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From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill focuses on the technological and scientific advances that allowed Hawai'i's sugar industry to become a world leader and Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company (HC&S) to survive into the twenty-first century. The authors, both agricultural scientists, offer a detailed history of the industry and its contributions, balanced with discussion of the enormous societal and environmental changes due to its aggressive search for labor, land, and water.Sugarcane cultivation in Hawai'i began with the arrival of Polynesian settlers, expanded into a commercial crop in the mid-1800s, and became a significant economic and political force by the end of the nineteenth century. Hawai'i's sugar industry entered the twentieth century heralding major improvements in sugarcane varieties, irrigation systems, fertilizer use, biological pest control, and the use of steam power for field and factory operations. By the 1920s, the industry was among the most technologically advanced in the world. Its expansion, however, was not without challenges. Hawai'i's annexation by the United States in 1898 invalidated the Kingdom's contract labor laws, reduced the plantations' hold on labor, and resulted in successful strikes by Japanese and Filipino workers. The industry survived the low sugar prices of the Great Depression and labor shortages of World War II by mechanizing to increase productivity. The 1950s and 1960s saw science-driven gains in output and profitability, but the following decades brought unprecedented economic pressures that reduced the number of plantations from twenty-seven in 1970 to only four in 2000. By 2011 only one plantation remained.Hawai'i's last surviving sugar mill, HC&S-with its large size, excellent water resources, and efficient irrigation and automated systems-remained generally profitable into the 2000s. Severe drought conditions, however, caused substantial operating losses in 2008 and 2009. Though profits rebounded, local interest groups have mounted legal challenges to HC&S's historic water rights and the public health effects of preharvest burning. While the company has experimented with alternative harvesting methods to lessen environmental impacts, HC&S has yet to find those to be economically viable. As a result, the future of the last sugar company in Hawai'i remains uncertain

"Unchecked climate change affects nearly everything on Earth, including the way humans communicate. In A Sense of Urgency, Debra Hawhee focuses our attention on new communication strategies that are emerging around the global climate crisis. At the heart of the story Hawhee tells are the challenges that our ecological future poses to rhetoric, and how those challenges demand that we learn to privilege more than our pasts and ourselves. The challenges of imagining futures under dramatically different climate conditions, of communicating climate science, and of offsetting human privilege all expose the limits of rhetoric as conceived by ancient Greek and Roman thinkers. The most glaring limit is the prominence those thinkers granted to precedent. When it comes to the climate crisis, precedent is not up to the task of addressing the problem at hand. Climate activists, scientists, artists, and scholars are trying to overcome this limitation, and A Sense of Urgency examines four departures from rhetoric's playbook that can be helpful in this struggle. Each of these departures presents new resources and different means of intensification in response to situations with few to no precedents. For Hawhee, thinking with these departures, and the attendant rhetorical strategies, can help people fathom both what is happening and what will happen if action is not taken. In this way, A Sense of Urgency is an indispensable guide in our search for new imaginative pathways"--

Ein Spaziergang durch die Seelenlandschaft der Deutschen mit Bestseller-Autor Asfa-Wossen Asserate: Als Asfa-Wossen Asserate im Sommer 1968 zum Studieren aus Addis Abeba nach Tübingen kam, geriet er mitten hinein in die Studentenbewegung. Inzwischen besitzt der äthiopische Prinz die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft, von seinen englischen Freunden wird er liebevoll »My favourite Kraut« genannt. Nach über fünfzig Jahren in Deutschland ist es an der Zeit für ein persönliches Fazit. Im vorliegenden Buch – der Autor nennt es ein Vademecum – geht er deutschen Eigenheiten, Marotten und Klischees auf den Grund und spart dabei seine eigenen Vorlieben nicht aus. Das Alphabet erlaubt es ihm, leichtfüßig von einem Thema zum nächsten zu springen: von der Autobahn zur Bratwurst, von der Freikörperkultur zum Gartenzwerg, von der Kehrwoche zur Kuckucksuhr, von der Waldeinsamkeit bis zum Zapfenstreich. (Verlagstext)

Peter L. Berger (1929-2017) was among the most prominent sociologists of the past half century. He co-authored with Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality, considered to be a modern classic of social science. His work on social theory, the sociology of religion, third world development, and the role of capitalism in modern life define his enduring importance as a leading figure in social science.

"For several decades, wealthy states, international development agencies, and multinational corporations have encouraged labour migration from the Global South to the Global North. As well as providing essential workers to support the transformation of advanced economies, the remittances migrants send home have been touted as the most promising means of national development for poor and undeveloped countries. As Immanuel Ness argues in this sharp corrective to conventional wisdom, temporary labour migration represents the most recent form of economic imperialism and global domination. A closer look at the economic and social evidence demonstrates that remittances deepen economic exploitation, unravel societal stability, and significantly expand economic inequality between poor and rich societies. The book exposes the damaging political, economic, and social effects of migration on origin countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and how border and security mechanisms control and marginalize low-wage migrant workers, especially women and youth. Ness asserts that remittances do not bring growth to poor countries but extend national dependence on the export of migrant workers, leading to warped and unequal development on the global periphery. This expert take will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of migration and development across the social sciences."

