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In the tradition of Just Mercy, an inspirational memoir by WNBA star Maya Moore Irons and her husband, Jonathan Irons, who she helped free from a wrongful conviction. A journey for justice turned in……続きを見る

Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick and Ruiz explores the poetic thinking of these master filmmakers. It examines theoretical ideas, including Maori an……続きを見る

Comics and cartoons from Japan, or manga and anime, are an increasingly common feature of visual and popular culture around the world. While it is often observed that these media forms appeal to bro……続きを見る

Religion in Sociological Perspective, Eighth Edition?introduces the systems of meaning, structure, and belonging that make up the complex social phenomena we know as religion. The author team uses a……続きを見る

A democracia e a polarização não são temas recentes, estando presentes, muito provavelmente, desde a criação do regime ou até mesmo antes. Todavia, permanecem em evidência, sendo objetos de análise ……続きを見る

In this fascinating half-memoir, half-parenting guide, Lisa Katayama shares her quest to raise her American kids using Japanese parenting principles which combine unconditional love with unwavering ……続きを見る

Case studies of nineteenth-century sites from New York City to the American West  The Archaeology of Prostitution and Clandestine Pursuits synthesizes case studies from various nineteenth-century s……続きを見る

In a time of polarisation and misinformation, this book dares to challenge the reader: set aside inherited narratives, and approach the most divisive conflict on Earth with radical empathy and histo……続きを見る

A richly cinematic and compelling look at priest-politicians in Brazil and their religious and secular entanglements What does desire have to reveal about the nature of power? Through a detailed foc……続きを見る

How do the Japanese men and Chinese women who participate in cross-border matchmakingーindividuals whose only interaction is often just one brief meetingーcome to see one another as potential marria……続きを見る

This book explores the impact of the spread of English on language teaching and learning. It provides a framework for change in English language teaching to better reflect global realities and curre……続きを見る

As states across the country battle internally over same-sex marriage in the courts, in legislatures, and at the ballot box, activists and scholars grapple with its implications for the status of ga……続きを見る

Comment le mouvement Black Lives Matter a-t-il pu naître sous le mandat du premier président noir ? Une plongée dans l’histoire du racisme aux États-Unis, écrite par une universitaire et militante m……続きを見る

« Le meurtre de Mike Brown par un policier blanc a marqué un point de rupture pour les Afro-Américains de Ferguson (Missouri). Peut-être était-ce à cause de l’inhumanité de la police, qui a laissé l……続きを見る

Beginning as the Cold War entered its final thaw and ending shortly before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Heisei era saw thirty years of considerable social upheaval and significant shif……続きを見る

The Lebanese state is structured through religious freedom and secular power sharing across sectarian groups. Every sect has specific laws that govern kinship matters like marriage or inheritance. T……続きを見る

This book, at the nexus of migration and urban studies, sheds new light on a long-neglected group of transmigrants and the global city of Tokyo. Using extensive empirical material on transnational m……続きを見る

Valuing Peak Experience in Everyday Lives takes Abraham Maslow’s concept of peak experience and compares how people have encountered transcendent peak experiences and related phenomena, such as flow……続きを見る

O presente trabalho teve como objetivo central refletir acerca das premissas de Heidegger em torno da linguagem via poiesis e, aproximá-las da Psicologia. Na tentativa de ilustrar essa experiência, ……続きを見る

Intercultural communication scholars have done important work tracing how the legacies of colonialism continue to structure our world. Missing from this corpus, however, is sustained attention to (N……続きを見る

Hollywood Unions is a unique collection that tells the stories of the unions and guilds that have organized motion picture and television labor: IATSE, the DGA, SAG-AFTRA, and the WGA. The Hollywood……続きを見る

In this collection, well-known resettlement and development practitioners examine successful resettlement practices, based on examples from Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Democrati……続きを見る

How has North Korea developed and managed its military readiness to achieve its strategic ends? Hinata-Yamaguchi analyzes North Korea’s defense planning by looking at how political, economic, and so……続きを見る

If you thought the only way for you to return home safe was to embody the vilest evil, would you do it? We’ve always viewed veterans as patriots who defended our nation and destroyed worldwide threa……続きを見る

In a globalising world, many mature economies share post-growth characteristics such as low economic growth, low fertility, declining and ageing of the population and increasing social stratificatio……続きを見る

This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the past, present, and future direction of death rituals and deathcare systems within Japan. As Japan heads toward a precarious future sh……続きを見る

This book focuses on the Frobenius theorem regarding a nonlinear simultaneous system. The Frobenius theorem is well known as a condition for a linear simultaneous system’s having a nonnegative solut……続きを見る

Existem mais de 632 mil pessoas em situação de rua, uma violação descomunal dos direitos humanos. É de suma importância trazer à baila a questão dessa violação, o Estado e a Sociedade devem ter em m……続きを見る

México ha trabajado para transformar el andamiaje de leyes e instituciones que permitan atender la agenda internacional del país rumbo a 2030. No obstante, el discurso con frecuencia difi ere de la ……続きを見る

A comienzos de 2023, en un foro sobre la concentración del poder público y el creciente autoritarismo que está experimentándose en México, el gran politólogo polaco Adam Przeworski hizo un diagnósti……続きを見る