E-book Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

In his most provocative and practical book yet,one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed in a profession, contribute to a fair and just society, detect nonsense, and influence others. Citing examples ranging from Hammurabi to Seneca, Antaeus the Giant to Donald Trump, Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows how the willingness to accept one’s own ri…

E-book Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies

It is a curious situation that technologies we now take for granted have, when first introduced, so often stoked public controversy and concern for public welfare. At the root of this tension is the perception that the benefits of new technologies will accrue only to small sections of society, while the risks will be more widely distributed. Drawing from nearly 600 years of technology histor…

E-book Pranksters vs. Autocrats : Why Dilemma Actions Advance Nonviolent Acti…

I used to think I’d become famous for my music, not for activism. When I was just twenty, I released my fi rst album with the goth rock band BAAL. I played bass guitar and I was pretty good. We had a following. But then it became too hard to ignore what was happening in my country. The next thing I knew I was part of a student-led group that eff ectively took down Slobodan Mil…

E-book Teaching and Learning in STEM With Computation, Modeling, and Simulati…

Computation, modeling, and simulation practices are commonplace in the STEM workplace, yet formal training embedded in disciplinary practices is not as standard in the undergraduate classroom. Teaching and Learning in STEM With Computation, Modeling, and Simulation Practices: A Guide for Practitioners and Researchers gives instructors a handbook to ensure their curriculum bridges the gap betwee…

E-book Educational Agency and Activism in Linguistic Landscape Studies

Who is involved and why in the linguistic landscapes in educational contexts? How are agency and activism reflected in educationscapes? These questions and more are addressed in the various contributions in this volume, thus expanding the boundaries of educationscapes through enquiries that focus on educational agency and activism. In particular, the collection sheds light on linguistic, semiot…

E-book The Fourth Invasion: Decolonizing Histories, Extractivism, and Maya Re…

Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, The Fourth Invasion examines an Ixil Maya community’s movement against the construction of one of the largest hydroelectric plants in Guatemala. The arrival of the Palo Viejo hydroelectric plant (built by the Italian corporation Enel Green Power) to the municipality of Cotzal highlighted the ongoing violence inflicted on Ixils by outsiders…

E-book Adapting for Inertia : Delivering Large Government ICT Projects in Aus…

At the heart of my findings is a conclusion that, notwithstanding the work undertaken to-date, the current model of weak governance of ICT at a whole-of-government level ... leads to sub-optimal outcomes. (Gershon 2008: iii)1[Earlier reports] identified significant shortcomings in the public sector’s management of such [ICT] projects and included numerous recommen…

E-book Taking English Planning Law Scholarship Seriously

This chapter explores the genesis and development of this volume, which lies largely in the relative neglect of planning by legal scholars. Planning is central to the response to many of the significant challenges of our time (from the climate and environmental crises to social and economic inequalities); and planning law raises some of the most fundamental questions face…

E-book The Derecognition of States

Although a great deal is known about the recognition of states, less is known about the practice of derecognition of states, namely why and how states withdraw the recognition of other contested and partially recognized states. The Derecognition of States offers a global and comparative outlook of this unexplored diplomatic practice. Using original empirical research, it addresses the complex p…

E-book Liberal Peace : On Conflict, Gender, and Peacebuilding: Democratic Rep…

The DRC has faced significant instability since its colonisation by the King Leopold II of Belgium in the 1870’s. King Leopold II’s barbarism and occupation were characterised with massive abuses and exploitation of its population and natural resources, two violent civil wars, social and political upheavals, deterioration, and sexual violence …

E-book Computational Conflict Research

From small-scale, non-violent disputes to large-scale war between nations, conflictis a central element of social life and has captivated the collective consciousnessfor millennia. In the fifth century B.C., Greek philosopher Heraclitus famouslyargued that “war is the father and king of all” and that conflict and strife betweenopposites maintains the world (Graham,2019). Many…

E-book The Bastille Effect : Transforming Sites of Political Imprisonment

Renowned scholar Jacques Godechot is, indeed, correct in stating that by the end of the 18th century, the Bastille had emerged as more than just a prison. The infamous site had become a reminder of a feudal system that had grown increasingly obsolete, given its arbitrary power. The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, is regarded as dec…

