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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsTranslator’s Introduction: How to Diagnose an Invisible EpidemicJeffrey AnglesHikikomoriPreface to the English EditionIntroductionPart I. What Is Happening?1. What Is Social Withdrawal?2. The Symptoms and Development of Social Withdrawal3. Psychological Ailments Accompanying Withdrawal4. Is Social Withdrawal a Disease?5. Hikikomori SystemsPart II. How to Deal with Social Withdrawal6. Overcoming the Desire to Reason, Preach, and Argue7. Important Information for the Family8. The General Progress of Treatment9. In Daily Life10. The Sadness behind Violence in the Household11. Treatment and Returning to Society12. The Social Pathology of WithdrawalConclusion: Steps for the FutureTranslator’s NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPrologue, Introduction, 1. Why Spatial? Why Justice? Why L.A.? Why Now?, 2. On the Production of Unjust Geographies, 3. Building a Spatial Theory of Justice, 4. Seeking Spatial Justice in Los Angeles, 5. Translating Theory into Practice: Urban Planning at UCLA, 6. Seeking Spatial Justice after 9/11: Continuities and Conclusions, Acknowledgments, Notes and References, Index

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Book SynopsisUncovering the insect logic that informs contemporary media technologies and the network society.Trade Review"With Insect Media Jussi Parikka offers a theory of media that challenges our traditional views of the natural and the artificial. Parikka not only understands insects through the lens of media and mediation, he also unearths an insect logic at the heart of our contemporary fascination with networks, swarming, and intelligent agents. Such a project requires the ability to interweave cultural theory with a deep understanding of the sciences—something for which Parikka is well-suited. Most importantly, Insect Media reminds us of the non-human aspect of media, communication, intelligence. Insect Media is a book that is sure to create a buzz." —Eugene Thacker, author of After LifeTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Insects in the Age of Technology 1. Nineteenth-Century Insect Technics: The Uncanny Affects of Insects 2. Genesis of Form: Insect Architecture and Swarms 3. Technics of Nature and Temporality: Von Uexküll's Ethology 4. Metamorphosis, Intensity, and Devouring Space: Elements for an Insect Game Theory Intermezzo 5. Animal Ensembles, Robotic Affects: Bees, Milieus, and Individuation 6. Biomorphs and Boids: Swarming Algorithms 7. Sexual Selection in the BioDigital: Teknolust and the Weird Life of SRAs Epilogue: Insect Media as an Art of Transmutation Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe most widely acclaimed reference series in education and psychology, the Mental Measurements Yearbooks are designed to assist professionals in selecting and using standardized tests. The series provides factual information, critical reviews, and comprehensive bibliographic references on the construction, use, and validity of all tests published in English.Trade Review"The Mental Measurements Yearbook is an invaluable research aid and should be in every social science research library's collection."—Stephen H. Aby, Annual References Books Annual

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSport Fishing's Fish Facts expert on pelagic species, John Graves, has co-authored—with Bruce Collette—a new and definitive resource, Tunas and Billfishes of the World. With impressively detailed, precise color illustrations by Val Kells, the 352-page volume describes 61 species of mackerels, tunas, swordfish, sailfishes and marlins. The book is certain to become an essential addition to the library of any angler who is serious about bluewater gamefish.—Doug Olander, Sport FishingTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionOrganizationAnatomy and MeasurementsKey to SpeciesFamily ScombridaeFamily XiphiidaeFamily IstiophoridaeGlossary of Terms and AcronymsSelect BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisRevealing insights from over 30 years of experience, John Piper shows pastors how and what to communicate from the pulpit in a way that takes seriously the God-appointed task of preaching.

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Book SynopsisA step-by-step guide to a research method that investigates how people make sense of their lived experience in the context of their personal and social worlds.Trade ReviewThis is an excellent guide to the theory and practice of interpretative phenomenological analysis; it is well written, carefully organized, engaging, and accessible. The authors have a remarkable knack for anticipating and effectively answering the questions that are typically raised by novice researchers as well as guiding them through the intricacies of qualitative research. -- Steen Halling, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Seattle University, Seattle, WA, United StatesFrom setting the background context to interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) through to offering exemplar studies, this book gives a thorough introduction to the steps a novice researcher will need to follow to conduct their first study using this method. The clear and concise summary also serves as an excellent refresher for anyone returning to IPA as an analytic method after some time away. An excellent addition to qualitative methodology bookshelves. -- Jane Montague, PhD, School of Psychology, University of Derby, Derby, United KingdomTable of ContentsSeries Foreword—Clara E. Hill and Sarah Knox Chapter 1: What Is Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis? A Note on Terminology Theoretical Underpinnings of IPA Chapter 2: Designing an IPA Study Choosing a Topic and a Research Question Determining What Type of Data to Collect Sampling and Recruiting Participants Practical and Ethical Considerations Chapter 3: Collecting Data Rationale for an Interview Guide How to Design an Interview Guide Conducting the Interview Transcription Chapter 4: Analyzing the Data: Starting With the First Case Step 1. Reading and Exploratory Notes Step 2. Formulating Experiential Statements Step 3. Finding Connections and Clustering Experiential Statements Step 4. Compiling the Table of Person Experiential Themes Some More Thoughts on Clustering and Compiling One Case or More Than One Case? Chapter 5: Cross-Case Analysis Chapter 6: Writing Up the Study Results Section Other Sections of an IPA Manuscript Chapter 7: Variations on the Method and More Complex Designs Chapter 8: Methodological Integrity Chapter 9: Summary and Conclusions Deciding Whether IPA Is the Right Methodology for You Concluding Words Appendix: Exemplar Studies References Index About the Authors About the Series Editors

