Relevance and Narrative Research turns the vaguely defined evaluative tool “relevance” into an object of study, firmly situating questions of relevance in the context of narrative theory.
This book provides an introduction to the development of economics from the time of the early Greeks to the mid-twentieth century. It covers the contributions of the major writers to the development o
Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the most important American statesmen, activists, and writers regardless of the historical era or politic
Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the most important American statesmen, activists, and writers regardless of the historical era or politic
In A Christian Approach to Work and Family Burnout: Calling, Caring, and Connecting, Thomas V. Frederick and Scott E. Dunbar provide a Christian spiritual model to prevent and cope with burnout caused
This book gives voice to a variety of college and university workers regarding the issue of respect on campus. Authors consider issues of respect from a variety of unique perspectives to determine how
Karen von Kunes traces Milan Kundera’s creative ideas to a 1950 police report filed in Stalinist era Czechoslovakia. Demonstrating how this incident influenced Kundera’s literary trajector
This book examines the power of food as a communicative tool to bring people of diverse backgrounds together. The author argues that food enables people to look past their differences and focus on the
In Resituating Humanistic Psychology, Whitehead and Groth urge psychologists to return to the aims of the psychology as it first emerged. To illustrate the field’s turn from its initial aims the
This book helps modern institutions, particularly today’s military service academies, to solve concrete problems on how to inculcate the pursuit of the honorable in 21st Century leaders and sold
This book analyzes the duality of IR theory, how it is possible for such theory to both explain and inform international politics, and discusses the dialectical approach to theorizing international po
This study of Bob Dylan’s art explores the distinctive ways he brings words and music to life on recordings, onstage, and onscreen. Dylan’s body of work to date is situated in terms of the
This book analyzes Native-authored detective fiction to consider how Native authors use a popular literary genre to make social, cultural, and political critiques by shedding light on settler-colonial
This book explores English trade to Russia in the first half of the seventeenth century. Meticulously reconstructing commercial activities, personnel, and day-to-day business strategies of the Muscovy
This work explores issues in Gandhi scholarship, political theory, and religion. By applying core aspects of Gandhian philosophy to the present age it shows a harmony between commonly taken to be disp
This book offers a discussion of Elizabeth Bishop’s translations through close-readings of a selection of poems, with particular attention to the features that relate them to translation, and su
This collection adds a new dimension to the field of ecocritical theory by merging multidisciplinary approaches to food studies with the established ecocritical discourse of culture and the environmen
This book considers what virtue theory can tell us about parenting in relation to both moral development and specific ethical dilemmas. It is of interest to those who work in virtue theory, applied et
The book investigates the intricate relationship between the Friday sermon and the worshipers’ opinion in Jordan. Madanat examines the religious sphere in Jordan to unravel the apparent and hidd
This book identifies the changes needed to create a sensible, consistent tax system by converting to a consumed-income tax. These changes would result in a tax system that would be both pro-growth and
This book brings together leading thinkers to consider the ways in which conformity is demanded by American law and social practice. This conformity threatens to extinguish the natural and civil right
Flannery O’Connor’s fiction continues to haunt American readers, in part because of its uncanny ability to remind us who we are and what we need. This book reveals the extent to which O&rs
Internet Democracy and Social Change examines the extent to which the democratic potential ascribed to the Internet is realized in practice and how civil society organizations take advantage of the In
"This volume utilizes interdisciplinary theories, methods, and approaches to study the educational and career experiences of military spouses with advanced degrees. It analyzes the unique career and e
This book analyses the impacts and responses to twenty-five years of "peace" between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. It focuses on understanding the various political econo
Hari Mohan Mathur presents an account of how anthropology, long relegated to the background by economists, is beginning to have an effect on development matters, especially in developing counties wher
Since the New Deal, Republican presidents have looked for ways to accommodate rather than abolish the federal social safety net. Yet moderation often led to a backlash from their conservative supporte
The book integrates the theory, practice, ethics, and policy of sustainability to better evaluate the implications for problems and responses to sustainable development in Africa. Chapters from leadin
To adjudicate between continental and analytic philosophy this book looks at the Star Trek television series, as well as Nazi cinema. Popular culture is germane to philosophy and contemporary politics
Occupying Memory investigates the forces of trauma and mourning as deeply rhetorical to account for their capacity to seize one’s life. With the Occupy Movement as its guide, the work strives to
This book explores the civil rights activism of the Miami Times between 1948 and 1958 by highlighting its effort to help abolish the “Monday-only” policy that restricted black golfers to a
This study examines British rule in Cyprus from 1878 to 1954. The author analyzes the cultural and religious dimensions of Cypriot responses to British rule and the ways in which Greek Orthodox cultur
This study examines efforts to convert Jews to Christianity in twelfth- and thirteenth-century London. The author examines the activities of King Henry III’s Domus Conversorum and compares his c
Elizabeth Williams draws on the perspectives of womanist theology and anthropology to examine how Black, American women use faith to achieve well-being after a breast cancer diagnosis. Williams portra
Neuropsychiatrist Michael T. H. Wong argues that the notions of soul, mind, brain, self and consciousness are no longer adequate on their own to explain humanity. He formulates a “third discours
This book uses literary analysis and digital humanities to show how social justice can be enacted in everyday actions through changing the way we think about lived spaces. As corporate and state power
With ideological divisions polarizing society, this book introduces Ideologically Challenging Entertainment (ICE), which uses multiple perspectives to help audiences connect with those holding differe
From Huhugam to Hohokam: Heritage and Archaeology in the American Southwest is an historical comparison of archaeologists’ views of the ancient Hohokam with Native O’odham concepts about t
Established to help people jump start their lives and economy after over a half century of conflict, the South Sudanese microcredit sector collapsed in 2012 to the detriment of some 80,000 participant
