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1. Constructing transnational studies / Sanjeev Khagram and Peggy Levitt -- 2. Transnational relations and world politics : an introduction / Joseph S. Nye, Jr. and Robert O. Keohane -- 3. "Conclusions" and "Post Scriptum" from Dependency and Development in Latin America / Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto -- 4. The homeland, Aztlan / El otro Mexico / Gloria Anzaldua -- 5. Global ethnoscapes : notes and queries for a transnational anthropology / Arjun Appadurai -- 6. The real new world order / Anne-Marie Slaughter -- 7. "Introduction" and "the state and the global city" from globalization and its discontents / Saskia Sassen -- 8. Discipline and practice : "the field" as site, method, and location in anthropology / Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson -- 9. Methodological nationalism, the social sciences, and the study of migration : an essay in historical epistemology / Andreas Wimmer and Nina Glick Schiller -- 10. Assimilation and transnationalism : determinants of transnational political action among contemporary migrants / Luis Eduardo Guarnizo, Alejandro Portes and William Haller -- 11. "Introduction" from forces of labor : workers' movements and globalization since 1870 / Beverly J. Silver -- 12. "Transnational struggles for water and power" and "dams, democracy, and development in transnational perspective" / Sanjeev Khagram -- 13. Breakthrough to history / William H. McNeill -- 14. The world system in the thirteenth century : dead-end or precursor? / Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod -- 15. The historical sociology of race / Howard Winant -- 16. The Black Atlantic as a counterculture of modernity / Paul Gilroy -- 17. Of our spiritual strivings / W.E.B. Du Bois -- 18. The cosmopolitan perspective : sociology of the second age of modernity / Ulrich Beck -- 19. The nation-state and its others : in lieu of a preface / Khachig Tololyan -- 20. "Nigerian Kung Fu, Manhattan fatwa" and "the local and the global : continuity and change" / Ulf Hannerz -- 21. Introduction : transnational feminist practices and questions of postmodernity / Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan -- 22. "Transnational projects : a new perspective" and "theoretical premises" / Linda Basch, Nina Glick Schiller and Cristina Szanton Blanc -- 23. The local and the global : the anthropology of globalization and transnationalism / Michael Kearney -- 24. The study of transnationalism : pitfalls and promise of an emergent research field / Alejandro Portes, Luis Eduardo Guarnizo and Patricia Landolt -- 25. Conceptualizing simultaneity : a transnational social field perspective on society / Peggy Levitt and Nina Glick Schiller -- 26. Systemic religion in global society / Peter Beyer -- 27. Introduction : religion, states, and transnational civil society / Susanne Hoeber Rudolph -- 28. Theorizing globalization and religion / Manuel A. Vasquez and Marie Friedmann Marquardt -- 29. Locations of culture / Homi K. Bhabha -- 30. Interstitial subjects : Asian American visual art as a site for new cultural conversations / Elaine H. Kim -- 31. Cultural reconversion / Nestor Garcia Canclini -- 32. Living borders / Buscando America : languages of latino self-formation / Juan Flores and George Yudice -- 33. World society and the nation-state / John W. Meyer ... [et al.] -- 34. Norms, culture, and world politics : insights from sociology's institutionalism / Martha Finnemore -- 35. Do regimes matter? Epistemic communities and Mediterranean pollution control / Peter M. Haas -- 36. Cross-national cultural diffusion : the global spread of cricket / Jason Kaufman and Orlando Patterson -- 37. Transnationalism, localization, and fast foods in East Asia / James L. Watson -- 38. "Introduction" from transnational corporations and world order / George Modelski -- 39. Imperialism, dependency, and dependent development / Peter Evans -- 40. The organization of buyer-driven global commodity chains : how U.S. retailers shape overseas production networks / Gary Gereffi -- 41. "Flexible citizenship : the cultural logics