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Book SynopsisProvides an account of Australian water management practices, set against important historical precedents and the contemporary experience of other countries. The book describes the nature of the country's natural water resources, management of these resources by Indigenous Australians, the development of urban water supply, and more.Trade Review"Anyone seeking a broad perspective on the whole field will find this an accessible and non-technical guide, including useful references in the footnotes to direct further reading on a whole range of more specialised topics. CSIRO Publishing has produced an extensively illustrated and attractive paperback printed on paper of a quality rarely found in paperbacks." -- Tony Dingle * Historical Records of Australian Science 31(2) 2020 *"This type of in-depth, unbiased, but critical material about Australia's water resources cannot be found on the internet. It is all here in this one publication." -- Bob Winters * Geographical Education Vol 33 *

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding White-Collar Crime develops the concept of convenience as the main explanation for crime occurrence. Examining all three dimensions of crime—economic, organizational, and behavioral—the book argues that when white-collar crime becomes less convenient, crime rates will go down. By applying convenience theory to an empirical sample of convicted white-collar criminals, the text teaches criminal justice students and ethics and compliance practitioners to identify and understand how opportunity affects real-world criminal situations. Internal investigations of white-collar crime are discussed, and corporate social responsibility against white-collar crime is emphasized.Understanding White-Collar Crime: A Convenience Perspective examines not only the theories behind white-collar crime, but also explores methods used in criminal justice investigations into corporate fraud, and emphasizes the importance of corporate social responsibility inTable of ContentsIntroduction. Convenience Theory of White-Collar Crime. Economical Dimensions in Convenience Theory. Organizational Dimensions in Convenience Theory. Behavioral Dimensions in Convenience Theory. Integrated Approach to Convenience Theory. Empirical Study of White Collar Criminals. Internal White-Collar Crime Investigations. Corporate Social Responsibility. Conclusion. References.

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Book SynopsisSynopsis coming soon.......Trade Review"Lillian Ross is a consummate reporter, and therefore remains on the fringes of these unforgettable pieces of writing. But there is no doubt about her place in the pantheon of radical and dogged female storytellers. Millennials would do well to study Ross and to study her closely:her style, her technique, and her legend.” -- Lena Dunham"For anyone interested in movies from the 50s on, Lillian Ross’s profiles were essential. They still are. And that was my way into her irreplaceable body of writing.” -- Martin Scorsese"Lillian Ross is the model for all narrative journalists. Open-eyed, sharp-witted, and fundamentally kind-hearted, she has diamond-hard reporting skills and an effortlessly graceful way with words. Each story here shows her at her best, as keen storyteller and social observer, whether she is peering into the world of Hollywood swells or bumbling school kids or wherever else her curiosity takes her. This is a glorious collection by a master of the form." -- Susan Orlean“Exceptionally curious, exceedingly brave, with a perfect ear: through Lillian Ross and her classic reporting, we've gotten the chance to sneak into the private words of the great and the fascinating(Chaplin, Hemingway, Truffaut, Huston). One of the most important and influential journalists alive.” -- Wes AndersonLillian Ross has elevated journalism--storytelling--to an art but it is her art, singular and brilliant.Her innate sense of form and eye for the telling, often humorous detail, are part of what makes her work so indelible and influential--that and her understanding of how the family of man becomes just that. -- Hilton Als“Readers are invested in Ross' work because she's invested. She has the ability to dive deep into the minds and hearts of interviewees, and readers are lucky that through her writing, they are able to come along for the ride.” -- Lincee Ray * Associated Press *"The occasion for this piece—a big writer with a new book out—feels perfect for The New Yorker’s Talk of the Town, where Ross mastered the art of brief, revealing stories about the famous and less famous using scenes, dialogue and a novelist’s eye for details and pacing. Before there was the New Journalism, there was Lillian Ross, with her French Clairefontaine notepads, getting out of the office, away from the phone, and jotting down everything she heard and saw—“That girl,” Edmund Wilson once wrote, “with the built-in tape recorder.” -- Michael Rosenwald * Columbia Journalism Review *“Lillian Ross started working at The New Yorker in 1945… By mid century, she had made journalistic history by pioneering the kind of novelistic nonfiction that inspired later work like Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood.” Ms. Ross has collected many of her signature pieces, including that Hemingway profile, along with newer work, into a book that stretches over 60 years of journalism…[She] largely invented the modern entertainment profile; [her] particular skill was to charm her subjects into revealing their most unscripted, id-like selves, as Hemingway memorably did during a three-day tour of New York City with Ms. Ross at his side.” -- Penelope Green * The New York Times *“Ross's work remains fresh and vibrant despite the passage of decades, a model of what patient observation, deep listening, and stringent craft can achieve.” -- Pamela Erens * The New York Times Book Review *Praise for Lillian Ross:"Lillian Ross is the mistress of selectively listening and viewing, of capturing the one moment that entirely illumines the scene, of fastening on the one quote that tells all. She is a brilliant interpreter of what she hears and observes." -- Irving Wallace"Even though Reporting Always contains mostly period pieces, with special relevance for older readers, they are such remarkable examples of the art of the interview that younger readers, too, should relish them." * Providence Journal *"[Reporting Always] is a rich pleasure and an encounter with a pioneering vision. . . . . One of Ross’s greatest talents lies in the cool clarity of her gaze: somehow she sees things and people simultaneously unsentimentally and with great warmth. . . . . And we like [the subjects she profiles] not because she has told us to, but because she has shown us, with candor and respect, who they are.” * Boston Review *