E-book Being a Presence for Students : Teaching as a Lived Defense of Liberal…

In 1952, John William Miller delivered the Phi Beta Kappa address during Hobart College’s commencement. This lecture, “The Scholar as Man of the World,” offers an excellent statement of his philosophy of education. It covers a lot of ground, and in this chap-ter I focus on one of the stated aims of the lecture: exploring the importance of morale for college students. Toward the mid…

E-book Populating the Future : Families and Reproduction in Speculative Fiction

This book aims to investigate the concept of reproduction as it is imag-ined in speculative fiction. The focus is on reproduction in science fiction novels, short stories, films and young adult fiction. We investigate how speculative fiction deals with this topic and how it relates to previous concepts of reproduction. Reproductive methods, motherhood and par-enthood are …

E-book The Rise of Autism : Risk and Resistance in the Age of Diagnosis

Autism is being diagnosed more often in both children and adults. The big question iswhy?This book aims to answer that question by offering an account of the modern-day (post-1990) rise in the use of autism as a diagnosis. My research in this topic comes from my work as an epidemiologist and social scientist with a strong interest in the activist counter-narrative of…

E-book Water : A Dutch Cultural History

“Whose heart does not wince in dismay to read about how a son,who had seen his father, his mother and his six brothers and sis-ters drown, spent nineteen hours lying on his stomach on a smallpile of hay, his hands and feet dangling in the water, and drivenabout by turbulent waves, while a married couple, after havinglost a mother and a sister, were subjected to forty-eight …

E-book The Disabled Child : Memoirs of a Normal Future

This is a book about The Disabled Child. It is not a book about any particular child or any particular disability, but a book about a figure I call The Dis-abled Child that emerges from the stories parents tell about their real-life children with disabilities. This is a book about an expectation, an idea, and an ideal that is produced and reproduced in stories parents …

E-book Adoption Across Race and Nation : US Histories and Legacies

Transnational and transracial adoption has become a phenomenon that is rapidly declining in numbers yet highly visible.1 How adoptive families were and are made has come under intense scrutiny in critical adoption studies over the last two decades, especially with regard to international adoption.2Major debates in recent years have addressed the detention of chil…

E-book The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality : A Hitchhiker’s Guide to In…

In the post-apocalyptic scenario of Douglas Adams’ 1979 novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, one person escapes the destruction of Earth and struggles to explain to aliens what humanity was like. Other sci-fi civilisations may be more advanced, but they fail to understand us. It may be that they are missing the informal dimension that escapes offi-cial…

E-book In Their Own Words : Forgotten Women Pilots of Early Aviation

Most of the pilots who wrote of their lives in aviation were not concerned with artistry. They were amateur or journeyman authors, less interested in shaping and polishing their phrases than they were in celebrating a topic about which they were passionate. They were impelled by their experiences to argue the case for aviation, awak-ening the American public to the progressive possibilities of …

E-book The Politics of Reproduction : Adoption, Abortion, and Surrogacy in th…

These three alarming vignettes might appear, on one level, to reflect quite dif-ferent concerns: abortion, surrogacy, and adoption. But a closer look reveals some deeper connections, and it is these deeper, more insidious connections that this collection of essays explores: the asymmetrically distributed privilege and precarity within which reproductive choices are made, the confluence of diffe…

E-book Distributed Learning Ecosystems : Concepts, Resources, and Repositories

For a long time, teaching and learning were understood as activities tied to a particu-lar sense of place. Although various concepts had emerged, such as distance learning, e-learning, blended learning, and online learning, these mainly occurred in academic debates but were widely absent in pedagogical practices in higher education. The incisive developments during the COVID-19 pandemic …

E-book Educational Resource Management : An international perspective

Educational resource management is a fascinating area of study because there is such a wide variety of practice, not only between developed and developing countries but also between countries that have similar living standards. The importance a country attaches to education is reflected in the proportion of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) it spends on primary and secondary education. In 2017 t…

E-book Marine Bioprospecting, Biodiversity and Novel Uses of Ocean Resources …

Recent decades have seen great advances in science and technology that enable us – or, rather, those who have the requisite financial and technological resources – to explore and derive ever more benefits from the marine realm. In some ways, technological developments risk making legal frameworks obso-lete, addressing problems that are no longer pertinent or facilitating …

E-book No Prices No Games! : Four Economic Models

We regard Economic Theory as a collection of models, each viewed as a storyor a fable rather than as a testable scientific model to be verified or refuted(seeRubinstein(2012)). Models in Economic Theory are “useful” in the samesense that fables are.Perhaps, there is no boy who literally “cried wolf”,but we nevertheless tell the story to teach our children about…

