"Drawing on an international pool of scholars, this cutting-edge Handbook surveys the micro, macro and institutional aspects of the economics of ageing. Structured in seven parts, the volume addresses a broad range of themes, including health economics, labour economics, pensions and social security, generational accounting, wealth inequality and regional perspectives. Each chapter combines a succinct overview of the state of current research with a sketch of a promising future research agenda. This Handbook will be an essential resource for advanced students, researchers and policymakers looking at the economics of ageing across the disciplines of economics, demography, public policy, public health and beyond"--
"From unsubstantiated 2020 election fraud claims and the storming of the US Capitol to the rampage of COVID-19 and racial injustice, this book covers the foundations, institutions, and processes of "the great American experiment" with a clear and resonant theme: Democracy cannot be taken for granted, whether at home or internationally, and eternal vigilance (along with civic intelligence) is required to protect it. Approaching Democracy provides students with a framework to analyze the structure, process, and action of US government, institutions, and social movements. It also invites comparison with other countries. This globalizing perspective gives students an understanding of issues of governance and challenges to democracy here and elsewhere. At a moment of growing domestic terrorism, political hyper-partisanship, populism, identity politics, and governmental dysfunction, there is no better time to bring Approaching Democracy--a textbook based on Vaclav Havel's powerful metaphor of democracy as an ideal and the American experiment as the closest approach to it--to a new generation of political science undergraduate students"--
Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England seeks to provide a comprehensive examination of the notorious Mannings' Bermondsey murder', and its wider implications in Victorian criminal narrative and popular culture. Exploring the ongoing textual afterlife of Maria Manning, including significant literary contributions by Charles Dickens through his characters Mademoiselle Hortense and Madame Defarge, this volume illuminates representations both echoed and challenged in mid-nineteenth-century conceptions of gender, sexuality, class, nationality, religion, and criminality. This volume also examines the five largely forgotten cases of female homicide from the same year and the imagined discourse perpetuated in fictional personifications. Utilising a wide breadth of literary and historical research, this volume provides readers with a thorough understanding of the various cultural implications of crime and gender in the Victorian period tobe read, remembered, and reinterpreted today. Located simultaneously in the fields of feminist, historical, and literary criticism, this volume is invaluable to students of nineteenth-century literature and culture, and researchers with an interest in criminology and media culture.
-- Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King is an important story of money and government, wealth and power, and media and image, and the ways in which the world's richest people hold us in their thrall.
Fred Trump never asked for any of this: the divisive politics, the endless headlines, a hijacked last name, the heat-seeking uncle, rising from real estate scion to gossip column fixture to The Apprentice host to President of the United States. Fred just wanted a happy life and a satisfying career. But a fight for his son's health and safety forced him onto a center stage that he had never wanted. And now, at a crucial point for our nation, he is stepping forward again. In [this book], Fred delves into his journey to become a 'different kind of Trump,' detailing his passionate battle to protect his wife and children from forces inside and outside the family.
"After the fall of the Soviet Union, the world entered an unprecedented, more exploitative stage of imperialism, in which the United States faced no rivals and no organized resistance to its agenda. The lesser titans of global capitalism--France, the UK, Germany, Japan--have united under its leadership. While the US portrays itself as a noble example of freedom and democracy, it has in fact led the world to greater inequality than ever before. This is no accident; western capitalists reap colossal profits every year at the expense of everyone else through unequal international trade. This global capitalist class controls the US and other allied governments, and through them the militaries, financial institutions, and other organizations that coerce its victims into perpetual underdevelopment. The West's grip on the world, however, is now becoming more tenuous. For the first time in decades, its victims have a real path toward progress. Chinese finance is building badly-needed infrastructure where the West would not, Chinese commerce is providing a lifeline to countries the US has targeted for destruction, and Chinese industry is producing new sources of renewable and transition energy at an unparalleled rate. Though it has yet to fully step into this role, the People's Republic of China has become the de facto leader of the free world. As this reality becomes increasingly obvious, the United States is impeding China's rise though threats, coercion, and a massive media smear campaign; the western capitalists have recognized that China's existence is making global resistance feasible again and are thus preparing a new Cold War to destroy it once and for all. Has China abandoned socialism? Many claim that it has, but the remarkable social and economic changes in 21st-century China tell a different story. While western social-democratic movements continue to fail, the Communist Party is delivering greater prosperity, wealth redistribution, multicultural development, and the aggressive elimination of rural poverty. A close analysis reveals that despite Western hopes that capitalism might subvert and unravel China's socialist construction, it is the poorer classes, the Chinese workers and peasantry, who wield the greatest influence over their country's destiny, and are building the best model for positive change in the world."--
""Arizona Politics and Government" focuses on the essential characteristics of the Arizona polity. In this new edition, David R. Berman's search for continuity and discontinuity rests on an examination of Arizona's political culture, constitutional foundations, geographical features, and changing social-economic-political characteristics"--
Over two evenings in March 1912, more than 250 women - old and young, rich and poor, strong and delicate - were arrested and charged with using hammers and stones to smash the windows of shops and offices across London. The youngest amongst them was 19-year-old teenager glass-breaker and Kent working maid, Ethel Violet Baldock, while the eldest was 79-year-old Mrs Hilda Eliza Brackenbury, owner of suffragette safe house, Mouse Castle, in Campden Hill Square. These two evenings would later become known as the Women's Social and Political Union's window smashing Great Militant Protest. The protest, driven by WSPU leader Emmeline Pankhurst, was against the government and their refusal to include women in their reform bill, which would give women the right to vote. Secret Missions of the Suffragettes examines these two evenings in great detail, before going on to explore 'behind the scenes' of the movement; the safe houses and rest homes used by the history-shaping women involved, together with stories of the women themselves, as well as their self defense training and use of disguises and alias names, all of which were needed to be a part of such a militant campaign.Discover their stories, motives, plans, tactics and antics as Jennifer Godfrey explores the connections, friendships and collaborations that would help change the course of history for women in Britain.
