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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the Author -- Introduction -- Author's Note -- 1 Asleep at the Wheel: The Dangers of the Default Mode -- Stuck in Default -- Wake Up and Drive -- Conclusion -- 2 The Power You Don't Think You Have -- Do You Have the Power? -- A Distinction That Makes All the Difference -- Conclusion -- Note -- 3 For Such a Time as This -- Something Better Than an Ally -- From Allyship to Ourship -- Owning and Spending Your Power -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 The Three C's of Influence -- Influence and the Power of One -- The Shape of Powerful Influence -- Civility: Human Beings in Corporate Space -- Candor: Getting Clear on What It Means to be Transparent -- Courage: Being Courageous -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 What Is Civility? -- Civility and the Power of Citizenship -- What Civility Looks Like -- Are You Really Civilized? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Incivility and the Impact of Bad Citizenship -- The Cost of Incivility -- What Makes for a Bad Corporate Citizen? -- Biased Citizenship and the Danger of a Single Story -- The First, the Only, and the Power of One -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 How to Become a Model Citizen -- Looking for Civility in an Uncivil World -- Recovering the Virtue of Civility -- Practicing Virtue: How to Become a Civil Person -- Ten Practices for Cultivating Civility -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 Creating a Culture of Civility -- Defining Civility and Pursuing It Together -- Exercise: Draft Your Civil Constitution -- The Promise of a Civil Culture at Work and in the Community -- Conclusion: A Plea for Civility -- Notes -- 9 What Is Candor? -- What Is Candor? -- The Case for Candor -- The Tension: Civility or Candor? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 10 Nothing Good Grows in the Dark -- Out of the Church and into the Corporate World -- Darkened and Darkening Habits.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- About the Book -- Contents -- About the Author -- Part I: Prologue -- Chapter 1: From 1984 to Total Information Awareness -- 1.1 U.S. Capitol Riot on January 6, 2021 -- 1.2 President Ronald Reagan on April 3, 1984 -- 1.3 Total Information Awareness -- 1.4 Edward Snowden's NSA Leaks and PRISM -- 1.5 Social Networks' Responses to NSA Leaks and PRISM -- 1.6 Reform Government Surveillance and Reset the Net -- References -- Part II: Privacy in the Age of Big Data -- Chapter 2: Social Networks and Privacy -- 2.1 Zero Privacy and the Central Intelligence Agency -- 2.2 The Archer, Carrier Pigeons, and President Jimmy Carter -- 2.3 The Pervasiveness of Facebook -- 2.4 Chairs Are Like Facebook -- 2.5 Facebook and Personal Privacy -- 2.6 Facebook Friends and Personal Privacy -- 2.7 Facebook, Children, and COPPA -- 2.8 Netflix and Social Apps on Facebook -- 2.9 Facebook Timeline and Open Graph -- 2.10 Ambient Social Apps and Digital Surveillance -- 2.11 Stalking Apps and Badoo (aka Facebook for Sex) -- 2.12 Facial Recognition Apps -- 2.13 Facial Recognition on Facebook, Google, and iPhone -- 2.14 Virtual Passports: From Privacy to Data Use -- 2.15 Social Search: Google, plus Your World and Microsoft's Bing -- 2.16 Self-Destructing Messages -- 2.17 Facebook Anonymous Login -- 2.18 Anonymous Social Apps -- 2.19 Responses to Zero Privacy -- References -- Chapter 3: Smartphones and Privacy -- 3.1 Smartphones -- 3.2 Location Tracking on iPhone and iPad -- 3.3 Carrier IQ -- 3.4 Smartphone Data Collection Transparency -- 3.5 Always On -- 3.6 Mobile Apps Privacy Invasion -- 3.7 Mobile Apps for Children -- 3.8 Android Market and Google Play -- 3.9 Apple's App Store -- 3.10 Facebook App Center -- References -- Chapter 4: Privacy Breaches -- 4.1 Facebook's Massive Data Breaches -- 4.2 Google Street View -- 4.3 Google Easter Eggs in Disguise.

