This book takes a cross-national and comparative approach, beyond American models, to examine how members of a single ethnic group adapt differently to distinct host societies. In her study of Korean
This volume surveys the contribution of German literature and culture to the evolution of ecological thought from the age of Goethe to the present. In a broad spectrum of essays from different periods
Kalman J. Kaplan and Paul Cantz offer a biblically-based approach to suicide prevention, designed to overcome suicidogenic patterns in fourteen patients fitting into seven Graeco-Roman suicidal syndro
Tempesta is the stormy musical language employed whenever a composer wishes to inspire terror in an audience. This study explores the large repertoire of such music to examine programmatic storm depic
This book examines the journeys of 114 veterans as they seek to make sense of their military experiences and their new post service pacifist and/or antiwar identity. Focusing on the identity change pr
This book shows how meso-level community-based leaders perceive social conflict issues holistically and use peacebuilding activities to transform conflict. These leaders and their works have the poten
This book examines the need to bridge strategic intelligence and community collaboration. It explores intelligence collection, analysis, and operations as they relate to conflict public opinion and ar
A Critical Companion to Tim Burton is a comprehensive examination of Tim Burton's entire artistic career and film oeuvre. Each chapter in this book is scholarly yet accessible and the perspectives
This volume tackles crucial questions about the puzzle of human origins and human distinctiveness related to the evolution of human wisdom. In doing so it offers a novel methodological approach to the
This book considers how legislatures have undermined the presumption of innocence and how courts have largely accepted it. It argues criminal law needs to return to notions of moral comfort as the bas
Building Relationships uses an apparatus approach to media analysis in order to determine whether the synchronic logic of online dating is compatible with the historically diachronic logic of marriage
This book explores television's efforts to remain culturally relevant, socially significant, and commercially viable in a changing media environment. It traces its adaptation to the digital era an
This book examines the legal, financial, and institutional strategies available to the international oil and gas industry to protect against political and investment risk. It traces the historical dev
This book investigates the Inka carved outcrops in the Andean highlands in the context of pan-Andean stone cults which predated the Inka and continue to be practiced in modified forms to the present d
This book examines the social and cultural history of the Bonin Islands and its inhabitants from the first settlements in the early nineteenth century to today. It provides a critical approach to unde
This social and political history of resettlement and state building in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands examines the aims of Han and Hui Chinese settlers sent to Qinghai province, their impact on the lan
This volume contains contributions from an international array of scholars and provides a global analysis of theoretical approaches to social inequalities as they relate to media and communication, in
This book analyzes the schisms throughout the Cayman Islands to identify who or what is considered a Caymanian. Caymanian traditions have all but been eclipsed, often due to overpowering cultural sens
Bilingual and multicultural approaches to the study of literature and music give the most complete panorama of the problems related to understanding artistic ability and sensibility. Norbert Francis a
Deconstructing Dads explores a variety of media, including ads, magazines, television, and film, to provide historical and current examples of shifts from the bumbling dad to new types of participator
In A Three-Factor Model of Couples Therapy the author presents a new schema of psychodynamic couples therapy that includes a three-factor model for understanding and treating couples. These three fact
The Birth of the Living God, her contribution to the psychoanalysis of religion. Contributors to this volume offer clinical and theoretical insights concerning Rizzuto’s examination of the origi
Using narrative analysis, this book draws on interviews with women who left relationships with other women to begin relationships with men in order to understand how these women make sense of their se
This book applies relational dialects to risk and crisis communication to show how organizations handle stress and tensions with stakeholders and the public. Its novel use of interpersonal theory, whi
This book demonstrates how Clinton used political rhetoric and discourse to provide and assert her right to lead. This edited collection analyzes interviews with and media reports about Clinton to pre
Disability and Academic Exclusion employs disability theory to reveal cultural limitations to minority incorporation in education, historically demonstrated by the diminished reinscriptions of iconic
This book offers a thematically oriented reading of the Novelas ejemplares with relevant asides to Cervantes’ other works. It takes into account the recent scholarship on the Novelas, and it als
The year 2015 marked the centennial of the 1915 United States occupation of Haiti and Haiti’s resistance to that signal event in its history. This study surveys the issues of economics, race, an
This book examines the changing nature of privacy and exposure with regard to online perceptions, expectations, and behavior. Yuval Karniel and Amit Lavie-Dinur incorporate case studies to illustrate
This book expands critical approaches to comedy and representational politics on television with a Latina/o studies approach. It examines how the show uses Latina/o camp to reframe socially charged is
This book focuses on feminist analyses of women’s oppression-perpetuating choices in order to ascertain how such biases in theorizing can undermine liberation.
This study examines a group of young Norwegian-American missionaries sent to Japan in the early 1950s. Certain that a communist regime would take over and make mission work impossible, as in China, th
This book tackles core elements of conflict resolution practice and third party intervention. It provides in-depth analysis of such third party methods as mediation, arbitration, hybrid procedures, pr
Social media has started a revolution in fan culture, from fan uprisings to save programs to groups and pages for mourning lost shows and characters. This book examines how fans use social media with
This book probes the nature, scope, depth, dynamics, and drivers of Cameroon’s foreign policy to comprehend its logic and uncover its consequences to the country's development and sovereignt
This study examines the origins and evolution of the partnership between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison following the American Revolution. It analyzes how the two figures responded to continued Br
This study uses ten stories from the Avadanasataka, the collection of Buddhist narratives compiled from the second to fifth centuries CE, to examine the social landscape of early India. The author ana
This study examines the ways in which intellectuals of the Renaissance period sought to win the patronage of the powerful while maintaining independence. It analyzes the ethical dilemmas involved and
