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Illuminates the debate on the nature of virtue and ultimate reality Tibetan Buddhist thinkers agree that, on the most fundamental level, our nature is pure. What exactly that ultimate nature is,...

A new look at the Black Virginians who defined and realized their freedom after the collapse of slavery "Verily, the work does not end with the abolition of slavery," wrote Frederick Douglass in...

The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. At the center of this historic confrontation was Abraham Lincoln. By the time this...

An indispensable collection of Buddhist devotional poems and songs Longing to Awaken features twenty-two translations of Buddhist devotional poems and songs composed by revered Tibetan masters from...

This book considers representations of love in literature and culture as well as love as a relationship to literature and culture--Author: Rita Felski, Camilla SchwartzPublisher: University of...

The look of love . . . through an analytic lens Long treated with skepticism in literary and cultural studies, love - as a subject of serious scholarly inquiry - is now attracting intense interest...

Uncovering the history and examining the legacy of lynching in the state of Virginia Although not as associated with lynching as other southern states, Virginia has a tragically extensive history...

A martial arts practitioner suggests there is a sense in which meditation may in turn be considered a form of combat, citing a variety of spiritual disciplines that employ the heavy use of martial...

Examining important works of English literature through the lens of anthropology's revised narrative of the Agricultural Trap, considers whether central aspects of The Tempest, Robinson Crusoe,...

An auto-fictional novel that relates a year-long period in the life of Richard Denizan, avatar of the renowned Haitian writer and former socialist militant Ren?Depestre. Related in the...

Although he has largely receded from the public consciousness, John Mitchell Jr., the editor and publisher of the Richmond Planet, was well known to many black, and not a few white, Americans in his...

This book tells the story of racial integration at the United States Military Academy after the Civil War and spotlights the social environment and cultural currents that led to its failure--Author:...

Racism in American Public Life: A Call to Action is part of The Malcolm Lester Phi Beta Kappa Lectures on Liberal Arts and Public Life. Cole examines the influence of race and racism on education,...

How Calvinist theology helps us read characters in the early British novel, shedding new light on the origins of modern secularism The strangeness of fictional characters in the eighteenth-century...

Amitai Etzioni has made his reputation by transcending unwieldy, and even dangerous, binaries such as left/right or globalism/nativism. In his new book, Etzioni calls for nothing less than a social...

Apart from a handful of exotic--and almost completely unreliable--tales surrounding his life, Richard Potter is almost unknown today. Two hundred years ago, however, he was the most popular...

How Methodist settlers in the American West acted as agents of empire In the early years of American independence, Methodism emerged as the new republic's fastest growing religious movement and its...

In the early 1790s Richard Randolph was accused of fathering a child by his sister-in-law Nancy and murdering the baby shortly after its birth. Rumors about the incident, which occurred during a...

This book examines the role of religion in the formation of Tibetan national identity through the impact of the autobiography of the renowned yogi Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol--Author: Rachel H...

Most treatments of slavery, politics, and expansion in the early American republic focus narrowly on congressional debates and the inaction of elite "founding fathers" such as Thomas Jefferson and...

Suck-up. Ass-kisser. Brownnoser. Bootlicker. Lickspittle. Toadeater... Found in every walk of life, both real and imagined, sycophants surround us. But whether we grumble about sycophancy or...

In August 2017, violence erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia, during two days of demonstrations by white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and counterprotesters, including members of antifa and Black Lives...

James Salter?s exalted place in American letters is based largely on the intense admiration of other writers, but his work resonates far beyond the realm of fellow craftsmen, addressing...

This book offers an explanation of the primary form of meditation in the Tantric Buddhism of Tibet, including the first English-language translation of a treatise on this practice by one of Tibet's...

This book offers an explanation of the primary form of meditation in the Tantric Buddhism of Tibet, including the first English-language translation of a treatise on this practice by one of Tibet's...

Offers a new history of ecology that traces the science back to narrative storytelling. Weaving together the histories of ecology, economics, and the realist novel, The Ecological Plot shows how...

Author: Michael NelsonPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublication Date: Jun 15, 2021Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0813946182ISBN-13: 9780813946184

A fundamental component of Britain's early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat--it helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed seamen were second only to enslaved...

Explores how Wendell Berry, Carlo Petrini, and Alice Waters changed America's relationship with food over the past fifty years, weaving in stories of the author's experiences farming in Wisconsin,...

In this dual biography of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, constitutional law scholar Steven K. Green demonstrates how their commitment to advancing religious freedom arose chiefly out of larger...