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This book explains the complex regional affairs of the South Caucasus states which have faced many conflicts. Beyond providing the cost-benefit analysis of the application of three major IR theories for the region, there is a policy perspective enlightening scholars and policymakers. This easy reading book is understandable for students too.

Inspired by ongoing movements for social justice, equality, accountability, and truth, the scholars in this volume resituate Much Ado About Nothing in a contemporary critical context. From fake news to #MeToo, these essays explore how vital concerns of the present offer new ways of reading, performing, and understanding Much Ado.

This book explores the history of the Islamic conquests in Iraq, how and why the Sassanid Empire fell, and the Islamization policies of the Rashidun Caliphate.

Drawing from an extensive database and a cross-national comparative approach, this book examines the ways and reasons why new media promotes political participation among young people in Russia and Kazakhstan. The author develops theoretical models that better explain how new-media use translates into political participation.

Teacher education in the Nordic European context continues to change rapidly in response to diversity. However, this context tends to receive less attention globally, despite being a part of the interconnected effort to prepare teachers and students for an increasingly complex and uncertain future. Against this backdrop, this volume presents timely research that identifies and critically explores some of the challenges and opportunities which researchers, educators, and teacher educators may encounter while working in culturally and linguistically contexts of education in Nordic Europe. In doing so, this volume aims to contribute to the broader conversations about diversity and education on an international level, particularly those focused on how to improve and enhance teacher education through more inclusive, responsive, and social justice-oriented practices. ¿Challenges and Opportunities Facing Diversity in Nordic Education¿ offers empirical, conceptual, and theoretical contributions on topics such as religion, gender and sex, language, culture, nationality, race and ethnicity that reflect the experiences, concerns, and needs of both teachers and students from primary to higher and teacher education. By recognizing, promoting, and understanding the importance of diversity in the classroom, educators can contribute to the achievement of academic success of every student.

Examining a variety of early- to mid-twentieth century Latin American fiction genres, Amy Frazier-Yoder delves into themes of power, identity, and the transformative potential of literature while analyzing Latin American fiction¿s increasingly skeptical gaze.

This book examines the social, legal, and ethical dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in Southern Africa both during the pandemic and in the post-COVID era. The contributors analyze the regulations that were passed during COVID-19 and evaluate the impact of these regulations on African society.

This book reimagines the education of future generations in our complex society. The author argues that two provinces¿the school and society¿can join together to afford students greater freedom to produce future knowledge as humanity faces profound challenges to its existence by advancing experiential instructional approaches.

Correct spelling is a social construction created by scholars, teachers, officials, and other stakeholders. This book is a historical study of such processes in Germany and Russia and shows that they were part of a general societal, economic, political, and cultural evolution in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

An archivally based exploration of the everyday life in Hungary¿s communist apparatus class after 1956, this book covers consumption, mobility, and leisure. Péteri shows how class power and privilege as well as Western patterns asserted themselves in the everyday of state-socialist society.

This study is an examination and analysis of the craft of poetry as seen in the revisions made in the poems from Journey to a War, a travel book written by W.H. Auden in 1938.

Route 66 and the Formation of a National Cultural Icon: Mother Road to Mythic American Byway by David Milowski explores the divergence between Route 66 myth and reality and provides a critical examination of the cultural origins of the Route 66 myth and the road¿s historical role in community development in the American West.

Social Justice from Outside the Walls: Catholic Women in Memphis, 1950¿1970 by Ann Youngblood Mulhearn examines the intersections of faith, race, and gender within the social justice movements in twentieth-century Memphis, Tennessee. Weaving together the biographies of six Catholic women and drawing upon the activists¿ own published writing and personal interviews, this book disrupts assumptions that racial and social justice was primarily a Protestant concern. Motivated by the tenets of their Catholic faith, these women, both Black and White, used existing social, political, and religious organizations to further the causes of racial and social justice. When these structures were not available, the women created them, transforming traditional women¿s organizations into vehicles of social and political activism. As a small representation of progressive Catholics active in the South in the time period, these six Catholic women redefined their perceptions and expectations of themselves both as women and Catholics. In doing so, they challenged contemporary gender norms as well as the patriarchal hierarchy of the Catholic Church. Their intertwined stories highlight the significant contributions made by Catholics and Catholic theology to the civil rights movement on the local level and further refine our understanding of larger national movements.

Hosea 12.4-5 and 11.1-2 contain difficult and perplexing phrasings in the Hebrew. The present study plunges deeply into what might be discovered through a series of foundation-setting analytical exegeses followed by illustrative applications to multiple hermeneutical phenomenological investigations.

