This book examines the political and legal challenges of regional governance in the European Union and the Council of Europe. Academics and policy makers will learn from its analysis of legal and poli
This book examines the history of racial segregation in America and many of the heroic battles that were waged against the system. From the 1930s to the 1960s court challenges were won and laws were e
Race, Gender and Image Restoration Theory: How Digital Media Change the Landscape explores themes that are relevant to the socio-political landscape of twenty-first-century America, including race and
Another Love explores the form, method, imperatives, and inflections of love in the global post colony, and offers a way to re-apprehend and re-inscribe love in an anticolonial, materialist, and non f
Using a mixture of qualitative and quantitative analytical techniques, this book offers a comparative analysis of the policies of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama towards Ghana. The focus
This book analyzes how closely the original trilogy matches the second wave of feminism, while the prequels mirror the girl power era that followed, and how the sequels are helping define a new fourth
As the modern university is increasingly run like a business, students and faculty are losing the time and space to wonder and think under the hypercompetitive demands to produce. The goals of critica
This book explores digital media produced from the favelas, urban occupations, and in the countryside of Brazil. It looks as the ways that members of the marginalized social periphery are able to use
This edited volume examines whether the unexpected decline in the price of oil had a positive or negative impact on the world economy. Bringing in academics, business-leaders and policy-makers from ar
This study examines John Stuart Mill’s philosophy of history and his efforts to develop a comprehensive methodology for the social sciences. The author argues that Mill’s interpretation of
This book addresses the voyeuristic dimensions of James Ellroy’s fiction, one of the most significant yet underexplored areas of his work. Focusing exclusively on The L.A. Quartet and The Underw
Kierkegaard makes a controversial and little-understood claim: irony, humor, and the comic are essential to ethics and religion. This account, grounded in Concluding Unscientific Postscript, explicate
The interpenetration of Plato’s mythos and logos reveals an analogical, serious playfulness of the human soul from the depths of aporia (bewilderment) to the heights of the beyond (epikeina). We
Natural Law Today gives a strong voice to classical natural law theory as the best answers to the fundamental questions of ethics and as the best framework for political and social life. It explains v
The book examines HBCUs and their role in higher education through several lenses, including politics, education policy, leadership practice, culture, and social justice. It will guide HBCU leaders an
This book examines the complex relationship between Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter as it unfolds on social media and in offline interpersonal relationships. In so doing, it demonstrates the o
The Radical Novel and the Classless Society analyzes radical U.S. literature from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries through the lens of socialist thought, recognition theory, and inte
U.S. foreign policy under Obama would be defined by international and domestic pressures that shook the rules-based international order. In response to an increasingly multipolar system, Obama transit
English learners are not offered adequate support to succeed in STEM-related areas necessary for college and careers. This book provides a research-based and a critical pedagogical framework using pro
In The Phenomenological Psychology of Mindfulness, Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi draws on the latest scholarly findings in Langerian psychology and examines their implications in clinical and social psychology
This book explores and honors the rhetorical legacy of Dr. Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Each chapter provides an analysis of Maathai's public advocacy as she attempted to
Based upon an attentive reading of Nietzsche’s writings and his reception among post-Nietzschean thinkers, this book argues that Nietzsche’s philosophical enterprise constitutes a material
This collection deals with various manifestations of Argentine music and dance and how they relate to affects, feelings, and emotions, showing how music creates particular atmospheres, via the inducti
This study examines the establishment and evolution of China’s strategic partnerships with Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela. It analyzes the key debates surrounding the partnerships and
This book illustrates the centrality of communication in analyzing, understanding, and creating conflict transformation in personal, family, and work relationships. The resulting volume presents an en
This study examines the Soviet bureaucracy responsible for overseeing Olympic sport during the Cold War. It analyzes how sport administrators used political savvy and professional pragmatism alongside
This study examines the Japan Exchange and Teaching program as a form of public diplomacy and soft power. Through original survey data and extensive interviews with alumni, the author provides a quant
This collection examines the classical liberal perspective within the professional study of history. The contributors investigate the origins and development of the classical liberal approach, argue f
This book uses case studies from around the world to analyze the peacemaking processes of indigenous communities. Critical themes examined in the volume include change and continuity, the role of indi
This volume provides a concentrated and powerful dialog about the nexus between schools, prisons, and the free-market economy where youth are on fast tracks from schools to prisons.
This book explores adoption of Asian children by white Americans, looking at multiple ways in which adoptive, birth, and foster mothers experience gender oppression from their different positions of c
This book is a comprehensive account of the African American struggle for freedom and equality from the Civil War to the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement. It stresses black agency and how
This collection explores policing and race in relationship to political challenges, economic realities, and social ramifications. This is done through the use of evidence-based research and establishe
This book theoretically and empirically explores recent internal and external challenges to South Korea’s foreign policy. It analyzes how democratization and economic globalization have changed
Chinese government policies have drawn international criticisms including persistent allegations of online espionage, domestic Internet censorship, and an increased military capability utilizing compu
Why the Humanities Matter Today explains the importance of philosophy, foreign language, literature, history, political theory, and liberal education in American higher education. The contributors in
This edited collection analyzes relations between Russia and the states of Northeast Asia from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of World War II. The contributors examine various historical, cultu
This book explores the themes and symbols of classical myth and literature reflected in Alfred Hitchcock’s films. Mark W. Padilla examines the classical resonances of four movies, one from each
Using illustrations from research on racial inequality in varied domains from public procurement and contracting to mortgage lending to child maltreatment to competitive swimming, Race Neutrality: Rat
