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Book SynopsisA roadmap for humanity to create the next era of civilisation.

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Book SynopsisThe author, responsible for marketing of the Famous Grouse for fifteen years, has been in a unique position to record the decline of the malt distillery and also to look at the remaining distilleries and explain why they survive today. The story is one of politics, taxation, social history, location, supply and demand and sheer perseverance on the part of some. Illustrated with around 175 colour illustrations of distilleries old and new, and of the processes involved in the manufacture of Scotland''s biggest single export.

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Book SynopsisJames O'Brien is an award-winning writer and broadcaster whose journalism has appeared everywhere from the TLS to the Daily Mirror. His daily current affairs programme on LBC is the most popular talk show on commercial radio with over 1.4 million weekly listeners and his first book, How To Be Right, was a Sunday Times bestseller, which won the Parliamentary Book Award for Best Political Book by a non-politician. He is often to be found on Twitter trying not to get into arguments unless absolutely necessary.Trade ReviewO’Brien is an exceptional broadcaster with a peerless ability to calmly point out the absurdity of certain viewpoints, a quality which similarly runs through this book ... provides a much-needed examination of the blustering rhetoric of politicians and media pundits, and brings a sliver of comfort to readers that they are not alone in their despair. -- The GuardianO’Brien is an exceptional broadcaster with a peerless ability to calmly point out the absurdity of certain viewpoints, a quality which similarly runs through this book ... provides a much-needed examination of the blustering rhetoric of politicians and media pundits, and brings a sliver of comfort to readers that they are not alone in their despair. -- The GuardianJames O’Brien has become the conscience of liberal Britain * New Statesman *Almost indecently enjoyable -- Robert WebbI know few broadcasters as consistently, forensically, brilliant as James O’ Brien. Here, he shows us -- with empathy, edge and exquisite comedy -- how it happens -- Emily MaitlisIn the age of the tweet, such verbal ability increasingly seems like a superpower * The Times *A simply brilliant read ... I love this book! -- Jamie OliverA total joy. If you feel like the world is going to hell in a handcart, here's the brakes -- Caitlin MoranThis book is required reading to slice through the rhetoric, slogans & bluster of politics and politicians. James is the broadcaster we need right now, setting the world to rights one call at a time -- Susanna ReidFunny, clever and alarming ... a modern day travelogue through the airwaves with all the mistrust, misinformation, contradictions and manipulation laid bare -- Krishnan Guru-MurthyIntelligent, funny and worrying. An unsurprisingly brilliant read from a great broadcaster. I vehemently wish that everyone would read it. The World and this country would be a better place if they did. -- Gary LinekerFunny, wise and passionate. Like Yoda with better grammar. -- Danny WallaceI am stupidly excited about this book -- The Secret BarristerThis book made me smarter. And it made me laugh and nod my head, all the while thinking ‘bloody hell, I wish I could argue like James’. Cogent, necessary, insightful and often very funny. -- Elizabeth Day

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Book SynopsisThe only book that tells the whole story of the internet from its origins in the 1940s to the advent of the worldwide web at the dawn of the 21st centuryThe Internet is the most remarkable thing human beings have built since the Pyramids. John Naughton''s book intersperses wonderful personal stories with an authoritative account of where the Net actually came from, who invented it and why, and where it might be taking us. Most of us have no idea of how the Internet works or who created it. Even fewer have any idea of what it means for society and the future. In a cynical age, John Naughton has not lost his capacity for wonder. He examines the nature of his own enthusiasm for technology and traces its roots in his lonely childhood and in his relationship with his father. A Brief History of the Future is an intensely personal celebration of vision and altruism, ingenuity and determination and above all, of the power of ideas, passionately felt, to change the worl

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Book SynopsisNewly updated, the history of naval aviation, from pioneering days when the first biplanes were catapulted from converted destroyers through to the high-performance jets patrolling the world's seas, fully illustrated throughout.

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Book SynopsisA complex and subtle portrait of a beautiful and fascinating region, blighted by historical prejudice and conflictTrade ReviewBrilliant. * Time *Admirable, rigorous. De Waal [is] a wise and patient reporter. * The New York Review of Books *This book is a major milestone in the Western scholarship on Karabakh. * Armenian Freedom Network *Never have all the twists and turns, sad carnage, and bullheadedness on all sides been better described-or, indeed, better explained . . . Offers a deeper and more compelling account of the conflict than anyone before. * Foreign Affairs *This book is helpful because in order to craft a final resolution to the conflict, one must understand what events transpired in the first place. De Waal's book significantly contributes to this purpose and establishes itself as one of the standard works for understanding this conflict. * Parameters *Table of ContentsContentsAuthor's Note ixPreface to the Revised Edition xiiiTwo Maps, of the South Caucasus and of Nagorny Karabakh xviii-xixIntroduction: Crossing the Line 11. February 1988: An Armenian Revolt 112. February 1988: Azerbaijan: Puzzlement and Pogroms 303. Shusha: The Neighbors' Tale 464. 1988-1989: An Armenian Crisis 565. Yerevan: Mysteries of the East 746. 1988-1990: An Azerbaijani Tragedy 837. Baku: An Eventful History 968. 1990-1991: A Soviet Civil War 1089. Divisions: A Twentieth-Century Story 13910. Hurekavank: The Unpredictable Past 15811. August 1991-May 1992: War Breaks Out 17212. Shusha: The Last Citadel 1969780814760321_de waal_text.indd 7 4/23/13 9:08 AMviii*CONTENTS13. June 1992-September 1993: Escalation 20714. Sabirabad: The Children's Republic 22915. September 1993-May 1994: Exhaustion 23716. Stepanakert: A State Apart 25217. 1994-2001: No War, No Peace 26218. Sadakhlo: "They Fight, We Don't" 27919. 2001-2012: Deadlock and Estrangement 284Conclusion: Seeking Peace in Karabakh 305Appendix 1: Statistics 325Appendix 2: Chronology 329Notes 341Bibliography 367Index 375About the Author 387All illustrations appear as a group following p