of transnationality" and "afterword : an anthropology of transnationality" / Aihwa Ong -- 42. Bringing transnational relations back in : introduction / Thomas Risse-Kappen -- 43. World culture in the world polity : a century of international non-governmental organization / John Boli and George M. Thomas -- 44. Social movements and global transformation / Louis Kriesberg -- 45. Conclusions : advocacy networks and international society / Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink -- 46. The challenges and possibilities of transnational feminist praxis / Nancy A. Naples -- 47. Global prohibition regimes : the evolution of norms in international society / Ethan A. Nadelmann -- 48. Transnational organized crime : an imminent threat to the nation-state? (transcending national boundaries) / Louise Shelley -- 49. "Introduction" from New and Old Wars : organized violence in a global era / Mary Kaldor -- 50. Smuggling the state back in : agents of human smuggling reconsidered / David Kyle and John Dale

Machine generated contents note: I India or Brazil ? Priority for imperial survival in the -- wars of the Restaurafao 1 -- Journal of the American Portuguese Sociey 2, no. 2. New York, -- 1968,pp. 8-15 -- II Two Lusitanian variations on a Dutch theme: -- Portuguese companies in times of crisis, 1628-1662 -- Companies and Trade, ed. Leonard Blussi and Femme Gaastra -- The Hague: Leiden Universiy Press, 1981 -- III Francisco Rodrigues de Silveira, the forgotten Soldado -- Prdtico -- Iberia: Literay and Historical Issues. Studies in Honour of Harold -- V. Livermore, ed. RO.W. Goertn. Calgary : University of Calgary -- Press, 1985 -- IV The origin and rhythm of Dutch aggression against the -- Estado da India, 1601-1661 -- Indo-Portuguese History: Old Issues, Newv Qestions,.ed. Teotonio R -- de Souta. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, 1985 -- V Millenarianism and empire: Portuguese Asian decline -- and the 'crise de conscience' of the missionaries -- Itinerio 11. Leiden, 1987 -- VI Jewel trading in Portuguese India in the XVI and XVII -- centuries -- Indica 25, no. 1. Bombay, 1988 -- VII Portugal, Venice, Genoa and the traffic in precious stones -- at the beginning of the modern age -- Eng/ish version of 'Portogallo, Veneia, Genova ed il commercio dele -- pietrepreriose alprinaipio dell'eta moderna', Atti del III Congresso -- Internajionale di Studi Storici VII, ed. Raffaele Belvederi. Genoa, 1989 -- VIII A legend in black and white: the American Indian as -- propaganda in the Eighty Years War -- (In collaboration with Michiel Hoogeveen) -- La imagen del Indio en la Europa moderna. Sevilke: CS.L C., the -- European Science Foundation and the Escuela de Estudios -- Hispano-Ameicanos, 1990, pp. 43-59 -- IX Portugal's 'shadow empire' in the Bay of Bengal -- Revista de Cultura 13-14. Macao, January/June 1991 -- X South India and the China Seas: how the V.O.C. shifted -- its weight from China & Japan to India around A.D. 1636 -- (In collaboration with Mark Vink) -- As Relaf4es entre a india Portuguesa, a Aia do Sueste e o Extremo -- Oriente (Actas do VI Semindrio Internacional de Histdria -- Indo-Portuguesa, Macau, 22-26 de Outubro de 1991, ed Artur -- Teodoro de Matos e Luis Filipe Reis Thoma). Macau-Lisboa, 1993 -- XI A tale of two Coromandel towns: Madraspatam (Fort St. -- George) and Sio Thom6 de Meliapur -- Itinerario 18, no. 1. Leiden, 1994 -- XII The Estado da fndia on the subcontinent: Portuguese as -- players on a South Asian stage -- Portugal, the Pathfinder: Journysfrom the Medieval toward the -- Modern World, 1300-ca. 1600, ed George D. Winius. Madison, WI: -- Hispanic Seminary ofMedieval Studies, Ltd., 1995 -- XIII Early Portuguese travel and influence at the corner of -- Asia -- Portugal, the Pathfinder: Journeysfrom the Medieval toward the -- Modern World, 1300-ca. 1600, ed. George D. Winius. Madison, WI: -- Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, Ltd., 1995 -- XIV In northern mists: Portuguese voyages to the boreal -- Atlantic -- Portugal, the Pathfinder: Journeys from the Medieval toward the -- Modern World, 1300-ca. 1600, ed. George