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The Art of Ancient Music discusses music's role in the long story of human creativity. While emphasizing broad human themes, the text has a special focus on the early traditions of Western music.

Through social network analysis, this study was able to locate teacher influencers in schools and then describe the transformational qualities that made them influential. The Model of Transformational Teacher Influence suggests the shifts that teachers can consider in their collaborative relationships to enhance their potential for influence.

Masculinity Under Construction analyzes Black male identity through the works of various authors from Africa, the Caribbean, and North America. The book discusses the works of canonical Black authors from the pan-African diaspora in order to identify similarities in the construction of male identity in global Black communities.

This book is a call to action for justice for a marginalized community: transgender educators. The author argues that despite the increased visibility and pockets of acceptance of transgender people in general, transgender educators face job loss, loss of family members, poverty, and isolation by their school communities.

This book is a critique of Christian nationalism and an analysis of Christian theological ethics and practice in the US. Utilizing Pierre Bourdieu's sociology and Rene Girard's mimetic theories, Haden identifies the problematic dynamics of US Christians embodying idolatrous ideological beliefs and calls for Christian conversion from such practices.

Before Belief explores our first spiritual awareness, before language and cognitive understanding. This unconscious spiritual learning, beginning in infancy, is foundational for a relationship with God. The theoretical approach advanced in this volume is both constructive and pastorally sensitive.

This book shows that at the beginning of modern thought the revival of ancient skepticism challenged the powers of the intellect in making knowledge possible, opening the way to the consideration of language as an alternative to mental representation, thus leading to an early linguistic turn.

This book describes and analyzes Muhasibi's and Nursi's accounts of what it means to live an authentically Muslim ethical life. It documents and examines the discursive practice, reflectivity, dynamism and complexity involved in living properly as a Muslim individual and social being.

Congressional Giants examines the lives and achievements of 14 influential leaders of Congress from the nineteenth century to the present day. These "giants" shaped American history in myriad ways that continue to reverberate well into the twenty-first century.

This book traces the emergence of modern Korean literature and its trajectory towards the turn of the twentieth century. In examining the entanglements of literary style, form, and contemporaneous institutions, Young Min Kim illuminates an oft-overlooked period in modern Korean literary history.

This book studies refugee migration through the experiences of Bosnian women displaced by the 1990s wars in former Yugoslavia and analyzes themes of gender, performance, political economy, and citizenship in women's diverse postwar lives.

Kierkegaard and the New Nationalism argues for the relevance of Kierkegaard's "attack upon Christendom" within our current situation of resurgent nationalism. Kierkegaard's ascetic voice calls his readers not simply to critique nationalism, but to renounce it, thereby striking at nationalism's self-assertive core.

African Sovereigns shows how the lived experience of Jamaican Maroons is linked to the African Diaspora. The author demonstrates that an examination of Jamaican Maroon communities, particularly their socio-political development, can further highlight the significance of the African Diaspora as an analytical tool.

In Toward a Good Society, the authors theorize a mutually empowering and growth-fostering society. They begin this journey in relational psychology, then depart along nine paths reconstructed from nine classic social science theories. This leads them to propose a new Golden Rule as simple as it is profound.

This book argues that the changing nature of conflict, taking the form of radicalization and extremism, is deeply rooted in an individual's ideology, personality, biology, and psychology. Onditi deploys an interdisciplinary approach to understanding conflict through human behavior.

This book examines the operations and organization of the Tanzanian Lutheran church through the life and times of its longest serving diocesan bishop, Erasto N. Kweka. It develops the concept of pragmatic faith, belief-in-practice, to analyze the integration of religious experience, institutionalism, and church doctrine or orthodoxy.

Using recently declassified Soviet documents, Jamil Hasanli examines Soviet involvement in the anti-China rebellion in East Turkistan during the 1930's and 1940's.

In The Tale of Genji and its Chinese Precursors, Jindan Ni focuses on the Chinese and Buddhist influences that elevate this famous Heian tale from a single literary tradition to a heterogeneous masterpiece with enduring appeal.

Through the lens of a neologism, sociocide, the killing of society, Keith Doubt provides persuasive evidence of the social, political, and human consequences of today's wars, focusing on war crimes, scapegoating, torture, and capitalism.

This book analyzes the relationship that Mexican poet Octavio Paz had with Heidegger's ontology and French surrealism, as well as his contact with Hindu philosophy, both of which were instrumental in the formulation of his poetry. His case represents the modern conformation of the Mexican post-revolutionary culture.

This book examines the complicity of landscape and the implications of mayhem, murder, and suicide in The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen edited by Angus Wilson and The Bazaar and Other Stories edited by Alan Hepburn and provides a comprehensive analysis of all currently available Elizabeth Bowen short stories centered on violence.

This monograph analyzes classical Greek federal constitutions and modern federal government. Its central thesis is the proposition that a federation, modelled on the United States Federal Constitution, an ideal constitution of federalism, should provide the basis on which the Cyprus problem should be settled.

In Justice and Warfare in Aboriginal Australia, Christophe Darmangeat investigates warfare in pre-colonial Australia in relation to Aboriginal judicial systems.

A New Reading of Jacques Ellul argues for presence as a hermeneutical key to understanding the origins and evolution of Ellul's theological ethics. Highlighting Ellul's engagement with Michel Foucault, this book offers a constructive proposal for a robustly Protestant theological communication ethics.

There is free thought, free choice, the free world - and then there is free stuff. By tracking the transformations of just one idea, "free," this book describes an arc of thought through a "revaluation of values" and offers its critique in the same gesture.

The stability of the U.S. depends on having a civic-minded, excellent populace. In modern times, the decline of the principles of civic virtue and standards of excellence that the Founders gained from the ancient Greeks and Romans culminated in a Trump presidency, which brought an end to Pax Americana.

This social, artistic, and cultural history examines three generations of the Lushington family and their relationships with prominent British figures and family members' roles in larger trends such as abolitionism, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and positivist philosophy.