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Devaluing Public Apologies in the Age of Social Media argues that apologies are losing their meaning because people treat them as strategical tools while ignoring their ethical implications. Recent apologies by celebrities, politicians, and brands are examined to show how apologies need to be rooted in values to be effective.

Religions and brands address fundamental human needs and motivations and their societal functionalities exhibit certain parallels. This book explores this proposition through an analogical abstraction, in accompany with four case studies to assess the hypothetical aspect of this comparative approach in a real-world context.

The Yemenite Children Affair was a tragic crisis in which about 1,000 children died between 1949 and 1954. Over the years, rumors spread that the kids were not dead, but kidnapped. This book tells the story from the health crisis to the investigations and the conspiracy theories that have developed ever since.

This book explores the tumultuous relationships between gender and national identities during the formative period of East Central European nation-building.

This book combines hard science, technology, and progressive planning to reverse climate change, and offers a bold yet practical vision for sustainable living.

Chronicling the forgotten history of Europe's early Muslim communities across the continent, this book reconceptualizes the "age of empire" through the interconnected lives of imperialists, journalists, and Muslim activists who attempted to establish a place for Islam in European society.

Professional Philosophy and Its Myths exposes the myths that govern academic philosophy and keep philosophers from genuine self-knowledge. Only by reimagining what it means to be a philosopher and what it means to do philosophy will contemporary philosophers free their field from its present mythic order.

This volume explores the human-technology relations that both shape modern educational settings and have a decisive influence on what education is and will be in the future. The contributors present empirical evidence to challenge and reframe the goal of education in relation to technology.

This book focuses on the rhetorical dimensions, power, potentialities, and constraints of silent protest.

This book offers a new obstetric quality paradigm to address violations of physical and emotional safety during childbirth hospitalization. It's a vital call for prioritizing Black mothers' expressions, expectations, and experiences in clinical practice, decision-making, and care delivery.

The book offers a comprehensive analysis of the newborn patient within the medical context and provides a nuanced understanding of the newborn's experience and the challenges faced by neonatal medical professionals.

Ethics in Contact Rhetoric re-orients communication theory by centering touch and de-centering symbolic acts. Inspired by MLK's tradition of nonviolent power, a contact orientation highlights the incarnate and immediate ground of communication ethics. Ethical interactions are defined as bio-relational dances arcing steps of nurture, respect, justice, and too often, violence. Centering humanity's physical mutuality is a vital move today. Communication is a thoroughly interactive art, but the West's ancient "instrumental" tradition of rhetoric and its accompanying utilitarian ethic valorize individual agency over joint action. This book re-balances rhetorical theory by enabling critique of embodied relational patterns. Special emphasis is placed on engaging material injustice and discerning the role of rhetoric in social transformation. Critical case studies demonstrate contact rhetoric's rich heuristic and diverse applications.

Built in 1900 near Havana's harbor, Triscornia stood as one of the first migratory centers in the Americas and a symbol of the first U.S. military occupation. This book focuses on this overlooked institution and emphasizes its relevance to understanding the Cuban Republican period and its relationship with the U.S.

This book links the stories, lived and fictional, of Catherine Dickens, Marie Corelli, and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain to demonstrate the trans-imperial dimensions of gender-based oppression and to trace the emergence of trans-imperial feminist consciousness between England and India.

Clair Morrissey defends a novel account of wit as the ability to artfully deploy playful ingenuity with words and behaviors that constitute our everyday shared social landscape. She argues that this aptitude for building human connection should be understood as a virtue, partially constitutive of living a good human life.

Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Sport brings martial arts and Eastern philosophical wisdom together with the competitive world of sports as games. This exploration goes beyond the conventional view of martial arts as fighting skills, delving into their evolution as competitive Olympic sports and profound ways of self-cultivation.

This book provides a historically informed perspective of First Lady of China Soong Mayling's legacy within the context of World War II history, international cultural and military affairs, and transnational geopolitics inflected through gender.

This book provides perspectives from different refugee groups and the resettlement agencies that smooth their transition into a new life context. It discusses how they overcome displacement and cope with trauma and how they remain vulnerable to marginality and delays in economic independence.

Spiritual Practices of South African Clergy: State of the Clergy explores five denominations from the Global South who participated in a study focusing on how clergy practice the disciplines of meditation, prayer, fasting, and Bible study, and the impact those disciplines have on them and their ministry.

This book assesses the prevalence and intensity of intersecting security threats on the small island developing states of the Caribbean Community and explores the various ideologies and responses that impact Caribbean security.

Through extensive ethnography, We are Coast Salish examines the cultural and political responses deployed by the Coast Salish First Nations in response to changes at the Canada/US border after the events of 9/11.