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Book SynopsisIntroduces mental health providers to focused brief group therapy, and shows how how it can help reduce a patient's distress from loneliness and disconnection. Blending the art and science of therapy, this semi-structured model enables therapists to improve their client's existing interpersonal relationships, or develop new ones.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Overview and Rationale I. THE MODEL 1. Theoretical Underpinnings 2. Focused Brief Group Therapy Structure, Parameters, and Mechanisms of Change 3. Interpersonal Scale Descriptions 4. Leadership Attitudes, Foci, and Skills II. THE MODEL IN PRACTICE 5. Preparing for Focused Brief Group Therapy: Referrals and Assessment Integration 6. Therapy, Pregroup Preparation, and Screening: The Importance of the TPS Session 7. Leading the First Two Sessions 8. Leading the Middle and Later Sessions 9. Making Sense of Client Change: Triangulation of Data 10. Debriefing as an Essential Bookend 11. Research and Future Directions References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThis thorough update of a classic book includes fully revised content, new sections on the use of horses, handguns, incendiary weapons, and siege engines, and new illustrations.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Arms and Armor Chapter 1: Arms The Spear/Lance The Axe The Sword The Dagger The Staff-Weapon The Mace The War Hammer The Sling The Bow The Crossbow Chapter 2: Armor Early Medieval Armor Armor in the Bayeux Tapestry Twelfth-Century Armor Shields, Helmets, and Heraldry in the Thirteenth Century Fourteenth-Century Body Armor Cloth-Covered Armor from the Battlefield of Visby Later Fourteenth-Century Armor Developments Plate Armor Late Medieval Infantry Armor Late Medieval Helmets Late Medieval Shields and Barding Chapter 3: The Stirrup, Mounted Shock Combat, Chivalry, and Feudalism White's Thesis Criticism of White's Thesis Part II: Artillery Chapter 4: Non-Gunpowder Artillery Torsion Catapults Traction Trebuchets Counterweight Trebuchets Greek Fire Chapter 5: Gunpowder Artillery Early History of European Gunpower Weapons Siege, Battlefield, and Naval Applications Types and Manufacturing of Gunpowder, Gunpowder Weapons, and Projectiles Societal Impacts and Administrative Changes Chapter 6: Siege Machines Ladders Siege Towers Battering Rams and Mining Devices Part III: Fortifications Chapter 7: Early Medieval Fortifications Late Roman and Barbarian Carolingian The Viking Invasions and Reactions Chapter 8: The Motte-and-Bailey Castle The Influence of William the Conqueror Construction Techniques Chapter 9: Stone Castles The Origin of Stone Castles Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Stone Castles Crusader Castles The Golden Age of Castle Construction Edward I's Castles in Wales Chapter 10: Urban Fortifications and Fortified Residences Fortified Residences Town Walls The Influence of Gunpowder Weapons Part IV: Warships Chapter 11: Early Medieval Warships Late Roman and Early Medieval Ships Viking Ships William the Conqueror's Fleet Chapter 12: High and Late Medieval Warships Crusader Ships Thirteenth-Century Ships Technological Innovations Later Medieval Ships Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book, the first in our Companions to Medieval Studies series, is a brief introduction to the history, culture, and religion of the Viking Age and provides an essential foundation for study of the period. The companion begins by defining the Viking Age and explores topics such as Viking society and religion. Viking biographies provide students with information on important figures in Viking lore such as Harald Bluetooth, Eirik the Red, Leif Eiriksson, and Gudrid Thorbjarnardaughter, a female Viking traveler. A compelling chapter entitled How Do We Know About the Vikings? and a case study on the wandering monks of St. Philibert introduce students to the process of historical inquiry. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact of the Vikings and their legacy. Pedagogical resources include a detailed chronology, study questions, a glossary, 4 maps, and 14 images. Text boxes provide information on outsider perceptions of the Vikings, a detailed accounTrade Review"The Vikings and Their Age, and its companion Reader, will be useful to those planning introductory courses on the Vikings. For the student, it conveys basic information on a good range of topics, concisely presented, and with an apparatus that eases its accessibility to absolute newcomers. Its attention to source criticism makes it a suitable introduction to historical methodologies for new historians, or to literature students who seek to arrive at a better understanding of the period as a whole." -- Dale Kedwords, University of Southern Denmark * Saga-Book *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Text Boxes Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Viking Age: An Overview 2. Society and Religion in the Viking Age 3. Viking Biographies 4. How Do We Know About the Vikings? 5. A Case Study Exercise: The Wandering Monks of Saint Philibert Afterword: Viking Impacts and Legacies Questions for Reflection Chronology Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisHeller and McElhinny reinterpret sociolinguistics for the twenty-first century with an original approach to the study of language that is situated in the political and economic contexts of colonialism and capitalism. In the process, they map out a critical history of how language serves, and has served, as a terrain for producing and reproducing social inequalities. The authors ask how, and by whom, ideas about language get unevenly shaped, offering new perspectives that will excite readers and incite further research for years to come.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Preface: Hope Chapter 1: Language, Capitalism, Colonialism: Walking Backward into the Future 1.1 Language and Inequality: A Wary Approach to a Red Thread World 1.2 Red Flags: Keywords, Hegemonies, Ideologies, and Warty Genealogies 1.3 Language Out of Place 1.4 Knotted Histories: Following the Threads through the Book 1.5 The End of the Beginning PART I: LANGUAGE, INTIMACY, AND EMPIRE Chapter 2: Language and Imperialism I: Conversion and Kinship 2.1 "The First Nations Bible Translation Capacity-Building Initiative" 2.2 Colonialism, Imperialism, Postcolonialism, Decolonization 2.3 Intimacy and Connection Across Five Continents 2.4 Reduced to and by Christian Love: Missionary Linguistics 2.5 Family Trees, Comparative Philology and Secular Religion Chapter 3: Language and Imperialism II: Evolution, Hybridity, History 3.1 "Mixing Things Up" 3.2 Imperialism and Industrial Capitalism 3.3 Evolutionary Theory: Language and/as Race 3.4 Slavery, Plantation, Labour, Trade, and "Mixed" Languages 3.5 Americanist Anthropology: The Limits of Cultural Critiques of Evolutionary Racism American Modern: Assimilating Blackness, Disappearing Indigeneity American Primitive: Extracting Language 3.6 Linguistic Relativity, Colonial Ambivalence, and Modern Alienation PART II: THE CONTRADICTIONS OF LANGUAGE IN INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM Chapter 4: Language and European Notions of Nation and State: 4.1 "Le Symbole" 4.2 The Emergence of the Nation-State in Europe 4.3 Markets and Liberal Democracy 4.4 Making Subjects Through Language Regimentation: Census, Standardization, Literacy Standardization: Grammars, Dictionaries, Canons, Pedagogies 4.5 Language and Differential Citizenship 4.6 Creating Peripheries 4.7 Regulating Relations in Industrial Capitalism 4.8 Making Scientific Linguistic Expertise Chapter 5: Internationalism, Communism, and Fascism: Alternative Modernities 5.1 "Visions of the Future" 5.2 Peace, Geopolitics, and International Auxiliary Languages 5.3 Making Communist Linguistics Marrism The Bakhtin Circle From Language as Action to Language as Tool in the Cold War 5.4. Language and Fascism National Socialism in Germany Language and Race: Yiddish and Esperanto Race, Propaganda, and Mass Media 5.5 Fault Lines PART III: BRAVE NEW WORLDS: LANGUAGE AS TECHNOLOGY, LANGUAGE AS TECHNIQUE Chapter 6: The Cold War: Surveillance, Structuralism, and Security 6.1 "Black Out" 6.2 Battles for Hearts and Minds 6.3 The Investigation of Linguists During the McCarthy Period 6.4 Suspicious Words, Suspicious Minds The Prague Linguistics Circle Fear of the Translator 6.5 Infrastructure and Institutionalization: Communication Studies, Area Studies, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics 6.6 Machine Translation and the Rise of Syntax Rational and Universal Principles for Linguistic Analysis: Late Structuralist Linguistics Freedom, Creativity, and Human Nature: The Rise of Generative Linguistics 6.7 Nineteen Eighty-Four as a Weapon of the Cold War Chapter 7: On the Origins of 'Sociolinguistics': Democracy, Development and Emancipation 7.1 "A Dialectologist in India" 7.2 Engineering Language: Literacy, Standardization, and Education 7.3 Language Policy and Planning: Technocratic Solutions 7.4 Domestic Development and American Sociolinguistics Challenging "Deficit": Three Approaches Fear of the Political 7.5 Challenging Consensus Feminist Linguistics Difference and Domination: Anti-Racist Critiques 7.6 Pidgins, Creoles, and New Nationalisms 7.7 The Rise of Sociolinguistics in Europe: Class and Conflict 7.8 The End of the Trente Glorieuses Chapter 8: Language in Late Capitalism: Intensifications, Unruly Desires, and Alternative Worlds 8.1 "Nayaano-nibii maang Gichigamiin" 8.2 Late Capitalism: The Expanding Reach of the Market and the Neoliberal State 8.3 Language, Inequality, and Ideology 8.4 Managing Your Assets: Language Quality, Linguistic Diversity, and Citizenship 8.5 Brave New Selves: "I am a Business, Man!" 8.6 Affect, Authenticity, and Embodiment 8.7 Recapturing the Commons 8.8 Reclamation, Redress, Refusal, and Reimagining 8.9 This is How We Hope References Index

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Book SynopsisUsing extensive archival and demographic research, Barr explores both the impressive Swedish legacy in Canada and the reasons for their invisibility as an immigrant community.Trade Review'Elinor Barr's book is a long overdue study of the history of Swedish Immigration to Canada... It is undoubtedly an important step in understanding the significance of the Swedish immigrant experience for Canadian history.' 'Elinor Barr's book is a long overdue study of the history of Swedish Immigration to Canada... It is undoubtedly an important step in understanding the significance of the Swedish immigrant experience for Canadian history.' -- Kailey Hansson Canadian Historical Review vol 97:02:2016 'Elinor Barr provides an encyclopedic overview of Swedish immigrants to Canada... This is a comprehensive history that will be a catalyst for further inquiry.' -- Lori Ann Lahlum Labour/Le Travail vol 77 spring 2016Table of Contents1. Under an Invisibility Cloak 2. Emigration from Sweden, Immigration to Canada 3. Immigrants 4. Settlement Patterns 5. Religion 6. World Wars 7. The Swedish Press 8. The Depression, Strikes and Unions 9. Earning a Living 10. A Woman's Place 11. Swedishness in Canada 12. Links with Sweden 13. Language, Discrimination and Assimilation 14. Literature 15. Emerging Visibility

