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Fordham University Press Teilhards Vision of the Past The Making of a
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Fordham University Press Israel Potter His Fifty Years of Exile
Book SynopsisThis facsimile of Melville's historical novel appears in a paperback classroom edition, with a commentary by Hennig Cohen. "Israel Potter" is the story of a neglected hero of the American Revolution.
£27.20
Fordham University Press William James on the Courage to Believe
Book SynopsisWilliam James' celebrated lecture on "The Will to Believe" has kindled spirited controversy since the day it was delivered. In this title, the author contributes some fresh contentions: that James' argument should be viewed against his indebtedness to Pascal and Renouvier; that it works primarily to validate our over-beliefs.Trade Review"A thorough and sympathetic analysis of James' lecture on "The Will to Believe," a lecture which-once read-"does not admit of being easily left aside." O'Connell takes on those critics who have reckless "wishful thinking." Central to O'Connell's approach is his very helpful treatment of the "passional side of human nature" and the role it plays in James' epistemology. It is not merely an element to be brought in when the intellect has reached an impasse. A valuable and important book" -American Journal of Theology & Philosophy
£55.50
Fordham University Press Pragmatism Reason and Norms A Realistic
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays examine the norms and social practices in epistemology and in moral and social philosophy. The contributors examine the issue across a range of subjects, including logic, education, foundations of morality, philosophy of law, and the pragmatic character of reason.Trade Review"Pragmatism, Reason, & Norms is a fine collection of essays published in honor of the work of the American philosopher Frederick L. Will. The publication of this volume is to be applauded." "Pragmatism, Reason, & Norms is well worth reading, especially for those who are interested in what pragmatism can contribute to contemporary moral theory." -International Studies in Philosophy
£63.20
Fordham University Press A New Birth of Freedom The Republican Party and
Book SynopsisA New Birth of Freedom: The Republican Party and Freedmen's Rights, 1861-1866, is an account of how laws, policies and constitutional amendments defining and protecting the personal liberty and civil rights of the country's African American population were adopted during the Civil War.Trade Review"This is a very interesting and useful study." -The American Journal of Legal History "This is the best, if not definitive study of this ... topic." -East Texas Historical Association "Belz has drawn together a vast amount of research to offer a scholarly yet readable account of the Republican's party drive to fashion a 'civil rights policy that rested on settled constitutional principles and was intended to guarantee American citizenship and equality before the law to the freed slave population... [T]he reader is presented a clear, well-thought-out account of the republican party's commitment to a civil rights scheme based on full equality for blacks in the aftermath of Appomattox." -Library Journal
£65.25
Fordham University Press Virtues Splendor
Book SynopsisIn recent years, there has been a remarkable resurgence of interest in classical conceptions of what it means for human beings to lead a good life. Although the primary focus of the return to classical thought has been Aristotle's account of virtue, the ethics of Aquinas has also received much attention.Trade Review"For anyone wishing to understand the Thomistic perpective on human action, this book is well worth a careful reading." -Nova and Vetera
£59.20
Fordham University Press Basics of International Humanitarian Missions
Book SynopsisThis work covers topics such as the history of humanitarian action, the scope of international humanitarian crises, developing a professional corps, team building, developing a common language, and funding international humanitarian action.Table of ContentsHistory of Humanitarian Action by Paul Grossrieder Scope of International Humanitarian Crises by Ibrahim Osman Developing a Professional Corps by Kevin M. Cahill, M.D. Team Building by Pamela Lupton-Bowers Ethical and Legal Standards by Michel Veuthey Funding International Humanitarian Action by Joelle Tanguy Rules of Engagement by Roy Williams Dealing with Local Populations and Indigenous NGOs by Abdulrahim Abby Farah Developing a Common Language by William Gunn Dealing with the Media by Joshua Friedman
£23.25
Fordham University Press Dante For the New Millennium
Book SynopsisThe twenty-five original essays in this remarkable book constitute both a state of the art survey of Dante scholarship and a manifesto for new understandings of one of the world's great poets.Trade Review"These scholars stand as staunch supporters of the constant need to re-evaluate Dante's medieval texts to discover what new word he has for readers that now live in a postmodern context." -- -Jessica Raymond Christianity & Literature "All in all, though, Dante for the New Millennium represents a major achievement. Thematically diverse yet tightly organized, finely edited, oriented both toward past approaches and future directions of research in the field, with-judiciously-separate bibliographies for each section, and a fine general index...the volume richly illustrates the thematic, methodological, and critical diversity of contemporary Anglo-American Dante studies." -- -Simon Gilson Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies
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Fordham University Press Lincoln Revisited
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A stellar list of contributors who offer their take on various aspects of Abraham Lincoln's life and presidency." -Hans L. Trefousse, Brooklyn College and City University of New York Lincoln Revisited is a highly readable and useful guide to scholarship on the eve of the Lincoln bicentennial.-Mark E. Steiner ... together, these essays make a useful collection.-Matthew M. Vosmeier Anyone with an interest in Lincoln's life and actions in the Civil War would be well served in reading this work.
