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Horror Culture in the New Millienium surveys horror culture in the first two decades of the new millennium through a series of critical essays on the changing character of dark storytelling. It is a journey both into the complexity of the evolution of communication and the stories we tell about what it means to be human.

This book contextualizes contemporary stand-up comedy within the wider socio-political terrain of neoliberal capitalism, contributing to a more complex and developed understanding of the relation of jokes and humor to the unconscious mind in its relation to ideology and discourse.

Hari Mohan Mathur presents an account of how anthropology, long relegated to the background by economists, is beginning to have an effect on development matters, especially in developing counties where rural and tribal people are the dominant groups.

This book examines the Greek political scene through Eleftherios Venizelos rise and fall from 1910 to 1936; as leader of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister of Greece Venizelos helped to create a modern Greek state.

The book is a thematic study of Tagore's conceptual project of harmonizing the one and its many across several fields such as spirituality, aesthetics, social existence, and others.

This book revisits Erich Auerbach's Istanbul writings as pioneering works of contemporary literary history and cultural criticism. It interprets these writings, which center around Western literary cultures, against the background of Auerbach's Turkish colleagues' works that trace Middle Eastern and South Asian cultural histories.

This book explores digital media produced from the favelas, urban occupations, and in the countryside of Brazil. It looks as the ways that members of the marginalized social periphery are able to use new media to vocalize historical demands for social justice and better public services, and to denaturalize inequality overall.

This book demonstrates that both Western and Russian soft power are corrupting the traditions of Eastern Europe. To combat perceived Russian aggression, Eastern Europe must embrace Western institutions and philosophy, thus destroying its own traditional culture.

The book investigates the intricate relationship between the Friday sermon and the worshipers' opinion in Jordan. Madanat examines the religious sphere in Jordan to unravel the apparent and hidden actors who produce and intake Friday sermon in an ostensibly westernized yet profoundly religious society.

As the modern university is increasingly run like a business, students and faculty are losing the time and space to wonder and think under the hypercompetitive demands to produce. The goals of critical self-knowledge and good citizenship are being undermined by the demands of profit.

This book looks at why Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is either the most inspirational or the cruelest film American cinema has ever produced. It depicts, perhaps unwittingly, an ontological war in which two well-matched adversaries fight a series of pitched battles that neither side can win without producing tragic remainders.

Gisella Perl's memoir is an extraordinarily candid account of women's extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. It was the first memoir by a woman survivor and established the model for understanding the gendered Nazi policies and practices targeting Jewish women as racially poisonous.

In this important new book, Brian Gregor gives a comprehensive account of Paul Ricoeur's philosophy of religion, which focuses on the regeneration of human capability. Gregor documents the thinkers, movements, and themes that shaped Ricoeur's thought and gives a critical examination of Ricoeur's philosophical interpretation of religion.

Using several common law jurisdictions, including the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Europe, this book examines various rationales for freedom of speech and the extent to which the law protects it, the important similarities and differences in jurisprudence, and what these systems can learn from each other.

Using a mixture of qualitative and quantitative analytical techniques, this book offers a comparative analysis of the policies of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama towards Ghana. The focus is on their economic aid, military aid, and immigration policy instruments.

This study examines British rule in Cyprus from 1878 to 1954. The author analyzes the cultural and religious dimensions of Cypriot responses to British rule and the ways in which Greek Orthodox culture was a primary conduit for resistance to the colonial system.

This study of the Latin American art song and its development in the context of musical nationalism shows how the song is a mirror in which the processes of conformation to Latin American national identity are reflected.

This book establishes Herbert G. Klein as a formative figure in the Nixon White House. His contributions to Nixon's press strategies and their subsequent impact on the president's actions have been overshadowed in scholarly literature. It explores the enduring conflict between journalistic truth and presidential image.

Differences-cultural, religious, racial, gender, age-are at the heart of the most disruptive and disturbing concerns from personal relationships to global politics. Creative Encounters argues for the higher goal of appreciating difference as being essential to creativity and innovation, even if often experienced as stressful and complex.

This book addresses the imbricated nature of sociality and sexuality and the entanglements this has with the university as an educating institution. Addressing these through empirical research, this book pushes for a more nuanced understanding of relations on campus.

This book analyzes ancient rhetoricians, Nazi Germany critics, and public intellectuals addressing 9/11 to show how renaming evil is a key response to the evil in language. It claims that rhetoric has always been a response to evil and suggests ways in which we can better take responsibility for our words.

This book examines how mediators' relational characteristics, impartiality and interest, can alter the outcome of mediation in international militarized disputes. After uncovering the two dimensions of mediator trust, this book shows how the two relational characteristics of mediators' improve each dimension of the mediator trust.

This book examines cultural recycling in cinematic representations. Drawing from various disciplines including cultural studies, film studies, visual culture, and the history of ideas, Pop explains the practices of reinterpreting myths and narratives and discusses the cultural impact of recent popular movies on contemporary collective imaginaries.

This book reinterprets the Fluxus movement focusing on the important and charming contribution of Japanese musicians and artists. It argues they were at the roots of Fluxus in their radical and refined way of making art-whether it was playing, performing, writing, or simply living.

Established to help people jump start their lives and economy after over a half century of conflict, the South Sudanese microcredit sector collapsed in 2012 to the detriment of some 80,000 participants. This book is an account of the ambitious launch and premature downfall of the Southern Sudanese microcredit industry.

This book addresses Moscow-Havana relations from the Russian Revolution through the present. It concludes that a number of commonalities exist throughout, making the contemporary relationship important for both countries.

This book examines contemporary American politics and policy from a political-theological perspective. The work analyzes the value of Niebuhr's political thought for American statecraft and suggests that Niebuhr's Christian realism can ground citizens' understanding of political life.

This study examines the works of several newspaper correspondents who traveled to Cyprus in 1878 to cover the British acquisition of the island. The author analyzes the correspondents' relationships with the military establishment and the role of advertisements in propagating colonial discourse.

This book explores the civil rights activism of the Miami Times between 1948 and 1958 by highlighting its effort to help abolish the "Monday-only" policy that restricted black golfers to a single day of access to the Miami Springs Municipal Golf Course.

This book deals with the evolution of jihadism in the past centuries and its impact on the world as an existential threat to humanity in view of worldwide terrorist attacks while imperiling the democracy, secularism, plurality, freedom, and security of the civilized world.