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"Drawing upon law, history, and social science, this book is a close investigation of an important yet neglected area of constitutional law: the state police power and its function in regulatory governance in the U.S. It is a major contribution to state constitutional law literature and contemporary regulatory policy"--

"The pandemic and its aftermath have impacted the healthcare landscape in ways that are still unfolding. Many pre-existing challenges have been significantly exacerbated. Stress and burnout levels increased dramatically, and especially hard hit have been nurse managers. Surveys predict alarmingly severe staffing shortages, including as many as 450,000 nurses before the end of the decade. And the erosion of trust at all levels has been made worse by corporate consolidation and waves of what have been called copycat layoffs. Using construction as their metaphor, authors Joe Tye and Bob Dent make a compelling case that a healthcare organization's invisible architecture-a foundation of core values, a superstructure of organizational culture, and the interior finish of workplace attitude-is no less important than its visible architecture. Further, they assert that culture will not change unless people change, and people will not change unless they are inspired to do so and given the right tools. This multi-AJN award winning, fully updated third edition of Building a Culture of Ownership in Healthcare takes readers on a journey from accountability to ownership-providing a proven model, strategies, and practical solutions to help improve organizational culture in the healthcare setting. Readers will learn how investing in their organization and their people can enable a significant, successful change in productivity; employee engagement; nurse satisfaction, recruitment, and retention; quality of care; patient satisfaction; and financial outcomes. This new edition will include strategies to enhance bilateral loyalty and rebuild trust; promote emotional safety to complement psychological safety, including planning and caring for Covid's emotional long haulers; and foster a Proceed Until Apprehended mindset that encourages creativity, innovation, and problem-solving. It will be packed with many new examples from inside and outside of healthcare. This edition will also share the Assess-Inspire-Engage-Sustain Model for Cultural Transformation and show how the Growth-Impact Model can be used to shape a Culture of Ownership that achieves growth along the dimensions of scope and scale and impact along the dimensions of reach and depth. Building a more positive Culture of Ownership has never been more important."

Der zweite Band der Trilogie zur Geschichte der Antifa-Bewegung in Deutschland setzt im Jahr 2010 ein. Befeuert durch PEGIDA und AfD löste die sogenannte 'Flüchtlingskrise' eine neue rechtsradikale Welle aus. Während es in einem zähem Ringen gelang, die bundesweiten Straßenproteste einzudämmen, etablierte sich mit der AfD eine relevante parlamentarische Vertretung – ein in der BRD bislang nicht gekannter Vorgang. Zu einem weiteren relevanten Politikfeld entwickelten sich die Auseinandersetzungen um Rechtsrock-Konzerte und die jährlichen Rudolf-Heß-Gedenkmärschen der Neonazis. Als ehemalige Hitler-Stellvertreter, steht Heß für die direkte Verbindung zum historischen Nationalsozialismus. Eine Verbindung, die auch den Übergang zur Reichsbürgerbewegung markiert, deren schießwütige Anhänger zeigeten, dass sie nicht als harmlose Spinner abgetan werden können. Auch der Rechtsterrorismus blieb in der Bundesrepublik ein Faktor. Zumindest bei den Terroranschlägen in Halle und Hanau spielten für die Täter Antifeminismus und Verschwörungsspinnereien eine Rolle. Deren Ursprung und Bedeutung für die rechtsradikale Szene wird in diesem Buch ebenfalls besprochen. Der Autor will aber nicht nur dokumentieren, sondern auch Ideen und Argumente für die aktuelle politische Auseinandersetzung liefern. Ein Exkurs zum Islamismus schließt deshalb diesen Band ab.

"This book compiles and explains technical terms in sustainable finance in an easy-to-navigate A-Z format. The interdisciplinary nature of sustainable finance means that those researching and working in the field often have to turn to a variety of different sources to look up various non-financial terms. Recognizing this issue, Ibrahim Sancak and Elisa Aracil have curated a comprehensive list of the key terms most commonly used in the field. Each entry maps out an important concept or idea and illustrates how it relates more broadly across this growing discipline, such as the changes and innovations required by the financial sector to meet the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals. Overall, Essential Concepts of Sustainable Finance will enable readers to communicate more effectively about finance within the context of sustainability. With related terms and further reading included alongside the entries, this innovative and accessible volume will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners alike"--

"Offers a radically new account that advances the modern scholarly understanding of Babylonian Jewish history and society, and of Sasanian rule. Building upon recent developments in the study of the Sasanian Empire, the book offers a more direct model of Sasanian rule, within and against which Jews invariably positioned and defined themselves"--

"An ever-expanding and panicked Wonder Woman crashes through a city skyline begging Steve to stop her. A twisted queen of sorority row crashes her convertible trying to escape her queer shame. A suave butch emcee introduces the sequined and feathered stars of the era's most celebrated drag revue. For an unsettled and retrenching postwar America, these startling figures betrayed the failure of promised consensus and appeasing conformity. They could also be cruel, painful, and disciplinary jokes. It turns out that an obsession with managing gender and female sexuality after the war would hardly contain them. On the contrary, it spread their campy manifestations throughout mainstream culture. Offering the first major consideration of lesbian camp in American popular culture, Suffering Sappho! traces a larger-than-life lesbian menace across mid-century media forms to propose five prototypical queer icons-the sicko, the monster, the spinster, the Amazon, and the rebel. On the pages of comics and sensational pulp fiction and the dramas of television and drive-in movies, Barbara Jane Brickman discovers evidence not just of campy sexual deviants but of troubling female performers, whose failures could be epic but whose subversive potential could inspire"--

"In the world of online dating, race-based discrimination is not only tolerated, but encouraged as part of a pervasive belief that it is simply a neutral, personal choice about one's romantic partner. Indeed, it is so much a part of our inherited wisdom about dating and romance that it actually directs the algorithmic infrastructures of most major online dating platforms, such that they openly reproduce racist and sexist hierarchies. In, Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating, Apryl Williams presents a socio-technical exploration of dating platforms' algorithms, their lack of transparency, the legal and ethical discourse in these companies' community guidelines, and accounts from individual users in order to argue that sexual racism is a central feature of today's online dating culture. She discusses this reality in the context of facial recognition and sorting software as well as user experiences, drawing parallels to the long history of eugenics and banned interracial partnerships. Ultimately, Williams calls for, both a reconceptualization of the technology and policies that govern dating agencies, and also a reexamination of sociocultural beliefs about attraction, beauty, and desirability"--

"The Toxic Museum examines the use of pesticides in German museum collections at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It reconstructs the research of substances against harmful insects in museum collections within the historical context of the formation of nation states, colonialism, a strengthening chemical industry, the First World War and the resulting, broad-based hygiene movement, through the lens of the Ethnologisches Museum (Ethnological Museum) in Berlin. Due to their persistence, the consequences of the use of pesticides in museum collections are now unmistakable and well documented in many places. Numerous objects are highly contaminated and only accessible under difficult conditions regarding occupational health and safety. This creates obstacles for conservation and scientific processing, as well as for mediation in the context of exhibitions and external loans. The most precarious and difficult situations arise when contaminated museum objects are repatriated to their countries of origin. This monograph examines contemporary challenges in the 21st century museum landscape and contextualizes the history of pesticide use at the turn of the 20th century. The Toxic Museum will be of great interest to students and scholars working in conservation, museology, monument preservation, art and cultural studies, ethnology, history, and economics"--