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The first philosophical study devoted solely to acting, offering a meditation on the spillover from acting to life

An engaging exploration of the legal and policy questions surrounding U.S. national security and international travel

Economic integration fosters regional peace

The U.S. Supreme Court and the Congressional Black Caucus disagree over how best to protect minority voting rights

The first book-length study of one of the most essential elements of hip-hop: musical borrowing

American history as theater, and theater as the heart of American life

An exploration of the conflict between traditional Chinese ideology and modern Chinese business practice

A new critical perspective on Kerouac's work and his textual practices.

Tracks adherence to and defiance of presidential term limits in all types of regimes around the world since 1960. Drawing on original data collection and fieldwork to investigate the factors that encourage playing by or manipulating the rules, he asks what is at stake for the chief executive if he relinquishes office.

The 1000-page book covers theoretical models, system design and operation, and geoscientific applications of active and passive microwave remote sensing systems. It is designed as a textbook for a postgraduate course, as well as a reference for the practicing professional. To facilitate understanding and use of the material, the book includes 50 MATLAB-based computer codes and the book's website includes interactive modules based on theoretical and empirical models. The book is a must-have for every scientist and engineer with interest in microwave remote sensing.

Surveying writing about breast, uterine, and ovarian cancer, this book includes works by Marilyn Hacker, Margaret Edson, Carole Maso, Audre Lorde, Eve Sedgwick, Mahasweta Devi, Lucille Clifton, Alicia Ostriker, Jayne Anne Phillips, Terry Tempest Williams and Jeanette Winterson, among many others. It brings insights from several theories.

The Micase Corpus tracked spoken English in a variety of university settings - lectures, language labs, advising sessions, department meetings, and others. This work contains a set of abstracts of each of the 152 speech events in the original MICASE database. The abstracts provide contextual background on each of the speech events of the corpus.

Timely critical insights into today's growing initiative in publicly engaged scholarship

Focuses on the building blocks of successful fiction, including dialogue, characters, dramatic events, openings and closings, and the issue of sentiment versus sentimentality. This edition incorporates three chapters, which discuss the prose sentence, narrative context, and implicit narrative.

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's own time, other New England writers harshly condemned his views on abolitionism and slavery. This title takes a look at the historical and biographical record and offers readings of Hawthorne that reveal striking evidence of his true political values and beliefs.

A unique and beautifully illustrated field and reference guide to the true butterflies of the Great Lakes watershed

Clarifies the state of knowledge about the effects of foreign commerce on political-military relations and identifies the avenues of new research needed to improve our understanding of this relationship. Contributors offer insights into the political economy of national security, the causes of war, and the politics of global economic relations.

In 1989, the Michigan MozartFest brought expert performers, instrument makers, critics, music theorists, and musicologists together for the first symposium devoted exclusively to Mozart's piano concertos. The twenty-one essays in this volume, culled from that event, richly broaden our understanding of this corpus.

Explores how North Korean state-sponsored propaganda performances - including public spectacles, theater, film, and other visual media including posters - shape everyday practice in a country where the performing arts are not only a means of entertainment but also a forceful institution used to regulate, educate, and mobilize people.

In Ceremony and Power analyzes the relationship between political power and public ceremonial in the period between Julius Caesar and the first emperor Augustus.

Traces a rebellious spirit in post-civil rights black music by focusing on a range of offbeat, eccentric, queer, or slippery performances by leading musicians influenced by the cultural changes brought about by the civil rights, black nationalist, feminist, and LGBTQ movements, who through reinvention created a repertoire of performances that have left a lasting mark on popular music.

The Jewish Culture League was created in Berlin in June 1933, the only organization in Nazi Germany in which Jews were not only allowed, but encouraged, to participate in music, both as performers and as audience members. This book intends to investigate and parse the complicated questions the existence of this unique organization raised.

A groundbreaking study of the intersection of popular music and disability