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Beacon Press City of Refugees
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Beacon Press Plagues in the Nation
Book SynopsisAn expert legal review of the US government’s response to epidemics through history—with larger conclusions about COVID-19, and reforms needed for the next plagueIn this narrative history of the US through major outbreaks of contagious disease, from yellow fever to the Spanish flu, from HIV/AIDS to Ebola, Polly J. Price examines how law and government affected the outcome of epidemics—and how those outbreaks in turn shaped our government.Price presents a fascinating history that has never been fully explored and draws larger conclusions about the gaps in our governmental and legal response. Plagues in the Nation examines how our country learned—and failed to learn—how to address the panic, conflict, and chaos that are the companions of contagion, what policies failed America again and again, and what we must do better next time.
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Beacon Press We Need to Build
Book SynopsisFrom the former faith adviser to President Obama comes an inspirational guide for those who seek to promote positive social change and build a more diverse and just democracyThe goal of social change work is not a more ferocious revolution; it is a more beautiful social order. It is harder to organize a fair trial than it is to fire up a crowd, more challenging to build a good school than it is to tell others they are doing education all wrong. But every decent society requires fair trials and good schools, and that’s just the beginning of the list of institutions and structures that need to be efficiently created and effectively run in large-scale diverse democracy. We Need to Build is a call to create those institutions and a guide for how to run them well. In his youth, Eboo Patel was inspired by love-based activists like John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., Badshah Khan, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Ter
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Beacon Press Racial Innocence
Book Synopsis“Profound and revelatory, Racial Innocence tackles head-on the insidious grip of white supremacy on our communities and how we all might free ourselves from its predation. Tanya Katerí Hernández is fearless and brilliant . . . What fire!”—Junot DíazThe first comprehensive book about anti-Black bias in the Latino community that unpacks the misconception that Latinos are “exempt” from racism due to their ethnicity and multicultural backgroundRacial Innocence will challenge what you thought about racism and bias and demonstrate that it’s possible for a historically marginalized group to experience discrimination and also be discriminatory. Racism is deeply complex, and law professor and comparative race relations expert Tanya Katerí Hernández exposes “the Latino racial innocence cloak” that often veils Latino complicity in racism. As Latinos are the second-
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Beacon Press We Need to Build
Book SynopsisFrom the former faith adviser to President Obama comes an inspirational guide for those who seek to promote positive social change and build a more diverse and just democracyThe goal of social change work is not a more ferocious revolution; it is a more beautiful social order. It is harder to organize a fair trial than it is to fire up a crowd, more challenging to build a good school than it is to tell others they are doing education all wrong. But every decent society requires fair trials and good schools, and that’s just the beginning of the list of institutions and structures that need to be efficiently created and effectively run in large-scale diverse democracy. We Need to Build is a call to create those institutions and a guide for how to run them well. In his youth, Eboo Patel was inspired by love-based activists like John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., Badshah Khan, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Ter
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Beacon Press City of Refugees
Book SynopsisA gripping portrait of refugees who forged a new life in the Rust Belt, the deep roots they’ve formed in their community, and their role in shaping its culture and prosperity. This is an American tale that everyone should read. . . . The storytelling is so intimate and the characters feel so deeply real that you will know them like neighbors.—Jake Halpern, author of Welcome to the New World War, persecution, natural disasters, and climate change continue to drive millions around the world from their homes. In this “tender, intimate, and important book—a carefully reported rebuttal to the xenophobic narratives that define so much of modern American politics” (Sarah Stillman, staff writer, The New Yorker), journalist Susan Hartman follows 3 refugees over 8 years and tells the story of how they built new lives in the old manufacturing town of Utica, New York. Sadia, a Somali Bantu teenager, rebels agai
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Beacon Press A Deeper Sickness
Book SynopsisA harrowing chronicle by two leading historians, capturing in real time the events of a year marked by multiple devastations.When we look back at the year 2020, how can we describe what really happened? In A Deeper Sickness, award-winning historians Margaret Peacock and Erik Peterson set out to preserve what they call the “focused confusion,” and to probe deeper into what they consider the Four Pandemics that converged around the 12 astonishing months of 2020: • Disease • Disinformation • Poverty • Violence Drs. Peacock and Peterson use their interdisciplinary expertise to extend their analysis beyond the viral science, and instead into the social, political, and historical dimensions of this crisis. They consulted with dozens of experts and witnesses from a wide range of fields—from leading epidemiologists an
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Beacon Press Mothercoin
Book SynopsisA historical and cultural exploration of the devastating consequences of undervaluing those who conduct the “women’s work” of childcare and housekeepingIn taking up the mothercoin—the work of mothering, divorced from family and exchanged in a global market—immigrant nannies embody a grave contradiction: while “women’s work” of childcare and housekeeping is relegated to the private sphere and remains largely invisible to the public world, the love and labor required to mother are fundamental to the functioning of that world. Listening to the stories of these workers reveals the devastating consequences of undervaluing this work.As cleaners and caregivers are exported from poor regions into rich ones, they leave behind a material and emotional absence that is keenly felt by their families. On the other side of these borders, children of wealthier regions are bathed and diapered and cared for in clean homes with
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Beacon Press Fighting for Recovery
Book SynopsisAn essential history of the recovery movement for people with mental illness, and an inspiring account of how former patients and advocates challenged a flawed system and encouraged mental health activismThis definitive people’s history of the recovery movement spans the 1970s to the present day and proves to readers just how essential mental health activism is to every person in this country, whether you have a current psychiatric diagnosis or not.In Fighting for Recovery, professor and mental health advocate Phyllis Vine tells the history of the former psychiatric patients, families, and courageous activists who formed a patients’ liberation movement that challenged medical authority and proved to the world that recovery from mental illness is possible.Mental health discussions have become more common in everyday life, but there are still enormous numbers of people with psychiatric illness in jails and prisons or who are experiencing
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New York University Press Weathering Change Gays and Lesbians Christian