In this book, anthropologist and Black feminist Mara Viveros-Vigoya examines what it means to be Black and middle class in Colombia and how that meaning has been configured over almost a century of the country¿s history.

Mark Walker argues for Skeptical-Dogmatism¿the view that we should disbelieve our cherished philosophical views, such as beliefs about what makes for a good life, religious beliefs, and political beliefs. To not disbelieve one¿s preferred views in these contested matters is hubristic.

This collection examines the representation of children in contemporary apocalyptic films and television, arguing that they inhabit conflicting roles as either harbingers of disaster or symbols of survival and hope.

In this book, Ben Voth argues that the centennial of the modern presidency embodied in the rhetoric of presidents Wilson, Harding and Coolidge provides an opportunity to re-examine our conventional understanding of U.S. presidents and presidential rankings.

Beyond Pinocchio analyzes Carlo Collodi¿s debunking the backbone of bourgeois propaganda through books meant to shape young Italians¿ national identity. This book adds on to the recent re-reading of Collodi¿s oeuvre, and reinforce the need for a fresh examination of his works beyond his world-known Le Avventure di Pinocchio.

Comfort examines the works of five Francophone authors who wrote about World War I: Maxence Van der Meersch¿s Invasion 14, Colette¿s war reporting, Bakary Diallös Force-Bonté, Blaise Cendrars¿s La Main coupée, and Roland Dorgelès¿s Le Réveil des morts. Engaging in a close reading, she analyzes what makes these literary works unique and what they all have in common. These are the stories of groups who have remained on the margins of the World War I narrative: women and children, French West African colonial troops, wounded veterans, and French Foreign Legionnaires, whose stories have been overshadowed by those of the infantrymen in the trenches who are often the heroes of the conventional French World War I novel. Informed by trauma studies as well as literary history, Comfort¿s reading of these works enhances our understanding of the way the Great War affected those away from the front lines, and thus contributes to the decentering of the French World War I narrative. This book is of interest to scholars of twentieth-century French literature, culture, and history.

This book explores the history of church camps and retreat centers to show how environmental stewardship became the dominant paradigm for Protestant environmentalism, why that is a flawed and fractious model, and why it has stalled.

This field of Black girls¿ and women¿s health (BGWH) science is both transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary. As such, the contributors to this edited collection offer a unique lens to BGWH science, expanding our collective scientific worldviews. The contributing authors draw upon their ontological and epistemological knowledge to formulate pathways and inform methodologies for doing research and praxis to address BGWH. Each contributor draws upon these knowledges and offers the reader a way to better understand how their framing and writing can create change in the health of Black girls and women.

The history of Russian Germans (Russlanddeutsche) is one of intensive mobility across space and time. In this volume, authors from the fields of history, sociology, cultural studies, and sociolinguistics analyze key issues of the history and present of this globally connected diaspora group from an interdisciplinary angle.

Each of the essays in this collection considers what lies beyond the limiting discourses of childhood innocence. Instead of focusing on how children ¿grow up,¿ as has been the focus of developmental science for over a century, we ask what it might mean for discourses of childhood to finally ¿grow out¿ of childhood innocence?

The President has made decisions to try to balance his policy decisions; stances that have often clashed with his Church-- specifically on abortion and immigration. This has caused him to govern in partisan ways that have led to greater social, political, and moral disunity in the United States.

This book examines four contemporary novels from the US and the Caribbean in which female ghosts recover memory and fill the gaps of official history. The author contends that these female ghosts resist and subvert official narratives, inspiring female creativity as an alternative to monological historical discourse.

With the advent of print in colonial Assam, experimentation with mediums like the prose and novel became more commonplace. This book, in tracing alternative literary trends, acknowledges the simultaneous presence of premodern literary and aural practices which shaped a 'particular' modernity during this period.

This book provides a phenomenological analysis of ¿committed¿ and ¿institutionalized¿ education in Sartrean thought. The author argues that the former is a form of resistance, cultivates the imagination, and personalizes students, while the latter instills passive acceptance, represses the imagination, and is a form of depersonalization.

This book differentiates both the objective structural elements and the subjective emotional elements in organizations and shows how psychological processes cast their influence throughout. It demonstrates the development of work, workplaces, organization, and organizations in the context of psychology and social psychology.

This book takes a harsh, critical look at capital punishment and points out the glaring flaws and misconceptions about its effectiveness. It makes a factual, legal, and moral argument for its abolition while refuting the main arguments in support of the death penalty.