Bridges theory, art, and practice to discuss emerging issues in transnational religious movements in Latina/o and African diasporas.

Examines innovative writing pedagogies and the experiences of Latinx student writers at Hispanic-Serving Institutions nationwide.

Engaging essays on a wide spectrum of Hollywood directors and the films they created.

The story of the suffrage movement and the ongoing struggle for women’s rights through the lens of one family’s history.

Shows how Japan’s immigration policy is shaped by the nature of Japan’s economy and elite debates about the country’s national identity.

Traces the circulation of Hollywood films in North Africa and the Middle East from the early twentieth century to the present.

Describes how religious tradition is established as available within a text, free from ritual and observance, in Buddhism and Christianity.

Offers a portrait of India as seen through the eyes of a sensitive, sharp-eyed, and witty young scholar in the early 1960s.

Argues that post-Katrina New Orleans is a key site for exploring competing narratives of American decline and renewal at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Updated with a timely literature review and new case studies from sports, international politics, and third party image repair.

Discusses Gandhi’s creative use of ascetic practice, particularly his practice of celibacy, for nonviolent activism.

Combines personal accounts with insights from psychology to understand the continuing impact of Holocaust trauma in Lithuania.

Third- and fourth-wave feminists write about their experiences with Catholicism and their visions for the future of women in the Church.

A poetic and philosophical negotiation of the alternatives of atheism and religious faith.

Examines how public officials in the US, China, Japan, and Indonesia have interacted with communities affected by natural disasters.

Reveals the life and lore of a vanished era of railroad history.

A hermeneutics of language after Auschwitz.

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

Offers three neo-Confucian understandings of broadening the Way as broadening oneself, through an ongoing process of removing self-boundaries.

The first comprehensive history of principals in the United States.

Philosophers consider race and racism from the perspective of lived, bodily experience.

A wide-ranging overview of contemporary literary works by LGBTQ Appalachians with a focus on LGBTQ themes and characters.

The first comprehensive study of village government formation and dissolution in New York State.

Examines the educational programs American Indians developed to preserve their cultural and ethnic identity, improve their livelihood, and serve the needs of their youth in Chicago.

A meditation on how religious language tries to limn the liminal, conceive the inconceivable, speak the unspeakable, and say the unsayable.

Offers an in-depth ethnography of paradigm shifts in the lifestyles and values of youth in post-growth Japan.

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Tracks the influence of Italian cinema on American film from the postwar period to the present.

The story of a nineteenth-century New Yorker’s struggle to reconcile his same-sex erotic desires with his commitment to a Christian life.

Challenges standard views of the origins of the Daodejing, revealing the work’s roots in a tradition of physical cultivation.

Offers a unique perspective on the study of religion revolutionized by contemporary continental thinking.

Examines the limitations of rights-based mobilization and litigation for advancing the interests of trans individuals in the contemporary United States.

Demonstrates how four books by dissident German intellectuals served as a rebuke to the Nazi regime.

Explores how the trope of racial passing continues to serve as a touchstone for gauging public beliefs and anxieties about race in this multiracial era.

Explores how the suffering of African American women has been minimized and obscured in U.S. culture.

Revisits, reassesses, and reclaims the legacy of May '68 in light of our present cultural and historical emergency.

Explores the feminist spiritual and emotional politics of literary and cultural works by Black Caribbean women.

Captures how Indian Protestant Christians negotiate their religious and cultural identities within the Indian diaspora.

A collection of contemporary prose and poetry by women writers from New York’s Hudson Valley.

Explores the ideological and emotional trauma created after the withering of the socialist utopia in Cuba.

Provides encyclopedic coverage of female sexuality in 1940s popular culture.

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.

Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell's oeuvre, one that takes his kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies.

An indispensable resource for dedicated cyclists planning to bike across the state or the casual rider looking to take the family out for a couple of hours. Great for walkers, boaters, and auto travelers, too.

Examines the thought of Abū al-‛Alā’ al-Ma‛arrī (973–1057 CE) within the broader context of the major trends in Arab Islamic political and intellectual history by the time of his flourishing.

An analysis of Derrida’s early work engaging Plato, Hegel, and the life sciences.

The incredible, true story of the twentieth century's greatest performing sea lion and the man who trained him.

Reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800 to recover echoes of a queer messianic that still resonate today.

Examines the rhetoric in and around the New York State Asylum for Idiots in Syracuse, New York from 1854 to 1884.

