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Frank
The first full-length biography of America's youngest, and perhaps most underrated, First Lady.When she married forty-nine-year-old President Grover Cleveland in a White House ceremony on June 2, 1886, Frances Folsom Cleveland was only twenty-one years old, making her the nation's youngest First ...
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Forced choices
Examines the celebrated case of Weirton, West Virginia where steelworkers and area residents fought to save a steelmill, community, and way of life.CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic Title2000 Distinguished Scholarship Award presented by the Pacific Sociological AssociationWhat happens to employees...
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Gods after god
An erudite but eminently readable guide to contemporary radical theologies.Gods after God provides an accessible introduction to a wide range of contemporary radical theologies. Radical theology can be defined as talk about the divine that rejects the notion of God as a supernatural personal cons...
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Bearing the unbearable
This book is a pioneering study of Yiddish and Polish-Jewish concentration camp and ghetto poetry. It reveals the impact of the immediacy of experience as a formative influence on perception, response, and literary imagination, arguing that literature that is contemporaneous with unfolding events...
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A platonic philosophy of religion
Explores the process or neoclassical interpretation of Plato's thought on God.A Platonic Philosophy of Religion challenges traditional views of Plato's religious thought, arguing that these overstate the case for the veneration of Being as opposed to Becoming. Daniel A. Dombrowski explores how pr...
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Becoming an agent
This book is about individuals who have made dramatic changes in their lives. In the beginning, these people were living as patients or victims of circumstance. In the end, they were living as agents, free to shape the courses of their lives, to choose, set goals, plan-to make things happen, rath...
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Moral values and higher education
In this book, eleven prominent scholars discuss the moral condition of contemporary society and the appropriate response from universities. Specifically, they address such issues as the extent to which university curriculums should treat ethics or human values; what universities and faculties sho...
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Communication and high-speed management
Provides a new understanding of the role communication plays in integrating, controlling, and coordinating high performance organizations.High-speed management is used to competitive advantage by some of the most successful organizations in the world-General Electric; Toyota; ASEA, Brown, and Bov...
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Upstate cauldron
A guide to the phenomenal crop of prophets, cults, and utopian communities that arose in Upstate New York from 1776 to 1914.Bronze Medalist, 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the US Northeast -Best Regional Non-Fiction CategoryHonorable Mention, 2015 Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB Book of the ...
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The disenchantment of reason
This book is an examination of nineteenth-century interpretations of Socrates by Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche in the light of the contemporary debates over rationality in the modern world. These interpretations of Socrates have fundamentally influenced modern and postmodern thought, and thei...
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Literacy across languages and cultures
This book examines the linkage between literacy and linguistic diversity, embedding them in their social and cultural contexts. It illustrates that a more complete understanding of literacy among diverse populations and in multicultural societies requires attention to issues of literacy per se as...
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Inside nursing
By exploring and analyzing the experiences and impressions of nurses, Annette Fay Street provides an intimate account of clinical practice and what those experiences mean in the profession. She highlights the realities and daily conflicts with which clinical nurses must deal, and offers insights ...
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Family in buddhism
A wide-ranging exploration of Buddhism and family in Asia—from biological families to families created in monasteries.The Buddha left his home and family and enjoined his followers to go forth and "become homeless." With a traditionally celibate clergy, Asian Buddhism is often regarded as a world...
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Alan watts - in the academy
Explores language and mysticism, Buddhism and Zen, Christianity, comparative religion, psychedelics, and psychology and psychotherapy.Gold Winner, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the Philosophy category To commemorate the 2015 centenary of the birth of Alan Watts (1915–1973), Pete...
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The cudgel and the caress
Offers philosophical and psychological reflections on cruelty and tenderness.The Cudgel and the Caress explores the enduring significance of tenderness and cruelty in a range of works across philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literature. Divided into two parts, the book initially focuses on tenderne...
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Governing new york state
Comprehensive overview of New York State's politics, political institutions, and major public policies.New York contains greater diversity than almost any other state. This diversity creates extensive social and political conflict within the state. Governing New York State, Sixth Edition provides...
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Make me a man!
Looks at the ideals of masculine Hinduism—and the corresponding feminine ideals—that have built the Indian nation, and explores their consequences.Make Me a Man! argues that ideas about manhood play a key role in building and sustaining the modern nation. It examines a particular expression of na...
