An astounding 25% of offenders have ADHD, and treatment can reduce their criminal behavior. Yet this is virtually ignored by the justice system. This is the first book for professionals to understand and work with this population effectively.
A World Beyond Global Disorder
This collection is a summons to responsible care-taking, and it approaches the subject from an intercultural perspective. The topics covered range from accounts of major global calamities today to explorations of possible political, economic and societal reforms.
Memory and Ethnicity
In museums and public spaces, ethnicity has become central to the Jewish and Israeli cultural imagination. Memory and Ethnicity explores how diverse Jewish groups represent their past, analyzing which memories are preserved and which are suppressed.
Leading scholars examine lessons learned and best practices in post-disaster rebuilding, reducing the impact of disasters on communities in China, Japan, and worldwide. This volume consists of selected papers and invited contributions on the topic.
Varian Studies Volume Three
Roman emperor Varius (AD 218–222) is far less known than his mythical avatar, Heliogabalus. This book contains studies of the historical emperor, his Syrian sun god Elagabal, and the legendary avatar who thrives in literature, the arts, and popular culture.
The Astronaut
Analysing diverse cultural representations, this book reveals how the astronaut became a revered icon. It shows the construction of a mythology through which the astronaut embodies American ideological values and an idealised, hegemonic masculinity.
This book examines the intersection of political leadership, media coverage, and sexual identity, with emphasis on the negotiation between public and private behavior. Centering on key cases, each chapter questions assumptions about media coverage of same-sex behavior.
Based on original research, this book explores the struggles of working women in Karachi, Pakistan. From managers to domestic workers, it reveals how women in each category are victims of a gender-biased society, fighting for survival in a male-dominated world.
Connecting Past and Present
Experts offer analyses of contemporary works influenced by the Spanish Golden Age. A frequent source of inspiration, this book explores how contemporary Spaniards reach into the past, an epoch of political and religious upheaval, to connect with their present world.
Bonds Across Borders
This collection of essays by leading scholars crosses national and cultural boundaries to explore the relationship between women, gender, and international relations, examining the contributions of diplomats, activists, businesswomen, and more.
Stress and Anxiety
World-wide researchers present cutting-edge developments in stress, anxiety, and coping. This book covers four major areas—health, work, community, and education—exploring their effects on well-being, functioning, and resilience.
Zulfiqar examines the work of a group of African women writers who have emerged over the last forty years. In so doing, she demonstrates how African women’s literature engages with political issues and revisits Fredric Jameson’s controversial assumptions on third-world texts.
Crime and Madness in Modern Austria
This collection explores the history, politics, and representation of crime and madness in modern Austria. It reveals how cultural responses are steeped in mythmaking, while literary representations expose deep-seated attitudes about Austrian society.
Ties to the Homeland
Ties to the Homeland examines the connections maintained across national borders by the children of migrants. Case studies explore their transnational practices, their impact on cultural identity and belonging, and challenge key assumptions about transnationalism.
Florida without Borders
This anthology explores women’s activism across borders, highlighting global issues like human rights, poverty, and trafficking. Feminist scholars investigate the gendered body in activism, the obstacles women face, and the fight for feminist social change.
This volume discusses a variety of environmental and ecological issues from the standpoint of existing legal instruments, with a primary focus on the necessity for ecologically-oriented governance, in order to redress a situation that supports multiple human rights violations.
This collection brings together essays from a broad variety of disciplines to advance our understanding of race and ethnicity in Latin America. These studies examine how voices from the margins, based on gender and class, shape and reshape the Americas.
This collection of essays explores how visual and Internet culture interact, examining how we use virtual imaginings to construct who we are. It treats Internet images as contested sites of cultural activity and transformation, raising questions for future scholarship.
This book analyzes family diversity across cultures and generations. It reveals the complex connections between individual lives and major social, economic, and demographic shifts, deconstructing myths and exploring changes in gender and generational roles.
Waiting Territories in the Americas
Given the prominence of population displacement today, this title assesses the forms that waiting territories take, in order to better understand their juridical statuses, their relationships with the spatial environment, and the economic and social relationships they foster.