Climate change, over-indebtedness, and demographic aging put pressure on future generations. This book explores how corporate and financial social responsibility can leverage intergenerational harmony and ensure a sustainable future for humankind.
Recent Scholarship on Japan
This collection of cutting-edge scholarship surveys Japanese literature from classical to contemporary. It explores works from Heian-era female authors to Haruki Murakami, relating them to Japanese society, the global context, and the vital role of translation.
This book tackles the effects of co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders on offenders transitioning from incarceration. Offering an inside look at a community reentry program, it uncovers how these disorders jeopardize the transition back into society.
A growing gap separates professional film critics from younger movie-goers. A new breed of critic is needed for this new generation of fans. This book examines five categories of film reviewers to help aspiring critics decide what type of critic they want to be.
This volume highlights West Africa’s abundant clean energy resources. It shows the pace at which the renewable energy sector is growing and its contribution to mitigating global warming, detailing resources, the business environment, and the development of solar and hydro power.
On Being True or False
What sort of thing is true or false? This book argues that the main answers—sentences, beliefs, propositions—are mistaken. The chief truth-bearer is what someone says or writes. Being true or false is rooted in human talk. This broad examination also criticizes linguistics.
The first study of its kind, this collection explores Beowulf’s extensive impact on contemporary culture. Topics range from film, television, and video games to graphic novels and children’s literature, demonstrating the epic poem’s continuing cultural power.
This book challenges the view of Restoration drama as purely domestic. It reveals how heroic plays used stereotypes of the Ottoman Turks to dramatize England’s own revolution, regicide, and restoration, while shaping an emerging British imperial ideology.
Peoples, Nature and Environments
Scholars from the humanities, arts, and sciences debate the relationships between humans, nonhuman species, and ecosystems to overcome the human/environment dichotomy. This analysis explores the complexity of the human/nature interface, including the impacts of climate change.
The Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920) and Its Aftermath
This volume offers new perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and its fallout, providing insights into this crucial moment in history from the viewpoints of the Great Powers and small countries, the winners and the losers.
Ambiguous Selves
This collection of essays on literature, film, and media contests binary thinking on gender and sexuality. Celebrating difference and deviance, these texts subvert assumed norms, revel in the fluid self, and blur the lines that separate the normal from the abnormal.
Ukrainian researchers in arts education present a new model of post-nonclassical knowledge for professional artistic education. This volume offers new pathways for Ukraine’s cultural development and will be useful to researchers, educationalists, and students.
Liberal Arts Perspectives on Globalism and Transnationalism
As globalization expands, reactionary forces like nationalism and populism have exposed its blind spots. This volume gathers leading scholars to analyze the human cost of immigration, the threats of online technologies, and other pressing challenges of our interconnected world.
How can we redesign siloed systems to support families at risk? This book offers key principles for a community and government approach to child wellbeing. It explores early intervention strategies and asks what it takes to build family-friendly communities that improve lives.
Classics and Classicists
This panoramic collection of articles explores Greek and Roman literature and philosophy, from close textual readings to the modern legacy of ancient works. A vital resource for classical scholars, students of philosophy, and intellectual historians.
This corpus-based study examines how US and UK newspapers used reporting strategies to shape public opinion on the Second Gulf War. It reveals that the choice of strategies is not only ideologically-driven, but also highly determined by country, style, and genre.
The relationship of mind to matter still eludes understanding. This volume shows how process philosophy can help. Twelve chapters by prominent specialists discuss the link between process thinking and scientific research on the problems of mind and experience.
This volume intersects the study of American literature and history with urgent environmental and global perspectives. It re-conceptualizes relationships based on an ecological ethics, exploring topics from ecofeminism and migration to animal studies and climate activism.
As governments worldwide innovate to provide better public services, this collection of essays highlights public service theory and practice. It is an excellent, updated resource for scholars, students and practitioners in public administration.
Concussion Competencies
This book fills a knowledge gap for those experiencing or managing sports-related concussions. Supported by research, it details the most important parts of ongoing treatment: behavioral management, patient monitoring, and engaging in “active rehabilitation” strategies.
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