"The first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi has inspired millions around the globe through her work as a human rights lawyer defending women and children against a brutal regime in Iran. Now Ebadi tells her story of courage and defiance in the face of a government out to destroy her, her family, and her mission: to bring justice to the people and the country she loves. For years the Islamic Republic tried to intimidate Ebadi, but after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rose to power in 2005, the censorship and persecution intensified. The government wiretapped Ebadi's phones, bugged her law firm, sent spies to follow her, harassed her colleagues, detained her daughter, and arrested her sister on trumped-up charges. It shut down her lectures, fired up mobs to attack her home, seized her offices, and nailed a death threat to her front door. Despite finding herself living under circumstances reminiscent of a spy novel, nothing could keep Ebadi from speaking out and standing up for human dignity. But it was not until she received a phone call from her distraught husband--and he made a shocking confession that would all but destroy her family--that she realized what the intelligence apparatus was capable of to silence its critics. The Iranian government would end up taking everything from Shirin Ebadi--her marriage, friends, and colleagues, her home, her legal career, even her Nobel Prize--but the one thing it could never steal was her spirit to fight for justice and a better future. This is the amazing, at times harrowing, simply astonishing story of a woman who would never give up, no matter the risks. Just as her words and deeds have inspired a nation, Until We Are Free will inspire you to find the courage to stand up for your beliefs; advance praise for Until We Are Free: "Shirin Ebadi is quite simply the most vital voice for freedom and human rights in Iran"--Reza Aslan, author of No god but God and Zealot : The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth; "A riveting account of a brave, lonely struggle. Reads like a police thriller, its drama heightened by Ebadi's determination to keep up the quotidian aspects of her family life"--The Washington Post Book World; "A must-read. may be the most important book you could read this year"--Seattle Post-Intelligencer; "As a testament to how a single, inspired voice can rise above the cacophony. The book should be required reading"--The Nation; "Some of her admirers in Iran call her a woman of steel. Sure, ...
Machine generated contents note: pt. One From Colony to Nation (1608 -- 1776) -- 1.John Winthrop, John Cotton, and Nathaniel Niles: The Basic Principles of Puritan Political Thought / Michael J. Rosano -- 2.Thomas Hutchinson and James Otis on Sovereignty, Obedience, and Rebellion / Howard L. Lubert -- 3.Thomas Paine: The American Radical / John C. Koritansky -- 4.Benjamin Franklin: A Model American and an American Model / Steven Forde -- pt. Two The New Republic (1776 -- 1820) -- 5.Liberty, Constitutionalism, and Moderation: George Washington's Harmonizing of Traditions / Paul O. Carrese -- 6.John Adams and the Republic of Laws / Richard Samuelson -- 7.Legitimate Government, Religion, and Education: The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson / Aristide Tessitore -- 8.The Political Science of James Madison / Michael P. Zuckert -- 9.Alexander Hamilton on the Grand Strategy of Free Government / Karl-Friedrich Walling -- 10.America's Modernity: James Wilson on Natural Law and Natural Rights / Eduardo A. Velasquez -- 11.Anti-Federalist Political Thought: Brutus and The Federal Farmer / Murray Dry -- 12.The New Constitutionalism of Publius / James R. Stoner Jr. -- 13.Union, Constitutionalism, and the Judicial Defense of Rights: John Marshall / Matthew J. Franck -- pt. Three A Divided Nation (1820 -- 1865) -- 14.John Quincy Adams on Principle and Practice / David Tucker -- 15.Union and Liberty: The Political Thought of Daniel Webster / Sean Mattie -- 16.Henry Clay and the Statesmanship of Compromise / Kimberly C. Shankman -- 17.For Constitution and Country? John C. Calhoun, American Politics, and the Union / George D. Alecusan -- 18.The Art of the Judge: Justice Joseph Story and the Founders' Constitution / Peter Schotten -- 19.James Fenimore Cooper: Nature and Nature's God / John E. Alvis -- 20.Religion, Nature, and Disobedience in the Thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau / Bryan-Paul Frost -- 21."Proclaim Liberty throughout the Land": Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and the Abolition of Slavery / Richard S. Ruderman -- 22.Abraham Lincoln: The Moderation of a Democratic Statesman / Steven Kautz --pt. Four Growth of an Empire (1865 -- 1945) -- 23.Walt Whitman and Politics by Other Means / Peter S. Field -- 24.Feminism as an American Project: The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton / Melissa S. Williams -- 25.Mark Twain on the American Character / David Foster -- 26.Pricking the Bubble of Utopian Sentiment: The Political Thought of William Graham Sumner / Lance Robinson -- 27.Booker T. Washington and the "Severe American Crucible" / Peter W. Schramm -- 28.Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture: W. E. B. Du Bois's Vision of Race Synthesis / Jonathan Marks -- 29.Henry Adams and Our Ancient Faith / Christopher Flannery -- 30.Jane Addams as Civic Theorist: Struggling to Reconcile Competing Claims / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- 31.Herbert Croly's Progressive "Liberalism" / Thomas S. Engeman -- 32.Theodore Roosevelt and the Stewardship of the American Presidency / Jean M. Yarbrough -- 33.Woodrow Wilson, the Organic State, and American Republicanism / Ronald J. Pestritto -- 34.The Making of the Modern Supreme Court: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Louis D. Brandeis / David F. Forte -- 35.John Dewey's Alternative Liberalism / David Fott -- 36.Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Second Bill of Rights / Donald R. Brand -- pt. Five New Challenges at Home and Abroad (1945 -- present) -- 37.Ayn Rand: Radical for Capitalism / William R. Thomas -- 38.Walker Percy's American Thomism / Peter Augustine Lawler -- 39.Russell Kirk's Anglo-American Conservatism / James McClellan -- 40.The Two Revolutions of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Peter C. Myers -- 41.Malcolm X: From Apolitical Acolyte to Political Preacher / Lucas E. Morel -- 42.Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem: The Popular Transformation of American Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century / Daryl McGowan Tress -- 43."The Secret Heart of America": Lyndon Baines Johnson's Bold Synthesis of American Thought / James A. Morone -- 44.John Rawls's "Democratic" Theory of Justice / David Lewis Schaefer -- 45.Henry Kissinger: The Challenge of Statesmanship in Liberal Democracy / Peter Josephson -- 46.Irving Kristol and the Reinvigoration of Bourgeois Republicanism / Laurence D. Cooper -- 47.The Jurisprudence of William Joseph Brennan, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall / Bradley C. S. Watson -- 48.Ronald Reagan: Statesman and Original Political Thinker / Steven F. Hayward -- 49.The Textualist Jurisprudence of Antonin Scalia / Ralph A. Rossum --50."Yes, We Can": The Progressive Political Thought of Barack Obama / Jeffrey Sikkenga.
"To date, every scholarly book on the history of medicine and slavery has a single author. Each is thus beholden to the practical limitations of single-authored texts. "Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery," by contrast, brings together scholars of diverse places and empires around the Atlantic to make a novel intervention into these histories by including diverse actors, wide-ranging periodization, and spanning across multiple empires. Contributors provide perspectives on sites in Africa, Europe, and the Americas. They examine the historical constructions of health and medicine among indigenous Americans, enslaved and free Africans and their descendants, and Europeans and Euro-Americans. The collection serves as a state-of-the-field picture of the history of slavery and medicine. Contributors include several award-winning historians, such as Lauren Robin Derby, Sharla Fett, and Leslie Schwalm; authors of important, recent monographs on slavery and medicine, such as Deirdre Cooper Owens and Rana Hogarth; and emerging scholars in the field of slavery and medicine. The variety of contributors in terms of rank, expertise, and experience allows the volume to take stock of the past, present, and future of a field of inquiry whose development has accelerated in the last decade. "Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery" illuminates the everyday practices of dealing with disease and illness that were fundamental to the order of slavery and the construction of race. The history of medicine and healing is a core facet of the early Atlantic World: bodies both sick and well were specific sites for contests of power, cultural exchange, and identity-making. The volume demonstrates how larger cosmologies of the Atlantic World-such as Enlightenment rationalism, Taino Zemis (stone idols), and various Afro-Atlantic spiritual traditions from Haitian Voodoo to Yoruba-constructed medicine and healing. Not only are the chapters in the collection topically diverse, they collectively cover the temporal breadth of Atlantic slavery. Essays span from the early enslavement of indigenous people in the Caribbean to the emancipation of slaves in the United States. Likewise, contributors consider the British, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Dutch empires. By breaking down traditional temporal and geographical borders, the contributors ask to what degree the spaces of enslavement around the Atlantic shared the experienced disease, healing, and medicine, and to what degree they were historically specific and contingent. The volume complicates Western biomedicine's assumptions as a unique healing tradition, revealing how its modern instantiation depended to a significant extent on the bodies and expertise of enslaved and free people of color in colonial spaces. Ultimately, the collection uses this comprehensiveness to argue that medical and healing traditions framed the Atlantic slave system's lived experience. Its essays' foundational nature positions the volume to provoke future studies in both medical and Atlantic history"--
