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ibidem Brutal Aspects of Migratory Esthetics
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Montez Press Prepositions
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EI Publishing Co., Ltd Clutch
Book SynopsisThe Romance of the Trees sees Pleasure Garden wander into the forest where we uncover the special relationship we have with treestheir deep roots that run through our unconscious. In the BeginningThe Tree of Life opens the issue with Alison Morris considering the cultural metaphors, symbolism and role the tree plays in our worldview. Ernest Henry Wilson our Icon, is a man who hunted far and wide in search of new trees to bring to the West. His road trips around New England in the 1920s, documenting the remarkable elms there, stirred us to undertake our own. Yoshiyuki Matsumara headed to Upstate New York taking in the autumn tones, whilst Linda Brownlee visited the giants of California. The annual Hastings Jack in the Green festival is photographed by Jo Metson Scott and Nina Lyon shares with us the forest personified in the Green Man. Palm Court by Joss McKinley and Marisa Competello captures the fantasy of these spaces of a bygone era and the enchantment of the palm tree. We visit Mumbai with Bharat Sikka and consider the concept of the urban forest with Cecil Konijnendijk. Open the pages, step foot into this magical tree-filled issue and let the romance begin
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Backstage Talks Magazine Backstage Talks Issue 6
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Mousse Publishing Jean Vincent Simonet Kitengela
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Mousse Mario Ceroli
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Kult Books Antro
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HarperCollins India Landscapes of Loss: The Story of an Indian
Book SynopsisMaharashtra targets trillion-dollar economy by 2025, but Marathwada plagued by farmer suicides amid drought. Relief efforts ineffective, forcing families to cities. "Landscapes of Loss" exposes struggles of marginalized groups, reflecting wider agrarian unrest in rural India.
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ASIA PUBLICATION asia issue 01
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Columbia University Press Transgender 101
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTransgender 101 is a highly readable and thorough primer on the history, terminology, types, politics, and medical and social realities of the transgender population. Teich uses insights from his personal and clinical experience and from the growing body of literature in transgender studies to educate the professional and lay communities on the many layered meanings and manifestations of transgenderism. This comprehensive introduction informs without being self-absorbed or polemical. -- Betty Morningstar, president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers In an eminently readable fashion, Teich covers topics ranging from the underlying sociological concepts of sex, gender, and sexual identification to the experiences of 'coming out' and 'transitioning." He then situates the 'trans' person in an historical context-examining the mental health and medical ramifications of the way society has viewed and (mis)treated the change from imputed to 'authentic' sex. I am glad I read this book. -- Kevin J. Mahoney, professor and director of the Center for Participant-Directed Services at Boston College ...a fascinating read... effectively raising questions and prompting discussions about assumptions we've always taken for granted... Bibrary Book Lust ...highly recommended reading as a user-friendly introduction. Youth TodayTable of ContentsForeword Introduction: Why This Book Was Written and How It Is Laid Out Acknowledgments 1. What Does It Mean to be Transgender?: An Introduction to the Term 2. Sexual Orientation Versus Gender: What's the Difference? 3. Coming Out as Transgender: When 4. Transition: The Social 5. The History of Transgenderism and Its Evolution Over Time 6. Transgenderis as a Mental Health Issue: The Controversy Over Transgender Identity as a Disorder 7. Discrimination: Exploring the Barriers That Transpeople Face 8. Lesser-Known Types of Transgenderism: Understanding Cross-Dressers Appendix A: Glossary Appendix B: Resources for Readers Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Aging Behind Prison Walls Studies in Trauma and
Book SynopsisTina Maschi and Keith Morgen offer a data-driven and compassionate analysis of the lives of incarcerated older people. The book draws on extensive quantitative and qualitative research as well as national datasets.Trade ReviewI encourage strongly this critical read for geriatricians, gerontologists, and gerontological social workers. Also, correctional, probation, and parole officers; correctional health-care providers; reentry coordinators; and correctional administrators would likely benefit from this important text -- Stephanie Grace Prost, PhD * The Gerontologist *This is a brilliant piece of work. These authors show their skill in humanizing all people through a caring justice model of practice. -- Karen Bullock * Journal of Gerontological Social Work *Overall, this text is an informative and useful addition to any clinical or macro special topics social work course. It is wellorganized, with up-front summaries of what the chapter will discuss and a final summary of the information discussed at the end of each chapter to help ground the reader. -- Lauren Dennelly * Research on Social Work Practice *Aging Behind Prison Walls fills a gap in the research literature by providing both quantitative and qualitative data not available elsewhere. Enriched by extensive data and compelling personal narratives, it offers a portrait of prison life that is comprehensive and fascinating. -- Katherine van Wormer, coauthor of Women and the Criminal Justice SystemAging Behind Prison Walls makes a unique and timely contribution to our understanding of the life histories of justice-involved aging people and the trauma experienced, resiliency marshalled, and coping measures employed. Maschi and Morgen offer a persuasive call for a caring justice system to replace our existing criminal justice system. -- Margaret E. Leigey, author of The Forgotten Men: Serving a Life without Parole SentenceUsing vivid stories of trauma and resilience, Aging Behind Prison Walls is an important and thought-provoking book that deserves wide readership. Bridging theory and practice, the authors make a compelling case for a correctional policy that is redemptive in nature and better suited for those who no longer pose a threat to society. -- Ronald Aday, author of Aging Prisoners: Crisis in American CorrectionsAging Behind Prison Walls provides an unvarnished view of being both older and incarcerated. Evocative vignettes recount challenges and traumas, as well as perseverance, resilience, and contributions. The authors don’t stop at heightening awareness—they offer a framework, tools, and call to action to address this pressing human issue. -- Susan J. Loeb, The Pennsylvania State UniversityAging Behind Prison Walls offers an engaging and insightful examination of the special needs and life worlds of incarcerated older adults before and after release to the community. It offers practical advice with roots in intersectional and life-course theory consistent with the need for a paradigm shift in the management and care of aging offenders. It will become essential reading. -- José B. Ashford, Arizona State UniversityAging Behind Prison Walls is a thoughtfully constructed work that adds substantially to the literature on incarceration by exploring a particularly understudied group: inmates over 50 years old. -- G. Christensen, Stetson University College of Law * Choice *Overarching, all-encompassing and peppered with individuals' narratives on aging in prison. . . . Aging Behind Prison Walls is well suited for advanced students in criminology, social work, and psychology. Practitioners in prison systems, community corrections officers and service providers would also benefit from this text. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Mass Aging in Prison: How Did We Get Here?1. An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure2. Intersecting Perspectives on Aging, Diversity, Difference, and Justice3. Trauma and Diversity Among Older Adults in Prison4. “I Try to Make the Best of It”: A Look Inside the Resilient Minds of Older Adults in Prison5. Trauma, Mental Health, and Medical Concerns of Older Adults in the Prison System6. How Do We Co-Construct Community? A Conceptual Map for Reuniting Older Adults in Prison with Their Families and Communities7. “Coming Out” of Prison: LGBTQ+ Older Adults’ Experiences Navigating the Criminal Justice SystemPart II: Realizing a Caring Justice World8. A Caring Justice Partnership Paradigm: Transforming the World from the Inside Out9. Accepting the Gift of Life: Incarcerated Older Adults’ Prescription for Living Longer, Happier, and Healthier Lives10. Realizing a Caring Justice World: Promising Global Practices for Justice-Involved Older AdultsAfterwordAppendix 1Appendix 2NotesIndex
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Columbia University Press Trade and Nation
