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Scarlett is sixteen. Shes glad to be finishing high school because she feels unpopular and not especially attractive. Following the mysterious disappearance of her father, and then an attempted date-rape by her best friends older brother, Scarlett is confused, friendless …
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Video Games and the Interplay between Consoles and Culture
Once considered niche, fringe, and the hobby of only outsiders or loners, video games have rapidly become one of the most popular and influential artistic forms of this century. Their imagery is near ubiquitouschildren, adults, and even professional athletes know …
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A Spiritual Toolkit for the Emerging Reality
Powerful ancient and leading edge visions and teachings for healing ourselves and our world through meditation prayer and sacred plant practices.
Sharing the same prison cell crammed with teachers, doctors, and mothers with babies, a Kurdish female journalist conveys the story of persecution under an authoritarian regime in present-day Turkey. It is not only Kurds, the Orphan Nation of Mesopotamia, she …
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Poems and Musings
With impassioned feeling and succinct insight, Zdravko Stefanovic guides his reader's hearts to a deeper and truer place, while simultaneously lifting their minds to experience a higher plane of consciousness. He writes with such wisdom and grace, gently contemplating the …
View book details for Digital Zombies, Undead Stories
Narrative Emergence and Videogames
Through analysis of three case study videogames Left 4 Dead 2, DayZ and Minecraft and their online player communities, Digital Zombies, Undead Stories develops a framework for understanding how collective gameplay generates experiences of narrative, as well as the narrative …
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A Critical Response to Recent Catholic Debate Concerning the Intermediate State
Christians look with hope to the resurrection of the dead and the restoration of all things. But what of those who have already died? Do they also await these things, or have they in some sense already happened for them? …
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A Feminist Approach to Religious Pluralism
In a world where religion often fuels ethnic and racial conflicts, and where passionate allegiance to rival creeds engenders violent antagonism among members of the same family, dwellers in the same neighborhood, citizens of the same country, no one can …
View book details for Creative Activism
Conversations on Music, Film, Literature, and Other Radical Arts
This collection brings together interviews with a compelling range of musicians, artists, and activists from around the globe. What does it mean for an artist to be political? Moving away from a narrow idea about politics that is organized around …
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Composition with Auditory Phantasmatic Presence
In this book, Barbara Ellison and Thomas B. W. Bailey lay out and explore the mystifying and evanescent musical territory of 'sonic phantoms': auditory illusions within the musical material that convey a 'phantasmatic' presence. Structured around a large body of …
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Gnostic Exegesis of the Pauline Letters
In this highly original work, Elaine Pagels demonstrates how evidence from gnostic sources may challenge the assumption that Paul writes his letters to combat "gnostic opponents" and to repudiate their claims to secret wisdom. Drawing upon evidence from the gnostic …
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The Jewish Scribal Framework of Matthew's Gospel
Matthew's community, contrary to what many scholars believe, was a cosmopolitan, wealthy Jewish Christian community located in Galilee. Gale concludes that Matthew's community was a conservative Christian community located in Galilee that still believed the laws of the Torah were …
View book details for The Organic Globalizer
Hip Hop, Political Development, and Movement Culture
The Organic Globalizer is a collection of critical essays which takes the position that hip-hop holds political significance through an understanding of its ability to at once raise cultural awareness, expand civil society's focus on social and economic justice through …
Critical Theory in the Twenty-First Century provides a thorough overview of critical theory, looking at its history and shortfalls.First, the book explains the developments from the Frankfurt School and from more recent schools of thought, including Derrida, Deleuze, deconstruction, and …
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Poetic Migration, Auditory Memory
Written by one of the most prominent thinkers in sound studies, Amplifications presents a perspective on sound narrated through the experiences of a sound artist and writer. A work of reflective philosophy, Amplifications sits at the intersection of history, creative …
View book details for #MeToo and Literary Studies
Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture
Literature has always recorded a history of patriarchy, sexual violence, and resistance. Academics have been using literature to expose and critique this violence and domination for half a century. But the continued potency of #MeToo after its 2017 explosion adds …
View book details for From Q to "Secret" Mark
A Composition History of the Earliest Narrative Theology
The literary complexity and the theological nuances of the Gospel of Mark did not spring from the evangelist's pen at a single sitting. The evangelist we call "Mark" composed segments of our present gospel for different situations, over an extended …
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A Vital Ethology of Extreme Cinemas
For Elena del Rio, extreme cinema is not only qualitatively different from the representations of violence we encounter in popular, mainstream cinema; it also constitutes a critique of the socio-moral system that produces (in every sense of the word) such …
View book details for The Metaphor of the Monster
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding the Monstrous Other in Literature
The Metaphor of the Monster offers fresh perspectives and a variety of disciplinary approaches to the ever-broadening field of monster studies. The eclectic group of contributors to this volume represents areas of study not generally considered under the purview of …
View book details for Conflict Resolution of the Boruca Hydro-Energy Project
Renewable Energy Production in Costa Rica
A case study that profiles the best practices for sustainable development, indigenous human rights, and conflict resolution, providing original insights into Latin American environmental and development politics.
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Manufacturing Realism in the Industrial Age of Print
Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures (Awarded by the MLA)With an innovative approach that combines material media history, media theory, and literary poetics, this book reconstructs the great German writer Theodor …
The Introspective Art of Mark Twain is a major new assessment of a towering American writer. Seeking to trace the development of Mark Twain's imagination, Douglas Anderson begins near the end of Twain's life, with the long dialogue What Is …
The Scottish philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) was as a pioneer of political economy. In fact, his economic thought became the foundation of classical economics and his key work, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, …
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Mimesis and the Short Story
Contrary to the common view that cultural modernism is a broadly anti-mimetic movement, one which turned away from traditional artistic goals of representing the world, Rhythmic Modernism argues that rhythm and mimesis are central to modernist aesthetics. Through detailed close …
Since the dawn of the Enlightenment, modernity and the Papacy have experienced a difficult though never severed relationship. The Modern Papacy goes beyond the caricatures to demonstrate how the popes - specifically John Paul II and Benedict XVI - have …
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