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This interdisciplinary volume introduces the field of Kardashian Studies through collections of essays based in sociology, media studies, cultural studies, critical race theory, and fashion theory.

In Cultivating Identity-Affirming Literacies and Relationships in Schools, Chantal Francois and Jen McLaughlin Cahill combine their teaching, leadership, and research at Pearl Street Collaborative School in New York City to provide an intimate portra

A superb account of a crucial period of not only German but European and Jewish history and essential reading for anyone interested in the causes and roots of antisemitism in Germany and beyond.

Islam in Russia is a rare scholarly attempt to understand the tolerant nature of Islam in the modern Russian Federation since the state’s official acceptance of Islam and is a useful resource for students and scholars of Global Islam, Islam in Europe

Following in the steps of the first edition, Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Distinctive Features, 2nd Edition, provides a history, context, and building blocks for a behaviour therapist to incorporate Functional Analytic Psychotherapy into their

Theorising Oliver Jeffers’ Picturebooks examines semiotic, affective, and metafictive storytelling in Oliver Jeffers’ postmodern picturebooks from a multi-theoretical approach.

Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939 will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training as well as academics and scholars of Freud, psychoanalytic studies, the history of science and the history of Europe.

This book profiles Taiwan’s six key presidents focusing on politics, economics, elections, successes and failures in office, popularity and democratization. This book will appeal to students and scholars of Taiwan, political science and international

This book highlights best practices for English literacy instruction when working with refugees in the United States. The volume addresses this pressing issue and provides valuable insights and tools for educators working with refugees and immigrants

This book investigates the argument for the significance and necessity of project-based learning and teaching (PBLT), as it becomes increasingly important in language education.

Museum Basics provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to professional practice in museums, galleries and related heritage organisations.

Loaded with numerous case studies and stories of successful innovation projects, this book helps the reader understand how to leverage AI to help fulfill the promise of technology in enabling superior business and clinical outcomes.

This book considers whether the United States and the People’s Republic of China have irreconcilable visions of world order.

This is a story of an African American woman working at the highest levels in STEM. Dr. Sandra K. Johnson earned a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University in May 1988, the first black woman to do so.

A History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing argues for medico-sonic knowledge – systematically interpreted bodily sounds with medical knowledge mediated by rhetoric – as an evolving corporeal practice with an incomparable, sprawling history.

The book explores how theatre, with its performative capacity, has the power to engage with and affect the politics of its day. It sets the stage for the reader to discover the revolutionary traditions of Egyptian and Irish theatre, very distinct in

Academic Writing with Corpora offers an accessible guide to using corpora in academic writing successfully and productively. Addressing the challenges faced by EAP teachers when explaining to their students how to write 'naturally', this book places

Learn Russian through Contemporary Short Film is a book with 12 modules, based on modern Russian and Kazakh short films released between 2014 – 2022.

This book explores the relationship between video games and satire through an in-depth examination of Capcom’s Dead Rising series, which alludes to, recontextualises, and builds upon George A. Romero’s filmic satire on American consumer culture, Dawn

Covering Western history from the ancient world to the current era of globalization, The Modernization of the Western World describes the forces of social change and what they have meant to the lives of the people caught up in them.

Inspiring translators by making specific experimental writing strategies available to them, this book reimagines experimental translation through close readings of Finnegans Wake.

British Theatre and Young People gathers together new and original studies on the issues, theories, practices and perceptions which characterise British theatre about, for, by, and with young people in the 21st century.

Critical Thinking for English-Language Learners is an accessible introduction to critical thinking and the use of informal logic for learners of English.

Crafting an Intentional Career for the Musical Theatre Performer provides aspiring and early-stage practitioners with the key skills to navigate the mental challenges of breaking into and building a fulfilling professional life in the industry.

This edited collection provides a singular look at contemporary mediated coverage of women athletes and sports from Title IX to present day.

Queering Mayberry: An Exploration of Sexuality and Gender in the Andy Griffith Show reexamines the show through the frame of queer theory, offering a fresh perspective on its significance in the Southern Appalachians. It will be valuable to scholars

This book explores and compares the reflections on space and quantity found in the works of five philosophers: Spinoza, Leibniz, Bergson, Whitehead, and Deleuze. What unites these philosophers is a series of metaphysical concerns rooted in 17th-centu

In a world shaped by likes, followers, and algorithms, what does it mean to be a child and what does it mean to raise one? This book explores how the meaning and value of children have shifted in the digital era, where visibility often replaces intim

With the aim to synthesize and simplify the core concepts of corporate communications, this book offers a clear look at the history of the discipline and profession with attention to essential principles for practice. It is suited to undergraduate an

The Tyrants of Corinth is the first monograph in English devoted to the archaic tyranny of Corinth and the engaging legends of Cypselus and Periander, which embrace such themes as hidden babies, animal-helpers, arbitrary violence, necrophilia and ven

Storying the Menopause presents a kaleidoscope of multi-faceted lived experience, offering a diverse and illuminating range of stories, foregrounding often hidden voices, which expand our understanding of the menopause in 21st century UK.

This book presents a rare investigation of the media landscape and gender dynamics in Emirati newsrooms, with a socio-cultural focus on the influence of tribal patriarchalism in determining Emirati women’s role as news-makers.

The Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis examines the radical and non-conformist perspectives of both classical and contemporary psychoanalysis.

This book explores how the demise of the traditional language of melancholy lies at the root of contemporary difficulties in engaging with darker aspects of human affective experience within a wider understanding of human nature, contrasting this cap

This book offers approaches to the study of Byzantine dress of elites and non-elites, in sacred and secular modes, from the beginning of the Empire in the fourth century until the fifteenth century.

This is a collection of selected and translated Chinese legends and tales arranged under specific topics important to Chinese culture, with an introduction and reading guide for each piece.