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"The value and prominence of data has never been clearer. From the way we make policies at the highest levels, all the way down to our daily business practices, we try to be informed by data. The ability to not only analyze data but also to present it clearly and compellingly has become an important part of many people's work. In clear, well-organized chapters, Chrisinger and Brodsky introduce key concepts for communicating data and its usefulness. Across the fields of public health, health policy, and public policy more generally, but also in many other places, policymakers, advocates, and researchers will benefit from the big-picture overview and practical details presented by the authors"--

"This collection of essays examines whether or not a culture of violence exists in modern Texas by examining trends associated with various types of violence within the state as well as the social and political responses to violent behaviors and events from 1965 to the present. Texas history is steeped in brutality and bloodshed, including conflicts between Native American tribes (such as the Comanche and Apache), confrontations between European settlers and indigenous peoples, warfare, violence against slaves, personal feuds, extralegal activities commonly practiced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, labor strikes and riots, battles between segregationists and civil rights activists, and myriad other incidents. While scholars have argued that industrialization and economic changes coupled with the expansion of state institutions in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries have worked to reduce the frequency and acceptance of violence, recent evidence indicates that the general public does not agree, suggesting instead that a culture of violence has emerged, or perhaps persisted. Beginning with a broad introductory essay, the work proceeds in twelve chapters, each dealing with a specific form of violence. This important and timely collection provides valuable context to discussions on violence in general while providing a close examination of whether or not a culture of violence exists in Texas in the modern era"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Half Title -- Series Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Dedication -- Introduction -- 1 The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis -- 2 Some Considerations Relating to Property Rights in Man -- 3 The Volume of the Atlantic Slave Trade: A Synthesis -- 4 The Inter-Atlantic Paradigm: The Failure of Spanish Medieval Colonization of the Canary and Caribbean Islands -- 5 Wangara, Akan and Portuguese in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: The Matter of Bitu -- 6 Slavery in Africa and the Slave Trades from Africa -- 7 Slaves and Society in Western Africa, c. 1445-c. 1700 -- 8 Estimating Aboriginal American Population: An Appraisal of Techniques with a New Hemispheric Estimate -- 9 The Indian Population of North America in 1492 -- 10 The Tanios of Hispaniola: The Island's First Inhabitants -- 11 Indian Labor and New World Plantations: European Demands and Indian Responses in Northeastern Brazil -- 12 Cultural Change and Military Resistance in Araucanian Chile, 1550-1730 -- 13 From Indian to Slave: Forced Native Labour and Colonial Society in São Paulo During the Seventeenth Century -- 14 Iberian Expansion and the Issue of Black Slavery: Changing Portuguese Attitudes, 1440-1770 -- 15 English Trade with the Portuguese Empire in West Africa 1581-1629 -- 16 Protestants as Pirates, Slavers, and Proto-Missionaries: Sierra Leone 1568 and 1582 -- 17 From Africa to the Americas: Ethnicity in the Early Black Communities of the Americas -- Name Index.

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Disability provides foundational chapters on where we have been, where we are now, and where we must go with research on and in the sociology of disability. In doing so, the Handbook chapters wrestle with important questions around inequality, poverty, exclusion, political activism and empowerment, cultural attitudes, global policies and practices, and much more.

Cover -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES ON ROMANIZATION AND TRANSCRIPTION CONVENTIONS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- GLOSSARY OF CLIMBING TERMINOLOGY -- 1 Language and Body in Place and Space -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 A Very Brief History of Mountaineering and Rock Climbing -- 1.3 Climbing Situations and Styles of Climbing -- 1.4 The Relevance of Climbing to Language and Discourse Studies -- 1.5 Data Collection Method and Participants -- 1.6 Structure of the Book -- 2 Theories and Approaches -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Inter-action, Inter-subjectivity, and Inter-corporeality -- 2.3 How Space is Perceived, Conceived, and Represented -- 2.4 Gesture and Narration -- 2.5 Poetics in/of Performance -- 2.6 Chronotopes in Climbing -- 3 Rock Climbing as a Site of Embodied Institution -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Climbing and Belaying from a Discursive Perspective -- 3.3 Data Collection and Method of Analysis -- 3.4 "Leading/top-roping" and "Climbing/belaying" -- 3.5 Analysis of Climbing and Belaying -- 3.6 Summary and Discussion -- 4 Affordances in Rock Climbing -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Background and Data -- 4.3 Analysis of Bouldering Moves and Techiniques -- 4.4 Discussion and Conclusion -- 5 Ue and Shita in Horizontal and Vertical Space -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Dominant Doctrines: Egocentricity and Verticality -- 5.3 How Verticality Concerns Culture -- 5.4 Analysis: Two Cases of Fluid Verticality -- 5.5 Conclusion: Intersubjective/intercorporeal Merger -- 6 The Body and Deictic Verbs of Motion in Imaginary Space -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Theoretical Background -- 6.3 Data and Informants -- 6.4 Analysis of Intersubjectified Corporeality and Poetic Formation of Spatial Construction.

Intro -- Title Page -- Prologue: Taking on the Man in the Mansion and Losing -- Chapter 1: The Exception That Proves the Rule -- Chapter 2: 'Aspiration Nation': The Politics of Social Mobility and Opportunity -- Chapter 3: The Lottery of Birth -- Chapter 4: Wealth: The Social Engineer -- Chapter 5: 'She Can't Even Speak Properly': Class, Prejudice and the Struggle -- Chapter 6: Racism -- Chapter 7: Education: The Great Un-Equaliser -- Chapter 8: When Work Keeps You in Your Place -- Chapter 9: Changing Our Story of Success -- Chapter 10: A Land of Opportunities -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index -- Copyright.

Preface -- Introduction -- Desistance theory and its relevance to intimate partner violence -- Desistance from IPV and the role of victims/survivors -- Study methods -- Understanding context: Abuse perpetrated against women and their children and it's impact -- Strategies used by women to keep themselves safe and initiate and support desistance processes -- The desistance of violence and abuse within relationships -- Agency and resistance – the motivations and thought processes of female victims/survivors -- Discussion and conclusions – What is the role of women in the desistance of male-perpetrated IPV? -- References -- Attachment A: Interview Schedule -- Attachment B: Participant Information Sheet -- Attachment C: Consent form for participants -- Attachment D: Online survey -- Index.

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Global Development of Private Universities -- Chapter 3 Understanding University Governance in China -- Chapter 4 Theoretical Orientation, Methodology and Research Design -- Chapter 5 Governance in Practice: Three Private Universities -- Chapter 6 Form of Governance and the Factors that Shape It -- Chapter 7 Conclusion.