Machine generated contents note: About the author Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction Structure of the book Chapter 2 Theoretical Context Management context Project transitions Project management as practice Systems theory and networks Transient relationships Dyadic contractual relationships and structure Permanent and temporary organising Structure and networks Information classification Nodes and linkages Summary Chapter 3 Networks and Projects Network definition Origins and history Problems with projects Actor role classification and ritualistic behaviour Routines Are networks a response to uncertainty in projects? Temporary project systems and their replication# Beyond the iron triangle Why networks? Individuals and firms Problems associated with the use of SNA in project research Summary Chapter 4 Why Networks? Definition Why choose social network analysis? Problems associated with the use of SNA inn project research Concepts and terminology Defining the population What is a network? Actor characteristics Some final thoughts Conclusion Chapter 5 Self-organising networks in projects What do project clients want? Dangerous assumptions Implications if these assumptions are incorrect Networks and uncertainty Does it matter how we conceptualise the project? Procurement through markets and hierarchies; project design and delivery through networks Summary and conclusions Chapter 6 Game Theory and Networks Some history to start Game theory applied to construction projects What is a game? Key assumptions Benefits of applying game theory to project networks Other considerations Choices about actions and co-players: The Prisoner's Dilemma Nash equilibrium Anti-coordination behaviour: Hawk-Dove and Chicken Game theory and information exchange network formation Game theory and five dangerous assumptions Summary and conclusions Chapter 7 Network roles and personality types Network roles: prominent disseminators, gatekeeper hoarders, isolates, dyads and triads, boundary spanners and bridges Personality traits Humour and behaviour in networks Profiling and ideal project network actor Specific personality traits Network roles and personality traits Summarising on actor traits and project networks Chapter 8 Network enabling What do we mean by network enabling? Trust Empathy Reciprocity, favours and psychological contracts Implications for violations of psychological contracts in networks Generosity Characteristics of individual that are destructive for networks Narcissism Egotism Summary Chapter 9 Project Networks and BIM BIM origins BIM and information management Information management and organisation structure The BIM model as an artefact Self-organising networks in the context of design BIM and networks, a research agenda Chapter 10 Introduction to the Case Studies Technical overview Researcxh funding Summary Chapter 11: Case Study No.1- Communities in Self-Organising Projects Networks Data collection Data analysis Findings Communities in self-organising project networks Summary Chapter 12: Case Study No.2 -- Dysfunctional Prominence in Self-Organising Project Networks Data collection Data analysis Actor prominence measures Summary Chapter 13: Case Study No.3 -- Costing Networks Conceptual framework Network costs Data analysis Summary Chapter 14: Summary and Conclusions Brief summary of each chapter Theoretical Issues What might industry learn from the content of this book? Appendix References Index
About the author -- Overview -- Introduction -- Identifying the need -- Purpose of this resource -- How young people learn about sex and relationships -- Sex, porn and the law -- Guidelines for teaching sre that includes pornography -- Continuing professional development -- Keeping parents and carers informed -- Partnership agencies and involving the wider community -- Guide to using this resource -- Facilitating group learning -- Supporting different learning needs -- Creating a safe learning environment -- Key vocabulary -- Overview of each chapter -- 1. what is porn? -- Activity 1: what is pornography? -- Activity 2: pictures not porn, please -- Activity 3: legal attitudes -- Activity 4: the great porn debate -- Activity 5: porn stereotypes -- Activity 6: viewing numbers -- Activity 7: who is responsible? -- Activity 8: porn as sex education -- Activity 9: pornography and the curriculum -- Activity 10: where is the danger? -- Activity 11: is that even legal? -- Activity 12: revenge porn and the law -- Shopping, music and the media -- Activity 1: where do you stand? -- Activity 2: sex on the high street -- Activity 3: shops and marketing -- Activity 4: what did you say? -- Activity 5: mug messages -- Activity 6: selling the song -- Activity 7: cartoon messages -- Activity 8: create your own superhero -- Activity 9: the only way is reality -- Activity 10: reality sex -- Activity 11: guess the product -- Activity 12: advertising : facts and opinions -- Porn and body image -- Activity 1: porn statements -- Activity 2: perfect people -- Activity 3: industry influences -- Activity 4: under the knife -- Activity 5: 100 years of glamour -- Activity 6: curvy bottles -- Activity 7: body image game -- Activity 8: the muff march -- Activity 9: changing body image through art -- Activity 10: behind the mask -- Activity 11: sexual stereotypes -- Activity 12: body image pot shots -- Porn v. real life relationships -- Activity 1: four words -- Activity 2: porn v. reality -- Activity 3: why do people have sex? -- Activity 4: fantasy or truth? -- Activity 5: at what age are you ready? -- Activity 6: backwards fairy tales -- Activity 7: gossip, rumours and lies -- Activity 8: relationship bullying -- Activity 9: powers of persuasion -- Activity 10: flirting or sexual harassment? -- Activity 11: personal boundaries -- Activity 12: ground rules in relationships -- Activity 13: how to say what you want to say -- Activity 14: identifying relationship boundaries -- Activity 15: someone to trust -- Sexting, revenge porn and online sexual bullying -- Activity 1: please share -- Activity 2: sexting and the law -- Activity 3: using social media -- Activity 4: truth or lie? -- Activity 5: social media quiz -- Activity 6: please forward -- Activity 7: photo stories -- Activity 8: taking risks -- Activity 9: social media profile review -- Activity 10: online dating -- Additional information and support -- Appendix 1. example letter for parents/carers : schools -- Appendix 2. example letter for parents/carers : youth services -- Appendix 3. example invitation to a parental information workshop -- Appendix 4. quick guide to staying safe online and social media for parents -- Appendix 5. evaluation form
