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In this book, author Drew Edward Davies explores musical works from colonial Mexico as complex artifacts of religious culture. Reframing past understanding of New Spanish music, he explores how European aesthetics and local circumstances formed a New Spanish musical repertory differentiated by topicality rather than style, in addition to how that repertory is revived today.

Why God Needs War and War Needs God explores the dark attraction between religion and warfare. Virtually every religious tradition leaves behind it a bloody trail of stories, legends, and images of war, and most wars call upon the divine for blessings in battle. This book finds the connection between religion and warfare in the alternative realities created in the human imagination in response to crises both personal and social. Based on the author's thirty years of field work interviewing activists involved in religious-related terrorist movements around the world, this book explains why desperate social conflict leads to images of war, and why invariably God is thought to be engaged in battle.

Principles of Scientific Writing and Biomedical Publication is a practical, comprehensive, state-of-the-art guide designed to enhance understanding of the principles of scientific publication, promote improved writing and manuscript preparation skills, and help navigate the seemingly complex pathway from manuscript submission, through peer review and revision, to successful publication.

In this book, Samuel Bennett looks at the British national myths regarding the UK's relationship with other countries and its former colonies. He argues that the construction of these myths to legitimise Britain's self-image has racialized, silenced, and erased the migrant "Other"--and, by extension, British ethnic minorities. Drawing upon critical discourse studies and integrating decolonial and postcolonial theories, Bennett offers an in-depth, methodologically rigourous analysis of five central myths of UK immigration discourse. Further, he shows how the myths the UK tells itself are at once stable, deployed in different contexts, and historically rooted.

Despite untold human suffering, widespread destruction, and far-reaching destabilization, the fires of many of the world's most violent civil wars continue to burn. How can we explain costly and stalemated, yet seemingly endless, conflicts? Wars Without End provides an answer. Bringing together battlefield bargaining dynamics, the escalatory pressures of interstate competition, and the systemic dimensions of geopolitical rivalry in civil wars, the book challenges traditional conceptions of "proxy war" by deriving new propositions about the strategic logics that motivate it. Combining statistics with detailed case studies, it explains how protracted fighting within states is linked to enduring competition between them.

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Civic Solitude explores the importance of intentional solitary political reflection as a civic duty. Robert B. Talisse argues that overemphasis on political collaboration can lead to hostility to outgroups and an erosion of the civic capacities that are necessary for democratic progress. He calls for democratic citizens to prioritize individual reflection alongside collective action as a means of negating the effects of polarization.

In How Stories Change Us, Elaine Reese integrates the latest scientific research on stories from fiction (books, TV shows and movies, videogames) with stories from real life (our personal experiences, including on social media) across the lifespan. The book offers an authoritative yet accessible overview of the new interdisciplinary science of stories, told by a developmental psychologist and autobiographical memory expert with over thirty years of experience conducting research on stories. Reese synthesizes cutting-edge research for an interdisciplinary audience, offers practical tips for parents, teachers, librarians, and policymakers, and she advocates for a more integrated science of stories to allow us to better choose the stories we consume and tell.

Colin J. Lewis and Jennifer Kling apply classical Chinese thought to a series of current sociopolitical issues, including politics, robot legal standing, environmental issues, police funding, private militias, and justified revolutions, demonstrating that despite the dominance of western thought in political philosophy, Chinese philosophy provides a powerful lens through which to understand contemporary challenges.

What Do I Do Now? Anxiety Disorders is a compelling exploration of anxiety disorders, intricately weaving together real-life cases into a narrative that transcends traditional mental health literature. This book goes beyond symptomatology, delving into medical causes, the interplay between anxiety and various life stages, and comprehensive treatment approaches. Accessible yet profound, it transforms clinical insights into relatable stories, providing hope and understanding for anyone navigating the labyrinth of anxiety.

The Big Steal uncovers the unusual confluence of ideological views and business interests behind the dilution of legal protections for inventors and artists under U.S. patent and copyright law. Concurrent with the rise of the digital economy, policymakers significantly weakened legal protections against the unauthorized use of technological inventions and creative works. Through an evidence-based analysis informed by the economics and politics of digital markets, Jonathan Barnett shows that this policy shift has advantaged digital intermediaries at the expense of the innovators and artists that drive the knowledge economy

Organizational Communication: A Lifespan Approach is a student-focused introduction to the field. Featuring real-world stories, helpful and unique illustrations, and practical applications of theory, this text engages students and shows them how to apply concepts, theories, and perspectives in every chapter.

Dignity in Care provides readers with what they need to know about the humanity and tone of care, and how they can engage in these facets of care in a thoughtful and meaningful way that will satisfy their patients' needs to be seen and appreciated as "whole persons." The author explores how the humanity of care can get overlooked and how to avoid this happening. It teaches how to communicate better with patients, helping them to feel not just cared for, but cared about.

Author Ross W. Duffin reconstructs lost music for the three famous masques by Thomas Campion, George Chapman, and Francis Beaumont performed for the 1613 Palatine wedding. His research reveals that their songs were partsongs performed by an ensemble, rather than an accompanied solo singer. The book also includes a fourth masque, in French, prepared for the wedding but never performed.

Inspired by decades of archaeological research on the ancestral Maya, Maya Wisdom and the Survival of Our Planet provides a practical roadmap on how to sustainably address climate change and environmental degradation. The author shows how insights of the Maya--past and present--are vital for the survival of our planet and calls for collaborating with rather than dominating the nonhuman world.

The only brief cultural anthropology text specifically designed to prepare students to read ethnographies more effectively and with greater understanding, this is a concise introduction to the basic ideas and practices of contemporary cultural anthropology.

Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum describes a history of madness and the asylum by focusing on the inmates who published pamphlets, memorials, memoirs, and newspaper and magazine articles about their experiences. Michael Rembis draws from these sources, as well as their letters, public speeches, and testimonies before state legislatures and the US Congress to demonstrate how the stories they told influenced popular, legal, and medical conceptualizations of madness and the asylum at a time when most Americans seemed to be groping toward a more modern understanding of the many different forms of "insanity."

The use of artificial intelligence has the potential to weaken democratic accountability for consequential national security choices. The Double Black Box explores how policymakers, military and intelligence officials, and lawyers in democratic states can reap the advantages of new technologies without surrendering their public law values.