Social Sciences

Prophets of Nihilism: Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Camus

Author: 

Illing, Sean, Ph.D.

In this engaging study, Sean Illing examines the effect of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche on the development of Albert Camus’s political philosophy. This innovative book attempts to offer a substantive examination of Camus’s dialogue with Nietzsche and Dostoevsky.

Market: 
Political Science, History, Philosophy, Intellectual History, History of Ideas, Twentieth-Century History Public Intellectuals, Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Camus, European Studies, Nihilism, Moral Philosophy, Justice, Existentialism
Release Date: 
December 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530261
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
225
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Tradition and Innovation in Russian Church Slavonic Hymnography

Author: 

Nelson, Elena, Ph.D.

Credentials: 

Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Liturgical languages are notoriously rigid: they are fixed, sacred, and resistant to change, despite surrounding linguistic developments. This work focuses on the highly specialized and stylized liturgical language of Russian Church Slavonic (RCS). Historically, authorities strictly controlled RCS so that it would conform to established norms. Nevertheless, innovations arose in response to various conditions.

Market: 
Religion, Linguistics, Russian Studies, Music, Orthodox Christianity, Church Slavonic, Liturgical Practice, Hymnology, Immigration Studies, Diasporas, Ethnic Studies, Grammar
Release Date: 
October 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530476
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
172
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Speaking Out: Reviewing School Suspension Policy

Author: 

Beckett, Jonathan, Ph.D.

This book considers the issue of school suspension and expulsion. In so doing it examines the factors contributing to a suspension or expulsion and uses literature and narrative interview data from a range of participants, including staff and students, to elicit some responses from those involved in this process.

Market: 
Education, Education Policy, Educational Psychology, Sociology, Psychology, Organizational Research, Organizational Development, Behavioral Research, Pedagogy, Teaching, Primary Education, Secondary Education
Release Date: 
October 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover:978-1680530469
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
164
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Change Partners: Motion, Becoming, Difference, Violence

Author: 

Roth, Marty

Credentials: 

Ph.D., Professor of English, University of Minnesota, Author of Cultures of Memory: Memory Culture, Memory Crisis, and the Age of Amnesia and Trickle and Flow: Chapters in the History and Culture of Water

Change Partners will give an educated reader a deep understanding of a particular conceptual “village.” As a book about change it is also a book about motion, becoming, and difference, because all of these concepts circulate around the same patches of meanings.

Market: 
Philosophy, Ontology, Time, Being, Change, Conceptual Thought, Hegel, Partridge, Mobility, Mobility Studies, Sociology, Psychology
Release Date: 
October 1, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530438
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Shards of Identity: The Origins of the Evangelical Movement during the Cold War, 1945-1981

Author: 

West, Taylor

Credentials: 

Ph.D., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

This book is an exploration of the origins of the American evangelical movement in the United States during the Cold War, specifically between 1945 and 1981. Amongst numerous other theories that already exist regarding the emergence of this religious and social movement, we have carried out this exploration through the theory of the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. Bauman maintains that religious

Market: 
American Studies, Politics, American Politics, American Society, US Foreign Policy, Religion, Religious Studies, Fundamentalism, Christianity, Christian Studies, Evangelical Studies, Cold War, Cold War Studies, Protestantism, Social Theory, Zygmunt Bauman
Release Date: 
October 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530445
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Islamization in Bosnia: Sarajevo's Conversion and Socio-Economic Development, 1461-1604

Author: 

Norman, York

Credentials: 

Associate Professor of History, State University of New York, Buffalo

The rise of Ottoman Sarajevo in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is emblematic of a unified new Muslim community whose conversion to Islam and booming social and economic growth unified both the city and its hinterland. Primarily based on a wide array of Ottoman administrative sources, this monograph builds on earlier studies of Sarajevo and other Ottoman cities to analyze the critical social and economic factors behind these developments.

Market: 
Islam, Islamic Studies, Bosnia, Sarajevo, Christian-Muslim relations, Eastern Europe, Balkans, nationalism, religion, religious history, World History, Economic History, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman History, Turkish Studies
Release Date: 
September 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530421
Price: 
$89.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
235
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Size Matters: A History of Height in America

Author: 

Sokolow, Jayme A., PhD

Credentials: 

President, The Development Source, LLC

Size Matters: A History of Height in America is the first history of height in America. It begins with Native Americans in approximately 3300 BCE and continues to the present and tries to answer two important historical and biological questions: why have the heights of Americans fluctuated over time, and what do changing heights tell us about the American experience?

Market: 
American Studies, American History, Nutrition, Physiology, Native American Studies, Social History, Sociology
Release Date: 
May 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530292
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
552
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Quo Vadis Korea: The Last Custodian of Confucianism and Its Atypical Transformation

Author: 

Azad, Shirzad

In the mid-20th century, Korea was dubbed the last custodian of Confucianism, but it is now very hard to even call the country a truly Confucian society. Following this argument, Quo Vadis Korea? explores critically how some five decades of breakneck industrialization and unbridled modernization could ineluctably change the nation so fundamentally that their repercussions now sharply negate many basic principles of Confucianism in one way to another.

Market: 
Asian Studies, East Asian Studies, Korea, South Korea, Korean Studies, International Relations, Political Participation, Modernization, Modernization Theory, Development, Development Economics, Confucianism, Eastern Philosophy
Release Date: 
May 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530315
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
211
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Security and Women in Post-Conflict Societies: A Comparative Study of Cambodia and Rwanda

Author: 

Rai, Anuradha

The study has assessed the reconstruction programs in the post-conflict societies of Cambodia and Rwanda in the context of existing security challenges to women compared to their pre-conflict role and status. It has examined the causes of violence against women and how much the political stability, democratic form of government and economic progress helps to ensure security to women.

Market: 
International Relations, Women's Studies, Women in International Relations, Security Studies, Ethnic Conflict, Ethnic Violence, Women in Politics, Development Studies, Violence Against Women, Political Participation
Release Date: 
May 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530308
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
262
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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The Aesthetic and Moral Art of Wole Soyinka

Author: 

Ogunyemi, Yemi D. (Yemi D. Price)

Credentials: 

Author of Studying Creative Writing in Nigeria and The Birth of a Child in a Fishing Boat

The Aesthetic and Moral Art of Wole Soyinka, a scholarly monograph, is a compendium of the Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka’s creative works. Book One shows the dramatic, intellectual, fundamental, aesthetic and moral art. Book Two dwells upon literature, value, art, morality, aesthetics and other human interests. Book Three speaks to the mythology, history, and culture of the Yoruba people.

Market: 
African Studies, African Literature, Post-Colonial Theory, Post-Colonial Literature, Africana, Critical Theory, Literary Theory, Intertextuality, Aesthetics, Wole Soyinka, Post-Modern Studies, Moralists, Art, Yoruba Studies, Mythology
Release Date: 
July 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530346
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
277
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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