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Book SynopsisEmploying history, social theory, and a detailed contemporary case study, Knowledge for Social Change argues for fundamentally reshaping research universities to function as democratic, civic, and community-engaged institutions dedicated to advancing learning and knowledge for social change. The authors focus on significant contributions to learning made by Francis Bacon, Benjamin Franklin, Seth Low, Jane Addams, William Rainey Harper, and John Deweyas well as their own work at Penn's Netter Center for Community Partnershipsto help create and sustain democratically-engaged colleges and universities for the public good. Knowledge for Social Change highlights university-assisted community schools to effect a thoroughgoing change of research universities that will contribute to more democratic schools, communities, and societies. The authors also call on democratic-minded academics to create and sustain a global movement dedicated to advancing learning for the relief of man's estatean icoTrade Review"The authors catalogue in rich detail the pioneering efforts of educators and administrators at the University of Pennsylvania to put into practice the ideals of their forebears in progressive education, John Dewey first and foremost among them. Until the Netter Center, these ideals had fallen largely on deaf ears or been transformed beyond recognition. It is this faithfulness to the inseparability of past, present, and future that makes the book a standout in the literature of education and societal change, putting the public back in public education and recalling universities to their special responsibilities here."— Teachers College Record"(T)he book is fundamental reading for those interested in this subject matter and should be considered complementary to analogous efforts by engaged scholars operating in other geographic and cultural contexts.... Overall, the book is an honest and in-depth account of the real possibility for a prestigious research university to achieve excellence in research and teaching through an engaged agenda, and it offers a number of intellectual stimuli and practical hints in this direction."— Planning Theory and Practice"This book is a must-read for those of us responsible for educating students who will become our future world leaders. Knowledge for Social Change proposes that research universities become radically transformed to function as democratic, civic, and community-engaged institutions, and I could not agree with the idea more." —Eduardo J. Padrón, President, Miami Dade College"Knowledge for Social Change offers a bold vision for democratically minded academics concerned about our nation's future.... The authors, who are among the stalwarts of the modern community engagement movement, make no secret that the book's intellectual and political projects are meant to be provocative. Some readers may greet their provocations as utopian wishful thinking, but the authors make clear that their vision is serious and practical. Their earnestness and commitment to the transformation of research universities should prompt even the most skeptical reader to consider the radical project they propose.... The book represents a seminal scholarly contribution to the modern-day community engagement movement as the most comprehensive account to date of the philosophical ideas that ground it."—Journal of Higher Education and Outreach"Benson and colleagues’ [argue] that education, not the economic system, is the foundation stone of human society.... The authors of Knowledge for Social Change have an impressive academic pedigree for mounting their argument.... From their collective societal and educational vantage point, they place responsibility for social change squarely on the shoulders of research universities – citing William Rainey Harper’s conviction that democracy relies on educated citizens and that universities are the driver of education, as they produce both the teachers, and the teachers of the teachers. Thus, the crux of the argument is that the kind of education individuals receive determines human capacity for progress and social change. Supporting that vision, the authors draw from an array of theorists and activists whose research and educational vision was deeply occupational."—Journal of Occupational Science"Individually and collectively, the [authors] have made important contributions to the literature on higher education prior to this collaboration. And they have done a remarkable job of producing a collective work of clarity and coherence that comes across as a single voice and avoids repetition. It is a book that should be widely read by engaged scholars, practitioners, administrative leaders, and students of engagement."—Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning"[The authors] successfully advocate for a transformative system of higher education that implicates the community and public schools in the process of learning, knowledge production, and civic-engagement.... [They] provide compelling, optimistic solutions—and paths forward—to remedy the growing corporatization of the research university and service-learning.... [O]verall, and perhaps most significantly, Benson and his team provide a meaningful, tangible adaptation to Dewey’s ideas regarding education and reveal that partnerships between universities and communities can create a more democratically engaged citizenry that works collectively for the good of all."—Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement

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Book SynopsisSerbin examines the transformational role played by clergymen and seminarians in the Brazilian Church of the mid-nineteenth century as they left seminaries to establish greater contact with the people. This would form part of the early liberation theology movement.Trade Review“Serbin’s superb new study offers a comprehensive look at the church from the colonial period to the end of the military government in the 1980s. He takes the long view in order to demonstrate his central argument: that the ‘progressive’ Catholic Church of the twentieth century, with its political activism and social consciousness, did not emerge out of a void but rather developed out of patterns already set in the colonial period that shifted as they played out against the backdrop of a changing Brazil. . . . The book is a welcome addition to the field of Brazilian history and the history of the Catholic Church in Latin America.” —American Historical Review“This work stakes out entirely new terrain in the history and historiography of Catholicism and society in Brazil. . . . Uncompromising and yet compassionate in its judgments, this second major work on the Church since the author's Secret Dialogues (2000) draws ably and amply on hitherto untapped, century-old archives of key religious congregations charged with clerical training and of Brazil's national hierarchy that oversaw it . . . In uncovering these notable findings and ably setting them within the push and pull of world and national forces, Serbin reconfirms his standing as one of the leading historians of Brazil's past.” —The Americas“Serbin . . . see[s] the equally vast and variegated military, political and religious history of Brazil through a narrower lens of changing cultural ideals of the clergy and seminaries. He charts the rise of priest revolutionaries imbued with the ideals of the enlightenment.” —Horizons“Needs of the Heart provides a rich analysis of the historical development of the Catholic Church in Brazil. Much more than in institutional history, this work examines how, over the course of five centuries, priests navigated the divide between Europe and America as they participated in shaping a Brazilian nation as well as a distinctly Brazilian church.” —Hispanic American Historical Review“ . . . by focusing on priests, and connecting their experience to broader socio-political dynamics, Professor Serbin enriches the stories of liberation theology and of the role played by the Catholic church in promoting democracy and social justice . . . a significant contribution to scholarship on Latin America.” —Latin American Studies“The long and winding history of the Brazilian Catholic Church is thus revealed in Serbin’s analysis as the partial work-product of its primary foot soldiers—its clergy. As such, the book provides a critical complement to previous work which has focused with relative exclusivity on the policies and practices of church leadership, whether in Brazil or the Vatican.” —The Catholic Historical Review"In Needs of the Heart, Kenneth P. Serbin examines the rise and crisis of a model of priestly vocation that was not 'traditional' but rather a new discipline, institutionalized in the mid-nineteenth century. Its intimate, splendidly documented analysis of men's responses to that model can give us a constructive perspective on the coverups of sexual misconduct within the American clergy. Needs of the Heart is also an extraordinary history of the Sixties in Latin America. The countercultural and experimental movements within Brazil's seminaries, ranging from psychoanalysis to 'living alongside the people,' offer us a touchstone for judging the promise and contradictions in the post-1945 Christian quest for individual fulfillment and social justice." —Dain Borges, University of Chicago“Kenneth Serbin’s Needs of the Heart, extraordinary in its breadth, depth, and compelling analysis, unveils the triumphs and tragedies of Brazil’s priests and the seminaries that formed them. The current world-wide tensions and scandals engulfing the priesthood are reflected in this study—a study that needs to be replicated throughout the Catholic world.” —Donald Cozzens, John Carroll University, author of The Changing Face of the Priesthood"This innovative analysis places the formation of a Brazilian priesthood at the center of a preeminently historical examination of the Catholic Church in Latin America's largest country, giving us a new understanding of the forces within and without that have uniquely and universally explained the controversial efforts of seminarians, priests, and bishops to redefine clerical identity in a a national context lying “between Europe and America.” Serbin brings an impressive amount of fresh evidence to reveal Brazil's Catholic Church from the inside, and his reliance on the voices of seminarians, priests, and religious [brothers] for dissecting the post-Vatican II debate over a priestly vocation goes to the heart of the future of the church in a twenty-first century world. This superb study takes church history in a new direction, appropriately recasting a Europe-centered ecclesia within its largest field of Third-World congregants." —Linda Lewin, University of California, Berkeley

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Book SynopsisUn nou format de l?Osset Siset amb rodes que giren de veritat!Tothom a bord! Ajuda l?Osset Siset a conduir el tren en aquest llibre amb rodes.En aquesta nova aventura, l?Osset Siset condueix el tren cap a la platja. Pel camí, saluda des de la locomotora, travessa un pas a nivell i recull passatgers en un trajecte ple de detalls illustrats que acaba amb una tarda de jocs a la sorra. Llibre en format tren amb 4 rodes funcionals, perfecte per fer-lo rodar pel terra. Connecta amb l?interès dels més petits pels vehicles i el moviment. Textos rimats ideals per llegir en veu alta. Un format innovador i colleccionable dins de l?univers de l?Osset Siset. Amb preguntes integrades per reforçar vocabulari i estimular l?interès pel llibre. Ideal per a nens i nenes a partir d?1 any. Un llibre per jugar, llegir i empènyer? amb l?Osset Siset sobre rodes!Títols de la collecció Osset Siset: El gran llibre de l?Osset Siset Osset Siset. Llibre i peluix Osset Siset. Juga i construeix Osset Siset. Disfressa?m! Osset Siset. Anem amb vaixell! Osset Siset. Avui toca pizza! Osset Siset. Juguem al futbol Osset Siset. Anem amb avió! Osset Siset. Pugem al tren! Osset Siset. Un dia al castell Osset Siset. La casa encantada Osset Siset. La gran carrera Osset Siset. Mans a l?obra! Osset Siset. Emergència al volant Osset Siset. Anem de viatge Osset Siset. Anem al zoo! Osset Siset. Missió espacial! Osset Siset. Aventura submarina Osset Siset. Un dia a l?escola Osset Siset. Anem a construir! Osset Siset. Safari de dinosaures Osset Siset. Anem a jugar! Osset Siset. Aventura pirata Osset Siset. Un dia a la granja Osset Siset. Bombers al rescat! Osset Siset. Un dia a la neu Osset Siset. Bon Nadal! Osset Siset. Parc d?atraccions Osset Siset. Anem al veterinari Osset Siset. Un dia al jardí Osset Siset. Anem d'acampada! Osset Siset. Capbussada a la piscina Osset Siset. El camió de reciclatge Osset Siset. El meu primer llibre de memòria. Animals Osset Siset. El meu primer llibre de memòria. Vehicles. Osset Siset. El meu primer llibre d?adhesius. Animals. Osset Siset. El meu primer llibre d?adhesius. Vehicles. Osset Siset. El meu primer llibre d?adhesius. Bon Nadal! Osset Siset. El meu primer llibre d?adhesius. Aventures. Osset Siset. Sobre rodes! Tren Osset Siset. Sobre rodes! Camió de bombers

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Book SynopsisFor a period of nearly eight hundred years, Perso-Islamic kingship was the source for the dominant social and cultural paradigms organising Indian political life. In the medieval world of South Asia, Persian kingship took the form of a hybridized and adaptive political expression. The Persian king embodied the values of justice, military heroics, and honor, ideals valorized historically and transculturally, yet the influence of the pre-Islamic Persian past and Persian forms of kingship has not yet been fully recognised. In this book, Blain Auer demonstrates how Persian kingship was a transcultural phenomenon. Describing the contributions made by kings, poets, historians, political and moral philosophers, he reveals how and why the image of the Persian king played such a prominent role in the political history of Islamicate societies, in general, and in India, in particular. By tracing the historical thread of this influence from Samanid, Ghaznavid, and Ghurid empires, Auer demonstratesTrade Review'If James Mill dismissed the Delhi Sultanate as “a government, moulded and conducted agreeably to the properties of Persian civilization, instead of a government moulded and conducted agreeably to the properties of Hindu civilization” Blain Auer shows the opposite. He argues that Muslim chroniclers of India self-consciously connected their reigning patrons to pre-Islamic Iranian kings precisely because this model provided a more universal ideal of governance that was far more suited to the diverse subject population of the subcontinent. Auer should be commended for elucidating this theme in a monograph-length study.' Ali Anooshahr, University of California, Davis'Crisply narrated and richly detailed, this thought-provoking re-evaluation of a key moment in South Asian history offers a valuable corrective to the polarized narratives of the present. Through a magnificent array of primary sources, Auer illuminates the theory and praxis of politics during the rise of a 'Persian imperium'.' Supriya Gandhi, Yale University'A very important contribution to the study of Islamic kingship. Every library interested in the history of India, Iran and Central Asia should acquire this book.' Roy Parviz Mottahedeh, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsPreface; 1. The History of Persian Kingship and Persianization in South Asia; 2. Kings in History: Persian Royal Genealogies and Muslim Rulers; 3. Warrior King: Slaying Demons, Hunting Beasts, and War; 4. Theory and Application of Persianate Political Ethics in India; 5. The Pen, the Sword, and the Vizier; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an original worldview, Homo risibilis, wherein self-referential humor is proposed as the path leading from a tragic view of life to a liberating embrace of human ridicule. Humor is presented as a conceptual tool for holding together contradictions and managing the unresolvable conflict of the human condition till Homo risibilis resolves the inherent tension without epistemological cost. This original approach to the human condition allows us to effectively address life’s ambiguities without losing sight of its tragic overtones and brings along far-ranging personal and social benefits.By defining the problem that other philosophies and many religions attempt to solve in terms we can all relate to, Homo risibilis enables an understanding of the Other that surpasses mere tolerance. Its egalitarian vision roots an ethic of compassion without requiring metaphysical or religious assumptions and liberates the individual for action on others’ behalf. It offers a new model of rationality which effectively handles and eventually resolves the tension between oneself, others, and the world at large. Amir’s view of the human condition transcends the field of philosophy of humor. An original worldview that fits the requirements of traditional philosophy, Homo risibilis is especially apt to answer contemporary concerns. It embodies the minimal consensus we need in order to live together and the active role philosophy should responsibly play in a global world. Here developed for the first time in a complete way, the Homo risibilis worldview is not only liberating in nature, but also illuminates the shortcomings of other philosophies in their attempts to secure harmony in a disharmonious world for a disharmonious human being.Trade Review“There is plenty of material here for philosophers given its provocative claims but also in its mine of quotes and diligent footnoting. At the same time, the argument is not weighed down by jargon and there should be value for some readers outside philosophy. ... the book conveys an intellectual energy that could stimulate a rewarding exploration of ideas.” (Mark Weeks, European Journal of Humour Research, Vol. 9 (4), 2021)Table of Contents1. The Human Predicament.- 2. To Solve or Nor to Solve....- 3. Handling Contradictions.- 4. Revisiting Philosophic Ideals.- 5. Homo risibilis: The Ridiculous Human Being.- 6. The Good Life I: Joy, Happiness, Timelessness.- 7. The Good Life II: Compassion, Skepticism, Lucidity.

