A history of the world’s mystical traditions.

Draws on Guo Xiang's commentary on the Zhuangzi to construct an account of freedom that is both metaphysical and political.

A critical examination of the health disparities and collective resilience of Black women in the United States.

Explores the role of democracy in NATO expansion decisions throughout the organizations history and looking forward into the future.

Essays exploring to what extent Nietzsche's thought can aid us in understanding politicized identities.

Traces the history of the concept of democracy in the United States.

A stunning visual memorial to Buffalo's architectural and industrial history.

Explores the origins of written communication to offer a counter-history to the separation of rhetoric/composition and technical/professional communication

Provides a new model for reading the Shiji and other early Chinese historical texts.

Examines how philosophical concepts like free will, personal identity, and goodness are given an artistic life in films and television programs.

Challenges readers to use utopian thinking and practice to counter the conditions of the present and create an alternative future.

The exciting story of New York in the progressive era told by the reformers and visionaries who shaped its history,

Explores the varying influence of foreign policy recommendations on education reforms in Chile, Argentina, and Colombia.

Poems that step up to our world's disasters, level with its possibilities, and interrogate faith, justice, militarism, madness, and the joy of intimate relationships.

A pioneering study of a formative chapter in Middle East intellectual history, examining the historical myth that underlies the "Canaanite" brand of Israeli nationalist anti-Zionism.

Proposes a form of moral education that joins care and justice to nurture and develop the desirable moral sentiments for a more just world at the interpersonal, social, political economic, and environmental levels.

Multifaceted study of Pennsylvania's coal miners during the post-World War One era.

Turns to theories and cultural representations of psychosocial life to reflect on, and better understand, the challenges of learning in times of social strife.

Draws on Nahua concepts to explore Nahua literary production and contributions to cultural activism from the 1980s to the present.

A collection of original essays and previously untranslated critical writings on the renowned Brazilian documentary filmmaker, Eduardo Coutinho.

Renowned poets and scholars address the question of how poetry sounds and signifies in different contexts.

Offers a new, interreligious approach to questions of mission and conversion, grounded in a close study of the Chinmaya Mission, Ramakrishna Mission and other movements associated with the Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedānta.

Shows how the myth of the American frontier persists as an ever-present, oppressive set of ideas about space, mobility, and race in the mid-twentieth-century literature of Los Angeles.

Offers an innovative analysis of gates—as architectural components, visual images, and mental constructs—in early Chinese thought and material culture.

An in-depth sociological investigation of "hope" as it applies to the Italian immigrant experience in the blue-collar suburb of Chicago Heights between 1910 and 1950.