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African Americans and the First Amendment
The first detailed examination of African Americans and First Amendment rights, from the colonial era to the present.
Complex Effects of International Relations
Identifies the many ways in which unexpected outcomes are endemic to international relations due to the complexity of world politics.
Of an Alien Homecoming
The first book-length study in English of the Heidegger-Hölderlin relation, addressing the tension between Heidegger's political commitments during National Socialism and Hölderlin's ideal of poetic dwelling.
Our War Paint Is Writers' Ink
Explores a little-known history of exchange between Anishinaabe and American writers, showing how literature has long been an important venue for debates over settler colonial policy and indigenous rights.
Welding Technical Communication
Explores the teaching and learning of welding through two narratives: the personal narrative, relating the author's experience as a woman learning how to weld, and the academic narrative examining how instructional communication informs students' embodied knowledge and enculturation into a community of practice.
Identities in Flux
Reevaluates the significance of iconic Afro-Brazilian figures, from slavery to post-abolition.
Conflict in Aristotle's Political Philosophy
Offers a careful analysis of how Aristotle understands civil war, partisanship, distrust in government, disagreement, and competition, and explores ways in which these views are relevant to contemporary political theory.
The Asymptote of Love
Discusses the complexities and paradoxes of love as represented in the history of Western philosophy and Christianity.
Kept from All Contagion
Highlights connections between authors rarely studied together by exposing their shared counternarratives to germ theory's implicit suggestion of protection in isolation.
Postpolitics and the Limits of Nature
Explores why past generations of radical ecological and social justice scholarship have been ineffective, and considers the work of a new wave of scholarship that aims to reinvent the radical project and combat injustice.
Empires between Islam and Christianity, 1500-1800
A wide-ranging consideration of early modern Muslim and Christian empires, covering the Iberian, Ottoman and Mughal worlds, including questions of political economy, images and representations, and historiography.
Capitalism for All
Demostrates that a true liberal capitalism still has the capacity to enable personal well-being while dealing with new challenges such as pandemics, climate change, and automation.
Screening #MeToo
Considers how Hollywood films since the 1960s have both reflected and shaped attitudes toward rape and sexual violence.
Inheritance in Psychoanalysis
Anthology of recent, cutting-edge work in psychoanalysis and philosophy on the concept of inheritance.
Tales from the Temple
A collection of prose poems by Musan Cho Oh-hyun (1932–2018), celebrated poet-monk of the Nine Mountain school of Korean Zen.
Friendship and Hospitality
Offers a comparative and deconstructive reading of the cross-cultural encounter between the Jesuits and their Confucian hosts in late Ming China.
Taxation in Utopia
An interdisciplinary exploration of utopian political philosophy from the neglected perspective of taxation.
Hundred-Mile Home
A creative travelogue of landscape and memory.
Janus Democracy
Explores the contradictory nature of public opinion.
United States History II
This textbook is part of a collection of course materials available to students because of a collaboration between SUNY OER Services and 64 ink™, an imprint of SUNY Press. All of the course materials ...
Psychoanalysis and Repetition
Addresses unconscious repetition, a concept that is crucial to an understanding of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Boy-Wives and Female Husbands
A significant contribution to anthropology, history, and gender studies that reveals the denials of homosexuality in traditional and contemporary African societies to be rooted in colonialist ideologies.
Thinking the Inexhaustible
Essays address the major themes of Pareyson’s hermeneutic philosophy in the context of his existentialist approach to personhood.
Cognition and Practice
Explores the aesthetic theory of one of China's most important and influential contemporary philosophers.
Plato's Stranger
Meditation on the character of the Eleatic Stranger in Plato's late dialogues, arguing that the prominent place afforded to this foreigner—the other—represents an important philosophical and political legacy regarding the way thought, and life in the community, is understood.
P'ungsu
The first scholarly book to address Korean geomancy through an interdisciplinary lens.
Atmospheres of Breathing
Attempts to think anew about philosophical questions from the perspective of breath and breathing.
Eternity Now
Demonstrates that Rabbi Shneur Zalman's teachings regarding time and history enabled Habad's growth into a mass Jewish movement.
Environmental Biology
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The Great Agrarian Conquest
Groundbreaking analysis of how colonialism created new conceptual categories and spatial forms that reshaped rural societies.
A Turbulent South Africa
Highlights the continuing social unrest and public protest occurring in South Africa’s poorest districts.
Wonder Strikes
The first book-length examination of the prominent contemporary philosopher William Desmond's approach to aesthetics, art, and literature.
Get Real
A thought-provoking overview of the many challenges facing higher education and how to deal with them by a leading thinker in the field.
Adventures in Chinese Realism
Relates Chinese Realism to contemporary political and ethical challenges, such as in international relations and the morality of the public sector.
