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Book SynopsisCertain Sainthood draws on the insights of a new generation of scholarship that integrates both lived religion and intellectual history into the study of theology and canon law.Trade ReviewCertain Sainthood focuses on the expansion of papal authority in the Middle Ages during the Gregorian reform. Well-written and persuasively argued, Donald S. Prudlo asserts that papal infallibility developed organically during this period in tandem with papal canonizations. * READING RELIGION *Prudlo argues that from the modern perspective, Catholics concentrate on canonical or theological history, with little appreciation for the social or cultural meaning of saints and canonization, especially during the medieval period.... But [he] integrates it with cultural history and lived religion during the period when papal centralization led to claims of infallibility in canonization. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. "By the authority of Blessed Peter" Making Saint-Making2. "They trust not in the suffrages of the saints": Saintly Skirmishes3. "That the Perversity of Heretics Might Be Confounded": From Practice to Theory4. "Hark, Hark, the Dogs Do Bark...": The Assault on Mendicant Holiness(1234–60)5. "That God Might Not Permit Us to Err": The Articulation of Infallibility in Canonization6. Sancti per fi dem vicerunt regna: "The Saints, by Faith, Conquered ;Kingdoms"Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn Chinese Economic Statecraft, William J. Norris introduces an innovative theory that pinpoints how states employ economic tools of national power to pursue their strategic objectives. Norris shows what Chinese economic statecraft is, how it works, and why it is more or less effective.Trade ReviewAn impressive scholarly addition to our study of the contemporary Chinese foreign policy. It should be of great interest to both China Studies scholars as well as anyone interested in foreign policy analysis and international political economy. * Journal of Chinese Political Science *Norris’ new book is one of the first to focus on Chinese state-directed economic activities and their political effectiveness.... Norris sets a very ambitious research objective by not only selecting and examining seven extremely different cases, but also trying to build a new analytical framework based on principal-agent theory. * PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS *Table of ContentsPart I ON ECONOMIC STATECRAFT 1. What Is Economic Statecraft? 2. The Challenge of State Control 3. Economics and China's Grand Strategy Part II SECURING STRATEGIC RAW MATERIALS 4. "Going Out" and China’s Search for Energy Security 5. Rio Tinto and the (In)visible Hand of the State Part III CROSS-STRAIT ECONOMIC STATECRAFT 6. Coercive Leverage across the Taiwan Strait 7. Interest Transformation across the Taiwan Strait Part IV CHINA’S SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS 8. State Administration of Foreign Exchange 9. What Right Looks Like 10. The China Investment Corporation Concluding Implications

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Book SynopsisMarcia M. Gallo provides a sensitive and multifaceted exploration of one of America's most infamous true-crime stories: the 1964 rape and murder of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese.Trade ReviewGallo [is] successful in her quest to restore Genovese's 'personhood.' In a chapter evocatively titled 'Hidden in Plain Sight,' Gallo does a wonderful job placing Genovese within the context of her times as a vibrant, successful, homosexual woman. Gallo’s interviews with Genovese’s lover, Mary Ann Zielonko, and some of Genovese’s friends add poignant and touching details to a life cut tragically short. -- Mariah Adin * H-Net Reviews *After reading Gallo's solidly researched book, readers can no longer simply accept the standard narrative about Kitty Genovese's murder and the claims of urban apathy.... She asks us to think more broadly about the ways in which historical narratives build up around important events and sometimes cloud our view of the past.... With this book, Gallo has at least brought the real Kitty Genovese back to life. * Italian American Review *Gallo's insightful and important book about the Genovese murder is both a provocative history of the ways apathy continues to challenge our popular memory of social activism and an engaging history of the postwar years that highlights the intersection of a range of social issues and political problems. It deserves a wide audience. -- Randy D. McBee * Journal of American History *Several books and numerous articles have marked the 50th anniversary of the infamous murder of Kitty Genovese on the night of March 13, 1964 in the borough of Queens in New York City. Marcia M. Gallo offers a valuable addition to this literature in a well-written, intelligent, comprehensive, and provocative new account of the often-told story. I believe it will be of interest to a broad range of readers, including social psychologists, other social scientists, and to lay and professional readers interested in any of the many questions raised by the case for policy making, journalism, social planning, and more. -- Robert Levine * PsycCRITIQUES *Table of ContentsPrologue: A New York Story1. Urban Villages in the Big City2. Hidden in Plain Sight3. Thirty-Eight Witnesses4. The Metropolitan Brand of Apathy5. The City Responds6. Surviving New City Streets7. Challenging the Story of Urban ApathyEpilogue: Kitty, Fifty Years LaterNotes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe atlas of contemporary capitalism is curious indeed. A desperately poor and civil-war-wracked nation, Liberia, is the world's shipping superpower; the Cayman Islands the fifth-largest financial center in the world; land-locked Zurich a venerable...Trade Review"What is the offshore world? When and why did it develop? Who supported its development? Where and how does it operate? How important is it in international commerce and finance today? To find answers to those questions, Palan (International relations and politics, Univ. of Sussex, UK) examines the offshore phenomenon in a broad sense of social and economic change. . . . Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate and Research Collections."—Choice, Dec. 2003."This practice of sovereign bifurcation, by which states divide their sovereign space into heavily and lightly regulated realms, suggests a radical redrawing of state boundaries and an important transformation in the nature of sovereignty and the relationship between state and capitalism. Offshore may be at the very heart of the transformation of modern politics: is it the beginning of 'postglobalization?'"—Future Survey 26:1, January 2004"Ronen Palan asks bold, provocative questions regarding the relationship between sovereignty and the offshore economy and its relevance to state formation, globalization, and the fate of the nation-state. The 'commercialization of sovereignty' is a very effective underlying theme."—Peter Andreas, Brown University"The Offshore World explores the important concept of 'offshore' with a high level of detail and theoretical sophistication. Ronen Palan illuminates aspects of state sovereignty that have not been fully described elsewhere. This book will extend our understanding of how contemporary international society emerged over the last century, while providing insight into how concepts like 'offshore' reshape our thinking about economic phenomena."—Peter Dombrowski, The Naval War College"The Offshore World is a subtle and intriguing look at one of the global economy's most prominent features."—Debora Spar, Harvard Business School

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Book Synopsis"Fanon was consummately incapable of telling the story of himself. He lived in the immediacy of the moment, with an intensity that embodied everything he evoked. Fanon's discourse pertained to a present tense that was unburdened by its narrative past...Trade ReviewThis is a book of interest and importance, and it comes at a moment when events have arguably made Fanon a contemporary thinker. Students of Fanon will surely want to read it, as will those comparing anti-colonial struggles around the globe. -- Benjamin Claude Brower * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History *

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Book SynopsisContemporary feminist critics have often described Surrealism as a misogynist movement. This work addresses this issue, confirming some feminist allegations while qualifying and overturning others. Through insightful analyses of works by a range of writers and artists, it develops a complex view of Surrealist portrayals of woman.

