This book addresses contemporary surveillance practices and examines technical communicators' roles in carrying them out.

The saga of New York’s push to build two minor-league baseball stadiums, colored by dollars, politics, and dreams.

Presents the history of central New York State from the Ice Age to the present day.

Establishes the central role of Afro-Puerto Ricans in the island's history and the creation of its capital city, San Juan.

The personal and legal struggle of eight enslaved people for freedom in New York in the period just before the Civil War.

Traces the development of the Chinese love story during the Song and Yuan dynasties.

Examines the Yiddish-Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz's alignment with the Jewish working-class in Eastern Europe and his devotion to progressive politics.

This critical reader brings together both essential as well as under-recognized writings from the work of Don Ihde, one of the most important contemporary thinkers on technology and human experience.

Presents Li Zehou's culminating views on ethics in a series of works that highlight the importance of Confucian philosophy today.

Interpretations of critically important texts in political philosophy from Greek antiquity to modern times on the tension between human excellence and equality and its possible resolution.

An exciting adventure tale of sealers caught in the Antarctic ice in the early nineteenth century and forced to winter over in extreme conditions.

Explores the relationship between technics and humanity, tracing the emergence of a bio-technical conception of existence in contemporary continental philosophy.

The autobiography of one of the 20th century’s most innovative and wittiest composers/performers/authors who witnessed the birth of modern music.

Detailed assessment of the People's Republic of China as an alternative mode of political system and as a distinctive model of socioeconomic development.

Offers a variety of pedagogical and theoretical essays designed to assist professors in introducing undergraduate students to Buddhism in China, Korea, and Japan.

A classic work on the history of New York City written by one of America's greatest politicians.

Explores the importance of political judgment in the work of Bernard Stiegler, and argues his approach to judgment marks an important break with continental political thought.

Analyzes the nature, processes, and political consequences of the asymmetrical relationships between China and its six small neighbors in Asia.

The first comprehensive study of village government formation and dissolution in New York State.

Reframes the discussion of deliberative democracy in a unique fashion, approaching the debate as a historical conversation.

Traces the influence of the stock market on Americans' beliefs about politics.

Brings the figure of the voice and the problem of mimesis in Heidegger and post-Heideggerian continental thought to bear on the dismissal of language by the affective and aesthetic turns of contemporary critical theory.

The trailblazing story of the life and career of Louise Blanchard Bethune, America’s first professional woman architect.

A complete translation and analysis of "All Things Flow into Form" (Fan wu liu xing), a recently discovered manuscript from the Warring States period (481–221 BCE).

Reveals how the persona of India's most famous emperor was constantly reinvented in ancient times to suit a variety of social visions, political agendas, and moral purposes.

Explores the writer's enduring literary and political legacy.

Endorses the pursuit of paradigm shifts in our understandings of faith, truth, and nature to remedy the "underside" of modernity and thus to inaugurate a post-modern (but not anti-modern) and post-secular (but not anti-secular) view of the world.

Assesses a distinct style of thinking in twentieth-century Spanish writing, one in which literature plays a central role in reaching behind philosophy to essential sources of life and meaning.

The definitive philosophical exploration of the work of pioneering filmmaker Terrence Malick.

An ecopsychological, ecospiritual exploration of humankind's relationship with the rest of nature.

Argues that transgender representations in film make it more difficult for cisgender people to understand the experiences of transgender people and for transgender people to fully participate in public life.

The uplifting story of how one camp gave children with visual impairment new confidence in their own abilities.

Extensive meditations on silence in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

Feminists revisit their mixed experiences of mentoring and being mentored to reclaim mentorship as a project for new generations.

A classic guide to the history and architecture of the historic manors and homes of the Hudson River Valley

Examines literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of Chinese women, across centuries and continents.

Original reading of Heidegger suggesting what his project could mean for building an ethical way of life now and in the future.

Explores the importance of the body and the senses in educational encounters, drawing out the aesthetic and political dimensions of educational practices.

Addresses the question of how language affects the subject of speech through readings of confessional, philosophical, and fictional writings.

Brings together Ana M. López's field-defining essays on Latin American film and media in one indispensable volume.

Explores the figure of the detective as a pursuer of knowledge in four noir films.

A book of poems and painted images.

Offers a renovated form of Confucian liberalism that forges a reconciliation between the two extremes of anti-Confucian liberalism and anti-liberal Confucianism.

The cultural history of one of rock's greatest masterpieces told through the eyes of its creator.

Offers a process philosophical approach to mysticism and mystical religious experience.

Five innovative essays demonstrating how Aristotle's biology is an integral part of Aristotle's understanding of the universe.

This collection engages scholars and practicioners in a conversation about the ways that Technical Communication has contributed to pragmatic and democratic actions to address climate change.

Tells the story of classic blues singers from Ma Rainey to Bessie Smith.

Addresses the question of China's rise and what it portends for the future.

Explores the potential for a novel philosophy of history to be uncovered by tracing the connections between Giorgio Agamben's work (theoretical practice) and contemporary art (artistic practice).

The first book to comprehensively examine Lou Gehrig's famous "Luckiest Man" speech.

Investigates, by way of Derrida's engagements with Kant, how the foundations of modern constitutionalism can be differently conceived to address some of the challenges of the twenty-first century.

Explores the effects of the cyber revolution for security in the Americas.

