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The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico

Neil Connolly’s Priesthood in the South Bronx

Angel Garcia

How the South Bronx and Puerto Rican migration defined Fr. Neil Connolly’s priesthood as he learned to both serve and be part of his communitySouth Bronx, 1958. Change was...

ISBN: 9781531501914

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South Bronx Rising

The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City

Jill Jonnes

Thirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough—ravaged in the 1970s and ’80s by disinvestment and fires,...

ISBN: 9781531501211

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Out with the Stars

James Purdy

Following the discovery of an anonymous libretto, Abner Blossom comes out of retirement to write an opera based on the life of infamous novelist-turned-photographer Cyril Vane. But those who knew...

ISBN: 9781531501204

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I Am Elijah Thrush

James Purdy

On its surface, I Am Elijah Thrush is the story of Millicent De Frayne and her sensational half-century campaign to win the love of Elijah Thrush. Elijah, after ruining the lives of countless...

ISBN: 9781531501198

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A Bridge to Justice

The Life of Franklin H. Williams

Enid Gort and John Caher

Documents the life of a gifted African American leader whose contributions were pivotal to the movement for social justice and racial equalityFranklin Hall Williams was a...

ISBN: 9781531500863

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Heaven on the Hudson

Mansions, Monuments, and Marvels of Riverside Park

Stephanie Azzarone

A colorful tale of a singular New York City neighborhood and the personalities who make it specialTo outsiders or East Siders, Riverside Park and Riverside Drive may not have the...

ISBN: 9781531501006

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Antiquity in Gotham

The Ancient Architecture of New York City

Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis

The first detailed study of “Neo-Antique” architecture applies an archaeological lens to the study of New York City’s structuresSince the city’s inception, New Yorkers have...

ISBN: 9781531502423

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Imagistic Care

Growing Old in a Precarious World

Edited by Cheryl Mattingly and Lone Grøn

Afterword by Robert Desjarlais

Contributor(s): Rasmus Dyring, Harmandeep Kaur Gill, Lone Grøn, Maria Louw, Cheryl Mattingly, Lotte Meinert, Maria Speyer, Helle Sofie Wentzer and Susan Reynolds Whyte

Imagistic Care explores ethnographically how images function in our concepts, our writing, our fieldwork, and our lives. With contributions from anthropologists, philosophers and an artist,...

ISBN: 9780823299638

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Prescriptions for Virtuosity

The Postcolonial Struggle of Chinese Medicine

Eric I. Karchmer

Prescriptions for Virtuosity documents how Chinese medicine has been transformed by the postcolonial encounter with biomedicine. It shows how doctors of Chinese medicine have responded to their postcolonial predicament through hybrid innovation, developing new forms of virtuosity to keep their clinical practice relevant in contemporary Chinese society.

ISBN: 9780823299836

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Being of Two Minds

Modernist Literary Criticism and Early Modern Texts

Jonathan Goldberg

Being of Two Minds examines the place that early modern literature held in Modernist literary criticism. For T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and William Empson, the early modern period helps...

ISBN: 9781531501617

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Queer God de Amor

Miguel H. Díaz

Queer God de Amor explores the mystery of God and the relationship between divine and human persons. It does so by turning to the sixteenth-century writings of John of the Cross on mystical...

ISBN: 9781531502485

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A Gray Realm the Ocean

Jennifer Atkinson

The poems in Jennifer Atkinson’s A Gray Realm the Ocean were all written under the influence of art-specifically twenty-and twenty-first-century abstract visual art. All the art referenced...

ISBN: 9781531500894

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Boats in the Attic

Alison Powell

Boats in the Attic is a sweeping, poignant exploration of what it means to be an individual and, in particular, what it means to be a parent of young children, in our current time of crisis....

ISBN: 9781531500856

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Cross Bronx

A Writing Life

Peter Quinn

In his inimitable prose, master storyteller Peter Quinn chronicles his odyssey from the Irish Catholic precincts of the Bronx to the arena of big-league politics and corporate hardball.Cross...

ISBN: 9781531500948

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Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality

Edited by Thomas Arentzen, Ashley M. Purpura and Aristotle Papanikolaou

Contributor(s): Thomas Arentzen, Spyridoula Athanasopoulou-Kypriou, Katerina Kocandrle Bauer, John Behr, Davor Džalto, Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Michael Hjälm, Pantelis Kalaitzidis, Andrii Krawchuk, Aristotle Papanikolaou, Ashley M. Purpura, Richard René, Bryce E. Rich, Ekaterini Tsalampouni, Dmitry Uzlaner, Haralambos Ventis and Gayle E. Woloschak

This book offers theological, historical, and sociological treatments of sexuality in the Orthodox Christian world. It presents both academic and pastoral reflections on sex, seeking to open up the conversation about homosexuality and sexual diversity within Orthodox Christianity, aiming to create an agora for discussing the sexualities that are often thought of as untraditional.

