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The a b c of armageddon
An exploration of Bertrand Russell's writings during the interwar years, a period when he advocated "the scientific outlook" to insure the survival of humanity in an age of potential self-destruction.Peter H. Denton explores Bertrand Russell's attempt to articulate the kind of world he thought po...
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No jurisdiction
A deeply personal study of post-9/11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings of the War on Terror and its impact on American law and culture.No Jurisdiction interweaves autobiography and analysis to explore how a disabled American of French-Arab descent justifies his love for ...
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Being black, being male on campus
Explores how race and gender matter on campus and how Black males navigate college for academic and personal success.This work marks a radical shift away from the pervasive focus on the challenges that Black male students face and the deficit rhetoric that often limits perspectives about them. In...
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The changing role of the american prosecutor
Looks at how prosecution of offenders is evolving in the contemporary legal milieu.Leading prosecution researchers throughout the United States are brought together in this book to illuminate the new environment of prosecution in America, the prosecution of troubling and emerging crime problems, ...
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Systems from hell
Examines how contemporary novels document and define social problems using a variety of narrative techniques to focus attention on systemic failure.This book approaches contemporary fiction as a medium for policy advocacy, one whose narrative devices both link it to, and distinguish it from, othe...
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Rewriting
Examines the tendency of post-World War II writers to rewrite earlier narratives by Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, and others.Does the postmodern process of rewriting stories by earlier writers point to a crisis of originality in our cloning culture? In Rewriting, the first systematic examination of t...
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Vanished by the danube
A story of loss and survival.Germany's invasion of Hungary in 1944 marked the end of a culture that had dominated Central Europe from the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. In this poignant memoir, Charles Farkas offers a testament to this vanished way of life-its society, moralit...
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Passionate commitments
A story of two twentieth-century American women whose love for each other fueled their work to create an egalitarian world.Winner of the 2014 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction presented by the Publishing Triangle Developing their rhetorical skills in early-twentieth-century women's organiza...
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American exceptionalism in the age of globalization
Connects the American exceptionalist ethos to the violence in Vietnam and the Middle East.In American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization, William V. Spanos explores three writers-Graham Greene, Philip Caputo, and Tim O'Brien-whose work devastatingly critiques the U.S. intervention in Viet...
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Aging and menopause among indian south african women
Du Toit contributes to the study of the climacteric as an important phase of the life cycle among women of different cultures (the later reproductive and postreproductive years). Drawing upon perspectives in anthropology, sociology, psychology, and gerontology, he demonstrates the need for an ade...
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Stress and adaptation in the context of culture
This book provides a unique study in social and cultural psychiatry, carried out in an African-American community in the rural South. Using a combination of concepts and methods from anthropology and social epidemiology, the specific social and psychological risk factors for depression are examin...
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Reforming schools
Portrays the progressive school reform work of the Harmony Education Center over a 12-year period.In Reforming Schools, Jesse Goodman discusses the possibilities, struggles, and complexities involved in reforming today's schools. Drawing from his own experiences at the Harmony Education Center-a ...
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The wisdom of aristotle
Appearing in English for the first time, this is the definitive scholarly treatment on the role of practical reasoning in ethics.This is a profound study of Aristotle's concept of phronesis, or practical wisdom. Carlo Natali critically reconsiders Aristotle's famous doctrine of contemplation, rel...
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Melancholies of knowledge
Scholars in the exact and social sciences join literary critics to consider the work of French author Michel Rio and to reflect on literature's place in intellectual discourse in an age dominated by science."We need the integration of our disciplines, the end to false dichotomizations, the recogn...
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Punishing the mentally ill
A provocative exploration of a wide range of controversies in mental health law, this book argues that the criminal justice system punishes citizens for being mentally ill.A powerful, sophisticated, and original critique on how the disciplines of law and psychiatry behave and on how the mental he...
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Poems of wine and tavern romance
A selection of poems by one of Islam's greatest poetic voices."In his poetry, Hafiz has inscribed undeniable truth indelibly … Hafiz has no peer!" - GoethePoems of Wine and Tavern Romance includes 103 pioneering poems by the medieval Persian poet and Sufi monk Muhammad Shemseddin Hafiz (ca. 1320–...
