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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Movimiento de Consciencia Xicana[x] / Celia Herrera Rodríguez -- Todos Somos Mujeres de Maiz: An Introduction / Amber Rose González -- Mujeres de Maiz: Seeds to Spiritual Artivism-An L.A. Herstory / Felicia 'Fe' Montes -- Mis Manos Solo Escriben / Marilynn Montaño -- ROUND I. EMERGENT SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS AND HEALING SPACES -- 1. Danzando con el Fuego / Claudia Mercado -- 2. Magandang Misteryo (Beautiful Mystery) / Liza Cohen Hita -- 3. Know Your Enemy: The Sham of Filipino Independence / Liza Cohen Hita -- 4. Reflections on Mujeres de Maiz / Lara Medina -- 5. Coyolxauhqui Full Moon Circle: Self-Careas Community Care / Nadia Zepeda -- 6. Mujeres de Maiz Arising: Shifts and Movement of Positioning Xicana-Driven Indigenous Spirituality / Angela 'Mictlanxochitl' Anderson Guerrero -- 7. My Body Is My Sanctuary / Povi-Tamu Bryant -- 8. For My Sister / Natalina Ross -- 9. Tamoanchan, Aztlan / Luisa Leija -- ROUND II. MOVIMIENTOS DE REBELDÍA -- 10. I Am International Woman / Felicia 'Fe' Montes -- 11. Re-Collecting / D'Lo -- 12. Recollections: My Personal Journey with Mujeres de Maiz / Skryb Anu -- 13. The Will of the Water / Marisol Lydia Torres -- Color Gallery -- 14. Contusions / Faith Satilla -- 15. Cuscatlan / Lizette Hernandez -- 16. farm for meme / Virginia Grise -- 17. Tortilla Warrior / Claudia Serrato -- 18. Revolutionary Rants / Maribel Martínez -- 19. The Spiritual Activism of Mujeres de Maiz: Queering the Boundaries of Art and Action / Karen Mary Davalos -- ROUND III. LA CULTURA CURA: ARTIVIST AESTHETICS -- 20. Art Is Ceremony / Gina Aparicio -- 21. Queer Xicana Indígena Cultural Production: Remembering Through Oral and Visual Storytelling / Susy Zepeda -- 22. Bringing Art to the People: Decolonizing Art Spaces and Exhibitions / Michelle L. Lopez.

Front Cover -- Urban Risk Management in China -- Urban Risk Management in China -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- ?Foreword -- ?Preface -- 1 - Prolegomenous foundation of urban risk management -- 1.1 Sociological basis of urban risk management -- 1.1.1 Concept of risk -- 1.1.2 Risk society theory -- 1.1.3 Responsibility dilemma of risk society -- 1.1.4 Key concepts in urban risk research -- 1.2 Basic urban risk management -- 1.2.1 Economics foundation -- 1.2.2 Theoretical foundation of systems science and decision analysis -- 1.2.3 Management science and engineering -- 1.3 Discipline of construction in urban risk management -- 1.3.1 Related disciplines of construction -- 1.3.1.1 Geography -- 1.3.1.2 Architecture -- 1.3.1.3 Civil engineering -- 1.3.1.4 Surveying and mapping -- 1.3.1.5 Transportation engineering -- 1.3.1.6 Safety science and engineering -- 1.3.1.7 Applied economics -- 1.3.1.8 Theoretical economics -- 1.3.2 Discipline orientation -- 1.3.2.1 Urban natural disaster management -- 1.3.2.2 Urban accident and disaster management -- 1.3.2.2.1 Talent cultivation -- 1.3.2.2.2 Specific research content -- 1.3.2.3 Urban social security management -- 1.4 Summary -- References -- 2 - The concept of urban risk -- 2.1 Urban risk-A continuous and unified conceptual system -- 2.1.1 Urban risk-An interdisciplinary perspective -- 2.1.1.1 Urban problems and diseases -- 2.1.1.2 Urban and public crises -- 2.1.1.2.1 Urban crisis -- 2.1.1.2.2 Urban public crisis -- 2.1.1.3 Risk cities and resilient cities -- 2.1.1.3.1 Risk cities -- 2.1.1.3.2 Resilient cities -- 2.1.2 Continuity and integrity of the urban risk concept -- 2.1.2.1 Risk, crisis, and disaster as intersecting concepts -- 2.1.2.2 Urban risk-A continuous and complex process -- 2.1.3 Urban risk-The unity of subjective and objective -- 2.2 Categories and characteristics of urban risk.

