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Describes theories of normal human development advanced by Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Jean Piaget, Nancy Chodorow, Daniel Levinson, Erik Erikson, and Margaret Mahler. This book features chapters examining corresponding ideologies concerning maturation and development in middle childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age.

Reconsiders the political, cultural, and legal nature of modernity in relation to religion. This title argues that the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau was instrumental in the evolution of modernity. In Rousseau, it pinpoints the origins of contemporary notions of the public and private and their relationship to religion.

Argues for a more harmonious and rational approach to our relationship with insects, one that does not harm our environment. Beginning with the early techniques of colonial farmers and ending with the modern use of chemical insecticides, this book shows how America's war on insects mirrors its continual struggle with nature and technology.

Leads us through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. This volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and features more than 140 examples of shi, sao, fu, ci, and qu poems. It highlights the thematic, formal, and prosodic features of Chinese poetry. It presents poems in Chinese and English.

Covers different works of Lyotard, from his three books "Discours, figure"; "Libidinal Economy"; and "The Differend" to his essays in "The Inhuman and Postmodern Fables". This book contains sections on philosophy, politics, art, and literature. It explains his ideas and provides various social, political, aesthetic, and philosophical contexts.

A collection of English-language readings on Japan. Containing materials on history, society, politics, education, philosophy, and religion, this book features an introduction to Japanese civilization. It also covers the Tokugawa period to 1868 and addresses the spread of neo-Confucianism and Buddhism and the encounters of Japan and the West.

A collection of English-language readings on Japan. Containing materials on history, society, politics, education, philosophy, and religion, this book features an introduction to Japanese civilization. It also covers the Tokugawa period to 1868 and addresses the spread of neo-Confucianism and Buddhism and the encounters of Japan and the West.

Traces the changing character of Japanese national identity in the works of the authors Ueda Akinari, Natsume S'seki, Mori 'gai, Yokomitsu Riichi, 'oka Shohei, and Mishima Yukio. Focusing on interconnected themes, this book illuminates the contradictory desires of a nation trapped between emulating the West and preserving the traditions of Asia.

Environmental aesthetics is a field of study that focuses on nature's aesthetic value as well as on its ethical and environmental implications. This book addresses the complex relationships between aesthetic appreciation and environmental issues and emphasizes the contribution that environmental aesthetics can make to environmentalism.

Captures Columbia's rich intellectual legacy. This work also captures the spirit of a great university through the gifted men and women who have worked, taught, and studied at Columbia. It includes stories of struggle and breakthrough, searching and discovery, and tradition and transformation.

A collection of ninety-one short-shorts, a form of short-storytelling. Presenting diverse voices and perspectives by writers, the stories are culled from newspapers, magazines, literary journals, and personal collections.

James Rachels was a pioneer in applied ethics, who shaped the fields of bioethics and animal rights. This work brings together his fourteen essays that address the relationship between morality and reason, the duty to relieve human and animal suffering, the independence of morality from religion, the rejection of relativism and egoism, and more.

Offers an overview of 20th-century writing from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Containing stories from the colonial period in Taiwan, literature by Tibetan authors, samplings from the People's Republic of China during the Cultural Revolution, and others, this book gives an introduction to Chinese society and culture.

Charts the historical efforts of African Americans to address racism and inequality. This book explores the rise of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements and the national and international contexts that shaped their ideologies and methods.

Studies the different ways religions have coped with the pressures of modernization in America. This work examines how these religions have confronted changing attitudes regarding the meaning and purpose of sex, the definition of marriage, the responsibility of fathers, and the status of children.

Presenting a collection of essays on Arthur C Danto's philosophy, this book describes his theories of art, action, and history, and the depth of his innovation as a philosopher of culture. It explores the importance of Danto's philosophy and criticism for contemporary art, along with his theories of perception, action, and historical knowledge.

Written by prominent scholars, this title explores the relationship between property and personhood. It considers a range of topics, including: the establishment of the rule of property in US-occupied Iraq; the work of John Locke; and reflections on property and personhood in the art of Jenny Holzer and the novels of Stanislaw Lem.

This compilation of award-winning articles by some of the most acclaimed writers in America celebrates excellence in a variety of genres: investigative reporting, features, profiles, and criticism, and essay-writing. Wide-ranging in style and in their subject matter, these pieces inform, surprise, entertain, and provide new perspectives on our world.

Brings the imagination of women's writing from the Meiji period to English-language readers. Along with traditional prose selections, this anthology features short stories, plays, poetry, speeches, essays, and personal journal entries. It includes an introduction to each reading; and an index listing historical, social, and literary concepts.

Brings the imagination of women's writing from the Meiji period to English-language readers. Along with traditional prose selections, this anthology features short stories, plays, poetry, speeches, essays, and personal journal entries. It includes an introduction to each reading; and an index listing historical, social, and literary concepts.

Mozart's "Don Giovanni" is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions. This book examines the aesthetic and moral legacy of Mozart's opera in the literature, philosophy, and culture of the nineteenth century. It addresses the opera's impact on the philosophical visions of Kierkegaard, Goethe, and Williams.

Proposes that positive oracular or ecstatic possession is the most common form of spiritual expression in India, and that it has been linguistically distinguished from negative, disease-producing possession for thousands of years.

Born in Taiwan, raised in the scholarly traditions of ancient China but forced into the Japanese educational system, Hu Taiming, the protagonist of Orphan of Asia, ultimately finds himself estranged from all three cultures. This autobiographical novel is regarded as an expression of the postwar Taiwanese national consciousness.

By using human rights as a guidepost, social workers can help create social welfare policies that better serve societal needs. Bringing together essays from a diverse range of authors, this title demonstrates how approaching social work from a human rights perspective can affect legislation, resource management, and enforcement of policies.

Early Christians used charges of adultery, incest, and lascivious behavior to demonize their opponents, police insiders, resist pagan rulers, and define what it meant to be a Christian. This book explores the writings of Paul, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus of Lyons, and other Christian authors who argued that Christ alone made self-mastery possible.

Explores various philosophical issues surrounding authorities of the courtroom and their expert knowledge. This book considers the problems surrounding the issue of trust and deference. It examines the consequences of the social and technical externalization of expertise. It discusses the reasoning process of judges and juries.

A comparative and interdisciplinary study of the conceptualization of animals in world religions. It explores issues such as animal consciousness, suffering, sacrifice, and stewardship in innovative methodological ways. It also addresses contemporary challenges relating to law, biotechnology, social justice, and the environment.