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Book SynopsisZeldes, Columbia University.Trade ReviewPresents a comprehensive array of writings about the economic, social, and policy issues facing the United States in maintaining a social insurance program for the elderly into the 21st century. The book covers aging policy broadly and in depth, and the text provides good explanations for the technical concepts discussed in the book. -- Peggy A. Gallup Inquiry The authors and editors have created a timely, readable, and thought provoking text. The reader is drawn into the debate and leaves hoping that our leaders use such an approach to find long-term solutions for the healthcare and retirement needs of our increasingly aging population. -- Anna Maio, M.D. Doody's Rating This important book is distinguished by its careful attention to all three major programs affording retirement security to the elderly (Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid), by its admirable insistence on the need to bring both historical and international perspectives to bear on contemporary American welfare state topics, and by its balanced treatment of the political and economic dimensions of critical policy issues. -- Eric M. Patashnik Journal of Health Politics, Policy and LawTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsContributorsPart I: Introduction Chapter 1. Overview: Issues and Options for an Aging PopulationChapter 2. An International Perspective on Policies for an Aging SocietyPart II: The Economic FrameworkChapter 3. Budget Estimates: What We Know, What We Can't Know, and Why It MattersChapter 4. Long-Run Budget Projections and Their Implications For Funding Elderly EntitlementsChapter 5. Increased Public Spending on the Elderly: Can We Afford It?Chapter 6. The Economic Consequences of Funding Growing Elderly EntitlementsChapter 7. The Entitlements Crisis That Never Existed Part III: Policy AlternativesChapter 8. The Case for Universal Social InsuranceChapter 9. The Moral Imperative of Limiting Elderly Health EntitlementsChapter 10. The Merits of Changing to Defined Contribution ProgramsChapter 11. The Case for Retaining Defined Benefit Programs Chapter 12. Private Accounts, Prefunding, and Equity Investment Under Social Security Chapter 13. Changing Retirement Trends and Their Impact on Elderly Entitlement ProgramsChapter 14. Aligning Incentives For a National Retirement PolicyPart IV: Political Realities Chapter 15. Enacting Reform: What Can We Expect in the Current Political Context?Chapter 16. The Politics of Enacting ReformChapter 17. The Financial Problems of the Elderly: A Holistic ViewIndex

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Book SynopsisOne of this book's goals is to evaluate the complex ways that Madrid has served as the political, economic, and cultural capital of the Global South from the end of the Franco dictatorship to the present. The other is to examine the city as lived experience, where citizens contest capital's push to shape urban space in its own image through activities of the imagination. Scholars, investigative journalists, political activists, and a filmmaker combine to document the vast array of Madrid's grassroots movements.

