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Book SynopsisA New York Times Bestseller New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceHow do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, and too many more. It means celebrating powerful moments of black self-determination for LeBron James, Dave Chappelle, and Frank Ocean.In Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching , Mychal Denzel Smith chronicles his own personal and political education during these tumultuous years, describing his efforts to come into his own in a world that denied his humanity. Smith unapologetically upends reigning assumptions about black masculinity, rewriting the script for black manhood so that depression and anxiety aren't considered taboo, and feminism and LGBTQ rights become part of the fight. The questions Smith asks in this book are urgent,for him, for the martyrs and the tokens, and for the Trayvons that could have been and are still waiting.Trade Review"'Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching' is ambitious, ardent and timely." --Walton Muyumba, New York Times Book Review "An ambitious blend of autobiography and cultural criticism." --New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice "An audacious debut book...This is a must-read book for the generations." --Washington Post "[Mychal Denzel Smith] is a voice entering the ring with fire. With raw urgency, intelligence and blistering candor, [Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching] tells the story of a young man's political education."--New Republic "[Mychal Denzel Smith] provides perspective into the complexity of blackness that's commonly lost in discussions about race...this memoir is both groundbreaking and saddening. It might be the first of its kind: a book that offers a comprehensive look into the genesis of black millennial lives through the eyes of a young black man." --Daren W. Jackson, Chicago Tribune "Here is the deeply thought accounting of the contemporary black experience by one of our foremost writers and thinkers. A scintillating, rewarding read."--The Root "'Invisible Man' is a philosophical work...[Mychal Denzel Smith's] straightforward explanation of his experience growing up as a black man in America is worth our urgent attention." --Michael Kleber-Diggs, Minneapolis Star-Tribune "...wonderful...While Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching may not have the answers, its attempt to define the undefined something buzzing about blackness feels like catching lightning in a bottle." --Atlantic.com "...engaging and brilliant." --Truthout "What makes 'Invisible Man, Got the Whole Watching' so revolutionary is Smith's brutal honesty...Unlike many of his predecessors, [Smith] gives a raw recount of a young black man's life through the framework of black feminism and cultural criticism." --Huda Hassan, National Post "...a superbly thoughtful memoir." --Buzzfeed "A useful blueprint for radical and intersectional politics in a country where a black child can grow up to be president but where living while black is still dangerous."--Kirkus Reviews "Invisible Man, Got The Whole World Watching is quintessentially Mychal Denzel Smith: brilliant, honest, courageous, hilarious, and transparent. Most importantly, it is one of the best and most authentic examples of black male feminist cultural criticism that we have ever seen. Although he draws from his own experience, Mychal avoids the self-importance and navel gazing that compromise most memoirs of this genre. Instead, he offers a narrative that is at once unique and ordinary, reflective and instructive. This book should be read by anyone trying to understand what it means to be black and male and committed to this beautiful struggle for freedom." --Marc Lamont Hill, author of Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond "If I kept a diary of my deepest thoughts, plaguing insecurities and varied triumphs--this would be it. It is a cover to cover conversation with the reader on the complexity of (hopefully) growing to be a Black Man in the American Empire. Mychal's coming of age book, his first, is a masterful meld of personal reflection, political analysis and honest insight that yearns to be felt, must be read and demands to be seen." --umi selah, organizer and co-founder, the dream defenders "Decades ago, Toni Cade Bambara wrote, 'The purpose of a writer is to make revolution irresistible.' Mychal Denzel Smith, in addition to crafting a genius piece of art that swims through politics and prose, has created one of the first books of my lifetime that makes structural and interpersonal revolution irresistible. Unlike many 20th and 21st century memoirs written by black men, Smith convinces readers that any conversation or movement towards black liberation that doesn't also reckon with heteropatriarchy is brittle at best, and likely destructive. Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching is the first book of my life that I need to read with my mother, my grandmother and my children. Mychal Denzel Smith has done it. He has written a potential revolution." --Kiese Laymon, author of How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America "It has become routine to witness black boys meeting violent ends. Captured on police dash cams or bystander smart phones we watch black boys die as videos replay hourly on cable news and are clicked feverishly on YouTube. It is still rare to watch black boys grow--to hear them laugh or cry, to declare their passions and to reason carefully. This is part of why Smith's book is so affirming, necessary, even delightful despite its brutality and angst. Mychal Denzel Smith answers the pressing but unasked question, what would happen if all those black boys felled by bullets had a chance to make mistakes, read books, fall in love, hone skills, take new paths, and grow up? The story is fully and unflinchingly Mychal's and because Mychal is so distinctively self-aware, so intellectually invested, and emotionally raw, it cannot simply stand in as a generic tale for all the lost black boys-- except that they too would have had stories entirely their own to tell if only they had had a chance to write them. We owe it to them and more importantly to ourselves to read Mychal's book and render visible what we would rather forget." --Melissa Harris-Perry, Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University "Mychal Denzel Smith takes us on a political and cultural journey of young black manhood that unapologetically examines, parallels, and weighs the influence of Obama and LeBron, Kanye and Trayvon, Malcolm X and Chapelle on his own becoming in the 21st century. By centering the black boy he once was, the boy many refuse to see, we face him head-on. Smith trusts us to not only see him in all his vulnerability, bravado, and incisiveness, but to know him. This is Smith's selfless offering." --Janet Mock, New York Times bestselling author of Redefining Realness "With this book, Mychal Denzel Smith solidifies his place as one of the most important voices of his generation. A gifted storyteller with sharp political analysis, he straddles the personal and political with aplomb. This is a book everyone should read." --Jessica Valenti, Guardian US columnist and author of Sex Object: A Memoir

