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Book SynopsisA fascinating work, at once philosophical and autobiographical, by one of the most original thinkers in the United States today.Trade Review"Film and literature are where Cavell sees these issues most profoundly and, in a way, most philosophically enacted, which accounts for the excitement with which his work has been greeted by non-philosophers. His autobiography, Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory, is itself a work of literature, as much a testing and investigation of voice as it is a human record . . . What Cavell gives us is a way to hear what we already know, but refuse to face. Little Did I know makes it clear that we already know more than enough. Our problem is a refusal to acknowledge it." -- Thomas Gardner * Books and Culture *"[S]tunning . . . What appears at first as a recapitulation of the themes of a life . . . reveals itself in its final pages, with breathtaking emotional force, as a farewell to the father as complex and elusive as it is ordinary . . . A master teacher." -- Matthew Goulish * TDR: The Drama Review *"Alongside the memories themselves are many meditations on the art of remembering, of retelling stories. This is Cavell at his most philosophical, so it is compelling stuff . . . Writing, like philosophy, and like life, does not provide answers. Like all his works, these memoirs are intended to have a therapeutic effect—for the writer as well as the reader." -- Katrina Forrester * Cambridge Literary Review *"Stanley Cavell's recent book, Little Did I Know: Excerpts From Memory, is an unusual and absorbing work of recollection . . . At the close of this magisterial, idiosyncratic and rewarding book, it is not easy to know where we have ended up. Yet it is a fascinating place to find ourselves." -- Adam Gonya * Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society *"It is in [Cavell's] ability to intervene in his own storytelling to explain something further that the autobiography emerges as an important work of Cavellian philosophy . . . Little Did I Know takes on the challenge of using ordinary language to face a real threat, the actual end to the writer's thought. Thus, the memoir emerges not as a simple autobiography, but rather as the undertaking of the philosophical task Cavell has set, the attainment of peace through the repositioning of himself against his pending death . . . His autobiography becomes the marker of himself in history, the reminder to himself and to his readers that he exists in relation to all with which he interacts." -- Alexanda Manglis * Oxonian Review *"Stanley Cavell's Little Did I Know belongs alongside other great works of self-examination that are also indispensable explorations of the human condition, books such as the Essais of Montaigne and the journals of Cavell's own beloved Emerson. Cavell's work has always been about the complexity of human life, and his own experience has always been present in his philosophy. His memoir deepens our understanding of both his life and his philosophy. It is a work of great particularity—Cavell's own life from Depression-era Atlanta to late twentieth-century Harvard—but also a work of profound universality, a thoughtful man's reflections on everything from fitting into his clothes and fitting into high school to finding friends, peers, love, personal calling, and social justice. This book is a treasure." -- Paul Guyer * University of Pennsylvania *"Widely acknowledged to be one of the most original thinkers in the United States, Stanley Cavell has always emphasized that autobiography is intrinsic to all interesting philosophical writing. Little Did I Know is more than a philosopher's story of his life: it is itself a piece of philosophy." -- Espen Hammer * Temple University *"From its extraordinary beginning to its enlightened ending, this is a great work of literature of philosophy. Incomparable as well as peerless, Little Did I Know makes powerful contributions to psychology, to psychoanalysis, and to the art of writing, especially that of autobiography. It will contribute to how we understand the lives of philosophers and will be read with pleasure and utility for decades and centuries to come." -- Marc Shell * Harvard University *"What comes across most powerfully... is Cavell's attentive listening, throughout his long and distinguished career, for what one might call the hum of humanity." -- Christopher Benfey * New York Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisThe anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania once prospered. Today, very little mining or industry remains, although residents have made valiant efforts to restore the fabric of their communities. In The Face of Decline, the noted historians Thomas...Trade ReviewThe Face of Decline is a fine work of social history, broadly based in its approach, painstaking in its research, innovative in its methodology, and thoughtful in its conclusions. Like Dublin's When the Mines Closed, this work is essential for students both of deindustrialization and of the recent history of northeastern Pennsylvania. Just as significantly, The Face of Decline accomplishes the social historian's most difficult task: communicating with a wide audience while still challenging scholars. * Business History Review *A sweeping history of this area over the course of the 20th century.... The book is not only a history lesson. It's a human tragedy story, about people who worked hard, and long, in dangerous conditions, only to be let down, not only by their profession, but by their government also. Dublin and Licht paint an honest picture, of despair, of resourcefulness, and then more despair. It's a book that belongs in every coal region home and library, and in the hands of every school kid who has heard countless stories of the way it used to be in this area. * Lehighton Times News *History Professor Thomas Dublin and colleague Walter Licht offer a sweeping history of Pennsylvania's anthracite coal region during the 20th century in their new book, The Face of Decline.... Since some of the material touches on recent history, Dublin interviewed former miners about their experiences. He said these conversations complemented the data and gave it a human context. 'I found it wonderful to be able to interview people who have lived through the history,' he said.... The Face of Decline also has much to offer politicians and business leaders in areas facing similar economic shifts. * INSIDE Binghamton University *In an era when many historians are settling for symbols and representations to understand complex historical changes, Dublin and Licht have succeeded not only in explaining industrial decline and approximating its effects on the lives of their subjects but also in providing a model and a new standard for social historical research. Their narrative and analysis will certainly garner due attention and praise, but it would be good to think that their methods will also get the attention they deserve. * Journal of Social History *This book is an excellent piece of scholarship, combining institutional and social history. The authors should be commended for their exhaustive research and expert merging of many different sources into a vigorous and readable narrative. It is no exaggeration to say that this book will very quickly become a classic in the fields of labor studies and economic history. * Journal of American History *Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht's The Face of Decline is essential reading for anyone concerned with the economic development or redevelopment of a community, region, or state. It is also a definitive history of the anthracite region of northeastern Pennsylvania that by 1890 was supplying 16 percent of the nation's energy. The book's handsome large-format pages conceal its great length, including detailed chapters that narrate the early decades when the industry was raking in profits. These provide ballast for what follows—an account of eighty years of decline, ending in regional economic collapse. * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Creating the Anthracite Region: From Prehistoric Times to 19002. Apogee and Descent: The Anthracite Region in the Early Twentieth Century3. The Anthracite Miners' New Deal: The Thirties4. Reprieve and Final Collapse, 1940–1970: Capital and Labor Respond5. Industrial Development Efforts: Community and Governmental Responses6. Personal Responses to Decline: Fathers and Mothers, 1945–19907. Personal Responses to Decline: Sons and Daughters, 1945–19908. Legacies

