Breathing spaces

The charismatic form of healing called qigong, based on meditative breathing exercises, has achieved enormous popularity in China during the last two decades. Qigong served a critical social organizational function, as practitioners formed new informal networks, sometimes on an international scal...

The disappearance of criminal law

In The Disappearance of Criminal Law, Richard Jochelson and Kirsten Kramar examine the rationales underpinning Supreme Court of Canada cases that address the power of the police. These cases involve police power in relation to search, seizure and detention; an individual’s right to silence, couns...

Doing tolerance

How is tolerance reflected in urban space? Which urban actors are involved in the practices and narratives of tolerance? What are the limits of tolerance? The edited volume answers these questions by considering different forms of urban in/exclusion and participatory citizenship. By drawing toget...

Norman m. klein's »bleeding through: layers of los angeles«

A Reissue of Norman M. Klein's Bleeding Through, featuring an interview with Klein and two docufables from Klein's The History of Forgetting.

What remains

Jonathan Bach examines the afterlife of East Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, as things and places from the socialist past continue to circulate and shape the politics of memory. What Remains traces the effects of these artifacts, arguing for a rethinking of the role of the everyday...

Fitzgerald and hemingway

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway might have been contemporaries, but our understanding of their work often rests on simple differences. Hemingway wrestled with war, fraternity, and the violence of nature. Fitzgerald satirized money and class and the never-ending pursuit of a material tomo...

Beginner's japanese with online audio

Magnificent fight

In May 1919, 30,000 Winnipeg workers walked away from their jobs, shutting down large factories, forcing businesses to close and bringing major industries to a halt. Mounted police and hired security, at the behest of the ruling class, violently ended the protest after six weeks. Two men were kil...

Embodied performance

In this groundbreaking book, Matsuoka Shinpei—a leading scholar of noh theater—provides a detailed account of the birth of one of Japan’s most celebrated art forms.

In defense of charisma

In Defense of Charisma develops an account of moral charisma that weaves insights from politics, ethics, and religion together with reflections on contemporary culture. Vincent W. Lloyd distinguishes between authoritarian charisma, which furthers the interests of the powerful, and democratic char...

Fate in film

Thomas M. Puhr identifies and analyzes the ways that cinema has dealt with the tension between fate and free will. He examines films that express deterministic ideas, including circular narratives of stasis or confinement and fatalistic portraits of external forces dictating characters’ lives.

Artistic transfer

Ursula Bertram contends that when artistic thought is circulated and probed in nonartistic fields, a crucial pattern called artistic transfer emerges.

Energy and forces as aesthetic interventions

This volume collects academic as well as artistic explorations highlighting historical and contemporary approaches to the energetic in its aesthetic and political potential. The contributions in this volume elucidate maneuvers of mobilization, activation, initiation, regulation, navigation, and c...

The nature and future of philosophy

Philosophy is a discipline that makes no observations, conducts no experiments, and needs no input from experience. It is an armchair subject, requiring only thought. Yet that thought can advance knowledge in unexpected directions, not only through the discovery of new facts but also through the ...

Dictionary of corruption

Written by an expert team, this is a comprehensive resource for students, academics, practitioners and professionals. It establishes a common interpretation of the language and terminology in the field of corruption and anti-corruption studies. From amakudari to zero tolerance, over 250 key terms...

The political economy of brexit

This collection of essays explores the ramifications of the Brexit decision for the UK and European economies. These essays provide an important first step in assessing the threats and challenges that a Brexit poses for the UK and wider EU economy and will be welcome reading for anyone in search ...

East asia at the center

In this sweeping account, Warren I. Cohen explores four millennia of international relations from the perspectives of China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia.

The devil and the deep blue sea

In the early 1990s the collapse of the Atlantic groundfish stocks signaled the destruction of life in the seas, but it also threw 40,000 people out of work, unraveling the very fabric of rural life throughout Atlantic Canada. Twenty years later, even after fishing moratoriums and limited directed...

The great rebirth

The fall of communism transformed the political and economic landscape in more than two dozen countries across Europe and Asia. In this volume published on the 25th anniversary of the fall, political leaders, scholars, and policymakers assess the lessons learned from the "great rebirth" of capita...

Asian place, filipino nation

Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz reconnects the Philippine Revolution to the histories of Southeast and East Asia through an innovative consideration of its transnational political setting and regional intellectual foundations. She charts turn-of-the-twentieth-century Filipino thinkers’ and revolutionari...

Regulating transitions from school to work

How are activation programs for the young unemployed implemented? Stephan Dahmen explores the practical regulation of biographical transitions in activation programs for the young unemployed by focusing on the interactive accomplishment of activation work.

Memory as philosophy

Dustin Peone argues that memory is the foundation of philosophical thought. He advocates a doctrine of “memory as philosophy” that understands memory not merely in its psychological sense but as the key to metaphysical and moral thinking.

A legacy of elegance

Many Shang dynasty inscribed oracle bones were found at Yinxu, Henan province. Their purpose and function shed significant light on the origin of Chinese culture, disclosing major concerns of the time. Shang oracle-bone script is the earliest known form of systematic Chinese writing, which is a c...

Film curatorship

Film Curatorship is an experiment: a collective text, a montage of dialogues, conversations, and exchanges among four professionals representing three generations of film archivists and curators. It calls for an open philosophical and ethical debate on fundamental questions the profession must co...

Proximity politics

Proximity Politics is a groundbreaking examination of the role of distance in shaping attitudes, behaviors, and understandings of the world.

Mexico's resilient journalists

Julieta Brambila provides a ground-level view of how Mexican journalists have navigated a perilous environment, offering insight into how they protect themselves while reporting on the most critical and sensitive subjects.

The united states and the world economy

What are the key foreign economic policy issues facing the United States in the second half of this decade? How can the administration and Congress meet the economic challenges that lie ahead? This new book analyzes the dramatic importance of the world economy to both the domestic prosperity and ...

Conflicts in urban future-making

An inquiry into conflictual dynamics arising from imagining, negotiating, and materializing different urban futures in contemporary times of crisis.

The book of affects

The Book of Affects is a collection of short stories devoted to uncovering the moving, complex, and often mystifying workings of the human heart.

The tiebout model at fifty

This book commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Charles Tiebout’s enormously influential article, “A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures,” and honors the contributions of Wallace Oates as expositor and popularizer of the Tiebout model. While Tiebout holds the patent on the hyp...

Groupthink versus high-quality decision making in international relations

Are good and bad outcomes significantly affected by the decision-making process itself? Indeed they are, in that certain decision-making techniques and practices limit the ability of policymakers to achieve their goals and advance the national interest. The success of policy often turns on the qu...

A tale of two unions

Mark Corner suggests the UK can only survive as a single nation-state if it looks sympathetically at the European structures from which it detached itself.

Where film meets philosophy

The formal techniques two classic French filmmakers developed to explore cinema’s philosophical potential.

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Urbanization in china

Addressing the most pressing issues of urbanization in China—urban planning, land policy, rural-to-urban migration, and financing—this book enhances our understanding of the challenges at hand and helps policy makers and urban planners make decisions that are economically sound, environmentally d...

Sustainable food production

This concise text offers an overview of the key issues in sustainable food production for all readers interested in the ecology and environmental impact of agriculture. It details the ecological foundations of farming and food systems, showing how to create sustainable alternatives to the industr...

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A senior moment

Ageing and Memory are two cultural processes that establish their own relationships with time. They affect our ways of living, in the present, and for a future, as we move through life. This book focuses on the cultural mediations of ageing and memory, teasing out their complex and largely unpred...