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This book shows how early economic ideas structured Christian thought and society, giving crucial insight into why money holds such power in the West.

What makes some cities successful in integrating immigrants while others fail? Using ethnographic observation, original survey data, and interviews conducted in New York, Paris, and Barcelona, Ernesto Castaneda compares the experiences of Latino and North African migrants and sets out to answer how different locations can aid or disrupt the process of "belonging" for its migrants.

The eighth version of this serial publication draws on twenty-one years of data collected by the Center for Effective Organizations to chart the state of the Human Resources-how it is organized and managed, how it contributes to organizational performance, and how it is changing. It provides an international benchmark against which to measure real-world practice.

This book examines how entrenched beliefs about Brazil's Northeast region as backwards, barbaric, and violent influenced the trajectory of projects intended to solve the problem of rural poverty during the Cold War and set the stage for the Brazilian Armed Forces' 1964 coup.

This book traces the literary legacy of the War on Poverty, showing how American writers developed an anti-formalist art that dovetailed with President Lyndon Johnson's call for more client involvement in Great Society welfare programs.

"Originally published in Italian in 2017 under the title Karman: breve trattato sull'azione, la colpa e il gesto."

This book presents a genealogy of postwar American poetry that considers new dimensions of ecological crisis in the era now termed the Great Acceleration.

This comprehensive history of the population and economy of the state of Sao Paulo in its century of rapid growth examines how the state transformed from a frontier province of little importance to one of the most important agricultural and industrial regions of the world.

Combining stories of actual trials with theoretical analysis, this book is a radical and powerful investigation of the criminal justice system and violence, of the operations at work when we judge and punish.

Bringing critical theory to bear on music, this book argues that the jazz form models progressive social relations through its foregrounding of a "communal self," an African-American subjectivity that demands recognition of black humanity and alterity.

This new collection of previously untranslated essays by renowned German conceptual historian and theorist Reinhart Koselleck provides new insight into his theory of history, an ambitious attempt to unearth the conditions of all possible histories.

Scholar, engineer, philanthropist, leader. In this new book, former Stanford President John Hennessy draws on his experience as an educator and technology entrepreneur to offer thoughtful and visionary guidance on leadership and service.

In The Sacrament of Language Agamben investigates the phenomenon of the oath, arguing that it points toward a fundamental experience of language that lies at the root of religion and law alike.

This volume deals comprehensively with the work of Michel de Certeau, the author of one of the most diverse bodies of scholarship and cultural theory to emerge from Europe during the exciting decades after the late Sixties.

Published simultaneously in the United Kingdom by Greenleaf Publishing.

This volume makes available in English for the first time the famed lectures on metaphysics by one of the founders of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory and one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. It provides a unique introduction not only to metaphysics but also to Adorno's own intellectual standpoint.

Masculine domination is so anchored in our social practices and our unconscious that we hardly perceive it; it is so much in line with our expectations that we find it difficult to call into question. This text analyzes masculine domination as a prime example of symbolic violence.