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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Author -- Foreword by Armand Beasley -- Introduction: Why You Should Want to Talk to Absolutely Anyone -- Communication Is All About Understanding -- We Notice Different Things -- Part One: Common Fears and Barriers about Talking to Absolutely Anyone -- Chapter 1: Fear - Does It Hold You Back? -- What Exactly Is Fear? -- Your Mindset - The Biggest Potential Barrier -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: "I Don't Want to Experience Rejection" -- Chapter 3: "I Worry about What Other People Might Think" -- What Others Might Think of Your Interaction -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: "I Hate Talking to Strangers - Why Would I Want to?" -- Why Bother Talking to Strangers Anyway? -- You Already Speak to More Strangers Than You Think -- Conclusion -- Part Two: The Four Stages of an Interaction -- Chapter 5: Stage 1 - Your Outcome and Starting a Conversation -- Know the Outcome You Want! -- Being Clear about Your Reasons for the Interaction -- When/Where - Based on the Environment -- Other Environments -- Who - Who Do We Talk to Based on Who Looks Approachable? -- The Curse of Getting Started -- Chapter 6: How - How Do You Mentally and Physically Approach? -- Own Your Environment -- Mental: Visualize -- Mental: The Other Person's Emotional State -- Mental: Frames -- Physical: How to Physically Approach Someone -- Physical: Getting Their Attention -- Physical: Opening Styles -- One More Thing -- Chapter 7: What - What Do You Say? -- Types of Opening Statements -- Pace Their Reality or Meet Them Where They Are! -- Spot the Start of Their Engagement -- Keep It Simple with People You've Never Met Before -- Topic Hints and Conversation Hijacking -- Avoid Classic Chitchat for too Long -- Chapter 8: Stage 2 - Creating Curiosity and Interest -- Leading Their Imagination -- The Power of Stories

"Our world is getting hotter, and it's our fault. Our addiction to fossil fuels is destroying not only our ancient planet, but our modern civilization. How can we protect our fragile ecosystems while preserving our way of life? How can we respond to climate change deniers who mock the fact that environmental activists use fossil fuels? In short, how can your average concerned citizen live a normal life in a carbon-based economy without being justifiably called a hypocrite? In The Carbon Code, conservation biologist Brett Favaro answers these thorny questions, offering simple strategies to help you reduce your carbon footprint--without abandoning common sense. Favaro's Carbon Code of Conduct is based on the four R's: Reduce, Replace, Refine, and Rehabilitate. After outlining the scientific basics of climate change and explaining the logic of the code he prescribes, the author describes carbon-friendly technologies and behaviors we can adopt in our daily lives. However, he acknowledges that individual action, while vital, is insufficient. To achieve global sustainability, he insists that we must make the fight against climate change "go viral" through conspicuous conservation. The Carbon Code is a tool of empowerment. People don't need to be climate change experts to be part of the solution! In this book, Brett Favaro shows you how to take ownership of your carbon footprint and adopt a lifestyle of conspicuous conservation that will spur governments and corporations to do the same. Climate-friendly action is the best decision on every dimension--economics, health and well-being, and social justice. Saving the planet is, after all, about saving ourselves. The Carbon Code provides a framework to do this, and helps you to become a hero in the fight against climate change"--

"Public school systems are central to a flourishing democracy, where children learn how to solve problems together, build shared identities, and come to value justice and liberty for all. However, as citizen support for public schools steadily declines, our democratic way of life is increasingly at risk. Often, we hear about the poor performances of students and teachers in the public school system, but as author Sarah M. Stitzlein asserts in her compelling new volume, the current educational crisis is not about accountability, but rather citizen responsibility. Now, more than ever, citizens increasingly do not feel as though public schools are our schools, forgetting that we have influence over their outcomes and are responsible for their success. In effect, accountability becomes more and more about finding failure and casting blame on our school administrators and teachers, rather than taking responsibility as citizens for shaping our expectations of the classroom, determining the criteria we use to measure its success, and supporting our public schools as they nurture our children for the future. American Public Education and the Responsibility of its Citizens sheds an important light on recent shifts in the link between education and citizenship, helping readers to understand not only how schools now work, but also how citizens can take an active and influential role in shaping them. Moving from philosophical critique of these changes to practical suggestions for action, Stitzlein provides readers with the tools, habits, practices, and knowledge necessary to support public education. Further, by sharing examples of citizens and successful communities that are effectively working with their school systems, Stitzlein offers a torch of hope to sustain citizens through this difficult work in order to keep our democracy strong. "--