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Book SynopsisWhat do women want? The same thing men were promised in the Declaration of Independence: happiness, or at least the freedom to pursue it.For women, though, pursuing happiness is a complicated endeavor, and if you head out into America and talk to women one-on-one, as Jill Filipovic has done, you'll see that happiness is indelibly shaped by the constraints of gender, the expectations of feminine sacrifice, and the myriad ways that womanhood itself differs along lines of race, class, location, and identity.In The H-Spot, Filipovic argues that the main obstacle standing in-between women and happiness is a rigged system. In this world of unfinished feminism, men have long been able to "have it all" because of free female labor, while the bar of achievement for women has only gotten higher. Never before have women at every economic level had to work so much (whether it's to be an accomplished white-collar employee or just make ends meet). Never before have the standards of feminine perfection been so high. And never before have the requirements for being a "good mother" been so extreme. If our laws and policies made women's happiness and fulfillment a goal in and of itself, Filipovic contends, many of our country's most contentious political issues - from reproductive rights to equal pay to welfare spending - would swiftly be resolved.Filipovic argues that it is more important than ever to prioritize women's happiness-and that doing so will make men's lives better, too. Here, she provides an outline for a feminist movement we all need and a blueprint for how policy, laws, and society can deliver on the promise of the pursuit of happiness for all.

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Book SynopsisThe world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask: How much does a ghost reduce a house's value? How are winemakers responding to climate change? How much should you tip your Uber driver? Should your dog fear Easter more than fireworks? The keen minds of The Economist love to look beyond everyday appearances to find out what really makes things tick. In this latest collection of The Economist Explains, they have gathered the weirdest and most counter-intuitive answers they've found in their endless quest to explain our bizarre world. Take a peek at some Unconventional Wisdom - and pass it on! The world only gets more amazing when discoveries are shared.Trade ReviewThe Father Christmas of knowledge -- Giles CorenPraise for Go Figure: Books like this make you wary of ever guessing the answer to anything -- Mark Mason * Daily Mail *

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Book SynopsisWhen the renowned social scientist Erik Olin Wright passed away in 2019 at the height of his intellectual powers, he left behind an unfinished project intended to forge a connection between class analysis and real utopias. In taking up this project, the essays in this volume pay tribute to his generative theory, crystalline thinking, inspirational teaching, and personal generosity.- 'Friends of the late Erik Olin Wright celebrate his life and work with essays about his lifelong preoccupations with analytical Marxism and the transformation of capitalist societies. The result is a beautiful book that glows with intelligence, optimism, and love.' FRANCES FOX PIVEN- 'Erik Wright succumbed to cancer while he was advancing a decades-long project of envisioning real utopias—designs for a workable socialism. The essays in this superb volume recount this monumental undertaking and also advance it in significant ways.' VIVEK CHIBBER- 'Erik Olin Wright devote

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Book SynopsisAfter slipping through the cracks of modern life and into the amoral underground beyond work-a-day society, George F finds himself at the heart of London's political frontline, where anarchy, alcohol and addiction stalk the streets of a different city to the one you know. From life on the street to behind the barricades, from the occupation of derelict buildings to inevitable evictions and confrontation with law and order, from euphoria to despair, Total Shambles follows the journey of an idealistic writer as he tries to thrive and survive in the contentious world of squatting in London.Trade ReviewDodgy on the edge, or edgy on the dodge? Either way, George F's thunderous declamation against the enforced poverty of those who choose to exist on the other side of the lines, and possibly beyond the pale, acts as a salutary lesson in the florid hardships and plain hard work of 'alternative lifestyles': you can make it if you can take it - few can. - Penny Rimbaud, Crass

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Book SynopsisDieser Band versteht sich als umfassende Einführung in Theorie, Methode und Praxis der Inhaltsanalyse. Historische Entwicklung, theoretische Fundierung und methodologische Probleme werden ebenso behandelt wie praktische Probleme bei der Durchführung von Inhaltsanalysen oder zukünftige Entwicklungen. Kernstück dieses Bandes ist die Vorstellung von 35 verschiedenen Verfahren der Inhaltsanalyse aus Soziologie, Psychologie, Psychiatrie und Politologie, die anhand einer geschlossenen Typologie verortet und nach einheitlichem Schema dargestellt werden. Zahlreiche Hinweise für den praktischen Gebrauch sowie viele aktuelle Beispiele machen diesen Band zu einem wichtigen Arbeitsmittel für Kommunikationswissenschaftler, Linguisten, Pädagogen, Politologen, Psychiater, Psychologen und Soziologen.Table of ContentsVorbemerkung.- I: Einführung.- 1 Gegenstand, Ziel und Begriff der sozialwissenschaftlichen Inhaltsanalyse.- 2 Zur Geschichte der Inhaltsanalyse.- 3 Definitionsprobleme der Inhaltsanalyse.- II: Theorie.- 4 Inhaltsanalyse als semiotische Analyse.- 5 Inhaltsanalyse als Kommunikationsanalyse.- 6 Inhaltsanalyse als Erhebungsprozeß.- III: Methode.- 7 Messen und Schließen.- 8 Typologie inhaltsanalytischer Verfahren.- 9 Auswahl von Textstichproben.- 10 Gültigkeit und Zuverlässigheit.- IV: Praxis der Inhaltsanalyse.- 11 Durchführung einer Inhaltsanalyse.- V: Zukunft der Inhaltsanalyse.- 12 Gegenwärtige und zukünftige Entwicklungen der Inhaltsanalyse.- Personenregister.