Announcements
A study of novelty through analyses of the language of announcement in revolutionary texts.
Revealing/Reveiling Shanghai
Examines Shanghai both as a real city and an imaginary locale, from diverse cultural and disciplinary perspectives.
Against the Despotism of Fact
First comprehensive account of the figure of the Irish Celt in modern British and Irish literature.
From World Religions to Axial Civilizations and Beyond
Essays in the field of comparative world religions and corresponding axial civilizations.
Figures of Time
Focuses on how nuances of poetic form alter how we have come to understand cultural aspects of time.
The US Supreme Court and the Centralization of Federal Authority
Traces the US Supreme Court’s effect on federal government growth from the founding era forward.
Qorbanot
A dynamic dialogue of poetry and art that reimagines the ancient, biblical concept of sacrifice.
The First Zionist Congress
An indispensable primary source in the history of Zionism.
The Spy
An exciting Revolutionary War tale of double agents and counterespionage in New York State in 1780.
Fashion, Modernity, and Materiality in France
An interdisciplinary examination of French fashion, modernity, and materiality from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.
Lionel Jobert and the American Civil War
Tells the exciting tale of a highly ambitious Frenchman who commanded a New York Regiment during the American Civil War.
Let's Hear Their Voices
The first anthology of poetry, prose, and drama by second-generation Cuban American writers.
One over Many
Corrective intervention in Plato's metaphysics replacing the standard view of Plato as a metaphysical dualist with a novel and revolutionary paradigm of unitary pluralism in a single reality built on ontological diversity.
Totalitarian Space and the Destruction of Aura
Diagnoses our contemporary spatial experience as fundamentally totalitarian through a multilayered critical theory of space.
Time in Exile
Proposes a theoretically rich treatment of temporality within exile as "gerundive" time.
The Politics of Paradigms
Uncovers long-ignored political themes—ideology, propaganda, mind-control, and Orwellian history—at work within the pages of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Bodies in China
Engages with Chinese philosophy to offer new conceptual models for reframing gender, bodies, and aesthetics.
Continental Theory Buffalo
Revisits, reassesses, and reclaims the legacy of May '68 in light of our present cultural and historical emergency.
The Caribbeanization of Black Politics
Examines the continuing ethnic diversification of black America and its impact on black political empowerment.
The Architecture of Downtown Troy
Tells the forgotten but surprising stories of the many handsome and significant buildings in downtown Troy, New York.
Transnational Research in Technical Communication
Transnational Research in Technical Communication: Stories, Realities, and Reflections offers unique story-based insights into the complexities and challenges of transnational and intercultural research.
Knowing It When You See It
Lively analysis of how Henry James's fiction anticipates later filmmakers' concerns with what we can see and what we can know.
Alton's Paradox
Uses extensive archival research to explore the manifold contributions of foreign film workers to emerging film industries in Latin America from the 1930s to early 1940s.
Theosophy across Boundaries
Offers a new approach to Theosophy that takes into account its global dimensions and its interaction with highly diverse cultural contexts.
Himalayan Histories
A rare look at the history of Himalayan peasant society and the relationship between culture and environment in the Himalayas.
Convenient Criticism
Explains why and how local critical reporting can exist in China despite the kinds of media control that are the hallmarks of authoritarian rule.
An Introduction to Labor and Employment Law
This textbook is part of a collection of course materials available to students because of a collaboration between SUNY OER Services and 64 ink™, an imprint of SUNY Press. All of the course materials ...
Victorian Structures
Argues that the descriptions of buildings frequently encountered in Victorian novels offer more than evocative settings for characters and plot; instead, such descriptions signal these novels' self-reflexive consideration of the structure itself.
Poetics of Breathing
A comparative study of breath and breathing as a core poetic and compositional principle in modern literature.
Hyperthematics
Presents a new and unique method for developing principles to be applied in creating and increasing value.
Medicine Is War
Examines how literature mediated a convergence of militarism and medicine in Victorian culture that continues into the present via a widespread martial metaphor.
Literary Voice
This textbook is part of a collection of course materials available to students because of a collaboration between SUNY OER Services and 64 ink™, an imprint of SUNY Press. All of the course materials ...
Water and Power in Past Societies
Examines the many ways water has contributed to power structures in the past, with insights for contemporary water management.
Merleau-Ponty and Nishida
Places the phenomenologies of Merleau-Ponty and Nishida in dialogue and uncovers a demand for a motor-perceptual form of faith in both philosophers’ meditations on artistic expression.
Black Campus Life
Ethnography of Black engineering majors navigating campus life at a historically White university.
Mexico Unmanned
Demonstrates how transhistorical myths of masculinity are both perpetuated and challenged in recent Mexican cinema.
Liberating Revolution
Provides a novel conceptual and practical theory of revolution, engaging previous theories of revolution, contemporary continental philosophy, and systems theory.