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Book SynopsisContemporary Social Problems and Your World: An Anthology provides students with engaging and enlightening readings that help them better understand what sociology is, how social problems emerge in society, the ways inequality impacts people, and the forces that enable social change.The anthology is organized into thematic units that introduce sociological concepts as they relate to social problems. In Unit One, students are introduced to sociological thought and the ways social problems are constructed through social actors. Unit Two focuses on sociological theory and core concepts, helping readers understand how social problems operate. In Unit Three, students examine how aspects of inequality, including homelessness, poverty, gender, and race, affect society. In Unit Four, students are encouraged to explore how social change happens and how we can move to a more equitable future.Designed to help students examine their place in the world through exploring the interrelationships between history, political structures, institutional power, culture, and individual agency, Contemporary Social Problems and Your World is an ideal anthology for introductory courses in sociology.

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Book SynopsisThis book is about race and racial inequality. If you can answer the question, “What is race and how does it impact our society?” then you don’t need to read this book. If you are looking for an upfront, practical, and no-nonsense guide to understanding race, then this book is for you. Just mention race or racism in any conversation and people become nervous, defensive, or possibly even angry. So You Think You Know All About Race informs, educates, and most importantly, introduces a fresh, meaningful conversation on why it is important to understand what race is and why racism still occurs today.Trade ReviewMargaret Andersen’s Getting Smart about Race is a roadmap for the substantive and constructive conversation about race we say we need to have. With the first sentence and one thoughtful question, she unsettles the racial landscape...But she doesn’t just discuss the problem, she offers a way for us to discover the shared humanity which must be the foundation for racial healing in the United States of America. -- Jeffrey Blount, Emmy-award winning television director and author of The Emancipation of Evan WallsIn a clear, elegant, and thorough way, Margaret Andersen makes us all `smart about race’. She tells us what race, racism, and prejudice are, their effects in society, and what we can do to change the racial order of things. Getting Smart about Race will help advance our national dialogue about the continuing significance of race. -- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University; author of Racism Without Racists

