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This book examines how the form and function of prisons in the United States, Mexico, India, and Honduras differ, as evidenced by data gathered from interviews with 150 prison administrators in ten international trips. Despite many variations between the fifteen prisons and four systems in this study, they had strikingly similar long-term paths.

This book assesses the contribution of soft powers, such as foreign aid and diplomacy, to United States foreign policy strategies. Since 1945, soft power of citizen diplomacy has become an increasingly useful, and is an indispensable tool in the foreign policy toolbox.

Repetition, the Compulsion to Repeat, and the Death Drive is a critical examination of Freud's uses of repetition as they lead to the compulsion to repeat and his infamous death drive. Like perhaps no other concept, repetition drove Freud to an understanding of human behavior through the development of models of the human mind and a method to treat neurotic behavior.

This book explores attempts to reform the SNAP program and argues that many recent reform efforts are based on conceptions of the undeserving poor rather than data about SNAP recipients. It warns that if states are allowed greater flexibility SNAP could be reformed in a way that significantly reduces enrollment and leaves many without a safety net.

Analyzing contemporary works of short fiction and film, this book highlights the complexities and contradictions of Jewish American identity and demonstrates how magical realist techniques enable uniquely cogent portrayals of enigmatic elements of difference.

This book scrutinizes the relationship between the nationalist characteristics of the ideology-driven Turkish educational system and Turkey's Kurdish question by analyzing the effects of the education system on Kurdish pupils from the perspective of teachers coming from different ethnic, religious, and political backgrounds.

This book analyzes the impeachment of New Hampshire Chief Justice David Brock, examining issues including the proper nature of judicial independence in relation to the state legislative branch. It argues that Brock's impeachment provided a needed catalyst for reforms intended to produce a recalibration of legislative-judicial relations.

Chaucer's Neoplatonism covers his major works and the ways in which he has absorbed a Boethian, essentially rational Neoplatonism. By means of that philosophy he poetically engages issues of truth, falsehood, love, friendship, joy, and community. His widely recognized, capacious humanism arises from that engagement.

In Expanding the Category "Human": Nonhumanism, Posthumanism, and Humanistic Psychology Patrick Whitehead argues that humanistic psychology must continue its sixty-year-old project of openness of inquiry and acceptance of human beings in order to stay relevant in this ever changing world.

This book presents a nonstandard approach to epistemology. Where standard epistemology generally focuses on the certain knowledge the Greeks called episteme, the present focus is on some less assured modes of information. Its deliberations focus on such cognitively suboptimal processes as conjecture, guesswork, and plausible supposition.

This book argues that it is in the best interests of Puerto Rico and the United States to set policies to move toward political independence for Puerto Rico. It explores, theoretically and empirically, aspects of trade, industry, and market-based environmental policies in the context of the US-Puerto Rico relationship.

This book analyzes major films about the American political process since the 1930s. It considers the films' major themes about politics, ideology, and representation of race and gender over the past several decades.

This book, a literary-critical work on love, argues that romantic love originates neither in the gratification of appetite nor in the sexual drive, but in the nurturing relation of caregiver and child. When we, distinguish between self and other, love engages our aesthetic and analytic capacities together to recognize and to create the beloved.

This book analyzes experiences of upper-middle-class white men living in wealthy parts of Rio de Janeiro. The author investigates what it means to be classified as a white person and a man in a society that is known for its valorization of racial mixing and yet deeply structured by racism, class, and gender inequalities.

Political Poetry in the Wake of the Second Spanish Republic analyzes the simultaneous development of politics and poetics in three Spanish-language poets, Rafael Alberti, Nicolas Guillen, and Pablo Neruda, as it was nurtured by the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939)..

This history of the early American film industry identifies key political aspects in the rise of the classical Hollywood system. It uniquely identifies and explores the political development of American film that shows how movies shaped political culture and consumer capitalism in the twentieth century.

This study examines the decision-making paradigm of the Soviet party-state during the Second World War and its aftermath. It analyzes the conflict among the political elite between practical and ideological demands and the emergence of a consensus in the immediate postwar period.

Former college student journalists discuss the challenges of reporting for the student newspaper during some of the most famous campus protests in the 1960s. Fast forward to the present and student journalists still face some of the same challenges when unrest came to their campus.

Analyzing Christmas in Film: Santa to the Supernatural critically examines the way the holiday is portrayed on screen. From the secular to the sacred, the merry to the melancholic, the volumes unwraps close to 1000 films to explore what is revealed about culture, society, faith and festival.

The central philosophical issue confronting neurolaw is whether we can reconcile the conception of ourselves as free, responsible agents with the conception of ourselves as complex physical machines. This book develops and defends an account of free and responsible agency that shows how such reconciliation is possible.

Taking stock of the exhaustion of the concept of democracy limited to rights and identity, this book explores the work of French political philosopher Marcel Gauchet to interpret the contemporary crisis of European politics and the role played by imaginary constructs of Islam in the risk of ideological co-radicalization.

This book examines UCLA's Legal Education Opportunity Program, one of the earliest and most expansive affirmative action programs. From its creation in 1966 to its partial demise at the hands of a divided U.S. Supreme Court in 1978, the program dramatically reshaped the legal arena and provides powerful support for race-conscious admissions today.

This book explores Nancy's deconstruction of Christianity via the various bodies of Christ, specifically the incarnated body, the resurrected body, and the body of Christ the church.

This work of environmental history examines the political, economic, and ecological consequences of the spread of the water hyacinth in Africa. It also analyzes how the plant migrated to the continent through human agency and investigates the various ways in which Africans have responded to the resulting challenges and opportunities.

Aesthetics and Ideology of D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and T. S. Eliot explores the correlation between the aesthetic and the ideological in Modernism, with special focus on Lawrence, Woolf, and Eliot. It challenges common views of modernists as opponents of established religious, political, and social order.

This book renders a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the socioeconomic and demographic outcomes of Puerto Ricans during Puerto Rico's severe economic crisis. This book is a valuable resource for scholars interested in Puerto Rico and economic, social mobility, migration, demographic, or public policy issues for Hispanics and Latinos.

This study examines the literary and cultural discourses of ethnic minority regions in southwest China. The author uses the Confucian notion of "harmony with difference" and Foucault's concept of "heterotopia" to investigate how these discourses have evolved since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

This study examines the policies of the Ulysses S. Grant administration in the Caribbean. It analyzes how the administration reacted to an uprising in Spanish Cuba by seeking to expand US military and commercial influence and replace European dominance with an informal US empire.

In this book, James Dunson explores end-of-life ethics including physician-assisted suicide and continuous sedation. He argues that ethical debates currently ignore the experience of the dying patient in an effort to focus on policy creation, and proposes that the dying experience should instead be prioritized and used to inform policy development.

In this book, Dean Kowalski argues that filmmakers can "do" philosophy when creating a fictional narrative film, and utilizes a careful and extensive analysis of Joss Whedon's fictive creations-Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, and The Cabin in the Woods (among others)-to establish this thesis.