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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Laslett has given us an indispensable resource in this broad, overarching history of workers’ movements in a remarkable city." -- Chris Rhomberg * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Scope and Purpose PART ONE: UNDER THE THUMB OF THE OPEN SHOP 1. Myth versus Reality in the Making of the Southern California Working Class, 1880--1903 2. "It's Class War, without a Doubt": The Open Shop Battle Intensifies, 1904--1916 3. Grassroots Insurgencies and the Impact of World War I, 1905--1924 4. Moving to the "Industrial Suburbs": From Hollywood to South Gate, and from Signal Hill to the Citrus Belt, 1919--1929 PART TWO: ORGANIZED LABOR COMES INTO ITS OWN 5. Unemployment, Upton Sinclair's EPIC Campaign, and the Search for a New Deal Political Coalition, 1929--1941 6. Raising Consciousness at the Workplace: Anglos, Mexicans, and the Founding of the Los Angeles CIO, 1933--1938 7. Battle Royal: AFL versus CIO, and the Decline of the Open Shop, 1936--1941 8. "Two Steps Forward, One Step Back"? L.A. Workers in World War II, 1941--1945 PART THREE: CULTURAL CHANGE AND THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW INDUSTRIAL ORDER 9. "Caught between Consumption and the Cold War": Rebuilding Working-Class Politics, 1945--1968 10. Employment, Housing, and the Struggle for Equality in the Era of Civil Rights, 1965--1980 11. Globalization, Labor's Decline, and the Coming of a Service and High-Tech Economy, 1970--1994 12. False Dawn? L.A.'s Labor-Latino Alliance Takes Center Stage, 1990--2010 Conclusion: Comparative Reflections Notes Primary Sources Index

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Book SynopsisSuburban Empire takes readers to the US missile base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the matrix of postwar US imperial expansion, the Cold War nuclear arms race, and the tide of anti-colonial struggles rippling across the world. Hirshberg shows that the displacement of indigenous Marshallese within Kwajalein Atoll mirrors the segregation and spatial politics of the mainland US as local and global iterations of US empire took hold. Tracing how Marshall Islanders navigated US military control over their lands, Suburban Empire reveals that Cold Warera suburbanization was perfectly congruent with US colonization, military testing, and nuclear fallout. The structures of suburban segregation cloaked the destructive history of control and militarism under a veil of small-town innocence. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations A Note on Language Introduction—Home on the Range: US Empire and Innocence in the Cold War Pacific 1. From Wartime Victory to Cold War Containment in the Pacific: Building the Postwar US Security State on Marshallese Insecurity 2. New Homes for New Workers: Colonialism, Contract, and Construction 3. Domestic Containment in the Pacific: Segregation and Surveillance on Kwajalein 4. “Mayberry by the Sea”: Americans Find Home in the Marshall Islands 5. Reclaiming Home: Operation Homecoming and the Path toward Marshallese Self-Determination 6. US Empire and the Shape of Marshallese Sovereignty in the “Postcolonial” Era Conclusion: Kwajalein and Ebeye in a New Era of Insecurity Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisCinema and the Wealth of Nations explores how media principally in the form of cinema was used during the interwar years by elite institutions to establish and sustain forms of liberal political economy beneficial to their interests. It examines the media produced and circulated by institutions such as states, corporations, and investment banks, as well as the emergence of a corporate media industry and system supported by state policy and integral to the establishment of a new consumer system. Lee Grieveson sketches a genealogy of the use of media to encode liberal political and economic power across the period that saw the United States eclipse Britain as the globally hegemonic power and the related inauguration of new forms of liberal economic globalization. But this is not a distant history. Cinema and the Wealth of Nations examines a foundational conjuncture in the establishment of media forms and a media system instrumental in, and structural to, the emergence and expansion of a world system that has been-and continues to be-brutally violent, unequal, and destructive.Trade Review"Lee Grieveson’s bold historical analysis of the relationship between media and capital is nothing if not timely. . . . [He] deepens the scholarship on cinema’s social role beyond the dominant art and entertainment paradigms." * Reviews in History *"A monumental achievement, a book that invites scholars to rethink what it means to research and write film history." * JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *"Few recent books in film and media studies can match the ambition Lee Grieveson set himself with Cinema and the Wealth of Nations: Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System, and even fewer have delivered in the way Grieveson does. Nothing less than a comprehensive reconceptualisation of the discipline is on the agenda . . . in which political economy replaces aesthetics at the centre of our concerns, and in which questions of corporate ownership, state policy and class hegemony form the core of research in the field. . . . [It's a] rare breed of academic text: one that leaves the reader vivified at the end, as Grieveson’s final chapter whizzes from the techno-futurism of the 1939 World Fair, through the cinema’s insertion into the military-industrial complex in the Cold War and onto the fully automated drone-logic of contemporary capitalist media." * Senses of Cinema *"A beacon for future research, Grieveson’s Cinema and the Wealth of Nations will undoubtedly become one of the most significant monographs in the field of media history and political economy, and provide an indispensable resource, not only in terms of its valuable content, but also its grand scope, ambitious synthesis, and urgent message." * Film-Philosophy *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. The Silver Screen and the Gold Standard 2. The Panama Caper 3. Empire of Liberty 4. Liberty Bonds 5. The State of Extension 6. The Work of Film in the Age of Fordist Mechanization 7. The Pan-American Road to Happiness and Friendship 8. Highways of Empire 9. League of Corporations 10. The Silver Chains of Mimesis 11. The Golden Harvest of the Silver Screen 12. Welfare Media 13. The World of Tomorrow—Today! Notes Sources and Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCinema and the Wealth of Nations explores how media principally in the form of cinema was used during the interwar years by elite institutions to establish and sustain forms of liberal political economy beneficial to their interests. It examines the media produced and circulated by institutions such as states, corporations, and investment banks, as well as the emergence of a corporate media industry and system supported by state policy and integral to the establishment of a new consumer system. Lee Grieveson sketches a genealogy of the use of media to encode liberal political and economic power across the period that saw the United States eclipse Britain as the globally hegemonic power and the related inauguration of new forms of liberal economic globalization. But this is not a distant history. Cinema and the Wealth of Nations examines a foundational conjuncture in the establishment of media forms and a media system instrumental in, and structural to, the emergence and expansion of a world system that has been-and continues to be-brutally violent, unequal, and destructive.Trade Review"Lee Grieveson’s bold historical analysis of the relationship between media and capital is nothing if not timely. . . . [He] deepens the scholarship on cinema’s social role beyond the dominant art and entertainment paradigms." * Reviews in History *"A monumental achievement, a book that invites scholars to rethink what it means to research and write film history." * JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *"Few recent books in film and media studies can match the ambition Lee Grieveson set himself with Cinema and the Wealth of Nations: Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System, and even fewer have delivered in the way Grieveson does. Nothing less than a comprehensive reconceptualisation of the discipline is on the agenda . . . in which political economy replaces aesthetics at the centre of our concerns, and in which questions of corporate ownership, state policy and class hegemony form the core of research in the field. . . . [It's a] rare breed of academic text: one that leaves the reader vivified at the end, as Grieveson’s final chapter whizzes from the techno-futurism of the 1939 World Fair, through the cinema’s insertion into the military-industrial complex in the Cold War and onto the fully automated drone-logic of contemporary capitalist media." * Senses of Cinema *"A beacon for future research, Grieveson’s Cinema and the Wealth of Nations will undoubtedly become one of the most significant monographs in the field of media history and political economy, and provide an indispensable resource, not only in terms of its valuable content, but also its grand scope, ambitious synthesis, and urgent message." * Film-Philosophy *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. The Silver Screen and the Gold Standard 2. The Panama Caper 3. Empire of Liberty 4. Liberty Bonds 5. The State of Extension 6. The Work of Film in the Age of Fordist Mechanization 7. The Pan-American Road to Happiness and Friendship 8. Highways of Empire 9. League of Corporations 10. The Silver Chains of Mimesis 11. The Golden Harvest of the Silver Screen 12. Welfare Media 13. The World of Tomorrow—Today! Notes Sources and Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFood and drink has been a focal point of modern social theory since the inception of agrarian capitalism and the industrial revolution. From Adam Smith to Mary Douglas, major thinkers have used key concepts such as identity, exchange, culture, and class to explain the modern food system. Food, Politics, and Society offers a historical and sociological survey of how these various ideas and the practices that accompany them have shaped our understanding and organization of the production, processing, preparation, serving, and consumption of food and drink in modern societies. Divided into twelve chapters and drawing on a wide range of historical and empirical illustrations, this book provides a concise, informed, and accessible survey of the interaction between social theory and food and drink. It is perfect for courses in a wide range of disciplines.Trade Review"[A] well‐researched and well‐written piece of work, worthy of being used both in teaching and as an inspiration for future research projects." * Journal of Agrarian Change *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii 1. Introduction: Food, Drink, and Modern Social Theory 1 2. The Natural and the Social: The Agricultural Revolution 21 3. Exchange: The Columbian Exchange and Mercantile Empires 40 4. Culture: Ritual, Prohibition, and Taboo 58 5. Industrialization: Technology, Rationality, and Urbanization 76 6. The Public Sphere: Eating and Drinking in Public 94 7. The Modern State: Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Biopolitics 112 8. Identity: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Religion 130 9. Distinction: Social Diff erence, Taste, and the Civilizing Process 150 10. Political Economy: The Global Food System 169 11. The Self: Food Choices and Public Health 187 12. Consumption: Media, the Domestic Economy, and Celebrity Chefs 206 Notes 223 Select Bibliography 257 Index 265

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Book SynopsisFood and drink has been a focal point of modern social theory since the inception of agrarian capitalism and the industrial revolution. From Adam Smith to Mary Douglas, major thinkers have used key concepts such as identity, exchange, culture, and class to explain the modern food system. Food, Politics, and Society offers a historical and sociological survey of how these various ideas and the practices that accompany them have shaped our understanding and organization of the production, processing, preparation, serving, and consumption of food and drink in modern societies. Divided into twelve chapters and drawing on a wide range of historical and empirical illustrations, this book provides a concise, informed, and accessible survey of the interaction between social theory and food and drink. It is perfect for courses in a wide range of disciplines.Trade Review"[A] well‐researched and well‐written piece of work, worthy of being used both in teaching and as an inspiration for future research projects." * Journal of Agrarian Change *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii 1. Introduction: Food, Drink, and Modern Social Theory 1 2. The Natural and the Social: The Agricultural Revolution 21 3. Exchange: The Columbian Exchange and Mercantile Empires 40 4. Culture: Ritual, Prohibition, and Taboo 58 5. Industrialization: Technology, Rationality, and Urbanization 76 6. The Public Sphere: Eating and Drinking in Public 94 7. The Modern State: Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Biopolitics 112 8. Identity: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Religion 130 9. Distinction: Social Diff erence, Taste, and the Civilizing Process 150 10. Political Economy: The Global Food System 169 11. The Self: Food Choices and Public Health 187 12. Consumption: Media, the Domestic Economy, and Celebrity Chefs 206 Notes 223 Select Bibliography 257 Index 265

