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Book SynopsisTells the life story of Mandu da Silva, the last living jaguar shaman among the Baniwa people in the Northwest Amazon. In this original and engaging work, Robin M. Wright, who has known and worked with Silva for more than thirty years, weaves the story of Silva’s life together with the Baniwas’ broader society, history, mythology, cosmology, and jaguar shaman traditions.Trade Review"Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans is a tour de force, a remarkable work of deep understanding and expressive skill that should become a classic of Amazonian ethnography."—Donald Pollock, Anthropos"Complex, detailed, fascinating, and well-written."—Rebecca R. Stone, Journal of Anthropological Research "No ethnographer has ever written so extensively on a single shaman of the northwest Amazon. . . . A monumental study!"—S. D. Glazier, Choice"What Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon will be most remembered for is the essential connection between myths, religious roles, social organization, and physical places. . . . Any anthropologist interested in shamanism or animism should take note of it."—Jack David Eller, Anthropology Review DatabaseTable of Contents List of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. Shamans, Chanters, Sorcerers, and Prophets1. "You Are Going to Save Many Lives": The Life Story of Mandu da Silva, Hohodene Jaguar Shaman, coauthored by Manuel da Silva and Ercilia Lima da Silva2. Mandu's Apprenticeship and a Jaguar Shaman's Powers of World-Making3. "You Will Suffer Along Our Way": The Great Suffering in Mandu's LifePart 2. Shamanic Knowledge and Power in the Baniwa Universe4. Creation, Cosmology, and Ecological Time5. Mythscapes as Living Memories of the AncestorsPart 3. Transmission of Shamanic Knowledge and Power6. The Birth of the Child of the Sun, Kuwai7. Death and Regeneration in the First Initiation Rites, Kwaipan8. A Struggle for Power and Knowledge among Men and WomenPart 4. Revitalization Movements in Traditional and Christianized Communities9. The House of Shamans' Knowledge and Power, the House of Adornment, and the Pamaale School ComplexConclusionAppendix 1. Letter Authorizing Reproductions of Kuwai-ka WamundanaAppendix 2. Description of The Mysterious Body of KuwaiNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisOvid is a poet to enjoy, declares William S. Anderson in his introduction to this textbook. And Anderson's skillful introduction and enlightening textual commentary will indeed make it a joy to use. In these books Ovid begins to leave the conflict between men and the gods to concentrate on the relations among human beings.

