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Book SynopsisPublished in 1999. Scottish criminal law and procedure are very different from their counterparts elsewhere in the United Kingdom. This book is the first socio-legal account of the Scottish criminal justice process and its constituent institutions. Its aims are: to explain the operation of the various elements which make up the system'; to summarise the considerable volume of relevant Scottish research; and to locate this knowledge within contemporary theorising about criminal justice. To this end, the editors commissioned a team of experts to write chapters on the various stages of institutions of the Scottish criminal justice process. Given Scotland's broad social and cultural similarities to the rest of the United Kingdom, the book also provides a useful comparative perspective which should help to discourage the tendency towards overly ethnocentric theorising south of the border. Table of Contents1. Introduction Peter Duff and Neil Hutton 2. Crime Trends in Scotland Since 1950 David J. Smith and Peter Young 3. Crime Statistics and the ‘Problem of Crime’ in Scotland Simon Anderson 4. Classifying Scottish Criminal Procedure Christopher Gane 5. The Politics of Crime Prevention: The Safer Cities Experiment in Scotland James Carnie 6. Situating Scottish Policy Neil Walker 7. The Prosecution Service: Independence and Accountability Peter Duff 8. Criminal Justice Responses to Bail Abuse Fiona Paterson 9. Courts Clare Connelly 10. Sentencing in Scotland Neil Hutton 11. The Fine as an Auto-Punishment: Power, Money and Discipline Peter Young 12. Community-based Disposals Gill McIvor and Bryan Williams 13. Imprisonment and Other Custodial Sentences Jim McManus 14. Preventing Offending by Children and Young People in Scotland Stewart Asquith and Mike Docherty 15. Mental Disorder and Criminal Justice Derek Chiswick 16. Women and the Scottish Criminal Justice System Michele Burman 17. Scottish Ethnic Minorities, Crime and the Police Jason Ditton 18. Victims of Crime Sue Moody 19. Privatisation, Policing and Crime Control: Tracing the Contours of the Public-Private Divide Nicholas R. Fyfe and Jon Bannister 20. The Politics of Penalty: An Overview of the Development of Penal Policy in Scotland Lesley McAra 21. Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn the late 1950s the psychiatrist R.D.Laing and psychoanalyst Aaron Esterson spent five years interviewing eleven families of female patients diagnosed as 'schizophrenic'. Sanity, Madness and the Family is the result of their work. Eleven vivid case studies, often dramatic and disturbing, reveal patterns of affection and fear, manipulation and indifference within the family. But it was the conclusions they drew from their research that caused such controversy: they suggest that some forms of mental disorder are only comprehensible within their social and family contexts; their symptoms the manifestations of people struggling to live in untenable situations. Sanity, Madness and the Family was met with widespread hostility by the psychiatric profession on its first publication, where the prevailing view was to treat psychosis as a medical problem to be solved. Yet it has done a great deal to draw attention to the complex and contested nature of psychosis. Above all, LaiTable of ContentsPrefacePreface to the Second EditionForeword to the Routledge Classics Edition, by Hilary MantelIntroduction The Abbotts The Blairs The Churches The Danzigs The Edens The Fields The Golds The Heads The Irwins The Kings The Lawsons AppendixIndex

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Book SynopsisEngaging Theories in Family Communication, Second Edition delves deeply into the key theories in family communication, focusing on theories originating both within the communication discipline and in allied disciplines. Contributors write in their specific areas of expertise, resulting in an exceptional resource for scholars and students alike, who seek to understand theories spanning myriad topics, perspectives, and approaches. Designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying family communication, this text is also relevant for scholars and students of personal relationships, interpersonal communication, and family studies. This second edition includes 16 new theories and an updated study of the state of family communication. Each chapter follows a common pattern for easy comparison between theories. Table of ContentsContributor BiosPreface- Dawn O. Braithwaite, Elizabeth A. Suter, and Kory FloydChapter 1: Introduction: The Landscape of Meta-Theory and Theory in Family Communication ResearchDawn O. Braithwaite, Elizabeth A. Suter, and Kory FloydChapter 2: Affection Exchange Theory: A Bio-Evolutionary Look at Affectionate CommunicationKory Floyd, Colin Hesse, and Mark Alan GenerousChapter 3: Appraisal Theories of Emotion: How Families Understand and Communicate Their FeelingsSandra Metts Chapter 4: Attachment Theory in Families: The Role of CommunicationLaura K. GuerreroChapter 5: Attribution Theory: Who’s at Fault in Families?Valerie ManusovChapter 6: Communicated Narrative Sense-Making Theory: Linking Storytelling and Well-BeingJody Koenig KellasChapter 7: Communication Accommodation Theory and Communication Theory of Identity: Theories of Communication and IdentityJordan Soliz and Colleen Warner ColanerChapter 8: Communication Privacy Management Theory: Understanding Families Sandra Petronio Chapter 9: Communication Theory of Resilience: Enacting Adaptive-Transformative Processes When Families Experience Loss and DisruptionP.M. Buzzanell Chapter 10: Critical Feminist Family Communication Theories: Gender, Power, and PraxisPatricia J. Sotirin and Laura L. EllingsonChapter 11: Dyadic Power Theory: Dominance and Power in Family Communication Norah E. Dunbar and Aubrie Adams Chapter 12: Facework Theory: Performing Familial Roles in Everyday Interactions M. Chad McBride Chapter 13: Family Communication Patterns Theory: A Grand Theory of Family CommunicationAscan F. Koerner, Paul Schrodt, and Mary Anne Fitzpatrick Chapter 14: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: A Framework for Understanding Family ConflictLoreen N. Olson and Annalisa DonaheyChapter 15: General Systems Theory: A Compelling View of Family LifeChristina G. Yoshimura and Kathleen M. Galvin Chapter 16: Intersectionality: (Re)Considering Family Communication from Within the MarginsApril L. Few-Demo, Julia Moore, and Shadee AbdiChapter 17: Language Convergence/Meaning Divergence Theory: Creating Conflict Through MisunderstandingsDebbie S. DoughteryChapter 18: Multiple Goals Theories: Motivations for Family Interactions and RelationshipsSteven R. Wilson and John P. CaughlinChapter 19: Narrative Performance Theory: Making Stories, Doing FamilyKristin M. Langellier and Eric E. Peterson Chapter 20: Necessary Convergence Communication Theory: Submission and Power in Family CommunicationMichelle Miller-Day Chapter 21: Negotiated Morality Theory: How Family Communication Shapes Our ValuesVincent R. Waldron and Douglas L. KelleyChapter 22: Relational Dialectics Theory: Realizing the Dialogic Potential of Family CommunicationElizabeth A. Suter and Leah M. Seurer Chapter 23: Relational Turbulence Theory: Understanding Family Communication During Times of ChangeLeanne K. Knobloch, Denise Haunani Solomon, Jennifer A. Theiss, and Rachel M. McLarenChapter 24: Social Construction Theory: Communication Co-Creating FamiliesDawn O. Braithwaite, Elissa Foster, and Karla M. Bergen Chapter 25: Social Exchange Theory: A Cost-Benefit Approach to RelationshipsLaura StaffordChapter 26: Social Learning Theory: An Emphasis on Modeling in Parent-Child RelationshipsAlesia Woszidlo and Adrianne KunkelChapter 27: Structuration Theory: Applications for Family CommunicationKristen Norwood and Paaige K. TurnerChapter 28: The Theory of Natural Selection: An Evolutionary Approach to Family CommunicationKory Floyd, Dana R. Dinsmore, and Corey A. Pavlich Chapter 29: Theory of Resilience and Relational Load (TRRL): Understanding Families as Systems of Stress and CalibrationTamara D. Afifi and Kathryn HarrisonChapter 30: Uses and Gratifications Theory: Considering Media Use in the Context of Family CommunicationJeffrey T. Child and Paul Haridakis

