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Roman & Allanheld Weather and Climate
Book SynopsisTo find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Trade ReviewLydolph has successfully combined introductory-level material on weather and climate with that more commonly presented in advanced texts...The writing and illustrations are concise, easily read, and very effective. This thorough text should whet the interest and enthusiasm of instructors and students. * Journal of Geography *^RRRRR * Weather and Climate^I Is An Excellent Review Of Meteorology *^R * Weather and Climate^I Is An Excellent Review Of Meteorology *
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Legare Street Press After Icebergs With a Painter
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Random House USA Inc Selected Writings of John Muir
Book SynopsisA new collection of the seminal writings of America's first naturalist and the founder of the modern conservation movement.AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY ORIGINAL.This volume of John Muir's selected writings chronicles the key turning points in his life and study of the American wilderness. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth is Muir's account of his childhood on a Wisconsin farm, where his interest in nature was first piqued; in The Mountains of California, The Yosemite, and Travels in Alaska, we follow him on long journeys into stunning mountain ranges and valleys, where he records native flora and fauna and finds proof of his theories of the effect of glaciers on landscape formation. These four full-length works--along with a selection of important essays--helped galvanize American naturalists, and led to the founding of the Sierra Club and several national parks. In these pages, written with meticulous thoroughness and an impassioned lyricism, we witness Muir's awakening to the incredible beauty of our planet, and the honing of an eye turned as acutely toward the scientific as the spiritual.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Cities and Social Movements
Book SynopsisThrough historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social Movements examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do or don't develop into large and sustained mobilizations. Presents a comprehensive, comparative analysis of immigrant rights politics in three countries over a period of five decades, providing vivid accounts of the processes through which immigrants activists challenged or confirmed the status quo Theorizes movements from the bottom-up, presenting an urban grassroots account in order to identify how movement networks emerge or fall apart Provides a unique contribution by examining how geography is implicated in the evolution of social movements, discovering how and why the networks constituting movements grow by tracing where they develop Demonstrates how efforts to enforce national borders trigger countlessTable of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface ix Acknowledgments x 1 Sparks of Resistance 1 2 Rethinking Movements from the Bottom Up 13 Part I The Birth of Immigrant Rights Activism 37 3 Making Space for Immigrant Rights Activism in Los Angeles 39 4 Radical Entanglements in Paris 54 5 Placing Protest in Amsterdam 71 Part II Urban Landscapes of Control and Contention 89 6 The Laissez]Faire State: Re]politicizing Immigrants in Los Angeles 91 7 The Uneven Reach of the State: The Partial Pacification of Paris 116 8 The Cooptative State: The Pacification of Contentious Immigrant Politics in Amsterdam 138 Part III New Geographies of Immigrant Rights Movements 157 9 Los Angeles as a Center of the National Immigrant Rights Movement 161 10 Paris as Head of Splintering Resistances 188 11 Divergent Geographies of Immigrant Rights Contention in the Netherlands 209 12 Conclusion: Sparks into Wildfires 227 Notes 239 References 245 Index 262
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Wiley Rediscovering the Golden State
Book SynopsisNow in its fourth edition,Rediscovering the Golden State: California Geographyexamines this unique state's incredibly diverse landscapes, and how geography and geographic change influences everything from the state's natural systems and cycles, to its agriculture and more advanced industries, to human migration, cultures, and urban planning. Exploring California through a geographic lens reveals how the field has evolved to cross traditional boundaries, connect local and global issues, and provide the insights that lead to practical solutions to problems new and old. Challenging the reader to look beyond stereotypes and assumptions, this book encourages active participation in planning the state's dynamic future. And this project makes teaching and learning about the geography of California more convenient, exciting, and rewarding for instructors and students. Going beyond a scientific analysis of natural features and environmental processes, this book illustrates how social, political
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Redundant Masculinities
Book SynopsisRedundant Masculinities? investigates the links between the so-called ''crisis of masculinity'' and contemporary changes in the labour market through the lives of young working class men. Allows the voices of poorly-educated young men to be heard. Looks at how the labour market is changing. Emphasises the social construction of gender and racial identities. Dispels popular myths about the crisis in masculinity. Trade Review"This book will appeal to a wide audience. It so adroitly sums up the state of play in a number of arenas: the contemporary UK economy and the future of work, current debates about gender and identity, the “crisis” of masculinity, and the emerging “problem” of white, working-class boys floundering to hold down jobs and identities that are increasingly ‘redundant’." --Rosemary Pringle, Professor of Sociology, University of Southampton, UK "Much has been written about the so-called 'crisis of masculinity' but rarely have its contours been charted in such as precise way and with such clear empathy for those at its cutting edge." --Peter Jackson, University of Sheffield, UK "I recommend , and sincerely hope, that this book is widely read, inside and outside academia." (Enviroment and Planning D: Society and Space) "Linda McDowell has produced a highly readable and accessible book, packed with rich and original empirical data, and written with a lightness of touch that belies the complexity of the theoretical debates pulled together within it. Redundant Masculinities combines an impressive synthesis of contemporary theoretical debates and perspectives, with a thorough empirical methodology to produce a first-class piece of applied research." (Work, Employment and Society) "McDowell offers a groundbreaking and often intensely sympathetic portrait of the ruptures and fragmentations of white, working class male hegemony under neoliberalism. Through deft use of narrative and analysis, she humanizes masculinity and masculine development in a manner heretofore rarely seen in sociological research." (Area 2005, vol 34/4)Table of ContentsList of Plates. List of Tables. Preface. 1. Introduction: Young, White, Male and Working Class. 2. The Rise of Poor Work: Employment Restructuring and Changing Class and Gender Identities. 3. The Contemporary Crisis Of Masculinity: It's Hard To Be(Come) A Man or The Problem of/for Boys. 4. Living on The Edge: Marginal Lives In Cambridge and Sheffield. 5. Leaving School: Pathways To Employment and Further Education. 6. Actively Seeking Employment: Committed Workers and Reluctant Learners. 7. Uncertain Transitions: Accidental and Incidental Workers, The Excluded and Escape Attempts. 8. Performing Identity: Protest and Domestic Masculinities. 9. Conclusions: What Is To Be Done About Boys? Postscript. Appendix 1: Research Methodology. Appendix 2: The Participants. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Neoliberalization
Book SynopsisThe book is an analysis of cultural, social as well as political economic expressions of neoliberalization and argues for an appreciation of the relational geographies of neoliberalization. In-depth empirical research spanning a variety of world regions A range of topics including homelessness, comparative politics, economic development and social policy Reviews how neoliberalism is enacted as a way to highlight the complexity and contingency of this economic model Engages in debates within anthropology, gender studies, geography, health studies, international studies, planning, political science and sociology Trade Review“Neoliberalism is a word that can easily come to mean everything and so nothing. And yet the process and relations of ‘neoliberalization’ are far more significant than either of these meanings. By focusing on places in which neoliberalization is shaped and experienced, and on critical analyses of the processes and relations of which it is constituted, this book reveals its profound importance.” Roger Lee, Queen Mary, University of London “This excellent collection of essays brings substance to processes of neoliberalization and their impacts in different parts of the globe, from Argentina to Canada, Nepal to China, and New Zealand to Japan. It illuminates, from diverse intellectual and disciplinary traditions, the complexity and contingency of neoliberalisms through a detailed analysis of economic and political institutions, people, places, and networks involved in their (re)production and dissemination. This needs to be understood if we are to gain a better theorized account of concrete historical realities and gain leverage for alternative political directions.” Helga Leitner, University of MinnesotaTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Plates. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Preface. 1. Introduction: Reading Neoliberalizations (Kevin Ward and Kim England). Part I: "Mainstream" Economic Development and its Alternatives. Introduction to Part I. 2. Competing Capitalisms and Neoliberalism: the Dynamics of, and Limits to, Economic Reform in the Asia-Pacific (Mark Beeson). 3. Neoliberalizing the Grassroots? Microfinance and the Politics of Development in Nepal (Katherine N. Rankin and Yogendra B. Shakya). Part II: Within and between State and Markets: the Role of Intermediaries. Introduction to Part II. 4. Learning to Compete: Communities of Investment Promotion Practice in the Spread of Global Neoliberalism (Nicholas A. Phelps, Marcus Power, and Roseline Wanjiru). 5. Temporary Staffing, "Geographies of Circulation," and the Business of Delivering Neoliberalization (Kevin Ward). 6. Neoliberalizing Argentina? (Pete North). Part III: States and Subjectivities. Introduction to Part III. 7. Neoliberalizing Home Care: Managed Competition and Restructuring Home Care in Ontario (Kim England, Joan Eakin, Denise Gastaldo, and Patricia McKeever). 8. Spatializing Neoliberalism: Articulations, Recapitulations, and (a Very Few) Alternatives (Catherine Kingfisher). 9. Co-constituting "After Neo-liberalism": Political Projects and Globalizing Governmentalities in Aotearoa, New Zealand (Wendy Larner, Richard Le Heron, and Nicholas Lewis). 10. Conclusion: Reflections on Neoliberalizations (Kim England and Kevin Ward). Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd How To Think About Cities
Book SynopsisCities are raucous, cacophonous, and complex. Many dimensions of life play out and conflict across cities’ intricate landscapes, be they political, cultural, economic, or social. Urban policy makers and analysts often attempt to “cut through the noise” of urban disagreement by emphasizing a dominant lens for understanding the key, central logic of the city. How To Think About Cities sees this tendency to selective vision as misleading and ultimately unjust: cities are many things at once to different people and communities. This book describes the various ways of seeing the functions and landscapes of the city as place frames, and the constant process of negotiating which place frames best explain the city as place-making. Martin and Pierce call for an explicitly hybrid perspective that shifts between many different frames for making sense of cities. This approach highlights how any given stance opens up some lines of inquiry and understanding while closing off others. Thinking of cities as sites of contested perspectives promotes a synthetic approach to urban analysis that emphasizes difference and political possibility. This mosaic view of the city will be a welcome read for those within urban studies, geography, and social sciences exploring the many faces of urban life.Trade Review“We need to embrace cities in all their diversity and complexity while realizing that we can never truly grasp the infinitely radical plurality of urbanism. This is the core of Martin and Pierce’s captivating methodological narrative of place-framing as an analytical and political strategy for the urban age. A delightful book!”Elvin Wyly, University of British Columbia“This book will change how you think about cities and the urban. Martin and Pierce advance place-framing as a deeply compelling approach to studying cities. They draw from classical texts and concepts in urban studies and allied fields to offer a new and highly accessible way to untangle the messiness of the city.”Katherine Hankins, Georgia State University “In How to Think About Cities, Martin and Pierce provide a valuable contribution in reorienting urban analysis in a promising and productive direction. The book should occupy a prominent place in the reading list of every urban scholar, whether novice or established.”Robert W. Lake, Journal of Urban AffairsTable of Contents1. Introduction: Cities are Places 2. City of London: A Machine for Living / The Seat of Wealth 3. Tehran: Islamic Developmentalism / Diverse Cosmopolitanism 4. Worcester: Local Economic Engine / Regional Forest Under Threat 5. Portland: Paradise of Environmentalism / Legacy of Exclusionary Racism 6. Chongqing: International Cyberpunk Marvel / National Policy Innovator 7. Jerusalem: Religious Tourist Destination / Ethno-National Citadel 8. Conclusion: The Impossibilities of Fully Knowing a City
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Over Land and Sea: Migration from Antiquity to
Book SynopsisHuman history has always been marked by the mobility of people and populations, from the earliest movement of human beings out of Africa to the flows of migrants and refugees today. While mobility is intrinsic to human nature, migration is not always voluntary: it can be the result of free choice, but it can also be forced, in different ways and to varying degrees. In this book, Massimo Livi-Bacci examines migrations past and present with reference to the degree of free choice behind them. The degree can be minimal, as when migration is compelled by war, natural disaster or the actions of a tyrant, but in other cases the decision to migrate can be fully voluntary and deliberate, as when individuals and groups weigh up their options and decide whether to move. Between these two poles there is a continuum of different situations, with gradually increasing or decreasing degrees of freedom and choice. Livi-Bacci explores these variations by focusing on fifteen stories of migration from Antiquity to the present day, ranging from the Greek colonization of the Eastern Mediterranean in the Ancient world to the great migration of millions of people from Europe to the Americas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Taken together, these stories of human movement shed fresh light on the millennia-long history of migration and its motivations, causes and consequences.Trade Review‘A wide-ranging, erudite and original meditation on the extraordinary and ordinary act of human migration. Livi-Bacci uses analytic rigour and personal stories to counter the “migration crisis” myths of our current age.’Peter Leese, author of Migrant Representations: Life Story, Investigation, PictureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction I. Antiquity 1.1. Seneca, two thousand years ago 1.2. Settlers and founders: ápoikoi and oikistés 1.3 Augustus’s Res gestae 1.4. Peoples on the march II. In the Hands of the State 2.1. Forced migration 2.2. Peru: up and down the Andes 2.3. The end of an empire 2.4. The Soviet Union and its internal enemies III. Misdeeds of Nature 3.1. Unkind nature 3.2. Drought 3.3. A Caribbean odyssey 3.4. Ireland: the blight of diaspora IV. Organised Migration 4.1. On the road, not alone 4.2. The filles du roi in the laboratory of Nouvelle France 4.3. The Drang nach Osten and the Germanisation of Eastern Europe 4.4. From the Rhine to the Volga with Catherine the Great V. Free Migration 5.1. A Rare Phenomenon 5.2. Moving freely 5.3. The Great Transoceanic Migration 5.4. America: the “advancing wave” of migration Reconsiderations Notes Index
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy The Empty House Next Door – Understanding and
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Brepols N.V. Polity and Neighbourhood in Early Medieval Europe
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Informal Modes of Governance in Customer Producer
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Political Ecology of the Ridge: The Establishment
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Lexikon Des Fruhgriechischen Epos Lfg:
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Strabons Geographika, Band 9: Epitome Und
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Mythos Stein: Vom Nachleben, von der Stilisierung
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Max Weber und die Krise der Wissenschaft: Eine
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Gelehrtes Leben: Karl Hampe, das Mittelalter und
Book SynopsisDas Leben des Heidelberger Historikers Karl Hampe (18691936) kann in vielem als exemplarisch bezeichnet werden. Er stammte aus einer bildungsbürgerlichen Familie, genoss eine humanistische Erziehung und tat sich seit früher Jugend als Musterschüler hervor. Im jungen Kaiserreich sozialisiert, wandte er sich als junger Wissenschaftler dem Mittelalter zu und glaubte, als Herausgeber deutscher Geschichtsquellen eine nationale Aufgabe zu erfüllen. Einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit wurde er während des Ersten Weltkriegs durch seine Schriften zur "belgischen Frage", danach durch mehrere Gesamtdarstellungen zur mittelalterlichen Geschichte bekannt. Wahrscheinlich war er seinerzeit der prominenteste deutsche Mediävist.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Weltpolitik und deutsche Geschichte: Gesammelte
Book SynopsisHeinz Gollwitzers (19171999) wissenschaftliches Tätigkeitsfeld erstreckte sich von der Landesgeschichte über die deutsche und europäische Geschichte bis hin zur Universalgeschichte. Aus seinem umfangreichen Gesamtwerk wählt dieser Band Studien aus Themenfeldern aus, die mehrere Jahrhunderte umfassen: von der deutschen Stadtgeschichte im 15./16. Jahrhundert über die politische Geistesgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis hin zur neuesten und zur Zeitgeschichte. Die Fülle der Einzelthemen und Einsichten, die Vielzahl der Deutungsperspektiven und der wissenschaftlichen Ansätze machen den Band nicht nur für Historiker der frühen und der späten Neuzeit, sondern auch für Zeithistoriker, Politikwissenschaftler und Juristen interessant.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Die pragmatische Wende: Die
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Imago Aegypti, Band 1: Internationales Magazin fÃ
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Pocket Guide Geologie im Gelände
Book SynopsisDieses Buch ist ein Bestimmungsatlas, der hilft, Minerale, Gesteine und die wichtigsten Fossilgruppen im Gelände zu erkennen und zu beschreiben. Aber nicht nur das. Zusätzlich wird eine Reihe von wichtigen geologischen Strukturen beschrieben und in zahlreichen Fotos dargestellt. Dadurch werden Sie eingeladen, die Geologie hinter Landschaften und Gesteinen draußen im Gelände aufzuspüren. Denn die Geologie ist eine Wissenschaft, die erst richtig lebendig wird beim Wandern in der Natur, z. B. an der Küste oder durch Nationalparks. Mit wenig Wissen werde Sie die Landschaft anders erleben. Die Gesteine werden quasi lebendig und Sie werden die Geschichte wie ein Buch lesen können und die Vielfalt und Komplexität von geologischen Prozessen verstehen. Solche Prozesse – ein Wechselspiel von Magmatismus, Tektonik, Metamorphose, Klima und Sedimentation – haben die heutige Erdoberfläche geformt. Das Buch wendet sich an die geologisch interessierten Leser und Studierende, denen das Werk als Begleiter bei Ausflügen durch die Natur gute Dienste leisten wird.Table of ContentsÜberblick.- Minerale.- Magmatische Gesteine.- Metamorphe Gesteine.- Sedimentgesteine.- Fossilien & Paläoökologie.
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Transformation of the Natural Environment in
Book SynopsisWestern Sorkapp Land is a very remote and diverse region, which is representative of the European Arctic.This book describes the transformation of the environment and landscape of Western Sorkapp Land based on research data collected by Jagiellonian University scientific expeditions in the period 1980-1986 and 2008. Western Sorkapp Land has been experiencing dramatic natural changes such as glacial recession, the emergence of new landforms and Quaternary deposits as well as changes in the water drainage and network due to global warming. The establishment of South Spitsbergen National Park has led to a regeneration of the local reindeer herd and consequently the overgrazing of the local tundra resulting in altered plant communities. The transformation of Western Sorkapp Land will continue and its potential directions are outlined in the book.
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Alianza Editorial Climas y Tiempos de Espana Weather and Climates
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UAM Ediciones Espacio urbano exclusin y frontera norte de Mxico
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Roma E Suburbio, Strade E Acquedotti,
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Atlante Tematico Di Topografia Antica 31-2021:
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Melissa Publishing House Greekscapes
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McGraw Hill LLC Geography The Human and Physical World Chapter
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Pearson World Regional Geography A Development Approach
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Oxford University Press Physical Geography The Global Environment
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsUNIT 1 Introducing Physical Geography PART ONE A Planetary Perspective UNIT 2 The Planet Earth UNIT 3 Mapping Earth's Surface UNIT 4 Earth-Sun Relationships UNIT 5 Radiation and the Heat Balance of Planet Earth PART TWO Atmospheric and Oceanic Processes UNIT 6 Composition and Structure of the Atmosphere UNIT 7 Temperatures of the Lower Atmosphere UNIT 8 Air Pressure and Winds UNIT 9 Circulation Patterns of the Atmosphere UNIT 10 Circulation of the World Ocean UNIT 11 Atmospheric Moisture and the Water Balance UNIT 12 Precipitation, Air Masses, and Fronts UNIT 13 Weather Systems PART THREE Climate and Climate Change UNIT 14 Climate Classification and Regionalization UNIT 15 Tropical (A) and Arid (B) Climate UNIT 16 Mild Midlatitude (C) Climates UNIT 17 Higher Latitude (D, E) and High-Altitude (H) Climates UNIT 18 Natural Climate Change UNIT 19 Human Impacts on Climate PART FOUR The Biosphere UNIT 20 Biogeochemical Cycles UNIT 21 Formation of Soils UNIT 22 Properties of Soil UNIT 23 Classification and Mapping of Soils UNIT 24 Biogeographic Processes UNIT 25 The Global Distribution of Plants UNIT 26 Zoogeography: Spatial Aspects of Animal Populations PART FIVE The Restless Crust UNIT 27 Minerals and Igneous Rocks UNIT 28 Sedimentary and Metamorphic Rocks UNIT 29 Planet Earth in Profile: The Layered Interior UNIT 30 Plates of the Lithosphere UNIT 31 Plate Movement: Causes and Effects UNIT 32 Volcanism and Its Landforms UNIT 33 Earthquakes and Landscapes UNIT 34 Faults, Folds, and Landscapes PART SIX Sculpting the Surface: Weathering, Mass Movements, and Flowing Water UNIT 35 The Formation of Landforms and Landscapes UNIT 36 Weathering Processes UNIT 37 Mass Movements UNIT 38 Water in the Lithosphere UNIT 39 Slopes and Streams UNIT 40 Landscapes Shaped by Stream Erosion UNIT 41 Landforms of the Fluvial System UNIT 42 Karst Processes and Landforms PART SEVEN Sculpting the Surface: Ice, Wind, and Coastal Processes UNIT 43 Glacial Erosion and Deposition UNIT 44 Landforms and Landscapes of Continental Glaciation UNIT 45 Landforms and Landscapes of Mountain Glaciers UNIT 46 Periglacial Environments and Landscapes UNIT 47 Wind as a Geomorphic Agent UNIT 48 Coastal Processes UNIT 49 Coastal Landforms and Landscapes
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Oxford University Press A Dictionary of Geography 5e Oxford Quick
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University of Chicago Press Opening Up Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform
Book SynopsisMore and more men and women in China are having sex before marriage, creating a new youth sex culture based on romance, leisure and free choice. Farrer explores this change by tracing the basic elements in talk about sex and sexuality in Shanghai.Trade Review"Opening Up conveys a panoramic, vivid, and fully convincing picture of the changing scene in China with remarkable assurance. James Farrer draws on extensive research and interviews with Chinese youth, revealing a rich and deep mastery of his subject. This is an extraordinary new book." - Ann Swidler, author of Talk of Love; "I can think of few books that offer such a layered appreciation for the textures of everyday life in urban China. Written in a hip and contemporary style, Opening Up is a pleasure to read." - Michael Dutton, author of Streetlife China
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MIT Press Ltd A Just Transition for All
Book SynopsisWhy the energy transition must be more than a fuel source replacement, and how we can seize the opportunity of the transition to build a more just future for all.To meet the greenhouse gas emissions reductions needed to stave off the worst impacts of climate change, a transition away from fossil fuels must occur, as quickly as possible. But there are many unknowns when it comes to moving from theory to implementation for such a large-scale energy transition, not least regarding the social impact. In A Just Transition for All, J. Mijin Cha?a seasoned climate policy researcher who also works with advocacy organizations and unions?offers a comprehensive analysis of how we can enact transformational changes that meaningfully improve people?s lives. Cha provides a novel governance framework called the Four+ Pillars, formulated from original research to provide a way to move from theory to practice. The Pillars framework includes a novel analysis that guides readers in understanding how to formulate effective just transition policies, what makes them just or unjust, and, similarly, what makes transition just and unjust. The framework also combines theoretical discussions with original empirical research and provides insights into perceptions of just transition. Grounded in real-world perspectives that make the case for policies that advance the interests of all, not just of fossil fuel workers, Cha charts the path forward to an equitable and sustainable future that no longer depends on fossil fuels.
