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Book Synopsis‘A necessary and brave read.’ Paul Kingsnorth Hope and isolation, courage and division, withdrawal and reunion – how can we find meaning as we emerge from the troubled time of Covid? Renowned social philosopher and best-selling author Charles Eisenstein offers a way forward through a series of unforgettable essays that give us a new model of sense-making in a post-Covid world. Eisenstein narrates the disintegration of an old normal, an old reality, even, an old mythology. These essays, each with a new introduction, ring with relevancy even as the charge dissipates from previously hot-button issues. Now, as we survey the post-Covid landscape, we have the opportunity to build something more sound, more whole, and more sane. The Coronation brings new clarity to a vital question whose time has come: What world shall we choose now? ‘There are moments in our history in which the art of the written word captures the extraordinary beauty of the human condition as it hangs suspended in tenuous polarity at a tipping point of evolution. The Coronation is one of these moments.’ Zach Bush, MDTrade Review"Charles Eisenstein is one of those courageous dissidents who also holds the faith that people can return to love after a hiatus of hate. As we go deeper into this new era of permacrisis, Charles’s writings will become ever more pertinent." —Professor Jem Bendell, professor of sustainability leadership; founder, Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS), University of Cumbria (UK); founder and former coordinator, Deep Adaptation Forum"Charles Eisenstein has taken on the hardest task in the world—writing an intelligent, compassionate, and uncompromising book on the Covid-19 pandemic, without falling into either partisan hysteria or a shameless defense of power. This is a necessary and brave read." —Paul Kingsnorth, novelist; founder, Dark Mountain Project“There are moments in our history in which the art of the written word captures the extraordinary beauty of the human condition as it hangs suspended in tenuous polarity at a tipping point of evolution. The Coronation is one of these moments. In between these words that are as prophetic as they are poetic is the space of our collective metamorphosis. Tread lightly and dive deep here to find your own sovereign beauty.” —Zach Bush, MD“If there’s one thing this dangerous collection of essays about the coronavirus pandemic shows, it is that the virus that irrupted into the stolid course of our everyday lives back in 2019 is something more than a pathogen: It is an indictment of the village by the masqueraded fool outside its fences; it is a composting of the colonial altars dedicated to the worship of the one true God of knowing, science; it is a crystallization of the racialized economies of suffering and quotidian violence behind the spectacular; it is an exposé on the theatricality of contemporary politics and the care it promises good citizens. It is thought itself. We’ve been visited by this wild ferocious goddess, and few can do as well as Charles does in tracing out an ethnography of her passing. Whether or not we agree with the maps Charles composes, we will need this struggle, this wrestling-together-with-our-exposed-selves, if we hope to thrive as an entourage species.” —Bayo Akomolafe, PhD, author of These Wilds Beyond Our Fences“Charles Eisenstein is one of the most original writers working today, and his essays on the social and spiritual impact of the pandemic event are among his best work. The Coronation is essential reading for anyone concerned about the damage that has been done to our societies and how we might recover and collectively go forward from here.” —C. J. Hopkins, award-winning playwright, novelist, and political satirist"Charles Eisenstein is one of the few voices worldwide who have the capacity to be critical and gentle at the same time. His work is brilliant, crystal clear at the logical level, evocative and eloquent at the stylistic level. Charles went down the road of rationality to the very end, and at the end of it, he entered a world of mystical and spiritual knowledge and beauty. Charles’s discourse contains the seeds of a new way of living together and of a true solution for the series of crises our culture is going through at this very moment." —Mattias Desmet, author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism

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Book SynopsisReal-life lessons of grit and growth that come from being a bona fide Badass!Overcoming life’s many disappointments begins with one thing: grit. But what is grit, and how can we know what it looks like in the sh*tshow of life?Drawing from her own experience and psychology practice, psychologist Jodie Eckleberry-Hunt, author of Getting to Good Riddance: A No-Bullsh*t Breakup Survival Guide, weaves together a collection of gritty stories of survival, hope, and healing in the face of overwhelming pain and adversity.Badass Stories illustrates how real people have used tools like grit and hope to make it through life’s challenges—great and small—and foster growth and healing in the process. These seriously motivational tales will inspire you to harness the grit it takes to succeed, show up for the fight, call out your own bullsh*t, and become the Badass you were meant to be!Trade Review“Dr. Eckleberry-Hunt winningly combines inspiring, compelling stories from real people with her vast clinical experiences and insights. These stories of grit, growth, hope, and healing are just what we need in these challenging times. Every chapter is filled with engaging and relatable stories with valuable life lessons. This is the book to get if you are ready to move forward in pursuing your life goals.” —Darren Jones, PhD, LP, Clinical Psychologist“Dr. Eckleberry-Hunt teaches us what the word ‘grit’ really means in action by using case studies to more fully describe grit in its finest form! Badass Stories made me realize that I have grit and a great potential for more, and I can emulate many of her clients through their strong role modeling in the face of stress and anxiety. I also enjoyed Dr. Eckleberry-Hunt’s suggestions and input on how to live a gritty life!” —Kristi Jo Wilson, PhD, RN, MSN, FNP-BC, CAFCI, Associate Professor of Nursing, Director of RN-BSN and Professional Education Programs, University of Michigan-Flint, School of Nursing“Hands down the best book I’ve read in a long time. Dr. Eckleberry-Hunt opens the door into her world to allow the reader to understand how one can leverage grit, growth, hope, and healing to improve themselves. The book’s various stories gave me a clearer understanding of what I needed to do in my own life.” —Dr. E. Scott England, professor of Education Leadership, University of Maryland Eastern Shore“Two thumbs up for Badass Stories. The realness of these stories is genuinely felt, and each one has much to give to the reader. Dr. Eckleberry-Hunt helped me find my own grit, and the journal prompts at the end of each chapter helped start growth and healing. This book has so much to give to anyone at any point in their life.” —Dr. Kelley Williams, MD“Looking inward can be one of the hardest challenges we face, and Dr. Jodie Eckleberry-Hunt is willing to be with us every step of the way. Badass Stories helps readers stare down the mental monsters inside us all. It’s an impressive, honest, and captivating psychology memoir that turns vulnerability into strength. Dr. Eckleberry-Hunt always leaves her readers with a better path forward.” —Hannah Ball, journalist at the Tri-County Times“I highly recommend Badass Stories. Eckleberry-Hunt shares badass stories that are beautiful, heartbreaking, thought-provoking, and real. They were also followed by guided journal prompts that helped process the stories and bring to light how connected we all are in this crazy shitshow of life. I finished this book with the thought that we are better together, and stories are the perfect vehicle to bring the world together.” —Jenny Williams, OT, owner of Innovative Occupational Therapy Solutions“Badass Stories is Jodie Eckleberry-Hunt’s most personal book yet—and it also manages to be the most universal. There is (at least) one story inside that will resonate with every reader.” —Angie Haddock, Reading Our Shelves blog“This book is a treasure! I found myself scribbling notes, highlighting passages, and learning from the author how to better ‘self-coach’ in personal growth, hope, healing, and change. Eckleberry-Hunt’s impassioned and gentle presence accompanied me on every page as she shared practical and accessible wisdom. Badass Stories offers impactful real-life stories, including episodes from Dr. Eckleberry-Hunt’s own heroine’s journey. Not least of all, her journal prompts at the end of each chapter really help move the healing along in a thought-provoking and compassionate way. I found myself deeply inspired by Jodie’s dedication to helping others be the authentic selves the desperately needs. This book will help any reader unleash their own genuine Badass.” —Margaret Ghielmetti, author of Brave(ish): A Memoir of a Recovering Perfectionist“True to form, Dr. Eckleberry-Hunt talks frankly to the human experience. By showing how the ‘shitshow’ is shared and highlighting grit, this book feels less like self-help and more like friend, a good glass of wine, and a reminder of possibilities.” —Nicole Najar, PhD, clinical psychologist“[Badass Stories] was a quick read. At the end of each chapter, there were hard questions that made you realize we all have badass stories, and we need to be proud of them. After reading the book, I felt motivated to achieve my goals but also appreciate all I have done so far.” —Amy Converse, therapist

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Book SynopsisLiving Hot tells the blunt truth about our current climate change predicament: it’s time to get cracking on making the world resilient to intensifying climate extremes. If we prepare well, we can give ourselves a fighting chance to preserve some of the best of what we have, build stronger and fairer communities, find a path through the escalating pressures of a warming world – and even find new ways to flourish. To get there, we must leave behind both the doomism and the wishful thinking currently holding us back. In Living Hot, highly respected academic Clive Hamilton and policy consultant George Wilkenfeld shift the emphasis away from reducing carbon emissions and on to making the world resilient, outlining a vision for an all-embracing and on-going program of investment and social change to protect ourselves from the ravages of a changing climate. Living Hot is a sober assessment of the challenges we face, and a

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Book SynopsisSocial Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities provides crucial insight into social entrepreneurship from visionaries in the field as well as other experienced practitioners and renowned theorists. While this book focuses on social entrepreneurship as it relates to genocide and other atrocities, the experiences and lessons learned also apply to additional critical social, economic, legal and political problems such as healthcare, development, education and literacy. The authors in this book address the clear need for further examination of social entrepreneurship. They discuss the challenges, obstacles and opportunities of the field and lend new insight to the concept, history and methodologies of social entrepreneurship. The book profiles case studies based on some of the most innovative and effective social enterprises addressing atrocities, including the National Vision for Sierra Leone, Asylum Access, the Kigali Public Library, Indego Africa, Generation Rwanda, Orphans Against AIDS, Americans for Informed Democracy, and Children of Abraham. Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities will inform, instruct and build the community of social entrepreneurs. This unique, essential collection of first-hand accounts is an inspiring and informative addition to the evolving social entrepreneurship literature. It will be of particular interest to social entrepreneurs; students, scholars and practitioners of business, management, public policy, social policy and development studies; anyone with a philanthropic mindset; and all those who are invested in creating and maintaining a socially responsible, accountable world. Contributors: A. Alexander, E.E. Arnold-Fernandez, A. Bernhard, A. Chua, M. De Lorenzo, C.L. Dorsey, B. Drayton, D. Ellis, C.B. French, S. Green, S. Grinsell, B. Harrell-Bond, J. Hodari, Z.D. Kaufman, A. Klaber, R. Levitan, L. Maloney, M.T. Mitro, G.R. Rahman, S. Raseman, O. Rothschild, B.D. Stone, A. ZervosTrade Review"How can anyone make a difference in a world marked by genocide, civil war, refugee crises, disease epidemics? With conscience, hope, and sweat equity, Dr. Zachary Kaufman and the other contributors to this book have offered aid, created organizations serving victims of human rights violations, and learned from set-backs and failures. Their insight into challenges of sustainable fund-raising, organizational design and management, and skepticism about young Western volunteers can inspire and instruct others who hope to address suffering and injustice through initiative, analysis, and commitment." --Martha Minow, Dean of the Faculty of Law and Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Author, Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence"This book makes an all too rare and important point: One of the distinguishing characteristics of social entrepreneurs is the way their actions and their example pave the way for peace. Kaufman gives us multiple examples here to demonstrate that the kind of empathetic leadership exhibited by these social entrepreneurs builds an alternative to conflict and contributes to the stability and security of societies." --Dr. Diana Wells, President, Ashoka"Under the able editorship of Dr. Zachary Kaufman, an upstander in his own right, this pathbreaking book demystifies social entrepreneurship, namely, citizen-inspired initiatives that may have as much potential to overcome the challenges burdening victims of atrocities and other assaults on humankind as social media has demonstrated in revolutionizing how people communicate in the 21st Century." --The Honorable David J. Scheffer, Mayer Brown / Robert A. Helman Professor of Law and Director, Center for International Human Rights, Northwestern University School of Law; former U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues; Author, All the Missing Souls"Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities interweaves two critical movements: social entrepreneurship and human rights. Kaufman is one of the first to explore these intersections in a powerfully informative way. He and his fellow social entrepreneurs provide concrete examples of, and offer practical advice about, the power of ordinary people to confront one of the most intractable problems: mass atrocities. Kaufman demonstrates how we can all be 'upstanders' in the face of such conflicts." --Mark Hanis, Co-Founder & Board member of United to End Genocide (formerly Save Darfur / Genocide Intervention Network); Ashoka Fellow; Echoing Green Fellow"Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities is a bold work of definition and analyses. It presents both concepts and histories - focused on individuals and groups - in response to mass violence and atrocities. This significant study, edited by Zachary Kaufman, is a work of clarification and inspiration." --Dr. Judith S. Goldstein, Founder & Executive Director , Humanity in Action Table of ContentsContents: Dedications and Donations Foreword Bill Drayton Preface Amy Chua 1. Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities: Introduction Zachary D. Kaufman 2. ‘I Pray Never to See Again What I Saw’: The National Vision for Sierra Leone Sophie Raseman and Anthea Zervos 3. Starting a Movement for Refugee Rights in the Global South: Asylum Access and Beyond Emily E. Arnold-Fernández, Mauro De Lorenzo, Barbara Harrell-Bond and Rachel Levitan 4. Social Entrepreneurship in a Post-Genocide Society: Building Rwanda’s First Public Library, the Kigali Public Library Zachary D. Kaufman 5. ‘Stand Bold’: Indego Africa’s Business Case for Rwandan Women Conor B. French, Matthew T. Mitro and Benjamin D. Stone 6. Transformation through Education: Generation Rwanda and Access to Higher Education for Rwanda’s Orphans and Vulnerable Youth Dai Ellis, Jamie Hodari and Oliver Rothschild 7. Providing Access to Education for Children Orphaned or Made Vulnerable by HIV/AIDS: Orphans Against AIDS Scott Grinsell and Andrew Klaber 8. Inspiring Generational Change: Americans for Informed Democracy Seth Green and Leah Maloney 9. Re-connecting Cousins: Children of Abraham Ari Alexander and Gul Rukh Rahman 10. Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities: Lessons Learned and Conclusion Zachary D. Kaufman Afterword Cheryl L. Dorsey Appendix: Social Entrepreneurship Resources and Institutions Index

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Book SynopsisFor decades the psychological assessment and treatment of offenders has run on invalid and untested programmes. Robert A. Forde exposes the current ineffectiveness of forensic psychology that has for too long been maintained by individual and commercial vested interests, resulting in dangerous prisoners being released on parole, and low risk prisoners being denied it, wasting enormous amounts of public money. Challenging entrenched ideas about the field of psychology as a whole, and how it should be practised in the criminal justice system, the author shows how effective changes can be made for more just decisions, and the better rehabilitation of offenders into society, while significantly reducing the cost to the taxpayer.This is a fearless account calling for a return to scientific evidence in the troubled field of forensic psychology.Trade ReviewA riveting, sharply written examination of the fault line between good science and forensic folklore. -- E.J. Wagner-author of the Edgar-winning The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective’s Greatest CasesBad Psychology is a must and timely book for anyone interested in forensic evaluation and the (mis)-use of science. It is a wake-up call to bring science to the work of forensic examiners. -- Dr. Itiel Dror, Cognitive Neuroscientist, University College LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1. Who Does He Think He Is? 2. How Psychologists Work. 3. Treatment Needs Assessment: Who Needs It? 4. Risk Assessment: Coffee Cans and Crystal Balls. 5. Formulation: When 'I Don't Know' Is the Correct Answer, All Other Answers Are Wrong. 6. Intervention: A Suitable Case for Treatment? 7. Evaluation: What Works and How Would We Know? 8. Communication: Who's Listening? 9. The Parole Process: Who Goes Home? 10. Heuristics and Biases: How Can We Be So Stupid? 11. Are We Hardwired for Poor Judgement? 12. The Future of Forensic (and Maybe Other) Psychology. 13. Leaving the Science Behind. References.

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Book SynopsisThoughtfully invoking wider conversations around gender, culture, and self-perception, Navjotpal Kaur investigates the intricate interplay between masculinities, space, and identity within Indian Punjab's Jat Sikh community.

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Book SynopsisThe 21st century has brought many changes to peacebuilding, armed conflicts, and social movements. Organizations and scholars alike have developed new techniques for bridging cultural divides and enhancing democracy and respect for human rights. Moreover, technological changes have significantly altered conflict spaces. Methodological Advances in Research on Social Movements, Conflict, and Change explores methods for studying contentious politics in the context of these broader social changes. Contributors advance methodological scholarship by developing new tools, discussing new sources of data and their relative value, and addressing controversies and ethical issues that have emerged in the process of collecting or analyzing data. Acknowledging how more movements are using a wider range of tactics to influence a rapidly changing, deeply interconnected world, Methodological Advances in Research on Social Movements, Conflict, and Change appeals to scholars interested in how the study of social movements, peace, and conflict has developed and adapted to keep pace with ongoing socio-political and technological change.Table of ContentsForeword; Lisa Leitz Navigating Interests and Cultivating Innovation in the Study of Social Movements, Conflict, and Change; Thomas V. Maher and Eric W. Schoon Section I. Innovations in Data Collection and Processing Chapter 1. Beyond Protests: Using Computational Text Analysis to Explore a Greater Variety of Social Movement Activities; Brayden G. King and Laura K. Nelson Chapter 2. The Use of Digitized Newspaper Archives for World-Historical Research on Social Conflicts: The State-Seeking Nationalist Movements Database; Şahan Savaş Karataşlı Chapter 3. Satellite Images in Conflict Research: Methodological and Ethical Considerations; Fiona Rose Greenland and Michelle D. Fabiani Chapter 4. Instant Archives: Social Media and Social Movement Research; Elle Rochford, Baylee Hudgens, and Rachel L. Einwohner Section II. Epistemology and Reflexivity Chapter 5. Moments of Interrogation: Doing Feminist Ethnography in the Archives; Jo Reger Chapter 6. Developing Ethical Standards for Student Participation in Protest Research; Laura J. Heideman Chapter 7. Insider-Outsider Dynamics and Identity in Qualitative Studies of Social Movements; Kathleen A. Ragon and Daisy Verduzco Reyes Section III. Novel Analytics Chapter 8. How to Analyze the Influence of Social Movements with QCA: Combinational Hypotheses, Venn Diagrams, and Movements Making Big News; Edwin Amenta, Neal Caren, and Weijun Yuan Chapter 9. Measuring Event Diffusion Momentum (EDM): Applications in Social Movement Research; Tony Huiquan Zhang and Tianji Cai Chapter 10. Coalitions Under Threat: Analyzing the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Protests Using Telegram Social Media Data; Weijun Yuan

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Book SynopsisDon't Remain Silent is a collection of stories from those who have suffered neglect or abuse, bringing awareness to those who have suffered in silence.

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Book SynopsisCharged is an essential investigation into the role of policing protest in Britain today. As the UK government tries to suppress all forms of dissent, in their pursuit of more control, how do the police manage crowds, provoke violence and even break the law?Since the 1980s under successive governments the police have been allowed to suppress protests, using aggressive tactics - from batons to horse charges to kettling. The landscape of how police deal with protest changed following criticism of the police during the 1981 Brixton riots. New military-style tactics were sanctioned by the Thatcher government, in secret. Over the next forty years those protesting against racism, unfair job losses, draconian laws, or for environmental protection were subject to brutal tactics. In the aftermath, media attention denigrates protesters while the police are praised and continue to act with impunity.Looking through these moments of conflict widens our understanding of policing public order to reveal the true character of the state. Since the 1980s successive governments, from Thatcher to Johnson, covertly plot to suppress protests, using standardised aggressive tactics - from batons to horse charges to kettling. Through undisclosed documents and eyewitness accounts the authors reveal organised police violence against miners at Orgreave, print workers at Warrington, anti poll tax campaigners, student protestors and Black Lives Matter. The voices of protesters however have been undeterred.Trade ReviewBrilliantly readable, it carries you with it every step of the way. One forgets how frightening authority is and the detail on police behaviour is dreadfully shocking and distressing. It never assumes what you might believe or what you might already know and at the end leaves the reader in no doubt as to what has happened in this country. -- Emma Thompson, actor and activistMatt Foot and Morag Livingstone have carefully documented the organised violence and secret police tactics used to attack trade unionists and others who have exercised their right to protest in Britain since the early 1980s. They uncover the way that successive Home secretaries and chief police officers have covertly worked together, deploying and legalising draconian tactics to defend vested interests from active legitimate dissent. If you want to know the dark history that has led us to the current police bill and to understand how the powers it contains would be used, I recommend that you read this book. -- Sharon Graham, Unite the union general secretaryMeticulously details violent state suppression in the protection of capital; backed by a propaganda machine. Exposed is the unofficial but permanent government with sharp attention to every detail. This is a story of how justice has been repeatedly stolen in this ruthless war against the right to protest. Read every word because you are holding history in your hands. Our history -- LowkeyFoot and Livingstone have done a magnificent job of intertwining analysis of the legal system with history, showing us how the thing we call 'the law' morphs with what those in charge of the justice system want it to do. This is a great piece of bottom-up history because the authors write in sympathy and solidarity about what it's been like in recent times to be a protestor on the receiving end of these changes -- Michael RosenFoot and Livingstone show without a shadow of doubt that the suppression of protest over the past 40 years is essentially a strategic choice made by the elite in the neoliberal era. -- Adrian Weir * Morning Star *When you read Charged, you will see ours is one of many struggles, past and present. -- Chris Peace * Tribune *An important study of how history influences the present. -- Kirsty Brimelow QC * The Times *Timely and important. -- Chris Nineham * Counterfire *Table of ContentsForeword: Michael Mansfield QC Introduction: Secrets and LiesPART 1: Maggie Thatcher's Bootboys 1. The Guinea Pig: The Messenger Printers, Warrington 1983 2. Maggie's UK War: The Miners, Orgreave 19843. Boot Boys in the Beanfield: Battle of Stonehenge 19854. Murdoch's Paper Boys: Wapping 1987 5. The Tinderbox: Anti-Poll Tax Protest 1990 PART 2: Major - Back to Basics6. The Trap: Welling Anti-Racist Protest 1993 7. Succession of Repetitive Beats: Battle of Park Lane Criminal Justice Act 1994 PART 3: New Labour - Tough on Crime 8. The Commissioner's Kettle: May Day Protest 20019. Barriers to protest: G8 Summit Gleneagles 2005 10. The MP's Kettle: G20 Protest 2009PART 4: Austerity Justice 11. Charged: Student Fee Protest 2010 12. State of PlayAcknowledgementsEndnotesIndex

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Book SynopsisBe Love. Be Patience. Be Curious. Be Approachable. Be Supported. Being a grandparent to a transgender child may feel isolating. Generational differences can make it challenging for you to understand what your grandchild is going through, and you might not have the vocabulary to discuss it with them or have peers who are experiencing something similar. At the same time, your love, understanding, and acceptance will play a huge role in the flourishing of your trans grandchild. With up-to-date research on gender identity, letters and stories from grandparents on the same journey, resources for transgender youth and their families, and a selection of online and local support groups, this book provides uplifting, educational guidance on how to support your grandchild - and yourself!