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Book SynopsisThrough object-based case studies of garments from the ancient past through to the 21st century, Margaret Maynard reveals the countless ways the temporal is woven into our attire. From the physical effects of age on garments to their changing cultural significance, time and fashion are inextricably linked. Every garment has its own pace and narrative, and every dress practice is rich with temporal associations: wearing' time in the form wristwatches, marking key moments in time from marriage to death, defying' time with beauty products, preserving and re-imagining time through vintage, and concepts of timeless' and classic' styles. This ground-breaking book presents a complete rethinking of the study of global fashion history, revealing the complex nature of changing fashion when viewed through the lens of time and challenging Eurocentric approaches such as the periodization of style and the arbitrary division of western' and non-western' fashion. Fashion in Time is essential rTrade ReviewDrawing on a lifetime of scholarship, Margaret Maynard uses time to explore the complexity of dress in a whirlwind account across global history, revealing diverse clothing practices from the adorned bodies of ancient times to 3D-printed dress styles of today. * Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern University, USA *Margaret Maynard is a pioneer in global fashion studies and her new book, Dressed in Time, creatively approaches the field with rigor and purpose. Unpacking different notions of temporality in the light of varying cultural relationships, exchanges and memories, this book is an invaluable intervention. Snapshots contained in each chapter of this book provide readers with the perfect companion to interrogate and understand digital resources and archival material. If you've ever pondered how to meet the challenges ahead for fashion studies, this book is for you. * Regina A. Root, College of William & Mary, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements 1. About Time Focus 1 a Wearing Time on the Body Focus 1 b Dress, Value and Time 2. Deep Time: The Origins of Dress Focus 2 a Ancient Footwear. What is its Significance? Focus 2 b Mystery! An Egyptian Garment 3. Context: What Does it Mean? Focus 3 a The Puzzle of Dates Focus 3 b What are “1920s” Fashions? 4. Cultural Exchange: Past and Present Focus 4 a Who Should Own the Past? Focus 4 b The Kimono Controversy 5. Rituals: The Significance of Time Focus 5 a Relics: Remains of a Past or Not? Focus 5 b First Nation Cloaks: Identity Reclaimed 6. The Wardrobe Story Focus 6 a A Wife: What is She Worth? Focus 6 b Time to Change 7. Dress: Time and Cultural Memory Focus 7 a Time: Displaying Sartorial Memories Focus 7 b Fashion: No Present Without a Past 8. Unfixed: Time and Dress Focus 8 a Can Fashion be Timeless? Focus 8 b Replicas: Engaging with Time Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines emerging automated technologies and systems and the increasingly prominent roles that each plays in our lives and our imagined futures. It asks how technological futures are being constituted and the roles anthropologists can play in their making; how anthropologists engage with emerging technologies within their fieldwork contexts in research which seeks to influence future design; how to create critical and interventional approaches to technology design and innovation; and how a critical anthropology of the way that emerging technologies are experienced in everyday life circumstances offers new insights for future-making practices. In pursuing these questions, this book responds to a call for new anthropologies that respond to the current and emerging technological environments in which we live, environments for which thinking critically about the possible, plausible, and impossible futures are no longer sufficient. Taking the next step, this book asserts that aTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Complicating Futures 2. Modelling the Future? 3. Innovation routes 4. Digital Anticipation 5. Algorithmic futures and the unsettled sense of care 6. Organising artificial intelligence and representing work 7. Making sense of sensors 8. Drones as a gendered matter of concern 9. Future Mobility Solutions? 10. Eco-sensory technologies and the surrealist impulse Afterword

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Book SynopsisI adored this book and can't recommend it highly enough Cathy HorynBeautifully executed Norma KamaliA visual feast Giles DeaconEntertaining, thought-provoking, and serious. Read it and learn. Colin McDowellClothes from our past shape who we are, and who we will be. Why do we hold on to certain garments and what do they tell us and others about our lives?Mark C. O'Flaherty asks 14 individuals who work with or use clothes in a unique way: how has fashion created something significant in your life? Through fascinating conversations, and photoshoots of their private collections, in New York, London and Milan, he constructs a portrait of each person through their intimate relationships with fashion, featuring The Idiosyncratic Fashionistas, Charlie Casely-Hayford, John Matheson (McQueen Vault), Sandy Powell, Stephen Jones, Carla Sozzani, Winn Austin, Carmen Haid, Susanne Bartsch, Karlo Steel, Karim Rashid, Steven Philip, and Desmond is Amazing.How have these people used faTrade ReviewA beautifully executed book. Rarely does such a high level of talent for photography and writing exist in one person. It exists in Mark C. O'Flaherty. * Norma Kamali *A wondrous insight into some of the most important and singular collections in the world. A visual feast, packed with insightful psychological interpretations. The developing plot of each chapter, studying the relationship between the subject, their chosen pieces, and the human condition is truly fascinating. * Giles Deacon *This isn’t simply a book about fashion collectors, though it is. This is a book about the daring creators of fashion during a magical period in the history of dress. O’Flaherty deftly weaves together the various narratives for an original account. I adored this book and can’t recommend it highly enough. * Cathy Horyn, ‘The Cut’, New York Magazine, USA *This is a very important book for anyone who cares about the strength and creativity of fashion. The “conversations” featured are entertaining, thought-provoking… And serious. Read it and learn. * Colin McDowell *A remarkable and heart-warming book: Mark C. O’Flaherty’s intimate portraits of diverse fashion collectors explores the relationship we have with fashion, expression, memory, and identity. The compendium surfaces big ideas about the cult of the brand, self-creation, and the psychology of collecting. * Harriet Quick *Mark C. O'Flaherty's book weaves us, in a tender way, through the emotional reasoning for holding on to garments from our past as we head into the future. * Suzy Menkes, podcaster and leading fashion authority *Narrative Thread provides unparalleled access to some of the world’s most extraordinary privately-owned collections, revealing the untold stories and hidden meanings behind fashion’s most significant garments. Alongside beautiful imagery, insightful conversations with the collectors offer thought-provoking perspectives on the significance of fashion and its impact on all our lives. * Andrew Groves, Westminster Menswear Archive, UK *Astounding. Reading this inspired me to rethink the story my clothes tell. * Amanda Harlech, from the Foreword *

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Book SynopsisThis is a must-read for anyone concerned with where we are today and looking for a better path forward. ?Steve Wozniak, Co-founder, Apple Inc. Big Tech is driving us, our kids, and society mad. In the nick of time, Restoring Our Sanity Online presents the bold, revolutionary framework for an epic reboot. What would social media look like if it nourished our critical thinking, mental health, privacy, civil discourse, and democracy? Is that even possible? Restoring Our Sanity Online is the entertaining, informative, and frequently jaw-dropping social reset by Mark Weinstein, contemporary tech leader, privacy expert, and one of the visionary inventors of social networking. This book is for all of us. Casual and heavy users of social media, parents, teachers, students, techies, entrepreneurs, investors, and elected officials.Restoring Our Sanity Onlineis the catapult to an exciting, enriching, and authenti

