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A theorist and cultural critic on race, sexuality, science fiction, and the art of writing.

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Europa wächst zusammen - politisch. Kulturell glänzt es weiter mit dem Reichtum seiner Regionen. Die Orgel zeigt es wie im Brennspiegel: Es gibt sie immer noch, die brillanten Instrumente in Skandinavien, die große Spätromantik Frankreichs, die reiche Barockkultur der Niederlande, den deutschen Export ins Baltikum, die singenden Prinzipale Italiens und vieles andere mehr. Der "Orgelführer Europa" setzt den erfolgreichen "Orgelführer Deutschlan...

A look at the various, sometimes conflicting, aspects of Jamaica: at once a paradise tourist island, the gangster-ridden home of the yardies, a proudly independent democracy, an island struggling with debt and its dependence on a few primary products, and a fantastically vibrant home of musical and sporting achievement. Peter Mason guides the reader through Jamaica's complex evolution and culture grown out of unique ties with Britain, with Nor...

In this collection of essays, leading national sport authorities including journalists, coaches, athletic directors, and varsity and professional players themselves, talk about what is wrong with sports education today and how it can be improved. Each contributor considers whether public expectations - that sport promotes character development, physical fitness and positive educational and social values - are being met in today's reality.

Imagining Each Other explores Black-Jewish relations by examining the complex ways they have portrayed each other in recent American literature. It illuminates their dramatic alliances and conflicts and their dilemmas of identity and assimilation, and addresses the persistent questions of ethnic division and economic inequality that have so encompassed the Black-Jewish narrative in America. Focusing primarily on the 1960s and its aftermath, th...

What is it like to be a faculty member at a university in the United States that enjoys no reputation or distinction? Traveling through the Boondocks discusses this situation not from the top down but from the bottom up, where the experience of exclusion ranges from that of departments where scholarship gets to count in hiring decisions to conferences where only individuals from elite institutions get to appear on stage. This book reinvigorate...

This book examines and compares the philosophical positions of various postmodern thinkers and Zen Buddhist philosophers on: language and play, modes of thinking, skepticism and doubt, self and other, time and death, nihilism and metaphysics, and the conception of the end of philosophy. The Zen thinkers dealt with are Dogen and Nishitani, and the Western thinkers are Derrida, Lacan, Heidegger, Lyotard, Foucault, Deleuze and Guatarri, Kristeva,...

What should those attracted to the figure of Jesus Christ make of all the different Christs available to them? Amidst today's pluralism, we encounter Christ as liberator, the cosmic Christ, feminist Christs, Black Christs, Christ as the object of mystical longing, and various New Age versions of Christ, to name but a few. Imaginary Christs discusses the challenges arising from christological pluralism and suggests evaluative criteria for sorti...

Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light investigates, for the first time in a Western language, the manner in which the Muslim scholars of China adapted the Chinese tradition to their own needs during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book surveys the 1400-year history of Islam in China and explores why the four books translated from Islamic languages into Chinese before the twentieth century were all Persian Sufi texts. The author also looks...

Growing out of the author's anthropological fieldwork in Syria, these nine short stories explore love and loss in contemporary Damascus. Available here together for the first time in English, they confound popular stereotypes of Arab women and men as fundamentalists, terrorists, and victims of the Gulf War. The stories touch on such themes as tyranny, good and bad fortune in marriage, exile, the snobbery of old wealth, the ambition of new mone...

Born out of a bilateral project between distinguished scholars in Japan and the United States, Transnational Competence provides a definitive and comprehensive study of the status of relations between these two countries in an educational context. The book covers a wide-ranging array of themes, from an analysis of the traditions of educational exchange, the role of grassroots organizations, the knowledge network, university exchanges, language...

Beyond the Science Wars offers a broad contextualization of the "Science Wars"--an ongoing debate between scientists and social scientists over the nature and meaning of science--from interdisciplinary sociological, historical, scientific, political, and cultural perspectives. Beyond providing an understanding of the conflict itself, this book presents the comments of two science and technology studies' (STS) "founding fathers" (Bernard Barber...

This book illustrates the continued value of Marxism as a method for analyzing contemporary capitalism, despite the new Post-Fordist variant termed "lean production" that is spreading the globe. Characterized by knowledge work, lean production also includes the mass customization of commodities to consumer desires, and the close cooperation of firms within extended networks of production and distribution. Its proponents argue that it can unite...

This method can be used by students who want to teach themselves, or by teachers for private or group instruction. It is a complete guide to the basics, designed to offer quality instruction, terrific songs, and a professional-quality CD with 99 full-demo tracks. Students can learn at their own pace and open the door to the world of guitar music! This method covers: songs, chords and riffs, picking and strumming, playing tips and techniques, s...

Learn lead guitar in the styles of Albert Collins, Eric Clapton, Albert King, B.B. King, Freddie King, Stevie Ray Vaughan and T-Bone Walker! This unique book/CD pack examines the solo concepts of each of these masters. The CD features full demos and rhythm-only tracks, and the book includes phrase-by-phrase performance notes and tips on bending strings, vibrato, tone, note selection and much more. Includes notes and tablature. A must for any b...

Renowned R&B, , blues and funk ace Cornell Dupree was a guitarist of legendary proportion, with more than 2, 500 albums as a sideman to his credit! In this authoritative book/CD pack, he reveals his playing secrets, covering: R&B, , blues and funk styles, double-stops, vamps, scales and playing tips, common progressions and riffs, his equipment set-up, and much more. The CD features 10 songs written and performed by Cornell with full-band back...

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Network-Centric Naval Forces: A Transition Strategy for Enhancing Operational Capabilities is a study to advise the Department of the Navy regarding its transition strategy to achieve a network-centric naval force through technology application. This report discusses the technical underpinnings needed for a transition to networkcentric forces and capabilities.