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Book SynopsisIn the fully updated Sixth Edition of Understanding Global Cultures: Metaphorical Journeys Through 34 Nations, Clusters of Nations, Continents, and Diversity, authors Martin J. Gannon and Rajnandini Pillai present the cultural metaphor as a method for understanding the cultural mindsets of individual nations, clusters of nations, continents, and diversity in each nation. A cultural metaphor is any activity, phenomenon, or institution that members of a given culture consider important and with which they identify emotionally and/or cognitively, such as the Japanese garden and American football. This cultural metaphoric approach identifies three to eight unique or distinctive features of each cultural metaphor and then discusses 34 national cultures in terms of these features. The book demonstrates how metaphors are guidelines to help outsiders quickly understand what members of a culture consider important.Trade Review"Each one of these chapters is very detailed and the metaphor is sensible… This is a great introduction to cultural diversity for many different reasons, such as economy (Italy), religion (Malaysia), language (Belgium, plus Canada and Switzerland among many others). It meets the demand for a business cultural geography companion text." -- Jorge A. Gonzalez"This text more thoroughly increases cultural awareness to broaden students′ perspectives of what they may encounter as they travel to different parts of the world. The chapters are well written; my students are challenged by, and maintain an interest in, the level of the book. It is a book that provides a challenge for the level of students in my course." -- Nancy Lyons"This is the only textbook that I have found that actually discusses relevant information about contemporary cultures from all over the world…This is a wonderful text! I actually encourage other instructors to use it for their comparative cultures classes. It is easy to read and understand, discusses relevant information, and helps students become more aware of cultures that they may very well come in contact with. I will be using the next editions of this text, as it is the best I′ve found." -- Heather M. Smith"Overall I have enjoyed the text and have found it a useful resource for myself. Students who have used it as recommended reading have also found it helpful in developing a more colorful understanding of issues from the module. The structure of the book is good, with an appropriate break up of countries as it demonstrates that despite major visible differences the cultures in each category actually have important base characteristics. I am glad this text is available as it supports the broad themes of my course admirably well." -- Patrick Meehan"It is one of the most interesting textbooks in the marketplace. The authors KNOW what they are doing. I love this textbook and have been using it for years now. It is one of the only textbooks that many of my students do NOT sell back to the campus bookstore!" -- Patrice Hughes"I enjoy using this book in my classes and students also seem to like it. I get positive comments on the text in student evaluations." -- Alexandre Ardichvili"The book is a very useful resource for any one traveling to a foreign country because it provides unique in-depth insights to cultures. Thus, I encourage students to hang onto the book as a resource in dealing with customers from these countries. What I like about the current format is that the questions and the associated answers are infinite once you dig deeper into the metaphor and then start comparing/contrasting metaphors." -- Brad Koch"This is a fantastic book and I will continue to use it in whatever format." -- Jennifer BasquiatTable of ContentsPreface: Understanding Cultures in Depth Part I. Introduction Chapter 1. Understanding Cultural Metaphors Language Barriers Using Cultural Metaphors Constructing Cultural Metaphors Using Metaphor Reading and Using This Book A Two-Dimensional Typology of Cultures A Scaling Perspective Defining Culture or Identifying Its Determinants? When Culture Does, and Does Not, Matter Part II. Authority-Ranking Cultures Chapter 2. The Thai Kingdom Loose Vertical Hierarchy Freedom and Equality The Thai Smile Chapter 3. The Japanese Garden Corporate Cultures Garden as Metaphor Wa and Shikata Seishin Training Combining Droplets or Energies Aesthetics Similarities and Contrasts Chapter 4. Bedouin Jewelry and Saudi Arabia History and Geography The Desert Bedouins Bold Form Handcrafted Appearance Traditional Design Female Ownership Chapter 5. Dòn Gánh: The Two Sides of Vietnam History of Occupation The French Defeat and Division Into Two The Metaphor: The Dualities of Dòn Gánh Chapter 6. Kimchi and Korea South Korea Kimchi The 60th Birthday Strangers by Day, Lovers by Night Kimchi’s Public Role The Irish of Asia Part III. Scandinavian Egalitarian Cultures Chapter 7. The Swedish Stuga Early History Modern Evolution Social Democracy The Swedish Summer Home Love of Untrammeled Nature and Tradition Individualism Through Self-Development Equality Chapter 8. The Finnish Sauna From Survival to Political and Economic Success Sauna: A Secular “Holy” Place of Equality Communication: Comfort With Quietude Chapter 9. The Danish Christmas Luncheon Interdependent Individualism Geographic Ambivalence Coziness Part IV. Other Egalitarian Cultures Chapter 10. The German Symphony Postwar Evolution The Symphony Orchestra Diversity of Musical Instruments Positional Arrangements of the Musicians Conductors and Leaders Precision and Synchronicity The Unfinished Symphony Chapter 11. Irish Conversations Early History English Oppression Identifying Links Intersection of Gaelic and English Prayer as Conversation A Free-Flowing Conversation: Irish Hospitality Places of Conversations: Irish Friends and Families Ending a Conversation Chapter 12. The Canadian Backpack and Flag Historical Background Egalitarianism and Outlook The Canadian Mosaic Canadians as Non-U.S. Americans Chapter 13. Australian Outdoor Recreational Activities Capturing the Imagination New Realities: Beyond Stereotypes Barbecue Equality Matching Among the Tall Poppies Chapter 14. French Wine Pureness Classification Composition Suitability The Maturation Process The Changing Portrait Part V. Market-Pricing Cultures Chapter 15. American Football The Tailgate Party Pregame and Halftime Entertainment Strategy and War Selection, the Training Camp, and the Playbook Individual Specialized Achievement Within the Team Structure Aggression, High Risks, and Unpredictable Outcomes Huddling The Church of Football and Celebrating Perfection Chapter 16. The Traditional British House The Traditional House History, Politics, Economics: Laying the Foundations Growing Up British: Building the House Being British: Living in the House Part VI. Cleft National Cultures Chapter 17. The Malaysian Balik Kampung Returning to Nearby Roots Authority Ranking Reinforcing Common Values Chapter 18. The Israeli Kibbutzim and Moshavim Zionism, Types of Judaism, and the Palestinians A New Country Continuous War Religious Conflict Explicit Values Size and Behavioral Outcomes Traumas, Worldview, and Personality Chapter 19. The Italian Opera North and South The Opera Metaphor The Overture Pageantry and Spectacle Voice Externalization Chorus and Soloists Chapter 20. Belgian Lace Wallonian Versus Flemish History of Lace A Land of Contrasts Control Cooperation and Harmony Part VII. Torn National Cultures Chapter 21. The Mexican Fiesta Historical Background The Mexican Fiesta Primary Focus on People The Emphasis on Religion Experiencing the Present Freedom Within the Social Order Chapter 22. The Turkish Coffeehouse A Unique History Islam and Secularity Recreation, Communication, and Community Integration A Male Domain A Modest Environment Life Outside the Coffeehouse Looking Ahead Part VIII. The Base Culture and Its Diffusion Across Borders (Clusters of Nations): The Example of China Chapter 23. China’s Great Wall and Cross-Cultural Paradox The Great Wall: Long, Tortuous, and Complex History Confucianism and Taoism Sun Tzu, War, and the Marketplace Chapter 24. The Chinese Family Altar: The Expatriate Chinese Outside of China The Importance of Family The Expatriate Chinese Roundness Harmony Fluidity Chapter 25. The Singapore Hawker Centers Origins of the Hawker Centers Singapore’s History Ethnic Diversity but Unity Efficiency The Power of Women Safety Synthesizing Traditional and New Values Part IX. India: Tradition, Modernity, and Diversity Chapter 26. India: The Dance of Shiva Shiva’s Dance Indian Culture: Early History Cyclical Hindu Philosophy The Cycle of Life The Family Cycle The Cycle of Social Interaction The Work and Recreation (Rejuvenation) Cycle Chapter 27. India: A Kaleidoscope of Diversity The Kaleidoscope of Religions and Cultural Celebrations Images of Festivals and Feasts Cell Phones, Call Centers, and Curriculum: Images of Change The Changing Image of Cricket Part X. An African Perspective Chapter 28. The Nigerian Marketplace Diversity Social Dynamism Balancing Tradition and Change Chapter 29. South African Townships An Insider’s View An Outsider’s View Chapter 30. The Sub-Saharan African Bush Taxi Basic Operations A Short History of Africa African Time Orientation and Fatalism Communalism and Community Sharing Hierarchy in African Society: Seating Arrangements in the Bush Taxi Part XI. The Struggle for Cultural Identity and the Splintering of Nations: The Case of the Russian Empire Chapter 31. Russian Ballet An Apt Metaphor A Flourishing Art Echelons of the Ballet Drama and Realism The Russian Soul Chapter 32. Estonian Singing Lyrics, or the Painful History of the Proud Nation Vocalists, or Simple Pleasures Inspired by Nature Performance, or Singing as a Weapon Audience, or Estonia on the Global Stage Chapter 33. The Polish Village Church Historical Background Central Place of the Catholic Church The Partitioning and Polish Identity Survivors Part XII. Same Metaphor, Different Meanings Chapter 34. The Spanish Bullfight The Bullfight Begins Cuadrillas Sol y Sombra The Pompous Entrance Parade Audience Involvement The Ritual of the Bullfight Chapter 35. The Portuguese Bullfight Pride in Traditions Stratification Amid Unity Artistry and Human Gore Profitless Bravery Part XIII. Popular Music as Cultural Metaphors Chapter 36. The Brazilian Samba Evolution of the Samba Small-Step Circularity Physical Touch Undulation Spontaneous Escape Paradox of Dancers Chapter 37. The Argentine Tango The Tango’s Evolution Tango Music and Composers The Dynamics of the Dance Tango Singers and Their Lyrics Gender Relations Applying What We’ve Learned Summary Part XIV. Overlapping Cultural Metaphors for Geographically Related Nations Chapter 38. Cultural Metaphors for the Caribbean A Brief History of the Caribbean Region Cultural Metaphors for the Caribbean Personal Experiences With Caribbean Metaphors Developing Complementary Cultural Metaphors Conclusions References Index About the Authors

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Book Synopsis“Critical Race Theory” is consuming conservative America. The mounting attacks on a once-obscure legal theory are upending public schooling, legislating censorship, driving elections, and cleaving communities. In this much-needed response, renowned scholar David Theo Goldberg cuts to the heart of the claims expressed in these attacks. He punctures the demonization of Critical Race Theory, uncovering who is orchestrating it, funding the assault, and eagerly distributing the message. The book richly illustrates the enduring nature of structural racism, even as a conservative insistence on colorblindness serves to silence the possibility of doing anything about it. Crucially, Goldberg exposes the political aims and effects of the vitriolic attacks. The upshot of CRT’s targeting, he argues, has been to unleash racisms anew and to stymie any attempt to fight them, all with the aim of protecting white minority rule.Trade Review“No one who cares about our multiracial democracy can afford to ignore the coordinated, well-funded, and fabricated attack against Critical Race Theory. David Theo Goldberg tells us exactly what we need to know to understand what is at stake, why everyone should pay attention, and what must be done to recover the promise of a livable future.”Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Columbia Law School and UCLA School of Law“In this breathtaking exposé of the war on Critical Race Theory, David Theo Goldberg probes the orchestrated outrage, intellectual make-believe, and sloppy architecture of ideas espoused by those seeking desperately to maintain the racist status quo.”Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University, and author of Race After Technology and Viral Justice“David Theo Goldberg does a masterful job of investigating the public conversation on Critical Race Theory. Through an extremely coherent and well-articulated set of analyses, he shows that many of CRT’s challengers stand on faulty intellectual ground and have dubious motivations for questioning it.​”Alford A. Young, Jr., University of Michigan, President of the Association of Black Sociologists“I suppose the most hysterical anti-CRT folks are more likely to ban Goldberg’s book than read it. But for those thinking people that may have heard rumours about the evils of CRT and aren’t sure what to think, it’s well worth picking up.”Earthbound Report“Clearly indignant at the involuntary politicization of an entire field of research, Goldberg takes the reader on a tour de force of the misunderstandings that have permeated the debate on critical race theory, to then counter them. […] Goldberg delivers a highly compelling and nuanced response to how a group of people desperately try to hold onto or reproduce their old world while a new one is in its infancy.”NY TIDTable of ContentsPreface1. What’s Going On?PART I: PRINCIPLES AND PRINCIPALS2. The Headliners3. Critical Race TheoryPART II: FABRICATIONS4. A Method of Misreading5. Structural Racism?6. The Gospel of Colorblindness7. Fictive Histories8. Sounds of SilencingPART III: THE POLITICS OF “CRT”9. Deregulating Racism10. Executing Critical Race Theory

