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by Elsa Marston
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
What is it like to be a young person in the Arab world today? This lively collection of eight short stories about Arab teenagers living in Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and a Palestinian refugee camp engagingly depicts young people's experiences growing up in the Middle...
by Wilfried N'Sondé
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
What are the limits of empathy and forgiveness? How can someone with a shameful past find a new path that allows for both healing and reckoning? When Clovis and Christelle find themselves face-to-face on a train heading to the outskirts of Paris, their unexpected encounter propels them on a cathartic...
by Joan Benson
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Written by Joan Benson, one of the champions of clavichord performance in the 20th century, Clavichord for Beginners is an exceptional method book for both practitioners and enthusiasts. In addition to detailing the historical origins of the instrument and the evolution of keyboard technique, the...
by Jerome Veith
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Observing that humans often deal with the past in problematic ways, Jerome Veith looks to philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer and his hermeneutics to clarify these conceptions of history and to present ways to come to terms with them. Veith fully engages Truth and Method as well as Gadamer's entire work...
The Defiant Life of Vera Figner
Surviving the Russian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
This engaging biography tells the dramatic story of a Russian noblewoman turned revolutionary terrorist. Born in 1852 in the last years of serfdom, Vera Figner came of age as Imperial Russian society was being rocked by the massive upheaval that culminated in the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. At first...
Freedom from Liberation
Slavery, Sentiment, and Literature in Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
By exploring the complexities of enslavement in the autobiography of Cuban slave-poet Juan Francisco Manzano (1797–1854), Gerard Aching complicates the universally recognized assumption that a slave's foremost desire is to be freed from bondage. As the only slave narrative in Spanish that has surfaced...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Is evil evidence against the existence of God? Even if God and evil are compatible, it remains hotly contested whether evil renders belief in God unreasonable. The Evidential Argument from Evil presents five classic statements on this issue by eminent philosophers and theologians and places them in...
Mother with Child
Transformations through Childbirth
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 1994
Rabuzzi rejects the status quo, presenting viable, often spiritual, alternatives to prevailing high-tech, patriarchal models of childbirth." —Booklist
Excellent." —The Reader’s Review
A lovely book.... It is a book for anyone wishing to reexamine and reclaim birth’s potential...
Corporeality in Early Cinema
Viscera, Skin, and Physical Form
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Corporeality in Early Cinema inspires a heightened awareness of the ways in which early film culture, and screen praxes overall are inherently embodied. Contributors argue that on- and offscreen (and in affiliated media and technological constellations), the body consists of flesh and nerves and is...
Orphans of the East
Postwar Eastern European Cinema and the Revolutionary Subject
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Unlike the benevolent orphan found in Charlie Chaplin's The Kid or the sentimentalized figure of Little Orphan Annie, the orphan in postwar Eastern European cinema takes on a more politically fraught role, embodying the tensions of individuals struggling to recover from war and grappling with an unknown...
The Mutual Cultivation of Self and Things
A Contemporary Chinese Philosophy of the Meaning of Being
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Yang Guorong is one of the most prominent Chinese philosophers working today and is best known for using the full range of Chinese philosophical resources in connection with the thought of Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Heidegger. In The Mutual Cultivation of Self and Things, Yang grapples with the philosophical...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Distinguished feminist philosophers consider the future of their field and chart its political and ethical course in this forward-looking volume. Engaging with themes such as the historical trajectory of feminist phenomenology, ways of perceiving and making sense of the contemporary world, and the...
by Hugh J. McCann
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Creation and the Sovereignty of God brings fresh insight to a defense of God. Traditional theistic belief declared a perfect being who creates and sustains everything and who exercises sovereignty over all. Lately, this idea has been contested, but Hugh J. McCann maintains that God creates the best...
A Generation of Revolutionaries
Nikolai Charushin and Russian Populism from the Great Reforms to Perestroika
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Nikolai Charushin’s memoirs of his experience as a member of the revolutionary populist movement in Russia are familiar to historians, but A Generation of Revolutionaries provides a broader and more engaging look at the lives and relationships beyond these memoirs.It shows how, after years of incarceration,...