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The development of multiplicative reasoning in the learning of mathematics
Two of the most important concepts children develop progressively throughout their mathematics education years are additivity and multiplicativity. Additivity is associated with situations that involve adding, joining, affixing, subtracting, separating and removing. Multiplicativity is associated...
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Empire imagined
Examines the deep roots of the American way of war.The origins of the United States' distinct approach to war and military power are found in the colonial experience. Long before 1776 or 1619, Englishmen understood themselves to be a part of a larger, lost "British" empire that might disappear fo...
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Holistic learning and spirituality in education
Explores the theory, practice, and poetics of spiritual and holistic education.In Holistic Learning and Spirituality in Education, scholars from around the globe address the theory, practice, and poetics of holistic education. Some of the topics explored include educating the soul; partnership ed...
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Body shots
Combining the analytical tools of cinema studies with insights from clinical practice focused on eating disorders, Body Shots offers a compelling case for widespread media literacy to combat the effects of the "eating disordered culture" represented in Hollywood productions and popular images of ...
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Strengthening the african american educational pipeline
One of the most comprehensive books examining the experiences of African Americans throughout the educational enterprise.2008 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Focusing on pre-K–12 schools, higher education, and social influences, this book examines the following question: What systemic set of st...
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Thinking through thomas merton
Considers the legacy of Thomas Merton and his relevance for contemporary times.With the publication of The Seven Storey Mountain in 1948, Thomas Merton became a bestselling author, writing about spiritual contemplation in a modern context. Although Merton (1915–1968) lived as a Trappist monk, he ...
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Enduring critical poses
A celebration of Anishinaabe intellectual tradition.Enduring Critical Poses examines the stories, poems, plays, and histories centered in the Great Lakes region of North America, where the Anishinaabeg live in a space Basil Johnston referred to as "Maazikamikwe," a maternal earth. The Anishinaabe...
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The space of the transnational
Challenges and reimagines transnational feminism by analyzing the concept of ummah, or community, in Muslim women's writing.This book examines Muslim women's creative strategies of deploying religious concepts such as ummah, or community, to solve problems of domestic and communal violence, polyg...
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Yitzhak rabin's assassination and the dilemmas of commemoration
Examines how Israeli society has commemorated Yitzhak Rabin.How does a society cope with the challenge of acknowledging and commemorating difficult aspects of its past? In Yitzhak Rabin's Assassination and the Dilemmas of Commemoration, Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi develops a timely sociology of comme...
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Holiness in words
A strategy for reading Heschel's major works, as well as a new route to understanding religious writing in general: a lucid study of modern religious and ethical thought using literary criticism.Holiness in Words: Abraham Joshua Heschel's Poetics of Piety is both an introduction to reading Hesche...
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Machado de assis, blackness, and the americas
Examines the reception of Brazil's most-canonized writer in the United States to shed light on questions of Blackness and hemispheric American experience.Considered a genius in his own lifetime, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is Brazil's most canonized writer. Yet, he remains a contes...
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An introduction to the sociology of juvenile delinquency
This basic overview of juvenile delinquency in the United States emphasizes the connection between delinquency and other problems faced by "at risk" children in America.This is a challenging book that makes no attempts to oversimplify and trivialize the highly complex subject of juvenile delinque...
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The knowledge context
The Knowledge Context adds an important, new dimension to the study of publishing and the distribuition of knowledge in the international arena. Drawing from more than a decade of research, Philip G. Altbach examines a variety of issues including international copyright, textbooks, technological ...
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Essays in ancient greek philosophy vi
An anthology devoted to the intellectual developments that led up to the philosophy of Plato.This collection of essays on early Greek philosophy focuses on the natural and moral philosophy and the intellectual developments that led up to the philosophy of Plato. Studies of the philosophies of Ana...
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Crossing digital fronteras
Demonstrates the liberatory potential of Latinx Digital Humanities at Hispanic-Serving Institutions and in Latinx Studies classrooms.Crossing Digital Fronteras is about liberatory possibilities and digital technologies in the classroom. The book centers critical Latinx Digital Humanities to illus...
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The challenge of facework
This book addresses the cross-cultural variations in the conceptions of face and facework from a multidisciplinary communication perspective. Facework represents one of the most important theoretical concepts available to us in contemporary communication literature as it encompasses a dynamic net...
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Anthropology and civilizational analysis
This volume brings social and cultural anthropologists into dialogue with historical sociology and illustrates the continued potential of the concept of civilization for all participants.The concept of civilization has a long but checkered history in anthropology, and anthropological materials ha...
