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Michel Grabisch has fully succeeded in transforming his deep knowledge of the field into a very rich and quite readable text. Professor Denis Bouyssou, Université Paris Dauphine This monograph provides a much-needed perspective on a rich collection of structural properties of set functions which have been investigated for more than 60 years, but which have never been collected in a single volume. By establishing these results in a clear and rigorous mathematical framework, the author makes them accessible to a broad audience. His book should rapidly become a classic reference in the field. Professor Yves Crama, University of Liège and HEC Liège This book is an excellent compendium of technical notions pertaining to set functions, that are relevant in uncertainty management, game theory, and multicriteria decision-making. It will be a very useful companion to any student or researcher willing to investigate these fields beyond standard probability theory and simple additive methods. Professor Didier Dubois, IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse In this book, written by a leading scholar, the readers can finally find a unified and comprehensive study of set functions. It is a much needed, beautiful, book that will be most useful to the cognoscenti, who will appreciate its depth and breadth, as well as to the readers who desire to learn about this fundamental topic. Professor Massimo Marinacci, Università Bocconi Nonadditive set functions are used in many optimization and decision theories (uncertain, fuzzy, multi-criteria, strategic, AI, combinatorial, statistical, ...), many developing the same results independently. The only person knowing all these fields brought it all together and improved it brilliantly in this well-focused book. It is a must for anyone using set functions. Professor Peter P. Wakker, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

'This highly original text makes an important contribution. Well-structured and with clear arguments, it is both authoritative and readable. Strongly recommended.' -Dr Christopher M. Davidson, Reader in Middle East Politics in the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, UK 'The U.S. security relationship with Europe is an issue of considerable importance for European order. This book provides a cogent analysis of the American commitment to the NATO alliance over the last quarter of a century, from the end of the Cold War to the Ukraine crisis. Yanan Song provides a systematic and thorough study of the wellsprings of U.S. thinking towards NATO and its European allies.' -Professor Adrian Hyde-Price, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden This book examines the continuing US commitments to NATO in the post-Cold War era. The initial focus is on the recommitment decisions of the Clinton administration. It also extensively explores the US operations in Kosovo, Afghanistan and, in particular, Libya. The case study on Libya is especially important in exploring the Obama administration's understanding of the purpose of NATO in the context of current economic pressures, domestic US debates about post-War on Terror interventions, and of increasing American preoccupation with Pacific rather than European security. The author utilises substantial archival research and interviews with policymakers and academics, including Ambassador Kethleen Stephens, former Special Assistant to the President Stephen J. Flanagan, and former Director for Non-proliferation at National Security Council Robert S. Litwak. This book is ideal for postgraduate researchers and academics in US foreign policy, foreign policy decision-making, transatlantic relations and NATO, as well as a great use to undergraduate students. Yanan Song received her PhD from the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University, UK.

This is a series of personal recollections concerning the life and work of a leading American–Israeli environmental and agricultural scientist, whose wide-ranging personal and professional experiences span eight decades and some 40 countries around the world. It recalls a family's journey in 1932 from California to Palestine, and the events that led to his taking part in the establishment of the first modern settlement in the highlands of the Negev Desert (later joined by ex-Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion), and helping to innovate and apply efficient methods of soil and water management in irrigated and rain-fed farming. Over the years, Daniel Hillel has taught hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students at major universities in Israel and the US, authored over 200 original research papers and ten definitive textbooks that have been translated and published in several languages, initiated and edited eight multi-author books (including the Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment), and served on advisory and research missions (sponsored by UN's FAO, IAEA, USAID, Canada's IDRC, and Germany's ZEF) to some 40 countries in Asia, Africa, South America and Australasia, and was environment and irrigation advisor to the World Bank. He has helped initiate and conduct research at NASA/Goddard Institute and Columbia University on the potential impacts of climate change on regional and global food production. Dr Hillel's life-long goal is to enhance the application of science toward the efficient and environmentally sound development of human, biotic, land, and water resources. For his multiple contributions to the science and the practice of enhanced and sustainable food production, Dr Hillel was awarded the World Food Prize in 2012

