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"Radical Mindfulness examines the root causes of injustice, asking why inequalities along the lines of race, class, gender, and species continue to exist. Specifically, James K. Rowe examines fear of death as a root cause of systemic inequalities and proposes a more embodied approach to social change as a solution. Collecting insights from powerful thinkers across multiple traditions - including Black radicals, Indigenous resurgence theorists, terror management theorists, and Buddhist feminists - Rowe examines fear of death as a root cause of injustice. He argues for the political importance of seemingly apolitical practices such as meditation and ritual. On their own, these strategies are not enough, but integrated into social movements that are combating structural injustices, mind-body practices can begin transforming the embodied fears that feed endless fuel to supremacist ideologies, and yet are not targeted by most political actors. Radical Mindfulness is for academics, activists, and individuals who want to overcome supremacy of all kinds but are struggling to understand and develop methods for attacking it at the roots"--

Most books on polyamory focus on people already in a multi-person relationship. This book's unique contribution is to consider the social and psychological processes involved in how someone makes the decision to transition from a monogamous to a consensually nonmonogamous relationship.

"In this compelling book, leading economist James Boyce shows that the key to curtailing our use of fossil fuels is to put a price on carbon emissions. But how do we secure broad public support for a policy that increases fuel costs for consumers? This book's proposed solution is essential reading for all concerned citizens and policy-makers"--

Preparing the way -- On the eve and start of the Great War (1910-1912) -- Fall 1914 campaign -- New roles for aircraft in 1915 -- Flight during the great retreat -- The height of the air war -- The 1917 revolution impacts squadrons -- Reds versus Whites -- Aviation and the civil war -- Soviet victories in 1920 and 1921 -- Aircraft development 1918-1924.

Economics for People and the Planet, a collection of essays by James K. Boyce on the environment, inequality and the economy, argues that there is not an inexorable trade-off between advancing human well-being and having a clean and safe environment. The goal of economic policy should be to grow the good things that improve our well-being and environmental quality and reduce the bad things that harm humans and nature. To reorient the economy for these ends, we will need to achieve a more egalitarian distribution of wealth and power. Global climate change - the most pressing environmental challenge of our time - adds urgency to this task and creates historic opportunities for moving towards a greener future.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Chapter 1 Outcome and Value Uncertainty in Environmental Policy -- Outcome Uncertainty -- Value Uncertainty -- Outline -- Part I Outcome Uncertainty: Stratospheric Ozone Depletion -- Chapter 2 The Policy Problem -- Current POD Production and Applications -- Outline -- A. Characterizing Uncertainty About Outcomes -- Chapter 3 Probability- Based Scenarios -- Scenarios Based on a Proxy for Stratospheric Ozone Depletion -- Chapter 4 The Distribution of the Score Function -- Aggregating Chemical Use -- Deriving Scenarios for Individual Chemicals -- Chapter 5 Subjective Marginal Probability Distributions for Potential Ozone Depleters -- Subjective Probability Distribution for the Period Before 2000 -- Subjective Probability Distribution for the Period Beyond 2000 -- Marginal Distributions for Individual Chemical Production -- Chapter 6 Production and Emission Scenarios -- Choosing Quantiles for Scenarios -- Chemical Use and Emission Scenarios -- Model-Calculated Ozone Depletion -- Chapter 7 Conclusions -- B. Decision Making Under Diminishing Uncertainty -- Chapter 8 Timing Responses to Potential Stratospheric Ozone Depletion -- Chapter 9 The Decision Framework -- The General Problem -- A Simplified Model and a Partial Solution -- The Critical Probability -- Parameters of the Model -- Calculation of Resource Costs and Critical Probabilities -- Chapter 10 Results and Sensitivity Analysis -- The Critical Probability -- The Effects of Alternative Proposed Current Regulations -- Sensitivity of the Results to the Choice of Parameters -- Chapter 11 Conclusions -- Part II Value Uncertainty: Food-Borne Risk -- Chapter 12 Valuing Health Risks -- Methods for Valuing Health Risks -- Outline.

Liturgical politics: reforming public theology -- Rites talk: the worship of democracy -- Revisiting the church as Polis: cultivating an ecclesial center of gravity -- The craters of the gospel: liberalism's borrowed capital -- The limits and possibility of pluralism: reforming reformed public theology -- Redeeming Christendom: or, what's wrong with natural law? -- Contested formations: our "godfather" problem -- The city of God and the city we're in: Augustinian -- Principles for public participation

A world-renowned economist offers cogent and powerful reflections on one of the great avoidable economic catastrophes of the modern era. The economic crisis in Greece is a potential international disaster and one of the most extraordinary monetary and political dramas of our time. The financial woes of this relatively small European nation threaten the long-term viability of the Euro while exposing the flaws in the ideal of continental unity. "Solutions" proposed by Europe's combined leadership have sparked a war of prideful words and stubborn one-upmanship, and they are certain to fail, according to renowned economist James K. Galbraith, because they are designed for failure. It is this hypocrisy that prompted former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, when Galbraith arrived in Athens as an adviser, to greet him with the words "Welcome to the poisoned chalice." In this fascinating, insightful, and thought-provoking collection of essays-- which includes letters and private memos to both American and Greek officials, as well as other previously unpublished material-- Galbraith examines the crisis, its causes, its course, and its meaning, as well as the viability of the austerity program imposed on the Greek citizenry. It is a trenchant, deeply felt commentary on what the author calls "economic policy as moral abomination," and an eye-opening analysis of a contemporary Greek tragedy much greater than the tiny economy of the nation itself. -- Provided by publisher