Book SynopsisIn the seventeenth century, English economic theorists lost interest in the moral status of exchange and became increasingly concerned with the roots of national prosperity. Emily Erikson brings together historical, comparative, and computational methods to explain the institutional forces that brought about this transformation.Trade ReviewIn Trade and Nation, Emily Erikson traces the rise of economic nationalism to efforts by seventeenth-century British merchants to sway the Crown with tracts on the nation and prosperity. An outstanding historical sociologist as well as a computational scientist, Erikson presents a fresh, compelling perspective on mercantilism and the foundations of modern economic thought. -- Frank Dobbin, author of Inventing Equal OpportunityIn our age of egregious inequality, why is economic policy devoted to national aggregate growth that increasingly channels wealth and income upward while trivializing distributional equity as irrelevant to economic efficiency? In this remarkable study Emily Erikson points not to modern Reaganomics but to the invention of a radical new economic doctrine by corporate merchants in sixteenth- through eighteenth-century England. Mixing sophisticated computational methods with deep historical archival research, Erikson demonstrates how a mutually advantageous 'courtship' between commerce and the Crown, one marked by an explosion of literary discourse in the newly emerging public sphere, triggered a novel justificatory framework focused on the exigencies of national prosperity over and against the long-prevailing 'moral economy' of economic justice. Trade and Nation is a book of uncommon brilliance as well as an utterly necessary one for understanding the entrenched roots of today’s uncommon meanness. -- Margaret R. Somers, author of Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness, and the Right to Have RightsTrade and Nation bridges the divide between social science and history, asking why modern western economic theory first developed in England rather than elsewhere. Emily Erikson uses a methodologically innovative approach, deploying data and computational methods to link discourse and authorship to institutional politics and positionality. -- Phil Withington, author of Society in Early Modern England: The Vernacular Origins of Some Powerful IdeasA fascinating romp through the history of economics in Early Modern England. If you like money, history, and/or a combination of the two, you should pick it up. * East India Blogging Co. *[A] lucidly written and thoughtfully conceived book. * Journal of the History of Economic Thought *Erikson’s book is a major contribution to the field concerned with the evolution of economic thought in the early modern period. Erikson’s analysis, based on a methodology originating from sociology, is a cutting edge addition to economic history literature. * International Journal of Maritime History *A pleasant and very solid read, showing how a wide range of statistical methods can be very elegantly articulated. Such an approach based on transparency regarding data-collection, exploitation, and results interpretation should be praised. * Journal of Social Structure *[A] tour de force....This fantastic book will join and enliven recent work on what might be called the practical politics of economic thought. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Declining Importance of Fair Exchange2. Transformative Debates3. Key Actors, Institutions, and Relations4. Authors and Their Networks5. Representation, Companies, and Publications6. Why Not the Dutch?ConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press An Address in Paris
Book SynopsisAïssatou Mbodj-Pouye examines the changing roles that foyers have played in the lives of generations of West African migrants, weaving together rich ethnographic description with a critical historical account.Trade ReviewMbodj-Pouye's pathbreaking book is an exquisite close reading of foyers in Paris. The residents of these dormitories, West African men, take center stage as key interlocutors who have shaped and challenged state efforts to manage their homes and their bodies. An Address in Paris is precisely the kind of careful, empirical, and rigorous scholarship that demonstrates how race—as a social construct—necessarily intersects with other categories such as gender, space, and citizenship. -- Minayo Nasiali, author of Native to the Republic: Empire, Social Citizenship, and Everyday Life in Marseille Since 1945An Address in Paris is a fine-grained ethnography that is a valuable contribution to the scholarship on West African migration in France. Its historical perspective captures quite masterfully the evolution of institutions and policies governing African migrants while examining their claims on localized urban spaces. Its ethnographic narratives shed light on the lived experiences of West African migrants from the Senegal River Valley engaged simultaneously in processes of place making in Paris and its suburbs and continued engagement in transnational relations with sending communities. Scholars and students of migration will find in this book an excellent ethnographic case illuminating the active participation of migrants often viewed as marginal in shaping the sociocultural, economic, and political processes surrounding their incorporation in a host city. -- Abdoulaye Kane, editor of African Migrations: Patterns and PerspectivesBuilding on both archival research and ethnographic fieldwork, An Address in Paris offers fresh insights into West African labor migration to France. By using the foyer, the housing residences that the French state historically provided to migrant workers from the former colonies, as a lens, Mbodj-Pouye sheds light on not only the French state’s efforts to govern migrant populations but also how West Africans seized on and redeployed the foyer to build transnational networks and claim belonging in the city. Tracing how generations of foyer residents appropriated and transformed the foyer in line with their changing circumstances, An Address in Paris also takes into account the crucial element of time so often overlooked in discussions of migration. Painstakingly researched and beautifully written, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary migration. -- Jennifer Cole, editor of Affective Circuits: African Migration to Europe and the Pursuit of Social RegenerationTable of ContentsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart I. Communities in the Making1. Improvising the Foyers: Franco-African Institutions of Migration (1958–1967)2. Modern Buildings: Political Challenges, Administrative Anxieties, and the Consolidation of the Foyer System (1968–1979)3. Permanence and Decay: African Foyers, from Solution to Problem (1980s–1990s)Part II. Partial Endings4. Tolerated Bonds: Living Together in the Foyers5. When Will the Foyers End? Contentious Renovations and Temporal Disjunctions6. Acknowledging Solidarity: Bureaucratic Relatedness, Hosting Practices, and Exclusionary DynamicsPart III. Ambivalent Attachments, Contested Belonging7. Foyermen: Class, Gender, and Race Across Generations8. Eroded Emplacement: Urban Incorporation, Containment Policies, and the Politics of Belonging9. Focal Points: Reflections from the FoyersAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Feminism Enchanted
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Columbia University Press The Race Variable How Statistical Practices Reinforce Inequality
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University of California Press Infinite Cities
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In each volume, historical, cultural and biographical essays are interspersed with photographs and maps that inform and revise our understanding of America’s most storied places." * Washington Post *"Solnit’s [. . . , Snedecker's, and Jelly-Schapiro's] atlases masterfully chart great leaps of technology that have built our contemporary cities: the great work in filling shorelines, of building bridges, of creating ingenious public transit. But they also display the cost. Solnit’s project responds to the subjugating gaze of the traditional atlas by portraying her city through populist, communitarian stories." * America: The Jesuit Review *
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University of California Press Tip of the Spear
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A fresh and urgent interpretation of the meaning of Attica. . . . Burton has crafted a masterpiece that, as much as any single book can, shows the way forward for a new generation of activist-scholars, agitators, revolutionaries, and other partisans of human liberation, to redeem the dead and build a new society in their name.” * Los Angeles Review of Books *“Burton gives readers a deeply-felt look at the activists who participated in these revolts. . . . His interviews with survivors are incisive and reflect an appreciation of the political knowledge and passion that led these men to foment rebellion, however risky.” * The Progressive *"Magnificent. . . . Tip of the Spear is a massive accomplishment of scholarship and political analysis." * Propaganda in Focus *“Not only is Tip of the Spear an important addition to the growing volume of literature regarding the role of prisons in the racist capitalist state that is the United States, the thesis of the text represents a major evolution in the historical representation of US prisons.” * CounterPunch *“A remarkable account of how prison repression and reform intertwine, one that poses fundamental dilemmas about whether our legal system can ever properly serve movements for social change. It is a book that will unsettle and enrage you. It should also become the account of Attica that every interested person reads.” * Inquest *"With Tip of the Spear, Burton hasn’t just salvaged the imprisoned Black radical tradition from the condescension of liberal posterity, but provided a singular lesson in militant intellectual method, shedding stark illumination on the counterinsurgent genealogy of prison reform (between philanthropy and psyops) while doing justice to an abolitionist horizon oriented toward maximum demands rather than piecemeal adaptations." * Verso Author Pick *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE. THE LONG ATTICA REVOLT 1. Sharpening the Spear Strategies and Tactics of Revolutionary Action 2. Black Solidarity Under Siege Three Terrains of Protracted Rebellion 3. Attica Is Revolutionary Consciousness and Abolitionist Worldmaking PART TWO. PRISON PACIFICATION 4. Gender War Sexual Revenge and White Masculine Repair 5. Hidden War Four Strategies of Reformist Counterinsurgency 6. The War on Black Revolutionary Minds Failed Experiments in Scientific Subjugation Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Encoding Bioethics
Book SynopsisEncoding Bioethics addresses important ethical concerns from the perspective of each of the stakeholders who will develop, deploy, and use artificial intelligence systems to support clinical decisions. Utilizing an applied ethical model of patient-centered care, this book considers the viewpoints of programmers, health system and health insurance leaders, clinicians, and patients when AI is used in clinical decision-making. The authors build on their respective experiences as a surgeon-bioethicist and a surgeonAI developer to give the reader an accessible account of the relevant ethical considerations raised when AI systems are introduced into the physician-patient relationship.