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Fordham University Press For Derrida
Book SynopsisFocuses on Derrida's late work, including passages from the last, as yet unpublished, seminars. This book aims to render Derrida's writings justice. It should be remembered, however, that, according to Derrida himself, every rendering of justice is also a transformative interpretation.Trade Review"Hillis Miller's For Derrida brilliantly explores the labyrinth of Derrida's late phase and what is widely interpreted as deconstruction's so-called 'turn' toward ethics and religion. Miller recaptures the dark dissonance of key and late terms for the reader-destinnerance, the resistance of 'community,' the auto-immunitary, performativity, absolute mourning-then mobilizes them against interpretive doxa many have fallen into after Derrida's death, as 'deconstruction' appears to have entered its own auto-immunitary phase (as Derrida anticipated). For Derrida is, among other things, a corrective or counter-strike 'for Derrida,' a gift and salut, attempting to speak as if for him against various appropriations, effacements, and recuperations. It is a volume only Miller could write, intimately fidel yet uncompromisingly alert to the 'wager' that Derrida's oeuvre staked itself on-a wager, or transformation of premises, which the evolving aporia of 21st century human life bring to heightened focus. This quietly monumental, strangely mirthful, and altogether remarkable volume will likely be an indispensible touchstone for the readers to come, through whom Derrida's 'wager' will likely be decided--beyond the current crop of recuperative claimants and legacy-chasers, philosophical exegetes and competitive mourners, that the late Derrida has left in his wake." -- -Tom Cohen University at Albany, State University of New York "Offers the reader the depth and breadth that only an eminent professor of literature and someone who has been a reader and interlocutor of Derrida for decades could offer." -- -Pleshette DeArmitt University of Memphis "A record of a forty-year friendship marked by profound hospitality on both sides, For Derrida moves, charms, instructs, distinguishes, and stakes out positions. Its discussions of the performative, religion, 'community,' and auto-immunity clarify Derrida's contributions with subtlety and an almost allegorically unassuming style." -- -Haun Saussy Yale University "Hillis Miller is one of the most important literary critics of the past fifty years. Always remarkably lucid, engaging, and accessible, his work has also proved an invaluable guide for students and scholars wishing to understand deconstruction. A classic example of 'late Miller', For Derrida effortlessly links close readings of literary with philosophical works, while also reflecting on the ways in which teletechnology and cyberspace affect and tap into the proceedings. This is a unique and brilliant book, not only for its careful and thought-provoking readings of Derrida's extraordinary oeuvre, but also as a poignant intellectual record of the long and important friendship that Derrida and Miller shared." -- -Nicholas Royle University of Sussex "A classic example of 'late Miller', For Derrida effortlessly links close readings of literary with philosophical works, while also reflecting on the ways in which teletechnology and cyberspace affect and tap into the proceedings. This is a unique and brilliant book, not only for its careful and thought-provoking readings of Derrida's extraordinary oeuvre, but also as a poignant intellectual record of the long and important friendship that Derrida and Miller shared." -- -Nicholas Royle University of Sussex "A profoundly moving achievement-J. Hillis Miller offers those of us who care to read a series of singular responses and testimonies to Jacques Derrida, and everything gathered in that name. Miller is the finest of readers, and the most responsible witness to the legacy of Derrida. In touching with such care on a number of important themes and motifs in the later works of Derrida, Miller touches us all, teaching us what it means to be touched by Derrida, and why Derrida remains-today and to come-of such singular significance." -- -Julian Wolfreys Loughborough University "Throughout this volume, Hillis Miller seeks to respond to the call of the wholly other that Derrida's writing so consistently endeavors to affirm, an other we might try to think via Derrida's several reflections on justice, profession, friendship, literature, singularity, invention, death and mourning-indeed a complexly intertwined set of motifs found at the crossroads between these two important figures. In writing 'for Derrida' (a phrase which itself carries a complex multiple charge), Miller seeks to remake the promise that friendship always is; a promise which, as Derrida himself once observed in recalling his own friendship with de Man, can never know exactly what it is promising. As both Miller and Derrida well understand, in order to remember and mourn the other in all responsibility one must respect the resistances offered by their heterogeneity and difference, and for that matter by the irresistible process of interiorization that occurs with their absolute disappearance. Wandering across the borders of the 'life' and the 'work' in a way that few are able to do, this indispensable series of essays by Miller brilliantly illuminates not only the ideas and arguments found in a vast array of texts, but the ethics of reading Derrida today. " -- -Simon Morgan Wortham Kingston University London
