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Includes essays that explore the rapid developments of the 1910s that began with D W Griffith's unrivaled one-reelers.

Since 9/11, a fresh configuration of power situated at the core of the executive branch of the US government has taken hold. This title looks at the key historical, political, and economic forces shaping the country's response to terror.

Early humans did not drift north from Africa as their ability to cope with cooler climates evolved. Settlement of Europe and northern Asia occurred in relatively rapid bursts of expansion. This study tells the complex story, spanning almost two million years, of how humans inhabited some of the coldest places on earth.

A collection of essays that analyse the people, the protests and the incidents of the civil rights movement through the lens of gender. More than just a study of women, the book examines the ways in which assigned sexual roles and values shaped the strategy, tactics and ideology of the movement.

Disability and gender are becoming increasingly complex in light of recent politics and scholarship. This volume provides findings not only about the discrimination practised against women and people with disabilities, but also about the productive parallelism between the two categories.

The category of the "posthuman"" reflects the implications of new technologies on contemporary culture, especially in their capacity to reconfigure the human body and to challenge our most fundamental understandings of human nature. Elaine L. Graham explores these issues as they are expressed within popular culture and the creative arts.

The evangelical """"seeker"""" churches in the US target """"seekers"""", people of any faith or denominational background who seek spiritual fulfillment. This book provides a sociological context for the rise of these churches by exploring their rituals, messages, strategies and denominational functions.

A collection of short stories and poems that offer a sample of the war's literary legacy. This anthology has been compiled to mark the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War.

The papers in this volume represent original work to celebrate the centenary of the American Society of Zoologists. They illustrate the impressive nature of historical scholarship that has subsequently focused on the development of biology in the United States.

Over the past decade, as digital media has expanded and print outlets have declined, pundits have bemoaned a "crisis of criticism" and mourned the "death of the critic". In Film Criticism in the Digital Age, ten scholars from across the globe come together to consider whether we are witnessing the extinction of serious film criticism or seeing the start of its rebirth in a new form.

Includes essays that explore and define how the making of motion pictures flowered into an industry that would finally become the central entertainment institution of the world. Beginning with the early types of pictures that moved, this volume tells the story of invention and consolidation of the various processes that gave rise to 'cinema.'

Despite being far from the norm, interracial relationships are more popular than ever. This title sheds light on the bonds between whites and Asian Americans. Incorporating life-history narratives and interviews with those involved with an interracial partner, it addresses the contradictions and tensions that Asian Americans and whites experience.

Battles were fought in many colonies during the American Revolution, but New Jersey was home to more sustained and intense fighting over a longer period of time. The nine essays in The American Revolution in New Jersey, depict the many challenges New Jersey residents faced at the intersection of the front lines and the home front.

Battles were fought in many colonies during the American Revolution, but New Jersey was home to more sustained and intense fighting over a longer period of time. The nine essays in The American Revolution in New Jersey, depict the many challenges New Jersey residents faced at the intersection of the front lines and the home front.

Over the past decade, as digital media has expanded and print outlets have declined, pundits have bemoaned a "crisis of criticism" and mourned the "death of the critic". In Film Criticism in the Digital Age, ten scholars from across the globe come together to consider whether we are witnessing the extinction of serious film criticism or seeing the start of its rebirth in a new form.

Incidents of doping in sports are common in news headlines, despite regulatory efforts. How did doping become a crisis? Who gets punished for breaking the rules of fair play? Kathryn E. Henne, a former competitive athlete and an expert in the law and science of anti-doping regulations, examines the development of rules aimed at controlling performance enhancement in international sports.

Bringing together ten essays by social scientists and activists, this book provides the most comprehensive exploration of the range of environmental issues facing the region and the social movements that have developed to deal with them. The authors consider the role that global and regional political economies play in this process.

What has determined whether Antillean solidarity movements fail or succeed? In this comprehensive new study, Alai Reyes-Santos argues that the crucial factor has been the extent to which Dominicans, Haitians, and Puerto Ricans imagine each other as kin. Our Caribbean Kin considers three key moments in the region's history: the nineteenth century; the 1930s; and the past thirty years.

Follows a group of young girls living on Nevis, an island society in the Eastern Caribbean. This title shows that girls are often caught between conflicting discourses of Christian teachings about chastity, public health cautions about safe sex, and media enticements about consumer delights.

A collection of essays that offers ideas on exile, migration, and diaspora that have emerged in the global age. Seeking perspectives on the movement of people and ideas, it looks at the power of the aesthetic experience, especially in literature and film, to unsettle theoretical paradigms and enable the rethinking of conventionalized approaches.

Curricula in US public schools are often the focus of heated debate, and few subjects spark more controversy than sex education. This book brings readers inside three North Carolina middle schools to show how students and teachers support and subvert the official curriculum through their questions, choices, viewpoints, and reactions.

An overview of Pleistocene or Ice-Age settlement in Eastern Europe, with the main focus on the adaptations of Neanderthals and modern humans to the environment. This book looks at human evolution in such a cold climate and how technological innovation led to the extinction of the Neanderthals.

Explores how single mothers pursuing college degrees must navigate a difficult course as they attempt to reconcile their identities as single mums, college students, and in many cases, employees. They also negotiate a balance between what they think a good mother should be, and what society is telling them, and how that affects their choices to go to college, and whether to stay in college.

Therapeutic Revolutions examines the evolving relationship between American medicine, psychiatry, and culture from World War II to the dawn of the 1970s. In this richly layered intellectual history, Martin Halliwell ranges from national politics, public reports, and health care debates to the ways in which film, literature, and the mass media provided cultural channels for shaping and challenging preconceptions about health and illness.