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Book SynopsisThe $22 trillion opportunity that can be unlocked only if you rethink everything you think you know about people over sixty.In the time it takes you to read this, another twenty Americans will turn sixty-five. Ten thousand people a day are crossing that threshold, and that number will continue to grow. In fifteen years, Americans aged sixty-five and over will outnumber those under age eighteen. Nearly everywhere in the world, people over sixty are the fastest-growing age group.Longevity presents an opportunity that companies need to develop a strategy for. Estimates put the global market for this demographic at a whopping $22 trillion across every industry you can imagine. Entertainment, travel, education, health care, housing, transportation, consumer goods and services, product design, tech, financial services, and many others will benefit, but only if marketers unlearn what they think they know about this growing population.The key is to stop thinking of older adults as one market. Stage (Not Age) is the concise guide to helping companies understand that people over sixty are a deeply diverse population. They're traveling through different life stages and therefore want and need different products and services.This book helps you reset your understanding of what an "old person" is. It demonstrates how three people, all seventy years old, may not even be in the same market segment. It identifies the systemic barriers to entering this market and provides ways to overcome them. And it shares the best practices of companies that have successfully shifted to a Stage (Not Age) mentality.This practical guide prepares companies and marketers for an inevitable shift they can't ignore.Trade Review"Stage (Not Age) is a fascinating read…" — Kiplinger's"The author provides a guide for companies to understand how retirement age can actually mean many different markets and stages." — Forbes"In her new book, Stage (Not Age), Golden makes a case that chronological age no longer defines us, especially in the second half of life. It's the stage of life we're in that's most important." — Next Avenue"Citing trillions of dollars in spending power, Golden says companies should cater more products and services toward the people with the most wealth: those in their golden years." — McKinsey Author TalksAdvance Praise for Stage (Not Age):"Stage (Not Age) is your own personal master class for understanding, entering, and thriving in the fast-growing, $22 trillion longevity market. The profiles of companies that successfully serve this market will cause you to rethink everything you thought you knew about aging." — Jo Ann Jenkins, CEO, AARP"We can continue viewing the aging of the world's population as an imminent crisis, or we can choose to see it as an opportunity for business and policy innovations. This book guides us toward the latter view, and brilliantly." — Michelle A. Williams, Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health"People, like wine, get better with age. Susan Golden's important book demonstrates how an aging population presents extraordinary opportunities for businesses. While some complain about the costs of an older population, Stage (Not Age) offers a thoughtful roadmap for understanding the ways in which the fastest-growing demographic can drive value." — Larry Summers, President, Emeritus, Harvard University; former Secretary of the Treasury of the United States"Susan Golden's book offers an inspiring roadmap for entrepreneurs and innovators to grow with the longevity economy." — Jonathan Levin, Dean, Stanford Graduate School of Business"An insightful and practical guide to an amazing and multifaceted business. Stage (Not Age) is the indispensable guide for companies to develop a strategy for this opportunity—as we did at Best Buy." — Hubert Joly, former Chairman and CEO, Best Buy; author, The Heart of Business; and senior lecturer, Harvard Business School"In Stage (Not Age), Susan Golden makes an eloquent case for investing in one of the most compelling business opportunities of our time. Her book is a clearly written, insightful guide. A must-read for changemakers of all ages." — Marc Freedman, founder, President, and CEO, Encore.org; author, How to Live Forever"How do you reach a generation (or two) of people who don't feel, look, or act as old as they are? By not focusing on the number on their birth certificate. That's the message of Susan Golden's enlightening new book. Companies and marketers willing to listen should find themselves at an advantage." — Jean Chatzky, founder and CEO, HerMoney Media; New York Times bestselling coauthor, AgeProof

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Book SynopsisThe Statistical Abstract of the United States has provided a statistical portrait of social, political, demographic, and economic conditions of America since 1878. This 2020 edition continues the heritage begun so long ago by the U.S. government, with the U.S. Census Bureau being the last agency to produce the compendium at government expense. Now in our eighth annual edition, Rowman & Littlefield and ProQuest carry on the proud tradition and responsibility of creating the statistical portrait of America.Librarians value the Statistical Abstract as both an answer book and a guide to statistical sources. It is the best-known statistical reference publication in the country. As a comprehensive collection of statistics, it is a snapshot of America and its people. Our editors are committed to updating the long-standing, historical statistics as new data becomes available, as well as finding new topics to cover.

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Book SynopsisExploring tailored family planning strategies for marginalized groups, this work delves into comparative insights from Asian contexts, providing actionable approaches to empower and transform communities, foster sustainable development and improve reproductive health outcomes.

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Book SynopsisThomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was a leading figure in the British classical school of economics, best-known for extending the insights of Adam Smith at a time of revolutionary improvements in agriculture and industry. This book explores the way in which he accounted for the tendency to overpopulation, the exhaustion of arable land and the deficiency of effective demand.Malthus relied on historical and empirical evidence in the spirit of Bacon and Hume, but also backed up his data with a priori hypotheses that link him to his contemporary, David Ricardo. Malthus was strongly in favour of free trade, the minimal State, the gold standard and the abolition of poverty relief. Always a pragmatist, however, he was just as much in favour of public education, contra-cyclical public works and a safety net of tariffs and bounties to encourage national self-sufficiency with regard to food. He was both an economist and a clergyman and saw the two roles as interconnected. Malthus believed that a benevolent Deity had created vice and misery in order to shake human beings out of their natural indolence that would otherwise have condemned them to still greater distress. This title provides a clear and comprehensive examination of Malthus’s economic and social thought. It will be of interest to students and scholars alike.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Induction and Deduction.- Chapter 3: The Law of Population.- Chapter 4: Public Policy.- Chapter 5: The Poor Laws.- Chapter 6: Balanced Growth.- Chapter 7: Tariffs and Bounties.- Chapter 8: The Circular Flow.- Chapter 9: Circular Flow and Social Class.- Chapter 10: Society and State.- Chapter 11: Foreign Trade.- Chapter 12: Money.- Chapter 13: God’s Design.- Chapter 14: Malthus’s Legacy: A System of Ideas.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book provides insight on how to interpret capability in ageing – one’s individual ability to perform actions in order to reach goals one has reason to value – from a multidisciplinary approach. With for the first time in history there being more people in the world aged 60 years and over than there are children below the age of 5, the book describes this demographic trends as well as the large global challenges and important societal implications this will have such as a worldwide increase in the number of persons affected with dementia, and in the ratio of retired persons to those still in the labor market. Through contributions from many different research areas, it discussed how capability depends on interactions between the individual (e.g. health, genetics, personality, intellectual capacity), environment (e.g. family, friends, home, work place), and society (e.g. political decisions, ageism, historical period). The final chapter summarizes the differences and similarities in these contributions. As such this book provides an interesting read for students, teachers and researchers at different levels and from different fields interested in capability and multidisciplinary research.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The AgeCap conceptual framework for research on capability in ageing.- Chapter 3. The ICECAP-O measure.- Chapter 4. The capability approach in epidemiological studies.- Chapter 5 – Good self-rated health as an indicator of personal capability in old age.- Chapter 6. Capability in research on cognition and well-being in ageing and retirement.- Chapter 7. The neurochemistry of Alzheimer’s disease: one of the most common causes of reduced capability in the adult population.- Chapter 8. The capability approach in research on ageing well at home for frail older people.- Chapter 9. eHealth literacy and capability in the context of the pandemic crisis.- Chapter 10. Increasing people’s capabilities by using design thinking in the decision-making process.- Chapter 11. The capability approach in social work with older people.- Chapter 12. A historical perspective on ageing and capability.- Chapter 13. The capabilities approach and the concepts of self-determination, legal competence and human dignity in social services for older people.- Chapter 14. Invisible or powerful? Ageing in a mediatised society.- Chapter 15. System and life-course perspectives on capability to work and capability through work.- Chapter 16. Organisational capability for delayed retirement.- Chapter 17. Capability and political participation among ageing populations.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book presents a ground-breaking approach to developing micro-foundations for demography and migration studies. It offers a unique and novel methodology for creating empirically grounded agent-based models of international migration – one of the most uncertain population processes and a top-priority policy area. The book discusses in detail the process of building a simulation model of migration, based on a population of intelligent, cognitive agents, their networks and institutions, all interacting with one another. The proposed model-based approach integrates behavioural and social theory with formal modelling, by embedding the interdisciplinary modelling process within a wider inductive framework based on the Bayesian statistical reasoning. Principles of uncertainty quantification are used to devise innovative computer-based simulations, and to learn about modelling the simulated individuals and the way they make decisions. The identified knowledge gaps are subsequently filled with information from dedicated laboratory experiments on cognitive aspects of human decision-making under uncertainty. In this way, the models are built iteratively, from the bottom up, filling an important epistemological gap in migration studies, and social sciences more broadly.Trade Review“The material collected by Jakub Bijak and his team constitutes a valuable resource for scholars interested in modelling individual decisions, not necessarily restricted to migration processes. … Researchers who already gained some experience in social simulation will receive many inspirations for improving their own research and rise to the next level. In this way, this book has the potential to advance the art of modelling in the social sciences.” (Thomas Fent, European Journal of Population, Vol. 38, 2022)Table of ContentsPart I: Preliminaries: Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Uncertainty and complexity: towards model-based demography.- Part II: Elements of the modelling process.- Chapter 3. Principles and state of the art of agent-based migration modelling.- Chapter 4. Building a knowledge base for the model.- Chapter 5. Uncertainty quantification, model calibration and sensitivity.- Chapter 6. The boundaries of cognition and decision making.- Chapter 7. Agent-based modelling and simulation with domain-specific languages.- Part III: Model results, applications, and reflections.- Chapter 8. Towards more realistic models.- Chapter 9. Bayesian model-based approach: impact on science and policy.- Chapter 10. Open science, replicability, and transparency in modelling.- Chapter 11. Conclusions: towards a Bayesian modelling process.

