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Transformation in the digital arena is all set to drive innovations and the global economy in the coming decade and beyond. The core technology sectors hold potential to drive large-scale opportunities. This audiobook covers the seven alternative technology revolutions: namely, Artificial intelligence (AI), augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), blockchain and cryptocurrencies, the Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous vehicles, 3D printing, and quantum computing. This audiobook begins with the basics of Deep Tech. You will explore using automation through AI followed by extended reality (XR), which combines virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) to help interact with virtual objects. You will also work through real-life examples to learn about blockchain, cryptocurrency, and hysteria. You will learn how to enhance convenience and security using IoT. You will explore the benefits, impacts, and processes of autonomous vehicles (AV). You will also explore how manufacturing processes were revolutionized through 3D printing. You will conclude with quantum locks to understand secure and advanced security. Upon completion, with Deep Tech, you will become fluent in innovative technologies and participate in the decade's greatest opportunities. What You Will Learn Learn the fundamentals of AI and how to automate tasks at hand Know about the latest trends of VR, XR, AR, and MR Gain clarity about blockchain technology and cryptocurrency Dig into the use of IoT devices and AV Explore how to put 3D Printing to use with ease Dive into quantum computing and its futuristic applications Audience This audiobook is tailored for entrepreneurs and tech leaders who aspire to deepen their understanding of emerging technologies. Apply them in the changing landscape of the global economy. It is well-suited for beginners who wish to gain knowledge of Deep Tech emerging in the era of disruptive innovation. Entrepreneurs seeking fluency in the language and the possibilities of transformative technology will benefit from this audiobook. Prior knowledge of Deep Tech and technology sectors is not required. The objective coverage and personalized approach give it a relatable factor. About The Author Eric Redmond: Eric Redmond is a twenty-year veteran technologist who always happens to show up wherever Deep Tech history is being made, from the first iPhone apps to Big Data to Bitcoin. He has advised state and national governments, Fortune 100 companies, and groups as varied as the World Economic Forum, SXSW, and MIT Media Lab. He has also authored half a dozen technology books (including two tech books for babies) and spoken on every continent except Antarctica. Today, he is a husband, a dad, and the leader of a global tech innovation team.

This book discusses the current reality and the future of ethnic Rohingyas in Myanmar. It presents Myanmar's history, ‎policy, politics and, most ‎importantly, while focusing on Rohingya ethnic conflict, presents a resolution by looking at ‎the global and regional policies ‎and politics of South Asia and ‎South-East Asia. The recent coup unfolded in Myanmar and the detention of the democratic ‎leaders has surprised the ‎world with its subsequent emergency declaration in 2021, thus making this ‎book ‎relevant and well-timed. ‎ Eventually, the book offers an account of a previously ‎little ‎known, yet much-discussed role of media, ‎international actors, human trafficking, ‎and ‎humanitarian-based resolution for Rohingya refugee crisis. It shows a new perspective ‎in the post-Rohingya influx era of Bangladesh and the neighbouring countries. Kudret Bülbül is a Professor of Political Science at AYBU. At the same time, he works as a Director of the Foreign Relations and Protocol Department of ‎the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM). Prof. Bülbül served as an ‎acting Undersecretary and Deputy Undersecretary under the Prime Ministry of Turkey. He was the President of the Presidency for Turks ‎Abroad and Related ‎Communities (YTB) and later ‎a Counselor for a while for the Turkish Prime ‎Ministry. In his academic life, Bülbül worked in Kirikkale, Ankara, and Kansas Universities. His academic and research ‎interests are globalization, ‎identity politics, human rights and security issues, conflict resolution and ‎global peace. Kudret Bülbül is a Professor of Political Science at AYBU. At the same time, he works as a Director of the Foreign Relations and Protocol Department of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM). Prof. Bulbul served as an acting Undersecretary and Deputy Undersecretary under the Prime Ministry of Turkey. He was the President of the Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB) and later a Counselor for a while for the Turkish Prime Ministry. Md. Nazmul Islam is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Turkey. Dr. Islam is the author of several books, many book chapters, and peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Islam worked in different positions and projects conducted at the University of Cambridge, Saarland University, University of Trento, Greifswald University, Ankara University, OIC-SESRIC, BRAC University, BRAC, Grameen Bank-Yunus Center, UNDP, YTB and ILO. Md. Sajid Khan is a Research Scholar in the Department of Social Work, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. He has been an active researcher in the area of Migration, Refugees, Social Integrating, Child Rights, social welfare and Minority Rights. He was also a visiting researcher in Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University (GPM), Ankara.

Harassment is a category that has been gaining ground in contemporary normative debate, appearing in political-governmental agendas, in the repertoire of social activism and in academic-scientific production. Both the movement and the feminist-inspired argumentation have constituted one of the great drivers of its public projection, helping to frame harassment in a cosmovision and in an economy of meaning with special regulatory implications in the labor and criminal spheres.
In this book, the author views harassment as a device for observing the limits, potentialities and epistemological contradictions that cross the field, seeking to expose the consensus and cultural conflicts that the legal function (labor and criminal), the presumption about the subject (male or female) and the status of sexuality pose to feminist theories and social studies of law. It also seeks to demonstrate to what extent and in what terms the increasing legal density of harassment, driven or supported by different critical and feminist sources, instead of witnessing a progressive, cumulative and expansive logic of anti-patriarchal aspiration, puts the vices in evidence above all. and the political-epistemological paradoxes that permeate the way in which the field of sexuality is thought, prescribed and protected, forcing a critical return to the subject, structure and law as unfinished objects and constituents of social life. - O assédio constitui uma categoria que tem vindo a ganhar espaço no debate normativo contemporâneo, figurando nas agendas político-governamentais, no repertório do activismo social e na produção académico-científica. Tanto o movimento como o argumentário de inspiração feminista têm constituído um dos grandes impulsionadores da sua projecção pública, contribuindo para enquadrar o assédio numa cosmovisão e numa economia de significado com especiais implicações regulatórias na esfera laboral e na esfera penal.
Neste livro, a autora encara o assédio como um dispositivo de observação dos limites, das potencialidades e das contradições epistemológicas que atravessam o campo, procurando expor os consensos e os conflitos culturais que a função jurídica (laboral e penal), a presunção sobre o sujeito (homem ou mulher) e o estatuto da sexualidade colocam às teorias feministas e aos estudos sociais do direito. Procura ainda demonstrar em que medida e em que termos a crescente densificação jurídica do assédio, impulsionada ou secundada por diferentes proveniências críticas e feministas, ao invés de testemunhar uma lógica progressiva, cumulativa e expansiva da aspiração anti-patriarcal, coloca sobretudo em evidência os vícios e os paradoxos político-epistemológicos que percorrem o modo como se pensa, se prescreve e se tutela o campo da sexualidade, obrigando a um regresso crítico ao sujeito, à estrutura e ao direito enquanto objectos inacabados e constituintes da vida social.

"In asking the question, "what were we/they trying to 'free' Hong Kong into?" Vukovich invites readers to reject the doxa of negative freedom "from" that lies at the heart of contemporary financialized societies, and to start asking questions about the social practices and political economy that sustains it. This gesture makes it possible to discern the ideological effects of the vaunted opposition between freedom and autocracy ostensibly assumed to lie at the root of today's global political struggles, of which Hong Kong would be the avatar." --Jon Solomon, Professor of Chinese Studies, Université Jean Moulin "Daniel Vukovich's After Autonomy is a blistering critique of Hong Kong's troubled decolonization since 1997, but especially after Occupy Central in 2014 and even more so with the anti-extradition bill protests in 2019 and the enactment of the National Security Law in 2020. Rejecting the "death of Hong Kong" myth, Vukovich explores both the promise and the disappointment of the first twenty-five years of "one country, two systems". It is a powerful reminder that, although far from dead, Hong Kong is also far from healthy." --John M. Carroll, author of The Hong Kong-China Nexus: A Brief History This book offers a sharp, critical analysis of the rise and fall of the 2019 antiextradition bill movement in Hong Kong, including prior events like Occupy Central and the Mongkok Fishball Revolution, as well as their aftermaths in light of the re-assertion of mainland sovereignty over the SAR. Reading the conflict against the grain of those who would romanticize it or simply condemn it in nationalistic fashion, Vukovich goes beyond mediatized discourse to disentangle its roots in the Basic Law system as well as in the colonial and insufficiently postcolonial contexts and dynamics of Hong Kong. He examines the question of localist identity and its discontents, the problems of nativism, violence, and liberalism, the impossibility of autonomy, and what forms a genuine decolonization can and might yet take in the city. A concluding chapter examines Hong Kong's need for state capacity and proper, livelihood development, in the light of the Omicron wave of the Covid pandemic, as the SAR goes forward into a second handover era. Daniel F. Vukovich is tenured at Hong Kong University, a Visiting Professor of Politics at East China Normal University, and an Advisory Research Fellow at South East University, Institute for the Development of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. His book Illiberal China: The Ideological Challenge of the P.R.C. was published by Palgrave in 2019. His first book was China and Orientalism (Routledge, 2012), and he publishes widely in inter-disciplinary post-colonial and global studies of China and the West. .

