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Using Kenya as a case study, this book demonstrates the effects and limitations of foreign aid on development and human security in poor countries to reshape the processes for the benefit of both the donors and the intended beneficiaries.

Judy D. Whipps delves into the untold legacy of early twentieth-century feminist pragmatists who reshaped American legislative and legal history. As advocates for working women, children, immigrants, and racial justice, they fought for an interpretation of the Constitution that included social rights.

Devaluing Public Apologies in the Age of Social Media argues that apologies are losing their meaning because people treat them as strategical tools while ignoring their ethical implications. Recent apologies by celebrities, politicians, and brands are examined to show how apologies need to be rooted in values to be effective.

Religions and brands address fundamental human needs and motivations and their societal functionalities exhibit certain parallels. This book explores this proposition through an analogical abstraction, in accompany with four case studies to assess the hypothetical aspect of this comparative approach in a real-world context.

The Yemenite Children Affair was a tragic crisis in which about 1,000 children died between 1949 and 1954. Over the years, rumors spread that the kids were not dead, but kidnapped. This book tells the story from the health crisis to the investigations and the conspiracy theories that have developed ever since.

This book explores the tumultuous relationships between gender and national identities during the formative period of East Central European nation-building.

This book combines hard science, technology, and progressive planning to reverse climate change, and offers a bold yet practical vision for sustainable living.

Chronicling the forgotten history of Europe's early Muslim communities across the continent, this book reconceptualizes the "age of empire" through the interconnected lives of imperialists, journalists, and Muslim activists who attempted to establish a place for Islam in European society.

Professional Philosophy and Its Myths exposes the myths that govern academic philosophy and keep philosophers from genuine self-knowledge. Only by reimagining what it means to be a philosopher and what it means to do philosophy will contemporary philosophers free their field from its present mythic order.

This volume explores the human-technology relations that both shape modern educational settings and have a decisive influence on what education is and will be in the future. The contributors present empirical evidence to challenge and reframe the goal of education in relation to technology.

This book focuses on the rhetorical dimensions, power, potentialities, and constraints of silent protest.

This book offers a new obstetric quality paradigm to address violations of physical and emotional safety during childbirth hospitalization. It's a vital call for prioritizing Black mothers' expressions, expectations, and experiences in clinical practice, decision-making, and care delivery.

The book offers a comprehensive analysis of the newborn patient within the medical context and provides a nuanced understanding of the newborn's experience and the challenges faced by neonatal medical professionals.

Ethics in Contact Rhetoric re-orients communication theory by centering touch and de-centering symbolic acts. Inspired by MLK's tradition of nonviolent power, a contact orientation highlights the incarnate and immediate ground of communication ethics. Ethical interactions are defined as bio-relational dances arcing steps of nurture, respect, justice, and too often, violence. Centering humanity's physical mutuality is a vital move today. Communication is a thoroughly interactive art, but the West's ancient "instrumental" tradition of rhetoric and its accompanying utilitarian ethic valorize individual agency over joint action. This book re-balances rhetorical theory by enabling critique of embodied relational patterns. Special emphasis is placed on engaging material injustice and discerning the role of rhetoric in social transformation. Critical case studies demonstrate contact rhetoric's rich heuristic and diverse applications.

Built in 1900 near Havana's harbor, Triscornia stood as one of the first migratory centers in the Americas and a symbol of the first U.S. military occupation. This book focuses on this overlooked institution and emphasizes its relevance to understanding the Cuban Republican period and its relationship with the U.S.

This book links the stories, lived and fictional, of Catherine Dickens, Marie Corelli, and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain to demonstrate the trans-imperial dimensions of gender-based oppression and to trace the emergence of trans-imperial feminist consciousness between England and India.

Clair Morrissey defends a novel account of wit as the ability to artfully deploy playful ingenuity with words and behaviors that constitute our everyday shared social landscape. She argues that this aptitude for building human connection should be understood as a virtue, partially constitutive of living a good human life.

Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Sport brings martial arts and Eastern philosophical wisdom together with the competitive world of sports as games. This exploration goes beyond the conventional view of martial arts as fighting skills, delving into their evolution as competitive Olympic sports and profound ways of self-cultivation.

This book provides a historically informed perspective of First Lady of China Soong Mayling's legacy within the context of World War II history, international cultural and military affairs, and transnational geopolitics inflected through gender.

This book provides perspectives from different refugee groups and the resettlement agencies that smooth their transition into a new life context. It discusses how they overcome displacement and cope with trauma and how they remain vulnerable to marginality and delays in economic independence.

Spiritual Practices of South African Clergy: State of the Clergy explores five denominations from the Global South who participated in a study focusing on how clergy practice the disciplines of meditation, prayer, fasting, and Bible study, and the impact those disciplines have on them and their ministry.

This book assesses the prevalence and intensity of intersecting security threats on the small island developing states of the Caribbean Community and explores the various ideologies and responses that impact Caribbean security.

Through extensive ethnography, We are Coast Salish examines the cultural and political responses deployed by the Coast Salish First Nations in response to changes at the Canada/US border after the events of 9/11.

George Eliot and Her Women argues that the Victorian writer George Eliot (1819 - 1880) was not only keenly aware of women's issues but more deeply engaged with them than she has yet received credit for. Proposing that her work is still misread and misunderstood because of her unusual and complex relationship to gender and an inattention to the complexity of her female characters and their representation, the book examines Eliot's construction and treatment of female characters throughout her prose fiction and her poetry to show that she was very much attuned to and supportive of women's issues. Demonstrating that Eliot was unable to speak publicly on women's issues because of her complicated private life, George Eliot and Her Women demonstrates that she nonetheless advocated for women's rights, particularly access to education, through her fiction and poetry, using her creative works to inspire sympathy and promote awareness about women's struggles in nineteenth-century Britain.

This book examines the philosophical and spiritual facets of religions like Regla de Ocha, Palo, Abakuá, and Vodou, and how deeply embedded they are in Cuban popular culture and art, be it music, the visual arts, film, or literature.

This groundbreaking book in comparative theology analyzes the contributions of the Mother to the Integral Yoga that she and Sri Aurobindo co-created. The book reveals important ways that she both fulfilled and changed his initial vision that are based on her experiences of what they called the "Supermind."

This book argues that in addition to seismic shifts in social justice, Black Twitter's activism fueled a representation revolution in television. Sherri Williams explores how Black social TV -- a subset of Black Twitter -- successfully got shows blocked from airing, taken off the air, and even revived as a result of its digital activism.

Driven by diverse scholars and professionals, Diversifying the Space of Podcasting explores how podcasting provides a space in which marginalized communities have a voice. This anthology is an essential resource in mass communication, new media, gender and race studies, and podcasting studies programs and fields.

This book explores how LAPD has sought to regulate officer conduct in the face of repeated controversies over 60 years. It provides important insights into LAPD's successes and failures, and makes recommendations for ways in which improvement in policing transparency and accountability can be made permanent.

This book advances knowledge about Guatemala's democracy by embedding the country in recent conceptual and theoretical work in comparative politics and seeks to shed light upon the stubborn realities and challenges afflicting Guatemalan democracy today.