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Fordham University Press The Politics of Survival
Book SynopsisEngages a neglected dimension of Charles S Peirce's philosophy, human embodiment, to highlight the compatibility between Peirce's ideas and contemporary work in social criticism focusing on feminism and race theory.Trade Review"This is a brave book balancing strong scholarship, clear organization, and a provocative reading of Peirce." -- -Roger Ward Georgetown College "Examines what is termed a neglected element of embodiment in the philosophy of Charles Sanders Pierce." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "The Politics of Survival provides a lucid, compelling, and exceptionally accessible account of the relevance of Peirce and pragmatism to contemporary discussions of social justice. Trout demonstrates how Peirce's philosophy rises above his personal prejudices to provide a unique set of tools for analyzing and criticizing the nonconscious biases of those who believe that they are free from prejudice. The Politics of Survival is unmatched in the manner in which it makes Peirce and pragmatism relevant to recent literature on racism and sexism." -- -Mitchell Aboulafia The Juilliard School
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Fordham University Press Pragmatism in the Americas
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is indispensable reading for students and scholars of pragmatism as well as those working in Hispanic philosophy. Highly recommended." -Choice "Pragmatism in the Americas examines new and unexplored intersections between American philosophy and Spanish and Latin American thought, advancing a deeper understanding of the Hispanic World's philosophical contribution to and relationship with the evolution of Western thought." -- -Bernardo Cantens Moravian College "This book holds real promise for awakening North American philosophers to the enormous breadth of Spanish-language Pragmatist philosophy. This is one of the best contributions to the advancement of American philosophy in a long time." -- -David O'Hara Augustana College "This collection provides the definitive resource, long overdue, on 'American' philosophy in a full sense. And the essays are full of surprises, detailing both the history of pragmatism's reception in the hispanic world, and the commonalities and differences between the Latin American and north American approaches. They also explain the multiple reasons philosophy itself today more than ever needs this tradition in order to resuscitate its crisis-ridden methodology and its standing in the public domain." -- -Linda Alcoff Hunter College, CUNY
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Fordham University Press The Digital Condition
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Outstanding scholarship that is at once comprehensive, relevant, provocative, and necessary." -- -Steven Wexler California State University, Northridge "Through a dense and layered study which seamlessly connects sustained philosophical readings of Plato, Kant, Heidegger, Derrida, Jameson, and Negri with a critical analysis of some of the changes resulting from technological innovation and globalization, and incisive interpretations of some of the icons of digital culture, including the iPod, post-cyber/nano-punk and films like The Matrix, Wilkie offers in his book a cutting-edge theorization of digital culture that will instantly establish him as one of the most exciting new voices working in critical and cultural theory today." -- -Peter McLaren University of California, Los Angeles "Touching on the production of knowledge in the digital age, literature, and cinema-and weaving Marx, Heidegger, Derrida, Lyotard, et al. throughout-this book is a clarion call for cultural theory: having promoted digital culture, cultural theory must return to focus on the struggle of labor and how technological development can best serve the interests of all. Highly recommended." -Choice "The Digital Condition advances a groundbreaking analysis of digital culture and argues that the digital environment has obscured the implications of class difference, changing digital reality and perception. Underlying digital culture are social and historical relations that require class analysis to explain why new realities are determined by global class inequalities. The result is a powerful guide perfect for any college-level computer issues or cultural history holding." -California BookwatchTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Spirit Technological 2. Global Networks and the Materiality of Immaterial Labor 3. Reading and Writing in the Digital Age 4. The Ideology of the Digital Me Notes Works Cited Index
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Fordham University Press Thinking about Thinking
