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A troubled villager flees to the city's comfortable anonymity — a respite that's shattered by the appearance of his boyhood love, her husband, and child. "Fierce and distinctive." — Kirkus Reviews.
A troubled villager flees to the city's comfortable anonymity — a respite that's shattered by the...
This book examines the portrayal of Generation X in contemporary television, movies, music, and internet sources. Drawing on generational theory, cultural studies theory, race theory, and feminist theory, the essays analyze the role of Generation X in American popular culture in relation to both Baby Boomers and Millennials.
This book examines the portrayal of Generation X in contemporary television, movies, music, and...
The book offers lively and highly readable case studies of the most intriguing and important congressional races of 2008. Both House and Senate races are included and each case covers the same topics presented in the same order within the cases. This includes profiles of both candidates and the congressional district or state of the senate race, as...
The book offers lively and highly readable case studies of the most intriguing and important...
This collection of highly readable and accessible essays on Lincoln's legacy offers a wide array of perspectives on the enduring impact of the nation's greatest president on leaders, thinkers, and American history. The book explores how Lincoln's words and deeds have influenced the pursuit of justice and freedom and the practice of democracy in the...
This collection of highly readable and accessible essays on Lincoln's legacy offers a wide array of...
This book explores the policies and practices of comprehensive community efforts to reduce gang and youth violence through a specific conceptual framework, the Comprehensive Gang Model. Tailored gang reduction strategies rooted in this framework and in communities’ ecological constitutions are showcased throughout the book using case study...
This book explores the policies and practices of comprehensive community efforts to reduce gang and...
Inspiration and Innovation in Teaching and Teacher Education is an edited collection that offers a variety of conceptual and research-based discussions on teaching and teacher education in Canada and internationally. The book includes chapter contributions from a group of international scholars, teacher educators, and teachers who are adopting...
Inspiration and Innovation in Teaching and Teacher Education is an edited collection that offers a...
This volume explores the problems and prospects attending evangelical engagement with natural law as a key feature for political thought. Engaging theology, philosophy, political theory and biblical studies, many contributors are optimistic about the prospects of evangelical re-appropriation of natural law, but note ways in which evangelical...
This volume explores the problems and prospects attending evangelical engagement with natural law as...
Subjects and Simulations presents essays focused on suffering and sublimity, representation and subjectivity, and the relation of truth and appearance through engagement with the legacies of Jean Baudrillard and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe.
Subjects and Simulations presents essays focused on suffering and sublimity, representation and...
This volume brings Continental philosophical interpretations of Van Gogh into dialogue with one another to explore how for Van Gogh, art places human beings in their world, and yet in other ways displaces them, not allowing them to belong to that world.
This volume brings Continental philosophical interpretations of Van Gogh into dialogue with one...
Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the most important American statesmen, activists, and writers regardless of the historical era or political persuasion.
Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the...