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Book SynopsisPraised as the definitive history of Beirut, this is the story of a city that has stood at the crossroads of Mediterranean civilization for more than four thousand years. It takes the reader from the ancient to the modern world, offering a dazzling panorama of the city's Seleucid, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and French incarnations.Trade Review"An evocative portrait of a great but tragic metropolis." -- Gilbert Taylor Booklist "A significant and important book for anyone with an interest in the city and its ongoing troubles, the Middle East in general and in the relationship between modernity and urbanity." -- Ghassan Hage The Australian "Kassir embodied Beirut's variant of the polyglot Levantine ideal... His biography of the city of which he was a vital constituent is unlikely to be surpassed." London Review Of Books "A unique contribution to the growing literature on modern and contemporary Lebanon... Erudite, evocative, and highly compelling." Review Of Middle East Stds "Kassir charts in intricate detail the damage done to Beirut through architectural crimes that portended the greater destruction to come." -- Charles Glass London Review Of Books "A definitive history of the city." Middle East JournalTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Robert Fisk Translator's Note Acknowledgments Abbreviations Prologue: The Eyes of the Mind Part One: From the Ancient to the Modern World 1. Beirut before Beirut 2. The Great Transformation 3. The Ibrahim Pasha Era 4. The Roads from Damascus 5. A Window on Ottoman Modernity Part Two: The Awakening 6. A Cultural Revolution 7. Between Boston and Rome 8. The Horizon of the World 9. Uncertain Identities Part Three: The Capital of the Mandate 10. France Broadens Its Mission 11. The French City 12. Grand-Liban and Petit Paris 13. A Crucible for Independence Part Four: The Cosmopolitan Metropolis of the Arabs 14. The Switzerland of the East 15. Beirut, Male and Female 16. The Pleasures of the World 17. Ecochard's Lost Wagers Part Five: The City of Every Danger 18. On the Knife's Edge 19. The End of Innocence 20. Beirut, O Beirut! Epilogue: To Be or To Have Been Notes Glossary of Arabic and Turkish Terms Bibliography Photographic Credits Index

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Book SynopsisAs disputes concerning the environment, the economy, and pandemics occupy public debate, we need to learn to navigate matters of public concern when facts are in doubt and expertise is contested. Controversy Mapping is the first book to introduce readers to the observation and representation of contested issues on digital media. Drawing on actor-network theory and digital methods, Venturini and Munk outline the conceptual underpinnings and the many tools and techniques of controversy mapping. They review its history in science and technology studies, discuss its methodological potential, and unfold its political implications. Through a range of cases and examples, they demonstrate how to chart actors and issues using digital fieldwork and computational techniques. A preface by Richard Rogers and an interview with Bruno Latour are also included. A crucial field guide and hands-on companion for the digital age, Controversy Mapping is an indispensable resource for students and scholars of media and communication, as well as activists, journalists, citizens, and decision makers.Trade Review“Controversy Mapping shows how we can use social research to bring controversies back to the surface of knowledge and public life, and how it can help to recover the power of controversy to transform what's possible. The book provides everything you need – the ideas, examples, and techniques – to start doing controversy analysis.”Noortje Marres, University of Warwick “Venturini and Munk have produced a significant book that traces the genealogy of controversy mapping back to its origins in actor-network theory to its incarnations in digital methods. Through a lucid and engaging narrative and series of visualizations, they provide a comprehensive ‘field guide’ to the major figures, theories, concepts, and methods that make up the practices of controversy mapping.”Evelyn Ruppert, Goldsmiths, University of LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface: The politics of association on display (by Richard Rogers) Introduction FEATURES OF CONTROVERSIAL LANDSCAPES 1. Why map controversies? 2. A proliferation of issues 3. Making room for more actors TOOLS OF SOCIAL CARTOGRAPHY 4. Exploring controversies as actor-networks 5. Exploring controversies with digital methods 6. Collecting and curating digital records 7. Visual network analysis POLITICS OF MAPMAKING 8. Representing controversies 9. Mapmaking as a form of intervention Controversy mapping in the shadow of Gaia A conversation with Bruno Latour References Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents, for the first time in English, fourteen essays by Yuri Andrukhovych, making a well-known Ukrainian voice accessible to the English-speaking world.Trade Review"We should feel grateful to the translators for making Andrukhovych’s incisive essays available, for the first time and in one place, to English-speaking audiences." -- Alexander Burak * Slavic Review *"Andrukhovych is one of Ukraine’s most prominent intellectuals, perhaps the very symbol of the rise of Ukrainian postmodernism in the early 1990s." -- Alessandro Achilli * New Zealand Slavonic Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Biographical Preface about the Author Michael M. Naydan En Route Endeavours Mark Andryczyk Author’s Introduction Yuri Andrukhovych Autobiographical Essay: The Central-Eastern Revision (expanded version 2005) Culturological and Political Essays: Erz-Herz-Perz (1994) The City-Ship (1994) Carpathologia Comosphilica (1996) Time and Place, or My Final Territory (1999) A Little Bit of Urban Studies (1999) What Language Are You From: A Ukrainian Writer among the Temptations of Temporariness (2002) Meeting Place Germaschka (2002) Four Million for Our Agents (2003) A Land of Dreams (2004) The Star Absinthe: Notes on a Bitter Anniversary (2011) Love and Hatred in Kyiv (January 2014) Seven Hundred Fierce Days, or the Role of a Contrabass in the Revolution (March 2014) Afterword Yuri Andrukhovych Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIndia: The Ancient Past provides a clear and systematic introduction to the cultural, political, economic, social and geographical history of ancient India from the time of the pre-Harappan culture nine thousand years ago up until the beginning of the second millennium of the Common Era. The book engages with methodological and controversial issues by examining key themes such as the Indus-Sarasvati civilization, the Aryan controversy, the development of Vedic and heterodox religions, and the political economy and social life of ancient Indian kingdoms. This fully revised and updated second edition includes: Three new chapters examining the differences and commonalities between the north and south of India; Extended discussion on contested issues, such as the origins of the Aryans and the role of feudalism in ancient India; New source excerpts to introduce students to the most significant works in the hTrade ReviewPraise of the first edition: 'An engaging narrative of a complex civilization.' – Minerva 'Burjor Avari's balanced and well-researched book is a most reliable guide to the period of Indian history that it covers. It displays considerable mastery of primary and secondary literature and distils it into a wonderfully lucid exposition. This book should be of interest to both lay readers and academic experts'. - Lord Bhikhu Parekh, University of Westminster Praise of this edition: 'This book is the ideal guide to India’s ancient past. In this updated and expanded edition, it is a more useful resource than ever, offering students and teachers alike a comprehensive and balanced overview of the key trajectories and debates in the history of pre-modern India. It deftly handles controversial issues and through its carefully curated selection of source materials invites the reader’s direct engagement with this riveting history.' Sebastian R. Prange, University of British Columbia, Canada 'With great equanimity and poise, India: The Ancient Past does an excellent job of presenting one of the world’s splendid pasts. Equipped with rich details, lucid prose, and accessible materials, it is up-to-date with current scholarship and presents a concise yet detailed chapter-by-chapter denouement of the broad sweeps of ancient India’s history . Brevity of topics, primary source extracts, and insightful analyses are a few among the many features that make this textbook a joy to teach with.' M. Raisur Rahman, Wake Forest University, USA 'India: The Ancient Past improves hugely upon other college texts on the eras from the Stone Age to 1200 CE, in that it is accessible, comprehensive, politically neutral, often entertaining, and remarkably explanatory. This new edition is even better than the first on all counts, and is the best I have seen in over 40 years of teaching.'Richard Barnett, University of Virginia, USA Praise of the first edition: 'An engaging narrative of a complex civilization.' – Minerva 'Burjor Avari's balanced and well-researched book is a most reliable guide to the period of Indian history that it covers. It displays considerable mastery of primary and secondary literature and distils it into a wonderfully lucid exposition. This book should be of interest to both lay readers and academic experts'. - Lord Bhikhu Parekh, University of Westminster Praise of this edition: 'This book is the ideal guide to India’s ancient past. In this updated and expanded edition, it is a more useful resource than ever, offering students and teachers alike a comprehensive and balanced overview of the key trajectories and debates in the history of pre-modern India. It deftly handles controversial issues and through its carefully curated selection of source materials invites the reader’s direct engagement with this riveting history.' Sebastian R. Prange, University of British Columbia, Canada 'With great equanimity and poise, India: The Ancient Past does an excellent job of presenting one of the world’s splendid pasts. Equipped with rich details, lucid prose, and accessible materials, it is up-to-date with current scholarship and presents a concise yet detailed chapter-by-chapter denouement of the broad sweeps of ancient India’s history . Brevity of topics, primary source extracts, and insightful analyses are a few among the many features that make this textbook a joy to teach with.' M. Raisur Rahman, Wake Forest University, USA 'India: The Ancient Past improves hugely upon other college texts on the eras from the Stone Age to 1200 CE, in that it is accessible, comprehensive, politically neutral, often entertaining, and remarkably explanatory. This new edition is even better than the first on all counts, and is the best I have seen in over 40 years of teaching.'Richard Barnett, University of Virginia, USA Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. From Africa to Mehrgarh 3. The Harappan Civilization 4. The Indo-Aryans in the Vedic Age 5. Formative Centuries of the Pre-Mauryan Era 6. The Paradox of Mauryan Imperialism 7. Diffusion and Dynamism after the Mauryas 8. Stability and Change Under the Imperial Guptas 9. The Post-Gupta Era and the Rise of the South 10. Regionalism and Feudalism: Rajput, Pala and 296 Rashtrakuta Kingdoms 11. Chola Domination in the South and Turco-Afhan Plunder in the North