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Princeton University Press History in Exile Memory and Identity at the
Book SynopsisIn the decade after World War II, up to 350,000 ethnic Italians were displaced from the border zone between Italy and Yugoslavia known as the Julian March. This book reveals the repercussions of this episode of European history. It explores displacement from both the viewpoints of the exiles and those who stayed behind.Trade Review"Theoretically sophisticated, ethnographically detailed, and historically informed, Ballinger's account makes a valuable contribution to the 'anthropology of borders.' At the same time, it offers intelligent commentary on a variety of important topics in contemporary anthropology... History in Exile, therefore, is essential reading for students and scholars in the humanities and social sciences who are interested in understanding the lives of people who have faced ethnic conflict and violence in the former Yugoslavia, Palestine, Kashmir, and other frontier zones around the world."--Loring M. Danforth, Slavic Review "Pamela Ballinger has written a challenging and fascinating study of Italian migration from Istria in the wake of World War II. Exploiting the techniques of anthropology and history, linguistics and literary/cultural studies, Ballinger explains both the complex reasons for this process as well as the ways in which it has been interpreted and used over the past fifty years, both by the majority that left Yugoslavia and by the minority that stayed behind."--Andrew Wachtel, American Historical Review "This book [is] disarming in its sincerity, inspiring in its humanism, and compelling in its sophistication... Ballinger's ambitious and deftly woven analysis serves as a reminder of the anthropological project's vitality."--Keith Brown, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute "Pamela Ballinger ... analyze[s] the role of living memory in the preservation of community identity... Making use of an anthropological methodology that resembles that of oral history, she has collected, transcribed, and analyzed the memories of her informants not so much to determine what actually happened in Istria after World War II, but rather to explore how memory has functioned historically to preserve, commemorate, distort, and mythologize the past."--Larry Wolff, Journal of Modern History History in Exile is a formidable piece of scholarship that will enrich the ethnography of Europe and the literature on memory."--Leyla Neyzi, Anthropological Quarterly "Pamela Ballinger has earned her status as an analyst of the Istrian Peninsula by the breadth and detail of her fieldwork and by her ability to excavate the historical complexity of the region and then situate it outside the parochial framework that has in general hindered local and international commentary on that area... [S]he has been able to open up this part of the so-called Balkans to Europe (and vice versa) empirically and theoretically."--Glenda Sluga, Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xv INTRODUCTION In the Shadow of the Balkans,On the Shores of the Mediterranean 1 CHAPTER ONE Mapping the Terrain of Memory 15 PART I.MAKING AND BREAKING STATES CHAPTER TWO Geographies of Violence:Remembering War 49 CHAPTER THREE Constructing the "Trieste Question," Silencing the Exodus 76 CHAPTER FOUR Revisiting the History of World War II 97 PART II.MAKING MEMORY CHAPTER FIVE The Politics of Submersion:The Foibe 129 CHAPTER SIX Narrating Exodus:The Shapes of Memory 168 CHAPTER SEVEN Remaking Memory:The View from Istria 207 CHAPTER EIGHT Balkan Shadows,Balkan Mirrors:Paradoxes of "Authentic Hybridity "245 EPILOGUE "Good-bye,Homeland "266 Notes 275 Glossary 287 Bibliography 288 Index 317
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Princeton University Press Interaction Ritual Chains
Book SynopsisAttempts to develop a "radical microsociology". This book proposes that successful rituals create symbols of group membership and pump up individuals with emotional energy, while failed rituals drain emotional energy.Trade Review"Collins again demonstrates why he is considered one of the leading social theorists. This ... work of Collins, in particular, transcends the boundaries of sociology... This is an outstanding work for theoretically oriented professional and advanced students in sociology, social psychology, and psychology."--Choice "Collins argues in this pathbreaking book that ritual--whether in face-to-face conversations or at national presidential funerals--is the key sociological factor that ties group structure and collective beliefs together... Collins plows new ground in several ways. First, he argues that ritual is the central category for all sociological analysis because ritual connects and mediates group structure and beliefs... Second, his work breaks new paths because it proposes a comprehensive theory of ritual grounded in everyday solutions... Finally, Collins bushwhacks new paths when he emphasizes the importance of the emotional energy, what he calls 'collective effervescence,' that is generated by ritual."--Donald B. Kraybill, Christian Century "Collins's book is a major contribution to contemporary sociological theory. His approach--a genuinely sociological microfoundation of sociology--is well chosen and carefully carried out ... Interaction ritual theory helps to enrich our knowledge about a core process of social life. Interaction Ritual Chains is a book offering rich insights into this core process."--Richard Munch, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsList of Figures ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xxi PART I. Radical Microsociology Chapter 1 The Program of Interaction Ritual Theory 3 Situation rather than Individual as Starting Point 3 Conflicting Terminologies 7 Traditions of Ritual Analysis 9 Subcognitive Ritualism 9 Functionalist Ritualism 13 Goffman's Interaction Ritual 16 The Code-Seeking Program 25 The Cultural Turn 30 Classic Origins of IR Theory in Durkheim's Sociology of Religion 32 The Significance of Interaction Ritual for General Sociological Theory 40 Chapter 2 The Mutual-Focus / Emotional-Entrainment Model 47 Ritual Ingredients, Processes, and Outcomes 47 Formal Rituals and Natural Rituals 49 Failed Rituals, Empty Rituals, Forced Rituals 50 Is Bodily Presence Necessary? 53 The Micro-Process of Collective Entrainment in Natural Rituals 65 Conversational Turn-Taking as Rhythmic Entrainment 66 Experimental and Micro-Observational Evidence on Rhythmic Coordination and Emotional Entrainment 75 Joint Attention as Key to Development of Shared Symbols 79 Solidarity Prolonged and Stored in Symbols 81 The Creation of Solidarity Symbols in 9/11 88 Rules for Unraveling Symbols 95 Chapter 3 Emotional Energy and the Transient Emotions 102 Disruptive and Long-Term Emotions, or Dramatic Emotions and Emotional Energy 105 Interaction Ritual as Emotion Transformer 107 Stratified Interaction Rituals 111 Power Rituals 112 Status Rituals 115 Effects on Long-Term Emotions: Emotional Energy 118 Emotion Contest and Conflict Situations 121 Short-Term or Dramatic Emotions 125 Transformations from Short-Term Emotions into Long-Term EE 129 The Stratification of Emotional Energy 131 Appendix: Measuring Emotional Energy and Its Antecedents 133 Chapter 4 Interaction Markets and Material Markets 141 Problems of the Rational Cost-Benefit Model 143 The Rationality of Participating in Interaction Rituals 146 The Market for Ritual Solidarity 149 Reinvestment of Emotional Energy and Membership Symbols 149 Match-Ups of Symbols and Complementarity of Emotions 151 Emotional Energy as the Common Denominator of Rational Choice 158 I. Material Production Is Motivated by the Need for Resources for Producing IRs 160 II. Emotional Energy Is Generated by Work-Situation IRs 163 III. Material Markets Are Embedded in an Ongoing Flow of IRs Generating Social Capital 165 Altruism 168 When Are Individuals Most Materially Self-Interested? 170 The Bottom Line: EE-Seeking Constrained by Material Resources 171 Sociology of Emotions as the Solution to Rational Choice Anomalies 174 The Microsociology of Material Considerations 176 Situational Decisions without Conscious Calculation 181 Chapter 5 Internalized Symbols and the Social Process of Thinking 183 Methods for Getting Inside, or Back Outside 184 Intellectual Networks and Creative Thinking 190 Non-Intellectual Thinking 196 Anticipated and Reverberated Talk 197 Thought Chains and Situational Chains 199 The Metaphor of Dialogue among Parts of the Self 203 Verbal Incantations 205 Speeds of Thought 211 Internal Ritual and Self-Solidarity 218 PART II. Applications Chapter 6 A Theory of Sexual Interaction 223 Sex as Individual Pleasure-Seeking 228 Sex as Interaction Ritual 230 Nongenital Sexual Pleasures as Symbolic Targets 238 Sexual Negotiation Scenes rather than Constant Sexual Essences 250 Prestige-Seeking and Public Eroticization 252 Chapter 7 Situational Stratification 258 Macro- and Micro-Situational Class, Status, and Power 263 Economic Class as Zelizer Circuits 263 Status Group Boundaries and Categorical Identities 268 Categorical Deference and Situational Deference 278 D-Power and E-Power 284 Historical Change in Situational Stratification 288 An Imagery for Contemporary Interaction 293 Chapter 8 Tobacco Ritual and Anti-Ritual: Substance Ingestion as a History of Social Boundaries 297 Inadequacies of the Health and Addiction Model 299 Tobacco Rituals: Relaxation / Withdrawal Rituals, Carousing Rituals, Elegance Rituals 305 Ritual Paraphernalia: Social Display and Solitary Cult 317 Failures and Successes of Anti-Tobacco Movements 326 Aesthetic Complaints and Struggle over Status Display Standards 327 Anti-Carousing Movements 328 The End of Enclave Exclusion: Respectable Women Join the Carousing Cult 329 The Health-Oriented Anti-Smoking Movement of the Late Twentieth Century 331 The Vulnerability of Situational Rituals and the Mobilization of Anti-Carousing Movements 337 Chapter 9 Individualism and Inwardness as Social Products 345 The Social Production of Individuality 347 Seven Types of Introversion 351 Work-Obsessed Individuals 351 Socially Excluded Persons 353 Situational Introverts 354 Alienated Introverts 355 Solitary Cultists 356 Intellectual Introverts 357 Neurotic or Hyper-Reflexive Introverts 360 The Micro-History of Introversion 362 The Modern Cult of the Individual 370 Notes 375 References 417 Index 435