Book SynopsisThe Pacific Northwest of America is known for its diverse, unusual politics. There are thriving gay and lesbian communities and populations of staunchly conservative Christians. Both groups wield political power. How do members of these groups perceive the political climates that surround them?Trade ReviewPerceptions of political climates and the impact of these perceptions on social change are at the heart of Thomas Linneman's fascinating study of Christian conservatives and lesbians/gays. Using surveys, in-depth interviews, and content analyses of newspapers, he uncovers another side of social movements, namely, the role of social contexts in creating narratives about unique worlds that push people to mobilize against oppression. He persuasively describes how Christian conservatives and lesbians/gays in two very different cities organize, perceive, and make sense of their lives and explains how their intersecting views contribute to the development of social activism. -- Peter M. Nardi,author of Gay Men's FriendshipsSucceeds in breaking through stereotypes, dogmas, and especially media representations in a major community-based study that humanizes both sidescreating a richer understanding of the complex social realities that exist on each side of the so-called 'culture wars.' I know of no other work of its kind. -- Gilbert Herdt,Professor and Director, Program in Human Sexuality Studies and National Sexuality Resource Center, San Francisco State UniversityAn important contribution to the sociology of religion as well as to political sociology. With the currency of Linneman's topics and the skill of his coverage, the book should appeal to students and researchers alike. * Sociology of Religion *A fascinating account. * Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Experiencing Political Climates 2 Watching the Media 3 Reading the Public Mind4 Engaging the Government 5 Being in the Communities 6 Re?ecting on the Other7 Changing the Climates 8 Concluding Thoughts Appendix: Methods Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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Goose Lane Editions The M Word
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The M Word: Conversations about Motherhood, a powerful, female-driven anthology of short personal essays, poems, and illustrations, tells the many stories women so rarely share. ... The M Word is a meditation on the fickle emotional uncertainty awarded to mothers. It breaks down the walls of maternal isolation and offers companionship to anyone who has not had the fairy-tale journey to motherhood. These stories show us that the extraordinary gift of motherhood cannot be accepted without relinquishing something spectacular." -- Rachel Harry * National Post *"That's what makes The M Word so surprising, and also moving, gripping, funny, and, occasionally, really uncomfortable to read: the writers put it all on the table, all the confusion, ambivalence, difficulty, suffering, hope, despair, and insight that swirl around people's different experiences with motherhood, whether they are or aren't mothers, however motherhood is defined, and whether their situation arose from choice or accident, gift or tragedy. As many of the writers observe, there's a popular public story about motherhood that is all bliss, smiles, and cuddles. For many of them, there is plenty of bliss, but that's rarely the whole story and often not the story at all. The M Word doesn't try to tell one story: it allows, even insists, on the coexistence of many different ones." * Open Letters Monthly *"There is a strong Canadian tradition of public discourse on motherhood, from the late journalist June Callwood's interviews with unwed teenaged mothers to Marni Jackson's memoirs, and anthologies like Double Lives and Between Interruptions. The M Word adds 25 thoughtful voices to the mix ... You won't keep this book; you'll pass it on to friends whose current vocation is changing diapers, or to friends who want a child, and those who don't." * Herizons *"A book about motherhood that includes those who never gave birth? Those who've been pregnant but never held a child? Halleluiah! Finally: a conversation with no 'us versus them.' Here is only 'us,' those who desire to 'be connected by this understanding of what it is to love and celebrate your children.' The M Word offers what mothers (new and old) need most: to know we're not alone." * Winnipeg Review *"Stop everything. Withhold judgement for a minute. I promise you The M Word is not like any book you've read about motherhood." * The Fernie Fix *"Rather than attempting to resolve issues once and for all, or to glorify and idealize a madonna-like figure, The M Word presents in alphabetical order a wide variety of the experiences of women who have embraced, eschewed or endured the experiences of motherhood in its many, different realities ... This book was a pleasure to read." * Kitchener-Waterloo Record *"The M Word felt like a kind of emotional labour for the three days I was reading. This is a motherlode of deeply personal truths, generous and courageous souls, bearing witness to lives shaped, if not defined, by, well, 'life with a uterus,' as the foreword suggests." * Telegraph-Journal *"I'm not normally drawn to mothering books but I like Kerry Clare's work, so it was impossible not to be drawn to her anthology, The M Word: Conversations about Motherhood, I knew I'd be in the hands of good taste and good writing, even if, as a Childless Woman, I couldn't actually relate. Well, what happened was this: I found myself not only enjoying the read, but relating. In a major way. Because, as it turns out, the essays are both about mothering and not mothering, about the exultant and the reluctant, the non-mothers by choice, the stepmothers by circumstance, women who will do anything to become a mother and those who will do anything to not. and in every scenario, the difficulties, joys, fears, the way life is changed for the better and sometimes for the not entirely better. There are celebrations, regrets, and such honesty that it's really quite impossible not to relate." -- Matilda Magtree"The M Word is a book I would have benefited from reading when I was a young mother more than 30 years ago." * Coastal Spectator *
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Liberty Fund Inc SOCIAL JUSTICE THE INDIAN Collected Papers of
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Liberty Fund Inc Social Justice the Indian Rope Trick
Book SynopsisAnthony de Jasay is arguably one of the most independent thinkers and influential libertarian political philosophers of our time. Through his writings, he challenges the reigning paradigms justifying modern democratic government, providing an antidote to the well-intentioned yet, in Jasay''s opinion, naive expansion of state power furthered by much of modern thought today. In this collection of witty and compelling essays, the author challenges what many of today''s social and political philosophers widely accept: that social injustice is identified with inequality and social justice with equality. Rather, Jasay argues that justice preempts so-called social justice, so any attempt to adorn equality in the robes of social justice is an illusion, a sleight of hand, much as the Indian rope in the notorious trick is made to stand up skyward on its own. The fifteen articles in this collection include both published and unpublished papers written over the years 2008 to 2012. Scholars, studen
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University of Alberta Press Child Poverty and the Canadian Welfare State
Book SynopsisThe increasing scope of child poverty in Canada has been high on the national agenda since at least 1989. This book represents an effort to understand the changes in social policy that normalise the existence of child poverty in a rich society like Canada.Trade Review"The book follows the intellectual history of the welfare state from its modern conceptual beginnings in Rousseau, Smith, Marx and Bentham through its wartime distillations in the works of Lord Beveridge and Leonard Marsh. It rests in the post-centennial struggles between the noble proponents of the welfare state and its market-obsessed enemies. Ismael does pull one rabbit out of the hat by ingeniously charting the ideological perspectives of liberal individualism, ethical liberalism and social democratic liberalism as they relate to the nature of society, human nature and the nature of child poverty. She helpfully circles back later to chart the same axes but with particular attention to welfare benefits." John Stapleton, Literary Review of Canada, April 2007"This is an interesting book for anyone interested in social policy and the discourses that justify and support policy decisions. Focused on early childhood, Child Poverty and the Canadian Welfare State is also of interest to advocates for early childhood with her examination of the complex relationship between the social problem of child poverty and federal and provincial social policies." Enid Elliot, Policy and Practice in Education, Vol. 13, Nos 1,2, 2007Table of ContentsThe Problem of Child Poverty in Canada; The Canadian Welfare State and the Growth of Entitlement; The Residual State and the Mobilisation of Charity; Child Poverty and Changing Federal Policy; Social Policy Reform and the Normalisation of Child Poverty; Notes; Bibliography.
