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This book presents research by African American, Latino/a/x, and Alaskan Indian/Native American (AI/AN) communication scholars. It highlights the importance of communication and the recognition of the unique experiences that impact how health information and health care are understood through diverse racial and cultural perspectives

This book explores the impact of news and literary journalism on human cognition and emotion. Providing an innovative analysis of psycho-physiological measures, including emotional response, perception of pain, and changes in heartbeat, Nery seeks to understand how readers react to journalistic texts. There is a growing enthusiasm in the search for understanding the processing of information, with some already arguing for the establishment of the neuroscience of communication as a new discipline. By combing neuroscience methods with communication research studies, specifically journalistic research and theory, Nery offers us a unique way of exploring and thinking about news, literary journalism, and the brain

This book provides the opportunity to explore the variety of meanings, undertones and contextual connotations that currently pertain to the expressions of "virtual (or digital) restoration" and "reconstruction". The book focuses on the latest applications of virtual restoration and reconstruction in different areas of Cultural Heritage through the presentation and discussion of several case studies. The goal is to provide a broad perspective on the subject. The sample presented in this book has been indeed selected and evaluated referring to different disciplinary fields such as archaeology, architecture, and conservation while encompassing a variety of cultural and chronological contexts

This book examines the representation of penal colonies both historically and in contemporary culture, across an array of media. Exploring a range of geographies and historical instances of the penal colony, it seeks to identify how the 'penal colony' as a widespread phenomenon is as much 'imagined' and creatively instrumentalized as it pertains to real sites and populations. It concentrates on the range of 'media' produced in and around penal colonies both during their operation and following their closures. This approach emphasizes the role of cross-disciplinary methods and approaches to examining the history and legacy of convict transportation, prison islands and other sites of exile. It develops a range of methodological tools for engaging with cultures and representations of incarceration, detention and transportation. The chapters draw on media discourse analysis, critical cartography, museum and heritage studies, ethnography, architectural history, visual culture including film and comics studies and gaming studies. It aims to disrupt the idea of adopting linear histories or isolated geographies in order to understand the impact and legacy of penal colonies. The overall claim made by the collection is that understanding the cultural production associated with this global phenomenon is a necessary part of a wider examination of carceral imaginaries or 'penal spectatorship' (Brown, 2009) past, present and future. It brings together historiography, criminology, media and cultural studies

This book explores China's ambition to build itself into a maritime power. Despite having a continental coastline of 18,000 kilometers and territorial waters that cover an area one-third the size of its land mass, China has traditionally been considered a continental power. However, Beijing is currently trying to change this historical situation through two national strategies. This book will use the world-island and sea-power theories to explore the development of China's maritime power from historical and geopolitical perspectives. Using fieldwork, in-depth interviews, and comprehensive data collection, this book will present a series of compelling examples and vivid stories to help readers understand China's maritime strategies, with interest for China scholars, historians and economists alike. Edmund Li Sheng received his M.A. and Ph.D. (political economy) from Universitaet Freiburg, Germany, after graduating with his BA from Peking University. He is currently a distinguished professor and executive director of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Research Institute at Shandong University, and his research has focused mainly on political economy and public policy

"An award-winning journalist, TV political analyst, and creator of TheGrio documentary, Afro-Latinx Revolution: Puerto Rico, recounts her experiences as an African American and Puerto Rican woman, reflecting on her improbable journey from Syracuse to Harvard, hedge fund boardrooms to newsrooms, and beyond in pursuit of America's infinite opportunities. Part inspiring memoir, part cultural analysis, with remarkable self-determination, Natasha S. Alford shows why the movement to recognize Afro-Latin identity illuminates shared struggles across the Black diaspora and often overlooked history"--

"Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif critically analyzes civil-military relations and the way armies are constructed in divided societies. To achieve that, the book looks at four case studies with deep divisions and whose armed forces have been reconstructed after civil wars. Lebanon and Bosnia-Herzegovina represent two examples of consociational power-sharing arrangements with functioning armed forces that enjoy wide popular support and neutral in internal affairs. Iraq and Burundi, however, have semi-consociational provisions that have politicized the army and made it a partisan military that has either led to disintegration (as in the case of Iraq) or politicization and loss of legitimacy (as in Burundi)"--

