Psychological perspectives on lesbian, gay, and bisexual experiences

Designed for both the undergraduate and graduate classroom, this selection of important articles provides a comprehensive overview of current thought about the psychological issues affecting lesbians, bisexuals, and gay men. The editors have revised and updated the introduction and included a new...

Friendship studies

This book moves the theorization of friendship beyond western confines to consider the themes in cross-cultural and decolonized contexts.

Biennials/triennials

A rapid proliferation of large-scale perennial exhibitions has resulted in the biennial / triennial becoming an integral part of field of architecture. Biennials / Triennials questions a range of curatorial agents and visits sites of recent exhibitions that reveal what is at stake in the newfound...

The federal reserve and its founders

Richard A. Naclerio investigates the events that surrounded the U.S. Federal Reserve's creation and the bankers, financiers, and economists who shaped its role over the next century. He sheds new light on the making of one of the world's most important financial institutions and how it came to ha...

Security politics in the gulf monarchies

David B. Roberts offers a definitive guide to continuity and change in the Gulf region. He explores the forces challenging and bolstering the status quo in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates across the political, social, economic, military, and environmental ...

Losing me, while losing you

This book provides narrative accounts based on interviews with caregivers of persons with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

Inlands

This book examines key inland areas around the world to show how interior regions have shaped global history.

Developing practice guidelines for social work intervention

This book bridges the gap between social work knowledge and empirically based practice. Although there is a significant need for the use of empirically tested and verified knowledge in social work practice, the empirical basis of support is nearly absent from practitioners'considerations as they ...

The other catholics

The Other Catholics recounts the remarkable history and current activity of independent Catholics. Julie Byrne focuses on the Church of Antioch, one of the first Catholic groups to ordain women in modern times, to explain how these understudied churches change the narrative of modern Catholicism.

Mobile schools

How can children from nomadic communities go to school, when they are permanently on the move? This publication deals with the necessity and the development of a mobile school system for pastoralists in Northern Kenya. The underlying system Ladders of Learning guides pupils and teachers with a re...

The sarcophagus of identity

Given the increasing centrality of identity to contemporary politics, James Skelly's book provides a critical and useful analysis of the dominant and problematic conceptual bases for self and identity. Inspired in part by his lawsuit against the U.S. Secretary of Defense while serving as an activ...

Beckett, lacan and the gaze

Forming a pair with the voice, the gaze is a central structuring element of Samuel Beckett’s creation. This study systematically examines these essential aspects of the visual in Beckett’s creation.

Survival through bildung

Heinz-Joachim Heydorn’s 1974 essay “Survival Through Education: Outline of a Prospect” remains a powerful text, recently translated into English for the first time. In this book, scholars from different theoretical perspectives question the text and its contemporary relevance and put their interp...

Smart growth

Smart growth and its role in future planning and development remain confusing to many, including decision makers in the public arena who represent citizens hungry for strong policy, planning, and design solutions. The essays in this book cover the history of suburban growth, consequences of curre...

Smart urban growth for china

This book presents various perspectives on shaping a sustainable urban future for China based on conference discussions of the following questions: What lessons can China learn from other countries through their experiences in combating urban sprawl? What are the “dumb” growth patterns that are e...

The radical right during crisis

From terrorist attacks to anti-mask protests across the U.S. and Europe, radical right violence escalated in the midst of conspiracy theories and disinformation during the pandemic. This yearbook draws on analyses from an international network of scholars, policy makers, and practitioners who exp...

A topsy-turvy world

A Topsy-Turvy World presents English translations of shorter late Ming and early Qing plays. Satirical and often earthy, these mostly one-act plays provide a glimpse of Chinese daily life and mores even as they question or subvert the boundaries of social, moral, and political order.

Mixed feelings in france

Ewelina Pepiak analyses how gender and ethnicity are represented in seven contemporary French comedies.