The quinquennial Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference represents a highly important event from the perspective of the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). Though not a party to the treaty itself, the EU has made a consistent effort since the 1990s to coordinate the positions of its member states and achieve higher visibility in the NPT review process. The aim of this article is to examine the role of the EU in the 2015 NPT Review Conference deliberations. Drawing on on-site observations, statements and in-depth research interviews, it argues that the recent institutional changes notwithstanding, the influence of the EU as a distinct actor in the NPT context remains very limited, and the EU's common position is in bigger disarray than ever before. This year's Review Conference demonstrated the widening rift between the member states, in particular in the area of nuclear disarmament and the related issues. The inability to maintain a coherent common position limits the EU 'actorness' and impedes its striving for relevance in the NPT forums. The dynamics outlined in this article further highlight the limits of the EU CFSP in security matters in which the national positions of individual member states are as divergent as in the case of nuclear disarmament. (International Affairs (Oxford) / SWP)
North Korea remains a puzzle to Americans. Seen primarily through images of its eccentric leaders and goose-stepping soldiers, it makes the front pages when it test launches its missiles or conducts a nuclear test as it did with two spectacular successes in the latter part of 2017. It is difficult for the general reader to assess the real danger North Korea and its current enigmatic leader, Kim Jong Un, pose. Does he have a nuclear button that could launch nuclear-tipped missiles as he warned President Trump in his New Year's Day speech in 2018? How did North Korea, one of the poorest and most isolated countries in the world in the crosshairs of every U.S. administration during the past 30 years, progress from no nuclear weapons in 2001 to a threatening arsenal of 30 to 50 weapons in 2021? Hinge Points posits that the conventional wisdom that America's good faith diplomatic efforts were circumvented by the North's repeated violations of diplomatic agreements is neither true nor helpful. The book takes a different look at the problem, one of critical introspection that combines rigorous analysis of political and technical developments. Hinge Points demonstrates that North Korea followed a dual-track strategy of diplomacy and nuclear development, variously emphasizing one or the other but never completely abandoning either. This strategy brought a steady stream of nuclear advances in Pyongyang. In Washington, these advances were interpreted as provocations or brinksmanship, and its responses were typically reactive and politically driven, focused on escalating sanctions and turning to China for help. This approach allowed North Korea to expand its program relatively unfettered. Mired in misguided assumptions and deep suspicions about North Korea, three U.S. administrations missed opportunities to mitigate risk and alter the trajectory of the North's nuclear program during times when Pyongyang favored diplomacy. Based on his own visits to North Korea and an in-depth analysis of the political and technical developments, the author argues that decisions should have been based on technically informed risk/benefit analysis that sought to manage the risks as best as possible, instead of trying to drive them to zero. Hinge Points reviews common-mode failures of the three administrations, including a needlessly heavy reliance on Beijing, ineffective utilization of sanctions as a policy tool, the lack of a holistic approach to peace on the Korean Peninsula, and the failure to properly prioritize and recognize the seriousness of the North Korean nuclear threat. An honest account of the history is not kind to Washington, but turning the lens inward to critically appraise Washington's role is the most constructive way for improving U.S. policy going forward. The book describes the political landscapes in the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations that led to "hinge points," and provides detailed assessments of North Korea's nuclear and missile programs at those times to demonstrate how Washington's response missed the mark, leading to the crisis we face today.
Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction & cross cultural research -- The history of consumer psychology / Cathrine V. Jansson-Boyd & Nigel Marlow -- Cross cultural consumption / Susan Forquer Gupta -- Globalization, branding, and multicultural consumer behavior / Carlos J. Torelli & Mara Rodas -- Consumer cognition & perception -- Visual attention in consumer settings / J. Wesley Hutchinson, Joy Lu, Evan Weingarten -- Perception and consumption : touch, multisensory integration and congruency / Cathrine V. Jansson-Boyd -- The role of procedural knowledge in consumer judgment and decision-making / Robert Wyer -- Unconscious cognition effects in consumer research / Claudiu V. Dimofte -- Capturing the consumer's unconscious : applying the implicit association test in consumer research / Dominika Maison & Aiden Gregg -- Social perception, self, identity & well-being -- The self in consumption / Russell Belk -- Revisiting self-congruity theory in consumer