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There's a pervasive sense of betrayal in areas scarred by mine, mill and factory closures. Steven High's One Job Town delves into the long history of deindustrialization in the paper-making town of Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, located on Canada's resource periphery. Much like hundreds of other towns and cities across North America and Europe, Sturgeon Falls has lost their primary source of industry, resulting in the displacement of workers and their families. One Job Town takes us into the making of a culture of industrialism and the significance of industrial work for mill-working families. One Job Town approaches deindustrialization as a long term, economic, political, and cultural process, which did not begin and simply end with the closure of the local mill in 2002. High examines the work-life histories of fifty paper mill workers and managers, as well as city officials, to gain an in-depth understanding of the impact of the formation and dissolution of a culture of industrialism. Oral history and memory are at the heart of One Job Town, challenging us to rethink the relationship between the past and the present in what was formerly known as the industrialized world

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations/Acronyms -- Part I BECCS Technologies -- Chapter 1 Understanding Negative Emissions From BECCS -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Climate-Change Mitigation -- 1.3 Negative Emissions Technologies -- 1.4 Why BECCS? -- 1.5 Structure of the Book -- 1.5.1 Part I: BECCS Technologies -- 1.5.2 Part II: BECCS System Assessments -- 1.5.3 Part III: BECCS in the Energy System -- 1.5.4 Part IV: Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 2 The Supply of Biomass for Bioenergy Systems -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Biomass Resource Demand -- 2.3 Resource Demand for BECCS Technologies -- 2.4 Forecasting the Availability of Biomass Resources -- 2.4.1 Modelling Non-Renewable Resources -- 2.4.2 Modelling Renewable Resources -- 2.4.2.1 Biomass Resource Modelling -- 2.4.3 Modelling Approaches - Bottom-Up versus Top-Down -- 2.5 Methods for Forecasting the Availability of Energy Crop Resources -- 2.6 Forecasting the Availability of Wastes and Residues From Ongoing Processes -- 2.7 Forecasting the Availability of Forestry Resources -- 2.8 Forecasting the Availability of Waste Resources -- 2.9 Biomass Resource Availability -- 2.10 Variability in Biomass Resource Forecasts -- 2.11 Biomass Supply and Demand Regions, and Key Trade Flows -- 2.11.1 Trade Hub Europe -- 2.11.2 Bioethanol - Key Global Trade Flows -- 2.11.3 Biodiesel - Key Global Trade Flows -- 2.11.4 Wood Pellets - Key Global Trade Flows -- 2.11.5 Wood Chip - Key Global Trade Flows -- 2.12 Global Biomass Trade Limitations and Uncertainty -- 2.12.1 Technical Barriers -- 2.12.2 Economic and Trade Barriers -- 2.12.3 Logistical Barriers -- 2.12.4 Regulatory Barriers -- 2.12.5 Geopolitical Barriers -- 2.13 Sustainability of Global Biomass Resource Production -- 2.13.1 Potential Land-Use Change Impacts

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 What Is and Is Not an Operational Solution -- chapter 3 Government Solution Needs -- chapter 4 Funding and Procurement of Solutions -- chapter 5 When and in What Format to Develop Solutions -- chapter 6 Learning from Tragic Outcomes for the Government -- chapter 7 Learning from Tragic Outcomes for the Contractor -- chapter 8 Analyzing the Problem or Opportunity -- chapter 9 Developing Solutions that Improve Processes -- chapter 10 Developing Solutions that Improve Architectures and Designs -- chapter 11 Developing Solutions that Improve Technologies -- chapter 12 Developing Solutions that Improve Personnel Capabilities -- chapter 13 The Art of Proposing Solutions -- chapter 14 Winning Is Only the Beginning.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Permissions -- Transcription conventions -- Series editors' introduction -- Notes on using this book -- PART I Intercultural communication in everyday life -- 1 Language classrooms -- 1.1 Culture and language learning and teaching (Does learning a language mean learning a culture?) -- 1.2 Culture of learning (How many times do I need to practise?) -- 1.3 Multicultural classrooms (Why is she so quiet in the classroom?) -- 1.4 Chapter summary -- 2 The workplace -- 2.1 Meetings (Has anything been decided in the meeting?) -- 2.2 Small talk (Haven't seen you for ages!) -- 2.3 Humour (I didn't get that!) -- 2.4 Chapter summary -- 3 Business -- 3.1 Advertising (Buy it, sell it, love it) -- 3.2 International business negotiation (Why do they talk a lot about nothing really?) -- 3.3 More language and communication matters (Dear Respected Mr Lin, how are you?) -- 3.4 Chapter summary -- 4 Family and migration -- 4.1 Migrant families (I'm British on paper, but am I English?) -- 4.2 Intercultural couples (Can love speak without words?) -- 4.3 Language choice and learning at home (Good boy! Well done habeebi (My darling)) -- 4.4 Chapter summary -- 5 Study abroad and tourism -- 5.1 Study abroad (Does 'real' experience help with my language and intercultural learning?) -- 5.2 Tourism (Can I take a picture with you?) -- 5.3 Chapter summary -- PART II Developing intercultural communicative competence -- 6 What are culture-specific ways of communication and why? -- 6.1 High versus low context: relationship and networks -- 6.2 High involvement: solidarity and connectedness -- 6.3 Directness or indirectness: face, politeness and rapport -- 6.4 Turn-taking: universals vs. cultural variations -- 6.5 Space: the silent language -- 6.6 Chapter summary