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Yale University Press Vulcans Fury Man Against the Volcano
Book SynopsisThis volume describes 15 of the most remarkable volcano eruptions in history and, using firsthand accounts, analyzes their impact on humans in their paths. The author surveys volcanic disasters from the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD to the eruption of Mount St Helens in 1980.Trade Review"Scarth's readers will learn what authorities now know about how to predict and prepare for big eruptions, and the riveting accounts he provides of each calamity, eye-witness and secondhand, display the fascination that leads so many scientists to risk their lives to study volcanoes." Publishers Weekly "Informative, fascinating, and sobering for the professional volcanologist, anyone attracted by volcanoes and, indeed, anyone interested in human resourcefulness." Hazel Rymer, Times Higher Education Supplement "Gripping and richly illustrated." Robert Kunzig, Discover "Scarth... has assembled riveting eyewitness accounts from lucky survivors through the ages." Laurence A. Marschall, The Sciences "I found the accounts of each of these contrasting events compelling and highly informative, from both geological and sociological perspectives... Scarth is to be congratulated on an excellent book that is easy to read, difficult to put down, and deserving of a very wide audience." Peter Cattermole, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Social Control of Cities
Book Synopsis* Contemporary advanced societies. * Informed by extensive fieldwork, including interviews with mayors, judges, police officers, community leaders and grass--roots organizations.Trade Review"This book is extremely important for anyone interested in crime and violence in urban areas. The author situates urban violence and responses to it within the larger processes of globalization and of growth of inequalitites within and between societies. By using case studies of different cities in different countries--US, Britain, and Frnace--she examines the impact of global, national, and local policies and economic trends on various cities' responses to crime and violence." Choice "This is a well-documented and perceptive study." David Downes, London School of Economics, UK "... does a creditable job of demonstrating both historically and comparatively, how cities within the limits of distinct national traditions are actually extraordinarily diverse and yet extremely limited in the ways they manage social control." Canadian Journal of Sociology Online ‘This comprehensive cross-cultural study of urban tensions and insecurities in an era of globalization is a major contribution to the literature on changing western cities. Sophie Body-Gendrot’s original synthesis of a wide range of urban studies provides new insights on the dynamic changes in modern urban life." – William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Foreword. Series Preface. Acknowledgements. Introductions: Tolerance and Suppression.. Part I: The Politics of Depacification. Economic Globalization and Urban Unrest. Law-Enforcement in the USA. Solidarity and Social Prevention in France.. Part II. The Politics of Reconciliation. Managing Polarization: New York and Chicago. Managing Polarization: Paris, Marseilles, and Lyons. Conclusion: The Social Control of Cities?. References. Index.
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Harvard University Press The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran
Book SynopsisA 1978 CIA analysis firmly concluded that the shah of Iran would remain on the throne for the foreseeable future. One hundred days later the shah was overthrown by a popular revolution. The CIA was not alone in its myopia, as Kurzman reveals; Iranians themselves considered a revolution inconceivable until it actually occurred.Trade ReviewIn the world of politics, a true revolution is the perfect storm--rare and uniquely destructive. Can the social scientist comprehend and perhaps even predict the course of such a complex phenomenon? Charles Kurzman takes a cool, dispassionate look at the many explanations of the Iranian revolution and finds them inadequate. Drawing on an impressive range of original research, he argues that mass revolutionary movements become viable suddenly--and unpredictably--as perceptions of potential success acquire popular acceptance. This book is a major addition to the literature on the Iranian revolution--and revolution in general. -- Gary Sick, former member of the National Security Council staff, and Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at Columbia UniversitySociologist Kurzman addresses five familiar sets of explanations about why the Iranian revolution took place--political, organizational, cultural, economic, and military arguments--and finds each valuable but flawed, offering instead an 'anti-explanation' that foregrounds anomaly and characterizes the revolutionary moment as confusing, unstable, and as unpredictable for participants as it is for outside observers. Despite this, optimism is in order; there is, after all, exciting potential in moments in which the unthinkable suddenly becomes thinkable. -- Brendan Driscoll * Booklist *When Elias Canetti, the Nobel-prize winning theorist, spoke of a people's 'propensity to incendiarism,' he had in mind one of the most dangerous traits of mass gatherings: their potential for unpredictable combustibility. Iran's Islamic revolution, like many other uprisings, was a consummate instance of this, Kurzman argues, and he continues in Canetti's tradition by using the Shah's overthrow to engage in his own meditation on crowds and power. Kurzman's investigation propelled him to the Islamic republic, where he conducted countless interviews, in an attempt to chart the eddies and undercurrents of one of the world's most complex and sudden social upheavals...The result is a thought-provoking combination of journalism and analysis that offers an atypical juxtaposition of voices: shopkeepers, lawyers and high school students share their views on what happened, as do academics and policymakers. * Publishers Weekly *[Kurzman's] book examines the Islamic revolution in the light of social sciences. It is a valuable insight into what he considers one of the most far-reaching events of the 20th century. -- Shusha Guppy * Times Higher Education Supplement *Charles Kurzman has presented a meticulous anatomy of the Iranian revolution and has dexterously treated the anomalies usually inherent in revolutions...The author shifts through revolution theories and shows with pages and pages of documentation and references how they related to the Iranian revolution or missed it. Kurzman's opus is certainly a valuable contribution to the historiography and sociological analysis of an important revolution of our age that led to a large scale politicization of Islam in those parts of the world where this religion prevailed. -- Syfi Tashan * Journal of Third Word Studies *Charles Kurzman has produced the definitive account of the Islamic Revolution. No serious historian can write about these events without consulting his 10-page essay on available source material in The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran. * Middle East Quarterly *
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Harvard University Press Chinas New Order Society Politics and Economy in
