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This book examines engagements of daily practices on different types of digital platforms and devices to present a local understanding of geographies of consumption in the digital age from a non-Western perspective and to understand the connections between local cultures and activities in the global development of digital technologies.

Drawing off ninety years of survey data, Zachary Cook argues that younger voters, as a function of the life cycle, tend to believe that government should do more to regulate the business sector to help provide high quality jobs for all.

Athletes might face a myriad of psychosocial difficulties when they retire from professional or elite level competition. This book explores the nuances of those struggles, focusing on identity reconstruction and the processing of grief related to the loss of self and sport.

This book examines the depiction of girls with extraordinary abilities in 2000s Disney sitcoms aimed at tweens. The author argues that a double standard forced the girls, unlike their male counterparts, to hide their superpowers and highlights the impact of these series on cultural ideas of gender and childhood.

In Visions of Statesmanship: A Statesman¿s Imagination and Autonomy, I provide a critical examination of the figure of the statesman as it has been presented in the philosophical reflections of three key thinkers: Plato, Yannis Markrygiannis, and Cornelius Castoriadis.

The authors analyze the impact of COVID-19 on both public administration and the survival of democracy in Eastern Europe. They conclude that the more democratic states in the north, better handled administrative challenges such as corruption, accountability, trust, disease deaths, and election stability than did the states in the south.

This study explores how opposing ideological work, intended as a counterterrorism strategy decodes and defuses al-Qaedäs role in the current radicalization process in conflict and non-conflict areas. In this context it promotes to theological counterterrorism paradigm for current fundamental terror threats.

Politics today appears driven by processes of denomination: 'my' people, community, nation, is external to, even opposed to, yours; and my allegiance is owed to my denomination. This book argues for a deconstruction of the violence embedded in such denominational borders in favour of nonviolent, equitable and sustainable 'neighbourhood democracy'.

This book explores a novel approach to reform the Electoral College to allocate for two electoral votes from each state to the national popular vote winner, in order to bring the American presidential election process more in line with democratic norms and principles.

Hilary Putnam¿s Philosophical Naturalism: Making Philosophy Matter for Life offers a faithful illustration of the trajectory of Putnam¿s thought to show how, despite the shifts in opinion on issues of central philosophical importance, his thought reveals a systematic backbone and strong continuities.

This volume explores the many unique motivations driving the rapid growth of the esports industry from a variety of perspectives and theoretical vantage points. Contributors examine the traditions, cultures, expectations, and rituals that factor into decisions to play and watch esports.

This book critically investigates the standardization of heteronormativity and heteropatriarchal stereotypes. Critiquing the concepts of personhood, performativity, and the post-binary, the chapters deconstruct gender essentialism and embrace gender inclusivity in both theory and practice.

This book examines how supernatural film and television integrate Yiddish dialogue to reimagine and reconstruct haunted and mystical elements of the Jewish experience, illustrating how closely bound up the Yiddish language is with shadowy immigrant pasts and the haunted sites of Holocaust memory.

Autistic-Coded Representation and Autism Stereotypes: Looking for the Spectrum examines the stereotypes that often accompany representations of autism in literature, film, and television. It posits that coded characters offer more human, less one-dimensional representations of autistic people.

Excavating Whiteness follows a group of White teachers as they learned about the role of race in education through an intensive summer course. Each teacher¿s journey is represented in their own words as they worked to understand how White identity is constructed and often misunderstood as a part of teaching.

This book reimagines what it means to be Latina beyond borders and the ¿baggage¿ of cultural categories, definitions, and labels.

This book looks at the Great American Songbook¿s craft and its mastery. Lasser and Greenblatt uncover the essential elements and themes of these beloved songs and investigate the qualities that make the songbook a timeless staple of American culture. Using interesting anecdotes and song analysis, they reveal the genius behind the music.

Boston to the north and New York City to the south, Connecticut¿s history of organized crime is often overlooked. Here¿s the untold story of New Haven¿s illegal past.

"[I]deal for readers seeking a more comprehensive look at information dissemination technology, its context, and its impact on the way in which we now live." Library Journal, Starred Review ¿ Explore how the tools of our information age grew directly out of conflicts from World War I to the present day.

An inclusive and informative guide to self-acceptance of one's gender and sexual identity, built from collaboration across the political spectrum on best practices to have respectful and affirmative engagement with and about intersectional LGBTQIA+-identified individuals.

Looks at the transition to electric vehicles by profiling four visionaries and analyzing how to further green the auto industry.

In Hungry Authors, industry insiders Liz Murrow and Ariel Curry teach aspiring nonfiction authors with important messages and great ideas how to envision, write, plan, pitch, and publish an amazing book.