Book SynopsisThinking about Thinking examines philosophy from a variety of perspectives as a the practice realized by persons who communicate with one another while reflecting about the meaning of human life and thought.Trade ReviewRather than elaborate types, values, classics, or even a phenomenology of conversation, Peperzak draws the reader into an engaging dialogue to rediscover how thought and life can enrich each other. By reconfiguring an array of premodern, modern, and postmodern stances, he presents a mature evaluation of Levinas, human affectivity as an original dative of manifestation that cannot be mastered or exhausted by any conversation, and abundant untimely but eminently applicable wisdom on philosophy’s mediating role in the university and in our culture. In the process we awake from dogmatic and anti-dogmatic slumbers to engage with equal fervor thought and one another. Both his wide circle of grateful readers and newcomers to Peperzak’s oeuvre have much to learn from this stimulating collection.---—Peter Casarella, DePaul University"Thinking about Thinking comprises a set of meditations about the dialogical nature of philosophy and the philosophical life. The fruit of twenty-five years of teaching by a gifted and spirit-filled philosopher, these ten meditations gather around the themes of trust and faith in its several forms, including religious faith and Hegel’s “faith in reason.” As dialogical, philosophizing entails the receiver who is also a responder. Its focus is on the dative case, each participant bringing along the “tradition” that has helped fashion the person he or she is. In effect, it requires the risk that the honest conversation entered into by trusting interlocutors will leave neither party unchanged by the experience. Reading this thoughtful account is itself transformative. It is reminiscent of Foucault’s famous “parrhesiastic contract.”---—Thomas R. Flynn, Emory University
£25.19
Fordham University Press Medieval Poetics and Social Practice Responding
Book SynopsisThis collection responds to the critical legacy of Penn R. Szittya. Its contributors investigate how medieval poetic language reflects and shapes social, political, and religious worlds. In addition to new readings of canonical poetic texts, it includes readings of texts that have previously not held a central place in critical attention.Trade Review"I am certain that I will be referring to several of these essays in my own work in the near future, and I am confident that others will find them as useful as I have." -- -Robert Adams Sam Houston State University
£31.20
Fordham University Press In the Name of Italy Nation Family and
Book SynopsisExamines justice, nationalism, gender, and patriotism in Fascist Italy through the lens of a 1931 Administrative Court case related to surname italianization in Italy’s Adriatic borderlands.Trade Review"This book tells a fascinating story, one that needs to be told." -- -Nancy Wingfield Northern Illinois University "In the name of Italy offers a useful case study of the continuities found in the administrative machinery of Italian fascist regime and a provocative example of the politics of naming." -American Historical Review "The seven chapters of this volume, in addition to the introduction and conclusion, are followed by a list of thoroughly written bibliography and an index of names and important terms discussed, which make this book an indispensable research tool for both novice and expert scholars of the period." -Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies "I found this material to be both fresh and interesting." -- -Alexander De Grand North Carolina State University
£33.75
Fordham University Press Ancient Mediterranean Art
Book SynopsisA catalogue of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan objects in the collection of Fordham University, some published for the first time.Trade Review"... [These] artifacts present an opportunity form undergraduates and scholars to study new examples first hand." -Times Literary Supplement "... the excellent photography, insightfully written entries and careful selection of works included ultimately make the volume accessible to scholars, students and museum members alike." -Bryn Mawr Classical Review "The combination of excellent illustrations, thorough research, clearly presented information and ideas (with explanations to guide the non-specialist), and introductory essays to provide context make the collection admirably accessible." -- -Susan Matheson Yale University Art GalleryTable of ContentsContributors: Amanda Anderson, Sarah E. Cox, Richard Daniel DePuma, Jason Earle, Sarah Graff, Anne C. Hrychuk Kontakosta, Patricial Lulof, Anthony Mangieri, Maya B. Muratov, Lisa Pieraccini, Amy Sowder, Rosemarie Trentinella, Jennifer Udell
£54.75
Fordham University Press The Discipline of Philosophy and the Invention of
