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The internationalization of professional practices and the export of western technology and higher education are accompanied by a need to establish international standards of ethics across different...

Code Musicology opens a conduit between musicology and software studies. It extends an ethnomusicology of technoculture from the world of hardware and the hardwired to software, code, and algorithms...

Cognitive Complications examines fundamental issues in the theory of knowledge from the perspective of philosophical pragmatism. Rescher seeks to show how a pragmatic, user-oriented approach to...

Jeff M. Smith's Cold Peace: China-India Rivalry in the Twenty-Century updates and deepens our understanding of China-India relations by unraveling the complex layers of the contemporary rivalry...

Vibiana Cvetkovic examines Philadelphia hosted children's cartoon shows which were broadcast in the industry's earliest days. This book explores the figure of the host with regard to Cold War notions...

This book analyzes the representation and lasting impact of the colonial school and bourgeoise in Francophone sub-Saharan literature. Contending that the so-called indigenous colonial bourgeoisie was...

If our near future sometimes feels like a dystopian sci-fi movie, that's because it is. Come With Me If You Want to Live reveals how great science fiction films predicted the world we're increasingly...

Communicating User Experience illustrates how the use of Local Strategies Research (LSR) methodologies enables designers to understand the cultural implications for user actions and practices in and...

Community Newspapers and Japanese-American Incarceration Camps critically examines the tendency of journalists in all corners of the craft to be timid in times of war, precisely when the public's...

This book is a study of collective efficacy in eight neighborhoods in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Using residential surveys, observations, and new methods of statistical and mapping analysis...

This book investigates the complex art of television drama screenwriting, bridging a crucial gap between theory and practice by exploring both the structure and character developments models of the...

This book renews an appreciation for the messy but necessary process of compromise, before it becomes irrelevant in an authoritarian system.Author: Richard K LairdPublisher: Lexington...

Conceptual Tension: Essays on Kinship, Politics, and Individualism is a critical philosophical examination of the role of concepts and concept formation in social sciences. Written by Leon J...

This book explains the complex regional affairs of the South Caucasus states which have faced many conflicts. Beyond providing the cost-benefit analysis of the application of three major IR theories...

Conflict at the Edge of the African State: The ADF Rebel Group in the Congo-Uganda Borderland studies one of the oldest and most secretive rebel groups in the eastern Congo warscape: the Allied...

This book suggests that conflict in legislatures is two-dimensional. Using the US Congress as a testing ground, and novel indicators of both forms of conflict and legislative productivity, the book...

This book explores challenges to international conflict resolution efforts in the South Caucasus. It examines the efforts made by the UN, the OSCE, and the EU, and by the states of Russia, Turkey,...

This book uses a quantitative-statistical approach to examine the impact of the White Christian nationalist movement on American society, focusing on its influence on social institutions. Why has a...

Responding to the "Asian values" debate over the compatibility of Confucianism and liberal democracy, Confucianism, Democratization, and Human Rights in Taiwan, by Joel S. Fetzer and J. Christopher...

Congress and China Policy: Past Episodic, Recent Enduring Influence supports findings that bipartisan majorities in Congress have been instrumental in driving the fundamental shift in American policy...

In Congress and the Fourteenth Amendment, William B. Glidden examines the misuse of the fourteenth amendment.Author: William B. GliddenPublisher: Lexington BooksPublication Date: Mar 24, 2015Number...

Consequential Museum Spaces offers a comparative analysis of regional African American museum. The author examines buildings, exhibitions, major themes, and relationships with the public in the...

This book explores the tensions in communicating the National Park Service's mission to both conserve and preserve nature while also offering recreational experiences to the public. Through...

This book examines the balance-of-power initiative Kissinger inherited, which harmonized with Mao's "three worlds" concept and led to the Kissinger-Mao axis in the new US-Chinese-Soviet global order...

This anthology outlines a cadre of alt-right groups, conspiracy theories, and other forms of stigmatized knowledge threatening our society and presents a compelling case for the continued relevancy...

This book analyzes the actions of limited-English-speaking patients from Iraqi communities in Southern California when their interactions are translated by bilingual family members. Employing...

Although traditional academic circles rarely celebrate the work of African or African American thinkers because performers and political figures were more acceptable to narrating histories, this work...

Ecocriticism has grown into one of the most innovative and urgent fields of the humanities, and many useful ecocritical methodological approaches for addressing our environmental crisis have been...

Contemporary Feminist Art by Women in North Africa examines perceptions of the female body as both a subject and an object of aesthetic discourse in the works of six contemporary Maghrebi female...

Contemporary Issues in Corporate Social Responsibility presents the significant roles that universities must embrace in order to reverse the damage wrought by two centuries of urbanization,...