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Sheds light on one of the most important religious thinkers in the modern Muslim world.

Identifies gender issues affecting students, faculty, and leaders in higher education, applying critical perspectives to suggest needed change.

Uses psychoanalytic theories of learning to explore contemporary issues in education.

Challenges the unexamined belief that sports stadiums, events, and teams in cities are always beneficial to the comunities.

Applies Foucault's ideas to a cultural studies framework.

Explores the work of Guo Xiang, a Neo-Taoist thinker who developed a radical philosophy of freedom and spontaneity.

The first sustained examination of the process by which justices elect to leave the United States Supreme Court.

Explores how religious believers can-and why they should-engage the work of Sigmund Freud, despite his well-known dismissal of faith.

Argues that higher education needs to abandon the "culture wars" if it hopes to address the major crises of the century.

A demographic and ethnographic exploration of how the aging Japanese society is affecting the family.

Explores the ideological underpinnings of school choice and other market-based education reforms.

Documents how even progressive foundations serve to reinforce the political status quo.

Explores the complex nature of truth in Wittgenstein's philosophy.

Explores how whiteness is culturally constructed in American films.

Explores how continental philosophy can inform environmental ethics.

Looks at Islamist movements seeking power today, and the difficult choices they face.

Examines recent Austen remakes as well as other "post-heritage" films and television shows to show how the past is reshaped for a contemporary market.

Seeks to redraw the boundaries between the fields of geology and environmental philosophy.

Examines the effects of globalization on three New York communities-Utica, Cooperstown, and Hartwick.

Extols the virtue of small liberal arts colleges and the liberal arts tradition.

Explores women's place in sport and exercise from a socioculture perspective.

Acknowledgments Introduction I. Memory, History, and Cultural Authority Headnotes 1. Oral History and Hard Times: A Review Essay 2. The Memory of History 3. American History and the Structures of Collective Memory: A Modest Exercise in Empirical Iconography II. Interpretive Authority in Oral History Headnotes 4. Oral History and the Presentation of Class Consciousness: The New York Times v. The Buffalo Unemployed 5. Preparing Interview Transcripts for Documentary Publication: A Line-by-Line Illustration of the Editing Process 6. Presenting and Receiving Oral History across Cultural Space: A Note on Responses of Chinese Students to the Documentary Trilogy One Village in China 7. Oral History, Documentary, and the Mystification of Power: A Critique of Vietnam: A Television History III. A Shared Authority: Scholarship, Audience, and Public Presentation Headnotes 8. Quality in History Programs: From Celebration to Exploration of Values 9. Town Into City: A Reconsideration on the Occasion of Springfield's 350th Anniversary, 1636-1986 10. "Get the Picutre?": A Review Essay 11. Audience Expectations as Resource and Challenge: Ellis Island as a Case Study 12. Urban Public History in Celebratory Contexts: The Example of the "Philadelphia's Moving Past" Project 13. The Presentation of Urban History in Big City Museums Notes

An exploration of Hindu women's folk religion focusing on goddess worship and women's rituals.

Addresses the relationship between modernity and social theory by looking at the works of Parsons, Goffman, and Garfinkel.

Looking for Home: A Phenomenological Study of Home in the Classroom contains stories of children who seek "a home" in the classroom. The book focuses on the extraordinary in the ordinary moments with children in the day-to-day life in the classroom. Sinclaire blends stories of her classroom with remembrances of children to describe vividly the range of learning possible for children, teachers, and parents when the classroom is viewed as a place for becoming at home in the world, not solely as a place of instruction. She supplements these real-life vignettes with insights into teaching, learning, and caring for children so that they become reflections on teaching sufficiently significant to support other teachers in the narratives of their teaching.

Offers historical and present-day perspectives on what English departments do, and how and why they do it.

Explores the lived experience of Christianity in India.

Develops a rigorous theory of narrative as apost-deconstructive model for interpretation.

Argues that classical social theory has its intellectual and moral roots in classical Greece.Winner CHOICE 2003 Outstanding Academic Title"McCarthy's ... erudition may very well render this work a contemporary classic in the continuing discussion of a maturing discipline." - CHOICE