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"Every century needs an indispensable guide. The twenty-first century in Asia will see a natural return of the two great civilizations of China and India. Yet so little is known of them, especially to Western minds. And even less is known, even by thoughtful Chinese and Indians, on how these two great areas of culture have interacted for millennia. This brilliant volume shines a light on the two great civilizations that will once again drive world history. No volume could be more timely, more relevant, and more needed than this one. Ignore it at your peril. Read it and you will be enlightened."--Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow, Asia Research Institute, NUS, and author of The Asian 21st Century "With the recently elevated economic and political power of China and the great potential of India in the twenty-first century, interdisciplinary dialogue and engagement such as is found in this book is necessary for contemporary debates in political theory and international relations."--Kuiyi Shen, Professor of Asian Art History, Theory, and Criticism, University of California, San Diego "A pioneering volume that assembles some of the most important scholars of Chinese and Indian historical political thought to think athwart and across their specialized regions. It is important not only because Chinese power and an emergent India will play a significant role in global politics but also because these traditions may embed alternative visions and ideals from contemporary international politics. Commendably, the authors steer away from provocative politicized positions to focus on statecraft as it reflects fundamental values of society, rulership and life."--Prasenjit Duara, Duke University "Bridging Two Worlds enriches our knowledge about ancient Chinese and Indian political thoughts and theories, which represent a significant contribution of the two great Asian civilizations. It tries to bridge: first, China and India, with an academic dialogue between their ancient but diverse political ideas; second, past and present, to make sense of the present political and international practices by exploring the traditional codes; third, East and West, to complement the West-dominated political and IR theories. This book deserves a wide audience within the academy and beyond."--Li Li, deputy director and senior fellow, Institute of International Relations, Tsinghua University, China > "This excellent book brings together top scholars from the fields of Chinese and Indian political theory and philosophy. There have been few books that compare Chinese and Indian thought, and as the two countries become increasingly involved in cultural, political, and economic exchange, Bridging Two Worlds provides a much-needed philosophical perspective on present India-China relations."--Viren Murthy, author of The Politics of Time in China and Japan: Back to the Future

"Stephen Shoemaker leaves no significant aspect of the debate over the Qur'an's origin and evolution unexamined. His book is a milestone in Qur'anic studies. It is, simply put, the most comprehensive and convincing examination of this subject available. Everyone in the field will have to read it." --Fred M. Donner, Peter B. Ritzma Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern History, University of Chicago

"Victor Roy meticulously examines the value extraction that lies at the heart of today's pharmaceutical industry. An important voice on the links between finance and health ecosystems, Roy's new book is a valuable contribution to building an economy that is based on providing health for all."--Mariana Mazzucato, author of The Value of Everything and Chair of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All "This book is a riveting read that will strike fear in the heart of anybody who cares about the right to health or thinks that the drive for profit should not supersede democracy or human need. It exposes why the price tags on medicines are so high and what the systems are that keep it that way."--Salmaan Keshavjee, author of Blind Spot: How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health "This is the best piece of nonfiction I have read in a long time. This book offers a fantastic, relevant, and necessary case study to understand how the financialization of the economy has affected the organization of industrial sectors by focusing on what has happened in the biopharmaceutical sector."--Marc-André Gagnon, Professor of Public Policy and Political Economy, Carleton University "Capitalizing a Cure debunks several myths used to justify today's pharmaceutical business model and shows how the purpose of improving people's health gets lost in the machinations of financialized capitalism. An eye-opener for scholars and policymakers seeking to reform our medical innovation ecosystem."--Els Torreele, former Director of the Médecins Sans Frontières Access Campaign and Visiting Fellow at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose "This book sheds light on an underappreciated yet critical driver of spiraling medicines prices: who finances pharmaceutical R&D, how, and why. Roy's careful excavation of the story behind breakthrough hepatitis C treatments is essential reading for anyone interested in the challenge of ensuring everyone can benefit from scientific progress."--Suerie Moon, Co-Director at the Global Health Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute "What is the price of a drug? Does it represent profit, value, or the person who might benefit from a curative medicine? Roy's book is a brilliant inspection of these dynamic concepts that helps us understand the decisions we are making as a society through drug pricing."--Joseph S. Ross, MD, MHS, Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Yale University