Provides a reimagined but historically accurate account of the life of the notorious gangster Frank Costello through his own words.

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

A compelling story about three murders in Brooklyn between 1872 and 1873 and the young women charged with the crimes.

While searching for a missing pit bull, private investigator Easy Taylor explores the unsavory worlds of animal laboratory testing and dog fighting, uncovering bizarre genetic testing that alters the nature of beasts.

Opens up new ways of thinking about and debating the consequences of sustainable urbanism as it moves from planning to practice.

An up-to-date, clearly written, user-friendly guide that students and experienced scholars alike will find invaluable as they plan, implement, and write up qualitative research projects.

The intellectual autobiography of a leading scholar in the field of African American Studies.

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.

Examines the political dynamics behind anticorruption efforts in Asia.

Presents a new vision of the Buddhist history and philosophy of emptiness in Tibet.

Provides a metaphysical outlook for religious naturalism.

An unprecedented reading of Hegel’s Logic that sets this difficult work in a dialogue with literary texts.

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Essays exploring a rich intersection between phenomenology and idealism with contemporary relevance.

This volume of al-Tabari’s History provides the most complete and detailed historical source for the Persian empire of the Sasanids, whose four centuries of rule were one of the most glorious periods in Persia’s long history.

Interdisciplinary study of monumental art and architecture in human history.

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).

A collection of poems by the South Korean poet Lee Jangwook.

Explores the exemplary legacy of Buddhist women across the centuries and across the Buddhist world.

Documents the rich history of Italian American working women in Connecticut, including the crucial role they played in union organizing.

Uses both historical and contemporary case studies to examine how race and ethnicity affect the places we live, work, and visit. .

Examines the ways in which the inclusion of African diasporic religious practices serves as a transgressive tool in narrative discourses in the Americas.

Chronicles the expanding global effort to confront public health challenges.

A collection of plays by American Indian playwright William S. Yellow Robe Jr.

Brings early Daoist writings into conversation with contemporary contemplative studies.

Examines an all too often neglected period of postwar British cinema and popular culture.

Analyzes the different feelings, drives and instincts we have inherited from other species, to suggest a new understanding of ourselves as part of an eco-political community.

Examines the significant gaps between what New York State’s constitution says and how the state is actually governed and offers ideas for reform.

An intellectual biography of the American philosopher C. I. Lewis.

Argues that Indigenous hip hop is the latest and newest assertion of Indigenous sovereignty throughout Indigenous North America.

Draws from Latina feminism, existential phenomenology, and race theory to explore the concept of selfhood.

Explores distinctions between the sacred and the secular in a variety of religious traditions, and proposes ways in which their relationship can be mutually beneficial.

A behind-the-scenes look at one of New York's most colorful and influential governors.

Examines four discourses by Kierkegaard, arguing that they play a critical and surprising role in his oeuvre and contribute to the philosophy of figural language.

A theologically informed look at the postcolonial self that forms as Korean immigrants confront life in the United States.

Explores how Victorian women writers used the popular science of phrenology to challenge socially constructed forms of power.

Demonstrates how conflict between a human adept as the divine warrior and an otherworldly antagonist plays a key role in early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic accounts.

An exciting tale of nautical adventure on the waters of colonial New York Harbor.

The life and times of an instrumental figure in New York City’s recovery from the fiscal and social crises of the 1970s and 1980s, and in the general revitalization of the city over two generations.

Comprehensive examination of legislative term limits and how they have changed the American political system.

A critical introduction to the American philosopher D. G. Leahy (1937–2014), whose oeuvre sets forth a fundamental thinking in which change itself is revealed to be the very essence of reality and mind.

Provides firsthand accounts of militant Puerto Rican activists in 1970s New York City.

A historical investigation of the exclusion of Africa and Asia from modern histories of philosophy.

A bold and unflinching portrayal of contemporary Maya life in Chiapas, Mexico.

Offers a vision for innovation in higher education focused on societal progress and human development, as well as for higher education's role within a broader culture of innovation.

Argues that the economic system itself is culpable in maintaining our oppressive educational status quo.

Demonstrates the impact of global education partnerships related to information access.

Groundbreaking analysis of how colonialism created new conceptual categories and spatial forms that reshaped rural societies.

A psychoanalytic theory of biopolitics.

Argues convincingly, if counterintuitively, that modern medicine has little impact on longevity or mortality.