Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness

Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of PowerlessnessThe socio economic transformations of the 1990s have forced many people in Poland into impoverishment. Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness gives a dramatic account of life after this degradation, tracking the experiences of unemployed miners, scrap collectors, and poverty stricken village residents. Contrary to the images of passivity, resignation, and helplessness that have become powerful tropes in Polish journalism and academic

he turned his back on a life of luxury and became a Sufi

Hoping for an uneventful evening

Arab storytelling

Wheeler demonstrates that Aristotle's investigation of truth and falsehood in the Metaphysics is rigorously methodical

a master storyteller with an eye for tragedy and a skill for developing flawed

and male and female perspectives

and tips to more confidently and competently assess

is one example

The Jain tradition

Charts the stages of the history of friendship as a philosophical concept in the Western world

and literary sources of hellenistic culture

Building a Profession offers a retrospective on the early days of Comparative Literature in the United States and on its role in defining literary scholarship in the heady decades following the end of the second World War