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Book SynopsisThis book makes important assertions not only about the conflicts and negotiations inherent to opposing historiographic traditions, but about ways of overcoming the limitations imposed by those traditions.Trade Review"Plokhy moves seamlessly across the centuries with great erudition ... This is a rich and rewarding work." -- Andrew Wilson Journal of Modern History "[Ukraine and Russia] provides not only sharp insights into the historiography but profound evidence of the interplay between identity and historical imagination." -- Barbara Skinner Slavic Review "Ukraine and Russia presents itself not only as a rich and meticulously argued work of scholarship, but also as an excitingly topical book likely to fascinate not only historians intent upon refining their models of the past, but general readers seeking to understand one of Europe's most complex, and most uncertain, international relationships." -- Marko Pavlyshyn Australian Slavonic and East European Studies "A priceless exploration of mythology's role in historiography ... Plokhy tackles the sore issue of overlapping national narratives with commendable balance, discipline, and insight." -- Anton Fedyashin European History Quarterly 'This attractive and well written book deserves to be read attentively by historians, political scientists, and opinion formers in Ukraine, Russia, and the West.' -- Richard Abraham Russian Journal of Communication, vol. 3:1-2:2010 'Only a senior scholar who has an easy familiarity with broad range of writings could have written this excellent book. Plokhy provides a sophisticated analysis of how Ukrainian and Russian historians have produced both similar and different histories and historiographies; of Ukrainian and Russian history.' -- Alexander J. Motyl Journal of Ukrainian Studies 33-34: 2008-2009

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Book SynopsisLiberated, licentious, or merely liberal, the sexual freedoms of Germany’s Weimar Republic have become legendary. The home of the world’s first gay rights movement, the republic embodied a progressive, secular vision of sexual liberation. Immortalized – however misleadingly – in Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories and the musical Cabaret, Weimar’s freedoms have become a touchstone for the politics of sexual emancipation.Yet, as Laurie Marhoefer shows in Sex and Weimar Republic, those sexual freedoms were only obtained at the expense of a minority who were deemed sexually disordered. In Weimar Germany, the citizen’s right to sexual freedom came with a duty to keep sexuality private, non-commercial, and respectable.Sex and the Weimar Republic examines the rise of sexual tolerance through the debates which surrounded “immoral” sexuality: obscenity, male homosexuality, lesbianism, Trade Review'This is a clear, beautifully written, and - unlike many North American books on German history - superbly edited book (German phrases, concepts, and names are error-free)...This valuable contribution should put to rest the long-lasting thesis that sexuality was responsible for the decadence of the first German republic.' -- Norman Domeier H-Soz-Kult April 2016 'In her highly original and wide-ranging study, Laurie Marhoefer makes a number of provocative and persuasive arguments regarding the character and significance of sexual politics in the Weimar Republic... A multifaceted and analytically rigorous contribution.' -- Kirsten Leng German History, vol 34:03:2016 'In her excellent book, Marhoefer has certainly succeeded in drawing attention to what she calls the "complexity and ugliness" of homosexual emancipation. At the same time, she ends up reproducing a dynamic common in the field of gay, lesbian, and queer history.' -- Craig Griffiths H-Histsex November 2016 "Laurie Marhoefer has written an important book that will be of interest not only to those who work on twentieth-century Germany and on the history of sexuality, but that also offers a valuable background to German sexual politics today, where same-sex unions have existed since 2001, while same-sex marriage and same-sex adoption are still the subject of heated debate." -- Katja Hausten Times Literary Supplement, April 1, 2016 'Splendid study...Laurie Marhoefer encourages the reader to think carefully along with her, and one cannot ask for more than that in this engaging first book.' -- Geoffrey J. Giles Canadian Journal of History vol 51:03:2016 'Marhoefer's book will be an excellent addition to graduate collections in German history and cultural studies, European studies, and history of sexuality... The book will also make fine addition to upper-division undergraduate courses.' -- B. Boovy Choice Magazine vol 53:10:2016Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Opening Night of the Institute for Sexual Science, July 1919 1. Homosexual Emancipation, Censorship, and the Revolution of 1918/9 2. Lesbianism, Reading, and Law 3. Female Prostitution, Modern Heterosexuality, and the 1927 Venereal Disease Law 4. Male Prostitution, Homosexual Emancipation, and the 1929 Vote to Repeal the Sodomy Law 5. "The Third Sex Greets the Third Reich!" The Rohm Scandal, 1931-2 6. The Politics of "Immoral" Sexuality in the Fall of the Weimar Republic and the Rise of the Nazis Conclusion: The Weimar Settlement on Sexual Politics

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Book SynopsisIn Paramedics On and Off the Streets, Michael K. Corman embarks on an institutional ethnography of the complex, mundane, intricate, and exhilarating work of paramedics in Calgary, Alberta.Trade Review"This is an important book that thoroughly updates and expands the limited sociological literature on emergency ambulance work." -- Leo McCann, University of York * Work, Employment, and Society, vol 33: 1 *Table of ContentsCHAPTERS 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Opening vignette - Getting Hooked 1.2. Being a "Good" Academic 1.2.1. Historical Roots of EMS and Paramedics 1.2.2. Paramedics' training and organizational oversight 1.2.3. Paramedics' Work 1.3. Why Paramedics? Why Now? 1.4. Purpose of the Book 1.4.1. In and out of the field 1.4.2. Overview of book - Summary of Chapters Part 1 2. SETTING THE SCENE 2.1. The Station 2.2. The Ambulance 2.3. The Tones 2.4. Assessment Work - "We're trying to play a chess match, 3, 5 moves ahead" 2.5. "REPAC please" 2.6. The Hospital 2.7. The ePCR 2.8. "One, Two, Three" - Stretcher Work 3. "THE HOSPITAL'S GOING TO COMPLAIN" 3.1. At the Hall 3.2. Hospital Relief 3.3. Lack of Sympathy? 3.4. Downtime - Coffee 3.5. "I've been burned several times" 4. "THAT WAS A GOODER" 4.1. "Cold Cocked" 4.2. "That was a Gooder" 4.3. Code Room 4.4. "On our truck, everyone is 36.5" 4.5. Treating the Patient, not the Protocol, not the Machine 4.6. The "Social Stuff" 4.7. Self-Policing 4.8. Fortying - "You Call, We Haul" - and Convincing Work 5. Epilogue - Overview and Discussion of Chapters 2-4 5.1. Overview 5.2. A Reflection on the Diversity of Ride-Alongs 5.3. Orienting to the What Ifs 5.4. Taken-for-granted Work: What Counts and What is Being Counted 5.5. Other Players in Emergency Medical Services Part 2 6. THE "BRAINS" OF EMS 6.1. Introduction 6.2. EMD and ProQA - "911, for what City?" 6.3. Dispatchers - Alpha 1 6.4. Dispatchers - Alpha 2 6.5. On the Centre's Floor - Interfacing or Discretionary Work 6.6. Conclusion 7. TAMING AND CREATING KNOWLEDGE OF FRONT-LINE WORK 7.1. Introduction 7.2. Protocols and the Targeting of Clinical Practice 7.3. The Electronic Patient Care Record (ePCR) 7.4. Producing Compliance and Quality on the Front Lines 7.5. Business Intelligence - "Analyze and Effect Change" 7.6. Tracing Relations of Governance and Accountability 7.7. Conclusion Part 3 8. SO WHAT? WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? 8.1. Overview of Book 8.2. Cause for Concern? 8.2.1. Doing More With Less 8.2.2. Changing Professional Mandate 8.2.3. Reformation of Time 8.3. Broader Implications 8.4. Closing Remarks

