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First published in 1981, this book provides an in-depth study of how old age was experienced in contemporary Australian society at the time. It was the first major piece of original research on aging to be published in Australia and in several important senses represented a clear departure from the mainstream of Australian gerontology.

This book explores the history and impact of an importantNew Deal program that improved living conditions across Puerto Rico in the wakeof destructive hurricanes and the Great Depression, while at the same timeresulting in a strengthened colonial relationship between the island and theUnited States.

Over the past decades 'photovoice' has emerged as a participatory and creative research method where participants capture and discuss their reality through photographs. This unprecedented 'how-to' book takes novice and experienced researchers through the practicalities and ethics of applying this approach.

No other investigation across his entire FBI career would ever match the level of intensity, excitement, suspense, and drama of operation "Paesan Blues"--this book is the inside look at that undercover investigation centered on an Italian mafioso and his associates in Miami and Italy.

Like sharks to blood in the water, the mob arrived in Hollywood greedy and ready to tear away huge chunks of cash. Opportunistic mobsters saw labor unions as the means for muscling into the movie industry and extorting millions of dollars from studio bosses.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface, Bingchun Meng, Guobin Yang, and Elaine J. Yuan -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. Governing with Digital Tools -- Infrastructures for the Public: The Institutional Contexts of the Applications of Digital Technology in the U.S. during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Elaine J. Yuan -- Pandemic Infrastructure, Mediated Mobility, and Urban Governance in China, Yang Zhan -- DingTalk and Chinese Digital Workplace Surveillance in Pandemic Times, Yizhou Xu -- Access as Method: Hopes, Friction, and Mediated Communication in a Remote Disability Reading Group, Zihao Lin -- Part 2. Making Sense of the Pandemic -- Chinese Students and Narratives of Freedom before and during COVID-19, Yingyi Ma and Ning Zhan -- Cosmopolitan Imperative or Nationalist Sentiment? Mediated Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic among Chinese Overseas Students, Bingchun Meng, Zifeng Chen, and Veronica Jingyi Wang -- Contesting for Consensus: Social Sentiment toward Fellow Citizens' COVID-Related Behavior in China, Yan Wang and Yuxi Zhang -- Part 3. Contesting over Narratives -- Narrating the Nation during the Global Pandemic: The "K-Quarantine" and Biopolitical Nationalism in the Era of COVID-19, Ji-Hyun Ahn -- What Motivated the Sharing of Disinformation about China and COVID-19? A Study of Social Media Users in Kenya and South Africa, Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales -- China's Twitter Diplomacy: Crafting Narratives of COVID-19, Wendy Leutert and Nicholas Atkinson -- Contributors -- Index.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Mississippi River Trade to 1783 -- 1 The Colonial River -- 2 Kentucky Land, Cash, and the Mississippi -- 3 The River at War -- Part II. The Closure of the River and Sectional Crisis, 1784-1795 -- 4 An Imperial Problem -- 5 Trading without the River -- 6 Chickasaw Country -- Part III. Western Trade, Atlantic World, 1796-1803 -- 7 Cotton and the Americanization of Natchez -- 8 American Trade in a Spanish Port -- 9 The Chickasaw Trace -- 10 Buying the Mississippi -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Recent books in the series.

This book investigates the needs, conditions for, and qualities of dialogical communication from three perspectives, each of which make demands on dialogical skills: the political/cultural dimension, the technological dimension, and the educational dimension. Ultimately, this book sheds light on the crucial communication challenges of the present, revealing the circumstances by which the dialogue contributes to increased intersubjectivity.

"A fast-paced account of America's plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adversaries-Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia-based on deep reporting from inside the White House, U.S. intelligence agencies, technology firms, and foreign governments"--

Originally published in 1983, this anthology was the first to integrate the political experiences of the Central American mainland and the Caribbean archipelago and provides analyses of some of the most explosive events of the 1970s and 80s in this region.