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Arok Books BAXT
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Unknown Unknowns Seeing Like a Computer
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Antenne Books Grifting the Amazon
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Unknown Unknowns Trippy Training Data
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Massey University Press The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016
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Massey University Press Tu Arohae
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Massey University Press The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017
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David Berry The Internet and Radical Voices of Dissent
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A Rabbit's Foot A RABBITS FOOT ISSUE 13
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Cambridge University Press Multinational Maids
Book SynopsisMultinational Maids offers an in-depth investigation into the international migrations of Filipino and Indonesian migrant domestic workers. The author taps on her rigorous study of more than 1,200 subjects'' migration trajectories to reveal how these migrants work in a series of overseas countries to improve their lives and, in some cases, seek permanent residence in another country. Challenging the portrayal of Asian migrant domestic workers as victims of globalization, Multinational Maids reveals migrants'' agency and strategic thinking under conditions of constraint. At the market level, the establishment of guestworker programmes for migrant domestic workers in multiple countries has created a global labor market. A transnational diaspora shapes migrants'' evolving destination imaginaries, while manpower recruitment and placement agencies create transnational mobility structures. In addition, differing destination hierarchies and degrees of access to resources lead to the adoption Trade Review'Multinational Maids wonderfully weaves together the lived experience of domestic workers, the dynamics of global labour markets, and new frontiers in migration theory.' Jørgen Carling, Peace Research Institute Oslo'Anju Mary Paul offers a highly accessible and insightful study of global migration that is ambitious in scale and rich in detail. Drawing from large-scale surveys and interviews, Multinational Maids draws linkages between global locations ranging from Singapore to Saudi, and illuminates the processes, patterns, ambitions, imaginaries and accidents of fate, that lead some migrant workers to seek ever-better migratory destinations.' Nicole Constable, University of Pittsburgh'… domestic workers make decisions, gather resources, and deal with constraints to access the best possible destinations in the global labor market. Based on multi-sited and multi-method approaches comparing Filipino and Indonesian domestic workers, the findings show how, following their first migration, the search for their dream destination can take migrant domestic workers to more than one destination country over several migration attempts. The search is fraught with uncertainties and difficulties, but as this impressive work concludes, 'What this book demonstrates is the drive and ingenuity of temporary labor migrants long before they have reached their end-destination'.' Marla Asis, Scalabrini Migration Center, Philippines'This book is an important examination of contemporary international migration, as it presents a necessary and timely challenge to the prevailing paradigms of permanent settlement and binational approach to transnationalism. … this is an important book that not only challenges dominant paradigms in migration studies but, more importantly, invites further theorizations of the under-studied phenomenon of multinational migration.' Maria Cecilia Hwang, Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast AsiaTable of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. The Context: 2. Key concepts in stepwise international labor migration; 3. Origin stories; 4. Global but uneven: the market for migrant domestic workers; Part II. The Actors: 5. Stepwise journeys, compared and contrasted; 6. The world according to migrant domestic workers; 7. Inside the stepwise migrant's suitcase; 8. The agents of stepwise migration; Part III. The Aftermath: 9. The end of the road; 10. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing provides a comprehensive historical overview of the diverse literary traditions impacting on this field''s evolution, from the eighteenth century to the present. Drawing on the expertise of over forty international experts, this book gathers innovative scholarship to look forward to new readings and perspectives, while also focusing on undervalued writers, texts, and research areas. Creating new pathways to engage with the naming of a field that has often been contested, readings of literary texts are interwoven throughout with key political, social, and material contexts. In making visible the diverse influences constituting past and contemporary British literary culture, this Cambridge History makes a unique contribution to British, Commonwealth, postcolonial, transnational, diasporic, and global literary studies, serving both as one of the first major reference works to cover four centuries of black and Asian British literary Trade Review'This excellent collection of essays engages fully and seriously with the wealth, complexity, and variety of British writing created by authors of African, Asian and Caribbean descent. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to acknowledge and understand the diversity of British literature and culture and its development over the past 250 years.' Lyn Innes, Emeritus Professor of Postcolonial Literatures, University of Kent'This groundbreaking book of essays is a must-have for all editors, critics and literary editors who need to know this literary history, and all university and other libraries, and writers and readers.' Bernardine Evaristo, Brunel University, London'This outstanding feat of collective scholarship offers not only a wealth of information and an easily accessible reference base, but also a state-of-the art survey with a wide array of incisive interventions in scholarly debates that are likely to have a long-lasting impact on the study of Black and Asian British Writing.' Frank Schulze-Engler, Anglistik'This outstanding feat of collective scholarship offers not only a wealth of information and an easily accessible reference base, but also a state-of-the art survey with a wide array of incisive interventions in scholarly debates that are likely to have a long-lasting impact on the study of Black and Asian British Writing. This History is clearly a must-have: for any library with holdings on British, Anglophone and Postcolonial literature and for any scholar researching or teaching in these fields.' Frank Schulze-Engler, Anglistik'The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing is a welcome compilation … The essays in the volume are generally well written and balanced.' Vaibhav Iype Parel, ariel: A Review of International English Literature'This new Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing will be greatly useful to students and teachers in a variety of fields beyond postcolonial and decolonial studies: intellectual history, literary theory, performance studies, Black Studies, area studies, print culture studies, media studies, diaspora studies. The numerous contributions to this landmark volume … [invite] readers to re-consider the asymmetries at the heart of the colonial power relation, but also to consider the blurred lines between what could be seen as strictly European and what is clearly transnational, transcultural and diasporic.' Commonwealth Essays and StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction Susheila Nasta and Mark U. Stein; Part I. New Formations: The Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century: Preface; 1. Narratives of resistance in the literary archives of slavery Markman Ellis; 2. Writer-travellers and fugitives: insider-outsiders Antoinette Burton; 3. Exoticisations of the self: the first 'Buddha of Suburbia' Mona Narain; 4. Black people of letters: authors, activists, abolitionists Vincent Carretta; 5. Engaging the public: photo- and print-journalism Pallavi Rastogi; Part II. Uneven Histories: Charting Terrains in the Twentieth Century: Preface; Section 1. Global Locals: Making Tracks at the Heart of Empire: 6. Between the wars: Caribbean, Pan-African, and Asian networks Delia Jarrett-Macauley and Susheila Nasta; 7. Mobile modernisms: black and Asian articulations Anna Snaith; 8. Establishing material platforms in literary culture in the 1930s and 1940s Ruvani Ranasinha; 9. Transnational cultural exchange: the BBC as contact zone James Procter; 10. Political autobiography and life-writing: Gandhi, Nehru, Kenyatta, and Naidu Javed Majeed; 11. Staging early black and Asian drama in Britain Colin Chambers; Section 2. Disappointed Citizens: The Pains and Pleasures of Exile: 12. Looking back, looking forward: revisiting the Windrush myth Alison Donnell; 13. Double displacements, diasporic attachments: location and accommodation J. Dillon Brown; 14. Wide-angled modernities and alternative metropolitan imaginaries Mpalive-Hangson Msiska; 15. Forging collective identities: the Caribbean artists movement and the emergence of black Britain Chris Campbell; 16. Breaking new ground: many tongues, many forms Ashok Bery; 17. The lure of postwar London: networks of people, print, and organisations Gail Low; 18. Looking beyond, shifting the gaze: writers in motion Bénédicte Ledent; Section 3. Here to Stay: Forging Dynamic Alliances: 19. Sonic