English Christendom has never been a static entity. Evangelism, politics, conflict and cultural changes have constantly and consistently developed it into myriad forms across the world. However, in recent times that development has seemingly become a general decline. This book utilises the motif of Christendom to illuminate the pedigree of Anglican Christianity, allowing a vital and persistent dynamic in Christianity, namely the relationship between the sacred and the mundane, to be more fundamentally explored. Each chapter seeks to unpack a particular historical moment in which the relations of sacred and mundane are on display. Beginning with the work of Bede, before focusing on the Anglo Norman settlement of England, the Tudor period, and the establishment of the church in the American and Australian colonies, Anglicanism is shown to consistently be a religio-political tradition. This approach opens up a different set of categories for the study of contemporary Anglicanism and its debates about the notion of the church. It also opens up fresh ways of looking at religious conflict in the modern world and within Christianity. This is a fresh exploration of a major facet of Western religious culture. As such, it will be of significant interest to scholars working in Religious History and Anglican Studies, as well as theologians with an interest in Western Ecclesiology. ** About the Author Bruce Kaye is an Adjunct Research Professor in the Centre for Public and Contextual Theology at Charles Sturt University, Australia, and was the General Secretary of the Anglican Church of Australia from 1994 to 2004. He is the author of eight books, editor of ten further volumes and has written some sixty journal articles as well as contributing to newspapers, radio and TV. He has taught at various institutions around the world, including Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Cambridge and Seattle, is also the foundation editor of theã Journal of Anglican Studies.

English Christendom has never been a static entity. Evangelism, politics, conflict and cultural changes have constantly and consistently developed it into myriad forms across the world. However, in recent times that development has seemingly become a general decline. This book utilises the motif of Christendom to illuminate the pedigree of Anglican Christianity, allowing a vital and persistent dynamic in Christianity, namely the relationship between the sacred and the mundane, to be more fundamentally explored. Each chapter seeks to unpack a particular historical moment in which the relations of sacred and mundane are on display. Beginning with the work of Bede, before focusing on the Anglo Norman settlement of England, the Tudor period, and the establishment of the church in the American and Australian colonies, Anglicanism is shown to consistently be a religio-political tradition. This approach opens up a different set of categories for the study of contemporary Anglicanism and its debates about the notion of the church. It also opens up fresh ways of looking at religious conflict in the modern world and within Christianity. This is a fresh exploration of a major facet of Western religious culture. As such, it will be of significant interest to scholars working in Religious History and Anglican Studies, as well as theologians with an interest in Western Ecclesiology. ** About the Author Bruce Kaye is an Adjunct Research Professor in the Centre for Public and Contextual Theology at Charles Sturt University, Australia, and was the General Secretary of the Anglican Church of Australia from 1994 to 2004. He is the author of eight books, editor of ten further volumes and has written some sixty journal articles as well as contributing to newspapers, radio and TV. He has taught at various institutions around the world, including Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Cambridge and Seattle, is also the foundation editor of theã Journal of Anglican Studies.

Данный курс является первым в России по базовой дисциплине профессионального цикла «Финансовые и денежно-кредитные методы регулирования экономики». Курс охватывает все разделы и темы указанной учебной дисциплины, в нем учтены современные теоретические концепции в области финансового и кредитно-денежного регулирования, тенденции в развитии методов регулирования как в России, так и за рубежом, принятые в последнее время нормативные акты, регулирующие деятельность институтов финансовой и денежно-кредитной сферы. Многие темы носят проблемный характер, что дает возможность магистрантам получить навыки научного исследования. Изложение проблемных вопросов сопровождается заданиями для самостоятельной работы, кейсами по темам дисциплины. Соответствует актуальным требованиям Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта высшего образования. Для студентов, обучающихся по направлению «Финансы и кредит» (уровень магистратуры), а также для слушателей дополнительного образования.

"In this highly controversial and original work, Damien Short systematically rethinks how genocide is and should be defined. Rather than focusing solely on a narrow conception of genocide as direct mass-killing, through close empirical analysis of a number of under-discussed case studies - including Palestine, Sri Lanka, Australia and Alberta, Canada - the book reveals the key role played by settler colonialism, capitalism, finite resources and the ecological crisis in driving genocidal social death on a global scale."--Publisher's website.

How was the vast ancient Chinese empire brought together and effectively ruled? What are the historical origins of the resilience of contemporary China's political system? In The Constitution of Ancient China , Su Li, China's most influential legal theorist, examines the ways in which a series of fundamental institutions, rather than a supreme legal code upholding the laws of the land, evolved and coalesced into an effective constitution. Arguing that a constitution is an institutional response to a set of issues particular to a specific society, Su Li demonstrates how China unified a vast territory, diverse cultures, and elites from different backgrounds into a whole. He delves into such areas as uniform weights and measurements, the standardization of Chinese characters, and the building of the Great Wall. The book includes commentaries by four leading Chinese scholars in law, philosophy, and intellectual history--Wang Hui, Liu Han, Wu Fei, and Zhao Xiaoli—who share Su Li's ambition to explain the resilience of ancient China's political system but who contend that he overstates functionalist dimensions while downplaying the symbolic. Exploring why China has endured as one political entity for over two thousand years, The Constitution of Ancient China will be essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the institutional legacy of the Chinese empire. ** Review "Su Li is, by many measures, the single most influential Chinese legal academic of the past twenty years. This is one of the most important works on historical Chinese constitutionalism to come out in years, and will most certainly be a milestone work against which future research in this area will be constantly measured." ―Taisu Zhang, Yale Law School "A bold theoretical exploration and systematic reinterpretation of ancient constitutionalism, this book forms a new space for the analysis of the Chinese political-legal system that encompasses the ancient in the modern. "―Xiang Feng, Tsinghua University From the Back Cover "Su Li is, by many measures, the single most influential Chinese legal academic of the past twenty years. This is one of the most important works on historical Chinese constitutionalism to come out in years, and will most certainly be a milestone work against which future research in this area will be constantly measured. --Taisu Zhang, Yale Law School "A bold theoretical exploration and systematic reinterpretation of ancient constitutionalism, this book forms a new space for the analysis of the Chinese political-legal system that encompasses the ancient in the modern." --Xiang Feng, Tsinghua University

Once plentiful in the mountains of southern Arizona, by the 1990s desert bighorn sheep were wiped out in the Pusch Ridge Wilderness of the Santa Catalina Mountains as a result of habitat loss and alteration. This book uses their history and population decline as a case study in human alteration of wildlife habitat. When human encroachment had driven the herd to extinction, wildlife managers launched a major and controversial effort to reestablish this population. For more than forty years Paul R. Krausman directed studies of the Pusch Wilderness population of these iconic animals, located in the mountainous outskirts of Tucson. The story he tells here reveals the complex relationships between politics and biology in wildlife conservation. His account of the evolution of wildlife conservation practices includes discussions of techniques and of human attitudes toward predators, fire, and their management. **

A brilliant study of Aristotle as biologist The philosophical classics of Aristotle loom large over the history of Western thought, but the subject he most loved was biology. He wrote vast volumes about animals. He described them, classified them, told us where and how they live and how they develop in the womb or in the egg. He founded a science. It can even be said that he founded science itself. In The Lagoon, acclaimed biologist Armand Marie Leroi recovers Aristotle's science. He revisits Aristotle's writings and the places where he worked. He goes to the eastern aegean island of Lesbos to see the creatures that Aristotle saw, where he saw them. He explores Aristotle's observations, his deep ideas, his inspired guesses'and the things he got wildly wrong. He shows how Aristotle's science is deeply intertwined with his philosophical system and reveals that he was not only the first biologist, but also one of the greatest. The Lagoon is both a travelogue and a study of the origins of science. And it shows how a philosopher who lived almost two millennia ago still has so much to teach us today. Read more... At Erato -- The island -- The known world -- The anatomies -- Natures -- The dolphin's snore -- The instruments -- The bird winds -- The soul of the cuttle -- Foam -- The valley of sheep -- Recipe for an oyster -- Figs, honey, fish -- The stone forest -- Kosmos -- The strait of Pyrrha.

Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip!' ' Thus Spoke Zarathustra 'the democratic movement is...a form assumed by man in decay' Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche's views on women and politics have long been the most embarrassing aspects of his thought. Why then has the work of Nietzsche aroused so much interest in recent years from feminist theorists and political philosophers? In answer, this collection comprises twelve outsanding essays on Mietzsche 's work to current debates in feminist and political theory, It is the first to focus on the way in which Nietzche has become an essential point of reference for postmodern ehtical and political thought.