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Book SynopsisGeorg Simmel hat mit seinem Aufsatz "Die Großstädte und das Geistesleben" (1903) den Anstoß für die sozialwissenschaftliche Stadtforschung gegeben. Für Simmel verkörpern Großstädte den Sitz der Moderne - Orte, an denen sich durch Arbeitsteilung und Spezialisierung eine besondere Produktivkraft herausbildet. Orte, an denen das Individuum einen bis dahin unbekannten Grad an persönlicher Freiheit erlangt. Mit diesem Buch, einem Herausgeberwerk des Georg-Simmel-Zentrums für Metropolenforschung, gehen die AutorInnen der Frage nach, welche Relevanz Simmel für die heutige Stadtforschung besitzt. Insbesondere wird das interdisziplinäre Potenzial des Simmelschen Ansatzes aufgezeigt.Trade ReviewPressestimmen:"Das Buch füllt [...] eine Lücke in der gegenwärtigen Stadtforschung [...]." RuR - Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 3-2012Table of ContentsMit Beiträgen von Harald A. Mieg, David Frisby, Majken Bieniok, Annette Duecker-Danckwardt, Krzystztof Nawratek, Silvano Custoza, Kathrin Wildner, Nina Hälker, Florian Koch, Wolf-Dietrich Bukow, Astrid O. Sundsboe, Jörg Blasius, Heike Delitz, Konstanze Noack, Heike Oevermann, Hartmut Häußermann

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Book SynopsisCorruption is usually understood as hampering political development, economic growth and democratic participation of citizens, but comparing the effects of corruption for different political regimes presents astonishingly complex findings. The ongoing persistence of corruption underlines that it is not only dysfunctional, but can be highly functional as well. This special issue brings together contributions from comparative politics, political science and economics which precisely focus on these (dys) functionalities of corruption in political regimes across various world regions. The question of methodological pluralism is especially important for studying corruption comparatively. While on an international level a trend towards an increased use of quantitative methods in political science as well as in economics can be observed, the special issue underlines the importance of having a pluralistic approach for grasping the complex and multi-layered effects of the phenomenon. Of similar importance is the adoption of a comparative perspective that includes different world regions in order to understand the different roles of corruption in developing, transforming and developed countries alike.Dr. Tobias Debiel is Director of the Centre for Global Cooperation Research and of the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF). Since 2006, he is also Professor in International Relations and Development Policy, Institute of Political Science, University of Duisburg-Essen.Dr. Andrea Gawrich is Professor for International Integration at the University of Gießen.

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Table of Contents1: Stand und Probleme politikwissenschaftlicher Transformationsforschung.- 1.1 Allgemeine Rahmenbedingungen politikwissenschaftlicher Forschung.- 1.2 Systemtransformation: Begriff und Spektrum.- 1.3 Die Grenzen normativer Erklärungsansätze.- 1.4 Das Spektrum transformationstheoretischer Erklärungsansätze in der Politikwissenschaft.- 1.4.1 Allgemeiner Überblick.- 1.4.2 Erklärungsansätze für Transformationsursachen.- 1.4.3 Erklärungsansätze für Transformationsverläufe und -ergebnisse.- 1.4.4 Zivilgesellschaftliche Erklärungsversuche.- 1.4.5 Fazit.- 1.5 Ein Plädoyer für Interdisziplinarität.- 1.6 Zwischenbilanz.- 2: Stabilität und Transformation: Elemente einer politikwissenschaftlichen Transformationstheorie.- Vorbemerkung.- 2.1 Methodische und theoretische Grundlagen.- 2.1.1 Modell und Vergleich.- 2.1.2 Systemtheorie als Struktur- und Ordnungstheorie.- 2.1.3 Staat und System: Zur Überwindung reduktionistischer Dichotomien.- 2.2 Stabilität und Transformation: Begriffe und Konzepte.- 2.2.1 Der Stabilitätsbegriff in der Politikwissenschaft.- 2.2.2 Stabilität als Fließgleichgewicht.- 2.2.3 Stabilität und Problemlösungskapazität.- 2.3 Stabilität und Systemvernetzung: Ein erweitertes Systemmodell.- 2.3.1 Stabilität, Funktionalität und Transformationsanreize.- 2.3.2 Systemkapazitäten und Stabilisierungsstrategien.- 2.4 Elemente eines zyklischen Transformationsmodells.- 2.5 Zusammenfassende Thesen.- 3: Grenzen der Theoriebildung und Perspektiven politikwissenschaftlicher Transformationsforschung.- 3.1 Grenzen transformationsbezogener Theoriebildung.- 3.2 Grundlagen interdisziplinärer Ansätze künftiger Transformationsforschung.- 3.3 Können Politikwissenschaft und Ökonomie voneinander lernen?.- 3.3.1 Das ökonomische Verhaltensmodell in der Politik.- 3.3.2 Die Leistungsfähigkeit kombinierter Analyseansätze in der Transformationsforschung.- 3.4 „Wendezeit“ in der Politikwissenschaft?.- Schlußbemerkungen.

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Table of ContentsI. Einführung.- 1. Schule und Jugendhilfe: Standortbestimmung im Transformationsprozeß.- 2. Kontinuität und Wandel im Schulwesen der neuen Bundesländer.- 3. Kontinuität und Wandel der Jugendhilfe in den neuen Bundesländern.- II. Die Schule im deutsch-deutschen Transformationsprozeß.- 4. Bildung der Bürger und Qualifikation der Arbeitskräfte: Schulentwicklung in der BRD und DDR in soziologischer Perspektive.- 5.Die Vereinigung des Schulsystems am Beispiel Berlins.- 6.Bildungspolitischer Wandel und Identität: Lehrerinnen und Lehrer in den neuen Bundesländern.- 7. Schüler-Sein unter neuen gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen.- 8. Auf- und Abbrüche im ostdeutschen Schulwesen.- 9. Keine Republik der braven Pioniere — oder: Gewalt an Schulen der DDR.- III. Die Jugendhilfe im deutsch-deutschen Transformationsprozeß.- 10. Neue Bedingungen des Aufwachsens von Jugendlichen im gesellschaftlichen Transformationsprozeß.- 11.Auf dem Weg zur Profession? — Zur Situation des Personals in der Jugendhilfe.- 12. Dequalifizierung oder Innovation? Nachqualifizierung und berufsbegleitende Ausbildungsgänge für soziale Berufe in den neuen Bundesländern.- 13. Horterziehung im Umbruch: Zwischen Reformanspruch und Arbeitsplatzgefährdung.- 14.Soziale Ungleichheit in den neuen Bundesländern: Herausforderung für Jugendhilfe und Schule.- IV. Neue Kooperationen zwischen Schule und Jugendhilfe.- 15. Jugendhilfe und Schule: Zur Systematisierung der Debatte.- 16. Schule und Jugendhilfe — neue Kooperationschancen im Osten?.- Literatur.- Autorinnen und Autoren.

