In the first major book on the Senate of Pakistan since its creation in 1973, Dilawar Hussain explores its institutional history, membership, constitutional powers and key functions and how these have changed since the introduction of the Eighteenth Constitutional Amendment in 2010.This book provides empirical flesh to the assumption that, in a federal state, a second chamber is needed to accommodate regional concerns at a federal level. The author explores the ins...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is described as the basis of a “fourth industrial revolution” with profound effects to science, industry, and various aspects of society. Rooted in philosophical and technological developments dating back to ancient times in both the West and China, AI has emerged as a powerful force transforming basic relations between humankind and machines.Historical Dictionary of Artificial Intelligence in China gives special attention to t...

Rising sectarian tensions, deepening poverty, and growing unemployment have been intertwined and compounded with the COVID-19 pandemic and corruption, to create a conducive environment for instability in Lebanon. Drawing on a survey-based research design, Isaac E. Andakian tests hopes and fears, social dominance orientation, and levels of social cohesion among various sectarian groups to gauge their responses to crises. Lebanon's Year of Crisis (2019-2020): Unity in Adversity expl...

This book examines the relationships between the peasantry and the authorities; both central and local ones; through the prism of the political events of 1937–1939.During the All-Union Census of the USSR many facts of evading and resisting the census were recorded. The greatest concern of the authorities was caused by the events in the Lepel district of the BSSR; where about 250 people refused to participate in the census for religious reasons. Officials labelled t...

People are obsessed with objects: their monetary value, the memories they hold, the thoughts they inspire, the skills they showcase and what they communicate to others. This book guides creative nonfiction writers through crafting prose inspired by the material things in their lives. Combining ideas from the fields of creative writing, rhetoric and composition and qualitative inquiry, itinvestigates how authors have examined the cultural and personal significance of object...

In this ground-breaking study, Lyn Ossome offers an authoritative, interdisciplinary theory of how postcolonial capitalist democracies reproduce the gendered forms of violence essential to colonial rule.Focussing on postcolonial African states, and using an interdisciplinary methodology that combines insights from political studies, feminist political economy, historical studies, and literary studies, Ossome shows how postcolonial, capitalist democracies in Africa,...

Stephen Sharot traces the evolution of male stardom from its beginnings in 1909 through the United States' entrance into World War II in 1941, highlighting the influence of a changing American society on masculine identity and ideals.Drawing on conceptual frameworks from both sociology and film studies including hegemonic masculinity, the civilizing process, and star studies, Sharot analyzes the various masculinities adopted by male stars like Richard Barthelmess, ...

A Classicist and long-time member of Alcoholics Anonymous explores how Roman Stoicism can illuminate and strengthen the practices of 12-step recovery. Drawing on years of teaching ancient philosophy and more than a decade of lived sobriety, Michael Mascio offers a deeply informed, accessible account of why Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius speak powerfully to contemporary recovery. Roman Stoicism, he argues, is fundamentally therapeutic-a philosophy explicitly crafted...

A powerful exploration of how emotions like rage, grief, and pride drive ethnic conflict and shape political life.The Affective Forces of Ethnic Politics: But Look What They Did to Us! offers a bold intervention into the study of ethnic conflict, challenging the idea that fear, interests, or elite manipulation are the primary drivers of violence. Instead, it reveals how humiliation, grief, pride, and spite, or the affective forces of ethnic politics

Using an autoethnographic approach, this book offers practical strategies and case studies to help scholars better perform the many roles of an academic.With academic formation at its foundational core, the book presents practical strategies aimed at facilitating academic performance, particularly in the areas of research-informed teaching, interdisciplinarity and collaboration, community engagement and the development of an international academic profile. The view...

In an era of increasingly adversarial geopolitical tensions, how can the United States restore its economic standing on the world stage?The United States and its liberal democratic allies have experienced a steady decline in global economic influence since the end of the Cold War. With the rise of China and other developing economies and against the backdrop of Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine, the United States has found itself less able to leverage trade rel...

Examines the role of identity in fostering deep perceptual divides in both American and British politics, ultimately addressing the question: how do we make sense of the divisive political landscape we find ourselves in?We dwell in parallel universes. An identity-based gulf in perception has emerged in recent years in both the U.K and the U.S. Elements of identity involving a sense of one's place in society, of who belongs and who does not, of the role of governmen...