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Why is assertiveness important? -- Women and assertiveness -- How to be assertive -- Understanding ourselves -- Understanding others -- Teams, groups and facilitation -- Communicating in organisations -- The functions of management -- Leadership -- Developing interview skills -- Delegating -- Personal development -- Combatting stress -- Time management -- Goal setting and change management.

How Martha Graham became a cultural ambassador : modernist on the frontier -- "The new home of men" : modern Americana goes to Asia and the Middle East -- "Dedicated to freedom" : Martha Graham in Berlin, 1957 -- The aging of a star in Camelot : Israel, Europe, and "behind the Iron Curtain," 1962 -- Triumphing over "exhaustion," 1963-1974 -- "Forever modern" : from ashes to ambassador in Asia, 1974 -- "Grahamized and Americanized" : the defector joins the first lady on the global stage -- "And Martha knew how to play that" : from détente to disco in Jimmy Carter's Middle East, 1979 -- Dancing along the wall : Graham, Reagan, and the reunification of Berlin, 1987-1989.

Identifying the rule (what does a legal rule look like?) -- Whose rule is is? (sorting out subject matter and jurisdiction in the legal mess and finding a direction for your research) -- What you need to know about court structure, case law, and our three branches -- Finding the legal rule -- Issue, rule, application and conclusion -- Determining the legal issue and the legally relevant facts -- The rule, synthesizing the rule, and explaining the rule -- Rule application -- Methods of rule application -- The legal memo -- Onward and upward--persuasion.

Front Cover -- About Island Press -- Subscribe -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Principles and General Recommendations -- 1. Pursue the Three S's (Supply, Stability, and Subsidy) Simultaneously -- 2. Take Action Now -- 3. Focus on Institutional Reform -- 4. Adapt Solutions to the Needs of Your Community -- 5. Center Voices of, and Outcomes for, the Disenfranchised and Most Vulnerable -- 6. Use a Mix of Mandates and Incentives -- 7. Know What You're Asking For -- 8. Pick One: Housing Affordability or Rising Home Values -- 9. Don't Reward Idle Money -- 10. Don't Coddle Landlords -- 11. Track Everything -- 12. Strive for Objective, Consistent Rules -- 13. Expand the Conversation around Gentrification -- 14. Align Local Votes with Presidential and Midterm Elections -- Part II: Policies -- Supply: Why Housing Matters -- 15. Increased Zoning Capacity -- 16. Upzone Many Places at Once (Upzoning: Geographically Distributed) -- 17. Focus Upzones in Accessible and High-Opportunity Areas (Upzoning: Targeted) -- 18. Find the Upzoning Sweet Spot: Not Too Big, Not Too Small (Upzoning: Rightsized) -- 19. Allow Housing in Commercial Zones (Mixed-Use Zoning) -- 20. Make It Expensive to Reduce the Supply of Homes (Home Sharing) -- 21. Elimate Desity Limits in Most Places (Density Limits) -- 22. Eliminate Parking Requirements Everywhere (Parking Minimums) -- 23. Let Renters Decide What They Value (Micro-units) -- 24. Make Development Approvals "By Right" (By-Right Development) -- 25. Speed Up the Entitlement Process (Faster Approvals) -- 26. Explore Other Ways to Bring Down Development Costs (Input Costs) -- 27. Promote Counter-cyclical Home Building (Counter-cyclical Development) -- Stability: Why Tenant Protections and Rental Housing Preservation Matter.