behavior : making sense of the research so far / M. Joseph Sirgy, Dong-Jin Lee, Grace B. Yu -- Social comparison processes in advertisement : on the relative sales-value of beauty / Michael Hafner -- Applying universal dimensions of social perception to consumer context : an extension of the scm/biaf models with the relevance principle / Magdalena J. Zawisza -- Does size matter? : media influences and body image / Megan Hurst, Helga Dittmar, Emma Halliwell & Phillippa C. Diedrichs -- Psychology of healthy eating / Lara Spiteri-Cornish -- Social & cultural influences -- Political marketing : theory and practice / Wojciech Cwalina, Andrzej Falkowski & Bruce I. Newman -- Religion and consumer behaviour / Elizabeth A. Minton & Lynn R. Kahle -- The psychological consequences of money for economic and social relationships / Tomasz Zaleskiewicz & Agata Gasiorowska -- Young children as consumers : their vulnerability to persuasion and its effect on their choices / Dick Mizerski, Shasha Wang, Alvin Lee, & Claire Lambert -- Decision making, attitudes & behavioural research -- Framing effects in consumer judgment and decision-making / Tobias Kroger, Tobias Vogel & Michaela Wonke -- Enhancing consumer behavior with implementation intentions / Peter M. Gollwitzer, Maik Bieleke, & Paschal Sheeran -- The elaboration likelihood model : understanding consumer attitude change / Jacob Teeny, Pablo Briol, Richard E. Petty -- Transactions as trade-offs between costs and benefits / Bernadette Kamleitner & Ruta Ruzeviciute -- Nave theories about marketing and consumption in consumer inference / Hlne Deval, Maria L. Cronley, Susan Powell Mantel & Frank R. Kardes -- What makes tomorrow's gain worth today's pain cognitive, motivational, and affective influences in consumers' self-control dilemmas / Aparna A. Labroo & Anastasiya Pocheptsova -- Sex drive and consumer decision-making / Rui Chen & Maggie Wenjing Liu -- Aging and consumer behavior : challenges and opportunities / Stephanie M. Carpenter & Carolyn Yoon -- Products, branding preferences & sustainability -- Sustainability and consumer psychology / Eda Gurel-Atay, Lynn R. Kahle & Elizabeth A. Minton -- Moving towards sustainable consumption : a psychological perspective on improvement of public transport / Margareta Friman & Tommy G?rling -- The psychology of branding / Arnd Florack & Johanna Palcu -- Aesthetics : antecedents, underlying processes, and behavioral consequences / Martin Reimann & C. Clark Cao -- Anthropomorphism / Pankaj Aggarwal & Ann L. McGill -- Internet & electronic media -- Novel phenomena, evolving frameworks: exploring social influence in the online world / Rebecca Walker Reczek & Cait Lamberton -- Representations of race, gender, and sexual orientation in gaming content / Melody A. Stotler & Karen E. Dill-Shackleford -- Personality-customised advertising in the digital environment / Sandra Matz -- Author index -- Subject index
Chapter 1. Advances in Chinese Children, Adolescent and Family Research (Moon Law, DSW, Daniel TL Shek, PhD, Ariel Tenenbaum, MD, and Joav Merrick, MD, DMSc, School of Social Sciences, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Hong Kong, China, and others) -- Section One: Child and Adolescent Development -- Chapter 2. Reliability and Validity of the Chinese Version of the Psycho-Educational Profile (Third Edition) for Children with Developmental Problems (Daniel TL Shek, PhD, and Lu Yu, PhD, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China) -- Chapter 3. The Impacts of a UNICEF Health Promotion Project on Primary Health Care in Western China: A Comprehensive Evaluation at Provincial Level (Yuxue Bi, PhD, Dejian Lai, PhD, and Hong Yan, MD, PhD, Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, and others) -- Chapter 4. Materialism in Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong: Profiles and Socio-Demographic Correlates (Daniel TL Shek, PhD, Li Lin, PhD, Andrew MH Siu, PhD, and Britta M. Lee, Department of Applied Social Sciences and Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China) -- Chapter 5. Materialism and Egocentrism in Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong: Perceptions of Teachers (Daniel TL Shek, PhD, Cecilia Ma, PhD, Andrew MH Siu, PhD, and Britta M. Lee, Department of Applied Social Sciences and Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China) -- Section Two: Family environment -- Chapter 6. Family Mealtime Environment and Child Behavior Outcomes in Chinese Preschool Children (Cynthia Leung, PhD, Sandra Tsang, PhD, Sing Kai Lo, PhD, and Ruth Chan, PhD, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, and others) -- Chapter 7. Families in Transition in Hong Kong: Implications to Family Research and Practice (Janet TY Leung, PhD, and Daniel TL Shek, PhD, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, and others) -- Chapter 8. Subjective Outcome Evaluation of the Tin Ka Ping P.A.T.H.S. Project in China: View of the Students (Daniel TL Shek, PhD, Tak Yan Lee, PhD, Julie Zhu and Lawrence K Ma, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, and others) -- Chapter 9. Evaluation of the Project P.A.T.H.S. in Mainland China: Views of the Program Implementers in Senior High Schools (Daniel TL Shek, PhD, Florence KY Wu, EdD, Rachel Sun and Mengtong Chen, PhD, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, and others) -- Chapter 10. Evaluation of the Training Program of a Positive Youth Development Program: Tin Ka Ping P.A.T.H.S. Project in China (Daniel TL Shek, PhD, Janet TY Leung, PhD, Rachel CF Sun, Mengtong Chen, PhD, and Chi Kin Chung, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, and