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of a troubling phenomenon: the fast-growing belief in Muslim countries that the end of the world is at hand - and with it the "Great Battle," prophesied by both Sunni and Shi'i tradition, which many believers expect will begin in the Afghan-Pakistani borderlands. It uncovers the role of apocalypse in Islam over the centuries.Trade Review"A timely and highly recommended work." Booklist "A fascinating book." -- Bruce Riedel Tablet Magazine "Apocalypse in Islam makes a crucially important contribution to our understanding of current events." -- Charles Cameron Jihadology "Carefully outlines what the apocalyptic literature is saying, and places it in a broad historical and theological context. It presents sober and balanced assessments, and is a truly useful resource." -- Peter Kirkwood The Australian "Fascinating ... a must read." Australian Financial Review Magazine "The University of California Press is to be praised for adding to the book color plates of 22 lurid covers of these recent novels. These alone are worth the price of admission." -- Shalom Goldman Haaretz "An important work for students not just of Islam but also of religion, politics, and popular culture in general." Choice "A fascinating and accessible text... You'll be much better informed after reading Apocalypse in Islam." -- Angela Mende Law Society JournalTable of ContentsPreface to the English-Language Edition Acknowledgments Prologue: The End of the World Draws Nigh Part One: True and False Messiahs of Islam 1. Archeology of the End of the World 2. Grand Masters of the Medieval Apocalypse 3. Avatars of the Mahdi Part Two: Apocalypse Now 4. Dawn of the Fifteenth Century of Islam 5. Pioneers of the Contemporary Apocalypse 6. The Horsemen of Apocalyptic Jihad 7. The Beginning of the End in Iraq 8. The Grand Return of the Shi?i Mahdi 9. Diasporas of the Apocalypse 10. The Armageddon of Jihad Epilogue: Through the Looking Glass--and Beyond Notes A Contemporary Muslim Apocalyptic Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTells the story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements ten thousand years ago to the Arab conquest in the seventh century. With illustrations of important works of art and architecture in every chapter, this title traces the rise and fall of successive civilizations and people in Iraq over the course of millennia.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2010 Felicia A. Holton Book Award, Archaeological Institute of America "Benjamin Foster and Karen Polinger Foster, both at Yale University, have written an excellent overview of the history and cultures of ancient Iraq beginning with the earliest references to Sumer and ending with the Arab defeat of the Sassanians in 637 CE... The text is clear, well written and a pleasure to read. It should be highly recommended to anyone, student and layman alike, as an introduction to the history of ancient Iraq. Perhaps most importantly the book seems to have been designed for an audience that wishes to know more about ancient Iraq as a consequence of recent and current events... This book is for bookshops, on the high street and at airports, as well as for students and for scholars for whom ancient Iraq or contemporary attitudes to the civilization of ancient Iraq might be tangential."--Geoffrey D. Summers, Bryn Mawr Classical Review "It's an undeniable benefit to have Civilizations of Ancient Iraq (note the plural), ... [a] crystal-clear and well-illustrated narrative ranging from the earliest villages (c. 8000 BCE) to the Arab conquest of 637 CE... This is a most rewarding book with fine illustrations and a challenging bibliography."--Peter Skinner, ForeWord Magazine "A very readable overview of the importance of Iraq in its own terms and in the larger context of the forces that have shaped modern civilisation. Here are chapters on the creation of the first cities ever constructed, of the first examples of writing, of the great King Hammurabi of Babylon and humanity's first poetic utterance in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Here is a story of great scientific achievement, of the powerful Assyrian Empire, of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, of Sennacherib and his transformation of Nineveh into a city of aqueducts, canals, dams and, most impressively, of the invention of the device now known as the Archimedes screw. It is a story of an ancient and extraordinary civilisation that in recent times has been buried under acts of brutality and violence."--Bruce Elder, Sydney Morning Herald "[A] superb one-volume overview."--Nicholas Basbanes, FineBooksMagazine.com "[I]t can be extremely useful to have a single account of Mesopotamia's history reduced to its salient points, in order to provide a focused framework onto which the more complex details of history and culture can be placed. Civilizations of Ancient Iraq achieves this with ease, and emerges with a huge amount of appeal for a diverse audience."--Elizabeth Wheat and Erika D. Johnson, Rosetta "The narrative is ingeniously constructed, covering broad sweeps of history in a few lines, then settling on a person or issue of interest in more depth. The reader is not overwhelmed with the mass of details and names that could have been included, but instead is drawn into some telling particulars that hint at the complexity of the whole."--Amanda H. Podany, Journal of the American Oriental Society "[This] is an excellent survey of a civilization that is unfamiliar to most general readers, and a lament for all that is being forever lost through looting and destruction. One hopes the book will make an impression not just on those interested in ancient history but also on policy makers who have authority over sites and museums in Iraq and over preventing the trade in smuggled objects from the ancient sites."--Amanda H. Podany, Journal of the American Oriental Society "It is certainly to be hoped that this book opens the eyes of readers in the West, who may have had little awareness of Mesopotamia's great contributions to human civilization, of just what a legacy Iraq is trying to safeguard, and just how costly the events of the past ten years have been to the heritage shared by us all."--D.T. Potts, Ancient West and EastTable of ContentsIllustrations ix Preface xi CHAPTER 1: IN THE BEGINNING Of Tigris and Euphrates 1 The First Villages 7 From the Foothills to the Plains 12 CHAPTER 2: THE BIRTHPLACE OF CIVILIZATION The First Cities 15 From City to State 27 Sumerians Abroad 29 Setting Words on Clay 30 The Uruk Phenomenon 33 CHAPTER 3: EARLY CITY-STATES New Polities 35 Ur and the Royal Graves 36 When Kingship Came down from Heaven 39 Shuruppak, City of Wisdom 40 A Tale of Two Cities 42 CHAPTER 4: KINGS OF THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE WORLD The First Empire 51 Naram-Sin: When Kingship Went up to Heaven 55 A Golden Age of Sumerian Culture 61 Management and Crisis 67 CHAPTER 5: THE AGE OF HAMMURABI The Amorites 71 Rim-Sin, King of Larsa 73 Shamshi-Adad, King of Upper Mesopotamia 74 Hammurabi, King of Babylon 76 Arts of the Table and Bedroom 81 The Epic of Gilgamesh 83 The End of Amorite Rule 85 CHAPTER 6: BABYLONIA IN THE FAMILY OF NATIONS The Kassites 87 Kassite Statecraft and Society 90 The Club of Great Powers 93 Science and Literature 94 The Hurrians 99 The End of Kassite Rule 100 CHAPTER 7: THE ASSYRIAN ACHIEVEMENT The Rise of Assur 105 The Middle Assyrian Empire 109 The Neo-Assyrian Empire 113 Assurnasirpal II and Nimrud 115 Sennacherib and Nineveh 119 The Library of Assurbanipal 123 The Fall of Assyria 126 CHAPTER 8: THE GLORY OF BABYLON The Last Babylonian Empire 129 Nabonidus, King of Babylon 132 Learning and Memory in Babylonia 134 Works and Days 140 The Persian Empire 142 CHAPTER 9: MESOPOTAMIA BETWEEN TWO WORLDS Alexander the Great and the Seleucids 147 Antiochus I Soter, King of Asia 149 The Realm and Its Economy 152 The Culture of Hellenistic Babylonia 154 The Rise of Parthia 156 Mithridates I and the Reunification of Iraq 158 Parthian Iraq 160 Roman Armies in Iraq 164 The End of Mesopotamian Civilization 166 CHAPTER 10: SASSANIAN IRAQ The Sassanian Empire and Religious Pluralism 168 By the Waters of Babylon: Judaism in Iraq 173 Christianity in Iraq 176 Sassanian Society, Statecraft, and Economy 178 Arab Settlement in Iraq 180 Sassanian Art 182 Shapur I and Shapur II 184 The Sassanians and Byzantium 187 Prelude to Conquest 189 EPILOGUE: Discovery and Destruction of Ancient Iraq Exploration and Decipherment 191 Archaeology Past and Present 198 The Nation of Iraq and Cultural Heritage 201 The Gulf War and Cultural Destruction 205 The Iraq War and Cultural Devastation 206 Notes 211 Bibliography 231 Index 283

