Explores the critical role that classroom educators play in supporting student motivation throughout the transition from high school to college.

Studies Plato's approach to argumentation, exploring his role as logician, rhetorician, and dialectician in a way that sees these three aspects working together.

Examines literary depictions of “mannish” pregnant women and metaphors of male pregnancy to reframe the relationship between creativity and gender in modernism.

Argues for a revolutionary political theology that can be used to combat racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression.

Assesses the contributions of six major psychoanalytic thinkers in the light of current academic and clinical trends in psychoanalysis.

Illuminating study of the ideas and influences of a near-forgotten American philosopher.

Argues that, to make progress within environmental ethics, philosophers must explicitly engage in environmental metaphysics.

A literary and historical investigation into an ancient Indian religious thinker, tracing his rise in importance in the Hindu tradition.

Draws on and centers oral histories with Black women college graduates to demonstrate the role of community in fostering their success in and beyond education.

Challenges deep-seated assumptions about the traditionalist nature of Confucianism by providing a new interpretation of the emergence of modern Confucianism in Republican China.

The first music theory anthology to provide 255 topically arranged examples by 67 historical women and people of color

A probing, generative analysis of Knausgård’s My Struggle, with implications for our understanding of the novel form more broadly in the twenty-first century.

Looks at how different religious traditions (Christian, Buddhist, neopagan, and animist) have attempted to resacralize the earth and provide new values that include the more-than-human world.

Aims to let silence disclose itself by cultivating attunements with silences’ happening.

Originally published in Hebrew in 1944, this fascinating and moving account may well be the first memoir of the Holocaust.

Reality merges with illusion in this novel of northwestern China.

Considers what unearthed documents reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China.

A granddaughter's intimate portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt at her longtime home of Val-Kill as well as on a diplomatic trip to Europe and the Middle East.

The most comprehensive collection of writings by an important twentieth-century radical writer.

An explorer’s walking guide to downstate New York’s awesome boulders and rock formations.

Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation.

A moving tale of contemporary Haiti told through the intersecting lives of four young people struggling to hold on to hope and their identities amid a militarized coup in the early 1990s.

A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions.

A primary source collection of the local impact of the COVID pandemic on a college community which both records and reflects upon the nature of daily life during a crisis.

Explores the question of whether heroes matter in the modern republic.

Calls into question the traditional polarity of theism and atheism.

Argues that friendship is the gift of a world that is not one's own and that transforms one's world in unforseeable ways.

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

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

Offers a fresh approach to the problem of the human figure in an age of digital cinema.

Presents Tantra from an ethnographic vantage point, through a series of case studies grounded in diverse settings across contemporary Asia.

Explores mountain regions as cultural landscapes that have been shaped by long-term human-environment interactions.

The first edited collection to offer a systematic introduction to African phenomenology.

Explores the influence coping has had on African Americans' political attitudes and behaviors.

How jazz spurred a generational debate that reshaped American culture.

A detailed, historic guide to the rich physical history of New York City, from its founding by Dutch settlers to the turn of the twentieth century.

Provides a remapping of Italian and Italian American culture by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within Italy and along diasporic routes.

Accessible to a wide range of readers, from artists to commuters to nature lovers and beyond, who wish to expand their understanding of walking.

Offers a new, Spinozist framework for understanding encounters with otherness in Romantic literature as experiences of immanence.

Interlinks Gilles Deleuze's critical philosophy with Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to unpack contemporary democratic politics as a contest for complexity-reducing orientation in sense.

Combines phenomenology with the "enactivist" approach to consciousness theory and recent emotion research to explore the way self-motivated action plans shape selective attention, exploration, and ultimately the mind's interpretation of reality - in philosophy, psychology, cultural awareness, and our personal lives.

Retraces Hölderlin's journeys to Bordeaux and back in 1801–02, explaining why they are turning points in the great poet's life.

Reformulates the notion of the ego and provides a new perspective for understanding ego development and the role of the ego in spiritual life.

This entertaining and accessible guide shows readers how to turn danger into opportunity, even when dragons threaten.

Putting at work a negative pedagogy centered around learning from unlearning, problematizes and boldly challenges today's culturalist discourses, camouflaged racisms, and masked fascisms.

Offers a bold new reading of Yiddish cinema by exploring the early diasporic cinema's fascination with media and communication.