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Book SynopsisThe issue of resettling ex-prisoners and ex-offenders into the community has become an increasingly important one on both sides of the Atlantic. In the USA the former Attorney General Janet Reno identified the issue as 'one of the most pressing problems we face as a nation' in view of the massive prison population and the rapid increase in rates of incarceration, while in the UK it has become an increasingly important issue for similar reasons, and the subject of recent reports by HM Inspectorate of Prisons and HM Inspectorate of Probation, as well as from the Social Exclusion Unit of the Home Office. Yet this issue has not been well served by the criminological literature, and the new policies and programmes that have been set up to address the problem have not been well grounded in criminological thinking. This book seeks to address the important set of issues involved by bringing together the best of recent thinking and research into desistance from crime, drawing upon research in both the UK and the USA, and with a distinct focus on how this might impact upon the design and implementation of ex-offender reintegration policy.Trade Review'After Crime and Punishment is a must for those interested in the reintegration and resettlement of ex-prisoners and ex-offenders. It provides both an introductory text and an up-to-date and original exploration of the theoretical and practical study of desistance. From definitions to research, this text uses a dynamic and fresh style to report on an eclectic mix of related areas.' - Carly Angus, West Midlands Area Psychology OfficeTable of ContentsContents. Foreword Part I: Desistance Theory and Reintegration Practice 1. Ex-offender Reintegration: Theory and Practice 2. Reintegration and Restorative Justice: Towards a Theory and Practice of Informal Social Control and Support 3. Social Capital and Offender Reintegration: Making Probation Desistance Focused Part II: Methodological Considerations 4. Connecting Desistance and Recidivism: Measuring Changes in Criminality over the Lifespan 5. Somewhere Between Persistence and Desistence: The Intermittency of Criminal Careers Part III: Applied Research on Desistance 6. Jail or the Army: Does Military Service Facilitate Desistance from Crime? 7. To Reoffend or not to Reoffend? The Ambivalence of Convicted Property Offenders 8. Desistance from Crime: Is it Different for Women and Girls? 9. Beating the Perpetual Incarceration Machine: Overcoming Structural Impediments to Re-entry 10. With Eyes Wide Open: Formalizing Community and Social Control Intervention in Offender Reintegration Programmes 11. Less than the Average Citizen': Stigma, Role Transition and the Civic Reintegration of Convicted Felons Index

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Book SynopsisJoanne Hayes, at 24 years of age, concealed the birth and death of her baby in County Kerry, Ireland, in 1984. Subsequently she confessed to the murder, by stabbing, of another baby. All of the scientific evidence showed that she could not have had this second baby. The police nevertheless, insisted on charging her and, after the charges were dropped, continued to insist that she had given birth to twins conceived of two different men. A public tribunal of inquiry was called to examine the behaviour of the police and their handling of the case. The police, in defence of themselves and in justification of confessions" obtained, called a succession of male experts on the medical, social and moral roman catholic fibre of Joanne Hayes. Her married lover detailed the times, places and manner of her love making. Using the twins' theory as a springboard, the question was posed and debated: Did she love this man or what was he and other men prepared to do with her? After six months of daily discussion among the men, the judge declared 'There were times when we all believed she had twins'. The treatment of Joanne Hayes, who stood accused of no crime, was a model for Irish male attitudes to woman. She was caught up in a time of rapid social change between two Irelands, an earlier Ireland in which the Catholic Church had held a moral monopoly and a new liberal and secular Ireland.Table of ContentsForeword by Nell McCafferty

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Book SynopsisA Mismatch of Salience brings together a range of Damian Milton's writings that span more than a decade. The book explores the communication and understanding difficulties that can create barriers between people on the autism spectrum and neurotypical people. It celebrates diversity in communication styles and human experience by re framing the view that autistic people represent a `disordered other' not as an impairment, but a two-way mismatch of salience. It also looks at how our current knowledge has been created by non-autistic people on the `outside', looking in. A Mismatch of Salience attempts to redress this balance.Table of ContentsContents include: Part one: This thing called autism So what exactly is autism? `Problems in living' and the mental well-being of autistic people Natures answer to over-conformity: a deconstruction of pathological demand avoidance Impaired compared to what? Embodiment and diversity Part two: A mismatch of salience On the Ontological Status of Autism: the `Double Empathy Problem' Embodied sociality and the conditioned relativism of dispositional diversity Autistic expertise: a critical reflection on the production of knowledge in autism studies Part three: From theory to practice `Filling in the gaps', a micro-sociological analysis of autism So what exactly are autism interventions intervening with? Tracing the influence of Fernand Deligny on autism studies 7 concepts of sociological interest Part four: Participation Autistics speak but are they heard? Moments in time Aut-ethnography: working from the inside out How is a sense of well-being and belonging constructed in the accounts of autistic adults? Educational discourse and the autistic student: a study using Q-sort methodology (thesis summary)

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Book SynopsisWhat can we do to help those who struggle to develop effective social skills?Social Skills: Developing Effective Interpersonal Communication is a definitive guide to understanding and meeting the needs of those who have difficulty with social skills. Written in a clear and accessible manner, this book provides a theoretical framework to the teaching of social skills alongside a range of practical ideas for practitioners. The book offers a four-step plan that can be adapted for use with young people or adults who are struggling with any aspect of their social skills. A simple model for assessing social skills is provided, as well as ways to measure the impact of intervention. Full of interesting examples and case studies, it includes discussion of how to teach social skills, how social skills develop through childhood, why they sometimes might not, and why social skills difficulties can have an impact on self-esteem and friendships. It includes a breakdown of social skills into the following areas: • body language• eye contact • listening and paralanguage• starting and ending conversations• maintaining conversations• assertiveness Written by one of the most well-known speech and language therapists in this field and the creator of the internationally successful Talkabout resources, this book provides a key reference for the study of social skills. It will be essential reading for educators, therapists, parents and anyone supporting others in developing communication and social skills.Table of Contents1. Social skills: an introduction 2, Body language 3. Eyes and faces 4. Listening and paralanguage 5. Starting and ending conversations 6. Maintaining a conversation 7. Assertiveness 8. Self-esteem 9. Friendship skills 10. The normal development of social skills 11. Autism Spectrum Disorder and social skills 12. Assessing social skills 13. Teaching social skills 1: different approaches and the four step plan to intervention 14. Teaching social skills 2: social skills interventions 15. Teaching social skills 3: developing social skills in schools 16. Teaching social skills 4: the role of parents 17. Evaluation: measuring the effectiveness of social skills interventions

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Book SynopsisMuslim women are among the most fetishisedand objectified groups in society today. Much isassumed and imagined about their lives, and it isall too easy to succumb to orientalist myths. Fortoo long, Muslim women have been reduced totwo-dimensional stereotypes: empowered heroinesrejecting patriarchal religious teachings, or victims of a misogyny believed to run deep within Islam.But why is this neatly packaged view so pervasive?Are oppression and subjugation actually so centralto Muslim women's lives? How is this misogynyinfluenced by white supremacy and Islamophobia?And where do the biggest threats to Muslimwomen's freedom and safety really come from?In this bold new book, Samia Rahman exploresthe relationships between misogyny and Muslimwomen's experiences in Britain today, untanglingcomplex issues such as Muslim feminism,representation, toxic masculinity, marriage andsexuality. Based on extensive interviews withboth women and men from Muslim communities,she offers a powerful

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Book SynopsisThis open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the health inequities and human rights issues faced by sex workers globally across diverse contexts, and outlines evidence-based strategies and best practices. Sex workers face severe health and social inequities, largely as the result of structural factors including punitive and criminalized legal environments, stigma, and social and economic exclusion and marginalization. Although previous work has largely emphasized an elevated burden and gaps in HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) services in sex work, less attention has been paid to the broader health and human rights concerns faced by sex workers. This contributed volume addresses this gap. The chapters feature a variety of perspectives including academic, community, implementing partners, and government to synthesize research evidence as well as lessons learned from local-level experiences across different regions, and are organized under three parts: Burden of health and human rights inequities faced by sex workers globally, including infectious diseases (e.g., HIV, STIs), violence, sexual and reproductive health, and drug use Structural determinants of health and human rights, including legislation, law enforcement, community engagement, intersectoral collaboration, stigma, barriers to health access, im/migration issues, and occupational safety and health Evidence-based services and best practices at various levels ranging from individual and community to policy-level interventions to identify best practices and avenues for future research and interventions Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights is an essential resource for researchers, policy-makers, governments, implementing partners, international organizations and community-based organizations involved in research, policies, or programs related to sex work, public health, social justice, gender-based violence, women's health and harm reduction.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: Rationale and overview of human rights contexts and health inequities impacting sex workersPART 1: Epidemiology of health inequities among sex workers in different contexts 1 Global epidemiology of sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (HIV, STIs, viral hepatitis) (STBBIs)2 Global burden of violence and other human rights violations3 Global inequities in sexual and reproductive health across the lifecourse4 Sex workers' global mental health: Burden, gaps in evidence, and future directions for research5 Patterns and epidemiology of substance use among sex workers globallyPART 2: Structural determinants of sex workers' health in different contexts6 Criminalized interactions with law enforcement and impacts on health and safety: Lessons learned from sex work law reform7 'Nothing about us without us': Positive models and barriers to community mobilization and engagement8 Stigma, denial of health services, and other human rights violations faced by sex workers9 Complexities of migration and mobility: Health, racialization, and labour rights of im/migrant sex workers10 Unique health and human rights contexts faced by conflict-affected sex workersPART 3: Evidence-based services and best practices in different contexts11 Addressing sex work criminalization to promote sex workers' health, safety, and labour protections: Best practices from decriminalized settings 12 Identifying best practices in sex worker community mobilization and empowerment to reduce stigma and promote HIV prevention13 Supportive indoor workplace interventions: Enabling health and safety at the venue level14 Integrated interventions to address sex workers' needs and realities: Incorporating structural, behavioural, and biomedical interventions CONCLUSION: Summary of human rights contexts and health inequities impacting sex workers, evidence-based approaches, and directions for future research and integrated interventions

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a unified approach to the problem of inequality, combining results from a variety of research fields – the human life cycle, group dynamics, networks, markets, and economic geography. Its main message is that inequality emerges as the natural result of mechanisms operating both in individual human development and in social interaction. It posits that inequality is not an anomalous deviation from a naturally egalitarian social structure; quite to the contrary, inequality is to be expected as part of the human condition. The author states that the growth of inequality, on the other hand, is not a natural law – the level and character of inequality can be affected by collective decisions. This perspective on human inequality has potentially far-reaching consequences both for the political philosophy of inequality and for public policy-making.This book is of interest to a wide interdisciplinary social science readership, including public policy, decision sciences, economic geography, and life course studies. Trade Review“The Origins of Inequality. Mechanisms, Models, Policy is a thoughtful and thought-provoking survey of studies on the causes, conditions and factors associated with inequality. Viewed as a survey it is quite comprehensive and suitable for independent study as well as for classroom use. … Molander aims at — and to a large extent succeeds in — making sense of the processes that result in inequalities. … Molander makes a strong case to the contrary. The case is well worth studying in detail.” (Hannu Nurmi, The Journal of Economic Inequality, Vol. 20, 2022)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.Chapter 2: Preliminaries.Chapter 3: Life-cycle development.Chapter 4: Interaction within and between groups.Chapter 5: Spatial inequality.Chapter 6: Static versus dynamic inequality – mathematical analysis.Chapter 7: Philosophical and political considerations.Chapter 8: Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the challenges and opportunities faced by art-based social enterprises (ASEs) engaging young creatives in education and training and supporting their pathways to the creative industries. In doing so, it addresses the complex intersecting issues of marginality and entrepreneurship, particularly in relation to young creatives from socially, economically and culturally diverse backgrounds. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with twelve key organisations, and three in-depth case studies in Australia, the book offers a detailed analysis of using enterprise to engage with the structural challenges of marginality. The book explores the local and global contexts through which art-based social enterprises (ASEs) operate and within which they attempt – often successfully – to improve access to education and work for emerging creatives. It also attends to the findings generated through engaging with the lived experiences of the staff and young creatives involved in our ASE case studies, in order to understand both the challenges and impacts of the ASE model on young people’s education, training, and employment pathways. The book focuses on three broad themes; precarious youth and digital futures, material practice and sustainable economies, and cultural citizenship in the urban fringe. In exploring these themes, the book contributes to debates about the limits, possibilities and challenges that attach to, and emerge from, an ASE model and highlights the ways in which these models can contribute to young people’s well-being, engagement, education and training, and work pathways. More broadly, it examines the possibilities of art as a means of social and cultural engagement. In the context of the precarious future of the creative industries, this book emphasise the ways in which young artists are building alternative economic and cultural models that support both individual pathways and collective change. This book will move the field forward with a critical lens that engages closely with experience and the lived realities of juggling multiple priorities of social, economic and artistic goals.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Artistic practice and social outcomes in a market-driven landscape.- Chapter 2: Precarious youth and digital futures.- Chapter 3: The Youthworx model: Disengaged young people and creative digital training.- Chapter 4: Fashioning a future: Material practice, creativity and sustainable economies.- Chapter 5: The Social Studio: Hope and pragmatic ambition.- Chapter 6: Creative practice, cultural citizenship and the urban fringe.- Chapter 7: Outer Urban Projects: Community building versus mainstreaming.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisHe reveals how south India deals with a particularly tough set of issues â its triumphs in areas of health, education and economic growth are met with a policy regime that penalizes it; its success in population control will be met with a possible loss of political representation. How will the region manage such an assault?

