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Andrei Pop argues that Frege's distinction between sense and reference, concept and object, and asserted and unasserted thought provides a superior account of the overlapping categories of fiction and art. This book also tackles case studies in Fregean art history and theory.

Anatomy of Local Government in Bangladesh delves deep into the heart of governance in this vibrant nation, exploring its local government institutions' intricacies, challenges, and evolution. As a foundational layer of governmental hierarchy, these Local Government Institutions (LGIs) are a vital component of field administration, as enshrined in the country's constitution. With an unwavering commitment to a qualitative approach, this comprehensive study takes readers on a journey through the very essence of local government in Bangladesh, focusing on its structure, functions, and the hurdles it confronts. Leveraging an array of secondary data sources, the book unveils the inner workings of LGIs, painting a clear picture of their historical development, present organization, and financial dynamics. The chapters in this book lay bare the patron-client relationship between national and local governments, urging a shift towards greater autonomy and genuine representation of local citizens' needs. The path to democracy, decentralization, and enhanced local administration is illuminated, with insights drawn from foreign donors and citizen activism. This compelling book is a scholarly exploration and a guide for policymakers and activists, offering valuable lessons and suggestions for the future.

This book investigates the complex social, cultural, economic, and legal factors that perpetuate gender-based violence in Sub-Saharan Africa, by exploring the intersecting identities of class, migration, and sexuality.

This book investigates cannabis use among those born between 1954 and 1965. Combining quantitative data and qualitative personal narratives, it explores the ways in which demographic, psychological, and sociological factors drive cannabis use in this cohort's later life.

This book examines Catholic Native American Boarding Schools run by Catholic Sisters between 1847 and 1918. Using previously unexplored archival material, Elisabeth C. Davis examines how Catholic Sisters established authority over their students and the local indigenous community.

This book invokes the relationship between nature and urban contexts as powerful storytellers through a timely contribution to the historical understanding of our mechanisms of production of narratives about nature, therefore breaking new ground for current and future research for locally situated and globally shared environmental concerns.

Using Karanga/Kalanga concepts of cosmology and philosophy as well as local narratives, this book provides new perspectives on the cultural landscape of Great Zimbabwe and contributes to the reformation of the practice, interpretation, and construction of archaeological narratives in Africa.

As the rise of the Anthropocene has led to serious deliberation about how energy is best produced and distributed in a world pressured by both the depletion of natural resources and global climate change, advances in technology have enabled new systems of extracting energy like High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing (HVHF), commonly known as fracking, that complicate these discussions. In this book, Barbara George explores how citizens impacted by HVHF tell stories about environmental risks, the conflict they experience in attempting to articulate these risks, and the hope for a post-carbon future in which HVHF is banned. Deep ideologies linked to history, coal, and industry permeate areas like the Rust Belt and Appalachia and, George argues, create "frames" that encourage and advocate for HVHF and make it difficult for publics in these locales to find a platform to tell their stories in a meaningful way. This book offers a case study of three communities in the United States - New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio - and how each community frames HVHF environmental and health risks differently based on their differing sociocultural histories. Scholars of communication, environmental studies, history, and sociology may find this book of particular interest.

Tod S. Chambers argues that the descriptions bioethicists present of moral problems serve as rhetorical support for the solutions they propose and examines seven rhetorical strategies to reveal how the various choices in descriptions are driven by the theoretical perspective of the bioethicist.

Embodying Normalcy: Women's Work in Neoliberal Times examines how women in the United States do a type of unpaid work to embody the latest trends for the purpose of achieving success in neoliberal culture.

Addressing issues from slow violence, transcorporeality, food and reproductive justice or agrarianism and employing a wide range of ecolinguistics approaches, this volume brings to the fore a diversity of literary responses by African American, Latinx, Asian American, and American Indian writers to environmental injustices and their impact.

This book, the culmination of the life's work of noted oral historian Fran Leeper Buss, combines interviews, memoir, theory, and analysis to explore the ways in which some women are able to redeem memories of traumatic experiences by going on to become social justice activists.

