Argues there is a program of five-word utterances that imitate fallen language in Dante’s Commedia.

In Boccacio's Decameron, Cervigni sees a parodic echo of the circles of Dante's Divine Comedy, and asks whether Bocaccio envisions the voyage of the brigata as similar to Dante the Pilgrim's journey toward the center, first the abysmal center of Lucifer, then towards the highest center, God.

Poems, short stories, and other personal reactions to works in the permanent collection of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz.

Overview of cast iron hitching posts designed and manufactured in the nineteenth century.

Creates contexts for the body to interpret and reinterpret its experiences of touch.

Essays on contemporary issues in political philosophy.

Examines the transitions to democracy in Africa.

Explores the recent print work of Judy Pfaff, one of America’s leading sculptors, printmakers, installation artists, and set designers.

Overview of the life, work, times, and legacy of renowned Albany potter Paul Cushman (1767-1833)

Fourth volume of biographies of African American women community leaders, focusing this time on Oklahoma.

Beautiful landscape photographs of the Helderberg Escaprment in New York State by renowned photographer John Yang.

Addresses the implications of a document found in the Archivio di Stato di Siena which affirms a connection between Farinata degli Uberti, a Florentine conspicuously encountered by Dante the pilgrim in Inferno 10, and the Sienese Ghibellines with whom he and his fellow Florentine Ghibellines joined, in an alliance which produced the Sienese victory at the battle of Montaperti in 1260.

An expanded and updated edition of the 2002 book that has become required reading for policymakers, students, and active citizens.

Examines conversations between welfare workers and their clients to understand the implementation of the 1996 welfare reform.

Remarkable reflection on Cardinal Newman.

Explores the question of being through readings of Parmenides’s Poem, Zeno’s paradoxes, and Plato’s Parmenides.

An in-depth companion guide to Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Offers innovative examples of how to approach art from a variety of academic disciplines and personal perspectives.

Paintings by contemporary American realist Don Nice, with emphasis on recent works relating to the Hudson Valley.

Explores themes of dispossession, shattering, and fragmentation that arise in contemporary writings from the point of view of the selves whose subjectivities and practices are said to be fragmented, shattered, and dispossessed.

Third volume of biographies of African American women community leaders in New York state.

A futuristic examination of metaphysical systems, responsibility, understanding, conceit, continuums, and history’s vector.

Argues that the analysis of movement and its correlative procession in the Divine Comedy is fundamental to an understanding of how Dante generates meaning in his poetic text.

Analyzes major Muslim philosophers.

The first comprehensive survey of the work of the Uruguayan printmaker and graphic artist Rimer Cardillo, presented in both English and Spanish.

Explores the interpretive problems, complexities, and legacies of Schopenhauer’s encounter with ancient India.

A collection of lectures delivered during the Fulbright Hays Scholar program in Ghana.

A new edition of the Latin text of Petrarch’s Itinerarium.

Addresses Jacoff’s own discomfort with Dante’s reiteration of the deicide charge against the Jews in Paradiso 7 and elsewhere.

Explores Dante’s love of books.

Papers from Binghamton University's Conferences on Medieval Latin Philosophy, 1995-2000, on St. Thomas Aquinas' oeuvre. The essays examine his sources within the Neoplatonic and Islamicist traditions, ...

Features the works of nine photographers and video artists on the cutting edge of the Cuban art scene.

Explores the career of one of America’s most noted printmakers and seminal role he played in bringing the arts to Woodstock, New York.

Second volume of biographies of African American women community leaders in New York state.

A collection of essays on the nature of love in religious tradition and theory, inspired by Raimundo Panikkar's ecumenical embrace of Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism.

Essays on the interaction between science and spiritual values which characterize much of modern life.

Career retrospective of modernist Albany painter Richard Callner.

Examines the effects of the Crusades from a variety of perspectives.

Explores the numerous perspectives from which works of art can be experienced and understood.

Looks at the progress, popularity, and problems related to states linking funding of public colleges and universities to performance.

An up-to-date description of the institutions and activities of New York State government.

An interdisciplinary reader exploring issues related to diversity, multiculturalism, and social justice.

The Neighborhood Preservation Initiative, a comprehensive community building program in ten neighborhoods from nine mostly mid-sized cities, is examined in It Takes a Neighborhood. Wright shows what was ...

Reflections from Jews and Roman Catholics on their struggles with the crucial and painful issues that continue to plague Christian-Jewish dialogue.

