This book analyzes the profit-driven nature of the pharmaceutical industry to explore how health care has become, and continues to be, commodified in the United States. Applequist addresses how pharma
This book critically explores the depths of Nkrumah’s philosophical thought in order to broaden understanding of it and measures his contributions to contemporary thought in a world in which Africa to
Politics stoutly resists efforts to meet dire threats to human survival, such as climate change, industrial poisons, and “natural” disasters. This book seizes on new discoveries of nature’s interconne
This book examines audiences’ cognitive and affective responses to user-generated real media violence. Using Knockout Game videos, Antony examines the extent to which realism assessments interact with
This book explores a paradox in the contemporary work-life debate where dual-earner mothers’ decisions to limit or withdraw from the workforce to spend time with children yields understanding from the
The Rhetorical Function of Humor in the Public Sphere advances an understanding about how humor functions persuasively in the public sphere as a means to ignite deliberative democracy, a tradition tha
This book analyzes contemporary challenges and solutions to problems facing rural communities. The idea of reinvention is offered as a description of how rural communities adapt by changing focus to a
This book shares lessons from educational leaders who have stayed committed to their neighborhoods and have seen the moral imperative to provide equal opportunity to all students, particularly from co
This book uses life history narratives of African Americans to address how individuals experience literacy in response to their self, others, and their temporal context within one community in the rur
Using comparative history, Presidential Leadership in the Americas since Independence analyzes the presidents and their ability to bring change to their polities, societies, and economies across four
Singing was important to the American fight against Germany in 1917. Military culture and sheet music writers understood music to have the power to help create a strong military and community in the f
This book responds to the common objections to alternative business structures, describes the opportunities that such structures offer, exposes how lawyer self-regulation operates to obstruct the mode
It is assumed institutions of higher education are a means to upward socioeconomic mobility and in turn a way of addressing poverty that is tied to certain racialized/sexualized bodies. But this is no
This book explores the theory and practice of security conflict intervention by examining the Boko Haram security conflict. It provides pragmatic approaches to strategic security and suggests ways to
Focusing on the concept of “dark ecology” and its invitation to add an anti-pastoral perspective to ecocriticism, this collection of essays on American literature and culture offers examples of how a
Environmental problems compel examination of three contrasting patterns of moral reasoning concerning the human relationship to nature: the currently implemented Progress Ethic, and the proposed alter
This book examines strategies to navigate today’s global politics. It analyzes how the context is changing, the new actors playing within it, and the processes and mechanisms that they need to take in
Although the Supreme Court ruling ended a legal challenge to same-sex marriage, the debate continues and no one seems to know what lies on the horizon. This edited volume contributes to the growing li
This collection responds to the call within the discipline of classical receptions to foster dialogue across cultures and geographies to show the results of the colonially framed traditional approach
This book brings together traditional political texts with works of literature, film, and theater to demonstrate the need to go beyond traditional political analysis. It explores how the development o
This book examines the crisis of democracy in Hungary since the election of the Fidesz government in 2010. It argues that Fidesz seeks to challenge the capitalist and democratic transformation that sh
Democratization is a sociopolitical process and the society that may grow out of itwhere people make decisions on matters affecting them. It is an unending struggle to win such rights and power, to ho
This book was designed to make a contribution to our understanding of how and why people make the decisions they do at the polls. Coleman and Wu analyze a decade of research to examine how the media’s
This book aims to highlight the efforts by the international community to facilitate solutions to the conflicts in the South Caucasus, and focuses particularly on the existing challenges to these effo
This book examines proclivity to genocide in the protracted killings that have continued for decades in the northern Nigeria ethno-religious conflict, spanning from the 1966 northern Nigeria massacres
This book brings together some of the foremost researchers of honor to debate honor’s meaning and its compatibility with liberalism, democracy, and modernity. Contributors examine honor past to presen
This book compares tradition attribute data methods for assessing perceptions of deviance to emerging relational data-based social network methods using a cross-cultural sample from the United States
As two of the leading social scientists of the twentieth century, Alva and Gunnar Myrdal tried to establish a harmonious, “organic”Gemeinschaft [community] in order to fight an assumed disintegration
By recognizing the groundbreaking work of many non-Italian ecocritics, and linking to the homegrown contributions of Serenella Iovino, Marco Armerio, and Giovanna Ricoveri, the authors of Ecocritical
Beauty, Virtue, Power, and Success in Venezuela 1850–2015 examines how Venezuelan women have learned to exercise and perform to societal expectations of beauty in four historical moments: 1850–1890, 1
Urban Renewal and Resistance: Rhetorics of Race, Space, and the City in the Late Twentieth to Early Twenty-First Centuries examines how urban spaces are rhetorically constructed through discourses tha
This study of Asian agency in colonial Nyanza provides a blueprint to understand the persistent insufficiency in sugar production in post-independence Kenya. This book brings to light issues in broade
Heidegger’s Path to Language guides readers through the development of Heidegger’s reflections on language from the start to the end of his philosophical trajectory. Wanda Torres Gregory not only anal
This book explores aspects of William H. Poteat’s philosophical anthropology, which proposes a post-critical alternative to the prevailing dualistic conception of the person and opens a path to recove
This book aims to distinguish acceptable from unacceptable interest influences in science. Jan De Winter criticizes existing views on the integrity of science and the roles of financial, political, an
This book focuses on the major trends in organized crime, drug trafficking, and violence in Mexico. It highlights the transition from the Felipe Calderon administration to the Enrique Pena Nieto gover
Sonogram Rhetoric uses a feminist disability framework to argue that women’s bodies are understood within a medical framework of pathology directly related to their ability, or inability, to reproduce
The South Caucasus region has established itself as a corridor for transporting energy from Azerbaijan to Georgia, Turkey, and on to Europe. This book examines the capacity of this new east–west “Eura
Despite the vibrant development of the field of ecocriticism on the island of Taiwan, there has, as yet, been no single volume in English dedicated to illustrating Taiwan’s important contributions to
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 sociocultur