Book SynopsisExploring the subject of Jewish philosophy as a controversial construction site in the project of modernity, this book examines the implications of the different and often conflicting notions at stake in the debate on the question of what Jewish philosophy is or could be.Trade Review"Goetschel persuasively argues for Jewish philosophy as a field that does not articulate the meaning of an identity-stance, but as a mode of inquiry that shows how the practice of philosophy has not yet, and perhaps never will, reach the universality at which it aims. For him, only such a critical spirit can portend a better future and produce a robust civil society. He shows us how his view continues the arguments of the earliest strata of modern Jewish philosophy, how many contemporary academics have gone wrong in thinking that Jewish philosophy is a discipline that puts forth a unique positive content, and offers readers two Swiss Jewish exemplars -- Margarete Susman and Hermann Levin Goldschmidt -- from whom scholars can reclaim the field's original critical energy." -- -Martin Kavka Florida State University "Goetschel's new book is provocative, compelling, and profound. Tracing the influence of the thought of Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Rosenzweig, and Susman, among others, he shows how philosophy's claim to universality is necessarily undermined through its complex and troubled relation to Jewish philosophy This book dramatically and definitively refigures the distinction between Greek and Hebrew thought upon which contemporary Western philosophy rests... Essential reading for anyone interested in how philosophy became what it is ... what it still could become." -- -Moira Gatens -University of Sidney "In this stunningly erudite and imaginative study, Willi Goetschel argues that it is precisely because the very notion of a Jewish philosophy is contested that one may discern its overarching significance. While dilating on the "particularistic" concerns of their community from the perspective of universal reason, Jewish philosophers in effect challenge philosophy to revise its conception of the unity of truth and to embrace difference and alterity as defining constituents of the universal." -- -Paul Mendes-Flohr Professor Emeritus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem "A lively and intriguing account of many of the leading thinkers and controversies in Jewish philosophy, the text never fails to be both intelligent and provocative." -- -Oliver Leaman University of Kentucky
£46.40
Fordham University Press Rethinking Media Pluralism
Book SynopsisThe book examines different ways in which the concepts of media pluralism and diversity have been theorized and used in media policy debates. Its basic argument is that media pluralism should be understood as a broad normative value that refers to the distribution of communicative power in the public sphere.Trade Review"Uncertainty or disagreement of how to conceptualize media pluralism is a persistent stumbling block in academic and policy debates. Tackling this difficult issue is an important, brave and necessary exercise, and it is what this book does." -- -Natali Helberger Institute for Information Law "This publication discusses the conceptualisation of media pluralism from the angle of the democratic and public sphere theories. Specialists and professionals in the field, including media sociology academics and media practitioners, would welcome this publication as it sheds light to the concept of media pluralism that is notoriously difficult to define." -- -Petros Iosifidis City University London "At a time when references to media pluralism are as common as eulogies to motherhood and apple pie, Karppinen's claim that pluralism needs to be rescued from its depoliticized, catch-all identity and understood in terms of its ability to challenge inequalities in communicative power ought to be listened to very carefully. This book demonstrates a thorough knowledge of the current media policy environment and, more generally, of theories of power as they relate to policymaking. This stimulating book develops a rigorous framework for understanding pluralism in a way that will challenge concentrations of media power and enhance media democracy." -- -Des Freedman author of The Politics of Media Policy
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Fordham University Press Pets People and Pragmatism
Book SynopsisThis book examines human relationships with pets without assuming that such relations are either unnatural and to be avoided, or benign. We need to find ways to relate respectfully. For respectful relationships to be a real possibility, though, humans must make the effort to understand the beings with whom they live, work, and play.Trade Review"Insightful and appealing reading that presents many curious questions on the concepts of human nature, "Pets, People, and Pragmatism" is a strongly recommended addition to pets and sociology collections." -Midwest Book Review "This book brings useful ideas to the pursuit of an open dialogue on animal well being..." -Environmental Values "Rich in remarkable details, her [McKenna's] book promises to help horses, dogs, and cats by illuminating relevant facets of our shared histories and current interactions." -Hillary Kelleher, Depauw Reviews
£20.39
Fordham University Press Pragmatic Pluralism and the Problem of God
