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Book SynopsisA New York Times Books New & Noteworthy book • A Most-Anticipated Book from BookPage, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Paperback Paris • Glowing reviews and features in Garden & Gun, CNN Philippines, Chapter16, Kirkus Reviews, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and more This fierce collection celebrates the incredible diversity in the contemporary South by featuring essays by twenty-one of the finest young writers of color living and working in the region today, who all address a central question: Who is welcome? Kiese Laymon navigates the racial politics of publishing while recording his audiobook in Mississippi. Regina Bradley moves to Indiana and grapples with a landscape devoid of her Southern cultural touchstones, like Popeyes and OutKast. Aruni Kashyap apartment hunts in Athens and encounters a minefield of invasive questions. Frederick McKindra delves into the particularly Southern history of Beyonce's black majorettes. Assembled by editor and essayist Cinelle Barnes, essays in A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New American South acknowledge that from the DMV to the college basketball court to doctors’ offices, there are no shortage of places of tension in the American South. Urgent, necessary, funny, and poignant, these essays from new and established voices confront the complexities of the South's relationship with race, uncovering the particular difficulties and profound joys of being a Southerner in the 21st century.Trade ReviewA Measure of Belonging challenges the idea of a monolithic Southern culture." --New York Times Book Review "The South on exhibit here does feel new: polygot, multiracial, small-c catholic, urbanized, unwilling to accomodate or overlook the past but instead primed to confront it head-on, and keen to sift the South's virtues--lovingly--from its flaws." --Garden & Gun "Sharp and witty, this collection shows that there are many different ways to live, breathe, thrive and be a person who belongs in the South." --Bookpage, starred review "Cinelle Barnes has compiled the most diverse portrayal of the contemporary South I've read to date. These beautifully-written, clear-eyed essays present the American South through the eyes of its black and brown voices and expand the reader's view of belonging to or hailing from the region. I love this collection and its depictions complicate the South in ways that mainstream America sometimes refuses to believe about our ugly/beautiful South. A Measure of Belonging is a major contribution to the canon of Southern literature and each of the writers give of themselves fully. It is a book for our times. Welcome to the 21st century!" --Crystal Wilkinson, author of The Birds of Opulence "Totally engaging, this informing, thought-provoking collection is valuable for its vision of a South that is not monolithic."--Publishers Weekly "Across the collection, the writers push against the limits of what we think we know about the South." --Kirkus Reviews "A Measure of Belonging is a stark reminder that, behind the draping magnolias and weeping willows, the south has a loaded history, the effects of which still ripple through today’s society. Cinelle Barnes's anthology is but one call to awareness, a call to artful rebellion." --NewPagesTable of ContentsOsayi Endolyn (Atlanta, GA) Soniah Kamal (Atlanta, GA) Jennifer Hope Choi (Charleston, SC) Kiese Laymon (Oxford, MS) Devi Laskar (Atlanta, GA) M. Evelina Galang (Miami, FL) Tiana Clark (Nashville, TN) Latria Graham (Spartanburg, SC) Aruni Kashyap (Athens, GA) Minda Honey (Louisville, KY) Regina Bradley (Kennesaw, GA) Natalia Sylvester (Austin, TX) Christena Cleveland (San Francisco, CA) Nichole Perkins (Brooklyn, NY) Ivelisse Rodriguez (Whitsett, NC) Gary Jackson (Charleston, SC) Frederick McKendra (Little Rock, AR) Toni Jensen (Fayetteville, AR) Diana Cejas (Durham, NC)