solidarities: the dissenting voices of dub Henghameh Saroukhani; 20. Vernacular voices: fashioning idiom and poetic form Sarah Lawson Welsh; 21. Narratives of survival: social realism and civil rights Chris Weedon; 22. Black and Asian British theatre taking the stage: from the 1950s to the millennium Meenakshi Ponnuswami; 23. The writer and the critic: conversations between literature and theory Vijay Mishra; 24. Forging connections: anthologies, collectives, and the politics of inclusion Nicola L. Abram; 25. Reading the 'black' in the 'Union Jack': institutionalising black and Asian British writing Roger Bromley; Part III. Writing the Contemporary: Preface; Section 4. Looking Back, Looking Forward: 26. Diasporic translocations: many homes, multiple forms Peter Morey; 27. Reinventing the nation: black and Asian British representations John McLeod; 28. Reclaiming the past: Black and Asian British genealogies Tobias Döring; 29. Expanding realism, thinking new worlds Tabish Khair; 30. Writing lives, inventing selves: Black and Asian women's life-writing Ole Birk Laursen; 31. Black and Asian women's poetry: writing across generations Denise deCaires Narain; Section 5. Framing New Visions: 32. Through a different lens: drama, film, new media, and television Florian Stadtler; 33. Children's literature and the construction of contemporary multicultures Susanne Reichl; 34. Redefining the boundaries: black and Asian queer desire Kate Houlden; 35. Prizing otherness: black and Asian British writing in the global marketplace Sarah Brouillette and John R. Coleman; 36. Frontline fictions: popular forms from crime to grime Felipe Espinoza Garrido and Julian Wacker; 37. Reimagining Africa: contemporary figurations by African Britons Madhu Krishnan; 38. Post-secular perspectives: writing and fundamentalisms Rehana Ahmed; 39. Post-ethnicity and the politics of positionality Sara Upstone; Select bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Black Political Thought
Book SynopsisIn Black Political Thought: From David Walker to the Present, Sherrow O. Pinder has brought together the writings and discourses central to black political thought and African American politics, compiling a unique anthology of speeches and articles from over 150 years of African American history. Providing in-depth examinations and critical analyses of topics such as slavery, reconstruction, race and racism, black nationalism and black feminism - from a range of perspectives - students are equipped with a comprehensive and informative account of how these issues have fundamentally shaped and continue to shape black political thinking. Each of the six thematic parts is framed by an introduction written by black scholars working in the field, and a list of further readings. Individual chapters are then enhanced by end-of-chapter questions and author biographies. Written for the interdisciplinary field of black studies, and other social science and humanities disciplines, this textbook offers a unique resource for political scientists, sociologists, historians, feminists, and the general reader of black political thought.Trade Review'This volume is an important text for those interested in the philosophy and history of black political thought.' Melvin Rogers, Brown University'Today, when views of America as a white nation are resurgent, it is vital to appreciate the profound contributions of a long tradition of black political thought to the struggles and ideals that have shaped all Americans, and all of humanity. Sherrow Pinder's outstanding compilation of seminal writings is invaluable now.' Rogers M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania'This valuable new collection guides readers through several essential works in African American political thought. Combining classical writings with a range of contemporary commentaries, this volume shows how our understanding of the modern political world is woefully misguided without thoughtful and critical attention to various modes of racial inequality.' Andrew J. Douglas, Morehouse College'In the long struggle for racial equality, Black contributions in many fields have eventually (if grudgingly) been recognized. But political theory has been an outlier. Sherrow Pinder's invaluable collection on Black political thought will be a great resource for establishing that, in this area also, Black thinkers have developed distinctive ideologies of their own that mainstream political theorists will have to acknowledge and reckon with.' Charles W. Mills, City University of New York Graduate CenterTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Key concepts, ideas, and issues that have formed black political thought Sherrow O. Pinder; Part I. Slavery and its Discontents: Let your Motto Be Resistance! Resistance! Resistance! Brenda E. Stevenson; 1. Our wretchedness in consequence of slavery David Walker; 2. An address to the slaves of the United States Henry Highland Garnet; 3. Comparative condition of the colored people of the United States Martin Robison Delany; 4. What to the slave is the Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass; 5. Why sit ye here and die Maria Stewart; Part II. Reconstruction: Nikki Lynne Marie Brown; 6. Of the dawn of freedom W. E. B. Du Bois; 7. Political independence of the Negro T. Thomas Fortune; 8. The case of the Negro Booker T. Washington; Part III. Black Nationalism: Babacar M'Baye; 9. A vindication of the capacity of the Negro race for self-government, and civilized progress James Theodore Holly; 10. The true solution of the Negro problem Marcus Garvey; 11. Toward black liberation Stokely Carmichael; Part IV. Race and Racism: Cahrisse Burden-Stelly; 12. The race-problem in America Alexander Crummell; 13. The conservation of the races W. E. B. Du Bois; 14. Lynch laws in all its phases Ida B. Wells; Part V. Feminism and Difference: Sherrow O. Pinder; 15. The progress of colored women Mary Church Terrell; 16. What's in a name? Womanism, black feminism and beyond Patricia Hill Collins; 17. To be black, male, and 'feminist' – making womanist space for black men Gary L. Lemons; Part VI. Past, Present, and Future Issues: Erica Cooper; 18. Whiteness as property Cheryl I. Harris; 19. Whiteness, racism, and identity Barbara J. Fields; 20. The antidemocratic power of whiteness Kathleen Neal Cleaver; Glossary; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Kashmir in the Aftermath of Partition
Book SynopsisKashmir remains one of the world''s most militarized areas of dispute, having been in the grips of an armed insurgency against India since the late 1980s. In existing scholarship, ideas of territoriality, state sovereignty, and national security have dominated the discourses on the Kashmir conflict. This book, in contrast, places Kashmir and Kashmiris at the center of historical debate and investigates a broad range of sources to illuminate a century of political players and social structures on both sides of divided Kashmir and in the wider Kashmiri diaspora. In the process, it broadens the contours of Kashmir''s postcolonial and resistance history, complicates the meaning of Kashmiri identity, and reveals Kashmiris'' myriad imaginings of freedom. It asserts that ''Kashmir'' has emerged as a political imaginary in postcolonial era, a vision that grounds Kashmiris in their negotiations for rights not only in India and Pakistan, but also in global political spaces.Trade Review'Shahla Hussain deftly uses a vast array of textual sources and interviews to give us a uniquely comprehensive, detailed, and insightful account of local and migratory Kashmiri intellectuals, politicians, religious leaders, journalists, poets, and others who transformed public culture in Kashmir during a century of struggles for freedom wracked by cultural fractures and stymied by dominant state powers determined to subordinate and control the Muslim majority.' David Ludden, Professor of History, New York University'A tour de force, Shahla Hussain's new history of Kashmir gets to the heart of what Kashmiris mean when they ask for azadi, freedom, and why its meanings have changed in recent decades. She offers new and critical insights into debates on secularism and political Islam in Kashmiris' struggle for justice, insaaf. Using poetry, ballads, official archives, and interviews, Hussain writes a fine-grained history from below that foregrounds Kashmiri experiences. Her wide sweep includes Kashmiris in Azad Kashmir, in Britain, and the wider diaspora, and analyses the role of expatriate Kashmiris in bringing global attention to their beloved homeland. This book is essential reading if we are to move beyond the tired constraints of national security frameworks and patronage politics, and the new looming threat of Kashmiris becoming a disenfranchised minority in their own land. The paths not taken, or once taken, discussed here, can help us begin anew the process of treating Kashmiris as human beings with rights, aspirations, and a determining voice in their future.' Neeti Nair, Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia'Kashmir's struggles since India's independence are now over seven decades old. There are, however, few scholarly studies that have looked past the India-Pakistan conflict to take stock of the intellectual roots and historical evolution of this struggle. This is a timely and insightful work of scholarship, meticulous in its research and incisive in its analysis. Shahla Hussain has made valuable contribution to scholarship on contemporary South Asia and our understanding of the Kashmir conflict.' Vali Nasr, Professor at Johns Hopkins University and author of The Shia Revival and the Forces of Fortune'A comprehensive and insightful study of politics and resistance in Kashmir and the Kashmiri diaspora. A must-read to understand the situation in contemporary Kashmir.' Chitralekha Zutshi, Class of 1962 Professor of History, College of William and MaryTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Meanings of freedom in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir; 2. Freedom, loyalty, belonging: Kashmir after decolonization; 3. Puppet regimes: Collaboration and the political economy of Kashmiri resistance; 4. The politics of plebiscite: Discontent and regional Dissidence; 5. Mapping Kashmiri imaginings of freedom in the inter-regional and global arenas; 6. Jang-i-Azadi (War for freedom): Religion, politics and resistance; Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix 1: Map of the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Cambridge University Press Promoting Democracy Reinforcing Authoritarianism