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Book SynopsisBlood of My Blood eaves together the history, sociology and psychology of first, second, and third-generation Italian Americans. Its data is presented with scholarly precision; yet the author's personalized style, which he peppers with autobiographical tidbits, makes it immensely readable. Unlike most books written by academics, this one compels the reader to feel as well as to know.Trade Review"With greater impact than any other non-fiction book on the subject has achieved to date, it weaves together the history, sociology, and psychology of first-, second- and third-generation Italian Americans. Its data is presented with scholarly precision; yet the author's style, which he peppers with autobiographical tidbits, makes it immensely readable." -- The New York Times.Table of ContentsThe American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) is the leading resource for the improvement in cardiopulmonary health and critical care worldwide. The ACCP mission is to promote the prevention and treatment of diseases of the chest through leadership, education, research, and communication.

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Book SynopsisThe book focuses on the International Development Research Centre as a unique institution that has funded research in the developing Southâresearch proposed and undertaken by Southern researchersâand how, as a result, it has had tremendous impact despite a relatively small budget. The IDRC is much better known in the developing South than in Canada; in many of the roughly 150 countries in which it has provided research funding it has contributed to creating a very positive image of Canada. The centre's arms-length relationship with Canadian government assistance provides it with enormous freedom and flexibilityâit was established in 1970 with its own act under the Trudeau government. The IDRC board is one-half international and one-half Canadian and is the only governmental agency in the world that has this structure, giving them unique insight into Southern development issues. One of the IDRC's founding principles was its insistence on having Southern researchers decide which projects would be put forward for possible funding, and much care has been taken to avoid "research imperialism" or "colonialism." An analysis of the path less travelled, but which IDRC found amenable, is fundamental to this history of the centre, and the book highlights the decisions, ideas, and practices that flow from this basic premise.Trade Review``Bruce Muirhead and Ronald Harpelle have produced an engaging, richly detailed, and timely book. Their accessible history demonstrates how a Canadian Crown corporation has become a global leader in advancing research for development that reflects the priorities and concerns of developing countries. They show how IDRC has been consistently ahead of the curve and has positively contributed to Canada's international reputation. This comprehensive volume reveals why this institution should make all Canadians proud. I strongly urge you to read it.'' -- Adam Sneyd, Department of Political Science, University of Guelph -- 201008``What makes this history of IDRC so important is that it highlights the critically important role of this agency in enhancing the research capacity of institutions and scholars in the global south via partnership with Canadian institutions and scholars. This is a story of international cooperation for development that very much needed to be told, and the authors tell it very well--mostly from the perspective of the IDRC leadership from its inception with David Hopper until the Maureen O'Neill years. Each leader over the past forty years made a specific and notable contribution. How they did so, under changing political conditions, makes fascinating reading.'' -- Henry Veltmeyer, International Development Studies, St. Mary's University, Halifax, NS; author of Tools for Change: Handbook in Critical Development Studies (2010) -- 201008Table of ContentsTable of Contents for IDRC: 40 Years of Ideas, Innovation, and Impact by Bruce Muirhead and Ronald N. Harpelle List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Foreword | Barbara McDougall Introduction: Canada and the âEvolutionâ of Development Assistance, 1945â70 Chapter 1. The Idea Bears Fruit, 1967â70 Chapter 2. IDRC Takes Shape: David Hopper Sets the Pace, 1970â77 Chapter 3. Ivan Head at the Helm, Part I: 1978â83: IDRC in High Gear: Projects, Plans, and Operations Chapter 4. Ivan Head Redux, 1983â91: A Darkening Horizon Chapter 5. Cutbacks and Countermeasures: Keith Bezanson and IDRC in Retreat, 1991â97 Chapter 6. Maureen OâNeil and a New Millennium, 1997â2008: On the Road Again Chapter 7. Conclusion Appendix Index

