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The poems in Girl after Girl after Girl celebrate the connections between mothers and daughters from generation to generation. Through an acknowledgment of mothers' unconditional love, the memories evoked by physical objects, and the stories mothers pass down, these poems explore the common thread that stretches backward and forward, running through the lives of women and binding them together in an unbroken chain of years.

Winner of the 2015 Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Finding Augusta breaks new ground, revising how media studies interpret the relationship between our bodies and technology. This is a challenging exploration of how, for both good and ill, the sudden ubiquity of mobile devices, GPS systems, haptic technologies, and other forms of media alter individuals' experience of their bodies and shape the social collective. The author succeeds in problematizing the...

A Companion to Roman Italy investigates the impact of Rome in all its forms--political, cultural, social, and economic--upon Italy's various regions, as well as the extent to which unification occurred as Rome became the capital of Italy.

• The collection presents new archaeological data relating to the sites of Roman Italy
• Contributions discuss new theories of how to understand cultural change in the Italian peninsula
• Combines detailed case-studies of particular sites with wider-ranging thematic chapters
• Leading...

In Great Games, Local Rules, Alexander Cooley, one of America's most respected international relations scholars, explores the dynamics of the new...

Policing in Canada is in the process of change: similar to other nations in the western world, many of the policing services that were provided by public forces in the past are being gradually handed over to private security agencies.

Complex networks of policing that reflect a mix of public and private security providers are emerging, and this transformation has serious implications for how Canadians interact with one another. For instance, if residents of a gated community or members of a downtown business association pay for their own policing services rather than relying on the...