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Book SynopsisWhen confronted by horrendous evil, even the most pious believer may question not only life's worth but also God's power and goodness. A distinguished philosopher and a practicing minister, Marilyn McCord Adams has written a highly original work on a...Trade ReviewIt is her own dissatisfaction with the usual strategies that philosophy and theology have adopted in the face of evil—strategies that she feels underestimate either the horror of evil or the goodness of God—that led her to mount her own philosophical alternative.... She proposes an entirely different approach. Instead of seeking reasons why a good God might permit evil, philosophy should seek an explanation of how God might 'make good' on evil. * New York Times Book Review *Adams argument is an important contribution to recent philosophical and theological discussions on the problem of evil.... Whether one agrees with... Adams' answer to the problem of evil, it is hard not to think that we are better off for the ways that her attempts to think about evil encourage and challenge us to take evil seriously. * The Hedgehog Review *In this post-Holocaust world, much that passes for philosophical analysis of the problem of evil seems beside the point, if not culpably irrelevant. It is to Adams's great credit that in her often insightful discussion of the issue, she puts the emphasis where it belongs: on the victims' point of view.... A provocative book. * Theological Studies *It would be difficult to take offense at a book which is so manifestly honest in its search for the truth, and which so clearly expresses a deep awareness of, and compassion for, the suffering and moral frailty of human beings.... Whatever their own views on the problem of evil, most readers will find insights here that they will want to hold on to. * Religious Studies *Marilyn Adams... makes a compelling argument at several levels. * First Things *This book is based on work on God and evil that Adams did over a period of more than a decade.... But the book is by no means a mere collection of previously published essays.... The book integrates them into a unified whole that highlights their coherence and displays connections among them. So even those who are very familiar with her earlier work on God and evil will profit from reading the book carefully.... This is a brave book. It has something fresh to say on a difficult and important philosophical topic. It deserves readers who will debate its challenging claims. * The Philosophical Review *

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Book SynopsisThe psychiatric profession in Germany changed radically from the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War I. In a book that demonstrates his extensive archival knowledge and an impressive command of the primary literature, Eric J. Engstrom...Trade ReviewEngstrom... reveals how the various dimensions of academic psychiatry—its cognitive content, its treatment and research practices, its curriculum, its tools, its workspaces (clinics, laboratories, lecture halls), and its institutional (medical departments, universities, mental health care in general) and political and social contexts—were all closely interrelated.... Engstrom's interpretations are... nicely detailed. -- Harry Oosterhuis, University of Maastricht * Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences *Engstrom... has produced a fascinating history of the professionalizing of psychiatric practice in modern Germany in this extensively researched book. * Choice *Here we get a detailed look at the beginnings of the professionalization of psychiatry in Germany in the nineteenth century, a concomitant of the medicalization of madness that took place at the same time. -- Michale Beldoch * Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry, 2003-2004 *The nineteenth century can rightly be called the century of medicine and biology. With the support of national and provincial governments, clinical medicine and the human sciences flourished in Germany. By century's end, scholars in fields such as pathology, neurology, epidemiology, and experimental psychology could lay claim to being the best in the world. In no other field was the influence of German medicine and science more palpable than in psychiatry.... Eric Engstrom's book is the first to explore this important moment in the intellectual and social history of Germany. With Engstrom, this rather daunting venture is in able hands. To those scholars working in the field of the history of German psychiatry, Engstrom is well-known as a thoughtful and insightful historian, particularly well-informed about the scope of archival materials available to scholars. -- Greg Eghigian, Penn State University * H-Soz-u-Kult *The primary focus of Eric J. Engstrom's book on psychiatry in Germany from roughly the mid nineteenth century to the First World War is the tension between alienists—clinicians whom Engstrom defines as 'an ambiguous blend of physician, judge, father and teacher,' resident with their 'family' of staff and patients in large isolated rural asylums—and the new breed of 'scientific' psychiatrists based in urban clinics affiliated to university medical schools. This tension—never entirely resolved—led to a fundamental shift in asylum culture.... Engstrom must be given credit for achieving what he set out to do. He is a very thorough, undogmatic historian and the book is formidably footnoted and referenced. The prose is serviceable and straightforward, and, while it features much jargon from the social sciences, is never deformed by it. * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisIn this introduction to Hermeticism and its mythical founder, Florian Ebeling provides a concise overview of the Corpus Hermeticum and other writings attributed to Hermes, tracing their influence on Western thought from the ancient world to the present.Trade ReviewDemonstrating mastery of both primary texts and secondary sources, the author has constructed a convincing account of the origin, development, and influence of Hermeticism.... In addition to offering this very helpful guide, which includes lapidary synopses of the primary texts, the author is the first to recognize that by the early modern period two distinct subtraditions existed within Hermeticism, one philosophical-theological and the other alchemical. Recommended. * Choice *Florian Ebeling's The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus should be lauded for its innovative approach to the study of Hermeticism. The text is not only informative about areas of study often left neglected but also provides insight into the ideologies and processes that went into the development of various forms of Hermetic thought. -- J. S. Kupperman * Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition *Table of ContentsForeword by Jan AssmannIntroductionChapter 1. Prehistory and Early History of a Phantasm What Are Hermetic Texts? — The Hermetic Texts of Late Antiquity — Hermes as Preacher of Theology and Philosophy — Hermes: Astrologer, Magus, and Alchemist — What Was Ancient Hermeticism?Chapter 2. The Middle Ages: Christian Theology and "Antediluvian" Magic Christian Hermeticism — Arab Hermeticism — Hermes Latinus — Traditions of Medieval HermeticismChapter 3. Renaissance: Primeval Wisdom for a New World Tradition or Rediscovery? — Hermeticism and Paracelsism — Religious Hermeticism — Two Paths of Hermeticism in the Early Modern PeriodChapter 4. Seventeenth Century: High Point and Decline Casaubon and the Dating of the Hermetic Texts — Hermeticism and the Modern Natural Sciences — Hermeticism and Pietism — The Decrepitude of Hermeticism?Chapter 5. Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Between Occultism and Enlightenment Two German Editions of the Corpus Hermeticum — Hermes Trismegistus in Freemasonry — From Historical to Systematic HermeticismChapter 6. Twentieth Century: Systems and Esoterica Julius Evola and Esoteric Hermeticism — Umberto Eco's Hermetic Semiosis and Heinrich Rombach's HermeticismChronology Glossary Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSmith recovers a surprising array of discussions about extramarital sexuality, women's financial autonomy, and respectability in ate Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany.Trade ReviewBerlin Coquette is well written—an ever-rarer feature of academic writing, it seems—and well researched (Smith's footnotes are especially impressive).... This is an important contribution to a variety of fields (German studies, gender studies, history, urban studies, and theater/film studies come immediately to mind) and certainly one that will change the way we understand prostitution. * H-Net Reviews *Berlin Coquette is an innovative interdisciplinary work that succeeds in illustrating the complicated nature of the urban German prostitution trade in the years before and after World War I....With the intent of moving beyond the standard dichotomy of victim/villain, Smith uses myriad sources to sketch a vibrant picture of women in Berlin's sex trade from the Kaiserreich to the end of the Weimar Republic. * The Journal of Interdisciplinary History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Berlin's Bourgeois Whores1. Sex, Money, and Marriage: Prostitution as an Instrument of Conjugal Critique2. Righteous Women and Lost Girls: Radical Bourgeois Feminists and the Fight for Moral Reform3. Naughty Berlin?: New Women, New Spaces, and Erotic Confusion4. Working Girls: White-Collar Workers and Prostitutes in Late Weimar FictionConclusion: Berlin CoquetteBibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDiscussing a variety of postcolonial narratives written by women, Lionnet offers a comparative feminist approach that can provide common ground for debates on such issues as multiculturalism, universalism, and relativism.

