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Book SynopsisShowcases the vibrant culture of an enduring Southeastern Native people.Trade Review"John R. Swanton's Creek Religion and Medicine endures as one of the best sources for ethnohistorical information about the Muscogee Nation. Drawing from a broad spectrum of archival sources and oral histories collected from Native American informants, Swanton provides a rare glimpse of traditional Muscogean (Creek) religion and medicine. . . . This classic study is a must read for anyone interested in the Native Southeast."—Stacye Hathorn, The Alabama Review

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Book SynopsisFeatures a collection of more than one hundred Native American songs that celebrate the rich and vibrant oral traditions of the Indigenous peoples of North America. Some songs included in this work have familiar themes, while others illuminate the complexities and differences of the Native cultures.Trade Review“Swann has put together a collection of Native songs that were nearly lost. . . . There is a great range and variety here, and a common ground: open forms, organic rhythms, and a tendency to incantation and rich imagery. The matter is of the land and living, of links with the past and hopes for the future. Swann’s volume will give many good reasons to sing."—Library Journal

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Book SynopsisOffers an overview of the state of Inuit studies. This volume includes topics such as the development of a circumpolar research policy, the complex identities of Inuit in the twenty-first century, and more. It is useful for students and scholars interested in circumpolar North and in contemporary Native communities.Trade Review"[Should] make a useful textbook for undergraduate students in northern anthropology, geography or sociology. The authors constitute an interesting sample of contemporary specialists of Inuit studies, most of them American or Canadian, but with the addition of two scholars from the Old World, one French and one Japanese." North Dakota QuarterlyTable of ContentsPart I: Figuring Method Flora and Me: Collaboration and Combat in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of Southwest Alaska, Molly Lee; Listening to Elders, Working with Youth: Changing Dimensions of Theory and Practice in Alaskan Arctic Research in the 21st Century, Carol Zane Jolles; Participatory Anthropology in Nunavut, Michael Kral and Lori Idlout; Time, Space, and Memory in Inuvialuit Narratives, Murielle Nagy; Anthropology in an Era of Inuit Empowerment, Edmund (Ned) Searles Part II: ReConfiguring Categories: Culture The Pipeline to Citizenship: The Inuvialuit Land Claims Agreement and Economic Development and the Expectations of Indigenous Citizens, Pamela Stern; "Showing" Traditions: Cultural Productions and Cultural Survival among the Iglulingmiut, Nancy Wachowich; Culture as Narrative: Who is telling the Inuit Story?, Nelson Graburn; six gestures, peter kulchyski; The Ethical Injunction to Remember: Memory, Cultural Survival and Ethics in Nunavut, Lisa Stevenson Part III: ReConfiguring Categories: Place Inuit Place Names and Sense of Place, Beatrice Collignon; Inuit Social Networks in an Urban Setting, Nobuhiro Kishigami; Inuit Geographical Knowledge One Hundred Years Apart: Place Names in Tinijjuarvik [Cumberland Sound], Nunavut, Ludger Muller-Wille and Linna Weber Muller-Wille; Iglu to Iglurjuag: The Anthropology of Colonialism in Culture, Home and History, Frank James Tester

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays that shows how anthropological theories and techniques can be applied to the culture of contemporary middle-class Americans. It analyzes such aspects of American culture as advertising, mass-audience movies, patriotic and ethnic parades, college parties, greetings, and the dilemmas of adolescent sexuality.

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Book SynopsisDeals with the organization of camps and bands, kinship systems, beliefs, ceremonies, hunting, warfare, and methods of measuring timeTrade Review"Based on descriptions given by people who had experienced their traditional culture-most of it a way of life that had ceased or changed by 1900-Walker's papers are a unique and invaluable source for the anthropological study of the Sioux and for understanding traditional Plains Indian society generally."-Choice Choice "Classical material on the Lakota people and essential reading for anyone interested in a serious study of these people."-American Indian Culture and Research Journal American Indian Culture and Research Journal "DeMallie has done a sensitive, careful piece of work, and the documents as presented are both important sources and of interest to the general student of Indian history and ethno-history."-Western Historical Quarterly Western Historical Quarterly

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Book SynopsisPresents a collection of fieldwork and the theoretical perspectives that illuminate how a range of Native communities in the Amazon River basin, and those they encounter, use the past to make sense of their world and themselves. This book examines the particular foundations and significance of history and historicity in various communities.Trade Review"A welcome addition to serious scholarship directed at the uniting of history, historicity, ethnohistory, ethnology and ethnography."-Norman E. Whitten Jr., Ethnohistory -- Norman E. Whitten Jr. Ethnohistory "Whitehead and the other contributors are to be congratulated for forcing us to reexamine our ideas of what constitutes history and historical consciousness and to continue to insist that lack of literacy does not make 'a people without history.'"-S. Elizabeth Penry, The American Historical Review -- S. Elizabeth Penry The American Historical Review

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Book SynopsisJames R Walker was a physician to the Pine Ridge Sioux from 1896 to 1914. This volume of material from the Walker collection presents his work on Lakota myth and legend. It is useful for students of comparative literature, religion, and mythology, as well as those interested in Lakota culture.Trade Review“A primary source of research and serious study. . . . Ethnology at its best.”—American Indian Culture and Research Journal“One of the major publications of American Indian myth.”—Reviews in Anthropology“[Elaine Jahner] is sensitive to the analysis of texts, sensitive to meanings hidden between the cracks of texts and correspondences, and sensitive and generous to the scholars—Sioux and non-Indian alike—who preceded her in collecting and analyzing the myths and cultural detail of the Teton Dakota Sioux.”—Pacific Historical Review“An immensely interesting and provocative addition to the literature of the Plains Indians.”—North Dakota History

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Book SynopsisThis work examines how consumer culture places less emphasis on ideological representations and resistances to ideology than on the educative powers of mass culture and the way that social position is determined through the politics of consumer culture.

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Book SynopsisThis text presents a theory of consumer demand for health insurance. It holds that people purchase insurance to obtain additional "income" when they become ill. In effect, insurance companies take premiums paid by those who remain relatively healthy and transfer them to the seriously ill.Trade Review“This book thoroughly and critically re-examines two core beliefs in health economics: that health insurance induces individuals to overconsume care and that the demand for insurance is primarily driven by individuals' desire to avoid risk. It concludes that much of the increase in health care expenditures associated with insurance does not diminish welfare and that individuals' desire to increase their ability to afford health care when they fall ill is an important motivator for the purchase of health insurance. These ideas, though perhaps controversial, offer important insights to scholars and teachers working in this area and have important ramifications for policy makers and health care purchasers as they strive to constrain health care cost growth.”—Michael Chernew, University of Michigan“This is a compelling and modern treatment of the demand for health insurance written by a leader in the field. The book is concise yet comprehensive, carefully researched, and clear. It is must reading for anyone interested in understanding alternative theories of the demand for health insurance, as well as the policy implications of these alternative theories.”—John A. Rizzo, The Ohio State University

