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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Explores the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

To our modern sensibilities, "doctrine" and "poetry" may seem antithetical, but the medieval Christian found nothing conflicting in them. In this provocative book, Bernard F. Huppe outlines the influence of Augustinian doctrine upon old English poetry and shows that their association was so close as to be indissoluble.

The Hawthorne depicted by Professor Bell in these pages will be as much of a surprise to many readers as is his appearance in the rare 1847 daguerreotype reproduced on the book-jacket. "This virtually ...

Explores the writer's enduring literary and political legacy.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

Extensive meditations on silence in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

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

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

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

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

A book of poems and painted images.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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).

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

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