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Book SynopsisJames Clerk Maxwell published the Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in 1873. At his death, six years later, his theory of the electromagnetic field was neither well understood nor widely accepted. By the mid-1890s, however, it was regarded as one...Trade ReviewGeorge Francis Fitzgerald's indirect influence was immense, and his reputation grows with every retelling of his period by the historians of science, especially in... The Maxwellians, by Bruce Hunt.... He was the acknowledged leader of an international team—what we would today call an invisible college—calling themselves the Maxwellians—the subject of Hunt's splendid book. -- D. Weaire, Trinity College, Dublin * Europhysics News *The entire story is fascinating and often surprising. It deserves a wide audience. This will be facilitated by the fact that the book is in English, not in mathematics; a few equations appear, but most are in plain prose. * American Scientist *The Maxwellians is a remarkable achievement.... Hunt combines the highest level of professional historical scholarship with a narrative that is lively and compelling throughout. * Nature *This excellent book is the story of three men whose lives were shaped and whose friendship was made through the study of one book, James Clerk Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. Behind this story is another of how the premature death of one man, Maxwell, caused an intellectual dislocation in science propagating over many years. * Science *Told with historical sensitivity and analytical skill, Hunt's story demolishes many of the long-accepted myths about the history of electromagnetism after Maxwell.... Hunt provides a readable account, written in terms accessible to anyone with a basic knowledge of physics. * Times Higher Education Supplement *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Inviting and inspiring! Gittell masterfully weaves together academic insights and the voices of change agents to create a compelling guidebook. Each page of this book reveals something critical about the relational dynamics needed for our health care system to function better." -- Kathryn McDonald, Senior Scholar and Executive Director * Stanford Health Policy (CHP/PCOR) *"Positive sustained change in firms happens through relationships. This book is an inspired and substantive account of how relational coordination enables excellence in team and organizational performance. It offers a powerful framework, useful tools, and clear examples that will help readers to create impactful change." -- Jane E. Dutton * University of Michigan *"Jody Hoffer Gittell is one those rare individuals who has successfully translated 'what works' in industry for health care settings. Her relational coordination framework, implementation guide, and case studies provide a coherent approach for moving beyond fragmented efforts to improve teamwork. With this book, you can create organization-wide change based on shared goals, shared knowledge, and mutual respect." -- Don Goldmann, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer * Institute for Healthcare Improvement *"Transforming organizations requires courage, perseverance, and vision. Anyone considering this challenge will find it easier and more doable with the evidence, cases, and tools that Jody Hoffer Gittell provides. This book is a beacon based on her pioneering work on positive relationships that drive and sustain innovation. Let's do it!" -- Thomas A. Kochan * MIT Sloan School of Management and Institute for Work and Employment Research *"We are entering the age of relationships. This book makes a good argument for how effective work relationships will enable us to manage the tough problems which complex cross-cultural interdependent work will increasingly confront us." -- Edgar H. Schein * MIT Sloan School of Management and author of Humble Inquiry and Humble Consulting *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Meeting Performance Pressures with a Relational Response chapter abstractOrganizations in virtually every industry are facing pressures to do more with less. Whether these pressures come from customers, supply chain partners, policy makers or regulators, organizations feel compelled to provide better, higher-quality outcomes, more rapidly, and at lower cost. As always when facing performance pressures, there are critical choices to be made. Namely, will we pursue low-road strategies that rely primarily on the reduction of pay and the degradation of working conditions? Or will we instead pursue the high-road strategies that produce positive outcomes for a broader range of stakeholders? High-road approaches to high performance are fundamentally relational, requiring not just human capital but social capital to integrate across difference, thus creating new value rather than simply redistributing it. 2How Relational Coordination Drives High Performance chapter abstractRelational coordination is simply coordinating work through relationships of shared goals, shared knowledge, and mutual respect. Together, these relational dimensions reinforce communication that is sufficiently frequent, timely, accurate, and problem-solving rather than blaming when things go wrong. Relational coordination is extremely practical, supporting a wide range of positive performance outcomes—efficiency, financial performance, quality, safety, client engagement, worker engagement—as well as the ability for organizations to learn, innovate, and adapt. Relational coordination works especially well under the challenging conditions of uncertainty, interdependence, and time constraints. 3Engaging Clients in Relational Coproduction chapter abstractRelational coproduction happens when workers and their clients produce desired outcomes together by engaging in high-quality communication supported by relationships of shared goals, shared knowledge, and mutual respect. Rather than workers telling clients what they need, relational coproduction involves reciprocal interrelating between workers and clients regarding what should be done and how best to do it. Obstacles to relational coproduction include lack of accountability, lack of knowledge, and excessive attachment to professional autonomy. Traditional professional-client relationships may not even consider the possibility that clients have knowledge enabling them to contribute in a fundamental way to the achievement of desired outcomes. This chapter proposes a new model of professionalism based on "power with" rather than "power over." 4Engaging Co-Workers in Relational Leadership chapter abstractWe know from decades of research that leadership is instrumental for achieving organizational change, whether through the exercise of power or through the exercise of influence. In this chapter we explore relational leadership as an alternative to hierarchy, based on "power with" rather than "power over." More specifically, relational leadership is a process of reciprocal interrelating between leaders and those they lead. Relational leaders create influence in two ways: by developing shared goals, shared knowledge, and mutual respect with others—and by developing shared goals, shared knowledge, and mutual respect among others. Relational leadership requires that leaders have the courage to move beyond the divide-and-conquer strategy to purposely build connections among others. 5How Structures Support—or Undermine—the Three Relational Dynamics chapter abstractManagers and frontline workers often develop relationships at work that enable them to get their jobs done. But these personal ties are not sufficiently reliable to achieve the performance outcomes that are at stake for their organizations, especially organizations that must deliver promised outcomes to multiple stakeholders without missing a beat, whether or not a particular individual happens to be present. Structures are needed to enable reliable performance outcomes, yet existing structures tend to be bureaucratic, creating strong ties within one's area of expertise and weak ties at critical handoffs. This chapter introduces organizational structures that range from selecting and training for teamwork, to shared protocols and shared information systems, designed to reinforce and strengthen relationships across the boundaries where they tend to be weak. 6A Relational Model of Organizational Change chapter abstractA Relational Model of Organizational Change proposes that three types of interventions—relational, work process, and structural—are needed to transform role relationships in a positive and sustainable way. Relational interventions enable participants to transform the way they see themselves and their role within their organization. Relational interventions include building a safe space within which to experiment with new ways of interrelating. To achieve positive sustainable changes in relationships, work process interventions are needed to apply the new dynamics to the work itself, enabling participants to visualize the work they are engaged in and identify opportunities to redesign that work to achieve the desired state. Even this is not sufficient however. Structural interventions are also needed to redesign existing structures to support and sustain the new ways of working together. 7Relational Coordination at Group Health chapter abstractGroup Health Cooperative gives us a chance to explore, up close, efforts to enhance relational coordination for the purpose of achieving high quality performance outcomes more efficiently. In the face of financial and system-level leadership challenges, Group Health's primary care leadership team decided to build on previous successes with lean process improvement by measuring and strengthening relational coordination among frontline care workers. Even though frontline workers and frontline leaders embraced these efforts, the challenges they faced were many, and successes were mixed with failures. 8Relational Coproduction in Varde Municipality chapter abstractPromoting health and wellness in the community means moving away from a narrow focus on treating illness to a broader focus on fostering wellness. It is both more holistic and smarter from the standpoint of shifting investment from downstream consequences to upstream causes. But investing upstream creates a need for relational coordination and coproduction across a greater number of sectors. Varde Municipality of Denmark provides an opportunity to explore efforts to build relational coordination across multiple sectors as well as relational coproduction with citizens themselves. With leadership support from the mayor and the municipal CEO, and a focus on leadership development at the frontline, this change effort was on a path to achieving sustainable positive outcomes. 9Relational Leadership at Dartmouth-Hitchcock chapter abstractThe Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system in central New Hampshire has long enjoyed a sterling reputation for healthcare delivery and innovation. Despite its impressive resources and accomplishments, there were some challenges as well. The Department of Surgery was facing tremendous performance pressures due in part to the shift toward accountable care. To respond to these challenges, the chair of surgery proposed two distinct change initiatives—building relational leadership among his surgical chiefs, and building relational coordination among frontline staff. We follow their journey closely, learning from its successes and its limitations. 10Bringing It All Together at Billings Clinic chapter abstractWhat does it look like to build relational coordination among workers and relational coproduction with your customers, while supported by relational leadership throughout your organization? While no one organization can perfectly exemplify this integrated approach, Billings Clinic was moving in this direction with strong leadership support from frontline workers, unit leaders, middle managers and the CEO. In addition to assessing and feeding back relational coordination metrics, this change initiative used positive deviance and games of positive recognition such as RC Bingo. We observe frontline efforts to redesign structures including payment models, team meetings, and information systems. After starting in an area of existing strength, this change initiative begins spreading to other parts of the system through positive contagion. 11Relational Interventions to Create New Ways of Relating chapter abstractRelational interventions are informed by process consultation, organizational development, and positive psychology. The underlying philosophy is that participants can assume a proactive role in transforming their role relationships with each other, their clients and their leaders, and that ultimate responsibility for change rests in their hands. In this chapter, we learn about relational interventions and the tools associated with them, such as safe spaces, relational mapping, the relational coordination survey, and facilitated dialogue. Interventions informed by relational coordination improve participants' capacity to self-manage their interdependence: to understand their common goals, to understand how their individual work fits into the larger work process, and to carry out their work with a mindfulness of how their actions affect the work of others. 12Work Process Interventions to Create New Ways of Working chapter abstractWhile relational interventions are focused on transforming relationships among those doing the work, work process interventions are focused on transforming the work itself. Process improvement and relational coordination are often seen as competing approaches. For decades, however, sociotechnical systems designers have seen the two as complementary approaches for organizational change. This chapter introduces tools from popular methodologies, such as lean, and microsystems for carrying out work process interventions in three phases: assessing the current state, envisioning the desired state, then experimenting to achieve the desired state. Once participants use relational interventions to begin changing the way they communicate and relate across key boundaries, they are better able to use these tools to change the work itself. 13Structural Interventions to Support and Sustain the New Dynamics chapter abstractStructural interventions are new structures introduced to support and sustain shared goals, shared knowledge, and mutual respect between workers, with their clients, and with their leaders—such as new forms of team meetings, or protocols to clarify roles and the connections between them, or boundary spanners whose role is to coordinate work, or hiring and training for teamwork, or revised structures for accountability and rewards, or newly designed supervisory roles, or shared conflict resolution practices, or shared information systems. While these new structures can support new relational dynamics, they cannot create these dynamics. When participants' sense of self is defined by the old relational dynamics, these new structures will feel unwelcome. These new structures are implemented successfully only when participants themselves see the need for them and participate in their design and implementation, having understood the principles of relational coordination, relational coproduction, and relational leadership through their own direct experience. 14Bringing It All Together in Your Own Organization—and Beyond chapter abstractWith the Relational Model of Organizational Change we have identified three types of interventions that together support sustained positive relational change: relational interventions to give birth to new patterns of interaction, work process interventions to diagnose and improve the work itself, and structural intervention to reinforce and sustain the new ways of working together. We have learned that these three types of interventions are quite synergistic. Given that they come from different "thought worlds," however, it is easy for change agents to become siloed. Perhaps the most powerful learning from this book is the critical role that change agents play in creating organizational change through small actions that have cumulative and transformative effects. The key is to carry out these small actions with intention, with awareness of one's power, as well as deliberate planning with others to create collective impact for positive change.

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Book SynopsisThis book opens new perspectives on the Zohar, the greatest book of Jewish mysticism, by examining its unique approach to narrative.Trade Review"This thoughtful study adds another learned piece to readers' understanding of the Zohar, the most famous work in the history of Jewish mysticism . . . Recommended." -- S. T. Katz * CHOICE *"'Rabbi Hiyya and Rabbi Yose were walking on the road.' Traditional commentators ignore the Zohar's narrative framework; in this fascinating book, David Greenstein refocuses our attention on this vital element. He demonstrates how the 'walking motif' enables the Zohar to address the mundane, to explore not just the 'sacred center,' but also its everyday periphery." -- Daniel Matt * Editor and Translator of The Zohar, Pritzker Edition *

