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Sheds light on the complex relationships between women employers and their household help in the early 20th century through their representations in literature, including women's magazines, conduct manuals, and particularly female-authored fiction.

Explores how software code serves as meaningful communication through which software developers construct arguments that are made up of logical procedures and express both implicit and explicit claims as to how a given program operates.

In order to understand the meaning of justice, James David Meernik and Kimi Lynn King studied the perspective of witnesses who have testified before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Using a unique survey, Meernik and King look at the identity of the victims and their perception of the fairness of ICTY.

Why do some states provide infrastructure and social services to their citizens, and others do not? In Development in Multiple Dimensions, Alexander Lee examines the origins of success and failure in the public services of developing countries.

Shows how learning to write in multiple disciplines leads college students to new levels of competence. This volume draws on an in-depth study of the experiences of University of Michigan undergraduates, using statistical analysis, qualitative analysis, use of corpus linguistics on electronic portfolios and student writing, and case studies.

Introduces a refined definition of process tracing, differentiating it into three distinct variants and explaining the applications for and limitations of each. The authors develop the underlying logic of process tracing, including how one should understand causal mechanisms and how Bayesian logic enables strong within-case inferences.

Is there a need to remodel constructivism to be more politically attuned? Piki Ish-Shalom calls for an activist academy that engages society and the polity to prevent the watering down of democracy, while helping to create a space for criticism.

Develops and tests a theory that can explain evidence that the ballot initiative process fails to provide the civic benefits commonly claimed for it, and evidence that it increases political participation. This theory argues that the basic function of direct democracy is to create more conflict in society.

Considers how democracy works, or fails to work, in ethno-culturally divided societies. This book advances a new theoretical approach to assessing the quality of democracy in divided societies, and puts it into practice with the focused comparison of two divided democracies - Estonia and Latvia.

Emigrants are increasingly viewed as a resource for promoting economic development back in their home countries. Benjamin Graham finds that diasporans - migrants and their descendants - play a critical role in linking foreign firms to social networks in developing countries, allowing firms to flourish even in challenging political environments.

Based on 2016, it might seem that the national parties have little control over who becomes their presidential candidate. Yet the parties wield more influence than voters in determining who prevails at the National Conventions. The Primary Rules illuminates the balance of power that the parties, states, and voters assert on the process.

Explores textual representations of disability in the global Renaissance. Elizabeth B. Bearden contends that monstrosity, as a precursor to modern concepts of disability, has much to teach about our tendency to inscribe disability with meaning.

Brings together notions of intertextuality and interperformativity to understand how the confluence of oratorical and theatrical practices in the antebellum period reflected the conflict over slavery and deeply influenced the language that barely contained that conflict.

Since the 1990s Seoul has sought to recreate itself from a mega city to a global city, equipped with cutting-edge knowledge industries and infrastructures. By juxtaposing the cultural turn and cultural/creative city-making, this book interrogates the formation of new citizen subjectivity, namely the enterprising self, in post-Fordist Seoul.

Offers new theorizations of human and nonhuman embodiments and their complex evolutions in our global present, in essays that explore how disability might be imagined as participant in the ""complex elaboration of difference"", rather than something gone awry in an otherwise stable process.

Argues that the quality of citizens' interactions with the government through service provision sends them important signals about what they can hope to gain from political action. These interactions influence not only formal political behaviours, but also collective behaviour, political engagement, and subversive behaviours like tax evasion.

Utilizing Japanese and South Korean newspaper databases to review discussion of the two countries' disputed historical perceptions from the end of World War II to the present, this book provides readers with the historical framework and the major players involved, offering much-needed clarity on polarizing issues.

The Beatles, the 1968 double LP more commonly known as the White Album, has always been viewed as an oddity in the group's oeuvre. Many have found it to be inconsistent, sprawling, and self-indulgent. The Beatles through a Glass Onion is the first-ever scholarly volume to explore this seminal recording at length.

Though she published only five volumes of poetry over the course of her career, Jane Cooper (1924-2007) was deeply admired by her contemporaries. In Jane Cooper: A Radiance of Attention, Martha Collins and Celia Bland bring together several decades' worth of essential writing on Cooper's poetry.

Examines how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence in Cameroon. The book defines and uses the concept of embodied nationalism to illustrate the political importance of women's everyday behaviour.

An annual publication of the American Academy in Rome, Memoirs gathers articles on topics including Roman archaeology and topography, ancient and modern Italian history, Latin literature, and Italian art and architectural history. Volume 62 explores ""National Narratives and the Medieval Mediterranean"".

Provides an accessible introduction to discourse intonation for ESL/EFL instructors, whether practicing or in pre-service graduate programs. This textbook relies heavily on the Brazil model; chapters are organised around different parts of that model and how they can be most effectively taught.

Beginning with a short intellectual history of the academic culture wars, Eric Adler's book examines popular polemics including those by Allan Bloom and Dinesh D'Souza, and considers the oddly marginal role of classical studies in these conflicts. In presenting a brief history of classics in American education, the volume sheds light on the position of the humanities in general.

The aim of this guide is to clarify the process and offer advice. Getting Published in Academic Journals is written for graduate students and newly graduated PhDs who want to publish their research in peer-reviewed academic journals.

Although US foreign policy was largely unpopular in the early 2000s, many nation-states, especially those bordering Russia and China, expanded their security cooperation with the US. In Alignment, Alliance, and American Grand Strategy, Zachary Selden notes that the regional power of these two illiberal states prompt threatened neighbouring states to align with the United States.