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This book explores the profound cultural impact of the civil service examinations during the period when they first became the primary means of government recruitment.

This book uses modern mathematical metaphors to better understand religion and philosophy.

This is a new view of the role of power in social evolution. It shows how, as human societies evolved, intersocietal conflicts necessarily developed, and how humanity can choose peace over war.

Presents the contemporary religious crisis in India, providing historical perspective and focusing on the crises in Punjab, Kashmir, and Ayodhya.

This book examines the fast-changing patterns of work in the global market and the resulting social, cultural, and economic impact on the work force.

This book deals with the issue of gender in Jewish mysticism showing the thematic correlation of eroticism and esotericism that is central to the kabbalah.

This anthology is intended to supplement courses in which Japanese aesthetics and culture are taught. The essays assume little background knowledge; they do represent seminal thought in literary, cultural, and aesthetic criticism, and are well known to scholars for their clarity and straightforward exposition, making them especially useful to the Westerner who does not speak Japanese.Some of the essays provide a general introduction to the basic theories of Japanese aesthetics, others deal with poetry and theater, and a third group discusses cultural phenomena directly related to classic Japanese literature. The text includes notes on historical periods and language, a glossary of the most significant literary and aesthetic vocabulary, and an extensive, annotated bibliography that guides the reader to primary materials, critical studies, general histories, anthologies, encyclopedias, and lists of films and audio-visual materials.

This is a source of reliable information on the most important new and alternative religions covering history, theology, impact on the culture, and current status. It includes a chapter on the Branch Davidians.

This volume 16 of Tabari's great 40-volume history of the Arabs treats the Caliphate of 'Ali I, 656-651

This volume 17 of al-Tabari's great 40-volume history of the Arabs treats the first Civil War, 656-661.

This anthology summarizes and critiques the current knowledge base in the field of educational administration.

Applies European critical theory to North American educational research.

This is an examination of the factors that contribute to the risk of being victimized, such as crime rates and environmental and personal variables.

This is a multicultural philosophy of art applied to common American and European experience and discussed in relation to Taoist, Buddhist, Hindu, Native American, and African traditions.

This book is a book about how individuals decide that arguments (or excuses) are valid or invalid, sound or unsound, strong or weak, ethical or unethical, with many examples and applications.

This basic overview of juvenile delinquency in the United States emphasizes the connection between delinquency and other problems faced by "at risk" children in America.

This is an anthology of essays on citizenship by such well-known theorists as Habermas, Walzer, Flathman, Iris Marion Young, MacIntyre, Ignatieff, and George Armstrong Kelly.

This is a comprehensive account of the religious dimensions of the UFO/flying saucer experience.

This is a fascinating, and disturbing, story of an urban high school's struggle to survive in the post-integration era of educational reform.

This book offers new critical perspectives on the practice of electronic media art, a field that has sparse critical and theoretical literature. It addresses the relationship between technological change and cultural change and between contemporary theory and contemporary technology.

This book shows how the labeling of children as "at-risk" actually perpetuates the inequities, racism, and discrimination facing many families in America.

This is a book on the therapeutic quality of music. Musicians, philosophers, music therapists, and others discuss their experiences.

Postmodern theory at its best--a call for an ecofeminist dialogical method of reading literature and nature.

This is the culmination of a systematic metaphysics written by a world-class philosopher, demonstrating the need for a renewal of metaphysics.

This is the most extensive study of Chin dynasty history in any language. It demonstrates the importance of cultural developments in North China under the Chin (1115-1234).

This book maps the course of human development from the earliest stages of ego development to the highest stages of ego transcendence.

This book summarizes and critiques theories of social and cultural reproduction as they relate to sociology of education.