This book analyzes the impeachment of New Hampshire Chief Justice David Brock, examining issues including the proper nature of judicial independence in relation to the state legislative branch. It arg
This book explores portrayals of the disabled in Arab/Muslim post-colonial North African and Middle Eastern societies in genres ranging from classical Arabic scripture to secular popular culture. Arab
This book examines UCLA’s Legal Education Opportunity Program, one of the earliest and most expansive affirmative action programs. From its creation in 1966 to its partial demise at the hands of
Exploring tensions within gay men’s communities in regard to race, The Psychic Life of Racism in Gay Men’s Communities examines the operations of racialized desire, highlighting the consid
This book presents a qualitative investigation of community college faculty members’ perceptions of working-class students, focusing on their inability to acknowledge, discuss, and consider the
This book analyzes and examines the political and economic factors that contributed to the emergence of globalization approaches in the post–Cold War era, and the reappraisal of globalization si
This book offers a timely exploration into the rapidly growing field of ecocriticism and gives prominence to the writers, creators, theorists, traditions, concerns, and landscapes of Southeast Asia. T
This book examines how Twitter is used to create shared understandings of race and gender. An in-depth, qualitative investigation of discussions about popular culture, social justice, politics, and ad
The author links the religious Qi?a? al-anbiya? to adab with the intent of showing that these tales reflect an inward look of the two cities of Baghdad and Nishapur as well as the expectations of lead
This book explores Christian messages, meanings, and their impact in a multicultural context, using a communication framework to help Christians and non-Christians alike navigate challenging issues su
Rather than pursuing DSM symptom conditions, this book looks at psychiatric disorders through a lens of whether one is doing harm to oneself or others. It then grapples with critical life experiences
True Detective: Critical Essays on the HBO Series includes a breadth of scholarly chapters that cross disciplinary boundaries, interrogate a range of topics, and contribute to critical debates surroun
Michael Lavin and M. Andrew Holowchak critically analyze the concept of repetition in the early stages of Freud’s development of psychoanalysis, both as a therapeutic technique and as part of a
This book examines the role of music and musicians in commemorating the Gallipoli Campaign (1915-6). It shows how music-making can be used to uncover the multiple identities and complex positionalitie
This book consists of short essays on approximately fifty American political films. It explores the extent to which films take on the political issues of the day and their influence on public percepti
This book examines how investigative journalism in China has challenged state power and broadened the scope of calls for democratic reform. It also analyzes the emergence of activist journalists in Ch
This book analyzes contemporary Japanese politics, charting the return of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s domestic political dominance and his economic and foreign policy agenda. It is an up-to-date
This book is aimed at both philosophers and scholars of American literature who wish to reexamine the philosophical depth of Melville’s writings. Contributions deal with various philosophical as
This study provides a political biography of Prince George E. L’vov, the first prime minister of Russia after the fall of the Romanovs. The author uses the career of Prince L’vov to examin
In this contribution to ecotheology, Ernst Conradie addresses the question whether Christian sin-talk can be retrieved in the public sphere. He argues that sin may be regarded as a form of social diag
Don DeLillo after the Millennium: Currents and Currencies examines all the author’s work published in the twenty-first century from a wide variety of critical perspectives to provide an in depth
This volume presents case studies in the shifting representations of yogic themes and figures in worldwide popular culture from the middle of the nineteenth century to contemporary times. The authors
Money, Interest, and the Structure of Production argues that what modern economic theory lacks is a solid capital theory. This book attempts to fill the gap in the theory of production structure by of
For the Honor of Our Fatherland looks at the role of German Jews on the Eastern Front during World War I. German officials believed the Jewish population in the East was vital to their success, but th
This book is the first to offer explicitly feminist views on the shared histories of the advertising industry and women’s movement. Contributors consider the ways advertisers encode race, ethnic
The book offers a close examination of the rhetoric and discourses around the Bhopal disaster through a reading of numerous cultural texts—from fiction to protest effigies and posters – an
This book presents a history of the organized labor movement in Puerto Rico from US colonial domination in 1898 to the Great Depression in the 1930s. Despite the early influence of revolutionary ideol
Clementine K. Fujimura and Simone Nommensen discuss the ethical treatment of animals and provide an overview of current and past uses of animals to enhance human well-being in Germany, the United Stat
This interdisciplinary collection explores Victorian literature and its connection to various fields such as environmental history, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Further, the edition features sem
This book uniquely presents the evolution of EU–New Zealand relations as presented in high-level speeches by both EU and New Zealand political leaders since the start of the millennium. It exami
This book focuses on Greek–Turkish relations with an emphasis on their recent past. Different aspects of their bilateral relations are analyzed in order to understand the present climate and pro
This book analyzes how women converse about breast cancer on the Internet. The author provides a discussion of the complex structures of online communities, particularly those focused on medical diagn
This book examines the fiction, poetry, drama, and feminist theory of Nigerian writer Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo. The book expands post-colonial discourse to illuminate the ways in which Akachi Adimora-Ez
This collection examines slavery and its relationship to international capital during the nineteenth century. With thematic chapters and case studies written by an international array of contributors,
This book describes the processes of nation and state building in Slovenia. It follows the Slovenian evolution from a former Yugoslav republic to one of the most successful postcommunist countries in
In this book, Jorge Frozzini and Alexandra Law examine how immigrant workers organize in the United States and Canada. Frozzini and Law highlight workers’ efforts to challenge their hyper-precar
The idea that animals make things has entered into popular news and public understanding, but inclusion of animal artifacts within engineering and technology studies lags. This volume works to unite a
This book explores the ways in which emotions enter a conflict scenario and investigate their role as causes or consequences of the conflict. It sheds new light on questions of the extent to which con
Charlotte Schwartz provides a systematic review of the writings of Freud and Klein in order to debunk the mythology that has surrounded them. Schwartz argues that the claims that Freud negated the obj
