 | Metrosexual, The
Gender, Sexuality, and Sport
David Coad - author
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Hardcover: $49.50
Release Date: July 2008
214 pages
ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7409-9
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Release Date: July 2008
214 pages
ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7410-5
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Explores the cultural significance of the metrosexual in sports.
How do you explain Dennis Rodman’s dyed hair, tattoos, and pierced body parts? Why are there so many athletes stripping for men’s underwear ads? Besides sport, what do Pat Riley, Alex Rodriguez, and Ian Thorpe have in common? And why has David Beckham been compared to Louis XIV?
In this fascinating exploration of past and present celebrity athletes, David Coad shows how gender roles for men are undergoing a revolutionary change.
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 | Reading Ricoeur
David M. Kaplan - editor
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Hardcover: $89.50
Release Date: August 2008
262 pages
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ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7525-6
| Paperback: $29.95
Release Date: August 2008
262 pages
ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7526-3
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Introduces readers to the work of Paul Ricoeur, one of the twentieth century’s leading philosophers.
In Reading Ricoeur, fourteen well-known scholars interpret, evaluate, and criticize the works of Paul Ricoeur, one of the twentieth century’s most important and far-reaching philosophers.
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 | Spiritual Dimensions of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi's Risale-I Nur
Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi' - Edited and with an Introduction by
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Hardcover: $89.50
Release Date: July 2008
438 pages
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ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7473-0
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Release Date: July 2008
438 pages
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ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7474-7
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Essays on various facets of Nursi’s spirituality as portrayed in his Risale-i Nur.
The Nur community is one of the most significant religious and social movements in contemporary Turkey, with millions of adherents and a strong institutional and educational system throughout the country.
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 | Grade Inflation
Academic Standards in Higher Education
Lester H. Hunt - editor
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Hardcover: $65.00
Release Date: July 2008
224 pages
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ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7497-6
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Release Date: July 2008
224 pages
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ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7800-4
 
 
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An authoritative and provocative discussion of the key issues surrounding grade inflation and its possible effects on academic excellence.
This book provides a provocative look at the issues and controversies surrounding grade inflation, and, more generally, grading practices in American higher education.
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 | Mipam on Buddha-Nature
The Ground of the Nyingma Tradition
Douglas S. Duckworth - author
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Hardcover: $80.00
Release Date: August 2008
292 pages
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ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7521-8
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Release Date: July 2008
292 pages
ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7798-4
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A comprehensive overview of Tibetan Buddhist thinker Mipam’s work on emptiness and Buddha-nature.
Mipam (’ju mi pham rgya mtsho, 1846–1912) is one of the most prolific thinkers in the history of Tibet and is a key figure in the Nyingma tradition of Buddhism.
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 | Coming Home
Media and Returning Diaspora in Israel and Germany
Nelly Elias - author
Hanna Herzog - Foreword by
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Hardcover: $60.00
Release Date: July 2008
175 pages
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ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7495-2
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Release Date: July 2008
175 pages
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ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7806-6
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Examines the social and cultural integration of Russian-speaking Jews and Germans who immigrated to their respective historic homelands.
Coming Home provides an extraordinary glimpse into the social and cultural integration of a unique category of immigrants—the returning Diaspora.
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 | Illusion of Freedom and Equality, The
Richard Stivers - author
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Hardcover: $50.00
Release Date: July 2008
118 pages
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ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7511-9
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Release Date: July 2008
118 pages
ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7803-5
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Explores how Enlightenment values have been transformed in a technological civilization.
Arguing that the ideology of freedom and equality today bears little resemblance to its eighteenth-century counterpart, Richard Stivers examines how these values have been radically transformed in a technological civilization.
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