This updated reissue of Mark LeVine's acclaimed, revolutionary book on sub- and countercultural music in the Middle East brings this groundbreaking portrait of the region's youth cultures to a new generation. Featuring a new preface by the author in conversation with the band The Kominas about the problematic connections between extreme music and Islam. An eighteen-year-old Moroccan who loves Black Sabbath. A twenty-two-year-old rapper from the Gaza Strip. A young Lebanese singer who quotes Bob Marley's "Redemption Song." Heavy metal, punk, hip-hop, and reggae are each the music of protest, and are considered immoral by many in the Muslim world. As the young people and subcultures featured in Mark LeVine's Heavy Metal Islam so presciently predicted, this music turned out to be the soundtrack of countercultures, uprisings, and even revolutions from Morocco to Pakistan. In Heavy Metal Islam, originally published in 2008, Mark LeVine explores the influence of Western music on the Middle East and North Africa through interviews with musicians and fans, introducing us to young people struggling to reconcile their religion with a passion for music and a thirst for change. The result is a revealing tour de force of contemporary cultures across the Muslim majority world through the region's evolving music scenes that only a musician, scholar, and activist with LeVine's unique breadth of experience could narrate. A New York Times Editor's Pick when it was first published, Heavy Metal Islam is a surprising, wildly entertaining foray into a historically authoritarian region where music reveals itself to be a true democratizing force--and a groundbreaking work of scholarship that pioneered new forms of research in the region.

Intro -- Introduction -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 The Integrated State of Global Production Chain -- 1.1 China's Top-Down Macro Engines -- 1.2 Bottom-Up Allocation by Export and Auto Production -- 1.3 The German-Sino Auto Linkage -- 1.4 The Sino Japan US Production Linkage -- 1.5 The Global Electronics Supply Chain and the IT Revolution -- 1.6 The Aerospace Supply Chain -- 2 Bismarck and the German Model of Consensus -- 2.1 Business, Labor and Governmental Mitigation -- 2.2 Research, Training and Limited Fiscal Support -- 2.3 Bank Lending and Long-Term Industrial Objectives -- 2.4 Stable Currency and Segmented Euro Fiscal Leverage -- 2.5 The German Search for a Stable Scaled Export Market -- 3 The Meiji Restoration and Value-Added Industrial Focus -- 3.1 Postwar Industrial Objectives and 5-Year Plans -- 3.2 Industrial Initiatives and Semiconductor Agreement -- 3.3 Trade Conflict and Interest Rate Liberalization -- 3.4 Currency Rate and the Plaza Accord -- 3.5 Aging Society and Fiscal Conservation -- 3.6 Sino-Japan-US Labor Division -- 4 The New Rome and the US Exceptionalism -- 4.1 Trade Industrial Policies in History -- 4.2 Fiscal Industrial Policy and Functional Focus -- 4.3 Direct Versus Indirect Specific Industrial Policy -- 4.4 Dollar Status, Yield Comparison and Industrial Allocation -- 4.5 The Global Deployment Model and Innovation Leverage -- 5 The Current Entrenched Global Imbalance -- 5.1 German Industrial Congregation Versus the Rest of Europe -- 5.2 Japanese Industrial Congregation by Industries and Regions -- 5.3 China Supply Chain Congregation and the Rise of Tier-1 Cities -- 5.4 US Tech International Success and Domestic Regional Divergence -- 5.5 The Capital Efficiency Model and the Social Divergence of the 1% -- 5.6 Industrial Policy Stability and Corporate Bias -- 5.7 Russia, UK and France.

