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Valentin weigel (1533-1588)
This first English-language consideration of Valentin Weigel, an important but neglected figure in German intellectual history, examines his life and his writings on tolerance.This is the first book-length treatment in English of a central but neglected figure in German intellectual history, Vale...
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The history of al-ṭabarī vol. 37
This volume of Ṭabarī's annals deals almost exclusively with the final stages of the Zanj revolt, the most serious external challenge faced by the central authorities in the last half of the third/ninth century. The rebellion, which began as an 'Alid uprising, but soon gave way to Khārijite influ...
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Destiny domesticated
Analyzes contemporary technological society through the lens of Greek tragedy.Destiny Domesticated investigates three ways Western civilization has tried to tame fate: the heroic affirmation of fate in the tragic culture of the Greeks, the humble acceptance of divine providence in Christianity, a...
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Warrior women
Considers the significance of female Chinese action stars in national and transnational contexts.Finalist for the 2014 ForeWord IndieFab Book of the Year Award in the Women's Studies CategoryBronze Medalist, 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women Issues CategoryWinnerof the 2015 Emil...
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Counterpleasures
Takes up a series of literary and physical pleasures that do not appear to be pleasurable, ranging from Christian saintly asceticism to Sadean narrative to contemporary s/m practices.Counterpleasures takes up a series of literary and physical pleasures that do not appear to be pleasurable, rangin...
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The history of the siege
Prose poems that chronicle the eschatological age in which we live.Written and gathered together in an era of pandemic, rising authoritarianism, war, and climate crisis, the prose poems in Eric Pankey's The History of the Siege chronicle the eschatological age in which we live, where everyone, as...
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State, society, and law in islam
This book explores the legal structure of the Ottoman Empire between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries and examines its association with the Empire's sociopolitical structure. The author's main focus is on the relationship between formal Islamic law and the law as it was actually admin...
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Rethinking the frankfurt school
By exploring the work of the Frankfurt school today, this book helps to define the very field of cultural studies.A reexamination of key Frankfurt School thinkers-Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse-in the light of contemporary theory and cultural studies across the disciplines, Rethinking the ...
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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...
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Hegel's recollection
Donald Phillip Verene has advanced a completely new reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. He shows that the philosophic meaning of this work depends as much on Hegel's use of metaphor and image as it does on Hegel's dialectical and discursive descriptions of various stages of consciousness....
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Partnership within hierarchy
Examines intra-alliance politics between the United States, Japan, and South Korea.In an age of increasingly complex security situations around the world, it is essential that students and practitioners understand alliances and minilateral security mechanisms. Partnership within Hierarchy examine...
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Living forms
Examines Romantic poets' and essayists' fascination with the human form.Based on years of archival research in various British and American libraries, Living Forms examines the early nineteenth century's fascination with representations of the human form, particularly those from the past, which, ...
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Wandering heart
This first Western language study of one of Japan's most popular writers includes translations of key passages, critical commentary, and full translations of three essays by Hayashi Fumiko.Despite being one of the most popular writers of her day, Hayashi Fumiko (1903–1951) has remained virtually ...
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Making the public service millennial
Examines how the new wave of Generation Y public service employees are affecting the dynamics of continuity and change in public management ethics.Making the Public Service Millennial explores how a new generation of public service employees affects the dynamics of continuity and change in public...
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Sinners, lovers, and heroes
This intriguing investigation of an historically embedded cultural struggle over the possession of America's "collective memory" has significant implications for how we interpret cultural conflict in past, present, and future America.This book advances the thesis that memorials are fundamentally ...
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Religious therapeutics
Explores the relationship between health and religion based on the model offered by the Hindu traditions of Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra.Religious Therapeutics explores the relationship between psychophysical health and spiritual health and presents a model for interpreting connections between reli...
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The prosthetic pedagogy of art
Uses autobiographical and cultural narratives related to art research and practice to explore, experiment, and improvise multiple correspondences between and among learners' own lived experiences and understandings, and those of others.By beginning each chapter of The Prosthetic Pedagogy of Art w...
