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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Foreword -- A Personal Note -- PART I: THE RETURN OF HISTORY -- 1 The New Nationalism -- 2 Never Say Never -- 3 Untidy Compromises -- 4 The Two Faces of Janus -- 5 Nutopia -- PART II: LOVE AND MARRIAGE: THE VIRTUES OF NATIONALISM -- 6 Living beyond Our Psychological Means -- 7 Nation Building -- 8 National Creativity -- 9 This Place We Call Home -- 10 La Vie Quotidian -- 11 Subjects into Citizens -- 12 A Short History of the Cross-Class Coalition -- PART III: A DIVIDED HOUSE -- 13 The Breakdown of the Cross-Class Coalition -- 14 One Nation, Divided, under Stress -- 15 The Elephant in the Room -- 16 The Birth of a Nationalist -- 17 The Nationalism of the Vulnerable -- 18 The Nationalism of the Affluent -- PART IV: A NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT -- 19 Liberal Nationalism -- 20 This Is the Time -- 21 A Race to the Bottom -- Notes -- Index.

Intro -- Editorial Board -- Editorial -- Contents -- Part I70th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions -- 1 Evolution of the International Humanitarian Law Provisions on Sieges -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Legality of Sieges -- 1.2.1 International Armed Conflicts -- 1.2.2 Non-International Armed Conflicts -- 1.3 United Nations Security Council Resolutions' Impact on the Legal Regulation of Sieges -- 1.4 Concluding Remarks -- References -- 2 Towards a Better Understanding of the Concept of 'Indiscriminate Attack'-How International Criminal Law Can Be of Assistance -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Attacking Civilians as a War Crime in International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law -- 2.3 Prosecutions of Attacks Against Civilians Before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Court -- 2.3.1 International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia -- 2.3.2 International Criminal Court -- 2.4 Transition from International Humanitarian Law to International Criminal Law -- 2.5 Final Reflections -- References -- 3 Double Trouble: The 'Cumulative Approach' and the 'Support-Based Approach' in the Relationship Between Non-State Armed Groups -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Traditional Criteria for the Determination of Whether There Is a Non-international Armed Conflict and Which Actors Are Parties to that Conflict -- 3.3 Cumulative Approach -- 3.4 The Support-Based Approach in Non-international Armed Conflicts -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4 The Rebel with the Magnifying Glass: Armed Non-State Actors, the Right to Life and the Requirement to Investigate in Armed Conflict -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Right to Life in Non-International Armed Conflict: Legal Frameworks and Paradigms.

Cover -- narrative economics -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface to the 2020 Paperback Edition -- Preface: What Is Narrative Economics? -- Acknowledgments -- Part I The Beginnings of Narrative Economics -- 1 The Bitcoin Narratives -- 2 An Adventure in Consilience -- 3 Contagion, Constellations, and Confluence -- 4 Why Do Some Narratives Go Viral? -- 5 The Laffer Curve and Rubik's Cube Go Viral -- 6 Diverse Evidence on the Virality of Economic Narratives -- Part II The Foundations of Narrative Economics -- 7 Causality and Constellations -- 8 Seven Propositions of Narrative Economics -- Part III Perennial Economic Narratives -- 9 Recurrence and Mutation -- 10 Panic versus Confidence -- 11 Frugality versus Conspicuous Consumption -- 12 The Gold Standard versus Bimetallism -- 13 Labor-Saving Machines Replace Many Jobs -- 14 Automation and Artificial Intelligence Replace Almost All Jobs -- 15 Real Estate Booms and Busts -- 16 Stock Market Bubbles -- 17 Boycotts, Profiteers, and Evil Business -- 18 The Wage-Price Spiral and Evil Labor Unions -- Part IV Advancing Narrative Economics -- 19 Future Narratives, Future Research -- Appendix: Applying Epidemic Models to Economic Narratives -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Jan Jaap de Ruiter -- Introduction -- I. The Qur'anic Ethics of "Nature": Gender, Sexuality, and Diversity -- 1a. Human Nature: Mirroring the Will of God -- 1b. Condemnation of "Immoral" Practices -- II. Distressing Qur'anic Verses? -- 2a. The Original Sodomy: Forbidding Ritual Rape -- 2b. The Absence of Female Homosexuality in the Qur'an -- 2c. Positive Representations of Gender Minorities in the Qur'an -- III. The Prophet: A Living Incarnation of Qur'anic Ethics -- 3a. Was the Prophet Homophobic and Transphobic? -- 3b. The Status of Mukhannathun: "Effeminate," Trans, or Gay? -- 3c. The First "Sodomite": Neither Gay nor Trans, but a Rapist -- IV. Islamic Apocrypha Advocating the Stoning of "Sodomites" -- 4a. The Sectarian Ideology of Fatwas Associating "Sodomy" with Apostasy -- 4b. A Former Mukhannath's Internalized Homophobia and Misogyny -- 4c. What the Different Islamic Schools of Thought Advocate -- V. Postcolonial Orientalisms -- VI. "Abnormals": From Cultural Diversity to Dogmatic Uniformity -- VII. Towards a Structural Reevaluation of Cultural Values -- VIII. Pan-Arabist Literary and Identity Censorship -- IX. Orientalist Shi'ism and Literary Homoeroticism -- X. Homonationalism and Performative Sexual Categorization -- XI. A "Crisis" of Categories, Geopolitics or Civilization -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Adi S. Bharat -- Bibliography -- Index -- List of Figures -- Figure 1 Hadith classification -- Figure 2 Chains of narration of apocryphal hadiths concerning mukhannathun -- Figure 3 Chains of narration of apocryphal hadiths condemning 'sodomites' -- Figure 4 Apocryphal hadiths concerning the execution or stoning of 'sodomites'.