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Neoplatonism and nature
Original essays by leading scholars on Plotinus' philosophy of nature.This book advances an understanding of Plotinus' views on the natural cosmos and their relevance to natural philosophy and the development of science. The contributors confront issues concerning the presence of scientific princ...
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The devil's fools
Infused with eco-logic, informed by feminism, and taking cues from Eve, Cain, Proserpine, Ulysses, Parsifal, and selves present and past, the fifty poems of The Devil's Fools question and illustrate myths of nature and the nature of inherited myth.Subverting received traditions, embellishing myth...
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Technical communication for environmental action
This collection engages scholars and practitioners in a conversation about the ways that Technical Communication has contributed to pragmatic and democratic actions to address climate change.Climate change is one of the most significant challenges facing the global community in the twenty-first c...
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Unquiet understanding
Argues that Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics merits a radical reappraisal.In Unquiet Understanding, Nicholas Davey reappropriates the radical content of Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics to reveal that it offers a powerful critique of Nietzsche's philosophy of language, nihilism, and post-...
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The mate relationship
Provides research applications of a rules theory of mate relationships to several American cultures and two non-American cultures.This book presents research applications of a rules theory of mate relationships of several American cultures and two non-American cultures. The theory is summarized i...
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Who gets what?
Examines the domestic constraints negotiators operate under when nations seek to cooperate.During international bargaining, who gets the better deal, and why, is one of the questions at the heart of the study of international cooperation. In Who Gets What? Áslaug Ásgeirsdóttir analyzes seven agre...
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Coloring outside the lines
Presents new practices and ideas for mentoring women for school leadership positions.Coloring outside the Lines critically looks at mentoring from the perspective of women who have been historically marginalized in school leadership, and grounds itself in a variety of experiences, including those...
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Family matters
Charts new trends in gender studies through a compelling analysis of Igbo society.Prior to European colonialism, Igboland, a region in Nigeria, was a nonpatriarchal, nongendered society governed by separate but interdependent political systems for men and women. In the last one hundred fifty year...
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Existence and enlightenment in the laṅkāvatāra-sūtra
This book offers a systematic analysis of one of the most important concepts characterizing the Yogācāra School of Buddhism (the last creative stage of Indian Buddhism) as outlined and explained in one of its most authoritative and influential texts, Laṅkāvatāra-Sūtra. Compiled in the second half...
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A spiritual life
Includes new and updated material, as well as a readers' guide with questions for writing and discussion groups.The revised edition of this beloved classic features a readers' and writers' guide to facilitate book group conversations and informal adult education, and also offers prompts for perso...
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The face of things
Engages Levinas and Heidegger on the provocative issue of an ethics of things.Here's a book that dispels the traditional tendency of philosophy to ignore the alterity of things. Drawing on two major figures in the continental tradition-Levinas and Heidegger-author Silvia Benso engages them on the...
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Averroes's three short commentaries on aristotle's "topics," "rhetoric," and "poetics"
A bilingual edition of several of this influential twelfth-century philosopher's greatest works.Charles E. Butterworth provides a bilingual edition (Arabic and English) of several of this influential twelfth-century philosopher's greatest works.
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Logos and muthos
Explores the philosophical dimensions present in the works of ancient Greek poets and playwrights.What are the connections between ancient Greek literary and philosophical texts? Are they in fact two rival forms of discourse mutually opposed to one another? Concentrating on literary authors such ...
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The perils and promise of global transparency
Argues that increasing levels of transparency do not always change international politics for the better.While the trend toward greater transparency will bring many benefits, Kristin M. Lord argues that predictions that it will lead inevitably to peace, understanding, and democracy are wrong. The...
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Political communication
Using the theatric metaphors of a passion play in Poland, simultaneous ethnic dramas in Yugoslavia, a heroic poem in Armenia, and a bunraku puppet play in the People's Republic of China, the authors of this book chronicle the massive confrontation by citizens through the Socialist Block with thei...