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Book SynopsisIn Stepford Daughters, Johanna Isaacson explores an emerging wave of horror films that get why class horror and gender horror must be understood together. In doing so, Isaacson makes the case that this often-maligned genre is in fact a place where oppressed people can understand, navigate and confront an increasingly ugly and horrifying world. Films like Hereditary and The Babadook show women coming apart at the seams as the promises of both the family and waged work fail them. In Get Out, we see how poor women and women of color perform the invisible labor that holds up our society, experiencing domestic work as a kind of possession. In “coming of rage” films such as Assassination Nation and Teeth, we see the ways social reproduction leads to a futureless horizon. Robbed of their dreams but not their power to resist, these heroines emerge as the monsters and avengers we need.Trade ReviewCapitalism and patriarchy create monsters—but inside the darkness there lurks a strange utopia. In Stepford Daughters, Johanna Isaacson explores an emerging wave of horror films that get why class horror and gender horror must be understood together. In doing so, Isaacson makes the case that this often-maligned genre is in fact a place where oppressed people can understand, navigate and confront an increasingly ugly and horrifying world.What happens when your smile is no longer yours? Films like Hereditary and The Babadook show women coming apart at the seams as the promises of both the family and waged work fail them. In Get Out, we see how poor women and women of color perform the invisible labor that makes society run while experiencing domestic work as a kind of possession. In “coming of rage” films such as Assassination Nation and Teeth, we see the ways social reproduction leads to a futureless horizon. Robbed of their dreams but not their power to resist, these heroines emerge as the monsters and avengers we need.Product DetailsAuthors: Johanna IsaacsonPublisher: Common NotionsISBN: 9781942173694Published: October 2022Format: PaperbackSize: 5.5 x 8.5Page count: 208Subjects: Feminism/Social Reproduction/HorrorAbout the AuthorJohanna Isaacson writes academic and popular pieces on horror and politics. She is a professor of English at Modesto Junior College and a founding editor of Blind Field Journal. She is the author of The Ballerina and the Bull, has published widely in academic and popular journals, and runs the Facebook group "Anti-capitalist Feminists Who Like Horror Films."Advance Praise“Johanna Isaacson’s Stepford Daughters is a brilliant and critically important elucidation of how ‘class horror is gender horror’ in the twenty-first century. The book explores twenty contemporary horror films that depict how public and private, work and family, have become intertwined under neoliberal politics—and how labor at home and in the workplace has become increasingly feminized and devalued. With an incisive theoretical framework and incredibly rich and illuminating readings, Isaacson’s book offers a much-needed approach to horror, eloquently demonstrating how horror films can both diagnose the problems of neoliberal and gendered capitalism and give us monstrous figures who resist and transform.” —Dawn Keetley, editor of Jordan Peele's Get Out: Political Horror “Johanna Isaacson is a worthy successor to Robin Wood and Carol Clover, and Stepford Daughters deftly analyzes some of the most popular and accomplished contemporary horror films at the nexus of feminism and capitalism. Full of brilliant insights that apply decades of feminist theory to horror cinema, this is essential reading for horror scholars, pop culture enthusiasts, and anyone who desires a greater insight into the intersectional dynamics of the capitalist class war.” —Michael Truscello, author of Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure“Surveying dozens of recent horror films and engaging a rich critical archive of social reproduction theory, Stepford Daughters makes provocative and evocative interventions into contemporary cultural theory. A leading scholar in the field of horror criticism whose work is also broadly accessible, Isaacson offers readings that are at once militant and playful, and she persuasively locates in the horror genre a radical current of Marxist-feminist critique that we need now more than ever”. —Annie McClanahan, author of Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and 21st-Century Culture“In this brilliant and compulsively readable book, Johanna Isaacson unpacks a bunch of recent horror films, focusing on what they tell us about gender and class oppression. Horror films in the 21st century are a kind of social realism. They hold a mirror up to social conditions that are so ubiquitous and so commonly taken for granted that we have forgotten that we can fight back against them. Isaacson shows us how horror films can work as tools for understanding, and even for social transformation.” —Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University“Johanna Isaacson's Stepford Daughters draws from social reproduction to explore the way in which contemporary horror illustrates the intimacy of exploitation. It proposes not just a new understanding of recent horror films, but a groundbreaking illustration of the monstrosity of daily life under contemporary capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy.”—Jason Read, author of The Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy"Stepford Daughters is a powerful exploration of the trans-generational horror of women’s experience under contemporary capitalism. In an analysis attentive to the possibilities of horror film as a mode of realism, which explores in horror form the anxieties that shape our lives, Isaacson expertly brings together Marxism, feminism, and Queer readings into exciting new configurations. Tapping into the 21st-century horror film renaissance, Stepford Daughters offers an insightful reading of our bad times and how we might end them.” —Benjamin Noys, author of Malign Velocities: Accelerationism & Capitalism “Johanna Isaacson is one of the boldest, most lucid critics working on horror today. Stepford Daughters includes some of her most original and paradigm-defining works on the subject, opening in particular a whole new avenue of thinking regarding the intersections between class and gender in horror. Full of exciting insights and bravura readings, this book is a landmark not only for the study of horror, but for the study of contemporary cinema in general.” —Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, author of Screening Neoliberalism: Transforming Mexican Cinema, 1988–2012 "Jo Isaacson is one of Marxist feminism’s leading lights, and this box of “tools” for horror viewers is more like an arsenal, chockful of weapons with which to abolish the present state of things. Teaching us how to read both with and against the grain of domestic horror cinema, uncovering the bathtubs full of blood in the “hiddener abodes” of social reproduction, Stepford Daughters is a true triumph of cultural criticism, and beautifully written, to boot. Via entertaining and ingeniously grouped readings of movies by turns scary, gory, creepy and uncanny, Isaacson takes us on a denaturalizing journey through housework, motherhood, stratified reproduction, emotional labor, migrant and indigenous oppression, and queer monstrosity, bravely pointing towards the horizon called “abolition of the family.” In these pages, we experience the full potential of the critically utopianist “antiwork” sensibility for which Blind Field, the journal of cultural inquiry Isaacson co-founded, is best known. Inside these elegant interlocking critiques, we glimpse horizons of social possibility beyond the family, beyond whiteness, beyond gender, beyond the state, and beyond capital itself."—Sophie Lewis, author of Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and LiberationTable of ContentsIntroduction: "Class Horror is Gender Horror"Combining Marxist and feminist analysis, it makes a case for social reproduction feminism as a theory that understands that capitalist logic is always gendered. Chapter One: "It's Coming from Inside/Outside the House: Horror as Care Strike" Discusses the horror genre as a place that doesn’t see the home as a protection from “the other,” but as itself a source of horror. For example, using the film Hereditary, which illustrates the family as a source of terror, it discusses the resurgence of a call for “family abolition.” Chapter Two: "It's Coming from Inside the Boss’s House: Horror and the Domestic Worker"This chapter explores social reproduction and horror through looking at waged domestic work. Looking at films including Housekeeping, Get Out, and La Llarona, it makes the case that while reproductive labor is often personified by the bourgoise housewife poor and women of color domestic workers and surplus populations are the most exploited and diagnostic categories of social production. Chapter Three: "It's Coming from Inside the Telltale Managed Heart: Service Labor and Emotional Labor in Horror" This chapter looks at the ways that the contemporary boom in service work leads to the expansion of emotional labor as a key element of social reproduction. Horror movies in which figures such as personal assistants and sex workers appear, give us a way to understand the problems when love becomes labor, or when a person becomes alienated from her own smile.Chapter Four: "Girls Gone Wild: Coming of Rage into the Futureless Future" This chapter explores the crisis of social production as it produces a sense of futurelessness–the contemporary girls of horror are monstrous in the sense that they threaten the social order as we know it. They are utopian in that the carry a hope that witches and final girls will not give into passivity, but fight for a new, unimaginable world. Conclusion: "Violent Femmes against Rape Economies"The book concludes with the film American Mary and a consideration of questions in feminism about rape culture and how these questions connect to theories of social reproduction.

