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Through an analysis of the environments of Rousseau and Marx, this book explores the tradition of political thought as highly regulated stream of information shaped by historical writing systems and considers the future of political thought in the computer age.

This study provides a cultural history of cemeteries and their changing role from the 1830s through the early twentieth century. The author examines how cemeteries became places for leisure, communing with nature, and crafting collective memory and analyzes how they served as prototypes for urban planning and city parks.

This book integrates insights from philosophy, gender studies, political theory, and media studies to present an in depth analysis of masculinity politics in contemporary U.S. culture. While primarily a philosophical work, this book also creates a discussion committed to feminist theory and progressive gender politics.

This book examines the current development of high tech industrial hemp applications by investigating rich historical precedent. In antiquity, hemp production influenced economic growth and cultural norms, including the evolution and decline of feudalism and slavery. Today, hemp manufacturing shapes global labor, innovation, and trade practices.

Tempesta is the stormy musical language employed whenever a composer wishes to inspire terror in an audience. This study explores the large repertoire of such music to examine programmatic storm depictions and the idea of tempesta as a topic in instrumental music.

This study provides a political biography of Prince George E. L'vov, the first prime minister of Russia after the fall of the Romanovs. The author uses the career of Prince L'vov to examine the development of liberalism and the advent of a civil society in late Imperial Russia.

This book offers a combined historical and aesthetic analysis of five novels from Philip Roth's later career. It reads these works in the context of political, cultural, and literary developments in America from the New Deal to the present.

This book explores the Chinese language used in law and analyzes the associated linguistic matters in both monolingual Chinese context and cross-linguistically. It investigates the linguistic and cultural landscape associated with Chinese law through an examination of a number of keywords and linguistic usages.

The book examines the creation of a trinational transboundary conservation project in Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It narrates local residents' struggles to participate in the new park due to misinformation, violence, and forced displacement, problematizing participation in conservation at both local and international levels.

This book explores portrayals of the disabled in Arab/Muslim post-colonial North African and Middle Eastern societies in genres ranging from classical Arabic scripture to secular popular culture. Arab/Muslim characters in Arab, Islamic, Islamist, Francophone, and global societies are explored.

Cowboy Politics uses key works of literature, film, and television to explore how westerns address political challenges of Western civilization. This book tracks how westerns supplement liberal politics with republican, populist, perfectionist, and environmentalist politics.

This study provides a political biography of Sakata Michita, a major figure in postwar Japanese politics who served as Japan's minister of defense. The author focuses on Sakata's role in forging Japanese defense policy and managing relations with allies and examines how his legacy informs contemporary debates about the country's security policy.

This book is a critical, participant observation study of the Philadelphia branch of the Occupy Wall Street social movement. It uses a revisionist Marxist framework, informed by critical theory, to understand and explain the organization and activities of this protest group.

This book explores ways to study and teach the literary works of William Clark Falkner and William Faulkner to ESL students in today's digital environment. Through these activities, ESL students are expected to comprehend the literature of the American South as the cultural phenomenon that is connected to their own social formations.

This book examines Paul Ricoeur's moral anthropology. It shows that his hermeneutical approach to responsibility and justice, focusing on the analysis of the singularity of lived existence, complements recent developments in moral philosophy that tend toward moral relativism and understand responsibility and justice in naturalistic terms.

This book examines how Twitter is used to create shared understandings of race and gender. An in-depth, qualitative investigation of discussions about popular culture, social justice, politics, and advertising campaigns provides insight to the nature of Twitter's digital culture and its potential to serve as a virtual public sphere.

This book gives voice to women's experiences and perceptions regarding their participation in infidelity and how they navigate outside partnerships concurrent to their primary partnerships. These interviews offer a glimpse into the ways women negotiate marriages that fall short of their expectations.

Framing the concept of transcendence, this study covers over a dozen traditional African American works in an original and thought-provoking analysis that places canonical approaches in enlightened discourse with Africana studies reader-response priorities.

This study examines the connections between literature and national identity in post-Soviet Ukraine. The author conceives of literary production as a social institution and analyzes such topics as gender, regionalism, language politics, and popular culture. This work also situates Ukraine's post-Soviet development within a broader regional context.

This book presents a qualitative investigation of community college faculty members' perceptions of working-class students, focusing on their inability to acknowledge, discuss, and consider the influence of class within the experience of higher education.

In this book, Sam S. Rakover provides an explanation of human behavior and the behavior of animals, such as monkeys, dogs, and cats.

Veiled Superheroes: Islam, Feminism, and Popular Culture focuses on female Muslim superheroes in graphic narratives such as the comic Ms. Marvel, the animated television series Burka Avenger, and the webcomic Qahera.

This book explores generational conflict in Europe through the prism of politico-economic and institutional values. It finds a dramatic shift of values in post-Soviet societies, where post-Soviet Generation WhY stands apart from previous generations. The book investigates the details and the implications of this phenomenon.

This study examines the role of narcotics in the ethnic conflict along the Thai-Burmese border. The author analyzes the impact of the war on drugs on the Shan people, their relationship with the state, and their communal identity.

Drawing on a wide variety of disciplines and presenting perspectives on both sides of the gun debate, Understanding America's Gun Culture presents a fresh look at the issues surrounding guns in the United States today. The book moves past polarization to invite thoughtful, nuanced and innovative exploration of this important topic.

This book examines democracy, governance, and social justice in Cote d'Ivoire by analyzing the political effects of the 2011-2012 presidential conflict. Okosun explains driving factors that caused this conflict through an examination of the social and historical context surrounding the political battle between Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara.

This book examines the assassination of President McKinley, which took place as the social sciences turned their attention to social problems such as violence, immigration, and mental health. It explores the understanding of political violence and the meaning of criminal responsibility during this time.

In reaction to massive membership decline, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America looks to postdenominational Christianity for inspiration on how to transform and attract people to the pews. But is this pluralization of the faith in late modernity compatible with its confessional, liturgical tradition?

This monograph treats the biblical figure of Esther and her reception in nineteenth-century American literature. After providing an understanding of the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible and its contested acceptance over centuries in various scriptural canons, the work focuses on the reception of the Esther text in America.

This book offers a unique reconceptualization of human dignity as an intersubjective event of political experience from a reconstructive reading of Hannah Arendt's political philosophy.