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Book SynopsisAkhenaten, also known as Amenhotep IV, was king of Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty and reigned from 1375 to 1358 B.C. E. Called the "religious revolutionary," he is the earliest known creator of a new religion. The cult he founded broke with...Trade ReviewIn Akhenaten and the Religion of Light, Erik Hornung,...explores the metaphysical and religious dimensions of Akhenaten's 'perestroika'... shows how psychological and medical interpretations of Akhenaten's portraits based on a literal reading of their anatomy-bending style have often fed dubious moral presumptions....'Ugly' and 'sick' Hornung tells us were the most common epithets applied to Amarna art by scholars at the turn of the century. -- Lawrence Osborne * Lingua Franca *This short and eminently readable translation... focuses on the nature of Akhenaten's religion, religious beliefs, and cultic practices, bringing together concepts and discussions from a wide range of scholarly writing. -- Susan Tower Hollis, SUNY Empire State College * Journal of the American Oriental Society *

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Book SynopsisDrawing on domestic and international law, as well as on judgments given by courts and human rights treaty bodies, Gender Stereotyping offers perspectives on how wrongful gender stereotypes can be effectively eliminated through the transnational legal process in order to ensure women's equality and exercise of their human rights.Trade Review"While both lawyers and psychologists have been aware of the role of stereotypes in discrimination, there is little literature addressing the legal status of stereotypes as gender discrimination. Gender Stereotyping makes a substantial contribution to the field by bringing the insights of psychology to bear on the legal approaches in a sophisticated way." * Susan Williams, Walter W. Foskett Professor of Law, Indiana University *"This book unquestionably forms the most thorough investigation of international legal perspectives on gender stereotyping to date. It is an essential contribution to the debate on stereotypes and the law. The authors deserve the highest praise." * Human Rights Law Review *Table of ContentsForeword, by Louise Arbour Table of Cases Table of Treaties, Legislation, and Other Relevant Instruments Introduction Ch. 1 Understanding Gender Stereotyping Ch. 2 Naming Gender Stereotyping Ch. 3 State Obligations to Eliminate Gender Stereotyping Ch. 4 Gender Stereotyping as a Form of Discrimination Ch. 5 The Role of the Women's Committee in Eliminating Gender Stereotyping Ch. 6 Moving Forward with the Elimination of Gender Stereotyping Appendices A. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women B. The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women Notes Select Bibliography Annotated List of Websites Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisA look at the fall-out shelters and how they reflected American anxieties and hopes during the 1950's and 60's.Trade Review"Kenneth Rose's One Nation Underground explores U.S. nuclear history from the bottom up—literally. . . . Rose deserves credit for not trivializing this period of our history, as so many retrospectives of the Cold War era have tended to do." * Journal of Cold War Studies *"This compelling chronicle of the civil defense debate during the early years of the Cold War shows how discussions of the pros and cons of fallout shelters forced Americans to face the possible consequences of nuclear war and what kind of world any survivors would inhabit. In the national soul-searching that ensued, citizens confronted their deepest fears, values, and attitudes about themselves, their neighbors, and their world. One Nation Underground reminds us of the real terror that gripped the world in the tense years of nuclear brinksmanship." -- Elaine Tyler May,author of Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era"This fascinating and illuminating study ably traces Civil Defense from Bert the Turtle's school drills in the 1950s to backyard family shelters in the early sixties. As Kenneth Rose insightfully shows, Americans, panicked over Cold War tensions and the threat of thermonuclear incineration, talked inordinately about fallout shelters, but few were ever built. That discrepancy reveals much about American society, culture, and psychology. This book almost glows in the dark." -- W. J. Rorabaugh,author of Berkeley at War: The 1960s"One Nation Underground vividly evokes a fast-fading era of U.S. history when millions of Americans contemplated the prospect of huddling in underground shelters to escape the blast and radiation of thermonuclear war. Kenneth D. Rose brings into sharp focus these years when nuclear fear pervaded American public life and culture, gripping Pentagon Strategists, civil-defense planners, theologians, magazine editors, and the authors of comic books and science-fiction stories. Beautifully written, copiously illustrated, and drawing upon an amazing range of sources, this engrossing book should be read by anyone interested in the domestic fallout of the Cold War nuclear arms race." -- Paul S. Boyer,author of By the Bomb's Early Light and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age<"Rose critically nails the ambivalence of the general population toward sheltering." * Technology and Culture *