Book SynopsisAppearing against the backdrop of Jordan''s remarkable levels of authoritarian stability and accounting for Jordan being one of the highest recipients of US and European ''democracy promotion'' funding, Promoting Democracy, Reinforcing Authoritarianism examines what external ''democracy promoters'' actually do when they promote democracy. By examining why Jordanian authoritarianism is so stable, not despite but in part because of external attempts at ''democracy promotion'', Benjamin Schuetze demonstrates the depth of Orientalist attitudes among ''democracy promoters''. In highlighting the undermining of democratic values as they become circumscribed by the free market and security concerns, Schuetze suggests that although US and European policy in Jordan comes under the cloak of a universal morality which claims the surmounting of authoritarianism as its objective, its effect is not that different to traditional modes of imperial support for authoritarian regimes. As a result, this is a vivid illustration of what greater US and European policy presence in the Global South really means.Trade Review'Schuetze has produced a much-needed analysis of how US and EU 'democracy promotion' in Jordan buttresses authoritarian rule. Textured and layered, his work challenges ideas of a benevolent monarchy and well-intentioned external actors, providing us with important insights into the logics and limits of the 'reform game' in Jordan.' Ziad M. Abu-Rish, Ohio University'Schuetze offers a theoretically-informed, practice-oriented, empirically rigorous expose of 'Western' promotion of certain aspects of procedural democracy in Jordan. In addition to projects oriented towards elections and civil society, respectively, he investigates neoliberal economic models and security collaboration, placing political aid in the context of global power structures and ideologies.' Sheila Carapico, University of Richmond'Western democracy promotion programs in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan have been state of the art for decades. In this important study, Schuetze blows the lid off by examining what democracy promotion actually does. Based on a wealth of interviews and striking observational evidence, Schuetze frames democracy promotion policies as intimately tied to monarchical absolutism in Jordan.' Pete W. Moore, Case Western Reserve University, OhioTable of ContentsPreface: in Jordan 'reform is not a strange word'; 1. 'Democracy promotion' and moral authority; 2. Who's afraid of politics?; 3. Supporting, mobilising for, and ignoring Jordanian elections; 4. The Jordanian civil society market; 5. Break on through to the other side; 6. Securing Jordan; 7. Imperial coercion, liberal intervention and the rise of populist politics; Sources and bibliography.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cybercrime
Book SynopsisNow in its second edition, Cybercrime: Key Issues and Debates provides a valuable overview of this fast-paced and growing area of law. As technology develops and internet-enabled devices become ever more prevalent, new opportunities exist for that technology to be exploited by criminals. One result of this is that cybercrime is increasingly recognised as a distinct branch of criminal law. The book offers readers a thematic and critical overview of cybercrime, introducing the key principles and clearly showing the connections between topics as well as highlighting areas subject to debate. Written with an emphasis on the law in the UK but considering in detail the Council of Europe's important Convention on Cybercrime, this text also covers the jurisdictional aspects of cybercrime in international law. Themes discussed include crimes against computers, property, offensive content, and offences against the person, and, new to this edition, cybercrime investigation.Table of Contents1. Cybercrime Part I: Crimes Against Computers 2. Hacking and Malware: Targeting the Technology 3. Targeting Data 4. From Hacktivism to Cyberwarfare: Weaponising Cyberspace Part II: "Property" 5. Intellectual and Virtual Property 6. Fraud Part III: Offensive Content 7. Hate and Harm 8. Sexualised Content 1: Adult pornography 9. Sexualised Content 2: Child pornography Part IV: Offences Against the Person 10. Offences Against the Person Part V: Investigating Cybercrime 11. Jurisdiction 12.Policing Cybercrime: Structures 13. Policing Cybercrime: Investigative Powers
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McGraw-Hill Education Drugs Society and Human Behavior ISE
Book SynopsisDrugs, Society and Human Behavior provides the latest information on drug use and its effects on society as well as on individuals. Trusted for more than 45 years by both instructors and students, this authoritative resource examines drugs and drug use from a variety of perspectivesbehavioral, pharmacological, historical, social, legal, and clinical. The 18th Edition includes the very latest information and statistics on drug use trends, treatments, and drug-related mortalityTable of ContentsSECTION ONE DRUG USE IN MODERN SOCIETYCHAPTER 1 DRUG USE: AN OVERVIEWCHAPTER 2 DRUG USE AS A SOCIAL PROBLEMCHAPTER 3 A HISTORY OF DRUG POLICY IN THE UNITED STATESSECTION TWO HOW DRUGS WORKCHAPTER 4 THE NERVOUS SYSTEM CHAPTER 5 THE ACTIONS OF DRUGSSECTION THREE: UPPERS AND DOWNERSCHAPTER 6 STIMULANTSCHAPTER 7 DEPRESSANTS AND INHALANTSCHAPTER 8 MEDICATION FOR MENTAL DISORDERSSECTION FOUR ALCOHOLCHAPTER 9 ALCOHOL SECTION FIVE FAMILIAR DRUGS CHAPTER 10 TOBACCOCHAPTER 11 CAFFEINECHAPTER 12 DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS AND OVER-THE-COUNTER DRUGSSECTION SIX RESTRICTED DRUGSCHAPTER 13 OPIOIDSCHAPTER 14 PSYCHEDELICSCHAPTER 15 CANNABISCHAPTER 16 PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUGSSECTION SEVEN PREVENTION AND HARM REDUCTIONCHAPTER 17 PREVENTING SUBSTANCE ABUSECHAPTER 18 TREATING SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS AND DRUG POLICY ALTERNATIVESAPPENDIX A DRUG NAMESAPPENDIX B RESOURCES FOR INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCEGLOSSARYINDEX
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McGraw-Hill Education Introduction to Mass Communication 2026 Release ISE
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McGraw-Hill Education Interpersonal Conflict 2025 Release ISE
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McGraw-Hill Education Thinking Critically About Ethical Issues ISE
Book SynopsisThinking Critically About Ethical Issues encourages students to reason out for themselves the best answers to moral problems, rather than providing answers for students to memorize and repeat. Striking a balance between the theoretical and the practical, Ruggiero''s text discusses the history of ethics, but its focus is on doing ethics to promote the development of critical thinking skills and to help students acquire confidence in their own judgement. The short chapter length allows students to spend less time reading and more time doing ethical analysis. Instructors can customize Thinking Critically About Ethical Issues (as print or ebook) to include selections from Discourses, McGraw Hill's collection of more than 450 classical and contemporary philosophy readings, offering convenience in discussing ethical issues with the exemplars they prefer.Table of ContentsCHAPTER 1: Preliminary ConsiderationsCHAPTER 2: The Role of the Majority ViewCHAPTER 3: The Role of Feelings CHAPTER 4: The Role of ConscienceCHAPTER 5: Comparing CulturesCHAPTER 6: A Foundation for JudgmentCHAPTER 7: The Basic CriteriaCHAPTER 8: Considering ConsequencesCHAPTER 9: Considering ObligationsCHAPTER 10: Considering Moral IdealsCHAPTER 11: Determining Moral ResponsibilityCHAPTER 12: A Perspective on HistoryCONTEMPORARY ETHICAL CONTROVERSIES:EducationMedia and the ArtsSexGovernmentLawBusinessMedicineScienceWarAPPENDIX 1: Writing About Moral IssuesAPPENDIX 2: Researching Moral Issues
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McGraw-Hill Education THiNK 2024 Release ISE
Book SynopsisTHiNK is a multicultural and interdisciplinary introductory critical-thinking textbook that offers core content and pedagogy in a succinct format that provides students with the skills necessary to make and commit to decisions in their lives based on reason and logic. THiNK also offers students extensive opportunity for application and practice, to develop and apply their critical-thinking skills. Each chapter in THiNK addresses a different topic related to critical thinking, beginning with presenting the basic critical-thinking skills in Chapters 1 to 6. Chapters 7 and 8 apply these skills to analyzing inductive and deductive arguments. Chapters 9 to 13 provide flexibility to the instructor, as each of these chapters involves applying the critical skills studied in Chapters 1 to 8 to a different contemporary issue (e.g., Mass Media; Science; Marketing & Advertising). The major sections in each chapter are followed by a series of engaging application exercises.
