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Crossway Books Reaching Your Muslim Neighbor with the Gospel
Book SynopsisIn Reaching Your Muslim Neighbor with the Gospel, A. S.Ibrahim seeks to provide his readers with insight and practical tips to engage and share the gospel with Muslim friends and neighbors.
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American Psychological Association Essentials of DescriptiveInterpretive Qualitative
Book SynopsisThis practical, step-by-step guide explains the most important principles for using a generic approach to descriptive-interpretive qualitative research. Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Clara E. Hill and Sarah Knox1. Why a Generic Descriptive-Interpretive Approach to Qualitative Research?2. Designing the Study3. Data Collection4. A Framework of Key Modes of Qualitative Data Analysis5. Writing the Manuscript6. Methodological Integrity7. Summary and ConclusionsAppendix. Example StudiesReferences
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University of Toronto Press Long Night at the Vepsian Museum
Book SynopsisThis book takes readers to the village of Sheltozero in northern Russia. It highlights a tiny community of indigenous people called Veps, known colloquially as the forest folk for their intense closeness and affiliation with the forests in their ancestral territories. Davidov uses a tour of the local museum to introduce a cast of human and non-human characters from traditional Vepsian culture, while journeying through various eras under Russian, Finnish, Soviet, and post-Soviet rule. In the process, she explores how contemporary political struggles mesh with traditional beliefs, illustrating how Veps make meaning of their history and unfolding future. A documentary entitled Museum Night is available for instructors who wish to incorporate it into their teaching. Trade Review"Long Night at the Vepsian Museum is an ethnography that documents the history and current cultural struggles of the Veps people, a Finno-Ugric speaking minority community that lives in Russia’s Karelia region, on the border with Finland." -- Samantha Lomb * EuropeNow *"Long Night at the Vepsian Museum, is a well-written and engaging contribution to the literature on Post-Soviet Russia and indigenous cultural production. Moreover, the book’s accessibility and clean prose will make it of interest to not only scholars of these fields, but also undergraduate educators looking for a snappy and thought-provoking syllabus addition." -- A. Lorraine Kaljund * EuropeNow *"By juxtaposing relations between Veps craftspeople and the czarist and soviet states with traditions of reciprocity with master spirits that ensured Karelia’s natural bounty, Davidov offers an altogether new paradigm for understanding Indegeneity in the modern world." -- E. J. Vajda * Choice Connect, June 2018 vol. 55 # 10 *"One of Davidov’s strengths lies in the place that she chose as a base for fieldwork: the local museum. Despite the idea that such institutions present only rigid, official discourses about real and lively cultures, what Davidov successfully reveals is that behind the facade of public exhibitions, there is an important vein of hidden and non-official cultural knowledge transfer and production taking place." -- Tatiana Safonova * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Long Night at the Vepsian Museum represents a solid analysis of Veps ‘resource biography’ which connects landscape, industry, and practices of remembering as intertwined local resources. This book would be particularly relevant for anthropology students due to the author’s valuable self-reflections on the nature of fieldwork and ‘collaborative ethnography.’" -- Anna Varfolomeeva, Tyumen State University * Anthropology of East Europe Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Forest Folk 2. Vepsian Cosmologies 3. Spruce Eyelashes and Blue Eyes of Lakes 4. The Bad Masters 5. The Long Night of Museums 6. Conclusion
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University of Toronto Press Decolonizing Data
Book SynopsisDecolonizing Data explores how ongoing structures of colonialization negatively impact the well-being of Indigenous peoples and communities across Canada, resulting in persistent health inequalities. In addressing the social dimensions of health, particularly as they affect Indigenous peoples and BIPOC communities, Decolonizing Data asks, Should these groups be given priority for future health policy considerations?Decolonizing Data provides a deeper understanding of the social dimensions of health as applied to Indigenous peoples, who have been historically underfunded in and excluded from health services, programs, and quality of care; this inequality has most recently been seen during the COVID-19 pandemic.Drawing on both western and Indigenous methodologies, this unique scholarly contribution takes both a sociological perspective and the "two-eyed seeing" approach to research methods. By looking at the ways that everyday research practices coTable of ContentsContents List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgments Dedication Preface Relational Accountability About this Book How the Book is Organized 1.Introduction The Importance of Power and Place: Place-Based Consciousness Who is Indigenous? Indigenous Peoples and the Urban Landscape in Canada Indigenous Perspectives on the Good Life The Link Between Social Capital and Indigenous Well-Being 2. The Impacts of Colonization on Indigenous Health and Well-being Setter State Policy and Indigenous Peoples Assimilation Policy and Poor Health Outcomes The Indian Reserve System The Residential School System Historical Trauma for Generations to Come Acts of Reconciliation The 1996 Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) The 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 3. Decolonizing Bodies and a Self-Governing Health System Indigenous Well-being and Urban Life Beyond the Western Medical Model and Decolonizing Bodies Health Transformation and Self-Determination Health Governance and the First Nations Health Authority 4. Social Capital Theory, Health Indicators and Indigenous Communities Historical Overview: Bourdieusian Social Capital and Health Status Social Capital Analysis and Applied Social Research Social Capital Theory and Colonization Moving Beyond the GDP: Social and Economic Indicators of Well-being How is Well-Being Measured in Canada? How is Indigenous Well-Being Measured in Canada? Indigenous Health Indictors Frameworks 5. Decolonizing Data and Critical Research Methods Decolonizing Methodologies Ethics: Honoring Indigenous Protocols and Relational Accountability Participation Action Research and Indigenous Communities Two-Eyed Seeing and Indigenous Health Outcomes Qualitative Findings The Origin Story of the First Nations Perspective on Health and Wellness Traditional Knowledge Data Governance and Ownership From Illness Models to Wellness Perspectives A Critical Data Approach Decolonizing Data and Indigenous Health Outcomes The 2012 Aboriginal People’s Survey and Measuring Historical Trauma Individual and Community Level Factors Affecting Indigenous Health Outcomes Quantitative Findings Transgenerational Trauma and Health Outcomes Indigenous Culture as Resistance to Trauma 6. Conclusion Indigenous-Based Determinants of Health and Wellness Social Capital and Indigenous Health and Wellness Critical Reflections Allyship and Solidarity Relational Allyship and Responsive Research Responsive Research, the TRAC Method and Indigenous Data Sovereignty The Limitations of Two-Eyed Seeing Indigenous Data Sovereignty References
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University of Toronto Press The Crusade of 1456
