This monograph examines photographs that Japanese and Americans took of Japan and each other amidst the social, political, economic, and cultural upheaval of the postwar period.Emily E. Cole argues that photography created a dynamic cultural and visual space where photographers interacted and used the camera as a tool of community and creation, representation and resistance, and control and influence on shaping Japan's postwar narrative. Particular focus is placed ...

What Happened to Us is about searchers, dreamers, and second-chancers. From a firefighter with a secret, to a woman with a skin disease desperate for human touch, to a pregnant woman living on the streets, these are ordinary people striving with everyday hardships and joys. While the places may be familiar, the desires pulse with the extraordinary.

In the darkest years of the Great Depression, two unlikely companions wander the American West aboard freight trains and through forgotten towns. Their lives change forever when they stumble upon a mysterious map connected to an ancient Aztec legacy.As rivals close in and long-buried secrets emerge, the trail leads far beyond the hardships of the 1930s-into a saga of conquistadors, frontiersmen, and generations bound by blood and legend.Boxcars and Bloodlines is a sweeping ...

Blending rhetorical analysis, qualitative research, and lived experience, Living Menopause: Rhetorics, Tensions, and Futures explores the forces that have long framed menopause as a problem to solve, a decline to fear, and a market to exploit. Against this backdrop, the authors craft expansive, agency-affirming futures for living with/and/through menopause.Across six chapters, the authors trace how menopause circulates through medical research, workplace expectations, care...

What Happened to Us is about searchers, dreamers, and second-chancers. From a firefighter with a secret, to a woman with a skin disease desperate for human touch, to a pregnant woman living on the streets, these are ordinary people striving with everyday hardships and joys. While the places may be familiar, the desires pulse with the extraordinary.These are beautiful stories, at once heartbreaking and hopeful, of people finding their way past the impossible, everyday trage...

When a dying dragon falls from the sky, an exiled elf becomes the sole bearer of a warning that could destroy kingdoms.Ardiil Silverrivers has spent centuries hiding among humans, allowing time to erode the life he abandoned-a life of honor, duty, and love he could no longer face. But when a mortally wounded dragon crashes into a farmer's field and utters a single ancient name with its dying breath, Ardiil's long exile ends violently.The creature's death is impossible.

Welcome to Cedar Brook Falls - Massachusetts’ Other Halloween HomeNot Witchy, But Wicked FunThe ornate Victorian house alongside Main Street Cemetery isn’t the only thing professional genealogist and historian Elyse Dutcher inherited from her great-aunt Adelaide. She also shares Addie’s “gift”—the ability to talk to ghosts. It’s a gift she would return in a heartbeat if she could. In Cedar Brook Falls, masks are a way of life, but ...

Originally published in 1938, Play in the Infants' School is an account of three years’ work and play with children from three to eight years of age in an Elementary school. The change from traditional organization and discipline to modern methods and creative activity is described in detail and the problems, difficulties and failures are frankly discussed.Part 2 deals with the undirected play activities of the children, their development from the nursery class to Standard...

The Resurgence of Hamas: Politics, Power and the Road to the Liberation of Palestine offers a comprehensive and controversial analysis of Hamas’s ideology, evolution, and enduring strategic vision.Tracing the movement’s trajectory from its origins as a local offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza to its emergence as a dominant political, military, and social force, the book argues that the 1988 Hamas Charter remains the foundational framework shaping its actions, inclu...

Physical activity and health is a wide-reaching field that is relevant to exercise and sport science, public health, urban and transport planning, occupational health, and clinical medicine. Accordingly, The Routledge Handbook on Physical Activity and Health is a comprehensive guide for anyone interested in how physical activity can contribute to solving many health challenges of the 21st century.Across 50 chapters, the Handbook provides fundamental background inf...

For the past fifty years, international efforts to restrict nuclear weapons have relied on formal treaties, primarily bilateral US-Soviet and US-Russian arms-control and nuclear nonproliferation agreements. These treaties delivered major achievements during the late Cold War and after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In recent years, however, nonproliferation efforts have faced a host of setbacks, including North Korea’s and Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Now, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine thre...

This collection of poems continues to reveal the lasting impact of IED (Intermittent Explosive Disorder) as initially emphasized in my first book,"When Pain Smiles....navigating the rage of IED".Trigger fires.Brain shatters.You have nowhere to hidelost in the clatter.--excerpt from, TRIGGERThere is no escaping this mental disorder. It is challenging, exhausting and lifelong.I want to shi...