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Book SynopsisThis challenge to the prevailing wisdom behind drug regulation and addiction therapy provides a historical corrective to our perception of LSD's medical efficacy.Trade ReviewDigs deeply into an area of drug history that has for the most part been ignored. Literary Review of Canada 2009 The story is very well written and researched... The book is a good read and has the bonus of imparting historical understanding of psychiatry during its most exciting and innovative era. British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 A smoothly written account. -- Edward Shorter American Historical Review 2009 Psychedelic Psychiatry is a highly nuanced work of scholarship that sheds new light on LSD research in Saskatchewan. -- Kam Teo Saskatchewan History 2009 As Dyck shows well, LSD gives historians a lot to think about. -- John C. Burnham Isis 2009 Crisply written, well-researched and cogently argued. -- Alex Mold Social History of Medicine 2009 Psychedelic Psychiatry represents the first archive-based, sober history of LSD's early years as a promising pharmaceutical and its subsequent decline. -- Nicolas Rasmussen Journal of American History 2009 Psychedelic Psychiatry is intensely interesting; an important and influential period of transition in psychiatry that has direct and important implications for current psychiatry... I highly recommend it to others. -- Mathew Martin-Iverson Health and History 2009Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Psychedelic Pioneers2. Simulating Psychoses3. Highs and Lows4. Keeping Tabs on Science and Spirituality5. Acid Panic6. "The Perfect Contraband"ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This excellent translation of Kanatchikov's memoirs is a significant contribution to the field of Russian history and European labor history. The personal testimony of this extremely sensitive worker-revolutionary gives the reader a special 'feel' for the life of a Russian factory worker." -Ronald Grigor Suny ,The University of Michigan "Kanatchikov's autobiography tells us more about the social psychology of the Russian factory worker than any other source I know. It offers rare insights into the social and political conflicts that set the stage for the Russian revolution. It also tells a wonderful story." -Laura Engelstein ,Princeton University

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Book SynopsisRate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain, though a universal element of human experience, is dimly understood and sometimes barely managed. Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System is a collection of literary and experimental essays about living with chronic pain.Trade Review"If this isn't the book that we in the pain community need in 2017, I don't know what is."—Matt Mendenhall, Pain-Free Living Magazine"The theorist Elaine Scarry, in her magnum opus The Body in Pain, writes, 'The utter rigidity of pain itself is that its resistance to language is not simply one of its incidental or accidental tributes but is essential to what it is.' One can see Sonya Huber's Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System as a glorious refusal of what Scarry puts forth. With ardor and valor, Huber renders the lived experience of chronic pain and all that attends it in a language all her own, written—as she so wonderfully phrases it—using 'pain's alphabet.' These essays make imprecision their enemy as they comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Pain Woman further establishes Sonya Huber as one of the most exciting voices writing creative nonfiction today." —Vincent Scarpa, Electric Literature "Sonya Huber has restored my faith in chronic illness narratives. . . . Now, if I have my way, this book will sneak its way into the lives of many future readers, regardless of their personal experience with chronic illness."—Taylor Wilke, Rumpus“Sonya Huber works magic by articulating the indescribable. With her lyrically written and witty account, she better describes her own pain experience than a patient rating scale of 1 to 10 ever could.”—Paula Kamen, author of All in My Head “This is an important book, a necessary book, a book that, in the right hands, could change how our medical establishment deals with pain. These essays are at once vulnerable and fierce, funny and smart, unflinching and dappled with stunning metaphor.”—Gayle Brandeis, author of Fruitflesh “Huber has captured what it is to be a woman who lives with chronic pain in all its nuanced complexity.”—Sarah Einstein, author of Mot: A MemoirTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments I. Pain Bows in Greeting What Pain Wants The Lava Lamp of Pain Welcome to the Kingdom of the Sick The Alphabet of Pain Prayer to Pain II. Side Projects and Secret Identities My Alternate Selves with Pain in Silver Lamé Bodysuits The Cough Drop and the Puzzle of Modernity From Inside the Egg Cupcakes Amoeba Girl III. My Machines The Status of Pain Peering into the Dark of the Self, with Selfie Augmentation Interstate and Interbeing Pain Woman Takes Your Keys IV. Bitchiness as Treatment Protocol On Gratitude, and Off Life Is Good1,2,3 Dear Noted Feminist Scholar V. Intimate Moments with the Three of Us A Pain-Sex Anti-Manifesto The Joy of Not Cooking Kidney Stone in My Shoe If Woman Is Five A Day in the Grammar of Disease VI. Measuring the Sky Vital Sign 5 Alternative Pain Scale In the Grip of the Sky Between One and Ten Thousand Inside the Nautilus Sources

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Book SynopsisThis sobering book demonstrates how the interplay between conventional military operations and nuclear forces could inadvertently produce pressures for nuclear escalation.Trade ReviewInadvertent Escalation makes a truly unique, original contribution to security issues and should make defense planners grapple with conventional and nuclear linkages in future conflicts. Posen's answer gives wisdom to innocent defense planners as they venture forth into a post-Cold War world. * Military Review *As long as nuclear weapons exist, they may be used, and Barry Posen's book is a valuable contribution to thinking about ways in which nuclear use might come about. * International Affairs *Posen... does a masterful job of effectively utilizing detailed information to demonstrate the complex interplay of force postures, strategic doctrines, and decision-making dynamics. In these respects, the author's contribution transcends the time frame dominated by two superpowers armed with gargantuan nuclear arsenals. * Choice *Posen has written a provocative and important book... which explores an issue that could increase in relevance as nuclear weapons proliferate throughout the Third World. * Intelligence and National Security *Table of Contents1. Introduction: A Model of Inadvertent Escalation 2. Air War and Inadvertent Nuclear Escalation 3. The Balance of Ground Forces on the Central Front 4. Escalation and NATO's Northern Flank 5. "Offensive" and "Defensive" Sea Control: A Comparative Assessment 6. ConclusionAppendix 1. The Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) Model Appendix 2. Central Region Close Air Support Aircraft and Atack Helicopters (1988) Appendix 3. The Attrition-FEBA Expansion Model: Symphony Version Appendix 4. A Barrier Defense ModelSelected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the unfamiliar genre of the death liturgy, the author arrives at a remarkably comprehensive view of the religion of death in ancient Egypt.Trade ReviewDeath and Salvation in Ancient Egypt serves as a compendious introduction to how ancient Egyptians approached their mortality as well as their impending immortality. Throughout, Assmann continues to build upon his vast store of important publications, yet again bringing to his work a deep background in theoretical literature, especially anthropology and philosophy. This gives his work a decidedly comparative flair, citing parallels or contrasts with cultures ancient or modern, Near Eastern or otherwise. Much of Assmann's Egyptological work has become required reading, and Death and Salvation will be no exception. Controversial, insightful, incredibly informed, and in constant contact with the primary textual material, this volume will continue to inspire discussion for years to come. * Journal of Near Eastern Studies *Assmann astounds the reader with his deep knowledge of religious texts from all periods of Egyptian civilization and from the Greeks and Romans too. He is equally familiar with evidence from art and architecture.... He leads the reader through the maddeningly opaque pronouncements of Egyptian intellectuals about the nature of death, its origin, its meaning, its importance. Every page shines a fresh light on a topic that fascinates us all, but leaves us puzzled. Assmann's book will take its place as classic study and shows again why he is justly regarded as one of the great Egyptologists writing today. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsTranslator's NoteIntroduction: Death and CulturePart One. Images of Death Chapter 1. Death as Dismemberment Chapter 2. Death as Social Isolation Chapter 3. Death as Enemy Chapter 4. Death as Dissociation: The Person of the Deceased and Its Constituent Elements Chapter 5. Death as Separation and Reversal Chapter 6. Death as Transition Chapter 7. Death as Return Chapter 8. Death as Mystery Chapter 9. Going Forth by DayPart Two. Rituals and Recitations Chapter 10. Mortuary Liturgies and Mortuary Literature Chapter 11. In the Sign of the Enemy: The Protective Wake in the Place of Embalming Chapter 12. The Night of Vindication Chapter 13. Rituals of Transition from Home to Tomb Chapter 14. Provisioning the Dead Chapter 15. Sacramental Explanation Chapter 16. Freedom from the Yoke of Transitoriness: Resultativity and Continuance Chapter 17. Freedom from the Yoke of Transitoriness: ImmortalityAfterword: Egypt and the History of DeathNotes Index

