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As cannabis policies relax, what are the risks for youth? This book summarizes scientific evidence on the impact of cannabis on development from infancy to young adulthood, evaluating the consequences for physical, social, and mental health.
As cannabis policies relax, what are the risks for youth? This book summarizes scientific evidence on the impact of cannabis on development from infancy to young adulthood, evaluating the consequences for physical, social, and mental health.
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This book critically examines the historical views of Japanese right-wing scholars, focusing on the post-Cold War intellectual right. Using in-depth case studies, it analyzes representative figures and criticizes their viewpoints on the Japanese cultural invasion of China.
This book critically examines the historical views of Japanese right-wing scholars, focusing on the post-Cold War intellectual right. Using in-depth case studies, it analyzes representative figures and criticizes their viewpoints on the Japanese cultural invasion of China.
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As China’s rise reconfigures the global order, Beijing is reviving ancient religious traditions. This book examines how a rejuvenated Confucian-Daoist-Buddhist ethos may shape modern China and argues for these ideals to remedy the ills afflicting the nation today.
As China’s rise reconfigures the global order, Beijing is reviving ancient religious traditions. This book examines how a rejuvenated Confucian-Daoist-Buddhist ethos may shape modern China and argues for these ideals to remedy the ills afflicting the nation today.
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From Question to Quest
Literary-Philosophical Enquiries into the Challenges of Life
The quest for answers to life's challenges is a human task. This book offers literary-philosophical enquiries into the search for meaning, wisdom, morality, community, suffering, and the longing for immortality.
The quest for answers to life’s challenges is a human task. This book offers literary-philosophical enquiries into the search for meaning, wisdom, morality, community, suffering, and the longing for immortality.
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Representing the Contemporary North American Family
Family Portraits
Central to this book is the idea that the family still plays a pivotal role in North America. Gathering approaches from sociology, politics, media, and literature, these contributions show the centrality of the family as a social, political, legal, and fictional construct.
Central to this book is the idea that the family still plays a pivotal role in North America. Gathering approaches from sociology, politics, media, and literature, these contributions show the centrality of the family as a social, political, legal, and fictional construct.
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Spiritual and Corporeal Selves in India
Approaches in a Global World
This volume explores the union of the corporeal and the spiritual in contemporary India. It offers clues to the East-West encounter and tackles the dualism of mind and body, suggesting a rupture of binary thinking, unlike in Western theory.
This volume explores the union of the corporeal and the spiritual in contemporary India. It offers clues to the East-West encounter and tackles the dualism of mind and body, suggesting a rupture of binary thinking, unlike in Western theory.
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Why Philosophy Matters
20 Lessons on Living Large
This work examines the answers provided by over thirty philosophers to aspects of building character, forging personal relations, promoting sound political strategies, living meaningfully, and dying gracefully. In so doing, over twenty lessons for living a worthy life emerge.
This work examines the answers provided by over thirty philosophers to aspects of building character, forging personal relations, promoting sound political strategies, living meaningfully, and dying gracefully. In so doing, over twenty lessons for living a worthy life emerge.
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Mnemodrama in Action
An Introduction to the Theatre of Alessandro Fersen
Mnemodrama, or a “drama of memory”, is a technique of actor training borne out of experiments conducted by the Italian theatre maker Alessandro Fersen in his studio laboratory in Rome between 1957 and 1983. This work is an introduction to its theory and practice.
Mnemodrama, or a “drama of memory”, is a technique of actor training borne out of experiments conducted by the Italian theatre maker Alessandro Fersen in his studio laboratory in Rome between 1957 and 1983. This work is an introduction to its theory and practice.
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King Hu’s Kung Fu Cinematic Art
An Interdisciplinary Discourse
This analysis explores King Hu’s transformative impact on martial arts cinema. Delving into films like *Dragon Inn* and *A Touch of Zen*, it critiques his representation of women and highlights his mastery of storytelling, cementing his legacy as a pivotal cultural auteur.
This analysis explores King Hu’s transformative impact on martial arts cinema. Delving into films like *Dragon Inn* and *A Touch of Zen*, it critiques his representation of women and highlights his mastery of storytelling, cementing his legacy as a pivotal cultural auteur.
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Time, Accounts, Surplus Meaning
Settings of the Theophanic
This book harvests the author’s work, over several decades, on narrative and time, the place of imagination in conceptual thinking, and the underlying nature of historical accounts.
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Rural Tourism
An International Perspective
Rural tourism is seen as a solution to rural decline, but its benefits are often overstated and unrealistic. This collection questions the contribution tourism makes to rural regions through diverse, research-driven case studies.