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Book SynopsisThe definitive book on post-apartheid South Africa from an award-winning journalistWhen Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress declared victory over the bitter injustice of apartheid, some thought South Africa''s future was assured. But despite Mandela''s mission of reconciliation, rampant inequality remains; race relations are uneasy, violence is endemic and many in the ANC appear to have lost sight of the liberation ideals. With the election in 2009 of Jacob Zuma, a charismatic populist embroiled in scandal, uncertainty over the trajectory of the nation has only intensified.South Africa now stands at a crossroads, and award-winning journalist Alec Russell draws on his deep knowledge of the country to tell us how it got there and to give us a compelling account, revised and updated for this edition, of the journey from Mandela to Zuma.Trade ReviewGripping, lively and immensely readable. -- David Blair * Daily Telegraph *An informative, nuanced, and provocative end-of-era report ... Layered with anecdote, historical background and close scrutiny of recent events ... After Mandela is a valuable contribution to the debate about the future of the rainbow nation. Alec Russell has looked at the country with a sympathetic and knowledgeable eye and he leaves his reader with a deep understanding of the challenges to come. -- Gillian Slovo * Financial Times *Insightful, sometimes humorous, sometimes bleak ... Alive with delicious vignettes across a range of humanity * The Economist *This is the book we have all been waiting for - the book that takes us beyond the easy assumptions and lazy comfort of the Mandela era and into what Alec Russell calls the second struggle. Eloquently he shows how transforming the magic of freedom into a nuts-and-bolts change in the lives of ordinary people is turning out to be far more difficult than anyone could have imagined. The strength and power of Russell's book lies not just in the big - and often disturbing - conclusions he has reached but in the little details that have got him to that point. This is not a book written from afar . . . After Mandela could only have been written by a man who actually cares about what happens to the people he has met on his journey through South Africa's recent history -- George AlagiahRussell does not pull punches in describing the widespread disillusionment ... but he does seek to put the ruling party's shortcomings in context * Observer *

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Book SynopsisThis major 2006 history of English monasticism explores the history of the Church between the conversion to Christianity in the sixth century and a monastic revival in the tenth. Sarah Foot argues that historians have been wrong to see minsters in the light of ideals of Benedictine monasticism.Trade Review'A beautifully structured and magisterial treatment of a major subject in early medieval English history by the outstanding early medieval historian of her generation.' Professor Nicholas Brooks, University of Birmingham'Lucidly written, attractively illustrated, magisterially argued, and beautifully produced, this book shows not only what early Anglo-Saxon ministers did, but also gives persuasive answers to the question: why did people adopt this particular form of religious life?' Church Times'Required reading for anyone interested in Anglo-Saxon religious life before the tenth-century Benedictine reforms … a handsome volume.' The American Historical Review'A truly outstanding book, which will undoubtedly become a standard text on the subject.' History'I wish this book had been published 50 years ago, when I was about to embark on my postgraduate career. … Now, Foot's study of the early Church, with its rethinking of what monasterium means and its putting of the reform movement (and its 'ideological literature') into perspective, gives us a freer hand to evaluate the church buildings on their archaeological merits without constantly looking over our shoulders at Dunstan and Co.' Journal of Medieval Archaeology'Well written, clearly organised and carefully researched, this volume offers much to anyone interested in the spread, nature and role of early medieval monasticism in England and beyond, and in the character of society in general in this complex period.' The Journal and Report of the Medieval Settlement Research Group'After setting out her aims and approaches with clarity, Foot begins by looking at 'the ideal minister' as imagined in sources from the period … The book makes a strong argument for diversity and variety in the monastic life of earlier Anglo-Saxon England and offers an authoritative yet accessible survey of this complex subject.' Medium AevumTable of Contents1. Introduction: situating the problem; 2. The ideal minster; Part I. Within the Walls: 3. The making of minsters; 4. The minster community; 5. Daily life within the minster; Part II. Without the Walls: 6. Dependencies, affinities, clusters; 7. Minsters in the world; Coda; 8. Horizons; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisSlavery and the Democratic Conscience explains how democratic subjects confronted and came to terms with slaveholder power in the early American Republic. Slavery was not an exception to the rise of American democracy, Padraig Riley argues, but was instead central to the formation of democratic institutions and ideals.Trade Review"Drawing on an impressive archive that includes newspapers of the period, political pamphlets, and congressional records, Riley uncovers a previously untold story within the master narrative of early US politics. rough its nuanced account of the origins of Jeffersonian Republicanism, Slavery and the Democratic Conscience reveals what might be e aced if we focus solely on that movement's namesake: the deep but deeply fraught links between white notions of liberty and the material realities of slavery in the early United States." * Early American Literature *"[A]s Riley's book expertly shows, slaveholders' power came not merely as a result of a hellish constitutional compromise. Rather it owed from a longstanding cross-sectional alliance of Democratic Republicans that privileged white democracy over antislavery . . . Though building on studies by Matt Mason, David Waldstreicher, Craig Hammond, and others who have traced slavery's contested role in the early Republic, Riley explains the muscular development of the Jeffersonian coalition perhaps better than anyone else." * Reviews in American History *"This book on the politics of slavery in the early American republic ought to surpass and replace previous works on this subject. Broadly synthetic and, at the same time, well researched and well written, it teems with original insights and careful analysis." * The Historian *"How is it, Padraig Riley asks, that the most radical democratic elements of U.S. political life joined with slaveholders to create the first American party system? Joining a wave of recent scholarship focused on the 'forgotten' period between the Revolutionary and antebellum eras, Riley looks beyond the usual suspects to uncover an unlikely and fascinating cast of characters, shedding new light on early American politics. An important contribution to the literature on the politics of slavery in the early American republic." * François Furstenberg, Johns Hopkins University *Table of ContentsIntroduction. North of Jefferson Chapter 1. The Emancipation of New England Chapter 2. Philadelphia, Crossroads of Democracy Chapter 3. Jeffersonians Go to Washington Chapter 4. The Idea of a Northern Party Chapter 5. Republican Nation: The War of 1812 Chapter 6. Democracy in Crisis Conclusion. Democracy, Race, Nation List of Abbreviations Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisIn this timely and inspirational volume, authors from diverse disciplines consider and affirm the many places across curriculum and context where hope and joy are or can be strong and vibrant. Drawing on the life-affirming ideals of education philosopher Daisaku Ikeda, this book will reenergize educational research, theory, and practice.Trade Review2022 Society of Professors of Education (SPE) Outstanding Book Award.Table of Contents Foreword - Cynthia Dillard Preface/Acknowledgments Introduction: Daisaku Ikeda, and Hope and Joy in Education - Jason Goulah PART I: CURRICULUM AND TEACHING FOR HOPE AND JOY 1.  Joy as Sustenance: Engaging Daisaku Ikeda and the Lotus Sutra to Nourish Vocation - Isabel Nuñez 2.  Determining to be Hopeful in Hopeless Times - Nozomi Inukai and Michio Okamura 3.  "Hope is a Decision": Pedagogical Acts Towards the Collective Commitment to Remake the World - Christopher Hall, Patricia Krueger-Henney, Nina Kunimoto, and Zeena Zakharia 4.  A Fundamental Force at the Edge of the Formation of Society - M. Francyne Huckaby 5.  Building a Change-focused Community with Practitioners as a Source of Hope - Allison Mattheis 6.  Imparting Hope and Inspiring Joy: Practicing Value-Creative Dialogue in Educational Leadership - Melissa Bradford PART II: HOPE AND JOY IN AESTHETIC AND EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE 7.  Restoring Hope for the Humanities: Daisaku Ikeda, Intercultural Study, and College Classroom Experience - Anita Patterson 8.  Finding Hope and Joy in Curriculum Theory through Critical Race Feminism - Theodora Regina Berry 9.  Finding Hope and Joy through Daisaku Ikeda: The Rehabilitation of a Doctoral Candidate - Jayna McQueen Baker 10.  Social Emotional Learning and Value-Creating Education: Synergistic Possibilities for Cultivating Hope and Joy in Higher Education - Deborah Donahue-Keegan 11.  The Poetic Mind: The Key to Creating Hope and Joy in Education - Ritsuko Rita 12.  Human Rights Education as a Resource for Self and Collective Transformation - Elora Chowdhury PART III: SEEKING INNER JOY AND OUTER HOPE 13.  Hope, Joy, and the Greater Self at the Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning and Dialogue - Mitch Bogen 14.  Value Creation and the Revitalization of Dependency as a Core Goal of Ecocritical Education - Johnny Lupinacci 15.  Dancing with Hope - Walter Gershon 16.  A Curriculum of Becoming - D. Joe Ohlinger 17.  Hope in Remembrance of a Life Well Lived - Sandra Vanderbilt 18.  Finding Hope and Joy in Life and Death: Daisaku Ikeda's Philosophy of Ningen Kyōiku (Human Education) - Jason Goulah Conclusion: Hope and Joy, Trust and Faith, and Poison as Medicine - Isabel Nuñez About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTruman and Picasso were contemporaries and were both shaped by and shapers of the great events of the twentieth century - the man who painted Guernica and the man who authorised the use of atomic bombs against civilians.But in most ways, they couldn’t have been more different. Picasso was a communist, and probably the only thing Harry Truman hated more than communists was modern art. Picasso was an indifferent father, a womaniser, and a millionaire. Truman was utterly devoted to his family and, despite his fame, far from a rich man. How did they come to be shaking hands in front of Picasso’s studio in the South of France? Truman’s meeting with Picasso was quietly arranged by Alfred H. Barr Jr, the founding director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art and an early champion of Picasso. Barr knew that if he could convince these two ideological antipodes, the straight-talking politician from Missouri and the Cubist painter from Malaga, to simply shake hands, it would send a powerful message, not just to reactionary Republicans pushing McCarthyism at home, but to the whole world: modern art was not evil. Truman author Matthew Algeo retraced the Trumans’ Mediterranean vacation and visited the places they went with Picasso, including Picasso’s villa, Picasso’s ceramics studio in Vallauris, and Chateau Grimaldi, a museum in Antibes. A rigorous history with a heartwarming centre, When Harry Met Pablo intertwines the biographies of Truman and Picasso, the history of modern art, and twentieth century American politics, but at its core it is the touching story of two old men who meet for the first time and realise they have more in common - and are more alike - than they ever imagined.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Art with a Capital “A” 1. The Nelson Gallery 2. Insults to Classical Ideals 3. A Beautiful Circle 4. MoMA Part II: The Gentleman from Michigan 5. Advancing American Art 6. A Stalwart Republican 7. Gallery on Wheels 8. Termites and Vermin 9. The Patriotic Council Part III: Harry Truman’s European Adventure 10. Sam and Dorothy 11. “Come on Up” 12. Distracting Visitors 13. The Independence 14. Naples 15. Genoa 16. Le Fermier 17. Madame Privat 18. Sightseeing with Picasso 19. The French Communist Caricaturist Epilogue Index