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Book SynopsisLeading cultural and political theorists argue that any account of experience, agency, and political action demands attention to the urgent issues of our own material existence and environment.Trade Review“Overall, the volume makes a convincing case for the renewal of materialism, in terms of both its theoretical purchase and its radical political potential. It shows, in ways that are often exemplary, that there are rich, and sometimes surprising, resources in the philosophical tradition for renewing materialisms.” - Keith Ansell Pearson, Radical Philosophy“New materialisms offer democratic theory an important opportunity toregard its own parameters and function – what can be hoped for and why.And Coole and Frost’s volume offers a new view of the human (and thething) that are well worth regarding. . . .” - Andrew Poe, Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy“New Materialisms is an extraordinary and in fact interdisciplinary collection in its own right. . . . [T]he work coming out of the material turn is mind-blowing work, both in scholarly and in artistic research, and in art”. - Iris van der Tuin, Women’s Studies International Forum“The essays collected here—authored by leading political theorists and feminist and cultural critics—examine the ‘choreographies of becoming’ and move beyond constructivism and humanism to track processes of de- and re-materialization. The effect is to scramble habitual categories of thought—active versus passive, inert versus animate, political versus ontological, causality versus spontaneity—and force us to think materiality. As the editors put it, ‘materiality is always something more than “mere” matter: an excess, force, vitality, relationality, or difference that renders matter active, self-creative, productive, unpredictable.’”—Bonnie Honig, author of Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy“This is a strong and timely collection, one that could very well direct future discussions of the ‘new materialisms’ toward an experimental, process-oriented, and politically-engaged ‘new ontology.’”—Ellen Rooney, Brown University“New Materialisms is an extraordinary and in fact interdisciplinary collection in its own right. . . . [T]he work coming out of the material turn is mind-blowing work, both in scholarly and in artistic research, and in art”. -- Iris van der Tuin * Women's Studies International Forum *“New materialisms offer democratic theory an important opportunity toregard its own parameters and function – what can be hoped for and why.And Coole and Frost’s volume offers a new view of the human (and thething) that are well worth regarding. . . .” -- Andrew Poe * Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy *“Overall, the volume makes a convincing case for the renewal of materialism, in terms of both its theoretical purchase and its radical political potential. It shows, in ways that are often exemplary, that there are rich, and sometimes surprising, resources in the philosophical tradition for renewing materialisms.” -- Keith Ansell Pearson * Radical Philosophy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introducing the New Materialisms / Diana Coole and Samantha Frost 1 The Force of Materiality A Vitalist Stopover on the Way to a New Materialism / Jane Bennett 47 Nondialectical Materialism / Pheng Cheah 70 The Inertia of Matter and the Generativity of Flesh / Diana Coole 92 Impersonal Matter / Melissa A. Orlie 116 Political Matters Feminism, Materialism, and Freedom / Elizabeth Grosz 139 Fear and the Illusion of Autonomy / Samantha Frost 158 Materialities of Experience / William E. Connolly 178 The Politics of "Life Itself" and New Ways of Dying / Rosi Braidotti 201 Economies of Disruption The Elusive Material: What the Dog Doesn't Understand / Rey Chow 221 Orientations Matter / Sara Ahmed 234 Simon de Beauvoir: Engaging Discrepant Materialisms / Sonia Kruks 258 The Materialism of Historical Materialism / Jason Edwards 281 Bibliography 299 Contributors 319 Index 323

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Book SynopsisOn the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall,infamous symbol of divided Cold War Europe,seemed to be falling. But the opening of the gates that night was not planned by the East German ruling regime,nor was it the result of a bargain between either Ronald Reagan or George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.It was an accident.In The Collapse , Prize-winning historian Mary Elise Sarotte reveals how a perfect storm of decisions made by daring underground revolutionaries, disgruntled Stasi officers, and dictatorial party bosses sparked an unexpected series of events culminating in the chaotic fall of the Wall. With a novelist''s eye for character and detail, she brings to vivid life a story that sweeps across Budapest, Prague, Dresden, and Leipzig and up to the armed checkpoints in Berlin.We meet the revolutionaries Roland Jahn, Aram Radomski, and Siggi Schefke, risking it all to smuggle the truth across the Iron Curtain the hapless Politburo member Günter Schabowski, mistakenly suggesting that the Wall is open to a press conference full of foreign journalists, including NBC''s Tom Brokaw and Stasi officer Harald Jäger, holding the fort at the crucial border crossing that night. Soon, Brokaw starts broadcasting live from Berlin''s Brandenburg Gate, where the crowds are exulting in the euphoria of newfound freedom,and the dictators are plotting to restore control.Drawing on new archival sources and dozens of interviews, The Collapse offers the definitive account of the night that brought down the Berlin Wall.Trade ReviewFareed Zakaria GPS Book of the Week "This is easily the best book on the fall of the Berlin Wall. It reads like a thriller, it's deeply researched and smoothly written. It will remind you how unlikely it was that the Soviet empire would collapse until one day it did." Economist "[This] story has not previously been told...so vividly and comprehensively. [Sarotte] brings those dramatic days to life... The events she describes are at times so unlikely and unfold so quickly that her plot would probably have been rejected in Tinseltown had she offered it during the Cold War." Financial Times Best History Books of 2014 "An authoritative and fast-moving account of the events that led up to the collapse of East Germany." Washington Post "Sarotte is a superb historian. She's ferociously intelligent, but what really separates her from her colleagues is her acute sensitivity to human drama." Foreign Affairs "Sarotte's lively and engaging book scrupulously details the events of November 9, 1989, when the world watched in shock as the Berlin Wall came down." Guardian, UK "Sarotte has produced a skillful, scrupulously documented, nuanced reconstruction of how a series of mistakes by East German leaders and officials...turned what was meant to be a carefully managed process of controlled opening...into the world's most celebrated festival of popular liberation." Telegraph, UK "A fast-paced, fascinating account of the final weeks, days and hours of the wall." Winnipeg Free Press, CAN "Brief, intense, and gripping... Sarotte's effort is magnificent... This is history at its best." Washington Post's Post Everything Blog "The book that will haunt Vladimir Putin as long as he's in power." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "The most definitive account to date of the events that led to the demise of the German Democratic Republic, the reunification of Germany and the end of the Cold War... It is a scholarly work of considerable accomplishment, painstakingly researched, fastidiously documented... This book is well-written, even fluid. Ultimately, it rewards the patient reader, who emerges with a deeper and richer understanding of one of the most astonishing and memorable events of the past quarter century." H-Diplo "Sarotte's wonderfully written book--backed up with reams of research and interviews--explains the factors that led to one of the most important moments in the twentieth century." Booklist, starred review "An inspiring and often thrilling account." Publishers Weekly "This gripping, important account of a long-misinterpreted event is one of the most surprising books about the Cold War." Kirkus "A rigorous sifting of evidence surrounding the final toppling of the sclerotic East German state. With extensive use of Stasi files, Sarotte finds that accident, rather than planning, caused the collapse of the Berlin Wall... [T]his account amply conveys the universal amazement and excitement of the time." Library Journal "[Sarotte] utilizes international reactions, publications, and interviews to highlight or offset her main narrative and in doing so creates a cohesive picture of a tumultuous nation whose oppressed yet hopeful citizenry sought the freedom they had been denied. Amply researched and emotive, this work shares the full narrative of events leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall in a way that both academics and lay readers will appreciate." Economist Best Books of 2014 "A blow-by-blow account of the birth of modern Germany on November 9th 1989, when, at an otherwise dull press conference in East Berlin, a government spokesman said that a new law permitting East Germans more freedom to travel would go into effect immediately. It changed Europe for ever." BBC History Magazine 2014 Books of the Year "This is history writing at its very best, full of drama and pathos, yet immaculately researched and elegantly written." Zocalo Public Square 10 Best Books of 2014 "The Collapse challenges our narrative of the Soviet Union's collapse, 25 years after the Wall's fall. Sarotte deftly balances individual human agency and contingency with larger political forces to show that the Berlin Wall coming down was neither inevitable nor the result of global power shifts alone." Wall Street Journal "Sarotte runs a fine-tooth comb through the archives and gathers an impressive range of stories from the ordinary people at the heart of these extraordinary events. She is keen to dispel the kind of convenient 'hindsight bias' which claims that the peaceful fall of the Wall was inevitable or engineered by bigger forces than human beings who wanted a different life." Angela Stent, author of The Limits of Partnership: US-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century "In her compelling and fast-paced narrative, Mary Elise Sarotte reminds us that the end of the Cold War was not foreordained, but that courageous acts by East German dissidents, offhand comments by GDR officials, and the actions of one perplexed border-guard changed the course of twentieth-century history. This is essential reading for those who want to understand the role of contingency and human agency in the unexpected opening of the Berlin Wall." Serhii Plokhy, author of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union "Meticulously researched, judiciously argued, and exceptionally well written, The Collapse describes the fall of the Berlin Wall from an unprecedented perspective. Mary Elise Sarotte weaves together numerous German, American, and Soviet accounts, allowing the reader to crisscross the Berlin Wall on the eve and in the course of its collapse. It will come as a surprise to many that that this climactic event in Cold War history resulted not from agreements reached in Washington, Berlin, Moscow, or Bonn, but from the uncoordinated actions of people on both sides of the Berlin divide. The Collapse makes it possible for those who made history in 1989 to speak in their own voices." O.A. Westad, author of Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750 "History the way it should be written: world historical change, seen through the eyes of the people who lived through it, and a top historian who can tell us what it all meant. Highly recommended for everyone with an interest in global affairs." Fredrik Logevall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam "It's one of the most astonishing events in contemporary world history: the sudden fall of the Berlin Wall one autumn day in 1989. Mary Elise Sarotte tells the story with verve and insight, drawing on a wide array of previously untapped sources. The outcome, her gripping narrative suggests, was in no way inevitable, but resulted from a series of high-pressure decisions by individuals--many of them hitherto unknown--who might easily have chosen differently. A splendid book." Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Guns at Last Light "A lucid, compelling account that illuminates the most astonishing event of the late twentieth century. With verve and impeccable scholarship, Mary Elise Sarotte tells a tale no novelist could have invented--the decline and fall of the Berlin Wall." General Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Adviser "In The Collapse, Mary Elise Sarotte provides a needed (and highly readable) reminder that the peaceful culmination to 1989's dramatic developments was in no way inevitable." Tom Brokaw "The Collapse is a riveting and important account of the political chaos in East Germany that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Mary Elise Sarotte is a distinguished historian with a playwright's eye who gives us fresh insights and telling anecdotes about one of the most important nights of the late twentieth century." Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and author of The Future of Power "The fall of the Berlin Wall was one of the landmark events of the twentieth century, but this great change involved accidental and non-violent causes. In wonderfully readable prose, Mary Elise Sarotte tells a compelling story of how history works its surprises."

