the author shows how the defenders of provincial autonomy constructed a powerful political and legal ideology that attempted to reco...
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Critical intellectuals on writing
A fascinating look at how some of the world's most eminent scholars conceive of their own relationship with writing and with the work of being a critical intellectual.Writing is central to the work of all intellectuals, yet any given scholar's relationship to writing is a uniquely personal one. G...
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Memory is the medium
A poetic visual meditation on creativity and the nature of imagination and experience.Memory Is the Medium is a meditation on memory and creativity through a poetic vision of design-thinking, from one of the world's most respected creative minds. With photography, graphics, and text, Graham Wood'...
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Approaches to administrative training in education
In this important new collection Murphy and Hallinger bring together descriptions of a wide range of the new models in use in educational administrative training. Most of these eleven models have developed in response to contemporary criticism of the educational administrative theory movement, an...
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Aristotle's politics today
Examines the implications of Aristotle's political thought for contemporary political theory.According to Aristotle, man's essential sociality implies a distinctive conception of politics, one in which all political associations exist for the sake of the moral perfection of human beings. This sta...
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On meanings of life
Explores the factors that make for a meaningful life.Addressing the question of what makes life meaningful, Jerome Eckstein explores the ways in which we can heighten or diminish the quality of our life experience. He focuses on two contrasting attitudes toward life experiences: "interested" (goa...
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Legitimating the chinese economic reforms
Argues that the legitimacy of the Chinese government relies on two factors: the national myth of revolution and ideological orthodoxy.The reform program of Deng Xiaoping in the People's Republic of China constitutes one of the most significant political and social change programs in recent histor...
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A vigilant society
Uncovers a fundamental change that took place in Western thinking, especially its departure from the Sephardic philosophy found in the Iberian Peninsula during the 13th century.A Vigilant Society presents a provocative hypothesis that argues that Western society as we know it emerged from the soi...
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Nietzsche and the modern crisis of the humanities
A critique of Nietzsche's theory of culture that proposes an alternative paradigm allowing a defense of the humanities against such Nietzschians as Leo Strauss and DerridaLevine argues that Strauss and Derrida have much in common, including an idealist, reified concept of culture that both inheri...
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The united states and the middle east
This book advances a critical analysis of U. S. Middle East policy and offers alternative perspectives. It highlights areas of policy shortcomings in the wake of ongoing global and domestic changes and draws attention to the need for a new and more plausible U. S. policy.The United States and the...
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Lens, laboratory, landscape
An interdisciplinary study of the rise of empirical observation in the Spanish arts and sciences as the principle vehicle for acquiring knowledge about the natural world.Lens, Laboratory, Landscape focuses on competing views about the power of vision in Spain between the 1830s and the 1950s. The ...
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Social worlds of sentencing
Combines quantitative and qualitative data in a careful investigation of sentencing processes and context under Pennsylvania's sentencing guidelines.Many states and the federal system have embraced sentencing guidelines as a mechanism of sentencing reform. This book draws from interactionist theo...
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Sites of statelessness
Explores various unusual sites of statelessness like sea, cities, and laws, beyond mere legal and regulatory frameworks, that determines statelessness.Statelessness is incessantly produced in seas, cities, and law. Building around the postcolonial experiences of statelessness Sites of Statelessne...
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Ottoman medicine
First work in English devoted to medicine in the Ottoman world.The social history of medicine in the Ottoman Empire and the historic Middle East is told in rich detail for the first time in English. Accessible and engaging, Ottoman Medicine sheds light on the work and power of medical practitione...
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Water drops
An introduction to our most precious natural resource.In this engaging book, hydrologist Peter E. Black celebrates the wonder of our planet's most precious natural resource. In these brief, nontechnical essays, readers are introduced to water's unique scientific properties, the vital role it play...
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Guilty
A searing personal record of spiritual and communal crisis, wherein the death of god announces the beginning of friendship.Guilty is a searing personal record of spiritual and communal crisis, wherein the death of god announces the beginning of friendship. It takes the form of a diary, recording ...
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Imagining the fed
Traces the six-decade struggle for power within the Federal Reserve System from the perspective of the central bankers who shaped the Fed.Imagining the Fed traces a six-decade struggle to shape the Federal Reserve's policymaking organs, the Washington-based Board and the Federal Open Market Commi...
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Sanctity and mysticism in medieval egypt
Using the original, little-known writings of Sufis Muhammad and 'Ali Wafa', this book explores the development of the idea of Islamic sainthood in the post-Ibn 'Arabi period.Using the original writings of two Egyptian Sufis, Muḥammad Wafāʼ and his son 'Alī, this book shows how the Islamic idea of...
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Conspiracy panics
Examines contemporary anxiety over the phenomenon of conspiracy theories.While most other works focus on conspiracy theories, this book examines conspiracy panics, or the anxiety over the phenomenon of conspiracy theories. Jack Z. Bratich argues that conspiracy theories are portals into the major...
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Legislating bureaucratic change
Legislating Bureaucratic Change is an in-depth analysis of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. This legislation, hailed by many as the major domestic achievement of the Carter presidency, was a far-reaching attempt to change and control the massive federal bureaucracy. Not since the passage of ...
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Are all the women still white?
Provides a contemporary response to such landmark volumes as All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave and This Bridge Called My Back.More than thirty years have passed since the publication of All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, But Some of Us are Bra...
