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The dynamic individualism of william james
Explores James's concept of the individual in terms of physiology, psychology, philosophy, and religion.The Dynamic Individualism of William James analyzes James's rich and complex thought through an examination of his individualism. A central theme of James's writings, individualism underlies hi...
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The chinese dream and law
Analyzes the major laws promulgated during the Xi Jinping era against a background of the politics and ideology of the Xi regime in general.The Chinese Dream and Law study situates the Chinese Dream in the modern utopianism discourse since the Late Qing, following Kang Youwei and Mao Zedong. As a...
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Theology and the university
Explores the relationship between theology and the modern university.This book explores the relationship between theology and the modern university. Most of the essays were written specifically for this volume, and all of them are published here for the first time.David Ray Griffin, Gordon Kaufma...
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Complexity in world politics
Demonstrates that world politics is more complex than conventional models can account for.Despite one hundred years of theorizing, scholars and practitioners alike are constantly surprised by international and global political events. The collapse of communism in Europe, the 1997 Asian financial ...
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The white indians of mexican cinema
Examines the filmic representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity and its role in mediating racial politics in Mexico.Honorable Mention, 2024 International Latino Book Award in the Best Academic Themed Book, College Level – English category The White Indians of Mexican Cinema theorizes the developme...
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Asian muslim women
Presents multifaceted aspects of Asian Muslim women's lives and agencies.This book resists the homogenization of Muslim women by detailing the diversity in their lives and by challenging the dominant paradigm of Arabized Islam as the sole interpreter of the faith. Though much has been written on ...
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Preparing for college
Analyzes and defines the parameters of effective college outreach programs.The remarkable diversity in college preparation programs raises a compelling question: With a finite amount of time and resources, which activities are most likely to improve educational achievement for underrepresented yo...
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How master mou removes our doubts
This is the first English translation of the earliest Chinese Buddhist text, but it is more than a translation. Keenan shows that Mou-tzu's Treatise on Alleviating Doubt is a Buddhist hermeneutic on the Chinese classics. Using a reader-response method of examining the text, Keenan shows how the r...
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Democracy growing up
The first sustained feminist interpretation of Tocqueville's classic, Democracy in America.Finalist for the 2004 C.B. Macpherson Prize presented by the Canadian Political Science Association Winner of the Best First Book Award presented by the Foundations of Political Theory section of the Americ...
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Aristotle on artifacts
Investigates Aristotle's views on the ontological status of artifacts in the Metaphysics, with implications for a variety of metaphysical problems.Previous commentators on the Metaphysics have attributed to Aristotle the belief that all living beings are substances. This book challenges the preva...
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The future of the world is open
Conversations with prominent Italian feminist thinkers Lea Melandri, Luisa Muraro, and Adriana Cavaero, as well as three essays - appearing in English for the first time - by author, journalist, and renown political figure Rossana Rossanda.The Future of the World Is Open examines the work and tho...
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Linked arms
Shows how a rural group used civil disobedience to defy the nuclear industry and governmental authority, preventing the building of a nuclear dump in western New York.Through character development, snappy dialogue, and vivid scenes, Linked Arms tells the story of a rural people's successful strug...
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Pro-democracy contention in hong kong
Elucidates the political dynamics that link the Umbrella Movement to the anti-extradition protests and helps explain the key character of the latter movement.Presenting an analytical account of the relational dynamics linking the 2014 Umbrella Movement and the 2019 anti-extradition protests in Ho...
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The structure and agency of women's education
Offers research on educational policies, programs, and practices for adolescent girls and young women, from both comparative and international perspectives.This collection examines the educational policies, programs, and practices that offer and/or deny adolescent girls and young women the opport...
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Constructing and reconstructing gender
A multifaceted analysis of gender.Constructing and Reconstructing Gender is an excellent compendium of current research, and will be appealing and useful to those interested in gender issues in a wide variety of disciplines. This book cuts across disciplines and scholarly methods, drawing from ma...
