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By using a wide diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches and by encompassing both cross-national and longitudinal analyses, this volume sheds new light on comparative political communication research, such as personalization, globalization,...

Globalization is often thought of as an abstract process that happens "out there" in the world. But people are ultimately the driving force of global change, and people have bodies that are absent from current conversations about globalization. The...

The interest of this book lies at the very center of a recent deployment of homosexual liberation on a larger scale. The reader will be able to understand how each of the traditions studied articulates its own regulatory mechanisms of male sexuality in...

The contributors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the ways in which spaces of the city do not merely contain, but also constitute, urban poverty. The volume explores how the spaces of the city actively produce and reproduce urban...

Cultural diversity, because it is perceived to have significant security, developmental, and social implications, is fast becoming one of the major political issues of the day. At the international level, it overlaps with the now extensive debates on...

Through a professional story-teller's sometimes humorous commentary on culture and literature from The Odyssey on , the book suggests that literature is not an artifact to be studied but a living process. Often irreverent, crossing literary and scholarly...

Here, Björklund shows that Swedish literary discourses on lesbianism provocatively contrast with a widely accepted view that attitudes toward homosexuality have gradually become more tolerant. The lasting power of negative discourses upends the...

Filmic constructions of war heroism have a profound impact on public perceptions of conflicts. Here, contributors examine the ways motifs of gender and heroism in war films are used to justify ideological positions, shape the understanding of the...

This international collection focuses on the phallic character of classic and contemporary literary and visual cultures and their invasive nature. It focuses on thrillers, horror cinema, sexual art and photography, erotic literature, female and male body...

Was the Bush administration was successful in legitimating its preferences with habeas corpus, torture, and extraordinary rendition? As American transforms in the post-Bush era, scholars have begun to assess the post-9/11 period in American foreign and...

Repetition and seriality are inherent in pornography and is constitutive for its functionality as a film genre, an industry, and an area of gender studies. By linking the styles of the genre to processes of serial production, consumption, and discussion,...

This study argues that the decriminalization of sex work in China can contribute to HIV prevention and human rights protection. The argument is supported by six key concepts: the universality of human rights, rights-based approaches to HIV, sex work as...

In most Caribbean countries homosexuality is still illegal and many outside of the region are unaware of how difficult life can be for gay men and lesbians. This book collects interviews with queer Caribbean writers, activists, and citizens and...

The Media of Testimony explores testimony relating to the Stasi in different cultural forms: autobiographical writing, memorial museums and documentary film. Combining theoretical models from diverse disciplines, it presents a new approach to the study...

Through the new use of new empirical evidence derived from analysing employment services, gender equality policies and flexicurity in Greece and Portugal, this book provides compelling new insights into how European Employment Strategy (EES) can...

This volume is the product of scholars of various backgrounds, specialties and agendas bringing forth their most treasured findings regarding the Chinese Catholic Church. The chapters in this book covering the church from 1900 to the present trace the...

How do humanists speak for and from the humanities in an academy which values them less and less and market-driven approaches more and more? Jeffrey R. Di Leo provides a thorough critique of the higher education crisis and a set of practical and...

Can religions help us tackle the ecological crisis we are now facing? Can we redefine our relationship with the Earth, giving spiritual depth to ecological issues? This book attempts to answer these questions by exploring the relationship between ecology...

A comprehensive discussion of how countries embrace branding as a crucial element in their pursuit of soft power and why certain nation-branding efforts succeed while others fail through the example of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai.

Through a wide spectrum of horror sub-genres, this book examines how the current state of horror reflects the anxieties in Western culture. Horror films bring them to a mass audience and offer new figures for the nameless faceless 'antagonist' that...

Lipsi forms a modern construction that has disconnected from its past. Recently, the community has formed a collective identity reconstructed from fragments of collective memory. This book is an ethnographic account of the mythology proposed by the...

This volume demonstrates that Critical Friendship Theory can help distinguish education doctorate (EdD) programs from research doctorates (education PhDs). Drawing on multiple, detailed case studies of CFT implementation at universities, it covers...

This edited collection presents a compilation of personal essays on the role of public higher education in the lives of fourteen social scientists who are graduates of the Graduate Center, the doctoral granting institution at the City University of New...

