A philosophical investigation of the concept of interiority, presenting readers with its unmined aspects and senses.

Details the textual and performative history of the South Asian festival of Indra and its role in the development of classical Hinduism.

How two roadside craft shops in upstate New York transformed American crafts into a fine art.

Offers rich, wide-ranging counternarratives to social, political, and educational discourses that characterize urban schools and communities as places of despair, revealing the resources and strategies of resistance that teachers, students, and families use to succeed and thrive.

An unflinching look at the triumphs and tragedies of '50s rock and roll, from the biggest stars, like Chuck Berry and Carl Perkins, to those who barely grabbed the spotlight.

Ranges widely and deeply across William Blake's oeuvre to show how his post-Newtonian vision of space-time anticipates Einsteinian relativity.

Explores how Victorian women writers used the popular science of phrenology to challenge socially constructed forms of power.

A bold and unflinching portrayal of contemporary Maya life in Chiapas, Mexico.

Comprehensive examination of the goals, strategies, and motives of the six parties involved in North Korea denuclearization talks through the lens of negotiation theory.

Spearheads a new field for the combined study of religion and music, drawing upon theories and methods of the social sciences, ethnomusicology, philosophy, theology, liturgical studies, and cognitive studies.

A new interpretation of Schelling's 1809 treatise on freedom, demonstrating how the work is an answer to the problem of ground.

An “all-you-can-eat” tour of American life in the postwar period, told through the foods we loved.

Explores the role of print media in conversations about race and belonging across Central America.

The compelling chronicle of 120 years of motorcycle making in the Empire State.

Examines twentieth-century Mexican literature and philosophy within the broad panorama of Latin American and European existentialisms.

Analyzes the history of legislative party switching and its regulation in the Israeli Knesset.

Claims unconscious desire plays a constitutive role in global political economy.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).

Explores the writer's enduring literary and political legacy.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Extensive meditations on silence in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

A book of poems and painted images.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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).

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.

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.