The economy of the 21st century in the OECD countries and in China, is characterized by a new phenomenon: the structural surplus of private savings in relation to private investment. This is true even in a situation of prosperity and very low interest rates. On the one hand, this excess saving is due to people's increasing inclination to save in light of rising life expectancy, driven by the desire to have sufficient assets in old age. On the other hand, the demand for capital is not increasing to the same extent, so that investment is not keeping pace with the rising desire to save. The resulting gap between the private desire for wealth and private investment can only be closed by increasing public debt. This open access book offers a new, capital-theoretical perspective on the macroeconomic relationship between desired wealth and investment, and it presents new empirical data on private wealth and its composition in the OECD plus China area. The authors argue that a free economic and social order can only be stabilized if the wealth aspirations of individuals are met under conditions of price stability. This is not possible without substantial net public debt. A new way of thinking about the economy as a whole is required. By way of an in-depth theoretical and empirical analysis, the book demonstrates this new way of thinking and describes the current challenges facing economic policy. It will appeal to economists and students of economics who are interested in macroeconomic theory and its economic policy implications. An impressive, and convincing theoretical dive into the fundamentals behind secular stagnation, with very strong implications for actual debt policy. Public debt may be needed to improve welfare. - Olivier Blanchard, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Professor of Economics Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund from 2008 to 2015. Saving and Investment in the Twenty-First Century gives a wholly new perspective on macroeconomics. (...) Weiz­säcker and Krämer describe a simple, practical solution to the underemployment that has plagued Southern Europe for more than a decade. - George Akerlof, Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2001. Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. This is a profound and original contribution that can help us to understand and act on the great issues of our times. - Nicholas Stern, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics. Author of the Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change. Chief Economist at the World Bank from 2000 to 2003.

Macroprudential policy focuses on the financial system as a whole, as distinct from individual institutions, and its objective is to limit the costs to the real economy from system-wide distress of the financial sector. This book offers a critical, contextual and comparative examination of the nature of macroprudential policy as an emerging legal domain. It explores why macroprudential policy is necessary and how best to design tailored legal, institutional and governance frameworks that support the various supervisory stages in macroprudential regimes. Questions addressed relate to the design of the macroprudential mandate and institutional structures, independence, transparency and accountability arrangements, the nature and limitations of macroprudential authorities' supervisory powers, as well as the challenges that are likely to be encountered during the generation, collection and analysis of data and the use of macroprudential tools. The book extends well beyond being a 'one-stop-shop' introduction on all aspects of macroprudential policy. It digs deeper and does the heavy lifting by analysing the unique features of macroprudential policy that set it apart from other policy areas; examining the pulling (and at times, contradicting) forces which affect it and surfacing its complex and evolutionary nature and the unique challenges confronting macroprudential authorities.In order to derive and capture the theoretical foundations of macroprudential policy and support the high-level suggestions made on how to operationalise it, the book draws on established scholarships from international law as well as theories developed in the Organisational Behaviour field. It presents and explains the law within the context of the most recent empirical research in economics, including research on the prevalent governance structure of macroprudential policy, its interaction with other policy areas and the effectiveness of macroprudential tools. The normative discussion in the book is also grounded in practical specificities through detailed critical analysis of macroprudential policy frameworks at the national level (UK and US), regional level (EU) and global level (FSB, IMF and BIS). Dr. Anat Keller is a Lecturer in Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Data Analytics for Finance and Macroeconomics (DAFM) at King's Business School. She was previously a Teaching Fellow and a Visiting Lecturer in Law at University College London (2007-2016). She is also a qualified solicitor and serves as a Deputy Chief Examiner of the University of London. She is co-author of the book 'Law Relating to Financial Services' now in its 8th edition and has published numerous articles and chapters in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections focusing on macroprudential policy.

"In an environment of diminishing resources, growing enrollment, and increasing expectations of accountability, Lean Higher Education: Increasing the Value and Performance of University Processes, Second Edition provides the understanding and the tools required to return education to the consumers it was designed to serve-the students. It supplies a unifying framework for implementing and sustaining a Lean Higher Education (LHE) transformation at any institution, regardless of size or mission. Using straightforward language, relevant examples, and step-by-step guidelines for introducing Lean interventions, this authoritative resource explains how to involve stakeholders in the delivery of quality every step of the way. The author details a flexible series of steps to help ensure stakeholders understand all critical work processes. He presents a wealth of empirical evidence that highlights successful applications of Lean concepts at major universities and provides proven methods for uncovering and eliminating activities that overburden staff yet contribute little or no added value to stakeholders. Complete with standardized methods for correctly diagnosing workplace problems and implementing appropriate solutions, this valuable reference arms you with the understanding and the tools to effectively balance the needs of all stakeholders. By implementing the Lean practices covered in these pages your school will be better positioned to provide higher quality education, at reduced costs, with efficient processes that instill pride, maximize value, and respect the long-term interests of your students, faculty, and staff. This second edition contains a substantial update with expanded material and reflects the significant growth of Lean Higher Education practices in colleges and universities worldwide. Because of advances in best practices, as well as some modest research-based evidence, this second edition includes many enhancements that provide particular value to LHE practitioners and higher education (HE) leaders. Since the initial publication of Lean Higher Education in 2010, the challenges of cost and affordability, competition for students and faculty, and calls for efficiency and accountability have only continued to grow, requiring colleges and universities to pursue more radical and transformative change to ensure their success. This new edition provides a model for change based on more than 50 years of application in business and industry and almost 20 years in HE. It provides the information and evidence demanded by HE leadership to understand and embrace LHE as well as best practices processes and tools for implementing LHE in targeted areas or institution-wide. This book provides a conceptual framework for redesigning any university process, such as admitting students, paying a bill, hiring faculty, or processing a donor gift, in a way that delights the beneficiary of that process, respects the employees who support the process, and reduce the cost of the process"--

Preface and acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- The what, why, and how of planning history / Carola Hein -- Writing planning history : agents, theories, methods, and typologies -- The pioneers, institutions and vehicles of planning history / Stephen V Ward -- Interdisciplinarity in planning history / Nancy H.Kwak -- Planning history and theory : institutions, comparison, and temporal processes / André Sorensen -- The history of planning methodology / Peter Batey -- Biographical method / Robert Freestone -- Planning diffusion : agents, mechanisms, networks and theories / Stephen V Ward -- Global systems foundations of the discipline : colonial, post-colonial and other power structures / Robert Home -- Time, place and culture : from Euro-American to global planning history -- The ancient past in the urban present : the use of early models in urban design / Michael E. Smith, Carola Hein -- Writing planning history in the English-speaking world / Robert Freestone -- Key planning histories of the developing western tradition from the mid-19th century to the early-20th century / David Massey -- Urbanisme, urbanismo, urbanistica : Latin European urbanism / Javier Monclâus, Carmen Díez Medina -- Urbanisme and the francophone sphere / Clément Orillard -- The German traditions of Städtebau and Stadtlandschaft and their diffusion through global exchange / Celina Kress -- Planning history in and of Russia and the Soviet Union / Maria Taylor, Irina V. Kukina -- From urbanism to planning process : convergences of Latin American countries / Maria Cristina da Silva Leme, Vera Lucia Motta Rezende -- Southeast Asia : colonial discourses / Abidin Kusno -- Postcolonial Southeast Asia / Abidin Kusno -- Idioms of Japanese planning historiography / Carola Hein -- The uses of planning history in China / Daniel B. Abramson -- Planning histories in the Arab world / Eric Verdeil, Joe Nasr -- Africa's urban planning palimpsest / Susan Parnell -- Sites and dynamics : issues, movements / Themes and Debates -- Politics, power and urban form / David Gordon -- Planning for economic development / Richard Hu -- Planning for infrastructure : lifelines, mobility, and urban developmenat / Domenic Vitiello -- Ports and urban waterfronts / Dirk Schubert -- Urban segments and event spaces : world's fairs and olympic sites / John R. Gold, Margaret M. Gold -- Public health and urban planning: intertwined histories / Russell Lopez -- Urbanism, housing and the city / Cor Wagenaar -- Global suburbanization in planning history / André Sorensen -- Opposition, participation, and community driven planning histories / Dirk Schubert -- Livability and environmental sustainability : from smoky to livable cities / Dieter Schott -- Disasters : recovery, replanning, reconstruction and resilience / Peter J. Larkham -- A history of heritage conservation in city planning / Jyoti Hosagrahar -- Futures -- Educating planners in history : a global perspective / Christopher Silver -- The imprint of history in the practice of city and regional planning lessons from the cincinnati case : 1925-2012 / Eugenie L. Birch -- Death of the author, center, and meta-theory : emerging planning histories and expanding methods of the early 21st century / Tom Avermaete -- Future narratives for planning history / Stephen J. Ramos

Laws exist to incentivize us to act in a certain manner, in accordance with the policies that our community has deemed right for us. And when we disagree with those laws, we must re-examine our policies, and thus our beliefs and ideas, to decide whether our community has changed. This is a book about law and public policy—about the ideas and the rules we build to implement those rules. While similar books have looked at public policy and public administration in an effort to explain how the government works, and others have considered the foundations of the legal system to understand the rulemaking institutions, this book takes a different approach. In this ground-breaking new textbook, author Kevin Fandl develops a complete picture of society, from idea to action -- by examining laws through the lens of policy, and vice versa. This holistic approach gives readers a chance to see not only why certain rules exist, but how those rules evolved over time and the events that inspired them. It offers readers an opportunity not only to see but also to participate in the process of forming the structures that shape our society.This textbook is divided into two sections. The first section provides readers with the tools that they will need to digest the policies and laws that surround them. These tools include a historical deep dive into the foundations of the governance structure in the United States and beyond, an important examination of civics and a reminder of the importance of engaging in the policymaking process, a careful breakdown of the institutions that form the backbone of the law and policy-making institutions in the United States, and finally critical thinking including practical tools to find reliable sources for news, research, and other types of information. The second section of the text is comprised of subject-matter analyses. These subject-based chapters, written by experts on the topic at hand begin with a historical perspective, followed by a careful examination of the key policies and laws that inform that field. Each chapter highlights key vocabulary, provides practical vignettes to add context to the writing, explores a unique global component to compare perspectives from communities worldwide, and includes a number of discussion questions and recommended readings for further examination. This textbook is tailored specifically for undergraduate and graduate students of public policy, to introduce them to the role of law and legal institutions as facilitators and constraints on public policy, exploring those laws in a range of relevant policy contexts with the help of short case studies.