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Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking book, beauty influencer and podcaster Anchal Seda openly and honestly explores the shared experiences of 'the brown girls' from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh living in the Western world. What Would the Aunties Say? is packed full of advice to help you understand the culture, be yourself, live your best life, and, of course, deal with the Aunties.  'Packed with stories and advice that will have you laughing and crying.’ - Cosmopolitan   Navigating the ups and downs of life in our community can be challenging. We live in a very different world today to our parents, uncles, aunties, and grandparents, which comes with lots of unwritten rules and expectations. But you're not alone.    Filled with humour and warmth, and based on the podcast of the same name, in What Would the Aunties Say? Anchal shares her own eTrade Review‘Based on her podcast of the same name, beauty influencer Anchal Seda's first book openly and honestly explores the shared experiences of women from Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi heritage living in the Western world. Covering everything from careers, colourism, relationships and mental health, it's packed with stories and advice that will have you laughing and crying.’ * Cosmopolitan *

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Book SynopsisExamining the Romantic literary theme of suicide, this book positions slavery and abolition as central to the Romantic era.

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Book SynopsisBringing together world-leading scholars from the Global North and Global South, this book interrogates ideas of multiculturalism and their resilience in politics, policy and culture. To do so, each chapter critically engages with one of the foremost thinkers and proponents in the field, Tariq Modood. As a whole, the book contributes to debates on citizenship and diversity, identity and belonging, and nationalism and migration.

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Book SynopsisPioneering essays that demonstrate the significance of the seasons for philosophy, environmental thought, anthropology, cultural studies, aesthetics, poetics, and literary criticism.Although the seasons have been a perennial theme in literature and art, their significance for philosophy and environmental theory has remained largely unexplored. This pioneering book demonstrates the ways in which inquiry into the seasons reveals new and illuminating perspectives for philosophy, environmental thought, anthropology, cultural studies, aesthetics, poetics, and literary criticism. The Seasons opens up new avenues for research in these fields and provides a valuable resource for teachers and students of the environmental humanities. The innovative essays herein address a wide range of seasonal cultures and geographies, from the traditional Western model of the four seasons??spring, summer, fall, and winter??to the Indigenous seasons of Australia and the Arctic. Exemplifying the crucial importance of interdisciplinary research, The Seasons makes a compelling case for the relevance of the seasons to our daily lives, scientific understanding, diverse cultural practices, and politics.

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Book SynopsisA multidisciplinary conversation on the state of the American DreamTrade Review"The diversity of contributions-from historians, political scientists, sociologists, and a pollster-distinguish The American Dream in the 21st Century from many other books on the topic. The multi-disciplinary focus is especially useful, as chapters provide cultural interpretations of Americans' attitudes toward the American Dream through the lenses of race, gender, religion and ethics." -Arne L. Kalleberg, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillTable of Contents1. Introduction: The Making of and Persistence of the American Dream, John Kenneth White and Sandra L. Hanson 2. Twilight's Gleaming: The American Dream and the Ends of Republics, Jim Cullen 3. The Politics of the American Dream, 1980 to 2008, Michael C. Kimmage 4. The Remaking of the American Dream, John Kenneth White 5. Dreaming in Black and White, James W. Loewen 6. Whose American Dream? Gender and the American Dream, Sandra L. Hanson 7. Want Meets Necessity in the New American Dream, John Zogby 8. Religion and the American Dream: A Catholic Reflection in a Generational Context, William V. D'Antonio 9. Conclusions: The American Dream: Where are we?, Sandra L. Hanson and John Kenneth White

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Book SynopsisThe book offers an extensive exploration of the childhood factors that can lead to substance abuse. Puts forward a dynamic cascade model of the development of adolescent substance-use onset Model is based on broad sampling of children from prekindergarten through to Grade 12 The results offer practical suggestions for interventions, public policies, and economics of substance-use and future inquiry Trade Review"Overall, the book is well written ... Consequently, Dodge and colleagues offer an insightful, empirically based model which provides a plausible explanation for how risk factors interact with each other during a transitional period of development for children and adolescents." (Social Psychological Review, 2011) Table of ContentsABSTRACT vii I. INTRODUCTION 1 II. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS 32 III. SUBSTANCE USE PATTERNS AND CORRELATIONS AMONG VARIABLES 38 IV. EARLY CHILD AND SOCIOCULTURAL FACTORS 51 V. EARLY PARENTING FACTORS 55 VI. EARLY CHILD BEHAVIOR PROBLEM FACTORS 61 VII. EARLY PEER RELATIONS PROBLEM FACTORS 66 VIII. ADOLESCENT PARENTING FACTORS 71 IX. ADOLESCENT PEER CONTEXT FACTORS 75 X. TESTING THE FULL MODEL 79 XI. MODERATION BY GENDER 84 XII. PERSON-LEVEL ANALYSES 87 XIII. THEORETICAL INTEGRATION AND DISCUSSION 92 REFERENCES 104 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 120 COMMENTARY. TAKING SUBSTANCE USE AND DEVELOPMENT SERIOUSLY: DEVELOPMENTALLY DISTAL AND PROXIMAL INFLUENCES ON ADOLESCENT DRUG USE 121John E. Schulenberg and Julie Maslowsky CONTRIBUTORS 131 STATEMENT OF EDITORIAL POLICY 133

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Book SynopsisThe English and Romanian Adoptees (ERA) study constituted an invaluable natural experiment in which there was a rapid, easily-timed transition from a profoundly depriving environment in Romanian institutions to generally well-functioning adoptive families in England. Multimodal methods of assessment were used throughout the assessments at 4, 6, 11, and 15 years of age. Four key findings were particularly striking. First, institutional deprivation was associated with an apparently deprivation-specific pattern of combinations of quasiautism, disinhibited attachment, cognitive impairment, and inattention/overactivity. Second, longitudinal growth curves showed a relative deceleration of growth between 11 and 15 years (possibly due to early puberty). Third, institutional deprivation without subnutrition was associated with a major impairment in head growth. Fourth, the effects of institutional deprivation were as strong at 15 years as they had been earlier in childhood.Table of Contents1. INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF EARLY INSTITUTIONAL DEPRIVATION ON DEVELOPMENT: BACKGROUND AND RESEARCH STRATEGY OF THE ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN ADOPTEES (ERA) STUDY (Michael Rutter, Edmund J. Sonuga-Barke, and Jennifer Castle). 2. METHODS AND MEASURES USED FOR FOLLOW-UP AT 15 YEARS OF THE ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN ADOPTEE (ERA) STUDY (The English and Romanian Study Team). 3. DEPRIVATION-SPECIFIC PSYCHOLOGICAL PATTERNS (Robert Kumsta, Jana Kreppner, Michael Rutter, Celia Beckett, Jennifer Castle, Suzanne Stevens, and Edmund J. Sonuga-Barke). 4. DEVELOPMENTAL COURSE OF DEPRIVATION-SPECIFIC PSYCHOLOGICAL PATTERNS: EARLY MANIFESTATIONS, PERSISTENCE TO AGE 15, AND CLINICAL FEATURES (Jana Kreppner, Robert Kumsta, Michael Rutter, Celia Beckett, Jennifer Castle, Suzanne Stevens, and Edmund J. Sonuga-Barke). 5. DIFFERENTIATING DEVELOPMENTAL TRAJECTORIES FOR CONDUCT, EMOTION, AND PEER PROBLEMS FOLLOWING EARLY DEPRIVATION (Edmund J. Sonuga-Barke, Wolff Schlotz, and Jana Kreppner). 6. INSTITUTIONAL DEPRIVATION, SPECIFIC COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS, AND SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT: ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN ADOPTEE (ERA) STUDY FINDINGS (Celia Beckett, Jennifer Castle, Michael Rutter, and Edmund J. Sonuga-Barke). 7. PHYSICAL GROWTH AND MATURATION FOLLOWING EARLY SEVERE INSTITUTIONAL DEPRIVATION: DO THEY MEDIATE SPECIFIC PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL EFFECTS? (Edmund J. Sonuga-Barke, Wolff Schlotz, and Michael Rutter). 8. POSTADOPTION ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES (Jennifer Castle, Celia Beckett, Michael Rutter, and Edmund J. Sonuga-Barke). 9. RISK, CAUSATION, MEDIATION, AND MODERATION (Robert Kumsta, Michael Rutter, Suzanne Stevens, and Edmund J. Sonuga-Barke). 10. CONCLUSIONS: OVERVIEW OF FINDINGS FROM THE ERA STUDY, INFERENCES, AND RESEARCH IMPLICATIONS (Michael Rutter and Edmund J. Sonuga-Barke).