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Book SynopsisFrom the Cold War through today, the U.S. has quietly assisted dozens of regimes around the world in suppressing civil unrest and securing the conditions for the smooth operation of capitalism. Casting a new light on American empire, Badges Without Borders shows, for the first time, that the very same people charged with global counterinsurgency also militarized American policing at home. In this groundbreaking exposé, Stuart Schrader shows how the United States projected imperial power overseas through police training and technical assistanceand how this effort reverberated to shape the policing of city streets at home. Examining diverse records, from recently declassified national security and intelligence materials to police textbooks and professional magazines, Schrader reveals how U.S. police leaders envisioned the beat to be as wide as the globe and worked to put everyday policing at the core of the Cold War project of counterinsurgency. A smoking gun book, Badges without Borders offers a new account of the War on Crime, law and order politics, and global counterinsurgency, revealing the connections between foreign and domestic racial control.Trade Review"In his distressing and erudite history, Schrader documents how many of the tools and tactics adopted by American police over the past half century were originally deployed to fight communism abroad. His argument, which Badges Without Borders persuasively demonstrates, is that the era of intensified American policing that began in the 1960s cannot be understood outside the context of the Cold War national-security state." * Bookforum *"Badges Without Borders helps us to better understand the nature of police power and the dangerous allure of reform." * Punishment & Society *"Shows how the logic of policing and counterinsurgency, as developed in interlinked ways both and home and abroad, were and remain inseparable from racialized logics that see empowerment of non-whites as inherently subversive of the established order." * Small Wars Journal *“This is a meaningful addition to the literature on law, criminology, sociology, political science, and history. . . . Highly recommended.” * CHOICE *"Schrader’s new history of the carceral state is an important resource for scholars, public policy reformers, and political activists alike." * Boston Review *"Badges without Borders makes a groundbreaking contribution to the literature on the carceral state." * Law & Social Inquiry *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction 1 • Rethinking Race and Policing in Imperial Perspective 2 • Byron Engle and the Rise of Overseas Police Assistance 3 • How Counterinsurgency Became Policing 4 • Bringing Police Assistance Home 5 • Policing and Social Regulation 6 • Riot School 7 • The Imperial Circuit of Tear Gas 8 • Order Maintenance and the Genealogy of SWAT 9 • “The Discriminate Art of Indiscriminate Counter-revolution” Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the Cold War through today, the U.S. has quietly assisted dozens of regimes around the world in suppressing civil unrest and securing the conditions for the smooth operation of capitalism. Casting a new light on American empire, Badges Without Borders shows, for the first time, that the very same people charged with global counterinsurgency also militarized American policing at home. In this groundbreaking exposé, Stuart Schrader shows how the United States projected imperial power overseas through police training and technical assistanceand how this effort reverberated to shape the policing of city streets at home. Examining diverse records, from recently declassified national security and intelligence materials to police textbooks and professional magazines, Schrader reveals how U.S. police leaders envisioned the beat to be as wide as the globe and worked to put everyday policing at the core of the Cold War project of counterinsurgency. A smoking gun book, Badges without BorTrade Review"In his distressing and erudite history, Schrader documents how many of the tools and tactics adopted by American police over the past half century were originally deployed to fight communism abroad. His argument, which Badges Without Borders persuasively demonstrates, is that the era of intensified American policing that began in the 1960s cannot be understood outside the context of the Cold War national-security state." * Bookforum *"Badges Without Borders helps us to better understand the nature of police power and the dangerous allure of reform." * Punishment & Society *"Shows how the logic of policing and counterinsurgency, as developed in interlinked ways both and home and abroad, were and remain inseparable from racialized logics that see empowerment of non-whites as inherently subversive of the established order." * Small Wars Journal *“This is a meaningful addition to the literature on law, criminology, sociology, political science, and history. . . . Highly recommended.” * CHOICE *"Schrader’s new history of the carceral state is an important resource for scholars, public policy reformers, and political activists alike." * Boston Review *"Badges without Borders makes a groundbreaking contribution to the literature on the carceral state." * Law & Social Inquiry *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction 1 • Rethinking Race and Policing in Imperial Perspective 2 • Byron Engle and the Rise of Overseas Police Assistance 3 • How Counterinsurgency Became Policing 4 • Bringing Police Assistance Home 5 • Policing and Social Regulation 6 • Riot School 7 • The Imperial Circuit of Tear Gas 8 • Order Maintenance and the Genealogy of SWAT 9 • “The Discriminate Art of Indiscriminate Counter-revolution” Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEverybody Eats tells the story of food justice in Greensboro, North Carolinaa midsize city in the southern United States. The city's residents found themselves in the middle of conversations about food insecurity and justice when they reached the top of the Food Research and Action Center's list of major cities experiencing food hardship. Greensboro's local food communities chose to confront these high rates of food insecurity by engaging neighborhood voices, mobilizing creative resources at the community level, and sustaining conversations across the local food system. Within three years of reaching the peak of FRAC's list, Greensboro saw an 8 percent drop in its food hardship rate and moved from first to fourteenth in FRAC's list. Using eight case studies of food justice activism, from urban farms to mobile farmers markets, shared kitchens to food policy councils,Everybody Eats highlights the importance of communicationand communicating social justice specificallyin building the kindTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Overview Part I The Language of Food (In)Security 1. Navigating the Language of Food Systems 2. Tracing the Discourses of Food (In)Security Part II Engaging Communities: Case Studies 3. The Warnersville Community Food Task Force 4. The Downtown Greensboro Food Truck Pilot Project Part III Mobilizing Resources: Case Studies 5. The Warnersville Community Garden 6. The Mobile Oasis Farmers Market Part IV Documenting Process :Case Studies 7. Ethnosh 8. Kitchen Connects GSO Part V Sustaining Conversations: Case Studies 9. The Guilford Food Council 10. The Renaissance Community Co-op Conclusion Securing Food for a Just Future Appendix A: Warnersville Community Food Task Force Project Concept Appendix B: Blank Model Partner Wheel Appendix C: Mobile Oasis Recipes by Anita Cunningham Appendix D: Guilford Food Council Charter Selected Bibliography Index About the Authors and Contributors

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Book SynopsisEverybody Eats tells the story of food justice in Greensboro, North Carolinaa midsize city in the southern United States. The city's residents found themselves in the middle of conversations about food insecurity and justice when they reached the top of the Food Research and Action Center's list of major cities experiencing food hardship. Greensboro's local food communities chose to confront these high rates of food insecurity by engaging neighborhood voices, mobilizing creative resources at the community level, and sustaining conversations across the local food system. Within three years of reaching the peak of FRAC's list, Greensboro saw an 8 percent drop in its food hardship rate and moved from first to fourteenth in FRAC's list. Using eight case studies of food justice activism, from urban farms to mobile farmers markets, shared kitchens to food policy councils,Everybody Eats highlights the importance of communicationand communicating social justice specificallyin building the kindTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Overview Part I The Language of Food (In)Security 1. Navigating the Language of Food Systems 2. Tracing the Discourses of Food (In)Security Part II Engaging Communities: Case Studies 3. The Warnersville Community Food Task Force 4. The Downtown Greensboro Food Truck Pilot Project Part III Mobilizing Resources: Case Studies 5. The Warnersville Community Garden 6. The Mobile Oasis Farmers Market Part IV Documenting Process :Case Studies 7. Ethnosh 8. Kitchen Connects GSO Part V Sustaining Conversations: Case Studies 9. The Guilford Food Council 10. The Renaissance Community Co-op Conclusion Securing Food for a Just Future Appendix A: Warnersville Community Food Task Force Project Concept Appendix B: Blank Model Partner Wheel Appendix C: Mobile Oasis Recipes by Anita Cunningham Appendix D: Guilford Food Council Charter Selected Bibliography Index About the Authors and Contributors