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Book SynopsisPolicy Work in Canada is an in-depth study into the levels of analytical capacity found within the federal and provincial governments as well as the non-governmental sector.Table of ContentsTable of Figures Table of Tables Part 1 - Introduction Chapter 1. - The Nature of Professional Policy Work in Canada: An Introduction and Overview - Howlett, Wellstead, & Craft Chapter 2. - Policy Analysts in the Bureaucracy Revisited: The Nature of Professional Policy Work in Contemporary Government. - Michael Howlett and Adam Wellstead Part 2 -Policy Work in Canadian Government Chapter 3. - Policy Capacity and Incapacity in Canada's Federal Government - Wellstead, Adam, Stedman, R and Lindquist, E. Chapter 4. - Policy Analysis and Policy work at the Provincial and Territorial Level: Demographics and Description - Michael Howlett and Joshua Newman Chapter 5. - The Policy Analytical Capacity of the Government of Quebec: Results from a Survey of Officials - Luc Bernier and Michael Howlett Chapter 6. - Differences in Federal and Provincial Policy Analysis - Michael Howlett and Adam Wellstead Chapter 7. - Intergovernmental Policy Capacities and Practices in Canada - Patricia L. O'Reilly, Gregory J. Inwood, and Carolyn M. Johns Chapter 8. - Public Managers and Policy Analytical Capacity in Canada - Howlett, Michael Chapter 9. - Policy Work and the Political Arm of Government: The Role of Ministerial Staffers - Jonathan Craft Part 3 -Policy Work Outside Government Chapter 10. - The Role of Policy Consultants: "Consultocracy" or Business as Usual - Michael Howlett and Andrea Migone Chapter 11. - Inside the black box of academic researchers/policy analysts' interactions - Ouimet, M., Bedard. P-O, Leon G Chapter 12. - Government Science and Policy Advice: Evidence-based policy making at the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and its implications for the practice of policy analysis - Nicole Klenk Chapter 13. - Mandates, Political Parties and Policy Capacity - Flynn, Greg. Chapter 14. - Policy Dialogue and Engagement Between Non-Government Organizations and Government: A Survey of Processes and Instruments of Canadian Policy Workers - Bryan Evans and Adam Wellstead Part 3 - Improving Canadian Policy Work Chapter 15. - Targeted Supply-Side Policy Capacity Dynamics: High Calibre Policy Worker Recruitment in Canada - Jonathan Craft and Siobhan Harty Chapter 16. - (Re)Scaling policy capacity between government and the voluntary sector in Canada - Karine Levasseur Chapter 17. - Towards Policy Analysis 2.0: Platforms for Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration Amongst Policy Analysts - Justin Longo Part 4 - Conclusion Chapter 18. - Policy Work System Dynamics: Implications for Practice, Pedagogy and Scholarship - Adam Wellstead, Jonathan Craft & Michael Howlett References List of Contributors Endnotes

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Book SynopsisThe Discerning Narrator sheds new light on Joseph Conrad’s controversial critique of modernity and modernization by reading his work through an Aristotelian lens. The book proposes that we need Aristotle a key figure in Conrad’s education to recognize the profound significance of Conrad’s artistic vision. Offering Aristotelian analyses of Conrad’s letters, essays, and four works of fiction, Alexia Hannis illuminates the philosophical roots and literary implications of Conrad’s critique of modernity. Hannis turns to Aristotle’s ethical formulations to trace what she calls the discerning narrator in Conrad’s oeuvre: a compassionate yet sceptical guide to appraising character and conduct. The book engages with past and current Conrad scholarship while drawing from Aristotle’s Poetics, Politics, and Nicomachean Ethics, as well as classical scholars to offer original philosophical analyses of major anTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Deeper Significance of Sailing Ships 1. Conrad’s Vision of Things 2. An Outcast of the Islands: Tragedy, Pathos, and Conrad’s Narrative Appeal 3. Seeing Jim’s Virtues in Lord Jim: A Tale 4. The Discerning Narrator in Falk: A Reminiscence 5. Marlow’s Practical Wisdom: Chance: A Tale in Two Parts Conclusion: “Speakings” Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWith the goal of bridging the gap between research and practice, this book provides intriguing and innovative thoughts on leadership and gender in organizations from renowned scholars as well as high-level corporate thought leaders in the area of diversity and inclusion.Table of ContentsForeword Alyssa Panitch, Purdue University Preface David Hummels, Purdue University 1. Introduction: Making the Case for Gender Inclusion and Women’s Career Equality at Work Ellen Ernst Kossek, Purdue University and Kyung-Hee Lee, Purdue University Part I: Fostering Positive Work for Women 2. Creating Gender Inclusive Climates and Conversations What the Research Tells Us: The Role of Inclusive Climates in Closing the Gender Gap Lisa Nishii, Cornell University View from Practice: The Power in “Staying vs. Leaving” Conversations to Create an Inclusive Workplace at Accenture Nellie Borrero, Accenture Integrating Research and Practice: Gender Inclusive Climates Charlice Hurst, University of Notre Dame Managerial and Organizational Actions for Creating Inclusive Climates Ellen Ernst Kossek, Purdue University and Kyung-Hee Lee, Purdue University 3. Mentoring and Other Strategies for Advancing Women’s Careers What the Research Tells Us: Glass Ceiling Chisels Belle Rose Ragins, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee View from Practice: Advancing Women at IBM Rosalia Thomas, IBM Integrating Research and Practice: Mentoring Patrice Buzzanell, University of South Florida Managerial and Organizational Actions for Mentoring and Advancing Women Ellen Ernst Kossek, Purdue University and Kyung-Hee Lee, Purdue University Part II: Gender Inclusion in Industry and Organizational Contexts 4. How to Leverage Diverse Teams What the Research Tells Us: Claiming the Unexpected Value of Diversity Denise Lewin Loyd, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign View from Practice: Engaging Teams for Business Success at PWC Anne Donovan, PricewaterhouseCoopers Integrating Research and Practice: Diverse Teams Beth Livingston, University of Iowa Managerial and Organizational Actions for Creating Inclusive Teams Ellen Ernst Kossek, Purdue University and Kyung-Hee Lee, Purdue University 5. Learning from STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) Contexts What the Research Tells Us: That None Shall Perish Kelly Mack, Association of American Colleges & Universities, Chris Sahley, Purdue University, and Orlando Taylor, Fielding Graduate University View from Practice: Learning from Successful Women in the STEM Field Mariana Monteiro, FCM, LLC Integrating Research and Practice: STEM Contexts Diana Bilimoria, Case Western Reserve University Managerial and Organizational Actions to Transform STEM Contexts Ellen Ernst Kossek, Purdue University and Kyung-Hee Lee, Purdue University 6. Learning from Entrepreneurial Settings What the Research Tells Us: The Glass Ceiling of Entrepreneurship and How Women Are Breaking Free Kim Eddleston, Northeastern University View from Practice: Emerging Organizational Culture and Inclusion Nina Swanson, Walmart Integrating Research and Practice: Entrepreneurial Settings Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University Managerial and Organizational Actions to Create Inclusive Entrepreneurial Settings Ellen Ernst Kossek, Purdue University and Kyung-Hee Lee, Purdue University 7. Epilogue: A Beginning Blueprint for Organizations and Researchers to Advance Gender Inclusion and Equality (with Caveats) Ellen Ernst Kossek, Purdue University and Kyung-Hee Lee, Purdue University Acknowledgments 

