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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One Introduction -- British Global Mobilities -- Postcolonial Histories, Cities, Migrations -- Theorising Transnationalism: From the Global to the Intimate -- Approaching Intimacy: The Structure of the Book -- Notes -- Chapter Two Geographies of Intimacy -- Families and 'Family Life' -- Geographies of Friendship -- Couple Ties: Heteronormativity, Governance, and Love -- Intimacy and the Sociological Study of Personal Life -- Intimacies, Subjectivities, Spatialities -- Note -- Chapter Three A Globalising Gulf Region and the British in Dubai -- Migration and Development of the GCC Region -- Citizenship, Kafala, and the Temporary Migrant Worker -- Social Stratification and Migrant Subjectivities in Dubai and the Gulf -- Researching British Migration in Dubai, 2002-2004 -- A Reflexive Note -- Chapter Four British 'Expatriate' Subjectivities in Dubai -- British Imaginaries of Dubai and Emirati 'Culture' -- 'Culture Shock' and Emotional Resources of Whiteness -- The Spatialisation of an 'Expat' Lifestyle -- Encounters with Low‐income Migrants -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five 'Community', Clubs and Friendship -- 'Britishness' and Club Life -- Heterogeneity within the British 'Community' -- Belonging, Leisure, and the Significance of 'Play' -- Coffee Mornings or Adventures for 'Expat Mums' -- Transnational Mobilities and Friendships -- Friends as Family -- Conclusion -- Chapter Six Sex, Desire and Romance in the Globalising City -- Heteronormativity and the UAE's 'Decency Laws' -- Race, Affluence and Masculinity in Transnational Space -- Dubai's 'Global Nightscapes' -- Dubai: No Place for Romance? -- Conclusion -- Chapter Seven Migration, Domesticity and 'Family Life' -- 'Family Time' and Space for Family -- Global Work, Expatriation and Marriage

Making sense of earthquakes: public information infrastructures and post-disaster event epistemologies -- The production and circulation of earthquake knowledge in 1868 California -- Accounting for people after the 1906 earthquake -- The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake: public information for alternative earthquake publics -- Today: planned disaster response meets new media platforms -- Comparing information orders: continuity and change

With entertaining anecdotes and thoughtful observations, this memoir depicts the realities of being a trans woman - from bullying and botched coming out attempts to self-acceptance and love - whilst exploring the most pressing questions in the transgender debate

This book, inclusive of 13 chapters, focuses on the control of invertebrate and vertebrate pests that commonly infest man-made structures. With emphasis on the most important pest organisms, specific chapters are devoted to the discussion of control strategies for cockroaches, flies, mosquitoes, bed bugs, termites, rats and mice, bats and birds. Chapters for the control of sporadic pests and pests of stored products are also included, as well as chapters for insecticide formulations, insecticide baits and baiting, and integrated pest management. The last chapter explores safety considerations in handling pesticides. With these contents, this book will be of valuable use to practitioners engaged in pest control services.