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Book SynopsisIn this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family--the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes--all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all accountable, this collection fully embraces the loss, grief, and abundant joy that come with charting one's own path in identity, life, and love. In the Hospital My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no one wanted to be her friend. Everyone wanted to be soft cooing sympathies. Very reasonable pigeons. No one had the time & our solution to it was to buy shinier watches. We were enamored with what our wrists could declare. My mother was in the hospital & I didn't want to be her friend. Typical son. Tall latte, short tale, bad plot, great wifi in the atypical cafe. My mother was in the hospital & she didn't want to be her friend. She wanted to be the family grocery list. Low-fat yogurt, firm tofu. She didn't trust my father to be it. You always forget something, she said, even when I do the list for you. Even then. Chen Chen was born in Xiamen, China, and grew up in Massachusetts. His work has appeared in two chapbooks and in such publications as Poetry, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Best of the Net, and The Best American Poetry. The recipient of the 2016 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, he has been awarded fellowships from Kundiman, the Saltonstall Foundation, Lambda Literary, and in 2015, he was a finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships. He earned his BA at Hampshire College and his MFA at Syracuse University. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in English and Creative Writing at Texas Tech University. Chen lives in Lubbock, Texas, with his partner, Jeff Gilbert, and their pug dog, Rupert Giles.Trade ReviewWINNER OF THE A. POULIN, JR. POETRY PRIZE ON NPR BOOKS'S LIST OF 'POERTY TO PAY ATTENTION TO: 2017'S BEST VERSE' ON TRACK FOUR JOURNAL'S LIST OF 'TEN OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY COLLECTIONS BY PEOPLE OF COLOR IN 2017' "What does Millennial poetry look like? One answer might be this wild debut from Chen Chen. He seems to run at the mouth, free-associating wildly, switching between lingo and 'higher' forms of diction. Nothing's out of bounds or off limits, no culture too 'pop' to find its place in poetry ... nor anything too silly to point the way toward serious aims. And yet this is a deeply serious and moving book about Chinese-American experience, young love, poetry, family, and the family one makes amongst friends." --NPR Books "The collection, as the title itself suggests, is about 'further possibilities,' about revising, reinventing, and reimagining the relational modes we currently have. If we are all tasked with being 'someone 'for' someone else--a son, a friend, a partner, a student, a dear love,' we cannot afford to be complacent or static in the ways that we inhabit and think about those relations. Interdependence is at the heart of Chen's writing, and if we are to survive in these troubled times, we must continue to believe that there really are new ways to find the impossible honey." --Up the Staircase Quarterly "The word 'stanza' means one thing when it refers to a poem: a snippet of text, a line or several. In Italian, it means 'room.' Poet Chen Chen combines those definitions when he writes, thinking: what should be in the room of this poem? In his earlier work, he began to answer that question with pieces that explored his own intersecting identities, parts of himself that other people told him could not exist at once..." --PBS Newshour "Chen Chen refuses to be boxed in or nailed down. He is a poet of Whitman's multitudes and of Langston Hughes's blues, of Dickinson's 'so cold no fire can warm me' and of Michael Palmer's comic interrogation. What unifies the brilliance of When I Grow up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities is a voice desperate to believe that within every one of life's sadnesses there is also hope, meaning, and--if we are willing to laugh at ourselves--humor. This is a book I wish existed when I first began reading poetry. Chen is a poet I'll be reading for the rest of my life." --Jericho Brown "Chen Chen is already one of my favorite poets ever. Funny, absurd, bitter, surreal, always surprising, and deeply in love with this flawed world. I'm in love with this book." --Sherman Alexie "The radioactive spider that bit Chen Chen [isn't that how first books get made?] gave him powers both demonic and divine. The bite transmitted vision, worry, want, memory of China, America's grief, and People magazine, as well as a radical queer critique of the normative. What a gift that bite was--linguistic, erotic, politic and impolitic, idiosyncratic and emphatic. What a blessing and burden to write out of the manifold possibilities of that contact." --Bruce Smith "I so deeply love this poet's imagination where old shoes might walk back up the steps of a house, where one speaker pledges 'allegiance to the already fallen snow' and another says 'Let's put our briefcases on our heads, in the sudden rain, // & continue meeting as if we've just been given our names.' In precise and gorgeous language, Chen Chen shows us that the world is strange and bright with ardor. He reminds us of the miracle of the sensual and sensory. This is a book I will return to whenever I forget what a poem can do, whenever I am in need of song or hope. If a peony wrote poems in a human language, I think that these would be his poems. If the rain wrote poems... I mean: this is an important work by an astonishing and vital voice." --Aracelis Girmay

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Book SynopsisThemes and motifs in the art of Kara Walker, from blackface to abjection, by a leading art historian In 2002, Kara Walker was selected to represent the United States at the prestigious São Paulo Art Biennial. Curator Robert Hobbs wrote extended essays on her work for this exhibition, and also for her show later that year at the Kunstverein Hannover. Because these essays have not been distributed in the US and remain among the most in-depth and essential investigations of her work, Karma is now republishing them in this new clothbound volume. Among the most celebrated artists of the past three decades, with over 93 solo exhibitions to her credit, including a major survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker is known for her tough, critical, provocative and highly imaginative representations of African Americans and whites reaching back to antebellum times. In his analysis, Hobbs looks at the five main sources of her art: blackface Americana, Harlequin romances, Julia Kristeva’s concept of abjection, Stone Mountain’s racist tourist attraction and the minstrel tradition. Robert Hobbs (born 1946) has written more than 50 books and catalogs, focusing on such artists as Milton Avery, Alice Aycock, Lee Krasner, Robert Smithson and Kehinde Wiley. Since 1991 he has held the Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair of American Art in the School of Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University. Since 2004 he has served as a visiting professor at Yale University. Now based in New York, Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California, in 1969. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994; soon afterward, Walker rose to prominence for her large, provocative silhouettes installed directly onto the walls of exhibition spaces.