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Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Team -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Global Goals, Shared Challenges -- 1 Monitoring Global Poverty -- Introduction -- Monitoring global poverty: Tracking progress toward the 2030 goals -- Beyond extreme poverty: The US3.20-a-day and US5.50-a-day poverty lines -- A relative poverty measure: The societal poverty line -- Beyond monetary poverty: The multidimensional poverty measure -- A focus on extreme poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Annex 1A PovcalNet data and methodology for measuring extreme poverty -- Annex 1B Higher absolute poverty lines: US3.20 and US5.50 per person per day -- Annex 1C Societal poverty -- Annex 1D Multidimensional poverty measure -- Notes -- References -- 2 Shared Prosperity: Monitoring Inclusive Growth -- Introduction: Shared prosperity-Focusing on the bottom 40 -- The most recent estimates of shared prosperity and the shared prosperity premium -- Outlook: COVID-19 and prospects for shared prosperity -- Shared prosperity and its connection to other welfare indicators -- Who is in the bottom 40? -- Annex 2A Shared prosperity estimates, by economy -- Annex 2B Data for shared prosperity over different periods -- Annex 2C Comparison of two shared prosperity rounds -- Notes -- References -- 3 Key Socioeconomic Characteristics of the Global Poor: Vulnerability to Conflict, Climate Risks, and COVID-19 -- Introduction -- Key socioeconomic characteristics of the global poor -- Poverty and conflict: A global and subnational perspective -- Poverty and climate risks -- Vulnerability and multiple risks: Poverty in the face of COVID-19, conflict, and climate risks -- Annex 3A New vintage of the Global Monitoring Database -- Annex 3B Robustness of poverty profiles: Adding and subtracting countries.

Notes from a Modern Chimurenga is an extensive collection of Zimbabwe's political struggle short stories. It covers: the modern Chimurenga period from the formation of tribal trust lands (The Tortoise); the liberation wars (Zanzibar, Eating Whilst Running); the Gukurahundi massacre (Gukurahundi); the late 1990s democratic struggles pitting ZANUPF against the MDC (The List, Mbuya Chitungwiza, Operation Murambatsvina, Notes from Mai Mujuru's Breast, Breaking the Silence); the individual struggle within this democratic struggle (Mushazhike, Nyadzonya); the resultant migration and exilitic stories (Limpopo Bones, Germinston 1401); the corruption (Nyakasikana, Tree of the Year); the mismanagement of the country, the beatings and killings (Leonard, Karidza, Raising A Cain again); and the continuing democratic struggles.

Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- DNA -- INSPIRATION FOR THE VIRTUES & -- VICES SERIES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20 -- Chapter 21 -- Chapter 22 -- Chapter 23 -- Chapter 24 -- Chapter 25 -- Chapter 26 -- Book Club Discussion Questions -- A Note from the Author -- About the Author -- Contact -- Other Books by J.L. Campbell.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20 -- Chapter 21 -- Chapter 22 -- Chapter 23 -- Chapter 24 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.