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Book SynopsisThis book is an examination of the connections between modern economic practices, globalization, and contemporary Christian religious belief, based on an ethnographic study of NGOs in Zimbabwe. It addresses issues crucial for those interested in the strengths and weaknesses of development theory and practice, as well as in Protestant Christianity as a transnational religion.Trade Review"Bornstein has written a book that every believer (or unbeliever) in the theology of (African) economic development should read." -- Voluntas"Bornstein shows how ideas of material and spiritual development relate to each other in the everyday practices of development executives in California and their counterparts in Zimbabwe. As illustrated here, 'faith-based development' compels fresh engagement with the cosmologies of capitalist development. Rarely have classic concerns in social theory been made so directly relevant to understanding topical issues." -- Harri Englund"This book makes an important and timely contribution to the sociology and anthropology of development....Bornstein writes with an honesty and a curiosity that engages the reader in her project." -- Canadian Journal of Sociology Online"Erica Bornstein's ethnography is one of the finest [on NGOs], and is likely to find a place as a foundational study in this emerging field." -- Journal of Southern African Studies"The Spirit of Development is a truly ground-breaking work on a topic of extraordinary contemporary significance. It provides a powerful and exceptionally revealing demonstration of how ethnographic methods and anthropological concepts can be brought to bear on the study of those 'non-governmental organizations' that play an increasingly prominent (and ill-understood) role in the contemporary social and political life of much of the world. It should be required reading for all scholars concerned with 'development,' Christianity, and humanitarianism, in Africa and beyond." -- James Ferguson * Stanford University *"The Spirit of Development...provides exemplary insight into the debates and practices amongst NGO staff in Harare and the United States concerning the intersection of faith and development, providing much-needed analysis on the intertwining of religious and economic assumptions and their (mis)translations within transnational organizations such as NGOs and those they endeavor to spiritually and materially transform." -- American Anthropologist

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Book SynopsisBased on years of fieldwork and interviews with 129 human smugglers, as well as scores of government and law enforcement officials, this book presents a rare look into the secretive world of the "snakeheads" ( human smugglers), whose ingenious endeavors have transported hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants into the United States and other Western countries.Trade Review"Zhang offers some very stark conclusions and recommendations . . . [An] important and timely book." -- James O. Finckernauer"It is a path-breaking book . . . [T]his book is an important addition to a rising list of recent books to understand the international migration from China's Fujian province. It provides extremely valuable empirical knowledge about smuggling operation. Its innovative theoretical model proves to be very useful in explaining Chinese human smuggling and also holds potential for examining human smuggling in other settings as well." -- Zai Lang * China Review International *"This highly informative and data-rich book sheds new light on a topical and popular criminological subject. It is highly recommended to all those who are interested in transnational crime studies." -- Trends in Organized Crime"Chinese Human Smuggling Organizations is an important book that offers essential information for policy makers, law enforcement, and academics interested in this large and profitable illicit market." -- University of TorontoTable of ContentsContents Preface xxx Acknowledgments xxx PART ONE. SNAKEHEADS AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING 1. Coming to America: Illegal Chinese Migration to the United States 3 2. Becoming a Snakehead 000 3. Recruitment, Preparation, and Departure 000 4. Smuggling Activities in Transit 000 5. Arrival and Payment Collection 000 6. Making Money from Human Smuggling 000 PART TWO. THE HUMAN SMUGGLING ORGANIZATION 7. Organizational and Operational Characteristics 000 8. The Dyadic Cartwheel Network 000 9. Human Smuggling and Traditional Chinese Organized Crime 000 10. Women and Chinese Human Smuggling 000 11. Future of Chinese Human Smuggling 000 Appendix A: Research Sites 000 Appendix B: Research Method 000 Notes 000 Glossary 000 References 000 Index 000 Tables, Figures, and Maps Tables 2.1. Demographics of Snakehead Subjects 000 2.2. Subjects' Employment Status 000 2.3. Involvement in Smuggling Activities 000 6.1. Smuggling Fees and Earnings 000 6.2. Prices of Specific Smuggling Services 000 7.1. Characteristics of Smuggling Organizations 000 7.2. Roles in Smuggling Business 000 9.1. A Comparison of Triad-Type Organizations and Human Smuggling Groups 000 10.1. Demographics of Snakehead Subjects by Gender 000 10.2. Method of Entry, Source of Clients and Motives by Gender 000 10.3. Primary Specialties in Smuggling Business by Gender 000 Figures 7.1. Smuggling Task Force Formation and Process of Operations 000 8.1. The Dyadic Cartwheel Network--A Conceptual Diagram of Chinese Human Smuggling Organizations 000 8.2. A Conceptual Diagram of the Task-Force Orientation of Chinese Human Smuggling Organizations 000 10.1. A Schematic Diagram of the Conditional Market Perspective 000 Maps 1.Map of China 000 2.Map of Fujian Province 000

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Book SynopsisThis book is about the migrations for family reunion that have taken place in post-1997 Hong Kong between mothers and children living in mainland China and their long-absent husbands and fathers, residents of Hong Kong.Trade Review"Uneasy Reunions achieves what all ethnography aspires to: rich and textured portraiture of a corner of the human experience that speaks to the largest issues and experiences of our times. . . . [It] strikes a perfect balance: careful ethnographic portraiture, well-chosen scaffolding of relevant area and theoretical literature, and pitch-perfect reference to other global instances of migration across political difference. We applaud Newendorp for this parsimonious, evocative, inspired, and analytically impeccable contribution to the ethnography of East Asia." -- Nancy Abelmann, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Chair, 2009 Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize Committee"[This book is] a testament to Newendorp's sensitivity and skill as an ethnographer and her facility with the Cantonese language . . . Newendorp excels in presenting complex ideas in clear ways. She takes on many sophisticated debates from what it means to be Chinese in different 'Chinese' locations to the complexities of power and mobility in a transnational milieu. Overall, the book makes a unique and refreshing contribution . . . This ethnography will have broad appeal to a wide variety of readers." -- Caren Freeman * Journal of International Migration & Integration *"This empathetic ethnography explores identity, migration, and difference through the prism of contemporary mainland Chinese women married to Hong Kong men who are seeking rights to live and form families in Hong Kong. Since Hong Kong formally returned to the People's Republic of China in 1997, many families who share culture and national citizenship nonetheless have remained separated by political history and divergent cultural formations. Images and expectations divide as well as unite women who want to migrate and the society that receives them, as the author shows through extensive fieldwork since 2000 with wives, children, social workers (an especially rich portrait), and other Hong Kongers." -- CHOICE"This study is a contribution to our understanding of the city's dynamic social and political life .... Newendorp provides remarkably nuanced details of the daily challenges, desires, and hopes of immigrant women." -- Helen Siu * Journal of Anthropological Research *"This book provides a compelling contribution to the topic of marital immigration from China and sheds light on the new challenges Hong Kong faces as a post-colonial society. By integrating issues central to the transnational world in which we live, Newendorp delivers an engaging and well-researched ethnography of citizenship." -- Sara Friedman * Indiana University, author of Intimate Politics: Marriage, the Market, and State Power in Southeastern China *Table of Contents[table of contents] Contents Acknowledgments 1. Split-Families, Reunited Families, and Political Difference 2. The Moral and Legal Landscape of Reuniting Families in Hong Kong 3. Mainland Wives, Hong Kong Husbands 4. Immigrant Homespace 5. Adapting to Life in Hong Kong 6. Fashioning (Reunited) Family Life 7. Acting Responsibly 8. Uneasy Reunions Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the effectiveness of current drug and alcohol policies through an economic lens.Trade Review"This must addition to the reading list of courses in behavioral economics and health economics would also be of value to students of economic policy. Students will benefit from Winter's careful delineation of differences in the assumptions used in models and the differences in findings that result from choices in empirical testing. . . Highly recommended."—M. H. Lesser, Choice"As an introduction to and assessment of important social and health-related issues, this volume is highly readable and non-technical, and it makes for thought-provoking reading."—Health Affairs"This is a wide-ranging overview of a vast literature that summarizes highly technical material in an easily accessible and non-technical manner. Winter is to be commended for his selection of topics and studies to emphasize."—Joni Hersch, Vanderbilt Law School"Harold Winter's superbly written diagnosis of smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse shows the tremendous power of economic analysis in illuminating these most challenging risky behaviors. The Economics of Excess provides an engaging tour through issues such as addiction as well as a deft assessment of paternalistic interventions."—W. Kip Viscusi, University Distinguished Professor of Law, Economics, and Management, Vanderbilt University"Here's an enthusiastic (though suitably sober) toast to The Economics of Excess! It provides a lively and accessible introduction to the new behavioral economics of addiction, rescuing an intrinsically fascinating topic from the tedium of scholarly formalisms. It's a great initiation for students and teachers alike."—Philip J. Cook, Duke University and author of Paying the Tab: The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the effectiveness of current drug and alcohol policies through an economic lens.Trade Review"This must addition to the reading list of courses in behavioral economics and health economics would also be of value to students of economic policy. Students will benefit from Winter's careful delineation of differences in the assumptions used in models and the differences in findings that result from choices in empirical testing. . . Highly recommended."—M. H. Lesser, Choice"As an introduction to and assessment of important social and health-related issues, this volume is highly readable and non-technical, and it makes for thought-provoking reading."—Health Affairs"This is a wide-ranging overview of a vast literature that summarizes highly technical material in an easily accessible and non-technical manner. Winter is to be commended for his selection of topics and studies to emphasize."—Joni Hersch, Vanderbilt Law School"Harold Winter's superbly written diagnosis of smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse shows the tremendous power of economic analysis in illuminating these most challenging risky behaviors. The Economics of Excess provides an engaging tour through issues such as addiction as well as a deft assessment of paternalistic interventions."—W. Kip Viscusi, University Distinguished Professor of Law, Economics, and Management, Vanderbilt University"Here's an enthusiastic (though suitably sober) toast to The Economics of Excess! It provides a lively and accessible introduction to the new behavioral economics of addiction, rescuing an intrinsically fascinating topic from the tedium of scholarly formalisms. It's a great initiation for students and teachers alike."—Philip J. Cook, Duke University and author of Paying the Tab: The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control

