Kerouac Ascending
A memoir by Elbert Lenrow about his relationship with his students Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Lenrow reveals Kerouac’s academic side through papers, letters, and poems shared as they emerged as writers. With an introduction by Howard Cunnell.
This book provides empirical research on controversial media. How are users affected by erotica? Do violent depictions increase violence in society? How does political content, from media bias to online content, affect voters?
This practical book provides comprehensive coverage of key terms in language syllabus design and materials development. It offers clear, concise definitions, serving as an essential source for curriculum researchers, language educators, and students of applied linguistics.
Key Issues Confronting the Black Community in Denver, CO
This volume highlights critical issues in Colorado’s Black and Brown communities—from policing and equity to prisoner reintegration—and offers solutions. It contains essential tools for educators and leaders, providing a model for urban communities nationwide.
This accessible introduction to language variation provides critical accounts of key topics in sociolinguistics, stylistics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis. Illustrated with compelling examples, it serves as a valuable reference for students of linguistics and communication.
Keyboard Warriors
Geddes explores the kind of Islamophobic identity that is produced by supporters of the far-right English Defence League within networking sites, and discusses on how this identity is constructed around insecurities that are central to the lives of this population.
Kierkegaard’s focus on individuality seems irrelevant to the political sphere. This book argues the opposite, revealing how his ideas on self-choice, passion, and love are not only relevant, but highly significant for political thought and commitment.
Kindergarten Readiness for All
This book provides a framework for kindergarten teachers to support young children in their transition to school. It offers strategies to involve families, use assessment information, and teach social skills, providing concrete supports for children with a wide range of needs.
King Hu’s Kung Fu Cinematic Art
This analysis explores King Hu’s transformative impact on martial arts cinema. Delving into films like *Dragon Inn* and *A Touch of Zen*, it critiques his representation of women and highlights his mastery of storytelling, cementing his legacy as a pivotal cultural auteur.
King James and the Theatre of Witches
This book analyzes the “witch plays” of Renaissance England and their response to King James I. Once a fevered witch-hunter and author of *Daemonologie*, the monarch saw his beliefs both catered to and subverted on stage by dramatists like Shakespeare and Jonson.
This book gives an insightful account of Nigerian international migration. To harness migration for development, we must understand the forces of emigration, return, and kinship networks. A vital resource of theoretical and practical importance for nations worldwide.
Kissinger and the Invasion of Cyprus
Using the story of Kissinger’s behaviour regarding Cyprus, backed up by recently revealed government documents, Mallinson provides an incisive analysis of Kissinger’s approach, revealing a man who appears to have considered political strategy more important than law and ethics.
Kitsch
Often dismissed as facile or lowbrow, kitsch is surprisingly complex. The contributors to this collection address how and what kitsch might signify, moving well beyond the simple binaries of good/bad, high/low, or art/kitsch into far more rewarding territory.
Discover how America weaponized avant-garde art as propaganda against Nazi and Soviet threats. Art became ammunition and the canvas a battlefield in the epic ideological struggle between individualism and collectivism.
Knights Down Under
While the Knights of Labour is a failed experiment in US history, in New Zealand its story was strikingly different. This is the story of how the KOL became an international force that helped enact sweeping reforms like women’s suffrage decades ahead of its time.
Knots like Stars
This encyclopaedia of essays and aphorisms offers an ecological perspective on Latin American literature and arts. It is a response to the recent increase in the Hispanic population and influence, offering an understanding of the complexity of this diverse culture.
Knowing and Being
Michael Polanyi’s ideas, from his theory of tacit knowledge to a new picture of science where a scientist’s passion and trust are essential, are contributions to epistemology and ontology. This volume’s critical essays analyze and develop his thought.
We worship the Father, but do we truly know him? While we focus on Christ and the Spirit, the first Person of the Trinity is often neglected. This book explores his distinct nature, challenges our assumptions, and reveals how knowing the Father will transform your faith.
What does it mean for a child to “know their place” in a globalized world? This collection explores how identity is formed by place in children’s literature, studying indigeneity, the natural world, fantastic spaces, and texts like Peter Pan and Harry Potter.
Knowledge and learning are key to policy change. This book provides theoretical tools to analyse how ideas affect policy outcomes, offering new perspectives on welfare state reform, policy transfer, and diffusion processes in Europe.
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