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A World of Fragile Things: Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living (Book)

Mari Ruti

ISBN:9781438427164

How are our lives meaningful? What is the relationship of loss to creativity? How can we best engage and overcome our suffering? From Socrates to Foucault...more details
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Africa Writes Back to Self: Metafiction, Gender, Sexuality (Book)

Evan Mwangi

ISBN:9781438426815

The profound effects of colonialism and its legacies on African cultures have led postcolonial scholars of recent African literature to characterize contemporary African novels as...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:346

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Antipodal England: Emigration and Portable Domesticity in the Victorian Imagination (Book)

Janet C Myers

ISBN:9781438427133

A common subplot in the Victorian novel involves fictional emigrants who disappear into or arrive from the colonies in ways that facilitate plot development but do little to represent the condition of colonial life...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:192

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Asian Texts Asian Contexts: Encounters with Asian Philosophies and Religions (Book)

David Jones

ISBN:9781438426761

In an increasingly global society, non-Western thought can no longer be an afterthought for educators and their students. Asian Texts -- Asian Contexts helps bring Asian philosophy and religion into wider classroom consideration by giving nonspecialists entree to primary texts from India...more details
Format:Paperback Pages:287

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Awareness Bound and Unbound: Buddhist Essays (Book)

David Loy

ISBN:9781438426808

What do we need to do to become truly comfortable--at one--with our lives here and now? In these essays, Buddhist social critic and philosopher David R. Loy discusses liberation not from the world...more details
Format:Paperback Pages:208

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Biotechnology: Our Future as Human Beings and Citizens (Book)

Sean D Sutton

ISBN:9781438426860

An essential introduction to a controversial yet crucial field of research, Biotechnology surveys recent advances in the field and offers a wide range of opinions for and against expanding this new branch of science. Incisively examining such key topics as therapeutic cloning...more details
Format:Paperback Pages:198

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Borders and Scrolls: Early American Brush-Stroke Wall Painting, 1790-1820 (Book)

Margaret Coffin

ISBN:9780939072088

Borders and Scrolls provides a fascinating glimpse of domestic wall painting in the historic Northeast. It looks in detail at how and why Americans in New York...more details
Format:Paperback Pages:69

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Bound by the City: Greek Tragedy, Sexual Difference, and the Formation of the Polis (Book)

Denise Eileen McCoskey

ISBN:9781438427119

This collection offers a vibrant exploration of the bonds between sexual difference and political structure in Greek tragedy. In looking at how the acts of violence and tortured kinship relations are depicted in the work of all three major Greek tragic playwrights--Aeschylus...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:344

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Cast with Style: Nineteenth Century Cast-Iron Stoves from the Albany Area, Revised Edition (Book)

Tammis K Groft

ISBN:9780939072033

The Albany Institute of History and Art is nationally known for its excellent collection of nineteenth-century cast-iron stoves, and some of the finest pieces from that collection are featured in this classic volume....more details
Format:Paperback Pages:122

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China and the International System, 1840-1949: Power, Presence, and Perceptions in a Century of Humiliation (Book)

David Scott

ISBN:9780791476284

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City of Rhetoric: Revitalizing the Public Sphere in Metropolitan America (Book)

David Fleming

ISBN:9780791476505

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Contemporary American Federalism: The Growth of National Power, Second Edition (Book)

Joseph F Zimmerman

ISBN:9780791475966

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Destination Dictatorship: The Spectacle of Spain's Tourist Boom and the Reinvention of Difference (Book)

Justin Crumbaugh

ISBN:9781438426655

When the right-wing military dictatorship of Francisco Franco decided in 1959 to devalue the Spanish currency and liberalize the economy, the country's already steadily growing tourist industry suddenly ballooned to astounding proportions. Throughout the 1960s...more details
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Dutch Trade and Ceramics in America in the Seventeenth Century (Book)

Charlotte Wilcoxen

ISBN:9780939072095

This fascinating book was the first in English to provide specific information on the various types of Dutch ceramics used by Dutch, English...more details
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Explorers, Fortunes and Love Letters: A Window on New Netherland (Book)

