Delivering home-based services

Service providers are increasingly called upon to serve clients at home, a setting even a seasoned professional can find difficult to negotiate. From monitoring the health of older populations to managing paroled offenders, preventing child abuse, and reunifying families, home-based services requ...

Twentieth-century italian drama

Historical records of the five dynasties

Only fragments of historical text from China's middle period have been translated into English, until now. Here at last is the first major Chinese historical work from the Song dynasty. Written by Ouyang Xiu, an intellectual giant of the eleventh century, this is a history of the preceding centur...

What it means to be daddy

Absent fathers, the breakdown of the nuclear family, and single-mother households are often blamed for the poor quality of life experienced by many African American children. Jennifer F. Hamer challenges both the imposition of an inappropriate value system and the resulting ineffectual social pol...

Information security essentials

This book is an essential guide to protecting news writers, sources, and organizations in the digital era. Susan E. McGregor provides a systematic understanding of the key technical, legal, and conceptual issues that anyone teaching, studying, or practicing journalism should know.

Creating strategic value

In Creating Strategic Value, Joseph Calandro Jr. explores how the core ideas and methods of value investing can be profitably applied to corporate strategy and management. He builds from an analysis of traditional value investing concepts to their strategic applications.

Galen on apodictics

This book is dedicated to one of the topical issues of the history and philosophy of medicine—the analysis of the research method of Galen of Pergamon, an outstanding physician of Antiquity (2nd century AD). Galen's works, on the one hand, were the outcome of the Hippocratic tradition and its dev...

The garden and the fire

Islamic conceptions of heaven and hell began in the seventh century as an early doctrinal innovation, but by the twelfth century, these notions had evolved into a highly formalized ideal of perfection. In tracking this transformation, Nerina Rustomji reveals the distinct material culture and aest...

Beauty and the nation

Christina E. Firpo explores the development of beauty culture during the interwar years, showing how women’s faces and bodies became contested sites for envisioning what it meant to be Vietnamese in the modern world.

Excessive saints

Rachel J. D. Smith combines historical, literary, and theological approaches to offer a new interpretation of Thomas of Cantimpré’s hagiographies, showing how they employ vivid narrative portrayals of typically female bodies to perform theological work in a rhetorically specific way.

Endnotes

In the summer of 1996, Ruth Ray, a gerontologist in her forties, befriended an eighty-two-year-old man suffering from Parkinson's. The two remained close until the end of his life, sharing stories and memories while building a deep relationship. Part memoir, part biography, Endnotes explores how ...

Direct practice research in human service agencies

Nothing sacred

Nothing Sacred makes a bold call for reconceptualizing the projects of humanism and democracy as creative sources of emancipatory meaning, from the immediate political sphere to the farthest reaches of planetary ways of living.

Hamburg climate futures outlook 2024

The Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024 provides a unique systematic and global assessment of the plausibility of specific climate futures by synthesizing research across diverse disciplines from the social and natural sciences.

Insurmountable simplicities

"Perhaps not all the stories that follow are true. They could, however, be true, and the Reader is invited to ponder this."So begins Insurmountable Simplicities, Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi's colorful incarnation of the many philosophical conundrums that hide in the wrinkles of everyday life...

The bureaucratic production of difference

In the context of the ever-increasing political problematization of migration in Europe, agencies charged with migrant administration create diverse categories of difference to distinguish between the “deserving migrant” and the illegal one. This book analyzes how organizational interpretations o...

Love in motion

This is a book about how film encountered love in the course of its history. It is also a book about the philosophy of love. Since Plato, erotic love has been praised for leading the soul to knowledge. The vast tradition of poetry devoted to love has emphasized that love is a feeling. Love in Mot...

Principles of bitcoin

Principles of Bitcoin presents a holistic, first-principles-based framework for understanding one of the most misunderstood inventions of our time.

The language of history

For over five hundred years, Muslim dynasties ruled parts of northern and central India. Scholars have long drawn upon works written in Persian and Arabic about this epoch, yet they have neglected the many histories that India’s learned elite wrote about Indo-Muslim rule in Sanskrit. Audrey Trusc...

The political consequences of being a woman

Examines the impact of sex role stereotyping on the electability of women candidates, and as a central factor in the conduct and consequences of statewide campaigns.

The future of evangelicalism in america

Evangelicalism has outpaced mainline Protestantism to encompass more than a third of American adults and nearly half of all U.S. Christians. This volume offers unique insight into evangelical culture, spirituality, theology, politics, and ethnicity, revealing a vibrant and controversial movement’...