Plurinational afrobolivianity

In Bolivia, novel political articulations, legal reform, and processes of collective identification converge in unprecedented efforts to transform society. This ethnography explores the experiences of Afrodescendants in plurinational Bolivia and offers a fresh perspective on the social and politi...

Her truth and service

Lucy Diggs Slowe (1885–1937) was one of the most remarkable and accomplished figures in the history of Black women’s higher education. Her Truth and Service showcases Slowe’s speeches, articles, and letters, illuminating her multifaceted accomplishments and unwavering dedication to the quest for ...

Audience economics

Focusing on the electronic media—television, radio, and the Internet—Audience Economics bridges a substantial gap in the literature by providing an integrated framework for understanding the various businesses involved in generating and selling audiences to advertisers. Philip M. Napoli presents ...

Government formation in central and eastern europe

Presidential debates

Second only to the Super Bowl in viewers, presidential debates are must-see TV, yet their conception and execution largely remain a mystery to the public—even to journalists. For this third edition, Schroeder analyzes the 2008 and 2012 presidential debates and the role of social media and news ou...

Angela su

Angela Su: Melancholia is published in conjunction with the artist's eponymously titled first solo exhibition in the Western Hemisphere.

Investment: a history

An expansive analysis of investing triumphs and failures, with a discussion of what investing will (and should) look like in the future.

Creditworthy

In Creditworthy, Josh Lauer explores the evolution of credit reporting from from an industry that relied on personal knowledge to the modern consumer data industry. He highlights the role that commercial surveillance has played in monitoring Americans' economic lives.

The politics and poetics of cinematic realism

Casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment.

Cotton, climate, and camels in early islamic iran

A boom in the production and export of cotton made Iran the richest region of the Islamic caliphate in the ninth and tenth centuries. Yet in the eleventh century, Iran's impressive agricultural economy entered a steep decline, bringing the country's primacy to an end.Richard W. Bulliet advances s...

Journal of romanian studies

The biannual, peer-reviewed Journal of Romanian Studies, jointly developed by The Society for Romanian Studies and ibidem Press, examines critical issues in Romanian studies, linking work in that field to wider theoretical debates and issues of current relevance, and serving as a forum for junior...

Canongate burns

A complete volume of the writer's poetry and songs includes previously unpublished pieces, draws on extensive scholarship and Burn's own letters, and offers supplemental information about his life, early hardships, political beliefs, and literary contexts.

Translating boundaries

Translation studies have traditionally been known to be interdisciplinary. What better term to sum this up than boundaries? A term that means different things in different fields and can be applied to a multitude of topics. Political, personal, symbolic, or professional boundaries, boundaries of ...

Whose body?

Judith Jarvis Thomson’s “A Defense of Abortion” is a cornerstone of modern moral philosophy, widely taught, fiercely debated, and endlessly cited.

The dynamic frame

Patrick Keating offers an innovative history of the aesthetics of the camera that examines how camera movement shaped the classical Hollywood style. In careful readings of dozens of films, he explores how major figures like F. W. Murnau, Orson Welles, and Alfred Hitchcock used camera movement to ...

The horror genre

A comprehensive introduction to the history and key themes of the genre. The main issues and debates raised by horror, and the approaches and theories that have been applied to horror texts are all featured. In addressing the evolution of the horror film in social and historical context, Paul Wel...

The river imp and the stinky jewel and other tales

This book presents a selection of Edo monster comics in English for the first time, introducing readers to a captivating, humorous, and eye-opening genre of popular fiction.

Weimar cinema

Taken as a whole, the sixteen remarkable films discussed in this provocative new volume of essays represent the brilliant creativity that flourished in the name of German cinema between the wars. Encompassing early gangster pictures and science fiction, avant-garde and fantasy films, sexual intri...

Taste

Taste is a lyric meditation on one of our five senses. Structured as a series of “small bites,” the book considers the ways that we ingest the world. Through flavorful explorations of the sweet, the sour, the salty, the bitter, and umami, Jehanne Dubrow reflects on the nature of taste.