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Timely — and, frankly, sometimes shocking. . . . Ultimate Price exposes a system rife with troubling assumptions and inequality that reduces each human to a data point. Well-written and readable, the book avoids being overly academic while still presenting a meticulously researched argument of why we all should take the time to understand how our own lives are priced.” * BuzzFeed *“Price tags on human lives are everywhere.” -- Kai Ryssdal, * Marketplace *“Should be required reading for anyone sitting down to watch the evening news." * New Books Network *"To ration resources and seek to re-open businesses, accountants have to assign price tags to life. . . . In Ultimate Price, a detailed analysis of how government organisations and corporations define the monetary value of human life, Howard Friedman tours the uncomfortable architecture of this calculus." * The Spectator *"Friedman argues that we must devise more equitable ways to assign value to human life. . . . Readers are exhorted to understand how lives are priced so that they might demand better formulas." * Science *“Provides a concise review of some of the scientific literature on valuing life including some of the moral issues one must consider when making these judgments. . . . Certainly worth a read for those looking to learn more on this interesting topic.” * Healthcare Economist *"Very clear and well-informed. It has loads of thought-provoking examples."
 * Enlightened Economist *“Looks deeply into the structurally problematic factors that impact the price tags Americans are given for our lives.”
 * Hacking Finance *“A reflection and criticism of the data cult of contemporary technological bureaucracy.” * First Financial Network *“In meticulous detail, Friedman shows that not all lives are valued equally, that social and economic inequalities are often reproduced and compounded in how we calculate the value of any one life . . . . Friedman draws a vivid picture of how uneven power, competing interests, and social and economic inequality influence how we value life.” * Literary Review of Canada *“Thank you, Howard Steven Friedman, for providing invaluable information, insights, and counsel that will help those who read your book to have a wider and deeper impact on efforts NOT to value all people equally; rather, to value all people fairly ​'​so that human rights and human lives are always protected.​'" ​ * BobMorris: Blogging on Business *"Friedman’s tour through the value of life is an excellent work for those willing to dip their toes into these regulatory waters without drowning in the scholarship." * Regulation *“He has succeeded admirably in his aim of providing a non-technical and comprehensive presentation of the salient issues that will prove useful to concerned citizens and policy analysts in the health sector alike.” * Economic Record *“Incredibly engaging reading. It deals with an extremely sensitive topic, but is written delicately, with sensitivity, with respect for human life.” * Dziennik Gazeta Prawna * "Friedman, who is an American statistician and health economist, argues compellingly that the way in which governments place a monetary value on human life is 'neither transparent nor fair'." * Economic Affairs *"Provides a comprehensive introduction to the prices put on human life and a corresponding critical assessment of the methods routinely used to do so. It forces us to reflect not only on how critical price tags are in everyday life but also on what they convey about society’s values."
 * Health Affairs *"A clear and useful introduction." * European Legacy *"The author has a great thesis and is true throughout the book calling for equity in fairness in human valuation." * Social Science Journal *"[Friedman] has succeeded admirably in his aim of providing a non-technical and comprehensive presentation of the salient issues that will prove useful to concerned citizens and policy analysts in the health sector alike." * Economic Record *"This is an important book." * Journal of Economics *"Social science researchers would find this book a worthwhile read for broadening their perspective on the many ways society values lives." * Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law *Table of Contents1. Your Money or Your Life? 2. When the Towers Fell 3. Justice Is Not Blind 4. A Little More Arsenic in Your Water 5. Maximizing Profits at Whose Expense? 6. I Want to Die the Way Grandpa Did 7. To Be Young Again 8. Can We Afford a Little One? 9. Broken Calculators 10. What’s Next? Notes Further Reading Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisHungry for Revolution tells the story of how struggles over food fueled the rise and fall of Chile's Popular Unity coalition and one of Latin America's most expansive social welfare states. Reconstructing ties among workers, consumers, scientists, and the state, Joshua Frens-String explores how Chileans across generations sought to center food security as a right of citizenship. In so doing, he deftly untangles the relationship between two of twentieth-century Chile's most significant political and economic processes: the fight of an emergent urban working class to gain reliable access to nutrient-rich foodstuffs and the state's efforts to modernize its underproducing agricultural countryside.Trade Review"This highly readable and engaging narrative is suitable both for experts in Latin American and food history and for students looking to learn more about food politics and modern Chile." * Hispanic American Historical Review *"This is a very readable book, an important contribution to understanding Chilean history, and a valuable addition to the relatively thinly populated field of the history of technology in Latin America." * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Building a Revolutionary Appetite Part One: A Hungry Nation 1 • Worlds of Abundance, Worlds of Scarcity 2 • Red Consumers Part Two: Containing Hunger 3 • Controlling for Nutrition 4 • Cultivating Consumption Part Three: Recipes for Change 5 • When Revolution Tasted Like Empanadas and Red Wine 6 • A Battle for the Chilean Stomach 7 • Barren Plots and Empty Pots Epilogue: Counterrevolution at the Market Key Acronyms and Terms in Chilean Food History Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Pressâs mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1954.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Borderland spaces, and the people who are navigating the violence of bordering processes within them, come alive in the pages of this worthwhile book." * Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) *"Borderland Circuitry’s strength is in Muñiz’s approach to detail and carefulness. . . . The book speaks to scholars and students interested in migration studies, digital surveillance studies, and ethnographical research on border and gang databases in the United States." * Border Criminologies *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations 1. The Land Gets Tangled in Walls and Circuitry 2. You Cross a Border and the Feds Build a Database 3. California Cops Become the Tip of the Spear 4. A Lawyer Watches a Wreck Unfold 5. ICE Rigs an Algorithm 6. We Make Our Own Maps 7. A Border Bleeds Out 8. A Hand Searches for a Root Acknowledgments Methodological Appendix: I Demand Some Documents Acronyms Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPolitical discourse on immigration in the United States has largely focused on what is most visible, including border walls and detention centers, while the invisible information systems that undergird immigration enforcement have garnered less attention. Tracking the evolution of various surveillance-related systems since the 1980s,Borderland Circuitryinvestigates how the deployment of this information infrastructure has shaped immigration enforcement practices. Ana Muñiz illuminates three phenomena that are becoming increasingly intertwined: digital surveillance, immigration control, and gang enforcement. Using ethnography, interviews, and analysis of documents never before seen, Muñiz uncovers how information-sharing partnerships between local police, state and federal law enforcement, and foreign partners collide to create multiple digital borderlands.Diving deep into a select group of information systems,Borderland Circuitryreveals how those with legal and political powerdeploy the specter of violent cross-border criminals to justify intensive surveillance, detention, brutality, deportation, and the destruction of land for border militarization.Trade Review"Borderland spaces, and the people who are navigating the violence of bordering processes within them, come alive in the pages of this worthwhile book." * Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) *"Borderland Circuitry’s strength is in Muñiz’s approach to detail and carefulness. . . . The book speaks to scholars and students interested in migration studies, digital surveillance studies, and ethnographical research on border and gang databases in the United States." * Border Criminologies *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations 1. The Land Gets Tangled in Walls and Circuitry 2. You Cross a Border and the Feds Build a Database 3. California Cops Become the Tip of the Spear 4. A Lawyer Watches a Wreck Unfold 5. ICE Rigs an Algorithm 6. We Make Our Own Maps 7. A Border Bleeds Out 8. A Hand Searches for a Root Acknowledgments Methodological Appendix: I Demand Some Documents Acronyms Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Economic Poisoning clearly lays out the economic and technological underpinnings that continue to make pesticides ubiquitous." * California History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Arsenic and Old Waste 2. Commercializing Chemical Warfare 3. Manufacturing Petrotoxicity 4. Public-Private Partnerships 5. From Oil Well to Farm Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe toxicity of pesticides to the environment and humans is often framed as an unfortunate effect of their benefits to agricultural production. In Economic Poisoning, Adam M. Romero upends this narrative and provides a fascinating new history of pesticides in American industrial agriculture prior to World War II. Through impeccable archival research, Romero reveals the ways in which late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American agriculture, especially in California, functioned less as a market for novel pest-killing chemical products and more as a sink for the accumulating toxic wastes of mining, oil production, and chemical manufacturing. Connecting farming ecosystems to technology and the economy, Romero provides an intriguing reconceptualization of pesticides that forces readers to rethink assumptions about food, industry, and the relationship between human and nonhuman environments.Trade Review"Economic Poisoning clearly lays out the economic and technological underpinnings that continue to make pesticides ubiquitous." * California History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Arsenic and Old Waste 2. Commercializing Chemical Warfare 3. Manufacturing Petrotoxicity 4. Public-Private Partnerships 5. From Oil Well to Farm Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow much is a human life worth? Individuals, families, companies, and governments routinely place a price on human life. The calculations that underlie these price tags are often buried in technical language, yet they influence our economy, laws, behaviors, policies, health, and safety. These price tags are often unfair, infused as they are with gender, racial, national, and cultural biases that often result in valuing the lives of the young more than the old, the rich more than the poor, whites more than blacks, Americans more than foreigners, and relatives more than strangers. This is critical since undervalued lives are left less-protected and more exposed to risk. Howard Steven Friedman explains in simple terms how economists and data scientists at corporations, regulatory agencies, and insurance companies develop and use these price tags and points a spotlight at their logical flaws and limitations. He then forcefully argues against the rampant unfairness in the system. ReadersTrade Review“Timely — and, frankly, sometimes shocking. . . . Ultimate Price exposes a system rife with troubling assumptions and inequality that reduces each human to a data point. Well-written and readable, the book avoids being overly academic while still presenting a meticulously researched argument of why we all should take the time to understand how our own lives are priced.” * BuzzFeed *“Price tags on human lives are everywhere.” -- Kai Ryssdal, * Marketplace *“Should be required reading for anyone sitting down to watch the evening news." * New Books Network *"To ration resources and seek to re-open businesses, accountants have to assign price tags to life. . . . In Ultimate Price, a detailed analysis of how government organisations and corporations define the monetary value of human life, Howard Friedman tours the uncomfortable architecture of this calculus." * The Spectator *"Friedman argues that we must devise more equitable ways to assign value to human life. . . . Readers are exhorted to understand how lives are priced so that they might demand better formulas." * Science *“Provides a concise review of some of the scientific literature on valuing life including some of the moral issues one must consider when making these judgments. . . . Certainly worth a read for those looking to learn more on this interesting topic.” * Healthcare Economist *"It is a serious understatement to say that this is a thought-provoking volume. . . . [Friedman] calls our attention to the problems we ought not ignore." * Public Health Ethics *Table of Contents1. Your Money or Your Life? 2. When the Towers Fell 3. Justice Is Not Blind 4. A Little More Arsenic in Your Water 5. Maximizing Profits at Whose Expense? 6. I Want to Die the Way Grandpa Did 7. To Be Young Again 8. Can We Afford a Little One? 9. Broken Calculators 10. What’s Next? Notes Further Reading Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisHow does a group that lacks legal status organize its members to become effective political activists? In the early 2000s, Arizona's campaign of attrition through enforcement aimed to make life so miserable for undocumented immigrants that they would self-deport. Undocumented activists resisted hostile legislation, registered thousands of new Latino voters, and joined a national movement to advance justice for immigrants. Drawing on five years of observation and interviews with activists in Phoenix, Arizona, Kathryn Abrams explains howthepracticesofstorytelling, emotion cultures, and performative citizenship fueled this grassroots movement. Together these practices produced both the open hand (the affective bonds among participants) and the closed fist (the pragmatic strategies of resistance) thathave allowed the movement to mobilize and sustain itself over time.Trade Review"In sum, Open Hand, Closed Fist is a must read for scholars of immigrant activism and, more broadly, for social movement scholars interested in the dynamic strategies of “challenger movements”. By offering a richly empirically illustrated and well-researched inside look into the Arizona movement, the book solves a piece of the puzzle in accounting for the spectacular rise of the immigrant rights movement in the United States." * Social Forces *

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Book SynopsisHow does a group that lacks legal status organize its members to become effective political activists? In the early 2000s, Arizona's campaign of attrition through enforcement aimed to make life so miserable for undocumented immigrants that they would self-deport. Undocumented activists resisted hostile legislation, registered thousands of new Latino voters, and joined a national movement to advance justice for immigrants. Drawing on five years of observation and interviews with activists in Phoenix, Arizona, Kathryn Abrams explains howthepracticesofstorytelling, emotion cultures, and performative citizenship fueled this grassroots movement. Together these practices produced both the open hand (the affective bonds among participants) and the closed fist (the pragmatic strategies of resistance) thathave allowed the movement to mobilize and sustain itself over time.Trade Review"In sum, Open Hand, Closed Fist is a must read for scholars of immigrant activism and, more broadly, for social movement scholars interested in the dynamic strategies of “challenger movements”. By offering a richly empirically illustrated and well-researched inside look into the Arizona movement, the book solves a piece of the puzzle in accounting for the spectacular rise of the immigrant rights movement in the United States." * Social Forces *

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Book SynopsisSuspended Livesexplores the experiences of asylum seekers in the midwestern United States in vivid detail. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among Cameroonian and other African asylum seekers, Bridget M. Haas traces the emotional and social effects of being embedded in the US asylum regime. Appealing to the United States for protection, asylum seekers are cast into a complex and protracted bureaucratic system that increasingly treats them as suspect. Haas shows how the US asylum system both serves as a potential refuge from past violence and creates new forms of suffering. She takes readers into the intimate spaces of asylum seekers' homes and communities, in addition to legal and bureaucratic settings that are often inaccessible to the public. Poignantly foregrounding the lives and voices of asylum seekers, Suspended Lives exposes the asylum system as a site of multiple, yet often hidden and normalized, forms of violence. Haas also illuminates how asylum seekers respond to tTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Acronyms Introduction 1. Violence of In/Visibility 2. Limbo and the Violence of Waiting 3. Socioeconomic Violence and Its Ripple Effects 4. Epistemic Violence in Asylum Adjudication 5. The Aftermaths of Asylum Decisions Conclusion Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis captivating ethnography reveals the immediate and persisting impact of forced family separations and the eventual reunifications in communities affected by El Salvador's civil war. In 2005, medical student Elizabeth Barnert traveled to El Salvador to build a DNA bank for reuniting families forcibly separated during the Salvadoran Civil War. Based on fifteen years of interviews and field notes, Reunion chronicles families' experiences with military attacks, child disappearances, family separations, joyful reunions, and arduous processes of reintegration. Barnert worked alongside Jesuit priest and Pro-Búsqueda founder Father Jon Cortina, former guerrilla fighters, and reformed gang members.Told through the voices of activists and survivors, the book accompanies young adult children seeking biological kin, including a young woman returning to El Salvador twenty years after her adoption abroad to meet her mother and brother. This groundbreaking ethnography illuminates the cyclTrade Review"Barnert’s compassionate approach to her interviews helps bring to the surface many complex feelings for her subjects and, hopefully, contributes to their healing. This book, beautifully written from the heart, is an essential tool for anyone interested in recent Latin America history." * Science *"Barnert’s book is moving, her dedication and connection to the work of Pro-Búsqueda palpable." * Jacobin *Table of ContentsContents Author’s Note Foreword: Historical Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity in El Salvador, by Philippe Bourgois Introduction Part 1 Pro-Búsqueda and the DNA Bank (Summer 2005) 1. Arriving 2. Guarjila with Father Jon 3. At the Nunnery 4. Guerrilleras 5. Morazán 6. Gunshots 7. Sonsonate with Ceci and Lucio 8. Fathers 9. Sonia’s Reunion 10. Carmen’s Reunion 11. Suchitoto with María Inés 12. Isabel and Gloria’s Reunion 13. Meeting Angela 14. Meeting Pedro 15. Sandrita and New Separations 16. La Esperanza 17. Coming Home Part 2 Fifty Interviews (Winter 2005–2006) 18. Father Jon’s Legacy 19. Back at Pro-Búsqueda 20. Pedro’s Testimony 21. El Norte Part 3 Angela’s Story (2006–2020) 22. Angela’s Phone Reunion 23. Return to El Salvador 24. Angela’s Reunion 25. Blanca and Ricardo 26. Remittance 27. Home to California with Angela 28. Berkeley Days Between 29. Angela’s El Salvador 30. Onward Afterword Acknowledgments Appendix A: Photo-Ethnographic Testimony of a Salvadoran Military Scorched-Earth Operation (November 1981) by Philippe Bourgois Appendix B: Refugee Children’s Drawings of the Salvadoran Civil War by Elizabeth Barnert and Philippe Bourgois Notes Index Contact Information

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Book SynopsisThis captivating ethnography reveals the immediate and persisting impact of forced family separations and the eventual reunifications in communities affected by El Salvador's civil war. In 2005, medical student Elizabeth Barnert traveled to El Salvador to build a DNA bank for reuniting families forcibly separated during the Salvadoran Civil War. Based on fifteen years of interviews and field notes, Reunion chronicles families' experiences with military attacks, child disappearances, family separations, joyful reunions, and arduous processes of reintegration. Barnert worked alongside Jesuit priest and Pro-Búsqueda founder Father Jon Cortina, former guerrilla fighters, and reformed gang members.Told through the voices of activists and survivors, the book accompanies young adult children seeking biological kin, including a young woman returning to El Salvador twenty years after her adoption abroad to meet her mother and brother. This groundbreaking ethnography illuminates the cycles of poverty and violence driving immigration and ongoing separations around the world. Reunion includes a foreword by renowned anthropologist Philippe Bourgois and his firsthand account of fleeing a Salvadoran military scorched-earth operation, with never-before-published photos and children's drawings from the war. All book royalties ofReunionwill be donated by the author to Pro-Búsqueda and related causes.Trade Review"Barnert’s compassionate approach to her interviews helps bring to the surface many complex feelings for her subjects and, hopefully, contributes to their healing. This book, beautifully written from the heart, is an essential tool for anyone interested in recent Latin America history." * Science *"Barnert’s book is moving, her dedication and connection to the work of Pro-Búsqueda palpable." * Jacobin *Table of ContentsContents Author’s Note Foreword: Historical Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity in El Salvador, by Philippe Bourgois Introduction Part 1 Pro-Búsqueda and the DNA Bank (Summer 2005) 1. Arriving 2. Guarjila with Father Jon 3. At the Nunnery 4. Guerrilleras 5. Morazán 6. Gunshots 7. Sonsonate with Ceci and Lucio 8. Fathers 9. Sonia’s Reunion 10. Carmen’s Reunion 11. Suchitoto with María Inés 12. Isabel and Gloria’s Reunion 13. Meeting Angela 14. Meeting Pedro 15. Sandrita and New Separations 16. La Esperanza 17. Coming Home Part 2 Fifty Interviews (Winter 2005–2006) 18. Father Jon’s Legacy 19. Back at Pro-Búsqueda 20. Pedro’s Testimony 21. El Norte Part 3 Angela’s Story (2006–2020) 22. Angela’s Phone Reunion 23. Return to El Salvador 24. Angela’s Reunion 25. Blanca and Ricardo 26. Remittance 27. Home to California with Angela 28. Berkeley Days Between 29. Angela’s El Salvador 30. Onward Afterword Acknowledgments Appendix A: Photo-Ethnographic Testimony of a Salvadoran Military Scorched-Earth Operation (November 1981) by Philippe Bourgois Appendix B: Refugee Children’s Drawings of the Salvadoran Civil War by Elizabeth Barnert and Philippe Bourgois Notes Index Contact Information

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1983, this textbook is now published in a completely revised and updated form to take full account of changes in policy-making in the second half of Mrs Thatcher''s first decade in power.Table of ContentsPart 1 Approaches and views: Introducing the "policy approach"; views of policy making. Part 2 Acquiring resources - the policy ingredients: Problems of acquiring resources - what, how and from whom. Part 3 Dividing resources: The criteria for choice; dividing resources - the politics of public expenditure. Part 4 Applying policies: The products of government; carrying out intentions; the consequences of government - outcomes and impact. Part 5 Conclusion: The policy approach reviewed.

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Book SynopsisThis student text introduces the main themes and issues of social policy. By examining a variety of social topics, such as leisure, work, media and information technology, the book explores the nature of inequality and the impact of social policy. It then considers the future for social policy.Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Social Policy and Social Change. 2. Communicating. 3. Viewing. 4. Travelling. 5. Shopping. 6. Working. 7. Playing. 8. Consumers or Citizens?. Glossary. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines town and country planning policy in twentieth-century Britain as an important aspect of state activity. Tracing the origins of planning ideals and practice, Gordon Cherry charts the adoption by state, both at the central and local level, of measures to control and regulate features of Britain''s urban and rural environments. The author examines how town planning first took root as a professional activity and an academic discipline around the turn of the last century, largely as a reaction to the apparent problems of the late Victorian city. He shows, too, that this impetus for change coincided with a new perception amongst political thinkers of state planning as a legitimate and necessary function of Government''s intervention in social and economic affairs. Town planning, as a state activity in land use regulation, housing, industrial location, roads and transport, became an important beneficiary of these developments. The book highlights developments in pTable of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. The Collectivist Advance. 2. The Birth of Town Planning. 3. The Notion of State Planning. 4. Town Planning's Foothold, 1919-39. 5. Planning and the Corporate State, 1939-45. 6. The Attlee Years, 1945-51. 7. State Planning in Operation. 8. The Consensus Breaks, 1974-9. 9. The Post-war Settlement Remade: from 1979. 10. Town Planning and the Planning Ideal. References. Index.

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Book Synopsisaeo Provides a clear summary of recent research into British political parties in the key policy areas. aeo It is user--friendly with each chapter divided into four clear sections so readers can easily digest and compare the chaptersa findings. aeo Takes full account of the last general election and the party conference season of 1997.Trade Review"A most valuable collection of essays with useful chronologies and bibliographies." H. Steck, SUNY College at CortlandTable of ContentsList of Tables. Preface and Acknowledgements. Party Activity and the Making of Party Policy: An Overview: Richard Kelly. 1. Economic and Industrial Policy: Steven Fielding and Jonathan Tonge. 2. Europe and Foreign Affairs: Fergus Carr. 3. Health, Education and Social Security: Brian Lund. 4. Law, Order and Civil Liberties: Steven Foster. 5. Racial Equality: Shamit Saggar. 6. Sex Equality: Ian Forbes. 7. Northern Ireland: Michael Cunningham. 8. Local Government and Devolution: Howard Elcock. 9. Parliament and the Civil Service: Robert Pyper. 10. Environmental Policy: Robert Garner. Conclusion. Guide to Further Reading. Appendices. Index.

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Book Synopsisaeo Begins a new series of books designed to reflect and contribute to the new thinking on social policy. (Broadening Perspectives on Social Policy). aeo Addresses topical issues, in view of worldwide concerns about rising crime rates and European concerns about social policy.Trade Review"This collection provides a thoughtful and incisive commentary on key current developments relating to crime and social exclusion. This is strongly recommended reading for both practitioners and policy makers." Paul Cavadino, National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders "Seven professors plus seven other eminent academics provide a penetrating analysis of the causes and possible remedies for the social malaise which many of us consider is sharply worsening throughout the social spectrum in every continent." Noel G Hustlet, Southwark, Lewisham and Bromley Monthly Meeting "Crime and Social Exclusionis the first in a s series of books especially intended to stimulate fresh thinking by bringing a wide range of disciplines and approaches to bear on the social policy debate. It explores aspects of social exclusion and the measures taken to reduce its impact from the perspectives of criminology and social policy." Gordon Hughes, University of Wales, Cardiff "Crime and Social Exclusion is an excellent collection of essays which together provide a timeley introduction to important aspects of current debates about processes of social inclusion and exclusion, community and neighbourhood decline, youth crime and criminal justice systems, and the way that state politics and policies intervene in all this. It should be read widely in policy and academic circles and is likely to appear on some quite diverse student reading lists." Robert MacDonald, University of TeessideTable of Contents1. Editorial Introduction: Catherine Jones Finer and Mike Nellis. 2. Creating a Safer Society: David Donnison. 3. Linking Housing Changes to Crime: Alan Murie. 4. The Local Politics of Inclusion: the State and Community Safety: John Pitts and Tim Hope. 5. Dangerous Futures: Social Exclusion and Youth Work in Late Modernity: Alan France and Paul Wiles. 6. Anti-racism and the Limits of Equal Opportunities Policies in the Criminal Justice System: David Denney. 7. Probation and Social Exclusion: David Smith and John Stewart. 8. Criminal Policy and the Eliminative Ideal: Andrew Rutherford. 9. Framing the Other: Criminality, Social Exclusion and Social Engineering in Developing Singapore: John Clammer. 10. The New Social Policy in Britain: Catherine Jones Finer.

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Book SynopsisAndelson has provided an interdisciplinary, international collection of essays, which has been in the making for twenty years. This is not a book on the history of economic thought but rather a book about the theory and practice of land reform and an historical summary of efforts to apply land value taxation in different countries around the world.Table of ContentsForeword: Warren J. Samuels. Preface and Acknowledgements: Robert V. Andelson. Introduction: Robert V. Andelson. Part I: The Ancient and Medieval World:. 1. Mesopotamia and Classical Antiquity: Michael Hudson. 2. European Feudalism from its Emergence through it's Decline: Kenneth Jupp. Part II: The Americas:. 3. Argentina: Fernando Scornik Gerstein. 4. Canada: Garry B. Nixon. 5. Chile: John Strasma. 6. Colombia: Fernanda Furtado. 7. Jamaica and Other Caribbean States: John M. Copes and Walter Rybeck. 8. Mexico: Manuel Perlo Cohen. 9. The United States: Walter Rybeck. Part III: Europe:. 10. Denmark: Ole Lefmann and Karsten K. Larsen. 11. Estonia: Aivar Tomson. 12. Finland: Pekka Virtanen. 13. Germany: Jurgen G. Backhaus. 14. Great Britain: Owen Connellan and Nathaniel Lichfield. 15. Hungary: Balazs Konya. Part IV: Africa:. 16. Nations of Eastern Africa: Rexford A. Ahene. 17. Republic of South Africa: Godfrey R. A. Dunkley. Part V: Asia:. 18. Abu Dhabi: Robert V. Andelson. 19. Republic of China (Taiwan): Alven H. S. Lam. 20. Hong Kong and Singapore: Sock-Yong Phang. 21. Japan: Y. Yamasaki and Robert V. Andelson. 22. Kiao-chau: V. G. Peterson and Tseng Hsiao. 23. Republic of Korea (South Korea): Tai-Il Lee. 24. Papau New Guinea: H. J. Manning and Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh. Part VI: The Antipodes:. 25. Australia: Geoffrey A. Forster. 26. New Zealand: Robert D. Keall. Contributors. Index.

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Book SynopsisHow do we determine whose positions count in the making of foreign policy? Does it matter how these policy makers are configured? Does the decision-making process such people engage in influence the type of policy that results? This volume synthesizs the literatures on leadership, group dynamics, organizational theory, and coalition politics to demonstrate how the nature of the decision unity shapes foreign policy. Synthesizes theories on leadership, group dynamics, organizational theory, and coalition politics to demonstrate how the nature of the decision unit shapes foreign policy Authors explore how policymakers'' preferences become aggregated in the foreign policymaking process when there is a predominant leader or there are single groups or coalitions Table of ContentsPreface. Part I: Does Decision Making Matter? Joe D. Hagan. Part II: How Decision Units Shape Foreign Policy: A Theoretical Framework: Margaret G. Hermann. Part III: Who Leads Matters: The Effects of Powerful Individuals: Margaret G. Hermann; Thomas Preston; Baghat Korany; Timothy M. Shaw. Part IV: Resolve, Accept, or Avoid: Effects of Group Conflict on Foreign Policy Decisions: Charles F. Hermann; Janice Gross Stein; Bengt Sundelius; Stephen G. Walker. Part V: Foreign Policy by Coalition: Deadlock, Compromise, and Anarchy: Joe D. Hagan; Philip P. Everts; Haruhiro Fukui; John D. Stempel. Part VI: People and Processes in Foreign Policymaking: Insights from Comparative Case Studies: Ryan K. Beasley; Juliet Kaarbo; Charles F. Hermann; Margaret G. Hermann.

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Book SynopsisThis topical collection examines a wide variety of themes and topics which links the environment to social policy and welfare. * Represents the best current work on the realignment of social policy to confront environmental issues. * Presents a challenging socio--environmental agenda for social policy.Table of Contents1. Editorial Introduction: Michael Cahill (Reader in Social Policy, University of Brighton) and Tony Fitzpatrick (Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Nottingham). 2. Rethinking Politics for a Green Economy: A Political Approach to Radical Reform: Douglas Torgerson (Professor, Trent University, Canada; director of Centre for the Study of Theory, Culture & Politics). 3. Green Citizenship: Hartley Dean (Professor of Social Policy, University of Luton). 4. Making Welfare for Future Generations: Tony Fitzpatrick (Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Nottingham). 5. The Sustainable Use of Resources on a Global Scale: Meg Huby (Lecturer in Social Policy, University of York). 6. Food, Social Policy and the Environment: Towards a New Model: Tim Lang (Professor of Food Policy, Centre for Food Policy, Thames Valley University), David Barling (Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Food Policy, Thames Valley University) and Martin Caraher (Reader in Food and Social Policy, Centre for Food Policy, Thames Valley University). 7. People, Land and Sustainability: Community Gardens and the Social Dimension of Sustainable Development: John Ferris (director, Community Policy Research Ltd, Nottingham), Carol Norman (freelance garden consultant & former teacher & occupational therapist) and Joe Sempik (independent environmental researcher). 8. Turning the Car Inside Out: Transport, Equity and Environment: Juliet Jain (PhD student, Centre for Science Studies, Lancster University) and Jo Guiver (PhD student, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds). 9. The Greens & Social Policy: Movements, Politics & Practice?: John Barry (Reader in Politics, Queen's University, Belfast) and Brian Doherty (Lecturer in Politics, Keele University). 10. Democracy, Social Relations and Ecowelfare: Paul Hoggett (Professor of Politics & director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies, University of the West of England). 11. The Implications of Consumerism for the Transition to a Sustainable Society: Michael Cahill (Reader in Social Policy, University of Brighton).

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Book SynopsisThis study focuses on postwar Japan's foreign policy making in the political and security areas, the core UN missions. The intent is to illustrate how policy goals forged by national security concerns, domestic politics, and psychological needs gave shape to Japan's complicated and sometimes incongruous policy toward the UN since World War II.

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Book SynopsisRejecting traditional liberal and conservative outlooks, this book examines the history, scope, and effects of the revolution in America's response to crime since 1970. Henry Ruth and Kevin Reitz offer a comprehensive, long-term, pragmatic approach to increase public understanding of and find improvements in the nation's response to crime.Trade ReviewHenry Ruth and Kevin Reitz have distilled a generation's worth of learning into a fresh and nonideological examination of American crime and crime control. Clear, well-informed, and candid, The Challenge of Crime is a major study of the current state of criminal justice and the prospects for its reform. -- Franklin E. Zimring, University of California, Berkeley, School of LawThis meticulous survey of the last thirty years of American criminal justice amounts to a powerful indictment. But Ruth and Reitz go beyond mere criticism, recommending rational policies to escape from our excesses of crime and punishment and to clear the way to lower rates of crime that will be met by proportional, fair, and effective responses. Further proof that at last criminology is coming of age, The Challenge of Crime merits serious attention. -- Norval Morris, University of Chicago Law SchoolRuth and Reitz have produced a powerful and exceptionally useful critique of how the United States grapples with crime. Their sharp analysis and valuable prescriptions will frame crime policy development throughout this century. -- John E. Eck, University of CincinnatiThe Challenge of Crime seeks to understand and improve America's response to crime through a system-wide, long-term, empirically based approach. The authors refute many frequently heard arguments of both liberals and conservatives, and propose solutions that can gain broad political acceptance. Modern criminal justice simply cannot be properly understood and significantly improved without this kind of comprehensive, pragmatic approach. -- Richard Frase, University of Minnesota Law SchoolThe Challenge of Crime should be required reading for anyone interested in improving our justice systems. The authors have not only documented the last thirty years of research and reform but have also helped us understand our successes and failures. No serious student of criminal justice can afford to ignore this book. -- Charles Wellford, University of MarylandHaving displaced both South Africa and the former Soviet Union as the world's top jailor, America urgently needs the kind of unflinching analysis offered by these two leading authorities on dealing with crime. The authors show why our police, state prosecutors, juvenile courts, and penitentiaries have grown increasingly punitive in the three-and-a-half decades since Lyndon Johnson's 1967 National Crime Commission, which stressed the rehabilitation of offenders and the establishment of government programs for the disadvantaged as the best hope for reversing the alarming upsurge in crime...Balanced and sober, an indispensable reference for students of criminal justice. -- Bryce Christensen * Booklist *Ruth and Reitz compellingly argue that crime control policies are dramatically flawed and that sweeping changes are essential, for reasons ranging from financial crises to moral legitimacy. The cogency of their argument and the abundance of their timely data merits careful attention and will be eye-opening to most readers. -- R. Zingraff * Choice *This important study by two leading experts on criminology and criminal law in the U.S. should be read wherever the policy of being 'tough on crime' is on the political agenda. The authors provide a wealth of descriptive, historical and statistical data, a competent methodological critique of their quality, a critical examination of explanations, and carefully argued policy recommendations...In depressing detail Ruth and Reitz show how punishment of the already deprived makes things worse for them and their kin. This book shows us some of the inadequacies of our approaches and their disastrous consequences for the most vulnerable. -- Ib Martin Jarvad * European Legacy *The Challenge of Crime is a timely, practical, well-reasoned book that is required reading for anyone interested in justice...It should prove illuminating to politicians, policymakers, and anyone interested in how to fix our response to crime. -- Craig Hemmens * Perspectives on Political Science *The Challenge of Crime is a remarkable book...In essence, [it] is a morality tale. Ruth and Reitz capably highlight many of the wrongs of contemporary crime policies and practices and detail how they can be corrected. Will those invited into the conversation do more than listen? -- Katheryn Russell-Brown * Washington Post *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Crime and Punishment: A Brief American History 2. Knowledge and Assessment 3. The Current Era of Crime Response Policy 4. Prisons and Jails 5. Public and Private Paths to Security from Crime 6. Guns, Crime, and Crime Gun Regulation 7. Crime, Alcohol, and Illegal Drugs 8. Juvenile Crime The Future Notes Index

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Book SynopsisZolberg explores American immigration policy as a tool of nation building from the colonial period to the present. His book shows how America has struggled to shape the immigration process to construct the kind of population it desires.Trade ReviewA Nation by Design is the first comprehensive account of American immigration policy from the colonial period to the present. One of its great strengths is that it places American developments in a cross-national and comparative perspective. Professor Zolberg's breadth of knowledge and the range of his reading are remarkable. The book abounds in fresh insights and interpretations, comprehensiveness and richness of detail. This is a magnum opus. -- George Fredrickson, Stanford UniversityA Nation by Design is certain to become a standard reference for immigration scholars and a must-read for graduate students in the disciplines-history, political science, and sociology-that produce the bulk of these scholars. It provides a genuinely new perspective on the creation and centrality of immigration policy, and as befits a new point of view, it sketches a landscape with features that have not been visible before. -- Richard Alba, State University of New York at AlbanyA Nation by Design is a monumental work by one of America's most distinguished and most historically minded social scientists. No other book on immigration possesses its sweep, nor does any other analyze the history of American immigration policy as comprehensively and insightfully as this one does. For at least a generation, A Nation by Design will become the starting point for anyone seeking to delve into this complex and important subject. -- Gary Gerstle, University of MarylandThis beautifully realized and intellectually capacious analytical history moves the story of immigration policy from the side to the center of American political development. Deep, learned, and inventive, A Nation by Design profoundly alters what we know and how we think about demography and identity, membership and law, citizenship and belonging as it crosses the boundaries of disciplines, periods, and ideas. -- Ira Katznelson, Columbia UniversityIf you want to understand why the politics of immigration take the form they do, read Aristide R. Zolberg's richly informative book immediately...We now have in our hands a book so thoughtful, so extensively researched, and so balanced in its conclusions that if it does not inform both the current debate and the ones sure to follow, the debate is bound to be poorer even than it already is. -- Alan Wolfe * New Republic *Aristide Zolberg's A Nation by Design, offers the most comprehensive treatment of US immigration policy ever undertaken and is a major piece of scholarship that will prove indispensable to researchers for years to come. This achievement is no mean feat given the range of historical, political, economic, and sociological analyses of US immigration. What sets Zolberg's treatment apart is its unique historical depth and its realization of the importance of policies and practices other than those officially enacted by Congress--the focus of most earlier historical work on immigration policy...In many ways, immigration is America's never-ending debate. As Zolberg clearly shows, at every point in the history of the nation, from its inception as a dream among idealistic and free-thinking colonists to the present war on terrorism, immigration has figured prominently in debates about who us an American and what it means to be a citizen and resident of the United States. Over the course of US history, attacks on immigrants have waxed and waned, yet in the long run American society has incorporated an ever-widening array of peoples and nationalities into the national franchise. What distinguishes the current wave of anti-immigrant agitation from its predecessors is not its demonizing of foreigners or its harsh treatment of noncitizens, but its clever use of the fear of foreigners to launch a broader assault on the civil liberties not just of immigrants, but of all Americans. -- Douglas S. Massey * Population and Development Review *This is the book with which all of us working in the sphere will now have to measure up against. -- Kristofer Allersfeldt * History *Aristide R. Zolberg's A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America is an extraordinary achievement. In its sweep, erudition, conceptual precision, and analytic acuity, it may be the most important book on the history of immigration policy published in twenty-five years...One can find no better book than his to understand the role of immigration and immigration policy in the making of America. -- Gary Gerstle * Dissent *A brief review cannot highlight the insights and arresting observations peppered throughout every chapter of A Nation by Design...in this hyper-charged political climate Zolberg has provided a singular service. A Nation by Design is both an awesome work of scholarship and an indispensable source for understanding the seamy and complicated ancestry of America’s current politics of immigration. -- Michael B. Katz * Journal of Social History *[A] magisterial history of immigration policy. -- Ira Katznelson * New Republic *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. From Empire to Republic 3. An Acquisitive Upstart 4. The American System 5. Tocqueville's Footnote 6. Seward's Other Follies 7. "An Intelligent and Effective Restriction" 8. A Nation Like the Others 9. The Ambiguitites of Reform 10. The Elusive Quest of Coherence 11. Why the Gates Were not Shut Conclusion: Natural Design in a Globalizing World Appendix: Immigration Graphs Notes Index

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Book SynopsisGrant compares two cities—his hometown of Syracuse, New York, and Raleigh, North Carolina—in order to examine the consequences of the nation's ongoing educational inequities. The result is an ambitious portrait—sometimes disturbing, often inspiring—of two cities that exemplify our nation's greatest educational challenges.Trade ReviewIn Hope and Despair in the American City, Gerald Grant has written a profound book about American cities and their schools. He combines far-ranging scholarship with lively field research, autobiography, historical narrative, and an expert grasp of demographic data and the winding mazes of legal opinion. The result is a big and ambitious portrait, through the story of two cities, of our nation's greatest educational problems and possibilities for school reform in the metropolitan U.S. today. -- Joseph Featherstone, Michigan State UniversityA penetrating account of two cities and their school systems, one in the Northeast where decline and demographic change have brought difficult problems, and another in the growing South which has turned its socioeconomic challenges into opportunities. Anyone interested in educational reform will have to take account of this valuable analysis of the variable fates of our cities, and their schools. -- Nathan Glazer, Harvard UniversityThe book is a must-read for anyone interested in urban planning, race relations and education reform. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *Gerald Grant, a professor of education and sociology at Syracuse University, has written a compelling new book… He compares the troubled school system of Syracuse, N.Y., with its thriving similarly sized counterpart in Raleigh, N.C. The difference is that in Raleigh, in 1976, the Wake County Public School system was created to zone the suburbs and inner city together to ensure a continued healthy mix of social classes. -- Sandra Tsing Loh * New York Times (online) *The book has the mark of a historian's well-documented journey. -- Tim Simmons * News & Observer *Essential reading not only for his target audience of education reformers but for anyone concerned with the fate of smaller cities… Though few know it, we now live with a grand historical irony: Public schools in the South are far more integrated than most in the North, whose cities, especially the 'forgotten' ones, have become ever more doughnutlike. When we consider the failures of busing, we think of the awful mid-'70s wars in Boston… Grant's fine book shows there's another way, one keyed to restoring the educational center of metropolitan-wide economic development, if only we can summon the political will to do it. -- Catherine Tumber * Bookforum *The author blends his personal experiences with wide-ranging interviews and a dash of research to provide a largely sound analysis of the state of urban education. -- Phil Brand * Washington Times *Hope and Despair in the American City is a rare policy book: brief, personal, and flat-out persuasive. Comparing the catastrophically bad school system in Syracuse, where he lives, with the astonishingly successful one in the North Carolina capital, the author quickly alights on a convincing explanation for the disparity. -- Daniel Okrent * Fortune *In this perceptive and important new book, Gerald Grant tells a modern tale of two cities—Syracuse, New York, and Raleigh, North Carolina—that took starkly different approaches to improving schools and communities… What is astounding—and profoundly disturbing—is that education reform at the national level has basically ignored the type of findings so powerfully outlined in Hope and Despair in the American City. -- Richard D. Kahlenberg * Washington Monthly *Something extraordinary has been happening in the [North Carolina's] schools over the past few decades, and the best guide to this experiment is an important new book by Gerald Grant… He found that the single biggest factor determining whether you do well at school or not isn't your parents, your teachers, your school buildings or your genes. It was, overwhelmingly, the other kids sitting in the classroom with you… If a critical mass of them are hard-working, keen and stick to the rules, you will probably learn… Within a decade, Raleigh went from one of the worst-performing districts in America to one of the best. -- Johann Hari * The Independent *Gerald Grant's short book tells [its] story very well. It is that rarity among policy tomes: a page-turner. The political calculation that Richard Nixon made in 1971, when he nominated William Rehnquist to the Supreme Court, was borne of his desire to keep Southern and suburban white voters out of the hands of George Wallace and his populist racial appeal—and it saddled America with a Supreme Court whose decisions in the 1970s, specifically on school desegregation, proved evil… Grant points out over and over again that the true achievement of Raleigh and of the other metro-school metros is much more about integrating the social classes than it is about race. -- Bruce Fisher * Hartford Courant *Table of Contents* Introduction * What Happened to America's Cities? * Can This Neighborhood Be Saved? * Three Reconstructions of Raleigh * There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh * A Tragic Decision * What Should We Hope For? * Conclusion * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index

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Book SynopsisThe transformation of the Cuban economy over the last decade is only likely to accelerate. In this edited volume, prominent Cuban economists and sociologists present a clear analysis of Cuba's economic and social circumstances and suggest steps for Cuba to reactivate economic growth and improve the welfare of its citizens.Trade ReviewThis rich compilation is essential reading for all looking to understand Cuba's growth record as well as its economic sustainability in a globalized economic terrain. -- Patrice M. Franko * Choice *