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Fighting colonialism with hegemonic culture
Explores how American Indian businesses and organizations are taking on images that were designed to oppress them.How and why do American Indians appropriate images of Indianness for their own purposes? How do these representatives promote and sometimes challenge sovereignty for indigenous people...
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Self-cultivation in early china
An introduction to ancient Chinese ideas on how to live a good life.Self-Cultivation in Early China is an introduction to multiple aspects of the foundational practice of self-cultivation in early China (c.1000 to 100 BCE). Drawing on the Chinese classics and the dozens of scholars' texts (both r...
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Nature and psyche
Underscores the limitations of traditional psychology to envision a more healthy ecological and psychological future.Nature and Psyche argues that psychological and environmental writing and action are all too often colonized by the same assumptions that inhibit ecological and cultural diversity....
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Heidegger's neglect of the body
Challenges conventional understandings of Heidegger's account of the body.Martin Heidegger's failure to acknowledge the role of the body in his analysis of everyday human existence (Dasein) has generated a cottage industry of criticism from such prominent continental figures as Merleau-Ponty, Sar...
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How trump and the christian right saved lgbti human rights
Traces the Trump administration's surprising support for LGBTI human rights abroad to Trump's indifference and the cynicism and political interests of Christian conservative elites.During the Obama administration, Christian conservatives insisted that securing human rights for LGBTI people abroad...
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The self-disclosure of god
Explicates the cosmology of Ibn al-'Arabi, the greatest mystical thinker of Islamic civilization.The Self-Disclosure of God offers the most detailed presentation to date in any Western language of the basic teachings of Islam's greatest mystical philosopher and theologian. It represents a major s...
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Hurricane andrew, the public schools, and the rebuilding of community
Shows how schools help people to cope with disasters and rebuild their communities.Hurricane Andrew struck South Florida early on Monday morning, August 24, 1992. Widely described as the worst natural disaster in modern U.S. history, the storm left 38 people dead in South Florida, 80,000 homes de...
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Tradition, innovation, conflict
This book examines religion in Israeli society: what it is and how it functions. Here is a clear picture of how Judaism provides a matrix of continuity for Israeli society notwithstanding a wide diversity of beliefs and practices.
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Leo strauss and the recovery of "natural philosophizing"
Examines how Leo Strauss sought to recover the question of "nature," which he saw as inseparable from genuine philosophy since its inception in ancient Greece.Among the political philosophers of the twentieth century, Leo Strauss is usually singled out for his attempt to revitalize the ancient ap...
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Sacred dreams
Offers practical advice and research results on women school superintendents, a field traditionally dominated by men.Although women have dominated the teaching ranks at all levels of education since the turn of the century, men occupy 93 percent of superintendency jobs. Considering the nationwide...
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Constructing female identities
An insightful, and often surprising, look at adolescent girls' socialization in a historically elite, private, single-sex high school.Research conducted in schools over the past two decades has found that youth shape who they are in ways that do not simply mirror class, race, and gender discourse...
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Poetic fragments
Bilingual English-German edition of second collection published by the German poet, dramatist, and philosopher Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806).The second collection of writings by the German poet, dramatist, and philosopher Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806), Poetic Fragments was published i...
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Sexual harassment, work, and education
Supplies new information on the application of sexual harassment laws in schools, colleges/universities, and the workplace.Sexual Harassment, Work, and Education brings new and important research to bear on consensual relationships on college campuses, provides new resources for dealing with sexu...
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John emmett connors
An artist's appreciation of the Collar City, Troy, New York.Although he has traveled and painted throughout the world, John Emmett Connors has returned time and again to paint the houses, buildings, and neighborhoods of his hometown, Troy, New York. Collected here are his depictions of some of hi...