Whether one thinks of the modern world or of more remote times, both seem to have been affected - if not moulded - by the interaction between the concepts of authority and displacement. Indeed, political and social sources of authority have often been the causes of major geographical displacements, as can be illustrated by the numerous waves of migration which have been observed in the past and which are still present today, such as the transportation of slaves from African to American coasts in colonial times.If displacement can often be understood as spatial displacement, it can also be synonymous with psychological, social, and even aesthetic displacement, for instance through different artistic means or through the use of stylistic discursive devices. Displacement also entails dis-placement, dis-location, as well as dislocation, or chaos. This suggests that the etymological meaning of the term authority, auctoritas, has to be highlighted, thus referring to the author of a particular work and to the different manifestations of the authorial persona in a work of art.This collection of essays in two volumes examines the relationships between the concepts of authority and displacement in the English-speaking world, without restricting the analysis to a particular area, or to the field of literature. Some essays do, indeed, deal with literature, from different spatial areas and temporal eras, while others look into these concepts from a more cultural or aesthetic point of view.Volume One, Exploring Europe/from Europe, includes essays on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, John Ross's Second Exploration Voyage, Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, in addition to investigations of Rose Tremain's novels, Disguise by Hugo Hamilton, and the cinematic adaptation of Conrad's Almayer's Folly by Chantal Akerman. The volume concludes with a study of two novels

This book takes Edmund Husserl's phenomenology and applies it to help psychotherapy practitioners formulate complex psychological problems. The reader will learn about Husserl's system of understanding and its concepts that point to first-person lived experience, and about the work of Husserl scholars who have developed a way to be precise about the experiences that clients have. Through exploring the connection between academic philosophy of consciousness and mental health, themes of biopsychosocial treatment planning, psychopathology of personality and psychological disorders, and the treatment of complex psychological problems become clear. The author shows that Husserlian phenomenology can be used in the design of interventions for clients in a process called formulation. Once the intentionality of consciousness is understood, by asking simple questions, it becomes possible to define problematic experiences. This is a means of creating informed consent for treatment and it makes it clear to clients what is happening for them, so helping them understand themselves and how they see the world. We also see how Husserl's phenomenology is a vehicle for psychotherapists to present their knowledge about the research literature of what has been found to be effective care. This volume applies the concepts and practices of phenomenology in a concrete way, relating them to the practice of therapy and showing the value of a qualitative approach to understanding mental processes and the nature of human beings as motivated by values, meanings and other conscious experiences. This is a readable text in simple language that condenses key aspects of Husserl's thinking in relation to the theory and practice of psychotherapy, and it is suitable for philosophers and practitioners of psychology, psychiatry, and the psychotherapies, including psychoanalysis

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- About the Author -- Contents -- Acknowledgement -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Glossary of Acronyms -- Chapter 1 - The Racist American Dream and Renaissance of African Awareness in the Diaspora -- 1.1. The Semitic Judeo-Christian And Arabic-Islamic Racist Slavery Controversies And The Birth Of Pan Africanism And The Founders -- 1.1.1. Frederick Douglas And The Jewish Origin Of Colour Prejudice And Slavery of Black People -- 1.1.2. Frederick Douglas and the Jewish Onslaught of Black People and Their Condemnation into Slavery, Colonisation and Deprivation -- 1.1.3. Frederick Douglas And The Jewish Onslaught And The Slavery Of Pushkin -- 1.1.4. Jewish-American Slave-Trade -- 1.1.5. Marcus Gavey Like Frederick Douglas: Black Nationalists And Forward Looking Pan-Africanists -- 1.2. The Soul And Ideology Of Pan-Africanism -- 1.3. The Contradictions Of Pan-African Philosophy -- 1.4. The African Humanism And African Weakness: The Slave Trade And Slavery That Was Never Abolished -- Chapter 2 - The Launching Of The First Pan-African Congress And The Subsequent Pan-African Congresses -- 2.1. The Second Pan-African Congress Of Paris Of 1919 -- 2.2. The Third Pan-African Congress Of London And Brussels Of 1921 -- 2.3. The Fourth Pan-African Congress Of London And Lisbon Of 1923 -- 2.4. The Fifth African Congress Of New York In 1927 -- 2.5. The Impact of the Bolshevik Revolution on the Harlem Renaissance The Philosophy Of The New Negro -- 2.6. The Impact Of The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - SNCC On The Promotion of Non-Violence Ideology of Pan Africanism And The Contributions of Key African American Actors, Sportsmen and Artists -- Chapter 3 - Gender Consciousness and Pro-Agency: Black Women Feminist Suffragettes and Civil Rights Activists in The U.S.A. and The Spread of Pan-Africanism

