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Right to Development and Illicit Financial Flows from Africa: Dynamics, Perspectives, and Prospects discusses illicit financial flows and the right to development in Africa. The contributors examine...

This book discusses how car ownership plays a central role in both past and present debates about urban redevelopment, racialized policing, women's employment, the anti-immigrant movement,...

A revaluation of Frost's major lyrics, Robert Frost's Visionary Gift: Mining and Minding the Wonder of Unexpected Supply makes a case for Frost as America's preeminent philosophical poet. William F...

This is a book about how rock music has served as inspiration for many important Colombian literary works since its inception in the 1960s.Author: HoughtonPublisher: Lexington BooksPublication Date:...

The rock and roll music that dominated airwaves across the country during the 1950s and early 1960s is often described as a triumph for integration. Black and white musicians alike, including Chuck...

This book studies the production of rock lyrics in Argentina, after the fall of the military governments or dictatorship, in the 80's. Lucas R. Berone analyzes the new relationship between rock and...

This book uses the parameters of role model and countermodel to analyze the perception of Iberian-Jewish history and culture in German-Jewish remembrance culture during the era of emancipation. It...

Romantic Sustainability is a collection of sixteen essays that examine the British Romantic era in ecocritical terms. Written by scholars from five continents, this international collection addresses...

Route 66 and the Formation of a National Cultural Icon: Mother Road to Mythic American Byway by David Milowski explores the divergence between Route 66 myth and reality and provides a critical...

Doughty examines twenty-first century children's and young adult literature featuring royal characters, exploring different ways that authors reshape traditional folktale and Disney royals to create...

This book explores the gradual and long-lasting integration of contested memory in the cultural memory of Ukraine. Epistolary expressions by Mykola Hohol, Taras Shevchenko, Lesia Ukrainka, Ivan...

This book places Eurasia in its entirety within a single explanatory framework and examines, for the first time to that extent, Russia as a Eurasian energy power in its affairs with the two main...

The history of Russian Germans (Russlanddeutsche) is one of intensive mobility across space and time. In this volume, authors from the fields of history, sociology, cultural studies, and...

This book depicts hackers' activities and their personalities from a different angle by exploring their social media network, their audience, the creation of public opinion, the hackers' personal...

The contributors in this interdisciplinary collection address the problem of interconnection between the study of the "Other," either Russian or American, and the shaping of national identities in...

Russians in Cold War Australia explores the time during the Cold War when Russian displaced persons, including former Soviet citizens, were amongst the hundreds of thousands of immigrants given...

The book explores interconnections of the sacred and the secular in music of the long nineteenth century. It investigates manifestations of religion in music not primarily intended for liturgical...

This book provides a phenomenological analysis of "committed" and "institutionalized" education in Sartrean thought. The author argues that the former is a form of resistance, cultivates the...

Sayyid Qutb's Radical Islamism and The Comparative Political Theology argues that Sayyid Qutb's radical critique of secular modernity, seen as a product of a great theft of sovereignty that usurps...

This book weaves together apparently disconnected elements of Bertrand Russell's philosophy and social activism into a coherent narrative about the acclaimed twentieth-century intellectual's evolving...

This book explores science fantasy, a hybrid genre that draws from both science fiction and fantasy. It delves into how science fantasy serves as a medium to shape the present and build a better...

This collection examines the representation of children in contemporary apocalyptic films and television, arguing that they inhabit conflicting roles as either harbingers of disaster or symbols of...

This is a story of religious and democratic covenants and controversies in the foundations of America and in the soul of its colleges and universities. Coinciding entangled democratic beliefs and...

Second-Generation Korean Americans and Transnational Media: Diasporic Identifications looks at the relationship between second-generation Korean Americans and Korean popular culture. Specifically...

This book explores the visual dimensions of metal music from the specific socio-historic, geographic, and political positionality of Latin America and the Caribbean.Author: Nelson Varas-Díaz, Daniel...

Women of the 1920s led a revolt against the old standards of womanhood that were dominating US culture. Flappers and feminists, they spoke and acted out, inspiring other women to follow. This book...

Sensing Sacred is an edited volume that explores the critical intersection of "religion" and "body" through the religious lens of practical theology, with an emphasis on sensation as the embodied...

This book presents new information about Rachmaninoff accessed from unique sources previously unavailable in English. From the extraordinary women who inspired him, to his humanitarian work, to his...

This book examines employers' role in creating, upholding, and legitimating race-gender inequality on trains, planes, and cruise ships and focuses on employer's actions and statements related to...

Sex, Desire, and Taboo in South Asia investigates how religion, ability culture, patriarchy, and taboos impact sex and desire in South Asia. Through analysis of theories of sexuality alongside erotic...