"An extremely sensitive, compassionate, and readable study of hospice care in Japan, Spiritual Ends vividly reveals how Japanese hospice patients face impending death and the ways that chaplains, doctors, and nurses attempt to help the dying maintain their sense of the value of their lives until the very end. Timothy O. Benedict has produced a work brimming with wisdom drawn from his work as a chaplain as well as historical study of hospital chaplaincy and a broad understanding of the place of religion in the lives of contemporary Japanese people."--Helen Hardacre, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Harvard University "An important contribution to the study of religion in contemporary Japan. Benedict offers a highly original perspective and new insightful material, providing a critical approach to the debate about spiritual care and spirituality."--Erica Baffelli, Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Manchester "Benedict's frank interviews with dying patients and their caretakers reveal an unassuming approach to spiritual care that privileges human connections at life's end. This thoughtful study explores how Japanese hospice work participates in a global spirituality movement and may be helping to redefine religion's social roles."--Jacqueline Stone, author of Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan "A discerning study of pain and comfort at the end of life, and a story of the invention of spirituality in Japan, which traces traffic between medical, psychological, and religious thought, Buddhism and Christianity, Japanese occult groups and Western transcultural psychology, and between Eastern and Western discourses of the mind and soul."--Amy B. Borovoy, Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University "Shedding light on the Japanese hospice movement and the issues it faces, Timothy O. Benedict shows how the question of spiritual care in Japanese hospices is significant for our understandings of religion in contemporary Japan and has wider global implications. Spiritual Ends will appeal to all who are interested in studies of religion and change in Japan and globally."--Ian Reader, Professor Emeritus of Religion, The University of Manchester "This beautifully researched book shows how spiritual care for the dying is practiced in modern Japan and what that care reveals about religious identity there. Benedict brings sensitivity, analytic clarity and important insights based on the experiences of patients, family members and staff. This is essential reading for anyone interested in hospice care or religion in Japan and the practice of chaplaincy and spiritual care globally."--Wendy Cadge, author of Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine and director of Chaplaincy Innovation Lab

"Until the Storm Passes is a timely and original addition to our understanding of the transition from military to democratic rule in Brazil. By providing an in-depth rereading of key political events during the dictatorship's final years, Bryan Pitts fills a gap in the existing scholarship by advancing a somewhat revisionist, important argument about the relevance of the political class in the country's recent history. It will prove essential to making sense of Brazil's recent democratic backsliding and the revived appeal of authoritarianism among its citizens and organized political groups."--Rafael R. Ioris, author of Transforming Brazil: A History of National Development in the Postwar Era "In this remarkable study, Bryan Pitts shows how Brazil's political class used notions of privilege and honor in order to navigate the spaces between the military dictatorship and popular movements. Through innovative research--including audio recordings of legislative proceedings made available to readers of this book--Until the Storm Passes skillfully captures the atmosphere of a pivotal moment in Brazilian history."--Jacob Blanc, author of Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil

"With MoMA Goes to Paris in 1938, Caroline M. Riley brings the full force of art historical close looking to bear on the museum's landmark, ocean-crossing show. In stirring, kaleidoscopic accounts, her book draws needed attention to Three Centuries of American Art as a key case study in soft diplomacy, in the birth of the 'American art' canon, and in how to piece together--with careful precision--how museum work works."--Jennifer Jane Marshall, author of Machine Art, 1934 "Riley's deep, multilayered archival work exposes aspects of the exhibitionary project that rarely make it into the art-historical narrative--and yet are essential in the production of public art history. Through her examination of publicity, loans, and installation itineraries, she demonstrates how MoMA attempted to use art as a tool of diplomacy on the eve of World War II."--Kristina Wilson, author of The Modern Eye: Stieglitz, MoMA, and the Art of the Exhibition, 1925-1934

"The Fluvial Imagination is a treat! Colin Hoag's keen ethnographic eye reveals how much work has had to be done to transform the Basotho's beloved pula (rain) into the exportable and commodified 'water, ' demonstrating in the process how dams are entangled with a host of thorny social and political issues."--James Ferguson, author of Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution "The Fluvial Imagination offers a rich account of the ecological, political, and economic contradictions produced through Lesotho's water-export economy. The work is engaging and well-written, based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Lesotho's grazing communities, where lives and livelihoods are bound by the state's management of water as an economic asset, as well as state projects to counter soil erosion. Colin Hoag deftly combines his significant talents as a writer and theorist in this important book."--Laura A. Ogden, author of Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades "The Fluvial Imagination is a beautifully written book that dwells in the ongoing colonial and racialized practices with which water, land, and labor are produced in Lesotho to serve cities and mines in South Africa. Thoroughly researched and thoroughly interdisciplinary, the book shows why (and how) it is necessary to engage histories of racialization and commoditization in scientific practice, on one hand, and natural scientific practices in the social sciences, on the other. In describing the ongoing histories and infrastructures that make water and empire durable forces in the world, this book is a wonderful and timely contribution to the work in anthropology, geography, and the environmental humanities."--Nikhil Anand, author of Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai

White Americans, abetted by neo-conservative writers of all hues, generally believe that racial discrimination is a thing of the past and that any racial inequalities that undeniably persist-in wages, family income, access to housing or health care-can be attributed to African Americans' cultural and individual failures. If the experience of most black Americans says otherwise, an explanation has been sorely lacking-or obscured by the passions the issue provokes. At long last offering a cool, clear, and informed perspective on the subject, this book brings together a team of highly respected sociologists, political scientists, economists, criminologists, and legal scholars to scrutinize the logic and evidence behind the widely held belief in a color-blind society-and to provide an alternative explanation for continued racial inequality in the United States. While not denying the economic advances of black Americans since the 1960s, Whitewashing Race draws on new and compelling research to demonstrate the persistence of racism and the effects of organized racial advantage across many institutions in American society-including the labor market, the welfare state, the criminal justice system, and schools and universities. Looking beyond the stalled debate over current antidiscrimination policies, the authors also put forth a fresh vision for achieving genuine racial equality of opportunity in a post-affirmative action world.