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Book SynopsisIt is impossible to understand Palestine today without a careful reading of its distant and past. This book offers a detailed interpretation of this critical region's evolution. Starting with the prebiblical and biblical roots of Palestine, it examines the meanings ascribed to the land in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions.Trade ReviewGudrun Kramer, Winner of the 2010 Gerda Henkel Prize, Gerda Henkel Foundation "The 400 years before the founding of the Jewish state is a historiographical minefield, but Kramer, a professor of Islamic studies at Free University Berlin, manages to produce an illuminating survey of the terrain...Kramer's fluent narrative pairs a much-needed focus on facts--including useful data on contentious issues of population growth and land ownership--with an evenhanded avoidance of partisanship."--Publishers Weekly "We tend not to notice that Palestine existed as a territory before there was an Israel, and before there was a Palestinian national movement. Kramer, professor of Islamic studies at Free University Berlin, goes back to early 19th-century Egyptian rule, and then to the modernization undertaken by the Ottoman Empire, to situate the present in its historical context."--Martin Levin, The Globe and Mail "An excellent source for those desiring an understanding of the background to the present-day unrest in the region."--L. Edward Sizemore, Dallas Morning News "[Kramer] brilliantly contextualizes Arab anti-Semitism by investigating how, for the Palestinian population, the borders between Jew and Zionist gradually became blurred. By making a series of similar investigations, tracing all the defining points of the conflict, she has been able to write a book that stands out as necessary background reading for all scholars intent on investigating the current situation in Palestine."--Jorgen Jensehaugen, Journal of Peace Research "This is a welcome addition to the growing number of studies on this increasingly popular field, and the book will be of much use to those teaching classes on Middle Eastern history, the history of the Ottoman Empire and Israel Studies. It will also prove useful in seminars on the construction of historical narratives, the connection between religion and nationalism, and processes of decolonialization."--Scott Ury, Religious Studies Review "Kramer's is a well-researched and thoroughly referenced work of synthesis offered by a cautious and reflective historian... A History of Palestine is a respectable addition to the synthetic literature in the field. For the non-specialist reader, the book offers a good introduction to the social, political, cultural, and economic history of Palestine and a wealth of statistical information. For specialists, the book is a further reminder of the challenges posed by colonial history and to the importance, in the twenty-first century, of including the voices of the indigenous peoples as well as the colonists."--Abdel Razzaq Takriti, English Historical Review "[T]his is the first serious biography of the mufti to appear in 14 years and only the fourth ever to appear in English. The authors should be encouraged to greatly expand their research for a much larger second edition. The first edition is already valuable for the dark tale it tells."--Marin Sieff, Sunday Times "Gudrun Kramer's book, although its name is not attractive, is a very interesting, well written book, which can enrich even those who know the history of Palestine. For those who will use it as a first book on Palestine, it is a good starting place."--Gideon Biger, Shofar "For anyone seriously interested in the century-old Arab/Jewish struggle for the land they both call holy, you must get acquainted with Gudrun Kramer's A History of Palestine. A professor of Islamic studies at Free University of Berlin, she presents an exhaustive overview of the country's past from the Ottoman conquest to the creation of Israel, albeit with a subtle Arabist slant."--Tim Boxer, 15 Minutes Magazine "[T]his is a comprehensive and readable account which should be useful to both students and scholars. Kramer's insistence on confronting the historiographical dominance of 1882 is a valuable intervention, and her long view of the past gives today's conflict the wider historical context that too many commentators choose to overlook."--Anna Bernard, Modernism/modernityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii List of Tables ix Preface xi Abbreviations xiii CHAPTER ONE: Names and Borders 1 CHAPTER TWO: The Holiness of the "Holy Land" 18 CHAPTER THREE: Contrasts: Palestine, 1750-1840 37 CHAPTER FOUR: The Age of Reform, 1840-1914 71 CHAPTER FIVE: Evolving Nationalisms: Zionism and Arabism, 1880-1914 101 CHAPTER SIX: "A Land without a People for a People without a Land"? Population, Settlement, and Cultivation, 1800-1914 128 CHAPTER SEVEN: World War I and the British Mandate 139 CHAPTER EIGHT: Double Standard, or Dual Obligation 164 CHAPTER NINE: "Two Peoples in One Land" 188 CHAPTER TEN: The Mufti and the Wailing Wall 216 CHAPTER ELEVEN: From Unrest to Uprising 238 CHAPTER TWELVE: The Arab Uprising, 1936-39 264 CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Triumph and Catastrophe: From World War II to the State of Israel 296 Bibliography 325 Index 343

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Book SynopsisNews media strongly influence how we picture public affairs across the world, playing a significant and sometimes controversial role in determining which topics are at the centre of public attention and action. Setting the Agenda, first published in 2004, has become the go-to textbook on this crucial topic. In this timely third edition, Maxwell McCombs – a pioneer of agenda-setting research – and Sebastián Valenzuela – a senior scholar of agenda setting in Latin America – have expanded and updated the book for a new generation of students. In describing the media's influence on what we think about and how we think about it, Setting the Agenda also examines the sources of media agendas, the psychological explanation for their impact on the public agenda, and their consequences for attitudes, opinions and behaviours. New to this edition is a discussion of agenda setting in the widened media landscape, including a full chapter on network agenda setting and a lengthened presentation on agenda melding. The book also contains expanded material on social media and the role of agenda setting beyond the realm of public affairs, as well as a foreword from Donald L. Shaw and David H. Weaver, the co-founders of agenda-setting theory. This exciting new edition is an invaluable source for students of media, communications and politics, as well as those interested in the role of news in shaping and directing public opinion.Trade Review"In many countries, professional journalism is in crisis, undermined by a perfect storm of collapsing business models and political attacks on its authority to speak the truth. Reese shows how institutional power matters deeply for journalism's crucial public role, but he goes further, by showing how such power now depends upon assemblages of actors far beyond the traditional newsroom. A fresh and exciting account that takes the field in new directions."—Andrew Chadwick, Loughborough University "Reese delivers an insightful analysis of the crisis of the modern press, and shows how journalism is reinventing itself in these challenging times for democracy."—W. Lance Bennett, University of Washington "Agenda setting remains the core theoretical foundation of political communication research. McCombs and Valenzuela's new edition of Setting the Agenda should be considered a canonical text for the field. All students of political communication need to consume this valuable and approachable overview of the theory's central tenets."—R. Lance Holbert, Temple University "To explore and understand how traditional and new media influence the public opinion process, theory-driven approaches are greatly needed. Agenda-setting theory, as McCombs and Valenzuela’s book demonstrates, has been and still is an excellent guide for scholars pursuing this problem."—Toshio Takeshita, Meiji University "Setting the Agenda: Mass Media and Public Opinion, since its first edition was printed in 2004, has become one of the most important textbooks on agenda-setting research.... This book contains clear theoretical frameworks, introduces diversified research methods to test media effects, and conveys interesting discussions on the applications of agenda setting in a variety of contexts.... This groundbreaking work is the best choice for students in the fields of communications, media, journalism, or politics."—International Journal of Communication

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Book SynopsisNews media strongly influence how we picture public affairs across the world, playing a significant and sometimes controversial role in determining which topics are at the centre of public attention and action. Setting the Agenda, first published in 2004, has become the go-to textbook on this crucial topic. In this timely third edition, Maxwell McCombs – a pioneer of agenda-setting research – and Sebastián Valenzuela – a senior scholar of agenda setting in Latin America – have expanded and updated the book for a new generation of students. In describing the media's influence on what we think about and how we think about it, Setting the Agenda also examines the sources of media agendas, the psychological explanation for their impact on the public agenda, and their consequences for attitudes, opinions and behaviours. New to this edition is a discussion of agenda setting in the widened media landscape, including a full chapter on network agenda setting and a lengthened presentation on agenda melding. The book also contains expanded material on social media and the role of agenda setting beyond the realm of public affairs, as well as a foreword from Donald L. Shaw and David H. Weaver, the co-founders of agenda-setting theory. This exciting new edition is an invaluable source for students of media, communications and politics, as well as those interested in the role of news in shaping and directing public opinion.Trade Review"In many countries, professional journalism is in crisis, undermined by a perfect storm of collapsing business models and political attacks on its authority to speak the truth. Reese shows how institutional power matters deeply for journalism's crucial public role, but he goes further, by showing how such power now depends upon assemblages of actors far beyond the traditional newsroom. A fresh and exciting account that takes the field in new directions."—Andrew Chadwick, Loughborough University "Reese delivers an insightful analysis of the crisis of the modern press, and shows how journalism is reinventing itself in these challenging times for democracy."—W. Lance Bennett, University of Washington "Agenda setting remains the core theoretical foundation of political communication research. McCombs and Valenzuela's new edition of Setting the Agenda should be considered a canonical text for the field. All students of political communication need to consume this valuable and approachable overview of the theory's central tenets."—R. Lance Holbert, Temple University "To explore and understand how traditional and new media influence the public opinion process, theory-driven approaches are greatly needed. Agenda-setting theory, as McCombs and Valenzuela’s book demonstrates, has been and still is an excellent guide for scholars pursuing this problem."—Toshio Takeshita, Meiji University "Setting the Agenda: Mass Media and Public Opinion, since its first edition was printed in 2004, has become one of the most important textbooks on agenda-setting research.... This book contains clear theoretical frameworks, introduces diversified research methods to test media effects, and conveys interesting discussions on the applications of agenda setting in a variety of contexts.... This groundbreaking work is the best choice for students in the fields of communications, media, journalism, or politics."—International Journal of Communication

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Book SynopsisFor years now, academics worldwide have been pushing for more interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. Yet for all that, the very concept of transdisciplinarity has proved remarkably tough to define, let alone to enact. This book brings together prominent voices from the debate on transdisciplinarity in a manner that is itself transdisciplinary: scholars present papers from their own discipline, and those are followed by critical replies from different disciplines. The result is a vivid debate, new insights, and a growing confidence that there is something to be gained by approaching a topic from the outside and bringing new approaches to bear.Trade Review"There are concepts that are suffering from their own success. What had once been the label of a productively irritating idea might represent now something that has turned to be part of the usual agenda. 'Sustainability' is one example.'Transdisciplinarity' another. Hence, it is not an easy task, first, not to come too late to reconsidering this concept; second, to achieve to say something new; and, third, to combine structure and content: writing on transdisciplinarity in a transdisciplinary way. This volume is meeting this three-fold task--with a highly prominent line-up, truly new perspectives on still pertinent challenges, and a very well designed structure of seminal papers and equally programmatic replies."--Michael Lineal, Hebrew University

