There has been an explosion of interest in how religion & the sacred connect with the media & cultures of everyday life. This book offers a review of this field of scholarship, highlighting both its achievements & flaws, & setting out an agenda for its next phase of study. ...

Between Saying & Doing aims to reconcile pragmatism with analytic philosophy. Robert Brandom investigates the relations between the meaning of linguistic expressions (logical, indexical, modal, normative, & intentional, among others) & their use. He offers new ways of thinking about empiricism, naturalism, & functionalism. ...

Between Saying & Doing aims to reconcile pragmatism with analytic philosophy. Robert Brandom investigates the relations between the meaning of linguistic expressions (logical, indexical, modal, normative, & intentional, among others) & their use. He offers new ways of thinking about empiricism, naturalism, & functionalism. ...

Addresses interpretive problems that have complicated much of the writing about the artist Willem de Kooning. With detailed analysis of specific works throughout de Kooning's career, this book discusses de Kooning's use of materials & his technical experimentation. ...

One night fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother & young brother are hauled from their home by Soviet guards, thrown into cattle cars & sent away. They are being deported to Siberia. An unimaginable & harrowing journey has begun. Lina doesn't know if she'll ever see her father or her friends again. But she refuses to give up hope. ...

Todd Verow directs this coming-of-age drama. After being accepted into a prestigious New England art college, scholarship kids Joe (Tim Swain) & Jennifer (Julia Frey) quickly become friends. Having to work for a living in a climate dominated by wealth & priviledge, the pair soon discover more profitable ways to fund their studies: namely shoplifting, drug dealing & male prostitution. However, when Joe falls for enigmatic hustler Ramon (Gil Bar-Sela) & Jennifer gets caught up in a bad drug deal, their lives start to spin out of control. ...

Based on a qualitative study of Hungary & its changing relationship to the 3 million ethnic Hungarians in neighbouring states, this book argues that it is not the ties of ethnicity, but the political interests of kin-state elites that drives states in Eastern Europe to take action on behalf of ethnic kin in neighboring states. ...