Book SynopsisThe Crusade of 1456 offers translations of key sources from an often overlooked yet consequential event in fifteenth-century Europe.Trade Review"A description of Belgrade in 1456 is to be found in many a book on the Medieval Balkans, on the Papacy and the Levant, or on Hungarian history but never with such specificity and depth. It is as if long lost voices are heard again for the first time after the sleep of ages, with startling freshness and power." -- Alberto M. Fernandez * European Conservative *Table of ContentsIntroduction Historical Frames: Political and Military Developments Sources in Scholarly Context: The Middle Ages, the Crusades, and the Problem of “Lateness” Framing the Sources: Selection, Structure, and Significance Part One: Preparations for Crusade, 1453–1456 1. Pope Nicholas V, Etsi Ecclesia Christi 2. Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, Constantinopolitana Clades 3. Correspondence of 1455–1456 4. Liturgy for Taking the Cross 5. A Pope’s Call to Prayer 6. Pope Callixtus III, Omnipotentis dei misericordia Part Two: The Earliest Accounts 7. John of Capistrano to Pope Callixtus III 8. John of Capistrano to Pope Callixtus III 9. John Hunyadi to Denis Szécsi, Archbishop of Esztergom 10. John Hunyadi to Ladislaus Garai, Palatine of Hungary 11. John Hunyadi to King Ladislaus Posthumous 12. John of Tagliacozzo to James of the Marches 13. John of Capistrano to Pope Callixtus III Part Three: News and Propaganda 14. Ambassador of the Bishop of Šibenik to Callixtus III 15. Cardinal Juan Carvajal to Francesco Sforza 16. Letters of John Goldener 17. Ladislaus Posthumous to Duke Francesco Sforza of Milan 18. The City of Nuremberg to the City of Weissenburg 19. Pope Callixtus III to Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan 20. Letters of Bernard of Kraiburg 21. Callixtus III, Letter to Juan Soler 22. Anonymous (Pseudo-John of Capistrano), to all Christians 23. Anonymous, Letter to Henry of Eckenfelt 24. Liturgical Commemorations of Belgrade Part Four: John of Tagliacozzo’s The Story of the Victory of Belgrade 25. John of Tagliacozzo, The Story of the Victory of Belgrade Part Five: Memoir and Chronicle 26. Thomas Ebendorfer, Chronica Austriae 27. Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories 28. Michael Kritopuoulos (Kritovulos), History of Mehmed the Conqueror 29. Jacopo da Promontorio, Recollecta 30. şıkpaşazade, Memories and Chronicles of the House of Osman 31. John Thurocz, Chronicle of the Hungarians 32. Tursun Beg, History of the Conqueror 33. The Oxford Anonymous Chronicle 34. Konstantin Mihailović, Memoirs Timelines: General Timeline The Crusade of 1456 Maps: Central and Southeastern Europe, c. 1450 The Siege and Relief of Belgrade, 1456 The City and Fortress of Belgrade, c. 1450
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University of Toronto Press The New Climate Activism
Book SynopsisAt the 2019 UN climate change conference, activists and delegates from groups representing Indigenous, youth, women, and labour rights were among those marching through the halls chanting Climate Justice, People Power. In The New Climate Activism, Jen Iris Allan looks at why and how these social activists came to participate in climate change governance while others, such as those working on human rights and health, remain on the outside of climate activism. Through case studies of women’s rights, labour, alter-globalization, health, and human rights activism, Allan shows that some activists sought and successfully gained recognition as part of climate change governance, while others remained marginalized. While concepts key to some social activists, including gender mainstreaming, just transition, and climate justice are common terms, human rights and health remain fringe issues in climate change governance. The New Climate Activism explores why and how Trade Review"Global climate activism today looks very different than it did twenty years ago. In The New Climate Activism, Dr. Allan has - uniquely - captured how the movement has expanded and diversified over time. She demonstrates convincingly why gender, labor, human rights and health advocacy groups have thrown their energy into climate politics, and why they have not all succeeded. Further, she shows how climate justice activism became so visible in the climate regime, and so important." -- Kate O'Neill, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley"This is an excellent book, packed with insights into the evolving global response to climate change and global governance writ large. In focusing on how and when diverse NGO networks are able to move into and gain authority in new issues areas, Allan is able to both explain the transformation of climate change from an environmental/economic issue into a social one and provide a general framework for better understanding NGO participation in and impact upon global governance. Her mixed method approach makes for vibrant and compelling accounts of labour, gender, justice, human rights, and health NGO networks’ experience with accessing and influencing the climate regime. The New Climate Activists is a must-read for those interested in climate change politics and the dynamics of global governance." -- Matthew Hoffmann, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Scarborough"An important contribution to the literature, The New Climate Activism’s theoretical framework explains why and how civil society networks from outside the climate change realm come to participate in the UNFCCC, or not. Empirical evidence is marshalled to demonstrate the plausibility of this framework, which emphasizes both NGOs’ motivation to join and their ability to find the narratives, cohesion, allies, and institutional hooks to achieve recognition in the regime. Jen Iris Allan provides a valuable analysis helping us understand when and how civil society can come comes to matter within a multilateral setting. This is a significant work of scholarship that will appeal to audiences interested in global environmental politics and the role of civil society in multilateral fora." -- Thomas Hale, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford"It is now taken for granted that the climate crisis is a justice issue, one affecting the social fabric of human life on the planetThat the climate crisis is an issue of justice that affects the social fabric of human life on the planet is now taken for granted. Long before Greta Thunberg mobilized youth around similar ideas, several NGO and activist networks new to climate politics fought to bring social concerns – from gender, and labour, to Indigenous issues, and justice more broadly – into global climate negotiations. Some successfully changed international agreements and thinking, often despite resistance from more established climate activists, while others remained marginalized. Jennifer Iris Allaen’s richly textured study explains why some succeeded while others remained marginalized. ItsHer focus on NGO strategies to gain authority and recognition in multiple forums not only challenges conventional thinking on how change occurs in global governance, but, it provides the backstory of how networks of labour, gender, and justice NGOs transformed the climate change issue." -- Steven Bernstein, Distinguished Professor of Global Environmental and Sustainability Governance, University of Toronto"Allan’s work is not only a fresh look at climate politics but a different way to think about the politics of global issue networks more generally." -- Charli Carpenter, University of Massachusetts- * Global Policy *"The book leverages literatures from international relations and comparative politics and will prove very useful in curricula on both subjects. The author seeks to prepare readers for engagement in activism within the climate change regime under the Paris Agreement, [while] also raising new questions with respect to NGO influence and authority." -- C. Wankel, St. John's University, New York * CHOICE *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Forum Multiplying to New Regimes 3. Understanding and Governing Climate Change 4. The Reformers: Labour Unions and Gender NGOs 5. The Radicals: Climate Justice Now! 6. The Uninterested and Impeded: Health & Human Rights 7. The New Climate Activists’ Future
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University of Toronto Press Animals as Legal Beings
