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The talmud's theological language-game
Analyzes the structure and logic of aggadic discourse in the Talmud.In this pioneering effort, noted Jewish philosopher Eugene B. Borowitz opens up the rules by which the language-game of aggadic discourse is carried on in the Talmud, the foundational document of rabbinic and all later Judaism. T...
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Neo-confucian ecological humanism
Addresses Ming Dynasty philosopher Wang Fuzhi's neo-Confucianism from the perspective of contemporary ecological humanism.In this novel engagement with Ming Dynasty philosopher Wang Fuzhi (1619–1692), Nicholas S. Brasovan presents Wang's neo-Confucianism as an important theoretical resource for e...
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Stories of the eight-year study
An in-depth analysis of one of the most important educational experiments of the twentieth century.Winner of the 2008 AERA Division B Outstanding Book Award Presenting the first complete history of the Progressive Education Association's Eight-Year Study, which took place during the 1930s and the...
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Convenient criticism
Explains why and how local critical reporting can exist in China despite the kinds of media control that are the hallmarks of authoritarian rule.Why and how does critical reporting persist at the local level in China despite state media control, a hallmark of authoritarian rule? Synthesizing ethn...
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Heaven is empty
Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires.Heaven Is Empty offers a new comparative perspective on the role of the sacred in the formation of China's early empires (221 BCE–9 CE) and shows how the unification of the Central States w...
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Living root
In this literary memoir, poet and essayist Michael Heller interweaves family and personal history with reflections on language, poetry, religion, and memory itself.Living Root is the story of an education, a writer's wandering through personal and family history, through texts and traditions. Rec...
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Women, development, and communities for empowerment in appalachia
An examination of the class and gender conditions of working-class women in the coal mining fields reveals how they struggled for development and change and how the struggle sometimes lead to empowerment.This book is an examination of gender and social change in the coalfields and nearby areas of...
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Social constructivism as a philosophy of mathematics
Extends the ideas of social constructivism to the philosophy of mathematics, developing a powerful critique of traditional absolutist conceptions of mathematics, and proposing a reconceptualization of the philosophy of mathematics.Proposing social constructivism as a novel philosophy of mathemati...
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Race, class, and the death penalty
Examines both the legal and illegal uses of the death penalty in American history.In Race, Class, and the Death Penalty, Howard W. Allen and Jerome M. Clubb examine historical trends in the use of capital punishment in the United States. Employing empirical data, the authors explore how frequentl...
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Persistence and flexibility
Using a variety of anthropological approaches, the authors illustrate how the Jewish identity has persisted in the United States despite great subcultural variation and a wide range of adaptations. Within the various essays, attention is given to both mainstream Jews and to the Hasidim, Yemenites...
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Performing marx
Draws upon Marx, Western Marxism, and poststructuralist theory to constructively engage contemporary issues.Performing Marx looks at what it means to be a Marxist dealing with contemporary political and theoretical developments in the twenty-first century. Drawing upon Marx's work, Western Marxis...
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Before logic
Argues that there is an undeniable and essentially historical dimension to logic.2000 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Must logic come first? Are philosophical problems really logical? Must we think logically to think at all? Richard Mason's case is that too much comes before logic-too many choi...
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Christianity without god
Argues that Christianity does not require its supernatural aspects.Christianity without an omnipotent god, without a divine savior, without an afterlife? In this bold and hopeful book, theologian Daniel C. Maguire writes that traditional, supernatural aspects of Christianity can be comforting, bu...
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Images of thought
Explores the relationship between philosophy and art through the work of Cuban American artist Carlos Estévez.Is philosophy hopelessly opposed to art? Images of Thought answers negatively, claiming that visual images can be used effectively to grasp complex thoughts, and philosophy can be deploye...
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Race and epistemologies of ignorance
Leading scholars explore how different forms of ignorance are produced and sustained, and the role they play in knowledge practices.Offering a wide variety of philosophical approaches to the neglected philosophical problem of ignorance, this groundbreaking collection builds on Charles Mills's cla...