others) -- Chapter 11. Tin Ka Ping P.A.T.H.S. Project in Mainland China: Preliminary Evaluation Findings (Daniel TL Shek, PhD, Tak-Yan Lee, PhD, Rachel CF Sun, PhD, Florence KY Wu, EdD, and Janet TY Leung, PhD, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, and others) -- Chapter 12. Evaluation Findings of Tin Ka Ping P.A.T.H.S. Project Implemented in Junior Secondary Schools: Implementers' Views (Daniel TL Shek, PhD, Xiaoqin Zhu, PhD, and Janet TY Leung, PhD, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China) -- Chapter 13. Subjective Outcome Evaluation of the Tin Ka Ping P.A.T.H.S. Project: Views of Senior Secondary School Students (Daniel TL Shek, PhD, Rachel CF Sun, Irene Wu, PhD, and Moon YM Law, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, and others) -- Chapter 14. Implementation of the Tin Ka Pin Project in Two Chinese Cities: Students' Subjective Outcome Evaluation (Lu Yu, PhD, and Esther YW Shek, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, and others) -- Chapter 15. Subjective Outcome Evaluation of a Service Leadership Subject: Findings Based on University Students in Hong Kong (Janet TY Leung, PhD, and Daniel TL Shek, PhD,Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China) -- Chapter 16. Student Development under a New General Education Program in Hong Kong: A 3-Year Longitudinal Assessment (Daniel TL Shek, PhD, Lu Yu, PhD, and Xiaoqin Zhu, PhD, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China) -- Chapter 17. Promotion of Service Leadership Qualities in Chinese University Students: Objective Outcome Evaluation Based on Six Waves of Data (Hildie Leung, PhD, Daniel TL Shek, PhD, and Li Lin, PhD, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China) -- Section Two: Acknowledgements -- Chapter 18. About the Editors -- Chapter 19. About the Center for Children with Chronic Diseases and Down Syndrome Center Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Pediatrics, Mt Scopus Campus, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel -- Chapter 20. About the Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hunghom, Hong Kong -- Chapter 21. About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development -- Chapter 22. About the Book Series "Public health: Practices, Methods and Policies" -- Section Three: Index.
The effectiveness of development cooperation (DC) is a topic of extensive debate in this policy field. Yet despite numerous review and evaluation formats designed to promote learning processes and hence enhance effectiveness, it is often impossible to document these improvements. Against this backdrop, the present paper aims to analyse the usefulness of ex-post evaluations (EPEs) by KfW Development Bank – both within KfW Development Bank and at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), from which it receives its commissions. Research indicates that EPEs are conducted with great care. Moreover, EPEs can contribute to the legitimacy of (financial) DC, as project results are considered and presented in a structured manner. Nevertheless, the people interviewed for this study regard EPEs as (highly) subjective assessments and believe that these evaluations may under certain circumstances not be comparable with one another. Yet EPEs need to be comparable, because their overall ratings are used to calculate the success rate, which is currently around 81%. This in turn affects KfW's reporting on its performance to BMZ and to the public. The data from the interviews shows that trade-offs during the production and use of EPEs appear to limit the usefulness of this format. EPEs are designed to deliver accountability to the public and to BMZ and to promote learning within KfW. These are conflicting objectives, however, as they would each require a different approach. According to those interviewed at KfW and BMZ, EPEs are seldom read or used. Interviewees explain that EPEs are rarely relevant to people working in operational areas, as the evaluations are not published until several years after the project concerned has been completed and only occasionally contain information that is relevant to current projects. The evaluations cannot be conducted sooner, however, as otherwise they would not be able to assess the sustainability and development impact of a project. Moreover, interviews and evidence from other studies indicate that EPEs are of limited relevance to political steering at BMZ, even in aggregated form. Nonetheless, the author believes that it would not be an option to no longer conduct EPEs, as they are the only way to review the development impact and sustainability of a representative number of projects in an affordable way, thus forming the basis for delivering accountability. Reconciling the conflicting goals of learning and accountability is challenging. For the learning component, it would appear to be a good idea to make greater use of cross-sectional analyses and to establish a central support structure for all implementing organisations and BMZ with a view to compiling all the key information from the evaluations and forwarding it to both BMZ and KfW and to the partner countries in a form tailored to meet their needs. For the accountability component, transparency also needs to be enhanced by making completed evaluation reports available to the public promptly and in full. In addition to an evaluation of international research literature, this paper particularly draws on empirical interview data. A total of 13 specifically selected experts from the German DC system were interviewed. This interview data thus forms an illustrative but not representative sample.
