This book explores new and emerging ways to approach popular culture—from case studies to emerging theories—and examines how popular culture, media, and communication influence our everyda
This book explores the symbolic relationship between Christianity and heavy metal music as forms of cultural critique. By focusing on death, sacrifice, and the mystical side of human life, both Christ
In this book, William H. F. Altman argues that it is not order of composition but reading order that makesEuthyphro, Apology of Socrates,Crito, and Phaedo “late dialogues,” and shows why Plato’s decis
This book examines the “sweet smells of sanctity” within early Christianity and Islam. It is a comparative study of two nascent religious communities, located in disparate times and space, employing s
While literature on medicine and colonialism has increased rapidly in the past nearly two decades, this volume presents yet another way of looking at ideas of medicine, health, and disease. It portray
Following the format of Daniel Nelson's (ed.) 1981 Romania in the 1980s and 1992 Romania After Tyranny , social scientists collect, synthesize, and analyze data about the eastern European country s
Willmoore Kendall: Maverick of American Conservatives provides the first book-length study of a man long regarded as a founding father of American intellectual conservatism.
This book addresses sensitive issues that often lead to misperception between Christians and Muslims. Considering the current state of the world, this timely work makes an important contribution that
This book is a detailed comparison of the major political writings of Machiavelli and Xenophon. By elucidating the remarkable scope, depth, and subtlety of the debate between these two great thinkers,
Vostral (gender and women's studies, U. of Illinois) examines the social history of menstrual hygiene, explaining that menstrual hygiene is primarily a technology, and that women had to learn that tec
Divided into topical sections, this volume considers the issues of race, poverty, housing, education, health, and democracy. Poverty & Race in America is especially concerned with the links betwee
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage a rhetorical masterwork. It examines how kairos, ethos, “ethos” (a type of forum or framing), and mythos contribute to its persuasive power.
This book critically examines the impact of crises unleashed by globalization on multiple fronts: development and governance, peace and security, and environment and sustainability. This edited volume
