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A Philosophical Defense of Culture
Draws on two different but strikingly similar streams in our world tradition to argue for the contemporary philosophical relevance of “culture.”
Religion and Empire in Portuguese India
Examines the colonization of Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the durability of Portuguese rule.
In the Region of the Heart
An exploration of states of consciousness as well as journeys in the imaginal realm.
Hegel on Tragedy and Comedy
Explores the full extent of Hegel’s interest in tragedy and comedy throughout his works and extends from more literary and dramatic issues to questions about the role these genres play in the history of society and religion.
Emerson in Iran
Examines the impact of Persian poetry in the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Breaking Boundaries
Analyzes efforts made by communities and policy makers around the world to push beyond conventional approaches to environmental decision making.
Let's Hear Their Voices
The first anthology of poetry, prose, and drama by second-generation Cuban American writers.
A Clan Mother's Call
Addresses the importance of Haudenosaunee women in the rebuilding of the Iroquois nation.
The Politics of Unreason
The first systematic analysis of the Frankfurt School’s research and theorizing on modern antisemitism.
God the Created
Develops a creative and provocative new model of God that brings together insights from both process theology and ground-of-being theology.
The Haunted History of Pelham, New York
A fascinating fusion of New York history and local folklore sure to send shivers up your spine!
Charlotte Brontë at the Anthropocene
Forges a fresh interpretation of Charlotte Brontë’s oeuvre as a response to ecological instability.
Reclaiming Time
Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation.
Between Celan and Heidegger
Probing reassessment of the relation between Celan's poetry and Heidegger's thought.
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.
The Critical Ihde
This critical reader brings together both essential as well as under-recognized writings from the work of Don Ihde, one of the most important contemporary thinkers on technology and human experience.
A Sourcebook in Classical Confucian Philosophy
Applies a method of comparative cultural hermeneutics to let the tradition speak on its own terms.
The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya
A literary and historical investigation into an ancient Indian religious thinker, tracing his rise in importance in the Hindu tradition.
Rule, Britannia!
Assesses how cinematic biographies of key figures reflect and shape what it means to be British.
Bastard Politics
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.
Heidegger and the Human
Original and critical essays by leading scholars on the question of the human in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.
The Letchworth State Park Atlas
A visitor's companion to New York's Letchworth State Park, richly illustrated with ninety maps and thirty-five photographs.
Jewish Virtue Ethics
Explores the diversity of Jewish approaches to character and virtue, from the Bible to the present day.
RiverTime
Journeys on the world’s rivers, from a naturalist’s point of view.
The Writing of Innocence
An original reading of Blanchot's thought with far-reaching philosophical and literary implications.
Ummah
Offers the Islamic concept of ummah as an alternative to the nation-state.
Sole Impression
New poems by the author of Winter Crows.
Years I Walked at Your Side
The first book-length collection in English of this major Israeli poet.
Virgin Capital
Ethnography situating the contemporary financial services industry in the US Virgin Islands within broader histories of racial capitalism and gender inequality.
Reconciliation in Global Context
A transdisciplinary approach to reconciliation practices and policies by an international team of scholars and scholar-practitioners.
Sacred and Secular
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.
Baroque Counterpoint
The classic text on Baroque Counterpoint, enlarged and revised, drawing from the master composers of the era.
Getting Personal
Addresses how digital forms of personal writing can be most effectively used by teachers, students, and other community members.
Musicology of Religion
Spearheads a new field for the combined study of religion and music, drawing upon theories and methods of the social sciences, ethnomusicology, philosophy, theology, liturgical studies, and cognitive studies.
The Truths and Lies of Nationalism as Narrated by Charvak
Rejects Hindu nationalism and pluralist secularism in favor of a revitalized politics of Indian federalism.
Jane Austen's Women
An original critical introduction to women characters in the novels of Jane Austen.
The Cinematographer's Voice
A unique exploration of contemporary filmmaking from cinema’s ultimate insiders.
Dao and Sign in History
Provides a new perspective on important linguistic issues in philosophical and religious Daoism through the comparative lens of twentieth-century European philosophies of language.
Hokkaido Dairy Farm
Argues that the dairy industry in Japan has always been entwined with notions of Otherness and security seeking, notably in terms of frontiers.
Neo-Confucian Ecological Humanism
Addresses Ming Dynasty philosopher Wang Fuzhi’s neo-Confucianism from the perspective of contemporary ecological humanism.
Forest and Crag
A compelling story of our ever-evolving relationship with mountains and wilderness.
No Jurisdiction
A deeply personal study of post-9/11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings of the War on Terror and its impact on American law and culture.
Tourists and Trade
How two roadside craft shops in upstate New York transformed American crafts into a fine art.
Heaven Is Empty
Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires.
Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds
Broadens the parameters of religious studies by accounting for material acts that help shape religious worlds.
Niagaras of Ink
Makes literature of Niagara Falls available to readers with a variety of interests in literature, culture, and place.
Order, Crisis, and Redemption
A critical reflection on the limitations of Carl Schmitt's political theology, reconsidered in light of the current crisis of the liberal democratic order.
Tax Increment Financing and Economic Development, Second Edition
Examines the many issues raised by TIF, the most widely used tool of local economic and community development.
Cosmopolitan Civility
Essays reflecting on the prolific, pioneering, and wide-ranging scholarship of Fred Dallmayr.
Anti-Music
Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.
A Postcolonial Leadership
Explores the possibilities and challenges of Asian immigrant Christian leadership in the United States.
An Introduction to Labor and Employment Law
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The Distortion of Nature's Image
Illustrates how the notion of an ecological society remains a decisively political question.