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Book SynopsisHarvesting State Support provides an analytical focus on the local implementation and interpretation of the agricultural reform process in Japan.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Abbreviations Foreword Acknowledgments Part One: Introduction: Institutional Change in Japan’s Agricultural Sector 1. Japan’s Agricultural Support and Protection Regime 2. Toward a Local Perspective on Gradual Institutional Change 3. Institutional Change in Japanese Agricultural Support and Protection through the Local Lens Part Two: Japan’s Agricultural Support and Protection over Time 4. Postwar Evolution of Support and Protection 5. Gradual Change and Increasing Institutional Ambiguity in Agricultural Support and Protection Part Three: Local Agricultural Regimes and Village Institutions 6. Different Local Manifestations of Macro-Level Change 7. Postwar Formation of Local Agricultural Regimes and Village Institutions Part Four: Village Institutions as Dynamic Resources – Local Renegotiation of Agricultural Support and Protection 8. Farmland Consolidation as a Social Process 9. Local Variations of Agricultural Entrepreneurship 10. Hamlet-Based Collective Farming and Village Institutions 11. Boundary Change: Decreasing Prospects for Comprehensive Local Institutional Agency Part Five: Conclusions 12. Renegotiating Japan’s Agricultural Support and Protection 13. Institutional Change through the Local Lens Appendix A: Field Research Appendix B: Interviews Appendix C: Types of Farms in Japan Appendix D: Paddy Field Subsidies Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisNone of the works included among Erasmus’ ‘Literary and Educational Writings’ in the Collected Works of Erasmus captures his most adventurous thinking about how texts signify in and thereby make or remake worlds of thought, feeling, and action. The one that comes closest to doing so, the Ratio verae theologiae (‘A System of True Theology’), was first published separately in 1518 and 1519, then appeared in the preliminaries to the New Testament in Erasmus’ (revised) 1519 edition. This handy Ratio or compendious ‘System’ gave advice on how to interpret complex texts and develop persuasive arguments based upon them. Its lessons were applied to the canonical Scriptures as source, and to everyday Christian theology as target discourse. They unfold in response to the special difficulties and incitements of the biblical text in Latin and Greek, within a framework provided by classical grammar and rhetoric, adjusTrade Review"Fans of Praise of Folly and the Colloquies ought to open Erasmus on Literature to see what and how Erasmus wanted them to read. Scholars of theology will scrutinize the edition carefully, as Erasmus’s contemporaries did. Seminaries in need of a book that teaches exegesis more thoroughly than Augustine now have one, ready for immediate use." -- Willis Goth Regier, University of Illinois * Renaissance and Reformation *Table of ContentsForeword by Anthony Grafton Illustrations Notes on Contributors Abbreviations and Works Frequently Cited Abbreviations of Biblical Books Used in Explanatory Notes Editor’s Introduction Chronology of Erasmus’ Life and Works Approaches to Erasmus’ Ratio or ‘System’ of 1518–1519 The Ratio in Erasmus’ Life and Work to 1519 Mark Vessey Erasmus, Sacred Literature, and Literary Theory Brian Cummings Biblical Poetics in Scholasticism and the Ratio Christopher Ocker The Ratio and Annotations of Erasmus as Theory and Practice of Biblical Interpretation Riemer Faber The Parable of Sincere and Sophistical Discourse in the Ratio Kathy Eden Scheme of Contents of the Ratio verae theologiae Note on the Text The Ratio verae theologiae Preface: Purpose of the Ratio Elements of a Method for the Study of Scripture The Unity in Variety of the Gospel ‘The Wonderful Circle and Harmony of the Entire Drama of Christ’ The Figurative Character of the Language of Sacred Literature Elements of a Method for the Study of Scripture (Concluded) Explanatory Notes Conspectus of Church Fathers Cited in the Ratio Bibliography Concordance of Editions of the Ratio Index