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Rethinking knowledge
An exploration of modernism and postmodernism in regard to knowledge: methods of inquiry, operations of the mind, the role of values, conceptions of self, and the problematic of reasonThis book explores issues of modernism and postmodernism in relation to knowledge: methods of inquiry, operations...
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Women and language in transition
This collection of essays deals with the interplay of language and social change, asking the question: How can language and society be made gender equal? The contributors examine the critical role of language in the lives of white women and women of color in the United States. Since language perv...
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Apparitions, daemons, and emanations
A study of non-representational art and poetry in the work of Bataille, Klossowski, and Michaux.This book presents a new study of the visual arts and poetry in the work of three well-known French writers and artists from the mid-twentieth century-Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski, and Henri Mic...
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A bastard kind of reasoning
Ranges widely and deeply across William Blake's oeuvre to show how his post-Newtonian vision of space-time anticipates Einsteinian relativity.What do Einsteinian relativity, eighteenth-century field theory, Neoplatonism, and the overthrow of three-dimensional perspective have in common? The poet ...
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A world of opportunities
Examines the policies of the Dutch toward illicit drug use and the effect these policies have had on heroin addicts and drug-related crime.In many countries, the debate on drug issues has turned into polarization between legalization and prohibition. This book provides a third strategy, a "compro...
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Communication and public participation in environmental decision making
Looks at the critical role of community members and other interested parties in environmental policy decision making.The contributors to this volume explore the communication practices of various stakeholders-interested citizens, grassroots and public interest groups, industry representatives, sc...
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Relations and roles in china's internationalism
Creative exploration of how the encounter between Confucianism and western (neo)liberalism necessarily leads to the unlearning of both.Pluriversalism within International Relations and the literature on Chinese international relations each embrace ideas of relation and difference. While they simi...
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Understanding gregory bateson
Introduction to Gregory Bateson's unique perspective on the relationship of humanity to the natural world.Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), anthropologist, psychologist, systems thinker, student of animal communication, and insightful environmentalist, was one of the most important holistic thinkers o...
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Confucian iconoclasm
Challenges deep-seated assumptions about the traditionalist nature of Confucianism by providing a new interpretation of the emergence of modern Confucianism in Republican China.Confucian Iconoclasm proposes a novel account of the emergence of modern Confucian philosophy in Republican China (1912–...
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The actuality of adorno
Brings together some of the most prominent and influential contemporary interpreters of Adorno's work in a wide-ranging collection of essays that explores Adorno's relation to themes and problems in postmodern thought.Always resistant to classification, the work of Theodor Adorno ranged from biti...
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Race, real estate, and uneven development
Updated second edition examining how the real estate industry and federal housing policy have facilitated the development of racial residential segregation.Traditional explanations of metropolitan development and urban racial segregation have emphasized the role of consumer demand and market dyna...
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Semiotics and dis/ability
Examines the ways that the labels "disability" and "difference" are socially and culturally constructed.This book brings together a unique collection of personal narratives and summaries of studies that problematize existing meanings of "disability" and "difference." Using applied semiotics as an...
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Organizing the south bronx
This is a story of heroic and articulate individuals who were able to defy overwhelming odds and build affordable housing in the South Bronx. It is about the process of teaching citizens in a low-income neighborhood how to participate in public life.Very little is written about the catastrophic a...
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Uaw politics in the cold war era
This is the first book-length study of the triumph of the Reuther caucus over the Thomas-Addes-Leonard coalition in the United Auto Workers union. The dramatic defeat of the left-center coalition had far reaching significance. It helped to determine the shape of postwar labor relations, the direc...
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Traditions and transitions in israel studies
Introduces the cutting edge issues and current scholarship in the interdisciplinary field of Israel Studies.This sixth volume in the Books on Israel series is an interdisciplinary compilation that encompasses contributions from both the social sciences and the humanities, and reflects the excitin...
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Debating the global financial architecture
Looks at alternatives to international financial institutions such as the IMF and World Bank.Debating the Global Financial Architecture opens up the contemporary debate surrounding the reform of the "global financial architecture." Economists and political scientists explore the economic and tech...
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Buddhism and american thinkers
In Buddhism and American Thinkers, leading scholars explore Buddhist influences on the currents of American thought. The essays presented here advance a continuing dialogue between East and West and show how Buddhism has made ever-deepening penetrations into the very substratum of American thinki...
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Women saints in world religions
Presents stories and commentaries on women saints from the Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Jewish, Islamic, and Christian traditions.Women Saints in World Religions deepens our understanding of the concept of sainthood, brings to light original material, and presents the first comparative analysis of fe...
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The biopolitical turn in world cinema
Explores biopolitical currents in world cinema, paying particular attention to postsocialist and postrevolutionary filmmakers from Iran, Russia, China, and Romania.The Biopolitical Turn in World Cinema explores how cinematic form and content understand and represent relationships of power between...
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Marvin fox: collected essays on philosophy and on judaism, vol. 3
A selection of his more important writings.This volume of his essays offers to a new generation of scholars of Jewish thought and philosophy a selection of his more important writings. The essays collected and presented here represent the selections of Dr. June Fox in consultation with the editor...
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Cinema of discontent
Uses popular films to reveal the tensions generated during Japan's postwar "economic miracle," challenging the prevailing view that it was a story of great national success.From the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, Japan experienced an unprecedented level of economic growth, transforming itself from a...
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