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Book SynopsisThe first English translation of Mantegazza's futurist and utopian book, which uses the story of Paolo and Maria, a pair of lovers who travel to the capital city of the United Planetary States to get married, as a pretext to explore larger societal issuesTrade Review“Two welcome surprises await readers of this book: the first is simply that a nineteenth-century masterpiece of utopian literature has been made available to them in a translation that reads like an original, and the second, that a great scholar has written a user-friendly, highly sophisticated, and passionate introduction shedding light on the times of neo-positivism, its antecedents, and its legacy.”—Luigi Ballerini, professor of Italian, University of California at Los Angeles"Thanks to the extensive introduction, The Year 3000: A Dream will appeal to anyone interested in the literary evolution of science fiction or the early contributions to the genre of one very talented and foresighted Italian fiction writer."—Alan J. Couture, ForeWord"The Year 3000 is indeed an alternative universe where the world is a better place for all and true love is the most powerful force in the universe. Enjoy the trip."—Patricia Contino, Newpages.com"The Year 3000. A Dream constitutes an important addition to the relatively small number of nineteenth-century Italian novels available in English and is an invaluable text to add to any class, whether within a comparative context or not, teaching nineteenth-century Italian literature."—Gabriella Romani, Annali d'italianisticaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Paolo Mantegazza, Fabulator of the FutureNicoletta Pireddu 1. Paolo and Maria set out for Andropolis. One evening in the Gulf of La Spezia.2. From La Spezia to the ancient pyramids of Egypt. From the pyramids to the Isle of Experiments. The Land of Equality. Tyrannopolis. Turatia or the Socialist Republic. Logopolis. Other governments and other social organizations.3. Voyage to the Isle of Dynamo, one of the four great laboratories of planetary force. The Historical Museum of our planet's mechanical evolution. The three great historical epochs. Macstrong's discovery and the pandynamo. The central distribution office of cosmic forces.4. Departure from Dynamo and arrival in Andropolis. The overall look of the city. Its houses, their construction and architecture. The plazas of Andropolis. The dynamics plant. The market. Arrest of a young thief, and justice meted out.5. Trip to the Government Palace. Forms of government and political organization around the world in the year 3000. The four wings of the Palace. Land, Health. School. Industry and Commerce. The Office of Finance.6. The Gymnasium of Andropolis.7. The Palace of Schools. The primary school. The middle school. The school of advanced studies. Lesson on the influence of passion on the logic of thought.8. Trip to Hygeia. The statue erected to the preeminent physicians of antiquity. The anteroom of the sick. The divisions of Hygeia. A lung doctor's visit to a tubercular patient. Card money in the year 3000. The Hygeians' department. Visit to newborns. Elimination of a baby. A mother both pitiful and cruel.9. The city of the dead at Andropolis. Dissolution of corpses. Cremation. The siderophiles and embalmings. Sepulchers. The Pantheon.10. The Theaters of Andropolis and the Panopticon. A listing of shows in the capital on April 26, 3000. A gala evening at the Panopticon.11. The Museum of Andropolis. The Arcade and the peripatetics. The natural science wing. Possible humans. Analysis paired with synthesis. The museum wing dedicated to human labor. Concentric circles and centrifugal radii. The blot on the art-history map.12. The City of God in Andropolis. The Temple of Hope. The church of the Evangelists. The Temple of the Unknown God.13. Maria's bad mood and Paolo's secret. A session of the Andropolis Academy and the awarding of the cosmic prize. Fertile marriage. Editor's Notes on the Text

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Book SynopsisSet in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) of the early 1970s, this novel presents an adventure story as well as a feminist critique of GDR socialism, science, history, and aesthetic theory.Trade Review"A first English translation of a very unusual novel, originally published in 1974, combines political satire with feminist-inspired romance in a demanding fictional potpourri whose German author (1933-90) may really have been a contemporary Cervantes. . . . The tale of Beatrice's journey (also Dantesque) through a modern inferno and purgatory, marriages and affairs, artistic endeavors and political infatuations and adventures is brilliantly amplified by Morgner's use of mythic archetypes . . . [and] detailed allusions to postwar German history and culture. . . . Literary antecedents and all, this is a one-of-a-kind novel: richly imagined, more than a little forbidding, preternaturally astute, altogether unforgettable."—Kirkus * Kirkus *"It presents a magnificent blend of fantasy, realism, history, myths, and fairy tales woven around the woman troubadour Beatrice de Dia. . . . . Clausen is to be applauded for taking on the challenge of translating this multifarious work. Her readable translation and extensive glossary provide English readers with a unique example of GDR literature. Recommended for general and academic readers."—Choice * Choice *

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Book SynopsisPushing back against the contemporary myth that freedom from oppression is freedom of choice, Frank Ruda resuscitates a fundamental lesson from the history of philosophical rationalism: a proper conceptof freedom can arise only from a defense of absolute necessity, utter determinism, and predestination.Trade Review“Abolishing Freedom is both philosophically and stylistically daring.”—Michael Principe, Marx and Philosophy“Abolishing Freedom is not only the very acme of today’s philosophy, but much more—it is a book for everyone who is tired of all the ideological babble about freedom of choice.”—Slavoj Žižek, author of Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism “Appropriating it as a natural right, a possession that can be taken away, the sign of the subject’s sovereignty, liberalism has given freedom a bad name. Yet how to think without acknowledging the fact of freedom? In his delightful book, Ruda shows us the way. Reducing the liberal edifice to rubble, he rescues a freedom that is in no way ad libitum.”—Joan Copjec, author of Imagine There’s No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation “This is an utterly captivating, smart, provocative book—compelling in its argument, fascinating in its detail, sobering in its implications. Absolutely exhilarating.”—Rebecca Comay, author of Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French RevolutionTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsProvocationsIntroduction: Fatalism in Times of Universalized Assthetization1. Protestant Fatalism: Predestination as Emancipation2. René the Fatalist: Abolishing (Aristotelian) Freedom3. From Kant to Schmid (and Back): The End of All Things4. Ending with the Worst: Hegel and Absolute Fatalism5. After the End: Freud against the Illusion of Psychical FreedomLast WordsNotes

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Book SynopsisIn The Community Table, Susan Urano translates her nonprofit’s experience with a large-scale annual fundraiser into a step-by-step guide for organizers. Using real-life examples, she illustrates methods of team building, conflict resolution, and problem solving. Includes sample timelines, budgets, publicity plans, and committee structures.