Truly Global In Scope And With Contributions From Leading Researchers Around The World, The Handbook Of Cannabis Is The Definitive Resource On This Fascinating Drug. Combining Scientific Perspectives And Clinical Applications, It Covers A Vast Array Of Topics, From Why Over The Centuries Cannabis Has Been Used As A Medicine, Through The Regulations Facing Those Wishing To Self-administer Cannabis Or Provide Cannabis-based Medicines, To The Chemical Structure Of Its Many Constituents And The Rapidly Growing Group Of Synthetic Cannabinoids That Are Currently Being Used For 'legal Highs'. With Each Chapter Written By A Group Of One Or More Internationally Recognised Subject Experts, It Provides Academics And Researchers With Authoritative Scientific Material On The Main Pharmacological Actions And Their Effects, As Well As Their Pharmacokinetics, Metabolism, And Forensic Detection.^ In Addition It Also Examines The Complex Morphology, Cultivation, Harvesting, And Processing Of Cannabis And The Ways In Which The Plant's Chemical Composition Can Be Controlled. As Well As Offering A Raft Of Scientific Information There Is Extensive Coverage Of Cannabinoid-based Medicines. Helping Readers To Identify And Evaluate Their Benefits, Chapters Explore Pharmacological Actions And The Effects That Seem To Underlie Approved Therapeutic Uses, How They Are Currently Used To Treat Certain Disorders, And The Ever-growing Number Of Wide-ranging Potential Clinical Applications. There Is Also Coverage Of Both The Legal And Illegal Sources Of Cannabis, Including 'coffee Shops' And 'cannabis Dispensaries'. The Complex Issue Of 'recreational Cannabis' Is Also Tackled.^ The Sought-after And Adverse Psychological And Non-psychological Effects Are Described And Discussions Are Included On How Some Adverse Effects Can Be Lessened By At Least One Constituent Of Cannabis, And That It Might Be Possible To Reduce The Harm That Cannabis Does To Some By Changing Current Regulatory Policies. The Handbook Of Cannabis Is A One-stop Reference; Essential Reading For All Clinicians, Pharmacologists, Psychologists, And Psychiatrists Interested In This Drug, As Well As Those Working In The Field Of Public Health.--publisher's Website. Machine Generated Contents Note: Pt. 1 Constituents, History, International Control, Cultivation, And Phenotypes Of Cannabis / Ethan B. Russo -- 1. Constituents Of Cannabis Sativa / Waseem Gul -- 2. The Pharmacological History Of Cannabis / Ethan B. Russo -- 3. International Control Of Cannabis / Alice P. Mead -- 4. Cannabis Horticulture / David J. Potter -- 5. The Chemical Phenotypes (chemotypes) Of Cannabis / Etienne De Meijer -- Pt. 2 Pharmacology, Pharmacokinetics, Metabolism, And Forensics / Roger G. Pertwee -- 6. Known Pharmacological Actions Of Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol And Of Four Other Chemical Constituents Of Cannabis That Activate Cannabinoid Receptors / Maria Grazia Cascio -- 7. Known Pharmacological Actions Of Nine Nonpsychotropic Phytocannabinoids / Roger G. Pertwee -- 8. Effects Of Phytocannabinoids On Neurotransmission In The Central And Peripheral Nervous Systems / Bela Szabo -- 9. Cannabinoids And Addiction / Eliot L. Gardner -- 10. Effects Of Phytocannabinoids On Anxiety, Mood, And The Endocrine System / Cecilia J. Hillard -- 11. Phytocannabinoids And The Cardiovascular System / Saoirse E. O'sullivan -- 12. Phytocannabinoids And The Gastrointestinal System / Angela A. Izzo -- 13. Reproduction And Cannabinoids: Ups And Downs, Ins And Outs / Heather B. Bradshaw -- 14. Phytocannabinoids And The Immune System / Gabriela A. Ferreira -- 15. Non-phytocannabinoid Constituents Of Cannabis And Herbal Synergy / Ethan B. Russo -- 16. Cannabinoid Pharmacokinetics And Disposition In Alternative Matrices / Michael L. Smith -- Pt. 3 Medicinal Cannabis And Cannabinoids: Clinical Data / Ethan B. Russo -- 17. Self-medication With Cannabis / George Pappas -- 18. Cannabis Distribution: Coffee Shops To Dispensaries / Amanda Reiman -- 19. Development Of Cannabis-based Medicines: Regulatory Hurdles/routes In Europe And The United States / Verity Langfield -- 20. Licensed Cannabis-based Medicines: Benefits And Risks / Geoffrey Guy -- 21. Synthetic Psychoactive Cannabinoids Licensed As Medicines / Mark A. Ware -- 22. Cannabinoids In Clinical Practice: A Uk Perspective / Emily L. Clarke -- Pt. 4 Approved Therapeutic Targets For Phytocannabinoids: Preclinical Pharmacology / Marnie Duncan -- 23. Effect Of Phytocannabinoids On Nausea And Vomiting / Linda A. Parker -- 24. Established And Emerging Concepts Of Cannabinoid Action On Food Intake And Their Potential Application To The Treatment Of Anorexia And Cachexia / Vincenzo Di Marzo -- 25. Pain / Francesca Comelli -- 26. Cannabis And Multiple Sclerosis / David Baker -- Pt. 5 Some Potential Therapeutic Targets For Phytocannabinoids / Mamie Duncan -- 27. Neurodegenerative Disorders Other Than Multiple Sclerosis / Moises Garcia-arencibia -- 28. Cannabidiol/phytocannabinoids: A New Opportunity For Schizophrenia Treatment? / Tiziana Rubino -- 29. Phytocannabinoids As Novel Therapeutic Agents For Sleep Disorders / Oscar Arias-carrion -- 30. Cannabis And Epilepsy / Benjamin J. Whalley -- 31. Cardiovascular, Metabolic, Liver, Kidney, And Inflammatory Disorders / George Kunos -- 32. Phytocannabinoids And Skin Disorders / Mauro Maccarrone -- 33. Phytocannabinoids In Degenerative And Inflammatory Retinal Diseases: Glaucoma, Age-related Macular Degeneration, Diabetic Retinopathy, And Uveoretinitis / Augusto Azuara-blanco -- 34. Bone As A Target For Cannabinoid Therapy / Itai Bab -- 35. Cancer / Manuel Guzman -- Pt. 6 Recreational Cannabis: Sought-after Effects, Adverse Effects, Designer Drugs, And Harm Minimization / Wayne Hall -- 36. Desired And Undesired Effects Of Cannabis On The Human Mind And Psychological Well-being / Celia J.a. Morgan -- 37. Recreational Cannabis: The Risk Of Schizophrenia / Robin M. Murray -- 38. Nonpsychological Adverse Effects / Franjo Grotenhermen -- 39. Harm Reduction Policies For Cannabis / Louisa Degenhardt -- 40. Cannabinoid Designer Drugs: Effects And Forensics / Megan Grabenauer. Edited By Roger Pertwee. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip!' ' Thus Spoke Zarathustra 'the democratic movement is...a form assumed by man in decay' Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche's views on women and politics have long been the most embarrassing aspects of his thought. Why then has the work of Nietzsche aroused so much interest in recent years from feminist theorists and political philosophers? In answer, this collection comprises twelve outsanding essays on Mietzsche 's work to current debates in feminist and political theory, It is the first to focus on the way in which Nietzche has become an essential point of reference for postmodern ehtical and political thought.