'Daily, we hear stories of the refugee crisis enveloping the globe. Sometimes we learn about the detail of those refugee lives. Less often do we hear about refugee men and their determination to rebuild personal lives and relationships in new countries. This book provides a rich and moving account that at last helps us understand these men's stories' - Gary W. Dowsett, La Trobe University, Australia 'Using theories of citizenship to examine the everyday intimate lives of men from the horn of Africa, this book provides a rare insight about how they negotiate masculinities and sexualities in forced migration and settlement contexts.' - Jay Marlowe, the University of Auckland, New Zealand This timely book moves beyond struggling, suffering and loss to argue that forced migration often provides opportunities for men to pursue new relationships and re-organise their intimate lives. It focuses on the lived experiences of masculinity, sexuality and pursuit of intimate relationships by men who have arrived in Australia as refugees from the Horn of Africa. The author shows that, even amidst the chaos of displacement, the difficulties of living in limbo whilst seeking asylum and the challenges of settlement, the desire for enjoyable and fulfilling intimate relations remains central to the everyday lives of refugee men. This novel work will appeal to students and scholars of migration studies, citizenship, race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality. Samuel Muchoki is a Course Coordinator at the Melbi Institute, Australia, and a trained anthropologist and public health practitioner. He is also a motivational speaker who presents on topical issues such as migration and refugee experiences, masculinity, gender and sexuality, preventing violence against women and public health

"At its core, politics is all about relations of rule. Accordingly one of the central preoccupations of political theory is what it means for human beings to rule over one another or share in a process of ruling. While political theorists tend to regard rule as a necessary evil, this book aims to explain how rule need not be understood as anathema to political life. Rather, by looking at some of the earliest traditions of political thought we can rethink rule in ways that evoke stewardship rather than domination. Gray argues that hierarchical ideas about rule coevolved with political divisions between the human and non-human in western theory. The earliest discernible Greek thought advanced an instrumental relationship between humans and their environment, a position that has persisted into our current age. While this seems a defensible position, this book points out that such instrumental understandings of the nonhuman world have gotten us into serious trouble, including problems of deforestation, global warming, rising sea levels, species loss, and peak oil. To rethink the concept of rule, the book turns to early Indian political thought that suggests that rule is a relationship predicated on stewardship. The book compares these two traditions of thought in order to suggest that we have a normative duty to the environment, and thus to act in a way that takes the interests of non-human nature into account. Basing his argument on his own original translations of primary sources in ancient Greek and Sanskrit, the author shows when and how early concepts of rule evolved to justify divisions between the human and nonhuman. In doing so, he argues for a reconsideration of our duties toward the nonhuman natural world"--

"Bark, originally published as Écorces by Les Éditions de Minuit in 2011, is a photographic and literary essay by leading French philosopher and art historian Georges Didi-Huberman (winner of the Adorno Prize in 2015), documenting the author's visit to the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in the summer of that year. The book comprises some 10,000 words, as well as 19 photographs taken by Didi-Huberman, which punctuate the text and serve both as signposts to the reader and as focal points for the tension between individual acts of looking and the construction of collective memory. Didi-Huberman refuses to consider Auschwitz as the name and site of some unimaginable, metaphysical absolute; rather, he advocates what he calls an archaeological point of view, attentive to the material details of the site as well as to the phenomenology and history of the images that have emerged from it. Unlike his previous work, however, Bark is less an academic study than a personal and literarily inflected meditation. The three strips of birch bark torn from a tree at the Birkenau site, laid out on a table in the book's opening photograph, appear to the author like 'the beginning of a letter to write.' While by no means an autobiographical text, Bark does lay bare the fact that Didi-Huberman's grandparents died at Auschwitz. The understated poignancy of the text is reinforced by the author's photographs, whose power could be said to lie precisely in their banality, as they make tangible the various features of the present site (walls, floors, fences, even flowers) and invite readers to look more closely in their effort to imagine the reality of the camps"--Provided by publisher