This book discusses the significance of cultural symbols/'images' in the nation-building of Eurasian states that emerged out of the former Soviet Union. It particularly focuses on the cases of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in the post-Soviet era and argues that the relationship between nation- and image-building has been particularly relevant for Eurasian states. In an increasingly globalized world, nation-state building is no longer an activity confined to the domestic arena. The situating of the state within the global space and its 'image' in the international community (nation branding) becomes in many ways as crucial as the projection of homogeneity within the state. The relationship between politics and cultural symbols/ 'images', therefore acquires and represents multiple possibilities. It is these possibilities that are the focus of Symbols and the Image of the State in Eurasia. It argues that the relationship between politics and cultural symbols/ 'images', became particularly relevant for states that emerged in the wake of the disintegration of the Soviet Union in Central Asia. It extends the argument further to contend that the image that the state projects is largely determined by its legacy and it attempts to do this by taking into account the Uzbek and Kazakh cases. In the shaping of the post-Soviet future these legacies and projections as well as the policy implications of these projections in terms of governmentality and foreign policy have been decisive. Anita Sengupta is Senior Researcher, Calcutta Research Group and Visiting Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, India. She is an area studies specialist and her work has been focused on the Eurasian region with Uzbekistan being her area of special interest. She has also worked extensively on Turkish politics. She has collaborated with academics and policy makers in a number of Universities and Institutes in Tashkent, Bishkek, Almaty, Ankara, Istanbul, Berlin, Washington and has published jointly with scholars in the Eurasian region. She has been associated with the Stockholm International Programme for Central Asian Studies, SIPCAS and the Nordic Network for Research on Migration, Identity, Communication and Security. Her bookHeartlands of Eurasia: The geopolitics of political space(Lexington Books: 2009) was selected by the Oxford Bibliographies Online in 2011 as a must read on the sectionGeopolitics and Geo-strategy. She is also the author ofRussia, China and Multilateralism in Central Asia(Shipra 2005)The Formation of the Uzbek Nation-State: A Study in Transition (Lexington Books 2003)andFrontiers into Borders: The Transformation of Identities in Central Asia(Greenwich Millennium Press 2002) She has edited a number of volumes on Eurasian politics. Her most recent publicationisMyth and Rhetoric of the Turkish Model: Exploring Developmental Alternatives(Springer 2014).

This handbook provides an overview and synthesis of relevant literature related to the issue of the well-being of working women. This focus addresses a gap that currently exists in the quality-of-life and well-being fields. The work of the authors answers the following broad questions: Does gender matter in the well-being of working women? Do prejudices against and stereotypes of women still play a role in inter-personal interactions in the workplace that could hinder women from flourishing professionally? Does the organizational context, such as organizational culture, reward systems, and leadership, contribute to the well-being of working-women? What impact does the national context have on the well-being of working women? And finally, how can public policies help enhance the well-being of working women? These are important issues for academics, researchers, and graduate students interested in gender issues in the fields of management, sociology, psychology, social psychology, economics, and quality of life studies. Policy makers and practitioners will also find this book beneficial. Equitable treatment and outcomes for all, regardless of gender, remains a challenging goal to achieve, with various barriers in different contexts and different cultures, and this book provides strong coverage of this important topic of well-being of working women. Mary L. Connerley is professor and head of the management department at the University of Northern Iowa. Connerley received her PhD in human resource management from the University of Iowa. Before joining UNI, Connerley was the founding Director of the Business Diversity Center in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech. Prior to receiving her Ph.D., Dr. Connerley worked for five years with the Executive Development Program at the University of Iowa and has been involved with developing and facilitating Leadership Development Programs ever since. Her most recent programs have focused on Issues of Diversity and Multiculturalism, Managing the Hispanic Workforce, Leading a Multi-Generational Workforce, and Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace. In addition to over 20 articles on human resource and diversity-related issues, she is co-author of the book titled, 'Leading in a Diverse and Multicultural Environment: Developing Awareness, Knowledge, and Skills.' Her current research and teaching interests center on diversity in the workplace and higher education. Jiyun Wu is an assistant professor in Management and Marketing Department at Rhode Island College. She received her Ph.D. in social issues in management from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). Her research areas include quality of work life, subjective well-being, gender and diversity issues, and business ethics. Her works have appeared in Journal of Happiness Studies, Applied Research in Quality of Life, and Business and Society, among others.

