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Extraordinary Bodies
Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, the book added depth to oppressive narratives and revealed novel, liberatory ones.
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The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry
Korea's modern poetry is filled with many different voices and styles, subjects and views, moves and countermoves, yet it still remains relatively unknown outside of Korea itself. This is in part because the Korean language, a rich medium for poetry, has been ranked among the most difficult for E...
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Coparticipant Psychoanalysis
Traditionally, two clinical models have been dominant in psychoanalysis: the classical paradigm, which views the analyst as an objective mirror, and the participant-observation paradigm, which views the analyst as an intersubjective participant-observer. According to John Fiscalini, an evolutiona...
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Broken Tablets
Over thirty years, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida conversed across texts about the interrelation of philosophy, religion and literature. In Broken Tablets, Sarah Hammerschlag traces that conversation and argues for its political significance, highlighting the role that Judaism played in the...
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After the Death of God
It has long been assumed that the more modern we become, the less religious we will be. Yet a recent resurrection in faith has challenged the certainty of this belief. In these original essays and interviews, leading hermeneutical philosophers and postmodern theorists John D. Caputo and Gianni Va...
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Bollywood's India
Analyzes the role of the cinema’s most popular blockbusters in making, unmaking, and remaking modern India
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Contact Zone
Timothy R. Grieve-Carlson explores the history and ecology of the Big Thicket to show how the range of experiences labeled paranormal are both startlingly common and intricately woven throughout modern culture.
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Pink Noise
Synthesizing the latest findings across disciplines, this book is a groundbreaking account of how pink noise research is reshaping our understanding of consciousness.
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Black Liberation Under Late Empire
Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi offers a new literary and intellectual history of global Blackness and its relationship to two regimes of racial capitalism: the Plantation and the Mine.
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I Changed My Sex!
Ranging from mainstream autobiography and university gender clinics to sleaze, pornography, and fiction, rl Goldberg reveals how literature, genre, and institutionalization forged a working language of transness and a durable narrative of trans self-knowing.
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Climate Converts
In Climate Converts, Jo Huxster tells the stories of eight people who have made the shift from climate denialists to climate believers and even activists.
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The Theater of Renunciation
Challenging the common view of Jainism as a tradition centered on ascetic virtuosity alone, this book demonstrates the importance of emotional cultivation and theatrical forms to Jain ethical formation and soteriological goals.
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The Cinema of Elia Suleiman
In this comprehensive account of Elia Suleiman’s career, Kamran Rastegar provides close readings of each of the director’s films, with a focus on his explorations of Palestinian identity.
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The World Awheel
Nathan Cardon offers a new account of the turn-of-the-century bicycle boom, bringing together everyday social histories with the broader history of the making of US global power.
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They Hate Her
They Hate Her is a data-driven exploration of the ideology behind the spread of misogynist content and attitudes, online and in action.
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The Poet in the C-Suite
Frances McCue—a practicing poet with experience leading start-ups—shares the surprising lessons poets can teach current and aspiring executives about creativity, leadership, and collaboration.
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Non-Standard Philosophy
Non-Standard Philosophy is one of François Laruelle’s most important works, at once the culmination of non-philosophy and a radical breakthrough that redefines philosophical concepts by way of quantum mechanics.
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Overruled
Drawing on more than two decades of experience in governance, strategy, innovation, and business transformation, Farrukh Zafar offers a practical framework for governing AI-enabled organizations.
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Navigating Multiple Ancestries
This book explores how mixed-race Asians—people who are a mixture of Asian and non-Asian ancestries—make sense of their multiracial identities in a society where monoracial conceptions are still dominant.
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Encounters with AI
Encounters with AI is an experiment in what Luciano Floridi calls “distant writing”: a literary practice in which a human author specifies the narrative requirements and constraints while large language models generate the actual text.
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Performing the Buddha's Body
Performing the Buddha’s Body proposes and demonstrates a new method for reading Buddhist sūtras, built on a dialogue between South Asian ritual frameworks and contemporary notions of performance.