This book explores the idea of social class in the liberal tradition. It collects classical and contemporary texts illustrating and examining the liberal origins of class analysis―often associated with Marxism but actually rooted in the work of liberal theorists. Liberal class analysis emphasizes the constitutive connection between state power and class position. Social Class and State Power documents the rich tradition of liberal class theory, its rediscovery in the twentieth century, and the possibilities it opens up for research in the new millenium. ** Sociology Social Science General

Bodies and Ruins explores changing German memories of World War II as it analyzes the construction of narratives in the postwar period including the depiction of the bombing of individual German cities. The book offers a corrective notion rising in the late 1990s notion that discussions of the Allied bombing were long overdue, because Germans who had endured the bombings had largely been condemned to silence after 1945. David Crew shows that far from being marginalized in postwar historical consciousness, the bombing war was in fact a central strand of German memory and identity. Local narratives of the bombing war, including photographic books, had already established themselves as important “vectors of memory” in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The bombing war had allowed Germans to see themselves as victims at a time when the Allied liberation of the concentration camps and the Nuremberg trials presented Germans to the world as perpetrators or at least as accomplices. The bombing war continued to serve this function even as Germans became more and more willing directly to confront the genocide of European Jews—which by the 1960s was beginning to be referred to as the Holocaust. Bodies and Ruins examines a range of local publications that carried photographic images of German cities destroyed in the air war, images that soon entered the visual memory of World War II. Despite its obvious importance, historians have paid very little attention to the visual representation of the bombing war. This book follows the search for what were considered to be the “right” stories and the “right” pictures of the bombing war in local publications and picture books from 1945 to the present, and is intended for historians as well as general readers interested in World War II, the Allied bombing of German cities, the Holocaust, the history of memory and photographic/visual history. **

The title Age in Love is taken from Shakespeare’s sonnet 138, a poem about an aging male speaker who, by virtue of his entanglement with the dark lady, “vainly” performs the role of “some untutor’d youth.” Jacqueline Vanhoutte argues that this pattern of “age in love” pervades Shakespeare’s mature works, informing his experiments in all the dramatic genres. Bottom, Malvolio, Claudius, Falstaff, and Antony all share with the sonnet speaker a tendency to flout generational decorum by assuming the role of the lover, normally reserved in Renaissance culture for young men. Hybrids and upstarts, cross-dressers and shape-shifters, comic butts and tragic heroes—Shakespeare’s old-men-in-love turn in boundary-blurring performances that probe the gendered and generational categories by which early modern subjects conceived of identity. In Age in Love Vanhoutte shows that questions we have come to regard as quintessentially Shakespearean—about the limits of social mobility, the nature of political authority, the transformative powers of the theater, the vagaries of human memory, or the possibility of secular immortality—come to indelible expression through Shakespeare’s artful deployment of the “age in love” trope. Age in Love contributes to the ongoing debate about the emergence of a Tudor public sphere, building on the current interest in premodern constructions of aging and ultimately demonstrating that the Elizabethan court shaped Shakespeare’s plays in unexpected and previously undocumented ways.

The title Age in Love is taken from Shakespeare’s sonnet 138, a poem about an aging male speaker who, by virtue of his entanglement with the dark lady, “vainly” performs the role of “some untutor’d youth.” Jacqueline Vanhoutte argues that this pattern of “age in love” pervades Shakespeare’s mature works, informing his experiments in all the dramatic genres. Bottom, Malvolio, Claudius, Falstaff, and Antony all share with the sonnet speaker a tendency to flout generational decorum by assuming the role of the lover, normally reserved in Renaissance culture for young men. Hybrids and upstarts, cross-dressers and shape-shifters, comic butts and tragic heroes—Shakespeare’s old-men-in-love turn in boundary-blurring performances that probe the gendered and generational categories by which early modern subjects conceived of identity. In Age in Love Vanhoutte shows that questions we have come to regard as quintessentially Shakespearean—about the limits of social mobility, the nature of political authority, the transformative powers of the theater, the vagaries of human memory, or the possibility of secular immortality—come to indelible expression through Shakespeare’s artful deployment of the “age in love” trope. Age in Love contributes to the ongoing debate about the emergence of a Tudor public sphere, building on the current interest in premodern constructions of aging and ultimately demonstrating that the Elizabethan court shaped Shakespeare’s plays in unexpected and previously undocumented ways.

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The rules of the will were ironclad: Mitch had to gain custody of his father's bastard son or lose the family fortune. It should have been simple. A sizable check and Carly Corbin would be on her way. But nothing about Carly was simple, including Mitch's attraction to her. When she refused to relinquish her baby nephew, Mitch had no choice but to let them both move in. Neither of them guessed that playing house would become all too real.

Part of the TED series: Why We Work Why do we work? The question seems so simple. But Professor Barry Schwartz proves that the answer is surprising, complex and urgent. We've long been taught that the reason we work is primarily for a paycheck. In fact, we've shaped much of the infrastructure of our society to accommodate this belief. Then why are so many people dissatisfied with their work, despite healthy compensation? And why do so many people find immense fulfillment and satisfaction through "menial" jobs? Schwartz reveals exactly how the false idea that the goal for work should be pay came to be, how we came to believe that paying workers more leads to better work, and why this has made our society confused, unhappy and has established a dangerously misguided system. Ultimately, Schwartz proves that the root of what drives us to good work can rarely be incentivized, and that the cause of bad work is often an attempt to do just that. With great insight and wisdom, Schwartz illuminates the path for readers to take their first steps toward understanding, empowering us all to find great work. Schwartz is also the author of The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, which has been translated into twenty languages. He can be seen discussing his ideas in his TEDTalks The Paradox of Choice and Using Our Practical Wisdom.

This book, based on an empirical form of narration, outlines a short-medium term analysis of the social impact of austerity politics on urban life.. Set in Exarchia, a radical and anti-authoritarian neighbourhood located within the city centre of Athens, Greece, this is an ethnography examining the social struggles and grassroots mobilizations that emerged locally during the crisis. Based on over two years of fieldwork between November 2012 and early 2014, the author brings together participant observation and a period of research-action in one of Exarchia's stekia. One particular pedestrian street is used as a case study – 'Odos Tsamadou' is located near Exarchia Square and here multiple social centres and political activity converge to allow the neighbourhood's climate of solidarity and reciprocity to fully emerge. This book is specifically targeted at academics specialized in the social sciences, ethnography, cultural anthropology and urban studies and more generally at anyone interested in contemporary urban and social development. To read reviews about this book please visit: · https://www.vice.com/gr/article/mb5n7x/mia-koybenta-me-thn-italida-an8rwpologo-poy-afhse-th-rwmh-gia-na-melethsei-ta-kinhmata-sta-e3arxeia?utm_source=vicefbgrh · https://www.dinamopress.it/news/everything-continues/ · https://ilmanifesto.it/exarchia-uno-spazio-sociale-di-resistenza/ · http://media.planum.bedita.net/cb/42/(ibidem)_Planum_Readings_no.9:2018_De%20Angelis.pdf · https://www.urbanstudiesonline.com/resources/resource/book-review-austerity-and-democracy-in-athens-crisis-and-community-in-exarchia/

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How was the vast ancient Chinese empire brought together and effectively ruled? What are the historical origins of the resilience of contemporary China's political system? In__The Constitution of Ancient China__, Su Li, China's most influential legal theorist, examines the ways in which a series of fundamental institutions, rather than a supreme legal code upholding the laws of the land, evolved and coalesced into an effective constitution.Arguing that a constitution is an institutional response to a set of issues particular to a specific society, Su Li demonstrates how China unified a vast territory, diverse cultures, and elites from different backgrounds into a whole. He delves into such areas as uniform weights and measurements, the standardization of Chinese characters, and the building of the Great Wall. The book includes commentaries by four leading Chinese scholars in law, philosophy, and intellectual history--Wang Hui, Liu Han, Wu Fei, and Zhao Xiaoli--who share Su Li's ambition to explain the resilience of ancient China's political system but who contend that he overstates functionalist dimensions while downplaying the symbolic.Exploring why China has endured as one political entity for over two thousand years,__The Constitution of Ancient China__will be essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the institutional legacy of the Chinese empire.

This book explores the idea of social class in the liberal tradition. It collects classical and contemporary texts illustrating and examining the liberal origins of class analysis—often associated with Marxism but actually rooted in the work of liberal theorists. Liberal class analysis emphasizes the constitutive connection between state power and class position. __Social Class and State Power__ documents the rich tradition of liberal class theory, its rediscovery in the twentieth century, and the possibilities it opens up for research in the new millenium.

