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"Examining the practice of 'political technology', this book explores how Russia is no longer a democracy but an aggressive propaganda state which exports its problems globally. Andrew Wilson shows how many other countries have voluntarily adopted or developed similar technologies which now crossfertilise and influence each other"--

"Fully updated, this second edition provides a class-tested system analysis approach to sustainability for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. The latest scientific data and insights are integrated into a broad transdisciplinary framework. Readers explore sustainability issues through the lenses of cultural and methodological pluralism"--

Inhalt: 1. Einleitung -- Teil 1. Populäre Artefakte als Kunstwerke? Zentrale Einwände und frühe Ansätze, sie zurückzuweisen -- 2. Standardeinwände -- 3. Uniformität, Mitte, Mittelmaß -- 4. Volk, Masse -- 5. Charts -- 6. Radikale Umwertung: Independent Group -- 7. Feuilleton/Auteur -- 8. Star und Story -- Teil 2. Grundlegende Ansätze, die zentralen Kritikpunkte abzuwehren -- 9. Standardisierung -- 10. Reiz -- 11. Ästhetik -- Teil 3. Mögliche Änderungen des Kunstbegriffs unter dem Eindruck des Populären -- 12. Kunstdefinitionen -- 13. Kunst: nützlich? -- 14. Kunst: Mode? -- 15. Kunst: Unterhaltung? -- 16. Kunst: Event, Environment, (Star-)Performance? -- 17. Kunst: Show? -- 18. Kunst: Aufzeichnung? -- 19. Kunst: Reproduktion? -- 20. Kunst von Laien und Amateuren? -- Teil 4. Hochwertungen: populäre Artefakte als gute Kunst -- 21. Populäres -- 22. Das Populäre und das 'Volk' -- 23. Bestseller-Prosa: Realismus -- [...] -- 32. Die Kunst der Popmusik -- [...] -- 36. Bilanz -- Teil 5. Schluss: Kunsturteile und mögliche Gründe -- 37. Ergebnisse -- 38. Vermutungen

"In 2004, Japan instituted a system to protect citizens against military attacks and terrorism for the first time after World War II. Faced with the Tokyo subway attack (1995), the 9/11 terrorist attacks (2001), and the changing security environment in East Asia, the Japanese government was forced to implement the most extensive reform of its domestic crisis management ("Kiki-Kanri") system in the postwar era. Civil defense in Japan is now called The Civil Protection [Kokumin-Hogo]. Two world wars in the 20th century led to the development of national institutions based on civil defense in Western democratic countries (including the U.S. and Canada). As times have changed, most countries have adopted a comprehensive crisis (or emergency) management system, integrating civil defense and disaster management (against natural and technological hazards). However, Japan continues to take a different path. Why has a comprehensive crisis management system yet to be formed? How do complex and fragmented institutions work? This book examines the institutions and policies of civil protection (i.e., Japan's civil defense) and further analyzes their effectiveness and issues. Furthermore, it discusses the effectiveness and significance of the trade-offs created by the institutional coexistence of civil defense and natural disaster management. A valuable read for scholars of Japan's public administration and security/defense policy, as well as for those researching and comparing disaster-preparedness across countries"--

"Public opinion polling is in crisis. People aren't responding to polls and misses in critical elections have undermined the field's credibility. Polling at a Crossroads points a way forward by presenting an intuitive new paradigm that confronts the full spectrum of challenges facing modern polling"--

"The book is written in a style that should be accessible to most readers from different intellectual disciplines, while still retaining a high intellectual rigor. It discusses areas not covered by similar books and provides a novel interpretation of developments in the past 50 years"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- 1 For a definition of uncertainty -- 2 The society of uncertainty -- 3 Early Modern European political geography and uncertainty -- 4 The "mad flight" and the geography of uncertainty -- 5 Cartographic secularization -- 6 The tragedy of cartography in the Modern Age -- 7 Uncertainty as a paradigm of Modern Times -- Bibliography -- Index.

