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Unconditional Equality examines Mahatma Gandhi’s critique...
Unconditional Equality examines Mahatma Gandhi’s critique of liberal ideas of freedom and equality and his own practice of a freedom and equality organized around religion. It reconceives satyagraha (passive resistance) as a politics that strives for the absolute equality of all beings.
It’s a seemingly impossible achievement: a book about the...
It’s a seemingly impossible achievement: a book about the things we cannot know, explained as if we did. It’s about how we live now, once “now” has become “then.”
The text is organized around three general questions: Where did...
The text is organized around three general questions: Where did personality theories come from? How did the theorists study facts? How do we apply personality theories now?
Fresh and fascinating, this record also demonstrates that,...
Fresh and fascinating, this record also demonstrates that, even in his earliest work, Shakespeare was moving toward the universal ideas of love, forgiveness, and regeneration . Love’s Labour Lost , Two Gentlemen of Verona , and Romeo and Juliet are discussed at length.
Summing It Up uses addition as a springboard to present a...
Summing It Up uses addition as a springboard to present a fascinating and accessible look at numbers and number theory, and how we apply beautiful numerical properties to answer math problems.
In urgent tones, a call for action as climate change and...
In urgent tones, a call for action as climate change and continuing waste and pollution of available fresh water pose imminent threats to human health and agriculture. Drawing from recently published reports and news stories, Kallen paints an alarming picture.
Our bee populations are under threat. Over the past 60 years,...
Our bee populations are under threat. Over the past 60 years, they have lost much of their natural habitat and are under assault from pesticides and intensive farming. We rely on bees and other insects to pollinate our fruit and vegetables and, without them, our environment and economy will be in crisis.
One Thousand Things Worth Knowing confirms Nick Laird’s...
One Thousand Things Worth Knowing confirms Nick Laird’s assessment, in The New York Review of Books , that Muldoon is “the most formally ambitious and technically innovative of modern poets,” an experimenter and craftsman who “writes poems like no one else.”
Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or...
Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity. We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.
In Why Would Anyone Do That? sociologist Stephen C. Poulson...
In Why Would Anyone Do That? sociologist Stephen C. Poulson offers a fascinating exploration of these new and physically demanding sports, shedding light on why some people find them so compelling. Drawing on interviews with lifestyle sport competitors, on his own experience as a participant, on advertising for lifestyle sport equipment, and on editorial content of adventure sport magazines, Poulson addresses a wide range of issues.
Challenging the received wisdom that sound destroyed the...
Challenging the received wisdom that sound destroyed the slapstick tradition, author Rob King explores the slapstick short’s Depression-era development against a backdrop of changes in film industry practice, comedic tastes, and moviegoing culture.
Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles...
Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day.
Although there are numerous books on alternative accounting...
Although there are numerous books on alternative accounting methods, such as Lean accounting, none focus on the impact of time and how accounting practices can be modified to acknowledge the power of time. This book addresses this need.
Grace Chang’s vital account of immigrant women - who...
Grace Chang’s vital account of immigrant women - who work as nannies, domestic workers, janitors, nursing aides and homecare workers - proves the opposite: women who perform our least desirable jobs are crucial to our economy and society.
The aftershocks of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor...
The aftershocks of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor were felt keenly all over America–the war in Europe had hit home. But nowhere was American life more immediately disrupted than on the West Coast, where people lived in certain fear of more Japanese attacks.
The tale is as gripping as a detective novel, as Dall'Aglio...
The tale is as gripping as a detective novel, as Dall'Aglio unravels a 500-year-old mystery, revealing who was behind the bloody death of the duke’s assassin: the emperor Charles V.
In his latest collection, the incomparable Albert Goldbarth...
In his latest collection, the incomparable Albert Goldbarth explores all things “self-ish”: the origins of identity, the search for ancestry, the neurology of self-awareness, and the line between “self” and “other.”
Grounded in the overarching theoretical lens of mestiza...
Grounded in the overarching theoretical lens of mestiza rhetoric, Occupying Our Space considers the ways in which Mexican women journalists negotiated shifting feminine identities and the emerging national politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Health Communication and Breast Cancer among Black Women:...
Health Communication and Breast Cancer among Black Women: Culture, Identity, Spirituality, and Strength addresses how the discourse of strength constructs the identity of Black women even during times of chronic illness through the lens of Black feminist thought and womanist ideology.
The arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the head of the Yukos oil...
The arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the head of the Yukos oil company, in October 2003, was a key turning point in modern Russian history. Although officially charged with fraud and tax evasion, many speculated that the real catalyst for Khodorkovsky’s arrest was his outspoken criticism of President Vladimir Putin’s regime.Recent News
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In celebration of the Mass of the Holy Spirit, a campus-wide event, the library will be closed from 12:45 to 2:35 pm on September 13. Please...
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Open to SMC students, staff, and faculty Keep a reading log (available in the SMC Library or download here) May 29-Aug. 27 and turn it ...
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On Thursday, April 27th, Saint Mary's College will launch it's third 1Day1SMC 24-hour Giving Challenge. The SMC community will have an...
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