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This book explores the rising prevalence of anxiety disorders among children aged 8¿16 by examining the complex interplay of familial dynamics and parenting strategies. It advocates for early screening in schools, technological support, and the transformative power of communication to nurture emotionally resilient children.

This essay collection addresses past and current debates surrounding colonial relics and monuments, colonial vestiges, heritage, gender, narratives of independence, nationhood and national identity. Caribbean enthusiasts, scholars and students will appreciate the diversity of views of these academic post-colonial narratives.

In this volume, twelve scholars focus on the challenges of preserving and editing the writings of a leading but deceased religious figure. The authors examine editorial authority and overreach, noncompliance with scholarly standards, and untransparent editorial changes that have arisen in the books of the Indian master, Swami Prabhup¿da.

This edited collection centers the Cabo Verdean Community in the United States in the last thirty years and explores topics such as race, identities, health, culture, gender relations, education, and immigrant community solidarity from new, critical perspectives.

This collection explores how immersive technologies affect newsmaking and the positive and negative impacts they may have on journalistic norms, professional ethics, audience engagement, and data protection.

This volume discusses issues and themes surrounding communication, social media, online protests, policing, criminal justice reform, and freedom of speech. The contributors offer analyses embracing social justice in the areas of educational and criminal justice reform, as well as communication principles grounded in Africana praxis.

This book is an interdisciplinary work that combines theological anthropology and pneumatology through a postcolonial/decolonial perspective. With the questions about homely space, the author revitalizes the conversation about liminality as a decolonial pulse of the Holy Spirit by carefully examining histories and literature.

This book examines the lives of Muslim women living in Deccan, an area in south India, and collects observations and findings in the field focusing on issues of history and culture, family, education, work, and health.

This book presents a historical overview of vegetal ecocriticism in Taiwan and examines human-plant entanglements on the island.

This book provides a rich analysis of U2¿s songs, unveiling the light of hope amid the darkness of trauma and provide close interpretations of the band¿s lyrics and performances through the lenses of trauma and memory studies.

Explore the transformative potential of international students in shaping the politics of higher education. Moving beyond a focus on the social, cultural, and psychological aspects of the international student experience, this book breaks new ground by examining diverse forms of international student activism, advocacy, and political engagement.

This book examines engagements of daily practices on different types of digital platforms and devices to present a local understanding of geographies of consumption in the digital age from a non-Western perspective and to understand the connections between local cultures and activities in the global development of digital technologies.

Drawing off ninety years of survey data, Zachary Cook argues that younger voters, as a function of the life cycle, tend to believe that government should do more to regulate the business sector to help provide high quality jobs for all.

Athletes might face a myriad of psychosocial difficulties when they retire from professional or elite level competition. This book explores the nuances of those struggles, focusing on identity reconstruction and the processing of grief related to the loss of self and sport.

This book examines the depiction of girls with extraordinary abilities in 2000s Disney sitcoms aimed at tweens. The author argues that a double standard forced the girls, unlike their male counterparts, to hide their superpowers and highlights the impact of these series on cultural ideas of gender and childhood.

In Visions of Statesmanship: A Statesman¿s Imagination and Autonomy, I provide a critical examination of the figure of the statesman as it has been presented in the philosophical reflections of three key thinkers: Plato, Yannis Markrygiannis, and Cornelius Castoriadis.

The authors analyze the impact of COVID-19 on both public administration and the survival of democracy in Eastern Europe. They conclude that the more democratic states in the north, better handled administrative challenges such as corruption, accountability, trust, disease deaths, and election stability than did the states in the south.

This study explores how opposing ideological work, intended as a counterterrorism strategy decodes and defuses al-Qaedäs role in the current radicalization process in conflict and non-conflict areas. In this context it promotes to theological counterterrorism paradigm for current fundamental terror threats.

Politics today appears driven by processes of denomination: 'my' people, community, nation, is external to, even opposed to, yours; and my allegiance is owed to my denomination. This book argues for a deconstruction of the violence embedded in such denominational borders in favour of nonviolent, equitable and sustainable 'neighbourhood democracy'.

This book explores a novel approach to reform the Electoral College to allocate for two electoral votes from each state to the national popular vote winner, in order to bring the American presidential election process more in line with democratic norms and principles.

Hilary Putnam¿s Philosophical Naturalism: Making Philosophy Matter for Life offers a faithful illustration of the trajectory of Putnam¿s thought to show how, despite the shifts in opinion on issues of central philosophical importance, his thought reveals a systematic backbone and strong continuities.

This volume explores the many unique motivations driving the rapid growth of the esports industry from a variety of perspectives and theoretical vantage points. Contributors examine the traditions, cultures, expectations, and rituals that factor into decisions to play and watch esports.

This book critically investigates the standardization of heteronormativity and heteropatriarchal stereotypes. Critiquing the concepts of personhood, performativity, and the post-binary, the chapters deconstruct gender essentialism and embrace gender inclusivity in both theory and practice.

This book examines how supernatural film and television integrate Yiddish dialogue to reimagine and reconstruct haunted and mystical elements of the Jewish experience, illustrating how closely bound up the Yiddish language is with shadowy immigrant pasts and the haunted sites of Holocaust memory.

Autistic-Coded Representation and Autism Stereotypes: Looking for the Spectrum examines the stereotypes that often accompany representations of autism in literature, film, and television. It posits that coded characters offer more human, less one-dimensional representations of autistic people.

Excavating Whiteness follows a group of White teachers as they learned about the role of race in education through an intensive summer course. Each teacher¿s journey is represented in their own words as they worked to understand how White identity is constructed and often misunderstood as a part of teaching.

This book reimagines what it means to be Latina beyond borders and the ¿baggage¿ of cultural categories, definitions, and labels.

This book looks at the Great American Songbook¿s craft and its mastery. Lasser and Greenblatt uncover the essential elements and themes of these beloved songs and investigate the qualities that make the songbook a timeless staple of American culture. Using interesting anecdotes and song analysis, they reveal the genius behind the music.