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This book uncovers the ways in which human rights influence global efforts to promote the health of the most vulnerable in a globalizing world. It examines the evolving relationship between human rights, global governance, and public health, studying an expansive set of health challenges through a multi-sectoral array of global organizations.

Drawing on ethnographic field work, A Village Goes Mobile examines how mobile telephony contributes to social change in rural India. The book investigates how the use of mobile phones has influenced economic, political, and social relationships, including gender relationships, and how these new social constellations relate to culture and development.

Taiko is a dynamic form of drumming that originated in 1950s Japan and inspired Japanese Americans in the 1960s. Through interviews, historical research, and the author's taiko experience, Drumming Asian America connects taiko with Asian American politics, arguing that taiko players of many identities perform Asian America on and off stage.

In HATE: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship, Strossen dispels the many misunderstandings that have clouded the perpetual debates about "hate speech vs. free speech," and shows that the U.S. First Amendment approach effectively promotes all pertinent concerns: free speech, democracy, equality and societal harmony

What happens when unlikely allies work to advance similar goals? Focusing on case studies of feminist and conservative activism around pornography, child sexual abuse policy, and the Violence Against Women Act, Frenemies develops a new model of how groups that are neither allies nor opponents work toward related goals.

The idea of studying peace - over studying war, genocide and political violence and then inferring about peace - has gained traction recently, but how should it be studied? The Peace Continuum reviews the literature and offers three alternative ways in which peace could be conceptualized and studied.

"This volume brings the first English translation of the Confucian classics Four Books for Women, with extensive commentaries, to the English-speaking world. Written by women for women's education, this work provides an invaluable look at the tradition of Chinese women's writing, education, history, and philosophy, from the 1st to the 16th century"--

This book is filled with stories from more than 350 busy adults with non-musical careers who have made time to fit music-making into their lives. They, along with dozens of music educators, health care professionals, and music researchers, provide both inspiration and strategies for anyone who wishes to perform, practice, or compose music as an adult.

The Integrated String Player offers practical tools for improving coordination, technique, daily practice, interpretation, and concert preparation. With dozens of exercises demonstrated in 80 video clips, the book and its dedicated website can help musicians of all skill levels achieve technical and creative freedom.

Religion as Resistance examines debates over the best methods for colonial rule in Italian Libya as a a self-reflexive process that tell us more about the contentious connection between religious and political authority in Italy than about Muslim North Africa.

In Knowing Emotions, Furtak argues that it is only through the emotions that we can perceive meaning in life, and only by feeling emotions that we are able to recognize the value or significance of anything whatsoever. Our affective responses and dispositions therefore play a critical role in human existence, and their felt quality is intimately related to the awareness they provide.

Nightmare Envy and Other Stories is a study of Americanist writing and institutions in the 20th century. It traces the histories of American Studies, anthropology, cultural diplomacy, and literary criticism through World War II and the American occupations of Europe.

Design and Analysis of Quantitative Research in Music Education provides a foundational understanding of quantitative inquiry methods suitable for music education research, updating and expanding the tools that music researchers have at their disposal for conceptualizing and analyzing data pertaining to music-related phenomena.

Classical music is everywhere in video games. But what does it reveal about the cultural value we place on entertainment? Replay Value offers a new perspective on the possibilities and challenges of trying to distinguish between art and pop culture in contemporary society.

Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) provides a lively and helpful guide to some of the most important characteristics of the scholarly-publishing ecosystem, and to some of its most contentious issues.

Are today's young adults gender rebels or returning to tradition? In Where the Millennials Will Take Us, Barbara J. Risman reveals the diverse strategies youth use to negotiate the ongoing gender revolution. Using her theory of gender as a social structure, Risman analyzes life history interviews with a diverse set of Millennials to probe how they understand gender and how they might change it.

More Than Meets the Eye seeks to dismantle traditional understandings of blindness through scrutiny of philosophical speculation, scientific case studies, literary depictions, and museum access programs for the blind. It introduces blind and visually impaired artists whose work has shattered stereotypes and opened up new aesthetic possibilities for everyone.

On Sympathetic Grounds lays out sympathy's vital place in shaping North America. Naomi Greyser intersperses theoretical reflection on the affective production of space with analysis of vales of tears, heart-rending oratory, and emplotment of narrative and land in work by Sojourner Truth, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Nathaniel Hawthorne and others.

In The Cities on the Hill, Thomas Ogorzalek argues that the answer lies not in the sectional divide, but in the urban-rural divide. To that end, he focuses on how the latter divide shaped the trajectory and geography of partisan politics in America, and locates its roots in the New Deal.