Book SynopsisA participant in the Tiananmen Square movement, Wang Hui is also editor of the most important intellectual journal in contemporary China. He argues that the features of contemporary China are elements of the new global order as a whole in which considerations of economic growth and development have trumped democracy and social justice.Trade ReviewThis is the most radical, tough-minded, and sustained analysis of 1989 and all that has followed that I have read. The punchy prose style gives the book an urgent, even strident, edge that makes it a pleasure to read. You feel yourself in the presence of a strong mind, as well as someone who cares deeply about the issues at stake here - issues of social inequality, social injustice, and a hegemonic world order committed to perpetuating both. -- Tim Brook, University of TorontoThe contents of this book are intelligent and significant. Brought together they will make available to English readers a substantial selection of one of China's most influential public scholars today. Wang Hui is very important in contemporary Chinese intellectual life both for his numerous (and controversial) writings but also for his role as an editor of Dushu ['Reading'], China's most popular general intellectual journal. -- Tim Cheek, University of British ColumbiaThis is an incisive, brilliant, always challenging analysis of China's intellectual landscape in the 1990s with the asserted triumph of "neo-liberalism" in the political economy over the reformist social movement of the late 1980s that culminated in Tiananmen. The discussion of the 1989 movement (and indeed later developments in economics and politics) in a global context is compelling and, at this level of analysis, unique among studies on the events of that difficult year. The analysis of debates of the '90s shows (at least to my mind) how problematic has been any effort to re-think, from the bottom up, the intellectual foundations of the modern Chinese state and indeed of "modernity" itself in China. -- William C. Kirby, Harvard UniversityWang Hui, one of China's preeminent intellectuals, makes an impassioned critique of China's much heralded post-Mao economic reforms, which he condemns for causing economic inequalities, social polarization, and political corruption. The essays in China's New Order convey the sense of moral concern and historic perspective of Wang Hui's literati ancestors, at the same time that they reveal the variety and complexity of China's present-day intellectual and political debates. -- Merle Goldman, Boston UniversityUnlike most other contemporary critics of China's reforms, Mr. Wang does not limit himself to economics. He dissects the big picture, calling on reformers to include culture, values and democratic governance in their assessments of success and failure. Such a critique is long overdue...Mr. Wang has become one of the first indigenous voices to critique China's 'economic miracle' fully and publicly and to find it a deficient remedy for the failures of socialism. -- Orville Schell * New York Times *The essential arguments are comprehensible and stimulating for Chinese intellectuals as well as for those Westerners who insist that post-Mao China is roaring down the right track, that money pushes aside the old political stupidities, and economic progress leads eventually to democracy. These are the assumptions Wang seeks to rebut and his rebuttal will be uncomfortable reading for those who see capitalism as a moral driving force as well as an enriching one. -- Jonathan Mirsky * Far Eastern Economic Review *This book offers a powerful analysis of China and the transformations it has experienced since 1989. Wang Hui offers an insiders knowledge of economics, politics, civilisation, and Western critical theory. A participant in the Tianamen Square movement, he is also the editor of the most important intellectual journal in contemporary China. Wang Hui argues that the features of China today are elements of the new global order as a whole in which considerations of economic growth and development have trumped every other concern, particularly those of democracy and social justice. The plea at the heart of the book is for economic and social justice and an indictment of the corruption caused by the explosion of 'market forces.' * The Asian Art Newspaper *Wang's problem comes when Westerners and Chinese alike misread reform as apologia for the past. Socialism may be lost, he reminds us, but its reason for being will remain unless China and the rest of the world can protect against the laissez-faire injustices inherent to global capital. -- Hua Hsu * Village Voice *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction by Theodore Huters The 1989 Social Movement and the Historical Roots of China's
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Harvard University Press An Early Tibetan Survey of Buddhist Literature
Book SynopsisThis study and edition of Bcom Idan ral gri's (12271305) Bstan pa rgyas pa rgyan gyi nyi 'od was likely composed in the late 13th century. It is a systematic list of Sutras, Tantras, Shastras, and related genres translated primarily from Sanskrit and other Indic languages, holding a vital place in the history of Buddhist literature.
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Harvard University Press We Who Are Dark
Book SynopsisDrawing on the thought of canonical figures Martin R. Delany and W. E. B. Du Bois, Shelby provides the first extended philosophical defense of black political solidarity. He argues that we can reject a biological idea of race and agree with many criticisms of identity politics yet still view black political solidarity as a needed emancipatory tool.Trade ReviewShelby's aim is to show that one can achieve a robust form of black solidarity without a commitment to black identity. He identifies robust solidarity as entailing: identification between group members, shared values or goals, group loyalty and mutual trust. I think the arguments that he offers that all these elements of robust solidarity are possible without the sort of distinctive black identity required by collective identity theory are compelling. This is important, because many people take it for granted that the pursuit of solidarity entails the need for identity. In articulating the necessary analytic distinctions, Shelby makes the kind of contribution that I believe is characteristic of the most useful philosophical interventions in African American studies (and in many other fields): he shows that there is conceptual space for more options than the current debate presupposes. -- K. Anthony Appiah, author of The Ethics of IdentityAs an interdisciplinary enterprise, African-American studies is thriving, but philosophy's contribution has until recently been next to non-existent. The field's image is still an overwhelmingly "white" one--a discipline that has nothing to say about the specific concerns of blacks. Tommie Shelby's book, addressing as it does a long-standing set of issues in the black tradition, is a welcome proof of the subject's relevance and importance for African-American interests. Employing the apparatus of contemporary analytic philosophy with rigor, sophistication, and the use of a remarkable range of sources, he sets out to defend a qualified version of the classic black nationalist thesis that a distinctive "black" politics predicated on black solidarity is morally and politically justifiable. Not only does he succeed splendidly in this task, but he provides in the process a model of how the "unwhitening" of philosophy can eventually be achieved. -- Charles W. Mills, author of The Racial ContractShelby dissects the history of black political thought from W.E.B. Du Bois to Malcolm X in order to arrive at a new political philosophy that takes black solidarity as its foundation...Shelby finds merits and flaws in almost every political theory he discusses, leading to an evenhanded, meticulously thought-out argument that builds upon the best elements of black political thought. * Publishers Weekly *A philosophical defense of black political solidarity as a tool for defeating racism, eliminating racial inequality and improving opportunities for those racialized as 'black.' -- Sandra L. Jamison * Black Issues Book Review *Shelby, a rising star who teaches African-American studies at Harvard, argues for black solidarity without black racial identity. If that seems paradoxical at first blush, it won't after you have read this account of black political thought from W.E.B. Du Bois to Malcolm X. -- Jim Holt * New York Magazine *It isn't easy being a philosopher committed to making critical reflections on African-American identity. Those about whom you write have little time for abstractions and even less patience with criticism. The philosophers for whom you write often refuse to take seriously a subject so outlandishly removed from all that has preoccupied them for the past two and a half millenniums. And the experience upon which you reflect is largely bereft of earlier models to build upon. Only a few intrepid souls have plowed this virgin intellectual field. Add to them now Tommie Shelby, a sparkling new talent with all the boldness and intellectual self-assurance necessary for such an effort...Although black Americans have led the way in practical matters, insightful theoretical reflections on identity politics