The Professor: 26 books

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A Nietzschean Bestiary

Becoming Animal Beyond Docile and Brutal

by Babette Babbich, Debra Bergoffen, Thomas H. Brobjer
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003

Inspired by the ancient and medieval genre, A Nietzschean Bestiary gathers essays treating the most vivid and lively animal images in one of the philosophic tradition's greatest bodies of work. Leading scholars treat specific animals—such as the prowling beast of prey, Zarathustra's laughing lions,...
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In Marx's Shadow

Knowledge, Power, and Intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia

by Clemena Antonova, Mikhail Epstein, Elena Gapova
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010

Despite its key role in the intellectual shaping of state socialism, Communist ideas are often dismissed as mere propaganda or as a rhetorical exercise aimed at advancing socialist intellectuals on their way to power. By drawing attention to unknown and unexplored areas, trends and ways of thinking...
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Toward a Political Economy of Culture

Capitalism and Communication in the Twenty-First Century

by Marc Bogdanowicz, Jean-Claude Burgelman, Andrew Calabrese
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003

Several of the most important and influential political economists of communication working today explore a rich mix of topics and issues that link work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere to the heritage of political economy. Familiar but still exceedingly important topics...
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Finding, Preparing, and Supporting School Leaders

Critical Issues, Useful Solutions

by Sharon Conley, Bruce S. Cooper, Scott C. Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010

With dwindling funds and resources, tougher state and federal standards, and fatigue from more regulations and testing, many school administrators are giving up _or 'crashing' and leaving their posts. This book examines the process of preparing, encouraging, and retaining quality leaders at the school...
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The Origins of Life

From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language

by The late John Maynard Smith, Professor Eors Szathmary
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2000

In this fascinating book, John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary present an original picture of evolution. They propose that during evolution there have been a number of major transitions in the way in which information is passed between generations. These transitions include the appearance of the...
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Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice

Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction

by Jaime E. Bochantin, Kirsten J. Broadfoot, Jennifer J. Bute
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010

Women who came of age in the late twentieth century were raised in the era of choice; they grew up believing that reproductive decision-making is a political right, a responsibility of women living the successes of second wave feminism, and under their control. Contemplating Maternity in an Era of...
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Love Is His Meaning

Understanding The Teaching Of Jesus

by The Revd Professor Keith Ward
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017

Jesus’ teaching has changed the world. Yet his sayings can often seem cryptic and hard to understand. In Love Is His Meaning, Keith Ward explores the various figures of speech and images that Jesus used, and finds they are all ways of expressing and evoking the self-giving love of God, manifested...
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Love, Tommy

Letters Home, from the Great War to the Present Day

by Professor Andrew Roberts, The Imperial War Museum
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012

A legacy of an empire and a nation at war, Love Tommy, is a collection of letters housed at the Imperial War Museum sent by British and Commonwealth troops from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa from the front line of war to their loved ones at home. Poignant expressions of love, hope...
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Letters from the Front

From the First World War to the Present Day

by Professor Andrew Roberts, The Imperial War Museum
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014

A legacy of an empire and a nation at war, Letters from the Front is a collection of correspondence sent by British and Commonwealth troops from the front line of war to their loved ones at home. Poignant expressions of love, hope and fear sit alongside amusing anecdotes, grumbles about rations and...
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Revival and Reconciliation

Sacred Music in the Making of European Modernity

by Philip V. Bohlman, Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities, The University of Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013

Sacred music has long contributed fundamentally to the making of Europe. The passage from origin myths to history, the sacred journeys that have mobilized pilgrims, crusaders, and colonizers, the politics and power sounded by the vox populi—all have joined in counterpoint to shape Europe’s historical...
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The Extreme in Contemporary Culture

States of Vulnerability

by Pramod K. Nayar, Professor of English at the University of Hyderabad, India
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017

This is a study of vulnerability as a dominant cultural discourse today, especially as it manifests in ‘extreme cultures’. These are cultural practices and representations of humans in risky, painful or life-threatening conditions where the limits of their humanity are tested, and producing heightened...
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Bhopal's Ecological Gothic

Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny

by Pramod K. Nayar, Professor of English at the University of Hyderabad, India
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017

The book studies the cultural texts—fiction, protest effigies, photographs, films, reportage, eyewitness accounts, campaign posters and reports—produced around the world’s worst industrial disaster: the Bhopal tragedy of 1984. It makes a case for an ecological Gothic, wherein the city, its landscape...
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