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In the second Nagorno-Karabakh war in 2020, Azerbaijan achieved a decisive victory over Armenia. Quite surprisingly, Israel was a key player in this conflict, providing Azerbaijan with extensive support in the form of technology and arms. This support is part of a bigger research puzzle: How can Israel's involvement in this conflict be explained? This report offers an explanation by showing how both geopolitical factors and identity struggle are intertwined. Using the lens of critical geopolitical analysis, the report argues that not only realist factors, but also social constructions of security as well as national and cultural identity play into Israel's interest in the region.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Prostitution Diversion Programs-A New Paradigm or Business as Usual? -- 1. Prostitution Diversion: Criminalization, Individual Responsibility, and Rescue -- 2. Study Sites: Prostitution Diversion Programs in Baltimore and Philadelphia -- 3. "That Foot on Their Neck": Coercion and Choice -- 4. "I've Been Raped, I've Been Robbed, But I Could Have Been Killed": Intersections of Trauma, Substance Use Problems, and Prostitution in the Eyes of the Court -- 5. "I've [Got] Hooker Court Every Month": Shame and Shaming in Prostitution Diversion Programs -- 6. "To Be Normal": Building, Rebuilding, and Surveilling Relationships: Social Connection in the Shadow of the Courts -- 7. "Figuring Out What Should Happen": Transformative or Conforming Practice? -- 8. "Better Than Nothing"? -- Appendix A: Original Study Description -- Appendix B: "Looking Back, Looking Forward" Follow-Up Study -- Appendix C: Project Dawn Court and Specialized Prostitution Diversion Participants -- Appendix D: Criminal Legal System Professionals -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Cover -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction Alice Hall -- 1 Affect Alexandra Kingston-Reese -- 2 Ecocriticism Timothy C. Baker -- 3 Medical Humanities Marie Allitt -- 4 Electronic Literature Elizabeth Losh -- 5 Gender and Feminism Boriana Alexandrova -- 6 Race and Post-colonialism Rebekah Cumpsty -- 7 Disability Susannah B. Mintz -- 8 Aging and Old Age J. Brooks Bouson -- 9 The Posthuman Luna Dolezal and Amelia DeFalco -- Index.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- 1. Horror is Queer: Theoretical and Ontological Foundations -- Queer Identity and Community -- The Ontological Queerness of Film and the Horror Genre -- Queer Theory, Queerness and Queer Scholarship -- Centring Queers and Queerness in Horror Studies -- A Note on Statistics -- 2. Portrait of a Queer Horror Fan: the Opinions, Habits and Tastes of the Queer Spectator -- Queer Heterogeneity and Consensus -- Gender and Sexual Orientation Diversity of Queer Spectators -- Racial/Ethnic Identifications -- Educational Attainment and Age -- The Othered Lens of Queerness -- Monsters, Victims and the Final Girl -- Women and Queers Represented in Horror -- Fan Status of Queer Spectators -- Childhood Introduction to Horror -- Horror as Interpersonal Connection -- Queer Spectators' Horror Genre Knowledge -- Queer Identities and Identifications as Queer -- Queer Horror Spectators Compared with Female Horror Fans -- Non-Cinematic Modes of Horror Consumption -- Queer Spectators and International Horror -- Cinemagoing and Queer Spectators -- Horror Habits Beyond Film Spectatorship -- Violence, Gore and Tension -- Horror Subgenres -- The Favourite Horror Films of Queer Spectators -- Summarising the Queer Spectator of Horror Film -- 3. Trauma and Camp: Queer Connections to Horror -- Queer Trauma, the Horror Genre and Traumatic Expressions -- Evidencing Queer Trauma, Affect and Catharsis -- The Camp Relationship to Horror -- Evidentiary Data on Queerness, Camp and Horror -- Camp Laughter as a Trauma Processor -- 4. Drag Me to Hell: Queer Performance and Live Cinema -- Establishing Queer Performance as Live Cinema -- The Phenomenology of Queer Live Cinema -- The Cult of Queer Live Cinema -- Drag as Queer Performance and Drag Performers as Horror Hosts.

Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Love best-selling fiction? -- Foreword -- Book One -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Book Two -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Book Three -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Book Four -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20 -- Chapter 21 -- Chapter 22 -- Chapter 23 -- Chapter 24 -- Chapter 25 -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- You will also enjoy: -- A note from the publisher -- Love best-selling fiction?.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Historical perspectives and the development of community services -- 2 Social work and alcohol -- 3 Helping problem drinkers - some new developments -- 4 Focusing on women -- 5 Helping the family -- 6 Helping in groups -- Name index -- Subject index.