Complicating perspectives on diversity in video gamesGamers have been troublemakers as long as games have existed. As our popular understanding of "gamer" shifts beyond its historical construction as a white, straight, adolescent, cisgender male, the troubles that emerge both confirm and challenge our understanding of identity politics. In Gamer Trouble, Amanda Phillips excavates the turbulent relationships between surface and depth in contemporary gaming culture, taking readers under the hood of the mechanisms of video games in order to understand the ways that difference gets baked into its technological, ludic, ideological, and social systems.By centering the insights of queer and women of color feminisms in readings of online harassment campaigns, industry animation practices, and popular video games like Portal and Mass Effect, Phillips adds essential analytical tools to our conversations about video games. She embraces the trouble that attends disciplinary crossroads, linking the violent hate speech of trolls and the representational practices marginalizing people of color, women, and queers in entertainment media to the dehumanizing logic undergirding computation and the optimization strategies of gameplay. From the microcosmic level of electricity and flicks of a thumb to the grand stages of identity politics and global capitalism, wherever gamers find themselves, gamer trouble follows. As reinvigorated forms of racism, sexism, and homophobia thrive in games and gaming communities, Phillips follows the lead of those who have been making good trouble all along, agitating for a better world

Educating the Germans examines the role of the British in the 'reconstruction' of education in occupied Germany from 1945 to 1949. It covers war-time planning for a future role in overseeing education at all levels in Germany, looks at policy and its implementation, describes the personnel involved and their interaction with German authorities, and assesses the lasting effects of the British effort in securing the future development of education from Kindergarten to university in the emerging Federal Republic. Some comparison is made throughout with parallel efforts in the US, French, and Soviet Zones of Occupation. By way of background, there is also a discussion of Nazi education policy and its effects.Thoroughly researched and employing a wide range of sources, this is an important study for anyone looking to further their understanding of Germany, and Britain's relationship with Germany in the postwar era.

A man I can do business with -- Personal discourtesy is his chief weapon -- Winston's power for mischief -- My master is lonely just now -- Taking personal charge -- Woolly rubbish -- Getting on terms with the Germans -- A new chapter in the history of African colonial development -- All that is well sewn up -- The central weakness -- Every effort to bring about appeasement -- A nice fraudulent balance sheet -- A wise British subject -- The best the English can do -- Their just demands had been fairly met -- Clearly marked out for the post -- The appalling sums it is proposed to spend -- Well anchored -- Abandonment and ruin -- Riding the tiger -- The right line about things -- Advice from the devil -- The mountebank -- Combating Hoare's heresies -- The end of the rainbow -- Pay whatever price may be necessary -- Catching the mugwumps -- Talking appeasement again -- More ways of killing a cat -- Mr Boothby expects a rake-off -- Too many people at the job -- Entitled to demand concessions -- Pathetic little worms -- A potato war -- A civil servant with a political sense -- Minister to Iceland -- A guilty man in the realm of King Zog -- He has returned to Bournemouth.

A sweeping history of Los Angeles told through the lens of the many marginalized groups-from hobos to taggers-that have used the city's walls as a channel for communication. Graffiti written in storm drain tunnels, on neighborhood walls, and under bridges tells an underground and, until now, untold history of Los Angeles. Drawing on extensive research within the city's urban landscape, Susan A. Phillips traces the hidden language of marginalized groups over the past century-from the early twentieth-century markings of hobos, soldiers, and Japanese internees to the later inscriptions of surfers, cholos, and punks. Whether describing daredevil kids, bored workers, or clandestine lovers, Phillips profiles the experiences of people who remain underrepresented in conventional histories, revealing the powerful role of graffiti as a venue for cultural expression. Graffiti aficionados might be surprised to learn that the earliest documented graffiti bubble letters appear not in 1970s New York but in 1920s Los Angeles. Or that the negative letterforms first carved at the turn of the century are still spray painted on walls today. With discussions of characters like Leon Ray Livingston (a.k.a. "A-No. 1"), credited with consolidating the entire system of hobo communication in the 1910s, and Kathy Zuckerman, better known as the surf icon "Gidget," this lavishly illustrated book tells stories of small moments that collectively build into broad statements about power, memory, landscape, and history itself

This work has two connected aims. The first is to interpret and evaluate W. D. Ross's ethics, focusing on the key elements of his moral theory: his introduction of the concept of prima facie duty, his limited pluralism about the right, and his limited pluralism about the good. The second is to articulate a distinctive view intermediate between consequentialism and absolutist deontology, 'classical deontology.'