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Book SynopsisCopyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpaper, computer programs and cuddly toys are now deemed to be intellectual properties - making copyright a labyrinthine construction of laws covering almost all products of human creativity.Copyright has its roots in eighteenth-century London, where it was first established to limit printers' control of books. Principled arguments against copyright arose from the start and nearly abolished it in the nineteenth century. But a handful of little-noticed changes in the late twentieth century concentrated ownership of immaterial goods into very few hands. Who Owns This Sentence? is an often-humorous and always-enlightening cultural, legal, and global history of the idea that intangible things can be owned, and makes a persuasive case for seeing copyright as an engine of inequality in the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewFascinating ... Bellos and Montagu have extracted an enormous amount of fun out of their subject, and have sauced their sardonic and playful prose with buckets full of meticulously argued bile -- Simon Ings * The Telegraph *David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu's surprisingly sprightly history "Who Owns This Sentence?" arrives with uncanny timing ... The authors' chapters are short but their reach, like the arm of the law itself, is long. -- Alexandra Jacobs * New York Times *A fascinating new look at the patchwork chaos called copyright ... Not just authors, but artists in many media, scientists, mathematicians and every one of us with our own unique individual faces .... should read this book -- Anne Margaret Daniel * Spectator *Lively, opinionated, and ultra-timely -- Louis Menand * New Yorker *From the British Statute of Anne in 1710, which granted meagre rights to authors but more to publishers, to those looming AI battles on IP's "haziest frontier", the book maps the ever expanding empire of copyright ... [a] robust and readable polemic history -- Boyd Tonkin * Financial Times *The field of copyright has been full of dramatic turns ... Mr Bellos and Mr Montagu argue that copyright has gone from a right that favours creators to something more akin to a privilege for the rich and powerful. * Economist *David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu explain how copyright became an invisible economic architecture that governs not just vital matters such as royalties, but also ephemera such as commercial trademarks and medical patents ... As this thoughtful book shows, copyright law has been revised and rewritten according to changing needs -- Dominic Green * Wall Street Journal *An astute survey of ever-evolving proprietorship laws ... a surprisingly accessible recounting of the major twists and turns - and there are many! - surrounding this topic -- Mariko Hewer * Washington Independent Review of Books *A gimlet-eyed analysis of a system that protects a corporate status quo at the expense of independent invention * Kirkus Reviews *A gripping detective story, a flamboyant intellectual history, and a passionate manifesto for creative freedom ... You'll never think about copyright in the same way again * Fara Dabhoiwala, historian and senior research scholar, Princeton University *One good life option is to just read everything David Bellos has ever written * Guardian *Bellos and Montagu reveal the patchwork of laws, norms, and assumptions that have transformed ideas into property. Copyright is no longer just about authors and the right to benefit from their work, but about big business and even bigger profits. Theirs is a compelling call to address the privatization of the global imagination * Emily Drabinski, President, American Library Association *In this madcap history from Plato to Donald Duck, from feudal Europe to Facebook, David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu have written the definitive account of where copyright came from and why it looks the way it does. Who Owns This Sentence? belongs on the bookshelf of every creator, producer, policymaker, and consumer * Jason Mazzone, Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor of Law, University of Illinois *We often think of copyright as a form of justice, a means of ensuring that creators rather than pirates of works receive whatever compensation is on offer. This witty, informed and timely book urgently invites us to think otherwise. Copyright, the authors tell us, 'means more than it ever did before.' It takes in books, films, sheet music, computer programs and many other inventions, and yet it in the end 'it is an edifice of words.' This detailed history makes very lively reading, and also encourages action, since we could, if we wished, use different words * Michael Wood, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, Princeton University *The story of copyright has many moving parts: history, literature, economics, politics, policy, and technology. Each element gets a closeup in this expertly told story of the evolution of copyright. In a time when billions of words are used to train AI models, this engaging and instructive book tells how different eras and countries have struggled with the challenge of defining ownership of texts * James T. Hamilton, Hearst Professor of Communication, Stanford University *Copyright is often defended as an immutable concept handed down through the generations, but this brisk and entertaining history outlines the truth of its complicated history, and illuminates the ways in which it has increasingly been weaponized by contemporary corporations. A gem of narrative nonfiction with wide appeal, bound to be especially savored by anyone with a stake in the future ofintellectual property * Stephanie Anderson, LibraryReads Board Member *

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Book SynopsisVirginia Held assesses the ethics of care as a promising alternative to the familiar moral theories that serve so inadequately to guide our lives. The ethics of care is only a few decades old, yet it is by now a distinct moral theory or normative approach to the problems we face. It is relevant to global and political matters as well as to the personal relations that can most clearly exemplify care. This book clarifies just what the ethics of care is: what its characteristics are, what it holds, and what it enables us to do. It discusses the feminist roots of this moral approach and why the ethics of care can be a morality with universal appeal. Held examines what we mean by care, and what a caring person is like. Where other moral theories demand impartiality above all, the ethics of care understands the moral import of our ties to our families and groups. It evaluates such ties, focusing on caring relations rather than simply on the virtues of individuals. The book proposes how such values as justice, equality, and individual rights can fit together with such values as care, trust, mutual consideration, and solidarity. In the second part of the book, Held examines the potential of the ethics of care for dealing with social issues. She shows how the ethics of care is more promising than Kantian moral theory and utilitarianism for advice on how expansive, or not, markets should be, and on when other values than market ones should prevail. She connects the ethics of care with the rising interest in civil society, and considers the limits appropriate for the language of rights. Finally, she shows the promise of the ethics of care for dealing with global problems and seeing anew the outlines of international civility.Trade Review"Virginia Held's theory of care is no less substantial than John Rawls' theory of justice. Her probing and engaging analysis of caring values, virtues, actions, and attitudes will become a classic in moral theory."--Rosemarie Tong, The University of North Carolina at CharlotteTable of ContentsPart I. Care and Moral Theory 1: The Ethics of Care as a Moral Theory 2: Care as Practice and Value 3: The Caring Person 4: Justice, Utility, and Care 5: Liberalism and the Ethics of Care 6: Caring Relations and Principles of Justice 7: Care and the Extension of Markets 8: Civil Society, Rights, and the Presumption of Care 9: Power, Care and The Reach of Law 10: Care and Justice in the Global Context

