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Minor Complications: Two Plays
In a world where hilarity and heartbreak are next-door neighbors, minor complications inevitably arise. In this first collection of plays by Brendan...
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Winning Strategies for the Indian Market
The essays in this collection focus primarily on six major business sectors in India: airlines, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, hospitality, food, and...
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At Home with André and Simone Weil
Translated from the French by Benjamin Ivry Simone Weil was one of the twentieth century’s most original philosopher-critics, and as a result her...
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Just Assassins
Just Assassins examines terrorism as it’s manifested in Russian culture past and present, with essays devoted to Russian literature, film, and...
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Murder and Its Consequences
The essays in Murder and Its Consequences span several periods in the history of capital punishment in America and the professional career of Leigh...
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Institution and Passivity
Institution and Passivity is based on course notes for classes taught at the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris. Philosophically, this collection...
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Beyond Symbolism and Surrealism
The great modernist eccentric Alexei Remizov was a “writers’ writer” whose innovative poetic prose has long since entered the Russian literary...
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Freedom to Self-Destruct
Four decades of essays illuminate the ideas and influence of this poet, lecturer, publisher, and founder of numerous writing programs to train black...
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Can Virtue Make Us Happy? The Art of Living and Morality
Can one be happy and free, and nonetheless be moral? This question occurs at the core of daily life and is, as well, a question as old as philosophy...
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Kierkegaard as Phenomenologist
Kierkegaard has undoubtedly been an influence on phenomenological thinking, but he has rarely if ever been read as a phenomenologist himself. Recent...
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Child Psychology and Pedagogy
Maurice Merleau-Ponty is one of the few major phenomenologists to engage extensively with empirical research in the sciences, and the only one to...
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The First: President Barack Obama
Noted African American journalist Roland Martin takes readers back down President Barack Obama’s campaign trail in this chronological journal of...
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Learning to Perform: An Introduction
In Learning to Perform Carol Simpson Stern and Bruce Henderson enliven the dialogue between theory and practice for actors and teachers alike....
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Child Psychology and Pedagogy
Maurice Merleau-Ponty is one of the few major phenomenologists to engage extensively with empirical research in the sciences, and the only one to...
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Three Sons
Franz Kafka was a self-conscious writer whose texts were highly if mysteriously autobiographical. Three giants of contemporary fiction—J. M....
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Through the Stonecutter
The inaugural winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, Indigo Moor’s Through the Stonecutter’s Window is a sustained...
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Harriet Jacobs - A Play
Throughout her meteoric rise into the upper ranks of young playwrights, Lydia R. Diamond has boldly challenged assumptions about African American...
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The Third Body
In The Third Body, the poet, novelist, feminist critic, and theorist HÉlÈne Cixous interweaves a loose narrative line with anecdotes,...
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Constraining Chance
A token of the world’s instability and of human powerlessness, chance is inevitably a crucial literary theme. It also presents formal problems:...
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Constraining Chance
A token of the world’s instability and of human powerlessness, chance is inevitably a crucial literary theme. It also presents formal problems:...
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The Trace of Judaism
The defining quality of Russian literature, for most critics, is its ethical seriousness expressed through formal originality. The Trace of Judaism...
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Crossing the Sierra de Gredos - A Novel
On the outskirts of a European riverport city lives a powerful woman banker, a public figure admired and hated in equal measure, who has decided to...
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Published Poems
Although he surprised the world in 1866 with his first published book of poetry, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, Herman Melville had long been...
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