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The Practice of Altruism
Caring and Religion in Global Perspective
Do people with religious commitment nurture altruistic action more than others? Social scientists present results of their empirical studies on Japanese, North American, European, Indian, and Thai societies to offer insightful reflections on this issue.
Do people with religious commitment nurture altruistic action more than others? Social scientists present results of their empirical studies on Japanese, North American, European, Indian, and Thai societies to offer insightful reflections on this issue.
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The Flesh of Being
On Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
This text is a conversation with Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It is not about Nietzsche, but what it is for someone to read his text, a book for everyone and no one. The text is what the reader has to write through the reading.
This text is a conversation with Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It is not about Nietzsche, but what it is for someone to read his text, a book for everyone and no one. The text is what the reader has to write through the reading.
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Florida Studies
Proceedings of the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association
Florida’s long and colorful past is matched by its literary production, yet critical assessment has lagged. This volume corrects that oversight with papers on Florida literature, including studies of African-American figures and suggestions for teaching.
Florida’s long and colorful past is matched by its literary production, yet critical assessment has lagged. This volume corrects that oversight with papers on Florida literature, including studies of African-American figures and suggestions for teaching.
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Global norms are no longer established by states alone, but by new actors like the private sector and NGOs. This collection of critical studies challenges convenient theories to explore the practical, theoretical and ethical implications of this new world.
Global norms are no longer established by states alone, but by new actors like the private sector and NGOs. This collection of critical studies challenges convenient theories to explore the practical, theoretical and ethical implications of this new world.
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The Spectral Body
Aspects of the Cinematic Oeuvre of István Szabó
A powerful and original analysis of István Szabó’s films. Zoltán Dragon argues that a spectral phantom, hiding family secrets, fuels the oeuvre’s haunting effects and uncanny visuals, opening up new possibilities for studying film.
A powerful and original analysis of István Szabó’s films. Zoltán Dragon argues that a spectral phantom, hiding family secrets, fuels the oeuvre’s haunting effects and uncanny visuals, opening up new possibilities for studying film.
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Spanning the 17th to 19th centuries, this collection explores dominance and oppression in early American literature. Through Native Americans, Puritan outcasts, and slaves, it reveals assimilation and subversion as codependent, mutually defining forces.
Spanning the 17th to 19th centuries, this collection explores dominance and oppression in early American literature. Through Native Americans, Puritan outcasts, and slaves, it reveals assimilation and subversion as codependent, mutually defining forces.
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Out Here
Local and International Perspectives in Queer Studies
This collection of essays and stories reflects queer concerns in places peripheral to the centers of queer theory. Out here, often within the context of rampant homophobia, queer methodologies prove especially productive. Out here, queer theory is alive and kicking.
This collection of essays and stories reflects queer concerns in places peripheral to the centers of queer theory. Out here, often within the context of rampant homophobia, queer methodologies prove especially productive. Out here, queer theory is alive and kicking.
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Giuseppe Tornatore
Emotion, Cognition, Cinema
This authoritative study is a film-by-film analysis of Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso). It explores the powerful blend of emotion and intellect in his work, elucidating his critique of what our societies have become.
This authoritative study is a film-by-film analysis of Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso). It explores the powerful blend of emotion and intellect in his work, elucidating his critique of what our societies have become.
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Mediating Germany
Popular Culture between Tradition and Innovation
This volume explores how German popular culture responds to contemporary life, combining tradition with current social debates. Essays offer case studies of popular fiction, theatre, music, and filmmaking, analyzing today's issues and their historical legacies.
This volume explores how German popular culture responds to contemporary life, combining tradition with current social debates. Essays offer case studies of popular fiction, theatre, music, and filmmaking, analyzing today’s issues and their historical legacies.
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Nation vs. People
Bosnia is just a case
Provoked by the tragedy of Bosnia, this book tackles the global challenge of reconciling 200 states with 8000 ethnic groups. Are nation-states the only answer? The author insists on new notions of nation and people, defining them as societal phenomena.
Provoked by the tragedy of Bosnia, this book tackles the global challenge of reconciling 200 states with 8000 ethnic groups. Are nation-states the only answer? The author insists on new notions of nation and people, defining them as societal phenomena.
