This untraditional text is a series of parables, allegories, and prose poems that reflect on the ...

Explores the influence of yoga in the seminal Indian philosophy of Bhartrhari and in the Western ...

Investigates how depictions of young people in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Ameri...

Celebrates and instructs in the healing power of breath.

Reveals a remarkable woman's life and her contributions to social justice movements related to Ci...

Summarizes Grof's experiences and observations from more than forty years of research into non-or...

Original essays explore the thought and influence of philosopher, educator, social critic, and th...

Uncovers the politics involved when a city recruits and implements a presidential convention.

Cooper's The Chainbearer presents an exciting narrative that interrogates issues of what it means...

The first detailed examination of African Americans and First Amendment rights, from the colonial...

Advocates applying a spirit of play to everyday life.In this lively and enlightening book, Paul B...

A fresh look at Yoga philosophy.

In addition to the apocalyptic prospect of global nuclear destruction, there are other dismal sce...

An eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its aftermath, newly translated into ...

Explores the unprecedented and rapid climate changes occurring in the Arctic environment.

The story of a nineteenth-century New Yorker's struggle to reconcile his same-sex erotic desires ...

A beautifully rendered, brutally realistic Native American gang novel.

Explorations in the aesthetics of waste and the material infrastructure of memory.Ours is a waste...

Intriguing, updated portraits of classic fairy tale authors.This book offers new, often unexpecte...

The paradoxes of the American decadent movement in the 1890s and 1920s.Decadent Culture in the Un...

What really became of the student activists who helped define the civil rights era-and what does ...

A behind-the-scenes look at diplomacy and international relations in post-communist Eastern Europe.

A father's personal and intimate account of his Filipino and Alaska Native family's experiences, ...

Analyzes the nineteenth century canal age in the Niagara-Great Lakes borderland region as a trans...

The oldest surviving anthology of lyric poems from India, the Sattasai presents the many aspects ...

Explores the milieu of Taiwan's Buddhist nuns, who have the greatest numbers in the Buddhist worl...

This book discusses the position of women in the Native American, African, Shinto, Jaina, Zoroast...

A revised translation of Heidegger's most important work.The publication in 1927 of Martin Heideg...

The first edited volume in Sino-Hellenic studies, this book compares early Chinese and ancient Gr...

An innovative approach to historical records assesses how evidence claims and policy arguments we...

A fascinating collection of essays and conversations on the changing nature of language.Finalist ...

Rich case studies examining responses to climatic events in ancient Europe and the Near East.The ...

Argues that there are moral grounds to use torture where the lives of the innocent are at stake.T...

Examines the first principles of the perennial philosophy or ancient wisdom tradition as expresse...

Recent advances in a variety of scientific disciplines have revealed the limitations of the Newto...

Investigates the complex social processes involved in the introduction and institutionalization o...

David N. Keightley's seminal essays on the origins of Chinese society are brought together in one...

Black Greek-letter organizations offer many African Americans opportunities for activism, communi...

Phenomenological analyses of the orderliness of naturally occurring collaboration.Winner of the 2...

A comprehensive look at the life and work of one of the towering figures of Renaissance mysticism...

An accessible introduction to the centrality of word, chant, and song in the Hindu, Buddhist, Isl...

Shows how punk rock shaped modern culture around the world.

Examines how the national pastime of baseball has the capacity to shape politics and American dem...

Gripping account of the life of the Russian Tsar's last chief of security and intelligence.

Highlights the original cast members-both the well-known and the (until now) wholly unknown-who s...

Chronicles the efforts of the first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court to establish a federal ...

Compares life today in the German Black Forest with Thoreau's experiences at Walden Pond.

A deeply personal study of post-9 11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings ...