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Gay Fathers--Twin Sons follows the story of a gay male couple fighting to raise their Canadian-born twins in the United States. Each partner had fathered one twin via egg donation and surrogacy, but only one parent was a US citizen, leaving one child without a biological American parent. And, thus, the fight for citizenship began.

The book focuses on the nexus between geopolitical challenges and cultural framework in the Black Sea region. Employing an interdisciplinary approach and using survey research evidence, the volume demonstrates that the Black Sea region is a cultural area with shared domains and trends.

From the struggles of childhood abuse to becoming a female police officer, this book tells the story of a woman's journey through the male dominated world of law enforcement. Through this personal account and unique perspective, a better understanding of policing strengths and weaknesses is gained.

The Old West's Infamous Train Robbers and Their Historic Heists profiles sixteen noted train robbers (or train robbing gangs) along with the details of each their forty-seven hold-ups. The mechanics of each of their train robberies--planning, execution, and escape--are dissected and discussed. Pertinent background information relating to each outlaw/gang is included as well as what became of them following their train-robbery days.

This is the most wide-ranging and provocative look at punk rock as a social change movement over the past forty-five years, told through first-hand accounts of roughly 250 musicians and activists. John Malkin brings together punk's most famous figures as well as underground voices, creating a new and insightful history of punk throughout the ages.

As membership in traditional religious institutions plummets, the meaning of marriage is changing rapidly. Numbers of those identifying as spiritual but not religious are on the rise, and Donna Schaper provides a roadmap to help readers understand this transition of marriage after culture and religion are no longer of one voice about its meaning.

This title combines original research, case studies, and critical analysis to cover highly charged topics in America today. It is divided into two sections; the first section discusses immigration and the borderlands while the second section covers topics such as the resilient citizen, lessons learned from the pandemic, and disaster recovery.

This CSIS volume is comprised of various research from participants in the 2022 Nuclear Scholars Initiative led by the Project on Nuclear Issues. These papers explore a range of crucial debates across deterrence, arms control, and disarmament communities.

Utilizing overlooked resources, Arrested Adolescence offers insight and nuance into the life of Nathan Leopold, a man who committed cold-blooded murder as a teenager and then convinced the world to believe in a rehabilitation that he never experienced.

This book recasts Sartrean existentialism through Caribbean philosophies and the broader philosophies of the Global South. Each author's contribution embodies an aspect of creolizing thinking, understood as the articulation of cultural and conceptual hybridity under conditions of eurocentrism, epistemic colonialism, and the legacies of slavery.

Science and Religion: Perspectives Across Disciplines interweaves STEM perspectives with the arts, humanities, theology, and psychology to cultivate discussion on science and religion alongside biblical interpretation. Taken together, this anthology allows for connections between disciplines that create community amid differing perspectives.

Paniel Reyes Cárdenas provides a novel reading of Josiah Royce's Absolute Pragmatism in the context of the nineteenth-century origins of Classical Pragmatism. Royce's proposal leads to an integrated philosophy that unfolds the synthetic-semiotic theory of community.