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Book SynopsisAre there classes in America? In The Classless Society Paul Kingston forcefully answers no. Challenging a long-standing intellectual tradition of class analysis recently revitalized by Erik Olin Wright and John Goldthorpe, and insisting on a realist conception of class, Kingston argues that presumed "classes" do not significantly share distinct, life-defining experiences.Table of ContentsList of tables and figures; Preface; 1. Framing the issue; 2. The case for realism; 3. Class maps and ineqality; 4. Mobility; 5. Class sentiment; 6. The politics of class; 7. Class culture; 8. On the domestic front: friends, residences, and families; 9. Lives of the rich and poor; 10. The postindustrial effect; 11. American unexceptionalism; 12. Beyond class; Notes; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisCombining phenomenology and psychoanalysis in innovative ways, this book seeks to undo the binary opposition between appearance and existence that has been in place since Plato's parable of the cave.Trade Review“This original and important book demonstrates the inseparability of philosophy and psychoanalysis for any serious attempt to answer a question so profoundly relevant to the very nature of our being that it does not ‘belong’ to any one discipline: the question, as Silverman puts it, of what it means for the world that each one of us is in it. The book has a remarkable clarity; Silverman makes the most complex argument seem like a perfectly natural, and absolutely necessary, movement of thought.”—Leo Bersani, University of California, BerkeleyTable of Contents1. Seeing for the sake of seeing 2. Eating the book 3. Listening to language 4. Apparatus for the production of an image 5. The milky way 6. The language of things Notes Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the conventional opposition between Enlightenment and Postmodernity and questions some of the conclusions drawn from it.Trade Review"This volume is an original and stimulating contribution to modern intellectual history and to the history of philosophy. The scholarship is superb but not in the usual sense. It is superb because it is so reflective, self-critical, and sometimes polemical and partisan. Its authors are senior scholars in philosophy, intellectual history, and cultural studies who address large questions in their fields." —Gary Kates, Trinity University"This remarkable book reexamines the intellectual history of 18th-century France and Germany in order to bring to light a richer, more nuanced view of this pivotal period in European intellectual history. . . . Every essay in this collection is of great intellectual rigor and constitutes a serious contribution to the enduring question, "What is Enlightenment?". . . . Although essays dealing with postmodernism tend to be arcane or incomprehensible, the essays in this book are difficult, challenging, and wonderfully readable."—Choice"Giorgio Agamben is perhaps one of the most important philosophers and literary critics writing in Italy today, and, given the scarcity of philosopher-critics translated into English from Italian, one should certainly be thankful to Stanford University Press for translating this important thinker."—Philosophy in ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Keith Michael Baker and Peter Hanns Reill Part I. Enlightenment or Postmodernity? 1. The enlightenment and the genealogy of cultural conflict in the United States David A. Hollinger 2. The continuity between the Enlightenment and 'postmodernism' Richard Rorty Part II. Critical Confrontations: 3. The historicist enlightenment Jonathan Knudsen 4. Heidegger and the critique of reason Hans Sluga 5. 'A bright clear mirror' Cassirer's The Philosophy of Enlightenment Johnson Kent Wright 6. Critique and government: Michael Foucault and the question 'what is enlightenment' Michael Meranze Part III. A Postmodern Enlightenment? 7. Enlightenment fears, fears of enlightenment Lorraine Daston 8. Difference: an enlightenment concept Dena Goodman 8. Enlightenment as conversation Lawrence E. Klein Notes Index.

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Book SynopsisThough virtually unknown in the ethnographic literature on Chinese society, the "delayed transfer marriage", requiring separation after marriage, was widely established in the Canton delta. This book analyzes the effect of economic change on the practice in the area's silk district.Table of ContentsContents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Appendix A: Appendix B: Appendix C: Appendix D:

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Book SynopsisCleopatra: kohl and vipers, barges and thrones, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. We have long been schooled in the myth of the Egyptian ruler. In his new book Michel Chauveau brings us a picture of her firmly based in reality. Cleopatra VII...Trade ReviewStudents who read this brief volume will find little of the movie queen but a great deal of Roman history. Cleopatra's defeat made Octavian emperor of Rome, and he arranged for the spin on history to make his actions look good. * School Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisIn exploring the pattern and methods of Aztec expansion, this work acknowledges the religious motivation behind Aztec conquest but focuses more sharply on political and economic factors.

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Book SynopsisBlending the analysis of individual Apache lives with the analysis of their culture, this study tells of the ceremonies, religious beliefs, social life, and economy of the Chiricahua Apache. It traces how a person "becomes an Apache", beginning with conception, marriage, domestic and military duties and concluding with the rites surrounding death.

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Book SynopsisBlocks are quick to knit, portable pieces perfect for group and charity projects. In this volume, the author reimagines the humble block with 150 patterns and masterfully demonstrates how to mix, match, and easily combine them into one-of-a-kind garments and accessories.

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Book SynopsisJames Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a political, cultural, and economic context, he offers fresh insights into black commitment to education, the peculiar significance of Tuskegee Institute, and the conflicting goals of various philanthropic groups, among other matters.

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Book SynopsisAn instructive guide to written English by the author of "The Culture of Narcissism", "The True and Only Heaven".Trade ReviewThe late Lasch, college history professor and the author of The Culture of Narcissism (1979), among other seminal works, so despaired of his graduate students' writing that he began to compile a list of common compositional errors. This list soon evolved into a full-fledged writing guide . . . covering the principles of literary construction; conventions governing punctuation, capitalization, typography, and footnotes; characteristics of bad writing; words often misused; words often mispronounced; and a table of proofreaders' marks. Lasch's wry, distinctive voice is evident throughout. . . . For serious word lovers. * Joanne Wilkinson, Booklist *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Christopher Lasch and the Politics of the Plain Style A Note on the Text I Elementary Principles of Literary Construction II Conventions Governing Punctuation, Capitalization, Typography, and Footnotes III Characteristics of Bad Writing IV Words Often Misused V Words Often Mispronounced VI Proofreaders' Marks Index

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Book Synopsis"A volume that will interest a wide spectrum of readers."-Patrick Geary, University of California, Los AngelesTrade Review"The extraordinary reception that Mary Carruthers's The Book of Memory has received, as well as that of other recent studies of learned memory, amply justifies an anthology of high medieval memory texts. That Carruthers would coedit the volume with Jan Ziolkowski, one of our major medieval Latinists, is particularly felicitous. The result is a volume that will interest a wide spectrum of readers." * Patrick Geary, University of California, Los Angeles *Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction Selection 1. Hugh of St. Victor, The Three Best Memory Aids for Learning History Selection 2. Hugh of St. Victor, A Little Book About Constructing Noah's Ark Selection 3. The Guidonian Hand Selection 4. [Alan of Lille], On the Six Wings of the Seraph Selection 5. Boncompagno da Signa, On Memory Selection 6. Albertus Magnus, Commentary on Aristotle, On Memory and Recollection Selection 7. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle, On Memory and Recollection Selection 8. Francesc Eiximenis, On Two Kinds of Order That Aid Understanding and Memory Selection 9. Thomas Bradwardine, On Acquiring a Trained Memory Selection 10. John of Metz, The Tower of Wisdom Selection 11. Jacobus Publicius, The Art of Memory Selection 12. Anonymous, A Method for Recollecting the Gospels Appendix. Two texts on Rhetorical Memoria from Late Antiquity Consultus Fortunatianus, On Memory C. Julius Victor, On Memory General Bibliography List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisComposed at the height of the Hundred Years War by Geoffroi de Charny, one of the most respected knights of his age, A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry is an invaluable guide to fourteenth-century knighthood.Trade Review"Of exceptional interest for the light shed on the ethos, style, and tastes of the secular aristocracy of the later Middle Ages. Charny's book offers an exploration and explanation of the values and proper manner of life for Christian knights and men at arms by someone who was a knight himself. . . . A real boon to the historian." * London Review of Books *"Kaeuper and Kennedy have done scholars a tremendous service in their publication of the excellent 1996 edition. . . . This slimmed-down version now provides teachers of chivalry, warfare, and gender with an excellent resource for the classroom." * The Medieval Review *

