Finding Mr. Perfect explores the romantic relationships between Korean men and the women who were inspired by romantic Korean televisual depictions of Korean masculinity to travel to Korea as tourists. The book analyzes the disparate erotic desires that shape such transnational encounters.
 

This short volume considers conversion in a Jewish context as broadly as possible, as an act of socioreligious boundary crossing. It charts how, across the long arc of Jewish history from biblical times to the present, patterns of boundary crossing have developed and shifted, whether of Gentiles entering Jewish life or of Jews exiting from it.

Class Cultures and Social Mobility tells the stories of people who grew up working-class, became the first of their family to graduate from college, and undertook professional work that serves working-class people, drawing upon their roots to construct careers aimed at building stability, mobility, and fulfillment for the next generation.

This volume takes a holistic approach to the American Revolutionary War era, drawing on perspectives from archaeology and related disciplines to illuminate the multifaceted nature of the conflict.

Through biography, John Hart illuminates the political and economic history of British Columbia during the Depression and two world wars.

This is a must-have multi-disciplinary and deeply comprehensive resource on the treatment and management of musculoskeletal dysfunction in the neck and head. Written for manual therapy clinicians, researchers, and educators, it covers an extensive range of conditions.

In Carne de Dios, Homero Aridjis transports readers to the world of María Sabina, the revered Mazatec healer, and the sacred mushroom ceremonies that would captivate the global imagination during the 1960s counterculture movement. Through Aridjis’s lyrical prose, vividly translated by Chloe Garcia Roberts, we first journey to the mountains of Huautla de Jiménez in 1957, where Sabina’s veladas—mushroom rituals—draw seekers from across the world forever altering the course of Sabina’s life and the world’s perception of Mexico’s Indigenous traditions.

A compelling and thorough history of agitators and heroines who fought for equality in the Charleston Hospital Workers’ Strike of 1969

Research with Refugee Children and Families presents researchers’ accounts of the ethical issues they encountered in research with refugee children and families, and points toward new ways of undertaking this sensitive work.

A comprehensive study of one Welsh actor’s image and performance in Hollywood’s Golden Age

A political biography of the leader who shaped one of the most democratic regions in nineteenth-century America

How the Tennessee Valley Authority was represented in photography, films, novels, and other artistic mediums

How the son of one of the most famous performers in history fought for his own star as a musician