Book SynopsisIn Animals as Legal Beings, Maneesha Deckha critically examines how Canadian law and, by extension, other legal orders around the world, participate in the social construction of the human-animal divide and the abject rendering of animals as property. Through a rigorous but cogent analysis, Deckha calls for replacing the exploitative property classification for animals with a new transformative legal status or subjectivity called beingness. In developing a new legal subjectivity for animals, one oriented toward respecting animals for who they are rather than their proximity to idealized versions of humanness, Animals as Legal Beings seeks to bring critical animal theorizations and animal law closer together. Throughout, Deckha draws upon the feminist animal care tradition, as well as feminist theories of embodiment and relationality, postcolonial theory, and critical animal studies. Her argument is critical of the liberal legal view of animals and directed at a Table of ContentsMoving Toward a Non-Anthropocentric Legal Status for Animals 1. No Escape: Anti-Cruelty Law’s Property Foundations 2. What’s Wrong with Personhood?: The Humanizing Impact of Anthropos 3. Toward a Post-Anthropocentric Legal Ontology 4. Beingness: A New Legal Subjectivity for Animals 5. Liberal Humanism Repackaged? 6. Conclusion
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University of Toronto Press The Sensory Studies Manifesto Tracking the
Book SynopsisThe Sensory Studies Manifesto explores the origin and development of the revolutionary new field of sensory studies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Prologue: Coming to Our Senses Part I: The Sensorial Revolution in the Human Sciences 1. On the Geography and Anthropology the Senses 2. On the History and Sociology of the Senses 3. On the Psychology and Neurobiology of the Senses in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective Part II: Case Studies 4. The Modern Sensorium: A Case Study in Sensory History, 1920-2001 5. Melanesian Sensory Formations: A Comparative Case Study in Sensory Ethnography Part III: Multisensory Aesthetics 6. “A New Age of Aesthetics”: Sensory Art and Design 7. Sensory Museology: Bringing the Senses to Museum Visitors 8. Performative Sensory Environments: Alternative Orchestrations of the Senses in Contemporary Intermedia Art References List of Figures
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University of Toronto Press Hannah Arendt
Book SynopsisIn this volume, based on the series of Alexander Lectures she delivered at the University of Toronto, Julia Kristeva explores the philosophical aspects of Hannah Arendt''s work: her understanding of such concepts as language, self, body, political space, and life. Kristeva''s aim is to clarify contradictions in Arendt''s thought as well as correct misapprehensions about her political and philosophical views.The first two chapters describe how Arendt followed an original conception of human narrative, such that life, action, and even thought, are only human when they can be narrated and thus shared with other persons who, through the evocation of memory, complete the story and make history into a condensed sign, into a revelation of the ''who.'' The third chapter concentrates on Arendt''s work in relation to her twentieth-century contemporaries, especially Isak Dinesen, Brecht, Kafka, and Nathalie Sarraute. In the last two chapters, on the body and the Kantian concept of judgm
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University of Toronto Press The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front
Book SynopsisIn 1941, the Franco regime established the Spanish Division of Volunteers to take part in the Russian campaign as a unit integrated into the German Wehrmacht. Recruited by both the Fascist Party (Falange) and the Spanish army, around 47,000 Spanish volunteers joined what would become known as the Blue Division. The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front, 19411945 explores an intimate history of the Blue Division from below, using personal war diaries, letters, and memoirs, as well as official documents from military archives in Spain, Germany, Britain, and Russia. In addition to describing the Spanish experience on the Eastern Front, Xosé M. Núñez Seixas takes on controversial topics including the Blue Division’s proximity to the Holocaust and how members of the Blue Division have been remembered and commemorated. Addressing issues such as the behaviour of the Spaniards as occupiers, their perception by the Russians, their witnessing of the Holocaust,Trade Review“The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front makes for compelling reading…This accessible book should be read by anyone interested in modern Spain, the Eastern Front, Axis allies, or soldier motivation.” -- Grant T. Harward, US Army Center of Military History * Michigan War Studies Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Blue Division, the Franco Regime, and the Second World War 1. Russia Is Guilty! 2. A Long March: From Central Europe to the Volkhov Front 3. The Blue Division On the Front 4. Occupation Practices of the Blue Division in Northwest Russia 5. The Last Crusaders of the Nazi New Order, 1944–1945 6. War Veterans and Memories from the Eastern Front in Franco’s Spain Conclusion: A Spanish Exception in the War of Extermination? Sources Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press Ivan Illich Fifty Years Later
Book SynopsisIn 1971, priest, theologian, and philosopher Ivan Illich wrote Deschooling Society, a plea to liberate education from schooling and to separate schooling from the state. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of its publication, Ivan Illich Fifty Years Later looks at the theological roots of Illich’s thought and the intellectual and ideological strands that contributed to his ideas. Guided by the central question of how Illich reached the point of writing Deschooling Society, the book sheds light on how Illich produced a critique of schooling that can be defined by its eclecticism. Bruno-Jofré and Igelmo Zaldívar explore how this controversial book was framed by Illich’s early neo-scholastic and anti-modern foundation, his discovery of St. Thomas through Jacques Maritain, and the existential turning points that influenced his public life and intellectual direction in moving from a critique of the Church as institution to a critique of sTable of ContentsForeword Introduction 1. Ivan Illich: From the Dalmatian Coast, through Vienna, to Rome (1926–1951) 2. Beyond a Unilinear Development of Illich’s Thinking: An Inquiry into Temporal Layers of Thought Forming His Critical View of the Church and the School 3. CIDOC as an Independent Intellectual Hub and the Conflict with the Church 4. Completing the Journey to Deschooling Society: A Radical Critique of Schooling 5. Going Back to Deschooling Society Index
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University of Toronto Press Justice in Lyon
Book SynopsisThe trial of former SS lieutenant and Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie was France’s first trial for crimes against humanity. Known as the Butcher of Lyon during the Nazi occupation of that city from 1942 to 1944, Barbie tortured, deported, and murdered thousands of Jews and Resistance fighters. Following a lengthy investigation and the overcoming of numerous legal and other obstacles, the trial began in 1987 and attracted global attention. Justice in Lyon is the first comprehensive history of the Barbie trial, including the investigation leading up to it, the legal background to the case, and the hurdles the prosecution had to clear in order to bring Barbie to justice. Richard J. Golsan examines the strategies used by the defence, the prosecution, and the lawyers who represented Barbie’s many victims at the trial. The book draws from press coverage, articles, and books about Barbie and the trial published at the time, as well as recently released archival sourcTrade Review“[Justice in Lyon] is a judicious, clearly written, and well-researched study which will now become the standard work on the subject.” -- Julian Jackson, Queen Mary University of London * H-France Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Klaus Barbie: Nazi “Idealist” 2. The Historical Judicial Backdrop: From Nuremberg to the 1980 Cologne Trial of Kurt Lischka, Herbert Hagen, and Ernst Heinrichson 3. The Investigation: War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, and the Long Road to Compromise 4. The Barbie Trial Begins: Opening Rituals and the Departure of the Accused 5. The Witnesses 6. The Civil Parties and Prosecution Make Their Case 7. Barbie’s Defence Takes Centre Stage Conclusion
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Human Kinetics Publishers Effective Leadership in Adventure Programming
