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Cambrian Ocean World
Ancient Sea Life of North America
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The Cambrian is our origination story; the species fossilized in the rocks are our "founding fathers." We can follow their story (and ours) through more than half a billion years of time.
Kant and the Subject of Critique
On the Regulative Role of the Psychological Idea
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Immanuel Kant is strict about the limits of self-knowledge: our inner sense gives us only appearances, never the reality, of ourselves. Kant may seem to begin his inquiries with an uncritical conception of cognitive limits, but in Kant and the Subject of Critique, Avery Goldman argues that, even for...
What Is Fiction For?
Literary Humanism Restored
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
How can literature, which consists of nothing more than the description of imaginary events and situations, offer any insight into the workings of "human reality" or "the human condition"? Can mere words illuminate something that we call "reality"? Bernard Harrison answers these questions in this...
Reading Eco
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 1997
[READING ECO is a timely indication] of the fruitfulness of perceiving Eco as the same in his metamorphoses. [It also testifies] to a certain price that Eco and his readers must/may pay for the enormous pleasure and intellectual stimulus of being Eco and being with Eco." —The Comparatist
Umberto...
Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film
Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
In the charged atmosphere of post-revolution, artistic and political forces often join in the effort to reimagine a new national space for a liberated people. Joshua Malitsky examines nonfiction film and nation building to better understand documentary film as a tool used by the state to create powerful...
Colonialism by Proxy
Hausa Imperial Agents and Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Moses E. Ochonu explores a rare system of colonialism in Middle Belt Nigeria, where the British outsourced the business of the empire to Hausa-Fulani subcolonials because they considered the area too uncivilized for Indirect Rule. Ochonu reveals that the outsiders ruled with an iron fist and imagined...
Egypt in the Future Tense
Hope, Frustration, and Ambivalence before and after 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Against the backdrop of the revolutionary uprisings of 2011–2013, Samuli Schielke asks how ordinary Egyptians confront the great promises and grand schemes of religious commitment, middle class respectability, romantic love, and political ideologies in their daily lives, and how they make sense...
by Charles E. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2002
"Like Foucault and Levinas before him, though in very different ways, Scott makes an oblique incision into phenomenology... [it is] the kind of book to which people dazed by the specters of nihilism will be referred by those in the know." —David Wood
"... refreshing and original." —Edward...
States of Emergency
Essays on Culture and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
In his latest book, Patrick Brantlinger probes the state of contemporary America. Brantlinger takes aim at neoliberal economists, the Tea Party movement, gun culture, immigration, waste value, surplus people, the war on terror, technological determinism, and globalization. An invigorating return to...
The Andalusi Literary and Intellectual Tradition
The Role of Arabic in Judah ibn Tibbon's Ethical Will
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Beginning in 1172, Judah ibn Tibbon, who was called the father of Hebrew translators, wrote a letter to his son that was full of personal and professional guidance. The detailed letter, described as an ethical will, was revised through the years and offered a vivid picture of intellectual life among...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Everyday Life in the Balkans gathers the work of leading scholars across disciplines to provide a broad overview of the countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Turkey. This region has long been characterized as a place of instability...
Faked in China
Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture, and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Faked in China is a critical account of the cultural challenge faced by China following its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. It traces the interactions between nation branding and counterfeit culture, two manifestations of the globalizing Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regime...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Recent developments in Palestinian political, economic, and social life have resulted in greater insecurity and diminishing confidence in Israel’s willingness to abide by political agreements or the Palestinian leadership’s ability to forge consensus. This volume examines the legacies of the past...
by Kathleen R. Smythe
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Africa's Past, Our Future engages the history of the African continent through the perspective of global issues such as political instability, economic development, and climate change. Since the past may offer alternative models for thinking about our collective future, this book promotes an appreciation...