The Grace and the Severity of the Ideal

Victor Kestenbaum

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• In this highly original book, Victor Kestenbaum calls into question the oft-repeated assumption that John Dewey's pragmatism has no place for the tran... Lees meer

Islam in Liberalism

Joseph A Massad

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• In the popular imagination, Islam is often associated with words like oppression, totalitarianism, intolerance, cruelty, misogyny, and homophobia, whi... Lees meer

Difference and Democracy

Kolja Raube, Annika Sattler

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• As Europe becomes increasingly diverse, understanding the effects of differences among citizens within European democracy crucial. The contributors to... Lees meer

Readings in Classic Chinese Short Stories

Chih-P'Ing Chou

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• This textbook is designed for learners of advanced Chinese. It includes eleven well-known pieces of writings by the late Ming writer Feng Menglong. Ea... Lees meer

Boystown

Jason Orne

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• From neighborhoods as large as Chelsea or the Castro, to locales limited to a single club, like The Shamrock in Madison or Sidewinders in Albuquerque,... Lees meer

The Moral Meaning of Nature

Peter J Woodford

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• What, if anything, does biological evolution tell us about the nature of religion, ethical values, or even the meaning and purpose of life? The Moral ... Lees meer

R Is for Reparations

Global Afrikan Congress Chapter

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• Coming out of the innovative Book-in-a-Day event facilitated by the Global Afrikan Congress - Nova Scotia Chapter, R Is for Reparations invites reader... Lees meer

The Aims of Higher Education

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• In this book, philosopher Harry Brighouse and Spencer Foundation president Michael McPherson bring together leading philosophers to think about some o... Lees meer

Great Transformations in Vertebrate Evolution

Kenneth P Dialneil Shubinel

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• How did flying birds evolve from running dinosaurs, terrestrial trotting tetrapods evolve from swimming fish, and whales return to swim in the sea? Th... Lees meer

Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling

Michel Foucault

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• Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently remained almost... Lees meer

Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University

William Clark

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• Tracing the transformation of early modern academics into modern researchers from the Renaissance to Romanticism, Academic Charisma and the Origins of... Lees meer

Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates

Ronna Burger

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• What is the good life for a human being? Aristotle's exploration of this question in the Nicomachean Ethics has established it as a founding work of W... Lees meer

Fashion, Culture, and Identity

Fred Davis

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• What do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our identity? Is the desire to b... Lees meer

Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood

Anastasia N Karakasidou

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• Deftly combining archival sources with evocative life histories, Anastasia Karakasidou brings welcome clarity to the contentious debate over ethnic id... Lees meer

The Analysis of the Self

Heinz Kohut

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• Psychoanalyst, teacher, and scholar, Heinz Kohut was one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals. A rebel according to many mainstream... Lees meer

Interacting with Print

The Multigraph Collective

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• A thorough rethinking of a field deserves to take a shape that is in itself new. Interacting with Print delivers on this premise, reworking the histor... Lees meer

Tocharian and Indo-European Studies, Vol. 13

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• Established in 1987, Tocharian and Indo-European Studies (TIES) is an international scholarly journal with contributions in English (primarily), Germa... Lees meer

To Have and to Hold

Jessica Weiss

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• Middle-class family life in the 1950s brings to mind images of either smugly satisfied or miserably repressed nuclear families with breadwinning husba... Lees meer

Fray

Julia Bryan-Wilson

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• In 1974, women in a feminist consciousness-raising group in Eugene, Oregon, formed a mock organization called the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist S... Lees meer

Worlds Before Adam

Martin J S Rudwick

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• In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scientists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth-and the relatively recent arri... Lees meer

Travelling Goods, Travelling Moods

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• Looking at cultural appropriation from around the world, this volume uses the field of cultural studies--heavily influenced by both economics and soci... Lees meer

Power and Resistance

Columbia University Press

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• How do we make sense of the social problems that continue to plague Canadian society? Our understanding of issues such as poverty, racism, violence, h... Lees meer

The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins

Hal Whitehead, Luke Rendell

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• In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does... Lees meer

Meaning

Michael Polanyi, Harry Prosch

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• Published very shortly before his death in February 1976, Meaning is the culmination of Michael Polanyi's philosophic endeavors. With the assistance o... Lees meer