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A generation gap has emerged between parents and their daughters. Mothers and fathers have little idea about the pressures and expectations they face or how they feel about them. Drawing on in-depth interviews with young women and a wide range of psychologists and experts, renowned journalist and bestselling author Peggy Orenstein goes where most others fear to tread, pulling back the curtain on the hidden truths and hard lessons of girls' sex lives in the modern world.

Cover -- Author Bio -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Glossary of Arabic Terminology -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. 'Taking Islam to the People': The Young Muslims UK -- 2. 'Khilafah Coming Soon': The Rise and Fall of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain -- 3. 'Returning to The Qur'an And Sunnah': The Salafi Dawah -- 4. Sufism Strikes Back: Emergence of the 'Traditional Islam' Network -- 5. Dawah Discourses Understanding the Appeal of the Trends -- 6. Fragmentation and Adaptation: The Impact of Social Change

Intro -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Let's Get Lost -- 1: The Social Network -- 2: The Walking Dead -- 3: Our Browser History Is the New Memoir -- 4: Archiving Is the New Folk Art -- 5: Dream Machines and Eternidays -- 6: I Shoot Therefore I Am -- 7: Lossy and Jaggy -- 8: The Writer as Meme Machine -- Coda: The Revolution Will Be Mobilized -- Appendix: 101 Ways to Waste Time on the Internet -- Acknowledgments -- Endnotes -- About the Author -- Praise -- Also by Kenneth Goldsmith -- Credits -- Copyright -- About the Publisher.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. From Social Isolation to Social Abandonment -- Chapter 2. Abandoned Detroit -- Chapter 3. Abandoned by Institutions of Inclusion and Stability: The Failed Promise of Employment -- Chapter 4. Abandoned by Institutions of Mobility: The Failed Promise of Postsecondary Education and Homeownership -- Chapter 5. Abandoned by the Safety Net: Contestations, Denials, and Incompetence in Benefit Processing -- Chapter 6. Debt: The New Sharecropping System

Publisher's acknowledgements -- About the author -- Preface -- Logistics, the supply chain and competitive strategy -- Delivering customer value -- Measuring logistics costs and performance -- Matching supply and demand -- Creating the responsive supply chain -- Strategic lead-time management -- The synchronous supply chain -- Complexity and the supply chain -- Managing the global pipeline -- Service logistics -- Managing risk in the supply chain -- The era of network competition -- Overcoming the barriers to supply chain integration -- The sustainable supply chain -- The supply chain of the future -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: Of Bernard L. Madoff and Others -- 2: Backstage, the Accomplices -- 3: Deception: Backstage with Enrica Cotellessa-Pitz -- 4: Deception: Backstage with David L. Kugel -- 5: Deception: Backstage with Annette Bongiorno -- 6: Madoff and the 17th Floor Ensemble -- 7: Of Ropers and Roping -- 8: Roping in a Globalized World -- 9: Steerers -- 10: JPMorgan Chase Bank -- 11: Revisiting the Crime Scene -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Note About the Author -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Time We Have-The Time We Make -- Energy, Sustainability, and Social Sciences -- The Context of My Research -- Family Participants -- An Interest with Time -- The Chapters -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: How the Light Gets In: A Theoretical Framework for "Ordinary Agency" -- Foucault's Ethical Practices -- Mundane Actions and the Ethical Field -- Neoliberal Agency and Ordinary Agencies -- Agency and Time -- Temporal Modalities of Domesticity as Counterdiscourses of Time -- Notes

Contents -- Author Bios -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 National Rights to Self-Determination -- 1.2 Humanitarian Duties to Include -- 1.3 Organization and Content of This Volume -- 1.3.1 What Is a Citizen? -- 1.3.2 Rights of Citizenship -- 1.3.3 Moral Duties to Immigrants -- 1.3.4 Ethics of Exclusion -- 1.3.5 Asylum Seekers and Refugees -- Reference -- Part I: Conceptions of Citizenship -- Chapter 2: National Citizenship and Civil Marriage: Ascriptive and Consensual Models -- 2.1 Ascriptive and Consensual Citizenship -- 2.2 Marriage as an Instrument of Self-Definition and Self-Rule