From Publishers Weekly While it may seem that we're in the midst of an unprecedented technological transition, Carr (_Does IT Matter?_) posits that the direction of the digital revolution has a strong historical corollary: electrification. Carr argues that computing, no longer personal, is going the way of a power utility. Manufacturers used to provide their own power (i.e., windmills and waterwheels) until they plugged into the electric grid a hundred years ago. According to Carr, we're in the midst of a similar transition in computing, moving from our own private hard drives to the computer as access portal. Soon all companies and individuals will outsource their computing systems, from programming to data storage, to companies with big hard drives in out-of-the-way places. Carr's analysis of the recent past is clear and insightful as he examines common computing tools that are embedded in the Internet instead of stored on a hard drive, including Google and YouTube. The social and economic consequences of this transition into the utility age fall somewhere between uncertain and grim, Carr argues. Wealth will be further consolidated into the hands of a few, and specific industries, publishing in particular, will perish at the hands of crowdsourcing and the unbundling of content. However, Carr eschews an entirely dystopian vision for the future, hypothesizing without prognosticating. Perhaps lucky for us, he leaves a great number of questions unanswered. (Jan.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review Mr. Carr's provocations are destined to influence CEOs and the boards and investors that support them as companies grapple with the constant change of the digital age. (_The Wall Street Journal_ ) Persuasive, well-researched, authoritative and convincing....He's reasonable in his conclusions and moderate in his extrapolations. This is an exceedingly good book. (_Techworld_ ) Magisterial ... Draws an elegant and illuminating parallel between the late-19th-century electrification of America and today's computing world. (_Salon_ ) Quick, clear read on an important theme ... Scary? No doubt. But as we prepare for the World Wide Computer, it's not a bad idea to consider its dark side. (_Business Week_ ) [W]idely considered to be the most influential book so far on the cloud computing movement. (_Christian Science Monitor_ ) The first serious examination of 'Web 2.0' in book form. (_The Register_ ) The Big Switch is thought-provoking and an enjoyable read, and the history of American electricity that makes up the first half of the book is riveting stuff. Further, the book broadly reinforces the point that it's always wise to distrust utopias, technological or otherwise. (_The New York Post_ ) Carr may take a somewhat apocalyptic view of the vast technological and social issues which a move to utility computing will raise, not least those of privacy, ownership and access, but he makes a compelling case for its desirability in a world where the network is pervasive. Whether we go gently into this world is, of course, up to us, but with the insight offered here we will at least be prepared to understand the consequences of our choices earlier in the process rather than later. (_New Humanist_ ) Lucid and accessible ... [Carr's] account is one of high journalism, rather than of a social or computer scientist. His book should be read by anyone interested in the shift from the world wide web and its implications for industry, work and our information environment. (_Times Higher Education Supplement_ ) While technological innovation is largely the creation of idealistic geniuses spurred on by utopian visions, Carr points out, it is rapidly co-opted by the incumbent in power and turned to other purposes ... Technology may be the ultimate tool or even the ultimate psychedelic, but do we really want to become utterly dependent on something about which we have essentially no say? And as for those Utopian visions, do we really share them? (_San Francisco Chronicle_ ) Mr. Carr is always interesting. (_Washington Times_ ) Carr is one of the more cogent writers on the economic and social implications of the changes sweeping through corporate data centres. (_Financial Times_ ) 'Information is born free, but everywhere is found in chains.' So Nicholas Carr—in his latest and characteristically stimulating challenge to conventional thinking about technology—might have paraphrased Rousseau. (_Democracy_ ) Nick Carr has written a meditation on the loss of the old when confronted by the new, the loss of the incumbents' advantage when history shifts under them, the loss of data control to third parties, and the loss of sovereignty to institutions and other actors we can't control. (_Public CIO_ ) The Big Switch ... will almost certainly influence a large audience. Carr persuasively argues that we're moving from the era of the personal computer to an age of utility computing - by which he means the expansion of grid computing, the distribution of computing and storage over the Internet, until it accounts for the bulk of what the human race does digitally. And he nicely marshals his historical analogies, detailing how electricity delivered over a grid supplanted the various power sources used during most of the 19th century ... I also suspect he's right to suggest that in a decade or so, many things we now believe permanent will have disappeared. (_Technology Review_ ) Considered and erudite. (_The Telegraph_ ) Carr stimulates, provokes and entertains superbly. (_Information Age_ ) Starred Review. Carr created a huge rift in the business community with his first book, _Does IT Matter?, challenging the conventional wisdom that information technology provides a competitive advantage. Here he examines the future of the Internet, which he says may one day completely replace the desktop PC as all computing services are delivered over the Net as a utility, the Internet morphing into one giant 'World Wide Computer.' ... Carr warns that the downside of the World Wide Computer may mean further concentration of wealth for the few, and the loss of jobs, privacy, and the depth of our culture. ( Booklist_ ) Carr’s analysis of the recent past is clear and insightful as he examines common computing tools that are embedded in the Internet instead of stored on a hard drive, including Google and YouTube. (_Publishers Weekly_ ) A leading technological rabble-rouser prognosticates a world beyond Web 2.0. [Carr's] broader sociological observations are punctuated by a pair of ominously prescient chapters about privacy issues and cyberterrorism. (_Kirkus Reviews_ ) An enjoyable and thought-provoking read. (_GigaOm_ ) The Big Switch explains the future of computing in terms so simple I can understand them. (Ed Cone - Greensboro News-Record ) [#4 on Newsweek 's "Fifty Books For Our Times":] You've heard of 'cloud computing,' but let's be honest, you really don't know what it means. Or why it's going to change everything. (_Newsweek_ ) RulingClassStudies PublicLibraryFestivalCollection RulingClassStudies,PublicLibraryFestivalCollection

From Publishers Weekly While it may seem that we're in the midst of an unprecedented technological transition, Carr (_Does IT Matter?_) posits that the direction of the digital revolution has a strong historical corollary: electrification. Carr argues that computing, no longer personal, is going the way of a power utility. Manufacturers used to provide their own power (i.e., windmills and waterwheels) until they plugged into the electric grid a hundred years ago. According to Carr, we're in the midst of a similar transition in computing, moving from our own private hard drives to the computer as access portal. Soon all companies and individuals will outsource their computing systems, from programming to data storage, to companies with big hard drives in out-of-the-way places. Carr's analysis of the recent past is clear and insightful as he examines common computing tools that are embedded in the Internet instead of stored on a hard drive, including Google and YouTube. The social and economic consequences of this transition into the utility age fall somewhere between uncertain and grim, Carr argues. Wealth will be further consolidated into the hands of a few, and specific industries, publishing in particular, will perish at the hands of crowdsourcing and the unbundling of content. However, Carr eschews an entirely dystopian vision for the future, hypothesizing without prognosticating. Perhaps lucky for us, he leaves a great number of questions unanswered. (Jan.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review Mr. Carr's provocations are destined to influence CEOs and the boards and investors that support them as companies grapple with the constant change of the digital age. (_The Wall Street Journal_ ) Persuasive, well-researched, authoritative and convincing....He's reasonable in his conclusions and moderate in his extrapolations. This is an exceedingly good book. (_Techworld_ ) Magisterial ... Draws an elegant and illuminating parallel between the late-19th-century electrification of America and today's computing world. (_Salon_ ) Quick, clear read on an important theme ... Scary? No doubt. But as we prepare for the World Wide Computer, it's not a bad idea to consider its dark side. (_Business Week_ ) [W]idely considered to be the most influential book so far on the cloud computing movement. (_Christian Science Monitor_ ) The first serious examination of 'Web 2.0' in book form. (_The Register_ ) The Big Switch is thought-provoking and an enjoyable read, and the history of American electricity that makes up the first half of the book is riveting stuff. Further, the book broadly reinforces the point that it's always wise to distrust utopias, technological or otherwise. (_The New York Post_ ) Carr may take a somewhat apocalyptic view of the vast technological and social issues which a move to utility computing will raise, not least those of privacy, ownership and access, but he makes a compelling case for its desirability in a world where the network is pervasive. Whether we go gently into this world is, of course, up to us, but with the insight offered here we will at least be prepared to understand the consequences of our choices earlier in the process rather than later. (_New Humanist_ ) Lucid and accessible ... [Carr's] account is one of high journalism, rather than of a social or computer scientist. His book should be read by anyone interested in the shift from the world wide web and its implications for industry, work and our information environment. (_Times Higher Education Supplement_ ) While technological innovation is largely the creation of idealistic geniuses spurred on by utopian visions, Carr points out, it is rapidly co-opted by the incumbent in power and turned to other purposes ... Technology may be the ultimate tool or even the ultimate psychedelic, but do we really want to become utterly dependent on something about which we have essentially no say? And as for those Utopian visions, do we really share them? (_San Francisco Chronicle_ ) Mr. Carr is always interesting. (_Washington Times_ ) Carr is one of the more cogent writers on the economic and social implications of the changes sweeping through corporate data centres. (_Financial Times_ ) 'Information is born free, but everywhere is found in chains.' So Nicholas Carr—in his latest and characteristically stimulating challenge to conventional thinking about technology—might have paraphrased Rousseau. (_Democracy_ ) Nick Carr has written a meditation on the loss of the old when confronted by the new, the loss of the incumbents' advantage when history shifts under them, the loss of data control to third parties, and the loss of sovereignty to institutions and other actors we can't control. (_Public CIO_ ) The Big Switch ... will almost certainly influence a large audience. Carr persuasively argues that we're moving from the era of the personal computer to an age of utility computing - by which he means the expansion of grid computing, the distribution of computing and storage over the Internet, until it accounts for the bulk of what the human race does digitally. And he nicely marshals his historical analogies, detailing how electricity delivered over a grid supplanted the various power sources used during most of the 19th century ... I also suspect he's right to suggest that in a decade or so, many things we now believe permanent will have disappeared. (_Technology Review_ ) Considered and erudite. (_The Telegraph_ ) Carr stimulates, provokes and entertains superbly. (_Information Age_ ) Starred Review. Carr created a huge rift in the business community with his first book, _Does IT Matter?, challenging the conventional wisdom that information technology provides a competitive advantage. Here he examines the future of the Internet, which he says may one day completely replace the desktop PC as all computing services are delivered over the Net as a utility, the Internet morphing into one giant 'World Wide Computer.' ... Carr warns that the downside of the World Wide Computer may mean further concentration of wealth for the few, and the loss of jobs, privacy, and the depth of our culture. ( Booklist_ ) Carr’s analysis of the recent past is clear and insightful as he examines common computing tools that are embedded in the Internet instead of stored on a hard drive, including Google and YouTube. (_Publishers Weekly_ ) A leading technological rabble-rouser prognosticates a world beyond Web 2.0. [Carr's] broader sociological observations are punctuated by a pair of ominously prescient chapters about privacy issues and cyberterrorism. (_Kirkus Reviews_ ) An enjoyable and thought-provoking read. (_GigaOm_ ) The Big Switch explains the future of computing in terms so simple I can understand them. (Ed Cone - Greensboro News-Record ) [#4 on Newsweek 's "Fifty Books For Our Times":] You've heard of 'cloud computing,' but let's be honest, you really don't know what it means. Or why it's going to change everything. (_Newsweek_ ) RulingClassStudies,PublicLibraryFestivalCollection