Book SynopsisThe book is a study of pragmatism and pragmatic pluralism in the philosophy of religion. Through critical examinations of James’s, Dewey’s, and recent neopragmatists’ ideas, it argues that key issues in the field – including the debate between evidentialism and fideism, and the problem of evil – need rearticulation from a pragmatic pluralistic perspective.Trade Review"... a solid work of scholarship, well-argued and insightful." -- -Michael L. Raposa Lehigh University "Pihlstrom does an amazing job of sorting the metaphysical remnants of Kant in James and in the process restores questions of metaphysics to American pragmatism. This excellent work of scholarship calls for a deeper examination of pragmatist metaphysics and its challenge to religion and its reformulation." -- -Roger A. Ward Georgetown College "Sami Pihlstrom develops here a pragmatic philosophy of religion enriched by Immanuel Kant's insight that belief or faith in God is motivated chiefly by ethical considerations. He illumines important connections between Kant's writing on religion and that of William James and John Dewey, and shows how attention to both can provide resources for a conception and analysis of religion that is pluralistic and takes normativity seriously. Pihlstrom has been a leading interpreter of the pragmatists and it is good to have this important constructive contribution to the philosophy of religion." -- -Wayne Proudfoot Columbia University
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Fordham University Press To Bear Witness
Book SynopsisFor more than fifty years, Dr. Cahill has been helping to heal the world: as a leading specialist in tropical medicine and as a driving force in humanitarian assistance and relief efforts around the globe. In this revised and expanded edition he chronicleTrade Review"Dr. Cahill makes a powerful argument that humanitarian action and preventive diplomacy are far better prescriptions for peace than military intervention. He writes not as an academic or think tank pundit but as a physician who has been tending patients on the front lines of misery for over half a century. To Bear Witness is an important contribution to the search for a less violent 21st century." -- -Michael J. O'Neill Past President, American Society of Newspaper Editors "It would be difficult for a biographer to weave together the many strands in the remarkable life of Kevin Cahill...He has practiced as a physician in the most impoverished, strife-torn, disease-ravaged parts of the world, and devoted much of his life (and considerable powers of persuasion) to humanitarian causes all over the globe. These essays, by turn elegiac, lyrical, funny, tender, nostalgic, and vehemently impassioned, come together in an ongoing tapestry, a portrait of a dedicated physician who has dared to make a difference." -- -Oliver Sacks M.D. "Humanitarian affairs as a subject of intellectual study, and in the creation of practical policies, has emerged over the last two decades as one of the key issues in international politics. In this evolution Kevin Cahill has made, and continues to make, a very important contribution. A notable humanitarian, he draws from his personal devotion to patients, his worldwide knowledge of medicine, his skills as a health administrator, and his scholarship, writings and love of literature." -- -Lord David Owen Former Foreign Minister, United KingdomTable of ContentsPart One: Locations 15 The Middle East 18 Beirut's Smell of Death 19 A Doctor's Reflections on the Libyan Situation 21 Gaza--Destruction and Hope 23 Somalia 32 For a U.S. Role in Somalia 33 Palm Sunday in Somalia 34 Starving Refugees Overwhelm Somalia 36 A Somali Postscript 39 Nicaragua 44 The Nicaraguan Earthquake 45 The Price for Differing with the U.S. Is Death 48 Of Constitutions, Democracy, Medicine, and Diplomacy 50 Holidays in Nicaragua 53 Fasting and Medicine in Nicaragua 56 Ireland 60 A Perverse Silence 61 Red Stains on the Emerald Isle: Can Only Blood Wash Them Out? 64 A Deathless Dream 67 The Descendants of the High Kings of Ireland 71 Part Two: Academia 75 New Realities, New Frontiers 78 The Peculiar Elan 83 The University and Revolution 87 The Symbolism of Salamanca 91 Grief and Renewal 98 To Bind our Wounds 100 Loaded Words 107 Dreams and Travel 112 A Necessary Balance 113 A Dublin Department 120 Is That All There Is? 123 Part Three: Continuity 128 Health on the Horn of Africa 132 The Untapped Resource 138 Irish Essays 142 Threads for a Tapestry 145 Famine 150 The AIDS Epidemic 151 A Bridge to Peace 154 Imminent Peril 155 A Framework for Survival 158 Clearing the Fields 172 Preventive Diplomacy 177 Traditions, Values, and Humanitarian Action 186 Technology for Humanitarian Action 189 The Pulse of Humanitarian Assistance 190 Even in Chaos 192 More With Less 194 Books by Kevin M. Cahill, M.D. cited in this Section 198 Part Four: Personal 203 God and My Life 204 The Influence of Yeats 208 On Being Short 226 Suffering and Pain 227 A Medical Student's Impressions of India 229 It Ain't Necessarily So 230 Romance and Reality 234 To Bear Witness 246 "For Your 65th" by Kathryn Cahill 250
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Fordham University Press Racial Worldmaking The Power of Popular Fiction
