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Integral Pluralism Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9780813166339
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2015
Illustrations: None
Description:
In addition to war, terrorism, and unchecked military violence, modernity is also subject to less visible but no less venomous conflicts. Global in nature, these "culture wars" exacerbate the tensions between tradition and innovation, virtue and freedom. Internationally acclaimed scholar Fred Dallmayr charts a course beyond these persistent but curable dichotomies in Integral Pluralism: Beyond Culture Wars.
Freedom and Solidarity Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9780813165783
Pub Date: 18 Dec 2015
Description:
The prevailing Western paradigm is modernity: a model focused on individual liberty, secularism, and the scientific control of nature. This worldview emerged from the break with the medieval and classical past and advanced a philosophy in which the solitary mind opposes the rest of the world. Although there is a simple appeal in this binary structure, history has shown that it is neither socially nor politically innocuous.
A Medieval Woman's Companion Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781785700798
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: black/white illustrations
Description:
What have a deaf nun, the mother of the first baby born to Europeans in North America, and a condemned heretic to do with one another? They are among the virtuous virgins, marvellous maidens, and fierce feminists of the Middle Ages who trail-blazed paths for women today. Without those first courageous souls who worked in fields dominated by men, women might not have the presence they currently do in professions such as education, the law, and literature.
Social Transformations in Scandinavian Cities Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9789187675737
Pub Date: 13 Nov 2015
Description:
Scandinavian countries are generally associated with extensive public services and low levels of poverty. However, reality has changed dramatically over the last three decades, and Scandinavia's cities now share many of the problems and challenges familiar from other Western cities. How do the welfare states handle these global societal transformations?
Russell Kirk Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 608
ISBN: 9780813166186
Pub Date: 09 Nov 2015
Illustrations: 18 b&w photos, 14 figures
Description:
Emerging from two decades of the Great Depression and the New Deal and facing the rise of radical ideologies abroad, the American Right seemed beaten, broken, and adrift in the early 1950s. Although conservative luminaries such as T. S.
James and Esther Cooper Jackson Cover James and Esther Cooper Jackson Cover
Format: 
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9780813166254
Pub Date: 06 Nov 2015
Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
Illustrations: 21 b&w photos
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9780813174983
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2018
Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
Illustrations: 21 b&w photos
Description:
James Jackson and Esther Cooper Jackson grew up understanding that opportunities came differently for blacks and whites, men and women, rich and poor. In turn, they devoted their lives to the fight for equality, serving as career activists throughout the black freedom movement. Having grown up in Virginia during the depths of the Great Depression, the Jacksons also saw a path to racial equality through the Communist Party.
Geographies of Psychoanalysis. Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 126
ISBN: 9788869770173
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2015
Description:
Can psychoanalytical hypotheses have a universal value? Can they describe the same – or a similar – psychic dynamic for any human, regardless of the historical, social and cultural context? Can psychoanalysis help with mental suffering in different realities?
Europe and Capitalism Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 130
ISBN: 9788857526607
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2015
Series: Politics
Description:
The current European Union is too often presented as the perfect realisation of a Europe of the people and freedom. The present essay overturns the common way to understand this reality. A triumph of capitalism, which has now become absolute, the creation of the European Union has in fact proceeded to destabilise the hegemony of the political.
Explaining Traditions Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 546
ISBN: 9780813165868
Pub Date: 20 Aug 2015
Series: Material Worlds
Illustrations: 49 illustrations
Description:
Why do humans hold onto traditions? Many pundits predicted that modernization and the rise of a mass culture would displace traditions, especially in America, but cultural practices still bear out the importance of rituals and customs in the development of identity, heritage, and community. In Explaining Traditions: Folk Behavior in Modern Culture, Simon J.
A Very Seductive Body Politic Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 118
ISBN: 9788857526683
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2015
Series: Italian Frame
Description:
This volume maps the multilayered narratives created in cinema on and around Silvio Berlusconi as a means of exploring the age of Berlusconismo. The analysis crosses chronological and generic boundaries, stretching back to the comedy Italian style, which foreshadows the symbolic meanings incarnated by Berlusconi before he actually entered the public stage. The book delineates a comprehensive cinematic corpus and focuses on a selection of narrative and documentary films, from the proto-Berlusconi everyman of La più bella serata della mia vita (The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life, 1972) by Ettore Scola, to the Berlusconi pretext for political self-reflection of Arance e martello (Oranges and Hammer, 2014) by Diego Bianchi.
Children, Spaces and Identity Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9781782979357
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Childhood in the Past Monograph
Illustrations: b/w illustrations
Description:
How do children construct, negotiate and organize space? The study of social space in any human group is fraught with limitations, and to these we must add the further limits involved in the study of childhood. Here specialists from archaeology, history, literature, architecture, didactics, museology and anthropology build a body of theoretical and methodological approaches about how space is articulated and organised around children and how this disposition affects the creation and maintenance of social identities.
RRP: £45.00
China Looks at the West Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 650
ISBN: 9780813165400
Pub Date: 28 Jul 2015
Description:
Chinese leaders have long been fascinated by the United States, but have often chosen to demonize America for perceived cultural and military imperialism. Especially under Communist rule, Chinese leaders have crafted and re-crafted portrayals of the United States according to the needs of their own agenda and the regime's self-image -- often seeing America as an antagonist and foil, but sometimes playing it up as a model.In China Looks at the West, Christopher A.
Democracy in Central Asia Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9780813160689
Pub Date: 21 Jul 2015
Illustrations: 16 tables
Description:
Promoting democracy has long been a priority of Western foreign policy. In practice, however, international attempts to expand representative forms of government have been inconsistent and are often perceived in the West to have been failures. The states of Central Asia, in particular, seem to be "democracy resistant," and their governments have continued to support various forms of authoritarianism in the decades following the Soviet Union's collapse.
Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9780813165585
Pub Date: 23 Jun 2015
Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
Illustrations: 8 maps, 7 tables
Description:
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) established a reputation as one of the most important civil rights organizations of the early 1960s. In the wake of the southern student sit-ins, CORE created new chapters all over the country, including one in Brooklyn, New York, which quickly established itself as one of the most audacious and dynamic chapters in the nation.In Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings, historian Brian Purnell explores the chapter's numerous direct-action protest campaigns for economic justice and social equality.
The Archaeology of Cremation Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781782978480
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2015
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour illustrations
Description:
Human societies have disposed of their dead in a variety of ways. However, while considerable attention has been paid to bodies that were buried, comparatively little work has been devoted to understanding the nature of cremated remains, despite their visibility through time. It has been argued that this is the result of decades of misunderstanding regarding the potential information that this material holds, combined with properties that make burned bone inherently difficult to analyse.
RRP: £38.00
Sparks from the Anvil Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9780872331945
Pub Date: 11 Jun 2015
Description:
Sparks from the Anvil: The Smith College Poetry Interviews is a collection of discussions with contemporary poets, ranging from established elders like W.S. Merwin and Maxine Kumin to dazzling newcomers like Aracelis Girmay and the Dickman brothers, Matthew and Michael.
RRP: £17.00