Book SynopsisEffective Leadership in Adventure Programming, Third Edition, details the art and science of adventure leadership. This thorough update of the groundbreaking text covers the latest research, issues, and trends in adventure education and provides a new model for building core competencies.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Evidence Chapter 2: Philosophy Chapter 3: Professonal Ethics Chapter 4: History Chapter 5: Technical Activity Skills Chapter 6: Safety and Risk Skills Chapter 7: Environmental Skills Chapter 8: Organizational Skills Chapter 9: Social Psychology Chapter 10: Conditional Leadership Chapter 11: Communication Chapter 12: Instructional Skills Chapter 13: Facilitation Skills Chapter 14: Decision Making Chapter 15: Problem Solving Chapter 16: Sound Judgment Chapter 17: Trends and Issues Conclusion Appendix: Therapeutic Applications Glossary Index
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New York University Press Society without God What the Least Religious
Book SynopsisDrawing on sociological theories and the author's own research, this title counters the claims of outspoken, conservative American Christians who argue that a society without God would be hell on earth. It states that it is crucial for Americans to know that society without God is not only possible, but it can be quite civil and pleasant.Trade Review"The book succeeds in documenting how the conditions of a liberal social welfare state promote contentment." * Choice *"While never presuming to offer a strictly generalizable snapshot, by focusing his attention on what are probably the least religious countries in the world (2), his provocative and engagingly written book is very effective in helping readers to examine numerous assumptions concerning the place of religion in the modern world... The real strength of this book is that, by challenging widespread analytical assumptions, it presents us with more complexity and with more nuanced questions regarding the nexus of the religious and the secular in contemporary life. To quote a famous Dane on this very point, There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. If, as Horatio should have done, we are to heed these words in terms of expanding the frameworks of our accordingly, it will be due in good measure to paying attention to thoughtful and creative books like this one. In my estimation, not to do so would be, well, a tragedy." * Sociology of Religion *"Society Without God" offers a unique perspective on the active debate regarding the necessity of religion . . . By turning to one of the most secular societies in the world, Scandanavia, Phil Zuckerman offers an empirically grounded account of a successful society where people are happy and content and help their neighbors without believing in God. The book is fluently written and highly illuminating. It offers an accessible entry to important questions in the study of religion and secularism." -- Michael Pagis * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *"Society without God is both a sociological analysis of irreligion and Zuckermans apologia pro vita sua. He wants us to know that, contrary to the deeply held beliefs of some Americans, a society without god can be a good society and an irreligious person can be a moral person, too. To his credit, Zuckerman provides enough nuance and detail to allow a skeptic like me to see what Peter Berger called & signals of transcendence in the society without god he portrays. Along with the volumes engaging writing style, this makes it ideal for classroom use. I know my students will enjoy reading and discussing Society without God." -- David Yamane,author of The Catholic Church in State Politics"[Zuckerman] tells of a magical land where life expectancy is high and infant mortality low, where wealth is spread and genders live in equity, where happy, fish-fed citizens score high in every quality-of-life index: economic competitiveness, healthcare, environmental protection, lack of corruption, educational investment, technological literacy . . . well, you get the idea. Zuckerman (who has explored the sociology of religion in two previous books) has managed to show what nonbelief looks like when its & normal, regular, mainstream, common. And hes gone at least partway to proving the central thesis of his book: & Religious faithwhile admittedly widespreadis not natural or innate to the human condition. Nor is religion a necessary ingredient for a healthy, peaceful, prosperous, and . . . deeply good society." -- Louis Bayard * Salon.com *"Most Americans are convinced that faith in God is the foundation of civil society. Society Without God reveals this to be nothing more than a well-subscribed, and strangely American, delusion. Even atheists living in the United States will be astonished to discover how unencumbered by religion most Danes and Swedes currently are. This glimpse of an alternate, secular reality is at once humbling and profoundly inspiring and it comes not a moment too soon. Zuckermans research is truly indispensable." -- Sam Harris * New York Times *"Puts to rest the belief that you need God in order to be a moral person, that irreligious societies are wracked by social problems, and that godless people are unhappy and unmoored. . . . In the case of Scandinavia: God may be dead, but Swedes and Danes lead rich, full lives. Society Without God is a colorful, provocative book that makes an original contribution to debates about atheism and religiosity. Ideal for classroom use, it will get students thinking about their own lives and choices." -- Arlene Stein,author of Shameless: Sexual Dissidence in American Culture"Despite this books weighty topic, with its conversational writing style, Society Without God is amazingly readable, even fun. It presents rigorous arguments that are deceptively simple to understand, but that are, when you think about them more deeply, quite transformative." * PopMatters *"In an anecdotal and eminently readable manner, Zuckerman offers a novel idea within the study of religious sociology." * Library Journal *"His reporting of previously published material is invaluable to persons not previously familiar with such information." * Humanism Ireland *"Much that he found will surprise many people, as it did him." * The New York Times *"For those interested in the burgeoning field of secular studies or for those curious about a world much different from the devout U.S.this book will offer some compelling reading." * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Society without God 2 Jens, Anne, and Christian 3 Fear of Death and the Meaning of Life4 Lene, Sonny, and Gitte 5 Being Secular 6 Why? 7 Dorthe, Laura, and Johanne 8 Cultural Religion 9 Back to the USA Appendix Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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University of Minnesota Press Differend
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University of Minnesota Press Unruly Practices
Book Synopsis“A wonderfully rich and insightful collection of well-integrated essays on important current thinkers and social movements.” -Martin Jay University of California, BerkeleyUnruly Practices brings together a series of widely discussed essays in feminism and social theory. Read together, they constitute a sustained critical encounter with leading European and American approaches to social theory. In addition, Nancy Fraser develops a new and original socialist-feminist critical theory that overcomes many of the limitations of current alternatives. First, in a series of critical essays, she deploys philosophical and literary techniques to sort the wheat from the chaff in the work of Michel Foucault, the French deconstructionists, Richard Rorty, and Jurgen Habermas. Then, in a group of constructive essays, she incorporates their respective strengths in a new critical theory of late-capitalist political culture. Fraser breaks new ground methodo
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University of Minnesota Press Infinite Conversation
Book SynopsisMaurice Blanchot here sustains a dialogue with a number of thinkers, including Kafka, Pascal, Nietzsche, Brecht, and Camus, who are central to the history of Western thought and who have influenced virtually all the themes that inflect contemporary literary and philosophical debate.Table of ContentsPlural speech (the speech of writing); the limit experience; the absence of the book (the neutral, the fragmentary).