Book SynopsisExamines the relationship between race representation and popular fiction from 1893 to the present, as well as its impact on historiography, economics, and law.Trade Review"In a book that pays equal attention to the protocols and history of genre reading and to contemporary critical theories of race, Mark Jerng shows how techniques of worldbuilding in science fiction and fantasy and attention to setting as site of literary innovation define textual and interpretive strategies for producing race at levels other than biological differences or overtly racialized characters or authors, shifting the analysis of race and racism away from visual epistemology to allow them to be understood as embedded in fictional worlds." -- -Thomas Foster author of The Souls of Cyberfolk: Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory "Racial Worldmaking meets the irresistible demand for scholarship that recognizes the central role of perceiving and speculating about race in American literature and culture. By situating race as a structuring principle within legal doctrines, literary traditions, and economic philosophies, Jerng interrogates the fictions that buttress dominant racial ideologies and calls attention to the imaginative work performed by thinkers who take racism seriously. Racial Worldmaking moves beyond disciplinary conventions to apply lessons learned from critical race theories and advance vital lines of inquiry inaugurated by Black and Asian American intellectuals." -- -andre carrington author of Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science FictionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Racial Worldmaking Part I. Yellow Peril Genres Chapter 1. Worlds of Color Chapter 2. Futures Past of Asiatic Racialization Part II. Plantation Romance Chapter 3. Romance and Racism after the Civil War Chapter 4. Reconstructing Racial Perception Part III. Sword and Sorcery Chapter 5. The “Facts” of Blackness and Anthropological Worlds Chapter 6. Fantasies of Blackness and Racial Capitalism Part IV. Alternate History Chapter 7. Racial Counterfactuals and the Uncertain Event of Emancipation Chapter 8. World War II and Uncertain Forms of Racial Organization Conclusion: Towards an Anti-racist Racial Worldmaking Notes Index
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The Crowood Press Ltd Riding a Dressage Test
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Kent State University Press The Cincinnati Reds
Book SynopsisAmerica's first professional baseball team was established in 1868 - Cincinnati's Red Stockings. This book chronicles each season from the organization's early years, most notably the 1882 American Association pennant and the 1919 and 1940 National League pennants, and World Series championships, including the infamous Chicago White Sox scandal.
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MP-AMM American Mathematical Student Research Projects in Calculus
Book SynopsisProvides teachers with over 100 projects ready to assign to students in single and multivariable calculus. The authors have designed these projects with one goal in mind: to get students to think for themselves. Each project is a multistep, take-home problem, allowing students to work both individually and in groups.
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The Institute for Research on Public Policy The Review of Economic Performance and Social
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The Institute for Research on Public Policy Money Politics and Health Care
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Queen's University The 1997 Federal Budget
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Museum of New Mexico Press Viva Guadalupe The Virgin in New Mexican Popular
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Museum of New Mexico Press Guadalupe Our Lady of New Mexico
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Museum of New Mexico Press Land Sky and All That Is Within Visionary
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Museum of New Mexico Press New Mexico Treasures 2012 Engagement Calendar
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Texas Tech Press,U.S. Food Control and Resistance Rations and
Book SynopsisUses four case studies to examine food rationing policies, practices, and results in the United States and South Australia. Tamara Levi explores how differences in environment, indigenous and colonial populations, and overall indigenous policies impacted the rationales for and implementation of food rationing as a tool for forced acculturation.
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Ohio University Press Language and Social Change in Java
Book SynopsisErrington explores linguistic evidence of social change among the traditional priyayi elite of Surakarta in south-central Java.Trade Review“The main merit of this study is that it is based on observation and participation in the field, among speakers of Javanese…. This work will, one hopes, form a basis for further research into how language-use correlates with social status in Java.” * Bijdragen *
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Ohio University Press TextPolitics in Island Southeast Asia Essays in
Book SynopsisHow does the language of poetry conspire with the language of power? This title deals with Indonesia and the Philippines in the early modern and post-1945 periods. It examines the literature and politics of Indonesia and Philippines from the point of view of contemporary thinking.