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Book SynopsisMennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union is the first history of Mennonite life from its origins in the Dutch Reformation of the sixteenth century, through migration to Poland and Prussia, and on to more than two centuries of settlement in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.Leonard G. Friesen sheds light on religious, economic, social, and political changes within Mennonite communities as they confronted the many faces of modernity. He shows how the Mennonite minority remained engaged with the wider empire that surrounded them, and how they reconstructed and reconfigured their identity after the Bolsheviks seized power and formed a Soviet regime committed to atheism.Integrating Mennonite history into developments in the Russian Empire and the USSR, Friesen provides a history of an ethno-religious people that illuminates the larger canvas of Imperial Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet history.Trade Review“An ambitious study of the Mennonites, stretching from the foundation of Anabaptism to the end of the Soviet Union … Friesen offers a compelling and coherent survey of the history of Mennonites in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, providing a useful guide to the questions answered by current historiography and the holes in scholarship yet to be filled.” -- Aileen Friesen, University of Winnipeg * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Transliteration and Nomenclature Introduction Part I: Mennonite Origins 1. Foundations: An Ancient Faith, Swiss Reformation, and Anabaptist Renewal 2. Melchoir, Münster, and Menno: From Early Dutch Anabaptists to Mennonites 3. A Faith Community on the Move: Mennonites, Poland, and Prussia, 1536 to 1800 Part II: Mennonites in Imperial Russia 4. A New Homeland in New Russia: Mennonite Settlement in the Russian Empire, 1789–1830 5. Pietistic Progressivism: Johann Cornies and the Transformation of Russian Mennonitism, 1800–1848 6. A Community in Crisis: A Divided Faith, the Revolt of the Landless, and Threatened Military Service, 1860–1874 7. From Crisis to Consolidation: The Flourishing of Russian Mennonitism, 1865–1883 8. Glory Days: The Apogee of Russian Mennonitism, 1883–1904 9. Confession or Sect? German or German-Speaking? Mennonite Identity Politics on the Edge of the Abyss, 1881–1917 Part III: Mennonites in the Soviet Era 10. After Eichenfeld: Soviet-Era Mennonites between Reconstruction and Emigration, 1917–1927 11. When God Leads You into the Wilderness: Mennonites in the Stalinist Crucible, 1927–1934 12. The Road to Rochegda: Soviet Terror, Nazi Occupation, and Stalinist Repatriation, 1934–1953 13. Detour to Dzhetisai: The Soviet Mennonite Renaissance in Stalin’s Shadow, 1953–1991 14. Coda: Zaporozhe 1989: One Story Ends and Another Begins Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the Second World War, Mennonites in the Netherlands, Germany, occupied Poland, and Ukraine lived in communities with Jews and close to various Nazi camps and killing sites. As a result of this proximity, Mennonites were neighbours to and witnessed the destruction of European Jews. In some cases they were beneficiaries or even enablers of the Holocaust. Much of this history was forgotten after the war, as Mennonites sought to rebuild or find new homes as refugees. The result was a myth of Mennonite innocence and ignorance that connected their own suffering during the 1930s and 1940s with earlier centuries of persecution and marginalization. European Mennonites and the Holocaust identifies a significant number of Mennonite perpetrators, along with a smaller number of Mennonites who helped Jews survive, examining the context in which they acted. In some cases, theology led them to accept or reject Nazi ideals. In others, Mennonites chose a closer embrace of GermaTrade Review"In addition to standing as an important historical study, European Mennonites and the Holocaust should prompt Anabaptists in North America — particularly white Anabaptists — to reflect on their own legacies of anti-Jewish prejudice and discern how to stand against antisemitism as part of their antiracist commitments." -- Alain Epp Weaver * Anabaptist World *"The value of this book reaches well be­yond telling tales of depraved Mennonites. Several chap­ters reflect on the thinking and rationalizations which emboldened Mennonites to reject historic Anabaptism." -- David Giesbrecht * Roots and Branches *"European Mennonites and the Holocaust adds telling details to the picture of Mennonites during the Nazi era … The contributors do not shrink from addressing the gray eras, especially the question of who can be regarded as a ‘Mennonite’ and where boundaries are to be drawn." -- Astrid von Schlachta * The Mennonite Quarterly Review *"For readers who may feel overwhelmed by the volume of books and articles that have appeared in recent years, European Mennonites and the Holocaust offers an excellent summary of the current state of scholarship. Anyone looking for an entry point into the rapidly growing literature on this sober, if controversial, topic would do well to start with this collection." -- John D. Roth, Goshen College * Directions *"This collection will be a precious source for further archival research about these connections for future generations of Mennonite historians." -- Sergei I. Zhuk, Ball State University * Journal of Mennonite Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction – Neighbours, Killers, Enablers, Witnesses: The Many Roles of Mennonites in the Holocaust Doris L. Bergen, Mark Jantzen, and John D. Thiesen Introduction to Chapter 1 – Mennonites and Nazi Crimes: Gerhard Rempel's Call for Historical Reckoning Doris L. Bergen 1. Mennonites, War Crimes, and the Holocaust Gerhard Rempel, edited by Doris L. Bergen with John D. Thiesen 2. Enjoying the Entitlements of German Freedom: German Mennonites and Nazi Church-State Policy James Irvin Lichti 3. Antisemitism and the Concept of Volk: The Mennonite Youth Circular Community at the Beginning of the Nazi Dictatorship Imanuel Baumann 4. German Mennonite Theology in the Era of National Socialism Arnold Neufeld-Fast 5. Dutch Mennonite Theologians and Nazism Pieter Post 6. Mennonite Collaboration with Nazism: A Case Study of the Responses of Mennonites in Deutsch Wymyschle, Poland, to the Plight of Local Jews during the Early Nazi Occupation Period (1939–1942) Colin Neufeldt 7. Mennonites in Ukraine before, during, and Immediately after the Second World War Dmytro Myeshkov 8. A Portrait of Khortytsya/Zaporizhzhia under Occupation Aileen Friesen 9. Dutch Mennonites and Yad Vashem Recognition Alle G. Hoekema 10. Identity and Complicity: The Post-Second World War Emigration of Chortitza Mennonites Erika Weidemann 11. A Usable Past: Soviet Mennonite Memories of the Holocaust Hans Werner 12. Selective Memory: Danziger Mennonite Reflections on the Nazi Era, 1945–1950 Steve Schroeder List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book shares the life story of William Playfair, the father of statistical graphics, who experienced extreme ups and downs in his various careers, including as a statistician, economist, and fraudster.Table of ContentsPreface: Playfair Is Introduced 1. Playfair Is Sent to Newgate Prison 2. Playfair Goes to Birmingham to Work for Boulton and Watt 3. Playfair Goes to London to Set Up His Own Business 4. Playfair Evolves into a Writer by Profession 5. Playfair Expresses His Early Political Views 6. Playfair Makes His Mark on Statistical Graphics 7. Playfair Goes to Paris 8. Playfair Tries to Take Advantage of the French Revolution 9. Playfair Escapes from France and Returns to England 10. Playfair Becomes an Avid Anti-Jacobin Propagandist 11. Playfair Gets Involved with Forged Assignats 12. Playfair Starts a Bank and Goes Bankrupt 13. Playfair Ekes Out a Living as a Bankrupt 14. Playfair Has a Good Year during 1805 with Hints of Ending Badly 15. Playfair Has Serious Legal and Other Problems 16. Playfair Dabbles Deeply into Family History and Political Biography 17. Playfair Continues Writing and Tries a Few More Scams to Get to Paris 18. Playfair Returns to Paris 19. Playfair Spends His Last Few Years in England in Poverty Afterword: Playfair Avoids a Shakespearean Epitaph Appendix: Assignat Forging by French Emigres in England Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses tensions that arise between the principles of social justice and the need for cooperation to advance collective goals.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. On the Scalability of Cooperative Structures 2. Why Profit Is Not the Problem 3. Egalitarianism and Status Hierarchy 4. A Defence of Stigmatization 5. A Unified Theory of Border Control and Reasonable Accommodation 6. Two Dilemmas for U.S. Race Relations Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLaw today is incomplete, inaccessible, unclear, underdeveloped, and often perplexing to those whom it affects. In The Legal Singularity, Abdi Aidid and Benjamin Alarie argue that the proliferation of artificial intelligenceenabled technology and specifically the advent of legal prediction is on the verge of radically reconfiguring the law, our institutions, and our society for the better. Revealing the ways in which our legal institutions underperform and are expensive to administer, the book highlights the negative social consequences associated with our legal status quo. Given the infirmities of the current state of the law and our legal institutions, the silver lining is that there is ample room for improvement. With concerted action, technology can help us to ameliorate the problems of the law and improve our legal institutions. Inspired in part by the concept of the technological singularity, The Legal Singularity presents a future state in which technoloTable of Contents1. Introducing the Legal Singularity I. Introduction II. What Is the Legal Singularity? a. The Technological Singularity b. The Economic Singularity c. The Legal Singularity III. Hazards Ahead IV. Our Story and Objectives V. Orienting Ourselves VI. Towards the Legal Singularity 2. The Nature of Legal Information I. Introduction II. The Centrality of Information to Law a. Law before Text b. Prediction and Law’s Information Environment III. Analogue, Digital, Computational a. The Analog Era b. The Digital Era IV. The New Information Environment a. Impact of Digitalization b. Access to Data and Access to Justice c. An Open Source Movement? 3. Computational Law I. Introduction II. Understanding Artificial Intelligence III. Applying AI to the Law: Computational Law a. Should Law Be Computed? b. On “Computational Values” 4. Complete Law I. Introduction II. Incomplete Law and Its Problems a. What Is Incomplete Law? b. In Search of Specificity c. Degradation of Legal Certainty III. How Computation Encourages Completeness IV. Complete, as in No Gaps – Not Complete, as in Done 5. Defending the Legal Singularity from Its Critics I. Introduction II. Is Computational Law Reductionist? a. Pasquale, Hildebrandt, and Law’s Unquantifiable Essence b. Ideology, Social Context, and the Legal Singularity c. The Limits of Techno-Critique III. Does the Legal Singularity Threaten the Rule of Law? 6. Implications for the Judiciary I. Introduction II. The Pitfalls of the Modern Judiciary a. Biases and Human Weaknesses b. Courthouse Overcrowding and Delayed Justice c. The Implications of Court Design III. Computational Solutions in the Courtroom a. Human Experts b. Legal Research c. Document Drafting d. Expert Evidence e. Changes to Fact-Finding Procedures f. Discovery g. Predictive Technology h. Case Management i. Fair Settlements IV. The Paradox of Judging in the Computational Era a. Beyond Physical Courtrooms and Human Judges i. Neural Laces ii. Online Courts and Dispute Resolution iii. Alternative Dispute Resolution V. Possible Roadblocks to Adoption VI. Looking Ahead: The Evolution of the Judiciary 7. Towards Universal Legal Literacy I. Introduction II. The Legal Profession’s Problem State a. Problem I: The Market for Legal Services i. The Unaffordability Problem ii. Consequences of Unaffordability iii. Responses to the Unaffordability Problem by the Legal Profession b. Problem II: Excessive Legal Complexity III. The Solution: Universal Legal Literacy a. Imagining Universal Legal Literacy b. Universal Legal Literacy in the Legal Singularity 8. Implications for Governments I. Introduction II. Governments and Technology III. Artificially Intelligent Governments IV. Current Government Applications of AI V. Applications of AI in Service Provision and Regulation a. Tax Regulation b. Government Benefits Programs c. Immigration VI. Applications of AI in Legislation a. Drafting Legislation b. Normative Contributions and Second-Order Modelling 9. Towards Ethical and Equitable Legal Prediction I. Introduction II. The Problem Framework a. Reflection and Amplification Problems b. Techno-Epistemic Problems 10. Conclusion Afterword Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisThrough the Lens of Anthropology is a concise introduction to anthropology that uses the twin themes of food and sustainability to connect evolution, biology, archaeology, history, language, and culture. The third edition remains a highly readable text that encourages students to think about current events and issues through an anthropological lens.Beautifully illustrated with over 100 full-color images and maps, along with detailed figures and boxes, this is an anthropology book with a fresh perspective and a lively narrative that is filled with popular topics. The new edition has been updated to reflect the most recent developments in anthropology and the contributions of marginalized scholars, while the use of gender-neutral language makes for a more inclusive text. New content offers anthropological insight into contemporary issues such as COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, and #MeToo.Through the Lens of Anthropology continues to be an essential text forTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Boxes Acknowledgments About the Authors Preface Note to Instructors Note to Students 1. Introduction: Viewing the World through the Lens of Anthropology 2. We Are Primates: The Primate Background 3. Evolutionary Thought and Theory 4. Human Biological Evolution 5. Cultural Diversity from 2.53 Million to 20,000 Years Ago 6. Cultural Diversity from 20,000 to 5,000 Years Ago 7. Archaeology of the Last 5,000 Years 8. Studying Culture 9. Language and Culture 10. Food-Getting and Economics 11. Marriage, Family, and Gender, and Sexuality 12. Political Organization 13. Supernaturalism 14. Anthropology and Sustainability Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisWith astonishing speed, we have been projected into a new reality where interactions with drones, robotic bodies, and high-level surveillance are increasingly mainstream. In this age of groundbreaking developments in robotic technologies, synthetic biology is merging with artificial intelligence, forming a newly blended reality of machines, bodies, and affect. Technologies of the New Real draws from critical intersections of technology and society including drones, surveillance, DIY bodies, and innovations in robotic technology to explore what these advances can tell us about our present reality, or what authors Arthur and Marilouise Kroker deem the new real of digital culture in the twenty-first century. Technologies of the New Real explores the many technologies of our present reality as they infiltrate the social, political, and economic static of our everyday lives, seemingly eroding traditionally conceived boundaries between humans and machines, anTable of Contents1. Preface: I Stepped into the Future and It Wasn’t There 2. DIY Bodies 3. Power under Surveillance, Capitalism under Suspicion 4. Dreaming with Drones 5. Robots Trekking Across the Uncanny Valley 6. Epilogue: From the Upsurge of the Blended Mind to Gen Z