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Book SynopsisLenape Country is a sweeping narrative history of Lenape Indian encounters with European settlers in the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.Trade Review"A commonly held idea is that Quaker settlers led by William Penn established Delaware Valley society's emphases on freedom, tolerance, and peaceful conflict. In Lenape Country, however, Jean R. Soderlund demonstrates that these Delaware Valley hallmarks originated with the Lenape Indians and were the bases of Lenape economic and political dominance through successive waves of European colonization in the region. . . . Lenape Country is meticulously researched and cautiously analyzed, qualities that strengthen Soderlund's assertions for the primacy of Lenape influence in the formation of Delaware Valley identity. It is a much needed study of this pivotal time in American history and a valuable contribution to Native American and colonial-era scholarship." * American Studies *"Succinct and imaginatively conceived, Lenape Country is one of the best narrative histories I have read to date on the European-Indian interaction along the Delaware River." * Gunlög Fur, author of A Nation of Women: Gender and Colonial Encounters Among the Delaware Indians *Table of ContentsNote on the Text Introduction Chapter 1. A Free People, Subject to No One Chapter 2. Controlling the Land through Massacre and War, 1626-38 Chapter 3. Managing a Tenuous Peace, 1638-54 Chapter 4. Allies against the Dutch, 1654-64 Chapter 5. Allies against the English, 1664-73 Chapter 6. Protecting Sovereignty amid Wars, 1673-80 Chapter 7. Negotiating Penn's Colony, 1681-1715 Chapter 8. Strategies of Survival and Revenge Conclusion Note on Methodology Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisS60 sedan, inklusive specialmodeller. 2,0 liter (1984 cc), 2,3 liter (2319 cc), 2,4 liter (2401 and 2435 cc) och 2,5 liter (2521 cc) bensinmotorer, 2,4 liter (2401 cc) dieselmotorer Exclusions:Behandlar ej 4-hjulsdrift, S60R eller bi-fuel modeller

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Book SynopsisDuring World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military. Allan Berube examines in depth and detail these social and political confrontations.

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Book SynopsisExplores the dialectic of cynicism and hope and the role of human rights in the production of rule in the occupied Palestinian territories.Trade Review"In this significant book, Lori Allen tackles the rise of professionalized advocacy NGOs in Palestine in a crescendo manner . . . By offering new material on training for Palestinian police forces and by studying without preconceptions the ways in which Hamas, the Islamist party in power, has embraced a certain vision of human rights, Lori Allen provides the best material for her central claim . . . [T]he book culminates with rich and stimulating material, and Allen is to be congratulated for the innovative ways in which she approaches human rights, in contrast to culturalist arguments which deny any existence or relevance of local engagements with these principled beliefs."—Benoit Challand, Journal of Anthropological Research"Allen makes incisive comments on the comparative nature of sovereignty and popular discontent in countries ranging from India to Turkey to Chile . . . [This book] presents varied Palestinian perspectives on human rights within the framework of scholarship on the state and sovereignty, an approach rarely considered by historians. Aimed at anthropologists, this study can serve as a valuable addition to advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in Middle East history."—Charles D. Smith, American Historical Review"The book is a breath of fresh air in the context of a human rights literature dominated by unrealistic and optimistic assessments of human rights actions and campaigns which fail to acknowledge that human rights movements have changed little despite their institutionalization, legitimation, and international funding. Human rights organizations produce reports, diagnostics, and participate in public policy design while people's lives remain the same. The most important contribution of the book is that, although it talks about Palestine, it recognizes a general pattern of development in contemporary national human rights movements. As Allen rightly claims, the book can serve to illustrate the evolution of the human rights movement more broadly since the case of Palestine is both unique and quite representative of this trend."—Ariadna Estévez, Social Anthropology"In her exceptional book, The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine, anthropologist Lori Allen explores a complex set of interlocking themes about the role of human rights in the Palestinian nationalist agenda, viewed through the prism of cynicism . . . This book is a must read—with relevance far wider than the case of Palestine."—Deena R. Hurwitz, Middle East Journal"A significant contribution to our understanding of Palestinian politics and the global human rights movement. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been analyzed over and over again, but Lori Allen finds a genuinely new angle. This book achieves a rare balance of shedding light on recent events in the Middle East while producing thought-provoking arguments for understanding the potentials and limitations of human rights claims in situations of prolonged armed conflict."—Tobias Kelly, University of Edinburgh"The idiom of human rights now pervades Palestinian ideas of who they are and what they hope to be. This eye-opening book explores how, between the friction of disappointment and hope, human rights values might still generate more viable means to build a common world. A profound reflection on the dominant discourse of emancipation in our times."—Jean Comaroff, Harvard University"This powerfully argued book provides a welcome perspective on the 'human rights industry' in occupied Palestine. It constitutes a valuable contribution to the study both of a key example of the global discourse of human rights, and of the worsening situation of the Palestinians after nearly two decades of dual control by Israel and the Palestinian Authority."—Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University"Lori Allen offers a powerful and unsparing analysis of the fragmented human rights world in the West Bank and Gaza, arguing that human rights work can only promote social justice when it is situated within, and informed by, a broader political vision and national project—something that still eludes Palestinians. Her critique contains within it a vision of the future where social change is indeed possible and where Palestinians and the state that has yet to represent them find common cause."—Sara Roy, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

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Book SynopsisThe Blacks of Premodern China describes the earliest Chinese encounters with peoples regarded as black. It focuses on the first exposure of Chinese to blacks hailing from East Africa, chiefly from today's Somalia, Kenya, and Tanzania, who arrived in China as slaves between the seventh and seventeenth centuries C.E.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One. From History's Mists Chapter Two. The Slaves of Guangzhou Chapter Three. To the End of the Western Sea Conclusion Notes Glossary Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThis book considers the intimate lives of migrant laborers and highlights the shortcomings of policies that criminalize migrants and their loved ones.Trade Review"Crossing the Gulf is a path breaking book that offers a powerful and poignant analysis of women's intimate lives lived in migration. Pardis Mahdavi adeptly reveals migrant women's complex subjectivities and agentic power amid the structural contradictions of national development, migration-securitization policies and citizenship laws." -- Christine Chin * American University *"Crossing the Gulf paints an intimate portrait of laborers, attentive to their diverse circumstances, contexts, and histories. Pardis Mahdavi has found the anthropological sweet spot—her work is deeply engaged in scholarly conversations, has clear application to policymakers and the regulations they steward, and is penned in the broadly engaging style of the best public anthropology. This book is a gem." -- Andrew Gardner * University of Puget Sound *"The main value of the book is the detailed narratives that show how migrants and their children confront strict government policies that shape their mobility and immobility....I recommend Crossing the Gulf for scholars of international migration, gender and the family, and the Gulf states. It is written accessibly and would be a useful course text for undergraduate and graduate students." -- David Scott FitzGerald * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Im/mobilities and Im/Migrations chapter abstractThe opening chapter provides the theoretical framework of the book. It introduces the concept of "intimate im/mobilities" and explores the alternative frameworks of im/mobility and im/migration. This chapter presents the book's three main interconnected arguments. First, that migration is impacted by individuals' intimate lives and vice versa. Second, through narrating the intimate lives of laborers, the book explores the mutually constitutive forces of mobility and immobility. Finally, in looking at the mutually re-enforcing notions of im/mobility, the book explores the liminal space between immigration and migration. This chapter lays out these main arguments/framings to introduce the core themes that will be fleshed out through the individual chapters. It also provides a brief methodological and historical background to help set the stage for the ethnographic chapters to follow. 2Love, Labor and the Law chapter abstractThis chapter looks at the confluence of love, labor and the law by focusing on the regulation of migrant women's sexualities while they are in the Gulf. Migrant women increasingly comprise the majority of migrants to the region as the demand for intimate labor in the Gulf is on the rise. But migrant women who become pregnant while in the Gulf are immediately imprisoned and charged with the crime of zina, thereby immobilizing them and halting their family lives. These women give birth while incarcerated and spend up to a year with their babies in prison. Many are then forcibly separated from their children when they are deported, rendering the children stateless in the host country. Some migrant women have recently been protesting these laws by refusing and fighting deportation without their children. This chapter contrasts discourse and legal analysis with the lived experiences of migrant women and their children. 3Inflexible Citizenship and Flexible Practices chapter abstractChapter 3 focuses on the effects of migration on the intimate lives of migrants and their kin. It looks at the children of migrants, many of whom have either migrated to work or re-unify with parents abroad, while others were born in the host country. These families are struggling to define and re-define their understandings of family, citizenship, and belonging across borders. Building on the work of several migration scholars, the author examines how intimate lives are shaped by migration in the particular context of the UAE and Kuwait. The chapter explores the challenges migrants and their kin face in the form of inflexible citizenship, as well as the flexibility they employ to create types of mobility within the context of apparent immobility. 4Changing Home/s chapter abstractThe migrants whose stories are introduced in this chapter chose to migrate in search of a type of intimate mobility that they could not find at home. They also migrate in search of economic prosperity and upward class mobility; however, social reasons are at the top of their migratory decision-making factors. Specifically, these young women and men describe wanting to migrate not out of poverty, and not out of a desire to support their families, but out of their families and communities altogether. This aspect of migration is an example of intimate mobilities that puts into play the relationship between mobility and immobility in the intimate lives of im/migrants whose migratory journeys take them in search of a new "home." Attention to the complex decision making processes helps to describe the role of migration in encouraging the exploration of subjectivity for many individuals. 5Children of the Emir: chapter abstractChapter 5 introduces the many children of migrant women and men who have been separated from their parents. Some of these children have been born in host countries to trafficked women and have become stateless. Others are children who were born to migrant women and spend their lives as non-citizens in the host countries. Still others are children who are separated from their parents when their parents migrate, while the children stay home and are raised by other relatives. The experiences of these children as they encounter the state reveal the biopolitical undertones of laws and regulations implemented to govern their lives. Two interconnected theoretical lenses prove useful: theories about perverse integration and theories about legal productions of illegality, which, together lead to a concept of "perverse intimacies." 6Transformations and Mobilizations chapter abstractChapter 6 draws on ethnographic fieldwork with migrants and state officials charting changes in state policies that have come from migrant-state encounters. The chapter is focused on stories of migrant activism both at home and abroad, and details the ways in which they have drawn from their own intimate lives to make changes in state and global policies. Various intimate interactions between migrants and personifications of the state are highlighted to complicate the perceived oppositional binary of migrants vs. the state. 7Negotiated Intimacies and Unwanted Gifts chapter abstractThis concluding chapter emphasizes the creative ways that migrants and their families have navigated the many challenges they face, often drawing from their own intimate lives. The chapter focuses on the transformative effects of migrants on the state to argue against trafficking as a framework, discourse, and set of policies. Trafficking as a framework is deconstructed and, instead, a framing of "safe migration" is proposed.

