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Businesses are major contributors to the global problems we face, but they are also well-placed to effect positive change. John Davis offers examples of companies that are taking action and presents a framework to help C-suite leaders and executive teams develop their own blueprint for putting societal value at the heart of their business.

William James (1842-1910) was elder brother to the novelist Henry James and a founder of the study of psychology. But he was also a thinker who sought to work across conventional boundaries, and did not believe in separate disciplines or over-professionalized ways of thinking. Not a formal, academic philosopher, James was above all interested in those moments when thoughts suddenly come into being, 'hot' and 'alive'. William James is for anyone who has experienced the personal need for such thinking and feels the excitement of ideas. It concerns the personal experience of reading James, involving extensive quotation from his work in relation to Philip Davis's own inner life and the lives of other readers of James-a thinker who is defiantly convinced of the fundamental validity of the inner life in the perception and the making of the Real. William James is about William James's life-writing, writing for the sake of existence, that puts together a mix of literature, psychology, philosophy, and biography in the search for purpose and human flourishing, in place of formal religion. Philip Davis is a reader of literature who feels that readers of novels and poems also need the help of psychology and philosophy, to get the thinking out, to make it into a working part of a life. His book is for readers, especially readers of literature, seeking to create, like William James, a literary way of thinking outside the realm of literature.

"Homelessness is an issue that affects people all around the world, including many children. But how can we help people experiencing homelessness? This book introduces arguments for different approaches to dealing with the issue of homelessness. Readers will learn the common reasons behind homelessness and how different solutions may help. Readers will be able to create an informed opinion through examining arguments, reading fact boxes, and exploring a graphic organizer. This important topic allows readers to apply critical thinking skills to a real-world situation"--

Mediating Cultural Memory is the first book to analyze the relationship between cultural memory, national identity and the changing media ecology in early eighteenth-century Britain. Leith Davis focuses on five pivotal episodes in the histories of England, Scotland and Ireland: the 1688 'Glorious' Revolution; the War of the Two Kings in Ireland (1688-91); the Scottish colonial enterprise in Darien (1695-1700); the 1715 Jacobite Rising; and the 1745 Jacobite Rising. She explores the initial inscription of these episodes in forms such as ballads, official documents, manuscript newsletters, correspondence, newspapers and popular histories, and examines how counter-memories of these events continued to circulate in later mediations. Bringing together Memory Studies, Book History and British Studies, Mediating Cultural Memory offers a new interpretation of the early eighteenth century as a crucial stage in the development of cultural memory and illuminates the processes of remembrance and forgetting that have shaped the nation of Britain.

This original study makes a compelling case for a more ethical approach to urban development and management. Countering the conventional, neoliberal thinking of urban planners and academics, it uses case studies to show how a philosophy of caring can promote the wellbeing of our cities' many inhabitants.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Maps, Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- By way of an introduction -- PART I: The defile of the signifier -- 1 Dimensions of the Body -- 2 The Disorder of Things I: Diagnostic Categories and the Classification of Illness -- 3 The Disorder of Things II: Aetiology of Disease and the Process of Divination -- 4 The Defile of the Signifier: From Symptom to Life History -- PART II: Generation of identity, (re)production of history -- 5 Illness and Personal Identity: Kiabu's Case -- 6 Illness and Local History: Mwanga Village -- PART III: Intervening in the substantial real -- 7 Bodily Therapies -- 8 The Logic of a Substantial World -- 9 Events Objectified: Words into Things -- 10 Futures Realised: Events out of Things -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Terrorists need money . to recruit and train people, to buy weapons, to maintain safe houses, to carry out attacks. Which raises the question: how do they procure and protect funds to finance their operations? In Illicit Money, Jessica Davis thoroughly answers that question. Davis explores the full spectrum of terrorist finance, drawing on extensive case studies to dissect how individuals, cells, and organizations raise and manage, as well as hide, funds. In her concluding chapters, she considers both opportunities and challenges related to countering these illicit activities

Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the Arctic, in the depths of the Mariana Trench, and in the high mountaintops of the Pyrenees. It is in the air we breathe and the water we drink. Nanoplastics penetrate our cell walls. Plastic is not just any material—it is emblematic of life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Plastic Matter Heather Davis traces plastic's relations to geology, media, biology, and race to show how matter itself has come to be understood as pliable, disposable, and consumable. The invention and widespread use of plastic, Davis contends, reveals the dominance of the Western orientation to matter and its assumption that matter exists to be endlessly manipulated and controlled by humans. Plastic's materiality and pliability reinforces these expectations of what matter should be and do. Davis charts these relations to matter by mapping the queer multispecies relationships between humans and plastic-eating bacteria and analyzing photography that documents the racialized environmental violence of plastic production. In so doing, Davis provokes readers to reexamine their relationships to matter and life in light of plastic's saturation

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1958

Overview -- What is civics? -- What is citizenship? -- Current state of civics and citizenship education -- What's been done in the past -- Where do we go from here? -- Social-emotional learning and cultural literacy -- Virtue ethics and digital civics and citizenship -- Approaches to teaching digital civics and citizenship -- Diversity, inclusion and equity in digital civics and citizenship -- Teaching digital civics and citizenship -- Integrating with STEM/STEAM curriculum -- Integrating with traditional curriculum -- Stand-alone digital civics and citizenship classes -- Sample lesson plans and learning activities -- Standards, outcomes, and objectives -- Products and assessments -- Cultivating culture -- Looking forward.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Parenting -- 3 Culture -- 4 Social policy -- 5 A detailed study/research -- 6 BAME parents' perspectives -- 7 Social workers' perspectives -- 8 What it all means -- References -- Index.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Triumph of Politics as Usual, 1941-1945 -- 2 Thomas Dewey and the Dilemmas of Republican Wartime Opposition -- 3 Franklin Roosevelt and the Challenges of the Democratic Majority -- 4 Mackinac and the Making of a Republican Foreign Policy -- 5 Democrats and the Postwar World -- 6 John W. Bricker and the Conservative Republicans -- 7 The Fall of Wendell Willkie -- 8 Thomas Dewey and the Struggle for Republican Consensus -- 9 The Republican National Convention -- 10 Dewey-"An American of This Century" -- 11 Franklin Roosevelt and the Pursuit of Democratic Party Unity -- 12 The Democratic National Convention -- 13 Thomas Dewey and the Making of a Wartime Campaign -- 14 FDR-Commander-in-Chief -- 15 "The Listening Campaign" -- 16 "Such a Slimy Campaign" -- 17 Roosevelt and Victory -- Conclusion: "Not a Word, Not a Comma" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index