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Book SynopsisChildrenâs Chances urges a shift from focusing on survival to targeting childrenâs full and healthy development. Drawing on comparative data on policies in 190 countries designed to combat poverty, discrimination, child labor, illiteracy, and child marriage, Heymann and McNeill tell what works to ensure equal opportunities for all children.Trade ReviewWith its amazing synthesis of evidence, Children's Chances maps out what countries are now doing—and what more they can do—to address problems in the lives of children around the world. This book is a valuable resource, not just for agencies like Save the Children, but for individual citizens who champion all children's opportunities to develop to their fullest potential. -- Jasmine Whitbread, CEO, Save the ChildrenJody Heymann continues to be a leading voice for working families worldwide. With Children's Chances, she provides key insights into how to promote healthy child development and reduce inequalities in child health. This book is essential for anyone who cares about improving the lives of children around the world. -- Mark Schuster, Harvard Medical SchoolThis remarkable book brings together years of work that is both painstaking and inspired. Jody Heymann, with Kristen McNeill, proves with exhaustive country-by-country evidence the phenomenal difference that public policy makes in defeating child poverty and creating better lives. It is an enormously important achievement. -- Peter Edelman, Georgetown UniversityWith sterling scholarship and masterful research, Heymann and McNeill's book offers a blueprint to advance the well-being of the world's children that is both much needed and optimistic. -- Felton Earls, Harvard Medical SchoolIf we are to reach the millions of children who have been excluded from recent progress on child rights, we need to know where we stand today, and where we need to go tomorrow. We need tools that give us this crucial information, tools that share it, and tools that inspire and guide us. This book provides that inspiration and guidance, showing how crucial policies can guarantee the well-being of children worldwide. -- Carol Bellamy, Past Executive Director, UNICEFNo previous analysis has so conveniently compiled comprehensive global information about such a wide range of public policies related to child development. -- K. H. Jacobsen * Choice *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis engaging book offers non-scientists the tools to connect with and evaluate science, and for scientists it is a timely call to action for effective communication. -- Laura Bowater * Times Higher Education *Fascinating…Its mission is to help nonscientists evaluate scientific claims, with much attention paid to studies related to health. -- Froma Harrop * Seattle Times *Dean explains how, despite living in an ‘age of science,’ the American public is largely ignorant about what science is and how it works…Dean offers a step-by-step guide for evaluating science. In a few simple steps, she explains how to decide who is an expert, how to understand data, what you need to do to read science and figure out whether someone is lying to you…If science leaves you with a headache trying to figure out what’s true, what it all means and who to trust, Dean’s book is a great place to start. -- Koby Michaels * Casper Star-Tribune *This book is an accessible-by-all description of modern science and the societal gap of understanding. -- C. Sokolik * Choice *[An] engagingly written guidebook…Not only are we irrational, but we are mostly ignorant about science, and Dean explores both the reasons and the effects, including our erroneous ideas about probability and risk…Dean’s long and varied experience in the world of science reporting makes for an articulate, well-structured, and easily understood account filled with good stories and sound advice. * Kirkus Reviews *Current and future scientists and journalists, as well as advocates for science, will appreciate Dean’s effort to combat scientific illiteracy. -- Nancy R. Curtis * Library Journal *Dean’s excellent primer will be welcomed by those who find themselves lost in the fog of rival claims about scientific issues that affect us all. * Publishers Weekly *

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Book SynopsisRefugee children have among the fewest educational opportunities, their formal schooling having been disrupted; their futures, beset by exclusion and uncertainty. Dryden-Peterson describes displaced students’ and teachers’ novel techniques to accomplish learning goals and build relationships, showing the way for policymakers, NGOs, and communities.Trade ReviewDespite the progress made in the past years, I see every day how refugee children are at a grave disadvantage when it comes to education. Through decades of careful research, Dryden-Peterson shows us why education for refugees matters, both now and for their futures, and what we can do about it. -- Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for RefugeesThis magisterial volume lifts the voices of refugees around the world to advance the future of learning in an age of crisis and displacement. Based on decades of research, Dryden-Peterson highlights the ways that governments, civil society, scholars, and global agencies alike can learn from refugee communities to build more inclusive and humane education systems. -- Hirokazu Yoshikawa, New York University‘What do you need the most?’ I often ask refugees in war zones. ‘Better food, water, or health care?’ ‘Give us education for our children,’ they answer. Dryden-Peterson’s excellent and must-read book tell us why parents and grandparents prioritize schools above all else: Education is hope. -- Jan Egeland, Secretary General, Norwegian Refugee Council and Former Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, United NationsHow can the refugee learn what she needs to stay, to migrate, or to return to her homeland? In Dryden-Peterson’s Right Where We Belong, the need for and definition of refugee education is made more meaningful and urgent through her telling of important human stories—of struggle, witness, and growth. -- Min Jin Lee, author of Free Food for Millionaires and PachinkoI went to school during a war. Now I train teachers of refugees. This well-researched, inspiring book is a must-read for all teachers and policymakers, as we create ways to support our students to learn and have hope, even in the most challenging situations. -- Suha Tutunji, Director of Refugee Education, Jusoor, LebanonA rare book of immense depth, wisdom, and beauty. Millions of children are growing up amid the grave crises of our times: war and terror, unchecked climate change, and malignant kleptocratic states. Dryden-Peterson tells their story with empathy and heart but also with a keen eye for the details that point to the greater truths of refugee lives in cities and camps, in schools, and at homes around the world. This is the book for our times: urgent, brilliant, indispensable. -- Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Chancellor, University of Massachusetts, BostonRight Where We Belong is a rich painting of the human stories of refugees woven together with the factual context needed to understand, and feel, their world. Few authors could maintain the intellectual rigor necessary to tackle a topic of such emotional concern while also being fair to the international actors we urgently need to act. If you want to understand how to vividly describe complex social science research with humanity, read this book. If you want a master class on using cross-disciplinary methods of analysis for multifaceted problems, read this book. And, most critically, if you want to feel these young people’s yearning for a better future and understand the barriers to reaching that future, read this book. -- Benjamin Piper, Senior Director of Africa Education for RTI InternationalPertinent and urgent. It makes a compelling case for rethinking refugee education in ways that foster belonging for refugees and reinforce the duties and commitments of states, organizations, communities, and individuals toward them. -- Zachary Agele Lomo, St. Augustine International University, UgandaAn engaging read…The connections made between the curriculum and access to education and the resulting possibilities that refugee pupils have in their futures are unique, suggesting further ways that education can influence where individual refugees may be able to live, work, and belong in future. -- Ellen Bishop * Educational Review *

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Book SynopsisHow can decisionmakers tasked with protecting the environment and public health avoid false or misleading scientific research? Is it possible to give scientists more influence in regulatory processes without ceding too much control over policy? These are some of the questions Jasanoff asks in this study of how science advisers shape federal policy.Trade Review[A] provocative and original work...Jasanoff has pioneered the exploring of the workings of the gears and sprockets of the Fifth Branch. -- Daniel S. Greenberg * Nature *[A] first-rate study...[Jasanoff's] findings have important bearing on the general concern with the impact of expertise on democracy. -- Sanford Lakoff * Political Science Quarterly *The problems of science and politics continue. Jasanoff's work will surely enlighten the debate. -- Susan Bartlett Foote * Science *Jasanoff focuses down sharply on a set of solidly researched case-studies involving the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration, and their handling of regulations concerning clean air, pesticides, and the safety of pharmaceuticals and food additives. But this apparent narrowness belies the theoretical significance of the book, which far transcends its empirical base in these examples and, for that matter, in the United States. -- Philip Gummett * Times Higher Education Supplement *Thorough and thoughtful. [The Fifth Branch] will remain the definitive work in its field for a considerable time to come. -- Roger Williams * Political Studies *Reading this well-written book would be excellent preparation for any scientist planning to participate in regulatory science in an agency or to serve on an advisory panel. And its insights into the workings of advisory committees could be useful to many others...no other book so thoroughly reviews the role science advisory groups have played. -- John F. Ahearne * Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists *Table of Contents1. Rationalizing Politics The Rise of Social Regulation Science and Policymaking Expertise and Trust The Contingency of Knowledge The Reform Debate An Alternative Approach 2. Flawed Decisions Nitrites 2,4,5-T Love Canal Estimates of Occupational Cancer The Technocratic Response A Critical Counterpoint 3. Science for the People The Rationale for Public Science The "New" Expert Agency Scientific Advice and Open Government Judicial Review of Science Policy The Weakening of the Paradigm 4. Peer Review and Regulatory Science The Traditions of Peer Review Peer Review in Practice Instructive Failures Regulatory Science: Content and Context Implications for Regulatory Peer Review 5. EPA and the Science Advisory Board Early Political Challenges A New Cooperation Boundary Exercises SAB's Impact on Policy Conclusion 6. The Science and Policy of Clean Air CASAC and the NAAQS Process Science and Standards Redefining CASAC's Role The Carbon Monoxide Controversy CASAC's Effectiveness: Bridging Science and Policy 7. Advisers as Adversaries The Scientific Advisory Panel Implementing the Impossible Ethylene Dibromide Dicofol Alar A Fragmentation of Authority 8. FDA's Advisory Network The Scientific Evaluation of Drugs Expertise and Food Safety Advice and Decision 9. Coping with New Knowledge The Quest for Principled Risk Assessment Formaldehyde: An Uncertain Carcinogen Conclusion 10. Technocracy Revisited A Public-Private Partnership for Science Risk Assessment without Politics The Public Board of Inquiry Wider Applications 11. The Political Function of Good Science From Advice to Policy Acceptable Risk Scientific Advice as Legitimation: Negotiation and Boundary Work Defining "Good Science" Normative Implications Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisMiriam Laugesen goes to the heart of U.S. medical pricing: to a largely unknown committee of organizations affiliated with the American Medical Association. Medicare’s ready acceptance of this committee’s advisory recommendations sets off a chain reaction across the American health care system, leading to high—and disproportionate—rate setting.Trade ReviewIn Fixing Medical Prices: How Physicians Are Paid, Miriam Laugesen opens the ‘black box’ of policy choices embedded in the nation’s health financing system. Her thorough analysis of physician pricing exposes how seemingly technical decisions on physician prices are actually highly political—riddled with conflicts of interest and largely immune from public accountability. Policymakers and the public owe Miriam Laugesen a debt of gratitude for shining a light on fundamental policy flaws. We now have no excuse for failing to correct them. -- Judith Feder, Georgetown UniversityOur medical prices are too high. Moreover, these prices are grossly misaligned with what Americans really need. Warped prices reflect the arcane political economy of our $3 trillion medical system. In this beautiful book, Miriam Laugesen combines the rigor of political science with the granular knowledge of health services research to illuminate these pathologies. Most importantly, she provides a road map to do better. This is an important book. -- Harold Pollack, University of ChicagoCombining interviews, thoughtful historical perspective, and statistical analysis, Miriam Laugesen offers the best study yet on the politics of physician payment in the United States. A weak administrative apparatus in Washington makes the power of the House of Medicine all the more formidable. The results of that process—including the power of specialty doctors and the weakness of primary care providers—should interest and trouble us all. -- Daniel Carpenter, Harvard UniversityWill people still care about these issues for the next four years? I hope so, because this is the best book I know of on Medicare pricing and its influence on pricing throughout the broader U.S. health care system. -- Tyler Cowen * Marginal Revolution *In Fixing Medical Prices, Miriam Laugesen takes a deep dive into the weeds of U.S. medical pricing policy to uncover problems with how Medicare sets physician payments. -- Kathleen M. Haddad * Health Affairs *Fixing Medical Prices is a superb book on a subject—how Medicare determines what it pays physicians—that is both exceedingly complex and arcane, yet also critically important in terms of impacting the structure of health care finance, organization and delivery…The book should be required reading for health policy scholars, medical students, medical historians, and anyone interested in how money—in the form of Medicare payment policy—shapes U.S. health care. -- Rick Mayes * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *

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Book SynopsisThis wholly innovative study demonstrates that presidents are persistent agents of change, continually disrupting and transforming the political landscape. But each president also inherits a particular type of political context, a regime shaped by his predecessors that he either rejects or affirms.Trade ReviewA magisterial work, one of the most important studies of the presidency--indeed, of American politics--ever written...[Skowronek] comes very close to identifying the root problem affecting presidents...This is the all-important fact that the Constitution is unchanging and nondeveloped, while at all times intersecting with a social, economic, and political world that has undergone incessant development from the beginning. The whole work may be read as an extended, powerful, and penetrating meditation on some of the global consequences of this fact. -- Walter Dean Burnham * American Political Science Review *In evaluating the field of political authority, Skowronek skillfully and systematically makes use of historical evidence. His approach can only be applauded as it brings a new and broader understanding of the historical evolution of the presidency. -- Birgitte Nielsen * American Studies in Scandinavia *Skowronek...brings illuminating insights to each president that he discusses...A major theoretical contribution to the study of the presidency. -- Richard M. Pious * Political Science Quarterly *The book brings together current ideas of political scientists on the theory of presidential leadership, as well as incorporating the major historical works on the various presidents. It is history from the top rather than from the bottom, and while current historical trends are in the opposite direction, this sophisticated, scholarly analysis of presidential leadership illustrates that the history of political leadership is a subject on which innovative, imaginative approaches can still produce important new perspectives. -- Peter G. Boyle * The Americas *Stephen Skowronek's much awaited book relating cycles of the US presidency to what the author has previously called "political time" is an instant conversation piece. The Politics Presidents Make is a book that will engage scholars of political leadership and, particularly, those of the US presidency with its categories and its arguments. It is also easy to imagine that this book will evoke theological debates. -- Bert A. Rockman * Governance *A work of great insight...This is a book that kicks aside all the conventional ways of thinking about presidential leadership and erects a daring, powerful, analytic machine that compels attention. -- Hugh Heclo, George Mason UniversityThis is a remarkable book...A skilled practitioner of the use of historical evidence systematically to understand not only the evolution, but also the current nature, of American political institutions, [Skowronek] examines the whole crowded history of the presidency to catalog and organize the two hundred year experience in a fresh and striking fashion. -- Joel Silbey * Review of Politics *In this pathbreaking work, Stephen Skowronek escapes from "secular time" to view presidents in what he calls "political time," meaning incumbents' relationships to their predecessors and to the status quo...This rich, insightful, resonant volume merits reading and rereading. It is destined to be a classic of presidential scholarship. -- Gil Troy * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsPreface, 1997 I. PLACES IN HISTORY 1. Rethinking Presidential History 2. Power and Authority 3. Structure and Action II. RECURRENT AND EMERGENT PATTERNS 4. Jeffersonian Leadership: Patrician Prototypes Part One: Thomas Jefferson's Reconstruction Part Two: James Monroe's Articulation Part Three: John Quincy Adams's Disjunction 5. Jacksonian Leadership: Classic Forms Part One: Andrew Jackson's Reconstruction Part Two: James Polk's Articulation Part Three: Franklin Pierce's Disjunction 6. Republican Leadership: Stiffening Crosscurrents Part One: Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction Part Two: Theodore Roosevelt's Articulation Part Three: Herbert Hoover's Disjunction 7. Liberal Leadership: Fraying Boundaries Part One: Franklin Roosevelt's Reconstruction Part Two: Lyndon Johnson's Articulation Part Three: Jimmy Carter's Disjunction III. THE WANING OF POLITICAL TIME 8. Reagan, Bush, and Beyond Afterward Notes Index

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Book SynopsisDomínguez presents a comprehensive survey of Cuban international relations since Castro came to power, from the 1962 missile crisis and Cuba's ties to the U.S.S.R. and other Communist countries, to Cuban support for revolutionary movements throughout the world. This book is based on extensive documentation and many in-depth interviews.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Formative Years The Security Regime Cuba's Challenge to the Soviet Union in the 1960s The Reestablishment of Soviet Hegemony Support for Revolutionary Movements Support for Revolutionary States Cuba's Relations with Capitalist Countries Cuba's Diplomacy in the Americas and the Third World How Cuban Foreign Policy Is Made Appendix A: Interviews Conducted in Cuba and Elsewhere Appendix B: Technical Notes on Soviet-Cuban Economic Relations Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWith Deng Xiaoping's blessing, Mao's successors scoured the globe for fresh ideas to launch domestic prosperity and global economic power. Yet China's government did not publicize its engagement with Western-style innovations, claiming instead that economic reinvention was the Party's achievement alone. Julian Gewirtz sets forth the truer story.Trade ReviewShedding light on how China achieved radical economic change in less than two decades, [Gewirtz’s] book is instructive for anyone who wants to know how other countries can emerge from poverty and place themselves on the path to development…At a time when the Chinese model again seems to be creaking, President Xi Jinping would be wise to heed the message of Gewirtz’s book: that China does best when it is open to foreign ideas. -- Howard French * Wall Street Journal *A remarkable book, written with poise and confidence, that shows how closely Chinese reform was tied to ideas from the capitalist and socialist blocs during the Cold War, and illuminates the beginnings of an economic idea that would transform China and change the world. -- Rana Mitter * Project Syndicate *I loved this book. It is a tour de force on China, the theory of policy advising, and the history of economic thought, all rolled into one. -- Tyler Cowen * Marginal Revolution *It vividly brings to life China’s economic debates from Mao’s death in 1976 until 1993, by which time the country’s direction was clearer… The claim is not that Westerners were responsible for China’s development. A large constellation of Chinese reformers deserves the credit for that. Indeed, one of the book’s virtues is that it puts the spotlight on Zhao Ziyang, the Communist Party chief who wound up under house arrest after the 1989 Tiananmen protests. Zhao has been written out of official histories, but his consistent support for bold thinking was critical to China’s success… Gewirtz’s book does not attempt to provide a definitive account of China’s economic rise… But it is still a gripping read, highlighting what was little short of a revolution in China’s economic thought. * The Economist *A fluent account of the partnership between Chinese and foreign experts in the ‘golden age’ of the 1980s that helped set the stage for the country’s ascent as a global power…What this book lays out is a fascinating example of the power of international collaboration. -- Jonathan Fenby * Financial Times *Provides a gracefully written narrative of the unusual experiments with mixing economic forms that facilitated China’s economic boom…Nicely crafted and carefully argued. -- Jeffrey Wasserstrom * Los Angeles Review of Books blog *Gewirtz’s account of China’s transition from Marxist central planning to ‘socialist market’ economics is masterful: detailed, balanced, and illuminating…This is a revelatory account of China’s economic evolution, its debt to Western economic thought, and its love-hate relationship with capitalism. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *Gewirtz’s book reminds us that in their early days, at any rate, China’s economic reforms may have owed more to Western economists and economic theory than present-day Chinese leaders would be inclined to acknowledge. -- Peter Harris * New Zealand International Review *A great book and a delight to read. It roars along at an exuberant, enthusiastic pace; each time I put it down I was eager to pick it up again. Gewirtz tells an important and bold story, making a substantial contribution to understanding China's economic transformation. -- Barry Naughton, author of The Chinese EconomyGewirtz has added a brilliant new chapter to the story of China’s economic revival. This intelligent, thoroughly well-informed study reveals the essential role played by Western advisors who sought not to change China, but, rather, to be partners in its success. A powerful case for openness. -- Evan Osnos, author of Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New ChinaChina’s reforms have been written about from many different angles, but no one until now has delved into the intellectual interchanges that transformed the thinking of a generation of economists who are still influencing China today. It is a great story, and Gewirtz tells it with great verve. -- Joseph Fewsmith, author of China since TiananmenGewirtz takes us on a grand tour of the historic efforts made by Chinese leaders to confect a new economic model, reminding us also of the critical role played by foreign ideas and advisors. If you are confused by the complicated evolution of China’s economy, this wonderfully meaty book will serve as a fascinating road map. -- Orville Schell, Director, Center on U.S.–China Relations, Asia SocietyGewirtz has written an insightful and well-documented review of China during the very important period of change from 1976 to 1993. This work provides an excellent basis for understanding past developments and for assessing the impact of any policy changes that may be coming in the years ahead. I enjoyed the book greatly. -- James D. Wolfensohn, President, World Bank Group, 1995–2005Gewirtz provides a dramatic and freshly detailed account of the terrifying years from 1976 to 1993, when China’s central leaders held their breath and pushed their country into the unknown by beginning to liberalize its economy. He focuses especially on the boldness of Zhao Ziyang, who served as premier from 1980 to 1987. Zhao sought advice from foreign economists, putting their ideas into practice despite opposition from a conservative faction that was understandably suspicious of Western admonitions to abandon state planning and compromise the country’s economic autonomy. This is a story not of Western influence seeping irresistibly into Chinese minds but of Chinese leaders actively reaching out for ideas. It is also a story of fierce political struggles conducted in the form of theoretical debates. Although built around personalities, it delivers a great deal of insight into how China’s mix of socialism and capitalism works. -- Andrew J. Nathan * Foreign Affairs *

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