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Current discussions of the ethics around alternative food movements--concepts such as ""local,"" ""organic,"" and ""fair trade""--tend to focus on their growth and significance in advanced capitalist societies. In this groundbreaking contribution to critical food studies, editors Yuson Jung, Jakob A. Klein, and Melissa L. Caldwell explore what constitutes ""ethical food"" and ""ethical eating"" in socialist and formerly socialist societies. With essays by anthropologists, sociologists, and geographers, this politically nuanced volume offers insight into the origins of alternative food movement

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Tools for Time -- 1. High-Speed Society: Is the Pace of Life Accelerating? -- 2. Time and Motion: Machines and the Making of Modernity -- 3. The Time-Pressure Paradox -- 4. Working with Constant Connectivity -- 5. Doing Domestic Time -- 6. Time to Talk: Intimacy through Technology -- 7. Finding Time in a Digital Age -- Notes -- Index.

In Equitable Sharing: Distributing the Benefits and Detriments of Democratic Society, Thomas Kleven argues that a principle of equitable sharing is fundamental to the concept of democracy and is implicit in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Kleven makes the case that the Supreme Court, interacting with the public and the legislature, has a meaningful role to play in the dialogue over the requirements of equitable sharing and can play this role in a manner consistent with democratic principles

Die Sprachlosigkeit im Trauerfall ist oft sehr groß. Viele Menschen wissen nicht mehr, wie man eine Beileidskarte formuliert. Dieses Buch beinhaltet zehn Musterbriefe für verschiedene Trauersituationen. Darüber hinaus gibt es Sprüche und Gedichte von großen Dichtern und Philosophen,aber auch von unbekannten Verfassern. Das Buch erscheint hier in der zweiten erweiterten Auflage. Es ist als E-Book und als Paperback erhältlich

Race, Racism and Development places racism and constructions of race at the centre of an exploration of the dominant discourses, structures and practices of development. Combining insights from postcolonial and race critical theory with a political economy framework, it puts forward provocative theoretical analyses of the relationships between development, race, capital, embodiment and resistance in historical and contemporary contexts

Cover -- Title -- Preface -- Organizing Committee -- Table of Contents -- Behavioral Science -- The Evolution of Paternal Care -- Introduction -- The Simulation -- Agents' Attributes -- Strategies and Reproduction -- Initialisation -- Results and Analyses -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Parent Training Resource Allocation Optimization Using an Agent-Based Model of Child Maltreatment -- Introduction -- Model of CM and Parent Training Intervention -- Simulation Results -- Conclusions -- References -- Influence and Power in Group Interactions -- Introduction and Related Work -- Sociolinguistic Behaviors in Discourse -- Correlations between the Measures and Human Assessment -- Linguistic Components on the First Tier -- Evaluation and Results -- Conclusion and Perspectives -- References -- The Marketcast Method for Aggregating Prediction Market Forecasts -- Introduction -- Prediction Markets vs. Survey Forecasts -- Elicitation -- Aggregation -- Aggregation Parameters -- Methods and Data -- Results -- Conclusion -- References -- Peer Nominations and Its Relation to Interactions in a Computer Game -- Introduction -- Related Work -- Method -- Participants -- Procedure -- Popularity Metrics -- Statistical Analysis -- Results -- Global Analysis of Positive and Negative Nominations -- Pairwise Analysis of Metrics and Interactions -- Discussion -- References -- Predicting Personality Using Novel Mobile Phone-Based Metrics -- Introduction -- Results -- Methodology -- Participants and Procedure -- Metrics -- Personality -- Class Prediction -- Discussion -- References -- Moral Values from Simple Game Play -- Introduction -- Background -- Experiments -- Results and Analysis -- References -- An Agent-Based Model for Simultaneous Phone and SMS Traffic over Time -- Introduction -- Simulation Model -- Results -- Conclusion -- References