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University of Minnesota Press AntiPolitics Machine
Book SynopsisThis is a detailed case study of the workings of the "development" industry in one country, Lesotho. It shows how, despite "expertise" these projects can often fail and have serious repercussions upon the country.Table of ContentsPart 1 Introduction. Part 2 The "development" apparatus conceptual apparatus: the constitution of the object of "development"; Lesotho as "less developed country"; institutional apparatus - the Thaba-Tseka development project. Part 3 The "target population" - the setting - aspects of economy and society in rural Lesotho; the Bovine mystique; a study of power, property, and livestock in rural Lesotho. Part 4 The deployment of "development": livestock development; the decentralization debacle; crop development and some other programs of the Thaba-Tseka project. Part 5 Instrument-effects of a "development" project; the anti-politics machine.
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University of Minnesota Press After The End Representations Of PostApocalypse
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University of Minnesota Press Politics of Touch
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University of Minnesota Press The End Of Capitalism As We Knew It
Book SynopsisFocuses on representations of capitalism and their political effects. This edition includes an introduction in which the authors address critical responses to "The End of Capitalism" and outlines the economic research and activism they have been engaged in since the book was first published.Trade Review"Paralyzing problems are banished by this dazzlingly lucid, creative, and practical rethinking of class and economic transformation." - Meaghan Morris, Lingnan University, Hong Kong "Profoundly imaginative." - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, City University of New York "Filled with insights, it is clearly written and well supported with good examples of actual, deconstructive practices." - International Journal of Urban and Regional Research"
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University of Minnesota Press What Is Posthumanism
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: What Is Posthumanism? Part One: Theories, Disciplines, Ethics 1. Meaning and Event, or, Systems Theory and "The Reconstruction of Deconstruction" 2. Language and Subjectivity: Cognitive Science, Deconstruction, and The Animal 3. Flesh and Finitude: Bioethics and the Philosophy of The Living 4. "Animal Studies," Disciplinarity, and the (Post)Humanities 5. Learning from Temple Grandin: Animal Studies, Disability Studies, and Who Comes After the Subject Part Two: Media, Culture, Practices 6. From Dead Meat to Glow-in-the-Dark Bunnies: The Animal Question in Contemporary Art 7. When You Can't Believe Your Eyes (Or Voice): Dancer in The Dark 8. Lose the Building: Form and System in Contemporary Architecture 9. Emerson's Romanticism, Cavell's Skepticism, Luhmann's Modernity 10. The Idea of Observation at Key West: Systems Theory, Poetry, and Form Beyond Formalism 11. The Digital, the Analog, and the Spectral: Echographies from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Notes Publication History Index
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University of Minnesota Press A Silvan Tomkins Handbook
Book Synopsis"An accessible guide to the work of American psychologist and affect theorist Silvan Tomkins"--Trade Review"Taking a cartographic approach to Silvan Tomkins’s considerable volumes of work, Adam J. Frank and Elizabeth A. Wilson extend the reach and significance of his theories of affect into new territories, problems, concepts, and tantalizing ways of approaching the ‘strange status of subjectivity.’ Unique, persuasive, and illuminating, A Silvan Tomkins Handbook is essential reading for advancing the field of affect studies beyond psychological individualisms of all kinds."—Lisa Blackman, author of Haunted Data: Affect, Transmedia, Weird Science"Adam J. Frank and Elizabeth A. Wilson beautifully demonstrate the distinctiveness, suppleness, complexity, and generativity of Silvan Tomkins’s writings and concepts. The handbook makes vividly and urgently clear how much there remains, in the twenty-first century, to unearth and think through in relation to this distinctive twentieth-century psychologist and to models of affect and subjective experience more broadly."—Felicity Callard, University of GlasgowTable of ContentsContentsNote on QuotationsIntroductionPart I. Affect1. Drives 2. The Face3. Evolution4. Freedom5. The Positive6. The NegativeInterlude: Tomkins and SpinozaPart II. Imagery7. Images8. Theory, Weak and Strong9. Scenes and Scripts10. IdeologyInterlude: Tomkins and DarwinPart III. Consciousness11. Psychoanalysis at the Harvard Psychological Clinic12. Cybernetics13. The Psychology of Knowledge14. The Minding SystemAcknowledgmentsChronology of Tomkins’s Life and WorkBibliography of Tomkins’s Published WritingsReferencesIndex
£15.19
University of Minnesota Press Landscapes of Fear
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An elegant encyclopedic treatise on anxiety and its various manifestations, down through the ages. Tuan is an interdisciplinary virtuoso, ranging effortlessly over history, psychology, and anthropology. An arresting and beautifully documented study." —Kirkus
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University of Minnesota Press Mechanization Takes Command
Book SynopsisTrade Review"It is a provocative, enlightening, sometimes frightening story." —Thomas Sugrue, New York Times"Many people have wondered what mechanization is doing to man; nobody yet has investigated, documented, and illustrated the question to the extent of this enormous and fascinating book." —Time"Giedion reveled in the splendor of such humble things, the stuff of ordinary life. He studied them lovingly and sought to convey to his readers a sense of their inner beauty, mystery, and wonder." —Technology and Culture
£999.99
University of Minnesota Press The Nonhuman Turn
Book SynopsisTrade Review"As we contemplate the relevance of the humanities in the twenty- first century, The Nonhuman Turn offers a valuable, if provocative, direction to pursue—question the “human” in the humanities."—ISLE"A good overview of the various strands of thinking that have contributed to thought on the Anthropocene in relation to media."—The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory"A fascinating, daring and challenging read that deserves to fuel discussion and raises some interesting challenges to anthropocentric critical discourse."—The Anthropocene Review Blog"Presents rich, compelling interdisciplinary work that pushes the boundary of how we understand the human and the nonhuman, relationality, art, sympathy, and literary critical writing."—ConfigurationsTable of ContentsContentsIntroductionRichard Grusin1. The Supernormal AnimalBrian Massumi2. Consequences of PanpsychismSteven Shaviro3. ArtfulnessErin Manning4.The Aesthetics of Philosophical CarpentryIan Bogost5. Our Predictive Condition; or, Prediction in the WildMark B. N. Hansen6. Crisis, Crisis, Crisis; or, the Temporality of NetworksWendy Hui Kyong Chun7. They Are HereTimothy Morton8. Form / Matter / Chora: Object-Oriented Ontology and Feminist New MaterialismRebekah Sheldon9. Systems and Things: On Vital Materialism and Object-Oriented PhilosophyJane BennettAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press The Capacity Contract Intellectual Disability