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McGraw-Hill Education Human Communication 2024 Release ISE
Book SynopsisHuman Communication is an integrated program that helps students practice skills developed from theory and research, build confidence in public speaking, and succeed in the introductory course. Reflecting the latest scholarship and with an eye to everyday communication scenarios, Human Communication is designed to make introductory communication studies immediate and relevant to students.New lead authors Titsworth and Hosek want students to be ready to Communicate effectively in novel and uncertain situations Assess their audience and establish common ground Listen effectively and respond appropriately Practice the skills appropriate to a variety of relationships and cultures Adapt their communication using current technologies Speak with confidence and clarity on important topicsThere is a new focus throughout the text on how communication can help individuals relate in an increasingly po
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Cambridge University Press Health Psychology in Australia
Book SynopsisIn today''s diverse society, health professionals require a complete understanding of how physiological, social and psychological factors impact physical wellbeing. Health Psychology in Australia provides a contemporary, relevant perspective on the unique climate in which this increasingly important area of healthcare is practised in Australia. Drawing on the expertise of the author team, this book gives students the skills to identify and evaluate health risk factors and to intervene in and manage health behaviour. Each chapter includes learning objectives, case studies with accompanying reflection questions, critical thinking activities and a detailed summary to consolidate learning. The comprehensive glossary and links to online resources solidify understanding of key concepts and ideas. Written with a focus on respectful advocacy of health promotion, Health Psychology in Australia provides psychology and allied health students with a comprehensive understanding of the role of the hTable of Contents1. Introduction to health psychology Jill Dorrian and Einar Thorsteinsson; 2. Understanding health behaviour and evaluating change Jill Dorrian and Amanda Hutchinson; 3. Common models in health psychology Einar Thorsteinsson; 4. Understanding presentation of research in health: research designs, figures and statistics Jill Dorrian; 5. Nutrition, exercise and health Einar Thorsteinsson; 6. Sleep, sleep loss, safety and health Jill Dorrian; 7. Health risk behaviours: alcohol, drugs and smoking Jill Dorrian and Amanda Hutchinson; 8. Stress and managing stress Mirella Di Benedetto; 9. Lifestyle-related chronic illness (CVD and T2D) and depression Mirella Di Benedetto; 10. Experiencing cancer: an acute and chronic condition Kerry Sherman; 11. Pain and its optimal management Melissa Day; 12. Health inequalities Einar Thorsteinsson; 13. Cross-cultural psychology Katrina Lane-Krebs.
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Fordography Kyiv Moments In Time
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Abrams On Belonging
Book SynopsisIn an age of social isolation, what does it mean to belong? “In this timely, warm, and persuasive book, [Kim Samuel] shares stories and solutions for reclaiming common purpose and authentic connection. On Belonging is essential reading for anyone who wants to imagine and build a more inclusive future.”—Timothy Shriver, chairman of Special Olympics Humanity is at an inflection point. Stress, disconnection, and increasing environmental degradation have people yearning for more than just material progress, personal freedom, or political stability. We are searching for deeper connection. We are longing to belong.On Belonging is an exploration of the crisis of social isolation and of the fundamental human need to belong. It considers belonging across four core dimensions: in our relationships with other people, in our rootedness in nature, in our ability to influence political and economic decision-making, and in our finding Trade Review“Samuel . . . debuts with an innovative program for fostering community . . . The author’s interviews with a diverse roster of interlocutors . . . offer captivating profiles of what connection and community look like in action and effectively model the kind of cross-cultural relationships she encourages readers to develop. This compassionate journalistic treatise on building more inclusive communities hits the mark.” * Publishers Weekly *“How do we overcome the division and despair that threaten to consume us? Kim Samuel offers a powerful answer: We need to build experiences and institutions of belonging. In this timely, warm, and persuasive book, she shares stories and solutions for reclaiming common purpose and authentic connection. On Belonging is essential reading for anyone who wants to imagine and build a more inclusive future.” -- Timothy Shriver, chairman of Special Olympics and cofounder of CASEL“On Belonging comes at the perfect time, when so many feel adrift and alone. Kim Samuel traveled the world to study the human need to belong and why so many don’t. Drawing on a stunning array of conversations, Samuel has written an important book that shows a path to a more connected future.” -- Mary Jordan * Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post correspondent *“On Belonging is a roadmap for escaping the isolation that has become so prevalent today. Kim Samuel shows the value of belonging and positions it at the center of nearly every facet of human life, from education to psychology, from caregiving to urban planning. This is an important book, both for describing a problem that is fundamental yet often neglected, and for proposing meaningful and effective solutions.” -- Kenneth Roth * executive director of Human Rights Watch *“In this important book, Kim Samuel explores how we can find greater emotional, intellectual, ecological, and spiritual connectedness. There’s no human being alive who does not have a wealth of gifts to give. On Belonging shows how we can help every person know their worth and share what they have to give. It reveals how we can realize our right to belong.” -- Graça Machel, founder, Graça Machel Trust“With heart and soul, Kim Samuel makes the compelling case for a vision of human progress that’s both new and ancient. Our true well-being depends not on our wealth or technological sophistication but, rather, on our degree of shared belonging. Through powerful storytelling and analysis, this book helps us turn our focus to what really matters. On Belonging is an important book for the times in which we’re living.” -- Wade Davis * professor of anthropology, University of British Columbia *“Kim Samuel dives deeply into one of the most complex issues of twenty-first-century human existence, the results of which can be discovered in this compelling book. On Belonging draws narratives from profound life experiences, timeless literature, and cutting-edge academic research. The key to finding potential solutions to so