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This book is a historically grounded critical exploration of how the skin whitening industry has become a contemporary site that facilitates commodification of unregulated whiteness on a global scale.

This book explores how Moral Injury, the collective manifestation of shame and guilt resulting from betrayal and transgression, experienced by veterans returning from war deeply affects one's ability to recover from PTSD and find meaningfulness in the world.

This book explores Hollywood film within the context of America's late-seventies "malaise." The author demonstrates how Hollywood films reflect cultural anxieties surrounding energy, fiscal austerity, the "broken" American family, and decreasing visibility of people of color in popular culture.

Violence Against Women: International Legal Standards and Trends examines the successes and failures of the international legal framework in addressing gender-based violence.

This book provides a new reading of the famous Egyptian Islamist Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) beyond the traditional paradigm of Islamic fundamentalism. Dragos Stoica opens a fresh analytical and comparative path by approaching Sayyid Qutb's work as the first anti-modern political theology developed in the modern Muslim space.

This book explores the challenges Japan has been facing as a post-industrialized society that is characterized by a declining population rate, an aging population, and an increased reliance on imports, and seeks to learn lessons on sustainability from Japan's experiences.

This book offers portraits of psychoanalysis applied to contemporary theory and practice in the education of young children (ages 0-8) as well as in the training of educators and mental health professionals who work with young children. It provides a deeper understanding of children's emotional needs and how to meet these needs.

This book provides a snapshot and assessment of the state of comparison in Biblical Studies and has significant implications for the future of the field. These ten studies illustrate just how expansive and sound comparative studies can be in both method and materials compared.

This book explores and reorients our approach to animal thinking through the intersection between literary fiction and continental philosophy, and seeks to understand animality as neither entity nor essence, but as a new "impossibility."

This book explores the lives of prominent and lesser known artists from a dozen different Latin American countries, and seeks to understand their contributions and their complex lives, celebrating their creativity and impact on Latin American art.

Kant and the Path of German Idealism examines numerous key texts from the rich philosophical period spanning from Kant through Hegel to illuminate the consequential development of Kant's core systematic principles by his successors, ultimately arguing in favor of the strength of Kant's discursive epistemic foundation.

Internalism and the Limits of Twin Earth Scenarios explores visual perceptual experiences and whether nor not visual intentional content is internal or external.

This book is a comprehensive overview of Black male college athletes' experiences, highlighting their self-presentation processes as they navigate ever-changing social environments.

Upside-Down Utopia: Directionality for the City of God demonstrates that determining an appropriate heading for utopian affect entails identifying its genesis within past loss, an initial catastrophe defining humankind's nature and struggle, highlighting the need for divine aid to orient the quest for the city of God.

This book examines the societal impact of preadolescent girls and their depictions in American popular culture from 1924 to 1945 to explore how these portrayals helped address societal anxieties exacerbated by the Great Depression and World War II, including generational conflicts, gender issues, racial tensions, and urban-rural divides.

This book examines why women are often treated with vitriol in the video game industry and communities of play. Using a Deleuzoguattarian lens, it considers the content and production of video games; the affects they amplify and how they impact gender identity; and how affects flow throughout communities of play.

In this book, Morten Bay provocatively questions whether or not truth in media is lost and, furthermore, whether humans can perceive objective reality or, as many neuroscientists and philosophers now believe, we all perceive different realities constructed through predictive processing. As affective polarization continues to render American democracy increasingly dysfunctional - a situation largely inflamed by media - Bay calls for a cultural shift in which these two conditions are reconciled. Drawing on political philosophy, this book presents an ethics that holds up responsible media conduct as a democratic duty of all media users. This shift in ethical frameworks carries with it different implications for a variety of audiences, including individuals, media platforms and corporations, media practitioners and journalists, media studies scholars, and society more broadly. Each stakeholder involved will need to reconsider their approach to media and reality - individuals must accept that everyone's perceptions of reality are different; platforms and corporations must cease irresponsible practices that dissociate realities and stoke division; practitioners and journalists must develop more nuanced epistemologies beyond 'The Truth', and scholars must redefine media by foregrounding epistemology, pluralism, and physicality in media theory. Collectively, Bay argues, we must come to a new understanding of reality as a plurality of realities - a plureality.