Intro -- Dedication -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: The Long, Hard Road to Today -- The Story of Prometheus -- Chapter 1. The First Age: Language and Fire -- Chapter 2. The Second Age: Agriculture and Cities -- Chapter 3. The Third Age: Writing and Wheels -- Chapter 4. The Fourth Age: Robots and AI -- Chapter 5. Three Big Questions -- Part Two: Narrow AI and Robots -- The Story of John Henry -- Chapter 6. Narrow AI -- Chapter 7. Robots -- Chapter 8. Technical Challenges -- Chapter 9. Will Robots Take All Our Jobs? -- Chapter 10. Are There Robot-Proof Jobs? -- Chapter 11. The Big Questions -- Chapter 12. The Use of Robots in War -- Part Three: Artificial General Intelligence -- The Story of the Sorcerer's Apprentice -- Chapter 13. The Human Brain -- Chapter 14. AGI -- Chapter 15. Should We Build an AGI? -- Part Four: Computer Consciousness -- The Story of John Frum -- Chapter 16. Sentience -- Chapter 17. Free Will -- Chapter 18. Consciousness -- Chapter 19. Can Computers Become Conscious? -- Chapter 20. Can Computers Be Implanted in Human Brains? -- Chapter 21. Humanity, Redefined? -- Part Five: The Road from Here -- The Story of Jean-Luc Picard -- Chapter 22. The Invention of Progress -- Chapter 23. Life in the Fourth Age -- Chapter 24. Death, Where Is Thy Sting? -- Chapter 25. What Can Go Wrong? -- Chapter 26. The Fifth Age -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Copyright.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Migration, Diaspora and Communication -- Nomads and Borders -- Nations, Europe and the Imagination -- Migration and Diasporas -- Integration and Cosmopolitanism -- Multiculturalism in a Cosmopolitan Context -- Diasporic Desires to Communicate -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Young Connected Migrants: Remaking Europe from Below Through Encapsulation and Cosmopolitanisation -- Young Migrants, Polymedia and Normative European Family Life -- Fieldwork in the Context of Europe -- Moroccan-Dutch Youth and Forum Discussions -- Transnational Communication Among Young Somalis Stranded Outside Europe -- Young Londoners and Their Geopolitics of Cosmopolitan Belonging on Facebook -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Media Use by Syrians in Sweden: Media Consumption, Identity, and Integration -- Theoretical Framework -- Methods -- Research Questions -- Research Design -- Results and Discussion -- RQ1: How Do Syrian Immigrants in Stockholm Use Traditional and New Media to Follow Up the Ongoing Conflict in Syria? -- RQ2: Are There Differences in How Different Genders or Age Groups of Syrian Immigrants Use These Media? -- RQ3: In What Way Does Media Use by the Respondents Reflect Images of the Home Country and the Receiving Nation? How Do the Specific Media Used by Groups Play into Their Personal Identity as Syrian or Swedish? -- RQ4: How Do the Media Choices of Respondents Reflect the Integration and Acculturation of This Group? -- References -- Chapter 4: Social Media Use in the Diaspora: The Case of Syrians in Italy -- Context: The Syrian Refugee Crisis -- Theoretical Framework -- Methods -- Research Questions -- Coding of Visuals -- Textual Analysis -- Results -- Conclusion -- References

At the start of the twentieth century, when Germany, among other nations, was undergoing industrialization, Max Weber famously characterized modern life in words that have often been translated as "iron cage." During the industrial era, that image caught on and was often used by scholars to express concerns about the extent to which the actual character of modern life contradicted its emancipatory promise. But we are living in a different time now, when the conditions under which we live seem to be quitedifferent from the ones that pertained in Weber's day. It is a time when, in some respects at least, life seems to be freer and more conducive to experimentation, which has led some people to conclude that our societies have escaped from Weber's "cage." But is that really true? This book challenges that notion, considering the consequences for our way of life of the triumph of neoliberalism as a political force.

While the feminisation of transnational migrant labour is now a firmly ingrained feature of the contemporary global economy, the specific experiences and understandings of labour in a range of gendered sectors of global and regional labour markets still require comparative and ethnographic attention. This book adopts a particular focus on migrants employed in sectors of the economy that are typically regarded as marginal or precarious – domestic work and care work in private homes and institutional settings, cleaning work in hospitals, call centre labour, informal trade – with the goal of understanding the aspirations and mobilities of migrants and their families across generations in relation to questions of gender and labour. Bringing together rich, fieldwork-based case studies on the experiences of migrants from the Philippines, Bolivia, Ecuador, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Mauritius, Brazil and India, among others, who live and work in countries within Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South America, Gender, Work and Migration goes beyond a unique focus on migration to explore the implications of gendered labour patterns for migrants' empowerment and experiences of social mobility and immobility, their transnational involvement, and wider familial and social relationships.

By focusing on bad kingship, or tyranny, Evil Lords offers innovative insights into pre-modern conceptions of sovereignty, as well as into the relation between ethics and politics, individual and society, and power and propaganda, as elaborated in a number of different contexts, periods, and genres from Antiquity to the Renaissance.