Robert P. Delprino examines challenges faced by law enforcement families and the consequences of those challenges on officer and family health. In addition, he provides an analysis and commentary on t
This book provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the Neapolitan Baroque, through original and in-depth interpretations of pivotal masterpieces of Neapolitan art, literature, philosophy, and the
This study examines the conflict between two visions for Pakistan: a modern constitutional framework and an Islamist state. The author argues that Western liberal ideas were at the root of Pakistan&rs
This book explores the balancing function that horses play when they become central characters in literature and film. Through close readings of texts from the Middle Ages until the present, covering
Debating Immigration utilizes a theoretically informed framework for analyzing the multifaceted immigration debate before and after 9/11 in the age of terrorism, political polarization, and authoritar
This collection examines the historical development of money and credit during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and explores the social and cultural significance of financial phenomena from a gl
This book shows how traditional notions of the processes and products of creative adaptation are evolving online. It provides a vocabulary to analyze, discuss, and theorize about the implications of o
This book investigates the bittersweet legacy of the art-for-art’s sake movement in today's popular culture and the modern landscape where questions of beauty are seen as secondary to those
This book examines the complicated events, conditions, and narratives that have shaped Rwanda’s identity. Drawing on numerous sources and fieldwork, it discusses this east central African nation
This study examines the triangular relationship between Israel’s diplomatic corps, the pro-Israel lobby, and various US administrations. Based on a wealth of primary source material, the author
This edited collection examines the increased utilization of social media in daily life and its impact on social movements from the perspective of academics, researchers, and activists.
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 uses a sociological and ethnographic lens to explore why MMA participants endure grueling workouts and serious injury. The authors argue that the idolization of MMA participants from their s
In this book, Ingemar Nordin analyzes how not only scientific but also non-scientific knowledge is to be used in practice when establishing a rational technological and medical development.
This book examines the evolution of materialism within the continental tradition in philosophy. After building a model of materialism, it shows how the writings of Kant, Marx, Weber, and Nietzsche hav
This volume examines the complex issues faced by women and girls around the world, both historically and today. Its multidisciplinary focus will appeal to any scholar interested in communication and g
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
Is the West in Decline? is a collection of ten essays by prominent scholars of international relations and current history, many of them associated with the European Studies program of the Johns Hopki
This book examines the contemporary meaning and significance of James M. Buchanan’s body of work, exploring the impact of his contributions on scholars today. Buchanan’s prolific scholarsh
This book rethinks women’s madness through a rigorous analysis of colonial paranoia. Arguing that colonialism produces a distinct cultural expression of women’s madness, this book contends that it is
This book is staunchly anti-skeptical. It develops a theory of moral realism—there are indeed objective moral truths—and a broadly commonsense theory of moral knowledge: although we are certainly liab
In Fate and Freedom in the Novels of David Adams Richards, MacDonald and Craig explore the Christian foundation of Richards’s writing and reveal an account of freedom that is fulfilled only in love.
This book includes the unknown stories of six important women, including political operatives and journalists, who laid the foundation for improving women’s equality during the 1960s and 1970s. While
Shakespeare’s Thought: Unobserved Details and Unsuspected Depths in Eleven Plays analyzes eleven of Shakespeare’s most famous plays offering an in-depth exploration of the ways in which each play demo
This book examines the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel and its relationship to key figures in classical American philosophy, in particular Josiah Royce, William Ernest Hocking, and Henry Bugbee.
This book provides a strengths-based, multi-systemic solutions approach for higher education administration, school counseling, and urban education scholars and practitioners to promote the post-secon
Through engaging, illustrative case studies, this book serves as a guidebook for philosophical and psychological practitioners, as well as a text for instructors of philosophy and psychotherapy who wi
Religion and Terrorism: The Use of Violence in Abrahamic Monotheismprovides theoretical analysis of the nature of religious terrorism and religious martyrdom and also delves deeply into terrorist grou
Mindful Teaching and Learning: Developing a Pedagogy of Well-Being features a community of scholar-practitioners from across disciplines, methodologies, and ideological perspectives exploring and exam
This anthology of literary and dramatic works introduces writers from across Asia and the Asian diaspora. The landscapes and time periods it describes are rich and varied: a fishing village on the Pad
This book brings insight and scholarly breadth through literary criticism to the growing research on women, war, and conflict in Africa. The contributors establish compelling evidence for the signific
techne, which leads to the “operative imperative” in early modernity. With this a reversal takes place, whereby instead of nature being model for techne as it is for Aristotle and Aquinas, techne beco
This book analyzes the results of environmental cooperation in conflict areas around the world. Through examination of multiple case studies, the book explores the scope and effects of environmental c
This study is a broad analysis of diplomatic, economic, and cultural relations between Iran and China since the 1980s. It provides new perspectives on critical recent developments and outlines a prosp
This interdisciplinary study is a comprehensive survey of cultural discourse and literary production in Kazakhstan. It examines the construction of national narratives before and after Soviet rule and
This study provides an interdisciplinary analysis of Taiwanese popular culture over the last two decades. It examines various shifts in the country’s identity politics and argues that its uncertain po
Issues of clergy health and well-being are physical issues but also have social and theological dimensions. This book engages in interdisciplinary reconsideration of theological anthropology in light
This book examines residual oral conventions that shape the black diaspora imaginary in the Caribbean and the United States. Through a hermeneutical focus, Griffith provides fresh understandings of th
This book analyzes tango, specifically queer tango, and the role of musical practices and bodily expressions in social and cultural transformations in Buenos Aires.