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: Situating Austerity Urbanism -- Austere Times/Remembering Reagan -- Renewing Normal/Anticipating Trump -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Introduction -- Austerity Defined -- Austerity Urbanism Produced, U.S.-Style -- The Chapters -- Chapter 2: Austerity and the Spectacle: Urban Triage and Post-Political Development in Detroit -- Urban Austerity, Publicly Financed Stadiums, and the Spectacle -- Urban Austerity -- The Publicly Funded Stadium -- The Urban Spectacle -- The Red Wings Arena and Entertainment District -- Public Costs -- Stadium Politics -- Urban Triage and the Downtown Spectacle -- Austerity and the Spectacle of Sport: Two Sides of the Same Urban Coin -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Austerity as the New Normal: The Fiscal Politics of Retrenchment in San Jose, California -- Introduction -- Background -- San Jose's Fiscal Crisis -- Service Cuts -- Revenue Options -- National Pension "Crisis" -- San Jose's Pension Crisis -- Conclusion: Studying the Post-Crisis City -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The Difference a Crisis Makes: Environmental Demands and Disciplinary Governance in the Age of Austerity -- Introduction -- The Neoliberalization of the EPA in Two Acts -- CERCLA: Keynesianism's "Parting Shot" and Roll-Back/Roll-Out Neoliberalism -- The Neoliberalization of the Clean Water Act: Bait and Switch Neoliberalism -- EPA and Consent Decrees in the Age of Austerity -- Austerity Water Wars -- Regulatory Violence in Consent Decree Cities -- The Difference a Crisis Makes: A Tale of Two Consent Decree Cities -- Revenge of the Suburbs -- Discussion and Conclusion: Black Cities Matter -- Notes -- Chapter 5: The Unaffordability of Recession: Housing Mobility and Recession Austerity in Providence, Rhode Island -- Introduction -- The Recession and Housing Affordability in Providence.

Piketty, Inequality and 21st Century Capitalism' is a collection that begins with economist Thomas Piketty's 2014 book. Most chapters critique Piketty from the perspective of critical theory, global political economy or public sociology, drawing on the work of Karl Marx or the Marxist tradition. The emphasis focuses on elements that are under-theorized or omitted entirely from the economists' analysis. This includes the importance of considering class and labor dynamics, the recent rise of finance capitalism, insights from feminism, demography, and conflict studies, the Frankfurt School, the world market and the world-system, the rise of a transnational capitalist class, the coming environmental catastrophe, etc. Our goal is to fully understand and suggest action to address today's capitalist inequality crisis

