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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how a group of young far-right intellectuals in the 1930s reimagined the French nation through the lens of gender and race, connecting both antisemitism and colonial racism in order to define the "new French man."Trade Review"Sanos has provided a vital resource for the intellectual history of interwar France . . . Highly recommended." -- D. A. Harvey * CHOICE *"This book is an impressive piece of intellectual and cultural history. In an important intervention, the author illuminates how a range of extreme-right figures in 1930s France shared a racialized conception of the French nation. By historicizing these authors' thought, placing their writings in their wider political and journalistic context, Sanos moves beyond the narrow frame adopted by many literary scholars. The book's demonstration of the mutual constitution of antisemitism and colonial racism is one of its chief assets and achievements." -- Judith Surkis * Institute for Advanced Study *"This ambitious and conceptually sophisticated book moves beyond debates about whether the French far-right during the 1930s was 'really' fascist. In contrast to most historians, Sanos argues that the French far-right, while not 'worse' than other fascisms, was just different: it sought to provide the basis for a 'reasonable' racist anti-Semitism that would justify excluding Jews legally and symbolically from France rather than appealing, as they felt Hitler did, to myths." -- Carolyn Dean * Brown University *"[A]n ambitious and intriguing reappraisal of an important literary movement." -- Samuel Kalman * Canadian Journal of History *"[A] bold, sophisticated, and deeply intelligent book . . . To think through and articulate the relationship between a text and its pertinent contexts is precisely the challenge of intellectual history, and with her provocative and nuanced readings, Sanos makes an immensely valuable contribution to this field . . . Most important, with this exciting book Sanos proves how valuable the analysis of gender and race can be to intellectual history." -- Camille Robcis * The Journal of Modern History *"Among the strengths of the author in this study is her refusal to judge her subjects—essayist Thierry Maulnier, novelists Robert Brazillach and Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and literary critic Maurice Blanchot, among others—under the retroactive 'specter of Auschwitz'. Instead, Sandrine Sanos grounds her Far Right intellectuals firmly in the historical and discursive world of France in the 1930s that shaped them . . . Sanos's argument is strong, meticulously well-supported, and original. She is right that historians have generally remained 'oblivious' to the discourse of gender and sexuality that fairly saturates the texts of the Far Right." -- Paul Cohen * The Historian *"Sanos adds to an already large literature on the Jeune Droite by maintaining that it redefined far right and fascist politics by insisting that aesthetics (particularly art and literature) were the highest form of political expression....The originality of Sanos's argument lies in her assertion that the Jeune Droite used a new language, that of abjection... to express their vision of the nation." -- Caroline Campbell * Contemporary European History *"In short, this is in many regards an impressive book. Sanos's primary research is exemplary, and her analyses are grounded firmly in the evidence." -- Geoff Read * Contemporary French Civilization *

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Book SynopsisScholars have come to realize that we can and need to speak of a twin birth of Christianity and Judaism, not a genealogy in which one is parent to the other. In this book, the author develops a revised understanding of the interactions between nascent Christianity and nascent Judaism in late antiquity.Trade Review"Daniel Boyarin has done it again. With this book . . . he has again provoked, challenged, and enlightened us. With his usual clear, crisp, and sometimes sharp-edged writing, with his consistently critical engagement of ancient primary and modern and postmodern secondary interpretive texts and theories, Boyarin has forced us to think again and in some respects in radically different ways and on radically different terms about. . .the 'making' of Christianity and Judiasm." -- Journal of the American Academy of Religion"This is a rich, stimulating and compelling work. Boyarin's writing is complex and full fo irony and humor. . . . It is fascinating and, like a good drama, draws the reader in as if to solve a mystery. . . . Even those how are not in the field of ancient Judiasm . . . will find much of interest in this book." -- Hebrew Studies"This volume highlights new developments in understanding Christian and Jewish origins. It is intended to be the beginning of a new investigation of the religious histories of rabbinic Jews and Christians in late antiquity. It is, according to Boyarin, to be read more as a series of hypotheses than as a series of conclusions. Nevertheless it is a very exciting publication. . . . I find the central thesis compelling, even astonishing, but quite exhilirating. We are much indebted to someone who has the vision to see the past in ways most of us never fully envisaged." -- Journal of Beliefs & Values" . . . [This] book is especially worthwhile for anyone interested in the evolution of Christian and Jewish self-understanding in Late Antiquity." -- Religious Studies Review"Boyarin tells this story with grace and impressive erudition. Previously unnoticed connections are established that shed rich light on the developments under study. Boyarin has placed the separation of Judaism and Christianity into the historical context of real people attempting to understand themselves and one another, and the once-familiar story will never again look the same. He is to be congratulated for a valuable contribution." -- The Jewish Quarterly Review"Boyarin's exciting book has shown us that the parting of the ways between Christianity and Judaism never really occurred, at least not in the way scholars have imagined." -- History of ReligionsTable of ContentsContents 1. 2. 3. 4. Appendix to Chapter 4:

