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American Indian Literary NationalismIn a contentious field characterized by divergence of opinion, American Indian Literary Nationalism intervenes in recent controversial debates on the role of hybridity, suggesting common sense strategies rooted in the material realities of various communities. These essays deal with issues the authors have been...
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Creating Charismatic Bonds in Argentina: Letters to Juan and Eva PerónIn collecting hundreds of letters to Juan and Eva by everyday people as well as from correspondence solicited by Juan Per 3n, this book promotes a view that charismatic bonds in Argentina have been formed as much by Argentines as by their leaders, demonstrating...
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The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property: Whose Culture? Whose Property?The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) has brought into sharp relief the conflicts among public and private collectors, scholars, and indigenous peoples over the provenience and disposition of cultural property, especially archaeological remains. First published in 1989 and now updated and...
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Tangled Destinies: Latin America and the United StatesAn imbalance of power and a sense of unresolved tension have long plagued relations between the United States and Latin America. This book offers an important new synthesis of that complex relationship by studying how actions and policies of the United States have been...
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The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millennium Volume 1The Strange Death of Marxism seeks to refute certain misconceptions about the current European Left and its relation to Marxist and Marxist-Leninist parties that existed in the recent past. Among the misconceptions that the book treats critically and in detail is that the Post-Marxist...
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Health Care Politics, Policy, and Services: A Social Justice AnalysisThis AJN award-winning textbook helps readers understand and critically assess the U.S. health care system and policies. With a focus on the prevalence of disparities in health and health care, the book reviews the historical evolution and organization of our health care system. Several...
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Understanding Psychosocial Adjustment to Chronic Illness and Disability: A Handbook for Evidence-Based Practitioners in RehabilitationRehabilitation practitioners face the difficult task of helping clients adjust to chronic illness or disability. This can be a long and trying process for both practitioner and client. With this handbook, however, practitioners and students can gain a wealth of insight into the critical...
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Performing the Great Peace: Political Space and Open Secrets in Tokugawa JapanPerforming the Great Peace offers a cultural approach to understanding the politics of the Tokugawa period, at the same time deconstructing some of the assumptions of modern national historiographies. Deploying the political terms uchi (inside), omote (ritual interface), and naisho (informal negotiation)--all commonly used...
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Shultz: Generals and Scholars PaperGenerals and Scholars is the first work in English to examine fully military rule during the Koryo. Although it lasted for only a century, the period was one of dynamic change--a time of institutional development, social transformation, and the reassertion of the civil service...
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The Best Course AvailableThis volume affords a fascinating and rare look at the sensitive issue of nuclear diplomacy between two critical Cold War allies, the United States and Japan, during the 1960s. Challenging the silence of the official bureaucracies in Washington and Tokyo, Wakaizumi Kei reveals the...
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Hawaii Islands Under the InfluenceWhen this book first appeared, it opened a new and innovative perspective on Hawaii's history and contemporary dilemmas. Now, several decades later, its themes of dependency, mis-development, and elitism dominate Hawaii's economic evolution more than ever. The author updates his study with an overview...
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Nan'yō: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885-1945"[Peattie's] remarkably readable narrative goes far beyond military and diplomatic history." --Choice "Peattie's comprehensive and fascinating book adds greatly to our knowledge of colonial governments in general, the Japanese empire in particular, and the global significance of the Pacific Islands." --The Contemporary Pacific"The significance...
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Grave Attending: A Political Theology for the Unredeemed"This is a book about what it would mean to be a bit moody in the midst of being theological and political. Its framing assumption is that neoliberal economics relies on narratives in which not being in the right mood means a cursed existence."...
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A Worldly Affair: New York, the United Nations, and the Story Behind Their Unlikely BondFor more than seven decades, New York City and the United Nations have shared the island of Manhattan, living and working together in a bond that has been likened to a long marriage--both tempestuous and supportive, quarrelsome and committed. A Worldly Affair tells the...
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Neighborhood Success Stories: Creating and Sustaining Affordable Housing in New YorkThe high cost of building affordable housing in New York, and cities like it, has long been a topic of urgent debate. Yet despite its paramount importance and the endless work of public and private groups to find ways to provide it, affordable housing...
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Disappointment: Toward a Critical Hermeneutics of WorldbuildingIncreasingly, anthropologists, political theorists and philosophers are calling for imaginative and creative analyses and theories that might help us think and bring about an otherwise. Disappointment responds to this call by showing how collaboration between an anthropologist and a political movement of marginalized peoples...
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Foucault's Critical EthicsThe central thesis of Foucault's Critical Ethics is that Foucault's account of power does not foreclose the possibility of ethics; on the contrary, it provides a framework within which ethics becomes possible. Tracing the evolution of Foucault's analysis of power from his early articulations...
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Two: The Machine of Political Theology and the Place of ThoughtThe debate on "political theology" that ran throughout the twentieth century has reached its end, but the ultimate meaning of the notion continues to evade us. Despite all the attempts to resolve the issue, we still speak its language--we remain in its horizon. The...
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Categories of the ImpoliticalThe notion of the "impolitical" developed in this volume draws its meaning from the exhaustion of modernity's political categories, which have become incapable of giving voice to any genuinely radical perspective. The impolitical is not the opposite of the political but rather its outer...
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Living Together: Jacques Derrida's Communities of Violence and PeaceFor Jacques Derrida, the notions and experiences of "community," "living," and "together" never ceased to harbor radical, in fact infinite interrogations. The oftenanguished question of how to "live together" moved Derrida throughout his oeuvre, animating his sustained reflections on hospitality, friendship, responsibility, justice, forgiveness,...
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