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Robertson and Chaney examine how the early antecedents of police brutality like plantation overseers, the lynching of African American males, early race riots, the Rodney King incident, and the Los Angeles Rampart Scandal have directly impacted the current relationship between communities of color and police.

In Ethnic and National Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Keith Doubt and Adnan Tufekcic analyze Bosnian social organization, cultural character, and boundary maintenance. Doubt and Tufekcic argue that modern Bosnians live in a polyethnic society, defined by a set of marriage and kinship practices that cross ethnic and national identity divisions.

This book examines multiculturalism, interculturalism, and the melting pot metaphor. It explores how these ideologies emerged, evolved, and were implemented throughout American history as well as how they have been legitimized, institutionalized, and challenged.

LA Rising revisits the Los Angeles unrest of 1992 and the interethnic and racial tensions that emerged as well as how structural inequality impacted relations among Koreans, African-Americans, and Latinos.

This book examines and compares change and persistence in the India-Pakistan and Palistinean-Israeli conflicts. Covering a wide range of historical events throughout the years, the study detects variation in hostilities over time, accompanied by changing agendas and identity discourses of the main actors involved.

A Christian Approach to Work and Family Burnout provides a Christian spiritual model to prevent and cope with burnout caused by the workplace and conflict with family. This model combats psychological depletion through its focus on intrinsic motivation and redefinition of work as a calling and means to care for others.

Trump's World: Peril and Opportunity in US Foreign Policy after Obama examines how Trump's America First policy contributes to counter-US hysteria that could lead to a new wave of anti-Americanism around the world.

This book assesses the retention, reduction, and transformation of inflectional nominal morphology in the Edoid language Emai. Putting Emai and its noun class system into a broader cultural and archaeological context of historical language change, the authors explore what it means to be a Benue Congo language with a reduced inflectional system

Through in-depth analyses of barbecue and its producers, this book uncovers how processes and rhetoric surrounding a specific food product, and food culture as a whole, shape the food appearing on our plates. The book explores how food products evolve over time in response to changes in broader society.

The book describes a new form of communitarian politics on the African continent, that is able to take seriously both individual entitlements and communitarian obligations. This is achieved by proposing a thin version of communitarianism that realizes the organic relationship between individuals and the community.

This book presents a religious and social history of Cuba's development as a nation and its relationship with the United States by examining the role of Presbyterian and other Protestant churches before and after the revolution in 1959.

Omar Cabezas, Nicaragua, and the Narrative of Liberation considers themes of liberation, utopia, orality, and humor in the works of Omar Cabezas as they relate to national and cultural identity in Latin America. It assesses the symbiotic relationship between the works of Cabezas and the post-revolutionary reformulation of Nicaraguan identity.

Addressing the relationship between the leadership and democratization processes in India, this study examines how political leaders can successfully steer the process of regime change within complex, hostile, and undemocratic conditions.

In Evolved Emotions, Glenn Weisfeld analyzes a comprehensive list of universal emotions, detailing their elicitors, affects, behavioral tendencies, and expressions. Weisfeld explains how each emotion enhances the biological fitness of the individual.

This book examines the development of the Filibuster War as the main symbol of Costa Rican national identity. By analyzing the ways in which national narratives have been created around the war, the author argues that national identity is a dynamic process defined according to local, national, and international contexts.

This book analyzes the anthropological concept of "culture" in the development sector of the Kyrgyz Republic. The author calls for a revitalization of the culture concept regarding diversity and social change in order to better inform broader debates about development and well-being.

This book presents a new interpretation of Nietzsche's discussions of truth and knowledge, covering the period from his early essay "On Truth and Lies" to his late notebooks. It views these discussions in the context of the neo-Kantian, Naturalist, Positivist, and Pragmatic schools influential in Nietzsche's late nineteenth-century Europe.

This study introduces a new dual securitization framework by examining processes outside of the west and looking at democratic and state effectiveness contextual factors. Empirically, the study analyzes the securitization and desecuritization of FARC in Colombia by utilizing new framework.

Young adult literature uses literary sidekicks in new and exciting ways, which changes how sidekicks are understood. Three ways authors elevate sidekicks include letting sidekicks "evolve" over the course of multiple texts, using parallel novels to add complexity to a sidekick's characterization, and telling a story from the sidekick's perspective.

Revisioning War Trauma in Cinema: Uncoming Communities is timely, participating in the debate concerning trauma and representation, and offers a Lacanian augmentation to current understanding. The book considers and engages with mid-century thinking on the issue of disaster and community proposing a way forward through artistic invention.

Hume says we never have grounds to believe in miracles. He's right, but many commentators misunderstand his theory of probability and therefore his argument. This book shows that Humean probability descends from Roman law, and once properly contextualized historically and philosophically, Hume's argument survives the criticisms leveled against it.

Race and Partisanship in California Redistricting covers fifty years of redistricting in California, tracing the interaction between race and partisanship and directly tying California's successes and failures to the wider issue of redistricting in the United States.

This book analyzes Native-authored detective fiction to consider how Native authors use a popular literary genre to make social, cultural, and political critiques by shedding light on settler-colonial crimes, arguing for strengthened tribal sovereignty, and illustrating the resilience of Indigenous peoples.

This book explores the deployment of posthumanist ideology in young adult dystopian fiction. It applies this theory to the presentation of social issues in select novels.

This book restores the credibility of politics with the basics of human behavior and social science. It does this by discussing how to retain the positive relationship between learnability and livability.

This book explores how American and European books represent reading as a dangerous act. It studies works that stage depictions of reading in such a way that readers suffer actual harm from the magical or supernatural qualities of a given text. Such dangerous reading fascinates by exaggerating the dangers that inhabit real experiences of reading.

Karen von Kunes traces Milan Kundera's creative ideas to a 1950 police report filed in Stalinist era Czechoslovakia. Demonstrating how this incident influenced Kundera's literary trajectory and ultimately contributed to his acclaim as a writer, von Kunes interprets his work in a new way.

Anas Karzai's timely book emphasizes how modern progressive sociological and political thought including the work of Weber, Adorno, and Foucault, is based on an often unacknowledged debt to Nietzsche. Karzai's book highlights how Nietzsche's observation of the human condition in modernity is to be read as an affirmative critique.

This study explores symbolist aesthetics as methods for fluid transmutation from the cognitive to the spiritual. Kostetskaya examines the links between symbolist poetry, paintings, and cinema and their evoked sensory-emotional imagery in the context of iconicity and conceptual blending.

This book offers the first sustained argument against the philosophy of Walter Benjamin and his readings of Charles Baudelaire. Drawing upon the existential insights of Baudelaire it is also a critique of politicized aesthetics, and cultural Marxism, of which Benjamin is a pioneering and emblematic figure.