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In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world's health, economic security and social fabric. Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents' large, imposing house in New York, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse. She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald.A first-hand witness, Mary brings an incisive wit and unexpected humour to sometimes grim, often confounding family events. She recounts in unsparing detail everything from her uncle Donald's place in the family spotlight and Ivana's penchant for regifting to her grandmother's frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump's favourite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer's.Numerous pundits, armchair psychologists and journalists have sought to explain Donald Trump's lethal flaws. Mary Trump has the education, insight and intimate familiarity needed to reveal what makes Donald, and the rest of her clan, tick. She alone can recount this fascinating, unnerving saga, not just because of her insider's perspective but also because she is the only Trump willing to tell the truth about one of the world's most powerful and dysfunctional families

The security market, based on public Key Infrastructures (PKI) did not succeed because security remains a paradoxical market. We observed security practices and reciprocal expectations, in this study the ones generated by the design of PKI devices. Using the framework of Actor Network Theory, we describe all the mediations required for sustaining a digital security chain. often based on very material stuff. A whole vision of the world should be designed, an ontology, doomed to failure if it formats practices and users by constraint. This vision should retain a variable-geometry, while calling on guarantors that transcend it, and not merely on commercial certification authorities. Will security architecture design be able to integrate the users' demand for "adequate security", which renders security policies bearable as long as users are not aware of them? ; Le marché de la sécurité basé sur les Public Key Infrastructures (Infrastructure de gestion de clés) n'est pas parvenu à décoller car la sécurité reste un marché paradoxal. Nous avons observé les pratiques de sécurité et les attentes réciproques créées par la conception de ces systèmes, plus spécifiquement ceux à base de PKI pour cette étude, dans les termes de la théorie de l'acteur-réseau, en reconstituant toutes les médiations nécessaires à l'existence d'une chaîne de sécurité informatique. souvent bien matérielle. C'est une vision sécuritaire du monde qui doit être produite, une ontologie, qui échoue quand elle veut trop formater les pratiques et les utilisateurs: elle doit rester " à géométrie variable " tout en mobilisant des garants qui la dépassent et non les seules autorités de certification marchandes. La conception d'architectures de sécurité peut elle admettre cette " sécurité suffisante " qui rend sup- portable les politiques de sécurité dès lors qu'elles disparaissent de la conscience des utilisateurs?

The security market, based on public Key Infrastructures (PKI) did not succeed because security remains a paradoxical market. We observed security practices and reciprocal expectations, in this study the ones generated by the design of PKI devices. Using the framework of Actor Network Theory, we describe all the mediations required for sustaining a digital security chain. often based on very material stuff. A whole vision of the world should be designed, an ontology, doomed to failure if it formats practices and users by constraint. This vision should retain a variable-geometry, while calling on guarantors that transcend it, and not merely on commercial certification authorities. Will security architecture design be able to integrate the users' demand for "adequate security", which renders security policies bearable as long as users are not aware of them? ; Le marché de la sécurité basé sur les Public Key Infrastructures (Infrastructure de gestion de clés) n'est pas parvenu à décoller car la sécurité reste un marché paradoxal. Nous avons observé les pratiques de sécurité et les attentes réciproques créées par la conception de ces systèmes, plus spécifiquement ceux à base de PKI pour cette étude, dans les termes de la théorie de l'acteur-réseau, en reconstituant toutes les médiations nécessaires à l'existence d'une chaîne de sécurité informatique. souvent bien matérielle. C'est une vision sécuritaire du monde qui doit être produite, une ontologie, qui échoue quand elle veut trop formater les pratiques et les utilisateurs: elle doit rester " à géométrie variable " tout en mobilisant des garants qui la dépassent et non les seules autorités de certification marchandes. La conception d'architectures de sécurité peut elle admettre cette " sécurité suffisante " qui rend sup- portable les politiques de sécurité dès lors qu'elles disparaissent de la conscience des utilisateurs?

The security market, based on public Key Infrastructures (PKI) did not succeed because security remains a paradoxical market. We observed security practices and reciprocal expectations, in this study the ones generated by the design of PKI devices. Using the framework of Actor Network Theory, we describe all the mediations required for sustaining a digital security chain. often based on very material stuff. A whole vision of the world should be designed, an ontology, doomed to failure if it formats practices and users by constraint. This vision should retain a variable-geometry, while calling on guarantors that transcend it, and not merely on commercial certification authorities. Will security architecture design be able to integrate the users' demand for "adequate security", which renders security policies bearable as long as users are not aware of them? ; Le marché de la sécurité basé sur les Public Key Infrastructures (Infrastructure de gestion de clés) n'est pas parvenu à décoller car la sécurité reste un marché paradoxal. Nous avons observé les pratiques de sécurité et les attentes réciproques créées par la conception de ces systèmes, plus spécifiquement ceux à base de PKI pour cette étude, dans les termes de la théorie de l'acteur-réseau, en reconstituant toutes les médiations nécessaires à l'existence d'une chaîne de sécurité informatique. souvent bien matérielle. C'est une vision sécuritaire du monde qui doit être produite, une ontologie, qui échoue quand elle veut trop formater les pratiques et les utilisateurs: elle doit rester " à géométrie variable " tout en mobilisant des garants qui la dépassent et non les seules autorités de certification marchandes. La conception d'architectures de sécurité peut elle admettre cette " sécurité suffisante " qui rend sup- portable les politiques de sécurité dès lors qu'elles disparaissent de la conscience des utilisateurs?