D. Winius. Madison, WI: -- Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, Ltd., 1995 -- XV Bibliographical essay: a treasury of printed source materials -- pertaining to the 15th and 16th centuries -- Portugal, the Pathfinder: Journeys from the Medieval toward the -- Modern World, 1300-ca. 1600, ed. George D. Winius. Madison, WI: -- Hispanic Seminary of Medeival Studies, Ltd, 1995 -- XVI Embassies from Malacca and the 'shadow empire' -- The Portuguese and the Paific. Proceedings of the International -- Colloquium (Universiy of Calfornia, Santa Barbara, October -- 1993), ed. Francis A. Dutra andjodo Camilo dos Santos. Santa -- Barbara: Center For Portuguse Studies, University of California, -- Santa Barbara, 1995 -- XVII Vasco da Gama: a speculative reconstruction of a voyage -- and its antecedents -- English translation of A Viagem de Vasco da Gama, 1497-1499'in -- 0 Tempo de Vasco da Gama, ed. Diogo Ramada Curto. Lisbon, 1998 -- XVIII The Renaissance as reflected in Goa -- Mediterranean Studies 7 (1998). Aldershot, 1999 -- XIX Private trading in Portuguese Asia: a substantial -- will-o'-the-wisp -- Vasco da Gama et 17nde. Fundafao Calouste Gulbenkien -- InternationonalCoference (Paris, 11-13 May 1998). Paris, 1999 -- XX Few thanks to the king: the building of Portuguese -- India -- Vasco da Gama and the Linkikng of Europe andAsia, ed. Anthony -- Disney and Emily Booth. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000 -- Index

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In the last decade advances in statistics, computing power, and data collection has led to an increased interest in forecasting within the field of peace and conflict research and to the adoption of a wide range of methodological approaches for making such forecasts. By making use of these more powerful forecasting methods researchers have been able to produce accurate predictions, as well as better inferences, of many different types of contentious politics events and to create operational early warning systems for such events. Adapting these forecasting methods to the social world in which politics and political behavior operate, however, is not without its challenges. This dissertation explores a number of methodological issues and advances in peace and conflict research, both inferential and forecasting oriented, through a series of four papers. In the first paper, I explore trends in democratization and autocratization using dynamic simulation. In Paper II, my co-author and I take aim at the difficulty of modeling and making forecasts with data which contains both excess zeroes and extreme-values. We propose an extreme-value and zero-inflated regression model which we use to replicate a study on the effects of UN peacekeepers on violence against civilians. Paper III explores latent variable modeling by using Markov models to make forecasts for escalation and de-escalation of armed conflicts. In the last paper, I investigate the effects of missing data and imputation techniques on the predictive performance of models. The four papers of the dissertation make several contributions to the growing literature of forecasting within peace and conflict research. First, the dissertation contributes to the methodological aspects of conflict forecasting by developing new statistical tools, Paper II, and adapting tools from other fields to different processes of armed conflict and contentious politics, Papers I & III, as well as by evaluating the practical effects of common choices in data pre-processing on the performance of forecasts in Paper IV. Second, the dissertation contributes to new ways of drawing inferences about conflict processes by anchoring the inferences in the latent state of the conflict processes in Papers II & III, and through the comparison of aggregated simulations to the historical record in Paper I. Lastly, the dissertation makes a substantive contribution to the broader field of peace and conflict research in Papers I & II by contributing to the debate on the waves of democratization and autocratization, and by nuancing the impact of UN Peacekeepers on violence against civilians.