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Book SynopsisAlthough comprehensive and ecological approaches to early childhood prevention are commonly advocated, there are few examples of long-term follow-up of such programs. In this monograph, we investigate the medium- and longterm effects of an ecological, community-based prevention project for primary school children and families living in three economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in Ontario, Canada. The Better Beginnings, Better Futures (BBBF) project is one of the most ambitious Canadian research projects on the long-term impacts of early childhood prevention programming to date.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction. Chapter 2. Project Description and Research Methodology. Chapter 3. Child Outcomes at Grades 3, 6,and 9. Chapter 4. Parent, Family,and Community Outcomes at Grades 3, 6,and 9. Chapter 5. Economic Analysis. Chapter 6. Discussion.

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Book SynopsisSocial housing continues to decline as existing tenanted homes are sold to their occupiers and run-down council estates are demolished. Demonstrating the value of the Housing Plus' approach investment beyond bricks and mortar this book outlines the role social landlords can play in tackling community problems. By investing in estate renewal, helping to house the vulnerable, offering a wide range of tenures and encouraging community housing, this approach builds links between housing design and a wider social value agenda. With the voices of tenants and frontline staff at the forefront, Anne Power demonstrates how policy and practice can shift the bias against social housing in favour of its re-expansion.

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Book SynopsisAll too often, human systems are criticised for failing those they are meant to serve. One example is the growing awareness of the overlooked needs of adolescents facing harm in their communities. This has highlighted a need for new systems that enable practice that is ethical, effective and grounded in supportive relationships. But how can this be achieved? Appealing to those interested in Contextual Safeguarding and beyond, this book shares real-life' lessons from research, covering: Practical guidance and tools for changing systems using embedded methods; Navigating complex relationships and emotions in organisational change; and Using theory and concepts to support change. The book's lively and creative style makes it accessible for researchers, students, professionals and anyone committed to system change in children's social care.

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Book SynopsisAn ''entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the ways that modernity''s very origins are entangled with a seemingly benign and delicious substance, How Sugar Corrupted the World raises fundamental questions about our world.''Sven Beckert, the Laird Bell professor of American history at Harvard University and the author of Empire of Cotton: A Global History, in the New York Times''A brilliant and thought-provoking history of sugar and its ironies''Bee Wilson, Wall Street Journal''Shocking and revelatory . . . no other product has so changed the world, and no other book reveals the scale of its impact.'' David Olusoga''This study could not be more timely.'' Laura Sandy, Lecturer in the History of Slavery, University of LiverpoolThe story of sugar, and of mankind''s desire for sweetness in food and drink is a compelling, though confusing stoTrade ReviewA brilliant and thought-provoking history of sugar and its ironies -- Bee Wilson * Wall Street Journal *As an historian of slavery, Walvin is well-versed in the triangular trade and explains the role of sugar cane in bringing Africans to the Caribbean. His survey of sugar in our lives is very readable. -- Katrina Gulliver * Spectator *A convincing, deep history of this (in)famous product . . . This is not simply the tale of those who toiled to produce sugar . . . Something more than just a scholarly text, this study could not be more timely -- Laura Sandy, Lecturer in the History of Slavery at the University of Liverpool * History Today *This study could not be more timely. -- Laura Sandy, Lecturer in the History of Slavery, University of LiverpoolA refreshingly historical look at a substance we often take for granted * History Revealed *Former history professor James Walvin's latest book aims to untangle the social, political, and economic history of sugar, a commodity that began as the preserve of the elite, but which now saturates cultures the world over' * NZME *An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the ways that modernity's very origins are entangled with a seemingly benign and delicious substance, How Sugar Corrupted the World raises fundamental questions about our world.' -- Sven Beckert, the Laird Bell professor of American history at Harvard University and the author of Empire of Cotton: A Global History * New York Times *