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Book SynopsisOver the course of the pandemic, Jon Plasse photographed familiar objects around his home. The resulting series, in turns subtle and startling, evokes the intensity, monotony and disorientation of life in isolation.

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Book SynopsisA sisterhood of deities is determined to restore balance to Earth and her inhabitants, but they must first find harmony with each other. The Dreaming Gourd reminds us that no one can go it alone and that dreams are what make life so very precious. A call to action for anyone who feels lost or small in this great big world: everyone is needed, and together we can accomplish anything. The book includes linocut-styled illustrations by the author.

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Book SynopsisA chilling portrait of the ways that abuse can be hidden behind a glittering façade. It's also a compelling story of a woman learning to navigate pain, mental illness, and trauma, until finally becoming an advocate for her own strength and healing. ELIZABETH RENZETTI, author of Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and GirlsKaren Gosbee had it all: a successful husband, three beautiful children, the homes, the cars, the jewelery, the A-list invitations. Her life looked perfect and as her husband, George, liked to say, appearances are everything. But at the height of his success as an owner of a major American sports franchise, cracks appeared in George's carefully constructed façade.Karen could not ignore his increasingly erratic and self-destructive behaviour, which spiralled from affairs and hard-drinking to prostitutes and drug abuse. Nor could she escape his abuse as emotional bullying escalated into dangerous beatings. A Perfect Nightmare is the story of a woman's awakening to the realities of her failing marriage and her desperate struggle - one that would end in headlines and tragedy - to bring herself and her children to safety.

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Book SynopsisIn our urban world, cities are where most of us experience how our economies and societies are organised and the inequalities which result. This textbook introduces ideas, theories, concepts and examples to help us understand the political and policy challenges of governing cities, centred on the principal challenge of how to make our cities more equitable. It poses critical questions – about how cities are governed, by whom, according to what values, and for whom – and draws from a wide range of urban scholarship. The ‘how’ covers urban politics and the policy instruments which result. The ‘by whom’ addresses power relations within and beyond the city and the tensions between different priorities and values. The ‘for whom’ centres equity and the role of citizens and collective action in how we are governed. In addressing these questions, the book provides an overview of the core theories of urban politics and governance, thinks about what happens at different scales, and examines new forms of citizen activism which herald alternatives for cities. It is a unique introduction to students, policymakers and practitioners who want to understand and seek to improve urban politics and policy.Table of ContentsChapter One: Questions about cities.- Chapter Two: What is a city and why do they matter?.- Chapter Three: How and by whom are cities governed?.- Chapter Four: What policies and strategies arise?.- Chapter Five: What happens at different scales?.- Chapter Six: What are citizens doing?.- Chapter Seven: Futures for governing cities.

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Book SynopsisIn this third iteration of the classic work The Impacts of Racism on White Americans (1981, 1996), a new generation of scholars make the case that racism often negatively affects Whites themselves, especially during the Trump era. In 1981, Impacts introduced an alternative understanding of racism, arguing that it went beyond white-black and/or inter-race relations. Instead, the book proposed that the problem of race in the U.S. is fundamentally one of white identity and culture and that racism has substantial negative effects on White Americans. This volume advances these propositions through three key areas: (1) Trump-era cultural and institutional racism, bolstered by the use of historical notions of racial hierarchy; (2) institutional and interpersonal racism, which in turn drive individual racist behaviors; and finally, (3) racism’s interactional sequences and how they impact anti-racism efforts. As each chapter author explores an iteration of these racisms, they also explore how racist attitudes produce disadvantage among White Americans. Table of Contents1. Introduction. Impacts of Racism on White Americans in the Age of Trump (Benjamin P. Bowser and Duke W. Austin).- 2. Economy: Racism’s Continuing Costs to Whites: A Second Look (Michael Reich).- 3. Housing: From Segregation to Isolation: White Americans in the Age of Trump (Jacob S. Rugh).- 4. Health: Dying of Whiteness (Jonathan M. Metzl).- 5. Government: Calling on Racism to Run Federal and State Governments (Robert Fantina).- 6. Foreign Policy: A Double-Edged Sword: A History of Racism in U.S. Foreign Policy (Chris Danielson).- 7. Gender: White Women in the Age of Trump (Charlotte Dunham).- 8. Social Psychology: Taking White Racial Emotions Seriously: Revisiting the Cost of Racism to White Americans (Lisa Spanierman and D. Anthony Clark).- 9. Media: Fox News, Racism, and White America in the Age of Trump (Kalemba Kizito).- 10. Sports: Racism and Sports: Fear of a Black Planet (Scott N. Brooks, Stacey M. Flores, and Jorge Ballesteros).- 11. Education: The Impact of Racism on White Teachers (Patricia A. Maloney).- 12. Social Movements: White Responses to Racist and Anti-Racist Movements (Pamela Oliver).- 13. Affirmative Action: Not the Impact of Racism on Whites that Some Assume (Fred L. Pincus).- 14. Summary: Racism’s Impacts on White Americans in the Age of Trump (Benjamin P. Bowser and Duke W. Austin).- 15. Conclusion and Reflections: Impacts of Racism in the Age of Trump (Benjamin P. Bowser and Duke W. Austin).

