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Taking inspiration from the bold, powerful, and experimental work of black artists and activists, Natalie Wall forges an alternative narrative that strives for freedom and justice without relinquishing anything in return. It is your indispensable guide to remaining ungrateful.

A Primer on Critical Thinking and Business Ethics: Critical Thinking Applied to Business Management (Volume 2) encapsulates new developments in Critical Thinking skills for MBA students, in the form of a broad-based cross disciplinary primer in business management, with a special focus on business ethics.

A corrective to the view that cities are only ever "good", arguing that the same urban properties which make cities so extraordinarily proficient at producing the "good" innovations also provides fertile ground for the development of the "bad" ones, on which urban elites have syphoned off wealth from other localities and regions.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Capitalism and Freedom -- 1 How to Get Away with Murder -- 2 The United States of Fordlandia -- 3 Disaster Capitalism -- Part II The Planners -- 4 American-Made Sweatshops: How Big Business Plans -- 5 Buying Time: How Big Banks Plan -- 6 Capital's Cronies: How States Plan -- 7 Money at Six Per Cent: How Empires Plan -- Part III Democratic Planning -- 8 The Architect and the Bee: How to Plan Democratically -- 9 Taking Back Control: Democratic Planning at Scale -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1 How to Get Away with Murder -- 2 The United States of Fordlandia -- 3 Disaster Capitalism -- 4 American-Made Sweatshops: How Big Business Plans -- 5 Buying Time: How Big Banks Plan -- 6 Capital's Cronies: How States Plan -- 7 Money at Six Per Cent: How Empires Plan -- 8 The Architect and the Bee: How to Plan Democratically -- 9 Taking Back Control: Democratic Planning at Scale -- Index.

In the early 1980s, it had only recently been appreciated that what was known of the epidemiology of dementia in the elderly living in the community was just the tip of the iceberg. First published in 1984, this book presents information on the nature of dementia, its prevalence and the pattern of services available at the time.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface, Bingchun Meng, Guobin Yang, and Elaine J. Yuan -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. Governing with Digital Tools -- Infrastructures for the Public: The Institutional Contexts of the Applications of Digital Technology in the U.S. during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Elaine J. Yuan -- Pandemic Infrastructure, Mediated Mobility, and Urban Governance in China, Yang Zhan -- DingTalk and Chinese Digital Workplace Surveillance in Pandemic Times, Yizhou Xu -- Access as Method: Hopes, Friction, and Mediated Communication in a Remote Disability Reading Group, Zihao Lin -- Part 2. Making Sense of the Pandemic -- Chinese Students and Narratives of Freedom before and during COVID-19, Yingyi Ma and Ning Zhan -- Cosmopolitan Imperative or Nationalist Sentiment? Mediated Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic among Chinese Overseas Students, Bingchun Meng, Zifeng Chen, and Veronica Jingyi Wang -- Contesting for Consensus: Social Sentiment toward Fellow Citizens' COVID-Related Behavior in China, Yan Wang and Yuxi Zhang -- Part 3. Contesting over Narratives -- Narrating the Nation during the Global Pandemic: The "K-Quarantine" and Biopolitical Nationalism in the Era of COVID-19, Ji-Hyun Ahn -- What Motivated the Sharing of Disinformation about China and COVID-19? A Study of Social Media Users in Kenya and South Africa, Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales -- China's Twitter Diplomacy: Crafting Narratives of COVID-19, Wendy Leutert and Nicholas Atkinson -- Contributors -- Index.