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Book SynopsisIn den letzten Jahren hat vor allem bei jüngeren Sozialforscherinnen und Sozialforschern das Interesse an der Arbeit mit qualitativen Methoden einen erstaunlichen Zuwachs erfahren. Zugleich sind die Methoden und Verfahrensweisen erheblich ausdifferenziert worden, so daß allgemein gehaltene Orientierungstexte kaum mehr in der Lage sind, über die unterschiedlichen Bereiche qualitativer Sozialforschung gleichermaßen fundiert zu informieren. Notwendig sind deshalb Einführungen von kompetenten, d. h. forschungspraktisch erfahrenen und zugleich methodologisch reflektierten Autorinnen und Autoren. Mit der neuen Reihe soll Sozialforscherinnen und Sozialforschern die Möglichkeit eröffnet werden, sich auf der Grundlage handlicher und überschaubarer Texte (80-110 S.) gezielt das für ihre eigene Forschungspraxisrelevante Erfahrungs- und Hintergrundwissen über Verfahren, Probleme und Anwendungsfelder qualitativer Sozialforschung anzueignen. Zwar werden auch grundlagentheoretische, methodologische und historische Hintergründe diskutiert und z.T. in eigenständigen Texten behandelt, im Vordergrund steht jedoch die Forschungspraxis mit ihren konkreten Arbeitsschritten im Bereich der Datenerhebung, der Auswertung, Interpretation und der Darstellung der Ergebnisse. In diesem Band: Die Fundierung der Geschlechterforschung in der Frauenforschung und deren methodologische Diskussion werden nachgezeichnet. Zentrale forschungspraktische und methodische Probleme der Geschlechterforschung werden anhand empirischen Materials diskutiert.Table of Contents1. Einleitung.- 2. Epistemologische und methodologische Diskussionen.- 3. Entwicklung der Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung.- 3.1 Anfänge: Parteilichkeit und Empathie als forschungsleitende Prinzipien.- 3.2 Institutionalisierung: Kritische Diskussion methodologischer Prämissen.- 3.3 Konstruktivistische Perspektiven: Weiblichkeit und Männlichkeit als soziale Konstruktionen.- 4. Zur Bedeutung von Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung für die Entwicklung qualitativer Methoden.- 5. Empirie: Rekonstruktion kollektiver Orientierungen von Männern.- 5.1 Zur methodischen Erfassung des fraglos Gegebenen.- 5.2 Die Kategorie Geschlecht in der Verschränkung mit Milieu und Generation.- 6. Zur Bedeutung des Geschlechts der Forschenden für Datenerhebung und -interpretation.- Literatur.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsI. Märchen zwischen Fiktion und Wirklichkeit. Das Beispiel Rumpelstilzchen.- II. Von alten und neuen Hexen. Hexenglaube und Hexenverfolgung in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart.- Historische Hexenprozesse.- Hexenhammer (Malleus maleficarum, 1487).- Verlauf der Hexenprozesse.- Gegner der Hexenprozesse.

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Book SynopsisInvestigates the impact of bureaucratic politics, special interest groups, and public opinion in aid-giving countries/agencies. This work finds that aid agencies in Africa often misdiagnosed problems and had difficulty designing appropriate programs that addressed the local political environment.

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Book SynopsisWhy do we share so much about our lives on social media when we often have little idea who might be reading or viewing? David R. Brake examines the causes and consequences of moving towards a radically open society.Trade Review“Sharing our lives online: Risks and exposure in social media, by David R. Brake is a comprehensive research-based book, dealing with the risks of sharing and revealing personal information online. … David R. Brake has extracted this book out of his doctoral dissertation, which makes it an interesting example for postdoctoral researchers to publish their research.” (Marziyeh Ebrahimi, Information, Communication & Society, Vol. 21 (12), 2018)'In the age of social media sharing, David R. Brake presents a nuanced, evidence-based, and highly readable account of the dangers of exposing our lives online, grounded in understandable scientific and scholarly theory. Steering between uncritical enthusiasm at one pole and moral panic at the other - extremes that have characterized much of the public discourse about the effects of social media - Brake shows exactly how, and in what circumstances, sharing aspects of our personal lives online can be risky. Sharing our Lives Online also offers sound advice to individuals and parents who need to know what to do themselves to take advantage of social media without running into the pitfalls of oversharing, and need to know how to talk to their children about risks and cautions.' - Howard Rheingold '[Sharing our Lives Online] provides a compelling account of the risks of online communication and the ways in which technologies are constructed to lead us to disclose more than we may think. [His research is] delicately woven into a rich discussion of the economic, technical and social factors that encourage self-disclosure [and features] a fascinating glimpse into blogging practice over time... An engaging and illuminating book.' Times Higher Education 'Sharing Our Lives Online is an interesting resource for students and scholars in the fields of digital media and interpersonal communication but also for a non-academic audience interested in the risks of online self-exposure. Not only does it successfully combine theoretical discussion and empirical examination; it also draws upon specific case studies that make the reading particularly accessible.' - LSE Review of Books, 2014Table of ContentsTable of Contents 1. Introduction 2. What is Risky and Who is at Risk? 3. How and Why Social Media Interaction is Different 4. Imagining the Reader 5. Time and Memory in Social Media 6. Towards a Radically Open Society 7. Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisOffers a history of the early republic and its antebellum aftermath. Challenging the idea that print culture created a sense of national connection among different parts of the early American union, this book reveals the early republic as a series of local and regional reading publics with distinct political and geographical identities.Trade ReviewLoughran's logic throughout is deep, intricate, and scholarly... Good reading. American Journalism Loughran's well-written book will likely promote vigorous debate among historians of U.S. nationhood, print culture, and slavery. -- Carl Ostrowski The Journal of American History A remarkable study, both in its marshaling of archival detail and in its ambitious thesis. -- Phillip H. Round William and Mary Quarterly ...Promise[s] to be useful to literary scholars in many ways. College Literature This book is inventively dialectical, unfailingly provocative, and consistently interesting. It formulates its myraid insights with an unusually rich, incisive and occasionally playful language that is deligtful to read. -- Oz Frankel American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface: A View from the Capitol: The Unfinished Work of US Nation Building 1. U.S. Print Culture: The Factory of Fragments Part I. The Book's Two Bodies: Print Culture and National Founding, 1776-1789 2. Disseminating Common Sense: Thomas Paine and the Scene of Revolutonary Print Culture 3. The Republic in Print: Ratification as Material Text, 1787-1788 Part II. The Nation in Fragments: Federal Representation and its Discontents, 1787-1789 4. Virtual Nation: State-Based Identity and Federalist Fantasy 5. Metrobuilding: The Production of Federalist Space Part III. The Overextended Republic: Slavery, Abolition, and National Space, 1790-1870 6. Abolitionist Nation: The Space of Organized Abolition, 1790-1840 7. Slavery on the Move: From Fugitive Slave to Virtual Citizen Conclusion: The Due Process of Nationalism