"Regressive political forces must be countered today and this is best accomplished through radical collaboration around an agenda recognizing the basic economic and political needs of diverse subaltern communities. System negation must become a new general interest. My methodology extends Herbert Marcuse's critical Marxism with Peter McLaren's analysis of today's predatory stage of capitalism and the educative power of struggle. The author discusses core ethical insights from African philosophical sources, indigenous American philosophy, and radical feminist philosophy. Humanity's first teachings on ethics are to be found in ancient African proverbs. These subsequently served also as a critique of colonialism and neocolonialism. Long suppressed indigenous America sources supply a philosophical and political critique of Euro-centric economic and cultural values. They also offer an understanding of humanity's place in nature, the leadership of women, and attest to modes of cooperative and egalitarian forms of community. Feminist anthropology furnishes an historical context for understanding he origins of patriarchy and how to move beyond dominator power to new forms of partnership power. I also find core commonalities in the world's major wisdom traditions including Daoism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Intercultural ethical insights contribute not primarily to a politics of difference, but rather to a universally humanist politics of solidarity and hope. EarthCommonWealth envisions the displacement and transcendence of capitalist oligarchy as such, not simply its most bestial and destructive components. This is a green economic alternative because its ecological vision sees all living things and their non-living earthly surroundings as a global community capable of a dignified, deliberate coexistence. The ecological work of Aldo Leopold also comes into play here. Understanding the earth in global ecological terms Leopold saw it is not merely soil and rock; it is a biotic pyramid, a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of land, minerals, air, water, plants, and animals including the human species. He proposed a dialectical and materialist "land ethic" as a call to conservation and cooperation, in which the individual's rights to private property in land are contrasted unfavorably with historical patterns of communal ownership. EarthCommonWealth Project is searching for a new system of ecological production, egalitarian distribution, shared ownership, and democratized governance having its foundation in the ethics of partnership productivity with an ecosocialist and humanist commitment to living our lives on the planet consistent with the most honorable and aesthetic forms of human social and political fulfillment."--

"Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience, behavioral economic, and social psychology research, acclaimed author, former Harvard professor, and think tank founder Todd Rose reveals how so much of our thinking about each other is informed by false assumptions that drive bad decisions that make us dangerously mistrustful as a society and hopelessly unhappy as individuals. The desire to fit in is one of the most powerful, least understood forces in a society. Todd Rose believes that as human beings we continually act against our own best interests out of our brains' misunderstanding of what we think others believe. A complicated set of illusions driven by conformity bias distorts how we see the world around us. From toilet paper shortages to kidneys that get thrown away rather than used for desperately needed organ transplants, from racial segregation to the perceived "electability" of women for political office, from bottled water to "cancel culture," we routinely copy others, lie about what we believe, cling to tribes, and silence others. We are so profoundly social that when we are incongruent with the group that we do lasting damage to our self-worth, diminish our well-being and never realize our full potential. It's why we all too often chase the familiar trappings of money, fame, and success that leave us feeling empty even when we do achieve them. It's why we'll blindly espouse a viewpoint we don't necessarily believe in so that we blend in with the group. We trap ourselves in prisons of our own making that prevent us from living the happy, fulfilled lives we envision. The question is, Why do we keep believing the lies and hurting ourselves? Todd Rose reveals the answer is deeply hard-wired in our DNA, with brains that are more socially dependent than we realize or dare to accept. Most of us would rather be fully in sync with the social norms of our respective groups than true to who we are. Using originally researched data, Collective Illusions shows us where we get things wrong and just as important, how we can be authentic in forming our opinions while valuing truth. Rose offers a counterintuitive, empowering, and hopeful explanation for how we can bridge the inference gap, make decisions with a newfound clarity, and achieve fulfillment. Only then can we transform ourselves, and ultimately, society"--