Argues that the modern practice of critique emerged out of religious traditions and can in many ways be traced back to them.

Analyzes the different feelings, drives and instincts we have inherited from other species, to suggest a new understanding of ourselves as part of an eco-political community.

An up-to-date, clearly written, user-friendly guide that students and experienced scholars alike will find invaluable as they plan, implement, and write up qualitative research projects.

Applies a method of comparative cultural hermeneutics to let the tradition speak on its own terms.

The definitive overview of this transformative breathwork.

Offers a unique perspective on the study of religion revolutionized by contemporary continental thinking.

Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of “carefree wandering,” deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary neoliberal culture.

Investigates, through a critical exploration of Derrida's political thought, the foundations of modern secular discourse in relation to issues of race and colonialism.

Takes a multicultural, interdisciplinary approach to the rhetoric of science to expand our
toolkit for the collective management of global risks like climate change and pandemics.

Explores the various ways in which poetic and philosophical writing meet in texts by, and on, Paul Celan.

Argues that truth, moral right, political right, and aesthetic value may be understood as arising out of a naturalist account of humanity, if naturalism is rightly conceived.

A compelling biography of virtuoso, baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams and how his life intersected with some of the greatest poets, writers, painters, and musicians of his time.

Brings together and makes available in English for the first time some of Ángel Rama’s most important essays.

A comprehensive introduction to the life and thought of one of the Islamic intellectual tradition’s most original and profound authors.

Helps students achieve their academic and career goals by clarifying the behaviors that they alone are responsible for, explaining why they are important, how they are assessed, and how they can lead to success.

How New Yorkers transformed the world!

A clear translation and helpful explanations illuminate this ancient classic of self-cultivation for a modern audience.

Presents a timely discussion of the core problems faced by peasant communities under neo-liberal economics.

Offers a portrait of India as seen through the eyes of a sensitive, sharp-eyed, and witty young scholar in the early 1960s.

Develops and defends a philosophical account of meaning, purpose, and value in human life and
experience that is naturalistic without being reductionistic or scientistic.

Explores how popular novels, short stories, and television shows from the United States and Britain illustrate the positive effects of feminism and promote gender equity.

The complete history of one of New York State's—and the nation's—founding families.

An analysis of the philosophy of the Yijing in comparison to modern Western philosophies.

Breaks the spell of economic thought by interrogating the widespread language and logic of “incentives” in public life from a Lacanian perspective.

Explores the diversity of Jewish approaches to character and virtue, from the Bible to the present day.

Argues that self and selflessness are aspects of the same insoluble problem at the very heart of modernity.

Considers how popular Haitian films not only provide entertainment but also help audiences in Haiti and the diaspora think through daily challenges.

Fully revised, updated edition of the classic text with all new essays assessing the state of race and racial issues in US higher education today.

A critical reflection on the limitations of Carl Schmitt's political theology, reconsidered in light of the current crisis of the liberal democratic order.

Illuminates the beginnings, downfall, and legacy of the acid-inspired, spontaneous, and playful approach to life and music in Haight-Ashbury from 1964–1967.

A wide-ranging overview of contemporary literary works by LGBTQ Appalachians with a focus on LGBTQ themes and characters.

Considers how Irish poets have drawn on discourses of locality to articulate new forms of place and belonging amid Ireland’s transforming global identity.

Explores the “torture” of mannered behavior and the prevalence of etiquette as a theme in classical and contemporary Hollywood and European cinema.

Provides a new conceptualization of curriculum and of curriculum planning that is clearer, more functional, more adequate than those previously available.

A fresh and rigorous interpretation of William James's ethical theory, showing how experimenting with life's opportunities can transform one's self and life.

Argues that states substitute unwanted policy changes dictated by globalization with politically feasible ones, leading to policy convergence.

Explains the complexities of policy implementation and why attempts to translate new laws into effective and enduring policy sometimes succeed and sometimes fail.

A novel of early eighteenth-century Venice that Cooper called "in spirit, the most American book I ever wrote."

Explores the feminist spiritual and emotional politics of literary and cultural works by Black Caribbean women.

Examines the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization.

Reevaluates Western and Chinese philosophical traditions to question the boundaries of entrenched conceptual frameworks.

Reconsiders the figure of synaesthesia, understood as the combination of the senses and of the arts, in philosophy and literature.

Reveals the often-untold stories of front-line public servants.