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Capacity Contract brings much-needed insights to both political theory and disability studies. Its original analysis calls for the fuller recognition of the contributions of the intellectually disabled and their social inclusion as citizens."—Kristin Bumiller, Amherst College"Most political theorists would agree with Rawls that citizens need to possess cognitive capacities ‘within some normal range,’ but Stacy Clifford Simplican argues that such a ‘capacity contract’ is wrong. She provokes us to disrupt these norms."—Joan Tronto, University of Minnesota"A very interesting read."—Catholic Medical Quarterly"Simplican presents a rich analysis of the role of capacity in classic political philosophy and offers a significant contribution to the field. "—Disability Studies Quarterly"The Capacity Contract should be required reading not just for political theorists but for everybody conscientious about being alerted to unconscious patterns of bias and exclusion in their everyday lives and practices."—The Review of PoliticsTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Anxiety, Democracy, and Disability1. Locke’s Capacity Contract and the Construction of Idiocy2. Manufacturing Anxiety: The Medicalization of Mental Defect3. The Disavowal of Disability in Contemporary Contract Theory4. Rethinking Political Agency: Arendt and the Self-Advocacy Movement5. Self-Advocates and Allies Becoming EmpoweredAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Stone
Book SynopsisJeffrey Jerome Cohen reminds us in Stone, that what is often assumed to be the most lifeless of substances is, in its own time, restless and forever in motion. Cohen seamlessly brings together a wide range of topics and invites us to apprehend the world both in geological time and in other than human terms. Trade Review"A poignant and poetic book, Stone is a provocative contribution to anthropocene studies. Rather than naming humans as agents endowed with geologic force, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen contemplates our anxious collaboration with lithic matter that outlasts and eludes us. Stone is a must-read for anyone interested in rethinking the anthropocene within the geologic turn in literary and cultural studies." —Stephanie LeMenager, University of Oregon"If our historic engagement with stone is the story of cave painting, toolmaking, and home building, Cohen wants to recover a secret history that moves beyond such utilitarian domination. His version is about collaboration and gregarious commingling between humans and stones."—Los Angeles Review of Books"A gorgeous lovesong to lithic form, narrative endurance, and the urgent need to connect."—The Bookfish:Thalassology, Shakespeare, and Swimming"Rendered eloquently, Cohen’s text is a useful attempt at crafting a unique theoretical framework for challenging assumptions about the differences between humans and nature."—CHOICE"Ranging between the poetic and the pedantic, heroically imagining beyond its academic constraints, Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman presents a unique history that is central to some of our most urgent ecological concerns."—The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada"An elegantly structured, stylistically-rich study in theory and criticism."—SubStance"Stone is a beautifully written book that moves from scholarly engagement with medieval texts to more contemporary issues and ideas, as well as a deal of personal material, and etymological musings."—The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory"Jeffrey Jerome Cohen offers a poetically charged account of stone as uncannily lively substance, the necessary ground for any articulation of ecological (and ethical) figures."—Symploke 24"a profound exploration of a fascinating topic, one that helps me in my own thinking on ecology and materiality, and one that may well stand the test of lithic time."—KronoScope"Renders a usually inanimate and unchanging world both vivid and vibrant."—Environmental History Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Stories of Stone Geophilia: The Love of StoneExcursus: The Weight of the PastTime: The Insistence of StoneExcursus: A Heart UnknownForce: The Adventure of StoneExcursus: GeologicSoul: The Life of StoneAfterword: IcelandAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£18.99
Duke University Press Aurality
Book SynopsisIn this audacious book, Ana María Ochoa Gautier explores how listening has been central to the production of notions of language, music, voice, and sound that determine the politics of life. Drawing primarily from nineteenth-century Colombian sources, Ochoa Gautier locates sounds produced by different living entities at the juncture of the human and nonhuman. Her 'acoustically tuned' analysis of a wide array of texts reveals multiple debates on the nature of the aural. These discussions were central to a politics of the voice harnessed in the service of the production of different notions of personhood and belonging. In Ochoa Gautier''s groundbreaking work, Latin America and the Caribbean emerge as a historical site where the politics of life and the politics of expression inextricably entangle the musical and the linguistic, knowledge and the sensorial. Trade Review"Speaking from the intersection of sound studies, Latin American studies, and the history of natural history and musicology, this book shifts the terrain upon which all of those fields have comfortably settled. Scholars of sound studies will need to take note of Ochoa’s challenges to European or North American framings." -- Alejandra Bronfman * Hispanic American Historical Review *“Gautier’s work is tremendously useful. A challenging and rewarding read, I recommend her work to persons who are seriously interested in new approaches to retelling the history of any nation.” -- Julian Ledford * AmeriQuests *"Aurality is a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of sound studies. Ana Marıa Ochoa Gautier adeptly guides the reader across complex scales of analysis using well-selected historical case studies.... Aurality achieves its goal of establishing a critical vantage point for making sense of the contemporary transformations