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Book SynopsisDistilled from Roosevelt's voluminous writings and speeches, In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt is a discerning collection of quotations by this American icon who continues to inspire and captivate an extraordinary array of twenty-first-century Americans.Trade Review"In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt is an indispensable reference book we sorely need and is worthy of a broad readership. Of U.S. presidents only Abraham Lincoln is more often quoted than T.R. Highly recommended!" -- Douglas G. Brinkley, Rice University, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America"Theodore Roosevelt remains a figure of great personal inspiration to many, many Americans, young and old. This fascinating work new collection of quotations will be entertaining and useful for serious students of TR's life and times." -- Kathleen Dalton, Phillips Academy, author of Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous LifeTable of ContentsIntroduction: While Daring GreatlyTheodore Roosevelt ChronologyThe Words of Theodore Roosevelt Action – America – Americans – Archaeologists – Army – Art – Authors – The Big Stick – Books – Bullies – Business – Character – Children – Citizens – Class Conflict – Commonweal – Community – Conduct – Conservation – Constitution – Criticism – Defense – Democracy – Determination – Education – Equality – Experimentation – Extremism – Family Life – Fatherhood – Governing – Government – Great Nations – Historians – History – Human Nature – Hunters – Hunting – Ideals – Immigrants – Individualism – Industrial Relations – Industry – International Relations – Justice – Kings – Labor – Law – Lawsuits – Leadership – Legislation – Liberty – Life – Lincoln, Abraham – Literature – Lynching – The Man in the Arena – Marriage – Monopoly – Motherhood – Nationalism – National Parks – Natural Resources – Navy – Panama Canal – Peace – Philanthropy – Politicians – Political Campaigns – Political Parties – Politics – Pollution – Posterity – Power – Presidency – Press – Progressive Party – Progressivism – Promises – Prosperity – Public Life – Reactionaries – Reading – Reform – Reformers – Religion – Religious Freedom – The Rich – Roosevelt on Roosevelt – Roosevelt's Contemporaries on Roosevelt – Rough Riders – Scholarship – Science – Self-Discipline – Senate – Special Interests – Sports – Square Deal – Strenuous Life – Success – Tolerance – Veterans – Vice – Vice Presidency – Victory – Virtue – Voting – War – Washington, Booker T. – Wealth – The West – The White House – Wildlife Photography – Wilderness – Women – Women’s RightsA Note on Editorial MethodSelected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOvid is a poet to enjoy, declares William S. Anderson in his introduction to this textbook. And Anderson's skillful introduction and enlightening textual commentary will indeed make it a joy to use. In these books Ovid begins to leave the conflict between men and the gods to concentrate on the relations among human beings.

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Book SynopsisJames Clerk Maxwell published the Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in 1873. At his death, six years later, his theory of the electromagnetic field was neither well understood nor widely accepted. By the mid-1890s, however, it was regarded as one...Trade ReviewGeorge Francis Fitzgerald's indirect influence was immense, and his reputation grows with every retelling of his period by the historians of science, especially in... The Maxwellians, by Bruce Hunt.... He was the acknowledged leader of an international team—what we would today call an invisible college—calling themselves the Maxwellians—the subject of Hunt's splendid book. -- D. Weaire, Trinity College, Dublin * Europhysics News *The entire story is fascinating and often surprising. It deserves a wide audience. This will be facilitated by the fact that the book is in English, not in mathematics; a few equations appear, but most are in plain prose. * American Scientist *The Maxwellians is a remarkable achievement.... Hunt combines the highest level of professional historical scholarship with a narrative that is lively and compelling throughout. * Nature *This excellent book is the story of three men whose lives were shaped and whose friendship was made through the study of one book, James Clerk Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. Behind this story is another of how the premature death of one man, Maxwell, caused an intellectual dislocation in science propagating over many years. * Science *Told with historical sensitivity and analytical skill, Hunt's story demolishes many of the long-accepted myths about the history of electromagnetism after Maxwell.... Hunt provides a readable account, written in terms accessible to anyone with a basic knowledge of physics. * Times Higher Education Supplement *

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Book SynopsisThis book opens new perspectives on the Zohar, the greatest book of Jewish mysticism, by examining its unique approach to narrative.Trade Review"This thoughtful study adds another learned piece to readers' understanding of the Zohar, the most famous work in the history of Jewish mysticism . . . Recommended." -- S. T. Katz * CHOICE *"'Rabbi Hiyya and Rabbi Yose were walking on the road.' Traditional commentators ignore the Zohar's narrative framework; in this fascinating book, David Greenstein refocuses our attention on this vital element. He demonstrates how the 'walking motif' enables the Zohar to address the mundane, to explore not just the 'sacred center,' but also its everyday periphery." -- Daniel Matt * Editor and Translator of The Zohar, Pritzker Edition *