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- About the Author -- Contents -- Acknowledgement -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Glossary of Acronyms -- Chapter 4. African and English Caribbean Contributions to the Ideology of Pan-Africanism -- Chapter 5. The Sixth Pan-African Congress of Manchester in 1945: The Era of Pan African Radicalism -- Chapter 6. Radical Pan Africanism in Apartheid Rhodesia and Apartheid South Africa -- Chapter 7. Radical Pan-Africanism and the Emerging Radical Pan Arabism -- Chapter 8. The French-Speaking African and African-Caribbean Consciousness of the Surrealist Aesthetic and Moral Philosophy and Ideology of Pan-Africanism -- Chapter 9. The Great Role Played by America and Comintern Russia in Boosting Radical Pan-Africanism after the Second World War -- 9.1. The All-African People's Conference - AAPC - In Accra, 5-13 December 1958 -- 9.2. The Second All African Peoples Second Conference In Tunis: 25-30 January 1960 -- 9.3. The Third All African People Conference: Cairo, 25-31 March 1961 -- Chapter 10. Pan-Africanism and the Organisation of African Unity -OAU -- 10.1. The Preparative Ground Work for the Launching of the Organisation of African Unity - OAU -- Chapter 11 - Pan Africanism in Africa and the Birth Throes of the Organisation of African Unity - OAU -- 11.1 The Comedy of Errors -- 11.2. The Long Drift From The Revolution Of OAU And The Rise From Grass To Grace Politics Of Unionism -- 11.3. The Success Story Of The Organisation Of African Unity - OAU -- 11.4 OAU Policy and Success Story in Decolonization, Governance and The Rule Of Law -- Chapter 12 - OAU and State Sovereignty and Boundary Conflicts -- 12.1. Defence Of Member States' Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity -- 12.2. Education, Science, Health and Social Welfare -- 12.3. OAU Conventions Of Managing Underdevelopment For Africa

Cover -- Praise for Inglorious -- A Note on the Author -- Title -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The harrier harried -- The Hen Harrier - biology -- The Hen Harrier - numbers and distribution -- The war against Hen Harriers -- The Hen Harrier - loved and loathed -- What I would like you to take away from this chapter: -- Chapter 2: A short introduction to grouse shooting -- British grouse -- The heather-clad hills -- First, catch your grouse -- Where are the grouse moors? -- Who owns the grouse moors? -- Who owns the grouse? -- The work of the gamekeeper -- Poachers and disturbance -- Maintenance of good habitat -- Vermin control -- Disease and parasites -- Grouse as food -- What I would like you to take away from this chapter -- Chapter 3: Langholm - the end of the beginning -- A scientific approach -- The results of the Langholm study -- The wider implications -- After Langholm, where next? -- A summary of the Langholm study conclusions -- Historically -- During the course of the Joint Raptor Study -- What I would like you to take away from this chapter: -- Chapter 4: The battle lines are drawn -- 1997: Formation of the Countryside Alliance -- 1998: Political devolution -- 1998-1999: Diversionary feeding -- 2000: The Countryside and Rights of Way (CROW) Act -- 2001-2002: Foot-and-mouth and the Curry Commission -- 2002: English Nature/Natural England Hen Harrier study -- 2006 (and 2007): Peak Malpractice 1 (and 2) -- 2006-2012: Environment Council dialogue -- 2007: Langholm 2 -- 2007: The Heather and Grass etc. Burning (England) Regulations -- 2007: Sandringham -- 2007: The Uplands - Time to Change? -- 2008: Analysis of wader numbers at Langholm -- 2008: Golden Eagle conservation framework -- 2008: Natural England Hen Harrier report -- 2009: Natural England Vital Uplands document