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Book SynopsisChronicling the rise of the Iraqi public sphere from 1921 to 1958, The Other Iraq reveals Iraqi intellectuals' democratic and pluralistic ideals, deconstructing the notion that Iraq has always been a totalitarian, artificial state, torn by sectarian violence.Trade Review"...Bashkin's work is a fascinating and rich account and will become essential reading for all interested in Iraqi history .... Overall, this is a lucid, intelligent, and well-written book that will help shape the historiography of modern Iraq." -- Magnus T. Bernhardsson * Williams College, TAARII Newsletter *"An important and enlightening book." -- Esther Meir-Galicnstein * Israeli Sociology *"Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq est à la fois un approfondissement de sa contribution à l'histoire intellectuelle de l'Irak contemporain - son champ de recherche d'origine - et une incursion dans une histoire spécifique, celle des communautés juives du monde arabe, avant et après la création de l'Etat d'Israël." -- Leyla Dakhili * Le Mouvement *"The Other Iraq opens up an entirely new perspective on the history of Iraq. No other study covers the variety and pluralism of intellectual history in a Middle Eastern society with such breadth and depth. It is a unique, unprecedented account of Iraqi writers' open-mindedness during a period when ideologies were still not fully formulated. It will usher in a change of paradigm." -- Peter Wien, University of Maryland * College Park *"This unquestionably original study considers the output of a remarkably wide range of Iraqi intellectuals, assessing their views as part of an interactive intellectual community. With sharp, clear analysis, it makes several significant contributions to the study of Iraqi and Middle Eastern intellectual history." -- James Jankowski, University of Colorado * Boulder *"A book written to explain an earlier era sometimes takes on a new and startling relevance in a later one.... Bashkin's book not only anticipates many of the troubles encountered in Iraq today, but it also supplies a vocabulary with which to talk about them and about the breach between political theory and political practice." -- Middle East JournalTable of Contents@fmct:Contents Acknowledgments xxx Introduction: Hybrid Iraq 1 Part 1 Aspects of Pluralism in the Iraqi Public Sphere 000 1 Modest Hopes: Iraqi Intellectuals in the Early 1920s 000 2 Protecting Pluralism, 19311945 000 3 Renaissance and Revolution, 19451958 000 Part 2 National Narratives 000 4 The Production of Pan-Arabism(s): Narratives of Iraqi-Arab Nationalism 000 5 Strangers in our Midst: Iraq's Others 000 6 The Rural Nation: Intellectuals, Tribesmen, and Peasants 000 7 Educating the Nation: Modes and Theories of Discipline 000 Conclusion 000 Appendix: Political Affiliation of Prominent Intellectuals 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000