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Book SynopsisSomewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. And if their new routine is good enough, they’ll claw their way to the top at Nationals in Tampa Bay. A play about ambition, growing up, and how to find our souls in the heat of it all.

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Book SynopsisIn the #MeToo age, US debate over licit sex has split into two camps: one insists that consent solves the problem of sexual coercion, while the other equates sexual pleasure with the patriarchal erotics of silence and mystery. Manon Garcia rejects both positions, arguing that consent is a faulty legal threshold but essential to the joy of good sex.Trade ReviewFrom the bedroom to the classroom to the courtroom, ‘consent’ is a key term in our contemporary sexual ethics. In this timely reexamination, Manon Garcia deftly reveals the hidden complexities of consent and proposes how to reconceptualize it as a tool of liberation. -- Amia Srinivasan, author of The Right to SexA brilliant interrogation of the complexities of consent. Manon Garcia shows us that consent can be liberating—for reasons we might not have expected—in enabling good, joyful sex. A must-read. -- Kate Manne, author of Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts WomenNot since Catharine MacKinnon has a thinker so lucidly and compellingly challenged the way we think about women’s sexual oppression. Manon Garcia spells out for us what we already should have known: that our current understanding of consent is not doing the work that we need it to do and that we have the power to ameliorate it. This book is no less than a blueprint for a new feminist revolution. -- Nancy Bauer, author of How to Do Things with Pornography

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Book SynopsisThis richly illustrated books tells the story of the different ways in which women were represented in Italian Renaissance painting. -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Women, men and society: painted marriage furniture2 Profile portraits in the Quattrocento: cirtue and status3 Portraits 1480–1560: beauty and power4 Female nudes in Renaissance art5 The cult of female saints: images of devotion and exemplaConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisA unique collaboration between a retired Great Train Robber and Britain’s former most senior Railway DetectiveTrade ReviewIn all respects this is more definitive a work on the subject than anyone else is likely to be able to write. -- David HatcherAn engaging policeman's view with new insights. -- Nick Russell-Pavier

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Book SynopsisWhere''s Bob? On a mountaintop? In a wooded forest? Maybe a TV studio? Find the world''s favorite painting instructor in more than a dozen unique settings within this original search-and-find activity book. Where''s Bob? includes 15 full-color illustrated scenes to search for Bob Ross in sites reminiscent of his paintings, such as at a riverbank, the seaside, or woods, as well as settings inspired by the artist''s life experiences, including a TV studio and shopping mall. The book also invites you to find items like Peapod the squirrel, Bob''s paint palette, and his paintbrush within the illustrations. Happy searching!

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Book SynopsisDue to the specific nature of the Marine Corps'' mission, the Marines has a acute need for amphibious vehicles. From the Vietnam War through today, the USMC has relied on four primary types of tracked amphibians: the T46E1/M76 Otter, M116 Husky, LVTP5, and LVTP7/AAV7A1. This new book provides a useful photographic overview of all these vehicles. More than 300 black-and-white and color photos make this a valuable resource for modelers, artists, and restoration experts.

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Book SynopsisProvides a provocative interpretation of American Government. This title shows how democracy is repeatedly violated by corporate oligopolies, and how popular forces have fought back and occasionally made gains in spite of the system.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Partisan Politics. 2. A Constitution for the Few. 3. Rise of the Corporate State. 4. Wealth and Want in the United States. 5. Institutions and Ideologies. 6. Politics: Who Gets What? 7. Health and Human Services: Sacrificial Lambs. 8. The Last Environment. 9. Unequal before the Law. 10. Political Repression and National Insecurity. 11. The U.S. Global Military Empire. 12. Who Governs? Elites, Labor, and Globalization. 13. Mass Media: For the Many, by the Few. 14. Voters, Parties, and Stolen Elections. 15. Congress: The Pocketing of Power. 16. The President: Guardian of the System. 17. The Political Economy of Bureaucracy. 18. The Supremely Political Court. 19. Democracy for the Few.

