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The current debate over the causes and possible cures for the persistent white advantage over African Americans in education and income needs a resource that provides both historical and current evidence. In White Men's Law, Peter Irons fills this need with the stories of African Americans who challenged their status in acts of resistance, from slavery and Jim Crow segregation to today's Black Lives Matter and other racial justice movements. Irons marshals awide array of evidence to make a persuasive argument that systemic racism still permeates every major institution in American society. White Men's Law is certain to provoke discussion on both sides of this debate, in readable and often graphic form.

Drawing upon Muslim Europe's own voices, institutions, and experiences, this compelling work reframes the debates on European secularism, the historic role of Shari'a law in diverse European states, Muslims and Nazis, Muslims and Communists, and the contributions of Muslims to Europe today.

By narrating the Sarajevo assassination in a broad historical context, Misfire contends that the most consequential political murder in modern history would have remained inconsequential if not for the decisions made by the leaders of Europe's Great Powers.

Divisions draws together the history of race and the military; of high command and ordinary GIs; and of African Americans, white Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, arguing that racist divisions were a defining feature of America's World War II military.

This volume provides the first comprehensive empirical examination of the "politics of truth" - its context, causes, and potential correctives. Combining insights from the fields of political science, political theory, communication, and psychology, the experts in this volume draw compelling - if sometimes competing - conclusions regarding this rising democratic threat.

Beyond Interdisciplinarity is the first book to present a conceptual framework for thinking about inter- and trans-disciplinary as well as cross-sector boundary work. The approach in this book accounts for the dynamics of communicating, collaborating, and learning across disciplines.

This book implements a conceptual framework for examining the post-modern, sociocultural Israeli scene that facilitates and triggers a search for meaning among its contemporary citizens. It combines theory, data, and illustrative case studies to unravel a variety of significant and fundamental manifestations of this quest as it is seen under existential duress.

This book explores Positive Youth Development (PYD) in Roma ethnic minority youth. Standing apart from current volumes, this book focuses on the Roma ethnic minority - one of the most marginalized and oppressed minority groups in Europe - and on strengths and resources for optimal well-being in the community. The international and multidisciplinary contributors to this book address the complexities of Roma life in a variety of cultural settings, exploring how keydevelopmental processes and person-context interactions can contribute to optimal and successful adaptation.

This volume describes a broad array of culturally sensitive research methods in psychology, addressing diverse issues such as implicit bias, identity development, trauma, and racism. Each chapter provides instructive value for those who want to effectively employ these methods, as well as deep reflection on the meaning of various methods for understanding complex psychological phenomena.

Popularizing Scholarly Research: The Academic Landscape, Representation, and Professional Identity in the 21st Century provides an introduction to the world of research in the 21st century. This book discusses how research may be represented and issues related to professional identity in this shifting arena. Patricia Leavy's book explains how research has turned from a disciplinary to transdisciplinary, the new structures our research may take, as well aswhat our professional lives may look like. Contributors discuss transdisciplinary research, public intellectuals, audience and voice, creative nonfiction, writing collaboratively, visual images, writing for broad audiences, academic blogs, publicity, funding, and public policy.

In Popularizing Scholarly Research: Working with Nonacademic Stakeholders, Teams, and Communities, Leavy covers social movements, ethical issues working with vulnerable populations, outsider-insider issues, citizens' juries, community-based research, participatory action research, community art-making, theatre, cross-cultural research, decolonizing methods, team research, and disaster research.

Overturning centuries of scholarship that imagined life in the Roman world as happening only in society, Aaron J. Kachuck delivers a revelatory new perspective: ancient Rome not only possessed a vibrant sense of solitude, but its solitary sphere also lies behind its greatest masterpieces, from Cicero's philosophy to the life's works of Virgil, Horace, and Propertius.

This book investigates the thought of two of the most influential philosophers from antiquity, Plato and his predecessor Anaxagoras, with respect to their metaphysical account of objects and their properties. The book's subject matter is of wide interest to philosophers and historians of philosophy alike. The methodology applied in the study of the subject matter in this book also facilitates reaching out to both domains of readership. The innovative (and possiblycontroversial) claims made in the book will spark debate and bring the book at the forefront of current discussions in philosophy.

This book traces the development of popular cinema from its inception to the present day to understand why humankind has expanded its viewing of popular movies over the last century. Using hundreds of shots from a wide range of films, this book considers how the visual elements impact our perception, understanding, and emotional responses to specific scenes, all of which have evolved over the course of cinematic history.

