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"Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people have established gathering spaces to find acceptance, form social networks, and unify to resist oppression. Framing the emergence of queer enclaves in reference to place, this volume explores the physical and symbolic spaces of LGBTQ Americans. Authors provide an overview of the concept of "place" and its role in informing identity formation and community building. The book also includes interactive project prompts, providing opportunities to practically apply topics and theories discussed in the chapters"--

"This is a work of American history and cultural studies in which the author examines how Americans imagined and regulated suburban space in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Beginning in the 1970s, rising crime, environmental threats, and conflicts over the use of public space made suburbanites feel threatened. And the technologies of cable television, VCRs, and video games brought representations of these threats into suburban homes. The author interprets how suburbanites responded to these perceived threats through a strategy of "productive victimization" to protect their communities"--

"Engineering statics discusses proper ways of conducting force analysis. This unique compendium treats fundamental force analysis in a systematic and comprehensive manner. The indispensable volume is suitable for undergraduate students to learn the subject in greater depth, for graduate students to review essential skills in force analysis correctly, and for practicing engineers to review and refresh key concepts. This useful reference text also presented numerous application examples for readers in solving daily practical problems"--

Part I: Why He Can't Do It Again -- One Term -- How We Got Him -- Those Three States -- Embracing an Interloper -- A Presidential Cheat Sheet -- The 93 Percent Turnout -- Kansas? -- Irregular Elections -- Surrendered Seats -- Rallying the Flock -- Electors: When They Supersede -- How Representative Is the House? -- How Skewed Is the Senate? -- Five-Four Justice -- Two Town Halls -- A New Electorate -- A Partisan President -- Part II: Republicans and Their Party -- The Concordat -- A Men's Den -- Policing Pregnancies -- Imposing Normality -- The Republican South -- A White Haven -- Anti-Affirmative Action -- Colleges, Climate, and Other Chimeras -- Lethal Weapons -- Fortress America -- Three Lies -- Conservative or Populist: Neither or Both? -- November 3, 2020.

Why we shouldn't be blaming schools so much. The forgotten 87 percent. Herbert Walberg's outrageous claim ; Trying to understand how schools matter when you have an eight-hundred-pound gorilla problem -- Chickens, eggs, and achievement gaps. When do achievement gaps emerge? ; Scaling matters ; Why the early years are so important ; Relative deprivation matters too -- One very surprising pattern about schools. Soccer coaches and schools ; Trying to understand how schools matter ; Seasonal comparisons ; What do we learn from the few studies that have collected data seasonally? -- And now a second, even more surprising pattern. School achievement, growth, and impact ; Objections -- A new way to think about schools and inequality. More like reflectors than generators. Schools generating inequality ; Two examples of schools reflecting broader society ; What about those high-flying schools? ; Underestimating early childhood -- Conclusion: A diminished role for schools, an enhanced role for early childhood -- As helping more than hurting. Schools as compensatory: The weak form ; Schools as compensatory: The strong form -- A Frida Sofia problem. Schools and inequality: Stuck within the traditional framing ; Our value for limited government ; Fear of "blaming the victim" ; Gender and the vulnerability of schools -- The costly assumption. Rich guys trying to reduce achievement gaps ; The never-ending quest to reform schools ; The great distractor ; So what should we do?

Human rights and access to essential medicines -- The human right to health and the virtue of creative resolve -- Promoting global health : the case for a Global Health Impact labelling and licensing -- Individual responsibility for promoting global health : the case for a new kind of socially conscious consumption -- Consumption and social change : the case of Global Health Impact certification -- Beyond experimental political philosophy : evaluating Global Health Impact certification -- Conclusion: Beyond Global Health Impact labelling, licensing, and investment : advancing public health.

This text provides a comprehensive survey of the most significant issues in contemporary U.S. foreign relations law by leading contributors in the field. Reflecting on the recently published Fourth Restatement of the Foreign Relations Law, they review the context and assumptions on which that work relied, critique its analysis and conclusions, and explore topics left out that need research and development.

"Plenty has been written on the competitiveness of megacities, capital cities and regional hubs. Cities in developing countries have not yet received the same attention - this book fills that gap. An international team of expert academics have come together to present a comprehensive study of the competitiveness of cities in the developing world. Spanning Asia, Africa and Latin America, this book homes in on specific city cases and examines how they relate to the rest of the global economy. The focus is on acknowledging their unique contexts, while drawing out commonalities, and ultimately identifying ways for them to enhance their competitiveness, well-being and sustainability. This volume will be valuable reading to advanced students, researchers and policymakers in urban and regional studies, economic geography and economic development."

Introduction : a framework to understand negative social evaluations -- Where it all begins -- Resisting hostility -- Going beyond resilience and capitalizing on negative social evaluations -- Practical implications for individuals, organizations, and society.