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Book SynopsisExplores how the successful aging movement is playing out across five continents. Contributors investigate a variety of people to offer a fresh look at a major cultural and public health movement of our time, questioning what has become for many a taken-for-granted goalûaging in a way that almost denies aging itself.Trade Review"With public conversation about control of aging at an all-time high, these rich ethnographies from around the globe challenge stereotypes of success, failure, and ageism as they illustrate how vitality and vulnerability, independence, need, and care are resourcefully enacted. A timely corrective, this volume is essential for anyone interested in the diverse practices of interdependence and self-making in the world's ever-aging societies." -- Sharon R. Kaufman * author of Ordinary Medicine *"Lamb provides incisive deconstruction of modern notions of ‘successful aging,’ offering a wealth of theoretical perspectives on, and ethnographic illustrations of, approaches to aging in different cultural settings across the globe." -- Jeanne Shea * Department of Anthropology and Center on Aging, University of Vermont *"[A] valuable aspect of Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession is its global perspective....Lamb has done extensive fieldwork in West Bengal, where, far from being idealized, 'too much independence is commonly regarded as the worst thing that can befall one in old age.'" * This Chair Rocks *"The book offers insightful and sometimes highly emotional accounts of how we find meaning in the limits of our human condition, making it a delightful read regardless of one’s professional orientation." * Anthropology News *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Successful Aging as a Twenty-first-Century Obsession Sarah Lamb, Jessica Robbins-Ruszkowski, and Anna Corwin Part I Gender, Sexuality, and the Allure of Anti-Aging 1 Successful Aging, Ageism, and the Maintenance of Age and Gender Relations Toni Calasanti and Neal King 2 Opting In or Opting Out? North American Women Share Strategies for Aging Successfully with (and without) Cosmetic Intervention Abigail T. Brooks 3 Aging Out: Ageism, Heterosexism, and Racism among Aging African American Lesbians and Gay Men Imani Woody 4 Erectile Dysfunction as Successful Aging in Mexico Emily Wentzell Part II Ideals of Independence, Interdependence, and Intimate Sociality in Later Life 5 Beyond Independence: Older Chicagoans Living Valued Lives Elana D. Buch 6 Growing Old with God: An Alternative Vision of Successful Aging among Catholic Nuns Anna I. Corwin 7 Aspiring to Activity: Universities of the Third Age, Gardening, and Other Forms of Living in Postsocialist Poland Jessica Robbins-Ruszkowski 8 Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot? Friendship in the Face of Dementia Janelle S. Taylor Part III National Policies and Everyday Practices: Individual and Collective Projects of Aging Well 9 Getting Old and Keeping Going: The Motivation Technologies of Active Aging in Denmark Aske Juul Lassen and Astrid Pernille Jespersen 10 Foolish Vitality: Humor, Risk, and Success in Japan Jason Danely 11 Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing Judith Farquhar and Qicheng Zhang 12 Depreciating Age, Disintegrating Ties: On Being Old in a Century of Declining Elderhood in Kenya Janet McIntosh Part IV Medicine, Morality, and Self: Lessons from Life’s Ends 13 Successful Selves? Heroic Tales of Alzheimer’s Disease and Personhood in Brazil Annette Leibing 14 Comfortable Aging: Lessons for Living from Eighty-five and Beyond Meika Loe 15 Ageless Aging or Meaningful Decline? Aspirations of Aging and Dying in the United States and India Sarah Lamb Epilogue: Successful Aging and Desired Interdependence Susan Reynolds Whyte Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisWith the help of mirrors, trap doors, elevators, photographs, and film, women vanish and return in increasingly spectacular ways throughout the centuries. The author tracks the proliferation of this figure, the vanishing woman, from her genesis in Victorian stage magic through her development in conjunction with photography and film.Trade Review“Karen Beckman has written an eye-opening book, one that travels across a richly diverse group of texts in order to reveal the vanishing woman’s historical underpinnings and cultural work.”—Sabrina Barton“This highly original and beautifully crafted study explores feminist film theory, psychoanalysis, and cinema through a cultural history of the vanishing woman figure—from nineteenth-century prestidigitation and mediumship to early cinema and across the twentieth century. In positing the vanishing woman as a significant corrective to feminist film theory's staple readings of woman as ‘absence or lack,’ or hypervisible spectacle, this book offers a fascinating and provocative treatment of enduring discussions that have shaped this field.”—Sharon WillisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations viii Acknowledgments xi Introduction 3 1. Surplus Bodies, Vanishing Women: Conjuring, Imperialism, and the Rhetoric of Disappearance, 1851–1901 17 2. Insubstantial Media: Ectoplasm, Exposure, and the Stillbirth of Film 61 3. Mother Knows Best: Magic and Matricide 93 4. Violent Vanishings: Hitchcock, Harlan, and the Politics of Prestidigitation 129 5. Shooting Stars, Vanishing Comets: Bette Davis and Cinematic Fading 153 Afterword 189 Notes 195 Works Cited 219 Filmography 233 Index 235

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Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive examination of amphibian evolution ever produced, The Rise of Amphibians is an essential resource for paleontologists, herpetologists, geologists, and evolutionary biologists.Trade ReviewI highly recommend The Rise of Amphibians to anyone interested not only in amphibians but also in the evolutionary history of vertebrates in general. -- Hans-Dieter Sues Integrative and Comparative Biology 2009 A high-quality production, with finely illustrated drawings of skulls, vertebrae, ribs, teeth, and long bones of more amphibians, past and present, than most of us imagined even existed. -- Whit Gibbons Tuscaloosa News 2009 The Rise of Amphibians should be on the bookshelf of anyone involved in vertebrate evolution... an excellent source of information... It is a first-choice reference book that stimulates further studies and research. -- Axel Janke Systematic Biology 2010 Provides a wealth of valuable information about this fascinating history in a clear, easily readable style. -- Robert R. Reisz Quarterly Review of Biology 2010 I enjoyed reading this fascinating book. It will become a landmark and standard reference in early amphibian evolution for years to come. -- Miguel Vences Bioscience 2010 A useful reference catalog for the professional or well-read amateur. -- Richard Kissel American Paleontologist 2010Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. History of the Earth and Life2. Advanced Metazoans and the Ancestry of Vertebrates3. The Origin of Amphibians4. The Radiation of Carboniferous Amphibians5. Adaptation, Radiation, and Relationships6. The Zenith of Amphibian Diversity7. The Origin of Amniotes: Escape from the Water8. Stereospondyls: Escape from the Land9. The Enigma of Modern Amphibian Origins10. The Ancestry of Frogs11. The Ancestry of Salamanders12. Eocaecilia and the Origin of Caecilians13. The Success of Modern Amphibians14. The Future of AmphibiansAbbreviations Used in IllustrationsGlossaryReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisHow gender shapes cultural production in Viet Nam and its diasporaTable of ContentsIntroduction; Manufacturing Feminine Virtue for the Diaspora: The Films of Tony Bui; and Tran Anh Hung; Colonial Histories, Postcolonial Narratives: Traitors and Collaborators; in Vietnamese Women's Diasporic Literature; Heroines and Traitors: The Gendered Fictions of ??ng Nh?t Minh and; D??ng Th? H??ng; Traitors and Translators: Reframing Trinh T. Minh-ha's Surname Viet; Given Name Nam and A Tale of Love; Betraying Feminine Virtue: Collaborative Effects and the Transnational Circuits; of Vietnamese Popular Culture; Family Politics and the Art of Collaboration; Works Cited; Notes.

