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"Archaic Bamboo Instruments explores how current residents of Bandung, Indonesia, have (re-) adopted bamboo musical instruments to forge meaningful bridges between their past and present-between traditional and modern values. Although it focuses specifically on Bandung, a cosmopolitan capital city of West Java, the book grapples with ongoing issues of global significance, including musical environmentalism, heavy metal music, the effects of first-world hegemonies on developing countries, and cultural "authenticity." Bamboo music's association with the Sundanese landscape, old agricultural ceremonies, and participatory music making, as well as its adaptability to modern society, make it a fertile site for an ecomusicological study"--

For over twenty years, Alan Henry has written about using technology and productivity techniques to work and live better for publications such as Lifehacker, The New York Times, and Wired. But he found that as a Black man he didn't have access to some of the more powerful ways to hack your job--like only checking email once a day or blocking out time on your calendar to do deep work. In fact, he found that even when he landed a prestigious title at the Times, there were moments when he was still overlooked and excluded from the most interesting and career-boosting work. This led him to first explore these struggles in a Times piece titled "Productivity Without Privilege." Now he goes even deeper, interviewing experts across multiple fields to come up with powerful tools to overcome the forces of marginalization. In Seen, Heard, and Paid, Henry shares the new work rules that may finally allow people of color, women, and LGBTQ+ folks to have the same access to career advancement and rewarding work as those with more privilege

Embracing Apocalypses -- The Whole World Is Stone Mountain -- The Right to Remain Angry -- The Political & The Personal -- We Do Not Debate with Racists -- We Can All Be white -- Breaking Up with white Jesus -- Revolution Now -- (White) Men Explain Things to Me -- How to Be Hopeful -- The Truth About Unity -- Building Our Own Tables -- How Black Love Became Important to Me -- To Fight or to Flee -- Born Again.

A German superman at Constantinople -- The "boss system" in the Ottoman Empire and how it proved useful to Germany -- "The personal representative of the Kaiser" : Wangenheim opposes the sale of American warships to Greece -- Germany mobilizes the Turkish army -- Wangenheim smuggles the Goeben and the Breslau through the Dardanelles -- Wangenheim tells the American ambassador how the Kaiser started the war -- Germany's plans for new territories, coaling stations, and indemnities -- A classic instance of German propaganda -- Germany closes the Dardanelles and so separates Russia from her Allies -- Turkey's abrogation of the capitulations : Enver living in a palace, with plenty of money and an imperial bride -- Germany forces Turkey into the war -- The Turks attempt to treat alien enemies decently, but the Germans insist on persecuting them -- The invasion of the Notre Dame de Sion school -- Wangenheim and the Bethlehem steel company : a "holy war" that was made in Germany -- Djemal, a troublesome Mark Antony : the first German attempt to get a German peace -- The Turks prepare to flee from Constantinople and establish a new capital in Asia minor : the allied fleet bombarding the Dardanelles -- Enver as the man who demonstrated "the vulnerability of the British fleet" : old-fashioned defenses of the Dardanelles -- The allied armada sails away, though on the brink of victory -- A fight for three thousand civilians -- More adventures of the foreign residents -- Bulgaria on the auction block -- The Turk reverts to the ancestral type -- The "revolution" at Van -- The murder of a nation -- Talaat tells why he deports the Armenians -- Enver Pasha discusses the Armenians -- "I shall do nothing for the Armenians," says the German ambassador -- Enver again moves for peace : farewell to the sultan and to Turkey -- Von Jagow, Zimmerman, and German-Americans.

