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Front Cover -- Front Flap -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Author's Note -- Prologue: Nothin' about the Blues -- Introduction: A New Way to Die -- Part I: Losing Control -- Chapter 1: Spinning Away -- Chapter 2: When Hospice Isn't Enough -- Part II: Navigating Obstacles -- Chapter 3: Restrictive Laws -- Chapter 4: Invisible Death -- Chapter 5: A Bureaucratic Maze -- Chapter 6: Medical Gatekeepers -- Chapter 7: The Science of Dying -- Chapter 8: Family Matters -- Part III: Regaining Control -- Chapter 9: Flying Free -- Chapter 10: Crossing Over -- Chapter 11: Together in Grief -- Part IV: The Way Forward -- Chapter 12: New Frontiers -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Reading Group Guide -- A Conversation with the Author -- Resources -- Notes -- About the Author -- Back Flap -- Back Cover.

Are robots taking away our jobs? Those who ask this question have misunderstood digitalisation - it is not an industrial revolution by other means. The author searches for the actual novelties brought about by digitalisation and digital capitalism. In her analysis, she juxtaposes Marx's concept of productive force with the idea of distributive force. From the platform economy to artificial intelligence, the author shows that digital capitalism is less about the efficient production of value, but rather about its fast, risk-free, and permanently secured realisation on the markets. The examination of this dynamic and its consequences also leads to the question of how destructive the distributive forces of digital capitalism might be.

"Still the only full-length study of the achievements and limitations of Lenin's extensive writings on Hegel, Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism has become a minor classic. In a full critical account, the book connects his 'dialectics' to his renowned writings on imperialism, anti-colonial movements, and the state. It takes up as well the debate over Lenin's writings on Hegel among Western Marxists such as Georg Lukács, Henri Lefebvre, C. L. R. James, Raya Dunayevskaya, Lucio Colletti, and Louis Althusser. With a comprehensive new introduction by the author. This book was first published by University of Illinois Press, 1995 (978-02-52-06503-3); with new Introduction by the author"--

Intro -- Title Page -- Map -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue -- Part I: The Bubble Trouble -- One: An American Girl in Cherskii -- Two: The Trapper -- Three: War of Attrition -- Four: Cats in the Ice -- Five: Northern Lights -- Part II: Nomad -- Six: Childhood Broken -- Seven: A New Beginning -- Eight: Adventures of an Atheist -- Part III: Coming of Age -- Nine: A Scientific Author -- Ten: Truth Pursuit -- Eleven: Peat Cakes and Wedding Cakes -- Twelve: Gassy Lassie -- Thirteen: Brooks Range -- Fourteen: Dangerous Ice -- Part IV: A Piece of Clay -- Fifteen: Back to the Kolyma -- Sixteen: A Sleeping Giant -- Seventeen: Farm Wife -- Eighteen: Spying on Methane -- Nineteen: Love at Last -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Photo Section -- About the Author -- Copyright -- About the Publisher.

The author encompasses concepts and theories from multiple disciplines notably sociology, anthropology, business, and economics to examine major global trends and transformations of the modern world, their underlying causes, and their consequences. The text examines global demographic trends, globalization, culture, emerging markets, global security, environmental degradation, large corporations, and economic inequality. The author also analyzes major transformations in healthcare, food, the sharing economy, Fourth Industrial Revolution, consumption, work and organization, innovation and various technologies in areas such as automation, robotics, connectivity, quantum computing, and new materials. This book is a valuable reference for business leaders, managers, students, and all those who are passionate about understanding the rapidly changing contemporary world.

Are robots taking away our jobs? Those who ask this question have misunderstood digitalisation - it is not an industrial revolution by other means. The author searches for the actual novelties brought about by digitalisation and digital capitalism. In her analysis, she juxtaposes Marx's concept of productive force with the idea of distributive force. From the platform economy to artificial intelligence, the author shows that digital capitalism is less about the efficient production of value, but rather about its fast, risk-free, and permanently secured realisation on the markets. The examination of this dynamic and its consequences also leads to the question of how destructive the distributive forces of digital capitalism might be.

This book addresses the fate of intellectuals in modern culture and politics. Russell Jacobys seminal The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe (1987, 2000) introduced the term "public intellectual" and gave rise to heated controversy. Here Jacoby assesses contemporary public intellectuals, their profound failings and limited achievements. The book includes biting appraisals of well-known intellectuals, such as Noam Chomsky, Hannah Arendt, and Bernard-Henri Levy, as well as interventions on violence, utopia and multiculturalism. Russell Jacoby is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, USA, and the author of the author of nine books, including Repression of Psychoanalysis (1983), Bloodlust (2011), and most recently On Diversity (2020).

