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(P/B) READING SEMINAR XX
Examines Lacan's key seminar on sexual difference, knowledge, desire, and love. This collection offers the first sustained, in-depth commentary on Seminar XX, Encore, considered the cornerstone of Lacan's work on the themes of sexual difference, knowledge, jouissance, and love. Although Seminar XX was originally popularized as Lacan's treatise on feminine sexuality, these essays, by some of today's foremost Lacanian scholars, go beyond feminine sexuality to address Lacan's significant intertwining concern with the rupture between reality a...
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(P/B) THE GREEK CONCEPT OF NATURE
In "the Greek Concept of Nature", Gerard Naddaf utilizes historical, mythological and linguistic perspectives to reconstruct the origin and evolution of the Greek concept of "phusis". Usually translated as nature, "phusis" has been decisive both for the early history of philosophy and for its subsequent development. However, there is a considerable amount of controversy on what the earliest philosophers - Anaximander, Xenophanes, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Leucippus, and Democritus - actually had in mind wh...
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(P/B) ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY FROM ITS ORIGIN TO THE PRESENT

(P/B) FIVE LESSONS ON THE PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY OF JACQUES LACAN
In this first English translation of a classic text by one of the foremost commentators on Lacan's work, Nasio eloquently demonstrates the clinical and practical import of Lacan's theory, even in its most difficult or obscure moments. Five Lessons on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Jacques Lacan is the first English translation of a classic text by one of the foremost commentators on Lacan's work. Juan-David Nasio makes numerous theoretical advances and eloquently demonstrates the clinical and practical import of Lacan's theory, even in its m...
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CLASSICAL HORIZONS (P/B)
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(P/B) LAO-TZU AND THE TAO-TE-CHING
Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching presents a coherent collection of materials on the ancient Chinese classic and its author, describing traditional and modern Western interpretations. Written and edited by recognized international specialists in the field, this book brings Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching together to present current scholarship on their history and interpretation. Contributors include William H. Baxter, Alan K.L. Chan, A.C. Graham, Julia M. Hardy, Yoshiko Kamitsuka, Livia Kohn, Michael LaFargue, Julian Pas, Isabelle Robinet, Benjam...
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(P/B) LOST T'AI-CHI CLASSICS FROM THE LATE CH'ING DYNASTY
Analysis of rich new material allows Wile to make a fresh survey of longstanding issues: the origins of T'ai-chi; the authorship of the classics; the differences between Wu, Yang, and Li; and the roles of such figures as Chang San-feng, Wang Tsung-yueh, Chiang Fa, and the formerly missing link, Ch'ang Nai-chou. Douglas Wile translates and analyzes four collections of recently released nineteenth-century manuscripts on T'ai-chi ch'uan. These writings of Wu's older brothers Ch'eng-ch'ing and Ju-ch'ing, and his nephew Li I-yu, together with t...
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PAUL RICOEUR (P/B)
This is the first book to systematically explore contemporary continental philosopher Paul Ricoeur's contribution to modern rhetorical theory. Andreea Deciu Ritivoi analyzes provocative test cases and investigates four topics central to the core vocabulary of the field - opinion, practical reasoning, commemoration, and solidarity. Her findings provide clarification on important problems and shed new light on troubling social and political issues. Placing Ricoeur's views in a larger intellectual context, Ritivoi identifies both the correspo...
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(P/B) A BUDDHIST HISTORY OF THE WEST
A Buddhist interpretation of Western history that shows civilization shaped by the self's desire for groundedness. Buddhism teaches that to become happy, greed, ill-will, and delusion must be transformed into their positive counterparts: generosity, compassion, and wisdom. The history of the West, like all histories, has been plagued by the consequences of greed, ill-will, and delusion. A Buddhist History of the West investigates how individuals have tried to ground themselves to make themselves feel more real. To be self-conscious is to e...
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TEACHER BURNOUT IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS (H/B)
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LEGAL STUDIES AS CULTURAL STUDIES (P/B)
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(P/B) THE PRESOCRATICS AFTER HEIDEGGER

MODERN POLITICAL THEORY AND CONTEMPORARY FEMINISM (H/B)
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OTHER SELVES (H/B)

ARISTOTLE'S PHILOSOPHY OF FRIENDSHIP (H/B)

KNIGHTS OF FAITH AND RESIGNATION (H/B)

(P/B) EDUCATIONAL KNOWLEDGE
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(P/B) INVENTING THE UNIVERSE - PLATO'S TIMAEUS THE BIG BANG

(P/B) FOR WE ARE SOLD, I AND MY PEOPLE
On the basis of systematic research and personal experience, For We Are Sold, I and My People uncovers some of the social costs of modern production. Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly peels off the labels--"Made in Taiwan," "Assembled in Mexico"--and the trade names--RCA, Sony, General Motors, United Technologies, General Electric, Mattel, Chrysler, American Hospital Supply--to reveal the hidden human dimensions of present-day multinational manufacturing procedures. Focusing on Cuidad Juarez, located at the United States-Mexican border, Ferna...
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(P/B) PURANA PERENNIS
In this volume, leading American, European, and Indian scholars including John E. Cort, Friedhelm Hardy, Padmanabh S. Jaini, Laurie L. Patton, A. K. Ramanujan, Velcheru Narayana Rao, and David Shulman discuss the subject of the Puran'as, focusing particularly on the relationship between the "Great Puran'as" of the Sanskrit tradition and the many other sorts of Puran'as. The Puran'as are essentially collections of stories dealing with all aspects of myth, ritual, science, and history, and the authors of these essays are all superb storytell...
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