"White people declared that the South would rise again. Black people raised one fist and chanted for black power. Somehow we negotiated a space between those poles and learned to sit in classrooms together . . . Lawyers, judges, adults declared that the days of separate schools were over, but we were the ones who took the next step. History gave us a piece of itself. We made of it what we could." ⁰́₄Jim Grimsley More than sixty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that America's schools could no longer be segregated by race. Critically acclaimed novelist Jim Grimsley was eleven years old in 1966 when federally mandated integration of schools went into effect in the state and the school in his small eastern North Carolina town was first integrated. Until then, blacks and whites didn't sit next to one another in a public space or eat in the same restaurants, and they certainly didn't go to school together. Going to one of the private schools that almost immediately sprang up was not an option for Jim: his family was too poor to pay tuition, and while they shared the community's dismay over the mixing of the races, they had no choice but to be on the front lines of his school's desegregation. What he did not realize until he began to meet these new students was just how deeply ingrained his own prejudices were and how those prejudices had developed in him despite the fact that prior to starting sixth grade, he had actually never known any black people. Now, more than forty years later, Grimsley looks back at that school and those times⁰́₄remembering his own first real encounters with black children and their culture. The result is a narrative both true and deeply moving. Jim takes readers into those classrooms and onto the playing fields as, ever so tentatively, alliances were forged and friendships established. And looking back from today's perspective, he examines how far we have really come. "Does more to explain the South than anything I've read in a long, long time . . . Simply put, a brilliant book. While I was reading, I kept thinking two things. One, this is totally shocking. Two, it's not at all shocking but a familiar part of my life and memory. Grimsley's narrative is straightforward and plain spoken while at the same time achingly moving and intimately honest." ⁰́₄Josephine Humphreys, author of No Where Else on Earth "I not only believed this account but was grateful to see it on the record . . . The boy ...

Research on vitamin C and its effects on cancer is growing in popularity around the world as positive research continues to accumulate building a stronger case for its effectiveness. This concise SpringerBrief on Vitamin C and Cancer presents the latest findings on how vitamin C induces apoptosis. A high concentration of vitamin C allows for ascorbate to generate hydrogen peroxide in tissue that can selectively kill cancer cells. Research has confirmed that high-dose vitamin C is cytotoxic to a wide variety of cancer cell lines, and that it also boosts the anti-cancer activity of several common chemotherapy drugs. Vitamin C also does more than just kill cancer cells. It boosts immunity by stimulating collagen formation to help the body wall off the tumor. It inhibits hyaluronidase, an enzyme that tumors use to metastasize and invade other organs throughout the body. This concise and up-to-date Brief is geared towards cancer researchers and scientists, as well as physicians interested in the basic science and the translational potential of vitamin C in cancer therapeutics. Dr. Michael J. Gonzalez is Professor at the Nutrition Program, School of Public Health in the Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico. Dr. Gonzalez is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, and has authored over 150 scientific publications. He has served as a member on several scientific journal Editorial Boards, such as Biomedicina, the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, and Alternative Medicine Reviews. As a consultant for several companies, he has been responsible for designing formulations of nutritional supplements and pharmaceutical products. He has been a consultant for The Center for the Improvement of Human Functioning (now Riordan Clinic), in Wichita, Kansas. He has obtained several research awards for his work on Nutrition and Cancer. He is currently Co-Director of RECNAC II project, and Research Director of the InBioMed Project Initiative. Dr. Jorge R. Miranda-Massari, is Professor at the School of Pharmacy in the Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, and a Registered Pharmacist. Author of numerous scientific publications including editorials, reviews and research data in peer reviewed journals, Dr. Miranda-Massari is a consultant for the prestigious Center for the Improvement for the Human Functioning, in Wichita, Kansas. He is also Director of the Education Branch of the innovative InBioMed Project and Clinical Research Director of the RECNAC-II Project, specialized in Cancer Research. He is the creator of the first course in Integrative Medicine (Interdisciplinary Classification at a Doctoral Level), and the Advanced Practicum in Integrative Medicine at the School of Pharmacy, Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico.