The idea of progress stood at the very center of the intellectual world of eighteenth-century Britain, closely linked to every major facet of the British Enlightenment as well as to the economic revolutions of the period. David Spadafora here provides the most extensive discussion ever written of this prevailing sense of historical optimism, challenging long-held views on the extent of its popularity and its supposed importation from France. Spadafora demonstrates persuasively that British contributions to the idea of progress were wide-ranging and fully elaborated while owing little to the French.Drawing on hundreds of eighteenth-century books and pamphlets, Spadafora traces the development of historical progress across the century. In the process, he distinguishes among the intellectual and social sources of the idea's growth and argues that its popularity soared after mid-century. He identifies and examines in depth each of the most widespread varieties of the concept of progress, including those found in thinking about the arts and sciences, religion and the millennium, the human mind and education, and languages. Spadafora cites and evaluates men of letters, theologians and historians, and scientists and politicians. In his discussion of the belief in general progress, he explores the differences between English writers such as Priestley, Price, and Edmund Law and the somewhat less optimistic Scottish thinkers such as Hume, Smith, and Robertson. He concludes by tracing the profound impact of the eighteenth-century idea of progress on the first half of the nineteenth century in Britain and its implications for modernity."A solid and sophisticated contribution to intellectual history written in a clear, authoritative, and attractive style. This is an important book." –Bernard Semmel, author of John Stuart Mill and the Pursuit of Virtue

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Author -- Chapter 1 Waste by Any Other Name? -- Frontier Mentality -- Waste by Other Names -- Type and Waste Characterization -- Forever Relics -- The Bottom Line -- References -- Chapter 2 Cave to Allegorical Cave to Present -- The Cave -- The Allegorical Cave -- The Setting: The Cave -- The Fire -- Images from the Fire -- What the Prisoners See and Hear -- A Prisoner Gets Free -- Walks Back to the Fire -- Is Questioned about the Objects -- The Answer He Gives -- Looking at the Fire-light Itself -- Out of the Cave into Daylight with Pain, Rage, Blindness -- Getting Used to the Light -- Shadows and Reflections -- Looking at Things Directly -- Looking at the Sun Itself -- Thoughts about the Sun: Its Nature and Functions -- Thoughts about the Cave -- What Counts for "Understanding" in the Cave -- What Would the Liberated Prisoner Now Prefer? -- The Return: Blindness -- The Debate with the Other Prisoners -- And the Final Outcome -- Fast Forward from the Past to the Present -- Salmon and the Rachel River -- Reference -- Chapter 3 Waste?: It's in the Garbage Can -- Setting the Record Straight -- Sustainable Materials Management -- Source Reduction and Reuse -- Recycling and Composting -- Energy Recovery -- Treatment and Disposal -- Is EPA's SSM the Solution to Waste Dissolution? -- References -- Chapter 4 Litter -- Break out the Hose -- A Midnight Caper -- Salt on the Wound -- References -- Chapter 5 Ocean Dumping -- Ocean Dumping Is Nothing New -- Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act -- What's Being Ocean Dumped Today? -- What Cannot Be Dumped in the Ocean? -- Ocean Dumping Ban Act -- Is the 1972 MPRSA Effective? -- And the Sea Will Float -- A Sea of Plastic -- Types of Plastic -- Microplastics -- Plastic Containers and Packaging.

Intro -- Foreword by Mark Juergensmeyer -- Foreword by Ralph Wilbur Hood -- About This book -- Contents -- About the Author -- Part I The Global Setting -- 1 Overview: A "Loss-of-Control" Age? -- 2 Introduction: Transfiguring the Ground-Religion in Our Days: Between Return, Revival and Renewal -- 3 A Shifting Global Scenery: The Age of Re-globalization -- 4 Re-globalization: An Array of Factors Shaking the Fundamentals of Neoliberal Globalization -- 5 Religious Re-globalization Rhetoric from the United Nations -- Part II A Changing Cultural Horizon -- 6 The Changing European-Western Setting: Post-Postmodernity and Meta-Modernity as Carriers of a Renaissance of Values Toward "Everyday Spirituality"? -- 7 The Interweavement of the Global and the Western: The Threefold Return of Religion and Spirituality on the International Scene -- 8 The Disputed Role of Religion in De-Liberalizing Settings -- 9 The Business of Religion: A Religious Business? -- Part III 21 Trends -- 10 Trends 1-7 -- Trend 1: The Rise of Government-Affiliated Religions -- Trend 2: The Anti-laical Extremist Appropriation of Religion Against Open Societies -- Trend 3: The Self-Re-politicization of Religion Now in Both Open and Closed Societies -- Trend 4: The Systemic Reactivation of Religion by Partisan and State Politics -- Trend 5: The Fermentation Within and Among Traditional Religions: Does Re-globalization Lead to Partitions or New Religious Divides? -- Trend 6: The Use of Religion for a New "Demographic Imperialism." Using Re-globalization to Push for Demographic Shifts by Tying Them to Religious Adherence -- Trend 7: Religion and Identity Politics: A Growing Convergence in Times of Vanishing Boundaries Between Religious Traditions, Identities and New Tribalisms -- 11 Trends 8-14 -- Trend 8. Religious (Self-)Liberalization Trends "From Above" and "From Below".