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Book SynopsisA major work of environmental and behavioral biology, this book reinterprets the classification, evolution, anatomy, physiology, and behavior of the higher social insects—ants, social wasps and bees, and termites—through the concepts of modern biology, from biochemistry to evolutionary theory and population ecology.Trade ReviewIf only because of the rarity of the event and the stature of the author…The Insect Societies must be considered a work of major importance. It is certain to influence the focus of research as well as the content of public information on the social insects for years to come…For anyone, layman or specialists, interested in a single, concise, lucid, and authoritative account of the most significant facts and theories about insect societies, The Insect Societies is the best available and will be for many years. -- Mary Jane West Eberhard * Natural History *Because ants, wasps, bees, and termites are of importance to man, because of their ecological domination of the land, and because their activities remind man of his own, this encyclopedic work will attract the general reader, students, and biologists as well as entomologists…This comprehensive work must be recognized as an outstanding contribution to biological literature. * Library Journal *The Insect Societies gives an extraordinarily complete and up-to-date account of the natural history of social insects with their great proliferation of genera, species, and behavioral types…In these fields modern genetics, selection theory, and biomathematics are being developed to explain the evolution of insect societies and their diversity both in size and in longevity. This is one of the growing points in the study of social insects and an undertaking to which Wilson is making important contributions. -- O. W. Richards * Science *In comprehensiveness of scope and modernity of outlook The Insect Societies can truly be said to be unique. For many years to come it will surely constitute a benchmark for all those, professional and amateur alike, for whom the social insects offer one of the most compelling and fascinating pageants in all the world of nature. The book is likely to become a collector's item. -- Caryl F. Haskins * New York Times Book Review *The book is well illustrated, and written in a clear direct style, with such specialist technical terms as Wilson feels obliged to uses explained in a glossary; evidently he is anxious to reach a wider audience than that provided by professional entomologists--as indeed the book deserves to do…This handsome book will undoubtedly be widely read and influential. -- R. A. Crowson * Nature *No book on biology in the past 20 years has been as satisfying as this treatise on ants, bees, wasps and termites…It is written with clarity and verve, but what distinguishes it particularly is its catholic mastery of all of biology, from paleontology to formal genetics, from ethology to biochemistry. Nothing less can be an adequate basis for the study of our social colleagues on this earth, and nothing less has its courageous and energetic author settled for. Biology is a whole science, and here it is wholly seen…It is so honest and yet so rich that it attracts and holds by the scent of understanding. * Scientific American *Table of Contents* Acknowledgment *1. Introduction: The Importance of Social Insects *2. The Degrees of Social Behavior *3. The Social Wasps *4. The Ants *5. The Social Bees *6. The Termites *7. The Presocial Insects *8. Caste: Ants *9. Caste: Social Bees and Wasps *10. Caste: Termites *11. The Elements of Behavior *12. Communication: Alarm and Assembly *13. Communication: Recruitment *14. Communication: Recognition, Food Exchange, and Grooming *15. Group Effects and the Control of Nestmates *16. Social Homeostasis and the Superorganism *17. The Genetic Theory of Social Behavior *18. Compromise and Optimization in Social Evolution *19. Symbioses among Social Insects *20. Symbioses with Other Arthropods *21. The Population Dynamics of Colonies *22. The Prospect for a Unified Sociobiology * Glossary * Bibliography * Index

