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This book tells the rousing story of the Double V campaign, started during World War II to encourage Black Americans to fight two wars for democracy at once: one overseas and the other at home. It reveals to young adults how the campaign gave voice to Black communities and helped spawn the civil rights movement of the following decades.

For over two thousand years, Confucianism has built up sophisticated approaches exploring social, political, and environmental harmony. As a valuable cultural resource and one of the main drivers of societal norms across much of East Asia, Confucian philosophy has been going through a global academic revival over the last three decades. It has insights that can help us reflect on the root causes of, and remedies for, disorder in the 21st century, and can build bridges of dialogue across alternative philosophical, political, diplomatic, educational, and religious systems. This volume presents diverse `Confucianisms¿ as hybrid, evolving traditions that have been indigenized and creatively interpreted to support human fulfilment, using the vast cultural resources of the past to meet the needs of the present and the future.Living Confucianisms: Strategies for Optimizing Harmony explores contemporary harmony from a wide range of perspectives across philosophy, religion, politics, linguistics, diplomacy, international relations and education, with writers from numerous cultural and national backgrounds.

COVID-19 brought the health needs of many students the forefront. This book provides guidance to educators, school nurses, and healthcare providers to assist in the development of legally defensible IEPs for all students, particularly those with a known or suspected history of health care needs.

Historical Dictionary of Horror Literature contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 400 cross-referenced entries covering authors, subgenres, tropes, awards, organizations, and important terms related to horror.,

Whether we like it or not, boredom is a major part of human life. It permeates and affects our personal, social, practical, and moral existence. In this volume, world-renowned researchers come together to explore a neglected but crucially important aspect of boredom: it¿s relationship to morality.

Industrialization has made the meat supply chain quick, global and to all intents, invisible. But, as this searching collection points out, meat is a hugely contested foodstuff ¿ for reasons of sustainability, health, animal welfare, ethics and climate change.

This volume traces the ways in which Heidegger¿s philosophical thinking has been taken up, critically re-appropriated, and disseminated in literary and poetic writing since the middle of the 20th century.

The first book on the notion of the Holy in Heidegger, this collection evokes a poetic sense of awe before the divine present in his philosophical approach.

No other investigation across his entire FBI career would ever match the level of intensity, excitement, suspense, and drama of operation ¿Paesan Blues¿¿this book is the inside look at that undercover investigation centered on an Italian mafioso and his associates in Miami and Italy.

This volume offers twelve original essays that explore the moral quagmire that is the emotion of amusement. It considers its moral psychology a range of perspectives, going as far back as ancient Chinese and Greek philosophy up to the most current psychological and sociological findings.

Examines radicalization and de-radicalization of extremists in a world of globalization.

This book opens new perspectives on cinema, arts, and the media. It provides a rereading of the past and explains the challenges facing artists today.

This volume will address whether and to what extent those working to better understand or achieve climate justice should think about the real-world feasibility of their theories or proposals.

A significant advance in the field of Chinese environmental anthropology, the outstanding scholars in this volume provide a unique and much needed contribution to the scholarship on China and the environment.

This volume explores African philosophies¿ expression of transitional acts where thought interacts with history and proposes solutions to problems. Influential thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic engage with the realm of criticism and imagination, public spaces in Africa, and the relationship between historical politics and poetics.

The interdisciplinary chapters in this volume explore how the Austrian, Virginia, and Bloomington schools of political economy can help us to understand culture, sociality and morality.