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Experiencing the State
This collection of essays by 13 well-known contributors departs from a conventional analysis of the state that universalizes and standardizes what the state is, does, and means. The contributors engage state and stateness as it is encountered in everyday life, ranging from village and urban life to big dams, war, torture, hospital treatment, cinema attendance, and art exhibitions. The essays locate the state in time, space, and circumstance so that it is contingent and evocative rather than definitive and authoritative. Experiencing the State discusses formative discourses on the state, what we may think or say about the state, and what images are evoked by its various manifestations through social and cultural forms. This volume begins with a non-essentialist perspective on state formation, and concludes with an account of how the state is experienced in the post-9/11 world scenario, in India and South Asia, the US, Europe, including the former Soviet Union, and the Far East.
From Disgust to Humanity
A distinguished professor of law and philosophy at the University of Chicago, a prolific writer and award-winning thinker, Martha Nussbaum stands as one of our foremost authorities on law, justice, freedom, morality, and emotion. In From Disgust to Humanity, Nussbaum aims her considerable intellectual firepower at the bulwark of opposition to gay equality: the politics of disgust. Nussbaum argues that disgust has long been among the fundamental motivations of those who are fighting for legal discrimination against lesbian and gay citizens. When confronted with same-sex acts and relationships, she writes, they experience "a deep aversion akin to that inspired by bodily wastes, slimy insects, ...
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The Maker of Saints
A QPB and BOMC selection. The author's previous novel, 1959, was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Bird Kinkaid is an African-American woman who has recently been plagued by nightmares: It is a month after she witnessed Alex, her closest friend, plunge eight stories to her death on the sidewalk below and her grief has turned into obsession. Was Alex killed or was it a suicide? Was it an accident or did the white art critic and sometimes lover Frank Burton push her to her death? The two women had an intense friendship, their lives intertwined by shared space, history, friends (and occasionally lovers), and a passion for art. Alex's death shatters Bird, compelling her to search f...
Blue Monday
The first biography of New Orleans rock 'n' roll legend Fats Domino, by a writer who obtained exclusive access to the reclusive singer.
Beyond Existentialism and Zen
Surveys contemporary pluralism, elaborates a typology of alternative religious worldviews, argues for the greater adequacy of one of the typological positions, and illustrates taht position briefly in Hindu and Buddhist and then more extensively in Christian traditions.
The Handy Hockey Answer Book
Stan Fischler, hockey journalist since 1954 and Lester Patrick Award-winner "for contributions to hockey in the United States," covers the sport’s history, its origins, rules, players, and more! Stick handlers without helmets rushing goaltenders without masks on rinks lacking sideboards gives way to a faster game with bigger players and overtime shootouts. The National Hockey League goes from a Canadian and regional sport to one that is watched by more fans throughout North America than ever. Hockey may have changed, but its essence and appeal remain. The Handy Hockey Answer Book, written by hockey historian, broadcaster, author, and self-professed Hockey Maven, Stan Fischler, brings the g...
Surviving My Husband's Affair
She was going to have to face me. This was not cheating; this was an affair. I arrived at her house-then I saw the red and blue lights flashing behind me. In 2009, Meredith Strickland's life comes crashing down when she discovers her husband Jonathan's affair during her pregnancy with their third child. Their church scrambles to advise them, along with Liz (the other woman) and her husband, who are all members. Unfortunately, the church focuses on the consequences of the adultery on Meredith's family. When Liz continues to try to steal Meredith's life in other ways, it becomes more than she can handle. Trying to balance faith, forgiveness, and love with anger, panic, and grief, Meredith sear...
Naked Sleeper
"Naked Sleeper" is the story of a love triangle between Nona, her husband Roy, and Lyle, a married professor she meets during a month away in the country. While there, Nona is working on a book about her father's life, trying to understand the reasons that he abandoned her and her mother when she was a child. Nona's search for details about her father's past becomes so entwined in the telling of this book that readers watch several stories unfold simultaneously: those of Nona's relationships with Roy and Lyle; with her mother, Rosalind; and with her phantom father.