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Book SynopsisEvery day we are bombarded by television ads, public service announcements, and media reports warning of dire risks to our health and offering solutions to help us lower those risks. This book intends to help consumers sort through this daily barrage by teaching them how to interpret the numbers behind the messages.Trade Review"Short and simple... Present(s) the basic skills necessary in navigating today's confusing health-media landscape. " Library Journal " Delightful and educational reading, simple enough for laypeople to understand yet academic enough to meet the needs of ... students." -- L. Synovitz Choice "Know Your Chances is an accessible and empowering text." Journal Of Biosocial Science "A great reminder that ... medical claims should always be evaluated by how they affect you and your current state of health." Tampa Tribune "A great reminder that ... medical claims should always be evaluated by how they affect you and your current state of health." Highlands Today "Read this book first and then think again." Time MagazineTable of ContentsWhat This Book Is About PART ONE. WHAT IS MY RISK? 1. Understanding Risk 2. Putting Risk in Perspective 3. Risk Charts: A Way to Get Perspective PART TWO. CAN I REDUCE MY RISK? 4. Judging the Benefit of a Health Intervention 5. Not All Benefits Are Equal: Understand the Outcome PART THREE. DOES RISK REDUCTION HAVE DOWNSIDES? 6. Consider the Downsides 7. Do the Benefits Outweigh the Downsides? PART FOUR. DEVELOPING A HEALTHY SKEPTICISM 8. Beware of Exaggerated Importance 9. Beware of Exaggerated Certainty 10. Who's Behind the Numbers? EXTRA HELP Quick Summary Glossary Number Converter Risk Charts Credible Sources of Health Statistics Notes Index

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Book SynopsisSocio-Legal Studies in Context is the first attempt to take stock of the development of socio-legal studies in the United Kingdom. With an increasing awareness amongst legal scholars of the need for socio-legal research, this volume is essential reading for all teachers of law and law related subjects. It will provide rich ideas for young researchers wishing to involve themselves in the socio-legal approach. The volume also provides an opportunity for more experienced researchers to look back and re-assess their own work and help them form their own plans for the future.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Denis J. Galligan (Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies). 2. Sociology and the Stereotype of the Police: Paul Rock (London School of Economics). 3. A Critical Survey of Law and Economics in the UK and the role of the Oxford Centre: Anthony Ogus (University of Manchester). 4. Remembering 1972: The Oxford Centre in the Context of Developments in Higher Education and the Disciplines of Law: William Twining (University College London). 5. Horatio's Mistake: Maureen Cain (West Indies). 6. The Challenges of Socio-Legal Research: Shari Diamond. 7. Global Approaches in the Sociology of Law: Volkmar Gessner (Bremen). 8. On Old and New Battles: Obstacles to the Role of Law in Eastern Europe: Andras Sajo (Central European University). 9. Being Social in Socio-Legal Studies: Peter Fitzpatrick (University of Kent). 10. Contested Communities: Richard Abel (UCLA). 11. The Future of Socio-Legal Research with Respect to Environmental Problems: Michael Faure (Limburg). 12. Geoffrey Stephenson (University of Kent). 13. What Socio-Legal Scholars should do when there is too much Law to Study: Robert Kagan (Berkeley). 14. The Last Word: Stewart Macauley (Wisconsin-Madison). Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisShows how to adapt democracy to advanced information technologies that can enhance political decision making and enable us to navigate the social rapids ahead. This title demonstrates how these technologies combine to address a problem as old as democracy itself - how to help citizens better evaluate the consequences of their political choices.Trade Review"[McGinnis] shines an important light on a discussion that will only grow more lively as technology creates at once more opportunities and more challenges for government."--Foreign Affairs "You can support or dismiss his proposals, but you cannot deny that the author makes a major effort to bring forth ingenious measures to really 'accelerate democracy'. Thus, this provocative book is worth reading for everybody interested in improving policymaking, or all those willing to explore new ways to help citizens through a more efficient use of technology."--Ana Polo Alonso, LSE Review of Books "[T]he book is valuable for the stance it takes on the very pressing question of how democracies should adapt to the information revolution. The take-home message for young democracies, no doubt appealing also to many readers of this journal, is that the social sciences deserve as much support as the natural sciences. The more accurately the outcomes of government policies can be predicted, the better the information revolution can be harnessed, and the fewer public funds will be wasted on unrealistic policies. If McGinnis is right, then the heyday of the social sciences lies right before us."--Christian Gobel, Democratization "The book is a valuable reference for any student of the gradually intertwining fields of democracy and technology since it is a well-written analysis arguing that democratic government is in need of evolution due to rapid technological changes... Its engaging and enquiring style provokes thought on the future of a number of domains, including technology and political regimes."--Nelli Bahayan, Political Studies ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Chapter 1: The Ever Expanding Domain of Computation 9 Chapter 2: Democracy, Consequences, and Social Knowledge 25 Chapter 3: Experimenting with Democracy 40 Chapter 4: Unleashing Prediction Markets 60 Chapter 5: Distributing Information through Dispersed Media and Campaigns 77 Chapter 6: Accelerating AI 94 Chapter 7: Regulation in an Age of Technological Acceleration 109 Chapter 8: Bias and Democracy 121 Chapter 9: De-biasing Democracy 138 Conclusion: The Past and Future of Information Politics 149 Acknowledgments 161 Appendix 163 Notes 165 Index 203

