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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Historical Background: Transformed Landscapes and the Impact of Human-Nature Interaction in the Interoceanic Region (6000 BC-1950) -- 1.1 Environmental Description of the Pacific Transisthmian Region -- 1.2 Background: The Cultural Landscape and Environmental Changes in the Interoceanic Region -- 1.2.1 Pre-Hispanic Stage -- 1.2.2 Impact of Interoceanic Transit During the Colony -- 1.2.3 The Interoceanic Railway Metabolism Landscape -- 1.2.4 Impact of French Canal Construction -- 1.3 United States Canal Construction (1904-1914) -- 1.3.1 Environmental Transformations of the US Canal Construction -- 1.4 The Defenses of the Panama Canal in the Early Twentieth Century -- 1.4.1 The Canal Defense Plan and Cronkhite Commission -- 1.4.2 Before Clayton: Environmental Historic Approach -- 1.4.3 Livestock as a Defense Strategy for the Canal and Its Impact in the Repopulation of the Forests (1916-1950) -- References -- 2 Fort Clayton's Urbanism and Architecture -- 2.1 Brief Background of Early Twentieth-Century Urban Planning -- 2.1.1 Urban Planning, Zoning, and Racial Segregation in the Canal Zone -- 2.2 Historical Stages of Urban Growth of Fort Clayton -- 2.2.1 Period of Urban Military Development -- 2.2.2 Stages of Suburb Expansions of Fort Clayton and Their Formal Background -- 2.3 The Architecture of Fort Clayton Through the Twentieth Century -- 2.3.1 Architecture from 1919 to 1922 -- 2.3.2 Architecture from 1923 to 1932 -- 2.3.3 Architecture from 1933 to 1939 -- 2.3.4 Architecture from 1932 to 1939 -- 2.3.5 Architecture from 1940 to 1943 -- 2.3.6 Architecture from 1948 to 1949 -- 2.3.7 Architecture from 1950 to 1960 -- 2.3.8 Architecture from 1960 to 1969 -- 2.4 Fort Clayton Urban Housing Final Review -- References.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- From Regional Entrepreneurship to Global Impact -- Institutional Change and Cultural Entrepreneurship -- Political Change -- Economic Mechanisms -- Cultural Landscape -- Organization of the Book -- Chapter 2: China's Art Market Before 1978 -- Imperial China and Globalization -- China's Postcolonial Turn Under Soviet Influence: From Yan'an Forum to the Cultural Revolution -- The Decline of a Centrally Planned Economy and Its Art System -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Gradualist Market Reform and Unofficial Art Movements (1980s) -- A Little Freedom Goes a Long Way: Postreform Cultural Fever -- Formal Institutional Change and Unofficial Art Movements -- The Emergence of Local Art Zones and Out-Migration -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Private Entrepreneurship and the Commercialization of Art (1990s) -- Chinese Contemporary Art Enters the Global Stage -- Learning the Ropes in China's Evolving Art Markets -- Urban Art Zones Amid Urbanization and Demolitions -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: "Soft Power" Strategy, Wealth Creation, and Art Consumerism (2000s) -- New Buzzwords in Party-State Policies: Soft Power and Creative Industries -- Real Estate Boom and China's Nouveau Riche -- Hyperurbanization, Commodification of Urban Space, and Art Branding -- Industrial Upgrading: From "Made in China" to "Created in China" -- Bubbles and Busts in the Art Economy -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Digitalization, the Rise of Chinese Collectors, and the Nationwide Art Boom (2010s) -- The Age of Social Media: Internet-Assisted Art Consumption -- The Rise of Chinese Art Collectors: Domestic and Abroad -- Overheated Art Auctions and Art Financialization -- Affirming Chinese Pride: Global Representation and Repatriating Lost Art -- Multicity Art Boom and Revivals.