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Book SynopsisTeaching beginners is a huge responsibility and a challenge, but also reaps enormous rewards. This handbook for various instrumental and singing teachers offers a comprehensive advice and practical strategies on how to teach beginners. It also offers solutions to the challenges faced in music education. It discusses practice ideas for beginners.Trade ReviewI feel this book is essential reading for every instrumental and singing teacher who takes pupils at any level. Whether beginner or postgraduate (as Harris points out at the end of his book), the same guiding principle apply to teaching all pupils. Everything he writes is sensible and wise, and clearly expressed. Piano Professional Magazine, Summer 2009 Improve Your Teaching! Teaching Beginners….deals specifically with the challenge and responsibility of teaching beginners correctly and effectively with creativity and enthusiasm…. If you are contemplating studying for any sort of teaching diploma or doing an instrumental teaching course, or just need some fresh ideas, this book is well worth having as it will enable you to plan your own beginners’ curriculum, give you numerous creative ideas to enhance lessons and will help you to ve more thoroughly prepared for any viva voce. It is not a text book, but an inspirational practical guide at a very reasonable price; buy it and use it! Music Teacher Magazine, November 2008 I wouldn’t normally write copious notes in the margin of a new book, or underline sections whilst reading it for the first time, but such is the inspirational level of Paul Harris’ latest book that I felt it was essential to take in his wise words of wisdom in big gulps…..the book continues with so many wows that all I can say is buy a copy and get reading. It’s brilliant for dyed-in-the-wool teachers like me or those starting out…If only there had been books like this when I was starting 30 years ago! European String Teachers Association Newsletter, Autumn 2008

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Book SynopsisSchofield & Sims Grammar and Punctuation is a comprehensive programme for teaching grammar and punctuation while also building on vocabulary, reading and writing skills. The Grammar 6 Teacher's Guide supports the explicit teaching of grammar and punctuation through structured lessons, stimulating focus texts and easy-to-use assessment.

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Book Synopsis''Every woman on Earth should read it'' Caroline Overington, Weekend AustralianHaving lived through the humiliation and bewildering complexity of heartbreak in her twenties, Nikki Gemmell eventually resurfaced, reclaimed space for herself and found her voice. Decades later she has written a deeply personal, profoundly intimate reflection on love and female creativity, and what happens when the two collide in a man''s world.Dissolve is a conversation. A conversation with the young women of Gemmell''s teenage daughter''s generation, and of course with men.''Reading this memoir is like therapy for the soul'' ArtsHub''one of the most enriching, yet debilitating reads I''ve experienced... tremendous, moving writing'' Jessie Tu, Women''s Agenda''Nikki Gemmell wrote this book for me, and I suspect there will be many women who feel the same way... Each page is imbued with startling self-awareness and profound wis

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Book SynopsisReal talk about transgender experiences from Gigi Gorgeous and GottmikIn this fabulous, fashion-forward guide, transgender icons Gigi Gorgeous and Gottmik discuss the ins and outs of being transgender with their honest, hilarious, and GORGEOUS tales of what it means to be true to oneself-and they''ve picked up a few friends along the way.Whether you''re embarking on your own transgender journey or seeking the knowledge to be the best ally you can be, there is something to be learned from every story they tell.Join the conversation with Gigi and Gottmik as they get real with discussions on:-the gender and sexuality spectrums-the experience of coming out-navigating gendered public restrooms-parenting transgender children-the concepts of physical and internal transitions-tips and tricks for more masculine or feminine features-cosmetic and confirmation surgeryThe T Guide also includes anecdotes and adv

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Book Synopsis1. An important new book by Habermas -- one of the worlda s leading social and political thinkers. 2. Addresses the impact of globalization on politics and cultural identity. 3. Accessible to non--specialists, this book is an excellent introduction to Habermasa views.Trade ReviewJürgen Habermas has been awarded the prestigious 'Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels' prize for 2001 'The Reader gains a firm appreciation of how Habermas's social theory applies to political realities ... These new books by Habermas will be indispensable for years to come [and will] undoubtedly make provocative reading.' Anthony Elliott, The Australian 'Habermas is that rare mixture of respected scholar and public intellectual. [This book] is one of his most accessible to date ... [it] is an impressive collection of essays on political issues of the day ... More generally, the book contains the thoughts of a great European intellectual of the Left who has not lost his nerve. And for this alone it is worth the money. After the 'debate' in Northern Ireland and the general lack of understanding in some circles, our political class could use a few copies.' FortnightTable of ContentsEditor's Introduction. Foreword. What is a People? The Frankfurt "Germanists' Assembly" of 1846 and the Self-Understanding of the Humanities in the Vorm?rz. On the Public Use of History. Learning from Catastrophe? A Look Back at the Short Twentieth Century. The Postnational Constellation and the Future of Democracy. Remarks on Legitimation through Human Rights. Conceptions of Modernity: A Look Back at Two Traditions. The Differing Rhythms of Philosophy and Politics: Herbert Marcuse at 100. An Argument against Cloning: Three Replies. Notes. Index

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Book SynopsisArgues that responding to a number of factors like air quality, housing, public health, community safety, segregation, and neighborhood conditions are essential to improving academic outcomes and student health. This volume urges readers to reconsider what education policy is, what it could be, who it is for, and who should be directly shaping it.Table of Contents Contents Foreword Becky Pringle   v Acknowledgments  vii 1.  Our Children Can't Wait: The Urgency of Reinventing Education Policy in America  1 Joseph P. Bishop 2.  Grappling With America's History to Inform Our Future Policies  11 Arnold F. Fege and John H. Jackson 3.  Making Children a National Priority: Overcoming the Marginalization and Invisibility of Children  23 Bruce Lesley 4.  Whose Vision of Racial Equity?: Reinventing Education Policy in Post–Civil Rights America  41 Sonya Douglass and Anna Kushner 5.  Developing Policy for the Whole Child  58 Linda Darling-Hammond and Channa Mae Cook 6.  Starting in School: Education Policies to Dismantle Systemic Racism  76 Tyrone C. Howard 7.  Youths' Health and Learning Connection  92 Alexandra Mays and Rochelle Davis 8.  Air Pollution, Exposure to Contaminants, and Education Policy  109 Sara Grineski and Timothy Collins 9.  Promoting Equity and Justice Through Integrated Schools and Communities  133 Jennifer B. Ayscue and Erica Frankenberg 10.  Housing Strategies as Education Policy  154 Megan Gallagher 11.  Reimagining School Safety During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Call for Policy Strategies to Address Racial and Social Justice  174 Heather M. Reynolds and Ron Avi Astor 12.  Toward Transformative Justice in School Finance  194 Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos, Danielle Farrie, and David M. Quinn 13.  Youth Wildin' in the (Re)Shaping of Policy: Toward a Critical Model of Racial Justice and Community Accountability  212 Justin A. Coles, Keisha L. Green, and Jamila Lyiscott 14.  Youth Incarceration and Education Policy  232 Angela James 15.  Students Experiencing Homelessness: A National Crisis  251 Matthew H. Morton, Earl J. Edwards, and Melissa Kull 16.  Bringing the Vision Together: How to Reach the Policies We Need  269 Joseph P. Bishop About the Contributors  281 Index  285

