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By integrating the analysis of conversation with ethnography, Marjorie Harness Goodwin systematically and empirically reveals how a group of urban black children constitute their social world through talk.

Material culture in Eastern Europe under state socialism is remembered as uniformly gray, shabby, and monotonous-the worst of postwar modernist architecture and design. Politics in Color and Concrete revisits this history by exploring domestic space in Hungary from the 1950s through the 1990s and reconstructs the multi-textured and politicized aesthetics of daily life through the objects, spaces, and colors that made up this lived environment. Krisztina Fehervary shows that contemporary standards of living and ideas about normalcy have roots in late socialist consumer culture and are not merely products of postsocialist transitions or neoliberalism. This engaging study decenters conventional perspectives on consumer capitalism, home ownership, and citizenship in the new Europe.

Proposes a new and richly detailed engagement between Judaism and the political.

A historical, spiritual, and literary portrait of a remarkable nineteenth-century African Muslim woman. This book provides a glimpse into the West African Muslim community at a pivotal point in its history.

In this new edition Musa views Dante's intention as one of cruel and comic commentary on the shallowness and self-pity of his protagonist, who only occasionally glimpses the true nature of love. ... the explication de texte which accompanies [Musa's] translation is instructively novel, always admirable.... This present work offers English readers a lengthy appraisal which should figure in future scholarly discussions."e; -Choice

The work of French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty touches on some of the most essential and vital concerns of the world today, yet his ideas are notoriously difficult and not widely understood. This work redresses this problem by offering a carefully argued, critical appreciation of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy.

Takes up the various guises and settings in which stone appears. This work is attentive not only to what certain philosophers such as Hegel and Heidegger have said of beauty and of stone, but also to what they have written on their travels to the Alps, to the great cathedrals of Europe, or to the temples of Greece.

A novel and provocative contribution to the current debate about the nature and meaning of Marx's thought

Traces the origins of Israeli militarism and examines the sociological phenomenon of the civilian adoption of military solutions to political problems. This title sheds light on the charged relations, especially between Israel's founding fathers and the omilitarized' native-born generation that came of age in the 1930s and 40s.

The piano teaching methods of Franz Liszt

Suitable for armchair detectives with a penchant for logical reflection and Peirce scholars.

A commentary on the political culture of the BaKongo of Lower Congo by a well-known anthropologist.

A polemical anthology of criticism that seeks to redraw the boundaries of the study of romanticism and question romanticism's suppression of the feminine, the material, and the collective, and its opposition to readings centring on these concerns

The PEIRCE EDITION contains large sections of previously unpublishedmaterial in addition to selected published works. Each volume includes a briefhistorical and biographical introduction, extensive editorial and textual notes, anda full chronological list of all of Peirce's writings, published and unpublished, during the period covered.

A collection of plays that focus on women's view of lynching. It reveals a social history of interracial cooperation between black and white women and an artistic tradition that continues to evolve through the work of African American women artists. It includes examples of both one-act and full-length dramas.

Investigates Muslim politics and society in 19th-century West Africa. This book presents a study that revises late-19th-century colonialist assumptions about a West African Muslim social movement. Using indigenous Arabic manuscripts, travel narratives, and oral materials, it assesses the meaning of a series of revolts against Islamic authority.

Features examples from the writings of Kierkegaard, Freud, Heidegger, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, and Tolstoi that illuminates the author's thesis that guilt and death are the central problems of human existence.

Reflects on the writings and testimonies that shed light on the veiled aspects of totalitarianism, dehumanisation, and atrocity. Identifying key themes that recur in the narratives - arrest, the stages of trial, imprisonment, escape, and more - the author discusses the historical, political, and social contexts of accounts of the Gulag experience.

Deciphers the symbolic world of Lithuanian mythology. This book discusses the concepts of life and death, fate and fortune. It describes the codes used by farmers to organize systems of mutual obligations and implicit contracts. It examines pranks and games that are associated with agrarian seasonal changes.

A translation with introduction of the first ethnographic and semiotic study of gesture in daily life.

Examines the creation and the conflict behind the creation of sacred space in America. This book contains essays on places in America where economic, political, and social forces clash over the sacred and the profane, from wilderness areas in the American West to the Mall in Washington, DC. It investigates visions of America as a sacred space.

Talks about the origin of semiotics and sign theory. This book reconsiders the semiotic practices and the theoretical considerations of the sign which were developed in the ancient world and have come down to us through literary, philosophical, medical, historical, and rhetorical traditions.

Looks at ways in which feminist and queer theory complement and also contest each other. This volume focuses on the encounters of feminist and queer theories, on the ways in which basic terms such as male and female, man and woman, black, white, sex, gender, and sexuality change meaning as they move from one body of theory to another.

A comprehensive critical study of the 315 extant melodies of the troubadours of Occitania. It begins with an overview of their social and political milieu in the 12th and 13th centuries and then, provides brief biographies of the 42 troubadours whose music survives.

Assess women as women, as they actually appear in the laws, in works written by women, and in canonical literature. This book contains essays that address, correct, and round out the nineteenth-century Anglo-Saxon critical tradition. It also explores the women in Old English literature.

Presents a systematic account of Peirce's theory, including the role of semiotic in the system of sciences, with an analysis of its three main branches - grammar, critical logic, and universal rhetoric.

Lists nearly 1,000 solo piano compositions for the left hand, as well as solos for the right hand alone, and concertos and chamber pieces with piano parts for one, three, and five hands. This is a useful source for pianists, teachers in need of challenging one-hand materials, and players who have sustained injuries to either left or right hand.

Presents a close-up on one of Africa's most popular and controversial stars.

Claims that we are not born into this world hard-wired to know Being, Truth, or the Good, and we are not vessels of a Divine, or other omnipotent supernatural force. This animated study by one of America's leading continental philosophers equally tears down and resuscitates religion and philosophy.

Focuses on what the author once called 'the cancer of uncontrolled interpretation' - that is, the belief that many interpreters have gone too far in their domination of texts, thereby destroying meaning and the basis for communication. This book begins with four theoretical essays dealing with various aspects of interpretive theory.