Comparative, ethnographic study of women who migrate for marriage in rural north India.

Examines how community leaders, writers, and political activists facing state repression in Latin America have drawn on and debated the validity of Holocaust terms to describe human rights atrocities in their own countries.

First sustained critical reading of Lacoue-Labarthe's Phrase, which provides insights into a philosophically inspired work of prose poetry.

A history of the French schools that pioneered female education in Ottoman Iraq's Jewish communities.

Explores the role of travel and translation in Brazilian literature and culture from the 1870s to the present.

Drawing on Merleau-Ponty offers new insights into our understandings of health and illness, ability and disability, and the scientific and cultural practices that both enable and limit our capacity for diverse experiences.

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

A new and accessible introduction to this exciting, controversial, and often misunderstood music, drawing on extensive research, close listening, and the author’s experience as a performer.

Maps manifestations of the sacred and religious syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cultural forms.

Argues for a decolonial reinterpretation of Sophocles’ classical tragedy, Antigone, that can help us to rethink the anti-colonial politics of militant mourning in the Americas.

Offers the first focused study of the shifei debates of the Warring States period in ancient China and challenges the imposition of Western conceptual categories onto these debates.

Wide-ranging examination of American philosophy's ties to settler colonialism and its role as both an object and a force of decolonization.

Reveals the development of Maurice Kenny’s growing artistic consciousness, while attesting to both the beauty and brutality of the world in which he lived.

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.

Offers an immanent critique of Levinas’s core philosophical proposals by reference to his allegedly eurocentric statements.

Examines movie romance in light of our emotional bond to the actors and characters on screen.

Shows how contemporary French philosophy adopted this literary paradigm and argues for its significance for addressing concerns in ethics, ontology, and aesthetics.

Documents the surprising role pharmaceutical science and technology has played in Russia’s search for national identity over a century of political turbulence.

This volume brings social and cultural anthropologists into dialogue with historical sociology and illustrates the continued potential of the concept of civilization for all participants.

Examines how state courts change public policy through an analysis of their influence on state education finance reform.

Examines the role that Japanese girls’ magazine culture played during the twentieth century in the creation and use of the notion of shōjo, the cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls.

Explores Yalom’s profound contributions to psychotherapy and literature.

Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis.

Analyzes the tensions and triumphs of a unique, faith-based, addiction recovery organization in a high poverty neighborhood.

Considers how our ideas about mathematics shape our individual and cultural relationship to the field.

Aims to construct an economic philosophy from indigenous African thought.

Explores the aesthetic theory of one of China's most important and influential contemporary philosophers.

Investigates how the Thai poet Angkarn Kallayanapong adapts Buddhist concepts of time to create a modern Asian aesthetic imaginary.

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Combines psychoanalysis, queer theory, masculinity studies, and cultural studies to explore contemporary manhood in film.

Argues that we need to reinvent sovereignty as a motive for democratic political action while remaining alert to its dangers, specifically its relationship to violence.

Encompasses key years and important events in Theodore Roosevelt’s early life and career.

Explores the rich history, collections, and significance of the only museum in the United States dedicated solely to the art form of dance.

Proposes "the extraordinary" as a defining characteristic of modernity.

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 ...

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 ...

Questions universities’ increasing reliance on market-oriented metrics to determine their strategic directions and gauge faculty productivity.

Compares life today in the German Black Forest with Thoreau's experiences at Walden Pond.

A portrait of Israeli literature in its full transnational and multilingual complexity.

Offers a process philosophical approach to mysticism and mystical religious experience.

Argues that the path to the good life does not consist in working toward some abstract concept of the good, but rather by ameliorating the problems of the practices and institutions that make up our practical life.

Offers a firsthand account into early-nineteenth-century New York State and Lower Canada during a time of enormous growth and change.

An idealistic, occasionally naïve and somewhat irreverent young attorney becomes the District Attorney of Rockland County, New York, in the 1960s and faces the challenges of fighting crime in a rapidly changing world.

A systematic analysis of the myth cycle of Paraśurāma (“Rāma with the Axe”), an avatára of Viṣṇu with a much darker reputation.

Applies a variety of scholarly approaches to analyze the long-term impact of President Obama as a leader and policymaker.

A comprehensive, concise, and easy-to-read introduction intended for undergraduates and general readers interested in the study of mysticism.

Examines how literature mediated a convergence of militarism and medicine in Victorian culture that continues into the present via a widespread martial metaphor.

A trilogy exploring different aspects of shared governance in higher education.

Offers the first comprehensive survey of Mexican existentialism to appear in English.

A guide to Buddhism’s rich variety of traditions and cultural expressions for educators who would like to include Buddhism in their undergraduate courses.

