Society and culture: general

It was almost November 2012 when Hurricane Sandy, a late arrival in an otherwise quiet tropical season, slammed into the Mid-Atlantic US coastline.

Play & Culture Studies is a bi-annual, peer-reviewed series published by the Association for the Study of Play.

On March 27, 1933, representatives from across the American religious spectrum came to Madison Square Garden, united in a shared purpose to speak out against the rise of fascism in Germany and Adolph Hitler's seizure of power.

Seventy years ago, an Ivy League-educated lawyer, his wife from a prominent Midwestern media family, and their four children moved to a small town in Southwestern Colorado.

The Electrified Mind helps therapists understand and empathize with patients who rely heavily upon cell phones and the internet for the purposes of self-expression as well as for defensive avoidance of actual interpersonal contact.

A Twentieth-Century Collision explores intellectual culture in the United States during the twentieth century, a topic which cannot be understood without attention to the gradual narrowing of the scope of (academic) philosophy and its diminishing influence.

Exit Narratives examines what constitutes good teaching and engaged learning and how to use this knowledge to support teachers in their efforts to create learning environments that encourage academic mastery and nourish students as social beings.

Would our lives, relationships and careers be better if we just STFU for a while?

Law is often perceived as an instrument that can effect social change.

A 5-year-old boy, Ethan, is brought to Casey in the middle of the night after the sudden death of his young mother after a drug overdose.

Postmodern Racial Dialectics is a collection of ten essays on African American philosophy.

Since 2015, the 'refugee crisis' is possibly the most photographed humanitarian crises in history.

In the vast literature on the way democratic governments work, the role of the press is often overlooked.

It's time to remake the world - the ground-breaking book on what steps we should all be taking for the autistic people in our lives.

Over the last fifteen years, Stephen Hess has become a leading and much-quoted authority on Washington government and the media.

African Son is a record of the author's many trips to Africa-as a Peace Corps volunteer, Fulbright scholar, teacher, and traveler-over the course of thirty years.

This book investigates the impact of culture-based learning among secondary school children in India.

International trade plays an enormous role in economic growth and prosperity.

This groundbreaking book edited by Terence Hicks, a quantitative research professor, and Abul Pitre, a qualitative research professor, builds upon the usefulness of each research method and integrates them by providing valuable findings on a diverse group of college students.

This book reviews the achievements of American women in the American economy; in education; in government; in religion; in the military; in law enforcement and in communications.

This work probes into the socio-political and cultural setting in South Texas (1915-1992) via data found in the private archival collection of Adela Sloss-Vento; it focuses on her role as an activist, writer and civil/human rights pioneer.

In What the Village Gave Me, the contributors-all women of color-present their varied experiences regarding the conceptualizations of womanhood, beauty, and gender roles.

From Balewa's declaration, 'Today is Independence Day,' to Azikiwe's impassioned plea, 'Let us bind the nation's wound and let us heal the breaches of the past so that in forging our nation there shall emerge on this continent a hate-free, fear-free, and greed-free people,' to Buhari's patriotic fervor, 'This generation [of Nigerians].

Political Scandals: The Consequences of Temporary Gratification questions whether the consequences associated with non-sex-based scandals carry greater penalties than sex-based political scandals in the twenty-first century.

The book makes serious theoretical contribution to the field of political economy in indigenous development, public policy, sociology and development studies.

This book argues that vegetarian and vegan people should be guaranteed the right to eat according to their beliefs.

This is the moving story of a number of individuals who made the difficult and sometimes hazardous decision to leave their home, family, and friends and start new lives in Israel and the United States.

Teaching Teens About Relationships describes how to teach a relationships course for adolescents.

Executed Women of the 20th and 21st Centuries provides a look into the lives, crimes, and executions of women during the 20th and 21st centuries.

Communication, Culture, and Human Rights in Africa provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary analysis of the interface between human rights and civil society, the media, gender, education, religion, health communication, and political processes in sub-Saharan Africa.

Japan, although a small country, is identified as perhaps the only civilization composed of just one nation.

Failure to Launch is a book geared towards helping clinicians work with dependent adult children.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic surged across the globe, several decades of unprecedented population shifts created a worldwide "e;asylum crisis"e; that impacted millions of children and the educators that support them worldwide (Pinson & Arnot, 2007).

A positive agenda for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030All 193 member nations of the United Nations agreed in September 2015 to adopt a set of seventeen "e;Sustainable Development Goals,"e; to be achieved by 2030.

The death by famine of tens of millions of human beings in Asia and Africa during the Victorian era (1837-1901) is "e;the secret history of the nineteenth century"e; about which Western history books contain nothing.

Today's educators are aware of the need for social emotional learning in their classroom and can share the tenets of a culturally responsive pedagogy.

Most Americans regard the postwar Occupation of Japan as a prime example of American magnanimity.

Financial advisor and TV presenter Emmanuel Asuquo, is here to prove that learning about money does not have to be boring, especially as we battle through the current cost of living crisis.

Many of America's greatest artists, scientists, investors, educators, and entrepreneurs have come from abroad.

Studying Charles Tilly (1929-2008), American sociologist, historian and political scientist, is essential for understanding political change and social conflict.

Power and Influence demonstrates how the indigenous wisdom contained in African proverbs and folktales can be used to enhance modern life.

Julie Peteet offers a fascinating tour through the rich cultural history of hammams, or baths, in the Mediterranean and Middle East.

Most Americans regard the postwar Occupation of Japan as a prime example of American magnanimity.

Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting: Keeping the Child's Mind in Mind describes the Center for Reflective Parenting and techniques developed at the Center for helping parents to be able to understand and reflect on their children's emotional states, as a way of helping them to be more effective parents.

Sexuality is a basic feature of human life.

In Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment, Dr.

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Animal Minds, Animal Souls, Animal Rights explores the thinking of philosophers and theologians about controversies concerning animal consciousness and animal rights.

From the author:When Citadel Values went to press, we began looking for an educational tool to capture the lessons and fortify our students in the greater world beyond the Lesesne Gate.