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Book SynopsisSystems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit offers out a wide range of systems methods to help readers investigate, evaluate and intervene in complex messy situations.Trade Review"This book presents well-written and accessible accounts of a variety of systems methods, methodologies, and models; a veritable treasure-trove from which the critical systems thinker can choose in constructing appropriate systemic responses to complex situations."—Michael C. Jackson, Hull University Business School, author of Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers and Systems Approaches to Management"The book promises and delivers: tested and practical methods for understanding and taking action in messy situations; inquiry approaches for describing, analyzing, learning about, managing, and changing complex situations; a coherent systems framework for thinking and acting systemically. The authors compare 19 systems approaches, and do so comprehensively, insightfully, exquisitely."—Michael Quinn Patton, author of Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use"This book is written for those who want to intervene in the world, but are aware that brute force methods often prove inappropriate—if not counterproductive. Systems Concepts in Action provides a toolbox of methods for harnessing systemic thinking to instigate custom tailored, creative solutions. If you ever felt that systems theory is abstract and noninstructive, then have a read!"—Wolfgang Hofkirchner, President, Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science, Vienna"The book demonstrates convincingly that systems approaches to evaluation are more than 'spaghetti diagram' logic models. With clear introductions to many different approaches, and how they can be used for evaluation, it will be indispensable for evaluators and evaluation commissioners. It's bound to become dog-eared and shabby on my book shelf."—Patricia Rogers, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology"This book stands out as an invaluable, fresh, and practical guide to the use of systems concepts from two internationally recognized practitioners. Bob Williams and Richard Hummelbrunner not only document ideas for managing complexity, change, and uncertainty from wide ranging areas of application, but also they draw upon a wealth of invaluable personal knowledge—the bedrock of reflective practice that underpins the effective use of systems tools."—Martin Reynolds, The Open University, co-editor of Systems Approaches to Managing Change: A Practical Guide

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Book SynopsisWriting Against Time explores the twentieth-century literary effort to create an image that will never get old.Trade Review"Michael W. Clune's book is about how artists have found ways to stop the mind in its tracks, to suspend it in a state of ongoing presence. There are many shoots to his argument, but at its core is a romantic, optimistic, even brave commitment to the power and danger of aesthetic forms."—Blakey Vermule, Stanford University, Nonsite"Clune's exquisite new book asks how literature might arrest time's erosion of perceptual vivacity. He moves beyond the historicist orthodoxy that has so dominated literary study for the past twenty years."—Jonathan Kramnick, Johns Hopkins University, Nonsite"This book reminds readers that the purpose of reading is to live outside of time, but also to enter a story that allows one to remember those moments when time seemed to stop . . . Summing Up: Recommended."—K. Gale, CHOICE"What is striking about this book is the combination of enormous ambition and economical exposition. Its questions are big and its answers are provocative. Even better: we have the chance to see the world for a while through an enchanting mind. Thinking with Clune is sheer pleasure."—Amy Hungerford, Yale University"Clune makes a powerful argument for how the literary critic, if properly aware of the literary subject's uniquely antagonistic relation to time and actuality, might contribute something new to other disciplines as opposed to remaining parasitic on their methods."—Sianne Ngai, Stanford University

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Book SynopsisShows how senses of gender shape and get shaped by sign systems that prove arbitrary, fluid, and susceptible of lively transformation.Trade Review"This year's most important book on gender... Wolfson's prose sparkles, and she refuses to sacrifice her delight in formalist craft to a dogmatic ideological agenda."—SEL Studies in English Literature"Borderlines is a long-awaited study that takes the gender controversy in Romanticism and Romantic studies in an entirely new and unprecedented direction. It will inflect and inform all future discussions of the crucial and abiding issue that is its focus."—William Galperin, Rutgers University"Indefatigable in examining blurrings of gender lines, . . . this fascinating study will engage mature students of Romanticism and feminist studies. Highly recommended [for] upper-division undergraduates through faculty." —S. A. Parker, CHOICE"Susan Wolfson's new book is a major accomplishment. . . . rigorously historical, . . . through the sheer copiousness of her references she is able to make it clear that we have hardly outgrown the problematics of gender. Wolfson is never satisfied with the obvious binaries. These are complicated, as she shows, both by chameleonic definitions of key terms and also by constant transvaluations even where one might expect gender divisions to remain dismally stable. . . . The notes are generous and useful, concluding a book that is likewise generous and useful—not to mention subtle and spritely by turns. . . . subtlety comes both from her skill as a reader and her knowledge of gender theory." —Paul H. Fry, Modern Language Quarterly"Wolfson's book is a major work of scholarship that everyone studying Romantic period writing will need to read. It employs no jargon, yet is a formidable book in its sustained attention to detail. Though generous in acknowledging the scholarship of others, Wolfson has trodden her own path entirely: employing her own hybrid brand of formalist and feminist critique, her idiosyncratic and playful use of language and clever way of combining the biographical with textual analysis." —Caroline Franklin, The Byron Journal"One of the most significant contributions to the area of general Romanticism this year is Susan J. Wolfson's Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism. . . . Wolfson's incisive close readings, her thorough knowledge of the field, and the clarity with which she describes the gender debate in the Romantic period and in Romantic studies itself make Borderlines an exceptional book, and essential reading for anyone interested in the study of Romanticism." —Orianne Smith, Year's Work in English Studies"An important book . . . the distillation of a career of scholarship, teaching, and just plain careful thinking about issues central to British Romanticism. . . . At once critically provocative and a joy to read."—The Wordsworth CircleTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments iii Preface iii List of Illustrations iii Chapter One On the Borderlines of Gendered Language 0 Two Women Chapter Two Felicia Hemans and the Stages of "The Feminine" 00 Chapter Three The Generations of "Masculine" Woman 000 Chapter Four Woman's Life and "Masculine" Energy: The History of Maria Jane Jewsbury 000 Two Men Chapter Five Lord Byron, Sardanapalus and "Effeminate Character" 000 Chapter Six Gender as Cross-Dressing: Don Juan 000 Chapter Seven Keats and Gender Acts 000 Chapter Eight Gendering Keats 000 Chapter Nine Sex in Souls? Texts and Abbreviations 000 Works Cited 000 Index 000