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Book SynopsisBetween Self and Community investigates the early childhood socialization process in a rapidly changing, globalizing South Korea. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in a South Korean preschool, it shows how both children and teachers interactively navigate, construct, and reconstruct their own multifaceted and sometimes conflicting models of what makes “a good child” amid Korea’s shifting educational and social contexts. Junehui Ahn details the conflicting and competing ways in which the ideologies of new personhood are enacted in actual everyday socialization contexts and reveals the confusions, dilemmas, and ruptures that occur when globally dominant ideals of childhood development are superimposed onto local experiences. Between Self and Community pays special attention to the way children, as active agents of socialization, create, construe, and sustain their own meanings of their personhood, thereby highlighting the dynamism children and their culturally rich peer world create in South Korea’s shifting socialization terrain. Trade Review "Junehui Ahn once again establishes herself as one of the pre-eminent chroniclers of children’s lives. Her delicate and lucid ethnography closely documents how Korean preschoolers actively contribute to their own socialization. As striking is her compelling demonstration of how these children deftly mediate between local values and a new, globalized vision of personhood." — Lawrence A. Hirschfeld, author of Race in the Making: Cognition, Culture, and the Child's Construction of Human Kinds "What does it mean to be a 'good child' today in a globally influenced society? Ahn tackles this intriguing question through the eyes and mouths of young children and teachers in a South Korean preschool. She reveals how children navigate peer relationships, influence their teachers' pedagogical approaches, and redefine expectations. Ahn encourages us to reflect on and recalibrate our own expectations of children and childhood in an ever-changing, global environment." — Barbra A. Meek, author of We Are Our Language: An Ethnography of Language Revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan CoTable of ContentsNote on Transcription and Romanization 1 Introduction: A Journey into the Shifting South Korean Socialization Landscape 2 New Personhood and Transformation of South Korean Early Childhood Socialization 3 “Why Don’t We Find a Unique Self Concept Developing in Our Children?”: The Heterogeneous and Conflicting Socialization Landscape 4 “I Want to Copy My Best Friend’s Artwork”: Expressions and Social Relationships in Children’s Peer World 5 “Maybe We’re Not Wrong”: Communal Creativity and Multidirectionality of Learning 6 Conclusion: A Journey and Beyond Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe cult of St Edmund was one of the most important in medieval England, and further afield, as the pieces here show. St Edmund, king and martyr, supposedly killed by Danes (or "Vikings") in 869, was one of the pre-eminent saints of the middle ages; his cult was favoured and patronised by several English kings and spawned a rich array of visual,literary, musical and political artefacts. Celebrated throughout England, especially at the abbey of Bury St Edmunds, it also inspired separate cults in France, Iceland and Italy. The essays in this collection offer a range of readings from a variety of disciplines - literature, history, music, art history - and of sources - chronicles, poems, theological material - providing an overview of the multi-faceted nature of St Edmund's cult, from the ninthcentury to the early modern period. They demonstrate the openness and dynamism of a medieval saint's cult, showing how the saint's image could be used in many and changing contexts: Edmund's image was bent to various political andpropagandistic ends, often articulating conflicting messages and ideals, negotiating identity, politics and belief. CONTRIBUTORS: ANTHONY BALE, CARL PHELPSTEAD, ALISON FINLAY, PAUL ANTONY HAYWARD, LISA COLTON, REBECCA PINNER, A.S.G. EDWARDS, ALEXANDRA GILLESPIETrade ReviewThe consistently high standard of the articles found here make this book a mandatory addition to the shelves of readers interested in St Edmund. However, its broad chronological and geographical range, together with its generous scope of enquiry, means that it deserves a wider readership. Anyone looking for thought-provoking approaches to the study of changing attitudes toward medieval cults, and how these attitudes were materially reflected, should also be encouraged to take a look. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Anthony Bale King, Martyr and Virgin: Imitatio Christi in Ælfric's Life of St Edmund - Carl Phelpstead Chronology, Genealogy and Conversion: the Afterlife of St Edmund in the North - Alison Finlay Geoffrey of Wells' Liber de infantia sancti Edmundi and the 'Anarchy' of King Stephen's Reign - Paul Hayward Music and Identity in Medieval Bury St Edmunds - Lisa Colton Medieval Images of St Edmund in Norfolk Churches - Rebecca Pinner John Lydgate's Lives of Ss Edmund and Fremund: Politics, Hagiography and Literature - A S G Edwards St Edmund in Fifteenth-Century London: The Lydgatian Miracles of St Edmund - Anthony Bale The Later Lives of St Edmund: John Lydgate to John Stow - Alexandra Gillespie Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe story of welfare politics in Britain has usually been told in terms of a simple shift from individualism to collectivism and ever increasing amounts of state intervention. The Voluntary Sector, the State and Social Work in Britain offers a different perspective which shows that Britain has always had a mixed economy of welfare with the voluntary sector playing a major role. This book traces the ideas and practice of one of the most influential voluntary organisations, the Charity Organisation Society, which became the Family Welfare Association in 1946. It examines the meaning of voluntary personal social service, which became social work, and the nature of the shifting balance in social provision between the voluntary and statutory sectors from the late nineteenth to the twentieth century.By taking a long view, this volume highlights the important shift in the meaning of 'partnership' between the state and voluntary sectors from the 'separate spheres' philosophy of the late nineteenth century to the more complementary, supplementary relationship of the mid-twentieth century, and finally to the pressure now being exerted on voluntary organisations to become alternative providers of social services. Through the history of the Family Welfare Association, the book traces the development of social work from voluntary work, which was seen as integral to ideas about social theory and social change, to professional practice which was forced to seek new relationships with the state and voluntary sector. As well as presenting a substantial history of a very significant charitable organisation, this important book analyses the nature of welfare provision over time and provides an in depth treatment of the development of principles and concepts relevant to current debates.Trade Review'Professor Lewis has made a characteristically crisp contribution both to the history of voluntarism and to the current debate on its future. I particularly like the way in which she identifies both the continuities and the changes in the issues that the Family Welfare Association has had to address over its long history.'Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Part I: 1. Early Ideals, 1870–1918 2. The Practice of Charity, 1870–1900 3. The COS and New Forms of Charity Organisation, 1900–1918 4. The Inter-War Years Part II: 5. Specialising in Casework, 1940–1960s 6. Purpose and Provenance, 1970–1990 7. The 1990s Contracts Culture – Not-for-Profit versus Charity? Appendix Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe legal, regulatory and ethical frameworks guiding governance decisions are highly politicised and subject to intense debate. This book discusses governance theory in relation to corporations, universities and markets. Confronting the challenges of governing these three core areas, Alexander Styhre explores the connections between governance and the production of economic value, shareholder value and economic equality. An in-depth overview of recent governance literature in management studies, economics, legal theory and economic sociology, exposes how governance theory affects securities markets, commodities trade, university ranking and credit scoring cases. The author examines how changes in competitive capitalism and the wider social organization of society are recursively both determined by, and actively shaping the underlying governance ideals and practices. Identifying the difficulties involved in balancing freedom and control in governance policy, he highlights the key concerns confronting governments, regulatory agencies and transnational agencies: how to ensure the efficient use of economic resources to avoid economic inequality without undermining the legitimacy of the current market-based economic model. Essential reading for academics and graduates in management and the social sciences, as well as policy makers and management consultants, The Unfinished Business of Governance gives exceptional insight into the challenges facing governance within free markets.Trade Review'This book shows convincingly how the notion of governance regimes is extremely relevant in contemporary society for understanding the struggles between stakeholders in both private and public sectors. The book is a systematic treatise that takes a fresh look at governance, and which offers valuable insights in an era in which economic dominance and political turmoil signals existing sentiments, exemplified in this valuable book by the cases of financial markets and universities.' --Patrik Aspers, Uppsala University, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: On the theory and practice of governance Introduction: Governance regimes and their political, legal, and economic foundations 1. Governance varieties: Locke and Hegel’s philosophy of right and the roots of governance traditions Part II: Governing the economy 2. Governing the corporation: The economic theory roots of the shareholder primacy doctrine 3. Governing the university system: How to blend algorithm governance and social meaning 4. Governance and market regulation as market making: Stated ambitions, episodic success, and shortcomings and failures in finance market regulation Part III: Theoretical and practical implications 5. The unfinished business of governance: Towards new governance regimes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAt a moment when reproduction is increasingly politicized, this volume explores the breadth of contemporary research on reproduction from the perspective of medical sociology, illuminating the lived experience of reproduction and offering insights to inform sociology and health policy. Reproduction, Health, and Medicine elucidates the tensions and contradictions between the normal physiologic processes of pregnancy and birth and the sociocultural beliefs, values, and arrangements that shape how we experience these biological phenomena. Investigating a range of reproductive events and experiences, including pregnancy, birth, abortion and fertility planning, the volume advances our understanding of how lay people and professionals make cultural meaning out of these processes in diverse settings. The chapters highlight how studies of reproduction, health, and medicine interface with core sociological concepts such as stratification, inequality, intersectionality, family and kinship, risk, and social control, and how experiences of reproduction are shaped by gender, race, class, sexuality and citizenship, as well as culture, health care systems, and health politics.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reproduction Through the Lens of Medical Sociology; Susan Markens, Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong, And Miranda R. WaggonerPart I. Medical Technology as Peril or Promise Post-Abortion Care in Senegal: A Promising Terrain for Medical Sociology Research on Global Abortion Politics; Siri Suh When Less Is More: Shifting Risk Management in American Childbirth; Kellie Owens Bhutanese Refugees, Mothering, And Medicalization; Ashley F. Kim Women's Motivations For "Choosing" Unassisted Childbirth: A Compromise of Ideals and Structural Barriers; Lauren A. Diamond-Brown Part II. Knowledge and Its Consequences Reframing and Resisting: How Women Navigate the Medicalization of Pregnancy Weight; David J. Hutson Complicating the Generational Disconnect: Pregnant Women, Grandmothers-To-Be, And Medicalization; Danielle Bessett A Matter of Health and Safety: Science and The State In Texas Abortion Legislation; Alexis M. Kenney Stratification in Reproductive Healthcare: An Analysis of Pathways Of Inclusion Among Sexual Minorities, Substance Users, and Women Who Use Midwives; Katharine Mccabe Part III. Reproductive Experiences and Decision-Making The Legacy of Symphysiotomy In Ireland: A Reproductive Justice Approach to Obstetric Violence; Cara Delay and Beth Sundstrom "My Abortion Made Me A Good Mom": An Analysis of The Use of Motherhood Identity to Dispel Abortion Stigma; Andréa Becker Feeding the Cesarean Cycle? Examining the Role of Childbirth Education Classes; Katherine M. Johnson, Richard M. Simon, Jessica L. Liddell, and Sarah Kington Family Completion as Part of The Reproductive Cycle: What It Means to Be "Done"; Alexis T. Franzese, Kaitlin Stober, And Amy Mccurdy

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Book SynopsisFor those starting a business in early years childcare, having a passion for the job is important. But sustaining a business successfully takes more than natural enthusiasm. Many childcare businesses struggle due to lack of formal training or confidence in the business world. This accessible and practical guide shows exactly how to develop your organisation, leading to success within the competitive market and ultimately a higher quality childcare service.Jacqui Burke reveals what parents really want from professional early years childcare, and the core marketing, finance and management skills needed to realize these ideals. Studying what businesses have done right and wrong to date, the book includes example activities and market-savvy checklists that clearly show how to analyse your organisation, master day-to-day management, attract new customers, and take your business to the next level. With invaluable advice on how to better the experiences of your children, parents and staff alike, this guide will help you make your organisation stand out from the crowd.Trade ReviewThis is an extremely innovative and practical Early Years business book. Jacqui has generously shared her unique experience and knowledge of working within Early Years to help owners to support the development and sustainability of their business. I love the useful templates that Jacqui has devised that will be essential within any setting. I fully recommend this book. -- Laura Henry, award winning international Early Years specialistI love the tone Jacqui writes in - it's very down to earth and 'normal'! -- Charlotte Pace, independent consultantJacqui's book delivers both understanding and practical tools to enable practitioners to apply what they have learnt within the real world of running a business. It will provide valuable guidance in delivering high quality and sustainable childcare services and is a must read for owners and managers seeking to enhance their knowledge and business skills. -- Linda Baston-Pitt, Managing Director of The Old School House Nursery, CambridgeshireTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. 1. The principal elements of a sustainable early years business. 2. Tools and techniques for understanding your early years business. 3. Options for structuring your early years business. 4. Financial management. 5. Finding and keeping customers. 6. Recruiting, managing and developing employees and volunteers. 7. Running an early years business on a day to day basis. 8. Managing commercial risks in an early years business. 9. Taking the pain out of change. Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisFreud in Zion tells the story of psychoanalysis coming to Jewish Palestine/Israel. In this ground-breaking study psychoanalyst and historian Eran Rolnik explores the encounter between psychoanalysis, Judaism, Modern Hebrew culture and the Zionist revolution in a unique political and cultural context of war, immigration, ethnic tensions, colonial rule and nation building.Based on hundreds of hitherto unpublished documents, including many unpublished letters by Freud, this book integrates intellectual and social history to offer a moving and persuasive account of how psychoanalysis permeated popular and intellectual discourse in the emerging Jewish state.Trade Review'Eran Rolnik's work is a story of psychoanalysis and a story of Israel. Unsparing in intellectual honesty Freud in Zion exemplifies the project undertaken as the name "psychoanalysis". Great works of history are always moving. Recollections of things past is inevitably a matter of intense passion redolent with spiritual potential. We return to Freud many times, but Rolnik has us return to psychoanalysis as it moved East, a deeply compelling reading of the migration of ideas.'- Christopher Bollas'A rare combination of historiographic discipline and deep grasp of psychoanalytic thinking. This work is a significant contribution to analysts' increasing their knowledge of how their specific institutions developed and how science in general unfolds.'- Warren Poland'One of the best books on the history of psychoanalysis that has been written in the last twenty years. Everybody interested in the history of psychoanalysis and in the cultural and social role that our discipline can play in the world should read and make use of this book.'- Riccardo Steiner'"Know thyself" is a Greek injunction. The Jews countered it with a different one that could be phrased "Learn thy God". When manifestly secular Jews such as Freud and his colleagues adopted the Greek ideal and meticulously developed around it an original theory and practice, the question of their Jewish identities did not remain external to their activity. Dr Eran Rolnik has written a wonderfully valuable book about the way these two ideals play off against one another. The reader of his original and inspired study will come to understand why psychoanalysis still plays an important role in current Israeli experience.' - A. B. YehoshuaTable of ContentsSeries Editor’s Foreword , Preface , Introduction: a costly dream , The Freudians and the “new man” of the Zionist revolution , Psychoanalytic pioneers and their discontents , We’ve lost Berlin , Migration and interpretation , Homegrown psychoanalysis , A psychoanalytic midrash , Epilogue: dynamite in the house