"The ascent of globalisation tells the sweeping historical drama of the development of globalisation, from the Second World War to the present day. The story is told through the richly detailed accounts of eighteen remarkable men and women, describing how these architects reshaped the modern world, for better or worse. Profiling their lives, ideas and struggles reveals fresh insights into the nature of globalisation. The book also examines their legacies, shedding new light on many of the problems the world faces today: the global financial crisis, the political and economic malaise afflicting Europe, the numerous failures of the United Nations, the unchecked power of corporations and the inability of governments to cooperate on critical issues such as climate change."--

"Employing Deleuzo-Guattarian orientations to assemblage and feminist approaches to care, this book offers a critique of neoliberal approaches to recovery from drugs and alcohol, while collapsing the dualities of harm reduction and recovery. This monograph empirically explores the practices of care emerging in two drug recovery services in Liverpool and Athens. Following the flows of the participants' desires, it argues that it is not the lack of the substance that holds the recovery assemblage together, but the production of connections that enhance a body's power of acting, constituting recovery a practice of collective care. The outcome of the analysis of the lived experiences of people in recovery is a call for the dismissal of policy as an intervention coming from outside, and its reconstitution as a practice produced inside the recovery assemblage. Focusing on the value of the assemblage as a viable methodological, ontological and epistemological orientation for critical drug studies, this volume contributes to the sociology of health and illness, and will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Deleuzian Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Sociology and Social Policy, Drugs and Addiction, Public Health and Medical Anthropology"--

UNIT 1. The place of science and technology in society -- Does politics come before science in current government decision making? -- Should government restrict the publication of unclassified but "sensitive" research? -- Should the Internet be neutral? -- UNIT 2. The environment -- Should society act now to halt global warming? -- Is it time to revive nuclear power? -- Will hydrogen replace fossil fuels for cars? -- UNIT 3. Human health and welfare -- Do falling birth rates pose a threat to human welfare? -- Is there sufficient scientific research to conclude that cell phones cause cancer? -- Should DDT be banned worldwide? -- Should potential risks slow the development of nanotechnology? -- Are genetically modified foods safe to eat? -- UNIT 4. Space -- Should we expand efforts to find near-earth objects? -- Will the search for extraterrestrial life ever succeed? -- Is "manned space travel" a delusion? -- UNIT 5. The computer revolution -- Does the Internet strengthen social connections? -- Does the spread of surveillance technology threaten privacy? -- Should the world's libraries be digitized? -- UNIT 6. Ethics -- Is the use of animals in research justified? -- Is it ethically permissible to clone human cells? -- Is wind power green? -- Are "space sunshades" a possible answer to global warming?

The introduction to the 2022 Special Issue presents the 20 articles that discuss the demographic aspects and the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. It synthesises the main findings from the contributions, emphasising the demographic, social and economic characteristics that influenced the spread of infections and determined the number of deaths. We highlight the specific focus on measurement issues, often with a comparative framework across several countries, and at the regional level as well, both within and beyond Europe. We also summarise the impact of the measures imposed to contain the spread of the virus, such as lockdowns. Moreover, we explore the impact of the pandemic on the quality of relationships, the intention and the motivation to have children, and realised fertility. In addition, we present the authors' broader reflections on the risks faced by different communities of individuals, and the potential consequences for their life trajectories, including in relation to other current risks that overlap with the pandemic (recent armed conflicts), and for the achievability of the Sustainable Development Goals themselves.

A review of the specialist literature and analysis of own study results reveal that a scale of the phenomena of undeclared work is both globally and locally significant and differentiated. Comparative research for the entire geographical area is difficult, as these are countries with very diverse economies. This was due to historical conditions, dynamic of socio-political changes and ties with other political alliances, membership in organizations and economic partnerships. The aim of the empirical research was to identify the financial aspects of undertaking work in the grey zone from the workers point of view. The study target group were chosen from unemployed registered at the Municipal Employment Office in Płock, Mazovia Region. Results show that the unemployed turn to undeclared work for financial reasons, such as higher reimbursement, unsatisfactory income or excessively high social insurance contributions. Respondents assessed their financial situation most often as bad, and indicated difficulties in finding work through registered employment. People who undertake work in a grey zone are predominantly those from low income groups, socially excluded, migrants, long time unemployed.