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Book SynopsisTells of the quest by young Mathieu Beluse to discover the lost history of his country, Martinique.Trade Review"From the first pages, describing the atrocities endured aboard the slave ships, this is a fascinating, harrowing historical epic told in rich, unflinching prose."—Publishers Weekly"The Martinican writer Édouard Glissant is that rare hybrid: an elastic, shapeshifting writer who swings between theory and creative work with the greatest of ease and accomplishment. A towering figure of postcolonial scholarship . . . he is also a poet, playwright, and, as evidenced here, a bold and supple novelist. With The Fourth Century we get the full effect of his overarching project: a literary exorcism of Martinique's scarred psyche and past, a lingering cry against the 'black hole of time and forgetting'. . . . Papa Longoué's sessions with Mathieu, like Glissant's novel itself, burn with the urgency of a recovery mission. With this novel, Glissant has powerfully conjured up the 'centuries knotted together by unknown blood, voiceless suffering, death without echo.'"—Village Voice"A playwright, critic, essayist and novelist, Édouard Glissant is one of the most significant figures in Caribbean literature. Born in Martinique in 1928, he's written more than two dozen books. His ideas about language, history, and imperialism have influenced writers such as Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphaël Confiant and are eagerly examined in universities where Francophone and post-colonial studies are taught. Many of Glissant's books have yet to be translated into English, which may be why he is not as well known among American readers as he deserves to be. The Fourth Century, a 1964 novel newly translated into English, should bring him more attention and appreciation. . . . His story begins in 1788, when Longoué and Béluse, the progenitors of the two clans, arrive in Martinique as captives on a slave ship called the Rose-Marie. . . . At the end of his fascinating 'indefinable chronicle,' Glissant saves his harshest comments for those characters who've made no attempt to hold on to their identities, who've willfully forgotten their connection to the vast Atlantic and the infinite continent on the other side. 'They had renounced not simply their past,' he writes, 'but even so much as the idea that they might have had one."—Washington Post"This award-winning novel by a noted Caribbean author explores the history, culture, and myth of his native Martinique. . . . Glissant is a poet as well, and his prose often borders on poetry. . . .The result is a richly textured novel with vivid images."—Booklist"The modern history of Martinique is embedded in this colorful chronicle . . . of the interrelationships and rivalries of two families whose founders were brought to the island as slaves in 1788. . . . It's a heady brew, sometimes sensuously dramatic. . . . Many brilliant moments . . . along with slave rebellions and hurricanes, omnipresent zombies and spirits, and a powerful impression of the human cost of racial oppression , miscegenation, and madness. In its best moments, this turbulent tale becomes something very like a Caribbean Absalom, Absalom!"—Kirkus ReviewsTable of ContentsContents: At La Pointe des Sables Roche Carree Dry Season at La Touffaille Croix-Mission Timelines

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Book SynopsisThe influential French philosopher, Derrida, discusses the analytic of death in Heidegger's Being and Time. This new book will not fail to set new standards for the discussion of Heidegger and for dealing with philosophical texts.Trade Review"My death--is it possible?" That is the question asked, explored, and analyzed in Jacques Derrida's new book. Focusing on an issue that has informed his work for the last 30 years, Derrida stakes out a new frontier, at which the debate with his work must take place from now on.Table of Contents1. Finis 2. Awaiting (at) the arrival Notes.

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Book SynopsisPlacing women at the center of the High Qing era shows how gender relations shaped the economic, political, social, and cultural changes of the age, and gives us a sense of what women felt and believed, and what they actually did, during this period.Trade Review“This is a wonderfully rich study, based on wide reading of the sources and crafted in a readable style. It is an important contribution to feminist scholarship's project of recovering the 'traditional’ Chinese woman, making visible the complexity of gender relations in a society too often simply pigeonholed as one of history's most successful patriarchies. This is an elegant addition to the small body of high-quality studies that are putting gender into the mainstream of late imperial Chinese history.”—Charlotte Furth, University of Southern California

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Book SynopsisThe Fathers is the powerful novel by the poet and critic recognized as one of the great men of letters of our time.Old Major Buchan of Pleasant Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia, lived by a gentlemen’s agreement to ignore what was base or rude, to live a life which was gentle and comfortable because it was formal.Trade ReviewA masterpiece of formal beauty … deserves to be recognized as one of the most outstanding novels of our time. * The New Statesmen *Great novel of the broken South. * The New Statesmen *A psychological horror story … concerned with life rather than death, with significance rather than with futility.The story displays so much imagination and such a profound reflection upon life that it cannot be neglected by anyone interested in contemporary literature.It is one of the most remarkable novels of our time … The Fathers is in fact the novel Gone with the Wind ought to have been.

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Book SynopsisThis work offers a sustained examination of Dutch 17th-century genre painting from a theoretically informed feminist perspective.Trade Review"This book will take a place at the forefront of studies of Dutch genre painting and of feminist art history and visual culture, setting new paradigms for these fields. Shifting Priorities is a sophisticated work of sustained originality, sharp intelligence, and sure judgments of how paintings operated as a negotiation of social discourses, historical shifts, and relations of both class and gender." -- Griselda Pollock * University of Leeds *"With an emphasis on methodological shifts, this book adds a distinctive voice to the recent outpouring of publications on Dutch genre painting. As a focused historiography of some of the changes that continue to alter the scholarship of Netherlandish art, Shifting Priorities demonstrates how intellectually lively and contested our terrain remains." -- Historians of Netherlandish Art Book Reviews"This book of essays will remain an important and lasting contribution, both for students of Dutch art and for students of methodology." -- Seventeenth-Century News

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Book SynopsisOpening with the provocative query "what might an anthropology of the secular look like?" this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism. The focus is on major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes towards Islam in the modern West and the Middle East.Trade Review"A dark but brilliantly original work, Formations of the Secular is one of the most important books on religion and the modern in recent years."—H-Net Reviews"Formations of the Secular is also a difficult if stunningly eloquent book, a response both elusive and forthright to the many shelves of 'books on terrorism' which this country's trade publishers are rushing into print."—Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature"This wonderfully illuminating book should be read alongside the author's Genealogies of Religion . . ."—Religion"...Asad's brilliant study remains a defining piece of intellectual and scholarly contribution for all of those interested in exploring the religious and the secular in the modern era."—The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences"...one of the most interesting scholars of religious writing today."—Christian Scholar's Review

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Book SynopsisThis is a succinct and elegant argument for the specificity of a philosophy of tragedy, as opposed to a poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle.Trade Review“This is a gem of a book. Few critics would be capable of engaging a significant number of the great tragedies and important theorists of tragedy in such short compass. But Szondi does it in completely remarkable fashion. Not only does this make for captivating reading, it also makes this a virtually ideal teaching tool, for it features the signature of Szondi’s writing: great clarity, about complex matters. No one has really replaced Szondi in his role as a theoretically informal interpreter of comparative literature.”—Ian Balfour, York University

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