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Book SynopsisOffers a detailed analysis of the end of the Vicksburg Campaign and the forty-day siege. Ranging in scope from military to social history, contributors examine the role of Grant's staff, contributions of African American troops to the Union Army of the Tennessee, both sides' use of sharpshooters, the use of West Point siege theory, and more.Trade ReviewAn impressively informative body of original Civil War scholarship."—James A. Cox Midwest Book Review"Topically diverse in addressing matters on and off the battlefield (mostly the former), Vicksburg Besieged is another solid entry in the ongoing Civil War Campaigns in the West series and a notable contribution to our understanding of the still relatively understudied siege phase of the Vicksburg Campaign."—Andrew Wagenhoffer Civil War Books and Authors"Drawing on many decades of study, the contributors to Vicksburg Besiegedsupply welcome new perspectives on a pivotal moment in Civil War history. While these well-written essays will appeal chiefly to students of the war’s military history, historians of the environment, health, food, and the senses will discover much fodder for their future work."—Brian Matthew Jordan Civil War Monitor"Despite the battlefield being preserved in the Vicksburg National Military Park, the Siege of Vicksburg garners much less attention than other phases of the campaign. Yet its importance as the capstone of the campaign, where victory and defeat finally came, cannot be diminished. Scholars are slowly beginning to turn more attention to these events, and this collection of topical essays provides a wonderful introduction to several areas of importance in the siege."—Timothy B. Smith, author of The Decision Was Always My Own: Ulysses S. Grant and the Vicksburg Campaign"This collection of essays includes some of the best recent history written about the events during the siege of Vicksburg. It illuminates the importance of Vicksburg and how its surrender was a blow from which the Confederacy could not recover. The loss of Vicksburg was a turning point in the Civil War, because it effectively isolated the Trans-Mississippi from the rest of the Confederate states, and this excellent book provides a new look at various activities during the siege."—Anne J. Bailey, author of The Chessboard of War: Sherman and Hood in the Autumn Campaigns of 1864Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Charles D. Grear 1. “By Hazard and by Spasms”: Grant and HisStaff at the Siege of Vicksburg Andrew S. Bledsoe 2. “Standing on the Banks”: African American Troops in the Vicksburg Campaign Scott L. Stabler and Martin J. Hershock 3. Plying the Deadly Trade: The Sharpshooters’ War at the Siege of Vicksburg Jonathan M. Steplyk 4. Nights at Vicksbur Steven E. Woodworth 5. Andrew Hickenlooper and the Vicksburg Mines Justin S. Solonick 6. A Community Besieged: Civilians of the Vicksburg Campaign John J. Gaines 7. Mournful Melodies: LouisianansPlayed the Swan Song of the Army of Relief Richard H. Holloway 8. “West of the Mississippi to UsIsNearly a Sealed Book”: Trans-Mississippians and the Fall of Vicksburg Charles D. Grear Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDuring his more than fifty-year writing career, American Jewish philosopher Horace Kallen incorporated a deep focus on science into his pragmatic philosophy of life. In this intellectual biography, Kaufman explores Kallen's life and illumines how American scientific culture inspired not only Kallen's thought but that of an entire generation.

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Book SynopsisExplores Beyoncé’s impact as an artist and public figure.

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Book SynopsisThrough a compilation of essays written by professional historians with expertise in a diverse array of eras and fields, Michael Gagnon and Matthew Hild’s collection explores Gwinnett County’s history in a systematic way - avoiding the pitfalls of nonprofessional local histories.

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Book SynopsisExplores complex social issues through personal narrative. Jerome Morris does so by blending social-science research with his own memoir of life in Birmingham, Alabama. As Morris’s experiential narrative voice unfolds, the reader is brought on a journey of what life is like for people who live and die at the intersection of race and poverty.Trade ReviewCentral City’s Joy and Pain is not just a story about events that took place several decades ago but is also well connected to the systems that remain in place for the perpetuation of Black oppression. Jerome E. Morris has done a great job of sharing his experiences with the broader community, and readers—not only in Birmingham and the South, but well beyond—will be enriched by the experiences and insights conveyed here." - Charles Connerly, professor emeritus of urban and regional planning, University of Iowa

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Book SynopsisPeople's Car studies divergent populist responses to land acquisition for industries in rural India. It contends that landownership enables small landowners to aspire and look forward to social mobility in the non-farm sector, which are contingent upon industrialization. The protests against land acquisition, thus, have contradictory tendencies.Trade ReviewAmid a glut of work on the urban global South, it is refreshing to read a book that strives to think the contemporary dynamics of development and agrarian change ethnographically. The book convincingly argues that the romanticized portrayals of either the communitarian peasant (commonplace in activist portrayals) or the irrational peasant (commonplace in policy circles and certain quarters of disciplinary economics) miss the point. Land, Majumder argues, is a vessel of personhood and unrequited desires. Attentive to the conflicted sentiments and desires of its peasant informants, the book refreshingly refuses to toe a clear ideological line. This well-crafted, clearly written book poses important questions of broad relevance to contemporary India and beyond. -- Vinay Gidwani, University of MinnesotaPeople’s Car offers an extraordinarily valuable take on a major movement against the acquisition of land for development, in the case of a Tata Motors car factory. The factory becomes the alibi for nuanced interrogations, both material and theoretical, of resistance, anthropology, economics, political economies, rural-scapes and the very nature and idea of land. -- Geeta Patel, University of VirginiaSarasij Majumder’s new ethnography, People’s Car, does what anthropology does best: he shows (not tells) how populism works... Anthropologists, South Asia scholars, and readers interested in class, labor, gender and village life will greatly benefit from Majumder’s attention to the rural not as object, but as process. * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *Majumder’s book deserves to be read by everybody interested in the present of West Bengal as history; so that, above all, one may not mistake snake oils of the past for elixirs of the future.---Indraneel Dasgupta, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, Economic and Political WeeklyTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations ix A Timeline of the Events in Singur xi Introduction. Life Beyond Land: Aspirations, Ambivalence, and the Double Life of Development 1 1. “We Are Chasis, Not Chasas”: Emergence of Land-Based Subjectivities 33 2. Land Is Like Gold: (In)commensurability and the Politics of Land 62 3. Land Is Like a Mother: The Contradictions of Village-Level Protests 100 4. “Peasants” Against Industrialization: Images of the Peasantry and Urban Activists’ Representations of the Rural 131 Conclusion: Value Versus Values? 153 Postscript: From a Defunct Factory to a “Crematorium” 167 Acknowledgments 171 Glossary 175 References 177 Index 193 Photographs follow page 14

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Book SynopsisExamines gang history in the region encompassing West Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico. Mike Tapia examines this region by exploring a century of historical developments through a criminological lens and by studying the diverse subcultures on both sides of the law.Trade Review�Tapia provides a sorely needed supplement to our knowledge of gangs in the Southwest, giving us a detailed history of gang development, cartel and street-gang relations, and the evolution of street�prison gang hybrids in the El Paso, Las Cruces, and Ju�rez regions.��Christian Bolden, contributor to The Encyclopedia of Theoretical Criminology �Very rarely do criminologists get to read an authoritative book by an authoritative scholar on a topic with great interest but little scholarly attention. Tapia�s book is a landmark achievement on the gangs of the El Paso�Ju�rez region in a one-hundred-year time period. You will not be able to put this book down.��Alex R. Piquero, coeditor of Rational Choice and Criminal Behavior: Resent Research and Future Challenges

