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This book explores the novel as a response to the Platonic myth that narrates the rift at the core of our being. Eros is supposedly the consolation for this rift, but it expresses itself in the novel as the sigh of a world on its way out.

This book examines how modern society arrived at such a destructive environmental and social stage, suggesting that three great crises have converged: climate change, capitalism as a logic system, and questions of consumer society and social identity.

This book examines how California Indigenous groups forged a new economy based on cattle, opening the door to the assertion and recognition of American Indian sovereignty over ancestral lands by the United States. Shanta reflects on how they survived, kept their cultures alive, and gained recognition of their sovereign status.

This book elucidates the citizenship experiences of marginalized groups in urban Australia under neoliberal governance, and identifies a new sense of belonging based on care ethics that has developed among these groups, beyond racial and ethnic differences that could challenge neoliberal ideology.

Labor Market Dynamics in Turkey during the Last 100 Years, allows readers to discover the subtle aspects of the labor market's development in Turkey. This thorough study examines important topics including gender inequality, unionization, migration, young employment, and the effects of economic crises.

This book addresses the mythical language that, whether recognized or not, infuses formulations of Christian doctrine, arguing that unwarranted expectations that such language expresses historical, ontological, or scientific truth obfuscates the true power of myth to mediate an engagement with mystery to an extent that other genres cannot.

Cartographies of Postcolonial Vegetal Politics resorts to Deleuzo-Guattarian grammar to enunciate the productive disjunctures of vegetality while cartographizing differential repetitions of postcolonial vegetal politics.

This book argues that Carl Schmitt is useful in explaining and bringing order to the apparent chaos of Trumpism. Adams uses this understanding to argue that Trumpism, rather than representing a return to American constitutional principles, is an abandonment of them.

This volume examines the intergenerational transmission of religion, spirituality, and secularity. The authors treat intergenerational religious influence as occurring under national-historical conditions that variously reinforce or inhibit the reproduction of religious beliefs and practices across generations.

This book demonstrates the rhetorical strategies present in mainstream popular music and how those strategies are implemented to empower resistance.

In The Habits of Race and Faith in a Religiously Diverse World, Mara Brecht argues that by understanding the entanglements of whiteness and Christian theology, Christians will be better prepared to encounter religious others responsibly and to develop adequate theologies for addressing religious diversity.

In this book, the natures and roles of both guru and disciple-as depicted in the Upani¿ads and Dharma ¿¿stras-are discussed and further developed into a paradigm by which to comprehend the ancient and modern expressions of the Guru Tradition. This study is conducted from the perspective of Advaita Ved¿nta, or nondualism.

This book explores the language maintenance of Russian abroad, emphasizing the role of educational ventures and transnational communications facilitated by the internet, pointing to shifts in values and migration expectations, and reflecting on the evolution of diasporic communities and the dynamic adaptation of the Russian language.

This comparative study of teacher attrition in the Global South and OECD countries examines the exceptionality of twenty selected learning leaders in the D.R. Congo, Ghana, and Uganda who have stayed in the teaching profession.

In Climate Crisis and the Kleptocene the author argues that the nullification of all value that competes with exchange value is inherent to the ontology of capitalism, including value associated with sentient life. Despite recent reform efforts to address the climate crisis, capitalism's kleptocratic logic is catastrophic for planetary stability.

Reading Luther and Kierkegaard in dialogue, Carl S. Hughes develops an alternative to the literalism and other-worldliness often characteristic of modern Christianity. Clouds of the Cross in Luther and Kierkegaard's account of revelation as mystical or apophatic theology offers provocative resources for thinking about Christ and the Bible today.

David Botting defends Aristotle as an empiricist against those who see him as a rationalist, focusing on Aristotle's account of how we acquire the first principles of science. The author argues that Aristotle's account is empiricist and that first principles are, perhaps surprisingly, known inferentially and not by intuition.

Contemporary Feminist Art by Women in North Africa examines perceptions of the female body as both a subject and an object of aesthetic discourse in the works of six contemporary Maghrebi female artists. The book includes discussions of several artistic mediums including photography, painting, videos, and installations.

This book argues for the existence of the Queer Coming of Age genre, in which films reveal the unique challenges experienced by queer people during this time of their lives, positing that these films are driven by a political undercurrent advocating for queer acceptance and that they provide guidance for queer people to understand their own lives.

This book critically engages with the Walt Disney Company as a global media conglomerate as they mark their 100th year of business. The chapters include discussions of company management, transmedia presence, and audience engagement as well as content analyses of cultural representations.

Skepticism and the New World: The Anthropological Argument and the Emergence of Modernity shows that the "discovery" of the New World had a transforming impact as a historical event with deep philosophical repercussions, especially for traditional presuppositions about human nature and knowledge.

This book focuses on the role of music and performing arts in facilitating a mind-body unity for positive health.

In Conservative Americanism, the author traces Conservative Americanist ideology between 1854 to 1861 and argues that Border Southerners who joined the American or Know Nothing Party were nativists who believed that foreigners and foreign ideas threatened the institution of slavery and the stability of the Union.

Focusing primarily on Walt Disney World, in a time of unmatched cultural anxiety, the authors use their influential 'tourist as actor' framework to unpack the ways that Disney parks and their guests co-create performances of implicit Americanness through case studies on music, geography and ecology, sports, families, and politics.

This book examines the cultural work and meaning-making of Louisa May Alcott's representations of health and illness. It investigates not only the ways in which her stories critically explore issues of well-being and affliction in nineteenth-century America but also the reparative strategies that her narratives make available.

Centering lived experiences, this volume reveals how discrimination by those in positions of power impact vulnerable and marginalized populations in the areas of criminal justice, sex and violence, immigration, racism, prison, and health.

This edited volume addresses the narrative and stylistic approaches to imbuing natural settings in audiovisual media with a psychological dimension, or, in other words, configuring a 'landscape' to function beyond its typical role as a backdrop-and the cultural contexts for this aesthetic impulse.

This book explores the visual dimensions of metal music from the specific socio-historic, geographic, and political positionality of Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Expressive Self argues the nature of the self lies in the fact that only in one's own case are acts of expression actual episodes of one's self-consciousness. The author provides novel accounts of Moore's paradox, self-deception, and McKinsey's paradox and addresses challenges from self-reference and first-person authority.

This book argues that the primary motivation for the incarnation of God the Son is divine-human co-dominion over the cosmos. The author utilizes both biblical and systematic theology to parse supralapsarian and infralapsarian motivations which the incarnation answers in enabling humanity to fulfill God's intended vocation.