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Book SynopsisA rich ethnography of men in a low-income neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt, this book gives the reader a vivid sense of the meaning of masculinity and the multiple agents who contribute to the making of men in the Middle East.Trade Review"Despite the profusion of works on gender in the Middle East, few studies are devoted to masculinity. This pathbreaking volume is the first to examine Egyptian manhood through an ethnographic lens, following the stories of 'boys-to-men' on the brink of a revolution. A must-read for those interested in Middle East gender studies, anthropology, and contemporary Egypt." -- Marcia C. Inhorn * Yale University, author of The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East *"With Live and Die Like a Man, Farha Ghannam is far ahead of the academic curve, setting an imposing standard for future scholarship on the Arab Spring and gender across the Middle East and North Africa. This engrossing book breaks ground by using the study of men's experiences as a method for understanding contemporary societies." -- Mark LeVine, University of California * Irvine *"In a book that lives up to its name, anthropologist Ghannam explores what in means to be a man in the working-class neighborhood of Zawiya al-Hamra . . . Her thick descriptions, amassed over 20 years of research, will make readers laugh, cry, and gasp at the lives of these individuals . . . By examining the construct of manhood, Ghannam is charting new territory in Middle Eastern studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended." -- M. L. Russell * CHOICE *"In this groundbreaking working, anthropologist Farha Ghannam utilizes 20 years of field research in the working class neighborhood of Zawiya al-Hamra to deconstruct the notion of masculinity . . . [T]his work is a huge step forward in the field of Middle East Studies. Little work has been done on masculinity in general, and even less on what it means for the ordinary man." -- Mona L. Russell * Middle East Journal *"Farha Ghannam skillfully weaves the life stories of Egyptian men with an important accounting of the precarious balance between genders. This is a masterful treatise on masculinity in the Middle East and a timely contribution to understanding the Arab Spring and the socio-political changes facing the region. A book not to be missed." -- Sherine Hafez, University of California * Riverside *"Informed by nineteen years of field research in the same Cairo neighborhood, anthropologist Farha Ghannam's Live and Die Like a Man offers readers an incredibly well-rounded and dynamic portrait of the making (and remaking) of Egyptian working-class men that is at once intimate in its approach and capacious in its analytic reach . . . [The] explicitness of her critique in Live and Die Like a Man highlights the maturation of Ghannam's own scholarly voice . . . Its careful use of 'stories' to illustrate central theoretical claims makes it highly accessible for students, and its link to the 2011 uprising and (some of) its aftermath offers a way of understanding mass mobilization that is largely absent from most analysis and deeply convincing. Ghannam's insights, carefully wrought through the particular, have broad analytic reach and theoretical significance. Equally valuable for scholars and for teachers, Live and Die Like a Man is essential reading." -- Stacey Philbrick Yadav * International Feminist Journal of Politics *"In Live and Die Like a Man: Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt, anthropologist Farha Ghannam offers a compelling longitudinal study of masculinity in a lower- and middle-income neighborhood in Cairo known as al-Zawiya . . . Ghannam does a wonderful job showing the nuances of masculinity, as well as the complexities and contingencies of the masculine trajectory over time. Well written and accessible, Live and Die Like a Man would be an excellent texts for undergraduate classes, particularly those that aim to dispel stereotypes characterizing Middle Eastern men as macho and violent. This ethnography makes a welcome addition to a growing body of masculinity studies in the contemporary Middle East." -- Rachel Newcomb * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Written in lucid prose and rife with Egyptian Arabic words and phrases that are translated and explained not in endnotes but in body paragraphs, Ghannam draws chiefly on participant observations rather than interviews . . . The result is a rich ethnography that shows rather than merely tells, and makes productive use of the author's long-standing involvement with the community in al-Zäwiya al-Hamra. Overall, this is a captivating study of working-class masculinities in Egypt and makes a significant contribution to the anthropology of the region as well as to masculinity and gender studies." -- Kristin V. Monroe * Review of Middle East Studies *"With its focus on masculinity, Farha Ghannam's thoughtful ethnography, Live and Die Like a Man, makes important interventions into the anthropological scholarship on gender, childhood, and family in the Middle East . . . Her ethnographic sensibility perfectly grasps the dynamic and complex intertwining of male and female ways of being and self-presentation and how that interrelationship forms men's lives." -- Nefissa Naguib * International Journal of Middle East Studies *