The volume contributes to disrupt the old grand narrative of cultural contact and colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America in a wide and complete sense. This edited volume aims at exploring contact archaeology in the modern era. Archaeology has been exploring the interaction of peoples and cultures from early times, but only in the last few decades have cultural contact and material world been recognized as crucial elements to understanding colonialism and the emergence of modernity. Modern colonialism studies pose questions in need of broader answers. This volume explores these answers in Spanish and Portuguese America, comprising present-day Latin America and formerly Spanish territories now part of the United States. The volume addresses studies of the particular features of Spanish-Portuguese colonialism, as well as the specificities of Iberian colonization, including hybridism, religious novelties, medieval and modern social features, all mixed in a variety of ways unique and so different from other areas, particularly the Anglo-Saxon colonial thrust. Cultural contact studies offer a particularly in-depth picture of the uniqueness of Latin America in terms of its cultural mixture. This volume particularly highlights local histories, revealing novelty, diversity, and creativity in the conformation of the new colonial realities, as well as presenting Latin America as a multicultural arena, with astonishing heterogeneity in thoughts, experiences, practices, and, material worlds. Pedro Paulo A. Funariis professor of historical archaeology at the University of Campinas, Brazil, former World Archaeological Congress secretary, author and editor of several books, such as Historical archaeology, back from the edge (London, Routledge, 1999), Global Archaeological Theory (New York, Springer, 2005), Memories from Darkness, the archaeology of repression and resistance in Latin America (New York, Springer, 2009), with fieldwork in Brazil, England, Wales, Spain and Italy (several in each country). Funari is member of the editorial boards of several journals, notably the International Journal of Historical Archaeology (New York), Journal of Material Culture (London), Public Archaeology (London, UCL) and is referee in several other journals, like Current Anthropology. Funari has published papers in most prestigious journals, such as Historical Archaeology, Current Anthropology, Archaeologies, Révue Archéologique, Antiquity, American Antiquity, American Journal of Archaeology, and has edited archaeological encyclopedias. María Ximena Senatoreis a National Researcher at CONICET (National Council of Scientific and Technological Research), Argentina. Professor on Historical Archaeology and Heritage at University of Buenos Aires and National University of Patagonia Austral. Senatore has a degree in Archaeology (University of Buenos Aires, 1995) and PhD in History (2003, University of Valladolid, Spain). She is running research projects on Spanish Colonialism in South Patagonia, and Capitalism Expansion to Antarctica. Senatore has published papers in several journals such as International Journal of Historical Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Polar Record, and 3 books in Argentina and Brazil.

The Profitable Supply Chain: A Practitioner's Guideprovides a first-principles approach to understanding the drivers of today's successful supply chains, covering everything from inventory and demand management to network planning to technology-driven improvements in efficient supply chain management.Apart from introducing the latest concepts and methods, supply chain expert and consultant Ramnath Ganesan provides numerous real-world examples and cases to clarify how his process-oriented approach can be applied to specific situations, together with spreadsheet functions when appropriate. Practitioners will be especially interested, for example, in the sections on assessing external factors for demand, modifying network routings in response to rising fuel prices, designing a framework for identifying issues and tracking actions, and instituting financial measures to track performance. The book addresses situations found in such industries as consumer electronics, healthcare, telecommunications, consumer goods, industrial equipment, building materials, and many others. No matter the industry, all firms trading products face operational challenges in producing and/or moving goods in a geographically dispersed global network while fulfilling customer demand in a timely and cost-efficient manner. Such demands can only be supported by a rigorous approach that aligns supply with demand, an approach this book outlines clearly and simply. The Profitable Supply Chainwill prove a valuable reference for production schedulers, plant managers, material managers, demand planners, and supply chain executives. Among other things, it covers the following topics in great depth:How to design and implement an efficient, scalable supply chain management process from the ground up—or improve the one you have.How to maintain adequate inventory levels while reducing the cost of supplying products.How to implement specific metrics that help improve supply chain performance and forecast accuracy.How to gain competitive advantages through the latest advances in IT architecture and software.This book will also be of immense value to information technology professionals. That includes enterprise application developers charged with designing and implementing a supply chain IT architecture, as well as those administering and maintaining an enterprise resource planning or advance planning system. There are few areas in business more ripe for cost reductions than in the supply chain. The Profitable Supply Chain is therefore your go-to resource for making supply chain operations leaner, more efficient, and ultimately far more profitable than they are now. Ramnath Ganesan received his Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University. The president of Supply Cadence, LLC, maker of ForeXight supply chain management software, he has worked at and consulted with companies in the electronics, consumer goods, telecommunications, construction, and software industries. The concepts and methods presented in this book have been used by the author to initiate changeand improve performance at these companies.