(Re)Imagining and Transplanting a Popular Culture Icon
Global James Bond: (Re) Imagining and Transplanting a Popular Culture Icon focuses on the ambivalent yet fascinating interplay between the global and the local in the longest running film franchise in history. It explores how James Bond established itself as a global standard for action-spy film making and even as a minor global cinema (i.e. ......
Through a Q&A format designed to grab readers' attention, this thoroughly revised Sixth Edition gives voters everything they need to know about election polls. Traugott and Lavrakas cover the latest polling technologies and data collection methods, how polls are used in campaigns and by the media, and most importantly-why it all matters.
Through a Q&A format designed to grab readers' attention, this thoroughly revised Sixth Edition gives voters everything they need to know about election polls. Traugott and Lavrakas cover the latest polling technologies and data collection methods, how polls are used in campaigns and by the media, and most importantly-why it all matters.
Prophetic Voices for Remembrance, Reckoning, and Repair
Biblical scholars, theologians, and religious historians have largely ignored the issue of reparations. The time is now to engage with and make the case. Written for students, scholars, and pastors, the essays in Reparations and the Theological Disciplines emphatically advocate for a reparational ethic of remembrance, reckoning, and repair.
Renewing America's Civic Compact addresses the chief challenges and principal tensions in the operation of our civil society in order to consider possible paths forward. The meritocracy, multiculturalism, issues of race, technology, and populist nationalism in American democracy today are some of the issues that have created more tensions to ......
Exploration of the Jewish Matrix of Early Christianity
This book explores the historical context of Paul and the way Paul's Jewish heritage was received, including the specifics of contemporary Jewish phenomena, within the successive generations of Jesus-followers during the first two centuries CE (in and outside the corpus of New Testament writings).
This book's primary purpose is to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Montesquieu's Persian Letters, a seminal book in classical liberal thought. Persian Letters is a delightfully rich, sympathetic satire of commercial society's promise and discontents, covering a wide range of issues and themes that shaped the direction of liberal modernity. It ......
Bach and Mozart: Connections, Patterns, and Pathways
Today, the names Bach and Mozart are mostly associated with Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. But this volume of Bach Perspectives offers essays on the lesser-known musical figures who share those illustrious names alongside new research on the legendary composers themselves. Topics include the keyboard transcriptions of J. S. ......
Technology as Continuity, Interruption, and Transformation
Communicating with Our Families explores the impact of communication technologies on family communication. The scholarship in this collection recognizes the peril and opportunity new communication technologies offer, while responding to questions about the impact of technologies on our families.