Rural tourism is seen as a solution to rural decline, but its benefits are often overstated and unrealistic. This collection questions the contribution tourism makes to rural regions through diverse, research-driven case studies.
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This book explores the relationship between food sovereignty and land grabbing. Through multidisciplinary case studies from around the world, it sheds light on the rush for land, extractivism, and the subsequent popular and indigenous resistance by local communities.
This book explores the relationship between food sovereignty and land grabbing. Through multidisciplinary case studies from around the world, it sheds light on the rush for land, extractivism, and the subsequent popular and indigenous resistance by local communities.
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Activating the Past
History and Memory in the Black Atlantic World
Activating the Past explores how memories of the slave trade in the Black Atlantic retreat into ritual. Though rarely acknowledged, these repressed histories are activated during public festivals and spirit possession in West Africa and the Americas.
Activating the Past explores how memories of the slave trade in the Black Atlantic retreat into ritual. Though rarely acknowledged, these repressed histories are activated during public festivals and spirit possession in West Africa and the Americas.
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Popular Music, Ethnicity and Politics in the Kenya of the 1990s
Okatch Biggy Live at “The Junction”
Okatch Biggy was the single most dominant benga artiste of the 1990s. Mboya analyzes Biggy’s songs as works of art, identifying the aesthetic and rhetorical conventions that are deployed in the songs, and exploring the central messages of the music, and their significance.
Okatch Biggy was the single most dominant benga artiste of the 1990s. Mboya analyzes Biggy’s songs as works of art, identifying the aesthetic and rhetorical conventions that are deployed in the songs, and exploring the central messages of the music, and their significance.
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The Posthuman Imagination
Literature at the Edge of the Human
What does it mean to be human in the Anthropocene? This volume explores posthumanism's response to this crisis through accessible essays. Featuring an interview with philosopher Francesca Ferrando, it explicates the subject through various literary and filmic texts.
What does it mean to be human in the Anthropocene? This volume explores posthumanism’s response to this crisis through accessible essays. Featuring an interview with philosopher Francesca Ferrando, it explicates the subject through various literary and filmic texts.
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The Rise and Fall of Baby Boomers
The Long, Strange Trip of a Generation
The baby boomer generation reshaped the world, but now younger generations blame them for damaging the nation and planet. This fact-based, objective history contextualizes this deep generational divide, a key theme in contemporary American culture.
The baby boomer generation reshaped the world, but now younger generations blame them for damaging the nation and planet. This fact-based, objective history contextualizes this deep generational divide, a key theme in contemporary American culture.
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Professional Discourse across Medicine, Law, and Other Disciplines
Issues and Perspectives
This volume explores the interface between medicine, law, and other disciplines through the lenses of language, discourse, and communication. Contributions cover issues in bioethics and law, nursing ethics, risk management, social inclusion, and environmental ethics.
This volume explores the interface between medicine, law, and other disciplines through the lenses of language, discourse, and communication. Contributions cover issues in bioethics and law, nursing ethics, risk management, social inclusion, and environmental ethics.
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This study highlights the impressive work of television writers, their inspiration, and their talent for mirroring society. It offers original interpretations of TV shows and explores how series have evolved, noting what has been maintained and changed over time.
This study highlights the impressive work of television writers, their inspiration, and their talent for mirroring society. It offers original interpretations of TV shows and explores how series have evolved, noting what has been maintained and changed over time.
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Astrobiology and Humanism
Conversations on Science, Philosophy and Theology
This book reviews the frontiers of humanism as they interact with astrobiology. The existence of life raises deep questions meaningful to both, but disagreements in this dialogue are shown to be due to the delusion that the frontiers of science can be ignored.
This book reviews the frontiers of humanism as they interact with astrobiology. The existence of life raises deep questions meaningful to both, but disagreements in this dialogue are shown to be due to the delusion that the frontiers of science can be ignored.
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Oscar Wilde’s Elegant Republic
Transformation, Dislocation and Fantasy in fin-de-siècle Paris
Using Oscar Wilde as a connecting thread, this monograph navigates the question of Paris’ popularity as a place of both innovation and exile in the late nineteenth century. It uses French, English and American sources to offer an exploration of both the city and its communities.
Using Oscar Wilde as a connecting thread, this monograph navigates the question of Paris’ popularity as a place of both innovation and exile in the late nineteenth century. It uses French, English and American sources to offer an exploration of both the city and its communities.
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