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Book SynopsisIn Liquid Landscape, Michele Currie Navakas analyzes the history of Florida's incorporation alongside the development of new ideas of personhood, possession, and political identity within American letters, from early American novels, travel accounts, and geography textbooks, to settlers' guides, maps, natural histories, and land surveys.Trade Review"Liquid Landscape is a masterful study of adaptability that will appeal to scholars of literature, cartography, the environment, and early American history, regardless of region. Indeed, Navakas's approaches and conclusions extend well beyond Florida. Through sharp literary analysis, depth, and breadth, Navakas elucidates how diverse populations thrived in places where others struggled to survive . . . Just as Navakas succeeds in integrating Florida-a region so distinct that it is often overlooked in historical and cultural accounts of early America-back into the national narrative, so too did American officials succeed in incorporating Florida into the nation" * Environmental History *"Navakas's excellent study . . . simultaneously recuperates Florida's singular status in America's founding stories and points out the fallacy of figuring Florida as exceptional. This ability to hold up Florida as exemplary while rejecting the idea that it is anomalous or otherwise unextrapolatable is perhaps Navakas's most remarkable achievement in this text.." * Eighteenth Century Fiction *"Liquid Landscape is an outstanding interdisciplinary study of Florida's historical geographies that raises the bar for scholars in a variety of fields of both history and literature . . . a rich and sophisticated historical study of the relationships between colonialism and geographical ambiguity in early America. Anyone interested in the interstitial places where land and water meet will find this book fascinating." * Journal of American History *"In Liquid Landscape, Michele Currie Navakas demonstrates with brilliant originality how the topographical distinctiveness of Florida's 'unstable ground' generated counter-conceptions of roots and boundaries, historical exceptionality, ideals of possession and property, and much else during the formation of national identity over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A remarkable, fascinating achievement." * John Matthews, Boston University *"The insightful and compelling readings in Liquid Landscape make an important intervention in the field of early American studies, one that changes the map of early nationalism in significant ways." * Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Northeastern University *"Liquid Landscape is an imaginative and intelligent work, offering significant new contributions to geographies in American studies. Michele Currie Navakas ranges to excellent effect among a variety of genres and media, and her historical purview from the late colonial era through Reconstruction is similarly impressive and useful." * Jennifer Greeson, University of Virginia *

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Book SynopsisTakes a fresh view of the culture of consumption. This book examines the interplay of culture and consumer behavior from the anthropologist's point of view and provides new insights into the way we view ourselves and our society.Trade Review"This book compiles and integrates highly innovative work aimed at bridging the fields of anthropology and consumer behavior." - Journal of Consumer Affairs " ... fascinating ... ambitious and interesting ... " - Canadian Advertising Foundation Newsletter " ... an anthropological dig into consumerism brimming with original thought ... " - The Globe and Mail "Grant McCracken has written a provocative book that puts consumerism in its place in Western society- at the centre." - Report on Business Magazine " ... a stimulating addition to knowledge and theory about the interrelationship of culture and consumption." - Choice "[McCracken's] synthesis of anthropological and consumer studies material will give historians new ideas and methods to integrate into their thinking." - Maryland Historian "The book offers a fresh and much needed cultural interpretation of consumption." - Journal of Consumer Policy "The volume will help balance the prevailing cognitive and social psychological cast of consumer research and should stimulate more comprehensive investigation into consumer behavior." - Journal of Marketing Research " ... broad scope, enthusiasm and imagination ... a significant contribution to the literature on consumption history, consumer behavior, and American material culture." - Winterhur Portfolio "For this is a superb book, a definitive exploration of its subject that makes use of the full range of available literature." - American Journal of Sociology "McCracken's book is a fine synthesis of a new current of thought that strives to create an interdisciplinary social science of consumption behaviors, a current to which folklorists have much to contribute." - Journal of American FolkloreTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. HistoryOne. The Making of Modern ConsumptionTwo. "Ever Dearer in Our Thoughts": Patina and the Representation of Status before and after the Eighteenth CenturyThree. Lois Roget: Curatorial Consumer in a Modern WorldPart II. TheoryFour. Clothing as Language: An Object Lesson in the Study of the Expressive Properties of Material CultureFive. Meaning Manufacture and Movement in the World of GoodsPart III. PracticeSix. Consumer Goods, Gender Construction, and a Rehabilitated Trickle-down TheorySeven. The Evocative Power of Things: Consumer Goods and the Preservation of Hopes and IdealsEight. Diderot Unitites and the Diderot Effect: Neglected Cultural Aspects of ConsumptionNine. Consumption, Change, and ContinuityNotesReferencesIndex

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Book Synopsis The Cold War era spawned a host of anxieties in American society, and in response, Americans sought cultural institutions that reinforced their sense of national identity and held at bay their nagging insecurities. They saw football as a broad, though varied, embodiment of national values. College teams in particular were thought to exemplify the essence of America: strong men committed to hard work, teamwork, and overcoming pain. Toughness and defiance were primary virtues, and many found in the game an idealized American identity. In this book, Kurt Kemper charts the steadily increasing investment of American national ideals in the presentation and interpretation of college football, beginning with a survey of the college game during World War II. From the Army-Navy game immediately before Pearl Harbor, through the gradual expansion of bowl games and television coverage, to the public debates over racially integrated teams, college football became ever more a playing fiTrade Review"A significant book in understanding how college football, the dominating college sport, was impacted by both the Cold War and racial relations in the turbulent period around the 1960s."--The International Journal of the History of Sport"A provocative, richly detailed, and deeply researched study of college football's role as an embodiment of defiantly 'American' values during the Cold War. An important contribution to sports history and a model of exemplary research."--Michael Oriard, author of The End of Autumn: Reflections on My Life in Football"This wonderful work examines an extremely interesting and revealing episode in the history of college football that exposes the significance of race as a force in the society of the late 50s and early 60s. It demonstrates the power of Cold War rhetoric as a political device for the defenders of the status quo."--Richard C. Crepeau, past president of the North American Society for Sport History and author of Baseball: America's Diamond MindTable of ContentsAcknowledgments / ix Introduction / 1 Prologue: The Game the War Made / 7 1. Pasadena: The Terms of Postwar Football / 17 2. Columbus: Struggling for the Soul of the Cold War University / 47 3. Baton Rouge: Postwar Football and a Fate Worse Than Integration / 80 4. Tuscaloosa: The Pariah of Postwar Football / 116 5. Westwood: College Football and Cold War Dissent / 155 Conclusion / 195 Notes / 203 Bibliography / 245 Index / 259

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Goodman tells a very personal tale of nine years spent in the American criminal justice system, through travesties and victories, large and small. . . . From his first encounter with a client to the moments when some clients received their guilty verdict from a jury and were escorted from the courtroom in handcuffs, Goodman skillfully weaves a true tale of insightful advocacy and compelling conclusions. . . . He draws us in to the sights, sounds, and smells of the criminal legal system, forcing us to experience it with him because otherwise we might prefer to avoid it and thus avoid questioning its presumptions.” * Los Angeles Review of Books *“[An] important work of pulling the curtain back on the immense value of often-maligned public defenders.” * Booklist *“As the title of Goodman’s sobering book graphically conveys, public defenders often feel that everyone’s against us. While offering a firsthand view of the endemic corruption, racism, and wholesale injustice regularly practiced by police, prosecutors, and judges in criminal courts, Goodman sets the record straight and captures the true essence of the many dedicated public defenders across this country who are, as he writes, ‘overworked, underpaid, and vastly underappreciated guardians of liberty on behalf of those who need it most.’" -- Flint Taylor, The People’s Law Office, author of 'The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago'“In Everyone against Us, Goodman offers a behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to be a public defender in one of the nation’s largest criminal court systems. The result is a gripping and often heartbreaking memoir about one lawyer’s journey to find meaning and justice despite the odds against him.” -- Kevin Davis, author of 'Defending the Damned: Inside a Dark Corner of the Criminal Justice System'“Goodman’s fast-paced introduction to the harsh, unbalanced world of criminal justice leads readers from the dungeons of a big-city lockup through soul-jarring crime-scene investigations into the colorless chambers where the fates of the accused get decided. While weighing defenders’ and prosecutors’ roles, ideals, and actual practices, Everyone against Us reads like an on-the-job legal drama.” -- Mara Leveritt, author of 'Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three'Table of ContentsPreface I. Jail Rules II. Investigations III. Redemption IV. Trials V. DNA VI. Plea Deals VII. Chiraq VIII. Domestic Violence IX. Drugs X. Death XI. Regrets Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisDetermined presents a concise overview of Black history in Virginia from the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia in 1619 through the groundswell of racial justice protests of 2020. These four centuries encompass slavery and emancipation, segregation and the civil rights movement, the election of the first Black president and the rise of Black Lives Matter. Throughout this complex history, Black people have fought for freedom, justice, and opportunity and against oppression, discrimination, and dehumanization. Their efforts have brought meaningful changes to American society by forcing the nation to define the meaning of its highest ideals of democracy and universal equality. Arranged chronologically, this book explores 400 years of Black history through the stories of key figures and events in Virginia that shaped the fight for Black equity. A few of the individuals featured include John Punch, whose punishment for attempting to escape bondage in 1640 began the codification of a system of slavery that spread throughout the original Thirteen Colonies, and Nat Turner, who shocked the nation with a slave revolt in 1831 that challenged the institution of slavery. John Mitchell, Jr. was a journalist-editor who championed Black pride and civil rights in the Jim Crow era, and Barbara Johns led a student protest that became part of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the landmark Supreme Court decision dismantling legalized segregation. A new generation of activists like Zyahna Bryant continues the fight for racial equity today. Illustrations of historical artifacts and images bring to life these and other stories of Black determination and resistance. Determined focuses on Virginia, yet it tells an American story. Black people have shaped the nation’s economic, political, and cultural identity, and Virginia has played a formative and central role in national race relations. This book provides a timely reckoning with America’s fraught history with race and systemic racism. It fosters a greater understanding of the legacies of slavery, segregation, and white supremacy to meet the challenges of today and forge a better tomorrow.Table of ContentsForeword, by Jamie Bosket; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: “First Generations, 1619–1775”; Chapter 2: “Slavery at High Tide, 1775–1865”; Chapter 3: “Progress & Backlash, 1865–1950”; Chapter 4: “Equality Achieved? 1950–Today”; Epilogue; Endnotes; General Bibliography; Index; Image Credits

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Book SynopsisAs seen in The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Forbes, ELLE Decoration, and Design Milk An unprecedented survey of more than 250 architects who continue to define one of the most polarizing yet celebrated of styles Brutalist architecture inspires a passionate response, be it adulation or contempt. There is no disputing, however, that the style produces some of the world’s most breathtaking buildings. This landmark volume documents the movement as never before, by profiling the architects behind the style. Featuring more than 250 historic and contemporary architects (organised alphabetically) along with specially selected examples of their work, this book includes international icons alongside those who are less well known or who have for too long been neglected, providing a unique record of this influential global architecture movement. The book includes 350 stunning images of more than 200 iconic Brutalist buildings, alongside fresh and surprising masterworks from 1936 to the present day, creating the ultimate companion to the Brutalist masters. Featured architects include: John Andrews; João Batista Vilanova Artigas; Lina Bo Bardi; Bogdan Bogdanović; Marcel Breuer; Douglas Cardinal; André-Jacques Dunoyer de Segonzac; Bertrand Goldberg; Ernő Goldfinger; Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak; Agustín Hernández Navarro; John M. Johansen; Louis I. Kahn; Denys Lasdun; Le Corbusier; João da Gama Filgueiras Lima; Alberto Linner Díaz; Owen Luder; Paulo Mendes da Rocha; Oscar Niemeyer; William L. Pereira; Affonso Eduardo Reidy; Paul Rudolph; Moshe Safdie; Alison Smithson; Clorindo Testa; Decio Tozzi; and John Carl WarneckeTrade Review‘An essential guide to this polarising style.’ – Elle Decoration ‘An eye-opening lesson in Brutalism’s variety, creativity, exuberance and, most of all, ambition.’ – Forbes ‘Owen Hopkins’s The Brutalists is an A-to-Z encyclopedia of blocky concrete and utopian ideals.’ – Hyperallergic ‘From international icons to lesser known or neglected Brutalist architects, Hopkins has created a written record of the global movement.’ – Design Milk ‘The pioneers of [Brutalism] and their most famous works have been immortalized in a new Phaidon book.’ – Robb Report ‘Bridging the local and global, this new title from Phaidon documents the movement through more than 200 iconic buildings from around the world.’ – Design Lines Toronto ‘This landmark volume documents [Brutalism] as never before, by profiling the architects behind the style.’ – ASPIRE Design and Home ‘Refreshing in its focus on architects and broad representation.’ – STIR World'Features the obvious and the underrecognized, from Le Courbusier and Peter Smithson to Mayumi Watanabe de Souza Lima and Igor Vasilevsky.' – Canadian Interiors