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Book SynopsisOpen Secrets identifies an ethos of affirmative reticence and recessive action in Mme de Lafayette''s La Princesse de Clèves (1678), Jane Austen''s Mansfield Park (1814), and poems by William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, and Thomas Hardy. The author argues that these works locate fulfillment not in narrative fruition, but in grace understood both as a simplicity of formal means and a freedom from work, in particular that of self-concealment and self-presentation. Declining the twin pressures of self-actualization and self-denial defining modernity''s call to make good on one''s talents, the subjects of the literature of uncounted experience do nothing so heroic as renounce ambitions of self-expression; they simply set aside the fantasy of the all-responsible subject. The originality of Open Secrets is thus to imagine the non-instrumental without casting it as a heavy ethical burden. Non-appropriation emerges not as what is difficult to do but as the path Trade Review"Open Secrets is a profoundly original and exquisitely written book, one of the most important publications in its field in many years. Anne-Lise François develops here an idiom that can help us attend to the quiet mystery of literary experience—an experience that claims us but makes no demand on us, and retreats from any demand we address to it. Carefully distinguishing her concerns from those of deconstruction, new historicism, and other critical positions, and engaging relevant aspects of the thought of many theorists of desire, representation, and subjectivity, François elaborates a critical perspective that at once seeks to remain faithful to literary instances of "event-less experience," yet also teaches us how much can be said in the proximity of such moments." -- Marc Redfield * The Claremont Graduate University *"The dazzling analyses on display in Open Secrets are so original and far-reaching that, taken together, they constitute something like a new paradigm for literary study. Attentive to the unattended and the inconspicuously significant, Francois teases out the real dynamics in one resonant example after another, in the lyric and the novel. An altogether singular achievement that will be reckoned with for years to come." -- Ian Balfour * York University *"Reader, beware: this ambitious book aims to change our entire literary-critical perspective. Its 'mirror of steel uninsistence' (to adapt Marianne Moore's phrase) brings out in the poets and novelists discussed the non-teleological aspects of their work, the incidence of 'non-emphatic revelation,' the presence of an 'open secret' attributed by Goethe to Nature itself. In seeking to change a mode of discourse, by shifting its terminological axis from action to a contemplative and passionate recessiveness, Francois makes us see a counterplot to fiction's 'powers of plot,' so that evanescence, and even inconsequence, are given their weight, or more precisely a 'weightless gain.' It is a book no reader concerned about the 'nothingness' of literary reflection can lightly pass by." -- Geoffrey Hartman * Yale University *"The greatest merit of Open Secrets is the way in which its attention to the intrinsic sufficiency of minimal experiences allows us to appreciate the continuity between many of the dominant critical paradigms in postmodern thought and Enlightenment models of action-as-production Francois's readings of literature not only reveal a stunning capacity to concentrate on formal details, but also to manage to put forward interpretations that future critics of the works in question will likely have to contend with for a long time to come." -- Postmodern CultureTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii Preface iii @toc2:1 Toward a Theory of Recessive Action 000 2 L'aveu sans suite: Love's Open Secret in Lafayette's La Princesse de Cl'ves 000 3 Lying Lightly: Lyric Inconsequence in Wordsworth, Dickinson and Hardy 000 4 Fanny's "Labour of Privacy" and the Accommodation of Virtue in Austen's Mansfield Park 000 @toc4:Works Cited 000 Index 000

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Book SynopsisDeception offers a broadly accessible overview of state-of-the-art research on lies, trickery, cheating, and shams by leading experts in the natural and social sciences, as well as computing, the humanities, and the military.Trade Review"Brook Harrington's edited collection of essays is the product of a series of cross-disciplinary workshops held at the Santa Fe Institute in 2007, while Harrington was a Visiting Scholar. It includes essays by biologists, computer scientists, social psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, law professors, humanities professors, and poets. The mix of contributors reflects the editorial view that . . . it would be a form of 'reductionism' for the collection as a whole to offer a definition of deception. . . ."—James Edwin Mahon, Philosophy in Review"This book is not only very interesting, it is one that should be read by all those who are interested in achieving a better understanding of human behavior, regardless of context."—Richard Klimoski, Administrative Science Quarterly"Unlike many edited books, this book of chapters by different authors is uniformly well written."—Richard W. Bloom, PsychCRITIQUES."This quirky but wonderful book has one message: lies abound. Deception is everywhere and always has been...This first-rate book belongs bedside and in any number of disciplinary seminars on deception."—CHOICE"One of the most important forms of communication—deception—is one of the least studied, in part because it deliberately blurs itself to get its effect, in part because there are so many forms of deception they seem to defy coherent analysis. A useful approach to the problem, then, is with a collection of investigators, each with a different angle, each aware of the others' contributions, each looking for signs of hidden structure. The result in this book, deliciously, is an introduction to the Science of Untruth." —Stewart Brand, Global Business Network/Monitor"Well written, with fresh insights into deceptive behaviors in diversecontexts, this timely volume is a must-read for anyone interested in thelatest cutting edge thinking about deception."—David Shulman, author of From Hire to Liar: The Role of Deception inthe Workplace"Don't be deceived by the deceptively simple title. These fascinating essays by biologists, psychologists, sociologists, poets, and computer scientists reveal the complexities of studying deception across historical epochs and types of interactions—from the micromechanisms of facial muscles to online communications, from photography to finance, from the false mating signals of the carnivorous firefly to the literary trickster Brer Rabbit, from deception in warfare to self-delusion. Insightful analysis, and delightful reading." —David Stark, Columbia University, author of The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life

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Book SynopsisEssays on both newly discovered and famous drawings that reveal aspects of the Renaissance and how artists thought.

