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Intro -- LOOKING FOR ASHLEY -- Title Page -- Copyright Notice -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms -- Epigraph -- 1. The Project -- 2. Foundations of the Project - The Project in Conversation -- 3. Inmate Smith - Necropolitical Success -- 4. Child Ashley - Recuperation -- 5. Patient Smith - From Problem Inmate to Mental Patient: Pathologization, Assimilation, Domestication -- 6. Conclusion - Multiple Agencies -- Bibliography -- About the Author.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Black Belts Insult Us -- 2. Poor But Not Poverty Stricken -- 3. Housing the Soldiers of the Home Front -- Gallery of Illustrations -- 4. The Greatest Negro Victory Since the Civil War -- 5. From Foxholes to Ratholes -- 6. Picket Lines Were the Front Lines for Democracy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Author Biography -- Back Cover.

About the Author; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword: Yes, We Can; Introduction: Can Europeans Read?; 1 Can Non-Europeans Think?; 2 The Moment of Myth Edward Said, 1935-2003; 3 The Middle East is Changed Forever; 4 The War between the Civilized Man and the Savage; 5 Postcolonial Defiance or Still the Other; Conclusion: The Continued Regime of Knowledge; Index.

Dorothea E. von Mücke is professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Virtue and the Veil of Illusion: Generic Innovation and the Pedagogical Project and The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale. Her coedited books include Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century and New History of German Literature.

The book provides a systematic overview of contemporary discourse on sustainability along with sustainability goals, strategies, and institutions at the international, European, and German national levels. Based on politically determined goals and indicators for sustainable development, the author analyzes the congruities between different goals as well as interdependencies between systems. Prof. Dr. Carsten Müller (Hochschule Fulda)

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: What is a Community? -- Chapter 2: School -- Chapter 3: Library -- Chapter 4: Post Office -- Chapter 5: Grocery Store -- Chapter 6: Hospital -- Chapter 7: Gas Station -- Chapter 8: Bank -- Chapter 9: So Many Places -- Glossary -- What Did You Learn? -- For More Information -- Index/About the Author -- Back Cover

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Mother-Child Troubles, Past and Present -- 2. "Welcome to Your Child's Brain" -- 3. "The Multimillion-Dollar Child" -- 4. "I Think I Have to Advocate Five Thousand Times Harder!" -- 5. En-gendering the Medicalized Child -- 6. "A Strange Coincidence" -- 7. Mothers, Children, and Families in a Precarious Time -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Glamour Labor -- 1. Supermodels of the World -- 2. The Runway -- 3. The Photo Shoot -- 4. Cover Girl -- 5. The Fashionable Ideal -- 6. The Job -- 7. Scouting -- 8. Black-Black-Black -- 9. Touch-Ups -- Conclusion: The Affective Turn -- Appendix A: Chronology of Modeling in the Media, 1980–2010 -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Principles: Moving Beyond "Attract and Retain" -- 2. Planning: Prepping Businesses and Places for Success -- 3. Purchasing: Pumping Up the Sales Volume -- 4. People: Training the Talent -- 5. Partnerships: Teaming Up to Win -- 6. Purse: Ending Investment Apartheid -- 7. Possibilities: A Million Wishes -- Appendix: 28 Models of Pollinator Enterprises -- Notes -- About the Author.

This book offers an introduction to the study of popular culture, both historical and contemporary. Beginning from the assumption that cultural systems are dynamic, contradictory, and hard to pin down, the author explores the field through a survey of important questions, including: What is popular culture? How has it developed over time? And what functions does it serve?

This book aims to describe and evaluate the idea of democracy. Rinderle examines the historical origins of democracy, its normative foundations and political mechanisms, and presents contemporary challenges and possible contexts of application. Through clear terminology and specific examples, the author seeks to allow a broad range of readers to reach well-grounded conclusions about the theme of democracy.

"This book summarizes hundreds of cases of espionage for and against U.S. interests and offers suggestions for further reading. Milestones in the history of American counterintelligence are noted. Charts describe the motivations of traitors, American targets of foreign intelligence services and American traitors and their foreign handlers. The author discusses trends in intelligence gathering and what the future may hold"--

In this volume, two authors debate the ethics of procreation. One argues for the anti-natalist view that procreation is never morally permissible. In support of that conclusion he advances a number of arguments. In the second half of the book, the second author identifies a variety of moderate pro-natalist positions, which all see procreation as sometimes permissible but never required

This is a chronicle of Indian tribal sovereignty under the United States Constitution and the way that legislators have interpreted and misinterpreted tribal sovereignty since the nation's founding. The author offers a novel and deeply researched synthesis of this legal history from colonial times to the present, confronting the failures of constitutional analysis in contemporary Indian law jurisprudence.

An introduction to the weapons that made up the armoury of tribes in pre-European New Zealand. Drawing on historical sources and contemporary expertise the author explains the manufacture, maintenance and use of each of the principal weapons: two handed weapons (including pouwhenua and tewatewha), patu and mere, spears (including huata and tokotoko), and other weapons (including hoeroa and oka)