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The first in-depth study of the political, social, and cultural history of juvenile delinquency in modern Japan, Bad Youth treats the policing of urban youth as a crucial site for the development of new state structures and new forms of social power. Focusing on the years of rapid industrialization and imperialist expansion (1895 to 1945), David R. Ambaras challenges widely held conceptions of a Japan that did not, until recently, experience delinquency and related youth problems. He vividly reconstructs numerous individual life stories in the worlds of home, school, work, and the streets, and he relates the changes that took place during this time of social transformation to the broader processes of capitalist development, nation-state formation, and imperialism

In October 1962, the fate of the world hung on the American response to the discovery of Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba. That response was informed by hours of discussions between John F. Kennedy and his top advisers. What those advisers did not know was that President Kennedy was secretly taping their talks, providing future scholars with a rare inside look at high-level political deliberation in a moment of crisis. Talk at the Brink is the first book to examine these historic audio recordings from a sociological perspective. It reveals how conversational practices and dynamics shaped Kennedy's perception of the options available to him, thereby influencing his decisions and ultimately the outcome of the crisis. David Gibson looks not just at the positions taken by Kennedy and his advisers but how those positions were articulated, challenged, revised, and sometimes ignored. He argues that Kennedy's decisions arose from the intersection of distant events unfolding in Cuba, Moscow, and the high seas with the immediate conversational minutia of turn-taking, storytelling, argument, and justification. In particular, Gibson shows how Kennedy's group told and retold particular stories again and again, sometimes settling upon a course of action only after the most frightening consequences were omitted or actively suppressed. Talk at the Brink presents an image of Kennedy's response to the Cuban missile crisis that is sharply at odds with previous scholarship, and has important implications for our understanding of decision making, deliberation, social interaction, and historical contingency.

"Stalin and War, 1918-1953 is the first book to examine the patterns of radicalized internal violence that characterized the Stalinist regime across the whole of the dictator's rule, and it is one of the only works to connect patterns of internal violence to the dictator's perceptions of war and foreign threat. This book will be of interest to professional scholars of Soviet history, twentieth-century history, and World War II history, and it is approachable enough to be appreciated by general readers"--

The Networked Financier offers an explanation of the individual network behaviour of major financiers across diverse sectors and leading global financial centres. It argues that experienced financiers leverage their social capital to operate as 'networked financiers'.

A product of the Scottish Enlightenment, William Playfair (1759-1823) worked as a statistician, economist, engineer, banker, land speculator, scam artist, and political propagandist. It has been claimed - erroneously - that Playfair was a spy for the British government and ran a forging operation to print the paper money of the French Revolution. The Flawed Genius of William Playfair offers a complete account of Playfair's life, richly contextualized in the economic, political, and cultural history of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. The book explores the many peaks and troughs of Playfair's career, ranging from moderate prosperity to bankruptcy and imprisonment. Through careful analysis, David R. Bellhouse shows that Playfair was neither a spy nor a forger, but perhaps briefly a one-time courier for a government minister. Bellhouse pieces together as complete a picture as possible of the forging operations supported by the British government and illuminates Playfair's lasting contributions in economics and statistics, where he is known as the father of statistical graphics. Disputing the misinformation about the man, The Flawed Genius of William Playfair highlights that the truth about Playfair's life is often more intriguing than the fictions that surround him

This Element concerns Wittgenstein's evolving attitude toward the opposition between realism and idealism in philosophy. Despite the marked - and sometimes radical - changes Wittgenstein's thinking undergoes from the early to the middle to the later period, there is an underlying continuity in terms of his unwillingness at any point to endorse either position in a straightforward manner. Instead, Wittgenstein can be understood as rejecting both positions, while nonetheless seeing insights in each position worth retaining. The author traces these "neither-nor" and "both-and" strands of Wittgenstein's attitude toward realism and idealism to his - again, evolving - insistence on seeing language and thought as worldly phenomena. That thought and language are about the world and happen amidst the world they are about undermines the attempt to formulate any kind of general thesis concerning their interrelation.

