"The thirteen essays collected in 'This earthly stage' explore intersections between the world as stage and the stage as world in late medieval and early modern England. The volume features studies of stages both familiar and unfamiliar, and worlds old and new - from the ritual …
Over the last twenty years, once it was commonly understood that a significant number of Muslim immigrants had created a stable presence in the West, most European and North American governments felt the need to find individuals and organizations that could be identified as repr…
Although Muslims have resided in the United States since the early seventeenth century and have enriched the religious, cultural, and political fabric of our diverse country, the American media has historically portrayed Muslims as barbaric, irrational, and anti-modern non-citiz…
This study examines the links between the recent rise of localities as significant and strategic loci of policy-making and the changing place of the capitalist state in political economy and its spatiality. The city of Gaziantep, located in the Southeastern part of Turkey, const…
« The numerous anti-bullying programs in schools across the United States have done little to reduce the number of reported bullying instances. One reason for this is that little attention has been paid to the role of the media and popular culture in adolescents' bullying and me…
"The use of images, diagrams and pictures - and the related problem of how one thing may represent another - is one of the central problems in philosophy. This is the first book to connect the problem of representational artifacts to philosophy of science, philosophy of mind and…
Biographical note: Tim Mehigan and Barry Empson, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
« Combining compelling storytelling with insightful observation, the book invites readers to take a close look at ten high-profile killings committed by American women. The work exposes the forces that underlie the public's fascination with female killers and determines why thes…