One of Library Journal's 10 Best Books of 2015 Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature. As the Mediterranean shaped the classical world, and the Atlantic connected Europe to the New World, the Pacific Ocean defines our tomorrow. With China on the rise, so, too, are the American cities of the West coast, including Seattle, San Francisco, and the long cluster of towns down the Silicon Valley. Today, the Pacific is ascendant. Its geological history has long transformed us-tremendous earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis-but its human history, from a Western perspective, is quite young, beginning with Magellan's sixteenth-century circumnavigation. It is a natural wonder whose most fascinating history is currently being made. In telling the story of the Pacific, Simon Winchester takes us from the Bering Strait to Cape Horn, the Yangtze River to the Panama Canal, and to the many small islands and archipelagos that lie in between. He observes the fall of a dictator in Manila, visits aboriginals in northern Queensland, and is jailed in Tierra del Fuego, the land at the end of the world. His journey encompasses a trip down the Alaska Highway, a stop at the isolated Pitcairn Islands, a trek across South Korea and a glimpse of its mysterious northern neighbor. Winchester's personal experience is vast and his storytelling second to none. And his historical understanding of the region is formidable, making Pacific a paean to this magnificent sea of beauty, myth, and imagination that is transforming our lives.

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1: Evidence-Based Medicine and Narrative Medicine: A Harmonic Couple -- Evidence-Based Medicine: Where It Started and Where It Stands Today -- The Reasons for Narrative Medicine -- References -- 2: Bridging from Mythology to Contemporary Care: The Art of Listening -- The Purpose for Narrative -- Non Narrative: Another Way of Living? -- References -- 3: Bridging from Oral Tradition to Writing: The Art of Empathy -- Empathy, at the Basis of Humanities -- The Devil in the Third Year of Medical School -- The Fight Against the Devil -- References -- 4: The Tower of Babel: The Language of Physicians, Patients, and Providers of Care -- Contrasting Communication Styles -- Genres in Narrative Medicine -- Patient Stories: Classic Illness Narratives -- Physicians´ Stories -- Narratives About Physician-Patient Encounters -- Grand Stories-Metanarratives -- One More Genre -- References -- 5: Patient´s Narrative as a Probe for Successful Coping -- How Does All this Fit with Narrative Medicine? -- Love, as a Fuel for Coping -- Ode to Joy: An die Freude, Towards Optimism -- The Probe of Narrative Medicine -- References -- 6: The Muted Desire for Well-Being and the Abuse of the Word ``Normality´´ in Medicine -- Beginning this Tour from the History of Normality and Diversity -- In the Middle of the Tour Around the Contemporary Concept of the Word Normality -- The Progression of the Explanation on Normality in Disease and Wellbeing -- The Follow-up to the Contemporary View of the Word Normality, up to the Denial of Feelings -- The End, the Human Desire of Being Normal -- Beyond the Lines, a New Frontier to Define the Concept of Normality -- References -- 7: Bridging the Gap Between Personalization of Care and Research -- The Case of the CRESCERE Project -- Analysis of Stories.

A small dolphin on the ankle, a black line on the lower back, a flower on the hip, or a child's name on the shoulder blade—among the women who make up the twenty percent of all adults in the USA who have tattoos, these are by far the most popular choices. Tattoos like these are cute, small, and can be easily hidden, and they fit right in with society's preconceived notions about what is 'gender appropriate' for women. But what about women who are heavily tattooed? Or women who visibly wear imagery, like skulls, that can be perceived as masculine or ugly when inked on their skin? Drawing on autoethnography, and extensive interviews with heavily tattooed women, Covered in Ink provides insight into the increasingly visible subculture of women with tattoos. Author Beverly Thompson visits tattoos parlors, talking to female tattoo artists and the women they ink, and she attends tattoo conventions and Miss Tattoo pageants where heavily tattooed women congregate to share their mutual love for the art form. Along the way, she brings to life women's love of ink, their very personal choices of tattoo art, and the meaning tattooing has come to carry in their lives, as well as their struggles with gender norms, employment discrimination, and family rejection. Thompson finds that, despite the stigma and social opposition heavily tattooed women face, many feel empowered by their tattoos and strongly believe they are creating a space for self-expression that also presents a positive body image. A riveting and unique study, Covered in Ink provides important insight into the often unseen world of women and tattooing