From Publishers Weekly While it may seem that we're in the midst of an unprecedented technological transition, Carr (_Does IT Matter?_) posits that the direction of the digital revolution has a strong historical corollary: electrification. Carr argues that computing, no longer personal, is going the way of a power utility. Manufacturers used to provide their own power (i.e., windmills and waterwheels) until they plugged into the electric grid a hundred years ago. According to Carr, we're in the midst of a similar transition in computing, moving from our own private hard drives to the computer as access portal. Soon all companies and individuals will outsource their computing systems, from programming to data storage, to companies with big hard drives in out-of-the-way places. Carr's analysis of the recent past is clear and insightful as he examines common computing tools that are embedded in the Internet instead of stored on a hard drive, including Google and YouTube. The social and economic consequences of this transition into the utility age fall somewhere between uncertain and grim, Carr argues. Wealth will be further consolidated into the hands of a few, and specific industries, publishing in particular, will perish at the hands of crowdsourcing and the unbundling of content. However, Carr eschews an entirely dystopian vision for the future, hypothesizing without prognosticating. Perhaps lucky for us, he leaves a great number of questions unanswered. (Jan.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review Mr. Carr's provocations are destined to influence CEOs and the boards and investors that support them as companies grapple with the constant change of the digital age. (_The Wall Street Journal_ ) Persuasive, well-researched, authoritative and convincing....He's reasonable in his conclusions and moderate in his extrapolations. This is an exceedingly good book. (_Techworld_ ) Magisterial ... Draws an elegant and illuminating parallel between the late-19th-century electrification of America and today's computing world. (_Salon_ ) Quick, clear read on an important theme ... Scary? No doubt. But as we prepare for the World Wide Computer, it's not a bad idea to consider its dark side. (_Business Week_ ) [W]idely considered to be the most influential book so far on the cloud computing movement. (_Christian Science Monitor_ ) The first serious examination of 'Web 2.0' in book form. (_The Register_ ) The Big Switch is thought-provoking and an enjoyable read, and the history of American electricity that makes up the first half of the book is riveting stuff. Further, the book broadly reinforces the point that it's always wise to distrust utopias, technological or otherwise. (_The New York Post_ ) Carr may take a somewhat apocalyptic view of the vast technological and social issues which a move to utility computing will raise, not least those of privacy, ownership and access, but he makes a compelling case for its desirability in a world where the network is pervasive. Whether we go gently into this world is, of course, up to us, but with the insight offered here we will at least be prepared to understand the consequences of our choices earlier in the process rather than later. (_New Humanist_ ) Lucid and accessible ... [Carr's] account is one of high journalism, rather than of a social or computer scientist. His book should be read by anyone interested in the shift from the world wide web and its implications for industry, work and our information environment. (_Times Higher Education Supplement_ ) While technological innovation is largely the creation of idealistic geniuses spurred on by utopian visions, Carr points out, it is rapidly co-opted by the incumbent in power and turned to other purposes ... Technology may be the ultimate tool or even the ultimate psychedelic, but do we really want to become utterly dependent on something about which we have essentially no say? And as for those Utopian visions, do we really share them? (_San Francisco Chronicle_ ) Mr. Carr is always interesting. (_Washington Times_ ) Carr is one of the more cogent writers on the economic and social implications of the changes sweeping through corporate data centres. (_Financial Times_ ) 'Information is born free, but everywhere is found in chains.' So Nicholas Carr—in his latest and characteristically stimulating challenge to conventional thinking about technology—might have paraphrased Rousseau. (_Democracy_ ) Nick Carr has written a meditation on the loss of the old when confronted by the new, the loss of the incumbents' advantage when history shifts under them, the loss of data control to third parties, and the loss of sovereignty to institutions and other actors we can't control. (_Public CIO_ ) The Big Switch ... will almost certainly influence a large audience. Carr persuasively argues that we're moving from the era of the personal computer to an age of utility computing - by which he means the expansion of grid computing, the distribution of computing and storage over the Internet, until it accounts for the bulk of what the human race does digitally. And he nicely marshals his historical analogies, detailing how electricity delivered over a grid supplanted the various power sources used during most of the 19th century ... I also suspect he's right to suggest that in a decade or so, many things we now believe permanent will have disappeared. (_Technology Review_ ) Considered and erudite. (_The Telegraph_ ) Carr stimulates, provokes and entertains superbly. (_Information Age_ ) Starred Review. Carr created a huge rift in the business community with his first book, _Does IT Matter?, challenging the conventional wisdom that information technology provides a competitive advantage. Here he examines the future of the Internet, which he says may one day completely replace the desktop PC as all computing services are delivered over the Net as a utility, the Internet morphing into one giant 'World Wide Computer.' ... Carr warns that the downside of the World Wide Computer may mean further concentration of wealth for the few, and the loss of jobs, privacy, and the depth of our culture. ( Booklist_ ) Carr’s analysis of the recent past is clear and insightful as he examines common computing tools that are embedded in the Internet instead of stored on a hard drive, including Google and YouTube. (_Publishers Weekly_ ) A leading technological rabble-rouser prognosticates a world beyond Web 2.0. [Carr's] broader sociological observations are punctuated by a pair of ominously prescient chapters about privacy issues and cyberterrorism. (_Kirkus Reviews_ ) An enjoyable and thought-provoking read. (_GigaOm_ ) The Big Switch explains the future of computing in terms so simple I can understand them. (Ed Cone - Greensboro News-Record ) [#4 on Newsweek 's "Fifty Books For Our Times":] You've heard of 'cloud computing,' but let's be honest, you really don't know what it means. Or why it's going to change everything. (_Newsweek_ ) RulingClassStudies,PublicLibraryFestivalCollection

A true tale of changing New York by Franz Lidz, whose Unstrung Heroes is a classic of hoarder lore. Homer and Langley Collyer moved into their handsome brownstone in white, upper-class Harlem in 1909. By 1947, however, when the fire department had to carry Homer's body out of the house he hadn't left in twenty years, the neighborhood had degentrified, and their house was a fortress of junk: in an attempt to preserve the past, Homer and Langley held on to everything they touched. The scandal of Homer's discovery, the story of his life, and the search for Langley, who was missing at the time, rocked the city; the story was on the front page of every newspaper for weeks. A quintessential New York story of quintessential New York characters, Ghosty Men is a perfect fit for Bloomsbury's Urban Historicals series.

