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This book is a timely examination of contemporary US political culture and communication and the specific forces, factors, and dynamics that have contributed to the increasing democratic dysfunction and violence. The four key vectors in the 4P theoretical model are (1) post-truth; (2) polarization; (3) [social media] platform; and (4) populism.

In Aesthetic Expertise, Ole Martin Skilleås explains what aesthetic expertise is, what it's used for, how it manifests across diverse roles within aesthetic practices, and why we should want access to it to live our aesthetic lives to the full.

This book explores the proposal found in a Libellus written and given to Pope Leo X by two Camaldolese hermits who argued church reform must begin with a crusade to eliminate Islam.

Ahi¿s¿ in the Indic Traditions: Explorations and Reflections, edited by Jeffery D. Long and Steven J. Rosen, examines the diversity of nonviolent (ahimsa-oriented) doctrines originating in the Indic world, both in terms of interpersonal relationships and how they apply to the rest of creation, including animals.

Russia's actions in Syria and Ukraine during 2014 and 2022 reveal more continuity than change, and more evolution than revolution, in warfare. These actions mostly reflect what the Kremlin perceives as changes in strategic and technological contexts, which impacts who fights wars and how wars are fought.

This book narrates the decolonial feminist journey of a racialized settler woman toward reflective, transformative reconciliation in Canada.

This collection explores diverse protest cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa, delving into motivations, tactics, and responses to protests. It sheds light on post-colonial regimes' brutality and highlighting movements striving for societal change.

This volume contributes to a better understanding of the religious life in Central Asia as well as political and social issues in the region, with a focus on Islamic culture, traditions, and pre-Islamic beliefs.

This book explores the blurred boundaries between language and matter, cognition and thing, living and inanimate, technology and nature, which is the neoliberal way of governing the unpredictable. Adorno and the concept of form of life provide a way to claim the irreducibility of reality to its description and of nature to mere environment.

Exploring the profound impacts of the Ukraine-Russia war, this book delves into Central Asia's geopolitical shifts, societal transformations, and media dynamics, revealing a region navigating between change and tradition, resilience, and identity, on its path to a more significant global role.

This book provides deeper insights into sustainable energy development, technology, and investment in climate-oriented solutions; climate-aligned investment strategies present opportunities and challenges simultaneously.

This book examines European comic-books about bikers, unearthing a rich tapestry of creative ingenuity and ambiguous humor. Through narrative analysis, the author argues that these comics offer insight into motorcycle subcultures, while also shedding light on cultural issues like gender, identity, consumption habits, and the environment.

Through engaging scholarship and detailed narrative, Kathryn M. Lucchese presents a pivotal, little-known episode in history, Date Masamune's 1613 Mission to Rome. Illustrated with original maps as well as contemporary portraits, documents, and maps, this book exploits a key source never before available in English in its entirety.

Baudelaire's Bitter Metaphysics: Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre reconstructs a philosophical trialogue that might have been expected to take place between Benjamin Fondane, Walter Benjamin, and Jean-Paul Sartre over their philosophical readings of Charles Baudelaire.

Using Toyin Falola's contributing works, this book offers a unique perspective on the intricate dynamics of African society to reveal the importance of understanding the role of power, politics, and African agency in addressing Africa's developmental ills.

This book investigates how ideas on sacred sound and the practice of kirtan are transforming the American religious soundscape. The author approaches kirtan as a type of 'technology of the self,' which allows people to transform their lives in search for happiness, wisdom, and other types of perfection.

This book explains the social embeddedness of handloom weaving technologies in Begampur region and shows how some of the prime sources of disjuncture and juxtapositions have been making an impact on the lives of handloom weavers of this region.

This book analyses dilemmas arising from the engagement of international organizations in the still-unresolved Georgian-Abkhazian and Moldovan-Transnistrian conflicts. The lessons drawn from these earlier conflicts are compared with the conflict in Eastern Ukraine since 2014.

Sex, Desire, and Taboo in South Asia investigates how religion, ability culture, patriarchy, and taboos impact sex and desire in South Asia. Through analysis of theories of sexuality alongside erotic literature, the book underscores the need for intersectional approaches when discussing taboos around the world.

This book focuses on the strong state tradition as well as plural society that developed in Turkey. Indicating how an unitarian ideological public sphere has evolved into a pluralistic and civil public domain, it enriches the literature on modernization, democracy, civil society, public space and social movements.

This book examines Turkish-Qatari relations from the nineteenth century to the present. The authors argue that conducive structural dynamics and ambitious geopolitical goals facilitated critical foreign policy convergences between Ankara and Doha, eventually developing into a strategic partnership between the two countries.

This is a multidisciplinary study that reads the early modern literary and historical representations of the Muslim woman against both the European politics towards Islam and the domestic constructions of gender and social hierarchies in England.

This study examines the origins, evolution, and goals of Polish and Estonian diaspora communities in Sweden during the Cold War. The author analyzes their links with both their host and homeland societies and investigates their clandestine efforts to undermine the communist regimes of their homelands.

This book offers an original theory and set of cinematic case studies to examine how we contend with "wicked problems," important, entrenched, and far-reaching political and social challenges (such as climate change or mental illness) that resist ordinary policies and problem solving.

This book offers a re-reading of Chaka to show that Mofolo astutely deconstructs, and then reconstructs, King Chaka into a messianic figure whose life trajectory and destiny mirrors that of Jesus Christ in the Bible's New Testament in order to subvert the colonial ethos of the time.

Filming the First provides in-depth case studies and analyses of eighteen films depicting aspects of freedom of the press. It discusses the substantive social, political, historical, and legal aspects and implications of press freedoms illustrated in the films.

Responding to interconnected tragedies affecting minority populations in America, Black Bodies That Matter: Mourning, Rage, and Beauty brings together the nascent Black Lives Matter movement with the framework initially developed by Judith Butler in her work Bodies That Matter.

The Construction of Metaphoric Text and Talk: A Discourse Analytic Approach argues that in view of their omnipresence in human thinking and action, metaphors play a very important role in discourse construction and organization and this role can be textural and textual. In order to explore the textual role of metaphors, Meizhen Liao proposes that metaphors in discourse be treated as a complex adaptive system (CAS), which is further composed of two sub-systems, a micro one consisted of the tenor and the vehicle and a macro one made up of different metaphors. The dynamic interaction within the micro system between the tenor and the vehicle in terms of mapping, as well as among the macro system of all the metaphors in the text or talk via competition, cooperation, or complementation contributes to the construction and organization of discourse as an adaptive process in pursuit for the goal or goals of the discourse. In the process of the interaction, emergent textual patterns develop and an adequate analysis of the patterns at both micro and macro as well as deep and surface levels of discourse will shed light on the true nature and pattern of human thinking and action. The author concludes that as metaphor has become entrenched in our conceptual system the study of metaphor as a complex adaptive system in discourse be conducted in its own right.

In a letter from May 10, 1852 Adam von Doß, Schopenhauer declared himself a Buddhist. This book is the first study to do justice to Schopenhauer's passion for Buddhism, reconstructing the notions of Buddhism he acquired through his Buddhist readings as well as their influence on his thought.

This book argues that Islam is at risk of losing itself through the process of modernity. It is ironically the lessons of modernity that can save it: a return to origins without a negation of meaning and embracing the project of hermeneutics with deference for the classics.