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This book traces the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and its history as one of the most popular East-West artistic, cultural, and literary exchanges in modern and postmodern times.

This book argues that our technological era is the most radical form of anarchism we have ever experienced. People are not only removing the role of the expert as a mediator, but also replacing the role of a transcendent god with an omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent technological entity that is totally immanent.

In Remodeling Democracy, Zhongyuan Wang argues that the Chinese Communist Party uses formal democratic institutions to sustain its rule. These institutions combined with the Party's leadership and the rule of law form a "socialist democracy" that serves as an alternative to liberal democracy.

This book examines the impact of World War I on the upper-class British youth who lived through and fought in the war.

This book analyzes the trajectory of the major theatre institutions and companies under the rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey. Seyben studies several institutions, companies, and artists that have managed to survive despite an increasingly authoritarian system marked by censorship, exile, closures, and oppression.

This book challenges the view that cheap purchases of Jewish firms were the result of the Nazi Party's activity in 1938 by emphasizing the role of private businessmen being supported by banks and the judiciary in 1933-1935.

This book uses the ontological notions of singularity and threshold to deconstruct the myth of the independent individual and address the question of what comes after sovereignty and the subject.

In this book, Jaehyeon Jeong examines the historical development of Korean food TV and its articulation of Koreanness in the era of globalization.

This book challenges traditional Marxist readings in literary criticism by employing a free-market lens to analyze important American texts and authors.

This book examines a nonconscious and profoundly harmful desire that is almost universally denied: the desire to be a god. Afflicting believers and nonbelievers alike, the desire is manifested in religious myths and throughout the history of philosophy.

This book offers an innovative pathway into Shakespeare's plays-the letters, although small, impact narrative development, reveal character, and enhance the play's tone. The author posits that the letters constitute texts that warrant interpretation, as they delineate the intersection of oral and literate cultures.

Robert Craig analyzes the Confessions as an allegory showing Augustine's state of mind or disposition through space/time. His use of different personas, schools of thought, and metaphysical constructs shows the inadequacy of Plato's consciousness model of the cave to truly describe human ratiocination within consciousness in its totality.

Through discussion of narrative prose composed from the Civil War period through the present, this book examines the positioning of the black maternal body within and in relationship to the national body politic. The author argues that the nation has simultaneously used and cast off the black mother for centuries.

This book is a comparative study of the fundamental metaphysical assumptions and their epistemological implications in Chinese and Western philosophy. The author uses a topical comparison methodology based on responses to a central topical issue to argue for commensurability in Chinese and Western metaphysics.

This book posits discrimination against vegans as a human rights violation, arguing that the rights claims of vegans should not be assessed as matters of personal and private conscience but as the re-presentation of innate duty to vulnerable others.

This book explores the intersection of postcolonial and postmodern thought in the works of Salman Rushdie, particularly his regular emphasis on the way that memory functions to construct identity for characters and nation-states.

This book focuses on the three major types of child harming within the family-abuse, incest, and filicide-examining each subject in-depth historically, legally, and comparatively.

This book examines the transitional periods of archaic Greece and late antiquity, the ostensible birth and death of the ancient west. The author argues that an interpretation of the social, political, and intellectual history of these important turning points brings to light some philosophical understanding of the dynamics of change itself.

This book discusses the relevance and value of literature in the current educational process by focusing on and locating classical values-goodness, beauty, and truth-within fictional texts.

This book analyzes the identity crisis found in nineteenth-century post-Romantic literature. By mirroring several Antihumanist theories through the Jungian theory of the shadow, the author argues that this literature anticipates our contemporary "internal conflict."

This book explores binge watching and the concept of bingeability-the likelihood that a specific show will be binge watched-from multiple perspectives. The author examines the television industry and its audiences, along with various predictors and outcomes surrounding binge watching as a behavioral phenomenon.

This book critically examines Ama Mazama, a prominent and leading female theorist in Africology and African American Studies, and her intellectual work. The author studies how and why Ama Mazama has evolved into one of the most popular Africologists in the field.

Conventional interpretations of biblical texts tend to overlook how the text and its interpretation is gendered as a white male enterprise. This book exposes centrist readings that underwrite expressions of masculinity that are singular and instead offers a playful reading that amplifies transgressive possibilities for masculine expression.

What is the relation between language, communication, and values? In Slurs and Thick Terms, Bianca Cepollaro explores the ways in which certain pieces of evaluative language, such as slurs and so-called thick terms, not only reflect speakers' moral perspectives, but also contribute to promote the speaker's evaluative stance.

This book looks at the theory behind cultural learning at the intersection of culture, visuals, and emotions and offers a theoretical and practical foundation upon which teachers can build. Lapidus explores how comics work and what makes them effective second language cultural negotiation tools.

Aghdaci argues that Iran has not yet sustained political development due to negligence by its leaders, resulting in a decline of public trust in post-revolutionary governments. He takes a statistical look at the reduction of social capital in Iran and suggests ways this trend can be reversed and political development can be maximized.

An analysis of the ways in which the intersection of class, race, and ethnicity shape the practices of diaspora-building and knowledge transfer and cause heterogeneous consequences in society, this book examines emergent highly skilled Asian migrants as racialized transnational elites through interviews with Korean international students.