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"This valuable resource for public health students and professionals examines the impact of COVID-19 on underserved and resource-limited communities, sheds light on important social justice issues, and provides insight into the challenges and opportunities associated with vaccine distribution and the pandemic's environmental impact."

"In 2000, Seattle became the first city in the United States to grant permanent legal status to a peer-operated tent encampment, forever changing Seattle's urban landscape. Today, cities across the west such as Denver, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Sacramento have followed suit. In this manuscript, Tony Sparks explores how residents of Tent City 3-a large, longstanding tent encampment in Seattle-attempt to create and sustain a sense of home in the context of the displacement and exclusion that we often refer to as "homelessness."

"This book will explore issues affecting food security in Asia since the onset of COVID-19. Highlights include discussions on the current state of production on food of vital importance to Asia such as rice, vegetable and fish, as well as information on their future trends in production and consumption. Two case studies are presented on how the two most populous countries in Asia - China and India - have tackled their food security. Other topics include nutrition security, novel foods and food waste valorization. It also has specific chapters on the technologies likely to determine the future of food security in Asia, as exemplified by digital technology, biotechnology, physical technology like recirculating aquaculture systems, nutrition enhancing technology, and urban agriculture."

"With a team of anthropologists and geographers, Insidious Capital explores "value and values" in what may well be the last phase of capitalist globalization. In a global perspective of fast transforming social spaces that move from East to West, the book explores the struggles around the exploitation and valuation of labor, environmental politics, expansion of the ground rent, new hierarchies, the contradictions of higher education, the off shoring of "immaterial" labor, the illiberal right, and the mobilizations against it. This is a book about the variegated frontlines of value within an uneven, but not random, geography of capitalist expansion."

"Daniel Susskind traces the rich, surprisingly brief history of economic growth and responds to its ills. We cannot focus only on growth's upsides, but nor is degrowth a viable policy: the benefits of prosperity are too great to discard. Instead we must face hard tradeoffs, demoting growth from our top priority and reckoning with its moral challenges."

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction to Research Handbook on Organisational Integrity -- PART I Positions of organisational integrity -- 2. Managing for organisational integrity -- 3. Contemporary research into organisational integrity -- 4. Concepts closely related to organisational integrity -- 5. Integrity, integrity violations and integritism -- PART II Perspectives on organisational integrity -- 6. A nature perspective on organisational integrity -- 7. An evolutionary perspective on individual integrity in organisations -- 8. A spiritual perspective on organisational integrity -- 9. A criminological perspective on organisational integrity -- 10. A positive behavioural ethics perspective on organisational integrity -- 11. An intersubjective perspective on organisational integrity -- 12. A practical reasoning perspective on corporate integrity -- 13. A discursive justification perspective on organisational integrity -- 14. A virtue ethics perspective on organisational integrity -- 15. A contractual perspective on organisational integrity -- 16. A regulatory perspective on organisational integrity -- 17. An institutional perspective on organisational integrity -- 18. A corporate governance perspective on organisational integrity -- 19. A critical perspective on organisational integrity -- PART III Dimensions of organisational integrity -- 20. Organisational integrity as social coherence -- 21. Organisational integrity as congruence -- 22. Organisational integrity as wholeness -- 23. Organisational integrity as a virtue -- 24. Organisational integrity as an epistemic virtue -- PART IV Characteristics of organisational integrity -- 25. Organisational integrity and responsibility -- 26. Organisational integrity and accountability -- 27. Organisational integrity and voice.

"In Transgender in Imperial China, Matthew Sommer offers a close reading of a series of remarkable, well-documented court cases from the 18th and 19th century Qing dynasty legal archives that deal with sex and gender difference. The book explores practices in their specific historical context and avoids imposing trans-historical identities on people in the past, understanding, in the vein of Susan Stryker's work, that "transgender people" are those who "move away from" the gender assigned at birth and "cross over" the gender boundaries imposed by their society, without assuming any specific motivation or destination for that movement. Sommer details the experience of individuals assigned male at birth who were living as women (and were punished very harshly for the crime of "masquerading in women's attire"), but also includes under the sign "transgender" a range of personae not usually considered in this context, such as cross-dressing "boy actresses" of the opera and those who "left the family" by becoming Buddhist or Daoist clergy or eunuchs in imperial service and renouncing normative gender roles based on marriage and procreation. These cases explore a range of themes in Chinese law, society, and culture, and illuminate how many forms of gender transgression were sanctioned by law in Qing society. In considering all of these scenarios together, Sommer's book unpacks the full story of how sex and gender were understood in the Qing era"--

"Gender is foundational to how people, communities, and nations understand themselves and others. In studying the past, our own ideas about gender roles and gender difference shape what questions we ask and what answers we see. This is true for all historical periods, but it is especially true for the distant past and groups who did not leave direct oral or written records about themselves. In ancient North America, what we know about the past is that Indigenous women were important political, social, and economic actors in their nations, and that their labor literally reshaped the landscapes of their nations. What we can know about this period comes from a variety of sources including oral histories, archaeology, and DNA research, but the way these sources have been understood has been shaped by changing understanding of gender and women's work"--