This book shows how late-night political comedy transformed from personality-focused humor to substantive critique. The analysis includes transcripts from Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, and The
Through narrative accounts, this book explores how women experience the health disruptions and illnesses that impact and often span their lives. The contributors examine how women's broader and on
In Resituating Humanistic Psychology, Whitehead and Groth urge psychologists to return to the aims of the psychology as it first emerged. To illustrate the field’s turn from its initial aims the
This edited volume explores the interiors of Breaking Bad—its homes and labs, elevators and liminal spaces, pools and ventilation ducts—not only as meaningful, conceptual backdrops to the
The Queer Life of Things takes up new materialism and posthumanism as a queer intervention into the devaluing and degradation of some human, animal, and plant lives and ways of living. Through a susta
In this unprecedented book, contributors use Buddhist philosophical and contemplative traditions, both ancient and modern, and deploy critical philosophy of race, and critical whiteness studies, to ad
Many countries throughout Latin America have experienced high levels of corruption, drug trafficking, and violence that have created elements of fragility. This book of case studies explores the natur
African Americans have long used the military for gaining legitimacy and the ultimate path to citizenship. Blacks in the Military and Beyond chronicles their tumultuous journey from slavery through th
Narrating Midlife: Crisis, Transition, and Transformation explores how managing and living through change at midlife is ultimately a communicative endeavor. Using autoethnography, contributors narrate
This book helps modern institutions, particularly today’s military service academies, to solve concrete problems on how to inculcate the pursuit of the honorable in 21st Century leaders and sold
This book analyzes the duality of IR theory, how it is possible for such theory to both explain and inform international politics, and discusses the dialectical approach to theorizing international po
Politics and Identity Formation in Southeastern Nigeriaexplores the social, cultural, economic, political and aesthetic traditions that distinguish the Igbo of southeastern Nigeria from their neighbor
This collection of essays, written by an international group of scholars, provides a more critical and creative contemporary practice of “sustainability.” The book sets this practice free
This text critically examines the methodologies and arguments that guide how Black theology specifically affirms Black Christology as the definitive paradigm for authentic Christianity. Significantly,
This collection analyzes how their disciplines can add unique depth and context to many of the themes that are being mobilized in Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and its screen adaptations. C
This book explores relevant background data and theory regarding English language students, the challenges they face, and the need to find strategies for enhancing reading engagement among these stude
This book forensically examines geopolitical, geo-economic, and geostrategic implications of the interventionist role of extra-regional powers in South Asia and its extended neighborhood, Afghanistan
This edited volume develops a fresh perspective on popular commerce in Latin American cities by focusing on materiality, gender, and the interface of a wide range of actors, agencies, and informalitie
Merleau-Ponty and a Phenomenology of PTSD begins from the premise that trauma can be better treated if it is better understood. To that end, this book builds a prismatic account of trauma, encompassin
The complicated relationship between preservice teachers, teacher education instructional practices, and White privilege is examined in this phenomenological study, suggesting that a sense of self and
This book restores the credibility of politics with the basics of human behavior and social science. It does this by discussing how to retain the positive relationship between learnability and livabil
This study of Bob Dylan’s art explores the distinctive ways he brings words and music to life on recordings, onstage, and onscreen. Dylan’s body of work to date is situated in terms of the
Building Walls puts the recent calls to build a border wall along the US-Mexico border into a larger social and historical context. Its three sections contrast categorical thinking and anti-immigrant
This book analyzes Native-authored detective fiction to consider how Native authors use a popular literary genre to make social, cultural, and political critiques by shedding light on settler-colonial
Young adult literature uses literary sidekicks in new and exciting ways, which changes how sidekicks are understood. Three ways authors elevate sidekicks include letting sidekicks “evolve”
Ethnography as Risky Business addresses how to carry out ethnographic fieldwork on socio-political conflict and collective violence with a focus on the global south. Drawing on real-life case studies,
This book provides an analysis of the politics of victimhood in contemporary Israel and the Palestine. Its insights about victimhood are conceptual, empirical and comparative.
This book uses an innovative and original theoretical framework for the understanding of Christian consciousness in the age of pluralism, drawing on Georg Simmel’s social theory as well as philo
At a moment in history when the status of minorities, particularly ethno-racial minorities, is the subject of intense, often acrimonious debate, this book offers a timely and relevant discussion of th
How Can So Many Be Wrong presents the knowledge needed to analyze and judge where eyewitnesses are the linchpin of the case. It presents current findings of all state supreme courts and the Federal Ci
This volume examines halakha and the challenge of the Israeli sovereignty. It traces the use and collective recognition of halakhic sources from the late 19th century to the first decades of the estab
In American Lovers, Victor de Munck draws on evolutionary, cognitive, and social theories to present a cultural model of romantic love. de Munck draws on interviews with gay, straight, and polyamorous
This book explores English trade to Russia in the first half of the seventeenth century. Meticulously reconstructing commercial activities, personnel, and day-to-day business strategies of the Muscovy
This book looks at critical regional topics, such as the conflicts in Moldova, Crimea, Georgia, and South Ossetia and compares the countries’ energy politics.
Narrative Productions of Meaning explores how stories, ranging from self-stories to those told by media, social activists, politicians, social policy makers, and social service providers, shape the me
This book explores the fine line between fiction and history and considers how France’s cultural production has contributed to shaping the image of the French Resistance. Though an examination o
This study examines the Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony Farm, founded in California by refugees of the 1868 Boshin War as the first Japanese settlement in the United States. The author analyzes how the
This work explores issues in Gandhi scholarship, political theory, and religion. By applying core aspects of Gandhian philosophy to the present age it shows a harmony between commonly taken to be disp
Repetition is constitutive of human life. Unlike simple recall, repetition is permeated by the past and the present and is oriented toward the future. This book investigates the significance of differ
This book explores how thinking with Alfred North Whitehead and various continental philosophers can advance ideas about sustainability and civilization writ large. Contributors employ Whitehead and o