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The Dark Delight of Being Strange
An ambitious genre-crossing exploration of Black speculative imagination, The Dark Delight of Being Strange combines fiction, historical accounts, and philosophical prose to unveil the extraordinary and the surreal in everyday Black life.
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In the Land of Tigers and Snakes
Huaiyu Chen examines how Buddhist ideas about animals changed and were changed by medieval Chinese culture. He explores the entangled relations among animals, religions, the state, and local communities, considering both the multivalent meanings associated with animals and the daily experience of...
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They Told Us We Were Arab
Safwan M. Masri offers a critical and personal examination of what it has meant—and what it has cost—to be labeled “Arab.”
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Sentimental Activism
David James explores what happens when writers’ affective ambitions coincide with criticism’s hunger for social consequence.
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A Culture of Flow
Michael Crooke and Damian Vaughn show that shared flow is the deepest source of an organization’s performance, creativity, and endurance.
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Grand Strategies of Middle East States
Ranging from the Arab uprisings and the Abraham Accords to the wars and crises that followed the October 7 attacks, this book advances a new framework for understanding why Middle Eastern states respond differently to similar challenges.
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The Road to Tokyo
The Road to Tokyo tells the remarkable story of how Black engineers and truck drivers built an international highway to send supplies to China on a forgotten front of World War II.
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Faith in Revolution
Timothy Nunan explores the rise and decline of Islamist internationalism, showing how anti-imperialist Shi’a Muslims launched a global revolution.
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Apostles of Asphalt
At the turn of the twentieth century, a grassroots movement for the improvement of rural roads and highways swept across the United States. Apostles of Asphalt reveals how and why members of the good roads movement used the language of religion, civilization, and redemption to achieve their goals.
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Manufactured Outrage
Tracing the rise and dismantling of racially integrated public schooling in New Orleans, Sian Elizabeth Zelbo shows that much of what appeared to be spontaneous protest against integration was in fact a coordinated political project.
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Meno’s Dilemma
George G. Szpiro offers a philosophically informed guide to filtering facts and finding the truth in a time of technologically enabled falsehood.
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Making Money in a Hostile State
This book offers a pioneering look inside North Korea’s shadow economy, examining the social groups and government policies that shape the country’s market order.
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Adaptive Strategy
This pioneering book reveals how the principles that underpin the natural world can guide businesses to adapt for an unpredictable future.
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Shaku Sōen and Rinzai Buddhism in Modern Japan
Aihua Zheng elucidates the career of Zen abbot Shaku Sōen (1860–1919), the foundational figure of Western Zen, alongside developments within the Rinzai tradition and monastic institutions.
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Apparitions of the Universal in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art
Nico Israel offers a striking reinterpretation of modernism by tracing how literature and art engage with—and unsettle—the history and rhetoric of universalism.
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Economization
Economization offers a bold new way to understand economies in a moment of profound social, technological, and ecological disruption. Instead of asking what the economy is, Michel Callon, Koray Caliskan, and Donald MacKenzie ask how things become economic in the first place.
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When Death Comes
Evan Thompson—a renowned philosopher and author of groundbreaking books on the mind and consciousness—offers a deeply original literary, philosophical, and scientific account of the meaning of mortality.
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Bribery Humanized
This book offers an eye-opening exploration of bribery in practice, taking readers inside the sordid world of grubby transactions and tainted institutions.
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Ratnakirti's Proof of Momentariness by Positive Correlation (Ksanabhangasiddhi Anvayatmika)
The Ksanabhangasiddhi is a masterpiece of skillful reasoning by the eleventh-century Indian Buddhist philosopher Ratnakirti. This renowned scholar taught at the great Buddhist University of Vikramasila and was a master of almost every classical philosophical school that preceded him.The present w...
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Just Awakening
Just Awakening uncovers a forgotten philosophy of social democracy inspired by Yogācāra—an ancient, nondualistic Buddhist philosophy—arguing that it offers new vocabularies with which to reconceptualize equality and freedom.
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The Evolution of Religions
This extraordinarily ambitious and comprehensive book demonstrates how evolutionary theory can yield new insight into the development of organized religion. Lance Grande examines the growth and diversification of hundreds of religions over time, highlighting their historical interrelationships.
