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Drawing on insights across clinical and forensic mental heath as well as related fields in sociology and security, this edited volume provides a diverse yet authoritative overview for those interested in better understanding the threats of lone-actor terrorism and its professional response.

This work reviews recent research developments and applications in polymer science and their connections to sustainability and green chemistry, with topics like green sustainable products from plant oils, green processes and materials, green materials for medicine, and green polymer additives.

Reparations for Slavery in International Law examines the case for contemporary redress for the harms and legacies of transatlantic enslavement from a legal perspective. The book critically evaluates the history of transatlantic enslavement as well as the evolutions in international law that justified and perpetuated the exploitation of African peoples and people of African descent.

As the sunset swings into view, you think, "That's beautiful." You take a bite of cake and you think, "Wow, that's sweet." Maybe too sweet. You hear that new song and it blows you away. You play it for your friends. The novel is wonderful, the movie disappoints, the dress looked better in the store. Three philosophers offer their perspectives on how your aesthetic commitments move you through the world and shape your well-being, your sense of self, and yourconnections to others.

In What the Ballad Knows, author Adrian Daub elucidates the complex relationship between ballads and nationalism in 19th century German culture.

Mayo Clinic Infectious Disease Case Review is a comprehensive collection of case studies covering a wide array of infectious diseases. This volume addresses many common illnesses that primary care clinicians and infectious diseases specialists will see during their practice. With a focus on epidemiology, the investigative study of each case addresses laboratory tools to be used and how to interpret the results.

Ethical action requires more than a catch-phrase. While a generation of changemakers and peacebuilders have set out to Be the Change!, a thousand cautionary tales from the frontlines of social, economic, climate, and racial justice work suggest that deep ethical dilemmas don't always have easily actionable answers. Drawing on the lived experiences and real expertise of activists, educators, and researchers, Wicked Problems explores how doing thework-around the world and in one's own community-often requires tough decisions: between peace and justice, revolution and reform, violence and nonviolence, and between means and ends.

From Stalin's anti-American campaign to Khrushchev's peaceful coexistence policy, this book addresses the Soviet propaganda and ideology directed towards the United States during the early Cold War.

This book examines the ways individuals in the US and Russia consume and construct collective memories of political events via a reestablished Cold War-like narrative in both media systems. The book contextualizes the rebirth of this phenomenon via seven political events involving Russia, examining the contemporary role of conscious media distrust in subconscious psychological processes.

From the Stage to the Studio provides musicians with the tools and information necessary to become effective music educators as they supplement their performance careers. Premised on the integral partnership between pedagogy and performance this comprehensive manual explores the techniques and methods through which knowledge, skills and musicianship can be most effectively conveyed.

This volume brings together distinguished scholars to address broad societal claims about the surge in populist nationalism in the scholarly literature on collective memory. Through an examination of conceptual claims and empirical evidence in the collective memory literature, this book offers a multidisciplinary, modern approach to studying these persistent challenges.

Overcoming Bad Leadership in Organizations brings together the foremost experts on the dark side of leadership to offer groundbreaking insights to leaders, talent management professionals, and psychologists. The goal is to confront reality head on, to shed the idea that leadership is always good, and in this space increase our understanding of the perils of dysfunctional leadership.

In Inca Music Reimagined, author Vera Wolkowicz argues that Peruvian, Ecuadorian, and Argentine composers in the early twentieth century consciously featured indigenous signifiers in their operas in order to produce a self-consciously Latin American art.

There is a long-running debate about whether Saudi Arabia exportation of its highly conservative form of Islam known as Wahhabism has distorted or "corrupted" more moderate forms of Islam around the world. This volume is the first study to explore this question in detail based on social science research.

There is a long-running debate about whether Saudi Arabia exportation of its highly conservative form of Islam known as Wahhabism has distorted or "corrupted" more moderate forms of Islam around the world. This volume is the first study to explore this question in detail based on social science research.

How Sonata Forms proposes a new bottom-up conceptualization of the history of the sonata as an aggregation of distinct elements found throughout the eighteenth century.

Washington's Heir is the first published biography of Bushrod Washington, George Washington's nephew and a Supreme Court Justice for over thirty years. Justice Washington is one of the most underrated Founding Fathers. He was Chief Justice John Marshall's right-hand man in establishing the authority of the Supreme Court and wrote many influential opinions defining the fundamental rights of citizens and the structure of the Constitution. Justice Washington'sremarkable life story and his secret journal shed new light on George Washington, John Marshall, the Constitution, and America's ongoing struggle to overcome its flaws and become a more perfect union.

The Oxford Handbook of Children's Film offers a uniquely comprehensive study of children's cinema from an interdisciplinary, nuanced, global perspective.

In Vaughan Williams, author Eric Saylor revisits the life and work of famed British musician Ralph Vaughan Williams, with particular attention to the relationship between his work and his life.

In the 2010s, America's adversaries conducted numerous damaging cyber operations inside the United States: the Office of Personnel Management breach, attacks on banks, persistent intellectual property theft by China, and the Russian intervention in the 2016 election. The US-possessor of the world's most powerful cyber arsenal-responded in 2018 by unveiling a new Defend Forward strategy. This volume, edited by Jack Goldsmith and featuring a cast of leading scholarsin the field, provides an authoritative overview of the origins and operation of Defend Forward, and a comprehensive assessment of its legality.

In the 2010s, America's adversaries conducted numerous damaging cyber operations inside the United States: the Office of Personnel Management breach, attacks on banks, persistent intellectual property theft by China, and the Russian intervention in the 2016 election. The US-possessor of the world's most powerful cyber arsenal-responded in 2018 by unveiling a new Defend Forward strategy. This volume, edited by Jack Goldsmith and featuring a cast of leading scholarsin the field, provides an authoritative overview of the origins and operation of Defend Forward, and a comprehensive assessment of its legality.

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In The Tattvasamgraha of Santaraksita, Charles Goodman translates chapters from the Tattvasamgraha that deal with fundamental philosophical issues like the existence or nonexistence of God and the soul and the compatibility of beliefs about karma with Buddhism's fundamental claim that there is no self. Goodman's introductory chapters discuss translation choices and explain the arguments and reasoning employed by the Tattvasamgraha'soriginal authors, Santaraksita and Kamalasila.

In Sorry About That, Edwin Battistella analyzes the public apologies of presidents, politicians, entertainers, and businessmen, situating the apology within American popular culture.

A study of the ethnocultural youth organizations formed by teenage Nisei girls in the greater Los Angeles area and the endurance of this world of female friendship and comradery from the Jazz Age through internment through the postwar period.

Reluctant Witnesses tells the story of the rise of Holocaust consciousness in the United States from the perspective of survivors and their descendants.

Attention Equals Life examines why a quest to pay attention to daily life has increasingly become a central feature of both contemporary American poetry and the wider culture of which it is a part.

This book is a full-scale account of the morally important ideas of treating persons merely as means and treating them as ends. Audi clarifies these independently of Kant, but with implications for understanding him, and presents a theory of conduct that enhances their usefulness both in ethical theory and in practical ethics.