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Book SynopsisAn extradisciplinary investigation into the radical potentials of design by the global Memefest network. This book is an investigation of the key aspects of capitalist domination and resistance to it through design; its five sections explore dialogue, power, land, interventions, and radical praxis. Vodeb’s curated chapters engage radical intimacies with design and connects it with media, communication, and art. Radical intimacies imply a closeness to the world created through our relations, which work towards the decolonization of knowledge and the public sphere. The closeness is political as it involves qualities that constitute and enable an alternative and opposition to extractive relationalities imposed by capitalism. Radical Intimacies connects frameworks on (de)colonization with the work of Memefest, a global network of people interested in social change through radical design. Bringing together original written and visual contributions from around the world, the collection connects universities, practitioners, and social movements. This book explores design as a central domain of thought and action concerned with the meaning and production of sociocultural life. Contributors are interested in design that operates outside the dominant social orders, narrow disciplines and extractive paradigms and imagines and builds new worlds and social relations. An inter/ extradisciplinary collection of original works, the audience will be academics, artists, designers and activists and adventurous professionals who are interested in the crossovers between design, arts, and social change. Students of design, art, media, and communication interested in social change. Higher level undergraduate and graduate students. Content warning: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders are advised that the following publication contains the words & images of deceased persons.Trade Review'A diverse collection of chapters ranging from the descriptive and matter-of-fact to the personal and anecdotal, thought-provoking interviews to captivating scholarly writings, Radical Intimacies is essential reading for academics, artists and activists interested in the crossover between design, arts and social change.' -- Stephen Duncombe, New York University'Maybe we can think about power, and ‘designing with’ as opposed to ‘designing for,’ and designing with in contexts of power, and designing with in terms of maintaining and healing and mending and repairing the web of relations that make up the bodies, places, landscapes, and communities in which we live, that we are and inhabit, that we are destroying right and left.' -- Arturo Escobar, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA'So particularly, with the onslaught of climate change coming it does surprise me. I’m just like, why are we not more openly dissenting to what’s happening? Because it’s going to destroy everything, and we should be defending it with everything we have.' -- Kyle Magee, anti-advertising activist, MelbourneTable of ContentsINTRO Radical Intimacies: Designing Non-Extractive Relationalities OLIVER VODEB TxTS/ ONE The Onto-epistemic Politics of Participatory Design OLIVER VODEB AND ARTURO ESCOBAR Dialogue, Intimacy, and Memefest GEORGE PETELIN How to Participate in the Public Sphere KYLE MAGEE AND OLIVER VODEB TWO Designing Facts: Assembling Survivors, Satellite Data, and Interfaces in the Case Against NATO in the Mediterranean Sea PATRICIO DÁVILA The Emancipatory Design of Suffering: Design, Work, and Radical Intimacy in the Experience of Suff ering MARIANO MUSSI Capitalism’s Addictions: Design and the Displacement of Intimacy DANIEL MARCUS AND OLIVER VODEB THREE Black Land and Food Sovereignty Praxis: Humanizing and Restoring Intimacies between Land, Food, Culture, and Black People ERIC JACKSON Seeing Country: Decolonization, Timeless Intimacies, and an Escape from the Tyranny of the Dead Man’s Vision SAM BURCH Seed Balls as Method ILARIA VANNI AND ALExANDRA CROSBY FOUR Design Research as Radical Social Practice OLIVER VODEB Intimacy as Infrastructure: Anecdotes on graphic Design and Friendship KEVIN YUEN KIT LO Viral Love KEELY MACAROW What’s in a Name? SnackArt and The Ekphrastic Agency JANE NAYLOR Design is Not Enough TONY CREDLAND, SANDY KALTENBORN, AND BRIAN HOLMES FIVE Curated Visual Works from the Memefest Radical Intimacies Friendly Competition CURATED BY OLIVER VODEB I have NOT Read and Agreed to the Terms of Use CLEBER RAFAEL DE CAMPOS Chain of Poverty SHEHAB UDDIN Playing Nice in the Workplace THERESA MOSO Don’t Let Them Bring You Down ELA ALISPAHIC Memeorial Browser Extension ADAM SULZDORF-LISZKIEWICZ, LUCAS MILLER, AND LIEUTENANT JOHN PIKE Seed Broadcast JEANETTE HART-MANN AND CHRISSIE ORR QUEST NOULA DIAMANTOPOULOS In the Hammock KATHARINAJEJ Sponsor a Wealthy Child JULIEN BOISVERT Sit-In TUCKER MCLACHLAN Memefest Radical Intimacies Extradisciplinary Action Research Results CURATED BY OLIVER VODEB Notes on Contributors Index Acknowlegments

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Book SynopsisThis collection highlights the contributions of women writers, editors and critics to periodical culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Book Synopsis1 Geological History.- 2 The Pre-Cambrian Era.- 3 The Lower Palaeozoic Geosyncline.- 4 The Caledonian Mountain-building.- 5 Devonian Environments.- 6 The Lower Carboniferous Marine Transgression.- 7 The Upper Carboniferous Deltas and Coal Swamps.- 8 The Armorican Mountain-building.- 9 The Permo-Triassic Desert Environment.- 10 The Fluctuating Shelf-seas of the Jurassic.- 11 The Cretaceous Marine Transgression.- 12 Tertiary Cycles of Sedimentation and Igneous Activity.- 13 The Alpine Mountain-Building and the Later Tertiary.- 14 The Quaternary Glaciations.Table of Contents1 Geological History.- 2 The Pre-Cambrian Era.- 3 The Lower Palaeozoic Geosyncline.- 4 The Caledonian Mountain-building.- 5 Devonian Environments.- 6 The Lower Carboniferous Marine Transgression.- 7 The Upper Carboniferous Deltas and Coal Swamps.- 8 The Armorican Mountain-building.- 9 The Permo-Triassic Desert Environment.- 10 The Fluctuating Shelf-seas of the Jurassic.- 11 The Cretaceous Marine Transgression.- 12 Tertiary Cycles of Sedimentation and Igneous Activity.- 13 The Alpine Mountain-Building and the Later Tertiary.- 14 The Quaternary Glaciations.

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Book SynopsisA New York Times Bestseller, with an updated explanation of the 2010 Health Reform BillImportant and powerful . . . a rich tour of health care around the world. —Nicholas Kristof, The New York TimesBringing to bear his talent for explaining complex issues in a clear, engaging way, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid visits industrialized democracies around the world--France, Britain, Germany, Japan, and beyond--to provide a revelatory tour of successful, affordable universal health care systems. Now updated with new statistics and a plain-English explanation of the 2010 health care reform bill, The Healing of America is required reading for all those hoping to understand the state of health care in our country, and around the world.T. R. Reid''s latest book, A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System, is also available from Penguin Press.

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Book SynopsisDesigned to introduce students to key concepts and methods in sociology and to engage them in critical thinking, Ten Lessons in Introductory Sociology provides a brief and valuable overview to four major questions that guide the discipline: Why sociology?, What unites us?, What divides us?, and How do societies change?

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Book SynopsisThis is the first collection of essays to focus on feminist philosophy of mind. It brings the theoretical insights from feminist philosophy to issues in philosophy of mind and vice versa. Feminist Philosophy of Mind thus promises to challenge and inform dominant theories in both of its parent fields, thereby enlarging their rigor, scope, and implications. In addition to engaging analytic and feminist philosophical traditions, essays draw upon resources in phenomenology, cross-cultural philosophy, philosophy of race, disability studies, embodied cognition theory, neuroscience, and psychology.The book''s methods center on the collective consideration of three questions: What is the mind? Whose mind is the model for the theory? To whom is mind attributed? Topics considered with this lens include mental content, artificial intelligence, the first-person perspective, personal identity, other minds, mental illness, perception, memory, attention, desire, trauma, agency, empathy, grief, love, gender, race, sexual orientation, materialism, panpsychism, enactivism, and others.Each of the book''s twenty chapters are organized according to five core themes: Mind and Gender&Race&; Self and Selves; Naturalism and Normativity; Body and Mind; and Memory and Emotion. The introduction traces the development of these themes with reference to the respective literatures in feminist philosophy and philosophy of mind. This context not only helps the reader see how the essays fit into existing disciplinary landscapes, but also facilitates their use in teaching. Feminist Philosophy of Mind is designed to be used as a core text for courses in contemporary disciplines, and as a supplemental text that facilitates the ready integration of diverse perspectives and women''s voices.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction What Is Feminist Philosophy of Mind? Jennifer McWeeny and Keya Maitra I. Mind and Gender&Race& 1. Is the First-Person Perspective Gendered? Lynne Rudder Baker 2. Computing Machinery and Sexual Difference: The Sexed Presuppositions Underlying the Turing Test Amy Kind 3. Toward a Feminist Theory of Mental Content Keya Maitra 4. Disappearing Black People through Failures of White Empathy Janine Jones II. Self and Selves 5. Playfulness, "World"-Traveling, and Loving Perception María Lugones 6. Symptoms in Particular: Feminism and the Disordered Mind Jennifer Radden 7. Passivity in Theories of the Agentic Self: Reflections on the Views of Soran Reader and Sarah Buss Diana Tietjens Meyers 8. The Question of Personal Identity Susan James III. Naturalism and Normativity 9. Sexual Ideology and Phenomenological Description: A Feminist Critique of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception Judith Butler 10. Enactivism and Gender Performativity Ashby Butnor and Matthew MacKenzie 11. Norms and Neuroscience: The Case of Borderline Personality Disorder Anne J. Jacobson 12. Embodiments of Sex and Gender: The Metaphors of Speaking Surfaces Gabrielle Benette Jackson IV. Body and Mind 13. Against Physicalism Naomi Scheman 14. Why Feminists Should Be Materialists and Vice Versa Paula Droege 15. Which Bodies Have Minds? Feminism, Panpsychism, and the Attribution Question Jennifer McWeeny 16. Sexual Orientations: The Desire View E. Díaz-León V. Memory and Emotion 17. Outliving Oneself: Trauma, Memory, and Personal Identity Susan J. Brison 18. Does Neutral Monism Provide the Best Framework for Relational Memory? Iva Apostolova 19. The Odd Case of a Bird-Mother: Relational Selfhood and a "Method of Grief" Vrinda Dalmiya 20. Equanimity and the Loving Eye: A Buddhist-Feminist Account of Loving Attention Emily McRae Contributor Biographies Index

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Book SynopsisVolume 124 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 19 obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy.Table of ContentsGerald Edward Aylmer, 1926-2000 ; William Spencer Barrett, 1914-2001 ; Charles Frederick Carter, 1919-2002 ; John Erickson, 1929-2002 ; Raymond William Firth, 1901-2002 ; Hrothgar John Habakkuk, 1915-2002 ; Richard Mervyn Hare, 1919-2002 ; Geoffrey Stephen Kirk, 1921-2003 ; Vivien Anne Law, 1954-2002 ; John Lough, 1913-2000 ; Ian Dalrymple McFarlane, 1915-2002 ; David Neil MacKenzie, 1926-2001 ; John Kieran Barry Moylan Nicholas, 1919-2002 ; Dimitri Dimitrievich Obolensky, 1918-2001 ; John Harold Plumb, 1911-2001 ; Nicolai Rubinstein, 1911-2002 ; John Michael Wallace-Hadrill, 1916-1985 ; William Smith Watt, 1913-2002 ; Richard Bruce Wernham, 1906-1999

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Book SynopsisVolume 125 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 15 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2003.Table of ContentsThinking in Threes: The Triad in Early Irish Literature ; Charity and Usury: Jewish and Christian Lending in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy ; The Crescent and the City of the Sun: Islam and the Renaissance Utopia of Tommaso Campanella ; The Foundations of Shakespeare's Text ; The Re-Description of Enlightenment ; Michael Drayton and the Burden of History ; Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator? ; Revenants and Migrants: Hardy, Butler, Woolf and Sebald ; Scholarship and the Musical: Reclaiming Jerome Kern ; The Rule of Law in International Affairs ; 'The Nation Within': British India at War 1939-47 ; Economics for Consumer Policy ; The Geography of Descent ; Working Memory and Learning During the School Years ; Carving Stone Sutras before the World Ends: The Inscription of 1118 CE at Cloud Dwelling Monastery near Beijing

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Book SynopsisThe topical issues debated in this volume include the patenting of AIDS drugs, the future pensions crisis, Britain's universities, and Pan-Islam.There are studies of Shakespeare, Pope, Montaigne, Robert Graves, and William Faulkner. And there are lectures on the Inquisition, empires in history, and the journey towards spiritual fulfilment.Table of ContentsRobert Graves and The White Goddess ; Authority and Intertextuality in the Works of Aelfric ; Barnardine's Straw: The Devil in Shakespeare's Detail ; Dulness and Pope ; Montaigne ; The Future of Our Universities ; The Inquisition and the Renaissance ; The Prehistory of Chinese Music Theory ; Patents and Public Health: Principle, Politics and Paradox ; What Fates Impose: Facing Up to Uncertainty ; Empire, History and the Contemporary Global Order ; Archaeology in Mesopotamia: Digging Deeper at Tell Brak ; The New Political Economy ; 'They Worship Death Here': William Faulkner, Sanctuary and Hollywood ; Nomad's Progress ; Imagining Pan-Islam: Religious Activism and Political Utopias

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Book SynopsisVolume 139 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 13 Lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2005. Topics range from archaeological perspectives on the essence of being human to discussions of the UK's Monetary Policy Committee and the role of judges.Table of ContentsPractical Issues in UK Monetary Policy, 2000-2005 ; Staging Matters: Shakespeare, the Director, and the Theatre Historian ; The Judges: Active or Passive? ; Useful Knowledge ; Byron, Conversation and Discord ; Mutualities and Obligations: Changing Social Relationships in Early Modern England ; Dante's Epistle to Cangrande and its Two Authors ; Becoming Human: the Archaeological Challenge ; The Inscribed Bronzes from Yangjiacun: New Evidence on Social Structure and Historical Consciousness in Late Western Zhou China (c. 800 BC) ; Everyman in Motion: from Bosch to Bruegel ; Abstracts and Notes on Lectures

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Book SynopsisTudor Networks of Power is the product of a groundbreaking collaboration between an early modern book historian and a physicist specializing in complex networks. Together they have reconstructed and computationally analysed the networks of intelligence, diplomacy, and political influence across a century of Tudor history (1509-1603), based on the British State Papers.The 130,000 letters that survive in the State Papers from the Tudor period provide crucial information about the textual organization of the social network centred on the Tudor government. Whole libraries have been written using this archive, but until now nobody has had access to the macroscopic tools that allow us to ask questions such as: What are the reasons for the structure of the Tudor government''s intelligence network? What was it geographical reach and coverage? Can we use network data to show patterns of surveillance? What role did women play in these government networks? And what biases are there in the data? TTable of ContentsForeword Part I: Groundwork 1: Tudor Letters in the Digital Age 2: The Shape of the Archive Part II: Structure 3: Betweenness 4: Network Profiles and 'Intelligence Producers' 5: Surveillance Measures 6: Women: Petitioning, Power, and Mediation Part III: Movement 7: Information Flow 8: Itineraries Afterword

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Mats Alvesson aims to demystify some popular and upbeat claims about a range of phenomena, including the knowledge society, consumption, branding, higher education, organizational change, professionalization, and leadership. He contends that a culture of grandiosity is leading to numerous inflated claims. We no longer talk about plans but strategies. Supervisors have been replaced by managers. Goods have become brands. Wealthy countries try to show that they are knowledge societies through mass higher education but with limited effect on real qualifications or qualified job opportunities for graduates. The book views the contemporary economy as an economy of persuasion, where firms and other institutions increasingly assign talent, energy, and resources to rhetoric, image, branding, reputation, and visibility.Using a wide range of empirical examples to illuminate the realms of consumption, higher education, organization, and leadership, this provocative and engaging book Trade ReviewAlvesson finds grandiosity at work behind an array of disconcerting phenomena, from a narcissistic socialmedia culture, to a hyper-adrenalised yet helplessly inane 24-hour news media cycle, to the explosion of public-relations firms and branding efforts. * Ross A. Mittiga, Political Studies Review *an engaging read that bravely tackles higher education orthodoxies * Joanna Williams, The Times Higher Education Supplement *This is a well-written, powerful book that makes you think and reflect about some of the key issues of our time. You couldnt ask for more. * Cary Cooper, Times Higher Education *The Triumph of Emptiness pulls back the proverbial curtain on our current society to reveal the empty truth behind our illusions of grandeur. Mats Alvesson leads us on a critical, smart, and often amusing romp through a world in which everything is excellent, advice is known as coaching, and vice presidents are a dime a dozen. He shows the increasing gap between reality and fantasy, need and want, and product production and the illusions necessary to sell them. Higher education is not immune to these trends, with ideas of college for all and the pronounced dumbing-down of university study. If you are interested in the strange paradox in rich societies of how we can have so much but not be any happier, read this book. * Jean M. Twenge, author of Generation Me and co-author of The Narcissism Epidemic *The Triumph of Emptiness is a provocative, insightful, and highly ambitious (even grandiose) indictment of consumption, work, and the organizations in which it occurs, as well as higher education. They are all critiqued for their grandiosity, inflated and distorted images, and mindless competitiveness. This is an uncompromising work that is likely to both enlighten and infuriate the reader. * George Ritzer, Distinguished University Professor, the University of Maryland *In The Triumph of Emptiness Mats Alvesson demonstrates the considerable value of critical theory for understanding everyday life in contemporary Western societies. Refreshingly astute as regards our current state of institutional being, this book is engagingly written and well-grounded in the best critical thought has to offer. Alvesson has once again accomplished what he does so wellthink a vital subject through with wit and insight. * Mary Jo Hatch, author of Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic and Postmodern Perspectives *The author, a leading management scholar and a major sociological thinker, punctures the grandiosity and narcissism of our times when we succumb to the illusions that image, hype, and empty talk create value, when everyone must claim to be cutting edge and a world leader. Alvesson succeeds brilliantly in demonstrating that behind such grandiosity lurks an emptiness of meaning, of value, and of imagination. His powerful critical discussions of modern consumption, higher education, professionalism, and leadership insinuate that our current malaise goes far deeper than the economic crisis in which we find ourselves. This is a book that breaks loose of the management publication ghetto and demands to be read by everyone. * Yiannis Gabriel, Chair in Organizational Theory, University of Bath *most delightful book * Thomas Kilkauner, Organizational Change Management *Table of Contents1. Introduction - Zero-Sum Games, Grandiosity, and Illusion Tricks ; 2. Consumption - the Shortcomings of Affluence ; 3. Explaining the Consumption Paradox: Why aren't People (More) Satisfied? ; 4. Higher Education - Triumph of the Knowledge Intensive Society or a Statistical Cosmetics Project? ; 5. Higher Education - an Image-Boosting Business? ; 6. Modern Working Life and Organizations - Change, Dynamism, and Post-Bureaucracy? ; 7. Organizational Structures on the Beauty Parade: Imitation and Shop-Window Dressing ; 8. A Place in the Sun - Occupational Groups' Professionalization Projects and Other Status and Influence Ambitions ; 9. Leadership - A Driving Force or Empty Talk ; 10. 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Book Synopsis1 Concepts in analytical chemistry.- 2 Classical and rapid methods of analysis.- 3 Optical spectrometry: principles and instrumentation.- 4 Atomic absorption spectrometry.- 5 Inductively coupled plasmaatomic emission spectrometry.- 6 Arc and spark source optical emission spectrometry.- 7 Ion-selective electrodes.- 8 X-ray fluorescence analysis: principles and practice of wavelength dispersive spectrometry.- 9 Energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry.- 10 Electron probe microanalysis.- 11 Other microbeam and surface analysis techniques.- 12 Neutron activation analysis.- 13 Nuclear techniques for the determination of uranium and thorium and their decay products.- 14 Ion exchange preconcentration procedures.- 15 Gold and platinum group element analysis.- 16 Mass spectrometry: principles and instrumentation.- 17 Thermal ionization mass spectrometry.- 18 Gas source mass spectrometry.- 19 Spark source mass spectrometry.- 20 Inductively coupled plasmamass spectrometry.- References.Table of Contents1 Concepts in analytical chemistry.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Terms and definitions in analytical chemistry.- 1.3 Units of measurement: the international system (SI) of units.- 1.4 Statistics.- 1.5 Detection limits.- 1.6 Sampling strategies: inhomogeneity effects.- 1.7 Contamination effects.- 1.8 Reporting analytical data.- 1.9 Standard additions calibrations.- 1.10 Rock reference materials.- 1.11 Which technique for which element?.- 2 Classical and rapid methods of analysis.- 2.1 Rock dissolution techniques: acid attack.- 2.2 Rock dissolution procedures: fusion with alkali salts.- 2.3 Classical methods of rock analysis.- 2.4 Evolution of rapid methods of analysis.- 2.5 Photometry.- 2.6 Flame photometry.- 2.7 Titrations involving ethylenediaminetetra-acetic acid (EDTA).- 2.8 A rapid scheme of analysis.- 2.9 Determination of ferrous iron.- 2.10 The determination of water and carbon dioxide.- 2.11 The auto-analyser.- 3 Optical spectrometry: principles and instrumentation.- 3.1 Principles.- 3.2 The nature of light.- 3.3 Atomic spectroscopy.- 3.4 The electronic structure of atoms: quantum theory.- 3.5 Spectroscopic notation for electron orbital configurations: the Russell-Saunders coupling scheme.- 3.6 The absorption of light.- 3.7 The emission of light.- 3.8 Instrumentation for optical spectroscopy.- 3.9 Monochromator.- 3.10 Optical filters.- 3.11 Slits.- 3.12 Photon detectors.- 3.13 Classical monochromator designs.- 3.14 Stray light effects.- 3.15 Errors in spectrometric measurements.- 4 Atomic absorption spectrometry.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Instrumentation.- 4.3 Properties of flames.- 4.4 Flame chemistry and atomization interferences in the flame: atomization processes in the flame.- 4.5 Instrumental and spectral interferences.- 4.6 Instrument optimization for routine analysis.- 4.7 Schemes of analysis using flame atomic absorption.- 4.8 Interference suppression.- 4.9 Detection limits.- 4.10 Routine performance.- 4.11 Electrothermal atomization.- 4.12 Atomization in the hollow graphite furnace.- 4.13 Background correction.- 4.14 Geological applications of furnace AAS.- 4.15 Cold vapour and hydride generators.- 4.16 Solid sampling and novel atomization devices.- 5 Inductively coupled plasma—atomic emission spectrometry.- 5.1 Historic development and analytical capabilities.- 5.2 The inductively coupled argon plasma.- 5.3 Nebulizers and spray chambers.- 5.4 Physical structure of the plasma.- 5.5 Temperature distribution in the plasma.- 5.6 Atomization and excitation processes.- 5.7 Interferences in the argon plasma.- 5.8 Measurement and analysis of emission spectra.- 5.9 Some instrument considerations—simultaneous ?. sequential monochromators.- 5.10 Optimizing operating parameters.- 5.11 Calibrations for ICP—AES.- 5.12 Silicate rock analysis.- 5.13 Direct current plasma—optical emission spectrometry.- 6 Arc and spark source optical emission spectrometry.- 6.1 Historical perspective.- 6.2 Instrumentation.- 6.3 Sample preparation.- 6.4 Behaviour of elements in an arc discharge.- 6.5 Simultaneous multi-element analysis.- 6.6 Conclusions.- 7 Ion-selective electrodes.- 7.1 Analytical perspective.- 7.2 Instrumentation.- 7.3 The Nernst equation.- 7.4 Interference effects: non-ideal Nernst behaviour.- 7.5 Schemes for the analysis of geological samples for fluorine.- 7.6 Determination of chlorine by ion-selective electrodes.- 7.7 Other techniques for the determination of chlorine and fluorine.- 8 X-ray fluorescence analysis: principles and practice of wavelength dispersive spectrometry.- 8.1 Analytical characteristics.- 8.2 Energy and wavelength of x-rays.- 8.3 The origin of x-ray spectra.- 8.4 Competing de-excitation routes.- 8.5 Excitation of x-ray spectra.- 8.6 Interaction of x-rays with matter.- 8.7 Matrix effects in geological samples.- 8.8 Mathematical procedures for the correction of absorption-enhancement effects.- 8.9 Instrumentation for wavelength dispersive XRF analysis.- 8.10 Experimental considerations.- 8.11 Routine operating conditions and statistical considerations.- 8.12 Performance in routine analysis.- 8.13 Concluding remarks.- 9 Energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry.- 9.1 The development of energy dispersive XRF.- 9.2 The Si(Li) detector.- 9.3 Detector configuration and characteristics.- 9.4 Pulse processing electronics.- 9.5 Interaction of x-rays with the silicon detector.- 9.6 Comparison of ED and WD spectrometers.- 9.7 Silicate rock analysis by ED-XRF using direct tube excitation.- 9.8 Spectrum analysis procedures.- 9.9 Routine analysis using direct tube excitation.- 9.10 Indirect excitation methods.- 9.11 Monochromatic polarized excitation using Bragg diffraction at 2?= 90°C.- 9.12 Radioisotope excitation.- 9.13 Total reflection of primary beam.- 9.14 Concluding remarks.- 10 Electron probe microanalysis.- 10.1 The development of microprobe techniques.- 10.2 Microbeam techniques.- 10.3 Instrumentation for the electron probe microanalyser.- 10.4 Electron column design.- 10.5 Vacuum requirements.- 10.6 Interactions between the electron beam and sample: the excited volume.- 10.7 Phenomena within the excited volume.- 10.8 X-ray production.- 10.9 Matrix correction procedures.- 10.10 X-ray spectrometers.- 10.11 Calibration and routine operation.- 10.12 Energy dispersive spectrometers.- 10.13 Sample preparation requirements.- 10.14 Microprobe mineral standards.- 10.15 Routine analytical performance.- 10.16 Analysis of non-silicate minerals: uranium, thorium and rare-earth elements.- 10.17 Bulk rock analysis by electron microprobe.- 10.18 The SEM as a microprobe.- 10.19 Concluding remarks.- 11 Other microbeam and surface analysis techniques.- 11.1 Introduction.- 11.2 The ion probe.- 11.3 The laser microprobe.- 11.4 Particle-induced x-ray emission (PIXE).- 11.5 Electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis (ESCA).- 11.6 Transmission electron microscopy: the chemical analysis of thin foils.- 12 Neutron activation analysis.- 12.1 Introduction.- 12.2 The growth and decay of radioactivity.- 12.3 Radioactive decay schemes.- 12.4 Instrumentation.- 12.5 Pulse-processing electronics.- 12.6 Interaction of gamma radiation with germanium detectors.- 12.7 Typical spectrum.- 12.8 Detector characteristics.- 12.9 Practical considerations—instrumental neutron activation.- 12.10 Determination of photopeak areas.- 12.11 Other analytical considerations.- 12.12 Interferences and systematic errors.- 12.13 Routine schemes of analysis.- 12.14 Chondrite normalized abundances.- 12.15 Epithermal ?. thermal irradiations.- 12.16 Short-lived isotopes.- 12.17 Radiochemical separation procedures.- 12.18 Prompt gamma neutron activation analysis.- 12.19 Concluding remarks.- 13 Nuclear techniques for the determination of uranium and thorium and their decay products.- 13.1 Techniques for uranium/thorium determination.- 13.2 The uranium—thorium decay chain.- 13.3 Delayed neutron fission activation analysis.- 13.4 Fission track analysis.- 13.5 Other autoradiography techniques for locating and analysing specific elements in thin section.- 13.6 Gamma spectrometry.- 13.7 Alpha spectrometry.- 13.8 Secular equilibrium with particular reference to uranium/thorium disequilibrium measurements.- 13.9 Uranium and thorium series disequilibrium.- 14 Ion exchange preconcentration procedures.- 14.1 Introduction.- 14.2 Ion exchange techniques.- 14.3 Characteristics of ion exchange resins.- 14.4 Some theoretical aspects of ion exchange.- 14.5 Optimizing column separations.- 14.6 Applications of ion exchange chromatography to rare-earth element separations.- 14.7 Chelating ion exchange resins.- 14.8 Other preconcentration procedures.- 15 Gold and platinum group element analysis.- 15.1 Introduction.- 15.2 Fire assay procedures.- 15.3 Acid extraction of noble metals.- 15.4 Other methods of noble metal analysis.- 15.5 Noble metal analysis-comparisons of data.- 15.6 A note on the distribution of noble metals.- 15.7 Graphical presentation of PGE data.- 16 Mass spectrometry: principles and instrumentation.- 16.1 Introduction.- 16.2 Mass spectrometric techniques in geology.- 16.3 The ion source.- 16.4 The mass analyser.- 16.5 Resolution.- 16.6 Double-focusing mass spectrometer.- 16.7 Quadrupole mass spectrometer.- 16.8 Ion detectors.- 16.9 Vacuum requirements.- 16.10 Abundance sensitivity.- 16.11 Beam switching ?. multiple collection.- 16.12 Isotopes and mass spectra: the structure of atoms and nuclear stability.- 16.13 Mass defect phenomena.- 16.14 Radioactive isotopes in nature.- 16.15 Geochronology.- 16.16 Geochronometers of geological importance.- 17 Thermal ionization mass spectrometry.- 17.1 Introduction.- 17.2 Ion production.- 17.3 Rubidium—strontium isotope analysis.- 17.4 Neodymium—samarium isotope analysis.- 17.5 Lead, uranium and thorium isotope analysis.- 17.6 Isotope dilution.- 18 Gas source mass spectrometry.- 18.1 Geological applications.- 18.2 Instrumentation.- 18.3 The delta convention for reporting isotope data.- 18.4 Hydrogen isotope analysis.- 18.5 Carbon isotope analysis.- 18.6 Nitrogen isotope analysis.- 18.7 Oxygen isotope analysis.- 18.8 Sulphur isotope analysis.- 18.9 Noble gas analysis.- 18.10 Potassium—argon geochronometry.- 19 Spark source mass spectrometry.- 19.1 Introduction.- 19.2 Instrumentation and ion production.- 19.3 Internal standardization.- 19.4 Routine data acquisition.- 19.5 Photoplate calibration and element sensitivities.- 19.6 Applications and results.- 19.7 Future developments.- 20 Inductively coupled plasma—mass spectrometry.- 20.1 Introduction.- 20.2 Development of ICP—MS instrumentation: the plasma—mass spectrometer interface.- 20.3 The inductively coupled plasma as ion source.- 20.4 ICP-mass spectrometry instrumentation.- 20.5 Performance and applications.- 20.6 Internal standardization.- 20.7 Isotope dilution.- References.