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Landmines and human security
Recounts and evaluates the worldwide effort to ban landmines.An impressive array of activists, scholars, government officials, journalists, and landmine victims themselves are gathered here to tell the dramatic and inspiring story of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). Organized i...
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Mixed race students in college
Portrays the diverse experiences and identities of mixed race college students."It's kind of an odd thing, really, because it's not like I'm one or the other, or like I fit here or there, but I kind of also fit everywhere. And nowhere. All at once. You know?" - Florence"My racial identity, I woul...
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Muslim narratives and the discourse of english
Examines novels and short stories by Muslim authors who write in English.This is the first book to explore the works of Muslim authors who write in English yet take their inspiration from Islam. Through close readings of novels and short stories by Salman Rushdie, Ahmed Ali, Attia Hosain, Nuruddi...
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Through the constitution's eyes
A timely examination of the president's Article II powers and duties at a moment in history when an autocratic presidency is a very real possibility.Today we confront a potential constitutional crisis, with the presidency dominating the other branches of government. A basic question is how has th...
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Ziran
The ancient concept of spontaneous self-causation (ziran) from Daoism opens a path to understanding human action as self-organizing, attention as effortless, and art as somatic.Ziran, an idea from ancient Daoism, defies easy translation into English but can almost be captured by the term "spontan...
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Li dazhao
Biography of a major figure in modern Chinese history.As one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party, Li Dazhao (1889–1927) was a key figure in China's transition from empire to republic, from tradition to modernity, and from imperial rule to turbulent revolution. Patrick Fuliang Shan's bi...
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The body
Explores mind-body philosophy from an Asian perspective.This book explores mind-body philosophy from an Asian perspective. It sheds new light on a problem central in modern Western thought. Yuasa shows that Eastern philosophy has generally formulated its view of mind-body unity as an achievement ...
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The making of a mystic
This is a passionate book about a gifted woman. It is written from a psychological viewpoint using the developmental point of view of a number of contemporary developmental psychologists, both men and women. It is a critique of contemporary American shallowness and is an apologia for a feminist e...
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Men writing the feminine
What happens when a male author writes the feminine? Can a male author completely identify with a woman? Or does a male author always write through a woman's voice for purposes of his own? This fascinating collection explores these and other questions about gender and writing from a wide range of...
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Ecotheology and the practice of hope
Looks at how ecotheology has created a new vision of the natural world and the place of humans within it.Is there any hope for a more sustainable world? Can we reimagine a way of living in which the nonhuman world matters? Anne Marie Dalton and Henry C. Simmons claim that the ecotheology that aro...
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Conversations on servant-leadership
Some of the world's foremost thought leaders consider the role of leadership, love, and power in the midst of political and social upheaval.In a world where organizations and leaders face conflicts and complexity at an alarming rate, where human cruelty sometimes dominates kindness in individuals...
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Race, love, and labor
Contemporary work by artists of color from the Center for Photography at Woodstock.Race, Love, and Labor includes work by twenty artists, including LaToya Ruby Frazier, William Cordova, Deana Lawson, Tommy Kha, Tim Portlock, Endia Beal, and others, who have participated in a unique residency prog...
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From modernity to cosmodernity
Offers a new paradigm of reality, based on the interaction between science, culture, spirituality, religion, and society.The quantum, biological, and information revolutions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries should have thoroughly changed our view of reality, yet the old viewpoint based...
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Spurious coin
Offers a narrative history of technical writing as a cultural practice and the system of scientific knowledge it controls.Spurious Coin constructs a cultural history of technical writing in the United States and the system of scientific knowledge and power it controls. Embedded in this history ar...
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The history of al-ṭabarī vol. 11
Although this volume deals with the part of al-Ṭabarī's History covering the years 12 and 13 (633-35), in the caliphates of Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq and ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, the narratives contained in it, which are lengthy and detailed, are concerned with the first Muslim conquests in Iraq and Syria....
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The creation of wing chun
Looks at southern Chinese martial arts traditions and how they have become important to local identity and narratives of resistance.This book explores the social history of southern Chinese martial arts and their contemporary importance to local identity and narratives of resistance. Hong Kong's ...