Intro -- Magic Science Religion -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- About this Book -- 1 Introduction -- 1 All or Nothing? -- 2 Kindness -- ASIDE: The Two-Million-Dollar Comma -- ASIDE: Sufficiently Magical Technologies -- ASIDE: Our Gods -- 3 Cruelty -- ASIDE: Ghostly Causality -- ASIDE: Durable Cruelties -- 4 Beginning, Again -- ASIDE: Chaos Invoked -- 5 The Freedom Not to Choose -- ASIDE: No Atheists in Foxholes -- ASIDE: Blake on Firm Perswasion -- ASIDE: Metafictional Magic: The Writer's Will -- ASIDE: Shapely Sentences -- ASIDE: Beckett Meets Twilight Zone, Glass-Half-Full Version -- 2 Complex Systems in a Nutshell -- 1 Horror Movie Reboot -- 2 Interpositivity -- ASIDE: Interpositivity -- 3 Becoming a System -- 4 Creatures of Light -- ASIDE: Transformative for Whom? -- ASIDE: Plant Sorcery -- 5 Tornados, Whirlpools, and Fires -- ASIDE: iii -- ASIDE: Co-evolution -- 6 Leveled -- ASIDE: On being born too early and dying too late -- ASIDE: Up Around the Bend -- 7 A Personifying Universe of Stretchy Things -- 8 Dynamism -- ASIDE: One Plus One Equals Infinity -- 9 Magic, but No Black Boxes -- ASIDE: The T-Shirt Version -- 10 Wildness -- ASIDE: Pet Resemblance via Social Theory -- 3 Magic by Example -- 1 Failed Magic: Modernist Heaven (and Hell) -- 2 Placebo Magic -- ASIDE: Pregnancy via Magic -- ASIDE: Following the Scent -- 3 Mirror Magic -- 4 Biting Game -- 5 Dog Whisperer -- 6 Conclusion -- 4 Future Perfect -- 1 The Gettysburg Address as a Magical Speech Act -- 2 Pool, Poetry, Prose, and Painting -- ASIDE: Dr. Livingston's Magical Bank-Shot Visualizer -- 3 Meteors, Messiahs, and Migraines -- ASIDE: On This Rock I Build My Church -- ASIDE: Falling Off a Log -- 4 Magical Militarism -- 5 Four Asides -- ASIDE: Dr. Livingston's Time Travel 101 -- ASIDE: A Somewhat Rationalizing Account of Mystical Nonviolence.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Preliminaries -- 1.1 What Normative Ethics Is -- 1.2 What Normative Ethics Is Not -- 1.3 Defending Normative Theories -- 1.4 Factors and Foundations -- PART I FACTORS -- 2 The Good -- 2.1 Promoting the Good -- 2.2 Well-Being -- 2.3 The Total View -- 2.4 Equality -- 2.5 Culpability, Fairness, and Desert -- 2.6 Consequentialism -- 3 Doing Harm -- 3.1 Deontology -- 3.2 Thresholds -- 3.3 The Scope of the Constraint -- 3.4 Doing and Allowing -- 3.5 Intending Harm -- 4 Other Constraints -- 4.1 Lying -- 4.2 Promises -- 4.3 Special Obligations -- 4.4 Conventions -- 4.5 Duties to Oneself -- 5 Further Factors -- 5.1 Demanding Too Much -- 5.2 Options -- 5.3 Rights -- 5.4 Interaction -- PART 2 FOUNDATIONS -- 6 Teleological Foundations -- 6.1 Foundational Theories -- 6.2 Egoism -- 6.3 Virtues -- 6.4 Act Consequentialism -- 6.5 Rules -- 7 Deontological Foundations -- 7.1 Contractarianism -- 7.2 Universalizability -- 7.3 The Ideal Observer -- 7.4 Reflection -- 7.5 Foundational Pluralism -- 7.6 Possibilities -- Suggested Readings -- References -- About the Book and Author -- Index

Konfliktperspektiven in Fall-, Feld- und Sozialraumorientierung -- Partizipation, Inklusion und Diversität im Neoliberalismus -- Praktiken der Normierung, Normalisierung, Disziplinierung und Ausschließung -- Macht- und Wissensverhältnisse in Ausbildung und (Lohn-)Arbeit.

Theorien der Armut und sozialen Ausgrenzung -- Geschichte der Armut und sozialen Ausgrenzung -- Gesellschaftliche Prozesse und individuelle Lebenslagen: Erscheinungsformen und Ergebnisse von Armut und sozialer Ausgrenzung -- Strategien zur Überwindung von Armut und sozialer Ausgrenzung: individuell, sozial und politisch.