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This comprehensive study of the sylvan realm in speculative fiction focuses on the conceptualization of a sylvan and arboreal agency and the interrelationship between the human and the forest. The author argues for a re-negotiation of material agency and a facilitation of an eco-sylvan awareness within the Anthropocene.

This book explores the challenges faced by documentary filmmakers in creating films and series for global audiences in response to increasing demands. The research utilizes in-depth interviews with members of the industry to reveal recurring themes and argue for greater support and deeper understanding of creative practices and processes.

From a Nietzschean perspective, the author disputes the often-postulated lineage between Nietzsche and Derrida. Peter Bornedal argues instead that they have very different epistemological programs: the deconstructionist and postmodernist projects undermine beliefs in reason and logic in a manner that cannot be found in Nietzsche.

Spinozäs Argument for Substance Monism: Why There Is Only One Thing interprets and defends Spinozäs God/Nature argument using speculative metaphysics as a method and illustrates the practice and potential of metaphysics at work. These features work together to strengthen Spinozäs argument that only one substantial being exists.

Fisher employs a symbolic interactionist lens and other theoretical tools to make visible foundational cultural assumptions delimiting our thinking about and undermining employee engagement before it even begins in organizational settings.

This book examines German feature films and television series centered around the figure of the computer hacker as a hero, introducing the German hacker genre to the ongoing scholarly discussion of genre in German cinema. William Mahan argues that the genre reflects a history of youth resistance, a complex political landscape, and an obsession with Datenschutz (data protection) in the German context to make the hacker an archetypal character with both national and global cultural appeal. Ultimately, Mahan posits, the continued prevalence of the hacker over the last twenty-five years suggests that while remaining relevant, the figure has also evolved and become dynamic in connection to developing technologies. Scholars of film studies, German studies, and cultural studies will find this book of particular interest.

This collection explores the core concepts of Ignacio Ellacuríäs liberating philosophy; his critique of ideologies and continuity with critical theory; his philosophical anthropology and humanism; and the implications that praxis has for philosophical thought.

This book explores stigma and discrimination associated with disability and mental health in Ghana. In conversations with caregivers and persons with disabilities, the authors examine the socio-cultural challenges that undermine treatment and support for these individuals and provide recommendations for improved policy and practice.

Applied Business Rhetoric examines a broad array of rhetorical principles used in various business contexts. Chapters overview key rhetorical constructs, and provide engaging, in-depth industry examples and analysis to show the concepts in use.

Global James Bond explores the interplay between the global and the local in the longest-running film franchise in history. It considers how the world is envisaged in the series and reinterpreted on local and regional levels with alternative meanings running counter to the representational and geo-political logics of the original texts.

Working with archival recordings, the authors trace the history of Missouri English and demonstrate how the voices of Missourians born over a century ago provide a unique window on the development of many of the pronunciation features that separate modern American dialects.

In The Cross of Christ in African American Christian Religious Experience: Piety, Politics, and Protest Demetrius K. Williams examines and explores the ideational importance and rhetorical function of cross language and terminology in the spirituals, conversion narratives, and Black preaching tradition through an ideological lens.

This book addresses the challenge in contemporary Christianity of navigating the relationship between the individual and their faith community when entering spiritually challenging times. When loyalty to the church gets tested during a personal faith crisis, many leave disenchanted, claiming a desire to be spiritual but not religious.

This multidisciplinary collection explores the ways in which the lives of immigrants¿ daughters are shaped by forces of race, gender, migration, sexuality, family, and nation outside of their control. The contributors examine how the women navigate these forces as individuals and as members of collectivities.

This book explores the tensions in communicating the National Park Service's mission to both conserve and preserve nature while also offering recreational experiences to the public. Through qualitative interviews and observations, the author discusses climate change, policy change, and environmental education at Glacier National Park.

Trumpism, Bigotry, and the Threat to American Democracy reveals the serious chasms of American society and the man who would exploit them, Donald Trump. The story almost sounds like a surreal movie plot, except is living American political history, with an uncertain future.

Online discussions in the form of readers' comments are a central part of many news sites and social media platforms. In this book, Tamara Kuni¿ explores and interprets the ways in which digital technology has impacted the production and dissemination of content and the need to adapt in the age of a new audience, the prosumer.