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Book SynopsisThis open access short reader offers a critical review of the debates on the transformation of migration and gendered mobilities primarily in Europe, though also engaging in wider theoretical insights. Building on empirical case studies and grounded in an analytical framework that incorporates both men and women, masculinities, sexualities and wider intersectional insights, this reader provides an accessible overview of conceptual developments and methodological shifts and their implications for a gendered understanding of migration in the past 30 years. It explores different and emerging approaches in major areas, such as: gendered labour markets across diverse sectors beyond domestic and care work to include skilled sectors of social reproduction; the significance of families in migration and transnational families; displacement, asylum and refugees and the incorporation of gender and sexuality in asylum determination; academic critiques and gendered discourses concerning integration often with the focus on Muslim women. The reader concludes with considerations of the potential impact of three notable developments on gendered migrations and mobilities: Black Lives Matter, Brexit and COVID-19. As such, it is a valuable resource for students, academics, policy makers, and practitioners.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Gender and Migration: an Introduction.- Chapter 2: Gendered Migrations and Conceptual Approaches: Theorising and Researching Mobilities.- Chapter 3: Gendered Labour.- Chapter 4: Transnational Families, Intimate Relations, Generations.- Chapter 5: Gendering Asylum.- Chapter 6: Engendering Integration and Inclusion.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book shows policymakers which initiatives work when responding to the increasing diversity in cities, towns and neighborhood's. In recent times, policymakers have grappled with ways of responding to this increase, which has resulted in a plethora of policy initiatives, some more effective than others. Bringing together a large amount of research and evidence-based policy recommendations, this book offers both a sense of strategic direction as well as more specific, actionable advice. It brings together a remarkable mixture of policy areas that touch upon issues of diversity, immigration policy, education, and labour policy. It is of benefit and importance to all those making policies for a country with increasing immigration. Table of ContentsIntroduction: New migration patterns require a reassessment of policies.- Chapter 2: The Netherlands as a society of immigration.- Chapter 3: Societal challenges.- Chapter 4: Changing policy models.- Chapter 5: A better organisation of reception and integration in municipalities.- Chapter 6: Strengthening the social cohesion.- Chapter 7: Towards migration policy with an eye for social cohesion.- Chapter 8: Reassessing the policy agenda.

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Book SynopsisThis is an open access book under CC BY-NC-ND.This open access book is a comprehensive solution proposed by Dr. Chen Dongsheng for the issues of medical care, pension, and fund raising in the era of longevity. This book studies the relationship among aging population, economic development, and business model innovation. It integrates multi-disciplinary, multi-industry, and multi-professional research and thinking to focus on how to meet the challenge of aging population from business perspective. The author analyzes the keys and experience for Taikang to get successful in this area. The arrival of the "Era of Longevity" not only creates new business opportunities, but also changes the economy, governance, and cultural ecology of the society. It is of interest to the readers in business and policy-making.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Longevity Era Centennial Life.- Chapter 2. Healthy Era, Healthier Longevity.- Chapter 3. Wealth era rich life.- Chapter 4. Pioneer of the age of longevity - Japan.- Chapter 5. longevity economy.- Chapter 6. The Road to Corporate Innovation for the Age of Longevity (6 and 7 Merger).- Chapter 7. Taikang's solution makes the era of longevity better.- Chapter 8. Building a Harmonious Longevity Society.

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Book SynopsisA powerful reminder that service and other low-wage workers are complex and inspiring in their dogged efforts to remain afloat. This book features stories that serve as a chance to humanize debates about work, race, and immigration.Trade Review"An interesting look at a puzzling society-ours-from the point of view of a sympathetic but not uncritical outsider." Kirkus Reviews "With careful candor and clarity, [Deepak Singh] shows the challenges facing new immigrants and the effort it takes to surmount them." BooklistTable of ContentsForeword by Holly Donahue Singh Acknowledgments 1. Answering Machine 2. Lucknow 3. Transit 4. My American Wife 5. Job Application 6. Hired 7. First Day 8. One Month’s Notice 9. English 10. Colleagues 11. Olive Skin 12. Camera King 13. Don’t Buy It 14. Foreigner 15. My Name Is Deepak 16. I’m Straight Today 17. Holly and I 18. All Hands on Deck 19. Long Two Years 20. The Golden Quarter 21. Two Americas 22. Paula 23. Cameron 24. Don’t Sue Me! 25. Post-Christmas Blues 26. A Handful of Dimes 27. India Visit

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The result of over three years of ethnography in Los Angeles is a multi-layered consideration of the ‘interpersonal violence prevention programmes’ delivered to young people across the United States: around two-thirds of high school students are now ‘put through’ some such programme during their education. . . . Greenberg evidences the many positive ways in which POV’s highly-motivated people and other such workers attempt to make a real difference in local communities, and how they seek to negotiate and manage the pressures and constraints they are under." * Process North *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. In Medias Res 2. How Violence Became Preventable 3. Statistical Lives 4. Familiar Strangers 5. Stories Come Apart 6. The State of Adults Epilogue: The Future Appendix: An Ephemeral EthnographyNotes References Index