"The primary structural purpose of the United States Constitution is to empower the federal government to solve problems that the states would need to act collectively to solve, and to prevent the states from undermining these solutions or causing such problems from the perspective of the Constitution or Congress. Any faithful account of what the Constitution is for and how it should be interpreted must include this main structural function. The Constitution was established principally because of the widely recognized failures of its predecessor, the Articles of Confederation, to adequately address "collective-action problems" facing the states, including funding the national government, regulating foreign and interstate commerce, and defending the nation from attack. These challenges are called collective-action problems because the states would need to cooperate or coordinate their behavior-they would need to act collectively, not individually-to solve them, and they would often struggle to do so. In a fundamental sense, the U.S. Constitution is the Collective-Action Constitution, and the sobering problems facing America today-including inadequate access to health care, climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and future ones, opioid addiction, gun violence, racism and other bigotry, political extremism, unlawful immigration, terrorism, and nuclear proliferation-cannot be adequately dealt with by government if Americans do not recognize this truth. The main goal of the Collective-Action Constitution is not to vindicate a conception of economic efficiency, but to create and maintain political and economic union"--

Intro -- Title Page -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Copyright Information © -- Introduction -- Foreword -- Chapter One War, What it 'Is', 'Type' and Trajectory -- War: A Definition -- Total War as a Phenomenon -- Limited War as a Phenomenon -- Grounding Limited War: A Brief Historical Perspective -- The Dangers of Limited War -- The Seemingly Limitless Impacts of a Limited War: The Vietnam War and Its Iconoclastic Effect on the Western 'Model' of War -- Conclusion -- Chapter Two Taiwan at the Crossroads: A Robust Independent Country and a Catalyst for War -- Introduction -- Taiwan: Independent and Prosperous -- Taiwan and the Issue of 'Sovereignty' as Ascribed by the West and the United Nations -- Taiwan ROC: A Forthright Political and Economic Actor -- The Dawn of Pax-Sino: From Cataclysms to Cosmopolitanism -- Globalisation and Its Impacts and Ramifications: A Brief Deliberation -- Globalisation and the Collapse of a Superpower -- Taiwan and China: The Way it Might Have Been -- Chapter Three International Relations and War -- Globalisation as a Continuum: Politico-power and Preponderance -- International Relations and the Term 'Nascent': A Brief Deliberation -- War as it 'Is': A Conceptual Underpinning -- Chapter Four The Asia-Pacific in the Second and Third Decades of the Twenty-First Century -- The Taiwan Strait -- Taiwan as the Epicentre of an Asia-Pacific War -- A Forthcoming War: The Evidence-Base and Narrative -- How a War Will 'Happen' and the Interdependencies Therein -- China and Its Cautious Approach Toward Retrocession -- The Surprise of No 'Surprise' Attack -- Why a 'Traditional' Invasion of Taiwan Will Not Occur -- What a War Involves: A Brief Deliberation -- Taiwan and the Realities of a War with China: A Brief Deliberation -- Taiwan-China and a High-Intensity Munitions Exchange: A Brief Deliberation.

Intro -- Title Page -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Copyright Information © -- Acknowledgement -- Preface -- Chapter One Introduction -- Chapter Two Age of Feudalism -- Chapter Three A Feudal Knight's Life of Anxiety and Insecurity -- Chapter Four The Norman Invasion, 14 October 1066 -- Chapter Five The Next Twenty Years for Honfroi and Raoul -- Chapter Six The Norman Life in Anglo-Saxon England -- Chapter Seven Dominus de Castle Combe -- Chapter Eight Primogeniture, Heresy and Anarchy -- Chapter Nine A Surge of Investment in Scotland -- Chapter Ten Westward Ho -- Chapter Eleven Henry II's Boyfriend -- Chapter Twelve Dominus, Churches and Universities -- Chapter Thirteen Magna Carta and Climate Change -- Chapter Fourteen Anti-Semitism and Banking -- Chapter Fifteen Wars of Independence and the Little Ice Age -- Chapter Sixteen The Maverick -- Chapter Seventeen The Great Starvation (1315-1322) -- Chapter Eighteen The Plague, and Reinventing Duchal -- Chapter Nineteen Recovering from the Plague -- Chapter Twenty Unstable Environment as Feudalism Splutters -- Chapter Twenty-One Four Hundred and Forty Thousand Acres -- Chapter Twenty-Two The Glue That Binds, and Two Kings -- Chapter Twenty-Three Every Aspect of the Old-World Collapses -- Chapter Twenty-Four Lazy Days, a Fiendish Relative, Desperation and Defeat -- Chapter Twenty-Five Master James and the English Reformation Legislating Rational Doctrinal Changes.