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Book SynopsisThis book draws on behavioral economics to explain anomalies that are intrinsic in the U.S. health care system. Rather than focusing on promoting or analyzing policy, author Douglas E. Hough hones in on our sometimes irrational actions, their roots, and what we can do to influence our behavior, nudging the health care system towards better practices.Trade Review"Hough does an extraordinary job of distilling the literature and providing key insights to help us understand how health care consumers and providers really behave, and how government can formulate better policy. A must-read for anyone interested in the burgeoning field of behavioral economics and age-old questions in health care." -- Thomas Rice, Distinguished Professor * UCLA Fielding School of Public Health *"Hough explains and applies the emerging field of behavioral economics to patient and physician decision making, providing a rationale for seemingly irrational behavior, and its particular usefulness for designing health policies." -- Paul J. Feldstein * University of California, Irvine *"Balancing rigor and policy relevance, Hough shows the application of behavioral economics to health policy in a most compelling way. I liked this book so much, I wish I had written it!" -- Richard Scheffler, University of California * Berkeley *

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Sabet explores how incentives in Mexican politics, organized crime, and a distrustful relationship between police and citizens have combined to prevent meaningful police reform in Mexico.Trade Review"Mexico's war on drugs has brought intense international attention to that country, and Police Reform in Mexico directs that attention toward a realistic assessment of the reforms, laws, and mechanisms used to fight it . . . Although Mexico is mired in one of Latin America's biggest battles against crime, this book shows what a critical case it is for comparative analysis . . . The book's detailed description of Mexico's steady progress, even in the midst of a war that has killed tens of thousands of people, shows that even the strongest of barriers does not consign reform to failure." -- Mark Ungar * The Review of Politics *"This is one of the best books on Mexico written in English in recent years. It provides substantial new research and analysis on one of the most important and least examined challenges in Mexico today: police reform and public security. It is meticulously researched, theoretically nuanced, and well written." -- Andrew Selee, Director, Mexico Institute * Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars *"A thoughtful, careful, and analytically rigorous account of the vexing problem of police reform in Mexico. The book's wider discussion of the ways that Mexican political institutions both enable and limit successful police reform makes it a timely and provocative must-read for all who care about Mexico and its future." -- Diane E. Davis * Massachusetts Institute of Technology *"Overall, Sabet's book offers an in-depth, textured account of the challenges facing police reform in Mexico, and is a must-read for anyone concerned with improving public safety and security. The book should be appealing to a wide range of audiences interested in contemporary Mexico, the politics of public safety, and the difference between changing formal, de jure rules or institutions (reform in theory) and changing informal, de facto institutions (reform in practice). Sabet's analysis resonates well beyond Mexico and policing, complementing broader conversations on state-building and the construction of stronger democratic institutions." -- Matthew C. Ingram * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Sabet's work is well-written and well-documented and contains fresh proposals that may be useful in coming to grips with these long-standing barriers to the development of a strong civil society in Mexico. The last chapter includes several specific proposals that, if implemented, might lead the way to a brighter day for the US's neighbor across the river. The volume has a very useful list of Mexican acronyms, an index, and enlightening charts and graphs. It should find a wide audience . . . Recommended." -- J.S. Robey * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Impressively broad, reliable, judicious, and illuminating, this new edition of The Max Weber Dictionary will be useful to students, teachers, and the general reader alike. One's hand will automatically twitch towards it whenever the need arises for clarification, references, or helpful hints concerning almost any aspect of Max Weber's writings."—Hans Henrik Bruun, University of Copenhagen, editor and translator of Max Weber: Collected Methodological Writings"What an impressive undertaking! This will be an important resource to anyone interested in Max Weber's work for years to come."—Mustafa Emirbayer, University of Wisconsin, Madison"The Weber dictionary will be an indispensable source of reference for social scientists. It will contribute to a much better grasp of Weber's extensive writings."—Sam Whimster, editor of the Journal for Max Weber Studies"This is an expert work of scholarship on the most complex and difficult of the great classic sociologists. With this dictionary, Richard Swedberg and Ola Agevall clarify Weber's key concepts and their textual sources, and display his wide-ranging connections to past and present."—Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania"Richard Swedberg and Ola Agevall manage ot shine a bright light into this thicket of concepts, theories, and interpretive debates. [The Max Weber Dictionary] pays close attention to the specificity of the linguistic, cultural, and historical contexts of Weber's writing and reception.The present book is therefore more akin to a commentary on Weber's writing and Weber scholarship than a "dictionary" in the narrow sense."—George Steinmetz, The Journal of Modern History

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to provide a global examination of the shortage of organs for transplantation from an economic perspective. It provides a detailed proposal for reform based on the availability of compensation for donations within a publicly controlled monopsony.Trade Review"[The authors] build an interesting model distinguishing between deceased-donor and living-donor kidneys . . . and generate comparative-static predictions . . . Overall, this book constitutes a courageous and well-researched attempt at coming to grips with a major problem in the current organization of health care that is becoming more critical and global by the day."—Peter Zweifel, Public Choice"A growing number of transplant professionals, ethicists, and economists recognize the potential for incentives to improve access to transplants, but rarely has the argument for incentives been put forward with so much clarity, logic, and in-depth knowledge of transplantation."—David Howard, Emory University"In most countries, the channels for organ procurement impose intolerable burdens on ill patients. This book examines the organ shortage from many different angles in search of resolution. Big problems generally require market-based solutions, and the authors show that this issue is no exception to that rule. Their proposal for a compensated system of organ procurement deserves to be widely read and debated."—Julio Jorge Elias, Universidad del CEMA, Argentina