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Book SynopsisA powerful, captivating tale of family secrets and hidden heartache from an internationally acclaimed authorTrade Review'Powerful and deeply empathetic... A heartbreaking tale of lost ideals, human devotion, and hard-won redemption.' Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Sympathizer'Beautifully crafted, haunting... A masterful display of Que Mai's capacity to evoke compassion through her lyrical prose.' Irish Times'Dazzling. Sharply drawn and hauntingly beautiful.' Elif Shafak, Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Island of Missing Trees'Notable for its boundless compassion for all the characters, from young, brutalised US soldiers to the girls who pretend to love them and the dust children left behind.' The Times'Dust Child is satisfying, lyrical, and deeply empathetic. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai is a born storyteller.' Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow'Once again, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai has written a beautiful novel that shines a light on the history of Vietnam... Dust Child is simply stunning.' Eric Nguyen, author of Things We Lost to the Water'A heartbreaking, beautifully told, utterly unique story of love, loss, and longing that speaks to the very heart of the human experience.' Kristin Harmel, New York Times-bestselling author of The Forest of Vanishing Stars'Well-researched, realistic, and compassionately written... This eye-opening and fascinating novel is a must-read!' Le Ly Hayslip, bestselling author of When Heaven and Earth Changed Places'Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai is one of the most unique storytellers of our time... She creates plots which are Dickensian in their breadth and mastery, while bravely probing the complex emotional challenges of living in a modern world full of disruption and displacement.' Natalie Jenner, internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society'Nguyen's novels, suffused with kindness and understanding, are an important and accessible tool to delve deeply into the perspectives of those whose lives were changed by the conflict. Her kaleidoscopic view opens doors of empathy and humanity.' Sydney Morning Herald'Phenomenally beautiful.' Australian Women's Weekly'Look for a reception akin to Min Jin Lee’s bestselling Pachinko.' LA Times'I truly cannot wait for the rest of the world to celebrate this book.' Chanel Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Know My Name'Quế Mai demonstrates a deep understanding of splintered lives. The compassionate treatment of her characters, insights into the period and eloquent prose are impressive.' FT

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Book SynopsisEmploying history, social theory, and a detailed contemporary case study, Knowledge for Social Change argues for fundamentally reshaping research universities to function as democratic, civic, and community-engaged institutions dedicated to advancing learning and knowledge for social change. The authors focus on significant contributions to learning made by Francis Bacon, Benjamin Franklin, Seth Low, Jane Addams, William Rainey Harper, and John Deweyas well as their own work at Penn's Netter Center for Community Partnershipsto help create and sustain democratically-engaged colleges and universities for the public good. Knowledge for Social Change highlights university-assisted community schools to effect a thoroughgoing change of research universities that will contribute to more democratic schools, communities, and societies. The authors also call on democratic-minded academics to create and sustain a global movement dedicated to advancing learning for the relief of man's estatean icoTrade Review"The authors catalogue in rich detail the pioneering efforts of educators and administrators at the University of Pennsylvania to put into practice the ideals of their forebears in progressive education, John Dewey first and foremost among them. Until the Netter Center, these ideals had fallen largely on deaf ears or been transformed beyond recognition. It is this faithfulness to the inseparability of past, present, and future that makes the book a standout in the literature of education and societal change, putting the public back in public education and recalling universities to their special responsibilities here."— Teachers College Record"(T)he book is fundamental reading for those interested in this subject matter and should be considered complementary to analogous efforts by engaged scholars operating in other geographic and cultural contexts.... Overall, the book is an honest and in-depth account of the real possibility for a prestigious research university to achieve excellence in research and teaching through an engaged agenda, and it offers a number of intellectual stimuli and practical hints in this direction."— Planning Theory and Practice"This book is a must-read for those of us responsible for educating students who will become our future world leaders. Knowledge for Social Change proposes that research universities become radically transformed to function as democratic, civic, and community-engaged institutions, and I could not agree with the idea more." —Eduardo J. Padrón, President, Miami Dade College"Knowledge for Social Change offers a bold vision for democratically minded academics concerned about our nation's future.... The authors, who are among the stalwarts of the modern community engagement movement, make no secret that the book's intellectual and political projects are meant to be provocative. Some readers may greet their provocations as utopian wishful thinking, but the authors make clear that their vision is serious and practical. Their earnestness and commitment to the transformation of research universities should prompt even the most skeptical reader to consider the radical project they propose.... The book represents a seminal scholarly contribution to the modern-day community engagement movement as the most comprehensive account to date of the philosophical ideas that ground it."—Journal of Higher Education and Outreach"Benson and colleagues’ [argue] that education, not the economic system, is the foundation stone of human society.... The authors of Knowledge for Social Change have an impressive academic pedigree for mounting their argument.... From their collective societal and educational vantage point, they place responsibility for social change squarely on the shoulders of research universities – citing William Rainey Harper’s conviction that democracy relies on educated citizens and that universities are the driver of education, as they produce both the teachers, and the teachers of the teachers. Thus, the crux of the argument is that the kind of education individuals receive determines human capacity for progress and social change. Supporting that vision, the authors draw from an array of theorists and activists whose research and educational vision was deeply occupational."—Journal of Occupational Science"Individually and collectively, the [authors] have made important contributions to the literature on higher education prior to this collaboration. And they have done a remarkable job of producing a collective work of clarity and coherence that comes across as a single voice and avoids repetition. It is a book that should be widely read by engaged scholars, practitioners, administrative leaders, and students of engagement."—Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning"[The authors] successfully advocate for a transformative system of higher education that implicates the community and public schools in the process of learning, knowledge production, and civic-engagement.... [They] provide compelling, optimistic solutions—and paths forward—to remedy the growing corporatization of the research university and service-learning.... [O]verall, and perhaps most significantly, Benson and his team provide a meaningful, tangible adaptation to Dewey’s ideas regarding education and reveal that partnerships between universities and communities can create a more democratically engaged citizenry that works collectively for the good of all."—Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement

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Book SynopsisJames Crossland is Senior Lecturer in International History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He is the author of Britain and the International Committee of the Red Cross, 1939-1945 (2014), the first study of Britain's humanitarian policy during the Second World War. He has published widely on the history of wartime humanitarianism, international law and the Red Cross movement.Trade ReviewReaders will find no uncritical homage to the peacemakers in this resolutely objective account of political changes during a turbulent half-century of conflict and suffering … James Crossland's patient examination of the decades before World War I is an essential guide to understanding how these fundamental changes in the law of warfare after World War II came to be. * Michigan War Studies Review *A fascinating work for those interested in the nineteenth century, in the development of political thought, in international relations, military history, and a number of other sub-disciplines ... An important introduction to the subject. * European History Quarterly *Crossland’s searching autopsy of humanitarian action, inspiration, and deed, persuasively demonstrates that there was no monolithic humanitarian sensibility in the long nineteenth century—instead the variegated impulses that inspired ostensibly and implicitly humanitarian interventions of all types were motivated by a wide and divergent realm of imperatives. A fascinating read. * Branden Little, Associate Professor of History, Weber State University, USA *Since Geoffrey Best’s Humanity in Warfare (1980), I have never read such a fine work on the attempts to regulate or outcast war. Starting hopefully in the midst of the 19th century and ending horribly in August 1914, War, Law and Humanity tells the tale of military (medical) men, legal and medical humanitarians as well as outright pacifists, debating ideals and realism, quarrelling between each other and among themselves, while several wars set the scene. It is as fascinating as it is important. * Leo van Bergen, Lecturer in Military-medical History, Royal Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, The Netherlands *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Dramatis Personae Timeline Introduction – A Time for Angels 1. The Crimean Crucible 2. Citizen-Humanitarians 3. The Union Way 4. Visions from Geneva 5. How Best to Serve the Suffering? 6. When Angels Go to War 7. Humanity and Necessity 8. The Sound of Drums 9. Enter the Peace-Seekers 10. Regulations for Apocalypse Conclusion – 1914: The Campaign Ends? Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe study of Islamic education has hitherto remained a tangential inquiry in the broader focus of Islamic Studies. In the wake of this neglect, a renaissance of sorts has occurred in recent years, reconfiguring the importance of Islam's attitudes to knowledge, learning and education as paramount in the study and appreciation of Islamic civilization. Philosophies of Islamic Education, stands in tandem to this call and takes a pioneering step in establishing the importance of its study for the educationalist, academic and student alike. Broken into four sections, it deals with theological, pedagogic, institutional and contemporary issues reflecting the diverse and often competing notions and practices of Islamic education. As a unique international collaboration bringing into conversation theologians, historians, philosophers, teachers and sociologists of education Philosophies of Islamic Education intends to provide fresh means for conversing with contemporary debates Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Theology and the Idea of Islamic Education 1. Philosophical Considerations for an Islamic Education of the Past and Future: Interview with Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr Seyyed Hossein Nasr 2. Education as ‘Drawing-Out’: The Forms of Islamic Reason Tim Winter 3. Islamic Philosophical Traditions: Knowledge and Man's path to a Creator David B. Burrell Part II: Positioning Knowledge between the Student and Teacher 4. Spirituality in Muslim Education Abdullah Trevathan 5. "Your educational achievements shall not stop your efforts to seek beyond": Principles of Teaching and Learning in Classical Arabic Writings Sebastian Günther 6. Disciplinarity and Islamic Education Omar Anwar Qureshi 7. The Transmission of Adab: Educational Ideals and their Institutional Manifestations Talal Al-Azem Part III: Schools, Universities and Pedagogies 8. World Conferences on Muslim Education: Shaping the Agenda of Muslim Education in the Future Shaikh Abdul Mabud 9. Diverse Communities, Divergent Aspirations? Islamic Schooling in the West Nadeem A. Memon 10. An Olive Tree in the Apple Orchard: Establishing an Islamic College in the United States Omar Qargha 11. The 'Hadith of Gabriel': Stories as a tool for 'Teaching' Religion Steffen Stelzer Part IV: Contemporary Debates 12. Principles of Democracy in American Islamic Schools Susan Douglass and Ann El-Moslimany 13. Religious Pluralism and Islamic Education: Addressing Mutual Challenges Sarfaroz Niyozov 14. 'Islamisation and democratization of knowledge in post-colonial Muslim-oriented contexts: Implications for democratic citizenship education' Yusef Waghid and Nuraan Davids 15. Teaching Islam: Are There Pedagogical Limits to Critical Inquiry? Farah Ahmad and Ibrahim Lawson

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Book SynopsisWritten by a team of international experts and emerging talents from around the world, Sport Injury Psychology: Cultural, Relational, Methodological, and Applied Considerations challenges the status quo of the field of sport injury psychology and opens new and exciting future research trajectories by critically considering: How to evolve from an individual focused and single, scientific discipline into a cultural and relational focused and interdisciplinary discourse How to shift from the dominant positivist foundation towards a more inclusive scholarship with divergent epistemologies, theories, and methodologies How to replace the attempt to establish best practice' and desire for clean' findings with the need for continuous innovation and multifaceted applied experiences Each chapter stimulates debate and encourages theoretical, methodological, and/or applied diversification, and cloTable of ContentsIntroduction: Challenging the Status Quo of Sport Injury Psychology 1. Narratives Matter! Storying Sport Injury Experiences2. Sport Media Research: Examining the Benefits for Sport Injury Psychology and Beyond 3. Gender Matters: How can Sociocultural Perspectives on Pain, Injury and the Sporting Body Benefit Future Research on Sport Injury Psychology? 4. Sport-Related Concussion: Critical Reflections, Methodological Musings, and New Research Directions 5. Pain and Injury: From the Unidimensional to the Multidimensional 6. ‘Slim-to-Win’ to Injury: How Swimmers’ are Engaging with ‘Health Risk’ Culture due to Entrenched Body Ideals7. "What Does not Kill us, Makes Us Stronger": Do Injured Athletes Really Experience Growth? 8. Time to Re-Examine Injured Athletes Emotional Responses 9. Physiotherapist-Injured Athlete Relationship: Towards a Cultural and Relational Understanding 10. Guilt Experienced by Coaches Following Athlete Injury 11. My Daughter’s Injured Again! I Just Don’t Know What to do Anymore 12. But We’ve Always Done it this Way: The Future of Qualitative Injury Research13. Experimental Psychological Response to Injury Studies: Why so Few? 14. Introducing Knowledge Translation into the Field of Sport Injury Psychology: The Art of Improving Research Uptake in Practice 15. "But it is Bad!" "Yes, but is it Really as Bad as you Have Indicated Here?" "Absolutely!" Challenging Injured Athletes’ Irrational Beliefs: Not a Straightforward Exercise 16. Less Control, More Flexibility: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Injured Athletes17. "This is the Final Jump," I respond. Why, Why, do I Utter Those Words?" Storytelling in Sport Injury Rehabilitation 18. Textbooks Don’t Tell It Like It Is: Tales from Working in the Field with Injured Athletes 19. Three Decades Later: Looking Back to Look Forward

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Book SynopsisMost eighteenth-century literary scholarship implicitly or explicitly associates the major developments in English literature and culture during the rise of modernity with a triumphant and increasingly tolerant Protestantism while assuming that the English Catholic community was culturally moribund and disengaged from Protestant society and culture. However, recent work by historians has shown that the English Catholic community was a dynamic and adaptive religious minority, its leaders among the aristocracy cosmopolitan, its intellectuals increasingly attracted to Enlightenment ideals of liberty and skepticism, and its membership growing among the middle and working classes. This community had an impact on the history of the English nation out of all proportion with its size—and yet its own history is glimpsed only dimly, if at all, in most modern accounts of the period. The Papist Represented reincorporates the history of the English Catholic community into the field of eighteenth-century literary studies. It examines the intersections of literary, religious, and cultural history as they pertain to the slow acceptance by both Protestants and Catholics of the latter group’s permanent minority status. By focusing on the Catholic community’s perspectives and activities, it deepens and complicates our understanding of the cultural processes that contributed to the significant progress of the Catholic emancipation movement over the course of the century. At the same time, it reveals that this community’s anxieties and desires (and the anxieties and desires it provoked in Protestants) fuel some of the most popular and experimental literary works of the century, in forms and modes including closet drama, elegy, the novel, and the Gothic. By returning the Catholic community to eighteenth-century literary history, The Papist Represented challenges the assumption that eighteenth-century literature was a fundamentally Protestant enterprise. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Table of ContentsIntroduction "Allways in a veile": Catholic difference in Dryden's Don Sebastian "To act a lover's or a Roman's part": Catholic division in Pope's Eloisa to Abelard and Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady "The French behaviour under the Mahometan dress": Defoe's Roxana and England's Catholic captivity "Left to perdition": Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison and the papist unrepresented "Let not religion be named between us": Catholic and female oppression in Inchbald's A simple story Afterword

