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  • Interreligious Hermeneutics and the Pursuit of Truth

    by J. R. Hustwit ...
    Philosophical hermeneutics provides a model of interreligious dialogue that acknowledges the interpretive variability of truth claims while maintaining their relation to a preinterpretive reality. The dialectic and tensive structure of philosophical hermeneutics directly parallels the tension between the diversity of belief and the ultimacy of the sacred. By placing philosophers like Gadamer, ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

  • Whitehead and Continental Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century

    Dislocations

    by William Hammrick, Carl Dyke, Kris Klotz, Elijah Prewitt-Davis, Keith Robinson, Jeremy D. Fackenthal, Walter Bo Eberle, Tano S. Posteraro, J. R. Hustwit ...
    Series series Contemporary Whitehead Studies
    This book examines how the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, a speculative philosopher from the first half of the twentieth century, converses and entangles itself with continental philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries around the question of a sustainable civilization in the present. Chapters are focused around economic and environmental sustainability, questions of how ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

  • The Smell of Burning Crosses

    An Autobiography of a Mississippi Newspaperman

    by Ira Harkey ...
    Series series Civil Rights in Mississippi Series
    Journalist Ira Harkey (1918–2006) risked it all when he advocated for James Meredith’s admission to the University of Mississippi as the first African American student in 1962.Preceded by a legal battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court and violent, deadly rioting, Meredith’s admission constituted a pivotal moment in civil rights history. At the time, Harkey was editor of the Chronicle in ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • O. K. Bouwsma

    A Philosopher’s Journey

    by Ronald E. Hustwit ...
    Series Book 216 - American University Studies
    O. K. Bouwsma was, with J. L. Austin and J. O. Wisdom, the best known of the «Ordinary Language» philosophers of the mid-twentieth century. In 1950, he initiated the prestigious John Locke Lectures at Oxford as a representative of that school of philosophers, who developed the implications of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy. Bouwsma, a friend of Wittgenstein and oriented by the latter’s work, ... Read more

    $119.79 CAD

  • Integration Now

    Alexander v. Holmes and the End of Jim Crow Education

    by William P. Hustwit ...
    Recovering the history of an often-ignored landmark Supreme Court case, William P. Hustwit assesses the significant role that Alexander v. Holmes (1969) played in integrating the South’s public schools. Although Brown v. Board of Education has rightly received the lion’s share of historical analysis, its ambiguous language for implementation led to more than a decade of delays and resistance by ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • James J. Kilpatrick

    Salesman for Segregation

    by William P. Hustwit ...
    James J. Kilpatrick was a nationally known television personality, journalist, and columnist whose conservative voice rang out loudly and widely through the twentieth century. As editor of the Richmond News Leader, writer for the National Review, debater in the “Point/Counterpoint” portion of CBS’s 60 Minutes, and supporter of conservative political candidates like Barry Goldwater, Kilpatrick had ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

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  • Freedom’s Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

    A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

    by Jefferson Cowie ...
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  • By Hands Now Known

    Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

    by Margaret A. Burnham ...
    **Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in HistoryWinner of the Hillman Prize for Book JournalismFinalist for the Kirkus Prize for NonfictionNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and the Chicago Public Library • One of NPR's "Books We Love" for 2022A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that ... Read more

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  • The Struggle for Black Equality

    by Harvard Sitkoff ...
    The Struggle for Black Equality is a dramatic, memorable history of the civil rights movement. Harvard Sitkoff offers both a brilliant interpretation of the personalities and dynamics of civil rights organizations and a compelling analysis of the continuing problems plaguing many African Americans. With a new foreword and afterword, and an up-to-date bibliography, this anniversary edition ... Read more

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  • Eyes on the Prize

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    by Juan Williams ...
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    Eyes on the Prize traces the movement from the landmark Brown v*. the Board of Education* case in 1954 to the march on Selma and the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. This is a companion volume to the first part of the acclaimed PBS series. ... Read more

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