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Olga Amsterdamska Award, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology"

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year""An intriguing, academic analysis of the link between U.S. racial politics and democracy."---Rebekah Kati, Library Journal"This fascinating and critical research sheds light on the personal and political ramifications of loss and the racial inequities they continue to perpetuate."---Karla Strand, Ms. Magazine"In this powerful book, Hooker...brilliantly seams together examples from 19th century journalism and literature, well-known civil rights battles ofthe mid-20th century, and the recent Black Lives Matter movement, among othertopics,to illustrate how Black folks consistently turn grief inflicted by recurrentlethal violence into grievance, demanding justice and a stronger multiracial democracy." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisHow social scientists' disagreements about their key words and distinctions have been misconceived, and what to do about itSocial scientists do research on a variety of topicsgender, capitalism, populism, and race and ethnicity, among others. They make descriptive and explanatory claims about empathy, intelligence, neoliberalism, and power. They advise policymakers on diversity, digitalization, work, and religion. And yet, as Gabriel Abend points out in this provocative book, they can't agree on what these things are and how to identify them. How to tell if something is a religion or a cult or a sect? What is empathy? What makes this society a capitalist one? Disputes of this sort arise again and again in the social sciences. Abend argues that these disagreements have been doubly misconceived. First, they conflate two questions: how a social science community should use its most important words, and what distinctions it should accept and work with. Second, there's no fact of the matt

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Book SynopsisThis clear and concise guide provides the introduction to descriptive statistical analysis that all students need to draw insightful conclusions from their data. Assuming no prior expertise, it presents jargon-free and practical advice for analysing and presenting numbers.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why this book actually is different 1. Everybody’s talking about it: important terms explained in everyday language 2. What are numbers really about? 3. Absolute beginnings: starting statistical analysis one variable at a time 4. What you see is only half the story: why you need more than averages to describe distributions 5. How the tables turn: examining relationships between categorical variables 6. What does it all mean? Comparing distributions between groups 7. You’re so predictable: using correlations 8. Where do we draw the line? How regression analysis can tell you more than correlation 9. A graph is like a joke: if you have to explain it, it isn’t any good 10. Telling statistical stories: how to present your findings and conclusions

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Book SynopsisCurating rigorous academic, policy and practice-based research, this book explores the response and adaptation of the UK voluntary sector to the COVID-19 pandemic and considers what can be learned to maximise its contribution in the event of future crises.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction – James Rees, Rob Macmillan, Chris Dayson, Chris Damm, Claire Bynner Chapter 2: Mobilising the Voluntary Sector: Critical Reflections From Across the Four UK Nations Nick Acheson, Laura Crawford, Jurgen Grotz, Irene Hardill, Denise Hayward, Eddy Hogg, Rhys Dafydd Jones, Matthew Linning, Sally Rees, Alasdair Rutherford, Ewen Speed, Amy McGarvey, Catherine Goodall and Joanna Stuart, Debbie Maltman Chapter 3: Bouncing Back: The Employment of Sector Attributes To Recover From Crises Tony Chapman, Durham University Chapter 4: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Formation and Dissolution of Charitable Organisations Diarmuid McDonnell (University of the West of Scotland), Alasdair Rutherford (University of Stirling) and John Mohan (University of Birmingham). Chapter 5: Paying the Price of “Doing Good” in the Face of Crisis Sarah Smith (Nottingham Trent University), Tracey Coule (Sheffield Hallam University), Daniel King (Nottingham Trent University) Chapter 6: Shifting Sands: Challenges and Opportunities for the Voluntary Sector During the COVID-19 Pandemic Jon Burchell, Joanne Cook, Harriet Thiery, Erica Ballantyne, Fiona Walkley, Silviya Nikolova, Daniel Howden Chapter 7: At the COVID-19 Frontlines: Voluntary Sector Support for Refugee and Migrant Families in Glasgow – Maureen McBride, Elaine Feeney, Clara Pirie and Jane Cullingworth Chapter 8: The Value and Contribution of BAME-Led Organisations During and Beyond COVID-19 – Abigail Woodward, Beth Patmore, Gilli Gliff, Chris Dayson Chapter 9: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Advocacy Work of Voluntary Sector Organisations in Wales Elizabeth Cookingham Bailey (University of South Wales), E. Katharina Sarter (University of South Wales), and Vita Terry (IVAR) Chapter 10: Community Ownership of Physical Assets in Changing Times: The Context of Opportunities in the Pandemic – Carina Skropke Chapter 11: The Impact and Effect of COVID-19 on BAME Led Voluntary Sector Organisations: Resilience and New Ways of Working- Karl Murray Chapter 12: Voluntary Sector Organisations, Older People and Healthy Ageing During the COVID-19 Pandemic – Chris Dayson, Emma Bimpson, Angela Ellis-Paine, Joseph Chambers, Jan Gilbertson and Helen Kara Chapter 13: Emotions in the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector During the Pandemic – Vita Terry, Houda Davis, and Marilyn Taylor Chapter 14: The Experience of Community-Led Businesses During the COVID-19 Pandemic – Sophie Reid Chapter 15: The Response of Voluntary Community Sports Clubs to COVID-19 – Geoff Nichols, Lindsay Findlay-King, Fiona Reid Chapter 16: The Latent Strength of Community Ties: How Voluntary Sector Infrastructure Organisations Utilised Their Local Networks in Response to COVID-19 – Lucy Smith Chapter 17: How Many of Us Had Pandemic in Our Risk Register? A Snapshot of Experiences of Community Buildings During the First Lockdown of 2020 – Ann Hindley and John Wilson Chapter 18: Leading Through a Pandemic – Patricia Armstrong and Jayne Stuart Chapter 19: Afterword – Margaret Harris

