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Gifted with an extraordinary mind, an intense spiritual passion, and an awesome charisma, Anne Hutchinson arrived in Massachusetts in 1634 and established herself as a leader of women. She held private religious meetings in her home and later began to deliver her own sermons. She inspired a large number of disciples who challenged the colony's political, social, and ideological foundations, and scarcely three years after her arrival, Hutchinson was recognized as theprimary disrupter of consensus and order - she was then banished as a heretic. The Passion of Anne Hutchinson examines issues of gender, patriarchical order, and empowerment in Puritan society through the story of a woman who sought to preach, inspire, and disrupt.

The number and size of dead zones, uninhabitable zones in our water, are on the rise. In this book, David L. Kirchman explains how they were discovered and what we can do to reduce their threat on human and aquatic life.

Misused, abused, diverted, and counterfeited, benzodiazepines have serious potential for substance use disorder, and are among the leading causes of drug-related overdose deaths. Evidence indicates that prolonged use of benzodiazepines causes a wide range of adverse reactions, and withdrawal can be particularly challenging. Nevertheless, these negative aspects have yet to be thoroughly addressed within the medical community and remain virtually unknown to patients.This book offers an in-depth discussion of the downsides of this overused class of drugs and calls for their rational and dramatically reduced usage.

Urban Gun Violence explains the abuse of automatic weapons and identifies way to mitigate this abuse.

Redefining mental health to both promote psychological well-being as well as treat psychopathological disorders is a game changer for school mental health. Fostering the Emotional Well-Being of Our Youth describes what this paradigm shift means for school mental health practices: why the promotion of students' well-being is so important; how this new paradigm will change day-to-day practices of school mental health professionals; and what the outcomes willbe for students, educators, and the schools. The book's chapters are written by some of the foremost researchers and scholars in school mental health practices, and their work will shape the profession's adaption and application of dual-factor mental health in future decades.

The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience and Global Mental Health is the first ever comprehensive overview of this field. It explores how culture influences and affects the neurobiological mechanisms underlying mental health, and the disparities that exist in the treatment of mental health across the world.

Long before Wikileaks and social media, the journalist Drew Pearson exposed to public view information that public officials tried not to reveal. A self-professed

Between the Ottomans and the Entente presents a social history of World War I in the Syrian and Lebanese diaspora in North and South America. Working from the passports, petitions, and propaganda written by migrant activists, it documents Ottoman and French imperial projects to claim Syrian migrants for state-building and highlights nationalist resistance from abroad.

Despite the increasing public and academic interest in exonerations, Wrongful Conviction in Sexual Assault is the first book to examine the preponderance of sexual assault cases among US wrongful convictions. The book presents compelling coverage of high-profile wrongful conviction cases, and also lesser known cases, that reveal disturbing patterns and demand attention.

How the Economy Works is a vital, elucidating look at macroeconomics--how it developed and why it matters today. By explaining, comparing, and finally combining classical and Keynesian economics, Roger Farmer shows how to design ways of correcting the excesses of free market economies that preserve the best features of capitalism, without stifling entrepreneurship.

This unique introduction emphasizes how ancient Scandinavians understood and made use of their mythological stories.

How does contemporary right-wing media work? In Beyond Bias, author Scott Krzych untangles recent right-wing documentary film and video to show how it privileges form over content and marshals incoherence as its prized aesthetic and rhetorical weapon.

Author Paul Bowman recasts our understanding of the history of martial arts, showing how Western media representations in the 1970s not only popularized the concept but actively created 'martial arts' as a recognizable idea and cultural phenomenon.

In The Consumer Citizen, Ethan Porter investigates how the techniques of everyday consumer experiences can shape political behavior. Drawing on more than a dozen original studies, he shows that the casual conflation of consumer and political decisions has profound implications for how Americans think about politics.

Horace's Odes are one of the greatest achievements of Latin literature. Richard Tarrant situates the Odes in the context of Horace's poetic career and defines their relationship to earlier literature. A number of poems are analyzed in detail, illustrating Horace's range of subject matter and his characteristic techniques of form and structure.

Soviet Art House provides a unique look into a Soviet film studio from the 1960s to the years leading up to the collapse of the Soviet Union. It tells the story of how filmmakers struggled with and overcame ideological and economic constraints to create oppositional and highly original movies in an authoritarian society.

Notes for Violists offers key historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the best-known pieces written for viola. Its engaging prose, detailed analytical charts, and rich contextual and theoretical insights make it an indispensable guide for professional, amateur, and student violists.