This book argues how by relying on unnatural discourse to relate to the natural world, coexistence becomes much more difficult to achieve.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the diversity of Socialist Literature worldwide through the lens of Minor and Small Literature, exploring the multifaceted dimensions and complexities of World Literature and Socialist World Literature.

In 1778, George Washington, Philip Schuyler, army officers, and New York officials began planning invasions against Iroquoia, the homeland of the Haudenosaunee and several other allied Indigenous nations. This invasion was one of the largest American offensives of the Revolutionary War, curated to punish the Haudenosaunee for raids against frontier settlements in New York and Pennsylvania. However, the resulting 1779 campaigns of Goose Van Schaick, Daniel Brodhead, and Generals John Sullivan and James Clinton were not simple retaliation. Clearing Iroquoia: New York's Land Grab in the 1779 Campaigns of the American Revolution by Travis M. Bowman and Matthew A. Zembo critically examines archival materials from these campaigns to investigate the driving force behind the campaigns: removal. Through their research, Bowman and Zembo explore how colonial leaders ignored peace efforts and how George Washington ordered his officers to do the same - prioritizing the destruction of Iroquoia and placing native peoples at the lower end of a racial hierarchy to justify their actions. Using letters, journals, speeches, and reports, this book brings the buried truths to light, exploring these series of coordinated attacks that were designed to destroy Haudenosaunee political cohesion, clear the Indigenous population from the land, and replace it with a non-Indigenous one.

This book focuses on the Italian mafia organization, 'Ndrangheta, and its pervasive influence on the region of Calabria, aiming to provide a criminological roadmap for effectively combating 'Ndrangheta and liberating Calabria from its grip.

There is a long history of immigration from Eastern Europe to the United States that began in the 1880s. Since that time, significant diaspora communities have developed in the United States. The members of these groups have developed businesses, participated in their local communities, attended colleges and universities, and shared their culture. Even with such active participation and growth in American life, little is known about the individual community members. Often these communities are forgotten within the fabric of American life. Navigating Education as a Forgotten Immigrant tells the stories of these community members.Each chapter shares the story of a member of the Eastern European community living in the United States. Some stories are from the perspective of a first-generation immigrant, while others are from second-generation immigrants. Their stories highlight their commitment to life in America, the challenges they face, their evolution of identity, and what it means to live in two worlds simultaneously.

From Ideology to Nostalgia aims to draw attention to the political theoretical relevance of works written by Hungarian authors. By analyzing the novels of Arthur Koestler and Sándor Márai, Miklós Bálint Tóth seeks to understand the complex nature of political phenomena related to the concept of political order.

This book offers an exploration of the intersections between carceral systems, environmental concerns, and political ideologies. It examines how prison literature and narrative witness reveal the complexities of our contemporary world, shedding light on the systemic issues that link environmental degradation with carceral practices.

This book examines the history and construction of the Creole voice in twentieth and twenty-first century Caribbean literature and the archivisation of Caribbean Creoles within the literary text.

A collection of essays assimilating and applying philosopher David Walsh's new "personalist language of persons."

This book offers a reconsideration and re-evaluation of the philosophical exchange between Edmund Husserl and Edith Stein. Angela Ales Bello highlights the depth and breadth of the philosophers' thinking on questions related to subjects such as ethics, religion, personhood, and psychology.

How is Hollywood shaping the American public's thought about politics? Winning The Crowd: The Politics of Popular Films analyses the philosophies of power and the good life found in some of the smartest popular films of recent years.

Türkiye-Britain Relations: Two Hundred Years of an Intertwined Conflict and Cooperation covers all aspects of Türkiye-Britain relations including the historical background, political relations, and key areas and issues. This project has a claim to be the most comprehensive work ever written on the subject.

Through analyses of Hollywood films, Thai genre cinema, and Thai art films, this book considers the ways in which Thailand and its people have been represented in films distributed to the Western marketplace.