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Michael Ball has contributed to Housing Policy and Economic Power: The Political Economy of Owner Occupation as an author.Michael Ball is a designer and craftsperson currently specializing in glasswork. His work has been published in several magazines and craft books. Working both on his own and in cooperation with other artists, he has developed work in various media, including rocaille beadwork, illustration, silversmithing and fabric painting

"Using rich ethnographic data and first-hand experience, Ball presents a detailed account of Australia's attempts to incorporate behavioural insights into its public policy. Ball identifies three competing interpretations of behavioural public policy, and how these interpretations have influenced the use of this approach in practice. The first sees the process as an opportunity to introduce more rigorous evidence. The second interpretation focusses on increasing compliance, cost savings and cutting red tape. The last focuses on the opportunity to better involve citizens in policy design. These interpretations demonstrate different 'solutions' to a series of dilemmas that the Australian Public Service, and others, have confronted in the last 50 years including growing politicisation, technocracy and a disconnect from the needs of citizens. Ball offers a detailed account of how these priorities have shaped how behavioural insights have been implemented in policy making, as well as reflecting on the challenges facing policy work more broadly. An essential read for practitioners and scholars of policymaking, especially in Australia"--

No Country For Black Men captures the plight and possibilities of what it means to be Black and male in the United States past and present. Through storytelling and sociological data analysis, the author weaves a powerful story about challenges and opportunities faced by Black males of all ages today. From mental health parity to disproportionality and myths about Black male sexuality, this body of work is bent on naming the persistent and historical challenges Black men are confronted with throughout their development. Each chapter is anchored in and punctuated by the author's personal experiences as an immigrant, a father, a husband and a scholar-practitioner. The mission of No Country For Black Men is to add to the scholarship and conversation among educators, mental health providers, religious leaders, and other service providers about ways to improve the academic, economic and health outcome for Black males in the United States

Viruses, microorganisms and molecular genetics -- What is life?.-Basic concepts of molecular genetics -- Viruses and early genetics -- Algorithms and self-replicating computer programs -- What is information? -- Coding of information in technology and biology -- Coevolution of life and technology.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Propaganda Versus Economics: Constructing a Myth -- Chapter 3. Buying Power Not Protest: The Myth Prevents Unrest -- Chapter 4.The Myth's "BIG THREE" Modern Purveyors: Reviewing Selig, Nielsen, McKinsey & Co -- Chapter 5. The Myth at. Play: A Most Suitable Environment -- Chapter 6. Cryptoganda: The Newest Bottle for Very Old Brandy -- Chapter 7.Freedom Was the Call But "Instead They Got a Bank!" -- Chapter 8.Conclusion: Policy and Organization Versus Economics.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A New Theory of the Sacred -- 1 The Boiled-Over District: Effervescence and Adaptation during the Market Revolution -- 2 The Salvific Power of Affect: Sentimentalism in the Labor Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- 3 The American Fetish: Religious Economics in the Novels of William Dean Howells -- 4 Mistaking "Shadows for Gods": Class and the Christ Novel in the Progressive Era -- 5 "Christianity Incorporated": Sinclair Lewis and the Taylorization of American Protestantism -- 6 ­Gastonia Revisited: Religion, Literature, and the Loray Mill Strike of 1929 -- 7 "The Blackness of God": Race and Religion in the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance -- Works Cited -- Index.