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First published in English in 1934, A History of National Socialism provides a detailed account of the growth of the movement through the 1920's until its assumption of full control of Germany in 1934. It argues that Nazi ideology was extremely pragmatic and able to accommodate a wide diversity of opinion in return for the unconditional support of Hitler as leader

This transdisciplinary volume puts forward proposals for wiser, socially just and sustainable socio-economic systems in transition. There is growing support for the view that the end of capitalism is around the corner, but on which conceptual and ethical basis can we interpret these times? With investigations into feminist economics, post-growth environmentalism, socio-technical digital design, collaborative and commons economics, the editors create a dialogue between radical knowledge/practices and contemplative social sciences to transgress disciplinary boundaries and implement new visions of reality. This important book challenges our ways of thinking and outlines a pathway for new research.

Metal mines played a major part in Britain's history, but these abandoned mines are the largest source of metals to our rivers and seas which can seriously harm aquatic life such as fish and river-flies. Hugh Potter, the Environment Agency's Water and Abandoned Metal Mines lead, looks at the action being taken to address the legacy.

The current age of global inequality, in which life expectancy is overwhelmingly determined by geography, doesnot bode well for the relationship between human rights and the Non‐Western world. While history does not provideany guidance on how to create a more just world order, it does show us that human rights are not a fixedconcept, frozen in time.

This article reports on a certification examination for teachers of students with visual impairments—the National Literary Braille Competency Test (NLBCT). It discusses the history, development, pilot testing, and validation of NLBCT and the creation of the National Certification in Literary Braille. Data on the current administration of the test and directions for future development are presented.

International audience ; This article analyses how the Hindutva ideological programme on history-writing is concretely implemented at grass-root levels by an rss-affiliated organisation. The organisation's name is the Akhil Bharatiya Itihas Sankalan Yojna. The area of fieldwork moves from its rss headquarters to its Chandigarh branch and to its Kullu branch. The primary objective of the article is to shed light on the multiple forms of mediation of the organisation, which show how Hindutva influence in local society cannot be simply reduced to the direct effects of its militants' actions. It also examines how the Hindutva discourse on history infiltrates the local conception of regional culture , merges with pre-existent conceptions and encounters specific forms of resistance. Finally, the article suggests the importance of understanding the Hindutva rereading of Indian history in the light of other post-colonial historiographies, engaged in a similar effort of placing the locality within a wider and prestigious framework. o ver the last few years quite a virulent debate has animated the circle of indian historians who have actively denounced and decon-structed the rewriting of indian history by rss-affiliated organisations. rss is the abbreviation of rashtriya swayamsevak sangh, "association of national Volunteers ", a militant organisation for the propagation/diffusion of Hindutva ("Hinduness"). The aim of the organisation is to build a new (and strong) Hindu people/nation. its members' training is paramilitary. The rss is the real core of the other organisations that together form the sangh Parivar ("family of the sangh", with reference to the rss), a journalistic expression for the complex network of organisations formed around the rss. among these, one is a political party, the bjp (Bharatiya Janata Party, "Party of the indian People "), and another is a religious organisation, the vhp (Visva Hindu Parishad, "universal Hindu congress").

A review essay on a book by Alfred W. McCoy, Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State (Madison, University of Wisconsin Press.

Over the past two decades, there has been a marked increase in partisan social polarization, leaving scholars in search of solutions to partisan conflict. The psychology of intergroup relations identifies empathy as one of the key mechanisms that reduces intergroup conflict, and some have suggested that a lack of empathy has contributed to partisan polarization. Yet, empathy may not always live up to this promise. We argue that, in practice, the experience of empathy is biased toward one's ingroup and can actually exacerbate political polarization. First, using a large, national sample, we demonstrate that higher levels of dispositional empathic concern are associated with higher levels of affective polarization. Second, using an experimental design, we show that individuals high in empathic concern show greater partisan bias in evaluating contentious political events. Taken together, our results suggest that, contrary to popular views, higher levels of dispositional empathy actually facilitate partisan polarization.

