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This book examines the contemporary issues facing hidden Christian communities in Japan, looking at how these issues have resulted in the discontinuation of hidden Christian practices, and how these communities are adapting to their changing communities.

This book examines the ways in which the Cuban-Soviet relationship was expressed in the cultural sphere between 1961 and 1987. It specifically focuses on the theater and the visual arts to analyze the ways in which the culture became a means of asserting the Cuban Revolution's independence.

Following Levinas' articulation that "truth is accessible only to the mind capable of experiencing an exile away from its preconceptions and prejudices," Exile and Otherness posits that Shinran, the founder True Pure Land Buddhism, and Maimonides, a Jewish philosopher and Torah scholar, exhibit sensitivity to the neglected and suffering others.

This book explores how a group of ostracized female-identified sex workers transformed themselves into a collective to promote the health and well-being of women working in the sex industry.

In The Psychology of Modern Dating, Shawn Blue examines how online dating sites and dating apps have affected the development and continuance of romantic relationships.

This book presents a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of W. H. Auden's many syllabics, revealing them as highly various in both form and content. It also discusses his achievement in relation to the work of two pioneers in the writing of English syllabic verse: Robert Bridges and Marianne Moore.

Find, Fix, Fight: The Strategic Use of Force in Counterinsurgency focuses on how to understand the relationship between the use of force and its outcomes, by looking at counterinsurgencies in Malaya, Vietnam, and Iraq. The relationship is dynamic, meaning academics and practitioners should think and act accordingly.

This book explores the rhetorical strategies employed by women involved in aviation between 1911 and 1970. It begins with Harriet Quimby, who began writing aviation-themed articles for Frank Leslie's Weekly in 1911, and ends with Jerrie Cobb, who lobbied to include women in the space program.

This book explores how the El Centro de la Raza has become part of a nationally significant work in progress on human rights and relations based on Dr. Martin Luther King's concept of a "Beloved Community" that crosses all ethnic, racial, and other social boundaries.

This book examines how testimonialists Elvia Alvarado, Medea Benjamin, Peter Dickinson, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Clea Koff, Delia Jarrett-Macauley, Valentino Achak Deng, Dave Eggers, Uwem Akpan, and Alicia Partnoy employ innovative socioliterary techniques to reactivate the discourse of human rights.

The authors contend that a US-Iran war is probable but not inevitable because of the role of several intervening variables, such as the prohibitively high costs of such a war and its cascading effects. They also discuss how both sides can take important but difficult steps to avert a war.

This book fosters an understanding of the challenges facing pro-democracy movements in Zimbabwe and foregrounds the intricate role played by colonial establishments in determining the nation's current instability, as well as the role that human rights activists, journalists, and social media dissents play in ending this adversity.

In Balanced Wonder, Jan B. W. Pedersen digs deep into the alluring topic of wonder, in dialogue with Neo-Aristotelian philosophers, arguing that the experience of wonder, when balanced, serves as a strong contributor to human flourishing.

This study examines the transformation of American Methodist camp meeting revivalism from the Gilded Age through the twenty-first century. It analyzes middle-class Protestants as they struggled with economic and social change, industrialization, moral leisure, theological controversies, and radically changing city life and landscape.

Congressional Lions examines twelve trailblazing members of Congress throughout American history to understand their role in shaping the life of the nation. The book focuses on historical figures stretching from the founding of the nation into the twenty-first century.

This study focuses on four different iconographical forms that appeared in Rome during the eighth and ninth centuries. The author analyzes the experimentation and innovation of Christian iconographies and the artistic vibrancy of early medieval Rome before it became divided between East and West.

This book examines politics in terms of space fiction, international relations and theory, using the Star Wars and Star Trek television and movie franchises to illustrate these dimensions.

Flannery O'Connor's fiction continues to haunt American readers, in part because of its uncanny ability to remind us who we are and what we need. This book reveals the extent to which O'Connor was a serious reader of the history of political philosophy and why O'Connor feared that the habit to govern by tenderness would lead to terror.

This book assumes an interdisciplinary character, providing a window into the subtle relationship between faith and reason in early patristic thought and its relevance for forging the doctrine of creation ex nihilo. In so doing, it highlights the extent to which early Christian thinkers found a common ground with the Greek philosophical tradition.

The book looks at the ways in which Israel's integration into the global economy has affected its main stream culture. Ofengenden uses works of Israeli film, literature, and television, from the past 30 years to conceptualize the changes in Israel's culture.

This book philosophically explores changing conceptions of race and equality in Supreme Court decisions interpreting the Equal Protection Clause since the enactment of the 14th Amendment. It traces these changing conceptions alongside the gradual elimination of the social equality of racialized persons from the Supreme Court's list of priorities.

Comparative advertisements-the kind that refer to "the other guys" or actually identify competitors by name-can be tremendously successful, or lead to a marketing disaster. The History, Theory, and Practice of Comparative Advertising reveals the possibilities and pitfalls associated with this widely used approach.

It's hard to imagine the American dream without American road trips. This book takes readers on a journey through American road trip stories, revealing that they involve more than mere escapism-that they are an important and long-neglected source of American political thought.

The essential relationship between the liberal arts and liberal democracy is defined in terms of the former providing to the latter both a discourse of mutual respect and an enlarged culture. What corrodes liberal arts within colleges and universities must be addressed, lest liberal democracy be placed in jeopardy.

Pinder examines the interrelatedness of globalization and workfare and how this interrelatedness is impacting black single mother welfare recipients. The book builds on these insights and seeks to illuminate a crucial but largely overlooked aspect of the negative impact of workfare on black women and the American economy.

Religion and Media in America is a qualitative study of six distinct ways religion, especially Christianity, has been woven into American popular and civic culture. It uses historical and contemporary analysis to explore how Christianity both adapts to and is affected by new media forms.

This book covers the nomination and election of Donald Trump to the presidency. It places the 2016 election in historic perspective, examines today's polarized party system, and considers the outlook for American democracy in the twenty-first century.

Rationality in the North Korean Regime explores the history of the Kim family, examining cases of provocations from the Korean War to the August 2015 land mine incident to assess the regime's rationality.

This book provides an introduction to the development of economics from the time of the early Greeks to the mid-twentieth century. It covers the contributions of the major writers to the development of economic thought.

This book uses philosophy, psychology, and autobiography in an innovative exploration of the nature and evolution of self-knowledge. Topics include the impact of others, the role of fantasy, the construction of self-image, and playing roles; the second part of the book explores how self-understanding evolves through friendship.