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Swami Lakshmanjoo is the author of Kashmir Shaivism: The Secret Supreme published by SUNY Press.

Gary Greenberg is a psychotherapist in private practice.

A comprehensive look at a classic work of popular fiction and its hold on the American imagination.

The 14 essays are not modern versions of stories about ghosts, cursed landscapes, or supernatural retribution for wrongs to the environment. Rather, scholars of literature, art history, and related humanities explore semiologies and epistemologies that subtend modern notions of waste, of memory, and of recycling. A major concern is how modern and/o

Highlights the practical benefits and the many problems of youth and sports in the United States.

A comprehensive look at the ERA debates of the 1920s.

Sharing for the first time the life-long correspondence between Walter Pach -- artist, author, art critic, art consultant, teacher, museum lecturer -- and many of the most influential members of the literary and art worlds of his day, this book reveals Pach to be one of the unsung heroes who promoted European and American modern art during the first half of the twentieth century.

A comprehensive account of human kindness.

Leading scholars critically assess the pioneering environmental philosophy of J. Baird Callicott.

Shostak (biological sciences, U. of Pittsburgh) considers the possibility of achieving immortality through biological engineering and ponders the implications of such a step. The impact of immortality on commerce, politics, technology, and human dignity are specifically examined. Along the way, Shostack reflects on the nature of life and death, and

Adds historical and philosophical perspectives to current debates over whether lesbian identity is socially constructed or genetically based.

Despite SUNY Press's decision to contribute to eyestrain by employing a font size worthy of a dictionary, this volume successfully adds to the literature on current trends in feminism, providing an overview of the past as a context for present views. Armstrong (women's studies, Smith College) incorporates a varied selection of original material tha

For lay readers interested in psychology and human nature (like himself) and for academics in such fields as neuroscience, psychology, or sociology, Brothers offers his view on the perennial debate. He has written previously about social impacts on the human mind. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

In this darkly satirical novel, a Columbia University English professor's life is turned upside down when it starts to follow the plot of Shakespeare's sonnets.

Thirteen contributions from Williams (English, U. of Missouri) and other academics consider how institutional practices, protocols, and structures mediate and produce what we call literature. Essays in the first half focus on how certain critical practices and discourses have become established in t

A scandalous bestseller of mid-nineteenth-century France, translated here for the first time into English.

Fed up with life at home, Jessica Baron is selected for a trip to the moon ("I wasn't at all sure my mother would let me go, but I filled in the forms anyway".) The spaceship strangely misses its destination and hurtles onward into deep space for a mysterious voyage that transcends culture, time, and the mind itself.

This book is a discussion of the nature and import of Richard Rorty's philosophy, particularly as it relates to his reevaluation of American pragmatism.

Set primarily in Paris and Oxford, this fast-paced mystery novel links a long-missing manuscript from a famous eighteenth-century philosopher with a dark secret to a late twentieth-century murder of a prominent Princeton professor.

An urgent but cryptic request from Professor Ted Porter summons his old friend and former Rhodes Scholar Jack Davis to Paris. Once there Jack finds his friend dead, apparently electrocuted by a faulty laptop computer. The Parisian police rule the death an accident and close the case. But Jack well knew his friend's deep aversion to modern technology, and to computers in particular, and believes the computer was not Ted's and his death no accid...