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This book describes the multiple ways in which Black Jews in France practice and claim their Judaism, relate to their fellow Jews, and reconstruct their identities. After fifteen years of fieldwork, Dr. Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot offers an original analysis of their individual and collective itineraries.

This book argues that rights complete rather than undermine the ethical and political vision of Alasdair MacIntyre. It does so through bringing MacIntyre into conversation with medieval historians, contemporary theologians, and postcolonial thinkers, demonstrating how his thought can be extended through their insights.

Augustine's Apocalyptic Political Theology in the Evil Saeculum explores Augustine's political theology, emphasizing his apocalyptic vigilance against the demons of Rome who corrupted the social and political lives of Roman citizens.

The Colonization of Land in Matthew's Gospel proposes a reading of Matthew's Gospel that constructs geographical land as a colonized subject that will be released from Roman control and reasserted under God's rule at Jesus' return. This book brings awareness to the use of the Gospel to justify colonial ideologies over people and their lands.

In this book, the natures and roles of both guru and disciple-as depicted in the Upani¿ads and Dharma ¿¿stras-are discussed and further developed into a paradigm by which to comprehend the ancient and modern expressions of the Guru Tradition. This study is conducted from the perspective of Advaita Ved¿nta, or nondualism.

This book explores the language maintenance of Russian abroad, emphasizing the role of educational ventures and transnational communications facilitated by the internet, pointing to shifts in values and migration expectations, and reflecting on the evolution of diasporic communities and the dynamic adaptation of the Russian language.

This comparative study of teacher attrition in the Global South and OECD countries examines the exceptionality of twenty selected learning leaders in the D.R. Congo, Ghana, and Uganda who have stayed in the teaching profession.

In Climate Crisis and the Kleptocene the author argues that the nullification of all value that competes with exchange value is inherent to the ontology of capitalism, including value associated with sentient life. Despite recent reform efforts to address the climate crisis, capitalism's kleptocratic logic is catastrophic for planetary stability.

Reading Luther and Kierkegaard in dialogue, Carl S. Hughes develops an alternative to the literalism and other-worldliness often characteristic of modern Christianity. Clouds of the Cross in Luther and Kierkegaard's account of revelation as mystical or apophatic theology offers provocative resources for thinking about Christ and the Bible today.

David Botting defends Aristotle as an empiricist against those who see him as a rationalist, focusing on Aristotle's account of how we acquire the first principles of science. The author argues that Aristotle's account is empiricist and that first principles are, perhaps surprisingly, known inferentially and not by intuition.

Contemporary Feminist Art by Women in North Africa examines perceptions of the female body as both a subject and an object of aesthetic discourse in the works of six contemporary Maghrebi female artists. The book includes discussions of several artistic mediums including photography, painting, videos, and installations.

This book argues for the existence of the Queer Coming of Age genre, in which films reveal the unique challenges experienced by queer people during this time of their lives, positing that these films are driven by a political undercurrent advocating for queer acceptance and that they provide guidance for queer people to understand their own lives.

This book critically engages with the Walt Disney Company as a global media conglomerate as they mark their 100th year of business. The chapters include discussions of company management, transmedia presence, and audience engagement as well as content analyses of cultural representations.

Skepticism and the New World: The Anthropological Argument and the Emergence of Modernity shows that the "discovery" of the New World had a transforming impact as a historical event with deep philosophical repercussions, especially for traditional presuppositions about human nature and knowledge.

This book focuses on the role of music and performing arts in facilitating a mind-body unity for positive health.

In Conservative Americanism, the author traces Conservative Americanist ideology between 1854 to 1861 and argues that Border Southerners who joined the American or Know Nothing Party were nativists who believed that foreigners and foreign ideas threatened the institution of slavery and the stability of the Union.

Focusing primarily on Walt Disney World, in a time of unmatched cultural anxiety, the authors use their influential 'tourist as actor' framework to unpack the ways that Disney parks and their guests co-create performances of implicit Americanness through case studies on music, geography and ecology, sports, families, and politics.

This book examines the cultural work and meaning-making of Louisa May Alcott's representations of health and illness. It investigates not only the ways in which her stories critically explore issues of well-being and affliction in nineteenth-century America but also the reparative strategies that her narratives make available.

Centering lived experiences, this volume reveals how discrimination by those in positions of power impact vulnerable and marginalized populations in the areas of criminal justice, sex and violence, immigration, racism, prison, and health.

This edited volume addresses the narrative and stylistic approaches to imbuing natural settings in audiovisual media with a psychological dimension, or, in other words, configuring a 'landscape' to function beyond its typical role as a backdrop-and the cultural contexts for this aesthetic impulse.

This book explores the visual dimensions of metal music from the specific socio-historic, geographic, and political positionality of Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Expressive Self argues the nature of the self lies in the fact that only in one's own case are acts of expression actual episodes of one's self-consciousness. The author provides novel accounts of Moore's paradox, self-deception, and McKinsey's paradox and addresses challenges from self-reference and first-person authority.

This book takes Heidegger to task on gender by assessing his views on women as thinkers and exploring what his work offers to contemporary LGBTQ+ and women's studies. The authors aim not to provide final answers, but to open possibilities for further thinking with, on, against, through, and because of Heidegger.

Written for elementary education teacher preparation programs, this practical book offers a summary of quality general education instruction followed by the most up to date empirically validated and evidence-based instruction and interventions for students with and at-risk for disabilities.

This book argues that the cause of social and political inequalities is above all the dominance of non-Western worldviews. Developing a critical theory and praxis for undoing epistemicide, this book develops the claim that worldviews are necessarily plural as each way of looking at the world reflects a particular perspective on the world.

The most up-to-date and comprehensive photographic field guide to Madagascar's mammals. The island of Madagascar is home to one of the most remarkable assemblages of mammals on earth, thanks to millions of years of isolation, and no other island or place on earth boasts such a combination of species richness and endemism. Field Guide to Mammals of Madagascar describes all native species found on the island, including bats, tenrecs, mice and lemurs, as well as a small number of introduced, non-native species. Detailed species accounts cover description and identification, habitat and distribution, behaviour and where to see; a detailed distribution map for each species is also included. Supporting chapters cover the island's regions and habitats, threats to mammals, conservation and important mammal watching sites. The book is fully illustrated throughout with exceptional, high-quality photography, including species rarely photographed previously.

A fast-paced miniatures game of whimsical fantasy jousting.Grab a lance, jump on your mount, and get ready to joust!While the Hairfoot halflings typically prefer eating and drinking to strenuous exercise, one thing that is sure to stir them from their armchairs is the noble sport of Hairfoot Jousting. Small teams take to the field on the backs of various unruly mounts - pigs, turkeys, sheep, and more - to tilt against their rivals, striving to knock them to the ground with their blunt lances. For the victors: fame, glory, and perhaps a new pair of gardening gloves. For the defeated team... well, everyone loves an underdog, so they'll have more fans cheering them on next time!Hairfoot Jousting is a quick and simple tabletop miniatures game in which players seek to lead their teams of three to victory in tournaments or over the course of a season. Play on some of the most famous pitches to grace the sport, such as Baker's Run, The Puddles, and Barrel Bottom, each with their own special challenges. Point your jousters in the direction of their opponents and hope their mounts don't have their own ideas! In Hairfoot Jousting, sportsmanship and a sense of humour are as valuable as skill or luck - after all, it's joust a bit of fun.