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Book SynopsisThis challenge to the prevailing wisdom behind drug regulation and addiction therapy provides a historical corrective to our perception of LSD's medical efficacy.Trade ReviewDigs deeply into an area of drug history that has for the most part been ignored. Literary Review of Canada 2009 The story is very well written and researched... The book is a good read and has the bonus of imparting historical understanding of psychiatry during its most exciting and innovative era. British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 A smoothly written account. -- Edward Shorter American Historical Review 2009 Psychedelic Psychiatry is a highly nuanced work of scholarship that sheds new light on LSD research in Saskatchewan. -- Kam Teo Saskatchewan History 2009 As Dyck shows well, LSD gives historians a lot to think about. -- John C. Burnham Isis 2009 Crisply written, well-researched and cogently argued. -- Alex Mold Social History of Medicine 2009 Psychedelic Psychiatry represents the first archive-based, sober history of LSD's early years as a promising pharmaceutical and its subsequent decline. -- Nicolas Rasmussen Journal of American History 2009 Psychedelic Psychiatry is intensely interesting; an important and influential period of transition in psychiatry that has direct and important implications for current psychiatry... I highly recommend it to others. -- Mathew Martin-Iverson Health and History 2009Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Psychedelic Pioneers2. Simulating Psychoses3. Highs and Lows4. Keeping Tabs on Science and Spirituality5. Acid Panic6. "The Perfect Contraband"ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis anthology of translated histories, chronicles, saint’s lives, theological treatises, and accounts presents an in-depth analysis of Byzantine art. Focusing on Constantinople, Mango chronicles the arts, and places them in historical, political, and theological perspective. First published in 1972.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This excellent translation of Kanatchikov's memoirs is a significant contribution to the field of Russian history and European labor history. The personal testimony of this extremely sensitive worker-revolutionary gives the reader a special 'feel' for the life of a Russian factory worker." -Ronald Grigor Suny ,The University of Michigan "Kanatchikov's autobiography tells us more about the social psychology of the Russian factory worker than any other source I know. It offers rare insights into the social and political conflicts that set the stage for the Russian revolution. It also tells a wonderful story." -Laura Engelstein ,Princeton University

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Book SynopsisThis sobering book demonstrates how the interplay between conventional military operations and nuclear forces could inadvertently produce pressures for nuclear escalation.Trade ReviewInadvertent Escalation makes a truly unique, original contribution to security issues and should make defense planners grapple with conventional and nuclear linkages in future conflicts. Posen's answer gives wisdom to innocent defense planners as they venture forth into a post-Cold War world. * Military Review *As long as nuclear weapons exist, they may be used, and Barry Posen's book is a valuable contribution to thinking about ways in which nuclear use might come about. * International Affairs *Posen... does a masterful job of effectively utilizing detailed information to demonstrate the complex interplay of force postures, strategic doctrines, and decision-making dynamics. In these respects, the author's contribution transcends the time frame dominated by two superpowers armed with gargantuan nuclear arsenals. * Choice *Posen has written a provocative and important book... which explores an issue that could increase in relevance as nuclear weapons proliferate throughout the Third World. * Intelligence and National Security *Table of Contents1. Introduction: A Model of Inadvertent Escalation 2. Air War and Inadvertent Nuclear Escalation 3. The Balance of Ground Forces on the Central Front 4. Escalation and NATO's Northern Flank 5. "Offensive" and "Defensive" Sea Control: A Comparative Assessment 6. ConclusionAppendix 1. The Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) Model Appendix 2. Central Region Close Air Support Aircraft and Atack Helicopters (1988) Appendix 3. The Attrition-FEBA Expansion Model: Symphony Version Appendix 4. A Barrier Defense ModelSelected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the unfamiliar genre of the death liturgy, the author arrives at a remarkably comprehensive view of the religion of death in ancient Egypt.Trade ReviewDeath and Salvation in Ancient Egypt serves as a compendious introduction to how ancient Egyptians approached their mortality as well as their impending immortality. Throughout, Assmann continues to build upon his vast store of important publications, yet again bringing to his work a deep background in theoretical literature, especially anthropology and philosophy. This gives his work a decidedly comparative flair, citing parallels or contrasts with cultures ancient or modern, Near Eastern or otherwise. Much of Assmann's Egyptological work has become required reading, and Death and Salvation will be no exception. Controversial, insightful, incredibly informed, and in constant contact with the primary textual material, this volume will continue to inspire discussion for years to come. * Journal of Near Eastern Studies *Assmann astounds the reader with his deep knowledge of religious texts from all periods of Egyptian civilization and from the Greeks and Romans too. He is equally familiar with evidence from art and architecture.... He leads the reader through the maddeningly opaque pronouncements of Egyptian intellectuals about the nature of death, its origin, its meaning, its importance. Every page shines a fresh light on a topic that fascinates us all, but leaves us puzzled. Assmann's book will take its place as classic study and shows again why he is justly regarded as one of the great Egyptologists writing today. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsTranslator's NoteIntroduction: Death and CulturePart One. Images of Death Chapter 1. Death as Dismemberment Chapter 2. Death as Social Isolation Chapter 3. Death as Enemy Chapter 4. Death as Dissociation: The Person of the Deceased and Its Constituent Elements Chapter 5. Death as Separation and Reversal Chapter 6. Death as Transition Chapter 7. Death as Return Chapter 8. Death as Mystery Chapter 9. Going Forth by DayPart Two. Rituals and Recitations Chapter 10. Mortuary Liturgies and Mortuary Literature Chapter 11. In the Sign of the Enemy: The Protective Wake in the Place of Embalming Chapter 12. The Night of Vindication Chapter 13. Rituals of Transition from Home to Tomb Chapter 14. Provisioning the Dead Chapter 15. Sacramental Explanation Chapter 16. Freedom from the Yoke of Transitoriness: Resultativity and Continuance Chapter 17. Freedom from the Yoke of Transitoriness: ImmortalityAfterword: Egypt and the History of DeathNotes Index

