Counterpleasures

CounterpleasuresTakes up a series of literary and physical pleasures that do not appear to be pleasurable, ranging from Christian saintly asceticism to Sadean narrative to contemporary s m practices. Counterpleasures takes up a series of literary and physical pleasures that do not appear to be pleasurable, ranging from saintly asceticism to Sadean narrative to leathersex. Each is placed in its cultural context to unfold a history of transgressive pleasure and to

A concise and up-to-date survey of Japan’s recent economic history

This book examines the joint effort of twentieth-century public school administrators and private philanthropy to initiate reforms to provide for children with learning difficulties

Haig Patapan shows how our contemporary blindness to this leadership-honor dynamic and neglect of the significance of honor (and shame) in modern politics have caused us to fundamentally misunderstand the nature of leadership

Intended for researchers and professionals in the field

Starting with an account of the Hinduism of his family in Varanasi

and how daily life in all its forms – moral

from technological inputs to ecological knowledge and experience

which concentrates on the specific knowledge and skills that will be needed for calculus and natural science topics in general

tree hugging to the sacred basil of India

researchers have created novel accounts of scientific practice and rationality

Scholars with expertise in philosophical

in particular those of the story of the Watchers and Giants