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Book SynopsisImmigration is among the most prominent, enduring, and contentious features of our globalized world. Yet, there is little systematic, cross-national research on why countries do what they do when it comes to their immigration policies. Rights, Deportation, and Detention in the Age of Immigration Control addresses this gap by examining what are arguably the most contested and dynamic immigration policiesimmigration controlacross 25 immigrant-receiving countries, including the U.S. and most of the European Union. The book addresses head on three of the most salient aspects of immigration control: the denial of rights to non-citizens, their physical removal and exclusion from the polity through deportation, and their deprivation of liberty and freedom of movement in immigration detention.In addition to answering the question of why states do what they do, the book describes contemporary trends in what Tom K. Wong refers to as the machinery of immigration control, analyzesTrade Review"In this book Tom Wong moves the field of immigration studies forward by opening up an area that has heretofore been considered too difficult to grapple with in a meaningful way. The book will be an important contribution to the field." -- Terri Givens, Government Department, University of Texas * Austin *"Rights, Deportation and Detention offers a complex view of U.S. and European deportation regimes set in the context of global migration....Instead of forcing comparisons of data lacking statistical significance, the author instead presents the complexity as a whole—his key and critical finding—and points to areas that merit further scrutiny." -- David Hernández * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice *"Tom K. Wong's book, Rights, Deportation, and Detention in the Age of Immigration Control, presents big ideas, new and vital data, and updates to immigration theories that will be useful for students and scholars of immigration studies. Sharply written and edited, this book reads like a valedictory monograph from a seasoned scholar of immigration control." -- Stephanie J. Silverman * University of Oxford, Oxford Law Blog *"Rights, Deportation, and Detention in the Age of Immigration Control is a significant contribution to our understanding of an often overlooked dimension of immigration control in wealthy western democracies—and to our understanding of the impact of those enforcement mechanisms on the human rights of migrants." -- Jeannette Money, Department of Political Science * University of California, Davis *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1: Immigration Control in the Age of Migration chapter abstractThis chapter presents an overview of contemporary trends in immigration control. In contrast to the view that immigration control is a deterministic outcome of national sovereignty, this chapter argues that the various mechanisms used by governments to control immigration are policy outputs that emerge from the broader political and institutional context in which the contentious politics of immigration unfolds and takes place. It defines what immigration control is, discusses debates over the objectives of immigration control, and uses insights gained from fieldwork and qualitative interviews to show why the view that "illegal means illegal" is too simplistic when it comes to understanding how the contemporary machinery of immigration control works. It then lays out the main arguments and chapters of the book. 2Human Rights and Immigration Control Wrongs chapter abstractThis chapter examines and inventories what the human rights of migrants are as a matter of international human rights law, focusing on rights in the context of deportation and immigration detention. It examines the role that human rights play in the context of immigration control by analyzing the determinants of the ratification of international human rights treaties that require states to extend rights protections to noncitizens, focusing on the Migrant Workers Convention (ICRMW). It argues and finds that because treaties such as the ICRMW impose high sovereignty costs on states, meaning they increase the distance between what states want to do with respect to immigration control and what they can do as parties to these treaties, they are not likely to be ratified. Consequently, emergent human rights norms related to noncitizens have yet to become fully instantiated in the domestic legal frameworks that govern the machinery of immigration control. 3Deportation Nations chapter abstractWhat are the politics and determinants of deportation? This chapter investigates this question by analyzing data across twenty-five immigrant-receiving countries from 2000 to 2009. It represents one of the first systematic, cross-national, and over time studies of deportation and its political, economic, and migration-related determinants. The main argument of the chapter is that while the economic and societal implications of immigration may harden public attitudes, thus increasing the demand for greater policy restrictiveness, the extent to which this demand is translated into policy outcomes hinges on the political landscape in which the politics of immigration plays out. In other words, public preferences do not directly translate into immigration control outcomes, as political institutions mediate these preferences. More specifically, electoral institutions play a role in channeling restrictive preferences over immigration into policy outputs by providing opportunities for the legislative representation of far-right political parties. 4The Labyrinth of Immigration Detention chapter abstractWhat are the politics and determinants of immigration detention? This chapter begins by discussing the labyrinthine processes of immigration detention. It then describes conditions of immigration detention in the U.S. and Europe, including cases of death during detention. Mounting international case law criticizing the detention practices of immigrant-receiving democracies, the legal principle of proportionality, arbitrary detention, and inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment are also discussed. The second part of the chapter is the empirical analysis. While immigration detention has become an increasingly prominent component in the machinery of immigration control, it remains unclear what explains its prevalence across Western immigrant-receiving democracies. Moreover, while the immigration industrial complex is rapidly expanding in some countries, this is not the case for all of the countries that are experiencing large-scale immigration. What explains these cross-national variations? I use new comparative data on immigration detention to address these questions. 5An Effective Deterrent, or Smoke and Mirrors? chapter abstractDoes the increased restrictiveness of immigration control reduce unwanted immigration? Despite its fundamental policy importance, this question remains almost entirely unanswered in the scholarly literature. The main argument of the chapter is that because tighter immigration controls do not fundamentally change the motives of migrants, the increased restrictiveness of immigration control does not necessarily mean less unwanted immigration. Using deportations as an indicator of immigration control, and while accounting for some of the most enduring explanations given for immigration, the analysis provides evidence to support this argument. The data indicate that increased restrictiveness is not significantly related to immigrant inflows and is only weakly related to asylum inflows. These results add to the growing skepticism over whether current modes of immigration control actually deter unwanted immigration. Conclusion: Migrants, Agency, and the Future of Immigration Control chapter abstractThe conclusion reviews the main empirical findings of the book and discusses the territory that remains uncharted in the study of immigration control, focusing on the role that immigrants qua political actors may play in shaping the future of immigration control policies.

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Book SynopsisThis book draws on behavioral economics to explain anomalies that are intrinsic in the U.S. health care system. Rather than focusing on promoting or analyzing policy, author Douglas E. Hough hones in on our sometimes irrational actions, their roots, and what we can do to influence our behavior, nudging the health care system towards better practices.Trade Review"Hough does an extraordinary job of distilling the literature and providing key insights to help us understand how health care consumers and providers really behave, and how government can formulate better policy. A must-read for anyone interested in the burgeoning field of behavioral economics and age-old questions in health care." -- Thomas Rice, Distinguished Professor * UCLA Fielding School of Public Health *"Hough explains and applies the emerging field of behavioral economics to patient and physician decision making, providing a rationale for seemingly irrational behavior, and its particular usefulness for designing health policies." -- Paul J. Feldstein * University of California, Irvine *"Balancing rigor and policy relevance, Hough shows the application of behavioral economics to health policy in a most compelling way. I liked this book so much, I wish I had written it!" -- Richard Scheffler, University of California * Berkeley *

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Book SynopsisNow in a fourth edition, this how-to guide is an excellent starting point for anyone looking to begin case study research. The authors - all professors teaching graduate students in education and other professions - provide the structure, detail, and guidance needed for beginning researchers to complete a systematic case study.