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Book SynopsisThe first English translation of Mantegazza's futurist and utopian book, which uses the story of Paolo and Maria, a pair of lovers who travel to the capital city of the United Planetary States to get married, as a pretext to explore larger societal issuesTrade Review“Two welcome surprises await readers of this book: the first is simply that a nineteenth-century masterpiece of utopian literature has been made available to them in a translation that reads like an original, and the second, that a great scholar has written a user-friendly, highly sophisticated, and passionate introduction shedding light on the times of neo-positivism, its antecedents, and its legacy.”—Luigi Ballerini, professor of Italian, University of California at Los Angeles"Thanks to the extensive introduction, The Year 3000: A Dream will appeal to anyone interested in the literary evolution of science fiction or the early contributions to the genre of one very talented and foresighted Italian fiction writer."—Alan J. Couture, ForeWord"The Year 3000 is indeed an alternative universe where the world is a better place for all and true love is the most powerful force in the universe. Enjoy the trip."—Patricia Contino, Newpages.com"The Year 3000. A Dream constitutes an important addition to the relatively small number of nineteenth-century Italian novels available in English and is an invaluable text to add to any class, whether within a comparative context or not, teaching nineteenth-century Italian literature."—Gabriella Romani, Annali d'italianisticaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Paolo Mantegazza, Fabulator of the FutureNicoletta Pireddu 1. Paolo and Maria set out for Andropolis. One evening in the Gulf of La Spezia.2. From La Spezia to the ancient pyramids of Egypt. From the pyramids to the Isle of Experiments. The Land of Equality. Tyrannopolis. Turatia or the Socialist Republic. Logopolis. Other governments and other social organizations.3. Voyage to the Isle of Dynamo, one of the four great laboratories of planetary force. The Historical Museum of our planet's mechanical evolution. The three great historical epochs. Macstrong's discovery and the pandynamo. The central distribution office of cosmic forces.4. Departure from Dynamo and arrival in Andropolis. The overall look of the city. Its houses, their construction and architecture. The plazas of Andropolis. The dynamics plant. The market. Arrest of a young thief, and justice meted out.5. Trip to the Government Palace. Forms of government and political organization around the world in the year 3000. The four wings of the Palace. Land, Health. School. Industry and Commerce. The Office of Finance.6. The Gymnasium of Andropolis.7. The Palace of Schools. The primary school. The middle school. The school of advanced studies. Lesson on the influence of passion on the logic of thought.8. Trip to Hygeia. The statue erected to the preeminent physicians of antiquity. The anteroom of the sick. The divisions of Hygeia. A lung doctor's visit to a tubercular patient. Card money in the year 3000. The Hygeians' department. Visit to newborns. Elimination of a baby. A mother both pitiful and cruel.9. The city of the dead at Andropolis. Dissolution of corpses. Cremation. The siderophiles and embalmings. Sepulchers. The Pantheon.10. The Theaters of Andropolis and the Panopticon. A listing of shows in the capital on April 26, 3000. A gala evening at the Panopticon.11. The Museum of Andropolis. The Arcade and the peripatetics. The natural science wing. Possible humans. Analysis paired with synthesis. The museum wing dedicated to human labor. Concentric circles and centrifugal radii. The blot on the art-history map.12. The City of God in Andropolis. The Temple of Hope. The church of the Evangelists. The Temple of the Unknown God.13. Maria's bad mood and Paolo's secret. A session of the Andropolis Academy and the awarding of the cosmic prize. Fertile marriage. Editor's Notes on the Text

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Book SynopsisSet in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) of the early 1970s, this novel presents an adventure story as well as a feminist critique of GDR socialism, science, history, and aesthetic theory.Trade Review"A first English translation of a very unusual novel, originally published in 1974, combines political satire with feminist-inspired romance in a demanding fictional potpourri whose German author (1933-90) may really have been a contemporary Cervantes. . . . The tale of Beatrice's journey (also Dantesque) through a modern inferno and purgatory, marriages and affairs, artistic endeavors and political infatuations and adventures is brilliantly amplified by Morgner's use of mythic archetypes . . . [and] detailed allusions to postwar German history and culture. . . . Literary antecedents and all, this is a one-of-a-kind novel: richly imagined, more than a little forbidding, preternaturally astute, altogether unforgettable."—Kirkus * Kirkus *"It presents a magnificent blend of fantasy, realism, history, myths, and fairy tales woven around the woman troubadour Beatrice de Dia. . . . . Clausen is to be applauded for taking on the challenge of translating this multifarious work. Her readable translation and extensive glossary provide English readers with a unique example of GDR literature. Recommended for general and academic readers."—Choice * Choice *

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Book SynopsisPushing back against the contemporary myth that freedom from oppression is freedom of choice, Frank Ruda resuscitates a fundamental lesson from the history of philosophical rationalism: a proper conceptof freedom can arise only from a defense of absolute necessity, utter determinism, and predestination.Trade Review“Abolishing Freedom is both philosophically and stylistically daring.”—Michael Principe, Marx and Philosophy“Abolishing Freedom is not only the very acme of today’s philosophy, but much more—it is a book for everyone who is tired of all the ideological babble about freedom of choice.”—Slavoj Žižek, author of Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism “Appropriating it as a natural right, a possession that can be taken away, the sign of the subject’s sovereignty, liberalism has given freedom a bad name. Yet how to think without acknowledging the fact of freedom? In his delightful book, Ruda shows us the way. Reducing the liberal edifice to rubble, he rescues a freedom that is in no way ad libitum.”—Joan Copjec, author of Imagine There’s No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation “This is an utterly captivating, smart, provocative book—compelling in its argument, fascinating in its detail, sobering in its implications. Absolutely exhilarating.”—Rebecca Comay, author of Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French RevolutionTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsProvocationsIntroduction: Fatalism in Times of Universalized Assthetization1. Protestant Fatalism: Predestination as Emancipation2. René the Fatalist: Abolishing (Aristotelian) Freedom3. From Kant to Schmid (and Back): The End of All Things4. Ending with the Worst: Hegel and Absolute Fatalism5. After the End: Freud against the Illusion of Psychical FreedomLast WordsNotes

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Book SynopsisIn The Community Table, Susan Urano translates her nonprofit’s experience with a large-scale annual fundraiser into a step-by-step guide for organizers. Using real-life examples, she illustrates methods of team building, conflict resolution, and problem solving. Includes sample timelines, budgets, publicity plans, and committee structures.

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Book SynopsisAre there classes in America? In The Classless Society Paul Kingston forcefully answers no. Challenging a long-standing intellectual tradition of class analysis recently revitalized by Erik Olin Wright and John Goldthorpe, and insisting on a realist conception of class, Kingston argues that presumed "classes" do not significantly share distinct, life-defining experiences.Table of ContentsList of tables and figures; Preface; 1. Framing the issue; 2. The case for realism; 3. Class maps and ineqality; 4. Mobility; 5. Class sentiment; 6. The politics of class; 7. Class culture; 8. On the domestic front: friends, residences, and families; 9. Lives of the rich and poor; 10. The postindustrial effect; 11. American unexceptionalism; 12. Beyond class; Notes; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisCombining phenomenology and psychoanalysis in innovative ways, this book seeks to undo the binary opposition between appearance and existence that has been in place since Plato's parable of the cave.Trade Review“This original and important book demonstrates the inseparability of philosophy and psychoanalysis for any serious attempt to answer a question so profoundly relevant to the very nature of our being that it does not ‘belong’ to any one discipline: the question, as Silverman puts it, of what it means for the world that each one of us is in it. The book has a remarkable clarity; Silverman makes the most complex argument seem like a perfectly natural, and absolutely necessary, movement of thought.”—Leo Bersani, University of California, BerkeleyTable of Contents1. Seeing for the sake of seeing 2. Eating the book 3. Listening to language 4. Apparatus for the production of an image 5. The milky way 6. The language of things Notes Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the conventional opposition between Enlightenment and Postmodernity and questions some of the conclusions drawn from it.Trade Review"This volume is an original and stimulating contribution to modern intellectual history and to the history of philosophy. The scholarship is superb but not in the usual sense. It is superb because it is so reflective, self-critical, and sometimes polemical and partisan. Its authors are senior scholars in philosophy, intellectual history, and cultural studies who address large questions in their fields." —Gary Kates, Trinity University"This remarkable book reexamines the intellectual history of 18th-century France and Germany in order to bring to light a richer, more nuanced view of this pivotal period in European intellectual history. . . . Every essay in this collection is of great intellectual rigor and constitutes a serious contribution to the enduring question, "What is Enlightenment?". . . . Although essays dealing with postmodernism tend to be arcane or incomprehensible, the essays in this book are difficult, challenging, and wonderfully readable."—Choice"Giorgio Agamben is perhaps one of the most important philosophers and literary critics writing in Italy today, and, given the scarcity of philosopher-critics translated into English from Italian, one should certainly be thankful to Stanford University Press for translating this important thinker."—Philosophy in ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Keith Michael Baker and Peter Hanns Reill Part I. Enlightenment or Postmodernity? 1. The enlightenment and the genealogy of cultural conflict in the United States David A. Hollinger 2. The continuity between the Enlightenment and 'postmodernism' Richard Rorty Part II. Critical Confrontations: 3. The historicist enlightenment Jonathan Knudsen 4. Heidegger and the critique of reason Hans Sluga 5. 'A bright clear mirror' Cassirer's The Philosophy of Enlightenment Johnson Kent Wright 6. Critique and government: Michael Foucault and the question 'what is enlightenment' Michael Meranze Part III. A Postmodern Enlightenment? 7. Enlightenment fears, fears of enlightenment Lorraine Daston 8. Difference: an enlightenment concept Dena Goodman 8. Enlightenment as conversation Lawrence E. Klein Notes Index.

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Book SynopsisThough virtually unknown in the ethnographic literature on Chinese society, the "delayed transfer marriage", requiring separation after marriage, was widely established in the Canton delta. This book analyzes the effect of economic change on the practice in the area's silk district.Table of ContentsContents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Appendix A: Appendix B: Appendix C: Appendix D:

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Book SynopsisCleopatra: kohl and vipers, barges and thrones, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. We have long been schooled in the myth of the Egyptian ruler. In his new book Michel Chauveau brings us a picture of her firmly based in reality. Cleopatra VII...Trade ReviewStudents who read this brief volume will find little of the movie queen but a great deal of Roman history. Cleopatra's defeat made Octavian emperor of Rome, and he arranged for the spin on history to make his actions look good. * School Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisIn exploring the pattern and methods of Aztec expansion, this work acknowledges the religious motivation behind Aztec conquest but focuses more sharply on political and economic factors.

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Book SynopsisBlending the analysis of individual Apache lives with the analysis of their culture, this study tells of the ceremonies, religious beliefs, social life, and economy of the Chiricahua Apache. It traces how a person "becomes an Apache", beginning with conception, marriage, domestic and military duties and concluding with the rites surrounding death.

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Book SynopsisJames Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a political, cultural, and economic context, he offers fresh insights into black commitment to education, the peculiar significance of Tuskegee Institute, and the conflicting goals of various philanthropic groups, among other matters.

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Book SynopsisAn instructive guide to written English by the author of "The Culture of Narcissism", "The True and Only Heaven".Trade ReviewThe late Lasch, college history professor and the author of The Culture of Narcissism (1979), among other seminal works, so despaired of his graduate students' writing that he began to compile a list of common compositional errors. This list soon evolved into a full-fledged writing guide . . . covering the principles of literary construction; conventions governing punctuation, capitalization, typography, and footnotes; characteristics of bad writing; words often misused; words often mispronounced; and a table of proofreaders' marks. Lasch's wry, distinctive voice is evident throughout. . . . For serious word lovers. * Joanne Wilkinson, Booklist *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Christopher Lasch and the Politics of the Plain Style A Note on the Text I Elementary Principles of Literary Construction II Conventions Governing Punctuation, Capitalization, Typography, and Footnotes III Characteristics of Bad Writing IV Words Often Misused V Words Often Mispronounced VI Proofreaders' Marks Index

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Book Synopsis"A volume that will interest a wide spectrum of readers."-Patrick Geary, University of California, Los AngelesTrade Review"The extraordinary reception that Mary Carruthers's The Book of Memory has received, as well as that of other recent studies of learned memory, amply justifies an anthology of high medieval memory texts. That Carruthers would coedit the volume with Jan Ziolkowski, one of our major medieval Latinists, is particularly felicitous. The result is a volume that will interest a wide spectrum of readers." * Patrick Geary, University of California, Los Angeles *Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction Selection 1. Hugh of St. Victor, The Three Best Memory Aids for Learning History Selection 2. Hugh of St. Victor, A Little Book About Constructing Noah's Ark Selection 3. The Guidonian Hand Selection 4. [Alan of Lille], On the Six Wings of the Seraph Selection 5. Boncompagno da Signa, On Memory Selection 6. Albertus Magnus, Commentary on Aristotle, On Memory and Recollection Selection 7. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle, On Memory and Recollection Selection 8. Francesc Eiximenis, On Two Kinds of Order That Aid Understanding and Memory Selection 9. Thomas Bradwardine, On Acquiring a Trained Memory Selection 10. John of Metz, The Tower of Wisdom Selection 11. Jacobus Publicius, The Art of Memory Selection 12. Anonymous, A Method for Recollecting the Gospels Appendix. Two texts on Rhetorical Memoria from Late Antiquity Consultus Fortunatianus, On Memory C. Julius Victor, On Memory General Bibliography List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisLenape Country is a sweeping narrative history of Lenape Indian encounters with European settlers in the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.Trade Review"A commonly held idea is that Quaker settlers led by William Penn established Delaware Valley society's emphases on freedom, tolerance, and peaceful conflict. In Lenape Country, however, Jean R. Soderlund demonstrates that these Delaware Valley hallmarks originated with the Lenape Indians and were the bases of Lenape economic and political dominance through successive waves of European colonization in the region. . . . Lenape Country is meticulously researched and cautiously analyzed, qualities that strengthen Soderlund's assertions for the primacy of Lenape influence in the formation of Delaware Valley identity. It is a much needed study of this pivotal time in American history and a valuable contribution to Native American and colonial-era scholarship." * American Studies *"Succinct and imaginatively conceived, Lenape Country is one of the best narrative histories I have read to date on the European-Indian interaction along the Delaware River." * Gunlög Fur, author of A Nation of Women: Gender and Colonial Encounters Among the Delaware Indians *Table of ContentsNote on the Text Introduction Chapter 1. A Free People, Subject to No One Chapter 2. Controlling the Land through Massacre and War, 1626-38 Chapter 3. Managing a Tenuous Peace, 1638-54 Chapter 4. Allies against the Dutch, 1654-64 Chapter 5. Allies against the English, 1664-73 Chapter 6. Protecting Sovereignty amid Wars, 1673-80 Chapter 7. Negotiating Penn's Colony, 1681-1715 Chapter 8. Strategies of Survival and Revenge Conclusion Note on Methodology Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisS60 sedan, inklusive specialmodeller. 2,0 liter (1984 cc), 2,3 liter (2319 cc), 2,4 liter (2401 and 2435 cc) och 2,5 liter (2521 cc) bensinmotorer, 2,4 liter (2401 cc) dieselmotorer Exclusions:Behandlar ej 4-hjulsdrift, S60R eller bi-fuel modeller