Gen Z, Tourism, and Sustainable Consumption is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of Generation Z in relation to sustainable consumption practices and travel cultures. Gen Z is regarded as the world's largest consumer market. The growth and behaviour of this economically significant market will have enormous implications for the future development of the tourism industry and destinations and its long-term sustainability. Characterised as being the first generation to grow up with the Internet and sometimes even referred to as the i-Generation, Gen Z is broadly regarded as having an avid interest in travel but seeks to do so in a way that is socially and environmentally conscious, mobile connected, and grounded in authentic local experiences. Logically structured and featuring contributions from a plethora of experts on the topic, this volume provides a critical examination of Gen Z consumer and travel behaviour in a comparative international context and its implications for the tourism, hospitality, and events industries. Embellished with illustrative figures and tables throughout, this book will be of pivotal interest not only to policy makers, destination management and marketing organisations (DMOs), and students of tourism, hospitality, sustainable consumption, and consumer culture, but also to those who seek to cater to this key market

This book illustrates the diversity of current geographies, ontologies, engagements, and epistemologies of peace and conflict. It emphasizes how agencies of peace and conflict occur in geographic settings, and how those settings shape processes of peace and conflict. The essence of the book's logic is that war and peace are manifestations of the intertwined construction of geographies and politics. Indeed, peace is never completely distinct from war. Each chapter in the book will demonstrate understandings of how the myriad spaces of war and peace are forged by multiple agencies, some possibly contradictory. The goals of these agents vary as peace and war are relational, place-specific processes. The reader will understand the mutual construction of spaces and processes of peace and conflict through engagement with the concepts of agency, the mutual construction of politics and space, geographic scales, multiple geographies, the twin dynamics of empathy/othering and inclusivity/partitioning, and resistance/militarism. The book discusses the intertwined nature of peace and conflict, including reference to the environment, global climate change, borders, technology, and postcolonialism.

"This volume tells the story of the interaction between Christianity and law-historically and today, in the traditional heartlands of Christianity and around the globe. Sixty new chapters by leading scholars provide authoritative but accessible accounts of foundational Christian teachings on law and legal thought over the past two millennia; the current interaction and contestation of law and Christianity on all continents; how Christianity shaped and was shaped by core public, private, penal, and procedural laws; various old and new forms of Christian canon law, natural law theory, and religious freedom norms; Christian teachings on fundamental principles of law, politics, and legal order; and Christian contributions to controversial legal issues. Together, the chapters make clear that Christianity and law have had a perennial and permanent influence on each other over time and across cultures, albeit with varying levels of intensity and effectiveness"--

"Amid sweeping conversations about the future of artificial intelligence and its impact on US industry and economy, one economic domain has remained relatively insulated from the discussion: health care. How is it possible that an industry so bemoaned for inefficiency and expense, an industry so large that it now makes up a quarter of the US economy, could escape the efficiency- and cost-driven disruptions of AI? How are doctor's offices still relying on fax machines in the age of driverless cars? Why is it the one industry where we'd like to see AI try some things the one that machines can't seem to infiltrate? The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Health Care Challenges convenes contributions from health economists, physicians, philosophers, and legal scholars to identify the primary barriers to entry for AI in America's biggest industry. Across original papers and wide-ranging written responses, they find five domains of barriers: incentives; management; data availability; regulation. They also find evidence of real opportunity: AI has promise to improve outcomes and lower costs, and if paths to intervention are seized upon, improvements will follow"--

This book provides balanced, critical, and comprehensive coverage of the theories and realities of autocratization and democratization. It sketches developments in the conceptions of democracy, discusses how to distinguish between different forms of political rule, and maps the development of democracy and autocracy across space and time. The book reviews the major debates and findings about domestic and international causes and consequences of democratization and autocratization. It synthesizes theoretical models and empirical relationships based on an explicit comparative perspective, which focuses on similarities and differences across countries and historical periods.