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Book SynopsisThe biggest challenges in public health today are often related to attitudes, diet and exercise. In many ways, this marks a return to the state of medicine in the eighteenth century, when ideals of healthy living were a much more central part of the European consciousness than they have become since the advent of modern clinical medicine. Enlightenment advice on healthy lifestyle was often still discussed in terms of the six non-naturals â airs and places, food and drink, exercise, excretion and retention, and sleep and emotions. This volume examines what it meant to live healthily in the Enlightenment in the context of those non-naturals, showing both the profound continuities from Antiquity and the impact of newer conceptions of the body.Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429465642 Table of Contents1. “The Most Valuable Part of Medicine”: The Six Non-Naturals in the Long Eighteenth Century; PART 1: AIRS, WATERS AND PLACES; 2. The Body is a Barometer: Dutch Doctors on Healthy Weather and Strong Constitutions; 3. Hot Climate and Health Care: Tropical Regions in the Dutch Atlantic, c.1600-c.1800; PART 2: FOOD AND DRINK; 4. Eating after the Climacteric: Food, Gender and Ageing in the Long Eighteenth Century; 5. The Impossible Ideal of Moderation: Food, Drink, and Longevity; PART 3: EXERCISE AND REST; 6. “For it is the debilitating fibres that execise restores”: Movement, Morality and Moderation in Eighteenth-Century Medical Advice Literature; 7. The Healthy Body, Civic Virtue, Gender and the New Physical Education in Germany, 1770-1800; PART 4: SLEEP AND WAKEFULNESS; 8. “That venerable and princely custom of long-lying abed”: Sleep and Civility in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Urban Society; 9. Wasted Days and Wasted Nights: Sleeping and Waking in the Long Eighteenth-Century; PART 5: EXCRETION AND RETENTION; 10. Keeping the body open. Impurity, excretions, and healthy living in the early modern period.; 11. Increasing and Reducing: Breastmilk Flows and Female Health; PART 6: PASSIONS AND EMOTIONS; 12. Feel-good tunes: Music Aesthetics, Performance and Well-being in the Eighteenth Century; 13. The Dietetics of the Soul in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century; EPILOGUE; 14. “That is more excellent which preserveth health and preventeth sicknesse.” Continuity and Change in Vernacular Preventive Health Advice over the Early Modern Period

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Book SynopsisReflecting upon the diverse aspects of the entangled histories of women across the world (mainly, but not exclusively, during the twentieth century), this book explores the range of ways in which womenâs history, international history, transnational history and imperial and global histories are interwoven. Contributors cover a diverse range of topics, including the work of British womenâs activist networks in defence of, and opposition, to empire; the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women; suffrage networks in Britain and South Africa; white Zimbabwean women and belonging in the diaspora; migrant female workers as traditional agents in Tasmania; Indian âcoolieâ womenâs lives in British Malaya; Irish female medical missionary work; emigration to North America from Irish womenâs convict prisons; the Womenâs Party of Great Britain (1917-1919); the national and international in the making of the Finnish feminist Alexandra Gripenberg; and the relationship between the World Congress of Mothers and the Japan Mothersâ Congress. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Womenâs History Review. Table of ContentsIntroduction – Connecting Women’s Histories: the local and the global 1. Feminising Empire? British Women’s Activist Networks in Defending and Challenging Empire from 1918 to Decolonisation 2. ‘The Women’s Branch of the Commonwealth Relations Office’: the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women and the long life of empire migration 3. ‘Going on with our little movement in the hum drum-way which alone is possible in a land like this’: Olive Schreiner and suffrage networks in Britain and South Africa, 1905–1913 4. From Settlers to Strays: white Zimbabwean women, historical memory and belonging in the diaspora c.1980–2010 5. ‘Belles from Bristol and Bournville in New Surroundings’: female confectionery workers as transnational agents, 1918–1928 6. ‘Immorality’, Nationalism and the Colonial State in British Malaya: Indian ‘coolie’ women’s intimate lives as ideological battleground 7. International and Modern Ideals in Irish Female Medical Missionary Activity, 1937–1962 8. ‘The salvation of them’: emigration to North America from the nineteenth-century Irish women’s convict prison 9. The Women’s Party of Great Britain (1917–1919): a forgotten episode in British women’s political history 10. The National and International in Making a Feminist: the case of Alexandra Gripenberg 11. From Hiroshima to Lausanne: the World Congress of Mothers and the Hahaoya Taikai in the 1950s

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Book SynopsisBrilliant and devout, William Porcher DuBose (1836-1918) considered himself a man of thought rather than of action. During the Civil War, he discovered that he was both, distinguishing himself as an able and courageous Confederate officer in the Holcombe Legion and later as a dedicated chaplain in Kershaw's Brigade. Published for the first time, these previously unknown letters of DuBose chronicle his Civil War actions with these two celebrated South Carolina units and make an important contribution to the literature and history of the war. They also advance our understanding of DuBose's burgeoning religious ideals as a Civil War combatant who would later become one of the foremost theologians of the Episcopal Church and a distinguished professor at the University of the South. A native of Winnsboro, South Carolina, DuBose was studying to enter the Episcopal priesthood when the war began. After struggling with the question of secular and spiritual obligations, he decided to join in the defense of the Confederacy and began a long and varied career as a soldier. After service in the lowcountry during the first year of the war, he was thrust into the thick of combat in Virginia, where he was wounded twice and taken as a prisoner of war. After being exchanged and returned to duty in 1862, DuBose was wounded again at the battle of Kinston in North Carolina, and a year later influential friends arranged for his appointment as chaplain in Kershaw's Brigade. He continued to share in the hazards of combat with the men to whom he ministered as they fought in the battles of Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and Cedar Creek in 1864. Adroitly edited by W. Eric Emerson and Karen Stokes, the more than 150 letters collected here prove DuBose to be a man of uncompromising duty to his faith, fellows, and the Confederate cause. He references his interactions with prominent figures of the day, including General Nathan ""Shanks"" Evans, John L. Girardeau, John Johnson, Colonel Peter F. Stevens, General Joseph B. Kershaw, Louisa Cheves McCord, and General John Bratton. Also included here are DuBose's wartime courtship letters to his fiancée and later wife, Anne Peronneau DuBose. Collectively these extraordinary documents illustrate the workings of a mind and heart devoted to his religion and dedicated to service in the Confederate ranks.

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Book SynopsisHigher education has seen better days. Harsh budget cuts, the precarious nature of employment in colleague teaching, and political hostility to the entire enterprise of education have made for an increasingly fraught landscape. Radical Hope is an ambitious response to this state of affairs, at once political and practice — the work of an activist, teacher, and public intellectual grappling with some of the most pressing topics at the intersection of higher education and social justice. Kevin Gannon asks that the contemporary university's manifold problems be approached as opportunities for critical engagement, arguing that, when done effectively, teaching is by definition emancipatory and hopeful. Considering individual pedagogical practice, the students who are the primary audience and beneficiaries of teaching, and the institutions and systems within which teaching occurs, Radical Hope surveys the field, tackling everything from impostor syndrome to cell phones in class to allegations of a campus 'free speech crisis'. Throughout, Gannon translates ideals into tangible strategies and practices (including key takeaways at the conclusion of each chapter), with the goal of reclaiming teachers' essential role in the discourse of higher education.Trade ReviewA must-read for pedagogues and theorists alike. Gannon's explorations into history, power, and academia place students and the environments in which they learn front and center for the rest of us to consider. This work isn't about reform, but transformation, and Gannon's book pushes us in the right direction." — JosÉ Luis Vilson, author of This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education"This is the book I needed to read—it was a fresh drink of water in a time of turmoil and despair in education. Gannon grounds his calls for radical hope in the work of educational scholars like Freire, hooks, and Giroux, and offers helpful examples and recommendations based on his years of teaching experience. He tackles real issues we are facing at our institutions head-on without capitulating to clichÉs or trendy solutions often offered in books about higher education." — Amy Collier, Middlebury CollegeTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Classrooms of Death 2. The Things We Tell Our Students 3. Cultivating Transformative Teaching 4. Teaching and Learning Inclusively 5. Making Access Mean Something 6. Encouraging Choice, Collaboration, and Agency 7. A Syllabus Worth Reading 8. Pedagogy Is Not a Weapon 9. Platforms and Power 10. I Don’t Know . . . Yet. Coda: Radical Hope, Even When It Seems Hopeless Notes Index

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Book SynopsisGroundbreaking new approach to the idea of treason in medieval England, showing the profound effect played by gender. Conflicts over treason tormented English political society in the later Middle Ages. As legal and political historians have shown, treason was always a constitutional matter as well as a legal one because it was pivotal in mediating the relationship between English kings, their political subjects and the abstraction of the crown. However, despite renewed interest in constitutional history, there has been no extended examination of treason in medieval England since the 1970s. This pioneering study presents a new interpretation of treason, not only as a legal construct, a political weapon and a tool for constitutional thinking, but also as a cultural category, aligning it with questions of gender, vernacularity and national identity. It examines cases from the 1380s to the 1420s, revealing how kings defended their claims to sovereign authority by using the laws of treason to bind their mortal male bodies to the enduring body politic of the realm, and explains how that body politic was masculinised through its entanglement in contests over manly honour and homosocial loyalties. Drawing on evidence from trial records, legislation and chronicles, it illuminates the ways in which cultural ideals of manhood reinforced or subverted government responses to crises of legitimacy, and demonstrates that gender conditioned understandings of treason in the political arena as well as the definitions embedded in statutes and case law. At the same time, it explores the varied ways men defended themselves from accusations of treason by invoking, and in the process helping to transform, shared beliefs about what it meant to be a man in medieval England.Trade ReviewBy combining a rich theoretical perspective and a series of focused case studies based on the court records, McVitty succeeds in opening up a much-needed discussion about late medieval treason in relation to changing ideas around kingship and gender in this period. * ROYAL STUDIES JOURNAL *A very welcome addition to existing studies of medieval masculinities both as a methodological exemplar, and for the quality of its findings. -- Katherine J. Lewis * Nottingham Medieval Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction True men and traitors at the court of Richard II, 1386-88 Tyranny, revenge and manly honour, 1397-98 The Lancastrian succession and the masculine body politic From public speech to treasonous deed Civic manhood and political dissent Chivalry, homosociality and the English nation Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ideas abound in this thoughtful story, a demonstration of the author’s years of experience as a community organizer. What We’ve Lost Is Nothing has the stamp of authenticity." * Washington Post *"Keenly observed." * Minneapolis Star-Tribune *"Snyder's debut is smooth and engaging, and reads like the work of a veteran novelist." * Publishers Weekly *“Veteran journalist Snyder crafts a muscular and fearless debut novel that boldly tackles the heady themes of prejudice, self-preservation, poverty and privilege. . . .Snyder’s drama provocatively reveals the escalating tensions of a community about to implode.” * Booklist *"Riveting . . . Snyder’s portrayal of the disintegration of this one quiet block is masterful, forcing the reader to examine the possibility of his own stereotypical behavior if faced with a similar situation." * Bookpage *"Snyder's character development is astounding, as are the complexities of her writing. She manages to tackle some big issues including racism, city vs. suburb, violence, and the enigma of the human psyche -- all while telling a spectacular story." * Bookslut *"Rachel Louise Snyder writes with the rigorous scrutiny of an investigative journalist and the deep and roving empathy of a natural-born novelist. What We've Lost is Nothing is a stellar debut by an important and necessary new voice among us." -- Andre Dubus III * author of House of Sand and Fog and Townie *"A powerful, page-turning debut that dares to delve below the surface of our glossy American lives. You may never look at your neighbors—or yourself—the same way again." -- David Goodwillie * author of American Subversive *"An important new voice in fiction. With sharp prose and compelling insight, Snyder renders a beautiful portrait of both the complex world of Ilios Lane and the gulf between the way that we imagine our worst fears, and the way that they come to pass and demand that we survive them." -- Danielle Evans * author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self *“Snyder offers us an unflinching and complicated portrait of a community that is afraid to look back at itself, and she does so with grace, wit and tenderness of heart. This book is stunning and so incredibly relevant.” -- Alison Espach * author of The Adults *"A compelling and important novel about family and neighborhood, about individuals when ideals and values are thrown into harsh contrast. A marvelous book." -- Mark LaFramboise * Bookseller, Politics and Prose *

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Book SynopsisThis self-contained and comprehensive textbook of algebraic number theory is useful for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of mathematics. The book discusses proofs of almost all basic significant theorems of algebraic number theory including Dedekind’s theorem on splitting of primes, Dirichlet’s unit theorem, Minkowski’s convex body theorem, Dedekind’s discriminant theorem, Hermite’s theorem on discriminant, Dirichlet’s class number formula, and Dirichlet’s theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions. A few research problems arising out of these results are mentioned together with the progress made in the direction of each problem. Following the classical approach of Dedekind’s theory of ideals, the book aims at arousing the reader’s interest in the current research being held in the subject area. It not only proves basic results but pairs them with recent developments, making the book relevant and thought-provoking. Historical notes are given at various places. Featured with numerous related exercises and examples, this book is of significant value to students and researchers associated with the field. The book also is suitable for independent study. The only prerequisite is basic knowledge of abstract algebra and elementary number theory. Trade Review“A Textbook of Algebraic Number Theory is intended to be used as a 2-term textbook for an algebraic number theory graduate course. … As a graduate course textbook, this would be an excellent resource. … I would definitely recommend this book for a graduate course following a thorough abstract algebra sequence. The topics covered are the foundations of the study of algebraic number theory.” (McKenzie West, MAA Reviews, October 9, 2023)“This wonderful textbook will be of great help to everybody interested in algebraic number theory … . The book is an essence of a two-semester course on algebraic number theory held several times by the author to postgraduate students. … Readers will enjoy the presentation of the book together with interesting illustrations of historical notes.” (István Gaál, zbMATH 1500.11001, 2023)Table of Contents1. Algebraic Integers, Norm and Trace.-2. Integral Basis and Discriminant.-3. Properties of the Ring of Algebraic Integers.- 4. Splitting of Rational Primes and Dedekind’s Theorem.-5. Dirichlet’s Unit Theorem.- 6. Prime Ideal Decomposition in Relative Extensions.- 7. Relative Discriminant and Dedekind’s Theorem on Ramified.- 8. Ideal Class Group.-9. Dirichlet’s Class Number Formula and its Applications.- 10. Simplified Class Number Formula for Cyclotomic, Quadratic Fields.