Social media influencer marketing emerged in Web 2.0 as a new form of celebrity endorsement in which the Internet-famous create word-of-mouth marketing for brands and organizations on their personal social media pages, blurring the line between organic and sponsored content for their followers. This book explores social media influencer marketing through the lens of philosophy of communication with a praxis-centered approach. Kati E. Sudnick utilizes a multitude of theoretical touchstones¿including Christopher Lasch¿s narcissistic culture, Marshall McLuhan¿s global village, Daniel Boorstin¿s human pseudo-event, Jacques Ellul¿s propaganda, and the interplay between charismatic leadership and parasocial relationships¿in order to consider consequences surrounding Hannah Arendt¿s social condition, which appears in hyper-form within social media influencer marketing as a major integrated marketing communication tool. Sudnick applies these concepts to three major case studies surrounding Audible, BetterHelp, and Fyre Festival, drawing implications and conclusions for this integrated marketing communication tactic in an era entrenched within the banality of the social. Ultimately, the author argues for a more aware and conscientious public when it comes to engaging with influencers online. Scholars of communication, philosophy, and media studies will find this book of particular interest.

Menelaos Christopoulos offers a detailed, original, and thought-provoking analysis of the major thematic questions raised by the Homeric Odyssey. The interpretations in this book shed new light on this emblematic literary work of Western civilization.

This book examines the relationship between organizational culture and ethical practices among NGOs in Kenya. It highlights the need for greater oversight and anti-corruption policies to better control corrupt practices from within and avoid adverse implications and financial effects due to a lack of accountability and unethical behaviors.

This book analyzes representations of race and ethnicity in the context of satire, parody, and comedy. Over thirteen chapters, contributors unpack the ways these depictions can enlighten audiences or reinforce bigotry¿or, sometimes, how they do both.

A Phenomenology for Women of Color: Merleau-Ponty and Identity in Difference depicts the dynamic and creative expressions of race and racism through a phenomenological framework to address the ambiguity within the experiences of race and sex and ultimately to conceptualize the identity group ¿women of color.¿

This book offers educators tangible ways of honoring and attending to multispecies relationships with examples from practice, research on the importance of multispecies relations, and strategies for using multispecies relations to shape an inclusive, hopeful future where all beings can thrive.

This book argues that Kierkegaard, influenced by Kant¿s critique of metaphysics, did not attempt to integrate human and divine agencies in any speculative theory. Instead, Kierkegaard deploys them to encourage different passions and dispositions that can be integrated in a coherent human life.

This collection offers different perspectives through which readers can understand the history of diversity and inclusion in esports, the current issues facing the industry, and how these issues will impact the future of esports. Scholars of communication, media studies, game studies, and sociology will find this book of particular interest.

This book examines prolonged singlehood in Religious Zionist society, a community that upholds conservative family values. Engelberg argues that late modern individualization processes, including changing attitudes toward gender, relationships, and intimacy, play a central role in creating this phenomenon and in communal responses to it.

When study abroad is impossible, technology has the potential to engage students by creating community outside of the classroom. This book highlights digital tools with activities that make language learning accessible, demonstrating that technology can replicate the benefits of traditional study abroad experiences.

Kant¿s Projective Representation: Substance, Cause, Time, and Objects is a textually thorough study of Kant¿s account of mental representation that yields a new understanding of the primary doctrines of the Critique of Pure Reason. Lawrence J. Kaye argues that in the Transcendental Deduction, the analytic unity of concepts establishes the necessary unity of consciousness, which also constitutes representation. In the First Analogy, Kant argues that our ability to represent sequences, simultaneity, and durations rests on the conceptually prior representation of persistence. Without persistence in empirical perceptions, we must represent persistence with identities across intuitions that project an external world of persistent matter. The other Analogies explain how we represent sequences through necessitated state transitions in objects and how we represent simultaneity through mutual influence. These pure unifications that constitute representation are the schematized (relational) categories¿instances of the same types of unifying functions that underlie the concepts of substance, causation, and community. We know a priori that all perceptual experiences will project a world with this structure, which is synthetic a priori metaphysical knowledge. This interpretation also shows how Kant reconciles realism and idealism: we empirically represent a world that is external to consciousness, but we do so by using unities that are purely mental constructions.

Foucault's Critical Philosophy of History: Unfolding the Present provides a comprehensive interpretation of Foucault¿s work by focusing on its procedural elements. This book argues that despite their thematic diversity, Foucault¿s ideas gain coherence once they are framed within the critical project of the ¿history of the present.¿