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Book SynopsisArgues for the importance of ecocritical approaches within the field of Mexican Studies. This book engages with established and up-and-coming Latin American ecocritical scholars who argue that Latin America offers an important corrective to Anglocentric approaches to the Anthropocene by foregrounding colonialism and empire.Trade ReviewCarolyn Fornoff’s insightful and clearly written Subjunctive Aesthetics draws inspiration from a grammatical mood expressing uncertainty and emotion to offer a new interpretation of twenty-first-century Mexican cultural production addressing ecological catastrophe. An innovative contribution to Latin American Environmental Humanities research, Subjunctive Aesthetics stakes an eloquent claim for the capacity of literature, visual arts, and film to imagine the possibilities of a post-extractivist world." —Charlotte Rogers, author of Mourning El Dorado: Literature and Extractivism in the Contemporary American Tropics"Brilliant and wide-ranging, Subjunctive Aesthetics shows how, instead of merely translated into cultural responses based on a straightforward rendering of factual evidence, the inescapable reality of the current ecological crisis has been reimagined by writers, visual artists, and filmmakers in alternative, hypothetical, and speculative ways. This book is fundamental for anyone interested in contemporary Mexican culture and new directions in the Environmental Humanities."—Victoria Saramago, author of Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America “Subjunctive Aesthetics is an original, innovative, and sweeping study of the narrative strategies deployed in Mexican cultural production of the 21st century in response to the climate crisis. It proposes that the subjunctive mood operates as an artistic expression to contest the definitiveness of foreclosure. In a moment of great despair towards a grim future, Subjunctive Aesthetics opens the possibilities to disrupt such closeness by mobilizing desire, emotion, and the imagination. Through innovative theories that illuminate and deepen our understanding of the climate crisis, Fornoff’s marvelous work allows us to reconsider our place in Earth while it reassures that the seed for transformations nests in potentiality.”—Gisela Heffes, author of Visualizing Loss in Latin America: Biopolitics, Waste, and the Urban Environment"This is a fantastic and timely project. The impressive depth of Fornoff’s contextual research is well matched by the nuance in her analyses."—Brian Gollnick, author of Reinventing the LacandÓn: Subaltern Representations in the Rain Forest of ChiapasTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Environmental Rewriting 2. Land Defense and Counterfactual Mourning 3. Extinction Poetics 4. The Rural Resilience Film 5. Greening Mexican Cinema Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSuitable for instrumental and singing teachers, this handbook offers creative solutions to the challenges faced in music education. It outlines strategy of 'Simultaneous Learning': a method that encourages the development of musical insight by making connections between various aspects of musicianship.Trade ReviewMaking lessons fun by stimulating the creative and imaginative ‘right brain’ in lessons and in practice is central to Harris’s method. Aural work, memory and improvisation activities are approached with the book closed and the teacher is encouraged to use metaphorical and imaginative language to inspire learning. A section on removing the initial psychological barrier to practising is particularly interesting. This leads neatly into setting ‘right-brain’ musical tasks away from the book and helps to alleviate performance anxiety…..the chapter on group teaching has a fabulous game to teach the behavioural concepts of ensemble playing. Stringendo, October 2010 This is an absolutely brilliant book! Give me some roof-tops so I can shout from them! Written in a friendly avuncular style in easy-to-read language, the book teems with ideas and solutions for all aspects of instrumental teaching. It is no exaggeration to say that every page contains several useful ideas that will be welcomed by any instrumental or vocal teacher…..This book should be in every teacher’s brief case (not on their book shelf); it should be on the CT ABRSM reading list (if not there already); at the very least it should be in the library of every instrumental music service in the country. European String Teachers Association Newsletter, Winter 2006

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Book SynopsisPacific Profiles Volume 10 covers the P-47D Thunderbolt which flew combat missions in the New Guinea theatre until mid-1945, serving with a total of eleven Fifth Air Force USAAF combat squadrons, Fifth Fighter Command and the Combat Replacement Training Center.Trade ReviewThe research behind these profiles is a long-time hobby for the author and I think this is another good reference in this Pacific Profiles book series. * Military Model Scene *Table of ContentsContents About the Author Introduction Glossary and Abbreviations Chapter 1 – Markings and Technical Notes Chapter 2 – 9th Fighter Squadron “Flying Knights” Chapter 3 – 36th Fighter Squadron “Flying Fiends” Chapter 4 – 39th Fighter Squadron Chapter 5 – 40th Fighter Squadron “‘Fightin’ Red Devils” Chapter 6 – 41st Fighter Squadron “Flying Buzzsaws” Chapter 7 – 69th Fighter Squadron “The Fightin’ 69th” Chapter 8 – 310th Fighter Squadron Chapter 9 – 311th Fighter Squadron Chapter 10 – 340th Fighter Squadron “The Minute Men” Chapter 11 – 341st Fighter Squadron “The Black Jacks” Chapter 12 – 342nd Fighter Squadron “The Scourgers” Chapter 13 – Fifth Fighter Command Headquarters Chapter 14 – Combat Replacement Training Center Sources & Acknowledgments Index of Names

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMühlhahn chronicles reforms, revolutions, and wars through the lens of institutions, often rebutting Western impressions, such as the view of Chinese bureaucracy as monolithic. He also warns against thinking of China’s economic success as proof of a unique path without contextualizing it in historical specifics. * New Yorker *A major achievement…It is written with clarity and humanity, and draws clearly on a wide range of recent scholarship…Mühlhahn’s book can be recommended in the highest terms. -- Rana Mitter * American Historical Review *Innovative and fresh…Mühlhahn’s skillful presentation will make this book a highly popular one. -- David Buck * H-Net Reviews *Mühlhahn offers a detailed, balanced survey of the history of modern China, from the rise of the Qing in the early 17th century to the dawn of the Xi administration in 2012… A masterful synthesis. * Choice *A truly important book. Not since Fairbank have we seen such a masterful sweep of traditional, modern, and contemporary history of China thoroughly grounded in Chinese materials and perspectives but eloquently addressed to the interests and concerns of an English-reading public. Mühlhahn’s narrative will help people anywhere in the world make sense of the China they must deal with today. -- Timothy Cheek, author of The Intellectual in Modern Chinese HistoryMühlhahn is one of the world’s leading historians of modern China. A scholar of breadth and depth across disciplines, he has written a compelling narrative of China’s great last empire, the Qing, and of the revolutions and republics that have struggled to succeed it. This thoughtful, probing interpretation is a worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence and will be read by all students and scholars of modern China. -- William C. Kirby, coauthor of Can China Lead?A remarkable accomplishment. Unlike an earlier generation of scholarship, Making China Modern does not treat China’s contemporary transformation as a postscript. It accepts China as a major and active player in the world, places China at the center of an interconnected and global network of engagement, links domestic politics to international dynamics, and seeks to approach China on its own terms. -- Wen-hsin Yeh, author of Shanghai SplendorAt last we have a serious introduction to modern China in which the Chinese are the principal architects of their history, drawing upon the ideas and symbols embedded in their own cultural contexts and normative traditions to create distinctive institutions responsive to the crises and opportunities they have encountered. Anyone wanting to understand the importance of contemporary China for our global future should read this important book. -- R. Bin Wong, coauthor of Before and Beyond Divergence