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Book SynopsisEditors Marsha Kinder and Tara McPherson present an authoritative collection of essays on the continuing debates over medium specificity and the politics of the digital arts. Comparing the term transmedia with transnational, they show that the movement beyond specific media or nations does not invalidate those entities but makes us look more closely at the cultural specificity of each combination. In two parts, the book stages debates across essays, creating dialogues that give different narrative accounts of what is historically and ideologically at stake in medium specificity and digital politics. Each part includes a substantive introduction by one of the editors. Part 1 examines precursors, contemporary theorists, and artists who are protagonists in this discursive drama, focusing on how the transmedia frictions and continuities between old and new forms can be read most productively: N. Katherine Hayles and Lev Manovich redefine medium specificity, Edward Branigan and Yuri TsivTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface: Origins, Agents, and Alternative ArchaeologiesPART I. MEDIUM SPECIFICITY AND PRODUCTIVE PRECURSORSMedium Specificity and Productive Precursors: An IntroductionMarsha KinderPrint Is Flat, Code Is Deep: The Importance of Media-Specific AnalysisN. Katherine HaylesPostmedia AestheticsLev ManovichIf–Then–Else: Memory and the Path Not TakenEdward BraniganCyberspace and Its Precursors: Lintsbach, Warburg, EisensteinYuri TsivianPast Indiscretions: Digital Archives and Recombinant HistorySteve AndersonFilms Beget Digital MediaStephen MamberNavigating the Ocean of Streams of StoryGrahame WeinbrenIs This Not a Screen? Notes on the Mobile Phone and CinemaCaroline BassettPART II. DIGITAL POSSIBILITIES AND THE REIMAGINING OF POLITICS, PLACE, AND THE SELFDigital Possibilities and the Reimagining of Politics, Place, and the Self: An IntroductionTara McPhersonTransnational/National Digital ImaginariesJohn Hess and Patricia R. ZimmermannIs (Cyber) Space the Place?Herman GrayLinkages: Political Topography and Networked TopologyDavid Wade CraneThe Database City: The Digital Possessive and Hollywood BoulevardEric GordonCuba, Cyberculture, and the Exile DiscourseCristina VenegasThinking Digitally/Acting Locally: Interactive Narrative, Neighborhood Soil, and La Cosecha Nuestra CommunityJohn T. CaldwellVideo Installation Art as Uncanny Shock, or How Bruce Nauman’s Corridors Expand Sensory LifeMark B. N. HansenBraingirls and FleshmonstersHolly WillisTech-illa Sunrise (.txt con Sangrita)Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Guillermo Gómez-PeñaWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisEveryday Life in the Spectacular Cityis a groundbreaking urban ethnography that reveals how middle-class citizens and longtime residents of Dubai interact with the city's so-called superficial spaces to create meaningful social lives. Rana AlMutawa shows that inhabitants adapt themselves to top-down development projects, from big malls to megaprojects. These structures serve residents' evolving social needs, transforming Dubai's spectacular spaces into personally important cultural sites. These practices are significant because they expand our understanding of agency as not only subversive but also adaptive. Throughextensive fieldwork, AlMutawa, herself an Emirati native to Dubai, finds a more nuanced story of belonging. This story does not seek to uncover the real city that lies beneath the veneer of the spectacle, but rather to demonstrate that social meanings and forms of belonging take place within the spectacle itself.By offering an alternative to the discourse of authenticity and elucidating the dynamics of ambivalent belonging, AlMutawa belies stereotypes that portray Dubai's developments as alienating and inherently disempowering.Everyday Life in the Spectacular Cityspeaks beyond the Middle East to a globalized phenomenon, for Dubai's spectacles are unexceptional in today's changing world. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. (In)Authenticity in Brand Dubai 2. Negotiating Belonging in Dubai’s Glitzy, Neoliberal Spaces 3. Globalization and Diversity at a Cosmopolitan Crossroads 4. An Appropriately Modern City 5. The Costs and Benefits of Safety in Sanitized Spaces Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAttempts to develop a "radical microsociology". This book proposes that successful rituals create symbols of group membership and pump up individuals with emotional energy, while failed rituals drain emotional energy.Trade Review"Collins again demonstrates why he is considered one of the leading social theorists. This ... work of Collins, in particular, transcends the boundaries of sociology... This is an outstanding work for theoretically oriented professional and advanced students in sociology, social psychology, and psychology."--Choice "Collins argues in this pathbreaking book that ritual--whether in face-to-face conversations or at national presidential funerals--is the key sociological factor that ties group structure and collective beliefs together... Collins plows new ground in several ways. First, he argues that ritual is the central category for all sociological analysis because ritual connects and mediates group structure and beliefs... Second, his work breaks new paths because it proposes a comprehensive theory of ritual grounded in everyday solutions... Finally, Collins bushwhacks new paths when he emphasizes the importance of the emotional energy, what he calls 'collective effervescence,' that is generated by ritual."--Donald B. Kraybill, Christian Century "Collins's book is a major contribution to contemporary sociological theory. His approach--a genuinely sociological microfoundation of sociology--is well chosen and carefully carried out ... Interaction ritual theory helps to enrich our knowledge about a core process of social life. Interaction Ritual Chains is a book offering rich insights into this core process."--Richard Munch, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsList of Figures ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xxi PART I. Radical Microsociology Chapter 1 The Program of Interaction Ritual Theory 3 Situation rather than Individual as Starting Point 3 Conflicting Terminologies 7 Traditions of Ritual Analysis 9 Subcognitive Ritualism 9 Functionalist Ritualism 13 Goffman's Interaction Ritual 16 The Code-Seeking Program 25 The Cultural Turn 30 Classic Origins of IR Theory in Durkheim's Sociology of Religion 32 The Significance of Interaction Ritual for General Sociological Theory 40 Chapter 2 The Mutual-Focus / Emotional-Entrainment Model 47 Ritual Ingredients, Processes, and Outcomes 47 Formal Rituals and Natural Rituals 49 Failed Rituals, Empty Rituals, Forced Rituals 50 Is Bodily Presence Necessary? 53 The Micro-Process of Collective Entrainment in Natural Rituals 65 Conversational Turn-Taking as Rhythmic Entrainment 66 Experimental and Micro-Observational Evidence on Rhythmic Coordination and Emotional Entrainment 75 Joint Attention as Key to Development of Shared Symbols 79 Solidarity Prolonged and Stored in Symbols 81 The Creation of Solidarity Symbols in 9/11 88 Rules for Unraveling Symbols 95 Chapter 3 Emotional Energy and the Transient Emotions 102 Disruptive and Long-Term Emotions, or Dramatic Emotions and Emotional Energy 105 Interaction Ritual as Emotion Transformer 107 Stratified Interaction Rituals 111 Power Rituals 112 Status Rituals 115 Effects on Long-Term Emotions: Emotional Energy 118 Emotion Contest and Conflict Situations 121 Short-Term or Dramatic Emotions 125 Transformations from Short-Term Emotions into Long-Term EE 129 The Stratification of Emotional Energy 131 Appendix: Measuring Emotional Energy and Its Antecedents 133 Chapter 4 Interaction Markets and Material Markets 141 Problems of the Rational Cost-Benefit Model 143 The Rationality of Participating in Interaction Rituals 146 The Market for Ritual Solidarity 149 Reinvestment of Emotional Energy and Membership Symbols 149 Match-Ups of Symbols and Complementarity of Emotions 151 Emotional Energy as the Common Denominator of Rational Choice 158 I. Material Production Is Motivated by the Need for Resources for Producing IRs 160 II. Emotional Energy Is Generated by Work-Situation IRs 163 III. Material Markets Are Embedded in an Ongoing Flow of IRs Generating Social Capital 165 Altruism 168 When Are Individuals Most Materially Self-Interested? 170 The Bottom Line: EE-Seeking Constrained by Material Resources 171 Sociology of Emotions as the Solution to Rational Choice Anomalies 174 The Microsociology of Material Considerations 176 Situational Decisions without Conscious Calculation 181 Chapter 5 Internalized Symbols and the Social Process of Thinking 183 Methods for Getting Inside, or Back Outside 184 Intellectual Networks and Creative Thinking 190 Non-Intellectual Thinking 196 Anticipated and Reverberated Talk 197 Thought Chains and Situational Chains 199 The Metaphor of Dialogue among Parts of the Self 203 Verbal Incantations 205 Speeds of Thought 211 Internal Ritual and Self-Solidarity 218 PART II. Applications Chapter 6 A Theory of Sexual Interaction 223 Sex as Individual Pleasure-Seeking 228 Sex as Interaction Ritual 230 Nongenital Sexual Pleasures as Symbolic Targets 238 Sexual Negotiation Scenes rather than Constant Sexual Essences 250 Prestige-Seeking and Public Eroticization 252 Chapter 7 Situational Stratification 258 Macro- and Micro-Situational Class, Status, and Power 263 Economic Class as Zelizer Circuits 263 Status Group Boundaries and Categorical Identities 268 Categorical Deference and Situational Deference 278 D-Power and E-Power 284 Historical Change in Situational Stratification 288 An Imagery for Contemporary Interaction 293 Chapter 8 Tobacco Ritual and Anti-Ritual: Substance Ingestion as a History of Social Boundaries 297 Inadequacies of the Health and Addiction Model 299 Tobacco Rituals: Relaxation / Withdrawal Rituals, Carousing Rituals, Elegance Rituals 305 Ritual Paraphernalia: Social Display and Solitary Cult 317 Failures and Successes of Anti-Tobacco Movements 326 Aesthetic Complaints and Struggle over Status Display Standards 327 Anti-Carousing Movements 328 The End of Enclave Exclusion: Respectable Women Join the Carousing Cult 329 The Health-Oriented Anti-Smoking Movement of the Late Twentieth Century 331 The Vulnerability of Situational Rituals and the Mobilization of Anti-Carousing Movements 337 Chapter 9 Individualism and Inwardness as Social Products 345 The Social Production of Individuality 347 Seven Types of Introversion 351 Work-Obsessed Individuals 351 Socially Excluded Persons 353 Situational Introverts 354 Alienated Introverts 355 Solitary Cultists 356 Intellectual Introverts 357 Neurotic or Hyper-Reflexive Introverts 360 The Micro-History of Introversion 362 The Modern Cult of the Individual 370 Notes 375 References 417 Index 435

