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An exploration of how contemporary Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity preserves and protects sacred ideas and relationships "Ethiopia stretches her hand upon God," the narrative of Sheba and Solomon,...

The Drinking Curriculum : A Cultural History of Childhood and AlcoholAuthor: Elizabeth MarshallPublisher: Fordham University PressPublication Date: Jan 02, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

The K-Effect shows how the roman alphabet has functioned as a standardizing global model for modern print culture. Investigating the history and ongoing effects of romanization, Christopher GoGwilt...

The K-Effect shows how the roman alphabet has functioned as a standardizing global model for modern print culture. Investigating the history and ongoing effects of romanization, Christopher GoGwilt...

A moving journey through the shadows of queer suicide and a tribute to lives marked by struggle and beauty. The Lamentations explores the struggles and resilience within the queer community, offering...

The unlivable is the most extreme point of human suffering and injustice. But what is it exactly? How do we define the unlivable? And what can we do to prevent and repair it? These are the intriguing...

We tend to feel that works of fiction give us special access to lived experience. But how do novels cultivate that feeling? Where exactly does experience reside? The Location of Experience argues...

The Logic of Hatred : From Witch Hunts to the TerrorAuthor: Jacob RogozinskiPublisher: Fordham University PressPublication Date: Feb 06, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The Niqab in France : Between Piety and SubversionAuthor: Agn? de F?Publisher: Fordham University PressPublication Date: Feb 06, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The Planning Moment elaborates the myriad ways that plans and planning practices pervade recent global history. The book's twenty-seven case studies draw attention to the centrality of planning in...

Empires and their aftermaths were massive planning institutions; in the past two hundred years, the natural and social sciences emerged--at least in part--as modes of knowledge production for...

The Play of Goodness provides a phenomenology of creation's goodness. It argues that what is "good" about creation is not synonymous with a confession of faith and does not require an overly...

The Real Fake explores how the users of Thames Town--an English-like village built in Songjiang New Town near Shanghai--negotiate the notion of authenticity through their everyday social and spatial...

Traces the rise of the Molly Maguires from Ireland's devastating potato famine to the turbulent dawn of the American labor movement. With a heavy emphasis on the folk culture that underpinned the...

The Time of the Cannibals rethinks conspiracy theory as an analytic category through a case study set in Cyprus, and proposes a particular kind of cross-contextual comparison as a way out of...

The Time of the Cannibals rethinks conspiracy theory as an analytic category through a case study set in Cyprus, and proposes a particular kind of cross-contextual comparison as a way out of...

Against the fabric of suffering that unfolds around more spectacular injuries and deaths, The War In-Between studies visual depictions of banal, routine, or inscrutable aspects of militarized...

Exploring Latin@ theologies and the power of revelation. The Word Became Culture enacts a preferential option for culture, retrieving experiences and expressions from across latinidad as sources of...

Exploring Latin@ theologies and the power of revelation. The Word Became Culture enacts a preferential option for culture, retrieving experiences and expressions from across latinidad as sources of...

How America's greatest marketing triumph in World War II shaped race, ethnicity, and class in modern America The World War II Bond Campaign is a history of the World War II bond drive led by the...

How America's greatest marketing triumph in World War II shaped race, ethnicity, and class in modern America The World War II Bond Campaign is a history of the World War II bond drive led by the...

Naas's book accompanies and enlightens Derrida's seminar with a particularly hospitable form of commentary whose relaxed ease is a real achievement.--Penelope Deutscher, Northwestern University "This...

Threshold Phenomena reexamines Jacques Derrida's thinking of hospitality, from his well-known writings of the 1990s to his recently-published seminars on the same topic. The book follows Derrida's...

Winner, Grand Prize, French Voices Award In Too Black to Be French, Isabelle Boni-Claverie navigates the complexities of identity, race, and family in a world that constantly questions her belonging...

A primer for those with no previous knowledge of Chinese, this book introduces readers to the fundamentals of classical Chinese poetry through twenty-nine ways of understanding a single poem. "Seeing...

Rediscover the Civil War through the voices that refused to be silenced Unforgettable Sacrifice offers a groundbreaking exploration into the heart of African American memory of the Civil War,...

Rediscover the Civil War through the voices that refused to be silenced Unforgettable Sacrifice offers a groundbreaking exploration into the heart of African American memory of the Civil War,...

Within contemporary theory, the concepts of translation and universality have frequently been associated with different and even opposed philosophical and political projects: watchwords of either...

Within contemporary theory, the concepts of translation and universality have frequently been associated with different and even opposed philosophical and political projects: watchwords of either...

A richly cinematic and compelling look at priest-politicians in Brazil and their religious and secular entanglements What does desire have to reveal about the nature of power? Through a detailed...