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Catherine Albanese
Kaleidoscope

American Lectures on the History of Religions

There is an abiding tension in American religious history--and in how that history is told--between the pervasive ideology of white supremacy and the reality of a multicultural, multireligious North Ameri…

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Catherine Albanese
Kaleidoscope

American Lectures on the History of Religions

There is an abiding tension in American religious history--and in how that history is told--between the pervasive ideology of white supremacy and the reality of a multicultural, multireligious North Ameri…

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Dan Arnold
A Madhyamaka Reader

Historical Sourcebooks in Classical Indian Thought

Stemming from the works of Nāgārjuna (ca. 150 CE), one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Buddhist philosophy, the Madhyamaka ("Middle Way") tradition flourished for over a thous…

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Dan Arnold
A Madhyamaka Reader

Historical Sourcebooks in Classical Indian Thought

Stemming from the works of Nāgārjuna (ca. 150 CE), one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Buddhist philosophy, the Madhyamaka ("Middle Way") tradition flourished for over a thous…

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Maha Rafi Atal
When Companies Rule

Company towns are back. From Indian oil refineries to Kenyan canned food factories to Amazon warehouses, companies today rule over the daily lives of around a million people. In these enclaves of unregula…

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Maha Rafi Atal
When Companies Rule

Company towns are back. From Indian oil refineries to Kenyan canned food factories to Amazon warehouses, companies today rule over the daily lives of around a million people. In these enclaves of unregula…

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Larry Au
Dreams of Global Science

The idea of global science is aspirational. Access to scientific resources and prestige is unevenly distributed, shaped by inequalities along the lines of nationality and other social categories. Yet this…

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Erika Balsom
The Edges of Cinema

Recent years have seen a panic over the future of mainstream film. Yet film culture is at its most vital on the margins, where the moving image meets visual art, documentary brushes up against experimenta…

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Alex V. Barnard
Mental States

How do states decide who is or is not mentally ill? Alex V. Barnard shows that, beneath the chaotic trajectories of people with mental illness and the fragmented agencies and professionals serving them, t…

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Jean Baudrillard
The Vital Illusion

The Wellek Library Lectures

Aren't we actually sick of sex, of difference, of emancipation, of culture? With this provocative taunt, the indomitable sociologist Jean Baudrillard challenges us to face up to our deadly, technologicall…

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Whitney A. Bauman
Critical Planetary Romanticism

Facing planetary environmental crises, philosophers and theorists have critiqued the human exceptionalism of dominant forms of science. Yet today is not the first moment in which technological and politic…

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Marina Bilbija
The Black Sojourner Press

Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Black periodical editors roved across oceans and between empires, bearing newspaper texts, formats, and genres with them. As they migrated, they also expor…

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Yigal Bronner
An Alankara Reader

Historical Sourcebooks in Classical Indian Thought

Classical Indian poetics prized the skillful use of alaṅkāras, or "ornaments"--literary figures of speech. Across more than a millennium, Sanskrit writers developed and elaborated an account of …

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Christopher Carothers
East Asia's Troubled Democracies

Amid global concern over democratic backsliding, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are often viewed as exceptions--stable, healthy democracies. Yet illiberal trends have been quietly growing in each country …

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Jean-Christophe Cloutier
Big American Writer

Jack Kerouac has long been mythologized as an all-American figure: the "King of the Beats," forever hitchhiking on the road, who gave voice to a postwar generation of rebels. In fact, he was bor…

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Jean-Christophe Cloutier
Big American Writer

Jack Kerouac has long been mythologized as an all-American figure: the "King of the Beats," forever hitchhiking on the road, who gave voice to a postwar generation of rebels. In fact, he was bor…

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Peter T. Coleman
The Way Out

When The Way Out was first published in 2021, the partisan divide in the United States had widened to a chasm. Five years later, the crisis has metastasized. Political polarization continues to be persona…

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Michael Crooke, Damian Vaughn
A Culture of Flow

Flow is the state of complete absorption in which people do their finest work--the runner in stride, the team that moves as one mind. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi first named it in individuals. A Culture of Fl…

lieferbar ab 5.1.2027.

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Andrew Davinack
Puppet Masters of Evolution

For centuries, parasites have been seen as nature's freeloaders--organisms that exploit their hosts without contributing anything in return. But what if we have been thinking about them all wrong? In Pupp…

lieferbar ab 17.11.2026.

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Jay P. Desai
Adaptive Strategy

Businesses today confront a nonlinear, complex, and chaotic environment--a world shaped by geopolitical conflict, economic arms races, rapid advancements in artificial intelligence, pandemics, and climate…

lieferbar ab 19.1.2027.

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