Rethinking Life
Fourteen Italian philosophers reflect on how the global experience of vulnerability and precariousness—of which the Covid-19 pandemic is but one example—compels us to rethink life and collective living.
Event: "Screen Love" Book Signing at Riffraff Bookstore
May 19, 2022
@ 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Providence, RI
Tom Roach is the author of Screen Love: Queer Intimacies in the Grindr Era. In work, play, education, and even healthcare, we are using social media during COVID-19 to approximate "normal life" before the pandemic. In Screen Love, Tom Roach urges us to do the opposite. Rather... Read more
Harold Taylor and Sarah Lawrence College
The engaging memoir of a college president and public intellectual who became one of America's leading mid-twentieth-century social and educational activists.
Jervis McEntee
Redefines McEntee's place in the history of nineteenth-century American landscape painting.
Conferences
Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA)
Chicago, IL
April 7-10, 2022
American Musicological Society - New York State–St. Lawrence Chapter
Virtual
April 9-10, 2022
Our Time at Foxhollow Farm
Chronicles the life of an upper-class, mid–Hudson Valley family during the first three decades of the twentieth century.
Along His Own Lines
The first scholarly exhibition catalogue of the work of Eugene Speicher (1883-1962), one of the foremost American realists of his generation, who was closely associated with George Bellows, Robert Henri, Leon Kroll, and Rockwell Kent.
In/Animate
Documents the groundbreaking art of nationally renowned metalsmith Myra Mimlitsch-Gray.
The Floating World
Documents the art and science of three-dimensional abstract artworks created in the 1970s and 1980s by one of the leading innovators of fine art holography.
Shinohara Pops!
Surveys the fifty-year career of the avant-garde artist Ushio Shinohara.
Dick Polich
Explores the significant impact that the metallurgist Dick Polich and his foundry, Tallix, have had on contemporary art.
Russel Wright
Explores the work and philosophy of renowned industrial designer Russel Wright, whose former home in the Hudson Valley—Manitoga—is now a national historic landmark.
Anonymous
Explores the tension between an ancient culture’s unbroken artistic tradition and the personality-driven world of contemporary art.
Mary Reid Kelley
Celebrates the first exhibition devoted to the finely crafted and researched costumes, objects, and drawings that Mary Reid Kelley creates for her visually and intellectually stimulating videos made in collaboration with Patrick Kelley.
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around
Reveals a remarkable woman’s life and her contributions to social justice movements related to Civil Rights, feminism, lesbian and gay liberation, anti-racism, and Black feminism.
Castles of New York
An architectural and historical tour of twenty-nine of New York State’s finest castles.
Andrew Lyght
Documents the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art’s exhibition of work by Guyana-born contemporary artist Andrew Lyght and provides new scholarship contextualizing Lyght’s work within the history and culture of Guyana and modern art.
The Hudson River to Niagara Falls
A stunning selection of paintings by Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, John W. Casilear, George Inness, and others, depicting landscapes, historic sites, natural wonders, and waterways of New York State.
An Irrepressible Conflict
Examines the pivotal role New York State played in the Civil War.
American Chartres
Documents the city’s surviving grain elevators and their profound influence on twentieth-century architecture.
Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Presents recent work by the Brooklyn-based artist known for unsettling works that contend with such topics as domesticity, the body, consumer culture, fashion, and violence.
The Leonardo Series
A one-to-one encounter with Leonardo da Vinci's work on human proportion.
Hollywood Films in North Africa and the Middle East
Traces the circulation of Hollywood films in North Africa and the Middle East from the early twentieth century to the present.
Event: "Inside the Green Lobby" Book Signing and Chat at Northshire Books in Saratoga Springs
August 04, 2022
@ 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Saratoga Springs, NY
Join Bernard Melewski for a book signing and discussion on Inside the Green Lobby: The Fight to Save the Adirondack Park, Saturday, at TNorthshire Books in Saratoga Springs on August 4th at 6pm.
Event: "Inside the Green Lobby" Book Signing and Chat at The Book House in Stuyvesant Plaza
June 04, 2022
@ 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Albany NY
Join Bernard Melewski for a book signing and discussion on Inside the Green Lobby: The Fight to Save the Adirondack Park, Saturday, at The Book House in Stuyvesant Plaza on June 4th at 3pm.
Event: "Notable Civil War Veterans of Oswego County, New York " Presentation at Oswego County Historical Society
May 22, 2022
@ 1:30pm - 5:00pm
Oswego, NY
The Oswego County Historical Society (OCHS) will host its annual meeting presentation at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 22 in the Oswego Masonic Hall of the Lake City Lodge No. 127 F & AM located at 765 E. Seneca St. in Oswego. Dr. Natalie Woodall will present on her forthcoming book... Read more