Concern for the other

In Concern for the Other: The Ethics of K. E. Løgstrup, eleven scholars examine the structure, intention, and originality of Løgstrup's ethics as a whole. This collection of essays is a companion to Beyond the Ethical Demand, as well as to The Ethical Demand. The essays examine Løgstrup's crucial...

Concerning my daughter

Prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-Jin’s debut confronts familial love, duty, mortality, and generational schism through the incendiary gaze of a tradition-bound mother faced with her daughter’s queer relationship. When a widowed, aging mother allows Green, her thirty-something daughter, to move...

Concerning the spiritual—and the concrete—in kandinsky’s art

A radical reassessment of the art and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, this book contests the traditional understanding that he was motivated by mystical concerns and sees his work instead as an extended philosophical "conversation" on the nature of art with German philosopher Hegel, and the Kandin...

Concerning violence

A beautiful photographic exploration of the revolutionary movements in Africa in the '60s and 70's.

Conciliation and confession

Religious conciliators have always faced resistance and critique as they mediate between groups devoted to ideological agendas that leave little room for maneuver and negotiation. From the conciliar to the confessional age the normal challenges that peacemakers perennially faced were magnified. T...

Concise dictionary of modern japanese history

This is a concise, reliable guide to the people, places, events, and ideas of significance from the Meiji Restoration to the present.

Concise guide to reinforced concrete design to eurocode 2

Concise Guide to Reinforced Concrete Design to Eurocode 2 explains the principles of limit state design in Eurocode 2 by means of simple worked examples of reinforced concrete design.

Concordance of the qur'an

Concrete and water

An extraordinary ethnographic dive into documenta fifteen, analyzing its organization, execution, impact, and unique atmospheric forces.

Concrete cities

This accessible critique of urban construction reimagines city development and life in an era of unprecedented building. Exploring the proliferation of building and construction, Imrie sets out its many degrading impacts on both people and the environment. Using examples from around the world, he...

Concrete economics

“an excellent new book” — Paul Krugman, The New York TimesHistory, not ideology, holds the key to growth.Brilliantly written and argued, Concrete Economics shows how government has repeatedly reshaped the American economy ever since Alexander Hamilton’s first, foundational redesign.This book doe...

Concrete jungle

If they are to survive, cities need healthy chunks of the world’s ecosystems to persist; yet cities, like parasites, grow and prosper by local destruction of these very ecosystems. In this absorbing and wide-ranging book, Eldredge and Horenstein use New York City as a microcosm to explore both t...

Concrete toronto

Toronto is a concrete city. From international landmarks to civic buildings to cultural institutions to metropolitan infrastructure and the single-family home, reminders of the era of 'brutalist' architecture surround Torontonians. But for how long? As architectural fashion has shifted to the gl...

Concrete utopianism

Through a critique of Left realism, culturalism, and pessimism from the standpoint of heterodox Marxism and Black radicalism, Gary Wilder insists that we place questions of solidarity and temporality at the center of Left political thinking. He makes a bold case for embracing a concrete utopian p...

Concreteness in generative phonology

Concreteness in Generative Phonology presents major topics in French phonology and morphology within the theoretical framework of generative grammar. The concrete analyses advocated in Bernard Tranel’s study constitute a radical departure from the abstract solutions proposed in previous generati...

Concurrences in postcolonial research

The concept of concurrences is a blanket term for challenging dominating statements of the past and present. Concurrent stories have varying claims to reality and fiction, as well as different, diverging, and at times competing claims to society, culture, identity, and historical past. Dominant ...

Concurrent data processing in elixir

Condemn and resist

Condemn and Resist brings together a series of essays from leading sociologists in response to the first year of Trump 2.0 at a time when expert voices are essential for effective critical analysis of political and social climates.

Condensed matter in a nutshell

A comprehensive introduction to condensed matter and material physicsCondensed Matter in a Nutshell is the most concise, accessible, and self-contained introduction to this exciting and cutting-edge area of modern physics. This premier textbook covers all the standard topics, including crystal st...

Condomnauts

“Yoss (Super Extra Grande) is an eminent Cuban SF writer who also fronts a heavy metal band; his iconoclastic spirit and rock-and-roll aesthetic are on full ingenious display in this daring, rollicking, and joyous novel…. This extended dirty joke is also an impressive science fiction novel with m...

Confessing history

Confessing History expands the discussion about religion’s role in education and culture and examines what the relationship between faith and learning means for the academy today.

Confession and resistance

In this study of Wycliffism (or Lollardy), Little explores the relation between confession and the language of medieval selfhood. She then reevaluates the impact of Wycliffite ideas in selections of medieval literature that include confession as a theme.

Confessions

A highly distinctive artistic collaboration and a haunting meditation on religion, violence, and physicality.

Confessions of a barefaced woman

In Confessions of a Barefaced Woman, Allison Joseph turns her keen and sassy eye on all the furious and hilarious conditions of modern black womanhood.