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Book SynopsisExplores the dialectic of cynicism and hope and the role of human rights in the production of rule in the occupied Palestinian territories.Trade Review"In this significant book, Lori Allen tackles the rise of professionalized advocacy NGOs in Palestine in a crescendo manner . . . By offering new material on training for Palestinian police forces and by studying without preconceptions the ways in which Hamas, the Islamist party in power, has embraced a certain vision of human rights, Lori Allen provides the best material for her central claim . . . [T]he book culminates with rich and stimulating material, and Allen is to be congratulated for the innovative ways in which she approaches human rights, in contrast to culturalist arguments which deny any existence or relevance of local engagements with these principled beliefs."—Benoit Challand, Journal of Anthropological Research"Allen makes incisive comments on the comparative nature of sovereignty and popular discontent in countries ranging from India to Turkey to Chile . . . [This book] presents varied Palestinian perspectives on human rights within the framework of scholarship on the state and sovereignty, an approach rarely considered by historians. Aimed at anthropologists, this study can serve as a valuable addition to advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in Middle East history."—Charles D. Smith, American Historical Review"The book is a breath of fresh air in the context of a human rights literature dominated by unrealistic and optimistic assessments of human rights actions and campaigns which fail to acknowledge that human rights movements have changed little despite their institutionalization, legitimation, and international funding. Human rights organizations produce reports, diagnostics, and participate in public policy design while people's lives remain the same. The most important contribution of the book is that, although it talks about Palestine, it recognizes a general pattern of development in contemporary national human rights movements. As Allen rightly claims, the book can serve to illustrate the evolution of the human rights movement more broadly since the case of Palestine is both unique and quite representative of this trend."—Ariadna Estévez, Social Anthropology"In her exceptional book, The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine, anthropologist Lori Allen explores a complex set of interlocking themes about the role of human rights in the Palestinian nationalist agenda, viewed through the prism of cynicism . . . This book is a must read—with relevance far wider than the case of Palestine."—Deena R. Hurwitz, Middle East Journal"A significant contribution to our understanding of Palestinian politics and the global human rights movement. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been analyzed over and over again, but Lori Allen finds a genuinely new angle. This book achieves a rare balance of shedding light on recent events in the Middle East while producing thought-provoking arguments for understanding the potentials and limitations of human rights claims in situations of prolonged armed conflict."—Tobias Kelly, University of Edinburgh"The idiom of human rights now pervades Palestinian ideas of who they are and what they hope to be. This eye-opening book explores how, between the friction of disappointment and hope, human rights values might still generate more viable means to build a common world. A profound reflection on the dominant discourse of emancipation in our times."—Jean Comaroff, Harvard University"This powerfully argued book provides a welcome perspective on the 'human rights industry' in occupied Palestine. It constitutes a valuable contribution to the study both of a key example of the global discourse of human rights, and of the worsening situation of the Palestinians after nearly two decades of dual control by Israel and the Palestinian Authority."—Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University"Lori Allen offers a powerful and unsparing analysis of the fragmented human rights world in the West Bank and Gaza, arguing that human rights work can only promote social justice when it is situated within, and informed by, a broader political vision and national project—something that still eludes Palestinians. Her critique contains within it a vision of the future where social change is indeed possible and where Palestinians and the state that has yet to represent them find common cause."—Sara Roy, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