Front Cover -- Volume 3, Issue 2, 2017 -- Guest Editor's Note -- Critical Media Literacy, Social Justice, and Equity in the Trumpocalypse -- William M. Reynolds -- Georgia Southern University -- NOTE -- References -- Branding the Presidency -- Trump and the New Politics of Representation -- Julie Webber -- Illinois State University -- This article was prepared for the Critical Media Literacy Conference in Savannah, Georgia in 2016. The central argument of the article is that Donald Trump's candidacy emerges from a new strategy: branding. The author explores the decade prior to T... -- BRAND POLITICIANS: THE OUTSIDER -- THE BRANDING OF THE PRESIDENCY -- 1. Please tell me which one you think is more important for a child to have: independence or respect for elders? -- 2. Which trait is more important for a child to have: obedience or self-reliance? -- 3. Please tell me which one is more important for a child: to be considerate or well- behaved? -- 4. Please tell me again curiosity or good manners? (Quoted in Taub, 2016). -- Conclusion: How to take down a Brand -- Notes -- References -- Preparing Educators to Teach Critical Media Literacy -- Jeff Share -- University of California, Los Angeles -- This essay explores the need to prepare educators to teach their students to think critically about the media and information they use and encounter daily so they can become empowered citizens with a sense of agency to use these tools to participate ... -- Introduction -- Teacher Education at UCLA -- Ed466: Critical Media Literacy for Teachers -- 1. recognition of the construction of media and communication as a social process as opposed to accepting texts as isolated neutral or transparent conveyors of information -- -- 2. textual analysis that explores the languages, genres, codes, and conventions of the text

Boston Whalers are the quintessential American motorboats. Born from innovation, risk, and above all hard work, their reputation for reliability, fun, and safety has changed the way the people go boating. The first Whalers hit the water in 1958, but the "Unsinkable Legend" was created with a daring launch in 1961, when Boston Whaler founder Richard "Dick" Fisher sawed a boat in half before the cameras of Life magazine -- and then piloted the back half of the hull around Wampatuck Pond in Hanson, Massachusetts. People were shocked and delighted, and the company made its mark on the history of boating by proving that it had created something altogether new and absolutely unsinkable. Unsinkable: The History of Boston Whaler is the first book to tell the story of these iconic boats. Published to celebrate the company's 60th anniversary, author Matthew Plunkett relays a fascinating and engaging tale beginning with how Dick Fisher came to create Boston Whaler and then detailing how the company evolved over the decades. From the original 13' hull, unflatteringly known as the "blue bathtub," to its current flagship, the 420 Outrage, this book covers the whole story of a truly American company. Drawing on dozens of interviews with employees who were there in the plants, at the dealerships, and on the boats, Unsinkable: The History of Boston Whaler is filled with previously untold stories as well as never before published images, including photos from the families of Dick Fisher and legendary designer Bob Dougherty, Mr. Unsinkable himself. This intimate look into the creation, culture, and ongoing legacy of Boston Whaler reveals just how influential this company has been both within the industry and for its legions of diehard fans around the world

