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""Fat". In contemporary society the word never fails to elicit powerful emotions, especially as it relates to bodily health and appearance. But fat is a noun as well as an adjective and has a cultural life outside of its relationship with the human body. By focusing on the complex physical and experiential dimensions of this problematic substance, Fat: Culture and Materiality breaks new ground in the study of the relationship between culture and the material world. With contributions from well-respected international scholars, this innovative and interdisciplinary collection will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in fat and its relationship to culture, materiality and lived experience. The v. addresses the role of fats in a variety of cultural settings. Topics include the politics of Palestinian olive oil; the allure of pig fat in heritage pork; the material sources of fat stereotypes in classical and biblical texts; the use of harvested fat in aesthetic surgery; and the status of fat in the self-narratives of anorexics."--

PART I: CONCEPTIONS OF LEADERSHIP 1. Introduction and Commentary-- David M. Messick 2. The Arc of Leadership: An Historical Perspective-- Jean Lipman-Blumen 3. Ethical Leadership and Noticing-- Max Bazerman 4. The Personal Characteristics of Political Leaders: Quantitative Multiple-Case Assessments-- Dean Keith Simonton 5. Social Identities and Leadership: The Case of Gender-- Crystal L. Hoyt 6. Emotional Intelligence and Leadership-- David Caruso, Kerrie Fleming, and Ethan D. Spector 7. Kings and Charisma, Lincoln and Leadership: An Evolutionary Perspective-- George R. Goethals PART II: LEADERSHIP PROCESSES 8. Trust and Trustworthiness: Understanding how and why some leaders get it right-- Roderick M. Kramer and Kimberly D. Elsbach 9. Leaders and their Life Stories: Obama, Bush, and Narratives of Redemption-- Dan P. McAdams 10. 'Now He Belongs to the Ages': The Heroic Leadership Dynamic and Deep Narratives of Greatness-- Scott T. Allison and George R. Goethals 11. Conformity, Obedience, and Persuasion-- Don Forsyth 12. Leader/Follower Dynamics and the Role of Idiosyncrasy Credit-- Edwin P. Hollander 13. Power and Influence at the Top: Effective and Ineffective Forms of Leader Behavior-- Roderick M. Kramer

1. Introduction : a world of believers -- 2. Beliefs : how our brains get molded and beliefs become ingrained -- 3. More than me : how we sense and feel beyond ourselves -- 4. Left brain, right brain : religious, spiritual. and more -- 5. Suspending disbelief : the ability to believe -- 6. The brain does some peculiar things : obsessive compulsive disorder and religiosity -- 7. Circle the wagons : depression, fear, and aggression -- 8. The genius beyond religious fundamentalism -- 9. Our spirituality : beyond you -- 10. The greatest fear.

Series foreword -- Preface -- Major developments -- Research on happiness -- The relationship of happiness to utility -- How income affects happiness -- How unemployment affects happiness -- How inflation and inequality affect happiness -- Pushing ahead -- The public sphere -- Self-employment and voluntary work -- Marriage and happiness -- Watching television -- Procedural utility -- Mispredicting utility -- The value of public goods -- Policy consequences -- Happiness policies -- Happiness and political institutions -- A revolution in economics -- References -- Index.

The Political Psychology of Terrorism Fears examines how emotional responses to terrorism, and specifically, fear, impact on political processes in multiple international contexts. The volume presents an integrated collection of empirical and theoretical studies and discusses the implications of this body of research.

1. Introduction, motivation and methodology -- 2. Economic ethics, business ethics and behavioural economics -- 3. Cooperation in economic ethics -- 4. Rationality in economic ethics -- 5. Fairness in economic ethics -- 6. Business ethics based on virtues and behavioural economics -- 7. Implementing economic ethics and business ethics -- 8. Conclusions and outlook.

The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. In Golden Holocaust, Robert N. Proctor draws on reams of formerly-secret industry documents to explore how the cigarette came to be the most widely-used drug on the planet, with six trillion sticks sold per year. He paints a harrowing picture of tobacco manufacturers conspiring to block the recognition of tobacco-cancer hazards, even as they ensnare legions of scientists and politicians in a

Constructivist IR scholars study the ways in which international norms, culture, and identities-all intersubjective phenomena-inform foreign policy and affect the reaction to and outcomes of international events. Political psychologists similarly investigate divergent national self-conceptions as well as the individual cognitive and emotional propensities that shape ideology and policy. Given their mutual interest in human subjectivity and identity politics, a dialogue and synthesis between constructivism and political psychology is long overdue. The contributors to this volume discuss both theoretical and empirical issues of complementarity and critique, with an emphasis on the potential for integrating the viewpoints within a progressive ideational paradigm. Moreover, they make a self-conscious effort to interrogate, rather than gloss over, their differences in the hope that such disagreements will prove particularly rich sources of analytical and empirical insight