Robert E : 1478 books
Homosexuality in Cold War America
Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1997
Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics, Homosexuality in Cold War America examines how gay men in the 1950s resisted pressures to remain in the closet. Robert J. Corber argues that a form of gay male identity emerged in the 1950s that simultaneously drew on...
New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier
Migration and Settlement of Worthington, Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Travelers in Worthington, Ohio, might think they were in a New England town. Old brick buildings line the very edges of the sidewalk, and a picturesque village green is flanked by two church steeples. Like most frontier communities, it reflects the heritage of its founders. In New Englanders on the...
by John Agresto, James W. Ceaser, Daniel E. Cullen
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
The essays in this book reflect on the paradoxical relationship of liberal education and liberal democracy. Liberal education emphasizes knowledge for its own sake, detached from all instrumental purposes. It also aims at liberation from the manifold sources of unfreedom, including political sources....
The Environmental Humanities
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
A concise overview of this multidisciplinary field, presenting key concepts, central issues, and current research, along with concrete examples and case studies.
The emergence of the environmental humanities as an academic discipline early in the twenty-first century reflects the growing conviction...
by Laura A. Smit, Stephen E. Fowl, R. Reno
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible encourages readers to explore how the vital roots of the ancient Christian tradition inform and shape faithfulness today. In this addition to the series, two respected scholars offer a theological reading of Judges and Ruth. As with other volumes in the...
by Robert W. Smith, Donn F. Draeger, Hugh E. Davey
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Donn Draeger was the most influential martial artist/scholar of the 20th century. His more than twenty books and long list of accomplishments support this argument. For this reason, we are publishing this anthology of articles that focus on this outstanding person. Although...
Nature, Politics, and the Arts
Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring’s teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American...
by Sunil Ahuja, Margaret E. Banyan, Peter Bergerson
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
The Roads to Congress 2008 offers readers straightfoward and detailed case studies of the campaigns, candidates, key issues, and outcomes of over one dozen of the most important and interesting races of 2008. This includes both House and Senate campaigns, contests from all regions of the country,...
by Wolfgang Palaver, Nancy Popp, Robert Doran
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
For half a century René Girard’s theories of mimetic desire and scapegoating have captivated the imagination of thinkers and doers in many fields as an incisive look into the human condition, particularly the roots of violence. In a 1993 interview with Rebecca Adams, he highlighted the positive...
by Roger Frie, Bruce Ries, M Guy Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
This volume is the first concentrated effort to offer a philosophical critique of relational and intersubjective perspectives in contemporary psychoanalytic thought. The distinguished group of scholars and clinicians assembled here are largely preoccupied with tracing the theoretical underpinnings...
Structures of Subjectivity
Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology and Contextualism
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Structures of Subjectivity: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology and Contextualism, is a revised and expanded second edition of a work first published in 1984, which was the first systematic presentation of the intersubjective viewpoint – what George Atwood and Robert Stolorow called psychoanalytic...
Prescribing Health
Transcendental Meditation in Contemporary Medical Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Prescribing Health: Transcendental Meditation in Contemporary Medical Care includes important contributions from leading experts on Transcendental Meditation and health, and provides the reader with the most important, cutting edge health research on the effects of Transcendental Meditation (TM) on...
by Charles Mills, Lewis R. Gordon, Anthony Reed
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Literary scholars and historians have long considered W. E. B. Du Bois (1868--1963) an extremely influential writer and a powerful cultural critic. The author of more than one hundred books, hundreds of published articles, and founding editor of the NAACP journal The Crisis, Du Bois has been widely...
Working Intersubjectively
Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
From an overview of the basic principles of intersubjectivity theory, Orange, Atwood, and Stolorow proceed to contextualist critiques of the concept of psychoanalytic technique and of the myth of analytic neutrality. They then examine the intersubjective contexts of extreme states of psychological...