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1: The Generation Game -- 2: The Crisis in Capitalism -- 3: The Tech Fissure -- 4: The Challenge of Individualism -- 5: The End of Truth -- 6: Understanding CO -- 7: CO-Leading -- 8: CO-Working -- 9: CO-Compassion -- 10: CO-Creating -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Simone Weil, and Religious Belief -- 2 To Speak of the Divine: Weil and Wittgenstein on Religious Grammar -- 3 Learning to Look: On Mysticism and Mysticisms -- 4 Will the Void: Wittgenstein and Weil on the Ethics of Attention -- 5 Struggling with the Supernatural -- 6 Weil Meets Wittgenstein -- 7 Writing (Out) the Self: Wittgenstein and Weil on Diaristic Writing -- 8 Affliction: Pain and the Problems of Modernity -- 9 Wittgenstein and Weil on Manufacturing Good -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1 The United States in the Nineteenth-Century International Society: An Introduction -- Chapter 2 Nineteenth-Century America's Role in Global History -- Chapter 3 The American Founding and the Society of States -- Chapter 4 America and the Other Revolutions: Neutrality and Non-engagement in Latin America and Greece -- Chapter 5 The United States, the Monroe Doctrine, and International Society -- Chapter 6 Slaves, Indians, and European Legal Formalism in Nineteenth-Century America -- Chapter 7 The United States inside "British International Society," 1838-1860: Imperial Rivalries and Compatibilities -- Chapter 8 The United States and the Liberal Transformation of International Society in the Nineteenth Century: The Institution of Sovereignty -- Chapter 9 Wheaton's Elements and the Expansion of International Society -- Chapter 10 America and Arbitration as an Institution of International Society in the Nineteenth Century: American and British Treaties from 1783 to 1871 -- Chapter 11 The United States as a Great Power: The Nineteenth-Century Acceptance of Rank -- Chapter 12 Constituting the Long Nineteenth Century: The United States and the Primary Institutions of International Society -- Index.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- About the Authors -- 1. Concept of Crop Ecology -- 2. Historical Developments -- 3. Levels in Ecological Organization -- 4. Crop Ecology -- 5. Plants Distribution and Adaptations -- 6. Agro-Climatic Zones of India -- 7. Ecosystem -- 8. Bio-Geochemical Cycles -- 9. Ecological Succession -- 10. Competition in Crop Plants -- 11. Environmental Pollution -- 12. Ecological Factors Affecting Crop Production -- 13. Ecology of Cropping System -- 14. Response of Crops To Light, Temperature and Co2 on Growth and Development -- 15. Ecological Basis for Environmental Management -- 16. Environmental Manipulation Through Agronomic Measures -- 17. Improvement of Unproductive Lands Through Crop Selection and Management -- 18. Effect of Climate Change on Crop Production -- 19. Exploitation of Solar Energy in Agriculture -- References.

Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 Early Stages of the Gender Revolution -- 1 The History behind the Gender Revolution -- 2 The Women's March and Attitudes toward Feminism -- Part 2 The Political: The Gender Revolution in Electoral Politics -- 3 Women's Political Power in the 2018 Midterm Elections -- 4 Women's Political Power in the 2020 Presidential Election -- Part 3 The Personal: Diffusion of the Gender Revolution into Everyday Lives -- 5 Changing and Contested Definitions of Sexual Consent -- 6 Resisters Respond to Social Change Created by #MeToo -- 7 Innovators Speak Out about Sexual Assault in the #MeToo Era -- Conclusion: Social Change and the Future of the Gender Revolution -- Appendix 1: Research Design: How We Study the Gender Revolution -- Appendix 2: Study Participants at a Glance -- Appendix 3: Timeline of Key Gender Revolution Events -- Index.

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- General Editor's Introduction -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1: Origins of The Idea -- The Growth of 'Organized Opposition' -- Quasi-Cabinets -- The 'Cabinet of the Opposition' -- 2: Shadow Cabinets Emerge -- Opposition Still in Disarray -- The Leadership Issue -- Sir William Harcourt and the Shadow Cabinet -- 3: A Steady Development -- Opposition Led in the Commons by Northcote -- Gladstone and the Shadow Cabinet -- The Liberals in Trouble: Chamberlain Departs -- John Morley and the Shadow Cabinet -- Opposition Responsibilities and Ministerial Appointments -- Campbell-Bannerman Becomes Leader of the Opposition -- Balfour and the Conservative Tarty -- The Conservatives and the 1911 Crisis -- Further Developments up to 1918 -- 4: Elected Front Bench -- Emergence of a Labour Opposition in 1922 -- Relations Between the P.L.P and the I.L.P. -- Lloyd George and the Liberal Shadow Cabinet -- Amery, Churchill and the Conservative Shadow Cabinet -- 5: From Macdonald to Churchill -- Lansbury Becomes Leader -- An Elected Shadow Cabinet and Lront Bench -- The Labour Opposition and the Second World War -- Victory Yet Defeat -- Churchill as Leader of the Opposition -- Opposition Becomes More Effective -- Approach of the 1950 General Election -- 6: The Modern Shadow Cabinet -- Divided We Fall -- Bevan, Greenwood and Crossman -- Checks and Balances -- Extensive Network of Committees -- 7: Election and Selection -- Lord Morrison Deplores Increasing Formalization -- P.L.P. Opposition Lront Bench 1951-64 -- Opposition 'Double Banking' -- Approach of the 1964 General Election -- 'Shadows' into Realities -- 8: Conservatives in Opposition -- Sir Alec Douglas-Home's Shadow Cabinet -- Re-allocation of Responsibilities -- Edward Heath Becomes Leader.