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Book SynopsisThis book contains select papers on rings, monoids and module theory which are presented at the 3rd International Conference on Mathematics and Statistics (AUS-ICMS 2020) held at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, from 6–9 February 2020. This conference was held in honour of the work of the distinguished algebraist Daniel D. Anderson. Many participants and colleagues from around the world felt it appropriate to acknowledge his broad and sweeping contributions to research in algebra by writing an edited volume in his honor. The topics covered are, inevitably, a cross-section of the vast expansion of modern algebra. The book is divided into two sections—surveys and recent research developments—with each section hopefully offering symbiotic utility to the reader. The book contains a balanced mix of survey papers, which will enable expert and non-expert alike to get a good overview of developments across a range of areas of algebra. The book is expected to be of interest to both beginning graduate students and experienced researchers. Table of ContentsDavid F. Anderson, Dan Anderson and his Mathematics.- David F. Anderson, F. GOTTI, Bounded and Finite Factorization Domains.- A.A. ALTIDOR, H.E. BRUCH, J.R. JUETT, Factorization and Irreducibility in Modules.- M. ZAFRULLAH, On *-Potent Domains and *-Homogeneous Ideals.- M. GOTTI, M. M. TIRADOR, On the Set of Molecules of Numerical and Puiseux Monoids.- D. E. DOBBS, Where Some Inert Minimal Ring Extensions of A Commutative Ring Come From, II.- E. Abuosba and M. Ghanem, A Survey on EM Conditions.- David F. Anderson, Some Remarks on the D + M Construction.- Roy O. Quintero Contreras, On a Problem about Lowest Terms Domains Posed.- S. Kabbaj and F. Suwayyid, Regularity and Related properties in Tensor Products of Algebras over a Field.- L. KLINGLER, R. WIEGAND and S. WIEGAND, Tame-Wild Dichotomy for Commutative Noetherian Rings : A Survey.- H. ANDEZ-ESPIET, R.M. ORTIZ-ALBINO, On the Characterization of — Atoms.- D. D. ANDERSON, P. V. DANCHEV, Bounded Periodic Rings.- C. P. MOONEY, On Gracefully and Harmoniously Labeling Zero-Divisor Graphs.- T. ASIR, K. MANO, and M. SUBATHRA, A Survey on Genus of Selected Graphs from Commutative Rings.- DONG-IL LEE, A Computational Approach to Shephard Groups.- M. FARAG and R. P. TUCCI, BZS Near-Rings and Rings.

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Book SynopsisStriking new readings of Montaigne's works, focussing on such concepts as scepticism and tolerance. Montaigne's Essais (1580-1592) are one of the most remarkable works of the European Renaissance. The Essais' innovative open-mindedness is at odds with the dogmatism and intolerance of their times, the decades of civil and religious wars in France, and their tolerant and searching human questions and ethics of difference remain compelling for twenty-first century readers. But the sceptical open-endedness that vitalizes this writing is also often troubled and troubling: personal losses and the collapse of cultural ideals moved Montaigne to write, and their attendant anxieties are not resolved into tranquil reflection. Unsettling Montaigne reassesses Montaigne's scepticism. Informed by psychoanalytic and related theory, its close attention to Montaigne's complex uses of metaphor illuminates the psychic economy of his scepticism and tolerance and their poetics, while new readings ofhis Essais and other texts reveal the significance of disquieting questions, thought and affect for the ethos his writing fosters. The analysis deals with figures such as cannibals and cannibalism, hunger, shaking, tickling, place, the brother, and haunting in Montaigne's exploration of concepts which tested his understanding and self-understanding. The volume also demonstrates how figuration supports openness to difference for both writer and readers, and is fundamental to this writing's aesthetic, psychic and ethical creativity. Elizabeth Guild lectures in French at the University of Cambridge, and is a Fellow of Robinson College.Trade ReviewIndispensable for specialists, who will profit from being unsettled from standard readings of Montaigne, but will be of interest to those who want to peer into the labyrinthine mind of one of the Renaissance's most anxious thinkers. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *Dislodging Montaigne from the more comfortable, as it were tenured, positions in which he is commonly placed, this study offers a compelling account of the texture and significance of his life's work. * H-FRANCE *Guild's 'unsettled' Montaigne . . . fulfills the promise of reading the Essais in their disquieting familiarity. * MODERN PHILOLOGY *[Offers] a series of coherent and persuasive readings of key passages from a variety of essays that encourage our appreciation of Montaigne's ethical actuality and verbal dexterity. * FRENCH STUDIES *If Montaigne stood for freedom of sconscience and inquiry, and responded with reasonably doubt to the rhetoric of violence and hate, he paid a price: the Essays, Guild argues, are a project driven and inhabited by anxiety. Recommended. * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisAn examination of the ways in which the fluid concept of "chivalry" has been used and appropriated after the Middle Ages. One of the most difficult and complex ethical and cultural codes to define, chivalry has proved a flexible, ever-changing phenomenon, constantly adapted in the hands of medieval knights, Renaissance princes, early modern antiquarians, Enlightenment scholars, modern civic authorities, authors, historians and re-enactors. This book explores the rich variations in how the Middle Ages were conceptualised and historicised to illuminate the plurality of uses of the past. Using chivalry as a lens through which to examine concepts and uses of the medieval, it provides a critical assessment of the ways in which medieval chivalry became a shorthand to express contemporary ideals, powerfully demonstrating the ways in which history could be appropriated. The chapters combine attention to documentary evidence with what material culture can tell us, in particular using the built environment and the landscape as sources to understand how the medieval past was renegotiated. With contributions spanning diverse geographic regions and periods, it redraws current chronological boundaries by considering medievalism from the late Middle Ages to the present. Katie Stevenson is Senior Lecturer in Late Mediaeval History and Director of the Institute of Scottish Historical Research at the University of St Andrews; Barbara Gribling is a Junior Research Fellow in the Department of History at Durham University. Contributors: David W. Allan, Stefan Goebel, Barbara Gribling, Steven C. Hughes, Peter N. Lindfield, Antti Matikkala, Rosemary Mitchell, Paul Pickering, Katie StevensonTrade ReviewFull of fascinating discussion regarding the long-term cultural impacts of chivalry. * FOLKLORE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Chivalry and the Medieval Past - Katie Stevenson and 'An Institution Quite Misunderstood': Chivalry and Sentimentalism in the Late Scottish Enlightenment - David W. Allan Creating a 'Medieval Past' for the Swedish Orders of Knighthood - Antti Matikkala 'Hung Round with the Helmets, Breast-Plates, and Swords of our Ancestors': Allusions to Chivalry in Eighteenth-Century Gothicism - Peter N. Lindfield Knights on the Town? Commercial and Civic Chivalry in Victorian Manchester - Rosemary A. Mitchell 'The Dark Side of Chivalry': Victory, Violence and the Victorians - Barbara Gribling Daze and Knights: Anachronism, Duelling and the Chivalric Ethic in Nineteenth-Century Italy - Steven C. Hughes The German Crusade: The Battles of Tannenberg, 1410 and 1914 - Stefan Goebel 'Hark ye back to the age of valour': Re-enacting Chivalry from the Eglinton Tournament to Kill Streak - Paul Pickering

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Book SynopsisA passionate, highly accessible clarion call to a world dangerously threatened by irrational superstitions of all kinds. 'Truly a book for our time' Steven Pinker 'In Sweden's public square, Christer Sturmark has done as much as anyone to uphold reason and humane critical thinking' Richard Dawkins 'As lucid and illuminating as it is warm and inspiring' Rebecca Goldstein In country after country, conspiracy theories and religious dogmas that once seemed to have been overtaken by enlightened thought are helping to lift authoritarian leaders into power. The effects are being felt by women, ethnic minorities, teachers, scientists and students – and by the environment, the ultimate victim of climate change denial. We need clear thinking now more than ever. Christer Sturmark is a crusading secular humanist as well as a Swedish publisher and entrepreneur, and The Flame of Reason is his manifesto for a better world. It provides a set of simple tools for clear thinking in the face of populist dogmas, anti-science attitudes and pseudo-philosophy, and suggestions for how we can move towards a new enlightenment. From truth to Quantum Physics, moral philosophy to the Myers-Briggs test, Sturmark offers a passionate defence of rational thought, science, tolerance and pluralism; a warm and engaging guide for anyone who wants to better navigate the modern world. Translated by and co-written with Douglas Hofstadter, celebrated cognitive scientist, physicist and author of Godel, Escher, Bach.Trade ReviewIn an era in which the ideals of the Enlightenment need all the help they can get, we're lucky to have such a lucid, stylish, and intelligent exposition and defense. This is truly a book for our time -- Steven PinkerIn Sweden's public square, Christer Sturmark has done as much as anyone to uphold reason and humane critical thinking... and now his values are gathered and refocused in this book' -- Richard DawkinsChrister Sturmark reflects on our place in history as well as on our potential future as a more united and reasoning humankind. He gives a credible and sensible voice to the new enlightenment-oriented worldview -- Björn UlvaeusIf a book like this had been available when I was in my late teens, it would have saved me years of collecting and contemplating important information about human thinking – and its failures -- Dan Larhammar, President of the Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesAs lucid and illuminating as it is warm and inspiring -- Rebecca Goldstein

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Book SynopsisFor many residents of Western nations, COVID-19 was the first time they experienced the effects of an uncontrolled epidemic. This is in part due to a series of little-known regulations that have aimed to protect the global north from epidemic threats for the last two centuries, starting with International Sanitary Conferences in 1851 and culminating in the present with the International Health Regulations, which organize epidemic responses through the World Health Organization. Unlike other equity-focused global health initiatives, their mission—to establish "the maximum protections from infectious disease with the minimum effect on trade and traffic"—has remained the same since their founding. Using this as his starting point, Alexandre White reveals the Western capitalist interests, racism and xenophobia, and political power plays underpinning the regulatory efforts that came out of the project to manage the international spread of infectious disease. He examines how these regulations are formatted; how their framers conceive of epidemic spread; and the types of bodies and spaces it is suggested that these regulations map onto. Proposing a modified reinterpretation of Edward Said's concept of orientalism, White invites us to consider "epidemic orientalism" as a framework within which to explore the imperial and colonial roots of modern epidemic disease control.Trade Review"White writes critically and necessarily on the historical actions taken to prevent the spread of infectious disease. With great care, he deftly unpacks the racial and economic costs of global health initiatives and examines the ideals behind their genesis. The book is a remarkable and necessary re-thinking of medical history through the lens of 'epidemic orientalism'."—Hollie Sherwood-Martin, The Lancet Infectious Diseases"Over the course of his monograph, White successfully illustrates how an epidemic Orientalist worldview ultimately weakens epidemic responses and places the health of people on both sides of an imagined divide at a greater risk.... Historians and medical anthropologists and sociologists looking for a thoughtful synthesis of several intellectual frameworks for understanding medicine and empire will find Epidemic Orientalism a useful text."—Molly Walker, H-Sci-Med-TechTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Epidemic Orientalism 2. The International Sanitary Conventions at a Colonial Scale 3. Epidemics under the WHO 4. The Battle to Police Disease 5. Epidemics, Power, and the Global Management of Disease Risk 6. Pricing Pandemics Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn the 1960s, Bruce Kidd was one of Canada’s most celebrated athletes. As a teenager, Kidd won races all over the globe, participated in the Olympics, and started a revolution in distance running and a revival in Canadian track and field. He quickly became a symbol of Canadian youth and the subject of endless media coverage. Although most athletes of his generation were cautioned to keep their opinions to themselves, Kidd took it upon himself to speak out on the problems and possibilities of Canadian sport. Encouraged by his parents and teammates, Kidd criticized the racism and sexism of amateur sport in Canada, the treatment of players in the National Hockey League, American control of the Canadian Football League, and the uneven coverage of sports by the media and he continues to fight for equity to this day. After retiring from his career as an athlete, Kidd became a well-known advocate for gender and racial justice and an academic leader at the University of ToroTrade Review"Anyone interested in the history of Canadian sports, international track and field and the Olympic movement will find great value in this entertaining and informative memoir." * Canadian Running Magazine *"In A Runner’s Journey, Kidd takes the reader inside the life of one of Canada’s greatest and most complex athletes. Whether it is his discussion of his unconventional athletic background (his late start in track and field, and his affinity for social activism from a young age), or analyzing his sudden skyrocketing to fame, he offers a compelling memoir from the opening page." -- Rachael Bishop * Medium *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One: The Education of an Athlete 1. A Boy on the Beach 2. I Become a Runner 3. Choosing Canada 4. Canadian Hero 5. Commonwealth Champion 6. A Cheer for Amateurism 7. Great Expectations 8. Lane Three Part Two: The Education of an Activist 9. Gap Year 10. Recreation for All 11. The Olympic Project for Human Rights 12. The Canadian Sport System 13. Wafflers and Jockrakers 14. The Political Economy of Sport Part Three: My Struggle for Canadian Sport 15. Dream Job 16. Critical Support for the Olympics 17. A Boycott that Worked 18. Feminist Ally 19. Recovery Projects 20. Struggling for the Olympic Ideals 21. A Sport System We Can Be Proud Of 22. Renewing Varsity 23. A New Social Movement 24. Runner with a Worldview

