The political party matrix

Argues that the political party remains an institution whose primary purpose is to allow elites to coordinate their activities in the political area.The Political Party Matrix focuses on the organizational life of the party as it emerges through the collaboration of elected officials. Monroe argu...

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...

Redeeming words

Probing study of how literature can redeem the revelatory, redemptive powers of language.In this probing look at Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz and the stories of W. G. Sebald, Redeeming Words offers a philosophical meditation on the power of language in literature. David Kleinb...

Luce irigaray's phenomenology of feminine being

A dynamic interpretation of feminine identity capable of resistance, change, and transformation.The reception of Luce Irigaray's ideas about feminine identity has centered largely on questions of essentialism, whether criticizing this as a destructive flaw or interpreting it in strategic or pragm...

Creating safe space

An anthology of literary essays focusing on the ways in which sexual, emotional, physical, racial, and other forms of violence have affected women artists' imaginations.Creating Safe Space: Violence and Women's Writing defines the role of women's writing in the face of violence and suggests the d...

The left hand of capital

Original and comprehensive examination of Chilean political and economic development since the end of the Pinochet military regime in 1990.In The Left Hand of Capital, Fernando Ignacio Leiva provides a theoretically grounded analysis of the last thirty years of socioeconomic policies in Chile, be...

The theory and practice of political communication research

Provides insight into the world of political communication through its explication of theory and research methodology.Focusing on theoretical and methodological insight, this book brings together scholars from a variety of fields whose research is guided by diverse analytical approaches. Instead ...

The intercorporeal self

An original interpretation of Merleau-Ponty on subjectivity, drawing from and challenging both the continental and analytic traditions.Challenging a prevalent Western idea of the self as a discrete, interior consciousness, Scott L. Marratto argues instead that subjectivity is a characteristic of ...

Who speaks for hispanics?

Examines the policy stances of two major Hispanic interest groups.Latinos, now the largest minority in the United States, have been described by the media as the "sleeping giant" of U.S. politics. They have a history of discrimination and the related problem of anti-immigrant sentiment and a lack...

Crisis and transformation

Examines kibbutz life following the Israeli economic crisis of 1985, focusing on the kibbutz's dramatic transformation from a well-defined social structure to a collective identified principally by its cultural preoccupations.This book examines kibbutz life following the Israeli economic crisis o...

Revolutionaries and reformers

Looks at Islamist movements seeking power today, and the difficult choices they face.Islamist movements seeking power today are faced with difficult choices regarding strategy, ranging from armed struggle to electoral efforts. An emerging alternative consists of a rethinking of Islamist politics,...

Animal, vegetable, or woman?

Challenges current claims that humans ought to be vegetarians because animals have moral standing.Kathryn Paxton George challenges the view held by noted philosophers Tom Regan and Peter Singer and ecofeminists Carol Adams and Deane Curtin who assume the Principle of Equality to argue that no one...

The extraordinary in the ordinary

Explores miracles as dimensions of everyday existence through the lens of religious naturalism.Miracles are usually regarded as an intrusion of a supernatural force upsetting the normal workings and laws of the universe, but if one is attentive to the natural world, one can instead find miracles ...

Fiction as history

Explains the Hindi novel's role in anticipating and creating the story of middle-class modernity and modernization in North India.Vasudha Dalmia offers a panoramic view of the intellectual and cultural life of North India over a century, from the aftermath of the 1857 uprising to the end of the N...

In pursuit of the great peace

Examines the Great Peace (taiping), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, and its impact on literati lives in Han China.Through an examination of the Great Peace (taiping), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, Zhao Lu describes the transformation of literati culture...

Race after sartre

Examines Jean-Paul Sartre's antiracist politics and his contributions to critical race theories, postcolonialism, and Africana existentialism.Race after Sartre is the first book to systematically interrogate Jean-Paul Sartre's antiracist politics and his largely unrecognized contributions to crit...