"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants -- and the equally powerful taboos Of all the things humans rely on plants for--sustenance, beauty, fragrance, flavor, fiber--surely the most curious is our use of them is to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. Take coffee and tea: people around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds. We don't usually think of caffeine as a drug, or our daily use as an addiction, because it is legal and socially acceptable. So then what is a "drug?" And why, for example, is making tea from the leaves of a tea plant acceptable, but making tea from a seed head of an opium poppy a federal crime? In THIS IS YOUR MIND ON PLANTS, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs -- opium, caffeine, and mescaline -- and throws the fundamental strangeness, and arbitrariness, of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs, while consuming (or in the case of caffeine, trying not to consume) them, Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants, and the equally powerful taboos with which we surround them. Why do we go to such great lengths to seek these shifts in consciousness, and then why do we fence that universal desire with laws and customs and such fraught feelings? A unique blend of history, science, memoir, as well as participatory journalism, Pollan examines and experiences these plants from several very different angles and contexts, and shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively -- as a drug, whether licit or illicit. But that's one of the least interesting things you can say about these plants, Pollan shows, for when we take them into our bodies and let them change our minds, we are engaging with nature in one of the most profound ways we can. Based in part on an essay written more than 25 years ago, this groundbreaking and singular consideration of psychoactive plants, and our attraction to them through time, holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and aspirations, the operations of our minds, and our entanglement with the natural world"--

"One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honor and overcome our origins. For as long as she could remember, Ashley has put her father on a pedestal. Despite having only vague memories of seeing him face-to-face, she believes he's the only person in the entire world who understands her. She thinks she understands him too. He's sensitive like her, an artist, and maybe even just as afraid of the dark. She's certain that one day they'll be reunited again, and she'll finally feel complete. There are just a few problems: he's in prison, and she doesn't know what he did to end up there. Through poverty, puberty, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley returns to her image of her father for hope and encouragement. She doesn't know how to deal with the incessant worries that keep her up at night, or how to handle the changes in her body that draw unwanted attention from men. In her search for unconditional love, Ashley begins dating a boy her mother hates; when the relationship turns sour, he assaults her. Still reeling from the rape, which she keeps secret from her family, Ashley finally finds out why her father is in prison. And that's where the story really begins. Somebody's Daughter steps into the world of growing up a poor Black girl, exploring how isolating and complex such a childhood can be. As Ashley battles her body and her environment, she provides a poignant coming-of-age recollection that speaks to finding the threads between who you are and what you were born into, and the complicated familial love that often binds them. "Ashley Ford's prose is glass-so clear, sharp and smooth that the reader sees, in vivid focus, her complicated childhood, brilliant mind, and golden heart. The gravity and urgency of Somebody's Daughter anchored me to my chair and slowed my heartbeat-like no book has since Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Ashley Ford is a writer for the ages, and Somebody's Daughter will be a book of the year." -- Glennon Doyle, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed and founder of Together Rising"--

"Based in the author's personal experience, over 30 years of clinical practice, knowledge from leading marriage and remarriage researchers, and 100 in-depth interviews of remarried people, the author offers 10 essential steps to a successful remarriage: Step One: Build a Culture of Appreciation, Respect, and Tolerance. Negativity is toxic to a remarriage. Personal growth and love are possible when partners are nonjudgmental and express tenderness and appreciation through positive words and actions. Step Two: Make Your Remarriage a Top Priority. Never underestimate the power of intentional time with your partner to increase physical and emotional intimacy. Step Three: Ditch the Baggage from Your First Marriage. Learn ways to be more reflective and less reactive to triggers that hit raw spots or vulnerabilities stemming from prior relationships. Step Four: Don't Keep Secrets About Money. Make full disclosure of finances a must, early on in your remarriage. Remarried couples face complicated financial issues such as unequal assets, child support, alimony, and who will pay for a child and/or stepchild's educational expenses. Couples may feel stress related to deciding whether to keep their finances together or separate. Honesty about finances is key to having a successful remarriage. Step Five: Don't Let Mistrust Stop You from Being Vulnerable and Emotionally Intimate. Learn that vulnerability and trust go hand in hand and the steps you can take to be authentic and intimate with your partner so you can achieve long-lasting love. Step Six: Get Sexy and Fall in Love All Over Again. Given the stressors of a second marriage, it can be particularly challenging to stay sexually intimate. Yet moments of connection, such as touching, talking, or having sex, are all part of the glue that holds a second marriage together. Step Seven: Don't Make a Big Deal About Nothing...But Do Deal with Important Issues. Differences in beliefs, expectations, and conversational styles can cause you to blow things out of proportion and tune each other out. Learning how to communicate more effectively will help you overcome these types of misunderstandings and enable you to approach difficult topics calmly and non-defensively. Step Eight: Manage the Flames of Conflict. There are always going to be disagreements. You can't avoid them entirely. What you can do, however, is learn how to manage them successfully to avoid the "blame game" so that they can nourish rather than drain your remarri ...

