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Mohandas Gandhi, icon of Indian liberation, remains an inspiration for anti-capitalists and peace activists globally. His campaigns for national liberation based on non-violence and mass civil disobedience were critical to defeating the power of the British Empire. This biography examines his campaigns from South Africa to India to evaluate the successes and failures of non-violent resistance. Seventy years after his death, his legacy remains contested: was he a saint, revolutionary, class conciliator, or self-obsessed spiritual zealot? The contradictions of Gandhi's politics are unpicked through an analysis of the social forces at play in the mass movement around him. Entrusted to liberate the oppressed of India, his key support base were industrialists, landlords and the rich peasantry. Gandhi's moral imperatives often clashed with these vested material interests, as well as with more radical currents to his left. Today, our world is scarred by permanent wars, racism and violence, environmental destruction and economic crisis. Can non-violent resistance win against state and corporate power? This book explores Gandhi's experiments in civil disobedience to assess their relevance for struggles today

"Explores in colonial Newport, Rhode Island, the tumultuous marriage of Benedict and Mary Arnold in the 1720s and 1730s. In and through their sordid and possibly criminal marital story, in which Mary is accused of poisoning Benedict, Crane sheds light on the liabilities and possibilities for women under couverture, the complex social and economic networks that bound together the elite and laboring classes of Newport, and the trans-oceanic cultures of trade, consumption, and sociability that came to shape expectations for marital satisfaction on both sides of the Atlantic"--

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Marlene Laruelle -- Part 1 -- What Does It Mean to Be a Muslim in Today's Central Asia? -- Chapter 1 -- How 'Muslim' are Central Asian Muslims? A Historical and Comparative Enquiry -- Galina Yemelianova -- Chapter 2 Junisbai, Junisbai, and Zhussupov -- Two Countries, Five Years: Islam in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Through the Lens of Public Opinion Surveys -- Barbara Junisbai, Azamat Junisbai, and Baurzhan Zhussupov -- Chapter 3 Roʾi and Wainer -- Uzbekness and Islam: A Survey-based Analysis of Identity in Uzbekistan -- Yaacov Roʾi and Alon Wainer -- Part 2 -- Islam, Politics, and the State -- Chapter 4 -- The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan: Episodes of Islamic Activism, Postconflict, Accommodation, and Political Marginalization -- Tim Epkenhans -- Chapter 5 -- Power, "Original" Islam, and the Reactivation of a Religious Utopia in Kara-Suu, Kyrgyzstan -- Aurélie Biard -- Chapter 6 -- Islamic Finance and the State in Central Asia -- Alexander Wolters -- Part 3 -- Islam in Evolving Societies and Identities -- Chapter 7 -- Visual Culture and Islam in Kazakhstan: The Case of Asyl Arna's Social Media -- Wendell Schwab -- Chapter 8 -- Playing Cosmopolitan: Muslim Self-fashioning, Migration, and (Be-)Longing in the Tajik Dubai Business Sector -- Manja Stephan-Emmrich -- Chapter 9 -- Informal Economies in the Post-Soviet Space: Post-Soviet Islam and Its Role in Ordering Entrepreneurship in Central Asia -- Rano Turaeva -- Part 4 -- Female Attire as a Public Debate -- Chapter 10 Nasritdinov and Esenamanova -- The War of Billboards: Hijab, Secularism, and Public Space in Bishkek -- Emil Nasritdinov and Nurgul Esenamanova -- Chapter 11 -- Hijab in a Changing Tajik Society -- Shahnoza Nozimova -- Chapter 12.

Biomarkers in food toxicology / Juan Antonio Gimenez Bastida and Jose Moises Laparra Llopis -- Mucosal exposome and food toxicity biomarkers / Yuseok Moon -- Toxicity of ingested nanomaterials / Yi Cao -- Safety evaluation of chemistries used in the food and beverage processing and packaging industries / Martin Hoagland, Kathryn Sande, Alison Behling, and Nathan Pechacek -- Developmental neurotoxicity considerations for food additive safety / Yen-Ching Wu, Shruti V. Kabadi, and April Neal-Kluever -- Protective effect of food-grade lactic acid bacteria against oxidative stress / J.E. Aguilar-Toala, B. Vallejo-Cordoba, A.F. Gonzalez-Cordova, R. Garcia-Varela, H.S. Garcia, A. Hernandez-Mendoza -- Mycotoxins / Suzanne Hendrich -- Endocrine-disrupting chemicals in food and their toxicological implications / S. Raisuddin and Shikha Sharma -- Radionuclides in foods / Mohamed Abdelrazek Abdelaleem -- Metal toxicity in foods / M. Carmen Rubio Armendariz, Arturo Hardisson de la Torre, Angel J. Gutierrez Fernandez, Dailos Gonzalez Weller, Soraya Paz Montelongo, Consuelo Revert Girones, And Jose M. Caballero Mesa -- Toxicological risks of waste burning residues in foods : a view on low-income countries / Ilaria Proietti and Alberto Mantovani -- Introduction to epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and its role as potential marker in food toxicology / Ludovic Peyre and Maeva Giraudo -- Regulation and monitoring of pesticide residues in water and food in Brazil / Luciano Zanetti Pessoa Candiotto, Luneia Catiane de Souza, Vanessa Jacob Victorino and Carolina Panis -- Aptamers as advanced nanosensing tools in food safety / Ashish Sachan.

"In the period following the country's independence in 1981, Kriol has risen to the level of a national language. While the prestige enjoyed by English and Spanish is indisputable, a range of historical and socio-economic developments has given Kriol an elevated status in the coastal districts at the potential expense of more vulnerable minority languages also spoken there. Using fieldwork, ethnographic observations, interviews, and surveys of language attitudes and use, Gómez Menjívar and Salmon show the attenuation of Mopan and Garifuna alongside the stigmatized yet robust Kriol language. Examin[es] how large-scale economic restructuring can unsettle relationships among minority languages" --