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Bored to distraction
Examines how recent Mexican and Spanish films act as untroubling distractions from everyday routines.Popular culture in the 1990s, especially cinema, can be considered a showcase for the accumulated hopes and fears of the twentieth century. From the promise of material goods to the profusion of d...
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Awakening a living world on a kūṭiyāṭṭam stage
Explores the cultural dynamics of this ancient form of Sanskrit theater.Kūṭiyāṭṭam, an ancient form of Sanskrit theater from Kerala, was traditionally performed only in temples by members of two temple assistant castes. Today, however, it has spread to other castes and to venues outside temples. ...
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Reflection on whitehead's philosophical theology
Explores the philosophical theology of Alfred North Whitehead.This study focuses on the philosophical theology of Alfred North Whitehead. Whitehead follows the tradition of the great rationalists in depicting a deity, which is embedded in the philosophical structure of the cosmos. He provides one...
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Educational oases in the desert
A history of the French schools that pioneered female education in Ottoman Iraq's Jewish communities.During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU), a Paris-based Jewish organization, founded dozens of primary schools throughout the Middle East....
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Text and tradition in south india
Essays on Telugu and South Indian literature and culture by distinguished Telugu scholar Narayana Rao.Velcheru Narayana Rao's contribution to understanding Indian cultural history, literary production, and intellectual life-specifically from the vantage of the Andhra region-has few parallels. He ...
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Carl walters and woodstock ceramic art
Surveys the forty-year career of Carl Walters (1883-1955), a pioneer of modern ceramic art in the United States.Drawing on the first major exhibition of Carl Walters in over sixty years, this catalogue includes an extensive critical essay by curator Tom Wolf and an additional essay by modern cera...
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Writing as enlightenment
Explores the prevalence of Buddhist ideas in American literature since the 1970s.This timely book explores how Buddhist-inflected thought has enriched contemporary American literature. Continuing the work begun in The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature, editors John Whalen-Bridge and Gary ...
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A good little school
An inspiring story of the student-centered learning that can take place in a democratic, caring school.A Good Little School pays homage to Jefferson County Open School, a public school of choice with a thirty-year history of providing an alternative education for students in K-12. Chronicled in t...
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Reframing the practice of philosophy
Reflections by leading Latin American and African American philosophers on their identity within the field of philosophy.This daring and bold book is the first to create a textual space where African American and Latin American philosophers voice the complex range of their philosophical and meta-...
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The world view of contemporary physics
Although early twentieth century physics produced two revolutionary new conceptions of the nature of the physical universe-relativity theory and quantum theory-more recent developments in the physical sciences have made it imperative for physicists to re-examine the older world view of physics an...
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Recreational terror
Challenges the conventional wisdom that violent horror films can only degrade women and incite violence.In Recreational Terror, Isabel Cristina Pinedo analyzes how the contemporary horror film produces recreational terror as a pleasurable encounter with violence and danger for female spectators. ...
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Transforming democracy
Examines the emergence of state-level legislative campaign committees in the U. S., which are quickly becoming the dominant force in state politics, and explores their relationship with traditional party organizations.This book examines the emergence of state-level legislative campaign committees...
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Jamaica kincaid
Offers a new perspective on the psychological and affective dynamics of Jamaica Kincaid's fiction and nonfiction.Haunted by the memories of her powerfully destructive mother, Jamaica Kincaid is a writer out of necessity. Born Elaine Potter Richardson, Kincaid grew up in the West Indies in the sha...
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Deleuze's wake
Focuses on Deleuze's style, his conception of the self, and his understanding of philosophy's relationship to the arts.Ronald Bogue, author of the first book in English on French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, brings together eight of his essays written since Deleuze's death in 1995. The essays serv...
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Ingredients for women's employment policy
Ingredients for Women's Employment Policy gathers together the ideas of sociologists and economists, including both quantitative and qualitative research. Basic descriptive data gathered over the last ten to fifteen years of labor force research and affirmative action legislation indicates high r...
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The textual sublime
This book addresses the question of deconstruction by asking what it is and discussing its alternatives. To what extent does deconstruction derive from a philosophical stance, and to what extent does it depend upon a set of strategies, moves, and rhetorical practices that result in criticism? Spe...
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The order of joy
Provocative exploration of a new concept of "joy" within psychoanalytic and cultural studies.This provocative book introduces a new concept of "joy" within psychoanalytic and cultural studies that provides a different way of understanding the structures of affect produced by shifts in contemporar...
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Hegel and the philosophy of nature
Confirms that Hegel's philosophy of nature continues to have great significance for our understanding of the natural world.Hegel and the Philosophy of Nature is an important new study of Hegel's profound philosophical account of the natural world. It examines Hegel's alleged idealism, his concept...
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Black in print
Explores the role of print media in conversations about race and belonging across Central America.Black in Print examines the role of narrative, from traditional writing to new media, in conversations about race and belonging in the isthmus. It argues that the production, circulation, and consump...
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A longhouse fragmented
Tells the social history of the Iroquois people of Ohio during the buildup to removal.A Longhouse Fragmented is a historic ethnography of the Ohio Iroquois and, in particular, of the people known as the Seneca of Sandusky during the early nineteenth century. Using contemporary social theory and i...
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Brazilian science fiction film
The first book-length account of Brazilian science fiction cinema.This book offers a pioneering critical history of Brazilian science fiction (SF) cinema, from its first appearances in the mid-twentieth century to the present. Though frequently overlooked by scholars, SF cinema from the Global So...