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Book SynopsisIn his eye-opening book Why?, world-renowned social scientist Charles Tilly exposed some startling truths about the excuses people make and the reasons they give. Now he's back with further explorations into the complexities of human relationships, this time examining what's really going on when we assign credit or cast blame. Everybody does it, buTrade Review"Throughout his 50-book career, Tilly liked to squint hard at social life and find simple patterns. [In Credit and Blame] his undogmatic schematizing could reshape our judgments about what might have been obvious to begin with."--Alexander Star, New York Times Book Review "Drawing upon sources as disparate as Dostoyevski, Darwin, water-cooler conversations and truth commissions, Tilly illustrated how assigning credit and blame stems from and redefines 'relations between the creditor and the credited, the blamer, and the blamed.' Tilly astutely analyzes how people accept credit and society assesses blame, and the commonalities between the two. With its most vivid examples drawn from the author's own life, this book is simultaneously highbrow and humble and a close analysis of social interaction."--Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsPreface vii Chapter 1: Credit, Blame, and Social Life 1 Chapter 2: Justice 31 Chapter 3: Credit 61 Chapter 4: Blame 91 Chapter 5: Memories of Victory, Loss, and Blame 120 Notes 153 References 161 Index 173

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Book SynopsisA cross-national account of working mothers' daily lives--and the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve them.Trade Review"Co-Winner of the William J. Goode Book Award, Family Section of the American Sociological Association""Winner of the PROSE Award in Anthropology, Criminology, and Sociology, Association of American Publishers""Winner of the Bronze Medal in Women / Minorities in Business, Axiom Business Book Awards"

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Book SynopsisThe birth rate in late-nineteenth century Russia was high and virtually constant, but by 1970 it had fallen by about two-thirds. Although similar reductions have occurred in other countries, the decline in Russian fertility is of particular interest because it took place in a setting of great ethnic heterogeneity and under economic and social instiTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*List of Tables, pg. vii*List of Figures, pg. xi*List of Maps, pg. xix*Preface, pg. xxi*CHAPTER 1: Introduction, pg. 1*CHAPTER 2: The Evolution of Marital Fertility in European Russia, pg. 15*CHAPTER 3: Marital Fertility in Central Asia and the Transcaucasus, pg. 85*CHAPTER 4: Variations in Im: The Proportions Married Among Potentially Fertile Women in the Union Republics, 1897 to 1970, pg. 122*CHAPTER 5: Variations in Nuptiality Among the Provinces of European Russia in 1897, pg. 147*CHAPTER 6: Summary of Fertility Change in Russia: The March of the Ellipses, pg. 179*APPENDIX A: Adjustments and Estimates Used in Calculating the Basic Fertility Indexes, pg. 207*APPENDIX BETA: Notes on the Age Distribution of Nationalities in 1959 and 1970, pg. 247*APPENDIX C: Notes on the Fertility of the Nonmarried Population, pg. 251*APPENDIX D: Data Sources for Fertility Indexes, pg. 257*Notes, pg. 261*References, pg. 273*Index, pg. 279

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A remarkable synthesis of ethnography about infertile Egyptian women's attempts to have children, history of the development of Egyptian medical ideas and practices from ancient times, and contemporary political and economic analysis." * Lingua Franca *"Inhorn invokes in her vivid description of her informants' dilemmas and convincing analysis of their explanations of their infertility a combination of variables; gender issues are interwoven with political domination, colonial history, indigenous religious beliefs, economic problems such as poverty and deprivation, state policies regarding family planning and a whole series of interrelated areas." * Middle Eastern Studies *

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Book SynopsisThis book seeks to understand the motivation behind retirement migration and how precarity in later life contributes to this trend.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Retirement migration 3. Precarity and the welfare state in home and host countries 4. Escaping economic precarity 5. Escaping ageism 6. Relying on global privileges 7. Health and assistance precarity in later life 8. Retirement migration, precarity and age

