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This unique introduction emphasizes how ancient Scandinavians understood and made use of their mythological stories.

How does contemporary right-wing media work? In Beyond Bias, author Scott Krzych untangles recent right-wing documentary film and video to show how it privileges form over content and marshals incoherence as its prized aesthetic and rhetorical weapon.

Author Paul Bowman recasts our understanding of the history of martial arts, showing how Western media representations in the 1970s not only popularized the concept but actively created 'martial arts' as a recognizable idea and cultural phenomenon.

In The Consumer Citizen, Ethan Porter investigates how the techniques of everyday consumer experiences can shape political behavior. Drawing on more than a dozen original studies, he shows that the casual conflation of consumer and political decisions has profound implications for how Americans think about politics.

Horace's Odes are one of the greatest achievements of Latin literature. Richard Tarrant situates the Odes in the context of Horace's poetic career and defines their relationship to earlier literature. A number of poems are analyzed in detail, illustrating Horace's range of subject matter and his characteristic techniques of form and structure.

Soviet Art House provides a unique look into a Soviet film studio from the 1960s to the years leading up to the collapse of the Soviet Union. It tells the story of how filmmakers struggled with and overcame ideological and economic constraints to create oppositional and highly original movies in an authoritarian society.

Notes for Violists offers key historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the best-known pieces written for viola. Its engaging prose, detailed analytical charts, and rich contextual and theoretical insights make it an indispensable guide for professional, amateur, and student violists.

Music Downtown Eastside offers an in-depth look at how music-making can promote human rights among the homeless and others living in urban neighborhoods marked by poverty. Author Klisala Harrison critically examines a wide range of local initiatives and shows how they can help vulnerable citizens develop their capabilities but also sometimes unwittingly harm them.

This book is a highly accessible and up-to-date introduction to the key ideas of Sonata Theory, one of the most influential methods for analyzing the sonata form. Teaching the method primarily by example, it features close readings of masterpieces by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms.

The Book of Common Prayer is a sacred text in more than one sense. This brief, accessible survey examines the contents of the Prayer Book, as it is called, especially its principal services, as well as its origins, its revisions, and its sometimes controversial reception as a cultural icon and a focus of identity for Anglican Christianity.

In this book author Cathy Benedict offers practical suggestions to help elementary and middle school teachers and students think critically about the world around them, by engaging with themes such as friendship, racism, poverty, religion, and class.

One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position. This book investigates how different movement operations interact with one another, focusing on the special case of smuggling, in which displacement occurs in two steps thus allowing for otherwise inaccessible movement operations.

Jonathan Morduch and Timothy Ogden define the fundamental components of finance and explain in straightforward language how the lack of financial inclusion reinforces broader inequities in our society. The book answers core questions: What is financial inclusion? Why does it matter? How does it work? When doesn't it work? What are the risks?

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.