ISBN: 9780823299676

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Holy Envy

Writing in the Jewish Christian Borderzone

Maeera Shreiber

What is between us and the Christians is a deep dark affair which will go for another hundred generations . . .” (Amos Oz, Judas)Among the great social shifts of the post–World...

ISBN: 9781531501730

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Spectacles and Specters

A Performative Theory of Political Trials

Başak Ertür

Spectacles and Specters draws on theories of performativity to conceptualize the entanglements of law and political violence, offering a radical departure from accounts that consider political...

ISBN: 9781531501860

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Townies

William O'Shaughnessy

In his six previous books, William O’Shaughnessy, one of the nation’s best known and most beloved community broadcasters, has told the tales of the power brokers and visionaries of politics,...

ISBN: 9781531502447

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Boy with the Bullhorn

A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York

Ron Goldberg

A coming-of-age memoir of life on the front lines of the AIDS crisis with ACT UP New York.From the moment Ron Goldberg stumbled into his first ACT UP meeting in June 1987,...

ISBN: 9781531500979

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The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot

Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It

Matthew Spady

Audubon Park’s journey from farmland to cityscapeThe study of Audubon Park’s origins, maturation, and disappearance is at root the study of a rural society evolving into an urban...

ISBN: 9781531501921

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Grammatology of Images

A History of the A-Visible

Sigrid Weigel

Translated by Chadwick Truscott Smith

Grammatology of Images radically alters how we approach images by asking after imaging as such. How does something a-visible get transformed into an image? The book illuminates fascinating, unexpected correspondences between premodern and contemporary image-practices, between religion and science, and between things that are and are not understood as art.

ISBN: 9781531500276

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Concrete Utopianism

The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity

Gary Wilder

Through a critique of Left realism, culturalism, and pessimism from the standpoint of heterodox Marxism and Black radicalism, Gary Wilder insists that we place questions of solidarity and temporality at the center of Left political thinking. He makes a bold case for embracing a concrete utopian politics of the possible-impossible adequate to current planetary crises.

ISBN: 9780823299874

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Spirit Power

Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century

Heonik Kwon and Jun Hwan Park

Spirit Power explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encounter with American missionary power from the late...

ISBN: 9780823299911

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Gestures

The Study of Religion as Practice

Edited by Michiel Leezenberg, Anne-Marie Korte and Martin M. van Bruinessen

Contributor(s): Umut Azak, Christoph Baumgartner, Rajeev Bhargava, John R. Bowen, Judith Butler, Rokus de Groot, Martijn de Koning, Sanne Derks, Wendy Doniger, Willy Jansen, Yolande Jansen, Mariwan Kanie, Webb Keane, Anne-Marie Korte, Michael Lambek, Bruno Latour, Michiel Leezenberg, Annelies Moors, Catrien Notermans, S. Brent Plate, Samuli Schielke, Regina M. Schwartz, Yvonne Sherwood, Thomas Tweed, Martin M. van Bruinessen, Sander van Maas and Ali Hassan Zaidi

This concluding volume of the Future of the Religious Past series approaches contemporary religion through the lens of practice: the rituals, performances, devotions, and everyday acts through which...

ISBN: 9780823299621

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In the Beginning Was the State

Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible

Adi M. Ophir

This book explores God’s use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. Ophir shows how the Bible’s varied formations of divine violence anticipate the main outlines of the modern European state. A critique of the modern state, the book argues, must begin in unpacking its mostly repressed theological dimension.

ISBN: 9781531501419

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The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico

South Bronx Rising

Out with the Stars

I Am Elijah Thrush

A Bridge to Justice

Heaven on the Hudson

Antiquity in Gotham

Imagistic Care

Prescriptions for Virtuosity

Being of Two Minds

Queer God de Amor

A Gray Realm the Ocean

Boats in the Attic

Cross Bronx

Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality

Holy Envy

Spectacles and Specters

Townies

Boy with the Bullhorn

The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot

Grammatology of Images

Concrete Utopianism

Spirit Power

Gestures

In the Beginning Was the State

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