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  • Extraordinary Bodies
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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
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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
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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
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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
    After the Death of God

    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
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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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    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
    The Dark Delight of Being Strange

    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
    In the Land of Tigers and Snakes

    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
    They Told Us We Were Arab

    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
    Sentimental Activism

    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
    A Culture of Flow

    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

    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
    Faith in Revolution

    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
    Apostles of Asphalt

    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
    Manufactured Outrage

    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
    Making Money in a Hostile State

    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
    Adaptive Strategy

    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
    Shaku Sōen and Rinzai Buddhism in Modern Japan

    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
    Apparitions of the Universal in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art

    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

    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
    When Death Comes

    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
    Bribery Humanized

    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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    Glorious Technicolor

    This is a full account of the dazzling Technicolor years that turned the screen from silver to every color of the rainbow. Here in one volume are the films, the stars, the showmen and all the elements behind the phenomenon that changed movies forever. Beautiful film stills and rare behind-the-sce...

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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

    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
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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

    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
    The Man Who Built the Sierra Club

    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
    Diasporic Connections

    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
    The Brain at Twilight

    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

    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

    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
    Experimental Junctures

    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
    The Book of China

    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
    Professing Architecture

    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
    Dreams of Global Science

    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
    Fast Culture, Slow Justice

    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
    Design Thinking for the Greater Good

    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
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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
    The Vital Illusion

    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
    The Cult of the Fox

    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

    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
    An Ethics for Today

    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
    A Śabda Reader

    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

    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

    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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  • The Resilient Pediatric Brain
    The Resilient Pediatric Brain

    The Resilient Pediatric Brain

    The Resilient Pediatric Brain explores how children—and the families and clinicians who care for them—respond when the developing brain is disrupted by disease or injury.

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  • Staging Sovereignty
    Staging Sovereignty

    Staging Sovereignty

    This book explores the relationship between theater and sovereignty in modern political theory, philosophy, and performance.

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  • Bird on the Street
    Bird on the Street

    Bird on the Street

    Blending natural history with science memoir, Bird on the Street traces how starlings illuminate the mechanisms of evolution and the relationship between humans and wildlife.

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  • Revolution Domesticated
    Revolution Domesticated

    Revolution Domesticated

    Drawing on Mao-era family letters, grassroots archives, and oral history, this book shows how revolutionary austerity transformed urban families and shaped China’s transition to a new economic order.

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  • Anti-Oppressive Social Work Ethics
    Anti-Oppressive Social Work Ethics

    Anti-Oppressive Social Work Ethics

    Departing from traditional approaches, this book presents an anti-oppressive model to help social workers make ethical decisions that adhere to professional mandates while pursuing systemic social change.

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  • The Crossing of the Boars
    The Crossing of the Boars

    The Crossing of the Boars

    Set in a forgotten theater of World War II, The Crossing of the Boars is a gripping magical-realist tale of a multiethnic village fighting for survival.

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  • When Companies Rule
    When Companies Rule

    When Companies Rule

    Maha Rafi Atal blends investigative journalism and historical research to tell the gripping four-hundred-year story of company rule over daily life.

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  • Temporal Privilege
    Temporal Privilege

    Temporal Privilege

    Jill Stauffer identifies the way certain experiences of time are valued over others as “temporal privilege” and shows how this concept helps illuminate injustices that are often hidden in plain sight.

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  • Puppet Masters of Evolution
    Puppet Masters of Evolution

    Puppet Masters of Evolution

    Andrew A. Davinack reveals that parasites are far more than agents of disease or grotesque passengers along for the ride: They are powerful forces that have shaped the course of evolution.

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  • Reckoning with Racial Capitalism
    Reckoning with Racial Capitalism

    Reckoning with Racial Capitalism

    This book develops a critical theory of racial capitalism and argues that it is indispensable to understanding and contesting the neoliberal present.

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  • Pierogi
    Pierogi

    Pierogi

    Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann explores the surprising history of pierogi, tracing how Polish cuisine evolved amid the multiethnic landscape of the United States

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  • Cosmic Missions
    Cosmic Missions

    Cosmic Missions

    Cosmic Missions reveals the deep yet unacknowledged relationships between religion and the exploration of outer space.

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  • The Black Sojourner Press
    The Black Sojourner Press

    The Black Sojourner Press

    The Black Sojourner Press traces the travels of multiple generations of itinerant Black editors, demonstrating how they transformed Black political and literary culture in the United States, West Africa, and Britain.

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  • China's Environmental History
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    China's Environmental History

    China’s Environmental History presents translations of hundreds of texts spanning more than three thousand years, displaying the diversity of how humans have related to the world around them.

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  • The Complexity Paradigm
    The Complexity Paradigm

    The Complexity Paradigm

    In this groundbreaking book, Doug Garnett shows how complexity science reveals a new understanding of how business works that is as useful on the front lines as in the C-suite.

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