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Book Synopsis''This is the definitive book on philanthropy its history, contradictions and future'' John Gray, Emeritus Professor of European Thought, London School of Economics''Good books lay out the lie of the land. Important books change it. This book is both'' Giles Fraser, priest, journalist and broadcasterThe super-rich are silently and secretly shaping our world. In this groundbreaking exploration of historical and contemporary philanthropy, bestselling author Paul Vallely reveals how this far-reaching change came about. Vivid with anecdote and scholarly insight, this magisterial survey from the ancient Greeks to today's high-tech geeks provides an original take on the history of philanthropy. It shows how giving has, variously, been a matter of honour, altruism, religious injunction, political control, moral activism, enlightened self-interest, public good, personal fulfilment and plutocratic manipulation.Its narrative moves from the Greek man of honTrade ReviewThis is the definitive book on philanthropy – its history, contradictions and future … A deep and probing study of a highly complex practice that is an increasingly powerful force in our world. -- John Gray, Emeritus Professor of European Thought, London School of EconomicsA magisterial treatment of the history of Western philanthropy. Paul Vallely has produced the best single volume on the ideas that have shaped philanthropy, the institutional arrangements that have structured it, and the outsized personalities that have marked it… Stuffed with astonishing stories and illuminating interviews, this book will be a lasting resource for scholars, philanthropic and NGO leaders, and individual donors. -- Rob Reich, Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and author of Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better.There are good books and there are important books. Good books lay out the lie of the land. Important books change it. This book is both. Beautifully written, passionately argued and crammed full of fascinating detail. -- Giles Fraser, priest, journalist and broadcasterPaul Vallely has done all those involved in philanthropy a service with this comprehensive and panoramic overview of the field. * Dr Beth Breeze, Director, Centre for Philanthropy, University of Kent *Deeply researched and wonderfully written, this book is much more than a sweeping, erudite history. It is a fascinating exploration of why people give – and a powerful call for philanthropy to do a better job of melding empathy with effectiveness. -- David Callahan, Founder & Editor of Inside Philanthropy, Author of The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded AgeTimely and fascinating -- Peter Hennessy, Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History, Queen Mary, University of LondonPhilanthropy is as awesome in breadth as it is meticulous in detail … [the] text is helpfully broken up with interviews that provide a great deal of illumination about different approaches to giving. * Literary Review *This book deserves the widest possible readership. Paul Vallely has poured five years of research into a highly readable yet deeply serious exploration of the paths taken by the instinct and duty to give. * The Tablet *…a … highly readable survey by the British journalist Paul Vallely … helpful in framing the major questions about philanthropy. * The New Yorker *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Two Visions of Philanthropy 2 The Foundations of Western Philanthropy 3 Medieval Charity 4 How the Black Death Changed Everything 5 The Great Myth of the Reformation 6 The Business of the State 7 The Philanthropist as Activist 8 Victorian Virtues and Vices 9 Survival of the Fattest 10 Cradle to Grave - Philanthropy and the Welfare State 11 The Staggering Success of Philanthrocaptialism 12 The Serious Shortcomings of Philanthrocaptialism 13 Philanthropy Goes Global 14 Celebrity Philanthropy 15 Geeks Bearing Gifts - Philanthropy and Politics 16 Is Philanthropy Bad For Democracy? 17 Effective Altruism - What Could be Wrong with That? 18 How Philanthropy Can Recover Its Lost Soul Epilogue: Philanthropy After the Pandemic Notes Further Reading Picture Credits Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisRenowned for being THE definitive resource for homicide investigators, Practical Homicide Investigation: Tactics, Procedures, and Forensic Techniques details the recognized protocols used by investigative divisions of major police departments throughout the world. The text is used in most police academies, including the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.Now in its fifth edition, the book begins with a comprehensive discussion of homicide crime scenes and moves chronologically from initial police notification, the correct police response that follows, and the subsequent steps necessary to conduct an intelligent investigation. It then delves into the more technical aspects of homicide investigation, augmented with numerous pictures and full-color illustrations that involve pertinent case histories.This latest edition includes three new chapters along with fully revised chapters with new case histories and techniques that reflect the latest forensicTrade Review"Geberth has succeeded in the impossible. … Practical Homicide Investigation, Fifth Edition, explains every aspect of a homicide investigation, with an easily understood, how-to approach from a professional who has been there. In my opinion, it is essential that the professional involved with the investigation and prosecution of a homicide have a copy…. This is the most outstanding and comprehensive encyclopedia on the tactics, procedures, and forensic techniques of homicide investigations."—Philip G. Schnelwar, Attorney at Law, White Plains, New York"This book leaves no question that now more than ever, a homicide investigation must be based on a mix of the practical and the scientific. In fact, the new chapters and revised materials, along with the descriptive photos in this text … will place this edition in the category of a police text classic, an authoritative standard on the subject, and make this book the most complete homicide textbook available on the market today."—Pierce R. Brooks (Deceased), from the Book's Foreword, Writing about the Previous Edition"One of the most difficult aspects of homicide investigation…is to keep current and up-to-date with techniques, laws and procedures. Vernon Geberth continues to update and review critical matters…relating to the ever-changing world of homicide investigation. If you do not keep up to date with the latest techniques and investigative practices as Vernon explains them, you will wish you had when you are confronted with them on the witness stand at trial. I have prosecuted murder cases for over thirty years in New Mexico, Texas, and Colorado. This book and its accompanying Field Guide are used by me and our local investigators constantly."—James Yontz, Deputy District Attorney, Pueblo, Colorado, USA"Vernon Geberth, a retired NYC homicide detective, is a prominent forensic consultant and the recognized clearinghouse for all things related to death investigations. The 1st edition had become a veritable bible for investigators, so I could just imagine what a 5th edition offered. I couldn’t wait to see it. At a crime scene, investigators should observe, describe, record anything they find, and use proper procedures to collect the evidence. This book goes over every known scenario: inside, outside, typical, atypical, straightforward, ambiguous, staged…you name it. In short, this book is impressive. Geberth leaves no stone unturned. I pride myself on my collection of unusual suicide cases, but he includes some in this book that riveted me."—Psychology Today’s "Shadow Boxing" blog June 2015, Katherine Ramsland. Katherine Ramsland, PhD, an expert on murder and serial crime, teaches forensic psychology and has published 46 books."This newly published 5th edition of Practical Homicide Investigation is 1226 pages in length, and … is a collaboration of information made possible by the author, who has dedicated his life to providing the most up to date reference tool to homicide and death investigators and prosecutors throughout the country. This behemoth of a text continues that legacy …which make this latest edition a valuable tool for any investigator charged with the ‘profound duty and awesome responsibility,’ of conducting a homicide or death investigation."—Detective Mark J. Czworniak (retired), Chicago Police Department, Area North - Homicide Sex Crimes Unit"This edition not only provides the scientific basis for homicide investigation, it also describes in intimate detail the procedures and techniques necessary for a comprehensive and successful investigation. The text is replete with photographs, drawings and illustrations ... including multiple case examples that are very clearly written and pertinent to the science as well as the practical procedures of homicide investigation. This is the most complete text available on the subject ... I highly recommend it to any officer involved in homicide investigation as well as forensic scientists."—Ronald Turco, Past President, American Academy of Psychoanalysis and The American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians, Former Reserve Police Officer of 30 years"This is a must-have reference for all homicide detectives. This comprehensive opus is nothing less than a masterpiece. The amount of information packed into 1200 pages is astonishing …truly a wonderful resource for all persons investigating and seeking to gain an understanding of every aspect of homicide. No question this text is the gold standard in the field. Truly a remarkable resource."—Donna Pedergast, First Assistant District Attorney, Michigan Attorney General’s Office"Geberth, the world-wide expert on homicide investigation, is the real thing. His chapter on DNA is one of the most readable and comprehensive treatments on the subject. His expertise and clarity make this a must read. All of the twenty-four chapters have been excellently written and revised to make this textbook the continued recognized ‘Bible of Homicide Investigation’ for all members of the criminal justice and legal system."—Edwin T. Dreher, Deputy Chief (Retired), Office of the Chief of Detectives, New York City Police Department"The best book on death investigations just got better. I love the new book … it has been significantly expanded and goes into even greater detail than Geberth’s previous editions. The use of case studies to explain the importance of the different steps is magnificent. The information has been updated to acknowledge the increased role technology plays in death investigations. This is the ultimate manual for death investigations; every homicide investigator should own a copy and use it like a physician’s desk reference."—Larry Hallmark, Detective Lieutenant, Grapevine Texas Police Department"Practical Homicide Investigation, Fifth Edition, will be your one-stop shopping resource for successful death investigations. The updates and additions are massive … the incorporation of today’s forensic and technological advances will keep you on the cutting edge of death investigations."—Larry Thomas, Assistant Director, Kansas Bureau of Investigation (Ret.), BTK Serial Killer Task Force Supervisor"Once again, Vernon Geberth has set a new standard for learned treatises in homicide investigation … (the) Fifth Edition is thoughtful, provocative and, most of all, provides an expert guide for the men and women of our police forces."—Charles S. DeAngelo, Esq., Attorney-at-Law"Practical Homicide Investigation, Fifth Edition …contains just about everything there is to know about death investigations and is a must read for anyone that investigates deaths and homicides." —Heath Taylor, Sheriff, Russell County, Alabama"[With] the first edition to this textbook … and each successive edition, Practical Homicide Investigation has exemplified the most comprehensive and up-to-date compilation of homicide and death investigative knowledge available. This fifth edition is similarly an unsurpassed reference."—Joseph A. Bobak IV, Ph.D., Professor of Criminology and Forensic Investigation, Mount Aloysius College"This intelligent, all-encompassing book is a veritable encyclopedia for successful homicide investigations."—Marvin Skeen, Chief Criminal Investigator, Office of Attorney General of Washington"Vernon Geberth’s Practical Homicide Investigation, Fifth Edition leverages his 46 years of experience with that of many colleagues to put everything you need to know about murder investigation in one place—at your fingertips."—Pete Gagliardi, Author, The 13 Critical Tasks: An Inside-out Approach to Solving More Gun Crime, www.triplebarrelstrategies .com"This comprehensive book is a must-have item for every detective and investigator to use as a guide and reference. Vernon’s Fifth Edition successfully ties together the old-fashioned principles of good investigative police work with the latest advances of forensic science and technology."—Tom Jordan, Judge, District Court, Center Hall, Pennsylvania"Practical Homicide Investigation is to the police profession what the Physicians’ Desk Reference is to the medical profession. In the Preface Geberth writes, ‘A homicide investigator is street smart and book wise.’ This Fifth edition is a one of a kind source that provides professionals the ‘street smart’ with ‘book wise’ in a very practical way."—Anthony D. Magnetto, Police Commissioner (ret), City of Troy, NY Police Dept.Table of ContentsThe Homicide Crime Scene. First Officer’s Duties: General. First Officer’s Duties: Specific. The Preliminary Investigation: The Detectives. Specific Investigative Duties at The Scene. The Crime Scene Photographs. The Crime Scene Sketch. The Homicide Crime Scene Search. Estimating Time of Death. The Identity of the Deceased. Death Notifications. Modes of Death. Suicide. The Investigation of Sex-Related Homicide. Homosexual Homicides. Forensic Application of DNA Analysis. Collection of Evidence.The Autopsy. The News Media in Homicide Investigations. Identification of Suspects. Investigative Assessment: Criminal Personality Profiling. Equivocal Death Investigation. Narcotics Related Homicides. PHI Supervision and Management.