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Book SynopsisAn essential book for everyone who seeks to reclaim the commons and build a just and equitable society.John Nichols,The NationAn exploration of bottled water's impact on social justice and sustainability, and howdiverse movements are fighting back. In just four decades, bottled water has transformed from a luxury niche item into a ubiquitous consumer product, representing a $300 billion market dominated by global corporations. It sits at the convergence of a mounting ecological crisis of single-use plastic waste and climate change, a social crisis of affordable access to safe drinking water, and a struggle over the fate of public water systems. Unbottled examines the vibrant movements that have emerged to question the need for bottled water and challenge its growth in North America and worldwide. Drawing on extensive interviews with activists, residents, public officials, and other participants in controversies ranging from bottled water's role in unsafe tap water crises to grouTrade Review"In his new book, Unbottled, author Daniel Jaffee explores how bottled water’s meteoric rise has exacerbated inequality and intensified pollution." * Fast Company *"Jaffee emphasizes the resistance against bottled water’s hegemony, not just its negative effects, leaving the reader astonished but still hopeful. . . . For those wanting to fight for climate and water justice, this book is a must-read." * The Progressive Magazine *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures and Tables Preface Introduction 1. A More Perfect Commodity 2. Making a Market, Fearing the Tap, Building a Backlash 3. Flint: Corroding Pipes, Eroding Trust 4. Reclaiming the Tap 5. Cascade Locks: A Decade-Long Struggle 6. Guelph and Elora: Watching Water, Broadening the Movement 7. Empty Bottles: Water Justice and the Right to Drink Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisEconomists say there is a limit to what we gain by buying consumer goods. Americans say they want to work less. Yet we continue toiling away and use the proceeds to buy, buy, buy. Why? Stephen Rosenberg offers a novel theory, arguing that workers have learned to treat goods as stores of potential free time, legitimating endless wage work.Trade ReviewAn enormously ambitious and highly provocative book, Time for Things addresses one of the most central and most difficult puzzles in economics and political economy: why is it that advanced capitalist societies do not use their high and growing productivity for more free time—with great benefits for individuals, social life, and the environment—and instead increase consumption in line with rising productive capacity? With extraordinary conceptual precision and theoretical acumen, Rosenberg shows how the various versions of modern economics fail to even come close to resolving the puzzles posed by the apparent stability of consumerist capitalism. Whether or not his approach to this puzzle will stand after criticism, the debate that Rosenberg has started will be a major one and is likely to add significantly to our understanding of contemporary capitalism. -- Wolfgang Streeck, author of How Will Capitalism End?This remarkable book examines the master issue of our daily lives, the scarcity of time, and makes a startling argument about the norms that facilitate capitalist expansion: time is turned into ever more things because things begin to be seen as time. Rosenberg’s wide-ranging approach draws from, and challenges, historians, economists, psychologists, and philosophers, as much as sociologists. Time for Things is not an incremental addition to an existing conversation, but the start of a whole new conversation. -- Monica Prasad, author of The Land of Too MuchThis brilliant book presents a revolutionary account of America’s consumption economy, arguing that standardized consumer durables provided essential legitimation for the very idea of wage labor. Drawing on economics, sociology, and history, Rosenberg combines data on economic trends, consumption patterns, business and labor movements, product development, and marketing. His magisterial study states and defends a novel theory of consumption that has profound implications for our understanding of the modern American economy. -- Andrew Abbott, University of ChicagoRosenberg settles on an intriguing explanation: that the reason workers stopped pushing to reduce working time is that products got better, and consumers began to demand more of them…Brings a much-needed social dimension to our understanding of work. -- Andrew Leigh * Inside Story *[Rosenberg] deploys an arrangement of resources drawn from social theory combined with evidence from history and economic data to develop a theory of mass consumption as ‘wage-labor commensuration.’ According to this, since the 1920s the preference to trade the prospect of the leisure dividend with the pursuit of the wage-labor increment (to finance a greater propensity to consume) is the hallmark of work-leisure relations. Rosenberg is nothing less than heroic in assembling an enormous range of the theoretical and empirical date to make the case. -- Chris Rojek * Business History Review *Rosenberg argues that consumers are plunged into an insatiable quest to consume enough so that they can feel that they are receiving at least fair pay…Hence the propensity for capitalist production and consumption, work and spend, to spiral upwards indefinitely…Rosenberg is to be congratulated for a book that, unusually nowadays, has something genuinely original to say. -- Ken Roberts * International Review of Social History *Could not be more timely…With so many Americans in the COVID era trying to tie their well-being to securing work they find rewarding in pay, purpose, and private life, Time for Things powerfully conveys that this oftentimes difficult pursuit involves factors far beyond the individual’s control. -- Lizabeth Cohen * American Journal of Sociology *In considering a variety of other explanations of American pursuit of higher wages, [Rosenberg] continuously raises the often-ignored question: Why haven’t Americans sought more time? He offers a clear argument…[and] a new way of thinking about the modern obsession with goods. -- Gary S. Cross * American Historical Review *In a world where working from home is now more common and technology allows us to be available and potentially working 24 hours a day, Rosenberg’s theory helps us to step back and ask just why higher wages seem to be the main focus for both organized labour and individual workers, rather than a dramatic increase in free time…One looks forward to scholars of labour and consumption grappling with this new explanation and trying it out in many different milieus. -- Sarah Elvins * Left History *

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Book SynopsisMoving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard-drinking writers, Southern Comforts explores how alcohol and drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the US South.

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Book SynopsisToday, approximately 1.6 million American children live in what social scientists call “grandfamilies”—households in which children are being raised by their grandparents. Drawing on data gathered from New York grandfamilies, Rachel Dunifon analyzes their unique strengths and distinct needs. Trade Review“You’ve Always Been There for Me makes a significant contribution to the field of family studies and gerontology. Dunifon’s arguments are unique, sound, and focused, and shed new light into the roles of grandchildren in grandfamilies.” -- Christine A. Fruhauf * associate professor, Department of Human Development & Family Studies, Colorado State University *"Dunifon masterfully addresses an understudied type of family–grandchildren raised by grandparents–and offers insightful policy recommendations for how to promote the well-being of these families. Her research is a model combination of survey techniques, open-ended interviews, and videotaped observations of interactions. As we learn about the financial hardships, the health challenges, and emotional demands experienced by grandparents, we also see the extraordinary bonds between these parental figures and their adolescent grandchildren. Dunifon’s superb volume will inspire other scholars to pursue this compelling topic." -- P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale * Frances Willard Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University *"Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Tables Introduction 1 What Leads to the Formation of Grandfamilies? 2 “I Couldn’t Be Prouder to Be the Caregiver of You”: How Do Grandparents Define Their Roles in Grandfamilies? 3 “I Get All the Love I Need”: How Do Youth Define Their Roles in Grandfamilies? 4 “I Love My Daughter, But I Don’t Like Her Right About Now”: The Role of Parents in Grandfamilies 5 Policies and Programs to Address Grandfamilies’ Needs 6 Postscript—Where Are They Now? Conclusion Appendix Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection explores areas such as social enterprise, capacity building, volunteering and social value, and charts the historical development of the state-third sector relationship, reviewing the major debates and controversies accompanying recent shifts in that relationship.Trade Review"In a period of change and uncertainty this is a timely, thoughtful and challenging book for decision makers , academics and practitioners alike." Professor John Diamond, Edge Hill University UK"An excellent and wide ranging text which will be a key reference work for academics studying the role of the third sector in delivering public services in the UK." Peter Wells, Sheffield Hallam UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ James Rees and David Mullins; Part One: Policy, Politics and Organisations; The history of third sector service delivery in the UK ~ Pete Alcock; Same tensions, different results? Third sector-state relations in a changing political and socio-economic context ~ Heather Buckingham; Which third sector organisations are involved in the delivery of public services? Evidence from national survey data in England ~ John Mohan and David Clifford; Part Two: Cross-cutting issue for third sector service delivery; Social enterprise, mutuals and spin-outs in the era of ‘open’ public services ~ Robin Miller and Fergus Lyon; Capacity building for competition: the role of infrastructure in third sector service delivery ~ Rob Macmillan; The role of volunteers in service delivery ~ Angela Ellis-Paine and Matt Hill; The concept of social value and the third sector: definitions, theories and measurements ~ Malin Arvidson and Helen Kara; Part Three: Service delivery in key policy fields; Understanding the third sector’s role and position in employment services provision ~ Rebecca Taylor, James Rees and Chris Damm; All change? The impact of personalisation for the third sector in health and social care ~ Jenny Harlock and Robin Miller; Housing and the Third Sector – Enacted hybridity and diversification ~ David Mullins; The third sector and the rehabilitation revolution ~ Rob Macmillan; Conclusion and the future for the Third Sector’s role in service delivery ~ James Rees and David Mullins.

