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Henry Knight Lozano explores how U.S. boosters, writers, politicians, and settlers promoted and imagined California and Hawai'i as connected places and how this relationship reveals the fraught constructions of an "Americanized" Pacific from the 1840s to the 1940s.

Intro -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Our World -- Figure 1: Resource Perspective of the Human-Environment System -- Chapter 2: Our Current Circumstance -- Chapter 3: How We Got Here -- Figure 2: System Perspective of the Human-Environment System -- Chapter 4: What the Future Holds -- Chapter 5: An Alternative Future -- Figure 3: Human Perspective of the Human-Environment System -- Chapter 6: Achieving Viability -- Chapter 7: The Outlook.

Where is analysis in this age of banal tweets and narcissistic comments? Stephen Knight turns his modernly analytical and historically aware mind to current attitudes and actions in need of serious examination. What is the impact of the bush myth on the national consciousness of Australian fiction? What of the modern shift in writing about Indigenous issues, from white writers to First Peoples? What has suddenly happened to Australian crime fiction?Other essays look at unravelling travelling, the tiny machines that obsess us, then those bizarrely flourishing modern identity-enhancers--tattoos and personalised number plates--and of course, the state of the contemporary university. Here is 21st century national complexity, its origins and its international connections, explored in a socially referential and almost always serious way

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1: Covert Violence As a Kremlin Tradition -- 2: How the System Works: Putin and His Security Services -- 3: Galina Starovoitova: Putin's First Victim? -- 4: Terror in Russia: September 1999 -- 5: Silencing Critics -- 6: Mafia-Style Killings In Moscow: Kozlov and Politkovskaya -- 7: The Litvinenko Story -- 8: The Poisoning -- 9: Continued Onslaught Against Kremlin Challengers -- 10: Boris Berezovsky: Suicide or Murder? -- 11: The Boston Marathon Bombings: Russia's Footprint -- 12: Another Democrat Falls Victim: The Nemtsov Murder and Its Aftermath -- 13: Kadyrov, Putin, and Power in the Kremlin -- Afterword -- Postscript -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the Author -- Also by Amy Knight -- Copyright.

1. Introduction: Are we environmental leaders or laggards? -- 2. Manapouri and the advent of the 'environmnental' age -- 3. 'Think Big' and its unintended consequences -- 4. New Zealand's environmental governance gets a makeover -- 5. A strengthening Māori voice in resource management -- 6. Death by a thousand cuts? The emergence of 'intractable issues' -- 7. Climate change: A quarter of a century of lost opportunity -- 8. Governing for the future: Barriers in environmental leadership -- 9. Reflecting on half a century: How far have we come?

The problem of clean hands : negotiated compromise in lawmaking / Eric Beerbohm -- Which side are you on? / Anton Ford -- The moral distinctiveness of legislated law / David Dyzenhaus -- On compromise, negotiation, and loss / Amy J. Cohen -- Compromise in negotiation / Simon Cábulea May -- Uncompromising democracy / Melissa Schwartzberg -- Democratic conflict and the political morality of compromise / Michelle M. Moody-Adams -- The challenges of conscience in a world of compromise / Amy J. Sepinwall -- Necessary compromise and public harm / Andrew Sabl -- Compromise and representative government : a skeptical perspective / Alexander Kirshner.

"Childhood friends Juliet, Rebecca, Rose and Matthew grew up in a small village outside Dublin. Now privileged, wealthy and powerful, they appear to have it all. But when Juliet is involved in a suspicious accident and lies trapped between life and death at the bottom of a cliff, a secret that has been hidden for years threatens the seemingly perfect lives of the close-knit group. For the beautiful, fragile Rose, Juliet's accident draws unwanted attention to the sins of the past. For her husband, the ruthlessly ambitious Matthew, it removes a critical obstacle from the path of his political career. And as Rebecca discovers more about what happened to her friend, she begins to wonder if she ever knew the real Juliet ..."--Publisher description.

We live in an age of extreme inequality, when a wealthy minority of the global population lives in historical luxury even as middle-class people fear for the future and twenty percent of the world struggles with chronic poverty. Social policy has failed to find answers to this crisis, and we are beginning to see powerful calls for a new way of thinking about how to escape it. This book argues that we need to start by reframing the whole question, starting not with poverty as a problem to be solved, but with our vision of a good society as a goal to be achieved. That frees us up to consider bold, forward-looking social policies that can have a far-reaching impact. The proposals here are based on a research program carried out by the Webb Memorial Trust that included population surveys of more than twelve thousand people. The way forward, we see, is to increase people's sense of agency in building the society they want

This volume presents chapters on the theme of borders and migration, written for the annual meetings of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. It features three lead chapters and a series of responses by other scholars drawn from the fields of law, political science, and philosophy

Epdf available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. There is a demand for a new narrative to enable us to escape from the crisis in our society. This book argues that we need to start with the society we want, rather than framing poverty as a problem to be solved. It calls for a bold forward-looking social policy that addresses continuing austerity, under-resourced organisations and a lack of social solidarity. Based on a research programme carried out by the Webb Memorial Trust involving leading organisations, academics, community activists, children, and surveys of more than 12,000 people living in poverty, a key theme is power which shows that the way forward is to increase people's sense of agency in building the society that they want.