Useful Objects examines the cultural history of nineteenth-century American museums through the eyes of writers, visitors, and collectors. Throughout this period, museums gradually transformed from encyclopedic cabinets to more specialized public institutions. These changes prompted wider debates about how museums determine what objects to select, preserve, and display-and who gets to decide. Drawing on a wide range of archival materials and accounts infiction, guidebooks, and periodicals, Useful Objects shows how the challenges facing nineteenth-century museums continue to resonate in debates about their role in American culture today.

Applications of the Unified Protocols for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents is a practical guide for clinicians and researchers on applying the core principles of the UP-C and UP-A to treat children and adolescents with a broad range of emotion disturbance across settings in which youth typically receive care, including community mental health settings, pediatric primary care, and telehealth.

The Psychology of Journalism explores the psychological processes involved in the production, delivery, and consumption of news. With contributions from an international team of scholars with backgrounds in both media and psychology, the chapters provide theoretical and empirical evidence drawn from research in key areas in psychology to better understand why and how journalists and audience alike select, attend, understand, and co-construct meaning fromreported events.

Redesigning Research on Post-Traumatic Growth offers new directions for post-traumatic growth research. The book illustrates the benefits of research designs that incorporate multiple methods of assessment and highlights the value of integrating various disciplines, such as philosophy and multiple areas of psychology (e.g., clinical, developmental, health, and personality) for more holistic understanding of the human capacity to overcomeadversity.

With increased cross-border disputes in civil and commercial matters across the globe, this edition gives practicing litigators an overview of the provision of mechanisms for international judicial assistance across different legal systems. Building on Ristau's classic multi-volume work, this book brings up-to-date background and practical guidance that today's practitioners need.

The New Addiction Treatment explores the shortcomings of traditional addiction treatment methods and discusses how addictoin treatment could be made more effective. By exploring science-based therapies and interventions, David A. Patterson Silver Wolf examines addiction treatment options with more effective outcomes.

Flexibility within Fidelity identifies how empirically supported treatments (ESTs) can be implemented with both integrity and flexibility. The book is comprised of chapters focusing on specific ESTs for problem areas amongst adults and children/adolescents, including anxiety disorders, PTSD, pain management, and depression among others.

Brief Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety and Depression in Youth: Therapist Guide is a problem-focused behavioral intervention that seeks to address maladaptive coping skills such as avoidance or withdrawal behavior and improve engagement in stressful activities for youth.

Brief Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety and Depression in Youth: Workbook is a problem-focused behavioral intervention that seeks to address maladaptive coping skills such as avoidance or withdrawal behavior and improve engagement in stressful activities for youth.

This book presents 125 critical research questions to advance the field of sports, exercise, and performance psychology, with 5 must-read papers per chapter. With contributions from expert researchers in their respective areas, this book focuses on performance and learning, health and wellbeing, and cultural and professional considerations.

A Clinician's Guide to Disclosures of Sexual Assault provides guidance for service providers on how to interact with survivors of sexual assault, defined here as sexual contact or penetration without the explicit consent of the victim.

Spiritual Alchemy traces the early-modern antecedents of modern alchemy through generations of followers of Jacob Boehme, the cobbler and theosopher of Görlitz. Spiritual alchemy combines traditional elements of alchemical literature with Christian mysticism. In 1850, it inspired Mary Anne Atwood to write her landmark Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery, usually seen as the first modern interpretation of alchemy. Drawing extensively onmanuscript and otherwise obscure sources, Zuber challenges the received wisdom that posits a rupture between pre-modern and modern forms of alchemy.

The Hospice Companion is a guide to the processes of care during the intensive, interpersonal experiences of hospice work. This resource highlights the mission and values of modern-day hospice through the individual and combined efforts of the field's most valuable asset, the hospice professional.

Obstetric Anesthesia Practice is a timely update in the field, providing a concise, evidence-based, and richly illustrated book for students, trainees, and practicing clinicians. The book comprehensively covers a robust list of topics focused to improve understanding in the field with emphasis on recent developments in clinical practices, technology, and procedures.

The 2019 edition of The Global Community: Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence constitutes the only thorough annual survey of major developments in international courts. General Editor Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo selects excerpts from important court opinions, supported by contributors who provide expert guidance on those cases.

The Medieval Classic contributes to our understanding of ancient and medieval perceptions of Virgil's poem the Aeneid while exploring the importance of commentaries in shaping poetic composition, imitation, and the history of allegorical literature.