Social Sciences

Japanese Catholic Intellectuals and Newman Studies

Author: 

Uno, Kei

Credentials: 

Associate Professor, Tamagawa University, Japan; Author of Newman and Modern Japan (2010)

This fascinating study discusses the history of Japanese Catholic intellectuals and their reception of the spirit and ideas of John Henry Newman in historical, geopolitical and cultural contexts. Newman, living in the nineteenth century, discussed issues critical to his age such as liberalism, secularism, education, conscience, and faith. Many scholars living in different ages and nations have been attracted to his works.

Market: 
Theology, Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Catholic Studies, Religious History, John Henry Newman, Christianity in Asia, Christianity in Japan, Modernism, Modernization Theory, Modern Japan, Nineteenth Century Studies, Global History
Release Date: 
July 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530391
Price: 
$89.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
214
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
academicapress.editorial@gmail.com

New Perspectives on Sir Richard Burton: Orientalism, The Cannibal Club and Victorian Ideas of Sex, Race and Gender, 2nd Edition

Author: 

Wallen, John

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Royal Holloway; Assistant Professor D/English, University of Sharjah, UAE

New Perspectives on Sir Richard Burton by Dr. John Wallen provides exactly that: a fresh perspective from which to view one of the leading explorers and writers of the Victorian age. Burton has frequently been vilified by postcolonial writers as somehow an archetypal representative of the colonial mentality that reached out to grab an often unknown world with its all-encompassing "imperial eyes". On the other hand, hardly any figure of the period has proved so enduringly popular with average readers and enthusiasts of the Victorian age. In this scholarly book, Dr.

Market: 
Victorian studies, English Intellectual History 19th c, The Literature of Race and Gender in Victorian England, Historical Anthropology 19c,Political and Social Elites and Empire, Roots of European Racism, Sir Richard Burton, Algernon Swinburne, Lord Houghton, James Hunt, Racial and Cultural Superiority as a pseudo-scientific “fact”, Sex and pornography in mid and late Victorian England, Feminism, Post Colonial literary theory
Release Date: 
April 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1-680530-27-8
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
205
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

Academica Press
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
academicapress.editorial@gmail.com
(978) 829-2577

Socio – Physics: Applying the Natural Sciences to Criminal Justice and Penology, Expanded Edition

Author: 

Blakely, Curtis and Michelle, Truman State University

Using the natural sciences to examine social dynamics is not new. However, this is the first sustained attempt to apply this approach to the fields of criminal justice and penology. The authors intend their new theoretical/conceptual framework to promote innovative, creative and critical thought. In this revised/expanded edition, particular attention is paid to the manner in which each chapter builds then transitions to the next. Updated data/statistics are used throughout.

Release Date: 
March 15th, 2017
ISBN: 
978-1680530247
Price: 
$49.95
Pages: 
227
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Educational Services for Homeless Adults: A Qualitative Research Study

Author: 

McKinley, Kenya

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Release Date: 
March 15th, 2017
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1680530223
Price: 
$64.95
Pages: 
184
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Human Trafficking as a Brand Within the Framework of Human Rights: Case Studies in the United States

Author: 

Mai, Tam

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Release Date: 
April 15, 2017
ISBN: 
978-1680530254
Price: 
$79.95
Pages: 
364
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Tea Practices in Mongolia. Female Power and Gendered Meanings from Birth to Death

Author: 

Bamana, Gabriel

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Social Anthropology, University of Wales, Trinity St David (UK), D/Anthropology, University of Minnesota

Commendatory Preface: Professor Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania

From Birth to Death is a scholarly monograph based on years of field work in Mongolia as well as original research in Asia, Europe and North America. It is an original and detailed ethnography of tea practices, female power and gendered meaning in Mongolia. It is also a welcome addition to the field by an African scholar of distinction who is one of the few Black African researchers in Central Asia.

Market: 
Mongolian Studies, Social Anthropology—Asia, Ethnography, Feminism, Gender roles and meaning, Cultural Systems, Patriarchy and Gender, Womens Studies, tea ceremonies--Asia, Food Studies, Female power structures, Family structure and identity, Buddhism, Religion
Release Date: 
February 10th, 2016
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-68053-013-1
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
208
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Trickle and Flow: Chapters in the History and Culture of Water

Author: 

Roth, Marty

Credentials: 

Ph.D, University of Chicago

For what is water, children, which seeks to make all things level, which has no taste or color of its own, but a liquid form of Nothing?
Graham Swift, Waterland

I am writing to you from a far-off country.
Here I should explain this
business of waves. It is insanely
complicated, and the sea . . .
I beg you, trust me. Would I want
to mislead you? She, the sea, is
not only a word. She is not only a
fear. She exists, I swear it to you
Henri Michaux

Market: 
Hydraulics, Aquaculture, Marine Life, Environmental History, Dams and irrigation, Water in Literature, Oceanography, Geo-politics, Riverine cultures, Cultural studies
Release Date: 
March 17th, 2015
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-99-8
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
324
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Socio – Physics: Applying the Natural Sciences to Criminal Justice and Penology

Author: 

Blakely, Curtis and Michelle, Truman State University

Credentials: 

CB: Ph D, Southern Illinois University; MB: Ph D, Auburn University

Using physics and biology to examine social dynamics is not new and is often referred to as socio-physics. This is the first sustained attempt utilizing current research to apply this approach to the fields of criminal justice and penology. The authors intend this new research to promote a more innovative, creative and critical approach to the classic issues of criminal justice, penology and correctional / offender issues.

Market: 
Criminal Justice, Law, Penology, Sociology, Socio-Physics, Contemporary Correctional Issues, Rehabilitation and Offender reintegration
Release Date: 
September 15th, 2016
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-680530-11-7
Price: 
$49.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
212
Illustrations: 
Yes - B/W photographs/graphs
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

New Perspectives on Sir Richard Burton: Orientalism, The Cannibal Club and Victorian Ideas of Sex, Race and Gender

Author: 

Wallen, John

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Royal Holloway; Assistant Professor D/English, University of Sharjah, UAE

With a commendatory preface by Professor Dane Kennedy, George Washington University, author of the highly regarded Burton study : THE HIGHLY CIVILIZED MAN, Harvard University Press

Market: 
Victorian studies, English Intellectual History 19th c, The Literature of Race and Gender in Victorian England, Historical Anthropology 19c,Political and Social Elites and Empire, Roots of European Racism, Sir Richard Burton, Algernon Swinburne, Lord Houghton, James Hunt, Racial and Cultural Superiority as a pseudo-scientific “fact”, Sex and pornography in mid and late Victorian England, Feminism, Post Colonial literary theory
Release Date: 
January 15th, 2016
ISBN: 
978-1936320875
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
286
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

Academica Press
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
academicapress.editorial@gmail.com
(978) 829-2577

The Sacred Dance of the Irish Circus: Rural Ireland and Traveling Shows and Showpeople, 1922 -1972

Author: 

O'hAodha, Michael and Tony McCarthy

Credentials: 

Ph.D, D/History, University of Limerick

A visual history of the Traveling circuses and shows that traveled the roads of Ireland between the 1920s and the arrival of television in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Market: 
Irish Studies, Cultural and Performance Studies, 20th century Ireland, Irish History, Connaught, 20th century,Gaeltacht
Release Date: 
05/15/2015
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-34-9
Price: 
$72.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
111
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

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