The First Chief Justice
Chronicles the efforts of the first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court to establish a federal court system during the country's uncertain early years.
Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, Second Edition
The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.
Calling Wild Places Home
Poignant and vulnerable essays that weave together seemingly disparate themes of wild places and mountain stewardship, books and reading, and building a new life after loss.
Louise Blanchard Bethune
The trailblazing story of the life and career of Louise Blanchard Bethune, America’s first professional woman architect.
Identities in Flux
Reevaluates the significance of iconic Afro-Brazilian figures, from slavery to post-abolition.
Early Buddhist Society
A richly scholarly yet accessible and imaginative account of society in the time of the Buddha.
Many Mahābhāratas
A major contribution to the study of South Asian literature, offering a landmark view of Mahābhārata studies.
From Pariah to Priority
Incorporates a unique diplomatic, insider perspective to explain the unexpected incorporation of LGBTI rights into American and Swedish foreign policies.
A Philosophy of Music Education
A Philosophy of Music Education is considered the classic text on the relation of aesthetics to the practical teaching and performing of music.
Catholics across Borders
Illuminates the cross-border migration and settlement of Catholics from Canada to northern New York.
Popovers and Candlelight
Recounts the true story of an entrepreneurial woman who succeeded in a male-dominated industry in the twentieth century.
Jan Sawka
Shows how Sawka’s experience as a political refugee, and his working method, which emphasized imagery drawn from memory, resulted in powerful works that speak of and to the universal human condition.
Subjects That Matter
Argues for postcoloniality as a model for philosophical practice.
Sovereign Jews
Offers a novel exploration of the relationship between religion and the state in Israel.
Hindutva and Violence
Examines the place of history in the political thought of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, one of the key architects of modern Hindu nationalism.
Opening to the Real
Recollections and reflections that introduce the reader to the equivalent of the practice of the presence of God.
Reconsidering the Life of Power
Offers a compelling intercultural perspective on body, art, self, and society.
Precalculus
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Brokering Tareas
Provides concrete examples of homework mentorship and positive academic interventions among immigrant families.
Western Civilizations I
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Convergence as Adaptivity
Argues that states substitute unwanted policy changes dictated by globalization with politically feasible ones, leading to policy convergence.
The Space of the Transnational
Challenges and reimagines transnational feminism by analyzing the concept of ummah, or community, in Muslim women's writing.
The Impeachment of Governor Sulzer
Brings to life the dramatic and colorful career of William Sulzer (1863–1941), former governor of New York State.
Something's Happening Here
The decade comes alive in this whirlwind ride through the Sixties that begins in Brooklyn and ends at Woodstock.
Another white Man's Burden
Demonstrates the extent to which Josiah Royce’s ideas about race were motivated explicitly in terms of imperial conquest.
Image and Argument in Plato's Republic
Argues that images are at the heart of the dialogue’s philosophical argumentation.
Reading for the Moral
Reassesses didacticism in seventeenth-century Chinese vernacular fiction and challenges the view that the late Ming was a notoriously immoral time.
The Great Murdering-Heir Case
Uncovers the facts behind the celebrated 1889 case of Riggs v. Palmer and shows how they transform our understanding of the decision.
Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies
This textbook offers accessible, academically sound information on a wide range of LGBTQ+ topics. The 12 chapters cover LGBTQ+ history, culture, and Queer Theory, but also explore LGBTQ+ relationships, families, parenting, health, and education - as well as a separate chapter on how to conduct research on LGBTQ+ topics.
Escape from the Pit
Originally published in Hebrew in 1944, this fascinating and moving account may well be the first memoir of the Holocaust.
Confucianism's Prospects
Challenges descriptions of East Asian societies as Confucian cultures and communitarian Confucian models as a political alternative to liberal democracy.
Doghiker
A comprehensive guidebook for dog owners that includes seventy-seven great hikes from the Adirondacks through the Catskills.
Miraculous Realism
An authoritative study of this postsecular film movement from the French-Belgian border region that rose to prominence at the turn of the twenty-first century.
Toward an African Future—Of the Limit of World
Examines the thought of W. E. B. Du Bois, with attention to its potential for reorienting present-day critical theory and political philosophy.
Participation and the Mystery
A groundbreaking and hopeful new look at contemporary spirituality, transpersonal psychology, integral education, and religious diversity and pluralism.
The Godfather and Sicily
Offers a distinctive interpretation of The Godfather as a novel and film sequence.
The Dialectics of Global Justice
Draws on Marx and the first-generation Frankfurt School to make the case that cosmopolitanism must become a postcapitalist political theory.
Cognition and Practice
Explores the aesthetic theory of one of China's most important and influential contemporary philosophers.
The Holocaust and Masculinities
Critically assesses the experiences of men in the Holocaust.
Poetics of the Local
Considers how Irish poets have drawn on discourses of locality to articulate new forms of place and belonging amid Ireland’s transforming global identity.
Writing Early China
Considers what unearthed documents reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China.
The Politics of People
Explores the cultural dimensions of protest and dissent in China, focusing on dramatic forms of bodily, spatial, strategic, and artistic performativity.
The Humanistic Background of Science
The once-lost introduction to the philosophy of science by Philipp Frank (1884-1966), a leading member of the Vienna circle of philosophers and biographer of Albert Einstein.
A Hard Rain
In spring 1972, Brenda Hudson, wife and mother, disappears while vacationing on Hatteras Island, North Carolina.
Native Foodways
Explores the interplay of religion and food in Native American cultures.