many of the social, ecological, economic, and political challenges we face will be revealed within these pages. Find inspiration and even hope right here!” -- Annie Lennox, singer-songwriter and global feminist activist“Kim Samuel has dedicated her entire life to ending isolation. Now with her lucidly written new book, On Belonging, she is showing the world that the keys to happiness are not ego-driven isolation or artificially imposed divisions, but mutuality, reciprocity, and relationships. On Belonging is a book urgently needed to heal the wounds caused by isolation and separation. Either we swim together or we sink together. Kim Samuel’s voice is a voice of wisdom, love, and compassion, and this is one of the most important and timely books of the year.” -- Satish Kumar, editor emeritus * Resurgence & Ecologist *“In On Belonging, my beloved goddaughter Kim Samuel shows how we can help build a world of love, respect, and trust. It’s a guide to how our whole society can operate on the principle of harmony. We can’t live without human connection. This book shows how we can all overcome the disconnection and reawaken the beauty. Read this book, y’awl!” -- Quincy Jones“On Belonging is an urgently needed response to the terrible isolation which has shattered our societies. Drawing on her extraordinarily rich tapestry of interviews and experiences, Kim Samuel’s highly accessible and engagingly written book offers profound insights and should be read by the widest possible audience.” -- Ian Goldin, professor of globalization and development, University of Oxford“In this remarkable book, Kim Samuel shows how we can and must increase our sense of belonging. Surveying all aspects of our lives, she uses powerful evidence and stories to demonstrate how we can do this. An informative and touching book.” -- Lord Richard Layard, professor and co-director, Well-Being Program, London School of Economics
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Bristol University Press Its Basic Income
Book SynopsisExperts, well known figures and key thinkers from across the world explore the concept of a Universal Basic Income. Including international case studies, this engaging book provides an indispensable guide to an innovative policy idea, and contributes to wider conversations about the future of work and the role of welfare in the 21st Century.Trade Review"A vital contribution and guide to the growing global debate about an idea that could promote social equity, enhance dignity and boost wellbeing for all citizens." Archbishop Desmond Tutu "Every so often, an idea bubbles up which becomes impossible to ignore. Downes and Lansley could not be more timely in curating this urgent conversation" Tom Clark, Editor, Prospect Magazine "A superb forensic analysis of universal basic income schemes leaving no stone unturned." Malcolm Dean, former Guardian social policy editor "This wide ranging and fascinating collection of essays makes an important contribution to the growing global debate about universal basic income as a key policy instrument to address 21st century challenges." Matthew Taylor, RSA "An excellent overview of the basic income debate, recommended reading for anyone who wants to delve deeper into one of the most exciting ideas of our time." Rutger Bregman, author of Utopia for Realists "An inclusive assessment that marries keen enthusiasm for UBI with fair-minded acknowledgement of its practical and political difficulties. This book will swiftly become the go-to source for all things UBI." David Walker, co-author of Unjust Rewards, contributing editor Guardian Public "It's fantastic to have such a rich, multi-faceted book on the global basic income discussion. All the more welcome for not shying away from some of its harshest critics." Barb Jacobson, Basic Income UK "Dispels the gloom and sets out the foundations for a better future: read it, get behind it and make it happen!" Richard Wilkinson, author of The Spirit Level "Changes to the nature of work means that innovative thinking is urgently needed and the idea of a universal basic income has to be explored. A vital read." Helena Kennedy QC "This book offers many fresh and stimulating perspectives on basic income. It challenges us to rethink the future of our societies." Johanna Perkioe, University of Tampere, FinlandTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Amy Downes and Stewart Lansley; Part I: The case for; As artificial intelligence and robotics advance, a basic income may be the only viable solution ~ Martin Ford; Could a universal basic income become the basis for working better in a fast-changing world? ~ Eduardo Rodriguez; An economic shock absorber ~ Chris Oestereich; Questioning the natural order ~ Brian Eno; To keep music alive ~ Toby Deller; Feminist Reflections on basic income ~ Ursula Barry; Women, motherhood and care ~ Vanessa Olorenshaw; My own private basic income ~ Karl Widerquist; Coming off the fence on UBI ~ Ruth Lister; Part II: Towards tomorrow’s society; A new politics ~ Anthony Painter, Royal Society of Arts; UBI for the post-industrial age ~ Roope Mokka and Katariina Rantanen, Demos Helsinki; A down payment on a new, cooperative economy ~ Avi Lewis and Katie McKenna, Leap Manifesto; Basic income: a solution to which challenge ~ Brenton Caffin, Nesta, UK; What we talk about when we talk about work ~ Olivia Hanks, Norwich Radical; It’s time to stop tinkering ~ Jonathan Bartley and Caroline Lucas, UK Green Party; How I learnt to stop worrying and love basic income ~ Jonathan Reynolds MP, Labour; Trust trumps control ~ Uffe Elbæk, Alternativet, Denmark; Part III: Dissenting voices; Why basic income can never be a progressive solution ~ Francine Mestrum; A powerful tax engine pulling a tiny cart ~ Ian Gough; A Basic Income and the Democratisation of Social Policy ~ Peter Beresford OBE; Why a basic income is not good enough ~ Ed Whitfield; Unconditional basic income is a dead end ~ Anke Hassel; Part IV: Approaches to implementation; Basic income and social democracy ~ Philippe van Parijs; History and the contemporary UK debate ~ Malcolm Torry, Citizen’s Income Trust; Basic income and the democratisation of development in Europe ~ Louise Haagh; The Indian experience: The debt trap ~ Sarath Davala; The Indian experience: The impact on women and girls ~ Soumya Kapoor; A Scottish pilot ~ Annie Miller; The libertarian case for UBI ~ Matt Zwolinski; For us all: redesigning social security for the 2020s ~ Andrew Harrop; Making UBI work: the incremental approach ~ Stewart Lansley and Howard Reed; Part V: Year of the trials; An earthquake in Finland ~ Otto Lehto; Growing a movement: the Canadian context ~ Roderick Benns and Jenna van Draanen; The post social democratic pathway for the 21st Century; The Dutch example ~ Alexander de Roo; The California Experiment ~ Elizabeth Rhodes, Y Combinator, USA; ‘Eight’:The Ugandan pilot ~ Steven Janssens, Belgium; The Kenyan experiment ~ Give Directly; Brazil: a basic income experiment as a citizen-to-citizen project ~ Bruna Augusto and Marcus Brancaglione; Part VI: The way forward; Building momentum ~ Amy Downes and Stewart Lansley.