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Book SynopsisThe origins and evolution of technocratic fascism in wartime Japan.Trade ReviewDrawing on a wealth of largely untapped primary materials and journals, the work focuses specifically on a group of elite bureaucrats, predominantly graduates of Tokyo Imperial University, and army staff officers who were the driving force behind the reorganization of the Japanese economy in the late 1930s and 1940s... Mimura's is the first English-language synthesis that traces the history of central planning in Japan from its inception in the corridors of power in Tokyo, through the experimentation period in Manchuria, to its final implementation in Japan. Mimura’s contribution is particularly valuable precisely because it deals with men who were in a position to put their ideas into practice. -- Christopher W.A. Szpilman * Monumenta Nipponica *Mimura writes, moreover, with great economy, pinpoint clarity, and without embellishment or hint of hyperbole. If Planning for Empire does not, thus, aspire to 'best in show' honors for recent analyses of the Japanese empire, it deserves accolades as likely the most influential of the lot for its measured yet powerful confirmation of several critical trends in the study of early twentieth-century Japanese empire and war... it is a must read for all serious students of modern Japanese history. -- Frederick Dickinson * Journal of Japanese Studies *Mimura's detailed examination of the administration of Manchuria/Manchukuo offers a useful counterweight to Driscoll's portrayal of Kishi and Ayukawa as little more than misogynisticexploitative brutes... Mimura’s dissection of Japanese techno-fascism—of its appeal across traditional political dividesof its incremental ideological genesis and of its ultimate failure—makes Planning for Empire a welcome addition to a new body of scholarship that has sought to resurrect fascism as an analytical tool for our understanding of mid-twentieth-century Japan. -- Martin Dusinberre * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History *Roles played by the Japanese civilian bureaucracy in the course of Japan's militarization before WW II have attracted little attention in academia, in contrast with scholars' heavy focus on the Japanese military. Mimura fills this void with this first in-depth English-language analysis of the Japanese "reform bureaucrats" who, as prominent advocates of "techno-fascism," endeavored to realize their vision of a "managerial state" and "controlled economy" in prewar Japan.... Highly recommended. * CHOICE *'Fascism' is a term of abuse today, but once it was an idea with a future, as Mimura shows in Planning for Empire. * The Japan Times *Anyone interested in the role of reform bureaucrats in Japan and the perpetual debate over fascism will want to read this well-researched, informative, and stimulating monograph. * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Japan's Wartime Technocrats 2. Military Fascism and Manchukuo, 1930–36 3. Bureaucratic Visions of Manchukuo, 1933–39 4. Ideologues of Fascism: Okumura Kiwao and Mori Hideoto 5. The New Order and the Politics of Reform, 1940–41 6. Japan's Opportunity: Technocratic Strategies for War and Empire, 1941–45Epilogue: From Wartime Techno-Fascism to Postwar ManagerialismBibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the last decade, the South American continent has seen a strong push for transnational integration, initiated by the former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who (with the endorsement of eleven other nations) spearheaded the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA), a comprehensive energy, transport, and communications network. The most aggressive transcontinental integration project ever planned for South America, the initiative systematically deploys ten east-west infrastructural corridors, enhancing economic development but raising important questions about the polarizing effect of pitting regional needs against the colossal processes of resource extraction. Providing much-needed historical contextualization to IIRSA's agenda, Beyond the City ties together a series of spatial models and offers a survey of regional strategies in five case studies of often overlooked sites built outside the traditional South American urban constructs. Implementing the term resource extraction urbanism, the architect and urbanist Felipe Correa takes us from Brazil's nineteenth-century regional capital city of Belo Horizonte to the experimental, circular, temporary city of Vila Piloto in Três Lagoas. In Chile, he surveys the mining town of María Elena. In Venezuela, he explores petrochemical encampments at Judibana and El Tablazo, as well as new industrial frontiers at Ciudad Guayana. The result is both a cautionary tale, bringing to light a history of societies that were inscribed and administered, and a perceptive examination of the agency of architecture and urban planning in shaping South American lives.Trade Review[Correa's] work describes a series of ex novo urban and regional projects in South America sited and designed to facilitate the mining or harvesting of natural resources. This arresting group of incarnated dreams offers a vivid alternative—or critically supplementary—history of the modern city, embodying an aspirational possibility in which both creating an urban design and realizing it can be imaginative and literal all at once. . . . The author’s evocation of the urban and the territorial is acute and revelatory, a nuanced analysis of the interaction of formal ideals and the aggressive extraction of the earth’s resources. * Architectural Record *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. Shaping Resource Extraction Chapter 1. A Regional Capital: Belo Horizonte Chapter 2. A Mining Town Constellation: María Elena Chapter 3. Petrol Encampments: Judibana and El Tablazo Chapter 4. A New Industrial Frontier: Ciudad Guayana Chapter 5. Pioneering Modernity: Vila Piloto Epilogue. The Legacy of Resource Extraction Urbanism and the Future of the South American Hinterland Notes Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a wealth of evidence that ranges from Pre-Columbian texts to ethnographic accounts of contemporary rituals, a leading scholar traces the extensive continuity of pre-Hispanic elements in Maya ceremonies of world renewal.Trade ReviewAn important new contribution to the general study of enduring, ancient Maya traditions adapted to serve in modern times. * Choice *That the Maya continued to practice traditional beliefs within their Christianity is not novel, but the details, interviews, photos, and descriptions contained in this book's chapter's contribute a new and exciting window through which to glimpse this blending of worldviews. As a result, the work would be a beneficial read to all with scholarly interests in the Maya. * Hispanic American Historical Review *Christenson's distinct contribution lies in documenting the specific degree of blending of two entire ritual cycles rather than individual elements. For the Mesoamericanist, Christenson's book is well worth reading for his method and its content. * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *Much has been written about Mayan beliefs but little with the historical depth and ethnographic detail that Allen J. Christenson brings to The Burden of the Ancients...Christenson fills the book with personal ethnographic anecdotes that add richness to both the historical chapters and the contemporary descriptions of the Tz’utujil Mayas of Santiago Atitlán...This is an impressive work of scholarship. * Ethnohistory *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Pre-Columbian Rituals of World Renewal in Yucatan 2. New Year’s Ceremonies in the Maya Highlands 3. Easter and the Spanish Conquest 4. Post-Conquest Ceremonies of World Renewal 5. Holy Monday 6. Holy Tuesday 7. Holy Wednesday 8. Holy Thursday 9. Good Friday 10. Aftermath and Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisChronic pain. Insomnia. Depression. These are just a few of the ongoing, debilitating symptoms that plague some breast-cancer survivors long after their treatments have officially ended. This book is filled with portraits of more than seventy women who are living with the aftermath of breast cancer.Trade Review"After the Cure provides voice to breast cancer survivors thrust into a netherworld of chronic disability." * Macleans.ca *"Reveals the long-term post-treatment symptoms that physicians fail to address." * Library Journal *"Reveal[s] the long-term posttreatment symptoms that physicians fail to address. . . . Women who have felt more isolated after treatment will welcome this validation that they are not alone." * Library Journal *"This compelling work questions what it means to cure disease and should be of interest to the medical community, cancer survivors of all types and those who face medical symptoms that cannot be validated by traditional means. These authors are marking a new developmental phase of cancer care that may lead affected persons to seek partnership with their physicians to combat the long-term side-effects of cancer and its treatments." * Centre Daily *"A collection of humanizing, honest portraits that point beyond the lives of the women to a need for society to reexamine its policies and demands for perfection." * Choice *"With cogent, compassionate analysis, Subramanian and Abel (herself a survivor) remind us of the lasting effects of cancer diagnoses, and the tremendous work still ahead for patients who must learn to trust their gut, and doctors who must learn to listen more considerately." * Pubishers Weekly *"An in-depth exploration of the symptoms experienced by some women after breast cancer treatment, giving voice to a neglected aspect of the breast cancer experience. . . . This book calls important attention to the plight of these women." -- Patricia A. Ganz,University of California, Los Angeles, Schools of Medicine and Public HealthTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword by Patricia A. Ganz Introduction 1 "Standing on New Ground" 2 "We Saved Your Life. Now Leave Us the Hell Alone" 3 Remedying, Managing, and Making Do 4 "Like Talking to a Wall" 5 Narrowed Lives 6 "Turning a Bad Experience into Something Good" Conclusion Epilogue Appendix Notes Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to be written by autistic college students about the challenges they face. Aquamarine Blue 5 details the struggle of these highly sensitive students and shows that there are gifts specific to autistic students that enrich the university system, scholarship, and the world as a whole.DawnTrade Review“This is the first book to be written by autistic college students who have been diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome or with High Functioning Autism. It demonstrates their unique way of looking at and solving problems and the challenges they face. Aquamarine Blue 5 details the struggles of these highly sensitive students and shows that there are gifts specific to autistic students that enrich the university system, scholarship, and the world as a whole. "Her unusual approach to understanding human behavior leads to powerfully clear analysis of the problems faced by people with Autism.” * ForeWord *“These essays… exhibit a level of awareness, effective writing, and sophisticated understanding of the world they must cope with that are usually thought beyond the capabilities of even the highest-functioning people with autism.” * author of Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter’s Life with Autism *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"As with previous volumes in this series, the translation is lucid and accurate....The comprehensive commentary masterfully guides the reader through the thickets, and illumines the underlying sources and ideas. Joel Hecker's translation and commentary continues the highest standards of scholarship that are a hallmark of this series. It is an indispensable resource for the study of the Zohar which achieves the golden mean of accessiblity to the non-specialist, but also as an invaluable resource for the specialist."—Morris M. Faierstein, Reading Religion

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Book SynopsisIn 1904 the British Protectorate of Brunei had reached the nadir of its fortunes. Reduced to two small strips of territory, bankrupt, and threatened with takeover by the Rajah of Sarawak (Sir Charles Brooke), Brunei received M. S. H. McArthur who was dispatched to make recommendations for Brunei’s future administration.Trade Review“Dr. Horton offers a lengthy introduction to the report. In that, and in extensive notes, he offers critical comment on it, identifies persons and places, arbitrates on controversial agreements and correspondence, and offers some account of the early years of the Residency… McArthur’s report was worth printing, both for its intrinsic interest and for its historical importance.” * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *

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Book SynopsisViolence and the Dream People is an account of a little-known struggle by the Malayan government and the communist guerrillas, during the 1948-1960 Malayan Emergency, to win the allegiance of the Orang Asli, the indigenous people of the peninsular Malaya.