"Moving with ease across historical contextualization, theoretical inquiry, and the close reading of a broad corpus of films and other cultural objects, Jean Ma both sheds new light on canonical texts and takes on urgent contemporary debates pertaining to corporeality, slowness, attention, and cinematic relocation. A true pleasure to read."--Erika Balsom, author of After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation "At the Edges of Sleep is an exceptionally strong piece of scholarship. It is intellectually ambitious, erudite across a number of fields, poetically written yet lucid, and both historically informed and deeply attuned to our own moment."--Karen Redrobe, author of Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis "Wow. This book is a unique sensational performance as Jean Ma unpacks the aesthetic and possibilities for sleep as a critical practice in contemporary moving image culture. It's downright groundbreaking in its far-ranging and far-reaching insights."--Dana Polan, Cinema Studies, New York University

"Highly original and timely, Scaling Migrant Worker Rights shines a light on underexplored actors in the labor rights and protection enforcement process, in particular consular officials from the sending state located in the US and US- and Mexico-based NGOs working at multiple scales--locally, regionally, nationally, and transnationally"--Leah F. Vosko, author of Disrupting Deportability: Transnational Workers Organize "Combining interviews, surveys, newly uncovered government documents, and participant observation, this important and innovative work provides a nuanced, rich, and detailed meso-analysis of institutions and institutional collaboration in Mexico and the US."--Nancy Plankey-Videla, author of We Are in This Dance Together: Gender, Power, and Globalization at a Mexican Garment Firm "A very robust and nuanced empirical analysis documenting how co-enforcement mechanisms across transnational civil society, consulates, and national governments work to implement existing labor rights protections at international and bilateral levels."--Alexandra Délano Alonso, author of Mexico and Its Diaspora in the United States: Policies of Emigration since 1848

"Jennifer Leigh Syvertsen has done everything right in Dangerous Love. Too often, social and behavioral scientists studying drug use avoid describing the affective aspects of drug-using behavior. Syvertsen, rather than averting her eyes, seeks to understand these lives and help the reader to understand."--J. Bryan Page, Professor of Anthropology, University of Miami "Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews in Tijuana, Dangerous Love includes intimate (in this case, male) partners, an element that is usually missing in the qualitative study of drug use--and rare in the study of sex work. By examining female-male partnerships and relational repertoires, Syvertsen makes novel and important contributions to our thinking about how intimate relationships give rise to dangerous safe havens and how these both shape, and are shaped by, lived experiences."--Lisa Maher, author of Sexed Work: Gender, Race, and Resistance in a Brooklyn Drug Market

"A highly original and empirically grounded account of what imprisonment communicates and fails to communicate to men convicted of sexual offenses. This book is, by some distance, the best-developed analysis of how men in this position experience and make sense of their punishment."--Fergus McNeill, author of Pervasive Punishment: Making Sense of Mass Supervision "The Stains of Imprisonment gives the reader captivating insight into the world that is prison for men convicted of sex offenses. Ievins deftly weaves together theoretical discussions of feminism and the carceral with the nuanced experiences of the men interviewed. A definite must-read for anyone interested in punishment and prison."--Rosemary Ricciardelli, author of Also Serving Time: Canada's Provincial and Territorial Correctional Officers

"With wide-ranging and precise interdisciplinary scholarship and impressive insight into the many interconnections of emotion, voice, and political development, Jessica Peritz makes a major contribution to our understanding of not just eighteenth-century Italian music but also European cultural and political history. A real delight."--Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago "Written elegantly and with flair, The Lyric Myth of Voice does much to argue for the value of Peritz's sources and the importance of long-neglected Italian cultural practices of the late Enlightenment. Her close readings of material are lovely, excellent, stimulating, illuminating--everything wonderful."--Ellen Lockhart, author of Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830 "This imaginative book begins with the arresting idea of voices as sites where bodies are buried. By carefully listening to the timbres of the archive, Peritz excavates the sounds of eighteenth-century singers of Italian opera to tell an important story about the emergence of modern conceptions of song and personhood. Reaching backward to Homeric myths and forward to contemporary scholarly discourses, The Lyric Myth of Voice simultaneously reveals new details of individual singers and reimagines theoretical understandings of the voice. Like Carolyn Abbate's work on nineteenth-century opera, this book will breathe new life into opera studies, voice studies, and musicology all told."--Bonnie Susan Gordon, author of Monteverdi's Unruly Women

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.