Intro -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Introduction: A Bit Like Love -- Arrival: 1969-1971 -- Prometheus in the Pentagon (Bob Taylor) -- Nerd Paradise (Al Alcorn) -- Eight Quarters in Her Pocket (Fawn Alvarez) -- The Fairchildren (Mike Markkula) -- What Do We Do with These? (Niels Reimers) -- Come with Me, or I'll Go by Myself (Sandra Kurtzig) -- Building: 1972-1975 -- Have You Seen This Woman? (Sandra Kurtzig) -- Turn Your Backs on the Origins of Computing! (Bob Taylor) -- Hit in the Ass by Lightning (Al Alcorn) -- Make It Happen (Niels Reimers) -- That's What I Did on Mondays (Mike Markkula) -- Challenges: 1976-1977 -- I Needed to Land Behind a Desk (Fawn Alvarez) -- This Is a Big Fucking Deal (Al Alcorn) -- One More Year or Bust (Sandra Kurtzig) -- No Idea How You Start a Company (Niels Reimers and Bob Swanson) -- That Flips My Switch (Mike Markkula) -- I've Never Seen a Man Type That Fast (Bob Taylor) -- There Are No Standards Yet (Mike Markkula) -- Triumph: 1979-1981 -- Looks Like 100 Million to Me! (Niels Reimers and Bob Swanson) -- Sitting in a Kiddie Seat (Al Alcorn) -- Can You Imagine Your Grandmother Using One? (Bob Taylor) -- Young Maniacs (Mike Markkula) -- What in the Hell Are You Trying to Say? (Fawn Alvarez) -- We Don't Need Any Money (Sandra Kurtzig) -- Transition: 1983-1984 -- The Rabbits Hopped Away (Bob Taylor) -- Video Nation (Al Alcorn) -- Knew It Before They Did (Niels Reimers) -- No One Thought They Would Sell (Fawn Alvarez) -- The Entire World Will Never Be the Same (Mike Markkula) -- She Works Hard for the Money (Sandra Kurtzig) -- Conclusion: Wave After Wave -- Postscript: The Troublemakers Today -- Photographs -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations Used in Notes Section -- Interviewees -- About the Author -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Copyright.

This book is a monograph of cultural economics of a new concept, artist-enterprises. It explores various dimensions that artists embody, i.e., aesthetic, critical, messianic, and economic ones, and screens the multiple challenges faced by the artist-enterprises in terms of pricing, funding, and networking in the Digital Age. It shows how these artist-enterprises are at the core of the contemporary creative industries. Even when they are on their own, artists have to demonstrate or manage a variety of skills, sign contracts both in the early and later stages of their activities, and also maintain relationships and networks that enable them to attain their artistic and economic goals. They are no longer simply entrepreneurs managing their own skills but are the enterprises themselves. The artist-enterprises thus find themselves at the confluence of two dynamics of production-artistic and economic: artistic because they invent new expressions and meanings; and economic because these expressions must be supported by monetary values on the market. The artistic dynamic is part of a long process of artistic enhancement and only an artist can say whether it has reached the point of presentation or equilibrium. The economic dynamic is dependent on the constant endorsement of artists' works by the market to ensure their survival as artist-enterprises. The tension created by this disparity is further aggravated by another tension: the need to overcome a number of risks so that artist-enterprises can progress. This book will be of special interest to artists, managers, students, professionals, and researchers in the fields of the arts, creativity, economics, and development. The author is Emeritus Professor at the University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne

"This deathbed memoir by Dr. Paul H. Johnstone, former senior analyst in the Strategic Weapons Evaluation Group (WSEG) in the Pentagon and a co-author of The Pentagon Papers, provides an authoritative analysis of the implications of nuclear war that remain insurmountable today. Indeed, such research has been kept largely secret, with the intention "not to alarm the public" about what was being cooked up. This is the story of how U.S. strategic planners in the 1950s and 1960s worked their way to the conclusion that nuclear war was unthinkable. It drives home these key understandings: - That whichever way you look at it -- and this book shows the many ways analysts tried to skirt the problem -- nuclear war means mutual destruction - That Pentagon planners could accept the possibility of totally destroying another nation, while taking massive destructive losses ourselves, and still conclude that "we would prevail". - That the supposedly "scientific answers" provided to a wide range of unanswerable questions are of highly dubious standing. - That official spheres neglect anything near a comparable effort to understand the "enemy" point of view, rather than to annihilate him, or to use such understanding to make peace. Dr. Johnstone's memoirs of twenty years in the Pentagon tell that story succinctly, coolly and objectively. While remaining highly secret - so much so that Dr. Johnstone himself was denied access to what he had written - these studies had a major impact on official policy. They contributed to a shift from the notion that the United States could inflict "massive retaliation" on its Soviet enemy to recognition that a nuclear exchange would bring about Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD). The alarming truth today is that these lessons seem to have been forgotten."--Provided by publisher