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Book SynopsisProivdes a survey of contemporary approaches to researching a wide range of visual and multimodal phenomena. Building on his earlier book, Reading the Visual, Serafini shares resources for conducting multimodal research across the social sciences.Table of Contents Contents Foreword Theo van Leeuwen xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 PART I: FOUNDATIONS 1. Conceptualizing Visual and Multimodal Phenomena 17 2. Theoretical Foundations of Multimodal Research 32 PART II: ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORKS: TEXTS AND OBJECTS 3. Iconographical Analysis 51 4. Visual Discourse Analysis 58 5. Visual Rhetorical Analysis 65 6. Multimodal Framing Analysis 71 7. Multimodal Content Analysis 78 8. Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis 86 9. Multimodal Genre Analysis 93 Research Vignettes: Texts and Objects 99 Research Vignette 1: Young Children's Multimodal Compositions 99 Lindsey Moses Research Vignette 2: Multimodal Content of Magazine Covers 102 Stephanie F. Reid, Danielle Kachorsky, and Kathryn P. Chapman Research Vignette 3: Critical Visual Discourse Analysis of 3-D Sculpture 107 Peggy Albers Research Vignette 4: Multimodal Content Analysis of Wine Labels 110 Frank Serafini Research Vignette 5: Examining Wordless Picture Books 115 Evelyn Arizpe and Julie E. McAdam Research Vignette 6: A Critical Multimodal Comparison of Animation Software 118 Emilia Djonov Research Vignette 7: Multimodality and Orientation-to- Action in Video Games 122 Jeffrey B. Holmes, Earl Aguilera, and Kelly M. Tran Research Vignette 8: Animated Movie Adaptations of Literary Picture Books 125 Len Unsworth PART III: ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORKS: EVENTS AND SPACES 10. Social Semiotic Multimodal Analysis 133 11. Critical Multimodal Analysis 140 12. Mediated Discourse (Interactional) Analysis 147 13. Multimodal Ethnographic Analysis 153 14. Spatial Discourse Analysis 160 15. Multimodal Cultural Analysis 166 16. Digitally Based Multimodal Analysis 173 Research Vignettes: Events and Spaces 180 Research Vignette 9: Mapping (Visual) Identities During COVID-19 180 Jennifer Rowsell Research Vignette 10: Critical Multimodal Analysis of Voting Spaces 183 Marva Cappello Research Vignette 11: Multimodal Interaction Analysis of Social Positioning in Young Children at School 187 Katie Bernstein Research Vignette 12: Understanding Spatial Pedagogy 190 Fei Victor Lim Research Vignette 13: Collective Multimodal Research of Social Interaction in the COVID-19 Pandemic 194 Elisabetta Adami Research Vignette 14: Analyzing Children's Virtual Realities 197 Kathy A. Mills and Lesley Friend Research Vignette 15: A Multimodal Analysis of Children's Play 201 Kate Cowan and John Potter Research Vignette 16: Spatial Discourse Analysis of Informal Outdoor Learning Spaces 204 Louise Ravelli Epilogue: Looking Back, Moving Forward 209 References 215 Index 235 About the Author and the Contributors 245

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Book SynopsisThis updated edition of Michael B. Katz's seminal work, The Price of Citizenship, traces the evolution of the welfare state from colonial relief programs through the war on poverty and into our own age. It argues that in the last decades America has been propelled toward a future of increased inequality and decreased security.Trade Review"Arguably the leading historian of American social welfare, Katz has written a defining history of post-Nixon transformations of America's welfare state. . . . This is a masterpiece of contemporary history." * Publishers Weekly *"The Price of Citizenship is a rich chronicle of the hostile climate facing U.S. social policy. It is a timely reminder that, for all the current talk of 'privatization,' the United States already relies heavily on private social welfare benefits. It is certain to be a valuable resource for social scientists and historians, who usually have to wait decades for a history of this quality to be written." * Jacob S. Hacker, Journal of Social History *Table of ContentsPrologue: The Invention of Welfare 1. The American Welfare State 2. Poverty and Inequality in the New American City 3. The Family Support Act and the Illusion of Welfare Reform 4. Governors as Welfare Reformers 5. Urban Social Welfare in an Age of Austerity 6. The Independent Sector, the Market, and the State 7. The Private Welfare State and the End of Paternalism 8. Increased Risks for the Injured, Disabled, and Unemployed 9. New Models for Social Security 10. The Assimilation of Health Care to the Market 11. Fighting Poverty 1990s Style 12. The End of Welfare 13. Work, Democracy, and Citizenship Postscript: The Post-9/11 American Welfare State Notes Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisBlazing the Neoliberal Trail asks how and why urban policy and politics have become dominated, over the past three decades, by promarket thinking. Drawing on extensive archival research, Timothy P. R. Weaver shows how elites became persuaded by neoliberal ideas and remade political institutions in their image.Trade Review"Enterprise Zones are one of many policies that have persisted over the years without the presence of much hard evidence to support their effectiveness or worthiness of public dollars. Timothy P.R. Weaver offers a compelling reason why this occurs: ideas matter more than the material outcomes they generate. The notion that ideas, more than interests and institutions, can drive decades of policy decisions runs throughout Blazing the Neoliberal Trail, and it is conveyed through a meticulous political-historical account of urban policy in the United States and the United Kingdom." * Political Science Quarterly *"The story of enterprise zones has long deserved a full historical treatment, and political scientist Timothy P.R. Weaver provides it in Blazing the Neoliberal Trail. He casts enterprise zones, a supply-side strategy devised to unleash the restorative power of the free market on distressed urban areas, as a flagship policy in the shift from Keynesianism to neoliberalism. In telling the story of enterprise zones' uneven implementation in the US and the UK, Weaver underscores the significance of the interplay between national and local states in shaping urban political development and emphasizes the role of ideas in the neoliberalization of urban policy." * Planning Perspectives *"By applying an argument regarding the power of ideas at the local level, Timothy Weaver is joining some of the most interesting recent work in urban politics. His careful study of the relationship between national forces and local dynamics is an important contribution." * Richardson Dilworth, Drexel University *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis important and fascinating study of early modern England’s relationship to North Africa by the foremost expert on the topic is magisterial in its reach and groundbreaking in the implications it holds for seventeenth-century English culture and political history."--Mihoko Suzuki, University of Miami

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Book SynopsisPresents an alternative approach to anorexia, long considered the epitome of a Western obsession with individualism, beauty, self-control, and autonomy. Through detailed ethnographic investigations, this book looks at the heart of what it means to live with anorexia on a daily basis.Trade Review"Warin has taken the topic of anorexia, which many of us feel that we know something about, and brilliantly cast a whole new light on it. Through vivid ethnography and evocative prose, she ensures that you won't think about anorexia or those affected by it in quite the same way ever again."— C. H. Browner, UCLA School of Medicine "Anthropologist Megan Warin combines rich multi-sited ethnographic research on anorexic women's lived experiences with a sophisticated theoretical approach based on concepts of abjection and relatedness to offer fascinating and original insights into anorexia nervosa."— Carole M. Counihan, author of The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and Power "Warin's book is an experientially grounded, theoretically sophisticated, and accessible account of anorexia that is unique and compelling."— Signs "An intensive, wide-ranging study, the author investigates the meanings of anorexia and the everyday lives of those who suffer from it. Warin offers a brilliant study that departs from conventional psychotherapeutic perspectives and places anorexia in an intriguing sociocultural context. Highly recommended."— ChoiceTable of Contents1 Introduction 2 Steering a Course Between Fields 3 Knowing Through the Body 4 'True Anas' and Outside Anorexics 5 Abject Relations with Food 6 'Me and My Disgusting Body' 7 Be-coming Clean 8 Conclusions and Future Directions Notes Bibliography Index