"How human technological interventions into death and the dead body since the nineteenth century have had a profound impact on today's (and future) end-of-life and human mortality realities. As Director of the Centre for Death and Society, the world's only interdisciplinary studies centre dedicated to researching death, dying, and the dead body, and the son of an American Funeral Director who grew up in the funeral industry, I am uniquely positioned to author a new book on the human corpse and technology. Death and the dead body are both extremely popular topics, and the books being currently published are tapping into that popular appeal. Most of these books, however, cover topics that remain perennially discussed. Indeed, it is striking how so many of the current books on death and dying reflect the same issues raised during the 1970's, a decade during which Publisher's Weekly enthusiastically told its readers "Death is now selling books!" A quick snapshot of some current(ish) death, dying, and dead body books includes, but is certainly not limited to: Mary Roach's Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, which was published in 2003 but remains widely read thirteen-years later; more recent books, such as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, Caitlin Doughty's Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and Brandy Schillace's Death's Summer Coat have all tapped into this popular genre. Books by academic authors such as Margaret Schwartz's Dead Matter and Thomas Laqueur's The Work of the Dead present historical and cultural contexts that are equally important. My listing of texts could exceed several pages but what is important about most contemporary death books is that the texts rarely give the history of publishing books on death much analysis. If any death-topic authors' names appear they are usually Jessica Mitford, Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, and Ernest Becker. Sigmund Freud sometimes appears (in connection to Becker) but on the whole these specific authors represent a fraction of the 'death canon.' What I am writing improves on these texts by presenting readers with a more complex and interesting history than most books on death, dying, and the dead body currently pursue. In a nutshell I present a longer view on how human technological interventions into death and the dead body since the nineteenth century have had a profound impact on today's (and future) end-of-life and human mortality realities. It is too easy to sum up most current books on death, dying, and the dead body ...

"A bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades, anchored by a major new Pentagon-commissioned essay about changing power dynamics among China, Eurasia, and America--from the renowned geopolitical analyst and bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and The Coming Anarchy. In the late thirteenth century, Marco Polo began a decades-long trek from Venice to China. The strength of that Silk Road--the trade route between Europe and Asia--was a foundation of Kublai Khan's sprawling empire. Now, in the early twenty-first century, the Chinese regime has proposed a land-and-maritime Silk Road that duplicates exactly the route Marco Polo traveled. In the major lead essay, recently released by the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, Robert D. Kaplan lays out a blueprint of the world's changing power politics that recalls the late thirteenth century. As Europe fractures from changes in culture and migration, Eurasia coheres into a single conflict system. China is constructing a land bridge to Europe. Iran and India are trying to link the oil fields of Central Asia to the Indian Ocean. America's ability to influence the power balance in Eurasia is declining. This is Kaplan's first collection of essays since his classic The Coming Anarchy was published in 2000. Drawing on decades of firsthand experience as a foreign correspondent and military embed for The Atlantic, as well as encounters with preeminent realist thinkers, Kaplan outlines the timeless principles that should shape America's role in a turbulent world: a respect for the limits of Western-style democracy; a delineation between American interests and American values; an awareness of the psychological toll of warfare; a projection of power via a strong navy; and more. From Kaplan's immediate thoughts on President Trump ("On Foreign Policy, Donald Trump Is No Realist," 2016) to a frank examination of what will happen in the event of war with North Korea ("When North Korea Falls," 2006), The Return of Marco Polo's World is a vigorous and honest reckoning with the difficult choices the United States will face in the years ahead. "These essays constitute a truly pathbreaking, brilliant synthesis and analysis of geographic, political, technological, and economic trends with far-reaching consequences. The Return of Marco Polo's World is another work by Robert D. Kaplan that will be regarded as a classic."--General David Petraeus (U.S. Army, Ret.)"--