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Imagining law
Essays consider Drucilla Cornell's contributions to philosophy, political theory, and legal studies.Drucilla Cornell's contribution to legal thought and philosophy is unique in its attention to diverse traditions and the possibilities of dialogue among them. Renée J. Heberle and Benjamin Pryor br...
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Lines of inquiry
Multi-disciplinary edited collection on drawing research and methods. The international group of contributors provides suggestions for developing new ways of knowing, for developing empathy toward things that may lie outside our own experiences, and for seeing alternative perspectives through dra...
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Surgeon grow
Malcolm Grow’s commentary presents us with a fascinating personal account of wartime experience, one that highlights a number of pertinent issues of Russia’s experience of total war. While military historiography is replete with studies of battle plans and strategies, troop movements, numbers of ...
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Law and humanities
This edited collection provides the first accessible introduction to Law and Humanities. Each chapter explores the nature, development and possible further trajectory of a disciplinary ‘law and’ field.
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Spirituality and society
This book takes a genuinely new spiritual stance reflecting the emergence of a post-modern science and differing from the relativistic nihilism that calls itself postmodern but is really modernism extended to its limit.Based on a direct experience of reality as divine, this postmodern spiritualit...
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The bodily dimension in thinking
An ontology of bodily being featuring Plato, Nietzsche, Scheler, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and Foucault.Daniela Vallega-Neu questions the ontological meaning of body and thinking by carefully taking into account how we come to experience thought bodily. She engages six prominent figures of the We...
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Allegories of writing
A theoretical study of human metamorphosis in Western literatureAllegories of Writing presents the first full synthesis of allegory theory and literary metamorphosis. It examines the leading themes and the literary transformations of metamorphic narratives. By applying current theories of the tex...
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A rhetoric of remnants
Examines the rhetoric in and around the New York State Asylum for Idiots in Syracuse, New York from 1854 to 1884.In the nineteenth century, language, rather than biology, created what we think of as disability. Much of the rhetorical nature of "idiocy," and even intelligence itself, can be traced...
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Ummah
Offers the Islamic concept of ummah as an alternative to the nation-state.How can we live together without alienation, avoidance, and fear? How can we complement one another such that each of us can uniquely contribute to the making of our societies? To address these and other questions, Katrin A...
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Emergent issues in education
In Emergent Issues in Education, leading scholars in comparative education and in the politics, sociology, anthropology, and economics of education illuminate worldwide trends in critical issues that confront policymakers and practitioners in different national settings.Among the topics raised an...
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Ancient sichuan and the unification of china
Recent archaeological finds in China have made possible a reconstruction of the ancient history of Sichuan, the country's most populous province. Excavated artifacts and new recovered texts now supplement traditional textual materials. Together, these data show how Sichuan matured from peripheral...
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Singing krishna
Introduces Paramānand, one of India's poet-saints, his work, and this work's use in ritual.Singing Krishna introduces Paramānand, one of north India's greatest medieval poet-saints, whose poetry has been sung from the sixteenth century to the present in ritual service to the Hindu deity Krishna. ...
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Weaving ourselves into the land
Examines how both negative and positive stereotypes of the "Indian" have influenced the study of Native American religions.CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic BooksIt is now over half a millennium since the first sustained contact between the peoples of Europe and North America, yet Native Americans...
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The virtue of nonviolence
A study in comparative virtue ethics.Virtue ethics has been a major focus in contemporary moral philosophy since the publication of Alasdair MacIntyre's book After Virtue. Here, in The Virtue of Nonviolence, Nicholas F. Gier argues that virtue ethics is the best option for constructive postmodern...
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Schooling young children
This book develops a feminist pedagogy for liberatory learning for elementary school workers by contextualizing a connection among critical literacy, multiculturalism, feminist theory, and cultural democracy. This book challenges major categories of literacy, democracy, educational reform, and tr...
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From great wilderness to seaway towns
Comprehensive study of two towns on either side of the U.S.-Canadian border.From Great Wilderness to Seaway Towns adds a new dimension to the debate over the perceived differences between American and Canadian society. This fascinating case study examines two communities separated by the St. Lawr...
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