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Stepfather-Stepson Communication
Social Support in Stepfamily Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This book offers a novel analysis of communication in stepfather-stepson relationships and is one of the first to examine the ways stepfathers communicate and to integrate the perspectives of adolescents into research on stepfamily communication. In order to understand the complex dynamics of stepfamilies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
From serious illness to natural disasters, humans turn to communication as a major source of strength to help us bounce back and to keep growing and thriving.
Communicating Hope and Resilience Across the Lifespan addresses the various ways in which communication plays an important role in fostering...
Sociolinguistic Change Across the Spanish-Speaking World
Case Studies in Honor of Anna María Escobar
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
This collection of essays presents cutting-edge research in Hispanic sociolinguistics. They include studies on language variation and change, contact varieties, language use, perception, and attitudes and focus on language varieties such as Peruvian Spanish, Mexican Spanish on the U.S. – Mexican...
Antifragility of Islamic Finance
The Risk-Sharing Alternative
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Antifragility of Islamic Finance: The Risk-Sharing Alternative explains how risk-sharing, as defined under Islamic finance, makes financial systems antifragile. It highlights the benefits of 100% equity-based finance over debt-based finance.
The recent financial crisis has given rise to discussions...
by Ygnacio Flores
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
The Pedagogy of Violent Extremism is the first critical analysis of violent extremism via the lens of pedagogical development that considers the nation as an all-encompassing learning environment. Presented through a critical perspective on violent extremism resulting from hegemonic provocation, Flores...
Communities for Social Change
Practicing Equality and Social Justice in Youth and Community Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Communities for Social Change: Practicing Equality and Social Justice in Youth and Community Work examines core ideas of social justice and equality that underpin community and youth work. It informs understanding of a range of community concepts and practices that are used to identify practical skills...
Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories
Self-representations in New Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Recent years have seen amateur personal stories, focusing on «me», flourish on social networking sites and in digital storytelling workshops. The resulting digital stories could be called «mediatized stories». This book deals with these self-representational stories, aiming to understand the transformations...
Tomboys and Other Gender Heroes
Confessions from the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Have you ever been told that you’re too girlish or too boyish? We are all potential targets of the gender police, some more so than others. And how did you respond? Did you hide or change or rebel or hurt or gleefully celebrate your style? Tomboys and Other Gender Heroes is a study that brings together...
Realism and Its Vicissitudes
Essays in Honor of Sandy Petrey
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
This collection honors the career of Donald «Sandy» Petrey, Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook for over forty years. The diversity of essays – written by colleagues, friends, and former students, and ranging in subject from the traditional Festschrift...
The «Dexter Syndrome»
The Serial Killer in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
The serial killer has become an obsession ever since Jack the Ripper became a media sensation, embedding a new and horrifying type of murderer into our cultural consciousness – one who kills darkly and in the dark. All popular media – print, radio, television, and so on – have become absorbed...
Consuming Bollywood
Gender, Globalization and Media in the Indian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Consuming Bollywood is a major activity in the Indian diaspora and the revenue generated from diasporic audiences is growing exponentially. By combining extended qualitative interviews and textual analysis, this book provides an insightful analysis of how the women who are socially located in the...
A Black Woman's Journey from Cotton Picking to College Professor
Lessons about Race, Class, and Gender in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
A Black Woman's Journey from Cotton Picking to College Professor: Lessons about Race, Class, and Gender in America traces the journey and transformation of Mildred Sirls, a young Black girl in rural east Texas in the 1930s who picked cotton to help her family survive, to Dr. Mildred Pratt, Professor...
Rise of the Early Roman Republic
Reflections on Becoming Roman
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
An audaciously daring narrative, this text presents an overview of the early history of Rome, focusing the reader’s attention to those distinctive and often hidden cultural features that contributed to create a unique ancient Roman mindset and civic outlook. Using an historical format, Thomas L....
Fighting for Our Place in the Sun
Malcolm X and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement 19601973
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In Fighting for Our Place in the Sun, Richard D. Benson II examines the life of Malcolm X as not only a radical political figure, but also as a teacher and mentor. The book illuminates the untold tenets of Malcolm X’s educational philosophy, and also traces a historical trajectory of Black activists...