E-book Eskalation : G20 in Hamburg, Protest und Gewalt

Am 7. und 8. Juli 2017 versammelten sich in den Hamburger Messehallen Vertreter*innen der reichsten Länder der Welt für das Treffen der Gruppe der 20. Verschiedene Bündnisse und Initiativen riefen zu Protesten gegen das Treffen auf. Organisiert wurde ein vielfältiges Repertoire an Protest-aktionen, das von einem Gegengipfel und Protestcamps über Performan-ces, …

E-book Engaging Environments in Tonga : Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Rela…

In October 1986, Kotu Island in the Lulunga district of the Tongan group of Ha‘apai appeared as a low silhouette on the Western horizon as the small boat we were in weaved its way through a channel in the fringing reef into the large lagoon surrounding the island for the first time. The tide was low, and the boat scraped the bottom and ground to a halt long before r…

E-book Do Exclusionary Rules Ensure a Fair Trial? : A Comparative Perspective…

Criminal justice systems are barometers of social development. This claim, putforward by German criminal law scholars,1alludes to the fact that inherent in thecriminal justice process are conflicting interests between the need to ensure comprehensive fact-finding on the one hand, and the wish to safeguard individual rights,especially those of defendants, on the other hand. In all criminal justi…

E-book Economic Diversity in Contemporary Timor-Leste

For some time, narratives and projects aimed at improving and diversifying economic activities in Timor-Leste have been the leitmotivs of a number of development programs. Framing such endeavours are several assumptions about Timor-Leste’s economy, namely, that it is unproductive, weak and unfair; that most of it is made up of subsistence agriculture benefitt…

E-book Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes : Navigating the Legal Landscap…

As a part of my transnational ethnography among Uzbek migrant workers in Moscow, Russia, and in their home village in Uzbekistan, on August 6, 2014, I trav-eled to the Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan, to a village I call “Shabboda,” from whence the majority of Uzbek migrants I met in Moscow originated. Shabboda is one of the many remittance-dependent villages in rural …

E-book Integrating Food into Urban Planning

While urbanisation worldwide sets up unprecedented challenges for feeding cities with accessible, affordable food and healthy diets, urban food security and food systems are receiving growing attention at an international level and in a growing number of cities of all sizes. How-ever, the issue of food and urban planning is insufficiently covered in existing literature. How f…

E-book Tobacco Control Policy in the Netherlands : Between Economy, Public He…

Twenty years ago I worked on an advisory report on the effectiveness of various tobacco control policy measures, commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Health1 as part of the process of presenting a revised Tobacco Act to the parliament (Willemsen, De Zwart, & Mooy, 1998). Soon after the report was finished I attended the World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Beijing, where I sp…

E-book The Constitution of Greece

By the year 2023 the Constitution of 1975 will turn out to be the most long-lived Constitution that the Country has known, having surpassed in longevity the Constitution of 1864, which remained in force for 47 years. Under the institutional and political framework established by the Constitution of 1975, a Constitution which bears the mark of Konstantinos Karamanlis, Konstantinos Tsatsos …

E-book Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans

From one of the most admired admirals of his generation—and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO—comes a remarkable voyage through all of the world’s most important bodies of water, providing the story of naval power as a driver of human history and a crucial element in our current geopolitical path. From the time of the Greeks and the Persians clashing in th…

E-book Waiting For The Revolution To End : Syrian displacement, time and subj…

‘Look! All the paths are closed!’ Hanan tells me, pointing at the pattern made by the grounds of the coffee we have just drunk from small white cups decorated with a blue eye. She continues to lament while turning her cup in her right hand: ‘Everything is closing down, everything is dark. There is no hope! There is nothing good coming. There isn’t even a small path!’ It is…

E-book Politics of Value: New Approaches to Early Money and the State : Proce…

As one of the most enduring icons of economic life, money has been a common feature and central focus in complex societies from antiquity to the present. Arguably, it gained weight as a key feature of Mediterranean economies in the course of the first millennium BC, mostly in the form of coinage. But money is more than just coin, and its significance more pervasive than just to the…

E-book British Activist Authors Addressing Children of Colour

‘Books are for white people.’ It’s an old idea, and historically, mostly a true one, at least in British publishing. Not only have most books, including children’s books, been written for and about white people in Britain, the scholarly and critical histories of literature, including children’s literature, have focused on these same books and their presumed-white audie…

E-book Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire

Shaina Potts traces how the post-World War II expansion of United States judicial authority in the economies of foreign governments promotes the interests of the American empire abroad.

