Oxford University Press

This book explores how to create culture-sensitive technology for local users in an increasingly globalized world with rising participatory culture. Illustrated with a cross-cultural study of mobile messaging use, Sun presents an innovative framework integrating action and meaning through a dialogical, cyclical design process to create usable and...

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Gunning investigates American literary encounters with the conditions, processes, and consequences of white-on-black violence. She shows that the representation of stereotypes, such as the black rapist, were crucial in mediating moments of white social crisis in the late nineteenth century. Gunning brings together writers including Kate Chopin,...

How do language and thought connect to things in the world? John Hawthorne and        David Manley offer an original and ambitious treatment of the semantic phenomenon of        reference and the cognitive phenomenon of singular thought, leading to a new unified        account of definite and indefinite descriptions, names, and demonstratives....

This text offers a conversational yet detailed guide to modern psychiatry. Exploring various approaches to diagnosing and treating psychiatric disorders, it lucidly illustrates each approach's strengths and weaknesses and then suggests how to interweave them in working with patients. Using clinical vignettes, it illustrates the connections between...

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