that are shaping the 21st." -- William Hope * American Ethnologist *"Ochoa Gautier provides a vitally important account of the intricate and heterogeneous modes of knowing, being, becoming, and belonging that continue to resonate in the postcolonial lettered city." -- Leonardo Cardoso * American Anthropologist *"The volume is a must for enthusiasts of sound studies and/or Colombian history. Ochoa Gautier has done a fine job chronicling the way in which the aural played a key role in the definition of a relation between humankind and the body politics of the nation-state. It deserves wide recognition and ample endorsement." -- Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste * EIAL *"This book raises important questions about the role of sound and efforts to categorise it in defining the relationship between the human and the non-human, and between different social groups within Colombian society.... Aurality will undoubtedly serve the specialist researcher well and it is to be hoped that the rich lines of inquiry it opens up will receive further attention in future." -- Anna Cant * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Aurality is a rich and complex book that raises important questions about colonialism and modernity, personhood and nation. Ochoa Gautier has made an important contribution to Colombian historiography, certainly meeting her aim to explore 'the relationship between listening and the voice as a part of the history of the relation between the colonial and the modern'. . . . It will be difficult to read history in the same way again." -- Meri L. Clark * The Latin Americanist *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments ix Introduction. The Ear and the Voice in the Lettered City's Geophysical History 1 1. On Howls and Pitches 31 2. On Popular Song 77 3. On the Ethnographic Ear 123 4. On Vocal Immunity 165 Epilogue. The Oral in the Aural 207 Notes 215 References 231 Index 252
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Duke University Press Normal Life
Book SynopsisSetting forth a politic that goes beyond the quest for the legal inclusion of trans populations, this revised and expanded edition of Normal Life is an urgent call for justice and trans liberation, and the radical transformations it will require.Trade Review"With Normal Life, Spade has succeeded in reframing the terms of LGBT politics by building a far-reaching vision for queer and trans politics that is rooted in community work that has already begun. . . . [It] lay[s] out a road map for queer and trans activists that leads neither to the altar nor to war, but guides us to resist state power by building community and returning to our radical roots." -- Wendy Elisheva Somerson * Bitch *"Dean Spade’s much-anticipated book is a rich tapestry of critical inquiry, interventions into legal and transgender studies, and strategies for transformative resistance. . . . The strength of Normal Life lies in Spade’s commitment to accessibility as a matter of political and ethical principle. This principle is evident in the way Spade skillfully articulates theoretical concepts in common parlance, enabling critical trans politics to inform political struggles beyond the academy. Moreover, his concrete discussions of administrative governance and transformative political interventions position radical change within our reach rather than demarcate it to the realm of speculative futures." -- Dan Irving * GLQ *"[Normal Life] makes an important contribution to a new and emerging critical trans politic. It is provocative, comprehensive, and engaging. It should be widely discussed as an important strategic framework for work within the LGBTQ movement." -- Jennifer Levi and Giovanna Shay * Women's Review of Books *"Spade's book is personal, practical, and theoretical. It lays out a framework for a critical trans politics, and gives fresh analyses of immigration, legal reform, wealth distribution, and lesbian and gay politics—all buoyantly and optimistically aimed at a repaired world." -- Kate Clinton * Progressive *"[Spade] provides an eminently teachable text for courses on power in society, social movements, and community organizing—in the university, and outside. . . .We will have to take Spade's proposals very seriously to build a movement centered on those most affected by administrative violence." -- Marcia Ochoa * Social Justice *Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction: Rights, Movements, and Critical Trans Politics 1 1. Trans Law and Politics on a Neoliberal Landscape 21 2. What's Wrong with Rights 38 3. Rethinking Transphobia and Power—Beyond a Rights Framework 50 4. Administering Gender 73 5. Law Reform and Movement Building 94 Conclusion: "This Is a Protest, Not a Parade" 117 Afterword 139 Acknowledgments 163 Notes 167 Index 207
£18.89
Duke University Press The Black Jacobins Reader
Book SynopsisContaining a wealth of new scholarship and rare primary documents, The Black Jacobins Reader provides a comprehensive analysis of C. L. R. James's classic history of the Haitian Revolution.Trade Review"This book is a welcome contribution that can assist in ensuring that [C. L. R.] James continues to educate future generations of activists." -- Brian Richardson * Socialist Review *"What the The Black Jacobins Reader accomplishes is a masterful dialogue not only with respect to The Black Jacobins itself, but with historical writing in general, bringing together some of the most notable voices in Haitian and Caribbean intellectual history to consider the incredible durability of James’s work. The Black Jacobins Reader also manages to stage this dialogue as one that is preoccupied with the ongoing predicament of our time – that of asking the question, time and again: what is freedom?" -- Bedour Alagraa * Contemporary Political Theory *"Provides the most thorough and wide-ranging study of James’s seminal text to date.... The Reader reminds us of the audacity of James’s text in its time and the inspiration it provided to generations of readers...." -- Kate Quinn * French Studies *“First, and most importantly, the Reader offers a documentary history of how The Black Jacobins has been studied and how it helped to inspire new knowledge and new movements. Second, the Reader persistently portrays James’s meditations on the Haitian Revolution as contributions to the philosophy of history.” -- Jesse Olsavsky * The Black Scholar *"Containing rare primary materials, new scholarship, and personal reflections from an impressive array of activists, writers, and scholars, The Black Jacobins Reader affirms the enduring relevance of James’s achievement. Forsdick and Høgsbjerg’s Black Jacobins Reader stands as testament to the fact that some 80 years after its first publication, The Black Jacobins continues to inspire, challenge, and provoke." -- Philip Kaisary * Slavery & Abolition *"This exhaustive collection of essays, reflections, and