Troubled Transit considers the situation of asylum seekers stuck in limbo in Indonesia from a number of perspectives. It presents not only the narratives of many transit migrants but also the perceptions of Indonesian authorities and of representatives of international and non-government organizations responsible for the care of transiting asylum seekers. Fascinated by the extraordinary and seemingly limitless resilience shown by asylum seekers during their often lengthy and dangerous journeys, the author highlights one particular fragment of their journeys - their time in Indonesia, which many expect to be the last stepping stone to a new life. While they long for their new life to unfold, most asylum seekers become embroiled in the complexities of living in transit. Indonesia, a vast archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, is more than a location where people spend time waiting; it is a nation state that interacts with transiting asylum seekers and formulates policies that have a profound impact on their experience in transit there. Troubled Transit tries to explain the complexities faced by the transiting migrants within the context of the Indonesian government and its political challenges, including its relationship with Australia. The Australia-centric view of recent asylum seeker issues has tended to ignore the larger socio-political context of the migratory routes and the perspectives of transit states towards asylum seekers stuck in transit. This book hopes to direct the Australia-centric gaze northwards to take Indonesian policies and policymaking into account, thereby giving Indonesia more relevance as a transit country and as an important partner in regional protection schemes and migration management. Even though some Indonesian policies and practices are less than favourable for asylum seekers, and even reprehensible from a

In this comprehensive second edition of The Economics of International Integration, Miroslav N. Jovanović examines the theory of international economic integration and explores the existing and emerging international integration agreements, their achievements, problems and prospects. One of the most important issues in international economics today concerns the dissipating multilateral trading system and the proliferation of a number of trading blocs and arrangements. This has been particularly the case after the establishment of the World Trade Organization in 1995 and especially during the Doha Round (2001-13). -- This book takes on those and other important new issues such as integration through spatially fragmented production, and the operation of supply chains. The author argues that international economic integration deals are here to stay, and evolve with variable successes in spite of advantages offered by the multilateral trading system. Jovanović's second edition includes up-to-date surveys of economic integration and their agreements, criticism of the eurozone and speculation on the future of integration. -- 'I taught one course on economic policy at Queen's University and met Miroslav Jovanović, who was the outstanding student in my class. I have followed his career ever since ... The most distinctive aspect of his treatment continues to be his union of theory and applied material. For him, the major interest always resides in the problems created by the working out of various forms of integration in real situations. He uses theory but no more than is needed to act as a tool for enlightening our understanding of what we see in the world around us ... For those who want a comprehensive survey relevant for understanding the issues surrounding economic integration, this is an excellent book.' (From the foreword by Richard G. Lipsey).

Peter Smith has written a comprehensive and in-depth study of the structure and more important of the transformation of the national political elite in twentieth-century Mexico. In doing so, he analyzes the long-run impact of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 on the composition of the country's ruling elite. Included in his focus are such issues as the social basis of politics, the recruitments process, political career patterns, the amount of periodic turnover, and the relationships between the political and economic elites.The author explores these issues through an empirical, computer-assisted investigation of biographical information on more than 6,000 individuals who held national political office in Mexico at any time between 1900 and 1976. He then employs various comparative and statistical techniques, along with a use of archival data, questionnaires, and interviews, to determine precisely how Mexico's political system actually works.Professor Smith finds that the Revolution of 1910 did not fundamentally alter the class composition of the national elite, although it did redistribute power within it. He further observes that the Mexican Revolution did bring about a separation of political and economic elites, and that the route to political success is much more varied and less predictable now than before the revolutionary period.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

From the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Honor and The Last Gangster-"one of the most respected crime reporters in the country" (60 Minutes)-comes the sure to be headline-making inside story of the Gotti and Gambino families, told from the unique viewpoint of notorious mob hit-man John Alite, a close associate of Junior Gotti who later testified against him. In Gotti's Rules, George Anastasia, a prize-winning reporter who spent over thirty years covering crime, offers a shocking and very rare glimpse into the Gotti family, witnessed up-close from former family insider John Alite, John Gotti Jr.'s longtime friend and protector. Until now, no one has given up the kind of personal details about the Gottis-including the legendary "Gotti Rules" of leadership-that Anastasia exposes here. Drawing on extensive FBI files and other documentation, his own knowledge, and exclusive interviews with insiders and experts, including mob-enforcer-turned-government-witness Alite, Anastasia pokes holes in the Gotti legend, demystifying this notorious family and its lucrative and often deadly machinations. Anastasia offers never-before-heard information about the murders, drug dealing, and extortion that propelled John J. Gotti to the top of the Gambino crime family and the treachery and deceit that allowed John A. "Junior" Gotti to follow in his father's footsteps. Told from street level and through the eyes of a wiseguy who saw it all firsthand, the result is a riveting look at a family whose hubris, violence, passion, and greed fueled a bloody rise and devastating fall that is still reverberating through the American underworld today. Gotti's Rules includes 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.