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The music, performances, and cultural impact of some of the most enduring figures in popular music are explored in Rock Music Icons: Musical and Cultural Impacts. This collection investigates authenticity, identity, and the power of the voices and images of widely circulated and shared artists that have become the soundtrack of our lives.

China and America's Tech War from AI to 5G examines how Sino-U.S. geopolitical competition has increasingly centered on the performances of the two countries' technology sectors and their ability to dominate development of critical next generation technologies. It analyzes and compares the strengths of China and the U.S., ranging from the ability to produce and attract talent, to the degree of government support and the scale and funding for technological research. Abrams reviews and weighs important technology areas such as green energy, artificial intelligence, Quantum Computing, and 5G will likely have, the means both parties have exercised to gain advantages, and the consequences of leadership for the county who attains it.

This book highlights indigenous American women throughout modern American history, countering past stereotypes by offering twenty original scholarly chapters featuring historical and biographical analyses of Native American women who excelled in education, health, medicine, and the arts.

What if wilderness is bad for wildlife? This question motivates the philosophical investigation in Wilderness, Morality, and Value. Environmentalists aim to protect wilderness, and for good reasons, but wilderness entails unremittent, incalculable suffering for its non-human habitants. Given that it will become increasingly possible to augment nature in ways that ameliorates some of this suffering, the morality of wilderness preservation is itself in question. Joshua S. Duclos argues that the technological and ethical reality of the Anthropocene warrants a fundamental reassessment of the value of wilderness. After exposing the moral ambiguity of wilderness preservation, he explores the value of wilderness itself by engaging with anthropocentricism and nonanthropocentrism; sentientism, biocentrism, and ecocentrism; and instrumental value and intrinsic value. Duclos argues that the value of wilderness is a narrow form of anthropocentric intrinsic value, one with a religio-spiritual dimension. By integrating scholarship from bioethics on the norms of engineering human nature with debates in environmental ethics concerning the prospect of engineering non-human nature, Wilderness, Morality, and Value sets the stage for wilderness ethicsor wilderness faithin the Anthropocene.

This collection offers practical approaches to using literature as a lens for teaching about climate change. Contributors share their classroom experiences and reflections to urge educators at all levels to prepare students for the challenges of a climate-changed world.

In often mundane but sometimes quite obvious ways, persons belonging to groups routinely threatened with harm on the basis of gender and sexuality suffer restrictions to choice and action, impairing autonomy. Gender Violence: Resistance, Resilience, and Autonomy shows that resistance to, and cultivating resiliency within, a culture of gender violence is key to fostering autonomy.Building on decades of research philosophically interrogating autonomy and its limits, and with a martial arts background spanning over twenty-five years, Professor Burrow develops a novel approach to autonomy development under everyday threats of violence. Appealing to empirical research to ground its philosophical analysis, the theory presented in this book establishes that cultivating self-confidence through self-defense training is a significant strategy contributing to resistance and resilience under threats of violence and hence, autonomy development.

This book examines millennials and Generation Z in the context of media and visual culture, considering three interrelated areas: how millennials and Gen Z use new media technologies in different contexts; what they do with media; and the relationship between media and the two generations that make up their target audience.

Miquel Seguró Mendlewicz, in On Vulnerability, projects vulnerability as a condition of human life and the central concept to understand our existential position in the world. Using René Descartes works, Mendlewicz discusses the existential reality of vulnerability and it¿s integration into an ethical and political reality.

American writers turned to the georgic mode¿an ancient literary tradition focused on the human relationship with the land¿in order to explore key questions about land use that emerged during the twentieth century. This book examines the work of writers who labored to see rural places and rural people clearly, and represent them accurately.

Teaching the Truth is geared to the Higher Education professor who challenges and prepares pre-service teachers to rethink how they teach history to young children. African American history is a major part of American history and must be centered in the early childhood curriculum.

