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
Societal problems that require collaboration across boundaries are growing, but the issues, tasks, challenges, and strategic practices of partnering across divides often fall outside the technical ski
This first-ever interdisciplinary study of the woman as prophet shows that, in these troubling times, ordinary women—especially Christian women—need to function as prophets by proclaiming, in word and
The Social Construction of Mental Illness and Its Implications for Neuroplasticity questions the concept of mental illness in society and examines how it informs the current dialogic skills and perspe
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
Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change examines the cultural phenomenon of yoga in the United States through an intersectional feminist lens. The essays in this collection address media portrayals
Water Capitalism proposes the privatization of all bodies of water, because those who own resources husband their assets far more carefully than do bureaucrats who have no real stake in the environmen
This volume explores the role race and racism played in the Texas redistricting process and the creation and passage of the state’s Voter Identification Law in 2011. The author puts forth research tec
China's Economic Development, 1950-2014: Fundamental Changes and Long-Term Prospects is a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of Chinese economic development from 1950-2014 focusing on current world
This book develops an account of the parent–child relationship in order to articulate the essential structure of intersubjectivity as fundamentally ethically-oriented, dialogical, and mutually dynamic
In this book, Jason Kido Lopez argues that self-deception is a matter of intentionally using the strategies and methods of interpersonal deception on oneself. This conception demonstrates interesting
Analog Culture in the Digital Age: Pressing Matters looks at music technologies from a popular culture studies perspective, taking into consideration the ways in which human beings bring these technol
This book examines the growth of place-based opposition to destructive redevelopment practices in Moscow and the consequent changes in the city’s governance regime. The citizen groups analyzed in this
This book uses a comparative foreign policy research method and seven focused case studies to analyze the foreign policy choices of small states as predicted by the leading three theories in internati
This is a comprehensive work exploring Sino-North African relations based on a five-dimensional approach in terms of political relations, trade ties, cultural relations, security coordination, and ene
This is the first scholarly analysis of The London American, the pro-Union propaganda journal published in London during the American Civil War, and the motives and troubles of its proprietor, John Ad
Krase and DeSena offer a comprehensive view from the street of two iconic Brooklyn neighborhoods, Crown Heights-Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Greenpoint-Williamsburg. They analyze the neighborhoods' p
Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education examines forms of pedagogy such as service-learning, experiential learning, and problem-based learning in order to determine how students make connec
How do contemporary cultural and literary texts from the diaspora or from South Asia iterate patterns of racial surveillance and prejudice against South Asians in the United States after 9/11? This co
Racial Cleansing in Arkansas, 1883–1924: Politics, Land, Labor, and Criminalityconstitutes the first examination of racial cleansing within a particular state, placing Arkansas’s record of exclusionar
Contending that empire is alive and well in the world's monetary systems, God and Money explores the theological-ethical implications of money as a social relation with others and to God. Wariboko arg
This book describes and explores the poetics implied in Irigaray's An Ethics of Sexual Difference and develops a hermeneutics of being-two through readings of three major post-symbolist poets. Irigara
This book discusses the role of women in Iranian rural-urban migration and the impact of such migration on women. Masoumeh Velayati examines the social and economic motivations of female migrants and
This book traces the evolution of FBI spying from 1965 to the present, through the eyes of those under investigation, and through numerous FBI documents, never used before in scholarly writing, that w
This accessible, richly textured ethnography illuminates the cultural shaping of development and modernity in the context of a remarkable Gandhian program for women and girls that, since 1946, has eng
Written to be read as both a political and philosophical commentary and anthropological investigation, this work has theoretical implications for comparative studies of political systems, particularly
"Few books successfully capture the emergence of a new field of study, but this book has succinctly presented a set of theoretical concepts and practices of religious peacebuilding. Through a careful
"Constructing Community presents a compelling argument about the nature and prospects of urban communities. First, Brian Elliott provides a general account of the self-organization of dissenting, or r
This book is concerned with how we should think and act in our work, leisure activities, and time utilization in order to achieve flourishing lives. The scope papers range from general theoretical con
This collection of essays honoring Werner J. Dannhauser addresses the timeless issue_lately become very timely_of the rivalry between reason and religion, especially as both relate to politics. The es
Dirty Work explores the lives and work of recent immigrants from Africa, Asia, and elsewhere to the southern Italian region of Sicily. Using extensive research, Cole and Booth focus on the experiences
Oriental Bodies charts the discursive transformations of U.S. immigration policy between 1875 and 1942. Drawing from American foreign policy, identity politics, post-structuralism, post-colonialism, a
In order to explain why some postcolonial states have had greater success than others at consolidating democracy and promoting economic development, Budd (political science, Fitchburg State College) f