are still wanting. Shelby's We Who Are Dark is respectful of such politics, but severely critical as well. His book contests the movement's central claims at a level of sociophilosophical sophistication that one rarely encounters. -- Orlando Patterson * New York Times Book Review *From his training in political philosophy, Shelby argues that there is a need for black political solidarity as a continuing tool of emancipation. Drawing on the ideas of Martin Delaney, W. E. B. DuBois, Malcolm X, Black Power, and black cultural nationalism, Shelby concludes that the transcending unifying factor now is the "pragmatic nationalist conception of political solidarity." This provocative, stimulating, and readable book can offer a fresh understanding of the virtue of black solidarity and introduce readers to the thinking ways of philosophers. -- J. H. Smith * Choice *On what grounds--and to what ends--are marginalized or oppressed social groups constituted as a group? Specifically, how should those who identify as black in the present-day United States conceive of their sense of solidarity, and what should be the guiding norms of such conception? Tommie Shelby's We Who Are Dark offers a lucid and rigorous treatment of these questions. His argument rests on two initial assumptions: one, that there is indeed a demonstrable sense of solidarity--that is, of "we-ness"--among those who identify as black in North America, and two, that identifying and/or being identified as black in North America is still the basis for continued socio-economic and political oppression, marginalization, and exclusion. The question that follows from these assumptions is whether and how black solidarity could be instrumental in resisting and overcoming such oppression, marginalization, and exclusion...A brief summary such as this fails to do justice to the scope, depth, and elegance of Shelby's argumentation throughout his book. We Who Are Dark makes an important contribution to the field of African-American Studies in particular and political philosophy in general. The sympathetic yet incisive analysis of the problematic aims and assumptions that inform classical nationalism and identity politics is likely to find an audience both within and beyond the circle of scholars with a specific interest in theorizing black identity. Moreover, while Shelby writes from within the dual traditions of mainstream Anglophone philosophy and African-American studies, and constantly enters into dialogue with thinkers from both traditions, he remains an original voice. His thoughtful engagement with thinkers such as Du Bois, Garvey, Delaney, et al, does not merely re-tread the conceptual pathways laid down by them, but mines their work for unacknowledged contradictions and hidden digressions. Despite aligning himself with Rawlsian political liberalism, his book is much more than merely a rehashed version of Rawls. His argument for solidarity for the sake of justice rather than for the sake of maintaining an essential ideal of blackness deserves consideration in its own right. -- Vasti Roodt * Ethical Perspectives *Shelby interprets Black nationalist thinking in six elegant, novel chapters...A progressive notion of Black political solidarity in the post-civil rights era has to come to grips with the unique challenges facing us today. For this reason, We Who Are Dark must be required reading for anyone pragmatically concerned with the future of the souls of Black folk, the souls of a people. -- Neil Roberts * Souls *The intellectual and strategic moorings of contemporary black political solidarity are increasingly unstable. As the political memory of the race-specific Civil Rights movement fades further into history, intraracial differences that have always existed, such as gender, religion, sexuality, multiracial identification, immigration, region, cultural affiliation, political ideology, and generation, are being highlighted by race scholars from a variety of fields as reasons for rethinking race-based political cohesion. Tommie Shelby acknowledges all of these internal pressures, but sees the widening gap between poor and more affluent blacks as the intraracial fissure that most threatens political cohesion among today’s African Americans. From this sociological premise, Shelby sets out to articulate a “progressive,” philosophically sound basis for black political organization that appeals both to the class interests of poor and working-class blacks and to those of middleand upper-class blacks. By “progressive,” Shelby means a recognition that basic social injustices linger, and can and should be corrected through state intervention and/or collective political action. -- Hawley Fogg-Davis * Perspectives on Politics *An elegant, superb, and timely little book...It immediately secures Shelby’s place among the most significant thinkers working at the interface of philosophy and black studies. This groundbreaking work enlarges the field, rethinking our ideas on a variety of matters heretofore understudied but now readied for philosophical analysis...Shelby is of the generation for whom black power was their parents’ idea. They can face it with fresh eyes as young intellectuals looking back on received opinion, and here Shelby subjects black nationalism (BN) to searching examination and sometimes withering criticism, even while wanting to believe and defend it by isolating what he sees as its central and strongest claims...Shelby manages to find (or, perhaps, to conjure) the little-noticed liberal hidden within a variety of militant black activists, orators, and authors. Throughout, his tone and style are analytic, measured, soberly realistic, and fair-minded...I think the ultimate value in Shelby’s indispensable book may be to help remind us (perhaps unintentionally) that what we mainly need in combating continuing racial injustices against African Americans is a firmer and more clearheaded commitment to justice, not to race or blackness or a supposed nation of African America. -- J. L. A. Garcia * Ethics *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Political Philosophy and the Black Experience 1. Two Conceptions of Black Nationalism 2. Class, Poverty, and Shame 3. Black Power Nationalism 4. Black Solidarity after Black Power 5. Race, Culture, and Politics 6. Social Identity and Group Solidarity Conclusion: The Political Morality of Black Solidarity Notes Index
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Harvard University Press The Axial Age and its Consequences
Book SynopsisThis book makes the bold claim that intellectual sophistication was born worldwide during the middle centuries of the first millennium bce. From Axial Age thinkers we inherited a sense of the world as a place not just to experience but to investigate, envision, and alter. A variety of utopian visions emerged and led to both reform and repression.Trade ReviewWith eighteen leading multidisciplinary scholars, this volume covers enormous ground in the transformative beginnings for civilizations that shared cultural origins in the mid-first millennium BC in Europe and Asia. Extending the insight of existential philosopher Karl Jaspers regarding the 'Axial Age' and its later evolution to 'multiple modernities,' The Axial Age and Its Consequences, superbly edited by Hans Joas and Robert Bellah, is a must-read for contemporary comparative-historical sociological analyses in our own global age. -- Edward A. Tiryakian, author of For Durkheim: Essays in Historical and Cultural SociologyThe Axial Age, the epic moment around the 6th century BCE which saw the intellectual outburst that engendered the major world religions, has enjoyed an upsurge of scholarly attention in the past generation. Great themes demand great voices, and editors Bellah and Joas have assembled a remarkable choral ensemble for a score organized to address fundamental questions about Axiality and its comparative manifestations, destructive possibilities, current status, and implications for the future. I can think of no compendium in the past generation that measures up to the quality and significance of this volume. -- Donald Levine, University of ChicagoHighly recommended for readers of Bellah's Religion in Human Evolution and students of religious philosophy and evolutionary sociology. -- Brian Odom * Library Journal *
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Harvard University Press Maize and Grace