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Book SynopsisNow in its 148th edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world. Covering political, economic, social and cultural aspects, the Yearbook is also available online for subscribing institutions: www.statesmansyearbook.com.Trade Review'The most comprehensive guide to world political and economic affairs' - Robert Thomson, Publisher, Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal 'the most convenient and reliable starting point for information on international affairs. Its coverage is unparalleled for a one-volume resource, and it has never let me down' - George J. Mitchell, American special envoy to the Middle East 'A miracle of compression: the key facts about the entire world crisply collated in [its] tightly edited pages. It is an essential desktop guide for anyone who needs to think, write or talk about the nature and future of our unimaginably odd and constantly surprising planet' - Godfrey Smith, The Sunday Times 'All you need to know about the population of various states and countries, officials, exports, constitutions, governments, diplomatic representatives, religion, finance and basic histories' - The New York Times 'full of invaluable material about every country in the world. For someone like me who spends much of my time travelling, it is an invaluable treasure trove. I would warmly recommend it to other readers' - The Right Honourable Christopher F. Patten, CH, Chancellor of Oxford University 'should be in every office which is concerned with world trade and, indeed, in every school which produces the future traders. It is an essential tool of all global thinking' - Geographical Magazine Bestselling Reference title -- 'Originally designed for statesmen but now used by anyone needing information on the politics, cultures, and economies of the world, this yearbook is one of the longest-running annual publications in history' -- Library Journal 'The information this book contains renders it indispensible' - The New York Times, 1874Table of ContentsTime Zones Map Flags of the World/Map of the World (Colour Pull-out Section) Key World Facts Chronology of World Events Olympics Chronology PART I International Organizations PART II: COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD A-Z: Key Historical Events Territory and Population Social Statistics Climate Constitution and Government Government Chronology Recent Elections Current Administration Current Leaders Defence International Relations Economy Energy and Natural Resources Environment Industry International Trade Communications Social Institutions Culture Diplomatic Representatives Further Reading Abbreviations Place and International Organizations Index Index of Current Leaders

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Book SynopsisDrawn from decades of experience, this is a concise and highly practical guide to writing history. Aimed at all kinds of people who write history academic historians, public historians, professional historians, family historians and students of all levels the book includes a wide range of examples from many genres and styles.Trade Review'A really excellent book. It is written in a bright, informal style with some hard-and-fast rules balanced with advice, warning and very positive encouragement.' Alan Atkinson, author of The Europeans in Australia 'This witty little volume reveals the tricks and tips of the profession and recounts endearing anecdotes about the authors' own experiences as historians. A delightful read, this is also a seriously good advice manual. Refreshing, sensitive, thorough, here are two wise women who practise what they preach.' Philippa Levine, author of The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset 'Historians of all kinds, whether scholars, students or commercial authors, all share a wish to maximise their publics: this lively and practical primer will tell them how. Lucid, unpretentious and punchy, it is crammed with sage advice, shrewd criticism and dozens of samples of compelling history writing.' Iain McCalman, author of Darwin's ArmadaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Navigating History in the 21st century Which History to Tell? Who is your History for? Crying in the Archives History in 3D: Visual, Oral and Material Sources How to Avoid Writer's Block Once upon a Time: Beginnings and Endings Narrative, Plot, Action! Styling Pasts for Presents Character and Emotion Footnote Fetishism: Quotes and Notes Tough Love: Editing and Revising Epilogue: The After Party Marketing, Celebrating and Reviews Notes Index

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Book SynopsisList of Figures and Tables List of Permissions and Figure Sources Acknowledgements Introduction The Ever-changing Calendar A hero in a dark age The Forged Cloth of Turin The Pyramids and the Bear's Groin The Volcano that Shook Europe The Mandate from Heaven The Coming of the Ice The Lost Worlds And Then there was One The Hole in the Ground Towards the Limits of Time Epilogue: Time's up for Creationism Further Reading IndexTrade Review'A fabulous, entertainingly written account of the amazing science behind calendars, dates and dating objects. Essential reading for anyone interested in prehistory.' - Professor Tim Flannery, Director of the South Australian Museum 'A rollicking run through the story of telling the time - lively and well-researched, with many fascinating stories.' - Professor Michael Benton, author of When Life Nearly Died 'This delightful introduction successfully fuses history, prehistory and earth science. It captures the imagination from its first page, and then takes the reader on a fun and fact-filled world tour through the past.' - Professor Tim White, University of California at Berkeley, USA 'What I like best about the book: It's a scientist clearly explaining what he does for a living and why it is important, at a level that any literate person can understand. Not an easy accomplishment.' - scienceblogs.com/pharyngula 'Absorbing - will appeal to a wide audience, particularly those who got a kick out of Blink or Freakonomics.' - Publishers Weekly 'If you like detective stories, you'll love this book. With a passion that radiates from every page, geologist Chris Turney, who did the radiocarbon dating on the 'hobbit' human fossil recently discovered in Indonesia, reveals how scientific dating techniques have helped solve the biggest mysteries of all time. What really happened to the dinosaurs? How old is the universe? Why did giant kangaroos die out? When did early Homo sapiens sweep aside the Neanderthals in the Middle East? What caused the ice ages? Turney explains how trees, amino acids, carbon, luminescence, volcanic ash, stars and even pollen can all give objects or events an exact place in history. The book is easy to understand and it should satisfy the hungriest of infovores.' - New Scientist '5/5: a book that tackles [these] issues is welcome indeed - that it succeeds so brilliantly is a wonderful surprise.' - Peter Andrews of the Natural History Museum, BBC Focus Magazine 'Well researched and covers a lot of ground in a splendidly personal style. Highly recommended' - Quaternary Australasia 'A fascinating guide to the measurement of time' - Chemistry World 'The value of Chris Turney's Bones, Rocks and Stars: The Science of When Things Happened is that it provides a concise, simple, readable introduction to the full range of dating techniques...Altogether a very useful little book.' - Current World ArchaeologyTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables List of Permissions and Figure Sources Acknowledgements Introduction The Ever-changing Calendar A hero in a dark age The Forged Cloth of Turin The Pyramids and the Bear's Groin The Volcano that Shook Europe The Mandate from Heaven The Coming of the Ice The Lost Worlds And Then there was One The Hole in the Ground Towards the Limits of Time Epilogue: Time's up for Creationism Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewJewish Terrorism in Israel addresses a huge lacuna in the field by providing the first systematic, in-depth treatment of Jewish terrorism from ancient times to today. It concludes with vitally important developments in Jewish extremism over the past nine years, making a signal contribution at a moment when interest in terrorism and counterterrorism is high, when more attention than ever is being focused on terrorism motivated by religion, and when we most need insight into the nature of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. -- Bruce Hoffman, author of Inside Terrorism Ami Pedahzur and Arie Perliger provide us with an intelligent, sensible, and compelling story of terrorism among a people more famously known as historical victims rather than perpetrators. Their use of multiple research methods--including first-hand observations and interviews--is admirable; their insight into the interaction among religious, political, social, and psychological forces is convincing; and their accounts of informal networks and ideological socialization are especially revealing. This book is a model of scholarship on a topic most resistant to dispassionate analysis. -- Neil J. Smelser, University of California, Berkeley This engaging book documents the dark side of Jewish political activism in Israel from ancient times to the present. These gripping accounts, which describe the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the anti-Arab vitriol of Meir Kahane, and the strident opposition of the settler movement, show that terrorism has been in the shadows of Jewish politics in Israel, just as it has been in every other religious tradition around the world. Jewish Terrorism in Israel should be required reading for anyone concerned about the moral dilemmas of Jewish activism, peace in the Middle East, and the rise of religious violence everywhere. -- Mark Juergensmeyer, author of Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence [Pedahzur and Perliger] provide excellent insight into a little reported and even lesser understood reality. Publishers Weekly (starred review) This work is timely, objective, and bold... highly recommended. Choice Choice Sets a high bar for subsequent works. -- L. Carl Brown Foreign Affairs [Jewish Terrorism in Israel] provides rich, detailed exploration of a form of terrorism often little noted within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. -- Rebecca L. Torstrick H-Levant Most, perhaps all, religious traditions have produced their own long intermittent and unique histories of terrorism. Yet this remarkable, engrossing study is the first to put the story of one religion together. It will surely stimulate studies of other religious traditions, a subject everyone needs to know more about. -- David Rapoport, author of Inside Terrorist Organizations Essential reading for anyone interested in global terrorism. The European LegacyTable of ContentsPreface Life in the Counterculture The Catastrophic Event The Dynamic and Causes of Radicalization Method Book Structure 1. Ancient and Modern History: The Founding Myths Hasmoneans Terrorism in Jerusalem Jewish Political Activism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 2. Early and Mid-Twentieth Century: Ethno-Religious Terrorism The Split Between the Etzel and the Lehi The Assassination of Lord Moyne From the Season to the United Resistance Movement The Partition Plan The Assassination of Israel Kastner Kingdom of Israel (the Tzrifin Underground) Brit Hakanaim (Covenant of the Zealots) 3. The Camp David Accords: The Struggle over the Promised Land The Attack on the Mayors The Crisis of the Camp David Accords The Jewish Underground The Founding Clique Vengeance Removing the Abomination The Massacre at the Islamic College The Exposure of the Network and Conclusions 4. Meir Kahane and the Kach Movement: Jews Against Israelis Hebron Then and Now From Jewish Defense League to Kahanist Counterculture Early Days Yoel Lerner The Modern Hasmonean Revolt The Struggle in Sinai TNT The Committee for the Safety of the Roads The Disciples God of Vengeance 5. The Assassination of Yitzak Rabin The Vengeance Underground The Yigal Amir Group The Plot Formation of the Network 6. The Second Intifada: Vengeance The Hilltop Youth The Bat Ayin Group The Withdrawal from Gaza Gush Katif Sa Nur Kfar Tapuach Amona 7. Eccentric Cults, Vengeances, and Lone Wolves Uzi Meshulam Cult The Jerusalem Groups: The Ein Kerem Group and the Lifta Gang Spontaneous Vengeance Interim Summary: The Exceptional Groups Mental Health and External Events Vengeance, Counterculture, and Mental Disturbances The Lone Avengers The Mindset of the Lone Wolves 8. In the Name of God, the People, and the Land: Reassessment of the Causes of Jewish Terrorism Comparing Jewish Terrorism with Other Manifestations of Religious Terrorism Concluding Remarks: Looking Ahead Glossary Chronology of Attacks and Events Related to Jewish Terrorism Notes Index