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Book SynopsisFor young people, the space of the drama classroom can be a space for deep learning as they struggle across difference to create something together with common purpose. Collaborating across institutions, theatres, and community spaces, the research in Hope in a Collapsing World mobilizes theatre to build its methodology and create new data with young people as they seek the language of performance to communicate their worries, fears, and dreams to a global network of researchers and a wider public. A collaboration between a social scientist and a playwright and using both ethnographic study and playwriting, Hope in a Collapsing World represents a groundbreaking hybrid format of research text and original script titled Towards Youth: A Play on Radical Hope for reading, experimentation, and performance. Table of ContentsDedication Figures and Tables Acknowledgements I Acknowledgements II Prologue Part I: Listening, Pedagogy, Theatre, and Cultural Citizenship Listening as an Artful Practice of Care Listening and Caring as Political Acts Creating Social Value from Theatre The System: Worlds Apart but Structurally Familiar The Settings: Brief Social, Political and Educational Portraits of Athens, Lucknow, Coventry, Tainan, Toronto Athens, Greece: Setting the Context Lucknow, India: Setting the Context Coventry, England: Setting the Context Tainan, Taiwan: Setting the Context Toronto, Canada: Setting the Context Ethnography and its Ecologies An Overview of Data Collection A Word about Ethnography The Qualitative Landscape: Care and Cultural Citizenship Daring to Dream in Greek Austerity Misfit Citizenship and Political Personhood in India: A Methodology of Critical Dialogue and Rehearsed Futurity Hope, Performance Pedagogies, and Democratic Citizenship Canley Youth Theatre’s Missive to the World—Listen A Pedagogy of Hope Tainan Students Making the World they Need The Self, the Collective: Theatre and Social Change Interdependency Against All Odds Voicing Toronto Stories for a more Equal World The Territory of Race, Racism, and Gender in Verbatim Theatre Creation Visible and Invisible Vulnerabilities in Oral History Storytelling Muckles’ Story of Hearing and Being Heard Youth Alienation from Mainstream Politics: Who is the Knowledgeable Citizen? Devising Theatre, Identity and the Search for Structure and Meaning Hope and Care in the Quantitative Landscape Key Quantitative Findings Across Sites ‘Outside the Mainstream’ and the Nature of Personal Hope and Experiences of Care Generating Hope through Self-Creation in the School, the Community, and in the Drama-Making Space Young People as Care-Givers Finding and Giving Care in Context To Conclude: Wrestling Towards Hope through Relationships of Care Epilogue: Acting in Concert Turning Towards Part II: Towards Youth Audience Research Part II: A Step Towards Youth By Andrew Kushnir Towards Youth: A Play on Radical Hope By Andrew Kushnir Appendix References Index