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Princeton University Press Codes of the Underworld
Book SynopsisFrom ancient Rome to the gangs of modern Japan, from the prisons of Western countries to terrorist and pedophile rings, this book explains how many criminals successfully stay in business. By deciphering how criminals signal to each other in a lawless universe, it provides a quantum leap in our ability to make sense of their actions.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2010 Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture, Media Ecology Association One of New Scientist blog's Best Books for 2009 Winner of the 2009 PROSE Award in Sociology and Social Work, Association of American Publishers "Criminals can't advertise their products on QVC, yet the mafia and the yakuza have prospered longer than most Fortune 500 companies. In Codes of the Underworld, sociologist Diego Gambetta examines how criminals communicate without being caught, how they build trust in a world where everyone is crooked... odes of the Underworld is colourful and engrossing: it could appeal to policymakers, academics, laymen or, God forbid, criminals looking to improve their game."--Spectator "[A]n absolutely fascinating look at the unique problems criminals face when trying to communicate with one another... Fans of crime fiction will love this."--Graham Lawton, NewScientist.com's CultureLab blog "'A wiseguy sees things if there are wiseguy things to see,' wrote Joe Pistone, the FBI agent better known as Donnie Brasco--the name under which he managed to infiltrate the mob. But what are the wiseguy things to see? And how is a wiseguy to know he isn't dealing with the likes of Joe Pistone? Such questions are among those that fascinate Diego Gambetta. Professor Gambetta, an Italian sociologist based at Oxford University, has managed to wrap himself in the language of economics as capably as Pistone wrapped himself in the language of organised crime. Gambetta is an authority on the Sicilian mafia, but deploys the tools of an economist to understand them and other criminals."--Tim Harford, Financial Times "Criminals are in constant fear of being duped, says Diego Gambetta, even as they are busy duping others. Yet hoodlums often seek a literal partner in crime. This, he notes, creates a need for both identification and verification of trust in what is generally an untrustworthy milieu. Lacking a miscreants' yellow page, the question becomes, well, how to find an honest crook? Such concerns pervade Codes of the Underworld, a new book by Gambetta, a professor of sociology at the University of Oxford."--Nina Ayoub, Chronicle of Higher Education "[T]he best applied book on signaling theory to date."--Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution "In Codes of the Underworld, the Oxford sociologist Diego Gambetta uses colorful stories and a minimum of jargon in his quest to analyze how people advertise when their business happens to be illegal... Gambettta sets out to illuminate the world inhabited by these face-tattooed, duel-scarred, razor-brandishing inmates. The result is a book that explains the hidden logic of their behavior in language intelligible to those of us who make it a point to seer clear of both well-armed dictators and well-decorated Mafiosi."--Katherine Mangu-Ward, Reason "[A]n absolutely fascinating look at the unique problems criminals face when trying to communicate with one another--how, for example, do you advertise for a partner in crime, or win trust in an inherently untrustworthy world?--and the ingenious ways they solve them... Fans of crime fiction will love this."--Graham Lawton, NewScientist.com's CultureLab blog "[I]lluminating."--The AgeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction ix Abbreviations xxiii PART I: costly signals Chapter 1: Criminal Credentials 3 Chapter 2: The Power of Limits 30 Chapter 3: Information as Hostage 54 Chapter 4: Why Prisoners Fight (and Signal) 78 Chapter 5: Self-harm as a Signal 111 PART II: conventional signals Chapter 6: Conventional and Iconic Signals 149 Chapter 7: Protecting Easy-to-Fake Signals 174 Chapter 8: Criminal Trademarks 195 Chapter 9: Nicknames 230 Chapter 10: Why (Low) Life Imitates Art 251 Notes 275 Bibliography 313 Index 327
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MN - University of British Columbia Press Feminist Ethics and Social Policy Towards a New Global Political Economy of Care
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Temple University Press,U.S. Fitting the Facts of Crime
Book SynopsisPresenting a biopsychosocial perspective to explain the most common findings in criminology--and for guiding future research and public policyTrade Review"Biology and environment interact to direct human behavior. Crime is no exception. This comprehensive introduction, cleverly organized around Braithwaite’s facts of crime, describes how biological explanations can be integrated with social and psychological explanations to explain offending and to provide a more productive response to it from the criminal justice system. The authors provide a persuasive, balanced, and clear presentation and support it with current real-world examples. The result is an approachable introduction that provides a meaningful organizing framework for understanding crime from an interdisciplinary perspective that includes biology."—William Alex Pridemore, SUNY Distinguished Professor, School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany–SUNY"A key takeaway from this book is that biological and sociological perspectives are complementary and not competing. Fitting the Facts of Crime will hopefully serve to further open the minds of criminologists to the importance of biology, as well as to ease tensions between more fundamentalist biological and sociological schools of thought. Because of how contentious some debates in this area can be, it is important for a book like this to present information in a neutral, non-defensive way, and to hold the audience from both sides. The authors have successfully accomplished this."—Jillian J. Turanovic, Associate Professor in the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University, and coauthor of Thinking about Victimization: Context and Consequences"The main contribution of the book is to adapt some of the facts of criminology that have been accepted for more or less 30 years to the present day.... One of the most important conclusions of the book is that biological and sociological perspectives are complementary. Fitting the Facts of Crime brings criminologists together with biology. Although biopsychosocial criminology is not a theory in its own right, the empirical findings in the field are efficiently explained in the book."—Contemporary Sociology"The authors clearly have a rich knowledge and appreciation of multiple ways of understanding crime, law, social control, and their underlying assumptions. Undoubtedly, there will be much resistance to, and criticisms of, the arguments presented throughout this innovative monograph, especially in sociological circles. However, increasingly, open-minded criminologists from different theoretical backgrounds are sincerely attempting to cross-fertilize, and this book will give them additional motivation to stay the course. Summing Up: Highly recommended."—W. S. DeKeseredy, Choice"Overall, this book is a wonderful introduction to those interested in a biopsychosocial approach because it is accessible and well-organized. It makes solid connections between traditional theories and newer biopsychosocial theories, as well as emphasizes that criminal behavior is not just the result of social factors or biological factors alone but a combination of both. Anyone in the criminology and criminal justice field would benefit from reading this book to expand their existing knowledge of how integrating a biopsychosocial approach can provide a broader understanding of criminal behavior and crime in general."—Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books
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University of Toronto Press The Horizon Line
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Stanford University Press The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual
Book SynopsisAn innovative reassessment of the last writings and final years of Karl Marx. In the last years of his life, Karl Marx expanded his research in new directions—studying recent anthropological discoveries, analyzing communal forms of ownership in precapitalist societies, supporting the populist movement in Russia, and expressing critiques of colonial oppression in India, Ireland, Algeria, and Egypt. Between 1881 and 1883, he also traveled beyond Europe for the first and only time. Focusing on these last years of Marx's life, this book dispels two key misrepresentations of his work: that Marx ceased to write late in life, and that he was a Eurocentric and economic thinker fixated on class conflict alone. With The Last Years of Karl Marx, Marcello Musto claims a renewed relevance for the late work of Marx, highlighting unpublished or previously neglected writings, many of which remain unavailable in English. Readers are invited to reconsider Marx's critique of European colonialism, his ideas on non-Western societies, and his theories on the possibility of revolution in noncapitalist countries. From Marx's late manuscripts, notebooks, and letters emerge an author markedly different from the one represented by many of his contemporary critics and followers alike. As Marx currently experiences a significant rediscovery, this volume fills a gap in the popularly accepted biography and suggests an innovative reassessment of some of his key concepts.Trade Review"Marcello Musto, arguably the greatest connoisseur of Marx's life, offers us one revelation after another. Whereas many have understood the period after the Paris Commune as a time of divulgation and implementation of his already established political doctrine, Musto instead brilliantly demonstrates that Marx spent these years opening new and important theoretical horizons upon which we must meditate in order not to remain 'Marxists' against Marx himself!"—Étienne Balibar, author of The Philosophy of Marx"Marcello Musto's work is essential for his analysis of Marx's life and thought. In this book, Musto focuses on Marx's inquiries in his final years. The anthropological manuscripts, the studies on the transformation of property, and the criticism of colonialism written in this period are striking. Musto takes us by the hand and invites us to discover a new Marx."—Antonio Negri, author of Marx beyond Marx"This volume is a major contribution to the study of Marx and revolutionary thought. Beautifully written, constructed through an insightful examination of thousands of pages of Marx's unpublished writings and notes, this book represents a timely contribution to the contemporary Marx revival. It is a gift to the many who still look to Marx for political inspiration."—Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation"[A] study that breaks new ground in our understanding of Marx between 1881 and 1883....Musto gives us a portrait of a thinker in his last years that challenges the representations others have imposed upon him."—Daniel Whittall, Review 31"Musto masterfully weaves together rich biographical detail and a sophisticated engagement with Marx's mature, oftentimes self-questioning writing."—Nicolas Allen, Jacobin"Marcello Musto is undoubtedly the rising star on the "marxological" firmament. The Last Years of Karl Marx is an innovative book that helps us, in a magisterial way, to discover Marx's intellectualactivity during the period 1881-1883."—Aktief"There has been a gaping hole in studies of Karl Marx leaving out the last few years before his death in March 1883. Despite the recent revival of Marx studies, this 'forgotten chapter' of his life has remained in the shadows, until now with Marcello Musto's informative and well-crafted book, The Last Years of Karl Marx."—Robert Ware, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books"Musto's book presents an overview of Marx's studies, debates, correspondence, affectionate relationships, diseases, sorrows, and journeys during the last years of his life. Pages cataloguing Marx's readings are very useful and informative... Such pages are... followed by stories of Marx's family life, correspondence regarding politics, and Marx's personal relations with his comrades. This rhythm of the prose leads the reader through the pages of this book, which is packed with detailed information."—Paula Rauhala, Socialism and Democracy"Musto clears up the many misunderstandings of Marx, conveying, for example, that Marx did not believe that interpretive frameworks based on Western European history should be slavishly applied to other contexts, and that he was not an economic determinist...Highly recommended."—M. J. Wert, CHOICE"Marcello Musto's combination of personal biography and intellectual appraisal makes for inspiring reading. He argues very well that Marx's ideas cannot be limited to a simplistic formula, but are living and dynamic."—Barry Healy, Green Left"Musto...makes a strength of what is usually claimed to be a liability of Marx's theory: that he does not sketch the communist future. Just as capitalism permeates different historical and geographical environments differently and at a different pace, albeit with some common features, Marx's nimble historical understanding means that we are more likely to confront communist futures rather than a single monolith."—Amy E. Wendling, The Review of Politics"Musto's study makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of Marx in his last years, offering an angle from which to consider him that departs from the more usual focus on either the young Marx orCapital.(...)As it stands, this study by Musto fills a huge gap in our understanding of Marx."—Kevin B. Anderson, New Politics: Journal of Socialist Thought"By stitching together the unfinished work in progress and the whole range of disciplines Marx was preoccupied with in his last years, Marcello Mustopresents a systematically connected bold socio-political reading of Marx."—Arkayan Ganguly, Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory"Marcello Musto's The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography provides an illuminating glance at the work and life of Karl Marx during the most unexamined period of his life. Musto's oscillation between Marx's work and life provides readers with both an intellectual allurement towards research in Marx's later years and with a warm image of Marx's intimate life sure to guarantee both laughs and tears."—Carlos L. Garrido, Midwestern Marx"In The Last Years of Karl Marx, Marcello Musto provides an affectionate and careful journey through the final two years of Marx's life."—William Clare Roberts, Political Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. New Research Horizons 2. Controversy over the Development of Capitalism in Russia 3. The Travails of "Old Nick" 4. The Moor's Last Journey
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Revolt Against Theocracy
Book SynopsisThis book is the first in-depth account of the uprising in Iran that began on 16 September 2022, when a young woman, Mahsa Amini, was killed by the morality police. In the months that followed, protests and demonstrations erupted across Iran, representing the most serious challenge to the Iranian regime in decades. Women have played a key role in these protests, refusing to wear a hijab and cutting their hair in public to chants of Woman, Life, Freedom'. In Farhad Khosrokhavar's account, these protests represent the first truly feminist movement in Iran, and one of the first in the Muslim world, where women have been in the vanguard. There have been many movements in the Muslim world in which women have taken part, but rarely have women and especially young women been the driving force. The Mahsa Movement also championed non-Islamic, secularized values, based on the joy of living, the assertion of bodily freedom and the quest for gender equality and democracy. Khosro
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Forms of Capital General Sociology Volume 3
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University of Minnesota Press Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption
Book SynopsisConfronting trauma behind the transnational adoption system—now back in printMany adoptees are required to become people that they were never meant to be. While transracial adoption tends to be considered benevolent, it often exacts a heavy emotional, cultural, and economic toll on those who directly experience it. Outsiders Within is a landmark publication that carefully explores this most intimate aspect of globalization through essays, fiction, poetry, and art. Moving beyond personal narrative, transracially adopted writers from around the world tackle difficult questions about how to survive the racist and ethnocentric worlds they inhabit, what connects the countries relinquishing their children to the countries importing them, why poor families of color have their children removed rather than supported—about who, ultimately, they are. In their inquiry, the contributors unseat conventional understandings of adoption politics, reframing the controversy as a debate that encompasses human rights, peace, and reproductive justice. Contributors: Heidi Lynn Adelsman; Ellen M. Barry; Laura Briggs, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Catherine Ceniza Choy, U of California, Berkeley; Gregory Paul Choy, U of California, Berkeley; Rachel Quy Collier; J. A. Dare; Kim Diehl; Kimberly R. Fardy; Laura Gannarelli; Shannon Gibney; Mark Hagland; Perlita Harris; Tobias Hübinette, Stockholm U; Jae Ran Kim; Anh Đào Kolbe; Mihee-Nathalie Lemoine; Beth Kyong Lo; Ron M.; Patrick McDermott, Salem State College, Massachusetts; Tracey Moffatt; Ami Inja Nafzger (aka Jin Inja); Kim Park Nelson; John Raible; Dorothy Roberts, Northwestern U; Raquel Evita Saraswati; Kirsten Hoo-Mi Sloth; Soo Na; Shandra Spears; Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark; Kekek Jason Todd Stark; Sunny Jo; Sandra White Hawk; Indigo Williams Willing; Bryan Thao Worra; Jeni C. Wright.Trade Review"An eye-opening perspective. . . . Anyone contemplating transracial adoption will find provocative ideas."—Publishers Weekly"Provides profound insight into what it’s like to be adopted from another race or into another nation."—Library Journal"A valuable resource for those who believe that transracial, often international, adoption cannot be a curative measure—in the slightest—for the inequalities which stain the human experience."—Seven Oaks Magazine Review"Outsiders Within is not the first book to explore the experience of being adopted across racial lines, but is perhaps the most challenging and ambitious to date."—American Adoption Congress Decree
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Germany's Other Modernism: The Jena Paradigm,
Book SynopsisDemonstrates, contrary to conventional wisdom, that European modernism developed not only in the great metropolitan centers, but also in provincial cities such as Jena. The conventional wisdom is that the cultural sea change that was European modernism arose in urban centers like Berlin, Paris, Munich, and Vienna. Meike G. Werner's book, now in English translation, is a study of modernism in the provinces. Taking the small provincial city of Jena as a paradigmatic case, it re-creates the very different social and intellectual framework in which modernist experimentation occurred beyond the metropolitan centers. Invented traditions, social and spatial "liminality," and new ideas of social and aesthetic transformation combined in Jena to create a unique moment of cultural innovation. In the years leading up to the First World War, the Jena publisher Eugen Diederichs envisioned and guided the development of this alternative modernism. Taken up by young writers including Diederichs's wife Helene Voigt-Diederichs, numerous intellectual outsiders from across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and members of the Free Student movement and of Jena's Sera Circle, this "other" modernism was above all a youth movement, full of energy and bold optimism. Figures such as Rudolf Carnap, Wilhelm Flitner, Hans Freyer, Karl Korsch, and Elisabeth Busse-Wilson emerged from this Jena paradigm. Werner pieces together the story of Jena's modernism in its full richness, complexity, and inner contradictions.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Prologue 1: The Stage, or: Genius loci 2: The Publisher as Founder of a Cultural Empire: Eugen Diederichs in Jena 3: "Away from Berlin" and Literature in Jena: Helene Voigt-Diederichs 4: Dancing on the Volcano: "Young Jena" Epilogue: What They Wanted, What They Became Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Key Readings in Criminology
Book SynopsisKey Readings in Criminology provides a comprehensive single-volume collection of readings in criminology. It provides students with convenient access to a broad range of excerpts (over 150 readings) from original criminological texts and key articles, and is designed to be used either as a stand-alone text or in conjunction with the same author's textbook, Criminology.This volume can be used in a number of ways in support of the study of criminology: as a source of both ‘key’ and supplementary reading for lectures; as the basis for organized reading in advance of seminars and tutorials; as the basis for classroom discussion and analysis; as a broad source of reading for exam revision; in addition it provides students with access to a broad range of materials with which to follow up their reading of their main textbook; it includes readings that include more recent summaries of particularly important criminological issues, as well as excerpts from criminological classics; it also introduces students not only to criminological argument and debate, but also encourages them to read primary as well as secondary or summary sources. Trade Review'... by far the most comprehensive, contemporary and wide-ranging reader on the market ... I have no doubt that it will prove very successful indeed.' – Dave Edwards, London Metropolitan University'... it's a terrific collection and nothing nearly as good exists elsewhere.' – Jonathan Simon, University of California Berkeley'A lot of criminology for little money. It contains so many classics we want our students to read anyway, that it is fair to say it is an excellent buy for anyone studying criminology' – Professor Renvan Swaaningen, Erasmus University, RotterdamTable of Contents1. Understanding Crime and Criminology 2. Crime and Punishment in History 3. Crime Data and Crime Trends 4. Crime and the Media 5. Classicism and Positivism 6. Biological Positivism 7. Psychological Positivism 8. Durkheim, Anomie and Strain 9. The Chicago School: Culture and Subcultures 10. Interactionism and Labelling Theory 11. Control Theories 12. Radical and Critical Criminology 13. Left and Right Realism 14. Contemporary Classicism 15. Feminist Criminology 16. Late Modernity, Governmentality and Risk 17 .Victims, Victimization and Victimology 18. White-Collar and Corporate Crime 19. Organised Crime 20. Violent and Property Crime 21. Drugs and Alcohol 22. Penology and Punishment 23. Understanding Criminal Justice 24. Crime Prevention and Community Safety 25. The Police and Policing 26. Criminal Courts and the Court Process 27. Sentencing and Non-Custodial Penalties 28. Prisons and Imprisonment 29. Youth Crime and Youth Justice 30. Restorative Justice 31. Race, Crime and Justice 32. Gender, Crime and Justice 33. Criminal and Forensic Psychology 34. Globalisation, Terrorism and Human Rights 35. Doing Criminological Research
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Verso Books Thinking in a Pandemic: The Crisis of Science and
Book SynopsisWe are living in the midst of the greatest public health crisis of our time.Confronting the many challenges of this moment-from the medical to the economic, the social to the political-demands all the moral and deliberative clarity we can muster. Bringing together coverage of the unfolding pandemic from the critically acclaimed Boston Review, this collection explores the history and social legacies of pandemics, explores the place of science in popular culture and policy-making, and interrogates the ways in which science and health have been politicized.Thinking in a Pandemic collects the latest arguments from doctors and epidemiologists, philosophers and economists, legal scholars and historians, activists and citizens, as they think not just through this moment but beyond it.While much remains uncertain, our responsibility to public reason is sure. Now, more than ever, we affirm the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a healthier and more just world.Contributors include: Alex de Waal, David S Jones, Stefan Helmreich, Jeremy Greene, Dora Vargha, Jonathan Fuller, Marc Lipsitch, John Ioannidis, Trisha Greenhalgh, Sarah Burgard, Lucie Kalousova, Cailin O'Connoer, James Owen Weatherall, Natalie Dean.Trade ReviewBoston Review is so good right now. -- Naomi Klein, activist and New York Times best-selling authorBoston Review cuts out the noise, the posturing, and the hysteria and engages ideas with intelligence and humanity. In other words, it's a democratic place for a reading public. -- Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize–winning authorBoston Review has done more than its share to help set the standard for public discourse. -- Victor Navasky * The Nation *When it comes to publishing fresh and generative ideas, Boston Review has no peer. -- Robin D. G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at the University of California, Los AngelesI love Boston Review for being unfailingly smart, perceptive, and unexpected. -- Elizabeth Bruenig * Washington Post *Always challenging, always provocative, Boston Review brings a fresh and insightful perspective to the literature and politics of a multicultural age. -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editor of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
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Crown Publishing Group (NY) On Tyranny
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? A ?bracing? (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America?s turn towards authoritarianism, from ?a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present? (The New York Times) ?Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has written the rare kind of book that can be read in one sitting but will keep you coming back to help regain your bearings.??Masha GessenThe Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.
