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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Relates Chinese Realism to contemporary political and ethical challenges, such as in international relations and the morality of the public sector.

Explores the slow but inevitable implosion of our civilization by considering the correlation between capital, work, and ideology.

Traces the complex and contradictory representations of Hawai’i in popular film and television programs from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Rejects Hindu nationalism and pluralist secularism in favor of a revitalized politics of Indian federalism.

Chronicles the efforts of the first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court to establish a federal court system during the country's uncertain early years.

Examines the colonization of Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the durability of Portuguese rule.

Reconsiders key concepts in Marxist thought by examining the relationship between accumulation and subjectivity in Latin American narrative, film, and social and political theory.

Provides a theoretical and practical guide to community-engaged scholarship with Indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada.

Combines servant-leadership and feminism into a new understanding of leadership.

Argues that Nietzsche’s idea of the Übermensch was a central concern of filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s.

Drawing on a range of sources in philosophy and literature, but with particular reference to the work of Heidegger, makes a compelling case for the importance of place in philosophical discourse.

Examines the struggle of Jewish women to join defense and military activities during the decades leading up to the Israeli War of Independence.

Explores Italian filmmakers' representations of China and the Chinese, both at home and abroad.

Examines the place of history in the political thought of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, one of the key architects of modern Hindu nationalism.

The first complete intellectual biography of one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the twentieth century, Leo Strauss.

Explores the basic forms of responsibility that we willingly assume and the collaborative fulfillment that we find in each.

Explores how discussion of LGBTQ+ themes in a high-school literature course can foster ethical engagement among students.

A New York soldier's eyewitness account of life in the first year of the Civil War, from the campgrounds to the battlefields.

A collection of poems written by father and daughter during the Pandemic Year 2020.

Provides a novel conceptual and practical theory of revolution, engaging previous theories of revolution, contemporary continental philosophy, and systems theory.

Offers insight into race-based disparities in higher education and practical tools for advancing racial equity on college and university campuses.

Analyzes the tensions and triumphs of a unique, faith-based, addiction recovery organization in a high poverty neighborhood.

Analyzes the effects of new technologies on human rights, with a particular focus on how representations of technology affect our ability to understand and control it.

Drawing on Merleau-Ponty offers new insights into our understandings of health and illness, ability and disability, and the scientific and cultural practices that both enable and limit our capacity for diverse experiences.

A visitor's companion to New York's Letchworth State Park, richly illustrated with ninety maps and thirty-five photographs.

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Juxtaposes feminist and queer activism in Britain and the United States in the face of resurgent conservatism during the 1980s.

Examines the relationship of evil, action, and judgment in the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, and Jean-François Lyotard.

Presents a novel interpretation of Schelling's philosophy by way of his reading and critique of Spinoza.

Examines the deep roots of the American way of war.

Drawing on the thought of novelist and cultural critic Daniel Quinn, argues it is not too late to free ourselves from a culture in which we are compelled to destroy the world, one another, and even ourselves.

In dialogue with Derrida, formulates a new philosophical problem - a complex aporia that underlines the topic of the handwritten as a sign of legal identification.

Explores the duality between humans and Earth through a focus on the economic system changes that began with grain agriculture and has now reached its apogee in global capitalism.

Conversations with prominent Italian feminist thinkers Lea Melandri, Luisa Muraro, and Adriana Cavaero, as well as three essays - appearing in English for the first time - by author, journalist, and renown political figure Rossana Rossanda.

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.

A novel of manners set in the drawing rooms, ballrooms, and Wall Street offices in 1830s New York, dramatizing conflicts that we are still grappling with nearly two hundred years later.

Shows how punk rock shaped modern culture around the world.

Analyzes how White American mainline Protestants used the internal musical controversies of the turn-of-the-millennium Worship Wars to negotiate their shifting position within the nation's diversifying religious and sociopolitical ecosystems.

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.

Aims to construct an economic philosophy from indigenous African thought.

Incorporates a unique diplomatic, insider perspective to explain the unexpected incorporation of LGBTI rights into American and Swedish foreign policies.

Classic works by naturalist John Burroughs on his beloved Catskill region.

Argues that the path to the good life does not consist in working toward some abstract concept of the good, but rather by ameliorating the problems of the practices and institutions that make up our practical life.

Looking at Japan, traces crisis narratives across three decades and ten policy fields, with the aim of disentangling discursively manufactured crises from actual policy failures.

A rich, authentic account of eight young Black men's experiences on their paths to and through college.

Explores how poetry was used to disseminate and interpret history in early medieval China.

Offers three neo-Confucian understandings of broadening the Way as broadening oneself, through an ongoing process of removing self-boundaries.

Explores how concepts of sex in heaven can inform Christian sexual ethics in ways that challenge traditional norms and open new possibilities.

Gripping account of the life of the Russian Tsar’s last chief of security and intelligence.

Demonstrates that a true liberal capitalism has the capacity to enable personal well-being while dealing with new challenges such as pandemics, climate change, and automation.

Examines how the national pastime of baseball has the capacity to shape politics and American democracy.

Documents how the premodern techniques of narrating the past in South Asia were deeply transformed by colonial modernity, resulting in newer forms of truth-telling within the Sikh community.

Ethnography situating the contemporary financial services industry in the US Virgin Islands within broader histories of racial capitalism and gender inequality.

Follows Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland as they travel together in South America and then go their separate ways, in the process illustrating two very different ways of understanding humanity's place in the natural world.

Ethnography of Black engineering majors navigating campus life at a historically White university.