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Trade Review"Well-written and at times even lyrical, Activism and the Olympics provides a provocative contribution to ongoing discussions regarding the role of sport in society. Utilizing media analyses in concert with ethnographic field research, Boykoff takes us inside the world of Olympic activists and illustrates the intertwined nature of sport and politics on the global stage."— Michael D. Giardina, author of Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation "An important contribution to the ongoing discussion around the role of the Olympics and its political, social, and economic implications. This book is a useful read for anyone interested in learning about the under-exposed views of the activists protesting the Olympic Games, as well as for those who seek a more comprehensive grasp fo the socio-political issues related to mega-sporting events."— International Review for the Sociology of Sport "An essential contribution to the fields of Olympic and social movement and political activism studies."— Sport in History "Drawing on 70 interviews and analysis and observation of selected cases, Boykoff explores in unprecedentedly illuminating fashion the spaces of dissent within Olympic events. Interdisciplinary, critical, investigative, he shows how protest and fearless speech ('parrhesia') question Olympic myth and ideology."— Alan Tomlinson, University of BrightonTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Olympics and Me1. Understanding the Olympic Games2. Space Matters: The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics3. London Calling: Activism and the 2012 Summer Olympics4. Media and the Olympics5. Looking Ahead through the Rearview MirrorNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisBased on almost a decade of research in the Kathmandu Valley, Planning Families in Nepal offers a compelling account of Hindu Nepali women as they face conflicting global and local ideals regarding family planning.Trade Review"An insightful and beautifully written account of how family planning decisions are made and preferences are formed among Hindu Nepali women … This is an outstanding ethnography of caste-Hindu people living in Kathmandu today, written from the perspective of [a] demographic anthropologist. It will not disappoint scholars and students of this region and subject, and would make an excellent addition to a reading list for upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level teaching." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Jan Brunson skillfully weaves keen ethnographic observation with incisive social scientific analysis to provide a sensitive and nuanced account of gender and reproduction in an increasingly globalized Nepal." -- Geoff Childs * Washington University in St. Louis *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration, Transcription, and PronunciationIntroduction: Life in Motion1 Intersections: Gender, Class, and Caste in Nepal2 Like a Potter’s Wheel: From Daughters to Mothers-in-Law3 The Elusive Small, Happy Family4 Son Preference and the Preferences of Sons5 Conclusion: Projects of Reproduction Appendix A: Caste Hierarchy in Nepal Appendix B: Trends in Contraceptive Use in Nepal Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPacked with specific how-tos, examples and illustrations, The Editor in Chief vividly presents the guiding principles of editorial management. Authors Patterson and Patterson combine their extensive publishing and management expertise to update and enrich this best selling text, providing help and insight to future and present journalists working in the editorial department of a magazine. New to this edition is a chapter on one of the most popular and fastest growing areas of magazine publishing - online publishing. Readers will learn about e-zines, and online editions of printing magazines: Launching Funding Organizing a staff Increasing readership Aimed at students interested in careers as magazine editors and at novice working editors seeking to produce better magazines, The Editor in Chief, 2nd Edition prepares budding professionals for the arduous, but reTable of ContentsPreface. 1. Magazines and How They Work. 2. The New World of Online Magazines. 3. The Editorial Staff and Its Functions. 4. Managing the Editorial Department. 5. Acquiring the Content. 6. The Editorial Process. 7. Planning an Issue. 8. Displaying the Content. 9. Planning and Acquiring Photos and Artwork Illustration. 10. Titles and Subtitles. 11. Blurbs and Captions. 12. The Table of Contents. 13. Letters to the Editor and Standing Features. 14. The Cover – A Magazine’s Most Important Page. 15. Cover Lines. 16. The Production Process. 17. Legal Bugaboos and Journalistic Ethics. Index

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Book SynopsisThe single universal bit of advice that working journalists give students is learn to write well. Solid writing is the key to any successful and solid broadcast news operation. In Writing and Producing Television News, Second Edition author Eric Gormly uses contemporary news events as an engaging backdrop to teach students the fundamentals of writing news for television and cable. Author Gormly draws on his extensive background as a television journalist to explain how real newsrooms work. The text reviews basic grammar, introduces students to industry-specific terminology and the particular rules for TV newswriting, appraises the basics of a television news story, and reveals how television writing differs from writing for other media. The core of the book develops various story formats, and gives step-by-step instruction on how to transform basic information into properly scripted, solid stories. Included in this edition are the latest in script formattTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgements xiii 1 Television News: An Introduction 3 2 Television Newswriting: A Different Style 11 3 A Brief Review of Grammar 17 4 Some General Rules for Television Newswriting 35 5 Usage 53 6 Approaching the Television News Story 69 7 Story Formats: Some Basics 101 8 The Voice Over: VO 137 9 Sound on Tape: SOT 165 10 The Voice Over/Sound Bite: VO/SOT 187 11 Putting the Formats Together 211 12 Interviewing: Conversation with a Goal 223 13 The Package 235 14 An Interview with Deborah Potter 271 15 The Live Shot 275 16 An Interview with Beverly White 285 17 Producing the Newscast 295 18 The Station and the Newsroom 321 19 A look Inside: WFAA-TV, Dallas 331 20 Finding a Job 365 Index 387

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Book SynopsisAddresses the growing concern about journalism ethics in the United States and worldwide. Essays provide insights into the motivations, techniques, and challenges of journalists everywhere.Table of ContentsContributors. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. Part I Introduction. Chapter 1 Journalism as a Mission: Ethics and Purpose from an International Perspective. Chapter 2 Chaos and Order: Sacrificing the Individual for the Sake of Social Harmony. Part II In the United States and Latin America. Chapter 3 Ways of a Muckraker. Chapter 4 A Sinister Zone of Likeness: Journalists as Heroes and Villains in the U.S. South and in Central and Eastern Europe. Chapter 5 From Collusion to Independence: The Press, The Ruling Party, and Democratization in Mexico. Chapter 6 The Outspoken Journalist is an Expression, a Symbol of Colombia. Part III In Europe. Chapter 7 The Stranger: Minorities and Their Treatment in the German Media. Chapter 8 Between State Control and the Bottom Line: Journalism and Journalism Ethics in Hungary. Chapter 9 SITA: Slovakia's First Independent News Service and Its Battles with the Huey Long of the Danube. Chapter 10 Holding Politicians' Feet to the Fire in Slovenia. Part IV In the Middle East and Africa. Chapter 11 Lebanese Television: Caught Between the Government and the Private Sector. Chapter 12 Press Freedom and the Crisis of Ethical Journalism in Southern Africa. Chapter 13 Nigerian Press Ethics and the Politics of Pluralism. Part V In South and East Asia. Chapter 14 The Indian Press: Covering an Enigma. Chapter 15 Palace Intrigue in Katmandu and the Press in Nepal. Chapter 16 The Press in Japan: Job Security versus Journalistic Mission. Part VI Three Journalists and Their Missions. Chapter 17 A Journey in Journalism: From Idealism to Bankruptcy. Chapter 18 Reclaiming Responsibility: A Journalist and Artist in the Catholic Worker Movement. Chapter 19 Ryszard Kapuscinski: The Empathetic Existentialist. Postscript: The White Rose: On the Martyrdom of Student Pamphleteers in Nazi Germany and Their Legacy. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe third edition of Writing the News continues the tradition of its predecessors by providing journalists with a clear and concise introduction to the craft of newswriting. In addition to updating and adding to the number of examples from the contemporary press, this new edition includes a section on the increasingly popular narrative form of the news feature and an expanded chapter on news style.Table of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition vii 1 Writing for Newspapers 3 Early newspaper style. Structuring the news. Stripped-down prose. The electronic revolution. Interpretative news. The electronic newsroom. 2 Writing the Lead 15 Lead structure. Lead language. Other considerations in lead writing: attribution and identification. Memorable leads. 3 Developing the Story 33 Secondary leads. The fractured paragraph: key words, transitional devices, pronoun references. Information weaving. Ending the story. 4 The Elements of News Style 47 Choosing the right word. Writing good sentences: sentence style, sentence criteria. 5 The Spoken Word in Print 63 To quote or not to quote: direct quotes, paraphrase, accuracy. The mechanics of quoting: attribution, partial quotes, substitutes for “said.” 6 Varieties of the Basic Structure 75 The multi-element story. The “hourglass” structure. The speech story: the advance text, note taking, speech story structure. The meeting story. The obituary. 7 News in Context 97 Making connections. Providing context. Localizing news. Using background. Developing news. 8 Featurizing the News 109 Traditional alternatives: page brighteners or brights, sidebars. Contemporary alternatives: the new graphics, featurized news, weekly feature styles. 9 Writing the Feature Story 125 Feature techniques. Feature development. Forms of the feature: the news feature, human-interest stories, personal profiles, narratives. Suggested Readings 151 Index 153