The evolution of urbanism under dictatorship forms the core of the current research. This thesis is part of a research network at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, which studies the 20th century's urbanism under different dictatorships. The network has provided a cross-cultural and cross-border environment and has enabled the author to communicate with other like-minded researchers. The 2015 published book of this group 'Urbanism and Dictatorship: A European Perspective' strengthens the foundation of this research's theoretical and methodological framework. This thesis investigates urban policies and plans leading to the advancement of urbanization and the transformation of urban space in Iran during the second Pahlavi (1941-1979) when the country faced a milestone in its history: Nationalization of the Iranian oil industry. By reflecting the influence of economic and socio‐political determinants of the time on urbanism and the urbanization process, this work intends to critically trace the effect of dictatorship on evolved urbanism before and after the oil nationalization in 1951. The research on the second Pahlavi's urbanism has been limitedly addressed and has only recently expanded. Most of the conducted studies date back to less than a decade ago and could not incorporate all the episodes of the second Pahlavi urbanism. These works have often investigated urbanism and architecture by focusing merely on the physical features and urban products in different years regardless of the importance of urbanism as a tool in the service of hegemony. In other words, the majority of the available literature does not intend to address the socio-economic and political roots of urban transformations and by questioning 'what has been built?' investigates the individual urban projects and plans designed by individual designers without interlinking these projects to the state's urban planning program and tracing the beneficiaries of those projects or questioning 'built for whom?' Moreover, some chapters of this modern urbanism have rarely been investigated. For instance, scant research has looked into the works of foreign designers and consultants involved in the projects such as Peter Georg Ahrens or Constantinos A. Doxiadis. Similarly, the urbanism of the first decade of the second Pahlavi, including the government of Mossadegh, has mainly been overlooked. Therefore, by critically analyzing the state's urban planning program and the process of urbanization in Iran during the second Pahlavi, this research aims to bridge the literature gap and to unravel the effect of the power structure on urban planning and products while seeking to find a pattern behind the regime's policies. The main body of this work is concentrated on studying the history of urbanism in Iran, of which collecting data and descriptions played a crucial role. To prevent the limitations associated with singular methods, this research's methodology is based on methodological triangulation (Denzin, 2017). With the triangulation scheme, the data is gathered by combining different qualitative and quantitative methods such as the library, archival and media research, online resources, non-participatory observation, and photography. For the empirical part, the city of Tehran is selected as the case study. Moreover, individual non-structured interviews with the locals were conducted to gain more insights regarding urban projects.
Law's regulatory reach has grown significantly over the past few decades. Yet, at the same time, law schools and legal professions in Western and Western-oriented jurisdictions have undergone an acute crisis. How is this possible? In this insightful and wide-ranging book, Luca Siliquini-Cinelli argues that these trends are in fact complementary manifestations of a single phenomenon-namely, that law is and will always be more capable of regulating social interaction without the experiential contribution of legal experts. Siliquini-Cinelli contends that the separation of law's regulatory function from legal experts is structurally linked to the former's nature and operational dynamics as an intellectual artifact to be used for ordering purposes. As a product of the intellect, law is a matter of knowledge, not experience. In fact, Siliquini-Cinelli holds, law's artifactuality voids experience, including that of legal experts, making it redundant. This explains how law can thrive as a regulatory phenomenon while the very places where future legal professionals are formed and those places where it is practised are in crisis. To show this, Siliquini-Cinelli embarks upon a historical, philosophical, and comparative analysis of law's artifactuality, focusing on the teaching, study and practise of law as intellectual endeavours, from the advent of juristic activities in the Late Roman Republic to current legal pedagogies, practices, and reforms in Civil and Common law jurisdictions. In so doing, Siliquini-Cinelli employs the Latin phrase 'scientia iuris' to explain why and how legal education and practice pursue knowledge at the expense of experience, and the serious implications this has for lawyering activities. Moving beyond established narratives, Siliquini-Cinelli argues that 'scientia iuris' ought not be reduced to dogmatic analysis (scientia iuris as doctrina iuris). Rather, 'scientia iuris' denotes the knowledge of the law sought by all those who teach, study, and practise it, and which is actualised through a form of legal thinking and argumentation that moves along reason's metaphysical, constructivist lines (scientia iuris as cognitio iuris). Thus, scientia iuris is not the prerogative of a few legal scholars; rather, it lies at the very core of Western legal education and practice, broadly understood. The relevance of Siliquini-Cinelli's original and interdisciplinary analysis is profound and far-reaching: the crisis that legal education and practice are undergoing is not an isolated, or accidental, event; it is a consequence of the very ways in which law has been taught, studied, and practised since Rome. Endorsements 'This richly researched book on the history of scientia iuris is a work on epistemology which argues that the legal model is highly problematic and will eventually be able to function without the intervention of jurists and lawyers. Such a thesis is based upon a very detailed knowledge both of philosophy and of the legal primary and secondary sources from Roman to modern times. The author is at home with Ancient Greek, Latin, French, German and Italian texts and this means that the research basis for the thesis not only is unusually profound - encompassing both the civil and the common law - but will make a major contribution to historical jurisprudence, to comparative legal history, to comparative law in general and to legal theory. This is legal scholarship of the highest order.' Geoffrey Samuel, Emeritus Professor of Law, Kent Law School 'In this exceptionally robust and expertly-researched new book, Luca Siliquini-Cinelli presents a provocative thesis. He proposes that the experience of legal experts is redundant when it comes to the success of law as a regulatory framework. Oscillating between historical, material, philosophical and literary frames, Sili
