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This volume examines the diplomatic and economic factors that led to South Korea becoming the international influential actor it is today with an emphasis on the diplomatic successes of this country's leaders earlier in the post-armistice period.

The Rock Music Imagination explores creativity in classic rock, its roots in the blues, and its wide cultural impact. The romantic strains of rock imagination are examined in the songs of popular rock bands, the sixties counterculture, science fiction, the rock music novel, and rock's attention to human rights in the global community.

Located at the intersection of the sociology of immigration and sociology of religion, this book discusses the history and identity of Eastern European Orthodox immigrants to the United States, their assimilation into American society, and the contradictory role of the Orthodox Church through the lens of the legitimation crisis.

This book examines the life-long career of John Kemeny as a teacher, educator, and president. Nelson presents a portrait of his leadership at Dartmouth College during the tumultuous times of the late 1960s and 1970s and his resolute commitment to the pursuit of knowledge, equity, and justice.

This book surveys the hyperlocal in the works of authors such as Jane Austen, John Keats, and Charles Dickens. It shows that the hyperlocal space or object, though particular, reaches beyond itself, affording an elasticity that can allow those things that seem beneath notice to reveal broader cultural significance.

In Competing Orders of Medical Care in Ethiopia, Pino Schirippa illustrates the complexity of pharmaceuticals and remedies in Ethiopia. Schirripa details how these cures are produced and distributed and how their proliferation is influenced by local politics, financial resources, social relations, and neoliberal beliefs.

This book analyzes the history of book banning in K-12 classrooms and school libraries in the United States from the 1950s to the present. The author argues for the inclusion of controversial books in order to teach children to discover and debate values that are inconsistent with their own, rather than eliminating exposure to sensitive subjects.

Democracy and the Divine articulates a democracy that is based on the principle of giving oneself to another. For this project, the author highlights two traditions that rarely have been read side by side or considered seminal to the philosophical idea of democracy: nineteenth-century German romanticism and French postmodernism.

Grounded in rural gender studies and feminist epistemology, Polish Lace Makers is a pivotal historical and modern account of the social and economic behaviors of entrepreneurial craftswomen tasked with preserving the originality and symbolic value of lace.

Global Radio: From Shortwave to Streaming provides an overview of the global dimensions of radio, from its earliest forms to its modern digital and networked systems. This book provides an insight into the global politics and global social impact of radio over many decades of technological changes and industry transformations.

This book engages deeply with the epistemologies and methodologies that have emerged from Mwalimu Molefi Kete Asante's work on Afrocentricity.

This study traces the Romanian communist regime's attempts to extinguish private property in housing. The author analyzes the homeowners' resistance through law, the subsequent remaking of private property, and the hybrid legal culture of property in early communist Romania.

This book examines the censure of working-class women's leisure activities in public spaces as a condemnation of female identity and agency in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. It explores these activities as first steps toward a unified labor movement.

The Evil Twins of American Television examines evil-twin depictions in over fifty years of television. Employing the "schizophrenic split" theory of Betty Friedan, Humphreys analyzes the ways in which these alter ego characters embody the desire for a separate self and independence.

The book examines the role of German scholar Johann Reinhold Forster, who served as principal naturalist on James Cook's second voyage of exploration to the Pacific from 1772 to 1775. It examines how Forster contributed to our knowledge of natural history on a daily basis aboard the Resolution.

This book explores the global migration of athletes who have played soccer outside their country of birth. Inspired by the sociology of migration, it addresses the causes of migration as well as the process of adapting to living and working in a new country.

This book investigates the relationship between performance, technological mediation, and the sense of live presence through a series of case studies related to popular music products. Bratus explores the crucial significance of live performance for the construction of a personal, intimate relationship between performers and audiences.

Through a series of focus group interviews and an analysis of the media and popular culture, Mothers Work explores the institution of motherhood and the arenas in which mothering occurs while analyzing how mothers feel about themselves, each other, and the culture that situates them against one another.

Pragmatism is a philosophical school of thought emphasizing action, practices, and practical reasoning whereas prophecy is an ancient religious concept that requires belief in the reality of God. Although these two concepts seem to not be a natural fit with one another, the authors demonstrate why prophetic pragmatism is "pragmatism at its best."

Arguing technicism fixates on methods and techniques at the expense of larger social issues in education, this book advocates a critical and liberal approach to teacher education through examples from the author's studies with critical teacher education within the limiting space of Turkey's standardized technicist teacher education curricula.

This comprehensive analysis of functional theory and its applications in the analysis of states, governments, and institutions draws from an interdisciplinary orientation and creates a central premise of how systems seek the maintenance of stable states and how patterned orientations enable them to perform their functions

This book analyzes how the cost of `small' wars drives the state to choose remote war and preemption in order to hide the conflict from its domestic populations. This is explained through understanding security mechanisms and how Clausewitzian war machine powers extend Liberalism into the periphery.

This book provides cognitive-cum-linguistic analyses of political speeches simultaneously translated from English into Arabic and vice versa. It focuses on how media interpreters, especially TV ones, cognitively address the source texts in the process of translating them in real time.

This book develops a three-pronged measure of media reputation, the overall evaluation of media coverage of a corporation. This new measure can also be used to assess the media reputations of other entities such as countries, states, cities, and universities.

This book rhetorically analyzes discourses of the current genderblind system of social control that seeks to render gender as irrelevant in public life. The author reveals the functioning of genderblindness as ideology through examining discourse on the gender wage gap, abortion rights, rape culture, and tech culture.

This book explores the political-economic principles in the Bible with a special focus on the book of Deuteronomy and shows that the Biblical system is a market system based on strong protections of human rights and dignity, private property, rule of law, limited government and trade.

This book examines the history of southern public libraries' development from 1898-1963. It analyzes their role in institutionalizing segregation, their complex and protracted efforts to integrate these institutions, and their post-integration attempts to deal with the consequences of having practiced segregation.

This book proposes the concept of unsettling nostalgia to understand memories of revolutionary movements in Spain and Chile. Using literature and film, the author frames unsettling nostalgia as an emotional response to loss and a mobilizing tool in the aftermath of violence under Francisco Franco (1939-1975) and Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).

From Freud and the first generation of psychoanalysts in the late 1800s to Jesuit priest Ignancio Martin-Baro's writings in the 1970s, Daniel Jose Gaztambide introduces readers to the social justice leaders and movements that have defined the field of psychoanalysis and made it relevant to all classes and races.

This book is an ethnography of the lives and livelihoods of motorcycle taxi drivers in Kigali, Rwanda. It is a thought-provoking critique of social-scientific concepts of power that explores the possibilities of theorizing power in ethnographic terms.