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Theory and practice, reason and revelation, ancients and moderns are the key themes running through the eighteen studies of the literature of political philosophy in Reason's Inquisition. Alfarabi is a pivotal figure, but the range is wide, from Plato and Thucydides to Shakesp...

This book examines gendered power dynamics, long-held patriarchal values, and other harmful attitudes toward women in The Bahamas and Caribbean through the lens of media and law.

Women Educators' Experiences During COVID-19: On the Front Lines examines the gendered experiences, challenges, and rapid changes faced by women in higher education during COVID-19. Scholars of communication, gender studies, and higher education will find this book of particular interest.

This book demonstrates how the avenging-woman character on-screen represents cultural conversations about female agency and feminism. This critical feminist analysis analyzes the construction of female empowerment in the American avenging-woman narrative to uncover how we can understand messages about women and power in contemporary culture.

This book provides an in-depth look at the early history of museums in Nigeria through the letters of Kenneth C. Murray, Bernard E.B. Fagg, and Edward H. Duckworth, uncovering the early efforts to preserve cultural heritage, repatriate stolen art, and build institutions that would define a nation.

This book analyzes the role literature and poetic sensibility played in colonial British and American writings on Afghanistan from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries, ending with Afghan immigrant authors, who adapt colonial myths as anti-colonial strategy, and post US-War authors, who more fundamentally re-imagine old narratives.

This edited volume about multilingual family-school partnerships explores where systemic inequities exist at the school, district, or community level, and considers strategies that disrupt normative ways in which families are included in educational decisions. The chapters present frameworks and practices for engaging multilingual families.

This book proposes that the government, private businesses, and early childhood groups must join forces in collaborative partnerships to unite the workforce and childcare needs of communities. These strong partnerships will lead to quality childcare services for young children.

This book emerged out of psychoanalytic doctoral research on the states of spirit possession in North India. In this book, Shalini Masih holds psychoanalytic conversations with people who experienced spirit possession. These conversations reveal a deeper link between the resea...

This book explores the political, economic, social, and environmental health relations and politics of the global tech and electronics industry. Peter C. Little argues that, in the fast growing digital age, we need greater synthesis of political ecology, anthropology, and technocapital critique.

This book examines the role of propaganda cinema in Brazil-U.S. relations during World War II, providing an in-depth analysis of the Good Neighbor Policy.

This collection approaches the deconstruction of American "childhood" from a wide variety of critical, interdisciplinary lenses and gestures toward the construction of a more realistic, twenty-first century definition of "childhood"-one which is defined by the real-life struggles of childhood and not by romanticized notions of "innocence."

This edited volume examines how COVID-19 impacted political inequality, social inequality, and the wellbeing of people in the United States. Various theories, methods, outcomes, and potential solutions are discussed to create a cross-discipline narrative on this topic.

This book gleans classical and contemporary Islamic theology on the central tenets of God in Islam in directly addressing theological challenges facing Islam today. It presents a new theological framework and drives prime essential of Islamic theology in its attempting to prove the existence, oneness, and relatability of God.

Social Media and Oil in Southern California: Greenwashing Los Angeles chronicles the use of social media (old and new) to greenwash the petroleum industry in Southern California. As this research documents, oil-not Hollywood-is the key industry that drives the California dream.

McCreery descriptively analyzes distinctions between kinds of violence, including nonviolence, as outlined by numerous philosophical theorists, arguing that a commonsense view of violence and nonviolence is based on paradigmatic cases. Beyond these what counts as kinds of violence and nonviolence is essentially contested due to political, ideological disagreements.

In Dealing with Privilege, David Crawford argues that white, middle-class dealers are unlikely to suffer the enforcement of drug laws and that, contrary to media portrayals, suburban drug sales are not oriented primarily toward making money but at making friends and having fun.

This book uses an integrated marketing communication perspective to examine the brand of the celebrity as it is brought into the American political system, primarily in the form of celebrity endorsements.

This book shows how late-night political comedy transformed from personality-focused humor to substantive critique. The analysis includes transcripts from Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report during the presidential elections from 1980-2008, and newspaper commentary about them.

This book brings a constructivist approach to analyzing public goods by recognizing that preferences are socially constructed from the actors' identities. This synthesis of constructivism and rational choice provides a deeper understanding of the decision to provide goods such as protecting human rights and collective security.