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Chronicle Books Few Rules for Predicting the Future
Book SynopsisThe wise words of science fiction icon Octavia E. Butler live on in this beautiful and giftable little volume.“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” Originally published in Essence magazine in the year 2000, Octavia E. Butler’s essay “A Few Rules for Predicting the Future” offers an honest look into the inspiration behind her science fiction novels and the importance of studying history and taking responsibility for our actions if we are to move forward. Organized into four main rules, this short essay reminds readers to learn from the past, respect the law of consequences, be aware of their perspectives, and count on the surprises. Citing the warning signs of fascism, the illusive effects of fear and wishful thinking, and the unpre
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Princeton University Press Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More
Book SynopsisSoviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. Focusing on the transformation of the 1950's at the level of discourse, ideology, language, and ritual, this book traces the emergence of multiple unanticipated meanings, communities, relations, and pursuits that this transformation enabled.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2015 Prosvetitel (Enlightener) Book Prize Winner of the 2007 AAASS Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies "If there is a prize for best title of the year, this book surely deserves it. Alexei Yurchak ... has written an interesting and provocative book about the way young Soviet Russians talked in the Brezhnev period and what they meant by what they said."--Sheila Fitzpatrick, London Review of Books "Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More is an important book... Everything Was Forever provides fresh paradigms that pack a hefty explanatory punch both with regard to its immediate subject matter and beyond. Its publication means that discussions of Soviet life, culture, and literature that rely on the old, rigid binarisms are going to seem instantly dated... [T]his study is a must-read."--Harriet Murav, Current Anthropology "Amidst these prolix transformations in Russian language and civilization, Yurchak's contribution has come in the form of a deep listening."--Bruce Grant, Slavic Review "The strength of Yurchak's study is in its methodological-analytical grasp of the seemingly contradictory nature of everyday existence... Yurchak provides an elegant methodological tool to explore the complex, intersecting and often paradoxical nature of social change."--Luahona Ganguly, International Journal of CommunicationTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Chapter 1: Late Socialism An Eternal State 1 Chapter 2: Hegemony of Form Stalin's Uncanny Paradigm Shift 36 Chapter 3: Ideology Inside Out Ethics and Poetics 77 Chapter 4: Living "Vnye" Deterritorialized Milieus 126 Chapter 5: Imaginary West The Elsewhere of Late Socialism 158 Chapter 6: Tr ue Colors of Communism King Crimson, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd 207 Chapter 7: Dead Irony Necroaesthetics, "Stiob," and the Anekdot 238 Conclusion 282 Bibliography 299 Index 319
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APE The Roundness of Loss
Book SynopsisThe roundness of loss' is a book on art as an in memoriam'. This publication contains poems, personal texts, works by Hanne Hagenaars and texts based on artworks by others. A book about loss, grieving, missing and rituals. How we can keep a loved one who has died close to us? Using specific artworks, Hagenaars discusses the possible ways a person can live on' and the context of this commemoration. How does remembrance relate to ideas about life and death, to religion, spirituality or the social context?Hanne Hagenaars: How to remember someone is a subject that has fascinated me for a long time. Death is the great unknown in our lives; everyone is somewhat afraid of it. Death makes those left behind lonely, there is grief and those left behind don't really know what to say, often there is a lack of words to talk about death. Loss and grief are invisible, how do you shape them? How do you make sure you don't lose someone completely, how do you keep them alive? How can we grieve?Wi
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Penguin Putnam Inc Expecting Better
Book Synopsis“Emily Oster is the non-judgmental girlfriend holding our hand and guiding us through pregnancy and motherhood. She has done the work to get us the hard facts in a soft, understandable way.” —Amy Schumer*Fully Revised and Updated for 2021*What to Expect When You''re Expecting meets Freakonomics: an award-winning economist disproves standard recommendations about pregnancy to empower women while they''re expecting. From the author of Cribsheet and The Family Firm, a data-driven decision making guide to the early years of parenting Pregnancy—unquestionably one of the most profound, meaningful experiences of adulthood—can reduce otherwise intelligent women to, well, babies. Pregnant women are told to avoid cold cuts, sushi, alcohol, and coffee without ever being told why these are forbidden. Rules for prenatal testing are similarly unexplained. Moms-to-be desperately want a resource that empowers them to make their own right choices. When award-winning economist Emily Oster was a mom-to-be herself, she evaluated the data behind the accepted rules of pregnancy, and discovered that most are often misguided and some are just flat-out wrong. Debunking myths and explaining everything from the real effects of caffeine to the surprising dangers of gardening, Expecting Better is the book for every pregnant woman who wants to enjoy a healthy and relaxed pregnancy—and the occasional glass of wine.
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The University of Chicago Press Limits of the Numerical
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Limits of the Numerical shows with compelling detail, theoretical vision, and political urgency just how and why numbers matter. As J. L. Austin and Judith Butler showed us how we do things with words, the authors of Limits of the Numerical show us how we do things with numbers.” * Chad Wellmon, University of Virginia *“The availability and power of numbers in our ‘data-driven world’ have never been greater, and, for just that reason, are greatly contested. Limits of the Numerical explores the paradoxes of quantitative reasoning that have arisen as a corollary of its power and recognizes that a blind reverence for numbers undermines expertise as much as it supports it. These stories of numbers are inescapably human ones.” * Theodore M. Porter, University of California, Los Angeles *“In the confusing context of both the pandemic and global warming, this compelling book is a timely unraveling of the uses and abuses of statistical models, quantified measures, big data, and numerical targets. Limits of the Numerical paves the way for renewed scientific controversies and public debates on the work of quantification and its politics.” * Isabelle Bruno, University of Lille and Academic Institute of France (IUF) *Table of ContentsList of Figures, Tables, and Box Introduction: The Changing Fates of the Numerical Christopher Newfield, Anna Alexandrova, and Stephen John Part I Expert Sources of the Revolt against Experts 1. Numbers without Experts: The Populist Politics of Quantification Elizabeth Chatterjee 2. The Role of the Numerical in the Decline of Expertise Christopher Newfield Part II Can Narrative Fix Numbers? 3. Audit Narratives: Making Higher Education Manageable in Learning Assessment Discourse Heather Steffen 4. The Limits of “The Limits of the Numerical”: Rare Diseases and the Seductions of Qualification Trenholme Junghans 5. Reading Numbers: Literature, Case Histories, and Quantitative Analysis Laura Mandell Part III When Bad Numbers Have Good Social Effects 6. Why Five Fruit and Veg a Day? Communicating, Deceiving, and Manipulating with Numbers Stephen John 7. Are Numbers Really as Bad as They Seem? A Political-Philosophy Perspective Gabriele Badano Part IV The Uses of the Numerical for Qualitative Ends 8. When Well-Being Becomes a Number Anna Alexandrova and Ramandeep Singh 9. Aligning Social Goals and Scientific Numbers: An Ethical-Epistemic Analysis of Extreme Weather Attribution Greg Lusk 10. The Purposes and Provisioning of Higher Education: Can Economics and Humanities Perspectives Be Reconciled? Aashish Mehta and Christopher Newfield Acknowledgments References Contributors Index
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Beacon Press Mayor of the Tenderloin
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Shambhala Publications Inc The Feminine in Fairy Tales
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Ethics For Dummies