Confessions of a corporate trainer

Embrace the Gritty Reality of TrainingEver watched half your class stomp out on you? Fallen asleep facilitating a creativity workshop? Planned a bulletproof lesson plan, then dropped it 10 minutes after you started? Don’t worry—it’s fine to confess.If you have faced a surprise in the training roo...

Confessions of a headmaster

In this entertaining and inspiring memoir, renowned educator Paul Cummins candidly shares his journey from privileged kid and ivory-tower scholar to hands-on progressive educator, working to achieve social justice through education for all youth: from children of celebrities to foster and incarce...

Confessions of a mullah warrior

Masood Farivar was ten years old when his childhood in peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan was shattered by the Soviet invasion of 1979. Although he was born into a long line of religious and political leaders who had shaped his nation’s history for centuries, Farivar fled to Pakistan with his fa...

Confessions of a radical chicano doo-wop singer

A pioneer of Chicano rock, Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara performed with Frank Zappa, Johnny Otis, Bo Diddley, Tina Turner, and Celia Cruz, though he is best known as the front man of the 1970s experimental rock band Ruben And The Jets. Here he recounts how his youthful experiences in the barrio La Vei...

Confessions of an argentine dirty warrior

Retired navy officer Adolfo Scilingo was the first man ever to break the Argentine military's pact of silence, stunning his compatriots and the world by openly confessing his participation in the hideous practice of pushing live political dissidents out of airplanes during Argentina's dirty war.A...

Confessions of an interest group

Following World War II, the Catholic Church in Europe faced the challenge of establishing political influence with newly emerging democratic governments. The Church became, as Carolyn Warner pointedly argues, an interest group like any other, seeking to attain and solidify its influence by formin...

Confessions of faith in the anabaptist tradition

The volume brings together early statements of belief from across the Radical Reformation.a representative collection of confessions produced by Anabaptist groups from 1527 to 1660. Included are confessions from the Swiss Brethren, the Marpeck circle, the Rhinelanders, and various Mennonite commu...

Confessions of madame psyche

A gem--San Francisco Chronicle Presented as "memoir," it is in fact a brilliant historical fiction.

Configurations of culture growth

"This handsome volume, one of a group commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the University of California, caps the prolific and extraordinarily varied publications of the most distinguished of living American anthropologists.... In this book [Kroeber] demonstrates his control over amazin...

Conflict among rebels

Why do rebel groups frequently clash instead of cooperating against their shared enemy, the state? Examining the dynamics of civil wars in Iraq, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, and Syria, Costantino Pischedda argues that infighting is a calculated response by rebel groups to perceived opportunities...

Conflict and forced migration

This timely collection brings together a wide variety of contributors, from scholars and a psychiatric social worker, to former refugees who were resettled in the United States and a mural artist, to explore the current face of migration conflict.

Conflict and shifting boundaries in the gig economy

Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book draws on legal, HRM, occupational psychology and economic perspectives to innovatively explore the conflicts and blurring boundaries affecting the Gig Economy in terms of the worker, employee identity, status and relationships, and team and career ma...

Conflict is not abuse

Sarah Schulman illuminates the differences between Conflict and Abuse in this revelatory book that addresses the contemporary culture of scapegoating.

Conflict management and leadership development using mediation

Conflict management is key in leadership development. Mediation enhances leadership and organizational growth in higher education. With frequent conflicts, this workbook offers strategies to help college personnel manage conflicts, improve communication, and address issues effectively.

Conflict management in digital business

Providing readers with a unique guide of how businesses can achieve resilience to digital conflict, Conflict Management in Digital Business helps prepare for unexpected situations such as pandemics, to maintain competitive advantage, and illuminating pathways to turn conflicts caused by extraordi...

Conflict prevention and peace management

The chapters cover the topics of social conflict, socioeconomic inequalities, ethnic animosity, and natural resources accessibility, and more in the Indian Subcontinent and Africa to address issues and find sustainable and productive ways for international and regional communities to cohabitate a...

Conflict resolution beyond the international relations paradigm

Conflict Resolution holds the promise of freeing approaches and policies with regard to politics of identity from the fatalistic grip of realism. While the conceptual literature on identity and conflicts has moved in this alternative direction, conflict resolution practice continues to rely on re...

Conflict, civil society, and women’s empowerment

Conflict, Civil Society, and Women’s Empowerment: Insights from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is a specific study on how civil society organizations (CSOs) foster civic engagement, resilience and women’s empowerment in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

Conflict, conquest, and conversion

Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion surveys two thousand years of the Christian missionary enterprise in the Middle East within the context of the region's political evolution. Its broad, rich narrative follows Christian missions as they interacted with imperial powers and as the momentum of relig...

Conflict, domination, and violence

It offers a unique long-term historical perspective. It deals with different social movements. It deals with several regions of Mexico. It deals with different forms of violence.