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This book analyses the motivations and experiences of Haitian parents who have given up a child for international adoption. The parents' accounts describe the decision to abandon as a rescue project rather than a refusal or denial of parenthood. - Cet ouvrage analyse les motivations et les expériences des parents haïtiens ayant donné un enfant en adoption internationale. Les récits parentaux décrivent la décision d'abandon comme un projet de sauvetage plutôt que comme un refus ou une négation de la parentalité.

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Author's Note -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Chapter Twelve -- Chapter Thirteen -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Copyright.

Intro -- A note to readers -- Introduction -- Prologue -- A house near Lake Ontario -- 1. Apothecaries, pills and guns -- 2. AZT -- the first AIDS drug -- 3. The hunt for blockbusters -- 4. How to price a drug -- 5. Dirty pharma -- 6. The trick -- 7. The acquisition game -- 8. A one-sided tug of war -- 9. The drugs we get -- 10. Hard science -- 11. Fighting back -- 12. A reckoning -- Epilogue -- Concordia's fall -- Acknowledgements -- Notes and references -- Index

"A guide to overcoming alcohol and drug addiction, written by a former addict. Drawing on the author's experience of recovery, the book encourages readers to stay sober by cultivating a positive, pragmatic mindset. Topics include setting manageable goals, finding inspiration, meditating, expressing gratitude, and avoiding toxic people"--

Reality and Morality develops and defends a framework for moral realism. It defends the idea that moral properties are metaphysically elite, or privileged parts of reality, and argues that realists can hold that this makes them highly eligible as the referents for our moral terms (an application of a thesis sometimes called reference magnetism). Billy Dunaway elaborates on these theses by introducing some natural claims about how we can know about morality, by having beliefs that are free from a kind of risk of error. This package of theses in metaphysics, meta-semantics, and epistemology is motivated with a view to explaining possible moral disagreements. 0Many writers have emphasized the scope of moral disagreement, and have given compelling examples of possible users of moral language who appear to be genuinely disagreeing, rather than talking past one another, with their use of moral language. What has gone unnoticed is that there are limits to these possible disagreements, and not all possible users of moral language are naturally interpreted as capable of genuine disagreement. The realist view developed in Reality and Morality can explain both the extent of, and the limits to, moral disagreement, and thereby has explanatory power that counts significantly in its favour

"'Harnessing harmony' uses music to unravel the relationship between elite power and the people through their uses of culture in politics from the early national period to the Civil War. Coleman traces how understandings of musical power were used to shape the development of a popular American political culture. It explores primarily how elites, at a time of mass democratization and rapid social change, looked to music to persuade Americans to rise above political and partisan conflict to instead create a more unified, orderly, and deferential society. In doing so the work identifies a distinctively conservative strain of musical thought and action. As our readers point out, it impressively challenges prevailing scholarly assumptions about political music being more 'bottom up' than 'top down'"--

Introduction -- Global capitalism and sport mega events -- Sport mega events: discourse x practice -- The socioeconomic consequences of the sport mega events 'tour' through the Global South -- Local impacts of global events: Porto Alegre and the 2014 World Cup -- Conclusions.

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Prologue: 'You Wrote a Book?' -- 1 Relax, Bill -- 2 Leadership 101 -- 3 Realisation -- 4 Selection -- 5 My First Week as a Quadriplegic -- 6 Scratch -- 7 I'm Going To Be Back -- 8 Chad -- 9 Good Morning, Roger -- 10 The Value of Friendship -- 11 My Leadership Learning Curve Just Got Steep -- 12 Let's Go to Work -- 13 Luck? -- 14 Leaving to Start Again -- 15 The Master of My Fate -- Epilogue: Belief and Believe - How I Hope to Help You -- Acknowledgements -- Series Page -- Backcover.

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Laws of Nature and the Problem of Exceptions -- 1.1 The Received View of Laws -- 1.1.1 The Ubiquity of Laws -- 1.1.2 Tracing the Development of the Received View -- 1.2 Enter Exceptions -- 1.2.1 Galileo's Idealizations -- 1.2.2 Hempel, Cartwright and Giere on Physical Laws -- 1.2.3 Fodor and Schiffer on Special Science Laws -- 1.2.4 Taking Exceptions Seriously: Braddon-Mitchell and Schrenk -- 1.3 Skeptical Solutions -- 1.3.1 Hedging -- 1.3.2 Concretization -- 1.3.3 Selectivism -- 1.3.4 Nomic Eliminativism -- 1.4 A Taxonomy of Non-universal Laws -- 1.4.1 Type-A: Ideal Laws -- 1.4.2 Type-B: Ceteris Paribus Laws -- 1.4.3 Type-C: Chancy Laws -- References -- 2 Governing Law Solutions to Ideal Laws -- 2.1 Laws as Relations of Nomic Necessity -- 2.1.1 Armstrong's Theory -- 2.1.2 Iron Versus Oaken Laws -- 2.1.3 Ideal Laws and Uninstantiated Laws -- 2.2 Laws as Ascriptions of Capacities -- 2.2.1 Cartwright's Theory -- 2.2.2 Capacities for Ideal Laws -- 2.2.3 Hüttemann's Capacities for Ideal Laws -- 2.3 Scientific Essentialism -- 2.3.1 Idealization as a Means to Uncover Essential Natures -- 2.3.2 The Problem of Abstraction -- References -- 3 Non-governing Law Solutions to Ideal Laws -- 3.1 The Best System Account -- 3.1.1 Laws as Axioms in a Deductive System -- 3.1.2 Considerations from Strength -- 3.1.3 Considerations from Simplicity -- 3.2 Better Best System Accounts -- 3.2.1 Schrenk's Special Science Index Laws -- 3.2.2 Unterhuber's Generic Construal -- 3.3 The Inference-Ticket View -- 3.3.1 Statements of Fact or Rules of Inference? -- 3.3.2 Problems for the Inference-Ticket View -- References -- 4 The Algorithmic Theory of Laws -- 4.1 Science and Data Compression -- 4.1.1 Simplicity and Economy in Scientific Theory -- 4.1.2 Compression as an Understanding of Simplicity.

Within the overlapping fields of the sociology of sport, physical education and health education, the use of critical theories and the critical research paradigm has grown in scope. Yet what social impact has this research had? This book considers the capacity of critical research and associated social theory to play an active role in challenging social injustices or at least in 'making a difference' within health and physical education (HPE) and sporting contexts. It also examines how the use of different social theories impacts sport policies, national curricula and health promotion activities, as well as the practices of HPE teaching and sport training and competition. Critical Research in Sport, Health and Physical Education is a valuable resource for academics and students working in the fields of research methods, sociology of sport, physical education and health.