The first letter to the Corinthians is one of the most discussed biblical books in New Testament scholarship today. Despite this, there has been no consensus on its arrangement and central theme, in particular why the topic of the resurrection was left until the end of the letter, and what its theological significance would have been to the Corinthian church. Matthew R. Malcolm analyses this rhetoric of 'reversal', examines the unity of the epistle, and addresses key problems behind particular chapters. He argues that while Jewish and Greco-Roman resources contribute significantly to the overall arrangement of the letter, Paul writes as one whose identity and rhetorical resources of structure and imagery have been transformed by his preaching, or kerygma, of Christ. The study will be of interest to students of New Testament studies, Pauline theology and early Christianity. **

Bodies and Ruins explores changing German memories of World War II as it analyzes the construction of narratives in the postwar period including the depiction of the bombing of individual German cities. The book offers a corrective notion rising in the late 1990s notion that discussions of the Allied bombing were long overdue, because Germans who had endured the bombings had largely been condemned to silence after 1945. David Crew shows that far from being marginalized in postwar historical consciousness, the bombing war was in fact a central strand of German memory and identity. Local narratives of the bombing war, including photographic books, had already established themselves as important “vectors of memory” in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The bombing war had allowed Germans to see themselves as victims at a time when the Allied liberation of the concentration camps and the Nuremberg trials presented Germans to the world as perpetrators or at least as accomplices. The bombing war continued to serve this function even as Germans became more and more willing directly to confront the genocide of European Jews—which by the 1960s was beginning to be referred to as the Holocaust. Bodies and Ruins examines a range of local publications that carried photographic images of German cities destroyed in the air war, images that soon entered the visual memory of World War II. Despite its obvious importance, historians have paid very little attention to the visual representation of the bombing war. This book follows the search for what were considered to be the “right” stories and the “right” pictures of the bombing war in local publications and picture books from 1945 to the present, and is intended for historians as well as general readers interested in World War II, the Allied bombing of German cities, the Holocaust, the history of memory and photographic/visual history. **

This book, based on an empirical form of narration, outlines a short-medium term analysis of the social impact of austerity politics on urban life.. Set in Exarchia, a radical and anti-authoritarian neighbourhood located within the city centre of Athens, Greece, this is an ethnography examining the social struggles and grassroots mobilizations that emerged locally during the crisis. Based on over two years of fieldwork between November 2012 and early 2014, the author brings together participant observation and a period of research-action in one of Exarchia’s stekia. One particular pedestrian street is used as a case study – ‘Odos Tsamadou’ is located near Exarchia Square and here multiple social centres and political activity converge to allow the neighbourhood’s climate of solidarity and reciprocity to fully emerge. This book is specifically targeted at academics specialized in the social sciences, ethnography, cultural anthropology and urban studies and more generally at anyone interested in contemporary urban and social development. ** Review “The crisis that the financial system has inflicted on Greece, and the following suffering have been at the centre of the attention of activists, journalists and the public opinion at large in the last few years. The book that Cappuccini wrote after a long period of research in an area of Athens is both an anthropological insight and the report of an experience of life, and gives us an insider perception of the cultural landscape of a city shaped by crisis, unemployment, migration. The book, very well documented and simultaneously passionate, may be read as a personal account, and as a theoretical essay: a must read for those who have shared the hopes and the deceptions of Greek people these days.” (Franco Berardi Bifo) From the Back Cover This book, based on an empirical form of narration, outlines a short-medium term analysis of the social impact of austerity politics on urban life.. Set in Exarchia, a radical and anti-authoritarian neighbourhood located within the city centre of Athens, Greece, this is an ethnography examining the social struggles and grassroots mobilizations that emerged locally during the crisis. Based on over two years of fieldwork between November 2012 and early 2014, the author brings together participant observation and a period of research-action in one of Exarchia’s stekia. One particular pedestrian street is used as a case study – ‘Odos Tsamadou’ is located near Exarchia Square and here multiple social centres and political activity converge to allow the neighbourhood’s climate of solidarity and reciprocity to fully emerge. This book is specifically targeted at academics specialized in the social sciences, ethnography, cultural anthropology and urban studies and more generally at anyone interested in contemporary urban and social development. Anthropology Cultural & Social Political Science Political Ideologies Urban Sociology Social Science Democracy General Human Geography Preface 5 Acknowledgements 14 Contents 16 List of Acronyms 20 List of Figures 22 1: Introduction 23 1.1 Urban Communities in Movement: A Global Insurgency in Times of Crisis 23 1.2 Europe, the Shock Must Go On. The Age of Austerity and Resistance in Greece 26 1.3 Constructing an Ethnography 29 References 32 2: Stepping into Exarchia 35 2.1 Social Composition, Dimensions and Spatial Features 35 2.2 A Clash of City Identities 40 References 45 3: The Dictatorship Did Not End in 1973 46 3.1 Epomeni Stasi1: Politechneio 46 3.2 Athens, Between Rethink and Encounter 49 3.2.1 Contesting Privatisation: The Cases of Akadimia Platonos and Ellinikò 53 3.3 On My Way to Exarchia Square 55 References 57 4: This Is Not a Myth 59 4.1 In Athens There Is a Square 60 4.2 When There Was Only One Kafenion on the Corner… 64 4.3 The Wings of Exarchia 68 References 73 5: Number Thirteen 75 5.1 Steki Metanaston, in the Migrants’ House 75 5.1.1 Participation in the Syntagma Square Movement 78 5.1.2 Activities, Initiatives and Internal Group Dynamics 81 5.1.3 Platia Exarchion, a Square Out of Control 85 5.1.4 The Day of Marfin Bank and the Issue of Violence in the Movement 86 5.2 Δεν μιλἀω ελληνικἀ αλλἀ…6 89 5.2.1 Lost in Translation, Experiencing Piso Thrania 91 5.2.2 “Racism kills”: Tears and Fears for Shehzad and Babakar 94 5.2.3 A Day Spent Marching with My Classmates 96 5.2.4 National Racist Discourse and Urban Narratives of Insecurity: The Rise of Golden Dawn in Aghios Panteleimonas 102 5.2.5 Welcome to Athens, No Exit Strategy 105 5.2.6 Manolada: A Chronicle of the Greece’s Modern Slavery and Injustice 109 5.2.7 El Chef: “We Serve Solidarity” 111 5.2.8 The Final Lesson 115 5.2.9 Epilogue 118 References 122 6: Number Fifteen 126 6.1 The Residents’ Initiative 127 6.1.1 We’re Taking the Neighbourhood Back into Our Own Hands! 129 6.1.2 Time-Banking, New Ideas in Motion 132 6.1.3 When Human Relations Make the Difference 135 6.2 The Social Solidarity Network 137 6.2.1 The Point Zero of the Movement and “the Theory of Opposing Extremisms” 138 6.2.2 A Network for Solidarity, Not Charity 142 6.3 A Garden and a Park for Exarchia 145 6.3.1 Navarinou, Hope Born Out of the Cement 146 6.3.2 Relational Dynamics During the Occupation 148 6.3.3 Mimosa Trees Still Blossom in Exarchia 151 References 154 7: Number Ten/a 156 References 162 8: The Walls of Exarchia 163 References 172 9: Greek Fire 173 9.1 The Days of Alexis 174 9.2 Tracking the Ruptures 175 9.3 Remember, Remember the 6th of December 180 References 183 10: Revisiting Urban Space: Auste-City Politics Amidst the Crisis 184 10.1 December 2008: The Origin of a Conflict 184 10.2 Urban and Social Polarisation as a Prelude to a New Spatial Order 186 10.3 Implementing Auste-City: Athens as a Laboratory for Urban Bio-politics 189 10.4 Experiencing Democracy: joie de vivre as a Counter-Discourse of the Crisis in Southern Europe 193 References 199 11: Conclusions 202 11.1 Exarchia: Fieldwork Results 202 11.2 Eros in the City of Athens 204 11.3 In the Midst of the New Global (Dis)order 206 References 208 Index 210

"Medieval London, like all premodern cities, had a largely immigrant population--only a small proportion of the inhabitants were citizens--and the newly arrived needed to be taught the civic culture of the city in order for that city to function peacefully. Ritual and ceremony played key roles in this acculturation process. In Ceremony and Civility, Barbara A. Hanawalt shows how, in the late Middle Ages, London's elected officials and elites used ceremony and ritual to establish their legitimacy and power. In a society in which hierarchical authority was most commonly determined by inheritance of title and office, or sanctified by ordination, civic officials who had been elected to their posts relied on rituals to cement their authority and dominance. Elections and inaugurations had to be very public and visually distinct in order to quickly communicate with the masses: the robes of office needed to distinguish the officers so that everyone would know who they were. The result was a colorful civic pageantry. Newcomers found their places within this structure in various ways. Apprentices entering the city to take up a trade were educated in civic culture by their masters. Gilds similarly used rituals, oath swearing, and distinctive livery to mark their members' belonging. But these public shows of belonging and orderly civic life also had a dark side. Those who rebelled against authority and broke the civic ordinances were made spectacles through ritual humiliations and public parades through the streets so that others could take heed of these offenders of the law. An accessible look at late medieval London through the lens of civic ceremonies and dispute resolution, Ceremony and Civility synthesizes archival research with existing scholarship to show how an ever-shifting population was enculturated into premodern London"--Provided by publisher.