China's commitments in Central Asia illustrate how regional foreign policy works and how long-standing principles of Chinese foreign policy might be revised in the near future. China's rise has 'moved' Asia, which is why it seems that what we have...

Why are some transnational public-private partnerships (PPPs) highly effective, while others are not? The contributors compare 21 transnational PPPs that seek to provide collective goods in the field of sustainable development.

This book investigates Central America's political economy seen through the lens of its powerful business groups. It provides unique insight into their strategies when confronted with a globalized economy, their impact on development of the isthmus, and...

This book addresses a critically neglected genre used by women writers from Gaskell to Woolf to complicate Victorian and modernist notions of gender and social space. Their innovative short stories ask Britons to reconsider where women could live, how...

Social Media and the Politics of Reportage explores the journalistic challenges, issues and opportunities that have risen as a result of social media increasingly being used as a form of crisis reporting within the field of global journalism, with a...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. ...

Questa storia racchiude nei suoi personaggi innumerevoli caratteristiche attribuibili a diverse persone incontrate nel percorso professionale dell'autrice.Il messaggio essenziale è quello di far emergere che l'adeguatezza genitoriale non è legata a...

Depois da Balasar Antiga, é agora a vez de sair a Balasar no Século de D. Benta. O livro trata sobretudo do século XVIII, em que viveu essa notável balasarense. Foi um tempo de mudanças na freguesia: reedificou-se a Igreja Paroquial, fez a ponte de pedra...

The playscript to the Edinburgh Fringe comedy hit. A farcical tale of bad theatre.

Andre and Dorian were raised together as brothers,but their not only brothers,but shapeshifters also.They soon embark on erotic temptations and supernatural drama together.Warning:Strong sexual content and some violence.

Irish Like Me: The Fitzgeralds is a must-have for people with Irish ancestors with the surname of Fitzgerald. The first part of this book begins in the earliest of times and ends with the emergence of the Fitzgeralds of Ireland. Maurice Fitz Gerald was...

Newspaper feature writer and columnist John Blankenship has spent half a century gathering and documenting his life's work in the hills of West Virginia. This book showcases a selection of his best stories, granting the reader a window into the history...

The author shares from life and study insights on issues that confront many in the African American community and documents the answer to spiritual complexities to help others travelling the same road. The Christian life can be challenging for any...

This is the most comprehensive list of events and battles of the Florida Seminole and Creek Wars. The Florida Seminole Wars were the longest, most costly and bloodiest conflict the United States Military ever fought against Native American people...

This is a fast action play for use in LGBT courses and features Alexander the Great and his life partner,it shows the Lesbian Legion and the Transgendered One in 333 B.C. so students can experience the fact that there have always been people like us. It...

This book is about a new form of colonialism. This new form is manifested in today Iran. In this new form, a colonized subject is owned by two colonizer forces, near colonizer and far colonizer. The near colonizer is your immediate ruler, oppressor and...

When I came out to my parents by sending a letter in the mail, I expected a negative reaction. I did not, however, expect my entire life to change. . . .

For the past 20 years ImageOut has been recognized and respected as a major arts and cultural organization celebrating LGBT artists and themed work. This special collection of poetry and short fiction by 23 contemporary writers celebrates ImageOut's 20th...

How do you identify? Do you ident-defy? What are your identities? Do you identi-tease?Do you explore, abhor, adore your identity?Volume 16 of NewTown Writers' annual anthology series is proud to identify the creative endeavors of the GLBT community.

Este primeiro volume da monografia sobre Balasar chama-se "Balasar Antiga", mas fala principalmente dos séculos finais da Idade Média e dos começos da Idade Moderna.Para antes disso, numa freguesia onde não houve investigação arqueológica, pouco mais se...

L'année 1960 représente véritablement le point de non-retour, puisque ni le Putsch, ni le combat de l'OAS n'ont pu détourner l'inexorable marche vers l'indépendance de l'Algérie au seul profit des responsables les plus durs du Front de Libération...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people who are parents, or who would like to become parents, have shared their personal experiences in a book of real-life stories. LGBT Pathways to Parenthood was compiled by Heather Walker for the Equality...