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The initial success of a single product like X-Men, Star Trek, and Transformers led to a long-term embrace of media franchising. The author examines the corporate culture behind these production practices, as well as the collaborative and creative efforts involved in conceiving, sustaining, and sharing intellectual properties in media work worlds.

Offers a close look at the inductive nature of qualitative research, the use of researcher reflexivity, and the systematic and iterative steps involved in data collection, analysis, and interpretation

The production of pharmaceuticals is among the most profitable industries on the planet. Drug companies produce chemical substances that can save, extend, or substantially improve the quality of human life. This book deals with growing set of problems for communities around the world.

Examines how the fortunes of Mexicans in South Chicago were linked to the environment they helped to build

Drawing on contemporary conflicts between Latino/as and anti-immigrant forces, Citizenship Excess illustrates the limitations of liberalism as expressed through U.S. media channels.

Argues that in order to understand terrorism today, we must come to terms with how prisoners are treated behind bars

Provides a rich new conceptual language to describe the movements of sex in nineteenth-century America before it solidified into the sexuality we know

Offers both legal scholars and historians a much-needed framework for analysing the complex and fluid legal politics of empires.

Golash addresses the value of punishment in contemporary society.

Identifying a profoundly male bias in the law, this text recommends a "reasonable woman standard" for measuring behaviour, arguing that a woman-based legal standard would help rectify the imbalance in how society and its legal system view sexual and gender-based crime.

Considers whether there has been a recent religious resurgence of global dimensions

Demonstrates the importance of understanding what closure really is before naively asserting it can or has been reached.

The first sweeping history of the right-to-die movement

A pointed look at why the United States' frequent disregard of international law and institutions is met with high levels of approval by the American public

Explores the structure of life without parole sentences and the impact they have on prisoners

Explores the structure of life without parole sentences and the impact they have on prisoners

Examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture

Provides a sustained examination and analysis of the factors that lead juries to find defendants "not guilty"

Outlines how, by observing the celestial bodies, people have engaged with the divine, managed the future, and attempted to understand events here on earth

An examination of the diagnosis of GID (gender-identity disorder of childhood). It considers how the stigma of illness influences a child's development and what homosexual childhood, freed from the constraints of conventionally acceptable gender expression, might look like.

"1. From "Americanization" to "Latinization" 2. "I Just Fell into It": Pathways into the Teaching Profession 3. Cultural Guardians: The Professional Missions of Latina Teachers 4. Co-ethnic Cultural Guardianship: Space, Race and Region 5. Bicultural Myths, Rifts and Shifts 6. Standardized Tests and Workplace Tensions."

Distinguished experts explain the economic trends and varied political goals at work in Southeast Asia.With China's emergence as a powerful entity in Southeast Asia, the region has become an unlikely site of conflict between two of the world's great powers. The United States, historically regarded as the protector of Pacific Southeast Asia—consisting of nations such as Vietnam, the Philippines, Myanmar, and Malaysia—is now called upon to respond to what many would consider bullying on the part of the Chinese. These and other countries have become the economic and political engine of China. While certainly inclined to help the country's former allies, the United States has grown undeniably closer to China in the recent decades of global interconnected economic growth. China, the United States, and the Future of Southeast Asia uncovers and delves into the complicated dynamics of this situation. Covering topics such as the controversial response to human rights violations, the effects of global economic interconnectedness, and contested sovereignty over resource-rich islands, this volume provides a modern and nuanced perspective on the state of the region. For anyone interested in understanding the evolving global balance of power, China, the United States, and the Future of Southeast Asia illuminates how countries as different as Thailand and Indonesia see the growing competition between Beijing and Washington.

Over the centuries, European debate about nature and status of images of God and sacred figures has often upset the established order and shaken societies to their core. This book focuses on these historical arguments, from the period of Late Antiquity up to the classic defenses of images by St John of Damascus and Theodore of Studion.