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The first issue of Volume 7 of The International Journal of the Humanities has now been published.

Volume 7, Number 1 contains:

• The Funhouse Mirror: U.S. Soap Opera Images Abroad by Marilyn J. Matelski.
• Practising Creative Innovation across Cultures by Donna Wright.
• Social Transformation and Gender Roles in Contemporary China: An Introduction to My Current PhD Project by Jiaran Zheng.
• Nonreductive Physicalism and the Supervenience/Exclusion Argument by Neil Campbell.
• Domestic Violence Beliefs and Perceptions across the Lifespan by John Chapin.
• Outline of a Theory of the Person for Historical-Biographical Study by Admir Skodo.
• Primary School Children and their Preferences towards Playing and Toys: Research in Northern Greece by Aggeliki Tsapakidou, Nektaria Palaiologou, John Papadelis and Chrysie Papadeli.
• The Analysis of Senator Barack Obama’s Speech on Race by Kenneth Burke’s Idea of Dramatism by Liu Xiaoyan and Nancy L. Street.
• How Confident are Vocational Trainees in Making Career Decisions? by Ab. Rahim Bakar, Shamsiah Mohamed and Fitri Kazilan.
• Transformat?on of Social Life in Turkey During the Early-kemalist Era by Ahmed Baran Dural.
• The Radical Islam in Southeast Asia: The Connections between the Malaysian Militant Group and Jemaah Islamiyah and Its Implications for Regional Security by Mohd Mizan Aslam.
• The Banality of Radical Evil by Silke Ann Mariz Mariano.
• Embedded Engagements: The Challenge of Creative Practice Research to the Humanities by Helen Yeates.
• Masochism, Desire and Death: A Deleuzian Reading of Pan Jinlian by Junjie Luo.
• Asian Immigrants and the Issue of Death: An Integration of Eastern Philosophy and Existentialism by Nga Duong and Tuyen Nguyen.
• Searching for the Alchemists Stone: Finding Management Relevance Through Architectural Experience by Jacqueline McIntosh.
• Understanding the Operation and Values of Live Music Performances on Secondlife by Hiesun Cecilia Suhr.
• The Emperor’s New Clothes or Simulation Theory by Luz del Carmen Vilchis Esquivel.
• What’s Love Got to Do with Pathophysiology? by Masoud Ghaffari.
• Information Systems Students’ Attitude toward Ethical Behaviour: A More Recent Look by Badie Farah.
• Gestures as Part of Referential Practice in Tutorials at the Computer by Patricia Frenz-Belkin.
• Hong Kong Workspace: Culture or Clutter? by Cimone Lam.
• Speaker Diligence and Persistence in Minority Language Description: Esan and its Orthography Development by Emmanuel Aito.
• Study of the Carmine Glaze on Wang Yeh Koji Pottery with Unleaded Simulation and Materials Technology by Yung-Kuan Tseng, Chu-Heng Lee and Chi-Shoung Tseng.
• Another Evidence of Cross-linguistic Influence: A Reflection through University Students’ Performance on Expressions of Measurement by Kunlaphak Kongsuwannakul.
• Relationship Between Personality, Misbehavior and Academic Achievement among Freshmen in a University by Rahil Mahyuddin, Yan Li Siaw, Samsilah Roslan and Rohani Ahmad Tarmizi.
• Marital Implications of Obesity: The Orobo in the Perspective of Single Men and Women by Sulaimon T. Adedokun and Luqman A. Bisiriyu.
• Conspicuous by its Absence in Psychology: The Mental Process Producing Voluntary Behavior by Y?lmaz Özakp?nar.
• Making War and Talking Peace: Legacies of Wilson, Roosevelt and Bush by Katherine Maynard.
• What do the Students Want? An Investigation of Student Preferences in their EFL Learning by Marietta Rossetto, Yuan Jiali and Xin Qi.