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- About the author -- Foreword -- 1 Methodology of case study research -- Introduction: e-government as a multidimensional political phenomenon -- E-government in Kazakhstan: the research background -- Building the framework for case study research -- Setting the research agenda -- Methods of analysis and expected results -- The key sources of data and information for analysis -- 2 The country context analysis of Kazakhstan: implications for e-government -- The framework for the country context analysis

Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword, by Mary T. Bassett, MD; Foreword, by Carlos F. Peterson; Introduction; 1. THE BUTTERFLY IN BEIJING; 2. IMAGINING NEON; In Their Own Words: ZENOBIA FERGUSON; 3. URBAN RENEWAL . . .; 4. . . . MEANS NEGRO REMOVAL; In Their Own Words: CHARLES MEADOWS; 5. WHEN THE CENTER FAILS . . .; 6. . . . WHAT WILL HOLD?; 7. UNCEASING STRUGGLE; In Their Own Words: ERNEST THOMPSON; 8. HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE CITY; 9. OUR PLACE, OUR HOME; Notes; Bibliography; Technical Note; Acknowledgments; Index; About the Author

This is a holistic study of the intersecting and overlapping discourses that shape transgender identities. The author offers an examination of mediated and experienced transmasculine subjectivities and aims to capture the apparent contradictions that structure transmasculine experience, perception, and identification. From the relationship between transmasculinity's emancipatory potential and its simultaneously homogenizing implications, to issues of gender-queerness, sexual minorities, normativity, and fatherhood, this book synthesizes these disparate areas of academic study in the context of digital constructions of the transmasculine self.--

Organizational communication : a competency-based approach -- Communication : the key to organizational excellence -- Communication as constitutive of shared realities -- Perspectives for organizational communication -- Communication implications of major organizational theories -- Organizational communication : values and ethical communication behaviors -- Individuals in organizations -- Groups in organizations -- Leadership and management communication -- Participating in organizations : developing critical organizational communication competencies -- Organizational conflict : communicating for effectiveness -- Organizational innovation, change, and communication -- Strategic organizational communication : professional applications of organizational communication -- Career options for organizational communication -- Author index -- Subject index

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Author -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Useful Conversion Factors -- 1 What Fluoropolymers Are -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Evolution of Fluoropolymers and the Markets -- 1.3 PFAS Compounds -- 1.3.1 General Description -- 1.3.2 How They Are Made -- 1.3.3 The Proliferation of PFAS -- 1.4 Terminology -- References -- 2 Definitions, Uses, and Evolution of PFCs -- 2.1 Perfluorinated Chemicals (PFCs) Of Interest -- 2.2 The PFC Family -- 2.3 PFOS -- 2.4 PFOA -- 2.5 Fluorotelomers -- References -- 3 Fire Fighting Foams

Foreword / by Dr. S. Radhakrishnan -- Extracts from preface to the first edition -- Extracts from preface to the second edition -- Preface to the third edition -- A word on the fourth edition -- About the author -- Prologue -- The bases of human relations : the problem of existence and its implications -- The social psychology of the system of the four Asramas -- The social psychology of education -- Marriage -- The family -- Attitude towards the woman, and her place in the society -- The four Varnas -- Epilogue

Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 - Transnational Publicity, Gender-Based Violence, and Central American Women's Asylum Cases -- 2 - Fixing Bodies, Fashioning Subjects: Constructing Gender through Rhetorics of Freedom and Choice -- 3 - Standing in her Shoes: U.S. Asylum Policy for Chinese Opposing Population Control -- 4 - The Rhetoric and Logic of one Sex, One Gender -- 5 - The Reading Practices of Immigration Judges: Intersectional Invisibility and the Segregation of Gender and Sexuality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author