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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The definitive overview of this transformative breathwork.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.