The African American Urban Male’s Journey to Success is part of a growing effort within psychoanalytic thought to address psychoanalysis’ historical negligence of marginalized subjects and
This edited volume contributes to the growing literature on post-marriage-equality marriage. It is the first interdisciplinary approach to understanding the various historical, empirical, normative, a
This book focuses on the major trends in organized crime, drug trafficking, and violence in Mexico. It highlights the transition from the Felipe Calderón administration to the Enrique Peñ
From Sign to Symbol describes emerging approaches to the unconscious experience and the development of emotional meaning in intersubjective, implicit relationships. He presents strategies that utilize
Kane presents a critical study of the Reagan administration’s public communication efforts to sell the president’s controversial foreign policy initiatives to the public and Congress. Kane
In this book, authors provide an overview of the culturally efficacious evolution model used to anchor teacher preparation and present the culturally efficacious observation protocol as a tool to asse
Strangers to Nature brings together many of the leading scholars who are working to redefine and expand the discourse on animal ethics. This volume will engage both scholars and lay-people by revealin
This book works within the neo-Aristotelian ethical framework to make the case that moral philosophers ought to see detective fiction as a source of ethical insight and as a tool to spark the moral im
In this book, narratives are constructed to help groups such as students, women, young Christians, evangelicals, internationally adopted children, and undocumented immigrants understand and articulate
Authors Reilly and Ulbig explore the ways in which stressful polling place conditions cause voters to cast ballots in a manner contradictory to their preferences. Using an experimental approach, they
This book explores how virtual reality can be used to improve traditional cognitive behavior therapy, a widely used therapeutic technique used to treat offenders, by offering a controlled environment
By studying the actions of the rising powers in relation to the Arab–Israeli conflict since 1947, this book identifies active and passive approaches to conflict management. Through them, this bo
This book considers teens’ social media use as a lens through which to more clearly see American adolescence, girlhood, and marginality in the twenty-first century. It investigates how young wom
Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 explores how rock and roll is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what literary Romanticism was at its differ
This book offers a critical analysis of the spread of branding discourse and practice to new “objects”—from the individual, to the city, region, and nation-state. It offers a novel p
This book addresses important issues facing neighborhoods as they strive to meet the human needs of their residents. It examines neighborhood mobilization from multiple perspectives.
In this book, one of the first to take atheism seriously as a social movement, Richard J. Meagher examines the political history of American atheism and freethought. Meagher demonstrates how changes i
This book examines how strategic narratives are produced, deployed, and legitimized to enable the capture of the geostrategic discursive space during times of war fighting failure. Using case studies,
Utilizing case studies from Guatemala, Bolivia, and Ireland to China, India, and Dubai, the contributors to Cosmopolitanism and Tourism question whether cosmopolitan subjectivity is still the desired
This book challenges stereotypes about the romance genre, examining how modern romance production serves women in multiple ways, from escapism to sexual education, from fantasy to fun, and most import
Taking stock of the exhaustion at the concept of democracy limited to rights and identity, this book explores the work of French political philosopher Marcel Gauchet to interpret the contemporary cris
This book argues that it is in the best interests of Puerto Rico and the United States to set policies to move toward political independence for Puerto Rico. It explores, theoretically and empirically
This book is a cross-cultural intervention in analytic epistemology that offers an alternative to the narrow conception of knowledge as justified true belief. It develops a framework for a comparative
This book provides an alternative to narratives that privilege the biomedical perspective on women’s invisible illnesses. The contributors include women who exude diversity as it relates to race
In this book, Jerome Carroll draws on the epistemological, ontological, and methodological aspects and implications of anthropological holism to read the philosophical significance of classical twenti
Empirical case studies demonstrate how foreign policy actions depend on discourse in order to appear possible and to become plausible. This study of discourse is offered as a tool for assessing presid
This book explores contemporary writers’ use of nonrepresentational techniques, similar to those of ancient rabbis who composed classical Midrash, as they grapple with the violence of our era. W
The authors in this collection engage with ecstatic naturalism in a variety of ways, comparing it to or integrating it with other philosophies and disciplines to express and fully explore the transcen
Ecocriticism in Japan provides an answer to the question, “What can ecocriticism do when engaging with Japanese literature and culture?” Engaging works ranging from The Tale of Genji to Ab
In reaction to massive membership decline, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America looks to postdenominational Christianity for inspiration on how to transform and attract people to the pews. But i
This book gives voice to women’s experiences and perceptions regarding their participation in infidelity and how they navigate outside partnerships concurrent to their primary partnerships. Thes
In Tourism and Language in Vieques, Luis Galanes-Valldejuli examines the fractured and heteroglossic dimensions of the Viequenses voice in direct relation to the occupation of the island from 1941 to
This study examines the policies of the Ulysses S. Grant administration in the Caribbean. It analyzes how the administration reacted to an uprising in Spanish Cuba by seeking to expand US military and
This work of environmental history examines the political, economic, and ecological consequences of the spread of the water hyacinth in Africa. It also analyzes how the plant migrated to the continent
This book explores ways to study and teach the literary works of William Clark Falkner and William Faulkner to ESL students in today’s digital environment. Through these activities, ESL students
Cowboy Politics uses key works of literature, film, and television to explore how westerns address political challenges of Western civilization. This book tracks how westerns supplement liberal politi
This book provides a unique approach to some of philosophy’s fundamental issues. It points to music as a model for exploring such questions as, “What does it mean to value?” This is not a musical stud
Analyzing Christmas in Film: Santa to the Supernatural critically examines the way the holiday is portrayed on screen. From the secular to the sacred, the merry to the melancholic, the volumes unwraps
This book illustrates the importance of focusing on the choices, constraints, and agency of women in science to understand which women, under what conditions, with what tools, successfully manage to n