The Western world is in the grip of a consumerism that is unique in human history. We overwork, we spend huge amounts on things we never use, then we chuck them out. The author of the bestselling Growth Fetish pries into our wardrobes, kitchens and backyards, and shows us what choice really means

Abstract
This afterword explores trust as a troubled and turbulent social relation that takes exuberant social forms and often operates as a contested ideology. It highlights how trust-seeking technologies yield unexpected effects, such as forms of sociality without social life, hyper-awareness of geographic context as a means for effective surveillance, a displacement of intimate arts of diplomacy in favour of resilience and distance, uncomfortable relations between captivity and trust, and a renewed awareness of how mistrust shapes expectations when promises are evanescent and interests difficult to discern.

This article explores how a specific pattern of relational ethics
– referred to as 'never . . . too much' – figures as a way of coping
with intimate uncertainties in close relationships. The concept of
relational ethics refers to the historically embedded ways in which
people live and cultivate ethical values through relations and, as
such, also represents an ethnographically grounded conceptual contribution
to ongoing anthropological debates on moral economy. My
research unfolds ethnographic insights into three variations of the
relational ethics of 'never . . . too much', three respective sets of social
actors and relational scales: 'never feel too much'/local women and
their relationship to their marital partner; 'never own too much'/local
men and their relationship to property; 'never settle too much'/female
migrants from Russia and their relationship to the place of settlement.
The article's analysis is developed against the background of
a particular spatial and temporal location – a border minority town
with a history of (forced) migration, and is a contemporary focal
point of migration, marginalisation by the state and patriarchy.

In this poignant, instructive memoir, Pollak investigates the roots of misguided love and paints a picture of what it means to live a satisfied life. Her tale starts in the couples' counseling office, where her soon-to-be ex-husband drops the bomb that he's seeing someone else. From there, Jane goes on to find self-empowerment through her La Leche League group, her career as an artist, her travels around the world, her journey through twelve-step recovery, and her experiences while dating in her sixties. At last, she forges a blissful life on her own in Manhattan, conducting business and enjoying time with family, friends and a bit of romance. Inspiring and deeply relatable, Too Much of Not Enough is a primer on how to be the proactive agent of one's own best path

Like many others, my response to reports of hundreds of thousands of mostly black people stranded in a flood was shock and outrage. My anger grew as I learned of the horrific conditions many of these people endured for days in the New Orleans Superdome and Convention Center—conditions that Jesse Jackson likened to the "hull of a slave ship." Anger is not an inchoate emotion, but rather directed. Being angry means being angry at. Justified anger usually seeks culprits—the individuals and organizations who should be blamed for the wrongs people suffer. In the aftermath of Katrina, much public discussion focused on whether anyone was to blame for the suffering, and if so, who. Some suggested that "the blame game" is unproductive, and that we should accept that when disaster hits, no humans are to blame for the hurt that follows. A few, such as a senator from my state, Barack Obama, argued that blame is indeed unproductive, but that all of us should think about the responsibilities our government and citizens have to people vulnerable in the face of natural disaster.

This article examines political responses to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina to the city of New Orleans in 2005, & the human suffering that resulted. Chicago senator Barack Obama argued that public discussion of blame is unproductive. Instead, people should consider the responsibilities both the government & individual citizens have to people vulnerable in the face of a natural disaster. This article suggests four ways in which blame is unproductive: focusing upon individual agents deflects attention away from structural problems; institutional racism cannot be reduced to individual acts of hate or discrimination; when public discussion is focused upon who to blame, the resulting cynicism & distrust is counterproductive to cooperation; lastly, focusing blame on a recent event deflects attention away from the longer, defective structural processes. As a conclusion, it is noted that the left-wing in America arguing for fairer & higher taxation in order to eliminate poverty need also to address issues of poverty around the world, not just in America. R. Prince

"The scholarly literature on executive compensation is vast. As such, this literature provides an unparalleled resource for studying the interaction between the setting of incentives (or the attempted setting of incentives) and the behavior that is actually adduced. From this literature, there are several reasons for believing that one can set incentives in executive compensation with a high rate of success in guiding CEO behavior, and one might expect CEO compensation to be a textbook example of the successful use of incentives. Also, as executive compensation has been studied intensively in the academic literature, we might also expect the success of incentive compensation to be well-documented. Historically, however, this has been very far from the case. In Too Much Is Not Enough, Robert W. Kolb studies the performance of incentives in executive compensation across many dimensions of CEO performance. The book begins with an overview of incentives and unintended consequences. Then it focuses on the theory of incentives as applied to compensation generally, and as applied to executive compensation particularly. Subsequent chapters explore different facets of executive compensation and assess the evidence on how well incentive compensation performs in each arena. The book concludes with a final chapter that provides an overall assessment of the value of incentives in guiding executive behavior. In it, Kolb argues that incentive compensation for executives is so problematic and so prone to error that the social value of giving huge incentive compensation packages is likely to be negative on balance. In focusing on incentives, the book provides a much sought-after resource, for while there are a number of books on executive compensation, none focuses specifically on incentives. Given the recent fervor over executive compensation, this unique but logical perspective will garner much interest. And while the literature being considered and evaluated is technical, the book is written in a non-mathematical way accessible to any college-educated reader."--Publisher's website