Global finance is in the middle of a radical transformation fueled by innovative financial technologies. The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the digitization of retail financial services in Europe. Institutional interest and digital asset markets are also growing blurring the boundaries between the token economy and traditional finance. Blockchain, AI, quantum computing and decentralised finance (DeFI) are setting the stage for a global battle of business models and philosophies. The post-Brexit EU cannot afford to ignore the promise of digital finance. But the Union is struggling to keep pace with global innovation hubs, particularly when it comes to experimenting with new digital forms of capital raising. Calibrating the EU digital finance strategy is a balancing act that requires a deep understanding of the factors driving the transformation, be they legal, cultural, political or economic, as well as their many implications. The same FinTech inventions that use AI, machine learning and big data to facilitate access to credit may also establish invisible barriers that further social, racial and religious exclusion. The way digital finance actors source, use, and record information presents countless consumer protection concerns. The EU's strategic response has been years in the making and, finally, in September 2020 the Commission released a Digital Finance Package. This special issue collects contributions from leading scholars who scrutinize the challenges digital finance presents for the EU internal market and financial market regulation from multiple public policy perspectives. Author contributions adopt a critical yet constructive and solutions-oriented approach. They aim to provide policy-relevant research and ideas shedding light on the complexities of the digital finance promise. They also offer solid proposals for reform of EU financial services law.

Historically the bodies of civilians are the most damaged by the increasing mechanization and derealization of warfare, but this is not reflected in the representation of violence in popular media. In War Without Bodies, author Martin Danahay argues that the media in the United States in particular constructs a "war without bodies" in which neither the corpses of soldiers or civilians are shown. War Without Bodies traces the intertwining of new communications technologies and war from the Crimean War, when Roger Fenton took the first photographs of the British army and William Howard Russell used the telegraph to transmit his dispatches, to the first of three "video wars" in the Gulf region in 1990-91, within the context of a war culture that made the costs of organized violence acceptable to a wider public. New modes of communication have paradoxically not made more war "real" but made it more ubiquitous and at the same time unremarkable as bodies are erased from coverage. Media such as photography and instantaneous video initially seemed to promise more realism but were assimilated into existing conventions that implicitly justified war. These new representations of war were framed in a way that erased the human cost of violence and replaced it with images that defused opposition to warfare. Analyzing poetry, photographs, video and video games the book illustrates the ways in which war was framed in these different historical contexts. It examines the cultural assumptions that influenced the reception of images of war and discusses how death and damage to bodies was made acceptable to the public. War Without Bodies aims to heighten awareness of how acceptance of war is coded into texts and how active resistance to such hidden messages can help prevent future unnecessary wars

"This book reveals how to create efficient institutions and coordinate policy on a transnational scale to ensure European Union integration can best meet social needs. It offers a combined technocratic and humanist perspective on the discussion of public financial management. The state, as part of its public policy, should seek to preserve our social and environmental values yet there are mounting imbalances in society which point to the growing role of the state in minimising them. Under such circumstances, it is worth reflecting on how new challenges could require updated, more complex formulas, to deal with crises in current times and for social and economic policymaking by states and the European Union generally, which would ensure their compatibility with the world financial markets. The work offers an in-depth and unique performance analysis of European Union institutions compared to the national entities of EU member states. It contributes to the ongoing debate on global public goods and the processes involved in managing their provision. Further, it discusses public finance management instruments, indicating their historical evolution in practice and their effectiveness measured with the Human Development Index. The author presents a proposal of how to manage global, European and national public goods across three areas: environmental protection, transnational infrastructure projects and social policy. The book analyses public financial management instruments used during the recent pandemic, making a distinction between "regular" and "emergency" instruments and assessing their effectiveness in specific economic situations. This will be of interest to researchers and students of economics and finance, as well as decision makers and practitioners from governments, international organizations and specific non-governmental organizations concerned with issues of public finance management"--