Naming the witch

Kimberly B. Stratton presents an innovative approach to understanding ancient depictions and accusations of magic as forms of discourse, examining their role in struggles to define legitimate power and authority. She traces “magic discourse” from Classical Greece to the Babylonian Talmud, illumin...

Fictocritical innovations

This book provides a new understanding of fictocriticism—a genre stemming from metafiction, écriture feminine, and postmodernism—via original creative and experimental writing devoted to the issue of the contemporary self, offering a reinvigoration of fictocriticism as a writing strategy.

Governance without a state?

Governance discourse centers on an "ideal type" of modern statehood that exhibits full internal and external sovereignty and a legitimate monopoly on the use of force. Yet modern statehood is an anomaly, both historically and within the contemporary international system, while the condition of "l...

The new european cinema

New European Cinema offers a compelling response to the changing cultural shapes of Europe, charting political, aesthetic, and historical developments through innovative readings of some of the most popular and influential European films of the 1990s. Made around the time of the revolutions of 19...

Management sciences – new horizons

The monograph outlines the directions of evolution in management sciences, focusing on changes emerging in the environment and emphasizing the processes of adaptation and resilience building.

The making of modern subjects

A book about Korean female spectators of the colonial era, which argues that public discourse aimed to mold them into a male-driven and top-down modernization project.

‘malleable at the european will’

Helmut Meier analyzes the image of Africans in pro- and anti-slavery texts from the British debate on the slave trade. He argues that by portraying African slaves as suffering wretches, anti-slavery texts created colonial others, who could subsequently become the objects of a discourse of colonia...

Monospace and multiverse

Using the example of such one-room-architectures, this book explores the potential of an actor-network-theory approach to space in the field of architecture. Sabine Hansmann focuses on the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich, England by Foster Associates (1978) to investigate the mutual e...

Teaching about asia in a time of pandemic

Teaching About Asia in a Time of Pandemic presents many lessons learned by educators during the COVID-19 outbreak. The volume consists of two sections, one discussing how to teach using examples and case studies emerging from the pandemic and the other focusing on pedagogical tools and methods be...

The consulting trap

This book exposes how powerful consulting firms influence public policy; with grave consequences for democracy, essential services, and the common good.

Figuring out the doha round

The global economic and financial crisis has awakened protectionist sentiments around the world, and policymakers have failed to actively seek trade liberalization. In light of this, some have proposed abandoning the Doha Round and starting over with a new agenda. Figuring Out the Doha Round argu...

Nationhood at work

Dave Poitras explores how nationhood and the idea of living in a world of nations are experienced in the cities of Montreal and Brussels. Drawing on ethnographic research, he identifies the typical ways of enacting nationhood, exploring marginalization in biethnonational milieus.

The recovery revolution

Phenomena of Power delves into the sociohistorical manifestations of power and breaks through to its general structures. Popitz distinguishes the forms of the enforcement of power as well as of its stabilization and institutionalization, clearly articulating how the mechanisms of power work and h...

Play therapy in asia

This edited volume seeks to highlight the development of play therapy in various countries and cities in Asia. The editors discuss how mostly Western play-therapy approaches are adapted for use in Asian countries. Contributors to the volume, who are experts in using play therapy to work with clie...

The psycho records

​The Psycho Records follows the influence of the primal shower scene within subsequent slasher and splatter films.

The cinema of alexander sokurov

Through contextualization and close readings of each of his feature fiction films, this volume unearths a vision of Sokurov's film.

Imagining eden

In this deeply interdisciplinary and poetically written book, Jamall A. Calloway explores the presence of Eden and the aftermath of the Fall in works by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, and Alice Walker.

Beyond the water’s edge

Paul R. Pillar examines how and why partisanship has undermined U.S. foreign policy, especially over the past three decades.

Future belief

This book is for those who in their hearts and minds waver between the practice and theories of modern science and the traditional contents and moral prejudices of ancient belief.

Second read

The Columbia Journalism Review's Second Read series features distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage. Launched in 2004 by John Palattella, who was then editor of the magazine's book section, the series also allows authors address such ongoing concerns as the conflict between n...

Nato’s enlargement and russia

This collection of essays, interviews, and analyses by prominent politicians, diplomats, and scholars from the U.S., Russia, and Europe provides personal perspectives on the sources of Russian-Western estrangement. They shed new light on the nature of the confrontation between the West and Russia...