Intro -- Prologo -- Part One. Atrevimiento -- 1. You Think That's Right? -- 2. You're Either on the Bus or Off the Bus -- 3. Spy -- 4. Flying with Your Wings Cut -- Part Two. Atolondramiento -- 5. Get Ahold of Yourself -- 6. Emerge in the Singular -- 7. Bienvenidos A Miami -- 8. Stranger than Fiction -- 9. Let's Just Go -- 10. Kitchen Debate -- 11. Before it Goes Silent and Dies -- 12. Ousted -- 13. Fully Under -- 14. Father Roses -- 15. Shit, Sherlock -- 16. Cubana de Aviacion -- 17. Good Fences, Good Neighbors -- 18. Dare -- 19. Ringo the Rottweiler -- 20. Guns in the Plural -- 21. Swat -- 22. Radio Rebeloe -- 23. Fuck Truck -- 24. Yellow Journalism -- 25. Tossed Coins -- 26. Eventuality -- 27. Raise the Antenna -- 28. Nothing Comes Between Me and My Claims -- 29. Scoundrel -- 30. Mother's Day -- 31. F = FBI -- 32. Exit Visa -- 33. Order -- 34. Flying Carpet -- 35. Streetdance -- 36. Aristide -- 37. Baseball Breakfast -- 38. Naked -- 39. But Now I Have Sushi Chef -- 40. Repentance -- 41. Plot to Kill -- 42. The Person I am Becoming -- 43. Sonesta -- 44. The Kid -- 45. Monster -- Part Three. Al Carajo -- 46. The Return -- Epilogo.

Introduction -- Navigating the Cold War -- Navigating the Colonial and Post-Colonial Worlds -- Organization, Mandate -- Leaders -- Programmes, Resources -- The International Bill of Human Rights -- Studies and Reports -- Implementation -- Petitions and Fact-Finding -- Voices of Conscience -- Promotion and Advisory Services -- Partnership with NGOs and Civil Society -- Conclusion

"A personal narrative and guide to the safe, responsible use of MDMA for personal healing and social transformation Details the author's 50 years of responsible experimentation with mind-altering substances and how Ecstasy has helped him become a better therapist Explains how he and his wife found Ecstasy to be the key to renewing and enriching their lives and marriage as they entered their senior years Describes what the experience actually feels like and provides protocols for the safe, responsible, recreational, and celebrational use of MDMA for individuals and groups"--

"From the hill country in the north to the marshy lowlands in the south, Louisiana and its citizenry have enjoyed the hard-earned fruits of the oil and gas industry's labor. Stories abound of pioneering exploration, engineering achievements, production technologies, and economic prosperity. With those successes, though, have come also the contamination and degradation of other natural resources. In "A Thousand Ways Denied," John T. Arnold documents the oil industry's sharp interface with Louisiana's environment. He traces the history of oil-field practices and their ecological impacts in tandem with environmental regulations and their non-enforcement. Deeply researched, the book draws on government, corporate, and personal files, many previously untapped. Arnold reveals that early on, Louisiana instituted conservation programs and policies in recognition of its vast wealth of natural resources. With the proliferation of oil production, though, government agencies splintered between those promoting production and others committed to preventing pollution. As oil's economic and political strength grew, regulations commonly went unobserved and unenforced. Meanwhile over the decades, oil, saltwater, and chemicals flowed across the ground, through natural drainages, and down waterways. A maze of interconnected canals were dredged with tank batteries, pits, and equipment on their spoil banks. Fish and wildlife fled their habitats, and drinking-water supplies were ruined. In later years, debates raged over the cause for coastal land loss. Oil is an inseparable part of Louisiana's culture and politics, Arnold asserts, but the state's original vision for caring for its natural resources has

"The book takes a fresh look at humanitarian action through the concept of moral economy. It suggests a revised periodisation of humanitarianism by analogy to politico-economic regimes, rather than geopolitical sequencing: moving from ad hoc humanitarianism (c. 1800-1900); to organised humanitarianism (c. 1900-70); and expressive humanitarianism (since c. 1970). It moves the focus of the history of humanitarianism from the imperatives of crisis management in the outside world to pragmatic mechanisms of fundraising, relief efforts on the ground, and accounting, thus correlating their history with that of voluntary action and broader societal trends. The cases moreover provide new insights into the history of three humanitarian causes. The study of Irish famine relief in the 1840s redetermines the origins of the major British relief campaign. The study on Soviet famine relief in the 1920s provides a broader perspective than previous organisation-based studies and identifies similarities among competing ethnic, religious, political, and national relief cultures. Our analysis of the famine in Ethiopia of the 1980s is one of the few historical examinations of transnational food aid during that disaster that draws on newly-available archival sources"--