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Religious Rhetoric in US Right-Wing Politics -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 The Outsider and the White House -- White Conservative Christians, the Religious Right, and Donald Trump: The Creation of a Tale -- Scope and Aim -- References -- 2 "What Happened?" -- "It's Time to Remove the Rust from the Rust Belt" -- "This is Youngstown, Mr. President" -- "All he's Doing is just Trying to Do the Best He Can" -- References -- 3 Whiteness, Christianity, and Politics -- White Conservative Christian Voices -- Discarding the Word Evangelical -- Religion and Race -- White Christian Nationalism -- "It's ok to pray if you're a Muslim" -- References -- 4 A Threatened Status -- Intergroup Threat -- "Nobody Is Responsible for Their Own Actions" -- Symbolic and Status Politics -- The Perception of Status Loss -- References -- 5 Fighting for the Soul of the Nation -- Religion and Partisanship -- Young Voters and the God Gap -- God and the GOP -- "Pro-Life and Pro-Family:" The Twenty-First-Century Religious Right -- References -- 6 A Rhetorical Weapon -- The Rights Talk -- The Irreconcilability of Worldview: Examples and Effects of the Rights Talk -- "According to the Liberals, Their Free Speech Is Awesome, but Our Free Speech Is Hatred:" -- References -- 7 Trump Won. Deal with It -- November 8, 2016: Why Trump? -- "We Weren't Electing a Pastor:" Justifying the Support for Trump -- "Most Importantly, I Brought My Bible": Trump's Style -- "You Know, I've Been Here Before": The Values Voter Summit -- References -- 8 Dispatches from the Swamp -- Victims of Discrimination -- How Trump Saved Christmas -- The Villain and the Hero -- References -- 9 "He's Just a Real Dude" -- Moral Politics and the First-Born Syndrome -- "He's Become the Mouthpiece for That Disenfranchised Group": The Liberals' Take.

"Poku's book powerfully refutes the lie that racism is a thing of the past and that the education system provides a model success story for Black children and teachers alike. Based on in-depth research with Black trainee teachers, the study exposes the daily violence of racist assumptions, humiliations and exclusions that make up the everyday racism of contemporary schooling". –David Gillborn, Emeritus Professor of Critical Race Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. "In 1967 'To Sir with Love' exploded on our screens exposing the unbelievable racism of black teachers in British schools. 65 years on Poku's brilliant, witty and eloquent book reveals the job of tackling racism in the classroom is still far from done. A book that packs a powerful punch for a profession under-fire". –Professor Heidi Safia Mirza UCL University of London, Author Race, Gender and Educational Desire This book investigates the racism experienced by Black teacher trainee Post-graduate students whilst on teaching placements in South London primary schools. Using critical race theory as an epistemological lens, the book goes on to explore their experiences in school via testimonies around the gaslighting they were subjected to. Chapters delve into how these students work to fit themselves into the school's white space at an emotional and psychological cost and addresses the questions these experiences raise for those in charge of PGCE courses and Initial Teacher Education. Veronica Poku is Head of MA Education: Culture, Language and Identity as well as a lecturer and researcher in the field of educational studies at Goldsmiths University of London, UK. With a particular interest in race, education, gender, culture and social justice, Veronica's research makes use of critical race theory and narrative inquiry when working with student teachers. .