Addresses perceived irresolvable paradoxes regarding reality as presented by a number of philosophers.

Collection of essays adapted from an undergraduate honors conference held at Binghamton University which address contemporary issues in political philosophy.

First volume documenting Rabbinic Judaism in its formative age.

Essays on images and representation in the writings of Philo of Alexandria.

Select essays, originally presented at the Sixth Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, held in 2001 at SUNY Oneonta.

Second volume documenting Rabbinic Judaism in its formative age.

A study of Nietzche’s Zarathustra.

Addresses perceived irresolvable paradoxes regarding reality as presented by a number of philosophers.

Biographies of African American women community leaders in New York state.

Examines the expulsion of Professor Gerd Lüdemann from the Theology Faculty at the University of Göttingen.

Synthesis of Mediterraneum’s first seminar.

Drawings by one of the twentieth century’s most intellectually challenging artists.

Scholars and practitioners explore American government performance management offering diverse views.

Lithographs by American painter George Bellows, depicting the horrors and atrocities of World War I.

A selection of his more important writings.

A collection of lectures given at Queen’s University by academics in Judaic Studies.

An innovative approach to language acquisition using Chinese folk and popular songs.

A selection of his more important writings.

Examines each rabbinic text or sequence of homilies in order to uncover specific value concepts which are reflected in them either explicitly or implicitly.

Explores how modern Judaism has balanced between universalism and particularism.

Combines the work of promising college students with essays by distinguished scholars.

Explores the religious experience of Judaism through the perceptions and teachings of ordinary Jews and the creative elite.

Describes the actual mode of thought of the Rabbis of the Midrash and the Talmud, and indicates how they derived their own moral teachings from the Bible.

Essays in honor of Oskar Brecher.

Tells the story of young people’s volunteer efforts as part of the American Jewish Society for Service.

Compiles some longer review essays and somewhat briefer reviews of single titles from his collected work of the 1990s.

Explores the wider aspects of the rabbinic mind.

Describes how Halakah, or Jewish Law, enables the individual to achieve religious experience.

Explores ancient Sanskrit texts.

Examines the notion of divine incarnations as a central element of the portrait of God that came into focus through the Judaism of the dual Torah.

An Arabic-language treatise on usury from a theological and philosophical perspective.

Explores Western and Muslim scholarship on multiple aspects of the Twelver Shi’ite tradition.

Explores various aspects of Plato’s cosmological writings.

Explores the life and work of W. Warren Wagar.

Presents parts of the Judaic tradition of wisdom, concentrating on the oral part of the Torah, represented by the documents of law and scriptural exegesis.

A selection of his more important writings.

Attempts to discover a coherent unity in rabbinic theology.

Explores the university’s altering landscape, the conflicts over its core values and legitimacy, and the challenge for the university to negotiate the new landscape and to redefine itself within a larger educational context.

A collection of essays on the novelist María de Zayas and other seventeenth century Spanish women writers.

Argues that the religious movement of Mormonism branched off from mainstream Calvinist Christianity in a slow and deliberate process.

Explores the history of how the Eden story in Genesis has been understood.

Raises the radical question of how Dante’s understanding of poetry shaped his theology, his ethics, and, more generally his sense of the organization of knowledge or encyclopedia.

Explores the canon of Rabbinic literature.

Explores the canon of Rabbinic literature.

Explores the canon of Rabbinic literature.

Argues that academics’ intellectual engagement with a public beyond the walls of their own specialties, and even beyond the walls of the academy, was long a commonplace and significant part of the work of professors and writers in the humanities.

Thorough analysis of rabbinic thought.

Explores the lyric context of Inferno 5.

Translation of an Arabic work extolling the person and mission of Jesus.

English translation and introductory study of a previously unedited Hispano-Arabic legend of Alexander the Great.

Argues that critical comments appended to early printed editions of Petrarch’s Rime sparse inflected the reception and understanding of Petrarch’s vernacular poetry in Renaissance Europe.

A guide for appointed officials in American government.

Analyzes the responses of five states—Florida, Mississippi, New York, Washington, and Wisconsin—to the challenges of implementing welfare reform.

A new, substantially updated, and expanded version of a classic work on how to evaluate public policy published over a decade ago.

Discusses welfare reform in Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

Discusses issues involved in evaluating the new reforms, and applies those issues to the evaluation of welfare reform in Wisconsin.