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Cover -- Half-title Page -- Dedication Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One The Mechanics -- 1 The Architects -- 2 The Cable Guys -- 3 The Custodians -- Part Two The Money -- 4 The Money Men -- 5 The Ad Men -- Part Three The Melee -- 6 The Cyber Warriors -- 7 The Rulemakers -- 8 The Resistance -- Conclusion -- A Note on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Further Reading -- Notes -- Index -- Copyright Page.

Intro -- Praise -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: THE POWER OF BULLSHIT -- Chapter One: Trumped: How the Donald won America -- Chapter Two: Brexit: Taking back control -- PART II: WHO'S SPREADING THE SHIT? -- Chapter Three: Politicians -- Chapter Four: Old media -- Chapter Five: New media -- Chapter Six: Fake media -- Chapter Seven: Social media… -- Chapter Eight: …And you -- PART III: WHY BULLSHIT WORKS -- Chapter Nine: Why we fall for it -- Chapter Ten: Why it's profitable -- Chapter Eleven: A bullshit culture -- PART IV: HOW TO STOP BULLSHIT -- Chapter Twelve: Debunking the debunkers -- Chapter Thirteen: Stopping the spread -- Conclusion -- References -- Bibliography and further reading -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright.

The present government's commitment to economic stability and its depoliticisation of monetary policy are welcome. But saving has been penalised, the flexibility of the labour market has been reduced and so far there has only been tinkering with welfare provision. The government seems intent on joining the single currency but the arguments in favour are weak.

"What is the role of performance in diplomacy? How can we advance interventions into global politics by artists, scholars, and activists? Performing Statecraft investigates the performances of states, their leaders, and their citizens on an expanded field of the global art of statecraft. This book draws together scholarship on the use of theatre as a soft power tool, arts activism on the world stage, sports performance by heads of state, the performativity of national dress, speechmaking and colonialism, war and medicine, indigenous sovereignties, and performed nationalisms"--

Introduction: "Big Heart, Tiny Legs I Guess" -- "Purpose Is but the Slave to Memory": Narrative and History in the Security Council -- "To Be Seen Is to Be Doomed": The Force of Spectatorship in UN Peacekeeping -- "The World of the Rulers Is the World of the Spectacle" : Time and Reiteration in Diplomatic Speech -- "To Receive an Impression Is to Make an Impression" : Clapping Along with the Secretary-General -- "Between One Person and Another" : Interfacing with Institutions at the International Criminal Court -- "No More Than a Piece of Paper" : The Written Word in a Theater of States -- Epilogue: "On Notice" and "Taking Names".

Origineller Band, der Aspekte der Weltgeschichte vom Urknall bis in die Gegenwart anhand von 100 thematischen Grafiken darstellt. Rezension: Eine Weltgeschichte der besonderen Art, in der die Welt vom Urknall bis in die Gegenwart in 100 thematischen Grafiken dargestellt wird, unterteilt in die 4 Abschnitte "Am Anfang", "Zivilisation", "Nationenbildung", "Die Welt von heute". Konkret wird ein Thema in der Regel auf einer Doppelseite abgehandelt, die Grafik im Zentrum wird von einer Frage eingeleitet und in einer Legende erläutert. Es geht z.B. um die zeitlichen Dimensionen am Anfang des Universums, um Revolutionen und Bürgerkriege, um Todesursachen, um Frauenarbeit und um meistverkaufte Tonträger. Eine bunte Mischung, und wie immer bei solchen Bänden kann man natürlich die Auswahl der Themen diskutieren. Und nicht immer sind die Grafiken so gestaltet, dass sie als übersichtlich bezeichnet werden können. Dennoch: Der unsystematische, aber originelle Band wird seine Leser finden, weil er zum Stöbern einlädt und zweifellos auch nicht ohne Erkenntnisgewinn ist. (2)

WikiLeaks is the most challenging journalistic phenomenon to have emerged in the digital era. It has provoked anger and enthusiasm in equal measure, from across the political and journalistic spectrum. WikiLeaks poses a series of questions to the status quo in politics, journalism and to the ways we understand political communication. It has compromised the foreign policy operations of the most powerful state in the world, broken stories comparable to great historic scoops like the Pentagon Papers, and caused the mighty international news organizations to collaborate with this tiny editorial outfit. Yet it may also be on the verge of extinction. This is the first book to examine WikiLeaks fully and critically and its place in the contemporary news environment. The authors combine inside knowledge with the latest media research and analysis to argue that the significance of Wikileaks is that it is part of the shift in the nature of news to a network system that is contestable and unstable. Welcome to Wiki World and a new age of uncertainty.