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Book SynopsisInfrastructure is the foundation of modern economies. A robust, efficient, and well-maintained infrastructure system is critical to support the nation’s economy, improve quality of life, and strengthen global competitiveness. The serious infrastructure deficit in the U.S. is well-known. State and local governments are struggling to finance the needed expansion, upgrades, and repairs. Meeting the infrastructure financing challenge has emerged as one of the most urgent issues facing the country. Despite the growing number of innovations in state and local infrastructure financing, current information on innovative infrastructure financing is scattered and time-consuming to find. Until now, there was no detailed, comprehensive assessment of current knowledge and practice in innovative infrastructure financing. This book fills that gap and offers policy suggestions for state and local government managers who are considering the adoption and implementation of innovative infrastructure financing. It provides detailed case studies and rich examples that describe innovative approaches to fund state and local infrastructure development. These experiences and lessons in applying these innovations will be particularly useful for state and local government practitioners, professors, applied policy analysts, and students in public administration, policy, and public finance.Trade Review“Chen and Bartle’s Innovative Infrastructure Finance provides a foundation for addressing these challenges and maximizing the ‘once in a generation’ funding opportunity for local government managers interested in exploring new ways of implementation and governance, as well as students looking for a primer on infrastructure finance and its practical applications.” (Martin Mayer and Lauren Wargo, Public Works Management & Policy, Vol. 28 (2), April, 2023)Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Challenges and Opportunities of Financing Infrastructure 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Definition and Scope of Infrastructure 1.3 Public Goods and Benefits-Based Revenues 1.4 Trends in State and Local Infrastructure Financing 1.5 Challenges 1.6 Opportunities Chapter 2: Capital Planning and Budgeting for Infrastructure 2.1 What is a Capital Improvement Plan? 2.2 Why Have a Capital Plan and Budget? 2.3 How to Develop a Capital Plan and Budget 2.4 The Process of Capital Planning and Budgeting 2.5 Citizen Involvement in Capital Budgeting 2.6 Emerging Challenges in Capital Planning and Budgeting Chapter 3: Traditional Methods of Financing Infrastructure 3.1 Fundamentals of Infrastructure Finance 3.2 State and Local Infrastructure Financing: Pay-Go versus Pay-Use 3.3 Traditional Infrastructure Financing Methods and Funding Sources Chapter 4: Innovative Mechanisms of Financing Infrastructure 4.1 The Need for Innovative Infrastructure Finance 4.2 An Overview of Innovative Infrastructure Finance 4.3 New Funding Sources 4.4 New Financing Mechanisms 4.5 New Financial Arrangements Chapter 5: Case Studies in Innovative Infrastructure Financing 5.1 Value Capture 5.2 State Infrastructure Banks 5.3 Green, Social and Sustainable Bonds 5.4 Public-Private Partnerships 5.5 Privatization 5.6 Crowdfunding Chapter 6: Conclusion: Putting Innovation into Practice 6.1 Finding 6.2 The Challenge of Innovation 6.3 Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThe concept of Identity Crisis came into usage in the 1940s and it has continued to dominate the cultural zeitgeist ever since. In his exploration of the historical origins of this development, Frank Furedi argues that the principal driver of the ‘crisis of identity’ was and continues to be the conflict surrounding the socialisation of young people. In turn, the politicisation of this conflict provides a terrain on which the Culture Wars and the politicisation of identity can flourish. Through exploring the interaction between the problems of socialisation and identity, this study offers a unique account of the origins and rise of the Culture Wars.

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Book SynopsisThis innovative textbook provides an introduction into comparative constitutional law to undergraduate and graduate students. Combining a clear and practical explanation of the topics with scientific knowledge, the textbook analyzes the origins and the development of constitutional law in the Western world, as well as the structure and transformations of constitutional law, up to the present day. It also examines the theoretical roots and the historical premises of constitutionalism, and explores the foundation of constitutional law in Western countries since the Age of Revolutions and the 19th Century, underlining the different constitutional traditions. Furthermore, the textbook describes the transformations of constitutional law brought about by the transition toward pluralistic societies, and analyzes the political and legal features of constitutional democracies, taking into consideration the lessons learned in several constitutional environments in contemporary states. It also

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Book SynopsisVoprosy filosofii i psihologii. Sostoit iz 137 knig. Zhurnal, osnovannyj prof. N. YA. Grotom i A. A. Abrikosovym. God V. Sentyabr 1894 g. This book, Voprosy filosofii i psihologii. Kniga 24, by Kollektiv Avtorov, is a replication of a book originally published before 1894. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. This book was created using print-on-demand technology. Thank you for supporting classic literature.

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Book SynopsisGreek philosopher Epicurus defined philosophy as 'a daily business of speech and thought to secure happiness'. He believed happiness to be the goal of human life and thought it could be achieved by pursuing pleasure. However, the Epicurean philosophy was then and still is now often erroneously interpreted as promoting hedonism. Rather, Epicurus considered pleasure to be connected to virtue not excess or sensual self-indulgence. This volume contains Cyril Baileys masterly, classic translations of the most important surviving writing of Epicurus -- the Letter to Menoeceus, the Principal Doctrines and the Vatican Sayings -- and offers the contemporary reader a comprehensive overview of Epicurean ethics, his philosophy on what matters in life and how we should live.