Preface -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- 1 An Aggregative Model of Unemployment, Cycles, and Growth -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Static Structure of the Model -- 1.2.1 Goods Market -- 1.2.2 Labor Market -- 1.2.3 Asset Markets -- 1.2.4 Quasi Short-Run Equilibrium -- 1.3 Dynamic Equations -- 1.3.1 Some Dynamic Assumptions -- 1.3.2 Change of Variables -- 1.3.3 Dynamic Equations -- 1.4 Long-Run Equilibrium -- 1.4.1 Existence and Uniqueness -- 1.4.2 Saddle-Point Stability -- 1.5 Movements on the Stable Manifold -- 1.6 Cyclical Movements -- 1.7 Conclusions -- Appendix -- A.1 Some Mathematical Expressions -- A.1.1 Comparative Statics -- A.1.2 Coefficients of the Linear Dynamic System -- A.1.3 Coefficients of the Characteristic Polynomial -- A.2 Proof of Theorem 2 -- A.3 ∂e/∂k and ∂e/∂w -- A.4 Proof of Theorem 3 -- 2 A Hicksian Two-Sector Model of Cycles and Growth -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Static Structure of the Model -- 2.3 Quasi Short-Run Equilibrium -- 2.4 Dynamic Equations, Dynamic Inclusions, Long-Run Equilibrium, and Saddle-Point Stability -- 2.5 Investment Allocation and the Sectoral Balance -- 2.6 Saddle-Point Stability of System II -- 2.7 Cycles -- 2.8 Conclusions -- Appendix -- A.1 Proof of Lemma 11 -- A.2 Some Mathematical Expressions Relating to the Balanced Stage -- A.2.1 Comparative Statics -- A.2.2 Coefficients of the Linear System -- A.2.3 Coefficients of the Characteristic Polynomial -- A.3 Proof of Theorem 12 -- A.4 Proof of Lemma 13 -- A.5 Proof of Theorem 14 -- A.6 Proof of (2.47) -- 3 Stabilization Policies and Business Cycle Dynamics -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Base Model -- 3.2.1 The Static Structure -- 3.2.2 Dynamics -- 3.3 Balanced-Budget Fiscal Stabilization Policy -- 3.3.1 Static Structure -- 3.3.2 Dynamics -- 3.4 Partially Debt-Financed Fiscal Stabilization Policy -- 3.4.1 Static Structure