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The rise of surrealism
Examines the developments that paved the way for the Surrealist movement in literature and art.In The Rise of Surrealism, Willard Bohn examines the various literary and artistic developments that prepared the way for the international Surrealist movement-including Cubism, Metaphysical Art, and Da...
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The history of al-ṭabarī vol. 30
This volume of al-Ṭabarī's History covers nearly a quarter of a century, and after covering the very brief caliphate of al-Hādī, concentrates on that of Hārūn al-Rashīd. During these years, the caliphate was in a state of balance with its external foes; the great enemy, Christian Byzantium, was r...
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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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The step not beyond
This book is a translation of Maurice Blanchot's work that is of major importance to late 20th-century literature and philosophy studies. Using the fragmentary form, Blanchot challenges the boundaries between the literary and the philosophical. With the obsessive rigor that has always marked his ...
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Apprenticeship
This book examines the phenomenon of apprenticeship by exploring it as a social, economic, and educational institution. Studies of apprenticeship in both craft occupations and supernatural specializations in Africa, Latin America, North America, and Asia are offered. The authors also look at appr...
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Transforming process theism
Traces variations of theism in Whitehead's principle works, identifying a major problem in conventional understanding of process theism and constructing an original and provocative solution.Process theism, in a variety of manifestations and modifications stemming from Whitehead's original suggest...
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College girl
The inspirational memoir of a woman who survived a brutal sexual assault and went on to become a university professor.Northern Arizona's Mountain Living Book of the YearGold Medalist, 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Autobiography/Memoir III (Personal Struggle / Health Issues) catego...
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Governing the female body
A feminist and Foucauldian analysis of a variety of emerging gendered discourses.Drawing on Foucault's notion of governmentality, this collection explores relations between the intimate governance of bodies and political governance. The contributors offer empirically grounded yet theoretically so...
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Plausible argument in everyday conversation
This book provides a practical and accessible way of evaluating good and bad arguments used in everyday conversations by applying normative models of dialectical (interactive) argumentation, where two parties reason together in an orderly and cooperative way. Using case studies, the author analyz...
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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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Battered black women and welfare reform
Examines the consequences of welfare reform for Black women fleeing domestic violence.This timely and compelling ethnography examines the impact of welfare reform on women seeking to escape domestic violence. Dána-Ain Davis profiles twenty-two women, thirteen of whom are Black, living in a batter...
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Value, beauty, and nature
Argues that, to make progress within environmental ethics, philosophers must explicitly engage in environmental metaphysics.Much of early environmental ethics was born out of the belief that the ecological crisis can only truly be solved by overcoming a pernicious worldview that limits all intrin...
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The trace of political representation
A philosophical analysis of the discourses, practices, and effects of representation in political institutions, focusing on American democracy.The Trace of Political Representation is a philosophical analysis of the discourses, practices, and effects of representation in political institutions, w...
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Hegel's phenomenology of self-consciousness
Presents a new translation with commentary of chapter IV ("Self-Consciousness") of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.Offering a new translation of the famous chapter IV ("Self-Consciousness") of Phenomenology of Spirit, this book reflects the far-reaching insights of contemporary Hegelian scholarsh...
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Popular justice
Explores the interaction between the presidency and the U.S. Supreme Court.Popular Justice explores the interaction between the presidency and the United States Supreme Court in the modern era. It assesses the fortunes of chief executives before the Court and makes the provocative argument that s...
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Zen sanctuary of purple robes
A fascinating look at a Zen convent throughout its history.Zen Sanctuary of Purple Robes examines the affairs of Rinzai Zen's Tōkeiji Convent, founded in 1285 by nun Kakusan Shidō after the death of her husband, Hōjō Tokimune. It traces the convent's history through seven centuries, including the...
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The religious dimensions of confucianism
The role of Confucianism in the development of East Asian Cultures has only recently begun to be fully appreciated. Even with this recognition, there is still little understanding of the tradition as a religious tradition. This book presents Confucianism as a religious tradition. In no other book...