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Book SynopsisNothing is as it seems. Illusion is their means, and façade is their power. Humans are first and foremost storytellers, and expatriates tend to be the best at it. The ones in this book have colourful experiences, complex personalities, real struggles, astonishing resilience, big dreams, and in many cases, a remarkable grasp of reality. There is the German who came to the Middle East to hide from her past, the French housewife whose husband left her for a younger woman, but she managed to turn it all around and emerge stronger and happier than ever, the Slovak who traded herself for big promises that proved to be lies, the Filipina who wanted to kill herself after her nude pictures were posted online, the European man who has several wives, and the Pole who made a home in Arabia. Then, there are the locals who fight against corruption and the renowned intellectuals who resigned themselves to servitude and duplicity. Alongside these true stories, the book provides facts and analysis that should provoke cause for concern, because what happened in this oil rich state is being imitated in different countries worldwide. The book debunks the theory of rentier states, demonstrating that the oil wealth did not impede development or democracy in Gulf states. It provides an alternative perspective on human rights reports about Middle Eastern countries, suggesting that they are often misleading and, as a result, fail to resonate with local populations. This is a story of how a small, impoverished country was transformed almost overnight into a rich, powerful welfare state controlled by a few shrewd families. We see what happened to the people who found themselves wealthy all of a sudden. We also see how foreigners flocked from all corners of the world to work hard there, or to exploit others. How a system was created to serve the few at the expense of the many. How a society was brainwashed into accepting a thinly veiled caste system and a Big Brother rule.

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Book SynopsisWhen Margarita draws something with the magic pencil, it becomes real! But what will she draw when there is only a little piece of the pencil left? When Margarita, Daniel and Charlie see a hungry little cat, they decide they have to feed it. Even if that means going into Mrs Cranky´s yard! But when she sees them, instead of telling them off, she rewards the children with three very special gifts: a pencil, a sharpener and an eraser. Margarita starts to draw and something incredible happens! The drawings become real! What will the three children choose to draw? A story of friendship, equality, diversity and inclusion.Trade Review" ... this simple, creatively illustrated story encourages empathy and compassion" – Kirkus‘The Magic Pencil’ by Luis Amavisca, illustrated by Alicia Gomez Camus, is a story of diversity, inclusion, kindness, and understanding. – YA Books Central

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Book SynopsisAt 21:00 on 9 May 1940 Codeword Danzig was issued alerting Adolf Hitler's airborne troops that they were about to spearhead an attack on Belgium and the Netherlands. The following day his blitzkrieg rolled forward striking the British Expeditionary Force and the French armies in Belgium and in northern France at Sedan. The desperate attempts of the allied armies to stem the Nazi tide proved futile and, once their reserves had been exhausted and the remaining forces cut off, Paris lay open. By early June, it was all over - trapped British, Belgian and French troops were forced to evacuate Dunkirk, Calais and Boulogne and the defeated French army agreed to an armistice leaving the country divided in two. This dramatic story is shown in a sequence of over 150 historic photographs that Anthony Tucker-Jones he has selected for this memorable book. The images he has chosen cover every aspect of this extraordinary campaign, but his main focus is on the vital role played by the armoured fighting vehicles of both sides. The book is a graphic record of the destruction wrought by the Wehrmacht's lightning offensive through the Low Countries and France.

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first to focus exclusively on person-centred supervision. The editors explore the practice of supervision in the light of person-centred philosophy and theory, review and critique the generic literature on supervision and then look at some of the issues, questions and dilemmas that arise in supervision. The contributors come from a variety of backgrounds and work in different settings. Editors and contributors share two things: a commitment to person-centred principles in their work, and a wish to extend and expand the range of person-centred practice. This book offers a model of supervision that is consistent with person-centred principles and describes some of the ways in which person-centred practitioners can converse with colleagues from other disciplines and in other areas of work.Trade ReviewThis book is a thought-provoking and engaging addition to the literature on supervision. The editors have a vast knowledge of the field and clearly and authoritatively state their philosophy of person-centred supervision. This provides the context for the subsequent chapters by different authors. These cover a wide range of issues and topics which will be of real value to all supervisors to whatever school they belong. Robin Shohet, co-author of Supervision in the Helping ProfessionsTable of ContentsPart One. Person-Centred Philosophy and Theory in the Practice of Supervision Chapter 1 Person-Centred Philosophy and Theory in the Practice of Supervision Keith Tudor and Mike Worrall Chapter 2 On Being Received: A Supervisee's View of Being Supervised Deborah Gibson Chapter 3 Person-Centred Perspectives on Supervision Keith Tudor and Mike Worrall Chapter 4 Process in Supervision: A Person-Centred Critique Keith Tudor and Mike Worrall Chapter 5 Issues, Questions, Dilemmas and Domains in Supervision Keith Tudor and Mike Worrall Part Two. Developments and Dialogues Chapter 6 Race, Culture and Supervision Seni Seneviratne Chapter 7 Personal and Organisational Power: Management and Professional Supervision Joanna Valentine Chapter 8 Focusing-Oriented Supervision Greg Madison Chapter 9 The Use of Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR) in Person-Centred Supervision Penny Allen Chapter 10 Shaking the Spirit: Subtle Energy Awareness in Supervision Rose Cameron Chapter 11 Supervision as Heuristic Research Inquiry Tony Merry Part Three. Person-Centred Supervision across Theoretical Orientations and Professions Chapter 12 On Supervision across Theoretical Orientations Paul Hitchings Chapter 13 Almost Nothing to Do: Supervision and the Person-Centred Approach in Homeopathy Ian Townsend Chapter 14 A Psychiatrist's Experience of Person-Centred Supervision Rachel Freeth

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Book SynopsisClose support for the Army by the Royal Air Force evolved during World War II from a state of near non-existence to becoming a fully integrated part of the battle plan. Nowhere was co-operation more refined and better developed than in the Mediterranean theatre.In the first of two volumes, the author traces the evolution and development of close air support, beginning during the final year of the Great War, via the doldrums of the inter-war years, to the point where the RAF was criticised heavily because of its apparent absence at Dunkirk. The rise and demise of Army Co-operation Command is examined in detail, followed by the first systematic close air support in East Africa and the various campaigns in the Western Desert. Reference has been made to logbooks, diaries and autobiographies of many of those who were there. Complemented with maps, diagrams and hundreds of photographs, it provides a comprehensive account of this neglected aspect of operations in World War II.