New Netherland Institute

ISBN:9780962536854

When Henry Hudson, sailing on the Half Moon for the Dutch East India Company, first laid eyes on the entrance to the Hudson River in 1609, a world of seemingly infinite possibilities lay before him and his crew. In 1624 the Dutch would take advantage of these opportunities and create the colony of New Netherland...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:172

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Freshwater Resources and Interstate Cooperation: Strategies to Mitigate an Environmental Risk (Book)

Frederick D Gordon

ISBN:9780791476369

Examines state cooperation over increasingly scarce water resources....more details
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From Stonecutter to Sculptor: Charles Calverley, 1833-1914 (Book)

Elizabeth K Allen

ISBN:9780939072125

The first book-length look at one of upstate New York's most notable artists, From Stonecutter to Sculptor traces the long and prolific career of Charles Calverley...more details
Format:Paperback Pages:27

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German Folk Arts of New York State (Book)

Maryann De Julio

ISBN:9780939072040

The detailed description and analysis of these craft traditions offer a powerful and unique glimpse of German settlers in New York State and reveal their long-standing influence on the history of the region....more details
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Horsing Around: 19th Century Cast Iron Hitching Posts (Book)

W Douglas McCombs

ISBN:9780939072170

This catalogue highlights the extraordinary collection of cast-iron hitching posts owned by Phil and Bunny Savino and exhibited in 2008 by the Albany Institute of History and Art. In addition to new scholarship...more details
Format:Paperback Pages:58

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Intellectual Capital: The Intangible Assets of Professional Development Schools (Book)

Carol G Basile

ISBN:9781438426617

A Professional Development School (PDS) offers unique university-school relationships that can change the culture of learning and add value to students and the community. Initially created in the 1980s...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:138

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Jacques Derrida's Ghost: A Conjuration (Book)

David Appelbaum

ISBN:9780791476086

In Jacques Derrida's Ghost, David Appelbaum explores three of Derrida's favorite themes: the other, death, and the work of mourning. He shows how Derrida's unique philosophy...more details
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Letters to a Best Friend (Book)

Richard Selzer

ISBN:9781438427218

In 1988, when author and former surgeon Richard Selzer answered a letter from Peter Josyph, a New York artist he had met, he did not know that he was embarking on the most enduring correspondence of his life. In thousands of letters...more details
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Logic as the Question Concerning the Essence of Language (Book)

Martin Heidegger

ISBN:9781438426747

This first English translation of Logik als die Frage nach dem Wesen der Sprache, volume 38 of Martin Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe, contains novel ideas on logic and language that are important for anyone wishing to think beyond traditional views of language and logic. Based on student transcripts of Heidegger's lectures and manuscripts for a 1934 summer course...more details
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Meditations of Global First Philosophy: Quest for the Missing Grammar of Logos (Book)

Ashok K Gangadean

ISBN:9780791476062

Traces the roots of logos in different cultural milieux....more details
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Merleau-Ponty and the Possibilities of Philosophy: Transforming the Tradition (Book)

Bernard Flynn

ISBN:9781438426693

Maurice Merleau-Ponty is arguably the preeminent French philosopher of the last century, and interest in his thought is growing exponentially. This volume celebrates and interrogates the thought of Merleau-Ponty by drawing upon both classic and state-of-the-art assessments...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:300

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Miracle as Modern Conundrum in South Asian Religious Traditions (Book)

Selva J Raj

ISBN:9780791476345

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Montesquieu and His Legacy (Book)

Rebecca E Kingston

ISBN:9780791476222

Essays on Montesquieu and the influence of his thought from the eighteenth century to today....more details
Format:Paperback Pages:336

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New World Dutch Studies: Dutch Arts and Culture in Colonial America, 1609-1776 (Book)

Roderic H Blackburn

ISBN:9780939072101

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New York State and the Rise of Modern Conservatism: Redrawing Party Lines (Book)

Timothy J Sullivan

ISBN:9780791476444

From the early 1960s until 1980 New York's Conservative and Republican Parties battled on the editorial page, at the ballot box, and in the courts over the ideology of the GOP. New York State and the Rise of Modern Conservatism recounts the story of how New York...more details
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Old Nations, New Voters: Nationalism, Transnationalism, and Democracy in the Era of Global Migration (Book)