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Book Synopsis''There is no author whose books I look forward to more'' Bill GatesThe New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth.Explaining the key processes shaping size in nature, society and technology, Smil busts myths around proportions - from bodies to paintings and the so-called golden ratio - tells us what Jonathan Swift got wrong in Gulliver''s Travels - the giant Brobdingnagian''s legs would buckle under their enormous weight - and dives headfirst into the most contentious issue in ergonomics: the size of aeroplane seats.It is no exaggeration to say this fascinating and wide-ranging tour de force will change the way you look at absolutely everything.Vaclav Smil is a phenomenon with an appetite for facts over prejudice and fashion. Essential reading for anyone who cares about the future' Lord Norman FosterTrade ReviewVaclav Smil is a phenomenon with an appetite for facts over prejudice and fashion. Essential reading for anyone who cares about the future -- eminent architect, Lord Norman FosterAn endlessly entertaining career through fascinating territory -- Simon Ings * Daily Telegraph *Both informative and entertaining . . . I suspect that many Physics World readers would be delighted to find this book waiting for them under the Christmas tree. Indeed, it would be perfect reading material for anyone who enjoys a mathematical analysis of the world around them * Physics World *In a world of specialized intellectuals, Smil is an ambitious and astonishing polymath who swings for fences . . . They're among the most data-heavy books you'll find, with a remarkable way of framing basic facts * Wired *There is perhaps no other academic who paints pictures with numbers like Smil * Guardian *

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays was conceived as part of the centenary celebrations of the first publication in 1896 of one of the most popular collections of poetry ever written - A Shropshire Lad - a collection never out of print in a hundred years.

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Book Synopsis'...Rubinstein is far from innocent and comes to our aid with a lot of learning...and is quite right to urge that not to appreciate the sexiness of Shakespeare's language impoverishes our own understanding of him.

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Book SynopsisKevin Williams is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Swansea University. His publications include Get Me a Murder a Day! A History of Mass Communication in Britain (1998) and Shadows and Substance: The Development of a Media Policy for Wales (1997).Trade ReviewExcellent broad range covering the key areas of debate M Macher, Cambridge Regional CollegeTable of ContentsWhat is media theory?; production; content; reception; media policy and research.

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Book SynopsisYouth Without Family to Lean On draws together interdisciplinary, global perspectives to provide a comprehensive review of the characteristics, dynamics, and development of youth (aged 1525) who have no family to lean on, either practically or psychologically.In this timely volume, Mozes and Israelashvili bring together leading international experts to present updated knowledge, information on existing interventions, and unanswered questions in relation to youth without family to lean on, in pursuit of fostering these youth's positive development. The various chapters in this book include discussions on different topics such as social support, developing a sense of belonging, parental involvement, and internalized vs. externalized problems; on populations, including homeless youth, residential care-leavers, refugees, asylum-seekers, young women coming from vulnerable families, and school dropouts; and interventions to promote these youths'' mentoring relationships, Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForewordList of ContributorsPart I: Foreword1. Those who we expect to be "self-made adults"Moshe Israelashvili & Shula MozesPart II: Topics2. Sources of social support: Improving outcomes for transition-age foster youthLoring P. Jones3. Finding a Sense of Belonging in the Absence of FamilyKelly-Ann Allen, Emily Berger, Tim Campbell, Margaret U'Ren, & Michelle L. Andrews4. Future orientation: Where there is a will there is a wayRachel Seginer5. Family Support and Young Adult Labor Market AttainmentStacy Bluth & Anna Manzoni6. The transition to adulthood among young people in residential care: A review of the determinants of emancipation processes in SpainAlbert Cabellos Vidal, Josep Lluís Oliver Torelló, Jorge Fernández del Valle, & Joan Amer Fernández7. Mentoring Relationships in the Lives of Care Leavers during the Transition to Adulthood: Contributions and ChallengesYafit Sulimani-Aidan8. Positive Youth Development: A Platform for a University Training ExperienceCarmen Orte, María Valero de Vicente, Margarita Vives Barceló, Belén Pascual Barrio, & Lidia Sánchez-Prieto9. Is there a family to lean on? An intersectional approach to parent involvement in their children’s schooling Audrey Addi-Raccah10. Who will get the most of the intervention program? Lamerhav's explorations of ways to identify youth in need for further supportNatan Gelman & Shula MozesPart III: Populations11. Residential care-leaving in the Global South: A review of the current literatureKwabena Frimpong-Manso12. Need-centered support for young refugees in Germany Hannes Reinke, Tobias Kärner, & Tobias Ringeisen13. The Life of an Island Child – Where are the Parents? Janique. N Charles14. Homeless Youth in India Solomon Ranati & Shreeletha Solomon15. An inclusive and Sustainable future life for Young Asylum-SeekersDi Maggio Ilaria, Santilli Sara, Ginevra Maria Cristina & Nota Laura16. Leaving the Yeshiva High School and Losing Parental Support: The Case of Male Ultra-Orthodox Dropout in IsraelItzhaki-Braun, Yael & Yablon, YacobPart IV: Programs17. Wraparound: An Adaptable, Promising Intervention to Support Isolated Youth or those At-Risk Lucy Rose Lightfoot, Ian de Terte, Kirsty Ross, Richard Etheredge, & Ruth A. Gammon18. Young Latin American women with vulnerable families: A program promoting positive development and opportunitiesDina Krauskopf Roger & Sharling Hernández19. IT communication tools and techniques to support the coming of age: A focus on children and youth in childcare Andrea Rácz, Ernő Bogács, & Marianna Jonkl20. The Foster Youth Success Campaign Dione Milan K. Washington21. Polish youth with limited family support: Externalizing and internalizing problemsKrzysztof Ostaszewski, Agnieszka Pisarska, Krzysztof Bobrowski & Jakub Greń22. From Welfare Dependence to Independence: Orr-Shalom programs for graduates of out-of-home living placements Yair Medalion, Sharon Levin, Yana Kadosh, & Nurit Yirmiya23. The ‘Building My Future’ community-based intervention program to promote youth development in adolescents at psychosocial risk Chloe García-Poole, Sonia Byrne & María José Rodrigo24. "Lamerhav" – an Israeli program for Young Adults without Family Support Shula MozesPart V: Afterword 25. Emerging needs in the context of youth with no family to lean on Shula Mozes & Moshe IsraelashviliIndex

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