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Book SynopsisAs attitudes to mental health shift, primary schools in England will teach compulsory lessons on health (including mental health) from 2020. Yet mental health is far more than the absence of illness - it also means having self-belief and the resilience to cope with stress and change. In order to teach such skills, teachers and other staff must equip themselves and their workplaces with the procedures, understanding and confidence required to monitor mental health, share concepts effectively, identify warning signs and act appropriately if issues arise. Mental Health and Wellbeing in Primary Education puts all the information they need at their fingertips - with detailed guidance on creating a culture of wellbeing, overviews of how a wide variety of common mental health problems are diagnosed and managed, warning signs to look out for, and a range of ready-made forms, exercises and lesson plansTable of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction Part 1: Putting mental health and wellbeing first 1. Identification, responses and interventions 2. Ready to learn 3. A whole school approach Part 2: Wellbeing 4. Wellbeing for all 5. Building Emotional Intelligence 6. Managing and mastering screens Part 3: Mental health presentations and conditions 7. Anxiety, Panic and OCD 8. Low mood 9. Behaviours that challenge, anger and defiance 10. Attachment difficulties and Trauma 11. Autism Spectrum Condition 12. Difficulties with attention, hyperactivity, impulsivity and tics 13. Onset of puberty and gender identity 14. Feeding and eating disorders Part 4: Transitions 15. Introduction to transitions 16. Transition into Early Years settings 17. Daily transitions 18. Year-to-year transitions 19. Transition to Secondary school Part 5: Resources 20. Lesson plans and resources 21. Glossary 22. Further reading and guidance

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Book SynopsisThe genesis for this book, and the strategy within it, is a longstanding commitment from Essex County Council to improve the life chances and life choices of disadvantaged pupils being educated in Essex.The purpose of the book is to set out a strategic, evidence-informed approach with pupils, families, teachers, leaders, system leaders and wider agencies which puts learners first. This approach is rooted in best practice. It centres on improving the day to day learning experiences of disadvantaged pupils, leading to better long term choice and opportunity. Unity Research School and Essex County Council hope it will support efforts to address the impact of socio-economic disadvantage on learning in schools and colleges nationally.

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Book SynopsisPhilosophy, Pussycats, & Porn is a series of essays, blog posts, and stories surveying more than a decade of poignant journalistic accounts from internationally recognized writer, actor, and pornographer Stoya.Stoya provides crucial examinations of systemic biases toward sex workers and how sexuality is reflected in society. She often points her journalistic lens inward, providing us with personal, illustriously detailed stories of her life, her collaborators, and ow she has built a flourishing media haven in the face of a culture that is still learning how to handle public discourses on sex work.Trade Review“She casually drops one-liners that could be essays in themselves.” —James Reith, The Guardian

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Book SynopsisParents can teach their children to read--no expertise required! Parents can take charge of their children’s literacy with this updated, easier-to-use edition of the classic jargon-free phonics guide. Too many parents watch their children struggle with early reading skills — and don’t know how to help. Many phonics programs are too often complicated, overpriced, gimmicky, and filled with obscure educationalese. The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading, Revised Edition cuts through the confusion, giving parents a simple, direct, scripted guide to teaching phonics and reading— from short vowels through supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. A new layout makes understanding and teaching the concepts even easier. With the accompanying Student Book, parents will have everything they need to take their children from the basics all the way to a fourth-grade reading level. Features a new introduction by Dr. Susan Wise Bauer.

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume examines the political and security issues influencing and shaping the developing maritime order in the Indo Pacific. If focuses specifically on the impact of China’s maritime expansion upon the policies and strategies of the regional states as well as the major players. The chapters examine the interaction of these players, paying particular attention to Japan, as the originator of the Indo Pacific idea and promoter of security cooperation and regionalism. It also covers the responses of the ASEAN claimants, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines as well as Indonesia, alongside the key players, India, the US and also the EU.Table of ContentsCh 1: Introduction: Maritime issues and the Indo Pacific, by Leszek BuszynskiCh 2: A Brittle Status Quo in the South China Sea, Gregory B. PolingCh 3: Japan, the US, Vietnam and the South China Sea , Yoji KodaCh 4: China’s coast guard, grey zone operations and the South China Sea, Martin A. SebastianCh 5: The South China Sea in Multilateral Forums: Five Case Studies, Carlyle A. ThayerCh 6: The Philippine Pivot to China: Threat to Stability in the West Philippine Sea, Marites Danguilan VitugCh 7: Environmental issues in the South China Sea and Blue Solutions, Nguyen Chu HoiCh 8: Assessing Europe’s perspectives on the South China Sea, Nicola Casarini-Ch 9: Japan and the East and South China Seas, Tomotaka ShojiCh 10: The Contest in the East China Sea, Yann-huei SongCh 11: The Misperception on China’s East China Sea ADIZ: Technical Flaws and legal Facts, Cao QunCh 12: Japan and the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP), Takashi HosodaCh 13: Historical continuities, geopolitical interests and norms in Japan’s Free and Open Indo Pacific, Toshiya TakahashiCh 14: India and the Indo-Pacific, Udai Bhanu SinghCh 15: The U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy: An American Perspective, Derek GrossmanCh 16: ASEAN and Indo-Pacific Outlook, To Anh Tuan and Do Thanh HaiCh 17: Indonesia and Indo-Pacific Cooperation, Senia FebricaCh 18: Conclusion: Physical connectedness and conceptual divide , Do Thanh Hai