Sociology of Death and the American Indian examines dying, death, disposal, and bereavement practices and applies those concepts to selectAmerican Indian tribes historically and currently, supplemented with oral histories. The focus is that learning about other cultures can enhance the understanding of one's own culture by comparing traditional and modern societies. Gerry R. Cox addresses the centuries of injustices committed against American Indians that led to a neglect of learning about American Indian cultures and attempts to fill the gaps in knowledge of American Indian practices.

This book provides insight into barriers women experience when seeking treatment for substance use disorders. Findings indicate that models of "maternal instinct" often impede efforts for women seeking treatment, and recovery is more achievable when proper social and structural supports are in place.

Virtuous conduct is the philosophy of agency within Early Confucianism. Drawing on the ideas of Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi, this book characterizes Early Confucianism as a progressive philosophy due to its human-centered program for social reform, its process view of self-cultivation, and its development.

The Emergence of the Evangelical Egyptians traces the complex cultural encounter between American Presbyterian missionaries and the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox leaders over indigenous Protestant conversion in late Ottoman Egypt, 1854-1878.

An Advaitic Modernity?: Raimon Panikkar and Philosophical Theology poses Raimon Panikkar as a stimulating dialogue partner in postmodern philosophical theology who can help us rethink the relationship between transcendence and immanence through an advaitic critique of modernity. Andrew D. Thrasher argues that Panikkar advaitic critique of modernity may transform several discourses, such as how Panikkar's cosmotheandric metaphysics may reshape a theology of religion and offer a religious interpretation of a relational ontology that builds on the Heideggerian ontological tradition and how Panikkar's metaphysics solves problems in Heidegger's ontology.

This volume explores the political theology of Paul Tillich, one of the foremost thinkers of the 20th century. Tillich's discerning analysis of fascism, grounded in his socialist commitments, and continuing efforts to write theology in correlation with culture, make his voice a crucial one for contemporary political theology.

Using a place-infused narrative writing unit with two rural schools in two different states, the authors argue for a nuanced understanding of using place in the classroom. This book explores how student data led the authors to develop the concept of place: Big "P" Place and small "p" place.

Philosophical Praxis, launched by the author in 1981, ushers in a new academic philosophy as an alternative to current therapeutic practices, offering unique insights into the compelling origin and development of a renaissance of philosophy.

This book uses the author¿s participatory research with refugees, producing a portrait of fear, desperation, courage, and optimism. Refugee voices lead us through tortuous journeys, which provide powerful ideas for revamping an overwhelmed global refugee system.

Looking primarily at the twenty-first century boom in superhero media, this collection provides insights into the overlap between data, the internet, and the superhero. Multiple disciplinary approaches investigate what can be learned from the superhero genre and its use and involvement with networked technology.

Literature¿s Critique, Subversion, and Transformation of Justice explores two of the fundamental institutions in human existence and social democracy that attend to philosophical consideration and critical discussion of how literature interacts with the phenomena of justice.

Despite a new era, we are stuck with a 40-year-old education system whose purpose is obsolete. New Era ¿ New Urgency presents a historical case for the need to repurpose education given the challenges of the new century. Merlino and Pomeroy describe their work repurposing education in Egypt and elsewhere.

This book explores the rising prevalence of anxiety disorders among children aged 8¿16 by examining the complex interplay of familial dynamics and parenting strategies. It advocates for early screening in schools, technological support, and the transformative power of communication to nurture emotionally resilient children.

This essay collection addresses past and current debates surrounding colonial relics and monuments, colonial vestiges, heritage, gender, narratives of independence, nationhood and national identity. Caribbean enthusiasts, scholars and students will appreciate the diversity of views of these academic post-colonial narratives.

In this volume, twelve scholars focus on the challenges of preserving and editing the writings of a leading but deceased religious figure. The authors examine editorial authority and overreach, noncompliance with scholarly standards, and untransparent editorial changes that have arisen in the books of the Indian master, Swami Prabhup¿da.

This edited collection centers the Cabo Verdean Community in the United States in the last thirty years and explores topics such as race, identities, health, culture, gender relations, education, and immigrant community solidarity from new, critical perspectives.