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Lost subjects, contested objects
A study of love and hate in learning and an argument for why educators might begin with consideration of these psychical dynamics when interpreting the conflictive dreams of education.This book argues for education's reconsideration of what psychoanalytic theories of love and hate might mean to t...
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Religious philosophy as multidisciplinary comparative inquiry
Argues that philosophy, as multidisciplinary comparative inquiry, is essential to the contemporary academic study of religion.What can philosophy contribute to the study of religion? This book argues that the study of religion needs philosophy in the form of multidisciplinary comparative inquiry....
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Walter benjamin's antifascist education
A comprehensive study of education in the writings of Walter Benjamin.Walter Benjamin's Antifascist Education is the first comprehensive analysis of educational themes across the entirety of the critical theorist's diverse writings. Starting with Benjamin's early reflections on teaching and learn...
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Philosophy and its others
Philosophy and its Others responds to the widespread sense that philosophy must renew its intellectual community with other significant ways of being and mind. The author articulates philosophy's community of mind with the aesthetic, the religious, and the ethical, without losing any of its own d...
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Hegel, deleuze, and the critique of representation
A critical account of the key connections between twentieth-century French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and nineteenth-century German idealist G. W. F. Hegel.Hegel, Deleuze, and the Critique of Representation provides a critical account of the key connections between twentieth-century French philos...
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Empires between islam and christianity, 1500-1800
A wide-ranging consideration of early modern Muslim and Christian empires, covering the Iberian, Ottoman and Mughal worlds, including questions of political economy, images and representations, and historiography.Empires Between Islam and Christianity, 1500–1800 uses the innovative approach of "c...
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Unequal desires
Investigates race and racism in the U.S. exotic dance industry.Winner of the 2008 SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in Queer Studies, this groundbreaking ethnographic study of racial stratification in queer and straight strip clubs examines the lives and working conditions of Black and Lat...
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Bobby darin
A multilayered portrait of this brash, gifted artist, whose restless voice and spirit seem as alive today as ever.A performer who rivaled Sinatra, Bobby Darin rose from dire poverty to become one of the biggest stars of his generation. Dogged by chronic illness, he knew that time was not on his s...
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Charlotte brontë at the anthropocene
Forges a fresh interpretation of Charlotte Brontë's oeuvre as a response to ecological instability.Honorable Mention, 2020 Sonya Rudikoff Award presented by the Northeast Victorian Studies Association In this book, Shawna Ross argues that Charlotte Brontë was an attentive witness of the Anthropoc...
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The gift of kinds
Explores the idea of human and natural kinds, pursuing an ethics of the earth responsive to social, political, and environmental issues.In this fourth volume of Stephen David Ross's ongoing project reexamining the Western philosophical tradition, The Gift of Kinds explores the order of things, li...
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The promise of memory
Argues for a closer connection between memories of injustice and promises of justice as a means to overcome violence.Rereading Marx through Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, The Promise of Memory attempts to establish a philosophy of liberation. Matthias Fritsch explores how memories of injust...
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The war and peace of a new metaphysical perception
Addresses perceived irresolvable paradoxes regarding reality as presented by a number of philosophers.Volume one addresses perceived irresolvable paradoxes regarding reality as presented by Zeno, Aristotle, Boethius, Copernicus, Leibniz, and Kant from the vantage point of a new metaphysical perce...
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Poets on the edge
Selections from twenty-seven Hebrew poets, many of whose poems appear here in English for the first time.Poets on the Edge introduces four decades of Israel's most vigorous poetic voices. Selected and translated by author Tsipi Keller, the collection showcases a generous sampling of work from twe...
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Coca, cocaine, and the bolivian reality
Examines the impact of coca and the cocaine trade on the Latin American country most affected by it, Bolivia.This volume examines the impact of coca and the cocaine trade on Bolivia, the poorest and most vulnerable of the South American countries.Topics examined include coca growers who have orga...
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From situated selves to the self
Argues for an important transformation in the construction of the self among Japanese converts to Roman Catholicism.In many parts of the world, the Roman Catholic Church in the twenty-first century finds itself mired in scandal, and its future prospects appear fairly dim in the eyes of many socia...