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Book SynopsisIn the early 1970s many social scientists and critics noted the emergence of a new elite based in the "Knowledge Industry" and pitted against the old business-based middle class both politically and culturally. Because of its close ties to academia and the media, this New Class was conceived by both its critics and its proponents to be in an advantageous position to influence the rest of society. The Hidden Technocrats attempts to delineate the features of the New Class phenomenon and map its structural location in contemporary American and Western European societies.In exploring the major themes of the assumed New Class culture in five coun-tries-the United States, Britain, Holland, West Germany, and Italy-the authors come up with some surprising results. Where earlier discussions had posited protracted opposition between the left-of-center new elite and the right-of-center old elite, much of the evidence and analysis presented here points toward a symbiosis in the making, a new constellation of values and behavior patterns that combine both traits of the old bourgeois culture and social attitudes clearly identified with the New Class.In mapping out a strategically important change in the political ideology and s'ocial psychology of contemporary capitalism in America and Europe, the authors raise essential questions about whether such a "new capitalism" will favor or diminish the international competitiveness of the economies in which it has come to the fore. This stimulating and wide-ranging volume at the cutting edge of analysis will be of interest to sociologists, economists, and organizational analysts.

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Book SynopsisThe editors and authors of this book, seventh in the Service-Learning in the Disciplines Series, bring their own sociological wisdom and imagination to demonstrate how service-learning can effectively be used in the sociology curricula and in class exercises. Discussions in the introduction and chapters, along with appended syllabi, provide ways in which such programs can be adopted in undergraduate sociology courses.Table of ContentsAbout This Series—Edward Zlotkowski Preface—Service-Learning. Not Charity, But a Two-Way Street—Judith R. Blau Introduction—Service-Learning and the Teachability of Sociology—James Ostrow Part One. The Critical Examination of Social Life Sociology's Essential Role. Promoting Critical Analysis in Service-Learning—Sam Marullo Sociology and Service-Learning. A Critical Look—Kerry J. Strand Building Campus-Community Connections. Using Service-Learning in Sociology Courses—J. Richard Kendrick, Jr. Part Two. Pedagogical Advantages A Multicultural and Critical Perspective on Teaching Through Community. A Dialogue With Jose Calderon of Pitzer College—Sandra Enos Service-Research Projects in the Urban School. A Dialogue with Frank Furstenberg Jr. of the University of Pennsylvania—Sandra Enos Service-Learning as Symbolic Interaction—Barbara H. Vann The Joys of Your Troubles. Using Service and Reflection to Enhance Learning in the Community College Sociology Classroom—Martha Bergin and Susan McAleavey Service-Learning Through Meta-Reflection. Problems and Prospects of Praxis in Organizational Sociology—Hugh F. Lena Part Three. Action Research Action Research. The Highest Stage of Service-Learning?—Douglas V. Porpora Examining Communities and Urban Change. Service-Learning as Collaborative Research—Garry Hesser Afterword. Sociology, Service, and Learning, For a Stronger Discipline—Carla B. Howery Appendix. Bibliography. Sociology and Service-Learning—Garry Hesser Three Sample Syllabi Contributors to This Volume

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Book SynopsisA collection of the papers of Margaret S. Mahler, providing an exposition of the development of Mahler's essential concepts.

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Book Synopsis“Ajuan Mance’s original and provocative study fills a gap in the scholarship on African American women poets. The historical sweep of her analysis of these poets’ efforts at self-representation is as impressive as the depth of her analysis of individual poems. Students and scholars of African American poetry or of African American women writers will find Professor Mance’s study a rich, invaluable resource. Inventing Black Women incisively delineates the historical contexts that shaped the intricate and troubled relationships among gender, race, and poetry.”--Virginia C. Fowler, Virginia Tech UniversityInventing Black Women fills important gaps in our understanding of how African American women poets have resisted those conventional notions of gender and race that limit the visibility of Black female subjects. The first historical and thematic survey of African American women's poetry, this book examines the key developments that have shaped the growing body of poems by and about Black women over the nearly 125 years since the end of slavery and Reconstruction, as it offers incisive readings of individual works by important poets such as Alice B. Neal, Maggie Pogue Johnson, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Sonia Sanchez, Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, and many others.Ajuan Maria Mance establishes that the history of African American women's poetry revolves around the struggle of the Black female poet against two marginalizing forces: the widespread association of womanhood with the figure of the middle-class, white female; and the similar association of Blackness with the figure of the African American male. In so doing, she looks closely at the major trends in Black women's poetry during each of four critical moments in African American literary history: the post- Reconstruction era from 1877 to 1910; the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s; the Black Arts Movement from 1965 to 1975; and the late twentieth century from 1975 to 2000.Inventing Black Women will prove an invaluable resource for scholars and students of American literature, African American studies, and women's studies.