All around the world there are elite suburban communities: Palo Alto, California, and Greenwich, Connecticut, in the U.S.; Paris's Neuilly; and Oxshott outside London. These wealthy suburbs are home to the economic and social elites who work in the world's global cities. Stockholm's suburb Djursholm is one such place. It is full of large houses, winding lanes, and is surrounded by a beautiful landscape. Its residents prize physical fitness, healthy eating, fine art, and education. Despite Sweden's reputation for egalitarianism, Djursholm is representative of global mechanisms of privilege and its perpetuation.Leader Communities is the sociologist Mikael Holmqvist's term for places like Djursholm: the communities where elites choose to live, socialize with other elites, and, most importantly, form families and raise their children into future elites. Such neighborhoods consecrate inhabitants into leaders—that is, they offer their residents a social environment that imbues people with a sense of social and moral elevation. By idealizing their residents, leader communities' allegedly superior lifestyle and character act as a principle of distinction and legitimation. Holmqvist calls this a consecracy—a society that leads by means of its aura, brightness, and radiance, allowing the privileged to pose as a moral vanguard. Leaders are made—not born—by the culture, history, traditions, ceremonies, rituals, and institutions of the place. Based on a comprehensive five-year ethnographic study, this book is a community study of Djursholm in which the author ventures inside the world of the elite to explore the mechanics of social interaction and power. Leader Communities introduces vital new concepts to the study and understanding of contemporary elites and offers a troubling analysis of the moral, social, and political consequences of their aspirations to lead societies.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- About the author -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. Before We Even Get Started: Yes, the Federal Budget is Different from Yours and Mine, and it Faces Big Challenges -- What is in this Book -- Questions for Chapter 1 -- Discussion Items for Chapter 1 -- 2. Power, the Constitution, Congress, and the Federal System of Government: To Understand the Budget of Today, it Helps to Go Back about 200 Years -- The Constitution's Attempt to Define American Federalism Permeates Budget Debates -- The Spending Power Covers More than Simply Funding Levels -- What Happens when Congress Fails to Act? -- What Happens if Congress Abuses its Power? -- What Happens when the Government Spends More than Congress Says, or Refuses to Spend what Congress Wants? -- Questions for Chapter 2 -- Discussion Items for Chapter 2 -- 3. Getting a Handle on the Budget: Why it has Taken So Long with Still So Far to Go: From the Constitution to the Budget Act in One Chapter -- Where Does the Budget Process Originate? -- Controls Attempted Early On -- The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 -- The Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 -- The Bottom Line -- Questions for Chapter 3 -- Discussion Items for Chapter 3 -- 4. Budget Concepts: The Basics: Technical Stuff You Simply Have to Know -- Appropriations, Authorizations and Budget Authority -- Discretionary vs. Mandatory Appropriations -- Questions for Chapter 4 -- Discussion Items for Chapter 4 -- 5. Budget Concepts: The Linear Approach: Different Rules for Different Stages in the Process -- Budget Formulation-Early Stages -- Budget Estimates -- Budget Authority -- Warrants, Apportionments, Allocations -- Obligations -- Outlays -- Unobligated Balances -- The Relationship of BA to Obligations to Outlays

Intro -- Why I Wrote This Book -- Contents -- About the Author -- Part I: China´s Customers and How to Lead the Trend with Them -- 1: Understanding China´s Consumers -- The Background: History Won´t Repeat Itself-From a Planned Economy to the World´s Largest Consumer Market in One Generation -- The Driver: China´s Six-in-One Consumer Generations -- The GenRed Consumer (Born 1959 or Earlier) -- The GenRise Consumer (Born 1960-1969) -- The GenPC Consumer (Born 1970-1979) -- The GenNet Consumer (Born 1980-1989) -- The GenMobile Consumer (Born 1990-1999) -- The Accelerator: e-/Digital Commerce Accelerating Consumer Desires -- Evergreen Stories that Sell: Face, Family, Food, and Fun -- 2: The Leaders Behind the 21 Made-for-China Success Stories -- The Face: Accelerating Customer Individuality -- Inspiring Consumers´ Dreams and Styles: Modern Media-Thomas Shao -- Getting that Dream Job: Tarena-Han Shaoyun -- Diversifying the Product: GreenTree Inn-Alex Xu -- Brand to Platform: Daphne-Eddie Chen -- Boutique Is Beautiful: Grace Vineyard-Judy Chan -- High Above the Rest: Toread-Wang Jing -- The Family: Enhancing Quality of Life -- Reaching More Households, Offering More Products: Suning-Zhang Jindong -- Households Upgrading Appliances: Haier-Zhang Ruimin -- Home Style Dreams: Kuka-Gu Jiangsheng -- FMCG Premiumization: Liby-Chen Kaixuan -- Medical Care Going Private: BYBO-Li Changren -- Protecting Lifestyle and Loved Ones: NCI-Kang Dian -- The Food: Aspiring to a Healthy and Fashionable Diet -- Brand Trust: Yili-Pan Gang -- Supermarket Sophistication: Yonghui-Zhang Xuanning -- Urban Fast Food Formats: Gil Wonton-Zhang Biao -- Better Booze: Jing Brand-Wu Shaoxun -- Turning TCM Classics into FMCGs: GZ Pharma-Li Chuyuan -- Fun, Entertainment, and Leisure -- Curious About the World: Ctrip-Fan Min -- Eater-tainment: Hai Di Lao-Zhang Yong