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Book SynopsisExploring why food aid exists and the deeper causes of food poverty, this book addresses neglected dimensions of traditional debates. It challenges neoliberal governmentality and shows how food charity maintains inequalities of class, race, religion and gender.Table of ContentsForeword - Kate Pickett 1. Introduction 2. Revising perspectives on neoliberalism, hunger and food insecurity 3. Food aid and neoliberalism: an alliance built on shared interests? 4. Soup and salvation: realising religion through contemporary food charity 5. Whiteness, racism and colourblindness in UK food aid 6. Lived neoliberalism: food, poverty and power 7.Racial inequality or mutual aid? Food and poverty among Pakistani British and White British women 8. Seeds beneath the snow

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Book SynopsisOutside the world of children''s literature studies, children''s books by authors of well-known texts for adults are often forgotten or marginalized. Although many adults today read contemporary children''s and young adult fiction for pleasure, others continue to see such texts as unsuitable for older audiences, and they are unlikely to cross-read children''s books that were themselves cross-written by authors like Chinua Achebe, Anita Desai, Joy Harjo, or Amy Tan. Meanwhile, these literary voices have produced politically vital works of children''s literature whose complex themes persist across boundaries of expected audience. These works form part of a larger body of activist writing for children that has long challenged preconceived notions about the seriousness of such books and ideas about who, in fact, should read them. They Also Write for Kids: Cross-Writing, Activism, and Children''s Literature seeks to draw these cross-writing projects together and bring them to th

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Book SynopsisIt is possible to eliminate death and serious injury from Canada's roads. In other jurisdictions, the European Union, centres in the United States, and at least one automotive company aim to achieve comparable results as early as 2020. In Canada, though, citizens must turn their thinking on its head and make road safety a national priority.Since the motor vehicle first went into mass production, the driver has taken most of the blame for its failures. In a world where each person's safety is dependent on a system in which millions of drivers must drive perfectly over billions of hours behind the wheel, failure on a massive scale has been the result. When we neglect the central role of the motor vehicle as a dangerous consumer product, the result is one of the largest human-made means for physically assaulting human beings. It is time for Canadians to embrace internationally recognized ways of thinking and enter an era in which the motor vehicle by-product of human carnage is relegated to history.No Accident examines problems related to road safety and makes recommendations for the way forward. Topics include types of drivers; human-related driving errors related to fatigue, speed, alcohol, and distraction and roads; pedestrians, cyclists, and public transit; road engineering; motor vehicle regulation; auto safety design; and collision-avoidance technologies such as radar and camera-based sensors on vehicles that prevent crashes. This multi-disciplinary study demystifies the world of road safety and provides a road map for the next twenty years.Trade Review"'No Accident' is a major work and it largely achieves its very difficult aim of understanding the complex issue of road crashes, one of the world's primary causes of human trauma. The book advocates the safe system approach, the leading vision in the world today, and Arason explains in a clear way why we have road crashes and how best to prevent and even eliminate them. This book is a 'must read' for all stakeholders (including but not limited to engineers, policy-makers, the automotive sector, law enforcement, and public health). I hope reading this book will change their thinking on road safety." -- Fred Wegman, professor of traffic safety, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands"Working in a busy trauma centre, I find it hard to imagine a world without serious injury and death from road trauma. But that optimistic message, together with a detailed description of how it can be achieved here in Canada, is the theme of this captivating book. Extensively researched and illustrated with historical vignettes, news stories, scientific research, and interviews with experts, Arason's book describes the safe system approach to road safety in everyday language. The book is a must-read for everyone with an interest in understanding and preventing road trauma." -- Jeff Brubacher, MD, Emergency Physician, Vancouver, British Columbia"This is not a narrow-gauged book. Instead, it is a very well-written and documented story, comprehensive in scope, motivating in design and elevating in its global humanitarian purposes. Mr. Arason also pays attention to getting around on the ground in much healthier ways than by motor transport." -- Ralph Nader, from the 'Foreword'Table of Contents No Accident: Eliminating Injury and Death on Canadian Roads by Neil Arason List of Illustrations Foreword Ralph Nader Acknowledgements Author's Note Prologue Chapter 1: I Know Your Type Chapter 2: The State of Affairs Chapter 3: The Ethical City Chapter 4: The Finished Road Chapter 5: Regulating One of the World's Most Dangerous Consumer Products Chapter 6: Vehicles That Protect People from Injuries Chapter 7: The Vehicle That Would Not Crash Chapter 8: The Silent War Notes Index

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Book Synopsis“I’m in love with this book! It illuminates the forces that make parenting so difficult, and helps us develop better relationships with our kids—and ourselves.”—Hunter Clarke-Fields, MSAE, author of Raising Good HumansParenting is hard. But when we replace conventional parent-child power dynamics with collaboration, family life gets easier today—and we create a better world for all of us in the future.When we see our children stalling, resisting, having tantrums, using mean words, and hitting, we want to just make it stop. But conventional discipline methods like time-outs, countdowns, and “consequences” teach children that it’s OK for more powerful people to control others—a lesson they take out into the world. This is how we learned White supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism from our parents—and we will replicate this with our children unless we make a different choice.Research-based parenting educator Jen Lumanlan offers a simple yet revolutionary framework for rethinking our relationships with children. This new approach helps us to look beneath challenging behaviors to find and meet children’s needs, and ours too—perhaps for the first time in our lives. It involves empathetic listening, understanding feelings and underlying needs, and problem-solving with our children to find solutions to conflicts that work for everyone.Family life becomes radically easier in the short term because behavior problems tend to melt away. In the long term, we’ll raise children who confidently advocate for themselves and treat others with profound respect.Includes sample scripts, flowcharts, and resources to help parents learn and implement this new approach.—"The compassionate guidance will be a boon to parents eager to move away from punitive child-rearing strategies."—Publisher's WeeklyTrade Review“I’m in love with this book! It illuminates the forces that make parenting so difficult, and helps us develop better relationships with our kids—and ourselves.”—Hunter Clarke-Fields, MSAE, author of Raising Good Humans"The compassionate guidance will be a boon to parents eager to move away from punitive child-rearing strategies."—Publisher's WeeklyLumanlan offers tools for parents to evaluate the needs of both themselves andtheir children and techniques for families to reach solutions that respect everyone’s desires...Her guidance on building community and conversation-starting scripts is outstanding...will appealto parents seeking alternatives to conventional child-rearing styles and advice."—Booklist“Lumanlan challenges us to face our privilege and adopt a powerful new way of parenting that’s both effective and empathetic. Highly recommended for anyone involved in raising the next generation.”—Carla Naumburg, PhD, author of How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t With Your Kids“Wow! There is no shortage of parenting books but this is a standout: both eye-opening and practical.”—Dolly Chugh, PhD, author of A More Just Future and The Person You Mean to Be and NYU Stern professor“A must for all teachers, parents, and citizens interested in a better world.”—John H. Bickford III, PhD, Professor of Social Studies/History Education, Eastern Illinois UniversityTable of ContentsContents: Preface Author’s Note Introduction CHAPTER 1: SOCIETAL FORCES In FAMILY LIFE How White Supremacy, Patriarchy, and Capitalism Affect Our Relationships with Our Children CHAPTER 2: JUDGMENTS, REWARDS, AND PUNISHMENTS They “Work” (But Not the Way We Want Them To) CHAPTER 3: EMOTIONS AND REGULATION How to Navigate Tantrums, Meltdowns, and Shutdowns CHAPTER 4: CHILDREN'S RESISTANCE A Gift that Shows Us Their Needs CHAPTER 5: MEETING PARENTS' NEEDS (Sometimes with Boundaries) CHAPTER 6: PROBLEM-SOLVING CONVERSATIONS A Way to Meet Everyone’s Needs CHAPTER 7: COMMON DIFFICULTIES WITH PROBLEM-SOLVING CONVERSATIONS And How to Address Each One CHAPTER 8: LEVELING UP Applying Your New Skills to the Challenges You Face AFTERWORD: WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER Building Your Village Summary of Key Ideas Acknowledgments Resources Actions List of Needs List of Feelings When Needs Are Met List of Feelings When Needs are Unmet Starter Scripts Index Notes

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