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Book SynopsisNarrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction.Trade ReviewTaylor's novel analysis, vivid storytelling, clear argumentation, and encyclopedic mastery of the historiography make [Race for Profit] a future classic." - The Metropole"Essential for readers wishing to understand the depth and differentials of U.S. racial discrimination, Taylor's masterly expose of the political economy of the racially bifurcated market systematically lays bare how residential segregation made profits from race; it also illustrates the mismatch of market solutions to racist policies and practices and underscores the limits of legislation alone to undo institutional racism." - Library Journal, starred review"Among the myriad strengths of Race for Profit is Taylor's thoughtful and poignant analysis of the structures of meaning that undergird the racialized political economy of homeownership in this period." - H-Net Reviews"In this meticulously researched and well-written volume, Taylor . . . highlights an important chapter in African American history, focusing on how mortgage bankers and the FHA turned the promise of black home ownership into an urban nightmare, ultimately reinforcing historic urban-suburban racial segregation." - CHOICE"In her thorough examination of a purposefully erased chapter of housing policy, Taylor achieves a compelling history for both specialists and the general-interest reader. The concept of predatory inclusion, perhaps Taylor's most important contribution, offers an important framework for critiques of housing under capitalism. . . . [and] suggests a more revolutionary rethinking of our contemporary relationship to housing." - Carolina Planning Journal"The product of a seasoned author, Taylor's book strikes a tough balance. It details the intricacies of HUD policy while holding readers close through very human depictions of the experiences and manipulations of those policies. . . . There's within its pages new ways to interrogate the story we tell about policy gone wrong." - Black Perspectives"Taylor grounds her analysis in extensive archival research and in conversation with the historiography that it both extends and challenges." - Metropolitics"Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction." - Democratic Left "Details bungling mismanagement, gross corruption, distorted incentives, civil rights regulations that went unheeded and unenforced - what Taylor calls a system of "predatory inclusion" that was distinct yet not entirely free from the racist system of exclusion that preceded it." - The New York Times"The book makes a strong case that giving so much power to profit-driven industries doomed the program's goals from the start, and there are clear parallels to the later subprime mortgage crisis of the 2000s. Race for Profit is an important addition to the literature on predatory lending and housing discrimination, as well as a valuable warning." - Foreword Reviews"Like many historians, Taylor stays close to the history she documents and doesn't set out to address the present day in a sustained or direct way. She doesn't propose a solution to these perpetual abuses, and certainly not a neat, bipartisan policy move. In her telling, the problems are deep and abiding. They have to do with the degree to which the "American Dream" has become synonymous with the big yet also small accomplishment of owning a house." - The New Republic"A groundbreaking new book." - The New Yorker"A rich economic and policy history, Race for Profit begins and ends its account of housing inequality with people. . . . In crisp and empathetic detail, Taylor . . . discusses the Black people who were cynically given predatory loans to purchase dilapidated houses and who eventually fought back." - The Nation"Taylor lays bare the naked racism, unethical practices, and rampant profiteering that saturated all aspects of the federal government and real estate industry's treatment of Black America." - Planning Perspectives"Taylor's new and critical addition to the canon of housing-inequality scholarship illuminates how the private real estate industry, even in the era of supposed "Fair Housing," failed Black people by preying on them for profit. It also reveals how mistaken American ideas about real estate-specifically, the idea of homeownership as a pillar of the American Dream-fueled the system that encouraged the pillaging of Black capital, while ultimately betraying the American public writ large." - Public Books“What’s the last great book you read?”“I can’t just name one. I want to highlight three great books I recently read on America’s political economy. The first, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, is an expertly told history of the post-civil rights emergence of what Taylor terms “predatory inclusion”. The second, From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century, by William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen, is the best booklong case for reparations. The third, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States, by Walter Johnson, adroitly examines a U.S. history of imperial racial capitalism with its crosswinds centered in St. Louis.” - Dr. Ibram Kendi, New York Times, March 20201

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Book SynopsisFor forty years, as New York’s Lower East Side went from disinvested to gentrified, residents lived with a wound at the heart of the neighborhood, a wasteland of vacant lots known as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA). Most of the buildings on the fourteen-square-block area were condemned in 1967, displacing thousands of low-income people of color with the promise that they would soon return to new housing—housing that never came. Over decades, efforts to keep out affordable housing sparked deep-rooted enmity and stalled development, making SPURA a dramatic study of failed urban renewal, as well as a microcosm epitomizing the greatest challenges faced by American cities since World War II. Artist and urban scholar Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani was invited to enter this tense community to support a new approach to planning, which she accepted using collaboration, community organizing, public history, and public art. Having engaged her students at The New School in a multi-year collaboration with community activists, the exhibitions and guided tours of her Layered SPURA project provided crucial new opportunities for dialogue about the past, present, and future of the neighborhood. Simultaneously revealing the incredible stories of community and activism at SPURA, and shedding light on the importance of collaborative creative public projects, Contested City bridges art, design, community activism, and urban history. This is a book for artists, planners, scholars, teachers, cultural institutions, and all those who seek to collaborate in new ways with communities.

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Book SynopsisIs death inevitable? Until now, the history of mankind has been marked by this fatal fact. Religions, borders and progress are born from an ancient fear of death, comfort from this fear man often found only in religious paradigms. But according to José Luis Cordeiro and David Wood, the incontrovertible fact of death is no longer an absolute certainty - science and technology are preparing to tear down the final frontier: that of immortality.This accessible book provides insight into recent exponential advances in artificial intelligence, tissue regeneration, stem cell treatment, organ printing, cryopreservation, and genetic therapies that, for the first time in human history, offer a realistic chance to solve the problem of the aging of the human body. In this book, Cordeiro and Wood not only present all the major developments, initiatives, and ideas for eternal life, they also show why there are a number of good arguments for seeing death for what it is: the last undefeated disease.Enter any drugstore or bookstore, and we confronted with a mountain of nonsense concerning the aging process. Society seems obsessed with aging. That is why The Death of Death is such a refreshing delight, able to cut through the hype and reveal a balanced, authoritative, and lucid discussion of this controversial topic. It summarizes the astonishing breakthroughs made recently in revealing how science may one day conquer the aging process.Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and author of The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything We are entering a Fantastic Voyage into life extension, crossing different bridges that will take us to indefinite life spans. The Death of Death explains clearly how we might soon reach longevity escape velocity and live long enough to live forever. Ray Kurzweil, co-author of Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever and co-founder of Singularity University The Death of Death is a truly revolutionary book. This is a visionary book that confronts us with the terrible reality of aging, and its authors are friends and connoisseurs of the subject. I believe that the authoritative and exhaustive description of this crusade that José and David make in this excellent book will accelerate this process. Forward! Aubrey de Grey, founder of LEV (Longevity Escape Velocity) Foundation and co-author of Ending AgingTable of ContentsPrologue: by Aubrey de Gray, PhD Warnings Introduction: The greatest and oldest dream of humanity Chapter 1: Life appeared to live Chapter 2: What is aging? Chapter 3: The biggest industry in the world has been born Chapter 4: From the linear to the exponential world Chapter 5: How much does it cost? Chapter 6: The terror of death Chapter 7: Paradigms: good, bad and “experts" Chapter 8: Plan B: human cryopreservation Chapter 9: The future depends upon us Conclusion: The moment has come Epilogue Appendix: Chronology of life on EarthBibliography Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Highlighting the power of multi-dimensional demography, this Advanced Introduction addresses the most consequential changes in our societies and economies using quantitative approaches. It defines three demographic theories with predictive power - demographic metabolism, transition and dividend - and repositions the discipline at the heart of social science.Key features include: Discussion of alternative demographic scenarios in the context of sustainable development Introduction of national human resource management as the population policy for the 21st century An outline of how the significant demographic theories discussed form the building blocks of a Unified Demographic Theory An argument for cognitive changes as the primary driver of demographic transition rather than changing economic conditions, demonstrated by the impact of changing educational attainment structures. This Advanced Introduction is a must-read for demographers around the globe for its concise summary of the concepts, theories and power of multi-dimensional demography, as well as students of demography at all levels. It will also be useful to academics in other social sciences, including human geography, development studies and sociology scholars interested in what state-of-the-art demography has to offer their fields.Trade Review‘Wolfgang Lutz secured his place among the handful of the world's most influential demographers by decades of pioneering empirical research, theoretical exploration, and institutional leadership. This succinct book is a capstone to his contributions. Lutz envisions multi-dimensional demography (including age, sex and other attributes like education) as the foundation for a theory that integrates demographic metabolism (cohort replacement), the demographic transition, and the demographic dividend. Demographers, social scientists, and policy makers need to read this important book.’ -- Joel E. Cohen, The Rockefeller University and Columbia University, US‘Wolfgang Lutz has put together his encyclopaedic demographic knowledge in this excellent Advanced Introduction. Far from being a conventional introduction, his central theme is that demography must have scientific rigour to offer “predictive power” for social change and human welfare. Three theories are key: intergenerational change, demographic transition and the demographic dividend, central to economic change. Thereby demography can become an “intervention science” to enhance welfare. Education, particularly of girls, takes centre stage. These ideas underpin a stimulating look at population change and the central issues of sustainable development and the global future.’ -- David Coleman, University of Oxford, UK‘Wolfgang Lutz is one of the most accomplished demographers in the world, and this book is a major accomplishment. Building on prior demographic research, including his and that of his research team, he creates a unified demographic theory importantly incorporating education into our demographic view of the world. This book should be required reading for everyone–not just demographers. I guarantee that you will better understand how the world works once you have absorbed what Professor Lutz is telling us.’ -- John R. Weeks, San Diego State University, US'A masterful survey, analysis, and exposition. Studying this text will yield a broad and deep understanding of demographic theories and perspectives, along with the uses of demography, that is simply not attainable in any other two or three sources combined. Alongside, Lutz consolidates considerations of human capital--education and health--into the very core of demographic science, projections, and policy. Students equipped with this knowledge will understand the foundations of what they are doing as demographers AND what they are observing in the world as citizens. A remarkable achievement.' -- William Butz, former President, Population Reference Bureau, Washington DC, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Demographic concepts and data 2. Demographic theories 3. Education and cognition as drivers of mortality and fertility decline 4. Demographic futures and sustainable development Index