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Ohio University Press Voices from the Silence Guatemalan Literature of
Book SynopsisThe conquest, colonization, independence, the liberal reforms, the regimes, revolution, and dictatorships, the insurrections and ongoing peace dialogues all are combined in a narrative projecting the most important forces in Guatemalan history from the Mayan period to our own times.UsingTrade Review“…this unique book is a valuable resource, and one can only hope that the authors will continue their exploration of Guatemalan literature and history.” * Report on Guatemala *
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Buros Institute of Mental Measurements,U.S. The Seventeenth Mental Measurements Yearbook
Book SynopsisThe most widely acclaimed reference series in education and psychology, the Mental Measurements Yearbooks are designed to assist professionals in selecting and using standardized tests. The series provides factual information, critical reviews, and comprehensive bibliographic references on the construction, use, and validity of all tests published in English.Trade Review"The Mental Measurements Yearbook is an invaluable research aid and should be in every social science research library's collection."—Stephen H. Aby, Annual References Books Annual
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McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, US Guide to Endangered and Threatened Species in
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Claritas Cocina Great Traditional Recipes from a
Book SynopsisFrom the classic Potaje de Garbanzos (Spanish bean soup) and spicy Camarones Criolla (shrimp creole) to delicious Tomates Rellenos (stuffed tomatoes), these dishes are ripe with the passion and warmth of a Spanish kitchen. Clarita Garcia shares tried and true dishes from Spanish friends and relatives, and her own unique, delectable creations.
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University of New Mexico Press I Hear Men Talking Revised Ed
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John Wiley & Sons Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation
Book SynopsisThis Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report (IPCC-SREX) explores the challenge of understanding and managing the risks of climate extremes to advance climate change adaptation. An invaluable assessment for anyone interested in climate extremes, environmental disasters and adaptation to climate change, including policymakers, the private sector and academic researchers.Trade Review'Extreme events and their evolution in a changing climate have received extensive treatment in previous reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), but this report goes further by considering management of the risk associated with such events … Because of its integration of disciplinary perspectives, this work is likely to remain relevant for several years and provide the foundation for future synthesis reports … Highly recommended. All academic, professional, and general library collections.' J. Schoof, ChoiceTable of ContentsForeword; Preface; Summary for policymakers; 1. Climate change: new dimensions in disaster risk, exposure, vulnerability and resilience; 2. Determinants of risk: exposure and vulnerability; 3. Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment; 4. Changes in impacts of climate extremes: human systems and ecosystems; 5. Managing the risks from climate extremes at the local level; 6. National systems for managing the risks from climate extremes and disasters; 7. Managing the risks: international level and integration across scales; 8. Toward a sustainable and resilient future; 9. Case studies; Annex I. Authors and expert reviewers; Annex II. Glossary of terms; Annex III. Acronyms; Annex IV. List of major IPCC reports; Index.
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Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc Kotchs Maternal and Child Health Problems
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Johns Hopkins University Press The 36Hour Day A Family Guide to Caring for
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForewordPreface1. Dementia2. Getting Medical Help for the Person Who Has Dementia3. Characteristic Behavioral Symptoms in People Who Have Dementia4. Problems in Independent Living5. Problems Arising in Daily Care6. Medical Problems7. Managing the Behavioral and Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia8. Symptoms Associated with Mood Change and Suspiciousness9. Special Arrangement If You Become Ill10. Getting Outside Help11. You and the Person Who Has Dementia12. How Caring for a Person Who Has Dementia Affects You13. Caring for Yourself14. Financial and Legal Issues15. Long-Term Care Arrangements16. Preventing and Delaying Cognitive Decline17. Brain Disorders and the Causes of Dementia18. Research in DementiaIndex
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Gibbs M. Smith Inc Sasquatch Reads 3Button Assortment
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Gibbs M. Smith Inc Radiant Rainbow Bookmark Box
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Gibbs M. Smith Inc Keep Your Bans Off My Books Sticker
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Gibbs M. Smith Inc Reading is Shear Bliss
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