This book explores linguistic representations and cultural conceptualizations of the relationship between time and space in ancient China, as expressed by the I Ching. The I Ching, an ancient Chinese divination manual based on hexagrams, is one of the oldest of the Chinese classics. It is a foundational text for the Confucian and Daoist philosophical traditions. Its hexagrams represent the internal logic of the world or universe as a dynamic whole, alternating the processes of events based on the conceptual unity of space and time and their quantification.This book is the first in-depth examination of time and space and their quantification in the I Ching from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. Through detailed analysis of motion and life metaphors, it argues that space and time, which in turn shapes how quantification is expressed, is a unified concept in China.Offering distinctive Chinese perspectives, this insightful study deals with unsolved issues from experimental research in cognitive and psychological science to further expand the existing linguistic and cultural research field. The book compares the Chinese conceptualization of the unity of space and time with an asymmetric conceptualization of space and time in the West, making an original contribution to the study of space, time and number in language and cognition, and to the understanding of the history of Chinese thought.

60 years on from Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965, this book brings together its most important themes to examine its consequences and offer the most comprehensive overview to date. Situating the UDI in its local, regional and international context, this collection offers a range of historical approaches; political, economic, social, cultural, international and transnational to provide a richer and deeper understanding of contemporary Zimbabwe. From the origins of the UDI, to the response of Britain and the Commonwealth, it explores the implications for US foreign policy, transnational cooperation, the South African liberation movements, oil sanctions, international sports boycotts and African Nationalism. Based on an array of rich archival and oral history sources, this book brings together new ways of understanding the multiple and complex dimensions of Rhodesia's UDI and highlights its importance to wider African and World history.

Brings together oral historians and linguists from around the world to explore the complimentary nature of these two disciplines.

Fifty years after the 1974 Ethiopian revolution, Etana H. Dinka brings together a who's-who of modern Ethiopian studies in order to offer this long-overdue analysis of the revolution and its legacies. With contributions both from seasoned academics-many of whom wrote about the revolution as it developed-and from representatives of a younger generation, this five-part collection offers new insights not only into the revolution itself, but also into issues such as the Red Terror, the EPRDF revolution of 1991, and Abiy Ahmed's repositioning of Ethiopia after 2018. Such wide-ranging analyses cumulatively cast Ethiopia's three successive post-revolution regimes not as separate entities, but rather as successive attempts to fulfil the promise of the revolution surrounding issues such as ethnicity, the nationalities question, economic development, and the land tenure question. In developing this model, the collection captures the defining developments and issues in Ethiopia, the Horn, and the Red Sea region over the past fifty years, and it speaks directly to a global body of knowledge about revolutions; state-making projects and empires; and militarism and military interventions in politics. A unique collection ultimately expands the historical revolutionary analyses of Ethiopian politics and society to the present in order to suggest new ways of ensuring social, economic, and environmental justice for all, this book is a must-read for researchers and upper-level students interested in Ethiopia, the Horn of Africa, African Studies, and revolutionary politics and economics in general.

Enriches Possible Worlds Theory and stylistics by using reader response data and stylistic analysis in a framework of textual possible and actual worlds to explore how literary texts affect readers' emotions.

As social media keeps changing, so does the representation of World Englishes across the wide range of platforms available. This edited volume explores the different varieties of English on various social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, and YouTube.Social media platforms showcase an ever-increasing diversity in languages and varieties of languages used on them. Divided into several parts, the book focuses in turn on language variation in digital contexts, identities and social meaning making, and metalinguistic commentary, and ends with a discussion section providing an overview of World Englishes and social media. Investigating these areas in detail, the book covers a wealth of topics, including ethical questions and research methodology, linguistic features and creativity, and meta-discourse. By offering up-to-date coverage of English use across different platforms, it provides an in-depth insight into the dynamic space of language variation online.

Pursuing a new and timely line of research in world art studies, Humor in Global Contemporary Art is the first edited collection to examine the role of culturally specific humor in contemporary art from a global perspective.Since the 1960s, increasing numbers of artists from around the world have applied humor as a tool for observation, critique, transformation, and debate. Exploring how humorous art produced over the past six decades is anchored in local sociopolitical contexts and translated or misconstrued when exhibited abroad, this book opens new conversations regarding the functioning of humor and the ways in which art travels across the globe. With contributions by an impressive array of internationally based scholars covering six major continental regions, the book is organized into four distinct geographical sections: Africa and the Middle East, Asia and Oceania, South and North America, and Europe. This structure highlights the cultural specificity of each region while the book as a whole offers a critical perspective on the postcolonial, globalized art network.Reflecting on present-day processes of globalization and biennialization, which confront viewers with humorous art from a variety of cultures and countries, this book will provide readers with a culturally sensitive understanding of how humor has become vital to many contemporary artists working in an unprecedentedly interconnected world.