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Book SynopsisAs Garlock relates in the preface, "The quality of the research, reporting and writing of these unique features is stunning. No two are written exactly the same way. But they all hold to one constant: strong emotions and content-powerful, touching, frightening, harrowing journalism.Table of ContentsPreface. 1979 Mrs. Kelly's Monster (Jon Franklin, The Baltimore Evening Sun). 1980 Zepp's Last Stand (Madeline Blais, The Miami Herald). 1981 Death of a Playmate (Teresa Carpenter, The Village Voice). 1982 The Federal Beauracracy (Saul Pett, Associated Press). 1983 Toxic Shock (Nan Robertson, The New York Times). 1984 Making It Fly (Peter Rinearson, The Seattle Times). 1985 A Boy of Unusual Vision (Alice Steinbach, The Baltimore Sun). 1986 Life on the Land: An American Farm Family (John Camp, St. Paul Pioneer Press). 1987 How Super Are Our Supercarriers (Steve Twomey, The Philadelphia Inquirer). 1988. AIDS in the Heartland (Jacqui Banaszynski, St. Paul Pioneer Press). 1989 Being Black in South America (David Zucchino, The Philadelphia Inquirer). 1990 Adam & Megan (Dave Curtin, Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph). 1991 A Gift Abandoned (Sheryl James, The St. Petersburg Times). 1992 Grady's Gift (Howell Raines, The New York times Magazine). 1993 The Stalking of Kristin (George Lardner Jr., The Washington Post). 1994 First Born, Fast Grown: The Manful Life of Nicholas, The Mississippi Reclaims Its True Domain Cruel Flood: It Tore at Graves, and at Hearts (Isabel Wilkerson, The New York Times). 1995 Against All Odds. Class Struggle (Ron Suskind, The Wall Street Journal). 1996 All She Has, $150,000, Is Going to a University. Terror in Oklahoma City at Ground Zero. Where Alabama Inmates Fade into Old Age. A Killer's Only Confidant: The Man Who Caught Susan Smith. Another Battle of New Orleans: Mardi Gras (Rick Bragg, The New York Times). 1997 The Umpire's Sons (Lisa Pollak, The Baltimore Sun). 1998 Angels & Demons (Thomas French, St. Petersburg Times). 1999 Crime Scene: Beyond the Statistics, A Druggist Confronts the Reality of Robbery (Angelo B. Henderson, Wall Street Journal). 2000 Crossing Over (J. R. Moehringer, Los Angeles Times). 2001 The Boy Behind The Mask (Tom Hallman, Jr., The Oregonian). 2002 A Father's Pain, a Judge's Duty, and a Justice Beyond Their Reach (Barry Siegel, Los Angeles Times). 2003 Enrique's Journey (Sonia Nazario, Los Angeles Times). Acknowledgments.

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Book SynopsisFrom climate change forecasts and pandemic maps to Lego sets and Ancestry algorithms, models encompass our lives. In this engaging book, Annabel Wharton begins with a definition drawn from the quantitative sciences and the philosophy of science but holds that history and critical cultural theory are essential to a fuller understanding of modeling.Trade ReviewHighly original, provocative, and timely, informing discussions of models not only in the history of art and architecture but also in media studies, public health, engineering, and the social sciences. The result is lively, even surprising, and the writing balances technical discussions with conversational, occasionally irreverent, commentary." - Alan Plattus, Yale University, coeditor of Re-Reading Perspecta: The First Fifty Years of the Yale Architectural Journal"An extraordinary command of the history of illustration, of architecture, of religion, especially in the medieval and modern worlds, underlies Wharton’s enterprise. She is also alert to a great range of relevant philosophical thinking and is adroit in its use. A compelling text, presented in a lively fashion, at a bold clip, that will be absorbing to any reader." - Terry Smith, University of Pittsburgh, author of The Architecture of Aftermath

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Book SynopsisFrom climate change forecasts and pandemic maps to Lego sets and Ancestry algorithms, models encompass our lives. In this engaging book, Annabel Wharton begins with a definition drawn from the quantitative sciences and the philosophy of science but holds that history and critical cultural theory are essential to a fuller understanding of modeling.Trade ReviewHighly original, provocative, and timely, informing discussions of models not only in the history of art and architecture but also in media studies, public health, engineering, and the social sciences. The result is lively, even surprising, and the writing balances technical discussions with conversational, occasionally irreverent, commentary." - Alan Plattus, Yale University, coeditor of Re-Reading Perspecta: The First Fifty Years of the Yale Architectural Journal"An extraordinary command of the history of illustration, of architecture, of religion, especially in the medieval and modern worlds, underlies Wharton’s enterprise. She is also alert to a great range of relevant philosophical thinking and is adroit in its use. A compelling text, presented in a lively fashion, at a bold clip, that will be absorbing to any reader." - Terry Smith, University of Pittsburgh, author of The Architecture of Aftermath

