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Relatively recent Bantu-speaking migrants to central Cameroon, the Beti have had an eventful history. Based on extensive interviews and traditional Beti (Fang) poetry, in addition to German and French archival sources, the author of this readable study recreates the social structure of the Beti and their self-perceptions in pre-colonial times, their disruptive encounters with first German (1880-1918) and then French (1918-1960) colonialism, until Cameroon's independence

This book provides a fresh and even-handed account of the newly modernized AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons)--the 40-million member insurance giant and political lobby that continues to set the national agenda for Medicare and Social Security. Frederick R. Lynch addresses AARP's courtship of 78 million aging baby boomers and the possibility of harnessing what may be the largest ever senior voting bloc to defend threatened cutbacks to Social Security, Medicare, and under-funded pension systems. Based on years of research, interviews with key strategists, and analyses of hundreds documents, One Nation under AARP profiles a largely white generation, raised in the relatively tranquil 1950s and growing old in a twenty-first century nation buffeted by rapid economic, cultural, and demographic change. Lynch argues that an ideologically divided boomer generation must decide whether to resist entitlement reductions through its own political mobilization or, by default, to empower AARP as it tries to shed its "greedy geezer" stereotype with an increasingly post-boomer agenda for multigenerational equity.

"This chapter offers some preliminary thoughts about the general concept of social pathology and its usefulness for social philosophy. The first section distinguishes five conceptions of social illness that differ from the one I endorse in this book. Following that I discuss various advantages and disadvantages of the concept of social pathology. Finally, analyzing a little-known example of Rousseau's I illustrate various possible features of a sick society that help to illustrate how that concept aids us in understanding and evaluating social reality"--

Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Integrated Offender Management -- Introduction -- Crime, Risk and Security -- A Brief History of Multi-Agency Offender Management in England and Wales -- Research On Multi-Agency Offender Management in England and Wales -- The 'Common Sense' Notion of Integrated Offender Management -- IOM: the Basic Framework and Guiding Principles -- Targeting and Selecting Potential IOM Participants -- National Refresh -- Research On IOM -- IOM Service Delivery -- Blurring of Professional Roles -- Effectiveness of IOM -- The Perspectives of IOM Participants -- National Delivery of IOM: a Snapshot -- Sunnyvale IOM Unit -- Categories of Offenders Subject to Sunnyvale IOM -- Operationalising Sunnyvale Policing -- Questions, Theory and Method -- The Aims and Structure of the Book -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Fairness and Legitimacy Within Integrated Offender Management -- Introduction -- Risk-allocation and Police Role in the Management of Sunnyvale Offenders -- How IOM Police Legitimacy Might Be Won -- Procedural Justice -- Is It Possible to Determine Conclusively the Basis of Felt Obligations to Obey? -- The Problem of 'Dull Compulsion' -- The Bottoms-Tankebe Approach to Police Legitimacy -- How Does IOM Fit Into the Bottoms-Tankebe Approach? -- Empirical Support From the Corrections Setting -- How IOM Police Legitimacy Might Be Lost -- Conclusions -- Note -- References -- Chapter 3 Police Decision-Making in a Criminal Justice Setting -- Introduction -- Structural Determinants of Police Decision-Making: Surround, Field and Frame -- Surround -- Field -- Frames, Working Assumptions and Rules -- Decision-framing and the Culture of Frontline Police Officers -- Cop Culture.

Intro -- Cover -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Towards a Law of Withdrawal -- A. What is Withdrawal? -- B. What is the Law of Withdrawal? -- II. Why Does It All Work? The Purpose of This Book -- III. The Structure of the Book and Some Preliminary Caveats -- 1. What is the Law of Withdrawal For? A Sketch of the Objectives -- Introduction -- I. State Consent, Sovereignty and Withdrawal -- A. Defining Sovereignty -- B. Critically Appraising State Consent -- C. Withdrawal as the Undoing of State Consent? -- II. Four Justifications for the Existence of the Law of Withdrawal -- A. Withdrawal Safeguards a State in Light of Changing External Circumstances -- B. Withdrawal as Recognition of a Political Decision by a State Party -- C. An Escape Hatch against 'Delegation Creep' -- D. The Law of Withdrawal as a Guarantee of Good Faith -- Conclusion: The Two Concerns -- 2. The Structure of Withdrawal Clauses: Theory and Form -- Introduction -- I. Theoretical Templates for Understanding How Withdrawal Clauses Shape State Behaviour -- II. Initiating a Declaration of Withdrawal -- A. The Process of Withdrawal as a Counterpoint to Accession -- B. Demonstrating the Necessity for Withdrawal -- C. Initiating Withdrawal as a Means of Stopping Proceedings -- III. Notification Provisions -- A. Whom to Notify -- B. Substance of the Notification -- C. Withdrawal of a Notification -- IV. The Temporal Issues of Withdrawal -- A. The Time from Accession to Notification -- B. The Time from Notification to Exit -- Conclusion: Thinking about Withdrawal Clauses -- 3. Obligations after Withdrawal -- Introduction -- I. The Sources of Law for Obligations on Exit -- A. Obligations within Withdrawal Clauses -- B. Breaches of Obligations Prior to Withdrawal -- II. The Right to a Hearing after Exit -- A. Investment Arbitration.

Mercy, mercy me -- Introduction: A legacy of anti-patriarchy -- Lay of the land. The shore ; Patriarchy is... ; On the eighth day, the Lord made oppression ; The first Colossus ; False binary ; Generational curses ; Green prisons ; The rot in the garden ; Gaslighting culture ; If these hands could talk -- Impact or (the unbelievable pain caused). The blood of forty-four ; Of monsters and men ; The hypocrisy of Hoteps and the bourgeoisie ; Expectations and shadows ; A case for decriminalizing sex work ; View (by Novell Jordan) ; Who carries the hatred ; As they rampage ; The epidemic of rape culture ; Womanizer ; I come apart ; Purity and grace ; Accountability in caste and intersectionality ; On patriarchical violence -- In defense of Black women. Black women are not mules ; Dear Oluwatoyin ; Black body politics ; My mother's son ; Notes from a king ; What does a Black person owe this country? ; The oppressed may also be the oppressors ; A good white woman (I'm an ally) ; What white feminism has taken. Part 1, The shield ; What white feminism has taken. Part 2, The sword -- Building anew. Therapy (how do you feel?) ; What was made, may be broken ; In that dirty mirror ; In the end (letting go of our fathers).

"Ethics and Responsibilities of Engineers is designed to help students and new practitioners understand from where ethics originate and how they have developed in the profession. It is written to help engineers understand how the coursework they take in school aligns with the public good. What separates this book from others is the focus on the historical development of ethics for the profession and the role played by our educational system, accreditation commissions, and licensing boards. The knowledge and regulatory basis for the engineering occupation permits engineers to comprehend and address (and thereby often avoid) the challenges that might compromise the image of engineers in society. The trust that the public has in their judgment to protect and serve society is what allows engineers to be held in high esteem"--