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DescriptionIn the Shadow of Genius is the newest book by photographer and author Barbara Mensch. The author combines her striking photographs with ...

Reducere. How do communities consent to difference? How do they recognize and create the space and time necessary for the differences and disabilities of tho...

Reducere. When The Search for Major Plagge was published last spring, the world finally learned about a unique hero--and about one American doctor's extraord...

Reducere. Marx, Nietzche, and Freud are among the most influential of modern atheists. The distinctive feature of their challenge to theistic and specificall...

The zombie is ubiquitous in popular culture: from comic books to video games, to internet applications and homemade films, zombies are all around u...

Napoli/New York/Hollywood investigates the work of Italian immigrant performers and the impact of the traditions of the Italian stage within the hi...

A phenomenological account of the forms of life characteristic of late capitalism--including television, celebrity culture, and personal electronic...

Now What? is an innovative exploration of artworks and films that return to radical histories subject to erasure or otherwise lost or occluded over...

Tracing the first two decades of state-funded African American schools, Educational Reconstruction addresses the ways in which black Richmonders, b...

In a crucial shift within posthumanistic media studies, Bernhard Siegert dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations that reproduce...

Publisher: Fordham University PressAuthor(s): Jeffrey J. KripalNumber of pages: 568Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 227 x 164 x 33Cover type: Pape...

Reducere. Reconstruction is one of the most complex, overlooked, and misunderstood periods of American history. The thirteen essays in this volume address th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lewis R. GordonForeword by: Sonia Dayan-HerzbrunAfterword by: Drucilla CornellAntiblack racism avows reason is white while ...

DescriptionIn this age of affirmative action and increasing complexity in black-white relations, this pioneering study of Hampton, Virginia, tells ...

DescriptionThe most important work by a key figure in German thought, Helmuth Plessner's Levels of Organic Life and the Human, originally published...

Contributor(s): Author: Hardy HansenAuthor: Gerald M. QuinnThe first edition of this extremely popular two volume Greek text has been successfully ...

Reducere. This volume, now with a substantial new Introduction, represents one of the most lucid, compact and reliable introductions to Derrida and deconstru...

This edited volume, Academics in Action! describes a multi-disciplinary model informed by the educational philosophy of John Dewey wherein students...

X-The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought offers an original account of matters African American, and by implication the African diaspora...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Fordham University PressNumber of pages: 352Collection: Reconstructing AmericaPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 29Cover type...

Through the figure of Medea, shows how important violence was for seventeenth-century French tragedy and contextualizes that violence in a longer l...

Reducere. While the idea that successful missions needed Indigenous revolts and missionary deaths seems counterintuitive, this book illustrates how it became...

Publisher: Fordham University PressAuthor(s): Jean HalleyIllustration(s): 30 color illustrationsNumber of pages: 320Collection: Polis: Fordham Seri...

Reducere. Now available for the first time--more than 50 years after it was written--is the memoir of Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915-62), the British do...

Reducere. Sensational tales of true-life crime, the devastation of the Irish potato famine, the upheaval of the Civil War, and the turbulent emergence of the...

Publisher: Fordham University PressAuthor(s): Jacques DerridaNumber of pages: 272Collection: Perspectives in Continental PhilosophyPublication date...

Publisher: Fordham University PressAuthor(s): Emily SunNumber of pages: 176Collection: Lit ZPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 158 x 235 x 18Cover t...

This study of the intellectual culture of the women's monasteries of the Main Valley during the eighth century, based on analysis of the manuscript...

DescriptionWhose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the non-specialist reader and ideal for t...

DescriptionThe moon--its face, color, and power--threads through the tapestry of American landscape painting, holding timeless allure for artists a...

Reducere. Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free is a rare gift detailing the experience of Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, who was one of 32 Tuskegee Airmen from th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sharon Egretta SuttonForeword by: James Stewart PolshekWhen Ivory Towers Were Black lies at the potent intersection of race...

Reducere. From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe traditional date of the beginning of the Oriental Schism is 1054. Congar shows that the seeds of this break were sown centuries befo...

Secular Lyric interrogates the distinctively individual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson transformed classical, romantic, and early modern for...

Established by congress in early 1865, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands-more commonly known as "the Freedmen's Bureau"-assumed...

Publisher: Fordham University PressAuthor(s): Adam John WatermanNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20Cover type: Pap...

This book foregrounds anticolonial theories of reading to reveal an alternative strain of anticolonialism committed not to the forms of authority t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jean LeClercqThe Love of Learning and the Desire for God is composed of a series of lectures given to young monks at the In...

Reducere. DescriptionIn a time of rapid climate change and species extinction, what role have the world's religions played in ameliorating--or causing--the c...

Can Orthodox Christianity offer spiritual resources uniquely suited to the environmental concerns of today? This book makes the case emphatically t...

DescriptionRepublication on the twenty-fifth anniversary of "Pretends to Be Free" recognizes the signal importance of its sterling presentation of ...

Reducere. This fascinating book tells the remarkable story of an ordinary American woman's heroism in the French Resistance. Virginia Roush fell in love with...

Reducere. People associate the South Bronx with gangs, violence, drugs, crime, burned-out buildings, and poverty. This is the message that has been driven in...

Reducere. A clear and concise A-to-Z of keywords that echo our current human rights crisis As millions are forced to leave their nations of origin as a resul...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: W. E. B. Du BoisEditor: Nahum Dimitri ChandlerThis volume assembles essential essays--some published only posthumously, oth...

Reducere. Tells the story of the building of the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium, a story of history, politics, science, and explor...