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Thinking through French Philosophy
The Being of the Question
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2003
... no other book undertakes to relate all these French philosophers to each other the way that [Lawlor] does, brilliantly." —François Raffoul
For many, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gilles Deleuze represent one of the greatest movements in French philosophy. But these philosophers...
by David M. Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
Although the presidential election of 1944 placed FDR in the White House for an unprecedented fourth term, historical memory of the election itself has been overshadowed by the war, Roosevelt’s health and his death the following April, Truman's ascendancy, and the decision to drop the atomic bomb....
The Essential Dewey, Volume 2
Ethics, Logic, Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
In addition to being one of the greatest technical philosophers of the twentieth century, John Dewey (1859-1952) was an educational innovator, a Progressive Era reformer, and one of America’s last great public intellectuals. Dewey’s insights into the problems of public education, immigration,...
Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia
The Ritual Murder Trial of Mendel Beilis
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
On Sunday, March 20, 1911, children playing in a cave near Kiev made a gruesome discovery: the blood-soaked body of a partially clad boy. After right-wing groups asserted that the killing was a ritual murder, the police, with no direct evidence, arrested Menachem Mendel Beilis, a 39-year-old Jewish...
Resurgent Antisemitism
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Dating back millennia, antisemitism has been called "the longest hatred." Thought to be vanquished after the horrors of the Holocaust, in recent decades it has once again become a disturbing presence in many parts of the world. Resurgent Antisemitism presents original research that elucidates the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
In most places on the African continent, multiple health care options exist and patients draw on a therapeutic continuum that ranges from traditional medicine and religious healing to the latest in biomedical technology. The ethnographically based essays in this volume highlight African ways of perceiving...
by Hillel Bardin
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
A Zionist among Palestinians offers the perspective of an ordinary Israeli citizen who became concerned about the Israeli military's treatment of Palestinians and was moved to work for peace. Hillel Bardin, a confirmed Zionist, was a reservist in the Israeli army during the first intifada when he...
Africa’s First Democrats
Somalia’s Aden A. Osman and Abdirazak H. Hussen
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Abdi Ismail Samatar provides a clear and foundational history of Somalia at the dawn of the country’s independence when Africa’s first democrats appeared. While many African countries were dominated by authoritarian rulers when they entered the postcolonial era—and scholars have assumed this...
Moroccan Noir
Police, Crime, and Politics in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Facing rising demands for human rights and the rule of law, the Moroccan state fostered new mass media and cultivated more positive images of the police, once the symbol of state repression, reinventing the relationship between citizen and state for a new era. Jonathan Smolin examines popular culture...
African Women
Early History to the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
African women's history is a topic as vast as the continent itself, embracing an array of societies in over fifty countries with different geographies, social customs, religions, and historical situations. In African Women: Early History to the 21st Century, Kathleen Sheldon masterfully delivers a...
A History of Korea
From "Land of the Morning Calm" to States in Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Contemporary North and South Korea are nations of radical contrasts: one a bellicose totalitarian state with a failing economy; the other a peaceful democracy with a strong economy. Yet their people share a common history that extends back more than 3,000 years. In this comprehensive new history of...
by Gary W. Gallagher, Alan T. Nolan
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2000
A “well-reasoned and timely” (Booklist) essay collection interrogates the Lost Cause myth in Civil War historiography.
Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds for the cause of states’...
The Rise of an African Middle Class
Colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2002
Offers an extremely sophisticated, nuanced view of the social and political construction of an African middle class in colonial Zimbabwe." —Elizabeth Schmidt
Tracing their quest for social recognition from the time of Cecil Rhodes to Rhodesia’s unilateral declaration of independence, Michael...
Rhinoceros Giants
The Paleobiology of Indricotheres
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Written for everyone fascinated by the huge beasts that once roamed the earth, this book introduces the giant hornless rhinoceros, Indricotherium. These massive animals inhabited Asia and Eurasia for more than 14 million years, about 37 to 23 million years ago. They had skulls 6 feet long, stood 22...