introductions to James’s epic treatment of the Haitian Revolution will be the authoritative companion to his history for decades to come. . . . An important contribution to postcolonial and Caribbean studies . . . A bracing and consequential collection." -- Justin Rogers-Cooper * SX Salon *"The Black Jacobins Reader provides a wealth of bibliographical sources and historical documents (including a fascinating conversation between James and Studs Terkel about Black Jacobins), new scholarship, and reminiscences about James and the contexts in which Black Jacobins was used during the 1960s and 1970s. . . . The Black Jacobins Reader is an invaluable tool for contextualizing one of the great classics of the black Marxist tradition." -- James Smethurst * Science & Society *Table of ContentsForeword / Robert A. Hill xiii Haiti / David M. Rudder xxi Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction: Rethinking The Black Jacobins / Charles Forsdick and Christian Høgsbjerg 1 Part I. Personal Reflection 1. The Black Jacobins in Detroit: 1963 / Dan Georgakas 55 2. The Impact of C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins / Mumia Abu-Jamal 58 3. C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins, and The Making of Haiti / Carolyn E. Fick 60 4. The Black Jacobins, Education, and Redemption / Russell Maroon Shoatz 70 5. The Black Jacobins, Past and Present / Selma James 73 Part II. The Haitian Revolution: Histories and Philosophies 6. Reading The Black Jacobins: Historical Perspectives / Laurent Dubois 87 7. Haiti and Historical Time / Bill Schwarz 93 8. The Theory of Haiti: The Black Jacobins and the Poetics of Universal History / David Scott 115 9. Fragments of a Universal History: Global Capital, Mass Revolution, and the Idea of Equality in The Black Jacobins / Nick Nesbitt 139 10. "We Are Slaves and Slaves Believe in Freedom": The Problematizing of Revolutionary Emancipation in The Black Jacobins / Claudius Fergus 162 11. "To Place Ourselves in History": The Haitian Revolution in British West Indies Thought before The Black Jacobins / Matthew J. Smith 178 Part III. The Black Jacobins: Texts and Contexts 12. The Black Jacobins and the Long Haitian Revolution: Archives, History, and the Writing of Revolution / Anthony Bogues 197 13. Refiguring Resistance: Historiography, Fiction, and the Afterlives of Toussaint Louverture / Charles Forsdick 215 14. On "Both Sides" of the Haitian Revolution? Rethinking Direct Democracy and National Liberation in The Black Jacobins / Matthew Quest 235 15. The Black Jacobins: A Revolutionary Study of Revolution, and of a Caribbean Revolution / David Austin 256 16. Making Drama our of the Haitian Revolution from Below: C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins Play / Rachel Douglas 278 17. "On the Wings of Atalanta" / Aldon Lynn Nielsen 297 Part IV. Final Reflections 18. Afterword to The Black Jacobins's Italian Edition / Madison Smartt Bell 313 19. Introduction to the Cuban Edition of The Black Jacobins / John H. Bracey 322 Appendix 1. C. L. R. James and Studs Terkel Discuss The Black Jacobins on WFMT Radion (Chicago), 1970 329 Appendix 2. The Revolution in Theory / C. L. R. James 353 Appendix 3. Translator's Foreword by Pierre Naville to the 1949 / 1983 French Editions 367 Bibliography 383 Contributors 411 Index 415
£23.39
Fordham University Press Giving an Account of Oneself
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to lead an ethical life under vexed social and linguistic conditions? In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice -one responsive to the need for critical autonomy yet grounded in the opacity of the human subject.Trade Review"A powerful exploration of the intersection of identity and responsibility, Giving an Account of Oneself shows us Judith Butler at her best, in dialogue with some of the other foremost thinkers of our age: Adorno, Foucault, Levinas, and Laplanche. Confronting the problem of identities that emerge only in relation to social and moral norms they may seek to contest, she proposes a rethinking of responsibility in relation to the limits of self-understanding that make us human." -- -Jonathan Culler Cornell University "A brave book by a courageous thinker." -- -Hayden White University of California and Stanford University "In stunningly original interpretations of Adorno and Levinas, ...Judith Butler compellingly demonstrates that questions of ethics cannot avoid addressing the moral self's complicity with violence. By laying out the premises of a creative rereading, this study proves that the discussion of these two authors and their future legacy has, in a sense, barely begun. Butler writes in a truly Spinozistic spirit, mobilizing the greatest forces and joys of philosophical intelligence to counteract and redirect the cruelest and most destructive of human passions. Brilliantly argued and beautifully written, Giving an Account of Oneself is destined to become a classic, a must read for philosophers and students of present-day culture and politics alike." -- -Hent de Vries The Johns Hopkins University "In a time when moral certitude is used to justify the worst violence, Butler's nuanced reworking of what it means to be ethically responsible to ourselves and to others is welcome indeed." -- -Drucilla Cornell Rutgers University
£23.39
University of New Mexico Press The Believer Alien Encounters Hard Science and
Book SynopsisTells the weird and chilling true story of Dr John Mack. This eminent Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer risked his career to investigate the phenomenon of human encounters with aliens and to give credibility to the stupefying tales shared by people who were utterly convinced they had happened.
£17.06
Jewish Publication Society JPS TANAKH The Holy Scriptures blue The New JPS
Book SynopsisPresents an entirely original translation of the Holy Scriptures into contemporary English, based on the Masoretic (the traditional Hebrew) text. This book is collaboration by academic scholars and rabbis, representing the three largest branches of organized Judaism in the United States.Trade Review“Turns Holy Writ into fresh, understandable, contemporary language. A landmark of Jewish religious scholarship.”—Time
£27.90
Haynes Publishing Group Peugeot VClic Speedfight 3 Vivacity 3 Kisbee
Book SynopsisSpecific Models Covered:V-Clic 49cc 08-14; Speedfight 3 50 49cc 09-14; Speedfight 3 125 49cc 2014; Vivacity 3 50 49cc 08-14; Vivacity 3 125 124cc 10-14; Kisbee 50 49cc 10-14; Kisbee 100 102cc 13-14; Tweet 50 49cc 12-14; Tweet 125 124cc 10-14.
£28.90
Haynes Publishing Group Renault Scenic
Book SynopsisScenic and Grand Scenic, including special/limited editions. Petrol: 1.4 litre (1390cc) and 1.6 litre (1598cc). . Turbo-Diesel: 1.5 litre (1461cc) and 1.9 litre (1870cc) dCi. Exclusions:Does NOT cover 2.0 litre (1998cc) engines.
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