Examines the increasingly reciprocal nature of Franco-Japanese cultural exchange through films that center on nuclear issues.

Shows how the myth of the American frontier persists as an ever-present, oppressive set of ideas about space, mobility, and race in the mid-twentieth-century literature of Los Angeles.

Draws on Nahua concepts to explore Nahua literary production and contributions to cultural activism from the 1980s to the present.

Multifaceted study of Pennsylvania's coal miners during the post-World War One era.

A collection of original essays and previously untranslated critical writings on the renowned Brazilian documentary filmmaker, Eduardo Coutinho.

Offers an innovative analysis of gates—as architectural components, visual images, and mental constructs—in early Chinese thought and material culture.

Offers a new, interreligious approach to questions of mission and conversion, grounded in a close study of the Chinmaya Mission, Ramakrishna Mission and other movements associated with the Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedānta.

An in-depth sociological investigation of "hope" as it applies to the Italian immigrant experience in the blue-collar suburb of Chicago Heights between 1910 and 1950.

Proposes a form of moral education that joins care and justice to nurture and develop the desirable moral sentiments for a more just world at the interpersonal, social, political economic, and environmental levels.

A pioneering study of a formative chapter in Middle East intellectual history, examining the historical myth that underlies the "Canaanite" brand of Israeli nationalist anti-Zionism.

Turns to theories and cultural representations of psychosocial life to reflect on, and better understand, the challenges of learning in times of social strife.

Examines the forms of support, resources, and opportunities a person with mental illness requires to have the resilience needed for mental health recovery.

Renowned poets and scholars address the question of how poetry sounds and signifies in different contexts.

The facts and legends of New York's famed artistic hub told by one of its key participants.

Aims to rethink Europe under the sign of openness and hospitality, starting from the Mediterranean—the sea that is so important for the history of the entire West—a sea of differences with a deep unitary root conceived as a paradigm for rethinking new and original forms of social and political coexistence.

Poems that step up to our world's disasters, level with its possibilities, and interrogate faith, justice, militarism, madness, and the joy of intimate relationships.

Draws on Guo Xiang's commentary on the Zhuangzi to construct an account of freedom that is both metaphysical and political.

Examines how philosophical concepts like free will, personal identity, and goodness are given an artistic life in films and television programs.

Explores the origins of written communication to offer a counter-history to the separation of rhetoric/composition and technical/professional communication

A history of the world’s mystical traditions.

Explores the varying influence of foreign policy recommendations on education reforms in Chile, Argentina, and Colombia.

Traces the history of the concept of democracy in the United States.

Explores the role of democracy in NATO expansion decisions throughout the organizations history and looking forward into the future.

The exciting story of New York in the progressive era told by the reformers and visionaries who shaped its history,

Drawing on the cases of South Africa, East Timor, Sierra Leone, and the Solomon Islands, examines how Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) have engaged with youth in ways that represent their stories and reflect their substantive participatory capacity as political stakeholders.