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- Part I China's Welfare Regimes Since 1949 -- 1 China's Social Security System from 1949 to 2012 -- 1 1921-1949: Social Security as an Objective -- 2 1949-1978: Social Security Under the Planned Economy -- 3 1978-1994: Dismantling the People's Communes -- 4 The 1990s: A Socialist Market Economy and the Construction of a Social Security System -- 5 The Expansion of Welfare Under Hu and Wen -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- 2 The Main Social Policies Under Xi Jinping -- 1 Emergency and Disaster Relief Policies -- 2 Healthcare and Education Policies -- 3 The Five Insurances and the Housing Fund -- 4 Social Assistance -- 5 The Mounting Issue of Elderly Care -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Religious Work and Philanthropy from 1949 to 2002 -- 1 Religious Work and Philanthropy from 1949 to 1978 -- 1.1 Corporatist Regulation and the Appropriation of Religious Charitable Activities -- 1.2 The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution as a State of Exception -- 2 Religion and Philanthropy Under Deng and Jiang -- 2.1 Returning to the Policy of Accommodating Religion in a Changed Context -- 2.2 Abandoning Class Struggle and Rehabilitating Charity -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Religious Charity and Civil Society Under Hu and Xi -- 1 Religious Work Under Hu -- 1.1 Establishing the Substance of a "Harmonious Society" Through Philanthropy -- 1.2 Toward a Restoration of Religious Charity? -- 2 Religious Charity Under Xi Jinping -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- 5 The Institutionalization of Buddhism Since 1949 -- 1 Key Institutions -- 2 The BAC and Its Governance Structure -- 3 Lay Associations -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- 6 Buddhism and the CCP Since 1949 -- 1 How Many Buddhists? -- 2 Some Distinctions Within Buddhism.

"The beloved author of The Revenge of Analog lays out a case for a human future--not the false technological utopia we've been living. For years, consumers have been promised a simple, carefree digital future. We could live, work, learn, and play from the comforts of our homes, and have whatever we desire brought to our door with the flick of a finger. Instant communication would bring us together. Technological convenience would give us more time to focus on what really mattered. When the pandemic hit, that future transformed into the present, almost overnight. And the reviews aren't great. It turns out that leaving the house is underrated, instant communication spreads anger better than joy, and convenience takes away time rather than giving it to us. Oops. But as David Sax argues in this insightful book, we've also had our eyes opened. There is nothing about the future that has to be digital, and embracing the reality of human experience doesn't mean resisting change. In chapters exploring work, school, leisure, and more, Sax asks perceptive and pointed questions: what happens to struggling students when they're not in a classroom? If our software is built for productivity, who tends to the social and cultural aspects of our jobs? Can you have religion without community? For many people, the best parts of quarantine have been the least digital ones: baking bread, playing board games, going hiking. We used our hands and hugged our children and breathed fresh air. This book suggests that if we want a healthy future, we need to choose not convenience but community, not technology but humanity"--

Is control the cultural logic of the 21st century?The most extensive examination yet of control across disciplines and cultural modes of expressionAn important collection for anyone interested in the relation between present-day politics and cultureInterrogates control as a cultural logicIncludes incisive readings on Foucault's and Deleuze's conceptions of discipline and control Contributes to ongoing interrogations into the fate of biopoliticsStarting from Deleuze's brief but influential work on control, the 11 essays in this book focus on how control mechanisms influence, and are influenced by, cultural expression today. They also collectively re-evaluate Foucault and Deleuze's theories of discipline and control in light of the continued development of biopolitics.Written by an impressive line-up of contemporary scholars of philosophy, politics and culture, the essays cover the particularity of control in relation to various fields and modes of expression including literature, cinema, television, music and philosophy.Case studies include:Ray Bradbury's short story 'The Pedestrian'M. NourbeSe Philip's 2008 poetry book ZONG!French Renaissance philosopher and author Michel de MontaigneUndoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution by Wendy Brown (2015)the band The Grateful DeadThe Bourne Identitythe TV show SpooksRedeployment, an award-winning book of short stories of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan by ex-marine Phil Klay Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's influential 1986 philosophy book Kafka: Toward a Minor LiteratureContributorsNeel Ahuja, University of California-Santa Cruz, USA. Frida Beckman, Stockholm University, Sweden. Colleen Glenney Boggs, Dartmouth College, USA.Gregory Flaxman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.Seb Franklin, King's College, London, UK.Carin Franzén, Linköping University, Sweden. Colin Gardner, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.Gregg Lambert, Syracuse University. Paul Patton, The University of New South Wales, Australia.Jeffrey T. Nealon, Penn State University, USA. Cary Wolfe, Rice University, USA."