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As the international community debates the current conflict in Iraq, scholars and legal experts are re-examining lessons learned years ago. This volume includes discussions of the unlawfulness of the 1991 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the lawfulness of the international community response, and the Iraqi arguments made at the time against the military response. Topics covered include alternate enforcement mechanisms and maintaining peace and safety...

This edited volume, part of the Humanities and Human Flourishing series, examines the role of cinema and media in the context of human flourishing. The history of cinema is rife with films and genres in which positive cinematic narratives stand out as remarkable and defining achievements. Yet, in the majority of these films, various crises shadow these pursuits, adding obstacles and detours that suggest that films require a narrative drama of ...

This volume, part of the Humanities and Human Flourishing series, is an edited collection focused on the significance of theater in regard to wellbeing and human flourishing. Bridging new scholarship in psychology and positive psychology, with new perspectives in theater and performance studies, this volume features eleven prominent theater and performance studies scholars who offer original, previously unpublished examinations of the social b...

In this fully updated and thoroughly revised second edition of Identity Theory, Peter J. Burke and Jan E. Stets expand their discussion of identity theory to address new theoretical and empirical research in the field. They cover identity characteristics, the processes and outcomes of identity verification, and the operation of an identities to detail in particular the role of emotional, behavioral, and cognitive processes. Written in an acces...

Quietude considers Korean Hiroshima victims' uses of voice, speech, song, and movement in the struggle for national and global recognition, in the ongoing work of negotiating their traumatic past, and in the effort to consolidate and maintain selves and relationships in the present.

In a data-driven analysis of contemporary American attitudes, Dangerous Instrument examines the current state of U.S. civil-military affairs, probing how the public views their military and the effect that partisan tribalism may have on that relationship in the future. Michael A. Robinson studies the sources and potential limits of American trust in the armed services, focusing on the interplay of the public, political parties, media outlets, ...

This pioneering volume illustrates the profound intersectional impact of commercial actors on our sociocultural and physical environments and the necessity for cross-disciplinary communication and collaboration on these critical health issues.

This essential text includes supplementary figures and tables, succinct review flashcards, end-of-chapter questions and answers, as well as end-of-volume exams so readers can review and test their own comprehension. Each chapter has been reviewed by the editors to ensure cohesive board-level verbiage, emphasizing practical clinical knowledge. Neuro-Oncology Compendium for the Boards and Clinical Practice is up-to-date and comprehensive, elimin...

Full of useful stories and advice, Be the Change is an affodable introductory resource on public health advocacy and policy that provides readers with the tools and inspiration to put advocacy into practice every day.

Spanish in Chicago describes the spoken Spanish of Chicago-based Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and MexiRicans across three generations, identifying patterns of change and their likely causes. Through close sociolinguistic analysis of a large corpus of interviews, Kim Potowski and Lourdes Torres trace the effects of language and dialect contact, providing a vital contribution to sociolinguistics and Latino studies.

Explores the new generation spectroscopies, the advanced applications of these new techniques, and the practical difficulties in both performing the experiment and analyzing the data of these innovative techniques.

The United States is home to the most expansive prison system on Earth. In addition to holding nearly a quarter of the world's legal captives, close to two-thirds of those held in U.S. state prisons hold some sort of job while incarcerated. Through insightful first-hand perspectives and rich ethnographic detail, Orange-Collar Labor takes the reader inside the prison workplace, illustrating the formal prison economy as well as the informal blac...

In this book, James H. Lebovic argues that the policy approach to maintain nuclear superiority did not make sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now. As he shows, the idea that nuclear superiority is an imperative still serves as the foundation for too much strategic policy in an era where utility of such weapons is highly questionable. Moreover, continuing to rely on them as coercive tools rests on deficient logic and is danger...

Downsizing and outsourcing have contributed to increased job insecurity and inequality across the industrialized west. But under what conditions do companies take alternative approaches to restructuring that balance market demands for profits with social demands for high quality jobs? Virginia Doellgast compares the US and European telecommunications industries to show how labor can succeed. Market liberalization and shareholder pressure pushe...

In Geopolitics and Democracy, Peter Trubowitz and Brian Burgoon provide a powerful new explanation of why the Western liberal international order-which dominated for a half century after World War II-has buckled under the pressures of anti-globalist political forces in recent times. They trace the anti-globalist backlash to foreign policy decisions made by Western leaders in the decade after the Cold War's end. These decisions sought to global...

Eurydice (the wife of Amyntas III, the mother of Philip II, and grandmother of Alexander the Great) was the first royal Macedonian woman who played a role in the public life of ancient Macedonia. This study examines the nature of her role and the factors that contributed to its expansion.

Debates about masculinity have come to dominate the media landscape. This growing cultural tension around masculinities has been analyzed both for general audiences and in scholarship. What has been typically overlooked, however, is the role that language plays in these mediated performances of masculinity. Robert Lawson furthers our understanding of how language is implicated in (re)creating gender ideologies and how it shapes contemporary ge...

Universal Basic Income is one of the most talked-about ideas of the 21st century. The motivating idea is simple: give people cash and let them do whatever they want with it. But below the surface of this simplicity lurk a number of challenging questions. How much would a UBI cost? Who would be eligible to receive it? Would it discourage work? Would it contribute to inflation? This book provides an objective, expert guide to these and many othe...

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This collection of original essays on philosophical themes in Albert Camus's The Plague is of special relevance during and in the aftermath of Covid-19 but also provides reflections that will be of lasting value to those interested in this classic work of literature.