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Emerson in iran
Examines the impact of Persian poetry in the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson.Emerson in Iran is the first full-length study of Persian influence in the work of the seminal American poet, philosopher, and translator, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Extending the current trend in transnational studies back to the...
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For love of matter
A bold and original work in ecocosmology and metaphysics.In For Love of Matter Freya Mathews challenges basic assumptions of Western science, modern philosophy, and environmental philosophy, arguing that the environmental crisis is a symptom of a larger, metaphysical crisis. Western science rests...
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Ellipsis
Examines poetic language in the work of Heidegger, Hölderlin, and Blanchot.What is the nature of poetic language when its experience involves an encounter with finitude; with failure, loss, and absence? For Martin Heidegger this experience is central to any thinking that would seek to articulate ...
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One (un)like the other
Aims to rethink ethics and transcendence in light of the phenomenology of empathy and social ontology.One (Un)Like the Other responds to the question, "What are the conditions of possibility that make genuine knowledge of other persons-and, therefore, love-possible?" By providing an original inte...
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Valvèdre
The first English translation of one of George Sand's major novels.An astonishingly modern novel, George Sand's Valvèdre questions traditional Romantic representations of women and exposes the disastrous consequences such notions of femininity have for both male and female characters at a time wh...
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Unifying the nation
In-depth examination of a rarely studied article of the United States Constitution.While there is a vast amount of scholarship on the US Constitution, very little of it addresses Article IV. The article's first section, the Full Faith and Credit Clause, requires that individual states must respec...
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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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Women and confucianism in chosǒn korea
A new, multifaceted look at Korean women during a period of strong Confucian ideology.This volume offers a fresh, multifaceted exploration of women and Confucianism in mid- to late-Chosoán Korea (mid-sixteenth to early twentieth century). Using primary sources and perspectives from social history...
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Meaning-making, internalized racism, and african american identity
Presents research on how variations in African Americans' racial self-concept affects meaning-making and internalized oppression.Focusing on the broad range of attitudes Black people employ to make sense of their Blackness, this volume offers the latest research on racial identity. The first sect...
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Civil service reform in the states
Assesses recent civil service reforms undertaken by state governments.Civil Service Reform in the States examines the critical importance of civil service systems in modern government and popular efforts to reform those systems. The book provides an up-to-date analysis and assessment of public pe...
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Critical studies on heidegger
Original reading of Heidegger suggesting what his project could mean for building an ethical way of life now and in the future.In these boldly original studies, Heidegger's thought is carried critically and constructively beyond its original limitations, re-presenting his project in terms of an e...
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Plants as persons
Challenges readers to reconsider the moral standing of plants.Plants are people too? No, but in this work of philosophical botany Matthew Hall challenges readers to reconsider the moral standing of plants, arguing that they are other-than-human persons. Plants constitute the bulk of our visible b...
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The bear river massacre and the making of history
Explores how a pivotal event in U.S. history—the killing of nearly 300 Shoshoni men, women, and children in 1863—has been contested, forgotten, and remembered.At dawn on January 29, 1863, Union-affiliated troops under the command of Col. Patrick Connor were brought by Mormon guides to the banks o...
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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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Wild diplomacy
Explores how humans and wildlife such as wolves can cohabit with mutual respect in the same territories.2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Starting from a specific case, the spontaneous return of wolves to France and the intense conflicts that event has triggered, the French philosopher Bapti...
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Tragedies of spirit
Examines tragedy in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.In Tragedies of Spirit, Theodore D. George engages Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit to explore the philosophical significance of tragedy in post-Kantian continental thought. George follows lines of inquiry originally developed by Nietzsche, Heide...
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Devils, women, and jews
Analyzes and illustrates the demonization of women and Jews in medieval sermon stories, retelling over one hundred of these tales in modern English.Contemporary misogyny and antisemitism have their roots in the demonization of women and Jews in medieval Christendom. In church art and mass preachi...
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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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Beautiful chaos
Explores the way chaos theory is incorporated in the work of such writers as Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Don DeLillo, and Michael Crichton.Beautiful Chaos is the first book to examine contemporary American fiction through the lens of chaos theory. The book focuses on recent works o...
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Xu bing and contemporary chinese art
Explores how Xu Bing and other contemporary Chinese artists use Western ideas within a Chinese cultural discourse.How Chinese is contemporary Chinese art? Treasured by collectors, critics, and art world cognoscenti, this art developed within an avant-garde that looked West to find a language to s...
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Mysticism, death and dying
This book charts the borderline between the nocturnal side of mysticism and the luminous side of death and it illuminates their paradoxical affinities. Within a culture of both denial and despair, it affirms the reality but not the finality of death. If what the generations have called the myster...
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The history of men
A collection of historical articles and essays by a pioneer in the field of masculinity studies.In this collection, one of the world's leading scholars in the field of masculinity studies explores the historical construction of American and British masculinities. Tracing the emergence of American...
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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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Change in schools
This book summarizes nearly fifteen years of research in schools-research geared toward understanding and describing the change process as experienced by its participants. It addresses the question: "What can educators and educational administrators don on a day-to-day basis to become more effect...
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The politics of regime structure reform in democracies
Analyzes initiatives aimed at reforming the electoral and government systems of Israel in comparison to other established democracies.This book examines the success or failure of initiatives aimed at reforming regime structures in democracies, particularly their electoral and government systems. ...
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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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Found in transition
Presents an updated account of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China.In Found in Transition, Yiu-Wai Chu examines the fate of Hong Kong's unique cultural identity in the contexts of both global capitalism and the increasing influence of China. Drawing on recent develo...
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