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The global economic edifice built after World War II, was a source of unprecedented prosperity, and could not have functioned without open and predictable international trade and the peaceful international relations that are its foundation. The rules that enable trade are outdated and under attack. Social divisions and great power rivalry have eroded the political support for open trade. The consequence is fragmentation of world trade, its separation into blocks that advance domestic producers or most favored nations nearby. These blocs are themselves often pulled by competing agendas. The prospects are for vastly reduced economic efficiency and - most ominously - heightened geopolitical tensions.The questions about why this is happening, how economic fragmentation will evolve, and how to respond to it, are today uppermost in the minds of policymakers and businesses across the world. These are the questions that Uri Dadush seeks to answer in Geopolitics, Trade Blocks, and the Fragmentation of World Commerce. The world economy is already mired in profound trade uncertainty, which is likely to persist. Since it cannot be dispelled, the uncertainty must be better managed.

This book explores rhetorics produced about and by the women involved in the World War II era Women Airforce Service Pilots program. The author utilizes feminist and classical rhetorical concepts to illustrate how the women closest to the program communicated to supporters and detractors of their labor in military aviation.

Although she never penned a text dedicated exclusively to ethics, Edith Stein's work encompasses an implicit, but self-consciously developed, moral philosophy not yet sufficiently developed in the current English-language literature. However, comparison of Stein's anthropological and metaphysical theories against the ethical philosophy of other early phenomenological thinkers, such as Max Scheler and Edmund Husserl, reveals lines of moral theory woven throughout her texts. In On the Ethical Philosophy of Edith Stein: Outlines of Morality, William E. Tullius endeavors to present a systematic account of Stein's moral thought as it takes shape in conversation with neo-scholasticism and develops across her corpus in conversation with her philosophical anthropology, axiological theory, and metaphysics. The ethics which emerge from these sources is oriented around the moral project of the development of personality through the unfolding of one's personal core and which entails a call to the development of an ethical community reflective of and oriented by its responsiveness to the highest values and to the communal destiny of all humanity in God

Perception and Its Content elucidates the content of perception by arguing such content is conceptual, propositional, and world dependent. This view sheds light on the relationship between the mind and the world and clarifies in what sense perception provides non-inferential knowledge about empirical reality.

This book explores Tamil Dalit feminist poets challenging Tamil literary tradition with poetics that reinvent language, form, and content. They present their radical poems shedding rich insight on the violence of patriarchal and caste supremacy on the Dalit body, while affirming Dalit spirituality, music, culture, nature, and democracy.

Using a multi-disciplinary approach to the Amazigh art of weaving, the author argues that women's ancestral rug designs inspired the Amazigh alphabet Tifinagh. In doing so, the book sheds new light on the active role women played in the process of codifying the Amazigh language.

This book traces the development of reconciliation in Mozambique from the signing of the General Peace Agreement (GPA) in 1992 to the present day. Based on an original operationalized conceptualization of reconciliation, the author challenges the understanding that the country was once reconciled and argues for a new Mozambican solution.

This book examines Chicago's controversial Drill rap scene, emphasizing both the technology that allows Drill rappers to gain visibility through exploitation of stereotypes and the social processes through which Drill rappers and cultural workers organize themselves around platforms.

This book elucidates the ways post-cinema engages with potential futures, arguing that the morph is the crucial figure to understand both how the future is constrained and how hope for the future might be produced. The author draws on Deleuzian and Whiteheadian insights to argue for a new model of digital cinema.

Alyson R. Buckman argues that Star Trek: Discovery moves from the liberal humanism presented in the original series to an intersectional humanism by analyzing its representation of posthumanism, becoming-animal, leadership, parenting, intimacy, and trauma.

This book examines how modern society arrived at such a destructive environmental and social stage, suggesting that three great crises have converged: climate change, capitalism as a logic system, and questions of consumer society and social identity.

This book examines how California Indigenous groups forged a new economy based on cattle, opening the door to the assertion and recognition of American Indian sovereignty over ancestral lands by the United States. Shanta reflects on how they survived, kept their cultures alive, and gained recognition of their sovereign status.

This book elucidates the citizenship experiences of marginalized groups in urban Australia under neoliberal governance, and identifies a new sense of belonging based on care ethics that has developed among these groups, beyond racial and ethnic differences that could challenge neoliberal ideology.

Labor Market Dynamics in Turkey during the Last 100 Years, allows readers to discover the subtle aspects of the labor market's development in Turkey. This thorough study examines important topics including gender inequality, unionization, migration, young employment, and the effects of economic crises.

This book addresses the mythical language that, whether recognized or not, infuses formulations of Christian doctrine, arguing that unwarranted expectations that such language expresses historical, ontological, or scientific truth obfuscates the true power of myth to mediate an engagement with mystery to an extent that other genres cannot.

Cartographies of Postcolonial Vegetal Politics resorts to Deleuzo-Guattarian grammar to enunciate the productive disjunctures of vegetality while cartographizing differential repetitions of postcolonial vegetal politics.

This book argues that Carl Schmitt is useful in explaining and bringing order to the apparent chaos of Trumpism. Adams uses this understanding to argue that Trumpism, rather than representing a return to American constitutional principles, is an abandonment of them.

This volume examines the intergenerational transmission of religion, spirituality, and secularity. The authors treat intergenerational religious influence as occurring under national-historical conditions that variously reinforce or inhibit the reproduction of religious beliefs and practices across generations.

This book demonstrates the rhetorical strategies present in mainstream popular music and how those strategies are implemented to empower resistance.

In The Habits of Race and Faith in a Religiously Diverse World, Mara Brecht argues that by understanding the entanglements of whiteness and Christian theology, Christians will be better prepared to encounter religious others responsibly and to develop adequate theologies for addressing religious diversity.

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.