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Book SynopsisThis open access book focuses on the role of civil society in the creation, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in geographical contexts. It offers original, interdisciplinary and counterintuitive perspectives on civil society. The book includes reflections on civil and uncivil society, the role of civil society as a change agent, and on civil society perspectives of undone science. Conceptual approaches go beyond the tripartite division of public, private and civic sectors to propose new frameworks of civic networks and philanthropic fields, which take an inclusive view of the connectivity of civic agency across sectors. This includes relational analyses of epistemic power in civic knowledge networks as well as of regional giving and philanthropy. The original empirical case studies examine traditional forms of civic engagement, such as the German landwomen’s associations, as well as novel types of organizations, such as giving circles and time banks in their geographical context. The book also offers insider reflections on doing civil society, such as the cases of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong, epistemic activism in the United States, and the #FeesMustFall movement in South Africa.Table of ContentsChapter 1. The Place of Civil Society in the Making of Knowledge.- Part I: (Re-)Thinking Civil Society.- Chapter 2. The Dialectic of Civil and Uncivil Society—Fragility, Fault Lines, and Countervailing Forces.-Chapter 3. Civil Society as an Agent of Change.- Chapter 4. Undone Science and Smart Cities: Civil Society Perspectives on Risk and Emerging Technologies.- Part II: Analyzing Civil Society Organizations.- Chapter 5. Specialists for Crumble Cakes? The German LandFrauen Organizations in Social Innovation and as Educational, Social, and Political Institutions.- Chapter 6. Schools of Democracy? Giving Circles and the Civic and Political Participation of Collaborative Philanthropists.- Chapter 7. Time Banks as Transient Civic Organizations? Exploring the Dynamics of Decline.- Part III: Spaces, Networks and Fields.- Chapter 8. Civil Society as Networks of Issues and Associations: The Case of Food.- Chapter 9. The Geography of Giving in the Philanthropic Field.- Chapter 10. Global Authenticity, Local Authority: Epistemic Power, Discursive Geographies, and the Creation of Civil Society Knowledge Networks.- Part IV: Doing Civil Society.- Chapter 11. Democracy Movement and Alternative Knowledge in Hong Kong.- Chapter 12. Epistemic Activism in the United States: Examining Meetings Across the Silos of Civil Society.- Chapter 13. Seeding a New World: Lessons From the #FeesMustFall Movement for the Advancement of Social Justice.- Chapter 14. Civility, Education, and the Embodied Mind—Three Approaches to a New Sentimental Education.

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Book SynopsisAimed at marketing students and practitioners, this book places less emphasis on theory but, instead, helps readers to understand why their customers are acting in a certain way or why their marketing activities or initiatives are not (or are) working out. The text examines the relevance of consumer behavior in such marketing topics as advertising and pricing, with topical chapters such as the sharing economy, luxury consumer behavior, and the ideological consumer. Each chapter includes boxes that highlight theory in greater depth; show how the concepts discuss work in actual practice; and the relevance of digital and social media marketing. This book will prove useful to those looking for a greater understanding of how consumer behavior provides greater insight about marketing activities.

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Book SynopsisThe Renault R35, an abbreviation of Char léger Modèle 1935 R or R35, was a French light infantry tank of the Second World War.Designed from 1933 and produced from 1936, the tank was intended as an infantry support light tank. To this end it was relatively well-armored but slow and lacking a good antitank-capacity, fitted with a short 37 mm gun. At the outbreak of the war, the antitank-role was more emphasized leading to the development and eventual production from April 1940 of a subtype with a more powerful longer gun, the Renault R40. Due to the defeat of France the R35/40 remained the most numerous French tank of the war. About 1680 vehicles having been produced by June 1940.In this volume the author provides a detailed impression of these vehicles through original photographs, taken both during by the normal German

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Book SynopsisM4 Sherman was the most popular American tank of World War II. Between February, 1942, and June, 1945, a total of 49.000 units of all versions were produced. Dozens of variants of M4 tanks were created. They differed in the method of hull production (welded, riveted, casted) as well as turret, main armament and additional equipment. Several special versions were also made (especially for the needs of the Normandy landing in 1944): the floating Sherman DD (Duplex Drive), Sherman Crab (with anti-mine trawl), Sherman Dozer (with bulldozer at the front – for demining and engineering tasks), Sherman Zippo (Sherman with a flamethrower mounted instead of the main gun).

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Book SynopsisMesserschmitt Bf 109 F (Friedrich) is one of the most important versions of this famous fighter. It was powered by the same engine (DB 601E) as the preceding Bf 109 E (Emil), but the airframe design differed significantly compared to its predecessor. First of all, the plane gained a more aerodynamic profile due to the new engine cowling (the engine had its own starter, which resulted in the extension of the unit), a new, more round propeller hub and rounded wing tips. In addition, supports were removed under horizontal stabilizers. The book presents color profiles of the most popular versions of the aircraft.

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Book SynopsisThe German heavy tank destroyer Panzerjäger Tiger (P) (Sd.Kfz. 184) Ferdinand was based on the chassis of the Tiger (P) tank designed by Ferdinand Porsche. The vehicle was not accepted by army, but because 90 chassis have already been produced at the Nibelungenwerke plant, it was decided that they could be usefully developed. This is how the tank destroyer based on the Tiger (P) chassis was born.Trade Review... the book gives you the armament, thickness of the armor and the division of the interior of the vehicle, as well as when the vehicle entered service with the German Army. * IPMS/USA 16/11/2022 *

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Book SynopsisThis book compiles the color profiles, scale plans, and photo details of the single variant of the Rolls-Royce if the Polish Commander-in-Chief. used in 1939. Scale plans are in 1/35 scale, plus drawings from wartime technical manuals. Also contains photos of the details in black and white.

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