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Book SynopsisA deconstruction of the neoliberal placations about global capitalism, exposing the inequalities of global poverty "We're making headway on global poverty," trills Bill Gates. "Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues," reports the World Bank. "How did the global poverty rate halve in 20 years?" inquires The Economist. Seth Donnelly answers: "It didn't!" In fact, according to Donnelly, virtually nothing about these glad tidings proclaiming plummeting global poverty rates is true. It's just that trend-setting neoliberal experts and institutions need us to believe that global capitalism, now unfettered in the wake of the Cold War and bolstered by Information Technology, has ushered in a new phase of international human prosperity. This short book deconstructs the assumption that global poverty has fallen dramatically, and lays bare the spurious methods of poverty measurement and data on which the dominant prosperity narrative depends. Here is carefully researched documentation that global poverty--and the inequalities and misery that flourish within it--remains massive, afflicting the majority of the world's population. Donnelly goes further to analyze just how global poverty, rather than being reduced, is actually reproduced by the imperatives of capital accumulation on a global scale. Just as the global, environmental catastrophe cannot be resolved within capitalism, rooted as it is in contemporary mechanisms of exploitation and plunder, neither can human poverty be effectively eliminated by neoliberal "advances."Trade Review"[An] accessible critique that will be of use to revolutionary social movements and activists the world over."-Christopher Feise, Professor Emeritus, Washington State University

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Book Synopsis"Henry Giroux's essay awakens us to the ways new media proliferate and circulate images and ideas of terror that order our lives, pervert our pedagogy, delimit our democracy. Recommended reading for anyone who wants to comprehend our times, our politics, our possibilities." --David Theo Goldberg, University of California, Irvine "Henry Giroux is one of the sharpest cultural critics today. His new book is an important intervention on media and spectacles. It shows us the depth of the dark side, only to conclude that the same media may be deployed in recovery against the social fragmentation caused by fear and consumerism, which is essential to bringing the country back to the path of decency and justice." --Arif Dirlik, University of Oregon Prominent social critic Henry Giroux explores how new forms of media are challenging the very nature of politics in his most poignant and striking book to date. The emergence of the spectacle of terror as a new form of politics raises important questions about how fear and anxiety can be marketed, how terrorism can be used to recruit people in support of authoritarian causes, and how the spectacle of terrorism works in an age of injustices, deep insecurities, disembodied social relations, fragmented communities, and a growing militarization of everyday life. At the same time, the new media such as the Internet, digital camcorders, and cell phones can be used to energize sites of resistance, provide alternative public spheres, pluralize political struggles, and expand rather than close down democratic relations. Giroux considers what conditions and changes are necessary to reinvigorate democracy in light of these new challenges. Radical Imagination SeriesTrade Review"Henry Giroux's essay awakens us to the ways new media proliferate and circulate images and ideas of terror that order our lives, pervert our pedagogy, delimit our democracy. Recommended reading for anyone who wants to comprehend our times, our politics, our possibilities." --David Theo Goldberg, University of California, Irvine "Henry Giroux is one of the sharpest cultural critics today. His new book is an important intervention on media and spectacles. It shows us the depth of the dark side, only to conclude that the same media may be deployed in recovery against the social fragmentation caused by fear and consumerism, which is essential to bringing the country back to the path of decency and justice." --Arif Dirlik, University of Oregon Table of ContentsChapter 1 Acts of Translation; Chapter 2 Rethinking the Politics of the Spectacle in the Society of the Image;