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Religion in multidisciplinary perspective
An up-to-date examination of the work of one of the most inventive thinkers in the study of religion.Religion in Multidisciplinary Perspective provides the first comprehensive treatment of the work of Wesley J. Wildman, one of the most inventive thinkers in the field of religious studies. Scholar...
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Pursuit of ecstasy
The authors have produced the first "on the ground" study (not just clinical or chemical) of MDMA (3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine), or "ecstasy" as it is frequently designated. A psychoactive substance related to both the amphetamines and mescaline, MDMA has become popular in recent years as ...
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Beyond the subject
An original reading of Nietzsche and Heidegger that paved the way for Vattimo's conception of weak thought.In Beyond the Subject Gianni Vattimo offers a reading of Nietzsche and Heidegger that shows how the premises to overcome the metaphysical Subject were already embedded in their thought. Vatt...
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Facing toward the dawn
Examines the history of the Italian anarchist movement in New London, Connecticut.In the early twentieth century, the Italian American radical movement thrived in industrial cities throughout the United States, including New London, Connecticut. Facing toward the Dawn tells the history of the vib...
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What is enlightenment
A cross-cultural work which reinvigorates the consideration of enlightenment.What is enlightenment? Wei Zhang brings together the fabled consideration of enlightenment by Kant, his contemporaries, and modern respondents such as Habermas and Foucault with the question "What is Chinese enlightenmen...
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Feminism, foucault, and embodied subjectivity
Argues that Foucault's work employs a conception of subjectivity that is well-suited for feminist theory and politics.Addressing central questions in the debate about Foucault's usefulness for politics, including his rejection of universal norms, his conception of power and power-knowledge, his s...
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System and history in philosophy
The book begins with the problem of the relationship between systematic philosophy and the history of philosophy. Why does philosophy attach so much importance to history? Consideration of this question is an essential part of metaphysics, and it has important consequences for the methodology of ...
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Death and rebirth in virgil's arcadia
Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia is an introduction to the Eclogues, based on sound scholarship but also personally felt and addressed to a popular audience. It outlines clearly the literary and historical background of Virgil's early poems, discusses each eclogue in some detail, and offers ...
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The gaucho martín fierro
This is a poem of protest drawn from the life of the gaucho, who was forced to yield his freedom and individuality to the social and material changes that invaded his beloved pampas—a protest which arose from years of abuse and neglect suffered from landowners, militarists, and the Argentine poli...
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Walāyah in the fāṭimid ismāʿīlī tradition
Explores the relationship between revelation and reason in medieval Islamic intellectual history.In this original study, Elizabeth R. Alexandrin examines the complex relationships that can be inscribed between medieval Ismā'īlī thought as an intellectual tradition with a devotional practice of re...
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Self-direction
Relates how the self-direction movement was developed, the research that supports it, how the model has spread across the country and the globe, and recommendations and prospects for the future.In the past, when people with disabilities and older adults needed help with activities of daily living...
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Before revelation
Studies the development of Muslim jurisprudential and theological thought by analyzing the dispute that raged from the ninth to the nineteenth century over the assessment of acts that took place before the Qur'anic Revelation.Before Revelation studies the development of Muslim jurisprudential and...
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Comic effects
Lewis draws on both humor theories and research, arguing for the development of interdisciplinary methodologies in the study of literary humor. He demonstrates that the sociologist of humor and the comic playwright approach the same subject-humor in and between groups-with different tools, that w...
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Imperialism and human rights
Looks at the language of rights used by diverse interest groups in British-colonized Nigeria.2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title In this seminal study, Bonny Ibhawoh investigates the links between European imperialism and human rights discourses in African history. Using British-colonized Nige...
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Cuban-american literature and art
Explores how Cuban Americans negotiate bicultural identities through cultural production.This groundbreaking collection offers an understanding of why Cuban-American literature and visual art have emerged in the United States and how they are so essentially linked to both Cuban and American cultu...