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Book SynopsisThe full story of those who have searched for Franklin since his expedition disappeared.Trade Review"Finding Franklin is a compelling book. Potter is one of the most respected Franklin scholars in the world and this volume shows us why. He has an intimate familiarity with the vast material on the search and understands - better than anyone else - its pl " With ambitious scope and profound depth, Potter deftly demonstrates that truth can indeed be stranger and more fascinating than fiction. This seamless blend of research and captivating storytelling showcases the curiosity, frailty, and endurance of the h "What becomes increasingly evident is Potter' s own fervent interest in his subject matter... [he] creates a contagious sense of excitement." Quill & Quire

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Book SynopsisFrom its beginnings, the Church has presented itself as a human phenomenon that carries the divine within it. This book is the final volume in McGill-Queen's University Press's trilogy of Luigi Giussani's writings, and explores the Church's definition of itself as both human and divine and evaluates the truth of this claim.

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive introduction to the syntactical analysis of classical Chinese.Trade ReviewBy any measure the most important book-length work on Classical Chinese grammar to have appeared in a Western language since Gabelentz's comprehensive grammar of more than a century ago ... a very sophisticated and scholarly treatment of Classical Chinese grammar, it is all the same entirely appropriate for even a beginning-level class. -- William G. Boltz * Journal of Asian Studies *Finally there is a comprehensive grammar of Wenyan in English. Here in one volume one has handy the major grammar references needed to approach Classical Chinese texts. This useful book is the first comprehensive treatment of the grammar of the ancient form of Chinese used by the great philosophers like Confucius and Mencius.... useful to all students of Classical Chinese language and philosophy. * Wordtrade *Table of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviationsI. IntroductionII. Some Basic Principles of Classical Chinese SyntaxIII. Noun Predication IV. Verbal PredicatesV. Compound Verbal PredicatesVI. Numerical ExpressionsVII. Noun Phrases and NominalizationVIII. Topicalization and ExposureIX. Pronouns and Related WordsX. AdverbsXI. NegationXII. Aspect, Time, and MoodXIII. Adnominal and Adverbial Words of Inclusion and RestrictionXIV. Imperative, Interrogative and Exclamatory SentencesXV. Complex SentencesNotesSources of ExamplesBibliographyIndex of Chinese VocabularyItemsGeneral Index

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Book SynopsisAssesses the historical development and societal impact of the motorcycle industry, from the influence of motor sports on vehicle sales in the early 1900s to the postwar developments that led to the massive wave of motorization sweeping the Asia-Pacific region.Trade Review"This book is very much at the cutting edge of current scholarship. Besides demonstrating the role of the Japanese military and empire in the early development of the industry, it illuminates the intense competition among motorbike makers in the first decade and a half after the Second World War. - Steven Ericson, author of The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan"Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Why the Motorcycle?1 Japan’s Transportation Revolution, 1896-19312 Motorcycle and Empire: A Study in Industrial Self-Sufficiency3 Know Your Customers: Designing Products for an Impoverished Postwar Market4 Know Your Competitors: Finding a Niche in a Crowded Manufacturing Field5 The Rise of the Big Four6 Bitter Realities: Going Bankrupt in Japan7 Sales versus SafetyAppendicesNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIt is not the easiest of reads, but the subject is fascinating, and the book is absolutely packed with information on a traditional music undergoing rapid change. * RnR Magazine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsNotes on transliteration and transcriptionChapter 1: One Minute in MeknesChapter 2: Defending Ritual AuthorityChapter 3: African Routes and Sufi RootsChapter 4: Making a Living as a Contemporary Ritual MusicianChapter 5: New OpportunitiesChapter 6: Light Rhythms and Heavy SpiritsChapter 7: Fighting New DemandsChapter 8: Heritage and HybridityChapter 9: New Authorities and AuthenticitiesBibliographyIndex

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