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Book SynopsisRandai, the popular folk theater tradition of the Minangkabau ethnic group in West Sumatra, has evolved to include influences of martial arts, storytelling, and folk songs.

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Book SynopsisTraces Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s engagement with deconstructive thought from his early work in the 1960s to the present, examining his key concepts – infancy, Voice, potentiality, sovereignty, bare life, messianism – in relation to key texts and concepts in Jacques Derrida’s work.Trade Review"In this impressive book, Kevin Attell changes our understanding of Giorgio Agamben. From now on we will have to see Agamben's work, from the very beginning, as in dialogue with Derrida. As a result an important thinker becomes still more significant to the shape of contemporary European theory." -- -Simon During University of Queensland "Giorgio Agamben: Beyond the Threshold of Deconstruction is an enormously ambitious book covering the breadth of Giorgio Agamben's writings, from his earliest work on potentiality and discourse up through his later political and theological writings. Attell's interpretations, informed by vast philosophical erudition, presenting independent interpretations of all the texts that he treats, are paradigms for work on theory. This is one of the highest caliber works of theory or continental philosophy to appear in a long time." -- -Joshua Kates Indiana University "This remarkably rigorous, lucid, and open-minded study details the important differences between Agamben and Derrida, something many would regard as minor variants in a similarly deconstructive model, but which Derrida's late seminars on The Beast and the Sovereign affirm to be profound. Attell meticulously traces the trajectories of Derrida's and Agamben's careers, demonstrating in an elegant and textually based fashion the incisive nature of Agamben's engagement with Derrida, how so many of Agamben's major themes-potentiality, sovereignty, ban, messianic time, play and profanation, and the animal-could be considered as critical, indeed polemical, responses to Derrida's philosophical project. The strong distinction between Agamben's and Derrida's (and Benjamin's and Schmitt's) notions of messianic time is particularly dazzling." -- -Eleanor Kaufman University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsIntroduction: An Esoteric Dossier Part One: First Principles 1. Agamben and Derrida Read Saussure Overture: "Before the Law" Semiology and Saussure Semiology and the Sphinx 2. "The Human Voice" Introduction to Origin of Geometry Speech and Phenomena Infancy and History Excursus: Agamben and Derrida Read Benveniste Language and Death 3. Potenza and Differance Dunamis and Energeia Dunamis and Adunamia Writing and Potentiality Part Two: Strategy without Finality or Means without End 4. Sovereignty, Law, and Violence Abandoning the Logic of the Ban Means and Ends: Reading the "Critique of Violence" 5. Ticks and Cats Machines Bios and Zoe Heidegger and the Animal 6. A Matter of Time Prophet or Apostle Nun, jetzt Aufhebung Messianic Nun, jetzt Aufhebung Messianic

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Book SynopsisOffers clear explanations of grammatical structure, exercises that allow students to practice grammatical and communication skills, dialogues and narrative texts that provide a glimpse into Basque social and family life. It also provides exercises in pronunciation and tips for instructors and students to help them achieve fluency in modern Basque.

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Book SynopsisPresents twenty-seven graded readings, each accompanied by a vocabulary and an explanation of grammatical details; the final chapter provides a sample of the Codex Argenteus. Among the readings, the first seven are in effect preliminary exercises. The remaining twenty readings represent the Gothic Bible and the Skeireins.Trade ReviewAn introductory textbook of Gothic by a scholar of Professor Bennett's eminence is of course to be welcomed without qualification, the more so because it in no way duplicates its competitors in the field. The clarity of presentation is exemplary." --Modern Language Review

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface PART I. An Introduction to Formation Processes 1. The Nature of Archaeological Evidence 2. The Dimensions of Artifact Variability PART II. Cultural Formation Processes 3. Reuse Processes 4. Cultural Deposition 5. Reclamation Processes 6. Disturbance Processes PART III. Environmental Formation Processes 7. Environmental Formation Processes: The Artifact 8. Environmental Formation Processes: The Site 9. Environmental Formation Processes: The Region PART IV. The Study of Formation Processes 10. The Identification of Formation Processes 11. Formation Processes and Archaeological Inference: Hohokam Chronology 12. Formation Processes and Archaeological Inference: Brother K Pueblo 13. The Archaeological Process References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of the most exciting books on the singing voice to have appeared in this century.... Highly recommended as a unique contribution to voice science."—Choice "Such an advance, scientifically... that no serious student of the singing voice and vocal pedagogue should be without it."—ASHATable of ContentsTable of Contents 1. What Is Voice? 2. The Voice Organ 3. Breathing 4. The Voice Source 5. Articulation 6. Choral Voice 7. Speech, Song, and Emotions 8. A Rhapsody on Perception 9. Voice Disorders Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the account of one person's experience among the Inupiat, who live in a treeless land far north of the Arctic Circle. It records occurrences of healing, spirit manifestation, and premonition in her narrative in a year in the life of an Eskimo community.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Families and Persons Mentioned in the Text Introduction 1 Arrival 2 A Dream of the Loss of Childhood 3 The Healer 4 Embattled Politics: The Ancient Master Returns 5 The Taste of Sea Mammal Awakens I\u00f1upiat History 6 The Seal and Its Organs: A Prophetic Seeing 7 Winter: Western Celebration Converted 8 Winter Solstice 9 The Messenger Feast: The Work of the Eagle 10 A Man Lost in the Tundra: The Finding 11 The Grandmother Speaks a Word 12 The Laughing Mask 13 Preparations for Whaling 14 The Bowhead Whale: Balaena Mysticetus 15 The Whale's Head: Presence and Absence 16 Rich Parka and Festival Food 17 The Whaling Festival: Qagruq, the Beaching 18 The Shaman's Four-Day Syndrome 19 Reconnecting After Absence Conclusion: The Threads of Connectedness Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExplores some of Australia's major ethical challenges. Written in the midst of rapid social and environmental change and in a time of uncertainty and division, this work offers stories and arguments for ethical choice and commitment. It focusses on reconciliation, between indigenous and 'Settler' peoples, and with nature.