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Book Synopsisaeo The first book to engage the study of childhood with central issues of sociological theory. aeo The three authors are highly respected and widely read in this area. aeo The book draws together an enormous amount of international research.Trade Review'An exciting book by three of the foremost social-scientific specialists on childhood writing in Britain today; it promises to consolidate Childhood Studies as a new field of concerted endeavour.' Nigel Rapport, University of St Andrews 'This new book is a spring of inspiration. Theorizing Childhood addresses in a superb way the main, if not all, relevant approaches within the 'new sociology of childhood'. It demonstrates brilliantly the salience of this new field both for what it can learn from the general body of knowledge and for what it can itself contribute to modern social science...no scholar in this or neighbouring fields can afford not to read and digest it.' Jens Qvortrup, South Jutland University Centre 'The framework developed here is potentially an extremely powerful one, with enormous potential to stimulate and focus our thinking about childhood - and in particular our research' Social Work & Social Sciences ReviewTable of ContentsPart I: Imagining Childhood. 1. The Presociological Child. 2. The Sociological Child. Part II: Situating Childhood. . 3. Childhood in Social Space. 4. The Temporality of Childhood. 5. Play as Childhood Culture?. 6. Working Children. 7. One Childhood or Many?. 8. The Body and Childhood. 9. Researching Childhood. Part III: Theorizing Childhood. 10. Theorizing Childhood. Notes. References. Index.

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Book Synopsis* An original and illuminating analysis of current trends in contemporary politics. * A brilliantly written text which is likely to become a minor classic in the field. * Examines and explains current levels of disengagement and apathy towards politics and politicians. * Genuinely international and comparative in focus.Trade Review"Hay's deeply interesting book is a splendid alchemy of detailed academic political science." The Guardian "This is, without reservation, a powerful, ambitious and provocative text that is destined to become a classic book in the field of political science." Matthew Flinders, British Politics "A fascinating and well-written account which seeks to illuminate, and then diagnose, the problem of declining political participation in advanced liberal democracies ... Hay's book is not only well written and well balanced; it asks all of the right questions." Australian Journal of Political Science "A well written and thoughtful contribution to the debate on declining levels of interest in conventional politics."Sociology "Hay's argument is both intriguing and cogent. [A] highly valuable and innovative account." Political Studies Review "All reflective public managers should contend with Colin Hay's arguments." Public "Hay's book sharply identifies the corrosive consequences of government attempts to evade the problem of public political engagement. It therefore provides a good way into understanding the complex relationships between the ideas and assumptions we project on to politics and the resulting practices and processes." Spiked "This is a superb, high-quality piece of academic research. There is real intelligence at work, being applied to big important problems. Colin Hay makes his arguments cleanly, without making unnecessarily heavy weather of them. He is judicious in his use of evidence, with his tables invariably making telling points. His 'summary lists' capture the structures of the arguments elegantly and accurately. Intellectually, it's a wonderful book." Robert E. Goodin, Australian National University "Although written in a different era, and in a different disciplinary climate, the obvious comparison is with Crick's In Defence of Politics. Like that book, it is guided by a real moral vision that uplifts the practice of politics. Technically it also resembles Crick in simultaneously addressing the beginning reader and the case hardened teacher and practitioner. It is wonderfully clear and direct throughout, but never shirks the analysis of complex data." Michael Moran, University of Manchester "In this challenging, original and wide-ranging study Colin Hay provides a searching examination of the reasons for political disaffection and disengagement, arguing that we should resist the trend to take the politics out of politics. By depoliticizing the ways in which we govern our societies, we lose the capacity to change them. This book should be read by everyone concerned with how to renew our politics and re-engage our citizens." Andrew Gamble, University of SheffieldTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables vi Preface and Acknowledgements viii 1 Political Disenchantment 1 2 Politics, Participation and Politicization 61 3 The Domestic Sources of Depoliticization 90 4 The Global Sources of Depoliticization 123 5 Why Do We Hate Politics? 153 Notes 163 References 169 Index 180

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Book SynopsisProblem Solving with the Private Sector presents advice and solutions for fruitful governmentâbusiness alliances from the perspective of everyday public management. With a focus on job training, economic development, regulation, and finance and innovation, each chapter discusses a traditional tool of government presented in a practical and applied manner, as well as the implementation of the tool with clear examples. Content-rich case studies on a wide range of policy issues, including regulatory policy, natural resources, manufacturing, financial services, and health care highlight opportunities for government and business to collaborate to pursue the public good.This book offers current and future public managers possible solutions to complex problems for effective governmentâbusiness alliances in a range of settings. It is essential reading for all those studying public management, public administration, and public policy.Trade Review"Problem Solving with the Private Sector: A Public Solutions Handbook by Daniel E. Bromberg: An essential work comprising an objective and comprehensive analysis of thematics of modern public sector management instruments which lead to an effective and efficient service delivery." –Christopher H. Bovis, University of Hull, UKTable of ContentsPart 1: Job Training 1. Public-Private Collaboration in Workforce Development: Examining the Intersection of Public Education Programs and Private-Sector Employer Needs Lauren Bock Mullins, Alexander C. Henderson, and Linda L. Vila 2. Pathways to Partnership: The City of Los Angeles Human Relations Commission and Google LA Coproduction of Youth Capacity Brian Robert Calfano, Joumana Silyan-Saba, and Sheldon Cruz Part 2: Regulation 3. Business-Government Collaboration in Rulemaking: Regulating Carbon Emissions from Motor Vehicles Ian C. Graig 4. Smart Community Engagement: Challenges and Opportunities in Transforming and Emerging Industries Jian Cui 5. Balancing Environment and Business through Governance: Nature Protection Policies in De Alde Feanen National Park, the Netherlands Katharine A. Owens Part 3: Economic Development 6. A Collaborative Approach to Innovation-Based Economic Development: The Triple Helix Jonathan Q. Morgan 7. Improving Administrative Outcomes through Collaborative Governance: Evidence from the City of Tallahassee Carrie Blanchard Bush and Karen Jumonville Part 4: Finance and Innovation 8. Public-Private Collaboration and Trust Funds of the U.S. States Joshua Franzel and Ryan Gregory 9. The Public Good in the Accountability of Businesses: The Functions and Uses of Benefit Corporations Quintus Jett and Arturo E. Osorio 10. Sorting Out Social Impact Bonds Daniel Bromberg and Jonathon Justice