Infused with eco-logic, informed by feminism, and taking cues from Eve, Cain, Proserpine, Ulysses, Parsifal, and selves present and past, the fifty poems of The Devil’s Fools question and illustrate myths of nature and the nature of inherited myth.

Examines the ways in which writers and artists have attempted to address children’s experience of atrocity.

Relive the glory days of New York's poshest night spot with recipes and drinks you can prepare at your own home!

Offers alternative approaches to the study of colonial and postcolonial Korean Buddhism, suggesting new directions for scholarship.

Provides a reimagined but historically accurate account of the life of the notorious gangster Frank Costello through his own words.

A richly scholarly yet accessible and imaginative account of society in the time of the Buddha.

Explores the political and theoretical significance of the use of salvaging discarded materials by social movements during their protest activities.

An annotated collection of over one hundred Civil War letters that trace a Union soldier's transformation from eager recruit to war-weary, battle-tested veteran.

Asks how Black women tap into their feelings to develop ways to live freely.

Develops a pragmatist approach to the philosophy of the humanities, interpreting history, literature, and religion in terms of pragmatic realism.

Celebrates the design work of Henry Dreyfuss and his associates that revolutionized 20th century industrial design from telephones to trains to thermostats.

Uses popular films to reveal the tensions generated during Japan’s postwar "economic miracle," challenging the prevailing view that it was a story of great national success.

Presents the most important portrayals of the Daoist master Yang Zhu throughout Chinese history, from the Warring States period until today.

An essential resource for dedicated cyclists planning a trip through the state or casual riders seeking new stretches of trail to enjoy with family and friends. Great for those traveling by foot, boat, or car as well.

The engaging memoir of a college president and public intellectual who became one of America's leading mid-twentieth-century social and educational activists.

First history of New York's women legislators within the larger story of New York State politics.

Examines the fascination with identity fraud in sensation fiction and Victorian culture more broadly.

Reveals the life and lore of a vanished era of railroad history.

This textbook offers accessible, academically sound information on a wide range of LGBTQ+ topics. The 12 chapters cover LGBTQ+ history, culture, and Queer Theory, but also explore LGBTQ+ relationships, families, parenting, health, and education - as well as a separate chapter on how to conduct research on LGBTQ+ topics.

Explores the delicate interplay between emigration of Jews from Israel to Germany and the construction of a new identity in the shadow of antisemitism both past and present in their new home.

A walking tour and history of Bob Dylan's life and time in New York, from Greenwich Village to Woodstock.

Examines how the new wave of Generation Y public service employees are affecting the dynamics of continuity and change in public management ethics.

A comprehensive treatment of the shared traditions of Chan, Sŏn, and Zen in dynamic interaction across East Asia, acknowledging the changing and growing parameters of the field of Zen studies.

Maps manifestations of the sacred and religious syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cultural forms.

Essays providing a multi-disciplinary look at Derrick Bell's thesis of racial realism.

The first and best biography of this pioneering comic duo and Broadway Stars--in a new edition!

The best of W.H.H. Murray’s 19th century Adirondack stories, selected by Murray’s biographer and great, great grandson, Randall S. Beach

Demonstrates that Plato and Xenophon ought to be regarded less as rivals and more as engaged in a dialogue advancing a common goal of preserving the Socratic legacy.

A Philosophy of Music Education is considered the classic text on the relation of aesthetics to the practical teaching and performing of music.

A reconstruction and critical interpretation of Heidegger's remarkable relationship to the poet Georg Trakl.

Argues that Progressive Era reforms had the counterintuitive effect of weakening political parties and their role in representative government.

Argues that Giambattista Vico's early modern account of Roman mythology was a sophisticated attempt to present an epistemological and political critique of the aristocratic way of conceiving the world.

Original and critical essays by leading scholars on the question of the human in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.

Contextualizes Sabha Theatre historically, politically, and aesthetically, revealing how it expresses a Tamil Brahmin identity that is at once traditional and modern.

Illuminates the complex factors that have helped or hindered creative work by and about women in the twenty-first-century Brazilian film industry.

A visual and narrative memoir of a lifetime's encounters with 112 trendsetters, musicians, politicians, writers, and ordinary people by a noted folklorist-photographer.

A searing, personal look at conditions on Texas's Death Row—told in the words of the prisoners themselves.

Uses a comparative hermeneutical method to explain the most important terms in the classical Confucian philosophical texts, in an effort to allow the tradition to speak on its own terms.

Argues that Plato thinks that ordinary people grapple with the Forms and can make epistemological progress, even if they never achieve knowledge.

A new and accessible introduction to this exciting, controversial, and often misunderstood music, drawing on extensive research, close listening, and the author’s experience as a performer.

Recounts the compelling stories of Civil War soldiers and sailors who lived in Oswego County, New York.

Delves into the meaning of stories, their tellers, and those who experience them

Meditation on the character of the Eleatic Stranger in Plato's late dialogues, arguing that the prominent place afforded to this foreigner—the other—represents an important philosophical and political legacy regarding the way thought, and life in the community, is understood.

A critical interrogation of elements of Hobbes's political and natural philosophy and its capacity to enrich our understanding of the nature of democratic life.

Tells the story of New York's playing grounds, teams, and ballparks of yesteryear.

A time capsule of a classic Italian American neighborhood, told in the voices of its inhabitants.