This book reveals contradictions between the supposed democratizing mission of the social movements in Russia and Ukraine and their actual conduct and its outcomes. It uses cases studies of the &ldquo
This book explores how the forces of development have shaped the experience of aging in countries in the global south. It points to the challenges and opportunities that lie in developing innovative,
This book examines how to more successfully recruit, retain and engage millennial employees in various industries for increased job satisfaction and organizational performance. Experts in various area
Contributors to this collection examine the Turners’ most important theoretical contributions to anthropology, from their work on pilgrimages, liminality, and communitas to insights from their f
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
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 book examines the rich detail underlying the powers and limits of Supreme Court decision-making, from the heady days of John Marshall through the closure of the Rehnquist era. The book investigat
This book explains the basic concepts, in layman’s language, of American political thought and the strategy for getting its teaching back onto our college campuses and into our high schools wher
This book explores four types of nothingness as found in nature: holes in nature, totalizing nothingness in horror, naturing nothingness, and encompassing nothingness. Robert S. Corrington argues that
This book examines state Supreme Court decision making during controversies involving religion, race, and gender skirmishes. It analyzes predominant factors influencing state Supreme Court decision ma
This book presents a series of case studies that evaluate the elevation and suppression of voices within marginalized and minority communities. It examines the use of digital media and its role in the
Radical Psychology explores what affects the multicultural and social justice competencies of psychologists in clinical practice, training, and research. The contributors explain how progress in socia
This book explores in depth the main issues surrounding current topics in institutional corrections. Issues in Corrections includes chapters written by correctional researchers and scholars on prison
This book is a critical intervention into debate over human enhancement and engages bioethics, disability studies, and Michel Foucault. Melinda Hall employs a biopolitical framework to argue that tran
Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World explores the use of cannabis and hemp in medicine, religion, and recreation in the classical period. This work surveys the plant in Greek and Roman litera
This study examines colonial New England and its place in the wider context of British colonialism in North America. The author uses a series of episodes in the history of Hadley, Massachusetts, to an
This book explores the history, theory, practice, politics, and efficacy of hoaxing through a study of the media activist group the Yes Men. It examines why media hoaxing has emerged as a significant
In ten chapters with annotated bibliographies, this book analyzes Korean communication, media, and culture. The bibliographic entries provide aid for non-Korean-speaking academics to find information
It’s hard to imagine the American dream without American road trips. This book takes readers on a journey through American road trip stories, revealing that they involve more than mere escapism&
This book maps how Brazil and the network of Portuguese-speaking countries are using digital technologies in new ways to expand opportunities and influence the arts, creative industries, sports, learn
This book compares and contrasts the ideas of some of the leading twentieth-century critics of rationalism: Gadamer, Hayek, Kolnai, MacIntyre, Oakeshott, Polanyi, Ryle, Voegelin, and Wittgenstein. Thi
This collection provides a broad and multidisciplinary examination of contemporary Tajikistan. The contributors analyze the political regime—its stability, legitimacy mechanisms, and patterns of
The book explores the role of technology in the refugee experience, focusing particularly on the contexts of displacement and detention. Traversing the disciplines of refugee studies, socio-technical
A profoundly interdisciplinary approach to comparative scholarship, Ecologies of Participation: IAgents, Shamans, Mystics, and Diviners argues for a radical neostructuralist stance. Developing recent
This book explores how prominent sites across the National Mall remember US history, both individually and in concert with other sites throughout the Mall. Collectively, these sites reveal how the nat
This book explores contemporary continental philosophy and aesthetics. It addresses the problem of post-Kantian reason in relation to the pathologies of experience, alienation, the transformative and
Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes explores Shakespeare’s political outlook by comparing some of the playwright’s best-known works to the works of Italian political theorist Niccol
Engaging with contemporary renewals of existentialism as "coexistentialism" and "ecological existentialism," this book extends existentialist concerns for human existence to includ
This book provides critical feminist and communication insights into women’s experiences of ovarian cancer. It argues for renewed critical examination of discourses around ovarian cancer diagnos
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
This book explains Ukraine’s and Russia’s post–Cold War developments by applying the framework of political symbolism and collective memory. The key historical experience of both nat
This book explores and analyzes contemporary issues associated with victimology in more depth than is possible in an introductory textbook. Included are chapters on rape and sexual assault on the coll
This book takes a unique look at not only the presentation of disability in the media but also how image echoes impact individuals with disabilities and their identities and possible stigmatization. I
What happens when one’s skill level in dance, the martial arts, or other activities surpasses local training opportunities? Lauren Miller Griffith and Jonathan S. Marion provide a new and exciti
This study examines Chile’s 1988 Franja Electoral, the month-long nationally televised political program that gave space to both sides ahead of the country’s national plebiscite. The autho
Rethinking the Enlightenment connects new work in intellectual history with fresh understandings of Continental philosophy and political theory. The collection bridges the disciplinary divides between
This book examines Paul Ricœur’s moral anthropology. It shows that his hermeneutical approach to responsibility and justice, focusing on the analysis of the singularity of lived existence,
This book explores the resurgence of racial masquerade in Western popular media. Through a close examination of science fiction, horror, and fantasy texts and films, it contemplates the fundamental, a