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Book SynopsisUnlike many studies of the family in the ancient world, this volume presents readings of mothers in classical literature, including philosophical and epigraphic writing as well as poetic texts. Rather than relying on a male viewpoint, the essays offer a female perspective on the lifecycle of motherhood.  Although almost all ancient authors are men, this book nevertheless aims to carefully unpack the role of the mother not as projected by the son or other male relations, but from a woman’s own experiences in order to better understand how they perceived themselves and their families. Because the primary interest is in the mothers themselves, rather than the authors of the texts in which they appear, the work is organized according to the lifecycle of motherhood instead of the traditional structure of the chronology of male authors. The chronology of the male authors ranges from classical Greece to late antiquity, while the motherly lifecycle ranges from preTrade Review"The chapters are successful in considering the nuances of the conceptualization of mothers in ancient sources, especially in poetry, and taken as a whole the volume achieves its aim of opening up new ways of viewing mothers in antiquity." -- Fiona McHardy, University of Roehampton * Early Modern Women *Table of Contents1. Introduction Alison Keith, University of Toronto, Mairéad McAuley, University College London, and Alison Sharrock, University of Manchester 2. Uncanny Mothers in Roman Literature Mairéad McAuley, University College London Section 1: Mothers and Young Children 3. From Body to Behaviour: Maternal Transmission in the Ancient Greek World Florence Gherchanoc, Université Paris Diderot, ANHIMA Centre 4. Νωδυνία: l’Oubli des souffrances maternelles et le chant théocritéen Florence Klein, Charles de Gaulle University 5. "Nimis mater": Mother Plot and Epic Deviation in the Achilleid Federica Bessone, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy 6. Augustan Maternal Ideology: The Blended Families of Octavia and Venus Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland Section 2: Mothers and Their Children’s Marriages 7. Motherhood in Roman Epithalamia Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer, Universität Basel, Switzerland 8. The Roman Mother-in-Law Alison Sharrock, University of Manchester Section 3: Mothers and Adult Children 9. maximum Thebis (Romae?) scelus/maternus amor est (Oed. 629-30): Amour de la mère et inceste chez Sénèque Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Charles de Gaulle University 10. Mighty Mothers: Female Political Theorists in Euripides’ Suppliant Women and Phoenician Women Giulia Sissa, University of California 11. Wife, Mother, Philosopher: On the Symbolic Function of Augustine’s Monnica Therese Fuhrer, Ludwig Maximilians Universität Section 4: Mothers and the Death of Their Children 12. Virgilian Matres: From Maternal Lament to Female Sedition in the Aeneid Alison Keith, University of Toronto 13. Octavia: A Roman Mother in Mourning Valerie Hope, The Open University 14. Mothers as Dedicators Olympia Bobou, Aarhus University, Denmark

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Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive study of Nietzsche’s relationship to the agonistic culture of ancient Greece. The book examines not only the overt elements of Greek agonism in Nietzsche’s early works, but also shows how his later works embody its spirit as it is manifest in such notions as the will to power, the overhuman and “active justice.”

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Book SynopsisDiscussing how music possesses expressive properties, this title incorporates the text of "The Corded Shell", answering various criticisms.Trade Review"Kivy's is a lucid and eminently readable account, interesting both historically and conceptually, of musical expressiveness--flexible in that it gives scope to both the contour and the convention models, the account becoming more convincing as one reads, as the theory is applied to more and more specific passages of music, and as one after another bit of irrelevancy or pseudo-mysticism is progressively shucked off." --John Hospers, Journal of Aesthetic Education "The Corded Shell, in its clarity, judiciousness, and breadth, will clearly take its place as a major work on musical expression. Those who seek to chart the murky waters of musical aesthetics are permanently in Kivy's debt." --Jerrold Levinson, Canadian Philosophical Review "Informed, lucid, and witty, Professor Kivy's argument brings enlightened solace to the musical amateur and tempers the harsh stance of the musical purist. A splendid contribution to the aesthetics of music." --Virginia Quarterly Review

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Book SynopsisInterprofessional Education and Collaboration offers a comprehensive guide to interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP). Written by a team of health care experts, this text is shaped by research and provides tools for interdisciplinary collaboration.Trade Review"This book is highly recommended for anyone seeking a truly effective health care team to improve patient outcomes and minimize patient care errors. Well done!" © Doody’s Review Service, 2020, Steven K Hamick, AAS, BIS, William Beaumont Hospitals, (5-star review)Table of ContentsChapter 1. Interprofessional Health CareCindy Mathena, PhD, OTR/L Communication and Teamwork Uniform Terminology Importance of Collaboration Enablers and Barriers of IPCP and IPE History of IPCP History of IPE Key Organizations and Resources SummaryChapter 2. Models of DeliveryJoy Doll, OTD, OTR/L; Anthony Breitbach, PhD, ATC, FASAHP; and Kathrin Eliot, PhD, RD, FAND Theoretical Approaches Foundation of IPE Teaching and Learning Learning Strategies Modes of Instruction Models of Delivery Clinically Integrated IPE SummaryChapter 3. Interprofessional Development for Clinicians, Preceptors, and FacultyJordan Hamson-Utley, PhD, LAT, ATC Faculty KSAs and Behavioral Change Development Models and Interprofessional Competencies Organizational Models and Initiatives Assessing Continuing Professional Education Professional Development of the Clinical Preceptor SummaryChapter 4. Essential EvidenceJudi Schack-Dugré, PT, DPT, MBA, EdD; and Jordan Hamson-Utley, PhD, LAT, ATC Influence of Faculty Shaping IPE Taking Aim Learner’s Reaction (Level 1) Evidence Change in Attitudes, Perceptions, Knowledge, and Skills (Level 2) Evidence Behavioral Change (Level 3) Evidence Organizational Change and Benefits to Patients (Level 4) Evidence Influence of Online Delivery Models on Attitudes and IPCP Effectiveness of Simulation Assessment Tools SummaryChapter 5. Building or Rebuilding Interprofessional RelationshipsK. Michelle Knewstep-Watkins, OTD, OTR/L; C. Michelle Longley, MSN, RN, NP-C; and Meghan Scanlon, BSIE Evidence and Current Practice Interprofessional Team Composition Collaboration Tools and Team Activities SummaryChapter 6. Teaming to Achieve Patient and Organizational OutcomesRobin Dennison, DNP, APRN, CCNS, NEA-BC; Amy Herrington, DNP, RN, CEN, CNE; and Melanie Logue, PhD, DNP, APRN, CFNP, FAANP Health Care Teaming Teams Team Collaboration Teaming and Outcomes Organizational Systems and Team Practice Strategies to Facilitate Teaming SummaryChapter 7. Interprofessional Communication StrategiesDee M. Lance, PhD, CCC-SLP/L; and Kim C. McCullough, PhD, CCC-SLP/L Overview of Team Communication General Communication Strategies Specific Communication Strategies SummaryChapter 8. Building SustainabilityTina Patel Gunaldo, PhD, DPT, MHS; and Pamela Waynick-Rogers, DNP, APRN-BC Sustainability Factors Adaptability (Environment) Acceptability (Social) Affordability (Economic) Emerging Research and Opportunities for Interprofessional Growth Summary Appendix: Additional Resources

