Bücher veröffentlicht von Academica Press

Examines how universities effectively censor teaching, how social and political activism effectively censors its opponents, and how academics censor themselves and each other. A Book Too Risky To Publish concludes that few universities are now living up to their original mission to promote free inquiry and unfettered critical thought.

Analyses the internal tensions of the Soviet-led Cold War alliance as its careened toward its end. Starting with the peak of the alliance's power under Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, the book follows its ossification to its increasing haplessness under Brezhnev's successors Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko.

Analyses US bankruptcy law with a focus on the concept of automatic stay. Dimitris Liakopulos' work identifies legal sources and authorities having repercussions in terms of operational protection. He then examines their functional profiles, with specific regard to procedure.

Presents assessments of African international politics, governance, conflict dynamics, and peacekeeping efforts, focusing on the national conflicts in Central African Republic and Somalia, protests in South Africa, terrorism in Nigeria, and insecurity in West African states.

In this groundbreaking collections of essays, Canada-based Chinese scholar Simin Li explores the latest insights into information, knowledge, political communication, and identity in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and their neighbors, friends, and adversaries.

Offers an analysis of the social and cultural influences in the Latino community and its effect on the development of Latino racial identity. The book addresses what it means to be a ""Latino"" in the US, including the origins of the term and its use to describe individuals from Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.

Presents insights from a conference hosted by the Vaclav Havel Program for Human Rights and Diplomacy at Florida International University. The book's fundamental topic is memory, the human capacity to retain its contents in the flux of time, which is explored and discussed both theoretically and in terms of current action-oriented public discourse.

The phrase ""solidarity of the shaken"" was introduced into the today's political vocabulary by Jan Patocka, one of the last students of the philosopher Edmund Husserl. In January 1977, Patocka became one of the first three spokespersons of Charter 77, Czechoslovakia's anti-communist resistance movement.

Unravels the dynamics of conflicts and human security threats now affecting numerous African nations. This engaging study captures cases of insecurity, presenting discussions of terrorism, kidnapping, militia activities, human trafficking, political violence, teenage pregnancy, civil war, and armed conflicts, and strategies for their management.

Presents an unprecedented study of prominent individuals from across the globe who visited the Republic of Biafra and Federal side of the Nigerian Civil War of 1967-1970. This innovative new study contributes much to restoring the memory of the civil war, which has faded in recent decades.

Explores how and why the Islamic State organised and used sexual violence against Yezidi women in Iraq. This qualitative case study tests three theories against the empirical evidence: evolution theory, feminist theory, and Strategic Rape Concept. Each theory will be tested in order to determine its explanatory strength.

Explores fashion to understand how the mediated image of gender equality in the twenty-first century relates to reality by examining cross-dressing and transvestism through the construction of personal style. The book uncovers the motivations for those who cross dress and analyses the construction of gendered personal styles in relation to fashion.

Literary critic and philosopher James Driscoll presents original arguments for the existence and nature of God. He traverses the boundaries of art, philosophy, psychology, and religion to draw on Shakespeare, Carl Jung, and A.N. Whitehead to define and illuminate the interconnections of God and time.

Asks why and how the United States legal system should grant legal personhood to artificial intelligence, and dynamically argues that the AI dependent legal person and a new type of corporate body, the AI-Human Amalgamation, are necessary to address these new challenges.

Recent and ongoing issues at all levels of American education are at the forefront of public discussion and political debate. Explored by seasoned sociologist and education researcher Jose Martinez, the issues involved include segregation, tracking, discipline, charter schools, higher education, online education, and faculty matters, among others.

Using both realist and critical theories in a comparative framework, China Moves South states that while realism may offer a reasonable approach to explaining China's geopolitical behaviour, critical theory is a more appropriate lens to challenge China's occupations.

Reviews sexual reproductive health policies and practices, and literature on medical circumcision, and identifies existing opportunities and challenges. James Kityo's pioneering book also explores the medical, gender, ethical, socio-economic, and human rights dimensions of medical circumcision as an HIV/AIDS prevention method.

Describes and critically analyses the structuring of identity and culture - and the politics that informs them. Centering on the concepts of `polarity' and `in-betweenness', the idea of cosmopolitan or global identity is deconstructed in the wake of capitalist consumerism and multinational politics.

An authoritative first-hand account of the Russo-Chechen conflict by a Chechen leader who played a central role in all the main events, providing a historical survey of the fraught relations between the Chechens and the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, up to the collapse of the USSR.

Based on the accounts of eight registered nurse participants, this book explores what keeps nurses in the nursing profession by examining relational experiences between nurse and patient in the context of the nursing situation.

Studies the Kashmir Valley, one of the most complex situations in international politics, from the perspective of human security. This study moves our understanding of Kashmir to a grassroots level, and assesses the challenges posed by intensive militarisation to the ability (or inability) to lead a life as one wishes.

Explores images of Venice in the written and visual art of the multi-talented American writer, painter, lecturer, and engineer Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915). This is the first scholarly work to examine the life and work of this unique American artist, whose legacy spans two centuries and was grounded in the enduringly popular fin-de-siecle.