David C Earnest

ISBN:9780791476147

Groundbreaking empirical study of voting by resident aliens in established democracies....more details
Format:Paperback Pages:212

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Onto-Ethologies: The Animal Environments of Uexk?ll, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze (Book)

Brett Buchanan

ISBN:9780791476123

German biologist Jakob von Uexkull focused on how an animal, through its behavioral relations, both impacts and is impacted by its own unique environment. Onto-Ethologies traces the influence of Uexkull's ideas on the thought of Martin Heidegger...more details
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Open-Air Sketching: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Drawings in the Albany Institute of History and Art (Book)

Elizabeth K Allen

ISBN:9780939072132

Showcased in these pages are nineteenth-century American drawings by Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Sanford Gifford, Jasper Cropsey, William Stanley Haseltine...more details
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Paul Cushman: The Work and World of an Early 19th Century Albany Potter (Book)

Albany Institute of History and Art

ISBN:9780939072156

Paul Cushman (1767-1833) is recognized today as one of the founders of a regional stoneware industry that stretched throughout the upper Hudson River valley of New York State. When Cushman moved to Albany around 1800...more details
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Remembrance of Patria: Dutch Arts and Culture in Colonial America, 1609-1776 (Book)

Roderic H Blackburn

ISBN:9780939072064

This landmark volume, originating in a major exhibit commemorating the tricentennial of the city of Albany, uncovers the range of Dutch colonial experience in America through some 350 objects: paintings...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:286

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Schelling's Dialogical Freedom Essay: Provocative Philosophy Then and Now (Book)

Bernard Freydberg

ISBN:9780791476048

Explores Schellings Essay on Human Freedom, focusing on the themes of freedom, evil, and love, and the relationship between his ideas and those of Plato and Kant....more details
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Sisters Outside: Radical Activists Working for Women Prisoners (Book)

Jodie Michelle Lawston

ISBN:9781438427096

How can radical women activists for women prisoners be a "voice and a presence" for people so different from themselves? The radical activists who envision a postprison society are predominantly white...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:159

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The Death of Empedocles: A Mourning-Play (Book)

Friedrich H'Olderlin

ISBN:9780791476482

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The Gita Within Walden (Book)

Paul Friedrich

ISBN:9780791476185

Looks at the connections between Thoreau's Walden and the work that influenced it, the Bhagavad-Gita....more details
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The New Response: Contemporary Painters of the Hudson River (Book)

John Yau

ISBN:9780939072057

Contemporary landscape painters of the legendary Hudson River Valley are featured in this breathtaking and fascinating collection. Beginning with Thomas Cole's travel into the Kaaterskill Clove in 1825...more details
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The Participatory Turn: Spirituality, Mysticism, Religious Studies (Book)

Jorge N Ferrer

ISBN:9780791476024

Cuts through traditional debates to argue that religious phenomena are cocreated by human cognition and a generative spiritual power....more details
Format:Paperback Pages:388

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The Problem of Free Harmony in Kant's Aesthetics (Book)

Kenneth F Rogerson

ISBN:9780791476260

In this book, Kenneth F. Rogerson explores the first half of Kant's Critique of Judgment, entitled the "Critique of Aesthetic Judgment." Rogerson provides an interpretation of arguably the most important issue in Kant's aesthetic theory...more details
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Toward Filipino Self-Determination: Beyond Transnational Globalization (Book)

Epifanio San Juan

ISBN:9781438427232

Granted formal independence in 1946, the Philippines serves as a battleground between the neoliberal project of capitalist globalization and the enduring aspiration of Filipinos for national self-determination...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:184

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Tragedy and Citizenship: Conflict, Reconciliation, and Democracy from Haemon to Hegel (Book)

Derek W M Barker

ISBN:9780791476307

Derek W. M. Barker reads the history of political thought as a contest between the tragic view of politics that accepts conflict and uncertainty...more details
Format:Paperback Pages:187

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Transporting Atlanta: The Mode of Mobility Under Construction (Book)

Miriam Fiedler Konrad

ISBN:9781438426778

America's worsening nightmare of gridlock is given full attention in this illuminating study of the transportation crisis in Atlanta. Inconveniences and hardships created by too many automobiles and too few alternatives for movement have reached untenable levels...more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:207