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Book SynopsisSpecific Models Covered:Diesel models: 4030, 4230, 4430, 4630. Gasoline models: 4030, 4230

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Mr. Asma offers a rightly critical diagnosis of our obsession with egalitarianism.” -- Meghan Clyne * Wall Street Journal *“Asma refreshingly outlines the moral virtues that come with favoritism: loyalty, generosity, and gratitude. While it might strike some as cruel or outdated to accept that we tend to care more about those close to us, Asma shows that this outlook is actually conducive to the moral virtues that utilitarians struggle to justify.” -- Reason * Matthew Feeney *“Against Fairness is a terrific book. Stephen T. Asma goes a long way toward convincing readers of a challenging argument. Engagingly written, it avoids the ponderousness that so often characterizes work in philosophy, and I would recommend it to anyone who seems excessively committed to ‘fairness’ as the sine qua non of just policy.” -- Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice“Every once in awhile a book is published whose very concept snaps your head back and elicits an internal ‘Whoa! I hadn’t thought of that!’ Against Fairness is one such book. We are all so strongly shaped by modern liberal sensibilities of fairness that the very idea that, in fact, all of us (Jesus included!) play favorites—and justly so—is jarring. But once you think about it—which Asma does with cogent arguments and ample empirical evidence—being indiscriminately fair to everyone makes no sense whatsoever. Whence then do we find morality and justice in an unfair world? Asma shows how in this important contribution to the national conversation.” -- Michael Shermer, author of The Believing Brain“Asma realizes, with a sigh, ‘that I will be seen as some conservative Ayn Randian and my book read as a social-Darwinist screed,’ merely for telling his son that it’s not possible for everyone in a race to win it. But that will miss his main point, Asma continues: he’s not arguing for a Little Red Hen merit-based fairness over a prizes-for-all equal-shares fairness; he’s arguing for a favouritism that flies in the face of both concepts, one that privileges our tribes (by blood or affiliation).” -- Brian Bethune * Maclean's *“This is one of those books that I found myself agreeing with one moment and arguing with the next, nodding my head up and down, or shaking it left to right like some kind of dashboard ornament—the bobble-headed armchair philosopher.” -- Zsuzsi Gartner * the Globe and Mail *“Asma’s philosophical take on reevaluating what is considered to be ‘fair’ addresses the topic of fairness in a refreshing way, eschewing the culture of rewarding everyone for favoritism.” * AirTalk with Larry Mantle, 89.3 KPCC *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 Even Jesus Had a FavoriteSaints and FavoritesFairness, Tribes, and NephewsTwo Classic Cases of Favoritism2 To Thy Own Tribe Be True: Biological FavoritismMoral GravityThe Biochemistry of FavoritismHumans Are Wired for FavoritismA Healthy AddictionFlexible FavoritismKin SelectionRational or Emotional MotivesConflicting Brain SystemsFacts and Values3 In Praise of ExceptionsBuilding the Grid of ImpartialityGoing Off the GridFriendship and FavoritismReasonable Favoritism 4 “But, Dad, That’s Not Fair!”The Fusion of Feelings and IdeasSowing the Seeds of Confusion: SharingSowing the Seeds of Confusion: Open MindsEnvy and FairnessExcellence, Fairness, and Favoritism5 The Circle of Favors: Global PerspectivesChinese FavoritismFace CultureIndian FavoritismDisentangling Nepotism and CorruptionDisentangling Tribalism and Tragedy6 “Your People Shall Be My People?” Minorities, Majorities, and FavoritismAffirmative Action and FavoritismThe Finite StretchFeeling the Stones with Your Feet 7 Because You’re Mine, I Walk the LineThe Virtues of FavoritismYou Can’t Love Humanity. You Can Only Love PeopleThe Future of FavoritismThe Archbishop and the ChambermaidNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in History""Honorable Mention for the Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies""Winner of the Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award, The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America""[A] richly detailed, fluent and innovative study."---Adam Sutcliffe, Times Literary Supplement"Res­cue the Sur­viv­ing Souls throws us back to a deci­sive moment in the his­to­ry of the Jew­ish peo­ple. . . . With exception­al eru­di­tion, pen­e­trat­ing intel­li­gence, and sparkling prose, Adam Teller depicts this hor­ren­dous moment in all of its com­plex­i­ty: as a moment of death but also of new life; dis­rup­tion and con­nec­tion; and sense­less vio­lence but also pre­cious moments of human sym­pa­thy. Based on research in dozens of archives and almost as many lan­guages, Res­cue the Sur­viv­ing Souls is a tour de force of his­tor­i­cal writ­ing: it is at once com­pul­sive­ly read­able and schol­ar­ly."---Judges' Remarks, National Jewish Book Award"Overall, Teller’s sweeping and comprehensive treatment of the seventeenth century is an important and ground-breaking contribution to the field of Jewish history."---Rebecca Wartell, Mediterranean Historical Review"Rescuing the Surviving Souls is a remarkable achievement, and should be read widely not only by scholars of early modern Jewry, but by all students of the early modern world as well as those interested in refugees regardless of time or place. The dynamism, interconnectedness, and rich emotional and spiritual depth of this historical account come to light at the hands of a master storyteller. . . . Teller's book exemplifies some of the best work being done by historians of refugees."---Jesse Spohnholz, Studia Rosenthaliana"Teller’s valuable work moves us towards histories that foreground relations across and between early modern communities and enables us to contemplate broader narratives."---Nicholas Terpstra, Jewish History"Highly detailed and compelling."---Joshua Picard, Religious Studies Review

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Book SynopsisMichèle Hayeur Smith uses Viking textiles as evidence for the little-known work of women in the Norse colonies that expanded from Scandinavia across the North Atlantic in the 9th century AD.

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