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This study examines the Hmong community's role in the US war in Laos and their eventual resettlement in the United States. In particular, it analyzes their process of acculturation into American society since the 1970s, their reception by the American people and government, and the creation of Hmong enclaves throughout the country.

Using ethnographic research methods, this book examines the religious vitality of two Christian intentional communities. The book argues that explanations of religious vitality are irreducible to one another, concluding that explanations of religious vitality exist in a nexus, rather than previously conceived cause and effect relationships.

This book explores the balancing function that horses play when they become central characters in literature and film. Through close readings of texts from the Middle Ages until the present, covering works from Eastern and Western cultures, the book examines the deep symbolic meaning, cultural significance, and projective power of these animals.

This book shows how traditional notions of the processes and products of creative adaptation are evolving online. It provides a vocabulary to analyze, discuss, and theorize about the implications of online forms of adaptation and highlights the potential and possible ethical quandaries of adaptation online.

This cultural history provides an examination of the Federal Theatre Project in the American South during the New Deal era. It analyzes the role of racial segregation and conservative politics, how the project drew from distinct regional heritages, and how it shaped successive generations' debates over government, art, and cultural expression.

This book examines the evolution of cultural policy in Cuba since the 1959 revolution, the connection between cultural policy and political development, and the extent to which cultural actors are agents for change for the reproduction of dominant values and institutions.

Shakti's New Voice is the first comprehensive study of Anandmurti Gurumaa, a widely popular contemporary female guru from north India known for offering spiritual teachings and music on satellite television and the Internet.

Engaging Civic Engagement: Framing the Civic Education Movement in Higher Education provides a comparative analysis of major approaches to civic education in the civic education moment, including implications for higher education.

This book addresses the highly contentious subject of Canadian Senate reform. Its conclusions reject conventional recommendations and argue that the Senate should remain an appointed body with a more expansive appointment process and restrained powers.

This book contends that child characters have taken on a critical representational role within Latin American cinema because of their position on the threshold between "nature" and "culture," which converts them into a focus of, and a limit to, state or colonial biopower.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to China-South Korea relations. It integrates recent theoretical advances in international relations with conventional wisdom in the study of East Asia. The analysis reveals a complicated and dynamic process that defines the bilateral relationship in the new century.

This book examines how industrialism led to the negation of racialized bodies, knowledges, and spaces. It analyzes the concept of the "individual" as a medical, economic, political, and theoretical term, focusing on how medical knowledge, doctors, surgery, experimentation, healing, and the soul are treated in Mexican American modernist literature.

This collection features articles, short studies, and interviews by Alexandros Petersen (1984-2014) and constitutes a broad and prescient examination of Eurasian geopolitics. The author analyzes Western relations with the Caucasus and Central Asia, the expansion of Chinese influence, and Russia strategic interests.

In Campaigns That Matter, Wendland explores the role of campaign visits in the 2008, 2012, and 2016 presidential nominating contests. He explores the strategy behind visits as well as their mobilization effects and impact on candidate preference.

In Popular Myths about Memory, Bornstein confronts popular myths about memory with scientific evidence on memory permanence, recovered memory and repression, amnesia, eyewitness memory, superior memory, and other topics. This book is recommended for scholars interested in psychology, media and film studies, communication studies, and sociology.

Oriented by the seemingly simple example of a woodland pond, Ally draws together insights from existential philosophy, scientific ecology to articulate a strong sense of human belonging in the living Earth community, and a binding imperative of participation in the struggle to preserve a habitable planet.

This book uses classic and modern rhetorical concepts to investigate what made Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage a rhetorical masterwork. It examines how kairos, ethos, "ethos" (a type of forum or framing), and mythos contribute to its persuasive power.

This study examines the ways in which intellectuals of the Renaissance period sought to win the patronage of the powerful while maintaining independence. It analyzes the ethical dilemmas involved and how these were reflected in the lives and writings of Niccolo Machiavelli, Desiderius Erasmus, Thomas More, and Michel de Montaigne.

This book is an examination of theories and practices of non-identity in American culture, one interested in seeing identity as varied, diffuse and distorted through subjects ranging from hip hop parodies to punk preppies to pachuco-ska; thus, the work itself crosses the lines of genre, medium and discipline.

When post-denominational evangelical and emerging churches incorporate secular music into worship services, it's more than a gimmick to attract non-Christians; its use embodies beliefs about the importance of an individual spiritual journey, the boundary between the sacred and the secular, and the importance of lament in the life of faith.

This book proposes that, contrary to the current scholarship on Plato's Republic, Socrates does not in fact set out to prove the weakness of women. Rather, it argues that the in Republic dramatizes the reluctance of men to allow women into the public sphere and offers a deeply aporetic vision of women's nature and political position.

This book probes the extreme variation in discourses on violence and punishment. Its comprehensive examination brings together normative political-theoretical discourses on punishment, historical changes in violence and punishment, and perspectives on punishment from political powers, world religions, literature and film, criminology, and theodicy.

Hyper-secure school buildings, surveillance cameras, and lockdown drills are taking a toll on students in American high schools, and they don't guarantee safety. This book discusses how we've ended up where we are and suggests that rhetoric and empathy can be employed in ways that render schools safer than technological security measures do.

A Democratic Mind: Psychology and Psychiatry with Fewer Meds and More Soul focuses on how an individual lives her life, and on the extent of harm that an individual can inflict on herself or others. In this book, I.W. Charny provides a new lens for understanding regular people rather than treatments that alleviate symptoms.

This book examines Supreme Court Justice Stephen Field's understanding of liberty. Field understood liberty as protections of individual rights both through and from government, which the Constitution provided through the cooperation of its various provisions.

This book is the definitive English biography of the martyred Nazi-era Berlin provost, Bernhard Lichtenberg. In praying for the Jews from the pulpit and resisting the Nazi regime in a variety of ways, Lichtenberg risked and ultimately sacrificed his life for his Christian principles.

Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer is the first sustained treatment of Percy as a political thinker. The book argues that Percy provides a distinctive approach to politics, one that might allow us to give up the dangerous longing for limitless progress and perfection in our lives.

This book centers on visual and literary productions of Francophone Caribbean women. It investigates their aesthetics of violence, pain, the abhorrent, and the "uglification" of the feminine to unravel what makes them transgressive and uncommodifiable. It probes the ways in which these works destroy the regimentation of the "ideal" body.

This book is about the relationship between God and the world's evil. It proposes a religious, Job-like approach to evil that does not approach evil through the problem of evil and accepts that both good and evil are given by God.

This book probes the nature, scope, depth, dynamics, and drivers of Cameroon's foreign policy to comprehend its logic and uncover its consequences to the country's development and sovereignty. It also investigates and sheds light on Cameroon's longstanding relationship with France.