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The creation of the world or globalization
Philosophical reflections on the phenomenon of globalization.Appearing in English for the first time, Jean-Luc Nancy's 2002 book reflects on globalization and its impact on our being-in-the-world. Developing a contrast in the French language between two terms that are usually synonymous, or that ...
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Zlochov, my home
Translations of selected poems by the Yiddish writer, covering the full scope of his oeuvre.Described by Ruth Wisse as one of "the most original and distinctive voices in Yiddish poetry," Moyshe-Leybe Halpern (1886–1932) was born in Zlochov, in present-day western Ukraine. When he was twelve, his...
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Women's activism and new media in the arab world
Critically evaluates the rapid changes that have happened in women's lives in the contemporary Middle East due to globalization and the increasing popularity of modern technology and social media use.Following the Arab Spring events in 2011, a number of important women's social movements, as well...
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Perfect pitch
The autobiography of one of the 20th century's most innovative and wittiest composers/performers/authors who witnessed the birth of modern music.Perfect Pitch tells the compelling story of Nicolas Slonimsky. A boy prodigy as a pianist, Slonimsky fled pre-Communist Russia, reaching Paris at the he...
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The making of modern libya
Second edition of the provocative study analyzing the social, cultural, and historical roots of modern Libya.The Making of Modern Libya is a thorough examination of the social, cultural, and historical background of modern Libya. Ali Abdullatif Ahmida examines the reaction of the ordinary Libyan ...
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Fight to live, live to fight
Examines US foreign and domestic policy through the narratives of post-9/11 US military veterans and the activism they are engaged in.While veterans are often cast as a "problem" for society, Fight to Live, Live to Fight challenges this view by focusing on the progressive, positive, and productiv...
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Mystery of the night café
Explores the spiritual vision of Van Gogh's painting The Night Café.Written like a detective story, this book explores the spirituality of one of the world's most beloved artists, Vincent van Gogh, through one of Western art's most mysterious paintings, The Night Café. Done in almost garish color...
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Between exile and return
This innovative study of the modern Hebrew writer, S. Y. Agnon, offers new insight into his literary transformations of Jewish themes and sources. With particular attention to Kafka, Hoffman situates Agnon in the context of twentieth-century literature and examines such central issues in Agnon's ...
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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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Tommy, trauma, and postwar youth culture
The cultural history of one of rock's greatest masterpieces told through the eyes of its creator.Tommy, Trauma, and Postwar Youth Culture traces the development of one of rock music's central masterpieces and its relation to the social-cultural history of the era. Composer and guitarist Pete Town...
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Disciplining women
An interdisciplinary look Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), the first historically Black sorority.Black Greek-letter organizations offer many African Americans opportunities for activism, community-building, fostering cultural pride, and cultural work within the African American community. Disciplining Wo...
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Forgetful memory
Examines the role of forgetfulness in our understanding of the Holocaust.Much of the discussion surrounding the Holocaust and how it can be depicted sixty years later has focused on memory. In Forgetful Memory, Michael Bernard-Donals focuses on the relation between memory and forgetfulness, argui...
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Lives in spirit
Explores the roots of modern transpersonal psychology and spirituality through psychobiography.Lives in Spirit explores the dynamic conflicts that both energized and distorted the spiritual development of key precursor figures of a contemporary secular or "this-worldly" mysticism. With its histor...
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Philosophy and literature in latin america
Philosophy and Literature in Latin America presents a unique and original view of the current state of development in Latin America of two disciplines that are at the core of the humanities. Divided into two parts, each section explores the contributions of distinguished American and Latin Americ...
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The history of al-ṭabarī vol. 31
This section of the History of al-Ṭabarī covers the caliphate of Muḥammad al-Amīn, who succeeded his father, Hārūn al-Rashīd on March 24, 809, and was killed on September 25, 813.The focus of this section is a single event, the civil war between al-Amīn and his half-brother al-Maʾmūn. Before his ...
