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This book analyzes the demographic disconnect between the American public and congressional representation. The fact that Congress does not equally represent all citizens is critical to understanding the disillusionment most Americans hold toward the contemporary Congress.

This book examines the lived experiences of first-generation black Cuban Alberto Jones, who worked on the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay and lived through the Cuban revolution, to explore the challenges and conflicts of life in the transnational spaces between Cuba and the United States.

In this critical history of modern philosophy, Cristaudo develops the argument put forward by Thomas Reid that modern philosophy has generally continued along the 'way of ideas' to its own detriment. Its ever-shifting dominant ideas contribute to capturing and imprisoning rather than expands our thinking.

Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives examines a burgeoning genre of ethnic American literature and film called phantasmic trauma narratives, which use culturally specific modes of the supernatural to connect readers to historical traumas in ways that encourage empathic responses.

This book offers close readings of eight Israeli novels from the past thirty-five years. It shows the ways these texts deal with the themes of creativity and the creation of a work of art and with the way art and artists are portrayed in a culture that is often perceived as being otherwise preoccupied.

In 1910, when Kunio Yanagita (1875-1962) wrote and published The Legends of Tono in Japanese, he had no idea that 100 years later, his book would become a Japanese literary and folklore classic. Yanagita is best remembered as the founder of Japanese folklore studies, and Ronald Morse transcends time to bring the reader a marvelous guide to Tono, Yanagita, and his enthralling tales. In this 100th Anniversary edition, Morse has completely revised his original translation, now out of print for over three decades. Retaining the originals great understanding of Japanese language, history, and lore, this new edition will make the classic collection available to new generations of readers.

This study is an interdisciplinary examination of the role of sport in the formation of urban identity in Chicago. The author employs historical and sociological methodologies and analyzes how the city became a hub for immigration, transportation, and entertainment.

Examining texts from the beginning of the Christian era through the Renaissance, the author demonstrates that the performative role of women writers is critical to understanding the place of the individual in the broader Catholic intellectual tradition in the Anglophone world.

This book is an exploration of the perceptions of the American and British governments about Islam and Muslims based upon their experiences over the past two centuries.

By analyzing Ennio Morricone's formative years as a music practitioner and his transition into composing for the screen, Franco Sciannameo studies the best of Morricone's popular compositions and concert works as he explores Morricone's legacy, its nature, and its eventual impact on posterity.

Urban Multilingualism in East-Central Europe makes the case for an interdisciplinary approach to past urban multilingualism, using both historical and linguistic resources. It analyzes the Polish-Ukrainian-Yiddish-German encounter of late-Habsburg Lemberg (Lviv) and the city's distinct historical Polish dialect that resulted from it.

This book offers insight into the many identity work processes in play in the construction of yoga categories, inviting readers to consider pop culture yoga, a distinct way of understanding this complex phenomenon.

This book describes the change in Iraqi literature after 2003 in which pluralism, highlighting the reality of the heterogeneous religious makeup of the country, became a key concept. The author provides here an important study of the nature and contours of Iraqi religious culture and a unique map of Iraqi literature and the role of literary arts.

Focusing on the opinion writing of Justices Holmes, Jackson, Black, Brennan, and Scalia, this book assesses the influence of rhetorical techniques traceable to ancient Greece on some of the most iconic opinions in Supreme Court history.

Yuanfang Dai argues that it is possible to speak generally of women's oppression despite the fact that women experience gender oppression in different forms. She proposes that it is necessary to explore the possibilities of transcultural feminist solidarity among women across cultural differences.

This study expands upon literary trauma theory through a reader response approach and examines African American, Native American, and Japanese American poetry from the twentieth century. Special attention is given to the idea of ambivalence in poetry as well as the idea of building community.

In The Rohingya Crisis, Kawser Ahmed and Helal Mohiuddin draw on ethnographic research conducted in refugee camps in Bangladesh and archival data to explain the root causes of the Rohingya conflict and highlight peacebuilding challenges and opportunities for various state and non-state stakeholders working towards conflict transformation.

This biography of Lord Robert Bulwer-Lytton, viceroy of India from 1876 to 1880, examines his troubled attempt to meet Britain's increasing internal and perceived external threats to its rule.

This book explores the role of new media technology in transient migration in terms of mobility, national identity, and sense of home. Through 40 personal interviews with Korean migrants, Claire Shinhea Lee analyzes how homeland media in the transnational space helps migrants make, connect to, and complicate home.

This study examines how Germany and Austria each generated a normative narrative structure that became a template for the historians and others who formulated history within the two cultures. The author demonstrates these narrative structures and indicates both their strengths and weaknesses and ways to broaden their understandings.

This book investigates Asian Catholic women's movements and their new consciousness of women's roles and status in the Roman Catholic church in Asia. The book gathers voices of Asian women and Asian bishops that address women's issues and concerns.

This study examines US diplomatic relations with Australia and New Zealand during the Cold War. The author emphasizes the role of lower-ranking diplomats in policy formation and examines the impact of recruitment and deployment practices of the diplomatic corps, as well as the influence of diplomats' families.

This book includes both the story of slave trader William James Smith and an examination in microcosm of the domestic slave trade in the South's hinterland. The authors provide insight into the life and business of William James Smith to analyze the interior slave trade and characterizations of slave traders.

This book examines how language-both visual and narrative-shapes society's understanding of gender roles, sex, and sexuality and how visual texts work to reimagine and rearticulate healthy intimacy while challenging rape culture and rape myth acceptance.

This book critiques current antiracist ideology in rhetoric and composition, arguing that it inadvertently promotes a deficit-model of empowerment for both students and scholars and a "primacy of identity" that values lived experience over critical thinking.

This book examines Turkey's recent political past through focusing on particular digital media practices such as citizen journalism, political trolling and fake news circulation.

In The Cultural Roots of Strategic Intelligence, Gino LaPaglia argues that Strategic Intelligence is a core dynamic of human rationality and that it has always been foundational for creating meaning in society. For thousands of years the identity of the heroic strategist has provided hope for human life lived in extremis.

Virtue Rediscovered: Deontology, Consequentialism, and Virtue Ethics in the Contemporary Moral Landscape explores the nature and position of virtue ethics within the contemporary moral landscape and in so doing develops a more complicated framework for ethical theorizing.