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Book SynopsisRichard Peet looks in detail at the main trends in human geographic thought over the last thirty years, relating these to broader themes in philosophy and social theory. Beginning with existential phenomenology and humanistic geography, the book covers Marxism and radical geography, structuralism, structuration theory, realism, locality studies, various streams of poststructuralism and postmodernism, and feminism. Each chapter examines a few theories in depth, concentrating on the major works and the nature of their contribution. Many of the ideas covered are dense and complex, but the reader is drawn gradually into the text through notions understandable to students. After spending time with this book the reader should be able to tackle virtually any philosophical theme in contemporary geographic thought. The book will be central to courses in geographical thought and the history of geographical thought, and as part of virtually all courses in human geography whcih entail philosophy and theory.Trade Review"Perhaps not since David Harvey's Explanation in Geography (1969) had the field been so thoroughly and rigorously examined through literatures both within and outside the discipline." ANNALS of the Association of American Geographers. "This is a very useful book for students and others who are unfamiliar with the current 'isms' in contemporary radical thought - not just in geography, but in the social sciences in general ... contains an excellent survey of the origins and growth of radical human geography ... relatively jargon free and very readable." Andrew Ryder, University of Portsmouth "This is an impressive work of erudition, written with authority and conviction." Progress in Human Geography "Modern Geographical Thought is the last, great and definitive work translating philosophy into human Geography" Alisdair Rogers,School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University.Table of ContentsList of Figures. Preface. 1. Introduction: Geography, Philosophy and Social Theory. 2. Existentialism, Phenomenology and Humanistic Geography. 3. Radical Geography, Marxism, and Marxist Geography. 4. Structuralism and Structural Marxist Geography. 5. Structuration, Realism and Locality Studies. 6. Poststructuralism, Postmodernism and Postmodern Geographies. 7. Feminism Theory and the Geography of Gender. 8. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe poorest men and women in colonial NSW are no longer marginalised, but front and centre in a book that reveals what life was like for them.Most convicts arriving in New South Wales didn’t expect to make their fortunes. Some went on to great success,but countless convicts and free migrants struggled with limited prospects, discrimination and misfortune. Many desperate people turned to The Benevolent Society, Australia’s first charity founded in 1813, for assistance and sustenance. In this rich and revealing book, Tanya Evans collaborates with family historians – many writing about their own ancestors – to present the everyday lives of these people. The detailed and extensive archives of The Benevolent Society allow us to reclaim these unknown lives and understand our own history better, not to mention the often random nature of betterment and progress.

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Book SynopsisDeferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles interrogates Blackness and illustrates how it has been used as a basis to oppress, dismiss and exclude Blacks from societies and institutions in Europe, North America and South America. Employing uncharted analytical categories that tackle intriguing themes about borderless non-racial African ancestry, “traveling” identities and post-blackness, the essays provide new lenses for viewing the “Black” struggle worldwide. This approach directs the contributors’ focus to understudied locations and protagonists. In the volume, Charleston, South Carolina is more prominent than Little Rock Arkansas in the struggle to desegregate schools; Chicago occupies the space usually reserved for Atlanta or other southern city “bulwarks” of the civil rights movement; diverse Africans in France and Afro-descended Chileans illustrate the many facets of negotiating belonging, long articulated by examples from the Greensboro Woolworth counter sit-in or the Montgomery Bus Boycott; unknown men in the British empire, who inverted dying confessions meant to vilify their blackness, demonstrate new dimensions in the story about race and religion, often told by examples of fiery clergy of the Black Church; and the theatres and studios of dramatists and visual artists replace the Mall in Washington DC as the stage for the performance of identities and activism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsList of IllustrationsINTRODUCTION1. Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles - Violet Showers Johnson, Gundolf Graml and Patricia Williams LessaneDIASPORA, DISPLACEMENT, MARGINALIZATION AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES2. Josephine Baker’s Routes and Roots: Mobility, Belonging and Activism in the Atlantic World - Katharina Gerund3. Beyond the Ethnographic Other: Pan-African Activism at the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyThomas Smith4. Black Sojourners in “La Métrople” and in the Fatherland: Challenges of Otherness in Calixthe Beyala’s Le Petit Prince de Belleville and Myriam Warner-Vieyra’s Juletane - Philip OjoPERFORMING IDENTITIES, RECLAIMING THE SELF 5. Staging the Scaffold: Criminal Conversion Narratives of the Late Eighteenth Century - Carsten Junker6. The Plays of Carlton and Barbara Molette: The Transformative Power of African American Theatre Silvia Pilar Castro BorregoMOVED TO ACT: CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISM IN THE US AND BEYOND7. “Together We Can Build a Nation of Love and Integration”: The 1965 North Shore Summer Project for Fair Housing in Chicago’s Northern Suburbs - Mary Barr8. Redrawing Borders of Belonging in a Narrow Nation: Afro-Chilean Activism at the Hinterlands of Afro-Latin America - Sara Busdiecker9. Lowcountry, High Demands: The Struggle for Quality Education in Charleston, South Carolina - Jon Hale and Clerc Cooper Index