Migration, in its many forms, has often been found at the center of public and private discourse surrounding German nationalism and identity, significantly influencing how both states construct conceptions of what it means to be "German" at any given place and time. The attempt at constructing an ethnically homogeneous Third Reich was shattered by the movement of refugees, expellees, and soldiers in the aftermath of the Second World War, and the contracting of foreign nationals as Gastarbeiter in the Federal Republic and Vertragsarbeiter in the German Democratic Republic in the 1960s and 70s diversified the ethnic landscape of both Cold War German states during the latter half of the Cold War. Bethany Hicks shows how the regional migration of East Germans into the western federal states both during and after German unification challenged essential Cold War assumptions concerning the ability to integrate two very different German populations.

The "European Whistleblowing Directive" (Directive (EU) 2019/1937) is the most far-reaching piece of whistleblowing legislation in history with an unprecedented impact on countries all across the European Union. To transpose the Directive, all 27 Member States were required to enact their own national whistleblowing laws by 17 December 2021, in many cases leading to the creation of an entirely new field of law previously unknown to many national legal systems. The papers included in this book are the result of the "2nd European Conference on Whistleblowing Legislation", providing readers with a first in-depth look into the emerging field of research that is European Whistleblowing Law

"Frei und links" – Willy Brandt war der Kanzler des "anderen" Deutschland. Nach seinen Bestsellern über Richard von Weizsäcker und Helmut Schmidt legt der langjährige ZEIT-Journalist Gunter Hofmann nun ein einfühlsames Portrait des Mannes vor, der die konservative Adenauer-Republik durchlüftete und mit den Ostverträgen und seinem Kniefall in Warschau Weltgeschichtes schrieb. In seiner Biographie zeigt Hofmann uns den "ganzen" Brandt, jenen außergewöhnlichen Menschen, dessen Politik nur zu verstehen ist, wenn man auch sein Leben kennt. Ebenso kenntnisreich wie nuanciert geht Gunter Hofmann den Stationen im Leben von Willy Brandt nach, schildert den Weg des jungen Sozialisten aus schwierigen Verhältnissen in Exil und Widerstand, die allmähliche Entwicklung seiner politischen Überzeugungen und die Stationen seiner Karriere vom Regierenden Bürgermeister bis zum Bundeskanzler. Auch die Weggefährten wie Julius Leber, Helmut Schmidt, Herbert Wehner, Egon Bahr oder Günter Grass kommen ins Bild. Vor allem aber macht Hofmann auf eine geradezu intime Weise deutlich, wie sehr Brandt unsere Vorstellung von der Nation geprägt hat, in der wir leben möchten.

Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1 Why This Book? -- 2 The Growing Climate Risk to Water Security -- 3 Socio-Ecological Zones and Basins as Sites of Climate-Water Risks -- 4 Chapters Overview -- References -- 2 Water Security and Spring Conservation in the Himalaya -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Declining Himalayan Springs -- 2.1 Anecdotal Evidence in Absence of Long-Term Monitoring -- 2.2 Deterioration of Spring Water Quality -- 3 Climate and Socio-Economic Drivers of Changes in Himalayan Springs -- 3.1 Climatic Drivers of Changes in Himalayan -- 3.1.1 Springs Temperature Rise in the Himalaya -- 3.1.2 Role of Snowmelt -- 3.1.3 Extreme Events (Landslides & -- Flash Floods) -- 3.1.4 Land-Use & -- Land-Cover Change (LU& -- LCC) -- 4 Socio-Economic Drivers of Changes in Himalayan Springs -- 4.1 Infrastructure-Dams & -- Tunnelling, Road Cutting, Mining or Quarrying -- 4.2 Urbanization and Tourism -- 4.3 Gender and Caste -- 5 State and Community Responses for Spring Conservation and Revival in Himalaya -- 5.1 Traditional Knowledge Systems for Spring Conservation -- 5.2 Early Research and the Spring-Sanctuary Model -- 5.3 Hydrogeology-Based Spring Rejuvenation Programmes -- 5.4 Policy (State & -- National Recognition) -- 6 Gaps and Future Directions -- References -- 3 Water Stresses and Responses in Myanmar's Central Dry Zone -- 1 Central Dry Zone -- 2 Impacts of Climate Change and Development on Water -- 3 Water Management in the CDZ -- 4 Rehabilitation of Pyawt Ywar Pump Irrigation Project -- 5 Restoring Artesian Aquifers in the Pale Sub-Basin -- 5.1 Groundwater Irrigation Development -- 5.2 Groundwater Management-Issues and Constraints -- 5.3 Groundwater Management and Rehabilitation of the Tube Wells -- 6 Discussion -- 7 Key Lessons.

This volume describes the various movements and thinkers who wanted social change without state intervention. It covers cases in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. The first part discusses early egalitarian experiments and ideologies in Asia, Europe and the Islamic world, and then moves to early socialist thinkers in Britain, France, and Germany. The second part deals with the rise of the two main currents in socialist movements after 1848: anarchism in its multiple varieties, and Marxism. It also pays attention to organisational forms, including the International Working Men's Association (later called the First International); and it then follows the further development of anarchism and its 'proletarian' sibling, revolutionary syndicalism - its rise and decline from the 1870s until the 1940s on different continents. The volume concludes with critical essays on anarchist transnationalism and the recent revival of anarchism and syndicalism in several parts of the world.