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Marital Rape is the first book to examine rape in marriage as a global problem affecting millions of women. While legal and cultural conceptions of marital rape vary widely - from criminal assault to wifely duty - the authors document that forced sex undermines the physical and psychological well-being of women in all cultures.

Entertaining Lisbon explores Portuguese entertainment as a form of negotiation between local, national, and transnational influences on identity. Connecting gender, class, ethnicity, and technology with theatrical repertoires, street sounds, and domestic music making, author Joao Silva investigates popular entertainment in Portugal and its connections with modern life and the rise of nationalism.

This Very Short Introduction provides a narrative interpretation of key themes that emerge in the history of Asian migrations to North America, highlighting how Asian immigration has shaped the evolution of ideological and legal interpretations of America as a 'nation of immigrants'.

The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies offers a full overview of the histories, practices, and critical and theoretical foundations of the rapidly changing landscape of screendance. Drawing on their practices, technologies, theories, and philosophies, scholars from the fields of dance, performance, visual art, cinema and media arts.

The Training Anthology-or TSiksa-samuccaya-is a collection of quotations from Buddhist sutras with commentary by the eighth-century North Indian master Santideva. This annotated translation includes a detailed analysis of the philosophy of the Training Anthology and an introduction to Santideva's cultural and religious contexts.

The Training Anthology-or TSiksa-samuccaya-is a collection of quotations from Buddhist sutras with commentary by the eighth-century North Indian master Santideva. This annotated translation includes a detailed analysis of the philosophy of the Training Anthology and an introduction to Santideva's cultural and religious contexts.

The Oxford Handbook of Substance Use and Substance Use Disorders provides comprehensive reviews of key areas of inquiry into the fundamental nature of substance use and SUDs, their features, causes, consequences, course, treatment, and prevention.

The result of extensive ethnographic fieldwork into oral narratives, written petitions, stories, and testimonies, Tales of Justice and Rituals of Divine Embodiment from the Central Himalayas explores ideas of justice associated with the worship of the 'God of Justice', Goludev, in the Central Himalayan region Kumaon.

Steven P. Hopkins provides a translation-with introduction, textual notes, and thematic commentary-of the Hamsasandesa, a "messenger poem" by saint-poet and philosopher Vedantedesika (c.1268-1369).

Children of Lucifer tells the history of Satanism, from its earliest conception as polemical construct by the Christian Church to its eventual metamorphosis into an actual practiced religion.

Gatekeepers tells the behind-the-scenes stories of how four now-iconic writers (Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Charles Bukowski, Paul Auster and Haruki Murakami) rose from being unknown entities in their own countries to having international reputations.

This edited volume aims at providing a history of the philosophical explorations of eternity, alongside a series of short essays, called reflections, on the role of eternity and its representations in literature, religion, language, liturgy, science, and music.

Moral Motivation provides a history of moral motivation by ten eminent scholars, covering Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Kant, the consequentialists and others. It shows the complexity of the historical treatment of moral motivation and, moreover, how intertwined discussion of moral motivation is with central aspects of ethical theory.

Moral Motivation provides a history of moral motivation by ten eminent scholars, covering Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Kant, the consequentialists and others. It shows the complexity of the historical treatment of moral motivation and, moreover, how intertwined discussion of moral motivation is with central aspects of ethical theory.

A Sociable Moment is the first book to examine the rise of opera in Siena during the Baroque. It focuses both on opera as a manifestation of civic self-fashioning and sociability, especially in pastoral works promoted by the expatriate Chigi family, and opera as business under the impresario Girolamo Gigli.

This volume presents fourteen of William E. Mann's essays on Augustine, Anselm, and Peter Abelard. The topics include Augustine on infant behavior, juvenile wrongdoing, the moral status of plays and dreams, and the problem of evil.

Saints and Spectacle explains, for the first time, how the spectacurlar gold ground mosaics of the Middle Byzantine period were likely conceived. Through a recreation of the circumstances of this time, Saints and Spectacle brings the Middle Byzantine church to life as the witness to a compelling and fascinating drama.

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Discussions on cognitive-neuroenhancement for healthy adults tend to focus on theoretical positions while concrete policy proposals and detailed models are scarce.

The rise of China is the most important development in world affairs. During the past three decades China dramatically modernized its economy and taken a positon as one of the two major powers in the world. For all of its newfound prowess, China's rise has not been a smooth process. The China Reader chronicles and catalogues these complexities.

The Age of Deference traces the Court's role in the rise of judicial deference to executive power since the end of World War II.

Freedom Without Violence offers a critical appraisal of the conventional wisdom that violence is required for liberation and the defense of freedom. Comparing the broad span of violent revolutions with the history of non-violent social movements, the book shows that freedom is indelibly tied to the means used to achieve and defend it.

A great deal of research has been conducted on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Although highly interrelated, these three areas have developed largely independently of one another.

Do things happen for a reason? Is God watching over the course of events? Does the scientific discovery of widespread randomness in nature rule out any role for God? In Abraham's Dice, major scholars explore these questions from multiple perspectives.

Do things happen for a reason? Is God watching over the course of events? Does the scientific discovery of widespread randomness in nature rule out any role for God? In Abraham's Dice, major scholars explore these questions from multiple perspectives.

Written by organizational psychologists for organizational leaders and HR specialists, Work and Sleep: Research Insights for the Workplace discusses the nature of sleep disorders, and how disrupted sleep affects everyday workplace issues and experiences.