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In An Eye for Music, John Richardson navigates key areas of current thought - from music theory to film theory to cultural theory - to explore what it means that the experience of music is now cinematic, spatial, and visual as much as it is auditory.

In this groundbreaking study, Anthony B. Pinn challenges the long held assumption that African American theology is solely theist, arguing that this assumption has excluded a rapidly growing segment of the African American population - non-theists. Rejecting the assumption of theism as the African American orientation, Pinn poses a crucial question: What is a non-theistic theology?

While explaining the rise of the "Judeo-Christian" arrangement, Kevin Schultz shows how Catholics and Jews used the tri-faith image to force America to confront the challenges of pluralism.

Bridges of Reform reinterprets U.S. civil rights activism that emerged from interracial efforts among Mexican, African, Jewish, and Japanese Americans in multiracial Los Angeles during World War II and the Cold War era.

The role of women and Tantra is controversial - traditionally the feminine is a metaphor and actual women are absent, or it involves the transgressive use of women's bodies to serve male interests. Biernacki presents a view in which women are revered, using texts from the 15th to 18th centuries, to reveal a positive and empowering view of women.

Ourselves Unborn examines how, from the nineteenth century through the early twenty-first century, Americans with disparate experiences, beliefs, values, and interests have participated in arguments about the legal identity, physiological condition, social value, cultural significance, and political status of the human fetus.

What do we see? We are visually conscious of colors and shapes, but are we also visually conscious of complex properties such as being John Malkovich? In this book, Susanna Siegel develops a framework for understanding the contents of visual experience, and argues that these contents involve all sorts of complex properties.

This volume investigates the effect of globalisation on the world's major cities through an exploration of both the economic and cultural dimensions associated with this phenomenon. It produces a detailed and multi-faceted picture of these cities, covering leading urban centres such as London, New York, Tokyo, and Paris, and other cities as well.

Discusses the evolution of the DJ, tracing the art of the turntable from its 1970s beginnings to the present.

The rise of emerging powers is eclipsing not just the preeminence of the West, but also its ideological dominance. The twenty-first century will not belong to America, China, Asia, or anyone else. It will be no one's world. Charles Kupchan spells out how to capitalize on the coming diversity to fashion a consensus between the West and the rising rest.

What Will Work makes a rigorous and compelling case that energy efficiencies and renewable energy-and not nuclear fission or "clean coal"-are the most effective, cheapest, and equitable solutions to the pressing problem of climate change.

This book explores the simultaneous entry of working-class women in the United States into wage-earning factory labour and into opportunities for mental and literary development. It traces the hopes and tensions generated by expectations of their gender and class from the first New England operatives in the early nineteenth century to immigrant sweatshop workers in the early twentieth.

The Metaphysics of Gender is a book about gender essentialism: what it is and why it might be true.

This volume collects thirteen of David Schmidtz's essays on the question of what it takes to live a good life, given that we live in a social and natural world.

A compact, pithy guide to the most popular form of life-writing, Memoir: An Introduction provides a primer to the ubiquitous literary form and its many subgenres.

Drawing on novels by Nabokov, Wright, Powers, DeLillo, Didion, and others, No Accident, Comrade examines the shaping influence of the Cold War's obsession with chance on post-World War II fictional form.

India is frequently represented as the quintessential land of religion. Johannes Quack challenges this representation through an examination of the contemporary Indian rationalist organizations: groups who affirm the values and attitudes of atheism, humanism, or free-thinking.

Showcasing the Great Experiment provides the most far-reaching account of Soviet methods of cultural diplomacy innovated to influence Western intellectuals and foreign visitors. Probing the declassified records of agencies charged with crafting the international image of communism, it reinterprets one of the great cross-cultural and trans-ideological encounters of the twentieth century.

In this book, Frederique Apffel-Marglin draws on a lifetime of work with the indigenous peoples of Peru and India to support her argument that the beliefs, values, and practices of such traditional peoples are ''eco-metaphysically true.''