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Little, Brown Book Group Dont Burn This Book
Book Synopsis''Topical, engaging, personable, and above all, reassuring'' Dr. Jordan B. PetersonFrom host of The Rubin Report, the most-watched talk show about free speech and big ideas on YouTube right now, a roadmap for free thinking in an increasingly censored world.The left is no longer liberal.Once on the side of free speech and tolerance, progressives now ban speakers from college campuses, cancel people who aren''t up to date on the latest genders, and force religious people to violate their conscience. They have abandoned the battle of ideas and have begun fighting a battle of feelings. This uncomfortable truth has turned moderates and true liberals into the politically homeless class.Dave Rubin launched his political talk show The Rubin Report in 2015 as a meeting ground for free thinkers who realize that partisan politics is a dead end. He hosts people he both agrees and disagrees with--including those who have been dismissed, deplatTrade ReviewDave Rubin's genuine curiosity and willingness to seriously consider opinions across the political spectrum have rightly made The Rubin Report a necessary corrective to modern journalism. Don't Burn This Book charts his personal and political transformation from predictable progressive to independent and informed thinker in a manner that his readers should find topical, engaging, personable and, above all, reassuring * Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, author of 12 Rules for Life and Maps of Meaning *
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Problem-Oriented Policing
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Quercus Publishing What On Earth?: An alien's guide to fixing
Book SynopsisThe much-needed manifesto by the Sanest Politician in the Entire Cosmos, from capping the price of croissants at £1 to taking over Downing Street.'Count Binface will be Prime Minister. It's only a matter of time' IndependentGreetings, life-form! My name is Count Binface. I am an intergalactic space warrior, leader of the Recyclons and three-time British election veteran. And as part of my overarching mission to control the entire omniverse, I have come to conquer Britain. It's not that I want to do this - you need me to. Because the one thing everyone can agree on right now is that Earth is in an absolute state. And of all its messed-up nations, the British are particularly deranged. In this book, I share my story for the first time, my political beliefs and even the occasional recipe, in return for a reasonable - nay, bargain - amount of Earth currency. I also provide an alien's-visor-view of your past, so that you can learn from past mistakes. This isn't the first potted history of Britain ever to be committed to print, but I can guarantee that compared to any others, mine will be the most accurate. If anyone cares to argue about that, which one of us has had access to a time machine? So settle down, grab a beverage, and let's make your planet Count.'Count Binface in his steely, glimmering, elusiveness is both a galactically intimidating - and curiously heartening symbol of the future of British politics - #believeinthebin' Rory Stewart'Count Binface is out of this world' Emily MaitlisTrade ReviewCount Binface in his steely, glimmering, elusiveness is both a galactically intimidating - and curiously heartening symbol of the future of British politics - #believeinthebin * Rory Stewart *A really funny book, full of great comic ideas and sometimes surprising common sense * Spectator *Count Binface is out of this world * Emily Maitlis *Halfway through this book I actually started thinking Binface had some brilliant ideas...he had me at "London Bridge should be renamed Phoebe Waller" * Jeremy Vine *There are about twenty jokes on every page. Very funny * Greg Jenner *Our favourite space politician * Daily Star *Count Binface will be Prime Minister. It's only a matter of time * Independent *
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Technology & the Future of Cities: Opportunities
Book SynopsisCities are beginning a new era of change. From 1920 to 2010 many U.S. cities hollowed out as suburbs grew faster than their urban cores. The trend started reversing in 2011 as Millennials and Baby Boomers looking for social connections and convenience settled in urban neighborhoods. Accompanying the resurgence of residential cities are complex and persistent urban challenges, including resilience against climate change and natural disasters. This book focuses on the technologies that shape some key infrastructures and economic activities, as opposed to those involved in delivering education, health care, or social services. It also outlines a vision and an approach agencies can use to move forward together in pursuing a vision of smart and connected communities.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Social Issues Research Summaries (with
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Social Issues Research Summaries (with
Book SynopsisThis book compiles research summaries of top professionals in the field of social issues research from a number of different focuses in this important field.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc The Power of Global Aging
Book SynopsisThis book is a demographical overview of the key issues associated with globalisation and global aging in the 21st century. The book explores how populational aging has increased the implications for socio-economic issues for individuals and populations. The book also explores China which is fast on its way to becoming the most powerful economic force in the world. The book explores some of the major issues populational aging impacts, including pensions, the labour market, care, social security and family life. The power of global aging in the 21st century is one of the greatest challenges, along with climate change, for the sustainability of nation states across the world.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Questioning Jewish Caribbean Identity
Book SynopsisThis book lends a fresh, psychological approach to identity and Jewishness in the Caribbean. It explores the ways in which individuals in the islands have maintained their connections to Judaism as lineage, as a religion and as a culture. Transported overseas from Spain and Portugal in the 1500s while fleeing the Inquisition, and later during the second wave of exodus from Europe under threat of World War II, the Caribbean provided safe harbours for a number of Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews. There is no doubt that their presence in the Caribbean and Latin America over the last 500 years has had a tremendous impact on the growth and development of industry, modern commerce and culture. Their contribution to their new island homelands has been a lasting one. From the technology for the cultivation of sugar and the development of trade and commerce across the Atlantic, to the arts and education, Jewish life within the region has left and continues to leave an indelible mark. For the author, there have been many stops along the way in completing this book. She has travelled and interacted with Jews across the globe, and these encounters were the genesis of the questions she asked herself about Jews of all descriptions. Indeed, many of the questions and their answers arise from an existential need to rationalise her own thoughts about her personal identity. This is a pattern that the author has noted among a number of the theorists included in this work. From Erickson with his Danish-Jewish background and the subsequent elaboration of his psychosocial theory; to Stuart Halls cultural theory, born out of his own mixed heritage and later inter-ethnic marriage; and Nathan Blumenthal, who changes his rather Jewish name to Nathaniel Branden as he becomes known for his psychology of self-esteem. Of course, it is impossible to speak of identity without acknowledging the seminal contribution of Freuds psychoanalytic theory as a way of making meaning for ourselves in the world. Common to these theorist and many others, readers will encounter their own struggle with national, personal and ethnic identities while exploring the pages of this book. Claiming an identity suggests an autonomous act of loyalty to chosen identity, and for some this can mean the abandonment of previous ways of seeing themselves. This is the central threat of acts of identity; it signals, I am with them and equally, I have no allegiance to you. These are the sentiments over which battles are waged, causing people who appear indistinguishable from each other to obliterate neighbouring nations. This book is a story of the survival of a people, practice, culture, and religion.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Urban and Rural Poverty: Prevalence, Reduction
Book SynopsisThis book opens with a review of urban poverty in Bangladesh, analysing socioeconomic aspects of the marginal poor under three headings: migration and the urban poor, household characteristics, and neighbourhood characteristics. Next, the authors investigate the extent of poverty in rural and urban Nigeria between 2004 and 2010. They examines the contributions of growth and redistribution factors to changes in poverty within the two sectors. The analysis was based on the National Living Standard Survey data of 2004 and 2009/2010 sourced from the National Bureau of Statistics and analysed using Shapley decomposition approach. This collection also examines how the socio-economic characteristics of households influence rural poverty. The data for the study was extracted from the revised Nigerian General Household Survey data from 2010-2011, and a logistic regression technique was used to analyse said data. The authors argue that the improvement of rural access in developing countries is essential for the success of sustainable development goals, since poor access is one of the major causes of rural poverty and hampers rural development. The concluding chapter describes the experiences from a research project on modern logistic chains in the Mount Kenya region, demonstrating how small scale farmers organised, how important infrastructures such as rural roads, grading sheds and cooling devices were, as well as intermediate means of transport in combination with modern cooling logistics and communication technologies.Table of ContentsFor more information, please visit our website at:https://novapublishers.com/shop/urban-and-rural-poverty-prevalence-reduction-strategies-and-challenges/
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