“Best moving pictures I ever saw.” Thus did one Vaudeville theater manager describe Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon [Le Voyage dans la lune], after it was screened for enthusiastic audiences in October 1902. Cinema’s first true blockbuster, A Trip to the Moon still inspires such superlatives and continues to be widely viewed on DVD, on the Internet, and in countless film courses. In Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination, leading film scholars examine Méliès’s landmark film in detail, demonstrating its many crucial connecions to literature, popular culture, and visual culture of the time, as well as its long “afterlife” in more recent films, television, and music videos. Together, these essays make clear that Méliès was not only a major filmmaker but also a key figure in the emergence of modern spectacle and the birth of the modern cinematic imagination, and by bringing interdisciplinary methodologies of early cinema studies to bear on A Trip to the Moon, the contributors also open up much larger questions about aesthetics, media, and modernity.In his introduction, Matthew Solomon traces the convoluted provenance of the film’s multiple versions and its key place in the historiography of cinema, and an appendix contains a useful dossier of primary-source documents that contextualize the film’s production, along with translations of two major articles written by Méliès himself. Included with the book is a critical edition DVD containing two versions of the film: a reconstructed version (finally presented at the speed specified in Méliès’s catalogs) accompanied by an original 1903 score and a recently rediscovered color-tinted version; both have optional audio commentaries by the editor.

The opening of this vital new book centers on a series of graves memorializing baboons killed near Amboseli National Park in Kenya in 2009--a stark image that emphasizes both the close emotional connection between primate researchers and their subjects and the intensely human qualities of the animals. Primates in the Real World goes on to trace primatology’s shift from short-term expeditions designed to help overcome centuries-old myths to the field’s arrival as a recognized science sustained by a complex web of international collaborations. Considering a series of pivotal episodes spanning the twentieth century, Georgina Montgomery shows how individuals both within and outside of the scientific community gradually liberated themselves from primate folklore to create primate science. Achieved largely through a movement from the lab to the field as the primary site of observation, this development reflected an urgent and ultimately extremely productive reassessment of what constitutes "natural" behavior for primates. An important contribution to the history of science and of women’s roles in science, as well as to animal studies and the exploration of the animal-human boundary, Montgomery’s engagingly written narrative provides the general reader with the most accessible overview to date of this enduringly fascinating field of study. ** Review Montgomery argues that the general public’s ravenous interest in primate research (and what it might or might not tell us about being human) provided scientists with both a boon and a burden. Public fascination created a ready audience for primatologists’ research findings but also necessitated a constant struggle against popular myths. In her cogently argued, highly readable book, Montgomery explores this dual nature through a series of engaging episodes from Darwin to the present. (Erika Lorraine Milam, Princeton University, author of Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology ) Lucidly and incisively Georgina Montgomery charts the creation and transformation of the science of primatology through the twentieth century and on up to the present. Her cast of actors is rich, and she offers an inspiring and astute analysis of the ways in which the boundaries and hierarchies between and among them have changed or even dissolved as the science of primatology developed. Women scientists became leaders in the science, field scientists demonstrated the crucial importance of their practices along with the practices of the lab scientists, indigenous observers emerged as integral participants in long-term, transnational investigations. Meanwhile, the ‘boundary’ between human and non-human primates has become ever more elusive. All those who are intrigued about how humans have come to make sense of their closest animal relatives should welcome this book. (Richard W. Burkhardt Jr., Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, author of Patterns of Behavior: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of Ethology ) [A] most illuminating and well-written book. I highly recommend Primates in the Real World to everyone interested in the interaction between science and popular culture, the spatial aspects of knowledge making, and the changing Western perceptions of nonhuman animals. ( ISIS ) About the Author Georgina M. Montgomery is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University and the coeditor of Making Animal Meaning.

Metaphysics, almost entirely neglected by experimental philosophers, is the central focus of Experimental Metaphysics . The volume brings together a range of views aimed at addressing the question of how cognitive science might be relevant to metaphysics. With contributions from cognitive scientists and philosophers, chapters focus on theoretical and empirical issues involving the potential role of cognitive science in metaphysics. Alongside topics such as free will, objects and causation, in which relevant empirical evidence is discussed and connected to relevant metaphysical issues, more programmatic papers explore theoretical issues centered on the connection between cognitive science and metaphysics. This balanced approach exposes metaphysicians to philosophically relevant work in cognitive science, while showing cognitive scientists the ways in which their work might be important for philosophers. Presenting cutting-edge empirical and theoretical research, Experimental Metaphysics pushes forward the discussion and encourages further engagement with issues at the intersection of cognitive science and metaphysics. ** Review Most of the important work that brings cognitive science and experimental methods to bear on metaphysics is yet to be undertaken, but this volume is a good start. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * Many philosophers think it is wildly implausible that experimental philosophy can make important contributions to metaphysics. This outstanding collection of groundbreaking essays proves that they are wrong. -- Stephen Stich, Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, USA This is an important and timely contribution to one of the newest and most exciting developments in contemporary philosophy: the project of bringing experimental philosophy and cognitive science to bear on contemporary metaphysics. -- L. A. Paul is Eugene Falk Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA About the Author David Rose is a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University, USA. Science Analytic Philosophy Philosophy & Social Aspects Metaphysics Movements Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series 3 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Contributors 7 Introduction 10 References 14 1 Metaphysics and Conceptual Analysis: Experimental Philosophy’s Place under the Sun 16 Introduction 16 1. The obscure rationale of experimental philosophy 16 1.1 Knobe and Gettier 17 1.2 Failed rationales 19 2. Conceptual analysis and serious metaphysics 25 3. Twenty-first-century conceptual analysis 28 3.1 Straightforward Ramsey sentences 28 3.2 Studies in advanced Ramsification 31 4. Experimental philosophy as labor-.intensive conceptual analysis 39 4.1 The labor-intensity rationale for experimentalization 40 4.2 Objections and replies 43 Conclusion: A place under the sun 46 Notes 47 References 52 2 Experimental Philosophy, Conceptual Analysis, and Metasemantics 56 1. Concepts and conceptions 57 2. Ideal interpreters 59 2.1 The view 59 2.2 Refinements 61 3. Conceptual analysis revisited 64 3.1 Descriptive and content analyses, again 64 4. Alternatives I: Classical and inferential theories of concepts 66 5. Alternatives II: The Canberra Plan 68 6. The role for experimental philosophy 72 6.1 Intuitions 72 6.2 Sussing out conceptions, tracking judgments 74 7. Interpretation and metaphysics 76 7.1 Two traditional metaphysical projects 76 7.2 Broadened horizons? 78 8. Conclusion 79 Notes 80 References 82 3 Intuitions and the Metaphysics of Causation 84 1. Intuitions and causal theories: The logical space of views 86 2. Roles for intuitions in metaphysical theories 91 3. Obstacles to utilizing experimental data in metaphysical theories 95 4. Conclusion 99 Notes 100 References 101 4 The Folk Psychological Roots of Free Will 104 1. Introduction 104 2. Recent experimental philosophy of free will 105 3. Liberty, Ensurance, Consciousness: A study 107 3.1 Participants 108 3.2 Design 108 3.3 Results 109 3.4 Discussion 110 4. Putting x-phi to metaphysical work 113 Acknowledgments 117 Notes 118 References 118 Appendix 119 Liberty +/ Ensurance +/ Consciousness + 119 Liberty +/ Ensurance +/ Consciousness - 119 Liberty +/ Ensurance -/ Consciousness + 120 Liberty +/ Ensurance -/ Consciousness - 121 Liberty -/ Ensurance +/ Consciousness + 121 Liberty -/ Ensurance +/ Consciousness - 122 Liberty -/ Ensurance -/ Consciousness + 123 Liberty -/ Ensurance -/ Consciousness - 123 5 The Rationality of Psychological Essentialism 126 1. Psychological essentialism 126 1.1 The essentialist thesis 127 1.2 Evidence for psychological essentialism 128 1.2.1 Inductive potential 128 1.2.2 Intrinsic rather than external cause 129 1.2.3 Innate potential 129 1.2.4 Boundary intensification 129 1.2.5 Robustness over transformations 130 2. Why essentialism? 130 2.1 Nativism 131 2.2 Generics 131 2.3 Arationality 132 3. Rational learning and essentialism 133 3.1 Rationality and levels of analysis 133 3.2 Essentialism and computational rationality 135 3.3 Common causes and categorization 138 4. Implications 140 Notes 141 References 142 6 Folk Mereology Is Teleological 144 1. Composition and intuition 145 1.1 The special composition question 146 1.2 The role of folk intuitions 146 1.3 Aristotelian roots 149 2. Psychological context 150 2.1 Selective teleology: Artifacts and organisms 150 2.2 Promiscuous teleology 151 2.3 Folk teleology as unscientific 154 3. Folk mereology is teleological 156 3.1 Handshake cases 157 3.2 Gollywag cases 159 3.3 Mouse cases 162 3.4 Avalanche cases 164 3.5 Restricted composition or restricted domain? 167 3.6 Teleologically restricted composition 169 4. Inside folk teleology 170 4.1 Rope cases 171 4.2 Rock garden cases 173 4.3 Umbrella cases 175 5. Implications 180 5.1 Psychological implications 180 5.2 Metaphysical implications 181 5.3 Methodological implications 183 Notes 185 References 192 7 What Do the Folk Think about Composition, and Does It Matter? 196 1. Four studies 197 2. The Influence Thesis 198 2.1 Creative intentions 198 2.2 Answers without intuitions 200 2.3 Imaginative variation 202 2.4 Suggestive wording 202 2.5 The way forward 203 3. The Debunking Thesis 204 4. The Liberation Thesis 207 5. Experimental philosophy and its place in metaphysics 210 Notes 211 References 213 8 Folk Teleology and Its Implications 216 1. Forms of teleological explanation 218 1.1 Intentions only 219 1.2 Historical teleological explanation 219 1.3 Functional analysis 220 2. The developmental origins of teleological thinking 221 2.1 Promiscuous teleology 222 2.2 Intuitive creationism 225 2.3 Summary 227 3. Teleological thinking in adults 228 3.1 Teleology in the field 228 3.2 Teleology under pressure 229 3.3 Teleology under no pressure 230 3.4 Relations between teleological beliefs and concepts of natural processes 232 3.5 Summary 233 4. Alternative interpretations of scientifically unwarranted teleological thinking 234 4.1 An alternative theory based on environmental role 234 4.2 An alternative historical causal theory 236 4.3 A teleological heuristic for understanding equilibrium systems 238 5. Conclusion 240 Notes 241 References 242 Index 246