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Book SynopsisDeferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles interrogates Blackness and illustrates how it has been used as a basis to oppress, dismiss and exclude Blacks from societies and institutions in Europe, North America and South America. Employing uncharted analytical categories that tackle intriguing themes about borderless non-racial African ancestry, “traveling” identities and post-blackness, the essays provide new lenses for viewing the “Black” struggle worldwide. This approach directs the contributors’ focus to understudied locations and protagonists. In the volume, Charleston, South Carolina is more prominent than Little Rock Arkansas in the struggle to desegregate schools; Chicago occupies the space usually reserved for Atlanta or other southern city “bulwarks” of the civil rights movement; diverse Africans in France and Afro-descended Chileans illustrate the many facets of negotiating belonging, long articulated by examples from the Greensboro Woolworth counter sit-in or the Montgomery Bus Boycott; unknown men in the British empire, who inverted dying confessions meant to vilify their blackness, demonstrate new dimensions in the story about race and religion, often told by examples of fiery clergy of the Black Church; and the theatres and studios of dramatists and visual artists replace the Mall in Washington DC as the stage for the performance of identities and activism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsList of IllustrationsINTRODUCTION1. Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles - Violet Showers Johnson, Gundolf Graml and Patricia Williams LessaneDIASPORA, DISPLACEMENT, MARGINALIZATION AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES2. Josephine Baker’s Routes and Roots: Mobility, Belonging and Activism in the Atlantic World - Katharina Gerund3. Beyond the Ethnographic Other: Pan-African Activism at the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyThomas Smith4. Black Sojourners in “La Métrople” and in the Fatherland: Challenges of Otherness in Calixthe Beyala’s Le Petit Prince de Belleville and Myriam Warner-Vieyra’s Juletane - Philip OjoPERFORMING IDENTITIES, RECLAIMING THE SELF 5. Staging the Scaffold: Criminal Conversion Narratives of the Late Eighteenth Century - Carsten Junker6. The Plays of Carlton and Barbara Molette: The Transformative Power of African American Theatre Silvia Pilar Castro BorregoMOVED TO ACT: CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISM IN THE US AND BEYOND7. “Together We Can Build a Nation of Love and Integration”: The 1965 North Shore Summer Project for Fair Housing in Chicago’s Northern Suburbs - Mary Barr8. Redrawing Borders of Belonging in a Narrow Nation: Afro-Chilean Activism at the Hinterlands of Afro-Latin America - Sara Busdiecker9. Lowcountry, High Demands: The Struggle for Quality Education in Charleston, South Carolina - Jon Hale and Clerc Cooper Index

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Book SynopsisAddressing a gap in the examination of market-centric and individual-focused aspects of care, this volume brings together interdisciplinary insights from across the social sciences to enrich the debate in the field of business and management around the treatment of care, compassion and capitalism.

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Book SynopsisWith this important book, esteemed economist Leland B. Yeager grounds moral and political philosophy in the requirements of a well-functioning society, one whose members reap the gains from peaceful cooperation while pursuing their own diverse goals. This book explores the reasons an individual may have for helping to uphold such a society rather than seeking a free ride on the moral behavior of others. A work in the tradition of Hume, Smith, Mill, von Mises, Hayek and Hazlitt, it expounds a rules or indirect version of utilitarianism. It reviews criticisms of utilitarianism in detail, as well as alternative grounds of ethics including contractarianism, rights-based doctrines, and appeals to specific intuitions. Yeager brings the insights of economics to bear on a field usually dominated by philosophers and theologians. Ethics comes across as a subject amply open to the findings of economics and the other social and natural sciences. Economists, philosophers and other students and scholars of the social sciences will welcome this book. It will also appeal to any reader interested in exploring the ideas of ethics.Trade Review'. . . this is a very ambitious book - ranging over a great deal of territory and a great number of issues . . . the general perspectives offered are certainly engaging.' -- Alan Hamlin, Journal of Economic Methodology'. . . an illuminating book, informed by careful thought and wide-ranging scholarship.' -- David Gordon, The Mises Review'Economics claims to be a science of choice and its unintended consequences, but economists sneak moral judgments in through the back door. Ethics, on the other hand, often falters on the stilts of weak economic theories and assumptions. The result - economics without ethics is often sterile, and ethics without economics is often incoherent. Severed from one another, each can be dangerously misleading, and each misses the opportunity to better understand the economic and moral complexity behind social cooperation. Ethics as Social Science helps reconcile the two disciplines, and represents years of seasoned, careful thinking on the topic. Using clear, straightforward language, Yeager argues that economists should be alert to their ethical positions, rather than preach tacitly behind the mask of social welfare analysis and the like. Calling for a comparative institutional analysis, Yeager himself advances an argument in favor of an indirect or rule utilitarianism, one that is sure to unleash debate among libertarians, classical liberals, and defenders of mainstream welfare economics, and among moral philosophers who follow the present state of economic theory.' -- David L. Prychitko, Northern Michigan University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Ethics and Economics 2. Some Fundamentals 3. Origins of Ethics 4. The Case for Indirect Utilitarianism 5. What Counts as Utility? 6. The Alleged Problem of Aggregation 7. Is Utilitarianism Immoral? 8. Altruism and Self-Interest 9. Duty and Universalizability 10. Rivals of Utilitarianism 11. Law, Government, and Policy 12. Utilitarianism after All References Index

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Book SynopsisRegional Dynamics analyses the process of change that occurs within and between regions. This major two volume reference set includes the most important articles on the causes and consequences of regional change resulting from human activity. Special attention is given to economics and social behaviour and processes and social organization such as industries and governments.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I: Introduction Part I: Regional Change: Process and Theory Part II: Economic Reconstructuring and Industrial Reorganization Part III: Population Dynamics • Volume II: Part I: Technology and Regional Growth Part II: Contraints to Regional Growth Part III: Regional Dynamics Models Index

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