"Seeing Social Problems shows students how to think about social problems in a new way, by carefully analyzing headline-making issues they are already familiar with. Each chapter focuses on a specific case study that represents a more general social problem. The chapters always start with the knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and personal experiences that students bring to the case-what the author refers to as the conventional wisdom-and effectively demonstrates to them the "first wisdom" of sociology: "things are not what they seem." In each instance, the author shows how sociologists ask questions, gather empirical data, use multiple perspectives, and consider larger social forces to discover the "hidden stories" behind individual behavior"--

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Note from the Author -- Part 1: Repeat After Me . . . -- i. -- ii. -- iii. -- iv. -- v. -- Part 2: Congratulations-You Have Been Chosen to Join the Next Evolutionary Level Above Human -- i. -- ii. -- iii. -- iv. -- v. -- Part 3: Even YOU Can Learn to Speak in Tongues -- i. -- ii. -- iii. -- iv. -- v. -- vi. -- Part 4: Do You Wanna Be a #BossBabe? -- i. -- ii. -- iii. -- iv. -- v. -- vi. -- Part 5: This Hour Is Going to Change Your Life . . . and Make You LOOK AWESOME -- i. -- ii. -- iii. -- iv. -- v. -- vi. -- Part 6: Follow for Follow -- i. -- ii. -- iii. -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- About the Author -- Also by Amanda Montell -- Copyright -- About the Publisher.

"The author builds her conceptual arguments for trans-subjectivity through a psyche/social reading of Kristeva's theory of signifiance (sublimation), Lacan's 1945 essay on collective logic, Heidegger's (secondly Jung) secular reading of the apostle Paul's Christian revolution, and Žižek, Badiou and Jung's conception of the neighbor within a differentiated humanity. The author illustrates her thesis through clinical illustrations, an auto-ethnographic study of the emergence of an AIDS clinic, and an accounting of trans-subjectivity situated in the reals of U.S. black revolutionary transitional time enflamed by the killing of George Floyd by a police officer and manifesting in Killer Mike's speech on behalf of differentiating African American identity"--

Intro -- Foreword by Jack Keating -- A History of Human Influence on the Bay -- Preface: The Beginning -- Part One | Protest -- Chapter 1: Selfish Reasons -- Chapter 2: A Bad Deal -- Chapter 3: Gaining Support -- Part Two | The Battle in Full-swing -- Chapter 4: Fighting on Two Fronts -- Chapter 5: The Trial -- Chapter 6: The Appeal -- Part Three | Creating an Ecological Reserve -- Chapter 7: Finally a Nature Park -- Chapter 8: Full-Time Attention -- Chapter 9: Reflections on the 25-Year Battle -- Afterword: Upper Newport Bay Today -- References -- Saving the Bay Timeline -- Key People Who Saved the Bay -- Newport Bay Presidents -- Works Cited and Other Resources -- About Newport Bay Conservancy -- About the Author and Author Acknowledgements.

Intro -- Against All Gods: The Way to Humanism -- About the Author -- Copyright Information © -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- The Nurturing of a Sceptic -- Chapter 2 -- The Faithful and the Sceptic -- Chapter 3 -- Toward Answers -- Chapter 4 -- Stardust to Skeletons and Skins -- Chapter 5 -- A Closer Look at the Human Condition -- Chapter 6 -- Speech, Language and Theory of Mind -- Chapter 7 -- Morality, Gods and Religions -- Chapter 8 -- Values -- Chapter 9 -- Purpose in Life -- Chapter 10 -- About Consciousness, Life and Death -- Chapter 11 -- A Humanist Glance at the Wider World -- Chapter 12 -- Humanism for All Humanity: -- A Background -- The 2002 Amsterdam Declaration: -- Postscript -- I'M DONE! -- About the Author -- Bibliography.

This publication focuses on the concept of enterprise and entrepreneurship. The first part provides an overview and considers the developments in legislation and case law of the conditions for the existence of an objective enterprise. Subsequently, the author outlines the contours for the demarcation of the company with two other sources of income in income tax, i.e. wages from employment and results from other activities. The second part deals with the legal framework and the conditions which article 3.4 of the Income Tax Act 2001 imposes on the qualification of a taxpayer as an entrepreneur. The author also pays special attention to the qualification of a taxpayer who participates in a collaborative venture in which an objective enterprise is run

This Element provides an explanation for the power of weak states in international politics, focusing on the case of international climate negotiations at the United Nations. The author points to the pitfalls of assuming that weak countries elicit power from their coordinated salience for climate issues. Contrastingly, it is argued that weak states' influence at global climate negotiations depends on the moral authority provided by strong states. The author maintains that weak states' authority is contingent on international vulnerability, which intersects broader domestic discussions of global justice, and pushes the leaders of strong countries to concede power to weak countries. New empirical evidence is shown in support of the theory.

Front Cover -- Front Flap -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prologue -- My Adoption So Black -- Mommie Dearest, Daddy's Dead -- Decision Made -- Mommy Lessons -- Other People's Fears -- Graduating into Motherhood -- His Name Is What? -- Motherhood So White -- In Limbo -- Looking for Diverse Parenting Literature in All the Right Places (and Finding Almost None) -- Turning One and Other Milestones -- The Obama Season -- Rituals and Rites of Passage -- Everybody Has an Opinion -- Got My Sea Legs -- Building My Village -- Heroes -- August Gets His Wish -- Boy Child in the Promised Land -- Bad Mama Jamas -- Epilogue -- Stories of Parenting So Black -- Nikki Godfrey -- Carla -- Evelyn -- Selected Resources -- Reading Group Guide -- A Conversation with the Author -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Back Flap -- Back Cover.