Book SynopsisPeople are challenged with ethical questions on a daily basis and students often wrestle with such questions as part of an introductory philosophy or ethics course. Whether or not they know Aristotle from Hume, readers of Ethics For Dummies can quickly become comfortable with the centuries-old study of ethical philosophy.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: Ethics 101: Just the Basics, Please 7 Chapter 1: Approaching Ethics: What Is It and Why Should You Care? 9 Chapter 2: Butting Heads: Is Ethics Just a Matter of Opinion? 19 Part II: Uncovering the Roots of Ethics 35 Chapter 3: Human Nature and Ethics: Two Big Questions 37 Chapter 4: Exploring Connections between Ethics, Religion, and Science 55 Chapter 5: Seeing Ethics as Harmful: Three Famous Criticisms 73 Part III: Surveying Key Ethical Theories 93 Chapter 6: Being an Excellent Person: Virtue Ethics 95 Chapter 7: Increasing the Good: Utilitarian Ethics 121 Chapter 8: Doing Your Duty: The Ethics of Principle 143 Chapter 9: Signing on the Dotted Line: Ethics as Contract 171 Chapter 10: The Golden Rule: Common Sense Ethics 187 Chapter 11: Turning Down the Testosterone: Feminist Care Ethics 207 Part IV: Applying Ethics to Real Life 227 Chapter 12: Dealing with Mad Scientists: Biomedical Ethics 229 Chapter 13: Protecting the Habitat: Environmental Ethics 247 Chapter 14: Serving the Public: Professional Ethics 269 Chapter 15: Keeping the Peace: Ethics and Human Rights 281 Chapter 16: Getting It On: The Ethics of Sex 299 Chapter 17: Looking Out for the Little Guy: Ethics and Animals 313 Part V: The Part of Tens 329 Chapter 18: Ten Famous Ethicists and Their Theories 331 Chapter 19: Ten Ethical Dilemmas Likely to Arise in the Future 337 Index 343
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Columbia University Press Social Work and Human Rights
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword by Joseph Wronka Introduction 1. Development and History of Human Rights 2. Universal Declaration of Human Rights 3. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 4. International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights 5. Diversity Within a Human Rights Perspective 6. Human Rights and Children, Persons with Disabilities, Persons with HIV-AIDS, Gays and Lesbians, Older Persons, and Victims of Racism 7: International Aspects of Human Rights 8: Applying Human Rights to the Social Work Profession Conclusion Appendix A: Universal Declaration of Human Rights Appendix B: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Including Optional Protocol Appendix C: International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Appendix D: Resolution Adopted by the General Assembly Appendix E: Suggested Internet Websites for Further Research Index
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Crown Publishing Group (NY) Poverty by America
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Oprah Daily, Time, The Star Tribune, Vulture, The Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Public Library, Esquire, California Review of Books, She Reads, Library Journal“Urgent and accessible . . . Its moral force is a gut punch.”—The New YorkerLonglisted for the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award • Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children t
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Running and Philosophy
Book SynopsisA unique anthology of essays exploring the philosophical wisdom runners contemplate when out for a run. It features writings from some of America's leading philosophers, including Martha Nussbaum, Charles Taliaferro, and J.P. Moreland. A first-of-its-kind collection of essays exploring those gems of philosophical wisdom runners contemplate when out for a run Topics considered include running and the philosophy of friendship; the freedom of the long distance runner; running as aesthetic experience, and Could a Zombie Run a Marathon? Contributing essayists include philosophers with athletic experience at the collegiate level, philosophers whose pasttime is running, and one philosopher who began running to test the ideas in his essay Trade Review"With equal measures of scholarship and soul, the essays in Running and Philosophy: A Marathon for the Mind, edited by Michael W. Austin, touch on religion, pain, happiness, and other topics that are best explored on a long run. With a pack of philosophers." (Runner's World, November 2007) "The contributors are runners who approach the subject of running and philosophy sympathetically…there is enough in [the book] to the get the inner dialogue started." (Orange Community News)Table of ContentsForeword (Amby Burfoot, Executive Editor, Runner’s World magazine, and 1968 Boston Marathon Champion). Preface: Warming Up Before the Race. Acknowledgments. 1. Long-Distance Running and the Will to Power (Raymond Angelo Belliotti, State University of New York at Fredonia). 2. Chasing Happiness Together: Running and the Philosophy of Friendship (Michael W. Austin, Eastern Kentucky University). 3. Running With the Seven Cs of Success (Gregory Bassham, King’s College, Pennsylvania). 4. The Phenomenology of Becoming a Runner (J. Jeremy Wisnewski, Hartwick College). 5. In Praise of the Jogger (Raymond J. VanArragon, Bethel University). 6. Running Religiously (Jeffrey P. Fry, Ball State University). 7. Hash Runners and Hellenistic Philosophers (Richard DeWitt, Fairfield University). 8. What Motivates an Early Morning Runner (Kevin Kinghorn, Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford). 9. A Runner’s Pain (Chris Kelly, University of Maryland). 10. Performance-Enhancement and the Pursuit of Excellence (William P. Kabasenche, Washington State University). 11. The Freedom of the Long-Distance Runner (Heather L. Reid, Morningside College). 12. Existential Running (Ross C. Reed, Rhodes College). 13. Can We Experience Significance on a Treadmill? (Douglas R. Hochstetler, Penn State University, Lehigh Valley). 14. Running in Place or Running in Its Proper Place (J. P. Moreland, Biola University). 15. The Running Life: Getting in Touch with Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer (Sharon Kaye, John Carroll University). 16. John Dewey and the Beautiful Stride: Running as Aesthetic Experience (Christopher Martin, Institute of Education, University of London). 17. Where the Dark Feelings Hold Sway: Running to Music (Martha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago). 18. The Power of Passion on Heartbreak Hill (Michelle Maiese, Emmanuel College). 19. The Soul of the Runner (Charles Taliaferro and Rachel Traughber, St. Olaf College). Index.
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Catapult Material World A Global Family Portrait
Book SynopsisCalled “Fascinating! An incredible book” by Oprah Winfrey, this beloved photography collection vividly portrays the look and feel of the human condition everywhere on Earth.In an unprecedented effort, sixteen of the world’s foremost photographers traveled to thirty nations around the globe to live for a week with families that were statistically average for that nation. At the end of each visit, photographer and family collaborated on a remarkable portrait of the family members outside their home, surrounded by all of their possessions; a few jars and jugs for some, an explosion of electronic gadgetry for others.This internationally acclaimed bestseller puts a human face on the issues of population, environment, social justice, and consumption as it illuminates the crucial question facing our species today: Can all six billion of us have all the things we want?
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University of Minnesota Press The Anarchist Roots of Geography
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Springer urges the reader to address all aspects of modern life with a critical faculty that can draw out radical potentials for universal freedom and equality."—Earth First!"Anyone who wants evidence that anarchist geography is alive and well today need only read this book."—Fifth Estate"Springer’s book might therefore represent a coming of age for anarchist geography."—The AAG Review of Books"It is Springer’s enlightened capacity to identify various interpretations of spatial realities that move this anarchist modality from an alternative view to front and centre. Springer has given us much food for thought about an approach in deconstructing the status quo. Optimism thrives in his words, and seeks to inspire a new generation of geographers."—The Canadian Geographer "Inclusive, creative and vibrant."—Geopolitics"The Anarchist Roots of Geography provides many compelling insights."—Marx and Philosophy Review of Books"This book is an important intervention into current theoretical discussions around the importance of anarchism within academia and life, and in challenging dominant conceptions of public and private space."—TrespassTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction. Becoming Beautiful: To Make the Colossus Tremble1. A Brief Genealogy of Anarchist Geographies2. What Geography Still Ought to Be3. Returning to Geography’s Radical Roots4. Emancipatory Space5. Integral Anarchism6. The Anarchist HorizonAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.94
Mariner Books Classics Illuminations Essays and Reflections
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Reaktion Books The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It
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