Intro -- The Real Case for Driverless Mobility: Putting Driverless Vehicles to Use for Those Who Really Need a Ride -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Why we have become dependent on cars -- Introduction: The historical context for our proposal -- Principles: Understanding initial conditions -- Cars are essential to mobility, but not everyone has one -- All those Roman roads and no place to go -- Serfs, indentured servants, and slaves -- The renaissance got things moving in different directions -- The first industrial revolution exploited rivers, but not for transport -- Then it started to exploit what was under the ground -- Where did workers in the European factories and mines come from? -- The New Worlds first industrial revolution -- Skies grew darker as the cities grew larger -- Current conditions: Private cars were the last straw for sprawl, not the first -- The process of suburbanization begins -- Cities finally cease to be the principal place where jobs are found -- Businesses finally fled the cities, and services followed -- Future predictions: Once jobs, services, and people are everywhere, transit cannot help -- But is not there an urban renaissance happening? -- The United States is a nation of small cities -- Those who live in poor communities suffer most -- Why not just give a car to everyone who needs one but cannot afford to buy it? -- Summary: How we will go about showing driverless rides can work -- Chapter 2: Mobility is not affordable for everyone -- Introduction: Current transport options are not good enough -- Why people take trips -- Principles: Public transit must be redefined -- It is time to start thinking outside of the bus -- Maybe TfL is on to something -- Meanwhile, on the other side of the pond -- If buses disappeared from cities, would we miss them?.

Journey to Freedom provides the first detailed history of Black enslavement in Nebraska Territory and the escape of two enslaved Black women--Celia and Eliza Grayson--from Nebraska City in 1858, which prompted nationwide debates about whether slavery could exist in the West and whether popular sovereignty truly worked.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- I Am Who I Say I Am: Verifying Identity While Preserving Privacy in the Digital Age* -- Statement of Jeremy Grant, Coordinator, the Better Identity Coalition -- Statement of David Kelts, Director of Product Development, Get Group North America -- Statement of Louise Maynard-Atem, Research Lead, Women in Identity -- Statement of Elizabeth M. Renieris, Professor of the Practice & -- Founding Director, Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab, University of Notre Dame -- Statement of Victor Fredung, Chief Executive Officer, Shufti Pro -- Written Testimony of Victor Fredung, Chief Executive Officer, Shufti Pro, before the House Financial Services Committee, Task Force on Artificial Intelligence, Hearing on I Am Who I Say I Am: Verifying Identity while Preserving Privacy in the Digital ... -- How Identity Theft Is Becoming a More Serious Crime Since More People Started Going Online -- How Does Our AI Perform Highly Accurate Verifications? How Do We Train Our Models? -- Detecting Tampered ID Documents through AI-Powered Anti-Spoofing Measures -- Preventing Identity Theft with Automated IDV and Liveness Checks -- The Challenge of Data Privacy in Online ID Verification -- How Using Automated Identity Verification Gives a Higher Accuracy and a More Seamless User-Experience -- How Shufti Pro Can Help Governments and Businesses Streamline Onboarding and Verification of Customers -- Jeremy Grant, Coordinator, the Better Identity Coalition, U.S. House Financial Services Committee, Task Force on Artificial Intelligence, "I Am Who I Say I Am: Verifying Identity while Preserving Privacy in the Digital Age," July 16, 2021 -- Setting the Stage -- What Should Government and Industry Do About It Now? -- Authentication Is Getting Easier, but Identity Proofing Is Getting Harder.

"Over the last five decades, the Catholic Church has emerged as a powerful critic of war and as an advocate for its alternatives. At the same time, researchers of armed conflict have produced a considerable body of scholarship on war and its prevention. The Catholic Case against War compares these seemingly disparate lines of thought and finds a remarkable harmony between the two. Drawing on years of Vatican documents and papal statements, political scientist David Carroll Cochran clearly presents the key elements of the Church's case against war. Far from a naïve, optimistic call for peace, these teachings are consistent with the empirical research on the realities of contemporary warfare. The result is a look not only at the explicit moral case against war developed by the Vatican but also at its remarkable realism and relevance to world conflict today"--

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- 1. Din -- Yes, You Can Leave the Hospital Without Naming Your Baby -- Second Best Is Best -- 2. Spectacle -- On Sights Unseen -- 102 Briefly Mentioned, Mostly Living Things -- The Perfect Party Guest -- 3. Contact -- A School Is a Type of Shoal -- A Hearth Is a Kind of Home -- 4. Exchange -- A Breath in Four Parts -- How to Make Friends and Keep Them Lifelong -- Life Lessons from the Odd and Ancient -- 5. Duress -- How to Debate as a Fish -- Giving Up on Your Dreams -- Going Down to Ground -- 6. Rebound -- Creature Career Counseling -- Reinvention Is a Matter of Necessity -- 7. Sustain -- Pick-A-Mix, Build-A-Beast -- So You Want to Write an Animal Essay -- Brief Thoughts on Almost Every Mentioned, Mostly Living Thing (in Alphabetical Order) -- Acknowledgments.

What do "nature" and "place" mean, and who gets to define these terms? Key to Heppler's work is the idea that these questions reflect and determine what, and who, matters in any conversation about the environment. Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism vividly traces that idea through the linked histories of Silicon Valley and environmentalism in the West.