Book SynopsisAround 1500 A.D., an African farmer planted a maize seed imported from the New World. That act set in motion the remarkable saga of one of the world’s most influential crops. This compelling history offers insight into the profound influence of maize on African culture, health, technological innovation, and the future of the world’s food supply.Trade ReviewMcCann's book is as amazing as its title - the botanical properties of the cultigen itself (clearly delineated for the botanically challenged), the continent's unique modern dependence on the crop, the complicated and varied political and economic histories of how it came to be that way, how his Ethiopian research partner's local knowledge connected maize with malaria, and more. Maize and Grace is a readable, highly original, penetrating and comprehensive study of exemplary quality. -- Joseph Miller, University of VirginiaMaize transformed life in Africa, initially alleviating hunger during that crucial period before other crops ripened and now providing an increasingly important source of food, fodder, fuel and cash. McCann's eloquent narrative traces the path of this crop from its introduction as a snack into the land of Prester John to its present eminence throughout Africa. -- Andrew Spielman, School of Public Health, Harvard UniversityA captivating account of the introduction and spread of maize in Africa. This book provides excellent analysis of the legacy and opportunity of maize in addressing Africa's food crisis, as well as powerful insight into emerging social, cultural, health and environmental issues. -- Dr. Alemneh Dejene, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsMaize and Grace offers a compelling counterpoint to the maize success story accepted by most agricultural economists. McCann sheds light on previously unexplored connections between the political, health, and food security dimensions of maize in Africa, some of which have major implications for development policy. -- T.S. Jayne, Michigan State UniversityA sweeping, deeply-learned, beautifully-written, and well-nigh comprehensive account of how maize changed Africa and how Africa changed maize. The level of botanical historical, cultural, and agricultural knowledge that underwrites this volume makes it a model of scholarship as meticulous as it is ambitious. Henceforth, none of my students will be released into the world without having read it. -- James C. Scott, Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale UniversityMaize and Grace shows how a New World crop contributed to the emergence of modern-day Africa. Some parts of Africa now have higher maize consumption per capita than Mexico and Guatemala, where the crop originated...Rather than describing sweeping historical currents, the book offers the reader a series of vignettes that provide opportunities to appreciate the paradoxes of maize development policy and to contemplate some enduring themes in agricultural history. -- Robert Tripp * Nature *McCann has written a fascinating social history of the propagation of maize throughout sub-Saharan Africa since it was first brought there from the New World, probably in the cargo of a slave ship, around 1500. He chronicles the ways in which maize has adapted itself to African conditions, slowly becoming a major African food staple. Since World War II, in fact, the emergence of hybrid maize has resulted in a sharp rise in maize cultivation in Africa, displacing traditional indigenous crops. McCann celebrates the ingenuity of African farmers as they adapted the crop to local customs and climactic conditions, but he argues that the policy world has largely ignored the socioeconomic and environmental implications of the emergence of maize as a staple. In the book's most fascinating chapter, he convincingly links a major malaria epidemic in the highlands of Ethiopia in 1998 to the widespread adoption of maize in the area over the preceding decade. -- Nicholas Van De Walle * Foreign Affairs *The author's botanical descriptions and explanations...help us comprehend the long history of maize in Africa. It arrived during the sixteenth century from all directions-north and south, east and west, Christian and Muslim--to become a major food source during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. McCann provides thoughtful histories of its early decades in northern Italy and Ethiopia, demonstrating how politics affects agriculture profoundly--and vice versa as well. -- Alfred W. Crosby * Technology and Culture *With a captivating title, Maize and Grace, James McCann considers the ambiguities of African development through a handful of creatively researched maize stories that demonstrate his well-honed investigatory and interpretative skills as a distinguished Africanist environmental historian...From an informed use of oral tradition, little-used agronomic research records, statistical analysis, and artistic and photographic evidence--shared through almost forty illustrations--McCann reveals how an environmental history of maize in Africa illustrates both the triumphs and tripwires of development science and politics. -- James Bingen * African Studies Review *As a field crop produced primarily to feed livestock and chicken, maize may appear to be a far cry from being considered a "grace" to humanity as the title of the book, Maize and Grace might suggest. However, considering the distinctive character it plays in human diets, it is not difficult to perceive maize as a blessing or grace. James McCann has chosen an ambitious task and has done it well. He set out to tell the remarkable saga of maize's ascension as a major dramatis persona in Africa's food supply over the past half millennium. As a historian, McCann has brought a different perspective to the importance of maize in the evolution of African agricultural systems...Maize and Grace is a fascinating book, and a joy to read. The book, based on painstaking research and historical data, provides a comprehensive account of how maize and humans have interacted since it was first introduced in Africa over half a millennium ago. It is eloquently written and loaded with a wealth of historical, social, cultural, botanical, ecological, and agricultural information and knowledge, as well as fresh, ingenious, and original insights. Professor McCann is to be commended and congratulated for his valuable scholarly contribution to agricultural literature. Can maize be Africa's "saving grace?" It is a question left for the reader to decide. -- Chung L. Huang * American Journal of Agricultural Economics *In this concise yet comprehensive monograph, James McCann deploys his considerable skills as a synthesizer to explain how maize, despite its nutritional and environmental constraints, has come to be the dominant food crop in Africa...In the end, what makes this book impressive is the way that it combines original fieldwork with a deep understanding of a by now formidable interdisciplinary literature...His approach allows this important book to make a significant contribution to the new literature on the history of African crop cultivation...It will become a must-read for students of agricultural and environmental history, geography and African history more generally. -- Jamie Monson * African History *A fascinating tour of five centuries of African history...[It] should attract some general readers as well as students of African agriculture. * Danny Yee’s Book Reviews *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Africa and the World Ecology of Maize 2. Naming the Stranger: Maize's Journey to Africa 3. Maize's Invention in West Africa 4. Seeds of Subversion in Two Peasant Empires 5. How Africa's Maize Turned White 6. African Maize, American Rust 7. Breeding SR-52: The Politics of Science and Race in Southern Africa 8. Maize and Malaria 9. Maize as Metonym in Africa's New Millennium Appendix: Tables Notes Select Bibliography Acknowledgments Illustration Credits Index
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Loeb Geography Volume VIII Book 17. General Index
Book SynopsisIn his seventeen-book Geography, Strabo (ca. 64 BCca. AD 25) discusses geographical method, stresses the value of geography, and draws attention to the physical, political, and historical details of separate regions. Geography is a vital source for ancient geography and informative about ancient geographers.