Intro -- Preface -- Other Publications by Dr. Buchwald -- Reviews of This Book -- Judith E. "Judy" Heumann -- Dr. David B Hoyt -- Dr. Joseph M. Vigneri -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Statistics -- Life Expectancy -- Mortality Rate -- Potential Life Lost Years -- Infant Mortality -- Amenable Mortality to Healthcare -- Healthcare Access and Quality Index -- Healthcare Availability -- Healthcare Cost -- Summary -- Racial Discrepancy (See Chap. 9: The Underprivileged) -- Conclusions -- Sources -- Chapter 2: The Language of Change -- Conclusions -- Sources -- Chapter 3: The Medical School -- Medical School Origins -- The Medical School: Mission and Reality -- Teaching -- Teaching Primary Care -- Teaching Advanced Care -- Teaching Research -- Best of Current Medical Practice -- Medical School Research -- Costs of Running a Medical School -- Medical School Summary -- Conclusion -- Sources -- Chapter 4: The Clinic -- The Office -- Conclusions -- Sources -- Chapter 5: The Hospital -- History -- Pre-twentieth Century -- Twentieth Century Transitions -- Hospitals in the Twenty-First Century -- Getting In -- Getting Out -- Getting In Again -- In-Hospital Medical Care -- Hospital Accreditation -- Hospitals: A Business -- Conclusions -- Sources -- Chapter 6: The Practice -- What Was -- What Is -- What Will Be -- Conclusions -- Sources -- Chapter 7: Payers -- Ultimate Payer -- Insurers -- Hospital Systems -- Pharmaceuticals and Medical Instrument Companies -- Summary -- The Business of Healthcare -- Conclusions -- Sources -- Chapter 8: Socialized Medicine -- Definitions -- Single Payer -- Socialized Medicine -- US Healthcare System -- Principals and Practices of Socialized Medicine: The Good and the Bad -- Universal Healthcare -- Equity of Care -- Exclusions from Care -- Access to Care -- Quotas -- Patient Freedom of Choice.

Este libro es un ensayo extendido sobre las dinámicas de desarrollo y resistencia desatadas por los avances del extractivismo, una forma de capitalismo que se caracteriza por una crisis multidimensional de alcance global. El extractivismo toma diversas formas, pero el epicentro en su más reciente encarnación es América Latina. La región ha sido el principal blanco de sus impactos socioecológicos negativos, pero también el escenario de las fuerzas más poderosas de resistencia. El autor aborda tres dimensiones críticas de este proceso, incluyendo la nueva geoeconomía y geopolítica del capital, las resistencias en la frontera extractiva y las alternativas propuestas por los gobiernos formados en el »ciclo progresista« en la política, y construidos desde abajo por las comunidades indígenas y no indígenas en la frontera. Finalmente, cierra con una reflexión sobre la posibilidad de una transición postextractivista a un otro mundo de solidaridad social y armonía con la naturaleza, en condiciones de justicia social y ecológica.

A new ontology that forms the groundwork for ethical practices of resistance What and how should individuals resist in political situations? While these questions recur regularly within Western political philosophy, answers to them have often relied on dogmatically held ideals, such as the distinction between truth and doxa or the privilege of thought over sense. In particular, the strain of idealist political philosophy, inaugurated by Plato and finding contemporary expression in the work of Alain Badiou, employs dualities that reduce the complexities of practices of resistance to concepts of commitment.Chris Henry brings together the work of Althusser, Badiou and Deleuze in order to offer a new idea of political practice He develops a structural ontology that gives rise to non-idealist, non-dogmatic, yet ethical practices of resistance against the return of classical ontological dualities.Key FeaturesBrings together the work of Althusser, Badiou and Deleuze in order to offer a new idea of political practiceDevelops a structural ontology that gives rise to non-idealist, non-dogmatic and yet ethical practices of resistance against the return of classical ontological dualitiesContributes to the 'ontological turn', problematising tacit assumptions in the literature such as to be/to not be, the unity of the faculties of understanding, and a formal distinction between epistemology and ontologyClosely reads Badiou's metaphysics and critiques his concepts of two Platonic and one Parmenidean dyadsHighlights the importance of time in Althusser's workReads Deleuze through unlikely, yet important, encounters with Mill and Althusser"

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I A Theory of Enterprise Ownership -- 1 An Analytic Framework -- 2 The Costs of Contracting -- 3 The Costs of Ownership -- PART II Producer-Owned Enterprise -- 4 Investor-Owned Firms -- 5 The Benefits and Costs of Employee Ownership -- 6 Governing Employee-Owned Firms -- 7 Agricultural and Other Producer Cooperatives -- PART III Customer-Owned Enterprise -- 8 Retail, Wholesale, and Supply Firms -- 9 Utilities -- 10 Clubs and Other Associative Organizations -- 11 Housing -- PART IV Nonprofit and Mutual Enterprise -- 12 Nonprofit Firms -- 13 Banks -- 14 Insurance Companies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Sources -- Index

"We depend on a handful of metals and rare earths to power our phones and computers. Increasingly, we rely on them to power our cars and our homes. Whoever controls these finite commodities will become rich beyond imagining. Sanderson journeys to meet the characters, companies, and nations scrambling for the new resources, linking remote mines in the Congo and Chile's Atacama Desert to giant Chinese battery factories, shadowy commodity traders, secretive billionaires, a new generation of scientists attempting to solve the dilemma of a 'greener' world."--OverDrive