Reframing India in World History breaks the stereotypical portrayal of India based on misconstrued historical theories. Based on new evidence-based research Lavanya Vemsani brings forward comprehensive understanding of Indian history from the beginnings to the present.

The book critically examines the making of German-Jewish musical heritage and its location and dubious non-location within the German cultural sector and larger Jewish community in Germany. It further theorizes on the intersection of Jewish heritage and cultural sustainability by employing thoughts and ideas of critical heritage studies.

The Abraham Accords: National Security, Regional Order, and Popular Representation is a pioneering effort in discussing and analyzing the Abraham Accords. It draws attention to the multitude of factors that shape Gulf Cooperation Council state postures concerning normalization with Israel.

This book provides a rhetorical analysis of HOPE VI, a federal mixed-income, public housing program. The author addresses the phenomenon of participatory capture that worsened inequality, prompting a reconsideration, rhetorical and otherwise, of what it means to participate in America's cities.

This book explores the collection and documentation of the natural world's development over the course of the nineteenth century into a vast network of scientists who attempted to categorize and understand nature, particularly in the botanically rich Indian Ocean.

In the era of big data, knowledge about machine learning and artificial intelligence is becoming crucial for communication researchers navigating the landscape of digital media. This book provides foundational knowledge and techniques to empower researchers to leverage ML and AI at the intersection of communication and data science.

This volume is a collection of ten articles on the Russian Radicals by an international team of scholars. The chapters provide a fresh look at some well-known radicals like Chernyshevsky, Dobrolyubov, and Pisarev, as well as examinations of lesser-known figures.

This book is an investigation of the role of myth and creation of social identity in martial arts, looking at historical contexts and important movements in East Asia and the West, from ancient times to the present day.

Through an in-depth analysis of transport infrastructure and governance, this book lays out the likely trajectory of Eurasian supply chains following the invasion of Ukraine. Uniquely, the author brings Ukraine's future role as a logistics platform into the broader discussion of Eurasian trade integration.

Focusing on minoritized and marginalized groups around the world, this interdisciplinary project aims to shed light on the misinterpretation, misrepresentation, and erasure of the lives and deaths of the most vulnerable members of society.

This book explains the rights of vegans as supporting the animal protection movement. It explores some of the issues vegans face, the principles that ground their legal rights, and how legal provisions have been used to adapt policies that support compassionate living and a future, compassionate, inclusive, system of justice.

This book examines the effects of ecotourism on Indigenous peoples chronicling the costs and benefits of ecotourism from a comparative and anthropological perspective.

This book addresses the lack of research on harassment by offering a thorough linguistic analysis of the social phenomenon. By applying interactional pragmatics, the author sheds light on the key elements of harassment, which includes hostile and unethical communication, malicious intentions, power imbalance, and harm caused to the victim.

Drawing on the rich, qualitative-interview-based data from Japanese firms and dual-career workers, the author discusses Tenkin, cultural and gendered corporate transfers, workers' agency, and argues the need to incorporate the concept of care in career management.

This book offers a reflection on Tu Weiming's legacy and deals with Confucianism and New Confucianism and Tu Weiming's contribution to both of these Chinese philosophical traditions, studies how Confucianism has been received, especially in Asia, and considers Confucianism in connection with contemporary challenges.

The Autonomy of Reference: On the Relational Structure of Nominals provides a new account of the relational structure of nominal reference. On this account, linguists are entitled to use reference as a full-blown technical term even if they can provide only a reverse-style explanation for this entitlement.

This book explores the need to interrogate and subvert the embodied discursive practices of whiteness in the reiteration of norms through the construct of accompaniment, both within black spaces and across the color line, with a critical awareness that values collective experience of shared vulnerability in everyday life.

Drawing on data from France, Germany, and China, this book explores how the interaction between time and autonomy has reshaped work and examines the impacts of these trends in different socio-economic contexts.