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Signifiers and acts
Situates Lacan's theory of the subject within contemporary philosophical debates over freedom and agency.In Signifiers and Acts, Ed Pluth examines Lacan's views on language and sexuality to argue that Lacan's theory of the subject is best read as a theory of freedom and agency-a theory that is es...
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Inside the undergraduate teaching experience
Shows what kind of changes college faculty make to their teaching and why they make them.The image of college faculty members as abstracted, white-haired, tweed-jacketed professors, mumbling lectures from notes that were yellowed by twenty years of repeated use is still pervasive. In this view, c...
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Get your ass in the water and swim like me
The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me celebrates the African American oral tradition of toasting, one of the key roots of contemporary rap. Jackson was among the few to appreciate the profane energy and beauty of this rhymed...
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Occasional deconstructions
Argues that deconstruction is not a critical methodology or theory but that which makes any act of good reading possible.In Occasional Deconstructions, Julian Wolfreys challenges the notion that deconstruction is a critical methodology, offering instead a number of reintroductions or reorientatio...
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Juvenile correctional reform
This book addresses the divergent reform agendas that have shaped American juvenile justice systems during the last two decades. Testing and extending the theory of social reform developed by Ohlin, et al. in their study of Massachusetts' juvenile justice reform, McGarrell investigates the proces...
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Mencius and masculinities
Looks at the Confucian classic Mencius from a feminist perspective and uncovers the "maternal thinking" within the work.In this innovative work, Joanne D. Birdwhistell presents the first gender analysis of the Mencius, a central text in the Chinese philosophical tradition. Mencian philosophy, par...
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In the brightness of place
Drawing on a range of sources in philosophy and literature, but with particular reference to the work of Heidegger, makes a compelling case for the importance of place in philosophical discourse.The work of Jeff Malpas is well-known for its contribution to contemporary thinking about place and sp...
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Friedrich hölderlin
Hölderlin's essays and letters constitute essential documents for an understanding of the transitional period from neo-classical poetics to what can only be characterized as a unique and, in its frequently experimental structure, essentially modernist poetics. This book contains virtually all of ...
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Paradoxes of youth and sport
Highlights the practical benefits and the many problems of youth and sports in the United States.Paradoxes of Youth and Sport explores emergent debates among scholars, youth advocates, and sport practitioners concerning the role of sport in the lives of young people in urban settings. Specialists...
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Abolishing boundaries
Offers new perspectives on modern Chinese political thought.Honorable Mention, 2022 Sharon Harris Book Award presented by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute Focusing on four key Chinese intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century, Abolishing Boundaries offers new pers...
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Argentina noir
An engaging and insightful guide to Argentine crime fiction since 2000.Argentina Noir offers a guide to Argentine crime fiction, with a focus on works published since the year 2000. It argues that the novela negra, or crime novel, has become the favored genre for many writers to address the socia...
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Innovative leaders in international politics
In today's world, national leaders have immense power to make decisions affecting millions of lives, both domestically and internationally. Yet questions about the performance of these leaders, and specifically what psychological or external factors determine whether they will be innovative and e...
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Walls and bridges
A fresh and easy-to-understand examination of some of America's most challenging social issues.Winner of the 2004 Critics' Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association This useful classroom resource for professors wishing to incorporate notions of justice into their cour...
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The gender legacy of the mao era
Shows that the feminist interventions of the Mao era (1949–1976) continue to influence contemporary Chinese women.This book traces how the legacy of the Maoist gender project is experienced or contested by particular Chinese women, remembered or forgotten in their lives, and highlighted or buried...
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The ideology of education
Explores the ideological underpinnings of school choice and other market-based education reforms.Advocates of market-based education reforms (including such policies as choice, charters, vouchers, and outright privatization) argue that they represent ready solutions to clearly defined problems. C...
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An introduction to the study of mysticism
A comprehensive, concise, and easy-to-read introduction intended for undergraduates and general readers interested in the study of mysticism.2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title The purpose of this book is to fill a gap in contemporary mystical studies: an overview of the basic ways to approach...
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Colonialism and cultural identity
Explores diverse cultural identities, both theoretically and through concrete, specific interpretations of selected major texts from former British colonies.This book examines the diverse responses of colonized people to metropolitan ideas and to indigenous traditions. Going beyond the standard i...
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