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This book examines the changing depictions of grandparent culture from "old" to "hip" through celebrity grandparents, new forms of communication between grandparents and grandchildren, emerging rituals in grandparenting, the marketing of grandparenting as a new life stage, and the impact of the commodification of grandparenting on our culture.

This study examines the mid-twentieth-century evolution of popular music into a cultural movement in the United States. The author argues that a series of disputes in the music industry led to the assertion of music's place in promoting core national values.

Haskett examines the spread of steel band in US schools and universities. This phenomenon is examined within the context of the music education field.

Challenging theoretical concepts, this study of translation extends the field of inquiry to cross-cultural factors and ideology. The corpus spans across languages and literatures, highlighting themes across multimodal genres. It accounts for the universalistic view of interjections, and conversely their linguistic specificity as identity markers.

Although he writes in a different genre than most other political thinkers, Francois Rabelais's contribution to political philosophy carries weight because of his famous humor and unique style, which provide sharp insight into the limits of human agency and throw doubt on the more "serious" projects of his peers.

This book draws on a qualitative case study with both practicing and pre-service teachers involved in a policy advocacy professional development program. Good examines how schools can act as barriers to teacher involvement in policymaking and the avenues through which teachers still manage to exert their voice, agency and advocacy.

This book provides an extensive rhetorical analysis of Pope Francis's visual, spatial, tactile, written, and oral discourse. It reveals how the interrelated topoi of illness, space, mercy, and conversion converge to articulate Francis's vision for the Church.

This book analyzes the promulgation of linguistic rights in the constitutions and statutes of the United States and its territories. It addresses the demands for linguistic rights by those who do not speak English as a first language or seek to maintain the use of an indigenous language.

Public Nudity and the Rhetoric of the Body examines instances of public nudity where sexuality is at the forefront of public body display. It presents case studies that raise discussions about identity, self-determination, and sexuality, and illustrate the complicated rhetorical nature of the human body in the public sphere.

From Huhugam to Hohokam: Heritage and Archaeology in the American Southwest is an historical comparison of archaeologists' views of the ancient Hohokam with Native O'odham concepts about themselves and their relationships with their neighbors and ancestors.

This book sheds light on Africa's urban refugee spaces and is an expose and critical analysis of state-refugee relations in Nairobi, Kenya. The author employs Henry Lefebvre's work on "right to the city" to explore and qualify whether the literature on urban citizenship can speak to Nairobi's context.

With ideological divisions polarizing society, this book introduces Ideologically Challenging Entertainment (ICE), which uses multiple perspectives to help audiences connect with those holding different world views. A case study of a production using the ICE model shows audiences responding with greater tolerance and acceptance of others.

This study traces the history of a pantheonic funeral tradition in Krakow, the traditional site of royal coronation and burial in Poland. The author examines the evolution of this tradition and its likely continuance into the future.

Tool Intelligence taps primatological and linguistic field research to draw an analogy between prelinguistic material cultures of nonhuman primates and natural human languages. Linguistics and cognitive science are given new incentives to search for cognitive homology in areas of extended problem awareness and manipulative intentionality.

This book argues that the Doctrine of the Concept is the centerpiece of Hegel's philosophical system and, through a close analysis of this final part of the Science of Logic, presents a detailed account of the key features of Hegel's ontology.

This book investigates how a Japanese pornographic star can be treated as a cultural product and can be a window into the effects of the cross-cultural migration of cultural products. This in turn reveals that the transformative intermediaries play a significant role in the transformation of cultural products in China.

Elizabeth Williams draws on the perspectives of womanist theology and anthropology to examine how Black, American women use faith to achieve well-being after a breast cancer diagnosis. Williams portrays how these women have constructed a cultural theology of breast cancer that draws on their experiences and worldviews.

Brown offers close textual analysis of Hegel's theory of modality (actuality, possibility, necessity, contingency). It situates Hegel within historical and contemporary debates about metaphysics, bringing him into dialogue with Aristotle, Leibniz, Kant, Heidegger, and Agamben. It is of benefit to anyone interested in the history of possibility.

The purpose of the book is to highlight the critical and intercultural potential of foreign languages and foreign language education. The book addresses the complexity of the experience of (foreign) languages and offers both theoretical interdisciplinary suggestions and applied examples of activities.

The work explains a unifying pluralist account of truth that combines representative truth-concern approaches in Chinese philosophy to posit one foundation of the various movements of thought in Chinese philosophy that pursue "how things are." Mou contributes a unique, Eastern view to contemporary exploration of the philosophical issue of truth.

Creativity, Trauma, and Resilience integrates numerous psychological factors associated with creativity, giftedness and talent, attachment, childhood adversity, trauma/loss, posttraumatic growth, and resilience. Creativity is trained and transferable, allowing one to derive meaning and wellbeing despite childhood and adult trauma and loss.

While David Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann led very different lives, their paths crossed, or often clashed, as they became major influencers in the creation of the State of Israel. This book describes the battle between two "giants" which took place over 32 years.

How Russia Lost Bulgaria examines the very rapid disintegration in Russo-Bulgarian relations following Bulgaria's independence-in less than a decade, the two went from close allies to bitter foes, against a backdrop of coups, wars, and crises.

This study examines cases of rhetorical antagonisms and collaborations between the United States and the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. The author analyzes relations from cultural and political angles and investigates mutual perspectives at both the government and grassroots levels.

Confucian traditions have ingrained gender stratifications in Chinese culture today. Yuan proposes re-reading early Confucian texts as a vision of Ren with Dao with the unity of heaven, earth, and humanity, in order to reclaim the egalitarian aspects and develop openness for gender equity with integration of feminist critical care ethics.

This book studies the creative works of Ayad Akhtar in the context of a post-9/11 American culture rife with the racialization of Muslims. It explores controversies emerging from the reception of Akhtar's works and focuses on their aesthetic dimensions to study their role in advocating for racial and gender equity.

This book offers an opportunity for an anti deficit and positive examination of Black/Black-multiracial culture and its role in creating educational efficacy among academics of color. Through personal narrative, educational and learning theory, and creative writing/poetry, this hybrid text examines the cultural path to the doctorate.

This book examines the challenges and opportunities of community-focused counter-radicalization and counter-terrorism projects as identified by such projects' leaders. It draws on research based on the experiences of twenty-nine community-based counter-radicalization projects in eight countries.

This book describes how Cuba managed, in spite of scarce resources, to successfully educate its entire population after the revolution in 1959 and is now entering the realm of digital media and the internet. It considers Cuba's schools as well as its integrated systems such as healthcare and community mental health.

This book focuses on the gap between genocide as a legal term and genocidal forcible child transfer as a catastrophic experience that disrupts a group's continuity. It argues for the need to add an Amending Protocol to the Genocide Convention in order to provide protection from forcible transfer to all children.