Explains why and how local critical reporting can exist in China despite the kinds of media control that are the hallmarks of authoritarian rule.

The first in-depth study of the All World Gayatri Pariwar, a modern Indian religious movement.

Papers of the forty-third Algonquian Conference held at University of Michigan in October 2011.

A selection of lithographs, etchings, woodcuts, and drawings by Robert Cimbalo.

The first book-length study of Leo Strauss' understanding of the relation between modern democracy, technology, and liberal education.

An account of an ordinary young woman coming of age in the "Burned-Over District" of Western New York during the Second Great Awakening.

Traces how alternative food movements are affected by global and local trends, with a focus on how organic agriculture was integrated in Israel.

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.

A full account of the Metaphysical Club, featuring the members’ philosophical writings and four critical essays.

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

Examines the skeptical foundations of literature in order to reassess the status of fiction.

Proposes a post-Straussian reading of Plato to advance a reconciliation of ancient and modern theories of natural right.

Explores the links between language, cultural identity, and creativity through the works of Emanuel Carnevali, one of the first Italian American authors to attain literary recognition.

Documents the groundbreaking art of nationally renowned metalsmith Myra Mimlitsch-Gray.

Examines how postfeminism and postracialism intersect to perpetuate systemic injustice in the United States.

A study of the development of Dewey's logic from 1916-1937 leading up to his final 1938 book on the subject.

Expanded new edition of a classic examination of the psychological roots of our ecological crisis.

Presents new ways of thinking about the human and the humanities through a rethinking of Antigone.

Examines the little-explored topic of relations between state governments and their respective local governments.

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.

Demonstrates how activists and others use art and popular culture to strive for a more democratic future.

Rethinks the concepts of nation, imperialism, and globalization by examining the everyday writing of the newspaper chronicle and blog in Spain and Latin America.

Journeys on the world’s rivers, from a naturalist’s point of view.

A comparative study of breath and breathing as a core poetic and compositional principle in modern literature.

Studies the force of action, motion, and vision in the early cinema of Hollywood director Raoul Walsh.