"An intimate, news-making look at the men who are first in line to the most powerful office in the world--the vice presidents of the modern era--from Richard Nixon and LBJ to Dick Cheney, Joe Biden, and Mike Pence. Bestselling author Kate Andersen Brower took us inside the lives of the White House staff in The Residence. She followed that with an in-depth look at the modern first ladies in First Women. Now, in her signature style, she introduces us to the second-most-powerful men in the world, exploring the lives and roles of thirteen modern vice presidents--eight Republicans and five Democrats. In interviews with more than two hundred people, including all six living former vice presidents, their family members, insiders, and confidants, Brower pulls back the curtain to reveal the sometimes close, often chilly, and always complicated relationship between our modern presidents and their vice presidents.^. - And she shares surprising revelations about the relationship between former vice president Joe Biden and former president Barack Obama, and how Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump interact behind closed doors. As Brower reveals, the president and the vice president, whether they began as allies or rivals, share a very tangible sense of admiration mixed with jealousy and resentment even when the relationship appears to be ideal. Vice presidents owe their position to the president--a connection that affects not only how they are perceived but also their possible future as a presidential candidate, which is tied, for better or worse, to the president they serve. George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan had a famously prickly relationship during the 1980 primary, yet Bush would not have been elected president in 1988 without Reagan's high approval rating.^. - Al Gore's 2000 loss, conversely, could partly be attributed to the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal and Bill Clinton's impeachment. Current vice president Mike Pence is walking a high-stakes political tightrope as he tries to reassure anxious Republicans while staying on his boss's good side. The rich dynamic between the president and the vice president has never been fully explored or understood--until now. Compelling and rigorously reported, grounded in history and politics, and full of deeply personal stories told here for the first time, First in Line lifts the veil of secrecy surrounding this historic political office to offer us a spellbinding portrait of what it is truly like to be a heartbeat away from the most powerful position in the world."--Jacket

"A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist pulls back the curtain on the extraordinary inner lives of America's most obsessive sports fans. There are fans, and then there are fanatics. In this wondrously immersive look at American sports fandom, George Dohrmann travels the country to find out what distinguishes an ordinary, everyday enthusiast from that special breed of supporter known as the superfan. In Minnesota, Dohrmann meets newly minted generals of the Viking World Order, a Minnesota Vikings affinity group organized along military lines. In Oregon, he shares a few beers with a determined soccer fan who amassed--almost singlehandedly--a four-thousand-strong cheering section for the fledgling Portland Timbers. In Illinois, he talks with the parents of a five-year-old boy whose intense hatred of Tom Brady went viral on YouTube. Through these and other intimate profiles, Dohrmann shows us the human faces behind the colored face paint, the real people inside the elaborate costumes who prowl the stands and parking lots at stadiums from coast to coast. In addition to the fans themselves, Dohrmann also talks with the experts who study them. He uses the latest thinking in sports psychology--some of it learned during a spirited round of miniature golf with a group of professors at the annual Sports Psychology Forum--to unravel the answers to such burning questions as: How does fandom begin? What are its effects on everyday life? When does it go too far? For everyone who's ever body-painted their torso with the team colors of their alma mater before heading off to a sports bar--or even just screamed at their television during the final minute of an NBA Finals game, Superfans offers an entertaining and insightful exploration of the many ways human beings find meaning in something bigger than themselves. PRAISE FOR GEORGE DOHRMANN'S PLAY THEIR HEARTS OUT Winner of the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting Winner of the Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Youth Sports "A tour de force of reporting, filled with deft storytelling and vivid character studies."--The Washington Post "Often heartbreaking, always riveting."--The New York Times Book Review "One of the finest sports books of all time."--Harper's Magazine "Amazing stuff. the Friday Night Lights of youth basketball."--Leigh Montville, author of Sting Like a Bee "A landmark achievement in basketball journalism."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Tremendous."--The Plain Dealer "Indispen ...

"Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the "better angels of our nature" have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of presidents including, besides Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson, and illuminating the courage of such influential citizen activists as Martin Luther King, Jr., early suffragettes Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt, civil rights pioneers Rosa Parks and John Lewis, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Army-McCarthy hearings lawyer Joseph N. Welch, Meacham brings vividly to life turning points in American history. He writes about the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the birth of the Lost Cause; the backlash against immigrants in the First World War and the resurgence of the Klu Klux Klan in the 1920s; the fight for women's rights; the demagoguery of Huey Long and Father Coughlin and the isolationist work of America First in the years before World War II; the anti-Communist witch-hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy; and Lyndon Johnson's crusade to finish the fight against Jim Crow. In each of these dramatic, crucial turning points, the battle to lead the country to look forward rather than back, to assert hope over fear, was joined, even as it is today. While the American story has not always been heroic, and the outcome of our battles never certain, in this inspiring book Meacham reassures us,"the good news is that we have come through darkness before"--as, time and again, Lincoln's better angels have found a way to prevail. Advance praise for The Soul of America "This is a brilliant, fascinating, timely, and above all profoundly important book. Jon Meacham explores the extremism and racism that have infected our politics, and he draws enlightening lessons from the knowledge that we've faced such trials before."--Walter Isaacson "Jon Meacham has done it again, this time with a historically rich and gracefully written account of America's long struggle with division in our immigrant nation and the heroic efforts to heal the wounds. It should be in every home and on every student's desk."--Tom Brokaw"--

Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Introduction -- A History of Respectable Fears -- Estimating the Number of Gangs, Gang Members, and Gang Crimes -- Chapter 1. Early Research and Perspectives -- 18th- and 19th-Century Gangs -- Thrasher: The First Gang Researcher -- Gangs as Delinquent Subcultures -- Differential Opportunity Theory -- Lower-Class Culture and Adolescence -- Gangs as Near-Group -- Group Process and Gang Delinquency -- Roles within Gangs: Keiser and the Vice Lords -- Street Gangs and Street Workers -- Chapter 2. Definitions, Daily Life, Dynamics, and Risk Factors -- Sociological Definitions -- Legal Definitions -- What Gangs Are Not -- A Structured Typology -- Daily Life -- Positive and Negative Aspects -- Interrelated Dynamics -- Membership -- Organization -- Subgroups -- Intensity -- The Causes and Correlates Studies -- Protective Factors -- Chapter 3. Race, Migration, and Immigration -- A Brief Note on Race Relations in American History -- Black Gangs -- The Crips and Bloods -- Latino Gangs -- The People Nation and the Folks Nation -- A Typology of Mexican American Gangs -- Asian and Asian Pacific Islander Gangs -- Chinese Gangs -- Southeast Asian Gangs -- Filipino Gangs -- Native American Gangs -- White Gangs -- Skinheads -- Skinheads as Gangs -- Nazi Low Riders -- Chapter 4. Females -- Early Studies and Stereotypes -- Increases in Female Arrests and Incarceration -- Further Developments in Female Gang Research -- Differences and Similarities between Gang Females and Males -- The Number of Female Gangs and Gang Members -- Different Types of Female Gangs -- Female Gang Violence -- Sexual Victimization -- Identity, Femininity, Sexuality, and Respect -- Pregnancy and Motherhood -- Prosocial Functions and Post-Gang Lives -- Chapter 5. Drug Use and Sales -- Substance Use Patterns -- Alcohol -- Marijuana -- Other Illicit Drugs -- Attitudes about Hard Drug Use -- Drug Addiction -- Drug Selling -- Myths ab --- "Gangs: An Introduction provides a wide-ranging overview ideal for courses on gangs. Opening with a discussion of early research and perspectives from the late 1920s until the early 1970s, the book then moves on to cover sociological and legal definitions of gangs; daily life and risk and protective factors; race and immigration; female gang members; drug use and selling; violence and victimization; the cultural criminology of gangs; theories on gangs and gang behaviors; desistance; suppression, intervention, and prevention; and more. FEATURES * A focus on theories of gangs, rather than on criminological theories * Original contributions to the gang literature * An emphasis on evidence-based practices * Examples of real-life court cases * Interview excerpts from gang members, drawn from the author's research *Media Check! sections in each chapter featuring examples from movies, documentaries, TV shows, and music"--- "This is a textbook for undergraduate majors and non-majors in an introductory Juvenile Delinquency course or course on Gangs"--