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Book SynopsisScience and technology produce a wide range of benefits in society but they also create harm, both of which are unequally distributed across social groups and geographic regions. This incisive book provides a set of analytical tools to understand how inequality relating to science and technology is produced, and how the field can be reorganized to make good on its promise to improve life for all. Using a range of evidence and examples, Frickel and Moore show that science and technology are closely bound up with social inequalities, including linked problems of poor health, environmental degradation, racism, and sexism. They use the frame of scientific inequality formations to investigate the technoscientific sources of unequal power relations in society, examining issues such as the underdevelopment of non-profitable technologies, how laws and markets direct scientific advances, and the exclusion of certain social groups from the creation of knowledge and solutions relevant to their lives. This timely book illuminates interventions that redirect science and technology toward more equitable ends with the potential to be more widely distributed, charting a path to a more just future.

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Book SynopsisMichael Burawoy has helped to reshape the theory and practice of sociology across the Western world. Public Sociology is his most thoroughgoing attempt to explore what a truly committed, engaged sociology should look like in the twenty-first century. Burawoy looks back on the defining moments of his intellectual journey, exploring his pivotal early experiences as a researcher, such as his fieldwork in a Zambian copper mine and a Chicago factory. He recounts his time as a graduate and professor during the ideological ferment in sociology departments of the 1970s, and explores how his experiences intersected with a changing political and intellectual world up to the present. Recalling Max Weber, Burawoy argues that sociology is much more than just a discipline – it is a vocation, to be practiced everywhere and by everyone.Trade Review“Michael Burawoy has written a fascinating intellectual autobiography, reconstructing the sociological canon along the way. This is a powerful call for sociology to recover its public mission.”Edward Webster, University of the Witwatersrand “Behind Michael Burawoy’s inspirational new book lies his extraordinary experiences alongside, and research into, the lives of workers in Zambia, Hungary, Russia, and Chicago. At each stop in his journey, he asks: What is this worker’s life like? And how could it be? This is such a welcome and important book – read it and pass it on.”Arlie Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right “Michael Burawoy argues for a sociology that encourages and informs critical public discussions on the preservation of our society. His illuminating personal trajectory, used as an object of analysis and placed in a wider social context, is a must-read.”William Julius Wilson, Harvard University“This is no dry textbook. It deserves a much wider readership among all of us who know that we need to extend our utopian and anti-utopian commitments.”Red Pepper“Burawoy’s Public sociology is required reading for anyone embarking or reflecting on their sociological journey and practice. Burawoy has made a career of walking where others fear to tread. The book is a worthy account of his career.”New Zealand SociologyTable of ContentsList of Tables Preface Introduction – The Promise of Sociology Part One: Theory and Practice 1. Theory: Utopia and Anti-Utopia 2. Practice: The (Di)vision of Sociological Labor Part Two: Policy Sociology 3. The Language Question in University Education 4. Job Evaluation in a Racial Order Part Three: Public Sociology 5. The Color of Class 6. Student Rebellion Part Four: Critical Sociology 7. Race, Class and Colonialism 8. Migrant Labor and the State 9. Manufacturing Consent 10. Racial Capitalism Part Five: Professional Sociology 11. Advancing a Research Program 12. Painting Socialism 13. The Great Involution Part Six: Real Utopias 14. Third-Wave Marketization 15. Whither the Public University? 16. Living Theory Conclusion: Biography Meets History Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWe commonly think of society as made of and by humans, but with the proliferation of machine learning and AI technologies, this is clearly no longer the case. Billions of automated systems tacitly contribute to the social construction of reality by drawing algorithmic distinctions between the visible and the invisible, the relevant and the irrelevant, the likely and the unlikely – on and beyond platforms. Drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, this book develops an original sociology of algorithms as social agents, actively participating in social life. Through a wide range of examples, Massimo Airoldi shows how society shapes algorithmic code, and how this culture in the code guides the practical behaviour of the code in the culture, shaping society in turn. The ‘machine habitus’ is the generative mechanism at work throughout myriads of feedback loops linking humans with artificial social agents, in the context of digital infrastructures and pre-digital social structures. Machine Habitus will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, media and cultural studies, science and technology studies and information technology, and to anyone interested in the growing role of algorithms and AI in our social and cultural life.Trade Review‘I strongly suspect that Massimo Airoldi’s “machine habitus” is a concept that will be utilized and debated for years to come. At its centre, this book is a lively and original take on how we can understand social connections and society itself in a world laced with algorithms: it is an agenda-setting text.’David Beer, University of York ‘Machine Habitus is without question an original and high-quality book. It is one of the first books that uses sociological theory to make sense of machine learning algorithms. Hence it will be essential reading for anyone interested in understanding algorithms and their growing role in our societies.’Simon Egbert, Universität BielefeldTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures List of Tables Preface 1. Why not a sociology of algorithms? 2. Culture in the code 3. Code in the culture 4. A Theory of Machine Habitus 5. Techno-Social Reproduction References

