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Power and Urban Space in Pre-Modern Holland
Cities and urban societies have many faces. In this study, the pre-modern cities of Holland are presented as arenas where power relations between social classes are expressed in a …
Slurs and Expressivity
Slurs and Expressivity: Semantics and Beyond, edited by Eleonora Orlando and Andres Saab,focuses on the analysis of the expressive aspects of slur-words, namely, those words prima …
Confucian Ren and Feminist Ethics of Care
The rehabilitation of Confucian tradition raised new challenges to Chinese feminist thinkers. Can a Confucian ideal of reciprocity help women realize their equality? What is the …
Fantasy and the Politics of Subversion
Focusing on a corpus of fantasy texts written in colonial India during the late 19th and early 20th century, this book explores the origins, motivations, nature, and role of …
Beyond the Bake Sale
If food is nourishment to a person, money is sustenance for most nonprofit organizations. Yet many small organizations rely on one-off efforts and get-rich events in place of real …
Reading and Writing in the Anthropocene
Situated in the context of environmental thought in literary studies in particular and the humanities more generally, this book claims that literature is a crucial “force” for …
Cultural Antagonism and the Crisis of Reality in Latin America
For most of the 20th century, Latin American literature and art have contested political and cultural projects of homogenization of a manifestly diverse continent. Cultural …
Let's Talk About the Birds and the Bees
From the author of How Are You Feeling Today? and Will You Be My Friend? comes a picture book all about the birds and the bees (sex education).It's natural for young children to …
Contemporary Case Studies in Clinical Mental Health for Children and Adolescents
Practicing counselors, psychologists, social workers, and graduate students emerging into mental health professions are often faced with complex cases that do not conform neatly to …
Lgbtq+ and Healthcare in America
Considers the issues that impact healthcare for LGBTQ+ Americans today and the negative influences that disproportionately affect the well-being of these communities, and presents …
Law and the Whirligig of Time
For over 30 years, first as a QC, then as a judge, and latterly as a visiting professor of law at Oxford, Stephen Sedley has written and lectured about aspects of the law that do …
Classicism and the Construction of Capital Cities
Exploring the intriguing interplay between tradition and modernity in the 19th-century capitals of London, Athens and Rome, Richard Alston delves into the political and …