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Book SynopsisNow more than ever, we need to teach the truth about history. This volume assembles a team of critical social studies Scholars of Color who share their nightmares and dreams for the future. The authors engage critical race theory and its many branches and offshoots to better understand the permanence of racism in the teaching of social studies.Table of Contents Contents Foreword Tyrone C. Howard  ix Introduction Amanda E. Vickery and Noreen Naseem Rodríguez  1 PART I: A Dream Deferred 1.  Beyond the Guise of Racial Neutrality: A CRT Analysis of Critical Moments and the Social Studies Profession  23 Christopher L. Busey2.  What's Left Unsaid: A Critical Race Theory Analysis of NCSS Position Statements  35 Kristen E. Duncan and Natasha Murray-Everett3.  Steady at the Bottom of the Well: Anti-Blackness and Social Studies Historiographies  47 ArCasia D. James-GallawayPart II: Racial Realities in Classroom Spaces 4.  Unsettling Scenes and the Geographies of Racialized, Dis/abled Childhoods  59 Tran N. Templeton and Maggie Harvey5.  Counterstorytelling and Racial Inquiry in Early Childhood Social Studies  69 Anna Falkner6.  The Global Color-Line: Critical Race Theory and Global Citizenship Education in Conversation and in Classrooms  79 Hanadi Shatara and Esther June Kim7.  Being in Difference, Together: Making the Classroom an Academic Home Through Critical Race Theory  89 Tadashi DozonoPart III: Possibilities of Praxis 8.  Another Social Studies Is Possible: Challenging the Violence of Organized Forgetting Through Counternarratives  101 Ramon Vasquez9.  Deconstructing Social Studies Classrooms: Youth Participatory Action Research as a Process of Radical Space-Making, Empowerment, and Imagination  111 Eva García, Amina Smaller, and Ryan Oto10.  Enacting Cultural Citizenship Education for Black Liberation: A Dream for Social Studies Education  120 Denisha Jones11.  Nurturing Seeds and Dreams of Freedom: Ethnic Studies as the Practice of Humanization, Solidarity, and Love  130 Christina Shiao-Mei Villarreal12.  Soñando en/del Sur Latinx: Letting the Youth Disrupt Narratives of Division  140 Jesús A. Tirado and Timothy MonrealPart IV: Dreaming of Social Studies Futures 13.  Indigenous Futurities and the Responsibilities of Social Studies  153 Turtle Island Social Studies Collective14.  Teaching the Fullness of Black Women's Lives in Social Studies Education  164 Tiffany Mitchell Patterson15.  Who's Afraid of Queer/Quare Social Studies?  174 Jon M. Wargo16.  From a Curriculum of Violence to a Curriculum of Humanity: An AsianCrit Critique and Dream of Social Studies  182 Sohyun An17.  On the Other Side of a Dream: Community, Love, Joy, and Freedom—Economics as It Could Be  192 Neil Shanks and Delandrea HallConclusion Amanda E. Vickery and Noreen Naseem Rodríguez  202 Afterword Cinthia Salinas  210 Notes  212 About the Contributors  214 Index  219

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Book SynopsisIn the first official book on the legendary club Studio 54, co-owner Ian Schrager presents a spectacular volume brimming with star-studded photographs and personal stories from the greatest party of all time.Trade Review"Ian Schrager, the former co-owner of Studio 54, collects photographs and stories from the nightclub's heyday in the late 1970s and '80s in this glitzy, celebrity-filled coffee-table book that will fill any giftee with awe and nostalgia."—The New York Times, Holiday Gift Guide"... spectacular volume containing a treasure trove of the era’s glam."—Society Diaries"On the timeline of New York nightlife, the heyday of Studio 54 barely registers as a blip. Just three years separate the club’s celeb-mobbed 1977 opening and the raucous “going-away party” that proprietors Ian Schrager and the late Steve Rubell hosted before being carted off to jail for tax evasion. But in the four decades since that famous coke-snorting crescent moon first rose over the dance floor, no other nightclub has made quite as indelible an ­impression on the city’s social scene. From 10 p.m. until sunrise, A-list movie stars mingled with drag queens on roller skates, Park Avenue swans had (pre-AIDS-crisis) bathroom sex with downtown artists, and some of the 20th-century’s greatest literary lights watched it all from the infamous banquettes. Now, thanks to a new book, those who never made it past the velvet ropes—or are too young to have even tried—have a window into that wild-and-crazy magic. Studio 54 (Rizzoli), edited by Schrager, now impresario of a slew of hotels including the new Public Hotel, is equal parts oral history, personal scrapbook, and photo album, bringing together the reminiscences of regulars with star-studded snapshots and reams of gossip columns. Schrager, it seems, saved everything."—W Magazine.com"Ian Schrager looks back at the legendary club that he and Steve Rubell started in 1977, with vintage photos of the stars and personalities who walked through its doors."—WSJ. Magazine"Schrager is releasing Studio 54, featuring hundreds of photos from the club's heyday, many of them from his personal albums: Michael Jackson and David Bowie, presidential families and news anchors, the SNL crew, Diana Ross, Tennessee Williams, Halston, Roy Cohn, Richard Pryor, Vladimir Horowitz—a fairly broad representation of American achievement, and not a handler or cell-phone camera in sight. "—Esquire"To say that Studio 54 was the place to be, may in fact be the understatement of the last four decades. To celebrate the nightclub’s 40th anniversary this year, co-founder Ian Schrager looks back to the Studio’s history with a new coffee table book, out now, and an upcoming documentary to be released at the end of the year."—Refinery29.com"Legendary luxury hotelier Ian Schraeger, co-owner of Studio 54, has put together the ultimate illustrated memoir in the long-awaited magnum opus Studio 54 (Rizzoli New York). The book is the perfect mélange of photographs and press clips, memories of New York when nightlife was at its peak. But it’s more than a who’s who of the jet set—it is the ultimate guide to vintage style, from Valentino to Steven Tyler of Aerosmith."—Crave Online"In Ian Schrager’s new book, Studio 54, the club owner pulls back the velvet rope to capture the power, pleasure, and people at the greatest nightclub of all time."—Vanity Fair"The iconic disco club that defined an era comes alive again in this sizable memory-capsule by and on the legendary co-founder, Ian Schrager through spectacular photographs (some never before seen) featuring the likes of Mick Jagger, Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Beatty, Diana Ross and Andy Warhol. The More than just nostalgia, this is unfettered access past the velvet rope and into a unique world where celebrities and regulars partied together, epitomizing decadence and most importantly, having fun."—IndulgeMagazine.com

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding how theory informs social work practice is an area that students can find challenging and complex. This book helps students to understand how theory impacts and informs social work practice. Updated with a new introduction by the author, subjects covered include values and ethics, organisational contexts and putting theory into practice. There is a chapter on the relationship between theory and practice in social work which examines notions of empowerment and concepts of social exclusion and the distinctive role of the social work practitioner. Critical thinking exercises are built into the text to aid learning and reflective thinking.Table of ContentsIntroduction Introduction to Understanding Social Work Theory The Relationship Between Theory and Practice in Social Work Values and Ethics in Social Work Social Work and its Organisational Context Putting Theory into Practice Conclusion

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