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Book SynopsisThis book sets out to understand the ethical dimension of Black lives and deaths in the modern period. Recent events—from the brutal murder of George Floyd to the pervasive violence meted out daily on the streets of our cities—have demonstrated all too clearly the fundamental trait that shapes our contemporary moment: the Black condition is defined by indignity. Ajari takes dignity as his starting point because dignity is what white people try to abolish in their violence toward Black people, and it is what they deprive themselves of in exerting this violence. Dignity is also what Black people collectively affirm when they rise up against white domination. When a young Black man or woman’s dignity is taken from them as the result of assault, rape, or assassination at the hands of the state, the roots of a long history of struggle, conquest, and affirmation of African humanity are exposed and shaken. Above all, dignity is the ability of the oppressed, trapped between life and death, to remain standing. Dignity or Death offers an uncompromising critical analysis of the European philosophical tradition in order to recover the misunderstood history of radical thought in Black worlds. Slave uprisings, Negritude, radical Christian traditions in North America and South Africa, and political ontology are all steps on a long and troubled path of liberation.Trade Review“In the controversy raging in many countries about ‘decolonial’ thought, this book by the young philosopher Norman Ajari will not go unnoticed. Its ambition, richness, and militant passion will give others the means to learn more about this new paradigm and to take stock of its internal diversity.”Etienne BalibarTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart One: Dignity Re-embodiedChapter One: Decolonizing Moral PhilosophyChapter 2: IndignityChapter 3: Our Dignity is Older than UsPart Two: Caliban the Political TheologianChapter 4: The Universal by AccidentChapter 5: A Theology of Black Dignity in North AmericaChapter 6: Ubuntu: Philosophy, Religion, and Community in Black AfricaPart Three: Forms-of-death in the European NecropolisChapter 7: Recognition and Dignity in the Era of Global ApartheidConclusion: Black Political Ontology and Black DignityNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisRazors, tweezers, wax and hair removal creams: these are the tools for the initiation rites that signal the passage from girl to woman. Today the only acceptable places for a woman to have hair are on her head (preferably long), her eyebrows (not too wild) and eyelashes (not too sparse). All kinds of cosmetics are sold to achieve the desired effect of localized luxuriance. At the same time, the industry of removing hair everywhere else on the body advances relentlessly. Hair is no longer a sign of joy but a battleground of cosmetic surgery. In this short book, the Catalan writer Bel Olid draws on personal experience to dismantle preconceived ideas about the supposed benefits of waxing and shaving, and to lay bare the social penalties that are meted out to any woman who allows their body hair to grow. With clarity and courage, Bel Olid exposes the contradictions and hidden costs of hair removal, and issues a rousing call to women everywhere to set themselves free from the urge to please everyone else and to focus, instead, on what pleases them.Trade Review‘Insightful, ferociously feminist and always humane. I devoured this.’Kerry Hudson, author of Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain's Poorest Towns ‘This smart, funny, thought-provoking book tackles a serious social and political problem: once you start reading it, you won't want to put it down.’Aurélie Vialette, Stony Brook University‘Excellent, snappy treatise. Olid pulls off a masterful balance of academic erudition and accessible, crisp prose. Persuasive and thought-provoking, this brisk volume deserves a broad audience.’Publisher's Weekly“Olid’s account is thoughtful and thorough: through the prism of her own experience, she convincingly articulates the stakes of this ordinary predicament and makes a robust case for the centrality of body hair to interlocking forms of oppression, both real and symbolic.’Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisIn October 2016, thirty intellectuals and artists from Africa, its diasporas, and beyond gathered together in Dakar and Saint-Louis, Senegal, to reflect on the present and future of Africa in the midst of transformations that are sweeping through the contemporary world. The aim was to take stock of the renewal of Afro-diasporic critical thought and to discuss the new perspectives emerging from the ongoing projects constructing political, cultural, and social imaginaries for and from the African continent. This book brings together and makes available to the English-speaking world the material presented at the 2016 Ateliers de la pensée – Workshops of Thought – in Dakar. The authors deal with a wide range of issues, including decolonization, the development of social utopias, and the pursuit of new forms of political, economic, and social production on the African continent. Running throughout is a constant concern to interrogate the categories and frames of meaning that have served to characterize the dynamics of the African continent and a shared desire to produce new frames of intelligibility through which to see Africa’s present realities and its future. The contributions also attest to the view that there is no African question that is not also a global question, and that the Africanization of the global question will be a decisive feature of the twenty-first century.To Write the Africa World and its companion volume The Politics of Time will be indispensable for anyone interested in Africa – its past, present, and future – and in the new forms of critical thought emerging from Africa and the Global South.Trade Review“Questions to do with the world and its relationship with Africa have never been more urgent, and Africa is the richest and most indispensable source and location for thinking about these issues. To Write the Africa World is a rich and powerful contribution to the debate.”Fred Moten, New York University “To Write the Africa World is a compelling and urgently necessary collection of essays centered around the present and future role of Africa in the global sphere… For scholars and writers who are interested in the future of Africa and new forms of critical inquiry and thought emerging from the continent, this volume will be essential reading.”JDDavisPoet Table of ContentsThinking for a New Century Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr I (European?) Universalism: put to the test by indigenous histories Mamadou Diouf Laetitia Africana: philosophy, decolonization, melancholia Nadia Yala Kisukidi For a truly universal universal Souleymane Bachir Diagne Migrant writers: builders of a balanced globalization of Africa/Europe Benaouda Lebdai II For what is Africa the name? Léonora Miano Epistemological Impasses around the object Africa Maurice Soudieck Dione Reinventing African modernity! Blondin Cissé What is a postcolonial author? Lydie Moudileno III How can one be African? Hourya Bentouhami Re-discovering meaning Bonaventure Mve-Ondo Esteem For Self: Creating One’s Own Sense/Carving Out One’s Own Path Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux Dictionary for lovers of the African continent: two entries Alain Mabanckou and Abdourahman Waberi Emancipatory utopias Françoise Vergès IV Martiality and death in sexual relations in Cameroon Parfait D. Akana Confronted with demographic challenges and technological mutations: does a good paying-job have a future in Africa? Ndongo Samba Sylla Healing the in-common Abdourahmane Seck V Paths of the universal Sami Tchak Re-enchanting the world: Husserl in the post-colony Nado Ndoye Writing the humanities from the vantage point of Africa Felwine Sarr Thinking the world from the vantage point of Africa Achille Mbembe Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAs we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world is undergoing a major historical shift: Africa, and the Global South more generally, is increasingly becoming a principal theatre in which the future of the planet plays itself out. But not only this: Africa is at the same time emerging as one of the great laboratories for novel forms of social, economic, political, intellectual, cultural, and artistic life. Often arising in unexpected places, these new forms of life materialize in practices that draw deeply from collective memory while simultaneously assuming distinctly contemporary, even futuristic, guises. In November 2017, the second session of the Ateliers de la pensée – Workshops of Thought – was held in Dakar, Senegal. Fifty African and diasporic intellectuals and artists participated and their debates unfolded along numerous thematic lines, approached from the standpoints of many different disciplines. This volume is the result of that encounter. Among the many topics discussed were the concurrence and entanglement of multiple temporalities, the politics of life in the Anthropocene, the project of decolonization, and the preservation and transmission of different ways of knowing. At a time when the world is haunted by the specter of its own end, the contributors to this volume ask whether one can, by taking Africa as a point of departure, seize hold of other options for the future – not only for Africa, but for the world. The Politics of Time and its companion volume, To Write the Africa World, will be indispensable works for anyone interested in Africa – its past, present, and future – and in the new forms of critical thought emerging from Africa and the Global South.Trade Review“This powerful, multivalent collection captures the effervescent thought and energy of the Ateliers de la pensée, offering new conceptualizations of time and history and new visions of Africa’s futures.”Laurent Dubois, Duke University“The Politics of Time is an urgently necessary and accessible intervention of African philosophy and political theory into the discourse of global affairs... For anyone interested in African politics, philosophy, economics, and social theory, this book is a timely and essential work to understand the role and importance of the African continent and its people for the future of humanity.”JDDavisPoetTable of ContentsPreface Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr I From Thinking Identity to Thinking African Becomings Souleymane Bachir Diagne Notes for a Maroon Feminism. From the ‘Body Double’ to the Body as such Hourya Bentouhami Weaving, A Craft for Thought. Writing and Thinking in Africa, or the Knot of the World’s Great Narrative Jean-Luc Raharimanana II Africa and the New Western Figures of Personal Status Law Abdoul Aziz Diouf Rethinking Islam, Or, the Oxymoron of “Secular Theocracy” Rachid Id Yassine The Impossible Meeting. A Free Interpretation of J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Hemley Boum III Circulations Achille Mbembe On the Return. The Political Practices of the African Diaspora Nadia Yala Kisukidi Reopening Futures Felwine Sarr IV Un/learning. Rethinking Teaching in Africa Françoise Vergès The Bewitchment of History: Mohammed Dib’s Who Remembers the Sea Soraya Tlatli Currency, Sovereignty, Development. Revisiting the Question of the CFA Franc Ndongo Samba Sylla V Memories of the World, Memory-World Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux Cum patior Africa: The Political Production of Regimes of ‘the Nigh’ Nadine Machikou The Sahara: A Space of Connection within an Emergent Africa, From the Anthropocene to the Spring of Geo-Cultural Life Benaouda Lebdai Migrations, Narrations, the Refugee Condition Dominic Thomas VI Humanity and Animality: (Re)thinking Anthropocentrism Bado Ndoye The Tree Frogs’ Distress Lionel Manga To Speak and Betray Nothing? Rodney Saint-Éloi The Paths of the Voice Ibrahima Wane Notes Index