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Book SynopsisRecovering the powerful and influential contributions of women from the nation's formative yearsThe Political Thought of America's Founding Feminists traces the significance of Frances Wright, Harriet Martineau, Angelina and Sarah Grimké, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth in shaping American political thinking. These women understood the relationship between sexism, racism, and economic inequality; yet, they are virtually unknown in American political thought because they are considered activists, not theorists. Their efforts to expand the reach of America's founding ideals laid the groundwork not only for women's suffrage and the abolition of slavery, but for the broader expansion of civil, political, and human rights that would characterize much of the twentieth century and continues to unfold today. Drawing on a careful reading of speeches, letters and other archival sources, Lisa Pace Vetter shows the ways in which the early women's rights movement and abolTrade ReviewThe Political Thought of Americas Founding Feminists is both wide-ranging and deep. It tells us about early women's rights advocates, but it does far more than that. Lisa Pace Vetter's book bears not merely on our understanding of particular moments or issues in American political history but on our understanding of American political history itself. -- Susan McWilliams, author of Traveling Back: Toward a Global Political TheoryIn this innovative book, Vetter expands the contours of U.S. political theory. The Political Thought of Americas Founding Feminists compellingly demonstrates how feminist and critical race theory enrich the conceptualization of liberty, equality, citizenship, self-ownership, and democracy. -- Mary Hawkesworth, author of Embodied Power: Demystifying Disembodied PoliticsVetter's chapters are gems. Any of them could be assigned in a course on American political thought, and perhaps that is part of Vetter's objective of transforming the canon. * American Historical Review *Vetter looks beyond formal conventional modes of theorizing to consider womens activism, as well as their speeches, letters, and the writings of their contemporaries. She includes nontraditional perspectives, such as the religious underpinnings of their activism and philosophies. The influence of these nontraditional perspectives illustrates her point that American political theory emerged from unexpected venues and diverse voices. * Hypatia Reviews Online *The result is a well-researched and beautifully written book that weaves together discussion of the contributions of several early feminists with several long-standing theoretical debates, in a compelling and fruitful way. The book should be of serious interest to scholars of feminist theory and history, * The Review of Politics *

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Book SynopsisA biography of a remarkable figure, whose politics prefigured today's social justice, ecology, and gender equality movements Ammon Hennacy was arrested over thirty times for opposing US entry in World War 1. Later, when he refused to pay taxes that support war, he lost his wife and daughters, and then his job. For protesting the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he was hounded by the IRS and driven to migrant labor in the fields of the West. He had a romance with Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker, who called him a prophet and a peasant. He helped the homeless on the Bowery, founded the Joe Hill House of Hospitality in Salt Lake City, and protested the US development of nuclear missiles, becoming in the process one of the most celebrated anarchists of the twentieth century. To our era, when so much protest happens on social media, his actual sacrifices seem unworldly. Ammon Hennacy was a forerunner of contemporary progressive thought, and he remains a beacon for challenges thTrade ReviewChristian Anarchist shows how the many disparate elements from Hennacy’s family and cultural background—from Quakerism to the Baptist tradition to socialism, to dietary reform to a kind of spirit of independent yeomanry—informed his engagement with a world he was determined to change. Marling evokes Ammon Hennacy’s iconoclastic yet reverent life very faithfully. Will be an important contribution to the literature of the twentieth-century U.S. radicalism. -- James Fisher, co-editor, The Catholic Studies ReaderThought-provoking and rich, Christian Anarchist offers a close look at a deeply challenging and inspiring figure in US history, locating Hennacy in a squarely American context and providing an angle on a Catholic and otherwise religious and radical leftism that has often been overlooked in US intellectual and political history. Beautiful and profound, Marling presents a stark challenge to the definitions of radicalism, activism, and Catholicism. -- John Seitz, Fordham UniversityAmmon Hennacy’s lifetime of uncompromising commitment to Christian pacifist anarchism is long overdue for the rich examination Marling provides. Marling uncovers the leftist icon’s unsettled personal life, humanizing Hennacy’s Sisyphean search for real-life heroes and occasional mythmaking. Hennacy’s praxis of speaking truth and embodying his ideals are highlighted by Marling, who illuminates an extraordinary life that few dared to, or could, equal. -- Brian D. Haley, author of Ammon Hennacy and the Hopi Traditionalist Movement: Roots of the Counterculture’s Favorite Indians

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Book SynopsisSchools are undergoing a mental health crisis and adult statistics surrounding male suicide paint a bleak picture of the future for boys in our schools. From bullying and sexism to traditional ideals of masculinity, outdated expectations of what it is to be male are causing boys to suffer. Research also shows that this is having a negative impact on girls in our schools. Clearly, the issue of boys' mental wellbeing has never been so important. Boys Do Cry examines key research on factors impacting boys' mental health and arms teachers with a range of practical strategies to start enacting positive change.Combining the latest research, personal anecdote, expert advice, and a uniquely engaging writing style, Matt Pinkett provides focused, evidence-based guidance on what those working in schools can do to improve and maintain the mental wellbeing of boys. The chapters follow an easy-to-navigate three-part structure, detailing personal stories, key research and pracTrade Review'Matt Pinkett tackles some deeply uncomfortable issues relating to boys’ mental health. It’s searingly honest, written from the heart and with a whopping intent to open up some of this tricky terrain. It is one thing to name that terrain, it is quite another to expand on it in a way that really makes you think, and then quite another to provide some sensitive yet punchy potential solutions. It’s a cliché to say that certain books should be read by everyone working in schools. In the case of Boys Do Cry, it’s absolutely true.'Mary Myatt, Education Advisor, Writer, and Speaker'For people who teach, this book reminds us why we do it. For people who don’t, it will give you a chance to look into boys’ lives and experiences and consider how we need to talk, support, and provide role models to give boys the happy and healthy adulthoods they deserve.'Dr Poppy Gibson, Senior Lecturer in Education at Anglia Ruskin University 'Boys Do Cry offers multiple windows into the experiences of boys and young men. It is a compelling argument that everyone benefits when we prioritise male mental health and wellbeing.'Sanum Jawaid Khan, Schools WeekTable of Contents1. Anger; 2. Exclusions; 3. Self-harm and Suicide; 4. Talk; 5. Friendships; 6. LGBTQ+ Masculinity; 7. Sport and Physical Activity; 8. Body Image; 9. Pornography; 10. The Final, Final Word

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Book SynopsisIn the tradition of Oliver Sacks and House, Dr. Stuart Mushlin portrays cases from the common to the obscure. Along the way, we learn about a physician from the start of his career to its peak, learning, helping, and sometimes failing.Trade Review"Puzzling patients, detective work, and a dedicated doctor nicely packaged in one small, fascinating volume." * Booklist *"Captivating vignettes from a master clinician, illuminating the profound intellectual and emotional dimensions of medicine, it's demands and its joys. Medical professionals and the public at large will delight in these tales." -- Jerome E. Groopman, M.D. * author of How Doctors Think *"This lovely patient-centered memoir combines the best of the medical problem-solving of Berton Roueche with the human warmth and wryly benevolent amusement of James Herriot. It will be enjoyed by students, residents, and physicians who want to remind themselves of the ideals that brought them to medicine." -- Daniel M. Goodenberger, M.D., MACP * Chief of Medicine, St Louis VA Medical Center *"An articulate, authoritative, and fascinating guided tour through the joys and intricacies of the diagnostic process, therapeutic challenges, and human interactions at the core of medical practice with an articulate, compassionate, and accomplished physician." -- Jeremiah A. Barondess, M.D. * President Emeritus, New York Academy of Medicine *"This book is a fascinating examination of the challenges in the doctor-patient relationship. Dr. Mushlin's caring and holistic approach to patients is inspiring. His moving stories will help readers become wiser patients. I highly recommend it." -- Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D. * Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School *"Stuart Mushlin captures eloquently the essential attributes of the complete physician: empathy, patience and open-mindedness matched to curiosity, scientific inquiry and determination to provide the best care possible. The lessons evoked are timeless and formulate a Hippocratic Oath for our times." -- Joseph B. Martin, M.D., PhD * Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology, Emeritus, and former dean, Harvard Medical School *Table of ContentsIntroduction Back Pain It’s a Small World Everything Really Can Go Wrong in the Hospital Friday Night at Five Learning from the Patient Explosive Illnesses Don’t Respond to Homeopathy Sometimes, All We Get Is Close Thinking Can Sometimes Make a Difference The CPC Let the Facts Speak for Themselves Cough Great Imitators Great Imitator Part 2 Playing the Ponies Who’s the Greatest of Them All? Making a List and Checking It Twice Moonlighting POEMS Iron Man An Octopus Pot, Voodoo, and Chang and Eng

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Book SynopsisIn Christianity, as with most religions, attaining holiness and a higher spirituality while simultaneously pursuing worldly ideals such as fame and fortune is nearly impossible. This book looks at religion among the ""creative class."" It is suitable for those who wants to understand how religion adapts to social change.Trade ReviewDrawing on rich ethnographic data from his study of Oasis Christian Center in Hollywood, Gerardo Marti describes an emergent style of neo-Pentecostal worship and religious community that speaks to members of the 'creative class' of youthful Millennials who are in their 20s and early 30s. This cutting-edge analysis of where religion may be heading is theoretically sophisticated and yet highly readable. -- Donald E. Miller * Executive Director of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of S *Drawing on rich ethnographic data from his study of Oasis Christian Center in Hollywood, Gerardo Marti describes an emergent style of neo-Pentecostal worship and religious community that speaks to members of the 'creative class' of youthful Millennials who are in their 20s and early 30s. This cutting-edge analysis of where religion may be heading is theoretically sophisticated and yet highly readable. -- Donald E. Miller * Executive Director of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of S *Addressing the perspectives of students of religion, media and the film industry, and ethnic differences, the book speaks to all three subjects, combining them in a novel, interesting fashion. Highly recommended. * Choice *Hollywood Faith is an engaging ethnography that makes multiple contributions to the sociology of contemporary U.S. religion. Marti's analysis of Oasis, a fast-growing multiracial church in Hollywood, CA, contributes much to our understanding of multiracial churches in a nation whose religious landscape has long been divided by race and ethnicity. The careful attention to congregational dynamics and how they support a multiracial congregation make this a valuable addition to literature on religion, race, and ethnicity. * Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Negotiating Holiness and Hollywood 2. The Making of a Star: Hollywood as Destination and Dream 3. Love and Hate between Hollywood and Christianity 4. Save the World, Starting in Hollywood 5. Celebrity, Heartache, and the Pressue to Make It 6. Religion: Playing at a Theater Near You 7. Fade to Black 8. Becoming Champions of Life 9. Conclusion: Religion in the Era of Identity Commodification Appendix: Research Methodology Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUte Land Religion in the American West, 1879–2009 is a narrative of American religion and how it intersected with land in the American West. Prior to 1881, Utes lived on the largest reservation in North America—twelve million acres of western Colorado. Brandi Denisontakes a broad look at the Ute land dispossession and resistance to disenfranchisementbytracing the shifting cultural meaning of dirt, a physical thing, into land, an abstract idea. This shift was made possible through the development and deployment of an idealized American religion based on Enlightenment ideals of individualism, Victorian sensibilities about the female body, and an emerging respect for diversity and commitment to religious pluralism that was wholly dependent on a separation of economics from religion. As the narrative unfolds, Denison shows how Utes and their Anglo-American allies worked together to systematize a religion out of existing ceremonial practiTrade Review"A welcome edition to the library of anyone interested in the history of the Ute."—Curtis Martin, Southwestern Lore“Beautifully written, clear, and compelling. [This book] is grounded on a solid understanding of history, while also providing insightful interpretation and theoretical nuance.”—Suzanne Crawford O’Brien, professor of religion and culture at Pacific Lutheran University and author of Coming Full Circle: Spirituality and Wellness among Native Communities in the Pacific Northwest “This terrific book shows how white settlers in Colorado used the construct of ‘Ute Land Religion’ to justify their appropriation of Native land, how Ute people both resisted and participated in that invention, and how the category of religion has functioned in the making and remaking of the American West.”—Tisa Wenger, author of We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps Acknowledgments Introduction: Religion, Memory, and the American West 1. Plowing for Providence: Nathan Meeker’s Folly 2. Of Outrageous Treatment: Sexual Purity, Empire, and Land 3. She-towitch and Chipeta: Remembering the “Good” Indian 4. Abstracting Ute Land Religion: Fiction and Anthropology on the Reservation 5. Remembering Removal: Enacting Religion and Memorializing the Land 6. The Limits of Reconciliation: Ute Land Religion, Hunting Rights, and the Smoking River Powwow Conclusion: The Burden of Dirt and the Politics of Memory Notes Bibliography Index

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