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Book SynopsisThe Blacks of Premodern China describes the earliest Chinese encounters with peoples regarded as black. It focuses on the first exposure of Chinese to blacks hailing from East Africa, chiefly from today's Somalia, Kenya, and Tanzania, who arrived in China as slaves between the seventh and seventeenth centuries C.E.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One. From History's Mists Chapter Two. The Slaves of Guangzhou Chapter Three. To the End of the Western Sea Conclusion Notes Glossary Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThis book considers the intimate lives of migrant laborers and highlights the shortcomings of policies that criminalize migrants and their loved ones.Trade Review"Crossing the Gulf is a path breaking book that offers a powerful and poignant analysis of women's intimate lives lived in migration. Pardis Mahdavi adeptly reveals migrant women's complex subjectivities and agentic power amid the structural contradictions of national development, migration-securitization policies and citizenship laws." -- Christine Chin * American University *"Crossing the Gulf paints an intimate portrait of laborers, attentive to their diverse circumstances, contexts, and histories. Pardis Mahdavi has found the anthropological sweet spot—her work is deeply engaged in scholarly conversations, has clear application to policymakers and the regulations they steward, and is penned in the broadly engaging style of the best public anthropology. This book is a gem." -- Andrew Gardner * University of Puget Sound *"The main value of the book is the detailed narratives that show how migrants and their children confront strict government policies that shape their mobility and immobility....I recommend Crossing the Gulf for scholars of international migration, gender and the family, and the Gulf states. It is written accessibly and would be a useful course text for undergraduate and graduate students." -- David Scott FitzGerald * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Im/mobilities and Im/Migrations chapter abstractThe opening chapter provides the theoretical framework of the book. It introduces the concept of "intimate im/mobilities" and explores the alternative frameworks of im/mobility and im/migration. This chapter presents the book's three main interconnected arguments. First, that migration is impacted by individuals' intimate lives and vice versa. Second, through narrating the intimate lives of laborers, the book explores the mutually constitutive forces of mobility and immobility. Finally, in looking at the mutually re-enforcing notions of im/mobility, the book explores the liminal space between immigration and migration. This chapter lays out these main arguments/framings to introduce the core themes that will be fleshed out through the individual chapters. It also provides a brief methodological and historical background to help set the stage for the ethnographic chapters to follow. 2Love, Labor and the Law chapter abstractThis chapter looks at the confluence of love, labor and the law by focusing on the regulation of migrant women's sexualities while they are in the Gulf. Migrant women increasingly comprise the majority of migrants to the region as the demand for intimate labor in the Gulf is on the rise. But migrant women who become pregnant while in the Gulf are immediately imprisoned and charged with the crime of zina, thereby immobilizing them and halting their family lives. These women give birth while incarcerated and spend up to a year with their babies in prison. Many are then forcibly separated from their children when they are deported, rendering the children stateless in the host country. Some migrant women have recently been protesting these laws by refusing and fighting deportation without their children. This chapter contrasts discourse and legal analysis with the lived experiences of migrant women and their children. 3Inflexible Citizenship and Flexible Practices chapter abstractChapter 3 focuses on the effects of migration on the intimate lives of migrants and their kin. It looks at the children of migrants, many of whom have either migrated to work or re-unify with parents abroad, while others were born in the host country. These families are struggling to define and re-define their understandings of family, citizenship, and belonging across borders. Building on the work of several migration scholars, the author examines how intimate lives are shaped by migration in the particular context of the UAE and Kuwait. The chapter explores the challenges migrants and their kin face in the form of inflexible citizenship, as well as the flexibility they employ to create types of mobility within the context of apparent immobility. 4Changing Home/s chapter abstractThe migrants whose stories are introduced in this chapter chose to migrate in search of a type of intimate mobility that they could not find at home. They also migrate in search of economic prosperity and upward class mobility; however, social reasons are at the top of their migratory decision-making factors. Specifically, these young women and men describe wanting to migrate not out of poverty, and not out of a desire to support their families, but out of their families and communities altogether. This aspect of migration is an example of intimate mobilities that puts into play the relationship between mobility and immobility in the intimate lives of im/migrants whose migratory journeys take them in search of a new "home." Attention to the complex decision making processes helps to describe the role of migration in encouraging the exploration of subjectivity for many individuals. 5Children of the Emir: chapter abstractChapter 5 introduces the many children of migrant women and men who have been separated from their parents. Some of these children have been born in host countries to trafficked women and have become stateless. Others are children who were born to migrant women and spend their lives as non-citizens in the host countries. Still others are children who are separated from their parents when their parents migrate, while the children stay home and are raised by other relatives. The experiences of these children as they encounter the state reveal the biopolitical undertones of laws and regulations implemented to govern their lives. Two interconnected theoretical lenses prove useful: theories about perverse integration and theories about legal productions of illegality, which, together lead to a concept of "perverse intimacies." 6Transformations and Mobilizations chapter abstractChapter 6 draws on ethnographic fieldwork with migrants and state officials charting changes in state policies that have come from migrant-state encounters. The chapter is focused on stories of migrant activism both at home and abroad, and details the ways in which they have drawn from their own intimate lives to make changes in state and global policies. Various intimate interactions between migrants and personifications of the state are highlighted to complicate the perceived oppositional binary of migrants vs. the state. 7Negotiated Intimacies and Unwanted Gifts chapter abstractThis concluding chapter emphasizes the creative ways that migrants and their families have navigated the many challenges they face, often drawing from their own intimate lives. The chapter focuses on the transformative effects of migrants on the state to argue against trafficking as a framework, discourse, and set of policies. Trafficking as a framework is deconstructed and, instead, a framing of "safe migration" is proposed.

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Book SynopsisSystems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit offers out a wide range of systems methods to help readers investigate, evaluate and intervene in complex messy situations.Trade Review"This book presents well-written and accessible accounts of a variety of systems methods, methodologies, and models; a veritable treasure-trove from which the critical systems thinker can choose in constructing appropriate systemic responses to complex situations."—Michael C. Jackson, Hull University Business School, author of Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers and Systems Approaches to Management"The book promises and delivers: tested and practical methods for understanding and taking action in messy situations; inquiry approaches for describing, analyzing, learning about, managing, and changing complex situations; a coherent systems framework for thinking and acting systemically. The authors compare 19 systems approaches, and do so comprehensively, insightfully, exquisitely."—Michael Quinn Patton, author of Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use"This book is written for those who want to intervene in the world, but are aware that brute force methods often prove inappropriate—if not counterproductive. Systems Concepts in Action provides a toolbox of methods for harnessing systemic thinking to instigate custom tailored, creative solutions. If you ever felt that systems theory is abstract and noninstructive, then have a read!"—Wolfgang Hofkirchner, President, Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science, Vienna"The book demonstrates convincingly that systems approaches to evaluation are more than 'spaghetti diagram' logic models. With clear introductions to many different approaches, and how they can be used for evaluation, it will be indispensable for evaluators and evaluation commissioners. It's bound to become dog-eared and shabby on my book shelf."—Patricia Rogers, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology"This book stands out as an invaluable, fresh, and practical guide to the use of systems concepts from two internationally recognized practitioners. Bob Williams and Richard Hummelbrunner not only document ideas for managing complexity, change, and uncertainty from wide ranging areas of application, but also they draw upon a wealth of invaluable personal knowledge—the bedrock of reflective practice that underpins the effective use of systems tools."—Martin Reynolds, The Open University, co-editor of Systems Approaches to Managing Change: A Practical Guide

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Book SynopsisWriting Against Time explores the twentieth-century literary effort to create an image that will never get old.Trade Review"Michael W. Clune's book is about how artists have found ways to stop the mind in its tracks, to suspend it in a state of ongoing presence. There are many shoots to his argument, but at its core is a romantic, optimistic, even brave commitment to the power and danger of aesthetic forms."—Blakey Vermule, Stanford University, Nonsite"Clune's exquisite new book asks how literature might arrest time's erosion of perceptual vivacity. He moves beyond the historicist orthodoxy that has so dominated literary study for the past twenty years."—Jonathan Kramnick, Johns Hopkins University, Nonsite"This book reminds readers that the purpose of reading is to live outside of time, but also to enter a story that allows one to remember those moments when time seemed to stop . . . Summing Up: Recommended."—K. Gale, CHOICE"What is striking about this book is the combination of enormous ambition and economical exposition. Its questions are big and its answers are provocative. Even better: we have the chance to see the world for a while through an enchanting mind. Thinking with Clune is sheer pleasure."—Amy Hungerford, Yale University"Clune makes a powerful argument for how the literary critic, if properly aware of the literary subject's uniquely antagonistic relation to time and actuality, might contribute something new to other disciplines as opposed to remaining parasitic on their methods."—Sianne Ngai, Stanford University

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