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The Night Before
The Night Before is a collection of David Hajdu's writing on music, comics, and popular culture, in which he brings historical perspective and a keen critical sensibility to unraveling underappreciated or misunderstood works.
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The Man Who Built the Sierra Club
This uncompromising biography explores David Brower’s role as steward of the modern environmental movement.
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Diasporic Connections
Reighan Gillam shows how Afro-Brazilians draw on African American history and culture to argue that Brazil is typical, not exceptional, emphasizing common experiences across the African diaspora.
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The Brain at Twilight
Interweaving the powerful stories of patients with accessible explanations of neuroscience, The Brain at Twilight illuminates consciousness, mortality, and the critical decisions that define our final moments.
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Defining China
Defining China offers a cultural and legal genealogy of guo, examining how modern China, Chinese nationalism, and Sino-foreign relations have been shaped by this multifaceted concept.
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Unendurable Freedom
Unendurable Freedom contends that postcolonial literature after 9/11 both invites and deflects global imperial interest by developing paradoxical narrative forms.
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Experimental Junctures
Mary Kaldor introduces a new concept, “experimental junctures,” to account for what happens when political institutions are out of kilter with far-reaching economic, social, and technological change.
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The Book of China
In the early sixteenth century, a Persian-speaking Muslim merchant traveled to China and stayed for six years. In a treatise presented to the rulers of the Ottoman Empire, he laid out his observations—here translated in full into English for the first time.
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Professing Architecture
Bryan E. Norwood tells the story of how a small group of architects built a profession amid the powerful forces of capitalism and religious faith in the antebellum United States.
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Dreams of Global Science
Through the case of precision medicine, Larry Au shows how global and national forms of science cooperate, compete, and come into conflict with one another, producing what he calls hybrid science.
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Fast Culture, Slow Justice
Drawing on social media posts, digital stories, and book reviews collected in real time, Richard Jean So shows how BLM’s online surge was shaped and ultimately constrained by platform logics that prize entertainment and pleasure, not accountability.
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Design Thinking for the Greater Good
Through ten stories of struggles and successes in social sector organizations, Design Thinking for the Greater Good shows how collaborative creativity can shake up even the most entrenched bureaucracies—and provide a practical roadmap for readers to implement these tools. This book will help toda...
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Invisible Light
Invisible Light is an anthology of poetry about God, including writers from John Milton, William Blake, and Emily Dickinson to Countee Cullen, John Berryman, and Anne Sexton.
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The Vital Illusion
Aren’t we actually sick of sex, of difference, of emancipation, of culture? With this provocative taunt, the indomitable sociologist Jean Baudrillard challenges us to face up to our deadly, technologically empowered renunciation of mortality and subjectivity. Peppered with Baudrillard’s signature...
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The Cult of the Fox
For more than five centuries the shamanistic fox cult has attracted large portions of the Chinese population and appealed to a wide range of social classes. Xiaofei Kang examine the fox cult as a vibrant popular religion and explores the manifold meanings of the fox spirit in Chinese society.
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A Dharma Reader
A Dharma Reader traces the definition, epistemology, procedure, and process of Indian law from the third century B.C.E. to the middle ages. Its breadth captures the centuries-long struggle by Indian thinkers to theorize law in a multiethnic and pluralist society.
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An Ethics for Today
Richard Rorty, a strict secularist, finds in the pragmatic thought of John Dewey, John Stuart Mill, William James, and George Santayana, among others, a political imagination shared by religious traditions.
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A Śabda Reader
The first reader on language in—and the language of—classical Indian philosophy, A Śabda Reader offers a comprehensive and pedagogically valuable treatment of this topic. It brings together newly translated passages by authors from a variety of traditions—Brahmin, Buddhist, Jaina—representing a n...
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Crowd Control
Crowd Control tells the story of how efforts to contain Black resistance led to the invention of American literary excellence.
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I'm Glad I'm Not Me
I’m Glad I’m Not Me explores Bob Dylan’s appearances and depictions on screen, offering a new view of the life and work of one of the most influential yet least knowable celebrities in American history.
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