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Heaven and earth in early han thought
The Huainanzi has in recent years been recognized by scholars as one of the seminal works of Chinese thought at the beginning of the imperial era, a summary of the full flowering of early Taoist philosophy. This book presents a study of three key chapters of the Huainanzi, "The Treatise on the Pa...
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Home is somewhere else
Following the Nazi annexation of Austria in March of 1938, Desider Furst, his wife, and his daughter suddenly found themselves hunted outlaws, holders of a German passport branded with a red "J" for Jewish. They escaped from Vienna and eventually settled in England, where they spent the war years...
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America's first river
Examines the many facets of the Hudson's rich history, distinctive regional culture, and important contributions to the development of modern America.Since its inception in 1984, The Hudson River Valley Review has taken an eclectic and interdisciplinary approach to a region that has long been rec...
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Encounters with god in augustine's confessions
This reappraisal of the middle section of Augustine's Confessions covers the period of Augustine's conversion to Christianity. The author argues against the prevailing Neoplatonic interpretation of Augustine.This book continues Carl G. Vaught's thoroughgoing reinterpretation of Augustine's Confes...
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The globalization of corporate media hegemony
Shows how dominant commercial media practices secure a hold among and affect diverse national cultures.When commercial media practices are insinuated into local cultures, existing cultural and media practices are often displaced and social inequalities are exacerbated-sometimes with the consent o...
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Student success
Helps students achieve their academic and career goals by clarifying the behaviors that they alone are responsible for, explaining why they are important, how they are assessed, and how they can lead to success.Student Success helps students develop positive behaviors that will lead to success in...
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Frank costello
Provides a reimagined but historically accurate account of the life of the notorious gangster Frank Costello through his own words.As Frank Costello looks back over his life as head of the most powerful crime family in America, he doesn't focus on the triumphs of his bootlegging empire, his natio...
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Post-jungian criticism
Rereads Jung in light of contemporary theoretical concerns, and offers a variety of examples of post-Jungian literary and cultural criticism.This groundbreaking collection brings the range and diversity of post-Jungian thought into the realm of contemporary literary and cultural criticism. These ...
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The history of here
How the Pine Hills neighborhood in Albany, New York, changed and grew, as reflected in the history of one house and the lives of its residents.When you buy an old house, you get much more than a house. In all its quirks, its alterations, in fragments of memory and traces left behind, you get a bu...
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Un-forgetting
Re-calling time lost.To un-forget is to return from forgetting, to re-member nothing as if it were anything, to interpret oblivion with exposition, to re-call the sound of silence and unearth the depth of loss.
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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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Religious pluralism and truth
This book is an introduction to cross-cultural philosophy of religion. It presents an alternative to Western-oriented philosophy of religion by focusing on questions of truth in the context of religious pluralism, including the criteria, models, and hermeneutics of cross-cultural truth in religio...
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Sufi wisdom
This book is the first work in English to present a view from Russia of Islamic mysticism. Ibn Arabi and Rumi are the main characters of the book. Their views reflect Sufi understanding of the Absolute being, of man, of the place and role of humans in the universe, of the way of knowledge, and of...
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A wild and sacred call
An ecopsychological, ecospiritual exploration of humankind's relationship with the rest of nature.Our current ecological derangement is not only a biological crisis but more deeply a crisis of consciousness, culture, and relationship. The core ethical responsibility of our contemporary era, there...
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On political virtue
Translation of Carlo Sini's reading of Plato's Republic as the foundation of Western anthropology.On Political Virtue is Carlo Sini's masterful reading of Plato's Republic as the foundation of both Western politics and anthropology. In his long career, Sini has built up a complex philosophical sy...
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Composing useful pasts
Argues that history is written from the present tense, meaning that its purpose is to construct convincing political arguments about who or what caused a current problem and how that problem should be addressed.Composing Useful Pasts discusses how history is not a settled record of the dead past,...
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Contrapunto
The informal sector denotes the small-scale, unprotected, and loosely regulated activities and self-employment that proliferate in developing countries. This book is about the people who engage in informal activities and the people who study, interpret, intervene in, promote, or attempt to repres...
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