The purpose of the study was to examine the direction of causality of both cohesion and participation motivation with performance in intercollegiate hockey. The results supported the conclusion that successful performance results in in creased team cohesiveness; team cohesiveness does not produce more successful performance. The findings for participation motivation were equivocal. There was no indication that high self, task and/or affiliation motivation led to more successful performance or that successful performance increased the level of self, task and/or affiliation motivation.

In pursuit of socioeconomic development, many countries are expanding oil and mineral extraction into tropical forests. These activities seed access to remote, biologically rich areas, thereby endangering global biodiversity. We examined how protection of biodiversity and economic revenues can be balanced in biologically valuable regions. Using spatial data on oil profits and predicted species and ecosystem extents, we optimized the protection of 741 terrestrial species and 20 ecosystems of the Ecuadorian Amazon across a range of opportunity costs (i.e., sacrifices of extractive profit). We also applied spatial statistics to remotely sensed, historic deforestation data to focus the optimization on areas most threatened by imminent forest loss. Giving up 5% of a year's oil profits (US$221 million) allowed for a protected area network that retained an average of 65% of the extent of each species and ecosystem. This performance far exceeded that of the network produced by simple optimization for land area (which required a sacrifice of approximately 40% of annual oil profits [US$1.7 billion]) and used only marginally less land to achieve equivalent levels of ecological protection. We identified what we call emergency conservation targets: regions that are essential components of a cost-effective conservation reserve network but at imminent risk of destruction, thus requiring urgent and effective protection. Governments can use our methods when evaluating extractive-led development options to responsibly manage the associated ecological and economic trade-offs and protect natural capital. ; Cuando se busca el desarrollo socioeconómico, muchos países expanden la extracción de petróleo y de minerales dentro de los bosques tropicales. Estas actividades proporcionan el acceso a áreas remotas con riqueza biológica y por lo tanto ponen en peligro a la biodiversidad mundial. Examinamos cómo la protección de la biodiversidad y las ganancias económicas pueden estar balanceadas en regiones con valor biológico. Usamos datos espaciales sobre las ganancias del petróleo y sobre los pronósticos de la extensión de los ecosistemas y la distribución de las especies para optimizar la protección de 741 especies terrestres y 20 ecosistemas de la Amazonía ecuatoriana a lo largo de una gama de costos de oportunidad (es decir, los sacrificios de las ganancias de las industrias extractivas). También aplicamos estadística espacial a los datos de deforestación histórica detectados con telemetría para enfocar a la optimización en las áreas más amenazadas por la inminente pérdida del bosque. El sacrificio del 5% de las ganancias anuales provenientes del petróleo (US$221 millones) permitió la existencia de una red de áreas protegidas que retuvo un promedio de 65% de la extensión de cada ecosistema y de la distribución de cada especie. Este desempeño excedió por mucho aquél de la red de áreas protegidas producido de las ganancias anuales del petróleo [US$1.7 mil millones]); además de que utilizó ligeramente menos suelo para alcanzar los niveles equivalentes de protección ecológica. Identificamos algo que llamamos objetivos de conservación de emergencia: regiones que son componentes esenciales de una red de reservas de conservación rentable, pero a la vez un riesgo inminente de destrucción, por lo que requieren protección urgente y efectiva. Los gobiernos pueden usar nuestros métodos cuando evalúen sus opciones de desarrollo llevado por la extracción para manejar responsablemente las compensaciones ecológicas y económicas asociadas y así proteger al capital natural. ; Programa Capital Humano Avanzado from CONICYT 21150159