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A comprehensive account of all major trends in Russian interwar literary theory and its wider impact in our post-deconstruction and world literature era, this book attempts to answer two fundamental questions: What does it mean to think about literature theoretically, and what happens to literary theory when it is no longer available as an option?

In recent years, members of minority religions and atheists have rightly taken advantage of Supreme Court decisions that open up government funding, institutions, and property to participate in public life alongside the Christian majority. Jay Wexler argues for the importance of this movement and travels around the country to meet some of the people on its front line.

Volume 14 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche presents the very first translation into English of the philosopher's unpublished notebooks from the period in which he began working on what he considered his best known and most important work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

This book revisits and revises some of the most basic concepts of time in the Judeo-Christian tradition, drawing on St. Paul's writings to rethink a new kind of radical faith in truth as an event, as the advent of the incalculable, a modality that remakes the pairing religious/secular.

In this book, one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers considers the status of art in the modern era. He probes the meaning and historical consequences of the indefinite continuation of art in what Hegel called a "self-annulling" mode, in the process offering an imaginative reinterpretation of the history of aesthetics from Kant to Heidegger.

Boom Towns presents a bold analysis of the decline of American cities and a guide to restoring their vitality. Stephen J.K. Walters argues that urban leaders must enforce property rights in order to prevent the loss of vital capital - physical, human, and social - that helps cities and their residents to flourish.

This book charts the development of the social sciences-anthropology, human geography, and demography-in colonial and postcolonial Egypt, exploring the broader significance of knowledge production and its relationship to colonialist and nationalist ideologies.

Glory and Agony is the first history of the shifting attitudes toward national sacrifice, violence, and victimage in Hebrew culture over the last century.

A revisionist and highly readable social and legal history of spousal murder in Spain, Colombia and Mexico, challenging dominant notions about the evolution of punishment and the character of legal, ethnic and gender relations and the culture of honor in the late colonial Spanish Atlantic.

A study of the emergence of unified dating, calculation of elapsed time to establish an era from the creation of the world, this book is a historical challenge to the prejudice saying that Jews dismissed history after the destruction of the Second Temple and the completion of the Talmud.

Consists of two chapters from the authors' 15 sports myths and why they're wrong.

In developing a gender theory for analysing Samuel Richardson's three novels - "Pamela", "Clarissa", and "Sir Charles Grandison" - the author argues that these novels of sexual threat sometimes expose the extraordinary labour required to construct and maintain the 18th-century ideology of gender.

In this provocative and timely reading of Emile Durkheim the author isolates the merits and liabilities of both liberal and communitarian theories and demonstrates that we need not be in the position of having to choose between them.

This book examines the vibrant twentieth-century political history of rural Ayacucho, the region where Shining Path militants launched a bloody armed struggle in 1980.

Investigates the emerging, new sexual culture of Iranian youth, in which sexuality represents freedom and engaging in sex can be considered political activism.

A study of Anglo-American cultural and countercultural exchange from the mid Fifties to the mid-Seventies, Special Relations explores aspects of London modernism, the anti-war movement, student rebellion, black power, the second-wave feminist and gay liberation movements, and transatlantic nostalgia.

Introductory Econometrics attempts to distill econometrics into a form that preserves its essence, but that is acceptable-and even appealing-to the student's intellectual palate. Using select innovations in presentation and practice, this text aims to engage readers, familiarize them with basic econometrics, and encourage the responsible and insightful application of economic tools.

Uncommon Schools explores the emergence of postsecondary institutions for indigenous peoples worldwide over the past fifty years.

National Treasures explores the fate of French art and heritage during the Nazi occupation of France, revealing the roots of contemporary cultural policy in the Vichy era and exposing a hidden convergence of resistance and collaboration in French museology.

As the first book-length study of the Yongming poets, this book focuses on unraveling the complexity and hybridity of the poetic voices beneath their seemingly "technical" pursuit of prosodic innovation.

Treats our "National Conversation on Race" as a site for cultural analysis, examining a watershed year of news stories that challenged our notions of what is racial-or not.

Using a rich array of examples, this book clearly and simply shows how a host of diverse events can be explained and predicted using statistics and tools from social science. The text moves from a discussion of formulating theories about real world phenomena to lessons on how to analyze data, test theories, and make predictions.

Riding the Black Ram demonstrates how, despite the changing nature of the relationship between law and literature, gender stereotypes regarding the figure of the unruly woman persist.

Your Money and Your Life helps readers to make the right financial decisions, at the right time of their lives, in an efficient and cost effective way with an eye towards today's economic environment.