The power of capital allocation -- Capital allocation in a slow-growth world -- Optimizing the capital structure : advantages of an alternatives-based capital allocation framework -- Five stress test rules for downturns -- The rise and fall of the General Electric empire -- Capital spending -- Dividends and the case for returning excess capital to shareholders -- The "regular-special" dividend : a new way to allocate excess capital -- The (alleged) seven deadly sins of share repurchase -- Autozone : the power of intelligent share repurchase -- Acquisitions -- Complex transactions -- Superior businesses with lower valuations -- Private deals -- Distressed sellers -- Non-core divestitures -- Short-term challenges, long-term benefits -- Inferior businesses with higher valuations -- Low-return, strategic acquisitions : a cautionary tale -- Supply/demand imbalance -- Short-term plug deal -- Spin-offs -- Restructurings -- Secular challenges -- Best board practices : the 14 point strategic plan -- Capital allocation : establishing a long-term focus and good corporate citizenship.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Legal Science and Its Roots -- 2 Legal Values -- 3 Knowledge and Its Opposites -- 4 Subdivisions of the Discipline of Legal Theory -- 5 Types of Speech -- 6 Commands and Prohibitions -- 7 General and Particular Expressions -- 8 Summarized, Clarified, Apparent, and Reinterpreted Speech -- 9 The Actions of the Prophet as a Form of Revelation -- 10 Abrogating and Abrogated Speech -- 11 Section on Contradictions -- 12 Consensus -- 13 Reports from the Prophet -- 14 Reasoning by Analogy -- 15 Forbiddance and Permission -- 16 The Prioritizing of Evidence -- 17 Characteristics of the Issuer of Legal Opinion and the Seeker of Legal Opinion -- 18 The Status of Those Who Engage in Diligent Inquiry -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Critical Edition of Ibnal‑Firkāḥ's Arabic Text -- Back Cover.

"The United States is known as a country that has been highly antagonistic to socialism of any form. Socialists have tended to be outsiders to the political system, mounting criticisms of the government without serving in elected office themselves. Despite this well-deserved reputation, there was a period of time in the United States in which Socialist politicians were prominent and active at the municipal level, holding office as government insiders. From around 1900 to 1920, Socialist mayors in over 200 small cities across the United States brought about meaningful improvements in the quality of life for people in their communities, playing an important role in the municipal reform movement that took place during this period. Despite the limitations of being associated with a minority party-particularly a party that divided into right and left wings over whether to pursue elected office in the United States-these mayors were largely successful in achieving innovative reforms and challenging the status quo. Socialist Mayors in the United States is the first comprehensive study of socialism nationwide during the Progressive Era"--

"The Chinese Communist Party points to the Hui-China's largest Muslim ethnic group-as a model ethnic minority and touts its harmonious relations with the group as an example of the party's great success in ethnic politics. The Hui number over ten million, but they lack a common homeland or a distinct language, and have long been partitioned by sect, class, region, and language. Despite these divisions, they still express a common ethnic identity. Why doesn't conflict plague relationships between the Hui and the state? And how do they navigate their ethnicity in a political climate that is increasingly hostile to Muslims? Pure and True draws on interviews with ordinary urban Hui-cooks, entrepreneurs, imams, students, and retirees-to explore the conduct of ethnic politics within Hui communities in the cities of Jinan, Beijing, Xining, and Yinchuan and between Hui and the Chinese party-state. By examining the ways in which Hui maintain ethnic identity through daily practices, it illuminates China's management of relations with its religious and ethnic minority communities. It finds that amid state-sponsored urbanization projects and in-country migration, the boundaries of Hui identity are contested primarily among groups of Hui rather than between Hui and the state. As a result, understandings of which daily habits should be considered "proper" or "correct" forms of Hui identity diverge along professional, class, regional, sectarian, and other lines. By channeling contentious politics toward internal boundaries, the state is able to manage ethnic politics and exert control"--