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Book SynopsisSkating on Thin Ice exposes the culture of toxic masculinity in professional hockey and suggests how sport and society can change the narrative on sexual assault and violence.Why is it that professional sports, and notably hockey, remain a bastion for rape culture and violence against women? What are the conditions that allow a culture of toxic masculinity to persist despite awakenings elsewhere in society? What is the path forward, and how do we make officials, coaches, and athletes accountable?Drawing on decades of award-winning sociological research and sports journalism, Walter S. DeKeseredy, Martin D. Schwartz, and veteran sportswriter Stu Cowan find answers to these questions in Skating on Thin Ice.The book examines the abusive, misogynistic, racist, and homophobic behaviors found in professional hockey and explains the larger societal forces that perpetuate and legitimate these harms. Confirming a recent federal government inquiry iTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Foreword Heather Mallick 1. More Than a Few Bad Men 2. In Their Own Words: Giving Voice to the Survivors of Professional Hockey Violence and Sexism 3. With a Little Help from Their Friends: Male Peer Support and Violence against Women 4. Other Key Elements of a Rape-Supportive Culture in Professional Hockey 5. The Puck Drops Here: Prevention and Control Strategies Afterword Jack Todd Notes Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisStates of Liberation traces the paths of gay men in East and West Germany from the violent aftermath of the Second World War to the thundering nightclubs of present-day Berlin. Following a captivating cast of characters, from gay spies and Nazi scientists to queer politicians and secret police bureaucrats, States of Liberation tells the remarkable story of how the two German states persecuted gay men and how those men slowly, over the course of decades, won new rights and created new opportunities for themselves in the heart of Cold War Europe. Relying on untapped archives in Germany and the United States as well as oral histories with witnesses and survivors, Huneke reveals that communist East Germany was in many ways far more progressive on queer issues than democratic West Germany. Trade Review"Samuel Clowes Huneke’s comparative look at gay life in postwar Germany, divided between a liberal capitalist West and a state socialist East, offers a unique opportunity to think through this history in more complicated ways that will resonate in many national contexts. Huneke is elegantly able to ‘weave together and to compare the trajectories of male homosexuality in the two German states across the span of forty years’ – an ambitious project which constitutes his primary intervention." -- Cristopher Ewing * Journal of Social History"States of Liberation is a pioneering, field-shaping masterpiece. This exceptional book will be a staple of the study of post-war Germany." -- Jason Johnson, History, Trinity University * German Politics and Society *“Through intricately detailed stories and rich sources – many of which were oral interviews conducted by Huneke himself – it illuminates the complexities of gay life and activism in both Germanys. Huneke’s work on the GDR is an especially welcome addition to a canon that often focuses on West Germany or overlooks entanglements between the two states.” -- Alexandria N. Ruble, Spring Hill College * Journal of History *“Huneke’s dialectical approach to this history is attuned to complexity and contradiction, delineating the main developments, interrelations, and transformations that occurred in the social processes of liberation.” -- George de Stefano * PopMatters *“States of Liberation makes a major historiographic intervention in the history of sexual citizenship, and deserves a wide readership not only among historians of sexuality but anyone interested in better understanding Cold War Germany.” -- Craig Griffiths, Manchester Metropolitan University“A much-needed corrective to the commonly held beliefs that gay liberation was – and is – only possible in Western consumer-capitalist nations … Huneke has written the first history of the gay movement in the two German states from the 1950s until reunification.” -- Javier Samper Vendrell, University of Pennsylvania * Central European History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Place Names Terms and Abbreviations List of Figures Introduction 1. Dance on a Volcano: Homosexuality from the German Empire to Zero Hour 2. Paranoid Republic: §175 and West Germany’s Persecution of Gay Men 3. Equivocal Animus: Homosexuality and Socialism in East Germany 4. Ever Disdained, Ever Despised: The Crooked Path of Emancipation in West Germany 5. Gay Spies in Cold War Germany 6. Three Million Votes: Gay Citizenship and Power in West Germany 7. Into the Labyrinth: When Gay Activists Met the Socialist State 8. “I’m not the Chancellor of the Gays”: Homosexual Politics in 1980s West Germany 9. A Golden Age in the Grey Republic: Liberation and the Stasi in East Germany Epilogue Appendices Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWritten by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, Voicing Identity examines the issue of cultural appropriation in the contexts of researching, writing, and teaching about Indigenous peoples. This book grapples with the questions of who is qualified to engage in these activities and how this can be done appropriately and respectfully.The authors address these questions from their individual perspectives and experiences, often revealing their personal struggles and their ongoing attempts to resolve them. There is diversity in perspectives and approaches, but also a common goal: to conduct research and teach in respectful ways that enhance understanding of Indigenous histories, cultures, and rights, and promote reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.Bringing together contributors with diverse backgrounds and unique experiences, Voicing Identity will be of interest to students and scholars studying Indigenous issues as well as Table of ContentsIntroduction John Borrows and Kent McNeil 1. Su-taxwiye: Keeping My Name Clean Sarah Morales 2. At the Corner of Hawks and Powell: Settler Colonialism, Indigenous People, and the Conundrum of Double Permanence Keith Carlson 3. Look at Your "Pantses": The Art of Wearing and Representing Indigenous Culture as Performative Relationship Aimée Craft 4. Indigenous Legal Traditions, De-sacralization, Re-sacralization, and the Space for Not-Knowing Hadley Friedland 5. Mino-audjiwaewin: Choosing Respect, Even in Times of Conflict Lindsay Borrows 6. How Could You Sleep When Beds Are Burning? Cultural Appropriation and the Place of Non-Indigenous Academics Felix Hoehn 7. Who Should Teach Indigenous Law? Karen Drake and A. Christian Airhart 8. Reflections on Cultural Appropriation Michael Asch 9. Turning Away from the State: Cultural Appropriation in the Shadow of the Courts John Borrows 10. Voice and Indigenous Rights Robert Hamilton 11. Guided by Voices? Perspective and Pluralism in the Constitutional Order Joshua Nichols 12. NONU WEL,WEL TI,Á NE TȺ,EȻEȽ: Our Canoe Is Really Tippy kQwa'st'not and Hannah Askew 13. Sharp as a Knife: Judge Begbie and Reconciliation Hamar Foster 14. On Getting It Right the First Time: Researching the Constitution Express Emma Feltes 15. Confronting Dignity Injustices Sa’ke’j Henderson Contributors

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Book SynopsisIn Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds, Didier Zúñiga examines the possibility for dialogue and mutual understanding in human and more-than-human worlds. The book responds to the need to find more democratic ways of listening to, giving voice to, and caring for the variety of beings that inhabit the earth. Drawing on ecology and sustainability in democratic theory, Zúñiga demonstrates the transformative potential of a relational ethics that is not only concerned with human animals, but also with the multiplicity of beings on earth, and the relationships in which they are enmeshed. The book offers ways of cultivating and fostering the kinds of relations that are needed to maintain human and more-than-human diversity in order for life to persist. It also calls attention to the quality of the relationships that are needed for life to flourish, advancing our understanding of the diversity of pluralism. Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds ultimately presses us toTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Towards a Relational Ethics with Nature 1. Bound by Reasonableness 2. Vulnerability and the Need for Care 3. To Think and Act Ecologically: The Environment, Human Animality, Nature 4. What Vulnerability Entails: Sustainability and the Limits of Political Pluralism 5. Nature’s Relations: Ontology, Vulnerability, Agency 6. The Democracy of the Neglected: Mutual Understanding and Sustainability in a World of Many Worlds Conclusion: Retrieving Nature Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisChronicling sixteenth-century Spain to the present day, Beyond Human aims to decentre the human and acknowledge the material historicity of more-than-human nature. The book explores key questions relating to ecological equity, justice, and responsibility within and beyond Spain in the Anthropocene. Examining relations between Iberian cultural practices, historical developments, and ecological processes, Maryanne L. Leone, Shanna Lino, and the contributors to this volume reveal the structures that uphold and dismantle the non-humanhuman dichotomy and nature-culture divide. The book critiques works from the Golden Age to the twenty-first century in a wide range of genres, including comedia, royal treatises, agricultural reports, paintings, satirical essays, horror fiction and film, young adult and speculative literature, poetry, graphic novels, and television series. The authors contend that Spanish cultural studies must expose the material historicity thTable of ContentsList of Map and Illustrations Foreword Luis I. Prádanos Acknowledgments Introduction: Historicizing the Ecocrisis: Beyond-Human Experiences in Spanish Natureculture Maryanne L. Leone and Shanna Lino Part One: Tracing Environmental Culture in Spain 1. Lope’s Los guanches de Tenerife y conquista de Gran Canaria: An Ecolonialist Reading Bonnie L. Gasior 2. Birdsong and the Earth’s Polyrhythm: The Life of a Caged Blue Rock Thrush in Early Modern Spain John Beusterien 3. Water Grabbing and the Dammed Esla: The Enchanted Waters of Jorge de Montemayor and the Riaño Reservoir Margaret Marek 4. Of Witches and Land Reform in Enlightenment Spain Daniel Frost 5. Plant, Animal, and Human Consciousness in Julio Llamazares’s Luna de lobos Olga Colbert Part Two: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene 6. Leonardo Torres Quevedo’s Automata and the Consolidation of Technological Regenerationism Óscar Iván Useche 7. The Specter of Capitalism: Reading the Anthropocene in Vicente Blasco Ibáñez’s Cañas y barro Michael L. Martínez, Jr. 8. Jesús Carrasco’s Intemperie: The Literature of Post-Immunological Modernity William Viestenz 9. Transhumanism and Necropolitics in Rosa Montero’s Times of Hatred Juan Carlos Martín Galván 10. The Salvage Poetics of Ben Clark’s Basura Micah McKay Part Three: Disruptive Agentic Paradigms 11. Ecofeminist Materialism and Entanglements of Care in Sara Mesa’s Un incendio invisible Maryanne L. Leone 12. Trans-Corporeal Matter Narratives in Hierro Ma Luz González-Rodríguez and Ma Concepción Brito-Vera 13. ¡El toro no entiende de toreo!: Taurine Naturecultures, Wenceslao Fernández Flórez’s Antitaurine Essays, and the Emergence of Posthumanist Views of Animals in Spain Daniel Ares-López 14. Ecohorror as Critique of Anthropogenic (Self-)Destruction in Sánchez Piñol’s Cold Skin Shanna Lino Part Four: Medium as Activism Igniter 15. Monstrous Humanity: An Ecopostcolonial Reading of Laura Gallego García’s Trilogy Guardianes de la Ciudadela Victoria L. Ketz 16. La cuenta atrás: An Ecodystopian Graphic Novel on Spain’s Greatest Ecological Disaster Carla Almanza-Gálvez 17. Drawing Ecological Thought: Anthropomorphism and Satire as Critique of Capitalism in the Twenty-First-Century Spanish Comic Christine M. Martínez List of Contributors Index

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