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

The Art of Growing Older

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• Wayne Booth has selected, and has been inspired by, the works by some of our greatest writers on the art of growing older. In this widely praised anth... Lees meer

Indigenous Women's Theatre in Canada

Sarah MacKenzie

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• Despite a recent increase in the productivity and popularity of Indigenous playwrights in Canada, most critical and academic attention has been devote... 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

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

Jay 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

Difference and Democracy

Kolja Raube, Annika Sattler

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• As Europe becomes increasingly diverse, understanding the effects of differences within European democracy is crucial. This title provides an interdis... 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

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

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

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

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

Greek Tragedies 2

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• Greek Tragedies, Volume II contains Aeschylus's "The Libation Bearers," translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles's "Electra," translated by David G... 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

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

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

The Black Child-Savers

Geoff K Ward

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• During the Progressive Era, a rehabilitative agenda took hold of American juvenile justice, materializing as a citizen-and-state-building project and ... 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

The Poet's Work

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• "This anthology brings together essays by 20th-century poets on their own art: some concern themselves with its deep sources and ultimate justificatio... Lees meer

The Scholar's Art

Jerome McGann

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• For Jerome McGann, the purpose of scholarship is to preserve and pass on cultural heritage, a feat accomplished through discussion among scholars and ... Lees meer

Patina

Shannon Lee Dawdy

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• When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the world reacted with shock on seeing residents of this distinctive city left abandoned to the floodwaters... Lees meer