"Defining Documents in American History: U.S. Involvement in the Middle East offers in-depth analysis of 64 primary source documents at the foundation of the study of United States involvement in conflicts in the Middle East. The Middle East and the United States have had a complex relationship since the early 1800s, especially as it relates to the conflicts and wars that the region has experienced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The United States has engaged in military and covert operations throughout the Middle East in an effort to protect its own strategic interests, maintain access to oil resources, settle rivalries, and prevent the spread of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. The documents in this volume of the Defining Documents series provide an overview of the turbulent history and current state of U.S. relations with the Middle East. The primary source documents include book excerpts, speeches, political debates, testimony, court rulings, legal texts, legislative acts, essays, newspaper articles, and interviews. These selecƯtions trace the role and complex history of U.S. involvement in the conflicts in the Middle East in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The material is organized into five sections, and each section begins with a brief introducƯtion that examines the politics and policies of the United States and the Middle East through a variety of historical documents. Colonialism and the Transition to U.S. Influence includes documents from the years 1896-1957 that track the history of conflicts in the Middle East as a time when most of the area had been under direct or indirect foreign rule, nationalist forces arose, including Theodor Herzl's call for a Jewish state; Truman's Statement on Immigration into Palestine; and Gamal Abder Nasser on the Nationalization of the Suez Canal. Arab Voices in Oppression includes documents that trace the evolution of Islam in the region (1744-1977) such as The Saud Family and Wahhabi Islam, Sayyid Qutb on Jihad, and the Palestinian National Charter. Late Twentieth-Century Wars and Peace Accords begins with UN Security Council Resolution 242 on the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and includes Camp David Accords, a report and analysis of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, and Muhammad Qutb on the Origins of Islam. 9/11, Afghanistan, and Iraq is the most extensive section, covering a period of time from 1996-2013 and includes such pivotal documents in the relationship between the U.S. and the Middle East such as Osama bin-Laden's' Declaration of Jihad against the Americans, Colin Powel on Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction, "Mission to Niger" and the Valerie Plame Affair, The Zelikow Memo, and President Obama's Remarks on the Killing of Osama bin Laden. Arab Spring, ISIS, and After, which takes us from 2011 to the present, with documents such as Flashing Red: A Special Report on the Terrorist Attack at Benghazi; Donald Trump's "Muslim Ban" Speech; and "U.S. Gov't Misled Public About Afghan War." Each Historical Document is supported by a critical essay, written by historians and teachers, that includes a Summary Overview, Defining Moment, About the Author, Document Analysis, and Essential Themes. An important feature of each essay is a close reading of the primary source that develops broader themes, such as the author's rhetorical purpose, social or class position, point of view, and other relevant issues. Each essay also includes a Bibliography Further Reading section for additional readings and research. Appendixes in this book include: Chronological List which arranges all documents by year ; Web Resources, an annotated list of websites that offer valuable supplemental resources ; Bibliography lists of helpful articles and books for further study."--
""Coming out of the current COVID crisis, many expect further industry consolidation across sectors. The Global Rule of Three lifts the curtain on what this future could look like. The book is packed with great insights into the dynamic forces shaping most industries: above all, that those who know how to truly serve will be the long term winners." -Paul Polman, Co-Founder & Chair, IMAGINE and former CEO, Unilever "Congratulations for writing a seminal book on how industries evolve, grow, plateau and revitalize over time! Simultaneous coexistence of both the volume driven full line competitors (oligopoly) and the margin driven niche players (monopolistic competitors) is unique to competitive positioning Globally." - Philip Kotler, S.C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing (emeritus), Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA "The Global Rule of Three is an eye opener! It provides a blue print on how to compete globally especially against growing competition from Multinationals from the Emerging Markets such as China and India. Buy it, you will like it!" -Ram Charan, Best Selling Author and Advisor to Global Enterprises "The Global Rule of Three offers a plethora of historical as well as contemporary examples to chronicle the evolution of hypercompetition leading up to the current pan-industrial revolution. A must read for every manager interested in the spiraling competition from multinationals of emerging markets such as China and India." -Richard D'Aveni, Bakala Professor of Strategy, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, USAIn our increasingly digital, mobile, and global world, the existing theories of business and economics have lost much of their appeal with the phenomenal rise of Chindia, the reality of Brexit, the turmoil caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, and the seismic shifting of the global center of gravity from west to east. In the area of innovation, the traditional thinking that a developed country, often the US, will come up with the next major innovation, launch at home first, and then take it to other markets does not ring true anymore. Similarly, the world where conglomerates go bargain-hunting for acquisitions in emerging markets has been turned upside-down. This book reveals and illustrates the Global Rule of Three phenomenon, which stipulates that in competitive markets only three companies (which the authors call "generalists") can dominate the market. All other players in the market are specialists. Further, whereas the financial performance of generalists improves as market share increases, specialist companies see a decrease in financial performance as their market share increases, as the latter are margin-driven companies. This theory powerfully captures the evolution of global markets and what executives must do to succeed. It is based on empirical analyses of hundreds of markets and industries in the US and globally. Competitive markets evolve in a predictable fashion across industries and geographies, where every industry goes through a similar lifecycle from beginning to end (or revitalization). From local to regional to national markets, the last stop in the evolution of markets is going global. The pattern is so consistent that it represents a distinct and natural market structure at every level. The authors offer strategies that generalists and specialist should follow to stay competitive as well as twelve expansion strategies for global companies from emerging markets. This book chronicles this global evolution and provides impactful managerial implications for executives and students of marketing and corporate strategy alike."--Page 4 of cover
