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This study provides a comprehensive biography of General Aleksei A. Brusilov, generally considered Russia's greatest First World War General. It examines his military theory and tactics, political positions, and personal and family life.

This book analyzes the social dialect of Russian peasants in the twentieth century through their letters and stories. It constitutes an oral history of peasants' tragic Soviet past, and argues that for all their variability, local peasant dialects maintained an underlying unity throughout the century.

As mental health is a critical but often neglected issue, especially among Black men, this book examines that sensitive topic in conjunction with reflections on race, gender, sexuality, and class to offer a hopeful and constructive framework for care and counseling and to point the way forward to integrating mental and spiritual health.

This book unseats magic realism as the dominant articulation of postcolonial resistance, by analyzing well-known postcolonial Indian authors of satire. Through the framework of Menippean satire, Postcolonial Satire argues that postcolonial literature can not only resist cultural and political influence, but establish new independent ideologies.

This book is the first critical biography of William Taylor, a nineteenth-century American Methodist missionary who worked on six continents. Following Taylor's global odyssey, it maps the contours of the Methodist missionary tradition and illumines key historical foundations of contemporary world Christianity.

In People, Place, and Attachment in Local Bars, John McEwen places drinking establishments at the fore of American geography as containers of material culture and collective history. McEwen draws on ethnographic data collected in four local bars in West Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to present a new unified theory of people-place relationships.

Eliminating the Achievement Gap is designed to be the first book to base society's efforts to reduce the achievement gap on meta-analytic analysis. It proposes an interdisciplinary approach to this problem that is rare, refreshing, and insightful, including solutions generally overlooked.

Waggish Coquetry in South Asian Street Communication critically examines the role of coquettish remarks in urban life of South Asia, their role in South Asian street communication, their semiotic make-up and use of metaphor, and their role in sexual harassment.

This book examines controversies surrounding the seizure of the Baathist security files and the discovery of an Iraqi Jewish archive amid the Kurdish uprising and the US-led invasion of Iraq. The author analyzes how the events ignited a fierce struggle for the files, which document Saddam Hussein's vast humanitarian crimes.

Why do some doctors routinely deny birth control refills without additional tests, and why do some doctors disrespect patient autonomy in decisions about abortions, labor and delivery, organ transplants, and more? This book argues that medical sexism is a major cause of this pervasive mistreatment.

This book examines the relationship between nationalism and the rise and fall of Yugoslavia under the rule of Josip Broz Tito. Focusing on elite action and interaction, the authors provide a new angle understanding the socialist federation and its collapse.

Sacred Rituals and Humane Death is a critical analysis of the religious and ethical narratives around modern practices of meat "production" and killing. The volume questions the focus on the humaneness of modern methods of animal slaughter and argues for reconsidering ancient religious practices of animal slaughter and sacrifice.

This book explores how Tolkien's utopian and dystopian themes inspire and remain relevant to modern readers. It examines how Tolkien's malevolent societies in his legendarium have the unique ability to capture the fears and doubts that many people sense about the trajectory of modern society.

Literary and Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS: Forty Years Later explores how film and literature about the HIV/AIDS crisis expand upon the issues generated by the epidemic. Looking at media from the 1980s to today, the representations of HIV/AIDS and their political ramifications shift across time.

The myriad meanings of mindfulness are connected by the core idea of value-based mindfulness: paying attention to what matters in light of relevant values. When the values are sound, mindfulness is a virtue that helps implement the kaleidoscope of values in good lives.

This book provides an interpretation of the late nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche as holding a distinct and original metaethical position, which is to say a theory about our practice of ethics. Rowe uses this interpretation to provide some interesting and thought-provoking criticisms of themes in contemporary metaethics.

In Women, Sainthood, and Power, Oliva M. Espin examines the life stories of several female saints within their respective cultural and historical contexts from the perspective of feminist psychology and gender politics in the Catholic church.

A comparative study analyzing sending states, the perceived state of origin of immigrants, and their attempts to extend beyond state borders, this book examines the transnational sending state policies of Italy in the U.S., Mexico in the U.S., Turkey in Germany, and Ecuador in Spain.

This book examines technology segregation in early childhood settings. Utilizing critical race theory, it challenges the racist structures in place and works on actual methods of disruption.

In this book, Matthew P. Meyer analyzes the archer and the bow as a metaphor for the human condition in Lacan, Nietzsche, and Greek literature. The bow is a model of the tension at the heart of the human condition, while the archer is a symbol of control.

This book (1) explains how just war theory variously presupposes ethical theories and, particularly, natural law; (2) shows how issues in just war theory might be resolved differently depending on which ethical theory is being appealed to in their proposed resolution; and (3) resolves conflicts among these resolutions.

This book develops a theory of comedy by analyzing the television situation comedy Seinfeld and demonstrating how comedy presents a comic vision of the world, one that embraces human nature and its place in the world despite all the frustrations of everyday human life.

This book provides a critical survey of measurement theories and a clear exposition of the concerning philosophical questions. The author offers a new, constructive interpretation for measurement in both physics and the social sciences, arguing for a constructivist approach.

Theologies of survival emerge from religious communities that must invest most, if not all, of their efforts into maintaining membership and preserving their religious thought and praxis-which, the author argues, can have a strong impact on women's visibility and agency.

John Domino examines Texas Supreme Court Justice Bob Gammage's progressive jurisprudence of rights and liberties in cases involving the rights of minors, privacy, freedom of speech, freedom of press, and equal protection during the most tumultuous period in Texas judicial history.

This book proposes a new approach to invective and comic poetry in the Middle Ages and opens the way for an innovative understanding of Dante's masterpiece. It also unveils new biographical data from Italian state archives (published in English for the very first time) about important poets from medieval Italy.

Creative Practice Ethnographies examines how the collaboration between creative practice and ethnography enables scholars and practitioners to hone research strategies and methods within contemporary contexts. The authors use three heuristics-techniques, translations, and transmissions-to illustrate how this interdisciplinary strategy operates.

This book is an interdisciplinary analysis of Malcolm Lowry's literary works and correspondence. Foxcroft examines Lowry's attempts to reintegrate international modernism with primitivism through the interconnectedness of East-West cultures and to attain cosmic harmony by bridging the natural sciences and the humanities.

This study examines the international role of the Catholic Church from 1914 to 1989. The author examines the papacy's humanitarian and pacifistic efforts and its struggle against both fascism and communism.

Cynthia Baiqing Zhang examines the interaction between identity and the social network of relations through interviews with 60 U.S. graduate students from mainland China. She argues the students' new religious and ethnic identities and old family and partner identities shape and are shaped by their networks.