E-book Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature

What is going on when a graphic novel has a twelfth-century samurai pick up a telephone to make a call, or a play has an ancient aristocrat teaching in a present-day schoolroom? Rather than regarding such anachronisms as errors, Samurai with Telephones develops a theory of how texts can use different types of anachronisms to challenge or rewrite history, play with history, or open history up to…

E-book Down Syndrome Culture: Life Writing, Documentary, and Fiction Film in …

People with Down syndrome possess a culture. They are producers of culture. And in the 21st century, this culture is increasingly visible as a global phenomenon. Down Syndrome Culture examines Down syndrome alongside its social, cultural, and artistic representation. Author Benjamin Fraser draws upon neomaterialist and posthumanist approaches to disability as well as the work of disability theo…

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E-book Plan Your Prosperity: The Only Retirement Guide You'll Ever Need, Star…

Whether you’re in retirement, just getting ready to retire, or 5, 10, or 40 years out, this book can help you invest smarter your whole life and yes, plan better for retirement. Harmful mythology abounds about retirement investing. Many retirees or soon-to-be retirees have heard a plethora of advice. Take 100 (or 120) and subtract your age to get your equity allocation, put the rest in bo…

E-book Playing with FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early): How Far Would…

What if a happier life was only a few simple choices away? A successful entrepreneur living in Southern California, Scott Rieckens had built a “dream life”: a happy marriage, a two-year-old daughter, a membership to a boat club, and a BMW in the driveway. But underneath the surface, Scott was creatively stifled, depressed, and overworked trying to help pay for his family’s beach-town l…

E-book How To Retire Early: Your Guide to Getting Rich Slowly and Retiring on…

What makes this book different from all the other books out there on early retirement? We think it's the amount of personal financial detail we provide. We don’t hold back! You can use this information as a kind of financial yardstick to measure what is possible in your own life. We retired from full-time work at the age of 43. In this book we share with you the roadmap we followed to get …

E-book Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis : Steps Towards a Metacosmics

Let me begin by expressing my sincere gratitude for your decision to crack open at least the first page of this volume. Given that mass lit-eracy is an idea that has only been around a few centuries, given that thus far some 130 million titles have been published and more than two million new ones are added each year, given that a human being who dedicated his or her life to reading…

E-book The Cultural Set-up of Comedy: Affective Politics in the United States…

How do various forms of comedy – including stand up, satire and film and television – transform contemporary invocations of nationalism and citizenship in youth cultures? And how are attitudes about gender, race and sexuality transformed through comedic performances on social media? The Cultural Set Up of Comedy seeks to answer these questions by examining comedic performances by Chris Rock…

E-book The Play in the System : The Art of Parasitical Resistance

I 2006 the tactical media collective Ubermorgen gained access to Amazon’s digital library, capturing more than three thousand copyright-protected books sold on the site by manipulating its “Search Inside the Book” feature.1Unleashing a series of software applications known as “bots,” Ubermorgen sent five thousand to ten thousand requests per book and reassembled them into pdfs that we…

E-book Business School Internationalisation in a Changing World

This is the Open Access edition of Global Focus from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). Global Focus has become one of the most authoritative resources for in-depth analysis and updates on international management development. With features, topical reports, thought leadership and insight from leading experts from academia, business schools, companies and consultancies, …

E-book Wallerstein 2.0 : Thinking and Applying World-Systems Theory in the 21…

Immanuel Wallerstein is often named“the master of the field”2when scholarsdiscuss world-systems theory, and while there are others whose works pavedthe way for this kind of analysis,3it is true that the former had a prominentposition within the field he helped to create. Wallerstein, however, would notonly be perceived as a “worldwide renowned and influential sociologist andeconomic histo…

E-book Ignatian Pedagogy : A Practical Approach

The publication of The Characteristics of Jesuit Education in 1986 aroused a renewed interest in Jesuit education among teachers, administrators, students, parents and others around the world. It has given them a sense of identity and purpose. That document, translated into 13 languages, has been the focus for seminars, workshops, and study. Reactions have been overwhelmingly positive. In …