This book examines school-based mass shootings by focusing on characteristics of the incident and geographic space to synthesize a holistic picture of the legal, socio-economic, and geographic context in which these incidents occur.
Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature
This book analyses the work of writers, journalists, and academic critics producing work during and since the end of the Algerian Civil War, arguing that literature--and ideas we have about it--can restrain our understanding of the world at a time of conflict and further entrench the polarized discourses that lead to the conflict in the first ......
In Social Economy in Asia: Realities and Perspectives, thirteen specialists discuss the multi-dimensional characteristics and challenges of the social economy in Asia, arguing for its unique effectiveness as a political economic system in the twenty-first century.
Kenneth Bozeman distills the most important vocal acoustics principles and insights for contemporary teachers and singers. With concise and easy-to-understand language, the book takes these complex concepts and imparts practical tips and strategies that anyone can use in their teaching and singing.
"Through an analysis of suicide in Fyodor Dostoevskys writings, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how his implicit awareness of self-homicide pre-figured theories of prominent suicidologists, shaped both his philosophy and craft as a writer, and forged a ligature between artistry and the pluripresent impulse to self-annihilate"--
Constructing Narratives of Settler Memory and Identity in Literature and
This book examines literary and cinematic representations of the European settlers of Algeria known as the pieds-noirs following their mass migration to France in 1962. It breaks new ground by focusing on the family trope, including gender and youth, to reveal constructions of collective memory and identity post-Algerian independence.
"In our modern time of division, who belongs to the we is an important and underexamined area of philosophical investigation. This book offers another way of understanding we-ness by adopting diverse linguo-cultural traditions in a philosophical investigation of selfhood"--
This book addresses different contexts of communication pertaining to non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). An international group of clinicians and communication specialists describe, analyze, and explain how NSSI is communicated about, what NSSI is communicating, and how can we do a better job in communicating with others about NSSI.
In Not Even a Grain of Rice, Christine Hippert examines the intercultural networks of buying food with in-store credit at corner stores in the Dominican Republic.