The opening of this vital new book centers on a series of graves memorializing baboons killed near Amboseli National Park in Kenya in 2009--a stark image that emphasizes both the close emotional connection between primate researchers and their subjects and the intensely human qualities of the animals. Primates in the Real World goes on to trace primatology’s shift from short-term expeditions designed to help overcome centuries-old myths to the field’s arrival as a recognized science sustained by a complex web of international collaborations. Considering a series of pivotal episodes spanning the twentieth century, Georgina Montgomery shows how individuals both within and outside of the scientific community gradually liberated themselves from primate folklore to create primate science. Achieved largely through a movement from the lab to the field as the primary site of observation, this development reflected an urgent and ultimately extremely productive reassessment of what constitutes "natural" behavior for primates. An important contribution to the history of science and of women’s roles in science, as well as to animal studies and the exploration of the animal-human boundary, Montgomery’s engagingly written narrative provides the general reader with the most accessible overview to date of this enduringly fascinating field of study. ** Review Montgomery argues that the general public’s ravenous interest in primate research (and what it might or might not tell us about being human) provided scientists with both a boon and a burden. Public fascination created a ready audience for primatologists’ research findings but also necessitated a constant struggle against popular myths. In her cogently argued, highly readable book, Montgomery explores this dual nature through a series of engaging episodes from Darwin to the present. (Erika Lorraine Milam, Princeton University, author of Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology ) Lucidly and incisively Georgina Montgomery charts the creation and transformation of the science of primatology through the twentieth century and on up to the present. Her cast of actors is rich, and she offers an inspiring and astute analysis of the ways in which the boundaries and hierarchies between and among them have changed or even dissolved as the science of primatology developed. Women scientists became leaders in the science, field scientists demonstrated the crucial importance of their practices along with the practices of the lab scientists, indigenous observers emerged as integral participants in long-term, transnational investigations. Meanwhile, the ‘boundary’ between human and non-human primates has become ever more elusive. All those who are intrigued about how humans have come to make sense of their closest animal relatives should welcome this book. (Richard W. Burkhardt Jr., Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, author of Patterns of Behavior: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of Ethology ) [A] most illuminating and well-written book. I highly recommend Primates in the Real World to everyone interested in the interaction between science and popular culture, the spatial aspects of knowledge making, and the changing Western perceptions of nonhuman animals. ( ISIS ) About the Author Georgina M. Montgomery is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University and the coeditor of Making Animal Meaning.

“Best moving pictures I ever saw.” Thus did one Vaudeville theater manager describe Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon [Le Voyage dans la lune], after it was screened for enthusiastic audiences in October 1902. Cinema’s first true blockbuster, A Trip to the Moon still inspires such superlatives and continues to be widely viewed on DVD, on the Internet, and in countless film courses. In Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination, leading film scholars examine Méliès’s landmark film in detail, demonstrating its many crucial connecions to literature, popular culture, and visual culture of the time, as well as its long “afterlife” in more recent films, television, and music videos. Together, these essays make clear that Méliès was not only a major filmmaker but also a key figure in the emergence of modern spectacle and the birth of the modern cinematic imagination, and by bringing interdisciplinary methodologies of early cinema studies to bear on A Trip to the Moon, the contributors also open up much larger questions about aesthetics, media, and modernity.In his introduction, Matthew Solomon traces the convoluted provenance of the film’s multiple versions and its key place in the historiography of cinema, and an appendix contains a useful dossier of primary-source documents that contextualize the film’s production, along with translations of two major articles written by Méliès himself. Included with the book is a critical edition DVD containing two versions of the film: a reconstructed version (finally presented at the speed specified in Méliès’s catalogs) accompanied by an original 1903 score and a recently rediscovered color-tinted version; both have optional audio commentaries by the editor.

80 pages : 21 cm, Reprinted Sept. 1982, 80 pages : 21 cm, Reprinted Sept. 1982

"For fans of The Shepherd's Life, a poignant memoir -- and #1 Irish bestseller -- about a wayward son's return home to his family's farm, and how he found a new beginning in an age-old world Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, after more than a decade away, he finds himself back on the farm. Connell records the hypnotic rhythm of the farming day -- cleaning the barns, caring for the herd, tending to sickly lambs, helping the cows give birth. Alongside the routine events, there are the unforeseen moments when things go wrong: when a calf fails to thrive, when a sheep goes missing, when illness breaks out, when an argument between father and son erupts and things are said that cannot be unsaid. The Farmer's Son is the story of a calving season, and the story of a man who emerges from depression to find hope in the place he least expected to find it. It is the story of Connell's life as a farmer, and of his relationship with the community of County Longford, with his faith, with the animals he tends, and, above all, with his father." -- Provided by publisher

The interplay between mind and body is a rapidly developing area of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, growing in prominence as many areas of medicine recognise the importance of understanding the physical, mental, and social aspects of complex conditions. Clinical Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology: A Patient-Centred Biopsychosocial Approach is the fundamental work facilitating the management of women's disease conditions resulting from psychosomatic or mind-body interactions routinely encountered by clinicians. Authored by a world-renowned group of contributors who have led a transformative approach to the way services to women are approached, Clinical Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology comprehensively addresses the biological, psychological, social and cultural factors leading to disease manifestations. Including methods for prevention, detection and treatment, the text is supported by thirty case studies taken from real-life situations to support learning and guide clinical practice. Detailed chapters expound the scientific basis of the clinical psychosomatic concept, prevention of morbidity and mortality from cancer or obesity, pregnancy and childbirth, maternal dysphoria and child neurodevelopment, pain perception, infertility, premenstrual disorders, psycho-oncology, malignancy and sexual health, illnesses in migrants and refugees, alongside, pertinent cultural issues. This title is a highly topical and much needed guide to addressing clinical conditions that compromise women's health, including that of teenagers, as well as their mental and social well-being.

The first sustained exploration of Simondon's work in English Gilbert Simondon's work has recently come to prominence in America and around the Anglophone work, having been of great importance in France for many years. This first collection of essays, by renowned critics and philosophers, outlines the central tenets of Simondon's thought, the implication of his thought in numerous disciplines and his relationship to other thinkers such as Heidegger, Deleuze and Canguilhem. This book offers an entry point to this influential thinker and will appeal to people working in philosophy, philosophy of science, media studies, social theory and political philosophy. Includes * a contextualising introduction * an important essay by Simondon himself * a glossary of 50 key terms in Simondon's work Keywords Gilbert Simondon; Technology; Individuation; Ontogenesis; Technicity.

In Wind and Whirlwind the great philosopher Ágnes Heller and social scientist Riccardo Mazzeo explain the pros and cons of utopias and dystopias as they are described in literary works and their relevance to understand the world we live in and the hidden consequences of apparently appealing life trajectories.