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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Backgrounding Japanese-Singaporean Families: Discourses, Histories, and Ecologies -- Terms Commonly Used and Related Questions -- Mixedness and Questions Concerning Mixed Identities -- An Earlier Example -- A Recent History of Japan's Relations with Singapore -- Turning to Aims and Reflexive Positioning -- Chapter Descriptions -- References -- Chapter 2: Japanese Identity Discourses: Homogeneity Versus Heterogeneity -- Complexifying Dominant Narratives Reifying Homogeneity in a Particularized Form of Japaneseness -- Population Problems and Resistance to Immigration -- Beliefs in Japanese Uniqueness -- Beliefs in Japanese Superiority and Links to Whiteness -- Superiority Borne of Military Power and Economic Success -- Taking the Influence and Changing Agendas of Japan's Post-War Occupiers into Account -- Mixed Marriages and Mixed-Race Identities in Japan -- Earlier and More Recent Accounts of Mixed Marriages and Families in Japan -- World War II, Its Aftermath, and Mixed Marriages Involving Japanese and Non-Japanese Spouses -- People of Mixed Ancestry -- The Biological Question of Eugenics -- A Storied Account of Ongoing Identity Negotiation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Singaporean Identity Discourses: Narratives and Questionings of Racialization and Cultural Diversity -- Singapore's Development After Independence -- Singaporean Conceptualizations and Renditions of Race -- Race-Based Categorizations -- Mixed-Race Identities in Singapore -- European-Asian Marriages -- The Eurasian Population -- The Japanese-Singaporean Population -- Singapore's Continued Openness to Immigration -- Movement, Fluidity, and Singaporean Demographic Flows -- A Final Word on Race, Wartime Wounds, Aftermaths, and Legacies -- Japanese Sensitivity to Race -- References.

Many healthcare improvement approaches originated in manufacturing, where end users are framed as consumers. But in healthcare, greater recognition of the complexity of relationships between patients, staff, and services (beyond a provider-consumer exchange) is generating new insights and approaches to healthcare improvement informed directly by patient and staff experience. Co-production sees patients as active contributors to their own health and explores how interactions with staff and services can best be supported. Co-design is a related but distinct creative process, where patients and staff work in partnership to improve services or develop interventions. Both approaches are promoted for their technocratic benefits (better experiences, more effective and safer services) and democratic rationales (enabling inclusivity and equity), but the evidence base remains limited. This Element explores the origins of co-production and co-design, the development of approaches in healthcare, and associated challenges; in reviewing the evidence, it highlights the implications for practice and research. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

"A fresh take on Canada's fifth prime minister, Sir Mackenzie Bowell. When Mackenzie Bowell became Canada's fifth Prime Minister in December 1894, everyone -- including Bowell -- expected the job would involve nothing more than keeping the wheels on the Conservative wagon until a spring election. Plans for a quiet caretaker-ship were dashed in January 1895 when the courts ruled that the Manitoba government had violated Roman Catholics' constitutional rights by abolishing the provincial separate school system back in 1890. Catholics in Quebec demanded that Bowell force Manitoba to restore the schools, while Ontario Protestants warned him to keep his hands off. Backed into a corner, Bowell tried three times to negotiate a compromise with Manitoba over the course of 1895, but to no avail. By January 1896, seven of Bowell's cabinet ministers had had enough. Convinced Bowell had tarnished the Conservative brand, the caballers forced Bowell to resign and make way for a new leader who they believed could revive party fortunes in time for the coming election, the old Warhorse of Cumberland himself, Sir Charles Tupper. Ultimately, the coup didn't matter. Tupper and his conspirators plead their case in Parliament and on the hustings, but nothing could stand in the way of Wilfrid Laurier and his Liberals' historic rise to power in the June 1896 election. A Very Canadian Coup brings fresh sources and new perspectives to bear on the life and times of Canada's fifth -- and least understood -- Prime Minister and his Sixth Ministry."--

"When the samurai warlord and respected castle architect Todo Takatora died in 1630, the funeral attendants responsible for preparing his body were shocked to note that there was not a single part of his body not scarred or disfigured by sword, spear, glaive or matchlock gun wound. Todo Takatora lived a life that unfolds like a drama. Born to a small landholding samurai family, the maverick youth worked his way to the top, becoming one of the most successful of daimyo warlords. He had served on the front lines of some of the most violent of battles, turning points that forged the nation. In a land and time in which loyalty was held dear, he changed his allegiances a record seven times, serving a record ten lords, more than any other samurai in history. Because of this, he has long been held in contempt by the Japanese. Standing 6 feet tall in a time when the average Japanese man stood between 5 and 5 1/2 feet, Todo Takatora was a giant among men. He died aged 74, when the normal life span was around 50. He was also the finest, most innovative of castle architects, responsible for the design and construction of over 30 of the strongest, most innovative Japanese castles and structures, and influencing samurai castle construction across Japan. In explaining his life, his reasons for having served so many lords, his achievements in battle and in castle design, his political and personal ideals and how these attributes were shaped during the course of his adventurous life, this book will reveal the man, and show why Takatora deserves the epithet of National Hero. In this fascinating biography, the first ever published in the English language, Chris Glenn explores Todo Takatora's remarkable, and influential, life, the battles he fought in, the political intrigues he was part of, as well as detailing the magnificent castles he built."--