Platonic philia and political order / James M. Rhodes -- Taking friendship seriously : Aristotle on the place(s) of philia in human life / Stephen Salkever -- Cicero's distinctive voice on friendship : De amicitia and De re publica / Walter Nicgorski -- The luminous path of friendship : Augustine's account of friendship and political order / John von Heyking -- A companionship of caritas : friendship in St. Thomas Aquinas / Jeanne Heffernan Schindler -- Friendship in the civic order : a reformation absence / Thomas Heilke -- Plato and Montaigne : ancient and modern ideas of friendship / Timothy Fuller -- Hobbes on getting by with little help from friends / Travis D. Smith -- Social friendship in the founding era / George Carey -- It is not good for man to be alone : Tocqueville on friendship / Joshua Mitchell -- Zarathustra and his asinine friends : Nietzsche and taste as the groundless ground of friendship / Richard Avramenko -- Friendship, trust, and political order : a critical overview / Jürgen Gebhardt

CONTENTS ANNOUNCEMENTS ARTICLES PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS --Telling Latter-day Saint Lives: The Craft and Continuing Challenge of Mormon Biography Newell G. Bringhurst, 1 TANNER LECTURE --The Free Seekers: Religious Culture in Upstate New York, 1790-1835 Alan Taylor, 44 --New Sources on Old Friends: The Thomas L. Kane and Elizabeth W. Kane Collection David J. Whittaker, 67 --The Mormon Gender-Inclusive Image of God Danny L. Jorgensen, 95 --"Untrumpeted and Unseen": Josephine Spencer, Mormon "Authoress" Kylie Nielson Turley, 127 --Earning Respect in Wisconsin: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Mormons David L. Clark, 165 --Area Supervision: Administration of the Worldwide Church, 1960-2000 Kahlile Mehr, 192 --S. Dilworth Young of the First Quorum of Seventy Benson Young Parkinson, 215 VISUAL IMAGES --Setting the Record Straight Paul H. Peterson and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, 252 REVIEWS --Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling, Mormon America: The Power and the Promise Armand L. Mauss, 257 --Davis Bitton, George Q. Cannon: A Biography Michael N. Landon, ed., The Journals of George Q. Cannon: Vol. 1: To California in '49 DavidJ. Whittaker, 261 --David L. Bigler and Will Bagley, eds., Army of Israel: Mormon Battalion Narratives Ryan Johnson, 269 --William B. Smart and Donna T. Smart, eds., Over the Rim: The Parley P. Pratt Exploring Expedition to Southern Utah, 1849-50 Michael Landon, 271 --Craig Denton, The University of Utah: 150 Years of Excellence Brigham D. Madsen, 274 --Matthew E. Kreitzer, ed., The Washakie Letters of Willie Ottogary: Northwestern Shoshone Journalist and Leader, 1906-1929 Audrey M. Godrey, 276 --GospeLink 2001 (CD-ROM) Reviewed by Wilfried Decoo, 279 --H. Michael Marquardt, The Joseph Smith Revelations: Text and Commentary Ronald E. Romig, 286 --Gene A. Sessions, ed., Mormon Democrat: The Religious and Political Memoirs of James Henry Moyle Richard D. Ouellette, 289 BOOK NOTICES --Craig James Hazen, The Village Enlightenment in America: Popular Religion and Science in the Nineteenth Century, 295 --Jean Ford, Betty J. Glass, and Martha B. Gould, eds., Women in Nevada: An Annotated Bibliography of Published Sources, 297 --Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and R. Q. Shupe, My Servant Brigham: Portrait of a Prophet, 297 --Mark H. Taylor, ed., Witness to the Martyrdom: John Taylor's Personal Account of the Last Days of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 298 --William Jenson Adams, Sanpete Tales: Humorous Folklore from Central Utah, 300

Alan T. Waterman, the first director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), often said that a sound federal policy for basic scientific research should have three elements: a research-projects system, fellowship and other education programs, and support for the development of research institutions. Reflecting on the independent federal agency's first decade of operations, Waterman thought it had done well in providing the first two elements but not the third: ".… the inadequacy of the resources available to our educational institutions is a national problem," he wrote, "and one which the federal government must help to meet."