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Design and Cinema
Form Follows Film
Design and Cinema: Form Follows Film explores the patterns of experience created by the brotherhood of these disciplines. The book is organized in two parts: Discourse, a look at formal categories, and Works, which presents films and workshop examples.
Design and Cinema: Form Follows Film explores the patterns of experience created by the brotherhood of these disciplines. The book is organized in two parts: Discourse, a look at formal categories, and Works, which presents films and workshop examples.
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The First International Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature, and the Arts brought together 80 delegates from fourteen countries. This book collects 40 papers characteristic of the wide range of topics and disciplines represented at the conference.
The First International Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature, and the Arts brought together 80 delegates from fourteen countries. This book collects 40 papers characteristic of the wide range of topics and disciplines represented at the conference.
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Ethnographic and Qualitative Research in Education
Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference
How do we create productive learning environments and address the complexities of diversity? This collection explores communication, bridges theory and practice through action research, and champions qualitative inquiry as an essential tool for our profession.
How do we create productive learning environments and address the complexities of diversity? This collection explores communication, bridges theory and practice through action research, and champions qualitative inquiry as an essential tool for our profession.
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Ethnicity and Englishness
Personal Identities in a Minority Community
This book explores nationality, groups and religion through the inner lives of second-generation immigrants in England. It analyses the reasons for prejudice between groups and suggests ways to deal with it.
This book explores nationality, groups and religion through the inner lives of second-generation immigrants in England. It analyses the reasons for prejudice between groups and suggests ways to deal with it.
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Promethean Love
Paul Kurtz and the Humanistic Perspective on Love
He stole fire for humanity, a timeless symbol of rebellion and selfless love. These essays trace the Promethean philosophy of love from its origins in Ancient Greece to its powerful contrast with the figure of Christ.
He stole fire for humanity, a timeless symbol of rebellion and selfless love. These essays trace the Promethean philosophy of love from its origins in Ancient Greece to its powerful contrast with the figure of Christ.
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"Germany and the Imagined East" explores the exchange of views on "the East." These multidisciplinary essays treat Germany as both part of and separate from this construct, from within the German-speaking world to the Far East, offering new insights on East-West relations.
“Germany and the Imagined East” explores the exchange of views on “the East.” These multidisciplinary essays treat Germany as both part of and separate from this construct, from within the German-speaking world to the Far East, offering new insights on East-West relations.
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Alternatives Within the Mainstream
British Black and Asian Theatres
Alternatives Within the Mainstream is the first comprehensive collection of critical essays on British Black and Asian Theatres. This long overdue book challenges the culture of myth which obscures the relevance of Black and Asian work with serious academic analysis.
Alternatives Within the Mainstream is the first comprehensive collection of critical essays on British Black and Asian Theatres. This long overdue book challenges the culture of myth which obscures the relevance of Black and Asian work with serious academic analysis.
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This book argues that the theater of Stoppard, Hwang, Churchill, Shepard, Walcott, and Karnad induces spectators to deconstruct habitual perception and taste a void of conceptions, pointing through performance toward a trans-verbal, trans-cultural wholeness.
This book argues that the theater of Stoppard, Hwang, Churchill, Shepard, Walcott, and Karnad induces spectators to deconstruct habitual perception and taste a void of conceptions, pointing through performance toward a trans-verbal, trans-cultural wholeness.
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This collection of essays examines identity in 19th & 20th century Britain. It explores how social, cultural, and political change created fragmented identities, linking theoretical debates to historical work on class, gender, religion, and nationality.
This collection of essays examines identity in 19th & 20th century Britain. It explores how social, cultural, and political change created fragmented identities, linking theoretical debates to historical work on class, gender, religion, and nationality.
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Rock n Roll and Nationalism
A Multinational Perspective
In essays on countries from the United States to Russia, scholars, performers, and journalists explore the fascinating interplay between national identities and the rock music idiom, leading to a new understanding of rock and nationalism.
In essays on countries from the United States to Russia, scholars, performers, and journalists explore the fascinating interplay between national identities and the rock music idiom, leading to a new understanding of rock and nationalism.
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