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This book explores the rural and urban healthcare environments that emerged in response to the HITECH Act of 2009. As it tracks the imminent challenges faced over the past ten years, this book sheds light on patterns of change that suggest healthcare transformations and electronic communication in the future.

Major histories of cartography have largely ignored women's contributions to mapmaking. Women in American Cartography examines the work of over fifty American women cartographers from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century.

Using interviews and personal experience, Ellen M. Bernhard argues that contemporary punk scenes are more than just music and mohawks-they operate as sites of autonomous practice and networked communities governed by their commitment to inclusiveness and diversity.

This book considers the application of free speech principles in controversial contexts like the speech of public sector employees, hate speech, free speech in a university setting, and online speech.

This book analyzes works of late 20th century literature to unearth themes related to western classical liberal societies. The analysis suggests new ways of thinking about building political philosophies capable of replacing the classical liberal model.

Daniele Botti argues that John Rawls's philosophy is importantly connected with classical American pragmatism and that Rawls's intellectual trajectory did not take a "pragmatic turn" in the 1980s but possibly an "un-pragmatic" one. Both claims go against conventional wisdom, and Botti corroborates them with archival research.

This book provides a rhetorical criticism of the presidential powers used by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the War on Terror. A close reading of the documents used to exercise presidential powers reveals the ways in which both presidents expanded the personal power of the office.

Caring for Creation: Hope in Difficult Times argues that progress has been made in areas such as protection of endangered species, the sustainable agriculture movement, and recycling. While much remains to be done in these and other areas, this progress is cause for optimism about the future.

Patriarchy has been justified by philosophies of beauty, but such paradigms have come into conflict with contemporary international law governing human rights. This book analyzes how feminist philosophy has undermined dualistic notions of sexual identity, and is transforming human consciousness.

Rabbi on the Ganges engages the new terrain of Hindu-Jewish religious encounter, providing an important comparative account of key ideas and practices of the Hindu and Jewish traditions. This book explains how Hindu religious ideas and practices can speak to those who know Judaism.

The first scholarly evaluation of the contemporary US military chaplain corps, and the first to offer not only political and military but also theological analysis, Religion in Uniform shows why the military's chaplaincy is a failing public project, and what Americans can do about it.

Labyrinths of Love is an interdisciplinary examination of the self, psyche, and soul, providing a comparative analysis from religious, paranormal research and transpersonal theory perspectives. The work creates a unique synthesis that unfolds what it means to be human and demonstrates a visionary epistemology of the self.

In this book, Johnson interviews black Tea Partyers to reveal a group with deep regard for African Americans but also divergent perspectives on race, religion, government, and Tea Party racism. He argues in the context of their family structures and life experiences, their unusual political choices are knowable, understandable, and rational.

Amor mundi, love of the world, is vital to democracy and public happiness, and also to the Earth and the environment. But it has been largely lost in modern society. What is it? How was it lost? Can it be recovered? This volume argues that it can-and should be-recovered, and such as ramifications for Christian political ethics.

The author argues for a new history of the Carthaginian Empire based on the epigraphic and archaeologicalevidence preserved at Carthage and its dependencies.

A careful reading of Plato's works show that Thrasymachus and Callicles, his famous immoralists, are unselfconsciously devoted to virtue as they see it. They thereby offer surprising support for the view that people are not simply self-interested, and they cast light on the beliefs and hopes we all have of justice.

This book examines the favorable portrayal of Stalin in Russia today. Putin and he political elite have co-opted the processes of discourse formulation in Russian society, using these to advance positive perceptions of Stalin, while exercising control over the arenas in which any sort of alternative narratives on Stalinism might emerge.

In Political Kinship in Pakistan, Steve Lyon draws on more than two decades of ethnographic research to depict descent and marriage networks as a critical mechanism for the maintenance of the Pakistan government and the construction of allies.

Koine Formation and Society explores the local and national conditions of koine formation, using three Norwegian industrial town dialects as main examples. These koine formation processes are local and singular events, but they are also influenced by language use and norms for language use in the larger speech community.

This book claims that Hollywood cinema had a significant relationship with the millennial crisis of masculinity, as the films of the fin de millennium movement reflected the cultural discourse of concern over the crisis of masculinity through a dichotomous structure of either feminine or hyper-masculine representations of male identity.

This analysis of customary law, one of the most quintessential forms of legal, political, and social organization in the sub-Saharan landscape, addresses philosophical issues like human rights, women's rights, individual rights and freedoms, property rights, and social structures, which will of interest beyond Africa and African scholars.

This book explores the subjective experience of Black girls within the educational context. Based on interviews, diary entries, and focus groups, the author argues that as a result of their intersectional identities, Black girls experience unique challenges and obstacles in the educational setting.

Borders and immigration are topics dominating world affairs during the 21st century. This book examines the historical antecedents to the current crisis notably along the U.S.A./Mexico border under the Trump administration.

This book examines the soft power of language, its cultural influence, and its empowering and disempowering potential for social positioning. The author uses a critical lens to present original research findings from Poland and Portugal about English as a tool of social stratification and social reproduction.

Developing a new theory of morphosyntactic feature economy in a morphology framework, this book uses a biolinguistic approach to examine the evolution of Slavic languages to discover how some developed a separate dual number category while others have only singular and plural and to explain the evolution of the number category in Slavic languages.

This book explores the motivational determinants that drive local cross-sector environmental watershed collaboration. Key findings identify variations in the level of prevalence in motivational determinants across sectors.

Lights, Camera, Execution! engages in detailed critical analysis of nine different films about capital punishment in the United States. It examines well-known movies from the last thirty years; explores the cinematic techniques used; and identifies common themes such as race and human dignity.

This book bridges gaps in the historical record of the lived experience of the people of Lagos. It utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to reconstruct the urban history of Lagos and with thick descriptions of how Lagosians across social class, gender, location, ethnicity and even race negotiated their livelihoods in the city.

In this book David Carter explains how the USDA relies on a variety of intermediaries to regulate organic food in the U.S. Only by accounting for the contributions of such arbitrators, Carter demonstrates, can one understand and credibly assess policies governing the fastest growing agriculture sector in the country.

This book examines the problem of cultural translation and mistranslation on the part of Menasseh ben Israel's readers who were not ready to share his vision of a Jewish-Christian republic of letters whose members enjoyed mutual respect and collaborated to improve the situation of the Jews in Europe.