Preface: "a once-in-a-lifetime scoop" -- The battleground: Brazil -- The judge who paved Bolsonaro's path to power -- The source and his archive -- Taking the plunge to report -- Life in Bolsonaro's Brazil -- Corruption exposed -- An unlikely alliance -- Bolsonaro's counterattacks and the fallout -- The last battles -- Afterword.

Foreword / by Larry P. Arnn -- A note to the reader -- Ballots, bullets, and books -- The open door -- Lincoln, justice, and America -- The philosopher and the poet: Aristotle and Shakespeare -- Reason, revelation, and the theological-political problem -- Statesmanship, tyranny, and freedom -- Quarrels: Neocons and Paleocons, the Strauss Wars, original intent -- The unfinished and unfinishable quest: Harry Jaffa and the future of America.

"For more than four hundred years, New England shipyards have contributed significantly to America's maritime and naval supremacy. This compelling story is presented through the histories of seventy ships built from the colonial era down to modern tiimes. Well-known vessels like the 'Constitution, ' the 'Nautilus, ' the 'Flying Cloud' and the infamous whaleship 'Essex' are included, but so, too, are the lesser-known ships, including the ill-fated 'Wyoming' and the far-ranging voyager 'Union." Every type of vessel is covered --their builidng or voyages making nautical news, often in exciting fashion, and their exploits filled with adventure, danger, tragedy and survival ..." - Back cover

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Theorising Contemporary Campaign Practices -- Chapter 3. Data and Analytics -- Chapter 4. Campaigning Online -- Chapter 5. Winning the 'Ground War' -- Chapter 6. Data-Driven Campaigning: A View from the Ground -- Chapter 7. Voter Attitudes to Data-Driven Campaigning -- Chapter 8. Campaigning and Political Parties -- Chapter 9. Conclusions -- Chapter 10. Research Appendix.

The divided self -- The best of all possible worlds -- The gathering storm -- Desperate times -- Russians, Greeks and Slavs -- The social organism -- Blood is not enough -- The tide of history -- The beginning of wisdom -- The grand inquisitor -- Reactionary or revolutionary? -- The feudalism of the future -- The red czar.

Among our most cherished modern assumptions is our distance from the material world we claim to love or, alternately, to dominate and own. As both devotional tool and art object, the Byzantine icon is rendered complicit in this distancing. According to well-established theological and scholarly explanations, the icon is a window onto the divine: it focuses and directs our minds to a higher understanding of God and saints. Despite their material richness, icons are understood to efface their own materiality, thereby enabling us to do the same. That the privileged relation of image to God is based on its capacity for material self-effacement is the basis for all theology of the icon and all art-historical description. It gets more complicated than this definition, to be sure, but the icon is positioned in this way in most straightforward accounts, whether devotional or scholarly. My position is to undermine the transcendentalizing determination of modern theology and aesthetics, and to lean very heavily on the materiality of these things to the point of allowing them, to the degree I can, a voice and life of their own.

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Setting the Stage -- Chapter 2: Capitalism: Baby or Bathwater? -- Chapter 3: Is Socialism Just "Sharing & -- Caring"? -- Chapter 4: Socialist "Utopias" & -- Their Bloody History of Failure -- Chapter 5: Swedish-Style Socialism -- Chapter 6: Building a 21st Century Socialist Nightmare -- Chapter 7: Saints, Sinners, & -- Socialists -- Chapter 8: Eco-Socialism & -- Climate Change -- Chapter 9: A Better Way -- About the Author -- Endnotes -- Copyright.

"Gay uncles have become one of the most beloved family members, and National Guncles Day has even become a social media-approved holiday, inspiring adorable Instagram photo ops. The typical family dynamic in the 21st century has become anything but typical. With the progress of social awareness in our society, there comes a new, ever-changing, diverse face of America. But one thing that's almost universal with the American family is the guncle. In The Guncle Guide, Glenn Garner, who has gained a lifetime of knowledge as a gay uncle to twenty-two nieces and nephews, imparts some of that wisdom through some heartwarming anecdotes and entertaining tips and hacks. Topics covered include being an open ear, how to spoil your nieces and nephews, how to be a good insta guncle, and more. Complete with forty full-color photos throughout, this book makes the perfect gift for your own beloved guncle"--