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As environmental destruction becomes more extreme around the planet, the way humans experience the natural world is changing, giving rise to more frequent and intense experiences of eco-anxiety. Not simply personal or social, eco-anxiety is distributed across the relationships that humans have with the life, land, air, and water of Earth. This anthology presents international and interdisciplinary perspectives on eco-anxiety, with attention to two of the mostprominent sources of eco-anxiety today: pandemics, specifically with regards to COVID-19, and the climate crisis. The book examines how these phenomena are causing unprecedented forms of psychological distress, including anxiety and related emotional or affective states like grief, anger, guilt, anddepression.

In Making Audiences, author Hideaki Fujiki offers a social history of a century of Japanese cinema and considers the relationships between audience, collectivity, and belonging.

In Vestiges of a Philosophy: Matter, the Meta-Spiritual, and the Forgotten Bergson, John Ó Maoilearca examines the seemingly very different but nonetheless complementary ideas of philosopher Henri Bergson and his occultist sister, Mina Bergson (aka Moina Mathers), to tackle contemporary themes in current materialist philosophy, memory studies, and the relationship between mysticism and philosophy.

In He Will Save You From the Deadly Pestilence, acclaimed religious scholar Philip Jenkins illustrates how the evolving uses of Psalm 91 allow us to map developing ideas about religion and the supernatural, theology and politics, medicine and mysticism.

Children's Health and the Peril of Climate Change exposes the twin threats of climate change and air pollution on children's health and plans a roadmap to a brighter future with tangible solutions for governments, businesses, and individuals today.

The book is both an introduction to a thinker, Gilles Deleuze, whose current influence on multiple sectors of the humanities and social sciences arguably exceeds that of any other, and a book-length demonstration of the ramifications of Deleuzian thought for critical biblical scholarship.

Bach in the World offers a new exploration of Bach's music as it functioned within rituals and as a place where socio-political norms were perpetuated and sometimes even challenged.

Armed with up-to-date theory, narrative examples, and detailed instructions from writing assignments used in public health classrooms across disciplines and genres, Teaching Public Health Writing offers public health instructors the skills needed to refresh or redesign in-course writing instruction and assignments, ensuring the next generation of professionals have the tools they need to communicate confidently and effectively.

In this volume, noted moral philosopher F.M. Kamm explores how rights and their limits are recognized in theories and in judgments about hypothetical and practical cases. The author begins by considering moral status and its relation to rights and duties and next, investigates the extent of the right not to be harmed by considering the costs morally required to avoid harming and offering a proposal for permissibly harming someone (that allows for resisting the harm)in the Trolley Problem. Kamm further considers the relevance of the Trolley Problem for issues in applied ethics such as self-driving cars. The book concludes with an exploration of the significance of the right not to be harmed in a pandemic, and for a morally correct policy on torture.

Macbeth before Shakespeare is a history of the medieval King Macbeth and his legend that was the basis for William Shakespeare's Tragedie of Macbeth. It traces the life of the real man and his important innovations, while showing how different legends were created in subsequent eras.

This Handbook charts the literary tradition of the Latin American novel from its beginnings during colonial times, its development during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, and its flourishing from the 1960s onward. Forty-five chapters by leading international scholars explore the regions, representations of identity, narrative trends, and authors that make this literature so diverse and fascinating, reflecting on the Latin American novel'sposition in world literature.

Drawing on the expertise of a wide range of musicologists, performer-scholars, and music theorists, Rethinking Brahms provides new perspectives on Brahms's music, the contexts of his creativity, and the reception of his works.

Author David Phillips has produced a clear, concise guide to Henry Sidgwick's masterpiece of classical utilitarian thought, The Methods of Ethics, setting it in its intellectual and cultural context while drawing out its main insights into a variety of fields.

This unique collection of personal narratives from doctors and other healthcare professionals humanizes the loss experience in medicine and illuminates opportunities for education, research, and intervention to better prepare healthcare professionals for loss and grief.

Why do we accept hitting children and call it discipline when we don't accept hitting other people? Erickson reviews more than 100 years of research, sharing little known but astounding facts about spanking outcomes. Interwoven with relatable human stories, Erickson encourages a conversation about this common and nearly universal disciplinary practice.

Overtime questions the conventional thinking that living longer means working longer, offering incisive new evidence for what the future of the American workforce will truly look like.

This handbook showcases a broad range of infidelity topics through perspectives in social psychology, evolutionary psychology, and other areas of research on romantic relationships. It discusses the processes of infidelity alongside sources of variation, such as sexual orientation, developmental life history, individual differences, and culture for the broader social scientific community interested in fidelity in romantic relationships.

A unique, comparative presentation of a region that is often considered "forgotten," this handbook provides a variety of expertly informed perspectives on life and society in medieval Central Europe and its dynamic interactions across the continent.

Patricia Illingworth looks at the ethics of philanthropy, arguing that philanthropic donors have human rights responsibilities. She makes an urgent case that philanthropy will be more ethical, and more effective, if it is reconfigured around human rights.