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Book Synopsis"Courageous." -Ilan Stavans, author of Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language Robert Kennedy and Cesar Chavez came from opposite sides of the tracks of race and class that still divide Americans. Both optimists, Kennedy and Chavez shared a common vision of equality. They united in the 1960s to crusade for the rights of migrant farm workers. Farm workers faded from public consciousness following Kennedy's assassination and Chavez's early passing. Yet the work of Kennedy and Chavez continues to reverberate in America today. Bender chronicles their warm friendship and embraces their bold political vision for making the American dream a reality for all. Although many books discuss Kennedy or Chavez individually, this is the first book to capture their multifaceted relationship and its relevance to mainstream U.S. politics and Latino/a politics today. Bender examines their shared legacy and its continuing influence on political issues including immigration, education, war, poverty, and religion. Mapping a new political path for Mexican Americans and the poor of all backgrounds, this book argues that there is still time to prove Kennedy and Chavez right.Trade Review“Bender frames his history of American Latino political participation within a study of the friendship of Robert Kennedy and César Chávez, who first met during JFK's presidential campaign. RKF oversaw outreach to Latinos, while Chávez headed the largest voter registration organization in California. Later, Chávez turned to rural union organizing of immigrant agricultural workers and called for help from RFK, who backed their 1966 strike. His backing of Chávez and the union, their shared belief in nonviolent activism, and their commitment to Catholic teachings on the poor created a bond between the son of Irish wealth and the Mexican farm worker. In turn, Chávez and the United Farm Workers Union worked to help RFK win the 1968 California primary from which Bender dates the decline of Chávez's union. After RKF's assassination, union political enthusiasm waned, and President Nixon sought to undermine the Farm Workers legally and economically. In the face of the anti-immigrant movement that began in 2006 and some anti-Hispanic vitriol from 2008 GOP candidates, Bender issues a plea for a revival of the RFK-Chávez concern for the dignity and well-being of the poor. He conveys both the fact and the emotion of the Latino dream for uplift, as shared by Chávez and RFK.” —Library Journal “The reverberations of a single night—June 4th, 1968—continue to be felt in Mexican American politics. Insinuating an alternative, brighter path to that tragic history, one in which Bobby and César cemented their friendship, a path where disillusionment gives way to enthusiasm, is the courageous purposes of this book. Viva Bender!” —Ilan Stavans, author of Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language “[Robert Kennedy] came to us and asked two questions…. ‘What do you want? And how can I help?” That’s why we loved him.’” —Dolores Huerta “I think that [Robert Kennedy and César Chávez] were kindred spirits before they met. They both recognized in the other the same values and the same hope for the country and hope for the [underprivileged].” —Ethel Kennedy Table of ContentsPart I A Friendship Cut Short; chapterOne Viva (John) Kennedy; chapterTwo; chapterThree César’s Fast and Deeds of Love; chapterFour Viva (Bobby) Kennedy; chapterFive One Night in America; Part II The Dream of Dignity Survives; chapterSix Aftermath; chapterSeven Viva la Causa: Rural Latinos and the Farm Worker Movement; chapterEight Viva la Raza: Urban Latinos and the Chicano Movement; chapterNine Vietnam and Mexican Americans: Patriotism and Protest; chapterTen Latinos and Poverty; chapterEleven Immigration: Walls and Wages; Part III Lessons from 1968: Latino Politics Today; chapterTwelve Latinos and National Politics; chapterThirteen Mexican Americans and the Catholic Church; chapterFourteen Mexican Americans and the Civil Rights Movement; chapterFifteen Looking Ahead: The Future of the Democratic Party and Immigration Reform; concl Conclusion;

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