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Book SynopsisEveryone has an opinion on racism. The vast majority of people would vehemently deny that they or those close to them are racist, yet many of the most common understandings of racism are highly problematic. If you mean no harm, then it can't be racist. Yes, it can. There are anti-discrimination laws now, so racism no longer occurs. Incorrect. Some of my best friends are Black, so I can't be racist. Not true. In this sharp, open-minded, and witty book, sociologist Jennifer PatriceSimssuccinctly addresses these problematic perceptions of racism asfallacies. Building on existing academic theories and drawing on her own cross-national research, two decades of teaching, and analyses of contemporary issues,shedelves into the most common and insidious fallacies about racism. In revealing them to be rooted in what scholars call an epistemology of ignorance, she shows how these perceptions justify and uphold white supremacy (inadvertently or otherwise). Accessibly written and full of concre

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Book SynopsisThe #MeToo movement created more opportunities for women to speak up about sexual assault. But we are also living in a time when “fake news” and “alternative facts” call into question the very nature of truth. This troubling paradox is at the heart of this compelling book. The convergence of #MeToo and the crisis of post-truth is used to explore the experiences of women and people of color whose claims around issues of sexual violence are often held in doubt. Banet-Weiser and Higgins investigate how the gendered and racialized logics of “believability” are defined and contested within media culture, proposing that a mediated “economy of believability” is the context in which public bids for truth about sexual violence are made, negotiated, and authorized today.Trade Review“Believability … is an essential text for anyone interested in the problem of sexual violence, feminist politics after #MeToo, or contestations around truth in our hyper-mediated and privatised public sphere. … [It]offers the best and most nuanced analysis of the cultural significance of #MeToo I have read … the book is not only a crucial contribution to feminist thought, but also an important step towards reconceptualising the cultural politics of belief and truth in transformative feminist ways.”European Journal of Cultural Studies"Banet-Weiser and Higgins’s timely book presents a powerful feminist analysis of the interacting forces of belief, media and sexual violence in the post-truth era… a transdisciplinary masterpiece.”LSE Review of Books“Carefully crafted and apt … a must read.” CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction: (Post)Truth, Belief, Media, and Sexual Violence1 Construction: #MeToo Media and Representations of Believability2 Commodification: Buying and Selling Belief in the #MeToo Marketplace3 Contest: Media, ‘Mob Justice’, and the Digitization of Doubt4 Conditional: Kavanaughs, Karens, and the Struggle for VictimhoodConclusion: #BelieveWomen, RevisitedReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisA key feature of those who work for the state, in the legal system and in public services is that they claim to be putting their own personal interests aside and working in a disinterested fashion, for the public good. But is disinterested behaviour possible? Can law be treated as a set of universal rules that are independent of particular interests, or is this mere ideology? Is the state bureaucracy a universal class, as Hegel thought, or a structure that serves the interests of the dominant class, as Marx claimed?In his lecture courses at the Collège de France in 198788 and 198889, Pierre Bourdieu addressed these questions by examining the formation of the legal and bureaucratic fields characteristic of the modern state, uncovering the historical and social conditions that enable a social group to form and find its own interests in the very fact of serving interests that go beyond it. For a disinterested universe to emerge, it needs both the invention of a public service,

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to say that there is a feminist sociology? And how might we engage the full potential of a feminist sociological imagination? These questions lie at the heart of Jo Reger's slim guide to a powerful tool, which has a long history in US sociology and yet remains as urgently needed as ever. Grounded in a need to change both society and the discipline, feminist sociology challenges the foundations of traditional social science and articulates new ways of creating knowledge, doing research, and understanding the role of researchers and the people they study. Drawing on concepts such as positionality and reflexivity and emphasizing the importance of feminist ethics, emotions, activism, and transformation, this concise book traces out what it means to engage in feminist sociology and to claim the identity of a feminist sociologist.

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Book SynopsisTouch matters. It is fundamental to how we know ourselves and each other, and it is central to how we communicate. Digital touch is embedded in many technologies, from wearable devices and gaming hardware to tactile robots and future technologies. What would it be like if we could hug or touch digitally across distance? How might this shape our sense of connection? How might we establish trust or protect our privacy and safety?Digital Touchis a timely and original book that addresses such questions. Offering a rich account ofdigital touch, the book introduces the key issues and debates, as well as the design and ethical challenges raised by digital touch.Using clear, accessible examples and creative scenarios, the book shows how touch how we touch, as well as what, whom and when we touch is being profoundly reshaped by our use of technologies. Above all, it highlightsthe importance of digital touch in our daily lives and how it will impact our relationships and way of life in the fut

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Book SynopsisPodcasting burst onto the media landscape in the early 2000s. At the time, there were hopes it mightusher in a new wave of amateur and professional cultural production and represent an alternate model for how to produce, share, circulate, and experience new voices and perspectives. Twenty years later,podcasting is at a critical juncture in its relatively young history: a moment where the early ideals of open standards and platform-neutral distribution are giving way to services that prioritize lean-back listening and monetizable media experiences. This bookprovides an accessible and comprehensive account of one of digital media's most vibrant formats. Focusing on the historical changes shaping podcasts as a media format, the book explores theindustrial, technological, and cultural components of podcasting alongside case studies of various podcasts, industry publications, and streaming audio platforms (e.g. Spotify, Google, and Apple Podcasts).Jeremy Wade Morrisarguesthatas streaming platforms push to make podcasting more industrialized, accessible, user-friendly, and similar to other audio media like music or audiobooks, they threatenpodcasting's early, though always unrealized, promises. This is the go-to introduction for students and researchers of media, communication, and cultural studies, as well as readers who enjoy making and listening to podcasts.

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