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People of the Screen traces the history of Bible software app development, showing the unique and powerful role evangelical entrepreneurs and coders have played in shaping its functionality and how their choices in turn shape the reading habits of millions of people around the world.

In Ravana's Kingdom, Justin W. Henry delves into the historical literary reception of the Ramayana in Sri Lanka, charting how the demon-king antagonist, Ravana, has become an unlikely cultural hero among Sinhala Buddhists over the past decade.

This book is an investigation on the prehistoric origins and early historic development of Chinese writing, with a focus on archaeological material.

In Practicing Peace, Aarie Glas offers a comparative regional perspective on conflict management and diplomacy in the Global South. Drawing on novel research methods and detailed interviews with regional practitioners, the book challenges existing scholarly claims of peace in Southeast Asia and South America. Instead, Glas argues that officials successfully manage pervasive conflict short of war in both regions. He provides an in-depth look into howdiplomacy unfolds and peace is practiced within diplomatic communities, from government actors to organizational officials, as they attempt to respond to and resolve territorial disputes.

Modern Virtue is the first book length treatment of Mary Wollstonecraft's theology and religion, the first to show the centrality of each for her account of the vrtues and revolution, and the first by a scholar in these fields. While Wollstonecraft is canonical in many other fields, she is mostly unknown or ignored in virtue ethics, theology, and religion. This book remedies this omission and the prevalent narratives sustained by it in the latter as well aspredominant views of her religion and virtue in the former.

As environmental destruction becomes more extreme around the planet, the way humans experience the natural world is changing, giving rise to more frequent and intense experiences of eco-anxiety. Not simply personal or social, eco-anxiety is distributed across the relationships that humans have with the life, land, air, and water of Earth. This anthology presents international and interdisciplinary perspectives on eco-anxiety, with attention to two of the mostprominent sources of eco-anxiety today: pandemics, specifically with regards to COVID-19, and the climate crisis. The book examines how these phenomena are causing unprecedented forms of psychological distress, including anxiety and related emotional or affective states like grief, anger, guilt, anddepression.

In Making Audiences, author Hideaki Fujiki offers a social history of a century of Japanese cinema and considers the relationships between audience, collectivity, and belonging.

In Vestiges of a Philosophy: Matter, the Meta-Spiritual, and the Forgotten Bergson, John Ó Maoilearca examines the seemingly very different but nonetheless complementary ideas of philosopher Henri Bergson and his occultist sister, Mina Bergson (aka Moina Mathers), to tackle contemporary themes in current materialist philosophy, memory studies, and the relationship between mysticism and philosophy.

In He Will Save You From the Deadly Pestilence, acclaimed religious scholar Philip Jenkins illustrates how the evolving uses of Psalm 91 allow us to map developing ideas about religion and the supernatural, theology and politics, medicine and mysticism.

The Musical Language of Italian Opera, 1813-1859 examines operatic music by five Italian composers-Rossini, Bellini, Mercadante, Donizetti, and Verdi-and one non-Italian, Meyerbeer, showing how certain recurring principles define a distinctively Italian practice that left its mark on the German repertoire more familiar to music theorists.

Children's Health and the Peril of Climate Change exposes the twin threats of climate change and air pollution on children's health and plans a roadmap to a brighter future with tangible solutions for governments, businesses, and individuals today.

The book is both an introduction to a thinker, Gilles Deleuze, whose current influence on multiple sectors of the humanities and social sciences arguably exceeds that of any other, and a book-length demonstration of the ramifications of Deleuzian thought for critical biblical scholarship.

Bach in the World offers a new exploration of Bach's music as it functioned within rituals and as a place where socio-political norms were perpetuated and sometimes even challenged.

Armed with up-to-date theory, narrative examples, and detailed instructions from writing assignments used in public health classrooms across disciplines and genres, Teaching Public Health Writing offers public health instructors the skills needed to refresh or redesign in-course writing instruction and assignments, ensuring the next generation of professionals have the tools they need to communicate confidently and effectively.

In this volume, noted moral philosopher F.M. Kamm explores how rights and their limits are recognized in theories and in judgments about hypothetical and practical cases. The author begins by considering moral status and its relation to rights and duties and next, investigates the extent of the right not to be harmed by considering the costs morally required to avoid harming and offering a proposal for permissibly harming someone (that allows for resisting the harm)in the Trolley Problem. Kamm further considers the relevance of the Trolley Problem for issues in applied ethics such as self-driving cars. The book concludes with an exploration of the significance of the right not to be harmed in a pandemic, and for a morally correct policy on torture.

Macbeth before Shakespeare is a history of the medieval King Macbeth and his legend that was the basis for William Shakespeare's Tragedie of Macbeth. It traces the life of the real man and his important innovations, while showing how different legends were created in subsequent eras.

In The Oxford Handbook of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Michael P. Twohig, Michael E. Levin, and Julie M. Petersen bring together contributions from the world's leading scholars to create a comprehensive volume on established areas of ACT. The Handbook presents the first scholarly review of the treatment as it has developed over the past two to three decades. Featuring 33 chapters on key aspects of the treatment, the contributors offer analysison ACT's conceptual and theoretical underpinnings, applications to specific populations and problems, methods of implementation, and other special topics. They will further cover theory, empirical support, and scholarly descriptions of treatment application.

This Handbook charts the literary tradition of the Latin American novel from its beginnings during colonial times, its development during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, and its flourishing from the 1960s onward. Forty-five chapters by leading international scholars explore the regions, representations of identity, narrative trends, and authors that make this literature so diverse and fascinating, reflecting on the Latin American novel'sposition in world literature.

Drawing on the expertise of a wide range of musicologists, performer-scholars, and music theorists, Rethinking Brahms provides new perspectives on Brahms's music, the contexts of his creativity, and the reception of his works.

Author David Phillips has produced a clear, concise guide to Henry Sidgwick's masterpiece of classical utilitarian thought, The Methods of Ethics, setting it in its intellectual and cultural context while drawing out its main insights into a variety of fields.

This handbook showcases the empirical and theoretical advancements produced by the evolutionary study of romantic relationships, tracing evolved psychological mechanisms that shape strategic computation and behavior across the lifespan of a romantic partnership. It discusses popular and cutting-edge methods for data analysis and theory development, critically analyzing the state of evolutionary relationship science and recommendations for future research.