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding Criminal Networks is a short methodological primer for those interested in studying illicit, deviant, covert, or criminal networks using social network analysis (SNA). Accessibly written by Gisela Bichler, a leading expert in SNA for dark networks, the book is chock-full of graphics, checklists, software tips, step-by-step guidance, and straightforward advice. Covering all the essentials, each chapter highlights three themes: the theoretical basis of networked criminology,methodological issues and useful analytic tools,and producing professional analysis. Unlike any other book on the market, the book combines conceptual and empirical work with advice on designing networking studies, collecting data, and analysis. Relevant, practical, theoretical, and methodologically innovative, Understanding Criminal Networks promises to jumpstart readers' understanding of how to cross over from conventional investigations of crime to the study of criminal networks.Trade Review"Bichler provides a compelling introduction and guide to criminal networks: what they are, how they are organized, and how the tools of social network analysis may be used to understand them." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables 1. READ FIRST A Practical Example Problem-Oriented Policing P.I.V.O.T. Utility of Social Network Analysis Objective of this Book Organization of the Book 2. DEMYSTIFYING SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS Example Project Methods Units Focus Relations Analytic Options 3. SOCIAL NETWORK THEORY 101 Assumptions of Social Network Analysis Four Essential Theoretical Perspectives Strength of Weak Ties Structural Holes Theory of Social Capital Small-World Perspective Contagion and Three Degrees of Influence Suggested Readings 4. CONNECTED CRIMINALITY Overview of Theoretical Congruence Biopsychological Theories Control Theories Developmental Theories Strain Theories Hyperdyadic Social Learning in the World of Methamphetamine Data Source and Inspiration Learning Theory Refresher Integrating Learning Theory with Hyperdyadic Spread— Methamphetamine Example Visualizing Anonymous Networks Suggested Readings 5. CONNECTED EVENTS Overview of Theoretical Congruence Deterrence and Situational Theories Neighborhood Ecological Theories A Networked Account of Opportunity Theories Crime Pattern Theory Routine Activity Theory An Integrated Theory of Networked Opportunity Suggested Readings 6. WHO IS WHO? Rapid Onset Current Understanding Co-offending Criminal Groups Criminal Enterprise 7. GATHERING DATA Assembling Information about Criminal Networks Research Designs Sampling Collecting Data Small World Method Suggested Readings 8. MAPPING NETWORKS Data Integration Consolidating Relational Information Entity Resolution Estimating the Amount of Missing Data Sensitivity Analysis Detecting Corrupted Data Digit Analysis Example Digital Analysis of Global Weapons Trade Final Words of Advice 9. DESCRIBING NETWORKS Describing the Whole Network General Descriptive Statistics Structural Description of a Whole Network Clustering Investigating Actor Positioning Degree Centrality Betweenness Centrality Egocentric Networks Descriptive Statistics Measures of Central Positioning 10. ADVANCED ANALYTIC OPTIONS Transitivity Nondirected Graphs Directed Graphs Gang Violence Example Subgroup Identification Top-Down Approaches Bottom-Up Approaches Example Application Advanced Analytics 11. PRODUCING PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTS Making Critics Happy Visualizing Connections Slices and Layouts Image Elements Presentation Tips Drivers Academic Research Centers Practitioner-Oriented Programs Professional Associations and Training Opportunities Concluding Remarks References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, Riddle showed that women from ancient Egyptian times to the fifteenth century had relied on an extensive pharmacopoeia of herbal abortifacients and contraceptives to regulate fertility. Here, he explores why knowledge of these methods was lost in modern times.Trade ReviewEve's Herbs is a highly informative presentation of the history of the use of plant products, such as ergot, as abortion agents. -- Thomas Szasz * Washington Post *Riddle examines the use of plants as contraceptives, offering a fascinating view of the early knowledge of reproduction and attempts to regulate it. * Library Journal *This fine scholarly book expands on Riddle's previous work, Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, to discover why and how women's extensive knowledge and use of plants, herbs, seeds, bark, and roots was lost after the 19th century...Highly recommended for students of the history of medicine at all levels. -- A. R. Davis * Choice *Riddle's work is a useful counterbalance to extreme skepticism about the pre-modern possibility of effective fertility control. -- Rebecca Flemming * Isis *John Riddle has established his reputation as a leading expert on ancient Greek pharmacology. In an earlier study, Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, he argued that a much more reliable knowledge of oral contraceptives existed in the ancient and medieval worlds than had previously been thought. In this book, Riddle attempts a broader but partly overlapping study, a history of abortion and contraception in the Western tradition (Europe and the United States, with a glance at the Islamic World). More specifically, he challenges the common view that oral contraception was little practiced and largely ineffective until the 18th century...Riddle argues his case with learning and perspicacity. He draws widely on the specialist literature of a number of disciplines as he discusses, among other things, the theology of ensoulment of the fetus and the demographics of early modern Europe. -- Gary B. Ferngren * New England Journal of Medicine *Dr. Riddle demonstrates, as in his earlier Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, that knowledge about fertility control existed and women had access to it lost to them in modern times. Both pro-abortion and anti-abortion advocates will find these books important, instructive, and maybe prescriptive...A scholarly sleuth, Riddle permits historical texts to speak...Riddle integrates modern chemical, pharmacological, and medical confirmations that what the ancients said worked probably did. * Journal of the American Medical Association *Riddle is a tireless scholar and an engaging writer, and as his story moves along in chronological order, it begins to read like an official history. But at heart Eve's Herbs is just the opposite: a gathering of nervous confessions and forbidden secrets, committed to paper as proof of a hidden tradition. Like a covey of quail flushed from tall grass, these anguished facts burst from the page with startling life. -- Burkhard Bilger * The Sciences *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Roe v. Wade 1. A Woman's Secret 2. The Herbs Known to Ancients 3. Ancient and Medieval Beliefs 4. From Womancraft to Witchcraft, 1200-1500 5. Witches and Apothecaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 6. The Broken Chain of Knowledge 7. The Womb as Public Territory 8. Eve's Herbs in Modern America Epilogue Notes Index

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