Explores the role of print media in conversations about race and belonging across Central America.

Offers a new phenomenological method for biblical interpretation that opens up the possibility of an absolute science of scripture.

A study of comparative metaphysics that explores the concepts of Reality and Appearance and their relevance to contemporary religious consciousness.

Pioneering essays that demonstrate the significance of the seasons for philosophy, environmental thought, anthropology, cultural studies, aesthetics, poetics, and literary criticism.

The engaging memoir of a college president and public intellectual who became one of America's leading mid-twentieth-century social and educational activists.

Tells the story of the nation's largest higher education union from its earliest years to its role today as a powerful organization promoting the interests of faculty, staff, and the entire SUNY community.

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.

A father’s personal and intimate account of his Filipino and Alaska Native family’s experiences, and his search for how to help his children overcome the effects of historical and contemporary oppression.

A Philosophy of Music Education is considered the classic text on the relation of aesthetics to the practical teaching and performing of music.

Tells the story of a young couple in love during World War II, and the difficulties they faced both at war and on the home front.

An original philosophical exploration of the limits of Hegel's thought.

Looking at Japan, traces crisis narratives across three decades and ten policy fields, with the aim of disentangling discursively manufactured crises from actual policy failures.

Assesses the place of non-military national service in Israeli politics and society.

Reveals how presidents deploy a rhetoric that attempts to attract many racial and ethnic groups, but ultimately directs itself to an archtypal white, Middle-American swing voter.

A rich intellectual encounter, revolving around the hands of the experimenter and those of the artist, highlighting the relation between the sciences and the arts.

Offers a wider approach to Italian American culture, one that stresses both its material, urban components and the creativity of its formal literary codes.

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.

Sets out the challenges presented to Muslim societies by Western dominance over the past two hundred years, and explores Muslim responses, particularly in the context of South Asia.

The first in-depth analysis of the radical feminist theory and coalitional praxis of scholar-activist María Lugones.

Analyzes contemporary superhero-themed cinema, television, and web series in Latin America.

The first detailed examination of African Americans and First Amendment rights, from the colonial era to the present.

A study of John Marshall's political thought with special emphasis on his views of constitutional legitimacy, sovereignty, citizenship, and national identity.

A comprehensive and theory-rich investigation of the history and philosophy of yoga, from its Indian origins to the contemporary context.

Essays providing a multi-disciplinary look at Derrick Bell's thesis of racial realism.

Art as yoga and meditation for artists, contemplative practitioners, art educators, and art therapists.

Offers a cosmopolitan account of war that blends sharp inquiry into interspecies politics with original poetry on animals, loss, and war.

Investigates how Argentine cinema has represented rural spaces and urban margins from the 1910s to the present.

From the Nile to the Hudson, the story of how two Egyptian mummies joined an American museum collection.

Explores the interplay between the dramatic form of the dialogue and the basic themes it addresses.

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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 ...

Showcases the latest trends in art and design, from painting and sculpture to photography, printmaking, and metals.

The story of how and why a group of prominent and influential men in New York City and beyond came together to help women gain the right to vote.

Broadens the parameters of religious studies by accounting for material acts that help shape religious worlds.

Examines the causes and consequences of recusal behavior on the US Supreme Court.

Provides a rhetorical analysis of female spirit medium's autobiographies in the historical and social contexts of Victorian era America.

A provocative examination of the consequences of Levinas’s and Adorno’s thought for contemporary ethics and political philosophy.

Sheds new light on pre-modern Chinese gender relationships in the context of marriage, male Confucian literati self-presentation, and social networks.

A rich collection of essays about the inner, shared experiences of participants engaged in second-person approaches to contemplative practice.

Handsome, fully illustrated history of the sixty-four State University of New York campuses.

Leading theorists explore the concept of political liberalism.

A provocative tale of an unlikely contender and her midlife transformation through boxing.

An essential resource for dedicated cyclists planning a trip through the state or casual riders seeking new stretches of trail to enjoy with family and friends. Great for those traveling by foot, boat, or car as well.

Demonstrates the profound overlap of philosophy’s mind-body problem and various racist doctrines found in thinkers ranging from Descartes to Kant.

Examines emerging new materialist and posthuman conceptions of subjectivity and agency, and explores their increasing significance for contemporary climate change environmentalism.

Examines how the US media covers high-profile public policy issues in the context of competing claims about media bias.

Describes in rich detail African American daily life among free blacks in the North in the 1860s.

Advances an interpretation of Aristotle’s theory of truth in terms of accurate measurement.

Analyzes audio recordings of interwar Hebrew plays, providing a new model for the use of sound in theater studies.

A bracing critique of human rights law and activism from the perspective of the Global South.