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Book SynopsisSince 1999 hundreds of thousands of young American Jews have visited Israel on an all-expense-paid 10-day pilgrimage-tour known as Birthright Israel. Based on seven years of first-hand observation in modern day Israel, the author provides an on-the-ground look at this hotly debated and widely emulated use of tourism to forge transnational ties.Trade Review"In analyzing tourism as a potent but imprecise tool for transnational political socialization, Kelner makes an important contributiong to scholarship on tourism, transnationalism, and diaspora." -- Ben Brazil * Sociology of Religion *"Kelner lucidly lays out evolving conceptual structures in the field of diasporic homeland tourism, illuminating a spectrum of intellectual trends, and using them both to enrich nuanced understandings of the larger significance of the Israel trip in contemporary Jewish life and to portray Israel trips as part of "broader transnational trends that are gaining momentum worldwide." -- Sylvia Barack Fishman * H-Net Reviews *"Kelner provides vivid descriptions, conversations, and analyses resulting from his experiences on multiple Taglit trips, his involvement wiht the Brandeis evaluations, and his own studious academic work." -- Howard M. Weisband * Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs *"...[O]ffers some intriguing insights into a phenomenon of considerable importance in the American Jewish community." -- Adam Kirsch * Tablet Magazine *"Tours that Bind is an exceptional work. Shaul Kelner offers one of the finest social scientific studies of contemporary Jewish life in a generation." -- Riv-Ellen Prell,author of Fighting to Become Americans: Jews, Gender and the Anxiety of Assimilation"Drawing mainly on his own participant-observation experiences, Kelner situates the program in a context of political tourism, giving us new tools with which to understand the visceral, emotional and cognitive impacts on the participants. This provides a sophisticated lens through which to analyze what the Birthright program, and others like it, does, how it accomplishes its goals, what those goals are and why the mechanisms used may also limit its impact." -- Harriet Hartman * The Foreward *"The best book to date on diaspora tourism. Kelner sweeps away the cobwebs that have clouded the relationship between young American Jews and the state of Israel. Rich description, subtle theory, and jargon-free writing make this book a joy to read. A major contribution to the literature on tourism and Jewish studies." -- Edward M. Bruner,author of Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel"“After several years of serious scholarship, Kelner concludes that tourism is the great equalizer, an opportunity for institutions to compete for the ability to represent a people.Though not the first book to explore Birthright’s impact, Tours That Bind approaches the subject academically, analyzing how Israel co-opts the Jewish diaspora to strengthen its nation-state." * Jewish Book World *"“Kelner, assistant professor of sociology and Jewish studies at Vanderbilt University, has written an original and persuasive account of the ways in which tourism has evolved into an important means for the creation of transnational identities and commitments. Using Birthright tours to Israel as his example, Kelner offers new ways to think about place, society, and self." * Society (Social Science and Modern Society) *"“This fascinating, carefully researched study focuses on a specific kind of tourism... the Israeli Taglit-Birthright program... This study is insightful, rich in data, and exceptionally well informed. While the subject focus is unique, the volume contributes broadly to understanding pilgrimage and tourism, youth culture, and Israel-diaspora relations... Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"Tours that Bind . . . serve[s] up some fascinating insights into one of the most daring and effective social experiments of the modern Jewish Diaspora." * The Jerusalem Post *"If sociology is an art form, Shaul Kelner is a master artist" * Sociological Forum *"Tours That Bind is must reading for those who work on homeland/diaspora relations. Ditto for those who research tourism in all its modalities." * Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface 1 Deploying Tourism 2 Striking Roots 3 Contesting Claims 4 Consuming Place 5 Collapsing Distance 6 Encountering Community 7 Locating Self 8 Building Diaspora Methodological Appendix Glossary Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisIn "Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts", Patricia McDaniel tells the story of shyness. Using popular self-help books and magazine articles she shows how prevailing attitudes toward shyness frequently work to disempower women.Trade ReviewPatricia A. McDaniel brings shyness out of the closet in this carefully-researched and well-written social history. In documenting how shyness served social functions in the past, she explains why it has been transformed into a personal failing today. As Americans have become increasingly outgoing, gregarious and assertive, and as friendliness has become increasingly marketable, shyness has become a diseaseone the pharmaceutical companies and clinicians are eager to treat with best-selling drugs like Prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft. Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts is the first book to examine shyness in all its historical and sociological complexity. Highly recommended. -- Scott Coltrane,University of California, RiversidePatricia McDaniel provides an insightful look at the historical construction of shyness in Western society. This book is an important contribution to the literature on the sociology of emotions and the sociology of gender. * Contemporary Sociology *In this thoroughy researched study, McDaniel pretty much provides anything any academic might ever want to kow about shyness in society * Library Journal *This books significance lies in its treatment of an emotional state and in its use of documents that have heretofore received little attention from historians. * The Jourrnal of American History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 Introduction 2 The Emotional Culture of Shyness from the Middle Ages to the Early Twentieth Century 3 "Build Him a Dais": Shyness and Heterosexuality from the Roles of the Fifties to The Rules of the Nineties4 Assertive Women and Timid Men? Race, Heterosexuality, and Shyness 5 Shyness from Nine to Five 6 "Intimacy Is a Dif?cult Art": The Changing Role of Shyness in Friendship 7 ConclusionAppendix A: Data and Methods Appendix B: Sampled Self-Help Books, Child-Rearing Manuals, and Magazine Articles Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisProvides methodological and conceptual models for those interested in doing work with childrenTrade Review"In this timely volume, contributors from a range of disciplines seek to understand childrens perspectives on their religious beliefs and practices and their own spiritual lives. All of the contributors are highly sensitive to both the limitations and benefits of studying childrens own perceptions and experiences, and the book as a whole addresses a range of significant methodological and ethical issues regarding research of and with children. By taking seriously the voices and agency of children, the volume contributes to childhood and religious studies and speaks to all those who care about childrens moral, spiritual, and religious needs and capacities." -- Marcia Bunge,author of Children and Childhood in World Religions: Primary Sources and Texts" Ridgely has done a fine job assembling a mixture of diverse topics and approaches to childrens perspectives on spirituality and religious beliefs and practices. The combination of global case studies with useful methodological primers on such subjects as institutional review boards will appeal to a wide swath of social scientists of all stripes, as well as policy makers. Its comparative, interdisciplinary nature makes it a valuable resource for two of the most vibrant contemporary research fields, childhood studies and religious studies." -- Melissa Klapper,author of The Experiences of Immigrant Children in the United States, 1880-1925Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments IntroductionI. A Childist Approach to Theory and HistoryII . Using Ethnography to Talk with Contemporary ChildrenIII. Studying Children in SchoolsIV. Using Adult-Generated Material About Children: Sources and Methods for Accessing Children's Voices from the Past and Today Bibliography About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFollowing trade agreements between Japan and the US in the 1850s, Tokyo began importing an American commodity: Western social activism. Yasutake illuminates the motivations and experiences of American missionaries, U.S. WCTU workers, and their Japanese proteges.Trade Review"A very impressive exploration of the fascinating and complex interaction between North American and Japanese women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yasutake's book reminds us that the problems of transnational feminisms are not new, and that the challenges embedded in the U.S.-Japanese relationship-race, class, nation-were played out in gendered contexts as well." -- Sharon Sievers,co-author of Women in Asia"Amid much talk about transnationalism, Rumi Yasutake has produced the real thing. Her research and insights into the three-way relationship between the American, Japanese, and Japanese-American WCTUs add great depth to our understanding of the complex interactions between the aspirations, achievements, and restraints of women working within different political and cultural environments A truly original contribution to women's history scholarship." -- Ellen Carol DuBois,author of Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage"Yasutake skillfully untangles the relationship between 'race,' gender, 'culture,' nationalism, and religion. Through a careful analysis of Japanese and English language sources, she presents the complex story of how the spread of the American WCTU's temperance movement to Japan was culturally imperialist on the one hand and yet served Japanese nationalist and imperialist ends in Asia and among the Japanese immigrants in California, while at the same time stretching the sphere of recognized political and social activity Japanese women could engage in near the turn of the twentieth century. Her work should be read by those interested in feminism, religion, 'race,' and 'culture.'" -- Brian Masaru Hayashi,Kyoto University

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAll three of these works are standard references to the Iroquois Indians today. Indeed, the Six Nation Iroquois Indians regard these studies as classics and refer to them in order to learn or confirm present practices in the light of their own documented past. Recommended. Fenton has performed an important service for both anthropologists and the Iroquois in pre­serving materials which Parker had collected from living sources no longer available. Illustrated with the original line drawings, photo­ graphs, and artwork.Table of ContentsIroquois uses of maize and other food plants, by A. C. Parker.--The code of Handsome Lake, the Seneca prophet, by Handsome Lake--The constitution of the Five Nations, by A. C. Parker.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of articles written by feminist scholars focuses on intimate Arab familial relationships. The authors identify key family relationships - mother-son, brother-sister, co-wives, father-daughter - to explore women's contribution to shaping and defining themselves in relation to others.

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Book SynopsisPresents a model of analysis based on the rise of the rich. This book identifies a history of resolving conflicts through negotiations among the wealthy classes of various regions.Trade ReviewThe breadth of discussion in the text, combined with the breadth of citations in the notes, make this a world historian's world history. - Patrick Manning, author of Navigating World History

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Book SynopsisBuilds on recent research to show that even when conceptualized as a set of practices rather than as a simple territorial label, authoritarianism has a spatiality: both drawing from and producing political space and scale in many often surprising ways.

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