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This book highlights how digital rhetorics can provide individuals with ecological readiness and the ability to craft more-than-human worlds of contingent wellbeing while also allowing for vulnerable...

Digressions in Deep Time is the first collection of essays which considers the multifarious representations of deep time across literature and the arts, assembling the work of a wide range of...

This book investigates Dionysius of Halicarnassus' description of Rome's 'founders' and situates Dionysius' historical work in the cultural and political contexts of Augustan Rome. Beatrice Poletti...

In Disability, Augmentative Communication, and the American Dream the authors use a qualitative "mixed methods" study framed by analytical insights from disability studies to show how disability is...

This book examines the depiction of girls with extraordinary abilities in 2000s Disney sitcoms aimed at tweens. The author argues that a double standard forced the girls, unlike their male...

If there is an opposite to the Gothic, it may seem to be the carefully crafted "family friendly" image of Disney. However, through careful attention to the pervasiveness of Gothic elements in all of...

The lack of repatriation, undignified living conditions in the host societies, tension and the lack of social cohesion make the life of the displaced and refugee population complex and vulnerable...

This book argues for a rethinking of the role of world literature through new readings of Orhan Pamuk. Drawing on the intrinsic connection between the bridge metaphor and Pamuk's work, the author...

This book critically examines the literary antiheroine in contemporary Gothic and crime-thriller novels. Gardner explores a broad range of texts to understand the antiheroine's fluidity, her liminal...

Dissecting Cannibal Holocaust examines the layers of Ruggero Deodato's controversial horror film including its relevance to cinematic and literary history, anthropology, nature studies, ethics and...

A series of studies in metaphysics, historical theology, moral theology, and political philosophy, Divine Promise and Human Freedom in Contemporary Catholic Thought offers the insights of separate...

Civil society groups such as Transparency International play an important role in raising awareness of corruption and its effects on society. This book is the first to assess the impact of...

Doing without Free Will: Spinoza and Contemporary Moral Problems introduces Spinoza into the contemporary discussion on free will and on moral problems surrounding this discussion. Traditional...

In Donald J. Trump and the Politics of Mass Society, Albert P. Melone studies Trump's behavioral patterns in the fourth year of his presidential term and the three tumultuous years leading to the...

Recognized as one of the greatest novelists of all-time, Fyodor Dostoevsky continues to inspire and instigate questions about religion, philosophy, and literature. However, there has been a neglect...

This volume considers Dostoevsky's The Gambler from a broad interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on its psychological, cultural, philosophical, religious, and aesthetic aspects. Dostoevsky...

This book provides insight into barriers women experience when seeking treatment for substance use disorders. Findings indicate that models of "maternal instinct" often impede efforts for women...

This book scrutinizes the changing dynamics of the global security order, in an era highlighting the constant tension between a rules-based liberal international order and a world order characterized...

Earl Warren and the Struggle for Justice traces the role of Progressive values in the life and career of one of the twentieth century's most influential jurists. Based on a review of new source...

Focusing on the early medieval herbal recipes found in the Lingbao Wufuxu (The Preface to the Five Lingbao Talismans of Numinous Treasure), this study analyses Daoist asceticism and ideas regarding...

Earth Polyphony revels in a polyphony of voices that favor dialogic discourse to save our planet Earth in the era of the Anthropocene.Author: Suhasini VincentPublisher: Lexington BooksPublication...

An inquiry on how one of the most conservative Christian faiths adapts to the digital technological realities, facing secularization and theories that portray religion as doomed to extinction. An...

This book examines and reflects on the Jewish community of Harbin, a Chinese city that was established by Russians in 1898.Author: Dan Ben-CanaanPublisher: Lexington BooksPublication Date: Feb 28,...

This book provides critical engagements with recent environmental scholarship, incorporating key concepts in ecological thinking, the paths of ecocriticism and the interdisciplinary humanities...

Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development extends the energetic and socially important tradition of postcolonial ecocriticism to regions of the world not normally considered in the postcolonial...

Ecocritical Approaches to Literature in French applies the methods of ecocritical inquiry to French literature. To date, there is very little ecocritical scholarship on French-language literature...

This collection reexamines menopause across the disciplinary fields of ecofeminism and ecocriticism and brings together cross-sectional ecofeminist voices privileging women's menopausal positionality...

Ecofundamentalism: A Critique of Extreme Environmentalism is one of few books that focuses on ecofundamentalism, from its philosophical foundations to its policy prescriptions, instead of...

This book contributes to the applied regional economic literature by providing a framework for handling a diverse set of projects and providing detailed case studies of fieldwork regarding the health...

Ecopoetics of Reenchantment: Liminal Realism and Poetic Echoes of the Earth tackles the reenchantment process at work in a part of contemporary ecoliterature that is marked by the resurfacing of the...