The construction of orthodoxy and heresy

Presents the first systematic and cross-cultural examination of ideas of orthodoxy and heresy in a group of major religious traditions.This book presents the first systematic and cross-cultural exploration of ideas of heresy, as well as orthodoxy, in a group of major religious traditions, includi...

Ritual innovation

Challenges prevailing conceptions of what religious ritual does and how it achieves its ends.Religious rituals are often seen as unchanging and ahistorical bearers of long-standing traditions. But as this book demonstrates, ritual is a lively platform for social change and innovation in the relig...

Confucian ethics of the axial age

Confucian Ethics of the Axial Age describes the formative period of Chinese culture-the last centuries of the Zhou dynasty-as an early epoch of enlightenment. It comprehensively reconstructs the ethical discourse as thought gradually became emancipated from tradition and institutions. Rather than...

Antigone in the americas

Argues for a decolonial reinterpretation of Sophocles' classical tragedy, Antigone, that can help us to rethink the anti-colonial politics of militant mourning in the Americas.Sophocles's classical tragedy, Antigone, is continually reinvented, particularly in the Americas. Theater practitioners a...

The truth of broken symbols

Provides a cross-cultural analysis of how religious symbols function from a theological and philosophical perspective.This book provides a cross-cultural analysis of how religious symbols function from a theological and philosophical perspective. Showing how religious symbols can be true in vario...

A world not made for us

Proposes a nonanthropocentric reassessment of key themes and approaches in environmental philosophyIn A World Not Made for Us, Keith R. Peterson provides a broad reassessment of the field of environmental philosophy, taking a fresh and critical look at three classical problems of environmentalism...

Edgar cayce in context

Places the work of Edgar Cayce in historical context and assesses the validity of his "readings."Edgar Cayce, widely acclaimed clairvoyant and forerunner of the holistic health movement, is revealed here as a pivotal figure in the transition from the esoteric and metaphysical movements of the lat...

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–...

Art nature dialogues

Environmental artists from Europe and North America talk about their work.Art Nature Dialogues offers interviews with artists working with, in, and around nature and the environment. The interviews explore art practices, ecological issues, and values as they pertain to the siting of works, the us...

Varieties of american sufism

Participant-observation-based studies that explore a range of Sufi movements operating across the contemporary American religious landscape.From Rumi poetry and Sufi dancing or whirling, to expressions of Africanicity and the forging of transnational bonds to remote locations in Senegal, Sri Lank...

Evaluation-based leadership

An important contribution to the literature in administration, Evaluation-Based Leadership moves school leaders and decision-makers toward a new model of operation rooted in evaluation. Responding to the current increased national and local concern for effective schools, Glasman's work suggests a...

Afrikan mothers

Tells the story of some Afrikan mothers who, under European domination with the United States and the United Kingdom, have struggled to survive and maintain their (and their children's) cultural identities within European-oriented societies.This book highlights the integrity of some Afrikan mothe...

Professional development for cooperative learning

Describes different forms of professional development for cooperative learning and shows how the use of cooperative learning in professional development is leading to new insights into teaching and professional growth in schools.Cooperative/collaborative learning procedures increasingly attract g...

William james

The importance of this collection of writings of William James lies in the fact that it has been arranged to provide a systematic introduction to his major philosophical discoveries, and precisely to those doctrines and theories that are of most burning current interest. William James: The Essent...

Islam in practice

This book is a unique study of Shi'a Islam as it lives in the minds and hearts of people in a Southwest Iranian village. The central segment of the text is presented in the form of edited interviews conducted in the course of anthropological fieldwork both before and after the Iranian revolution....

Athletic intruders

Explores women's place in sport and exercise from a socioculture perspective.Informed by feminism and the fields of anthropology and sociology of sport, this anthology investigates women's place in sport and exercise from a sociocultural perspective, documenting women's struggle into the sports a...