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editor's Note -- Forum -- How to Fix the Climate -- Forum Responses -- We Need Political-Not Technological-Innovation -- The Existential Politics of Climate Change -- A Democratic Green New Deal -- Achieving Equality on a Livable Planet -- Prioritize Vulnerable Communities -- Why the Paris Agreement Matters -- Politics Is Plastic -- Essays -- Poisoning Tallevast -- Climate Change's New Ally, Big Finance -- To Save the Climate, Give Up the Demand for Constant Electricity -- The Trouble with Carbon Pricing -- This Veil of Smoke -- The Politics of the Anthropocene in a World After Neoliberalism -- End Capitalism -- Bad Island -- Contributors.

The plot of the book is about how the rule of law functions to protect corporate structures that facilitate the commission of globalized fraud and abuse. The rules of law are used to dilute and hide accountability of high managerial agents, performing as a tool in aid of centralized and concentrated capital interests.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Encountering Plague, Plague Encounters -- Chapter 2. Forging Public Health as State Idea and State System -- Chapter 3. Reaching In: Waste, Water, and Public Health Services in Quito -- Chapter 4. Reaching Out: Extending Public Health in Tungurahua Province -- Chapter 5. Regulating Pharmacies and Professional Defense in Highland Ecuador -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- How to Flourish -- 1. The Goal of Life (Book 1) -- 2. Building Character (Book 2) -- 3. Taking Responsibility (Book 3) -- 4. Virtue and Vice in Action (Books 3, 4, and 5) -- 5. Virtues for a Thinking Person (Book 6) -- 6. Losing Control (Book 7) -- 7. Friendship and the Good Life (Books 8 and 9) -- 8. How We Flourish (Book 10) -- Appendix: The Human Soul and Its Virtues -- Notes -- Textual Notes -- Key Aristotelian Terms -- Further Reading -- Index of Passages Translated.

Intro -- Introduction -- Traditional Modes of Transportation -- THE CHAPAR-KHANEH SYSTEM -- The Kajaveh and Takht-e Ravan -- The Use of Carts -- Modern Modes of Transportation wheeled vehicles -- Carriages -- AUTOMOBILES -- Obstacles to the Use of Cars -- Import Arrangements -- Traffic Rules and Administrative Regulations -- PERSIA -- AUTOMOTIVE PARTS, ACCESSORIES, AND SERVICE EQUIPMENT -- Bicycles -- Motorcycles -- Modern Ways of Lodging Travelers -- Hotels in Iran, 1870-1940 -- Tools of Change -- the Sewing Machine and the Typewriter Conquer Iran -- The Sewing Machine -- Typewriters -- A Short History of the Piano in Iran -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- index -- Fig. 1: Kurdish postillion -- Fig. 2: Belit (ticket) for the hire of a gari (lorry). -- Fig. 3: Chaparing -- Fig. 4: An official travel permit or tazkereh. -- Fig. 5: Chaparchi -- Fig. 6: Chapar-khaneh at Tisi-Hutch (exterior). -- Fig. 7: Chapar-khaneh at Haouz-e Sultan. -- Fig. 8: Chapar-khaneh at Kuhrud. -- Fig. 9: Chapar-khaneh at Tisi-Hutch (interior). -- Fig. 10: Chapar-khaneh at Kushku Baira. -- Fig. 11: 'Limited mail express' -- Fig. 12: Mail stage -- Fig. 13: Opposite and above: Post driver and carrying the mail in Khorasan. -- Fig. 14: Relais on the road to Qazvin. -- Fig. 15: Above and opposite: Travel permits or tazkerehs. -- Fig. 16: Chapar-khaneh at Robat Karim. -- Fig. 17: Persian post-carriage -- Fig. 18: Chapar-khaneh at Kudum. -- Fig. 19: Postwagon in a bad position. -- Fig. 20: Unidentified chapar-khaneh (Qom area). -- Fig. 21: Kajaveh -- Fig. 22: Takht-e ravan, a Persian ink-sketch. -- Fig. 23: Takht-e ravan -- Fig. 24: A two-wheeled cart, arabeh -- Fig. 25: A two-wheeled cart, arabeh -- Fig. 26: Repairing a wagon wheel. -- Fig. 27: A four-wheeled horse-drawn Russian vehicle, tarantas. -- Fig. 28: Horse-drawn street car.