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Dialogue between an orthodox and a barlaamite
Explores a fourteenth-century debate over man's knowledge of God.In the fourteenth century a controversy arose in the Eastern empire between the Eastern Orthodox Theologian Gregory Palamas and a philosopher and monk from Calabria in southern Italy by the name of Barlaam. Barlaam was working on th...
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Dialogical philosophy from kierkegaard to buber
This book introduces American readers to a philosophical and spiritual exemplar of dialogue. The author presents a way of thinking about ourselves, the world, and our relationship to God that is neither dualistic nor monistic. The thinkers presented in this book focus on a radical departure from ...
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American buddhism as a way of life
Explores a range of Buddhist perspectives in a distinctly American context.The US seems to be becoming a Buddhist country. Celebrity converts, the popularity of the Dalai Lama, motifs in popular movies, and mala beads at the mall indicate an increasing inculcation of Buddhism into the American co...
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Innovative congressional minimum standards preemption statutes
Examines a new type of federal preemption statute popular since 1965 that allows states to retain a certain amount of regulatory discretion, with a focus on environmental statutes.Congress possesses broad regulatory powers, including the power of complete or partial preemption of state and local ...
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Society and family strategy
Using one of the largest quantitative data bases ever compiled on a single representative community, Stern explains and substantiates the reasons for the decline of the fertility rate during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He integrates demographic and social history to determine th...
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The tao and the daimon
The Tao and the Daimon examines a central theme in religious studies: the question of the authority and authenticity of traditional religious faith and practice (tao) in light of the challenge from the spirit of critical reason (Socrates' daimon). From a non-judgmental, historical standpoint, it ...
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Fundamentalism, mythos, and world religions
Fundamentalism is widely feared and its influence is growing in many of the major world faiths. Arising in reaction against modernism, fundamentalism affirms a pre-Enlightenment paradigm in a post-Enlightenment era. The author supports a prediction that fundamentalists will continue to have power...
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Sankofa
Explores the complex interplay of race and culture in the doctoral experiences of African American students.Sankofa reexamines doctoral education through the lens of African American and Black experiences. Drawing on the African diasporic legacy of Sankofa and the notion that "it is not wrong to ...
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Towards continental environmental policy?
Examines the challenges of environmental governance in contemporary North America.What are the most important transnational governance arrangements for environmental policy in North America? Has their proliferation facilitated a transition towards integrated continental environmental policy, and ...
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Malleable māra
Analyzes the breadth of representations of the mythic figure of Māra in Buddhism to reveal how closely tied such narratives are to the social and historical concerns of Buddhist communities.2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title This is the first book to examine the development of the figure of M...
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Ethnography unbound
Problematizes traditional ethnographic research methods, offering instead self-reflexive critical practices.These provocative new essays redefine the goals, methods, and assumptions of qualitative and ethnographic research in composition studies, making evident not only the crucial importance of ...
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Doing qualitative research in education settings
An up-to-date, clearly written, user-friendly guide that students and experienced scholars alike will find invaluable as they plan, implement, and write up qualitative research projects.Doing Qualitative Research in Education Settings, Second Edition is a methods book that speaks directly to qual...
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The politics of myth
Examines the political views implicit in the mythological theories of three of the most widely read popularizers of myth in the twentieth century, C. G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell.The Politics of Myth examines the political views implicit in the mythological theories of three of the...
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The promise of poststructuralist sociology
A postmodern critique of sociology's presuppositions.In this fresh look at the serious challenges posed to sociology by poststructuralist philosophy, Clayton W. Dumont Jr. maintains that disempowered, marginalized peoples have much to gain from a poststructuralist interrogation of sociology's phi...
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The archetypal sunnī scholar
Considers the work of nineteenth-century theologian Ibrahim al-Bajuri and contests the notion of intellectual decline in Islamic thought from the thirteenth through nineteenth centuries.This is a rare study of a late premodern Islamic thinker, Ibrahim al- Bājūrī, a nineteenth-century scholar and ...
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