The case of the minimum wage

Places contemporary minimum wage debates in historical context, stressing the importance of political as opposed to economic variables.This book traces the historical evolution of minimum-wage policy and explains how models are used (and misused) by different interests to achieve their particular...

Transnational competence

Offers the definitive study of United States-Japan educational exchange relationship.Born out of a bilateral project between distinguished scholars in Japan and the United States, Transnational Competence provides a definitive and comprehensive study of the status of relations between these two c...

Cosmopolitan civility

Essays reflecting on the prolific, pioneering, and wide-ranging scholarship of Fred Dallmayr.Prolific and pioneering, Fred Dallmayr has been an active scholar for over fifty years. His research interests include modern and contemporary political theory, hermeneutics, phenomenology, the Frankfurt ...

Heads above water

An in-depth exploration of women's lives after a natural disaster.Heads above Water tells the stories of women and their families who survived the Grand Forks, North Dakota, flood of 1997, one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history. This book describes the challenges women faced and explo...

Introduction to psychology

Learning from experience

Explores the development of teachers'professional knowledge.This book explores several aspects of learning from experience as reported by retired teachers: the nature of teachers' memories, the structure of teachers' narratives, and the manner in which teachers transform concrete experiences into...

The role of ethics in social theory

This book defends the derivation of the ethical principle of universalizability presented by Jürgen Habermas, and illustrates the importance of this principle for both social science and social policy. Beginning with a comprehensive analysis of social theory, Smith divides the theory into nine di...

Another mind-body problem

Demonstrates the profound overlap of philosophy's mind-body problem and various racist doctrines found in thinkers ranging from Descartes to Kant.The mind-body problem in philosophy is typically understood as a discourse concerning the relation of mental states to physical states, and the experie...

Knowledge without expertise

This book critically examines the reliance of society on experts, specifically attacking the notion of the privilege of scientific expertise and defining the politics of this intellectual discourse. The extensive case material illustrates the consequences of claims of expert knowledge. Sassower q...

Digital meets handmade

Embraces the problems and solutions posed by the dynamic dance of digital technology with the traditions of craftsmanship and perceived value in jewelry.Over the past twenty years, a seismic shift has occurred in jewelry design and manufacturing. As digital design, digital model-making, and proto...

Philosophy of the sign

Presents a coherent philosophy of signs without postulating objects to which they refer or meanings which they express.In this book, Simon wields Ockham's razor like a scythe to argue historically and systematically for a coherent philosophy of the sign as sign with an unprecedented minimum of on...

Developing communication theories

Leading scholars present the principal findings and conclusions of a long-term program of research into the nature and dynamics of human communication.Well-known authors present not only their own theories of human communication, but also describe, from personal vantage points, the process by whi...

Latino voices in new england

Compelling stories and striking photographs illustrate the challenges and highlights of Latino/a life in Portland, Maine.Latinos-those born in the United States as well as those who immigrated later in life-are not only transforming the country and cities, they are also transforming themselves in...

The tragedy of optimism

Complete collection of Schwarzschild's essays on the neo-Kantian Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen.Steven S. Schwarzschild (1924–1989) was arguably the leading expositor of German-Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen (1842–1918), undertaking a lifelong effort to reintroduce Cohen's thought into contem...

Perspectives in cultural anthropology

Designed as a reader for courses, this anthology presents an array of theories and interpretations in the field of modern cultural anthropology. It provides a deeper understanding of the major theoretical orientations which have historically guided and currently guide anthropological research.

Interstate disputes

Examines the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in settling disputes between states.With respect to "controversies between two or more states," the U.S. Constitution grants original jurisdiction to the U.S. Supreme Court, and in 1789 Congress made exclusive the Court's jurisdiction over interstate di...

Documents in crisis

Examines the theory and practice of nonfiction narrative literature in twentieth-century Mexico.Winner of the 2012 Best Book in the Humanities presented by the Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies Association In the turbulent twentieth century, large numbers of Mexicans of all social clas...