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Hegel on tragedy and comedy
Explores the full extent of Hegel's interest in tragedy and comedy throughout his works and extends from more literary and dramatic issues to questions about the role these genres play in the history of society and religion.No philosopher has treated the subject of tragedy and comedy in as origin...
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The joy of noh
Examines Japanese later life learners involved in Noh theater.Centered on questions of identity formation, selfhood, and the body, this ethnography examines the experiences of later life learners in Japan. The women profiled are amateur practitioners of Noh theater, learning the dance and chant e...
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The origins and diversity of axial age civilizations
This book presents a new and original analysis of the great ancient civilizations, focusing on the breakthroughs and their institutionalization in Greece, Israel, China, and India. The conditions under which these civilizations developed are systematically explored. For comparative purposes, the ...
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The manifest and the revealed
Offers a new phenomenological method for biblical interpretation that opens up the possibility of an absolute science of scripture.What is scripture and how does it function? Is there a "scientific" way to understand its meaning? In answer, Adam Wells proposes a phenomenological approach to scrip...
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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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Ethnicity, race, and crime
Examines both historical and contemporary patterns of crime and justice among white ethnics and nonwhite racial groups in the United States.Researchers have long noted that rates of reported crime and punishment are higher for some ethnic and racial groups in the U.S. than for others. Comparative...
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Galileo's pendulum
Examines the history of science in light of recent theories of sexuality and the body.Drawing on the theories of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and others who have written on the history of sexuality and the body, Galileo's Pendulum explores how the emergence of the scientific method in the seve...
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The need for a sacred science
This book deals with the meaning of a science rooted in the sacred, the metaphysical foundation of such science, its contrast to modern science and its pertinence to some of the major issues facing humanity today. In the first part, the author turns to the fundamental question of the multiplicity...
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Looking for home
Looking for Home: A Phenomenological Study of Home in the Classroom contains stories of children who seek "a home" in the classroom. The book focuses on the extraordinary in the ordinary moments with children in the day-to-day life in the classroom. Sinclaire blends stories of her classroom with ...
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Charles s. johnson
A compelling biography of a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, an eminent Chicago-trained sociologist, and a pioneering race relations leader.The milestones for blacks in twentieth-century America-the Harlem Renaissance, the struggle for equal education, and the civil rights movement-would hav...
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The charismatic community
Looks at the emergence of Shiism as a distinct communal identity within Islam.The Charismatic Community examines the rise and development of Shiite religious identity in early Islamic history, analyzing the complex historical and intellectual processes that shaped the sense of individual and comm...
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Rebellious histories
Traces the emergence of creative texts focusing on the nineteenth-century slave trade to make sense of the radicalized effects of global capitalism.From the early 1970s to the mid-1990s, playwrights, novelists, filmmakers, visual artists, and prison writers from Sierra Leone and the United States...
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Bilingualism through schooling
Bilingualism Through Schooling is a comprehensive survey of bilingual education. It shows how bilingual schooling can have a double impact by providing students with functional second-language competence, and also contributing to their deeper understanding of culture and history. Concerned with b...
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Going beyond the pairs
Argues that German Romanticism, Zen Buddhism, and deconstruction, for all their cultural differences, are three expressions of a universal vision.In Going beyond the Pairs, Dennis McCort examines the theme of the coincidentia oppositorum-the tendency of a thing or relationship to turn, under cert...
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Racial inequality in new york city since 1965
A comprehensive exploration of racial inequality in New York City since 1965.In the past, the study of racial inequality in New York City has usually had a narrow focus, examining particular social problems affecting ethnic-racial groups. In contrast, this book provides a comprehensive overview o...
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The history of al-ṭabarī vol. 24
In this volume, which covers the caliphates of Sulaymān, ʿUmar II, and Yazīd II, al-Ṭabarī provides vivid and detailed accounts of the events spanning the period from 97-105/715-724. We listen to the stirring speeches of Qutaybah ibn Muslim, in which he urges his followers to renounce their alleg...
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