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Harvard University Press Criminal Justice in China
Book SynopsisMühlhahn offers a comprehensive examination of the criminal justice system in modern China, an institution deeply rooted in politics, society, and culture. Based on unprecedented research in Chinese archives and incorporating prisoner testimonies, witness reports, and interviews, this book is essential reading for understanding modern China.Trade ReviewIn this ambitious work of prodigious research and thoughtful analysis, Mühlhahn takes readers beyond a simple account of legal and institutional development to offer a more nuanced interpretive framework. This is an important contribution that significantly advances our knowledge of twentieth-century Chinese criminal justice. -- Jonathan K. Ocko, North Carolina State University and Duke Law SchoolThis book rewards readers with the first comprehensive description of twentieth-century Chinese legal punishment as discourse, norm, and experience. Mühlhahn offers images of human dignity even in the most dehumanizing circumstances. He argues that in China a civic legal tradition has taken root and survived despite the interventions of totalitarian regimes and revolutionary struggles. A must-read for anyone with a serious interest in human rights in China. -- Wen-hsin Yeh, University of California, BerkeleyIn an outstanding study that stretches from imperial times up to the present, Mühlhahn takes punishment, not rights, to be at the core of the Chinese criminal justice system. In doing so, he changes the way we think about Chinese social control and deepens our understanding not just of the criminal justice system but of China more generally. This is an erudite work with a big argument. It is also exciting and novel, and I recommend it highly. -- Michael Dutton, author of Policing Chinese PoliticsThis is the most important work in a generation on criminal justice in China, past and present. Mühlhahn explores the theories, values, politics, and personal experiences that have defined crime and punishment in modern Chinese states. He puts forth compelling and chilling new research on communist "reform through labor" concentration camps--a vast system that within a decade of the founding of Mao's "New China" had enslaved tens of millions of Chinese. This is a book, then, not only on criminal justice, but also on criminals in power. -- William C. Kirby, Harvard UniversityHere is an example of the best kind of Sinological scholarship together with the blackest possible indictment of the Chinese criminal-justice system...Mühlhahn shows that China's criminal-justice system today has arisen from political violence, and the result is "suffering that for millions [has] encompassed pain, anguish, fear, loss, grief, and the destruction of a coherent and meaningful reality." -- Jonathan Mirsky * Far Eastern Economic Review *Table of Contents* Introduction * The Right Degree of Pain: Imperial China * The Prison Regime: Republican China * Trials of Terror: War and Revolution, 1937--1949 * Reform through Labor: The Communist State * Conclusion * Abbreviations * Archives * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index
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Harvard University Press Islamicate Sexualities Translations across
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Harvard University Press Lost Histories Recovering the Lives of Japans
Book SynopsisIs it possible to write the history of Japan’s colonial subjects? Ziomek contends that it is. By reconstructing individual life histories and following these people as they crossed colonial borders to the metropolis and beyond, Ziomek conveys the dynamic nature of an empire in motion.Trade ReviewLost Histories has several strengths to recommend it and should be required reading for scholars and students in modern Asian history and colonial studies…the method of shifting away from official records (colonial archives) and instead looking to nonofficial records that are textual, oral, visual, and material has opened up new and unfiltered documentation of personal experiences of colonization. -- Alice Y. Tseng * American Historical Review *Ziomek’s remarkable book Lost Histories occupies a unique place within this wave of scholarship [on Japanese imperialism] and represents a valuable contribution to it. What she has done…through her dogged research, is to force us to bring greater precision and empathy to our arguments about ethnicity and agency in colonial rule, in view of the lived experience of colonial subjects. In that sense, the book is truly a gift, one that I hope will feature prominently in future scholarship and teaching on the topic. * H-Diplo Reviews *A meticulously researched, vividly illustrated collection of micro-histories that bring to life the diverse peoples inhabiting the Japanese Empire…Ziomek contests narratives that see Japanese essentialization of ethnic difference as an attempt to strengthen their own position of power. Japan’s fixation on ethnic difference reveals not its success in securing a position of power atop the colonial racial hierarchy but instead the ‘precariousness’ of Japanese rule in the colonies. * Journal of Asian Studies *If, as the Naïve Idealist says, ‘a person’s name has the power to open a connection into their world,’ Kirsten L. Ziomek’s Lost Histories demonstrates that power. Her dogged pursuit of the names and life stories of people who lived within Japan’s formal empire is truly impressive. In several cases Ziomek circumvents the limitations of the ‘colonial archive’ to provide us with portrayals of people whose lives were certainly affected by the ‘oppressive nature of Japan’s colonial policies’ but were nevertheless full and fascinating. * Journal of Japanese Studies *As a work of original research that is both empirically grounded and conceptually bold, Lost Histories is highly recommended to scholars and students of imperial culture, colonial governance, and East Asian history. -- Paul D. Barclay * Journal of World History *Conceptually ambitious and expertly crafted…Lost Histories is especially commendable for its re-creation of the life stories of individual colonial subjects…The quality of scholarship…is superb…Useful to anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of East Asian international relations today. -- Erik Esselstrom * Monumenta Nipponica *Well written and fascinating, the book demonstrates that these lives tell us as much about colonialism as about the impact of colonial subjects on the conduct of Japanese colonial practices. * Choice *
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Harvard University Press NeoConfucianism in History
Book SynopsisThe book argues that as Neo-Confucians put their philosophy of learning into practice in local society, they justified a new social ideal in which society at the local level was led by the literati with state recognition and support.Trade ReviewBol offers a comprehensive interpretation and polemical analysis of the place where ‘Neo-Confucianism fits into our story of China’s history.’ In reexamining China’s Middle Period, he compares the role of literati in Song and Yuan with that of the early and late Ming dynasty. Highlighting the development of discourse on learning, he observes that neo-Confucianism shifts moral authority away from the political system and toward a new conception of self, importantly developing the category of mind as the basis of moral guidance grounded in an act of will. In the late Ming this move promoted limited government combined with a new emphasis on autonomy and individual social responsibility that extended to people of all backgrounds. Bol points out that in spite of changes in the model of neo-Confucianism in the 17th century and the Qing conquest, the imperial order later continued to look to local elite leadership as the strength of its own existence. He brings forth evidence to support his projection that dual voices can perhaps ‘speak to China today.’ Bol argues that neo-Confucianism could serve, not just as history, but as a resource for thinking about the present. -- J. M. Boyle * Choice *Table of Contents* Introduction: Neo-Confucianism in History * The World of the Eleventh Century: 750 and 1050 Compared * Searching for a New Foundation in the Eleventh Century * The Neo-Confucians * Politics * Learning * Belief * Society * Afterword: China's History and Neo-Confucianism * Notes * Bibliography * Character List * Index
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Harvard University Press Picturing the True Form Daoist Visual Culture in
Book SynopsisIn this richly illustrated book, Shih-shan Susan Huang investigates the visual culture of Daoism, China’s primary indigenous religion, from the tenth through thirteenth centuries with references to earlier and later times. Huang shows how Daoist image-making goes beyond the usual dichotomy of text and image to incorporate writings in image design.Trade ReviewPicturing the True Form undertakes a path-breaking and comprehensive treatment of a highly important topic in the study of Chinese religions: the nature and cultural import of Daoist art. With an unprecedented level of analysis and meticulous attention to detail, Susan Huang considers Daoist artworks from the perspective of cultural history and presents exciting new data on how Daoist art differed from that of Buddhism. The result is not only an assiduous investigation of Daoist visual culture, but a veritable history of Daoism itself. -- Paul Katz, Institute of Modern History, Academia SinicaHuang’s book is an enormously valuable and monumental undertaking, highly recommended, and will go far to spread awareness of the vast Daoist visual lexicon. -- Stephen Little, Los Angeles County Museum of ArtThe first of its kind, Picturing the True Form is a comprehensive mapping of Daoist images found in various media—paintings, diagrams, drawings, and woodblock prints scattered throughout the Daoist canon. Not only is the sheer magnitude of such an undertaking remarkable, but the judicious discrimination the author brings to bear in sorting out the visual materials makes this book all the more commendable. A sturdy building block in laying out a new field in the study of Daoist images, it will easily become a go-to volume on the nature and use of Daoist images. -- Eugene Wang, Harvard University
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