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1. On Happiness -- 2. Pillars of Happiness: Attitudes -- 3. Sources of Happiness: Social Structures -- 4. "With a Little Help from My …" -- 5. "E PLURIBUS DUO": Education -- 6. Screen Time -- 7. Lost Causes -- 8. Happiness Dynamics in the Age of Covid-19.

Embarking from a model of social capital hinging upon four social structures--work, family, social networks, and voluntary associations--Brian Jones empirically examines the widespread claims that American society is becoming less sociable, trusting, and cooperative. Breaking down datasets drawn from the General Social Survey (conducted 27 times from 1972 to 2008), Social Capital in American Life depicts the social values drawn from the four established social structures, as well as their interrelationships, their determinants, and ultimately their social capital, through a series of statistical and econometric methods. This rigorous, empirically driven analysis reveals how American society both confirms and repudiates fears about decreased cooperation given different cases and parameters.

Confrontational contestation and democratic compromise : the Sunflower Movement and its aftermath / Brian Christopher Jones and Yen-Tu Su -- The right to free assembly and the Sunflower Movement / Wen-Chen Chang -- Marching towards constitutionalism with Sunflowers / Jiunn-Rong Yeh -- The law and politics of constitutional reform and democratisation in Hong Kong / Albert H. Y. Chen -- Political protest in high-income societies : the case of the occupy central movement in Hong Kong / Fu Hualing -- The nomos of Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement / Daniel Matthews -- Unpopular sovereignty : constitutional identity through the lens of the Sunflower and Umbrella Movements / Cheng-Yi Huang -- To punish or not to punish : the question of civil disobedience and the Umbrella Movement / Chih-Hsing Ho -- Dancing with the dragon : closer economic integration with China and deteriorating democracy and rule of law in Taiwan and Hong-Kong? / Chien-Huei Wu -- A divided society : Chinese public opinion on resistance movements, democracy, and rule of law / Han Zhu -- Democratic political obligation with Chinese characteristics : civic defiance in Taiwan and Hong Kong / Brad Roth -- Democracy and constitutionalism in China's shadow : Sunflowers in Taiwan and Umbrellas in Hong Kong / Jacques Delisle

1. "What is wrong with people?" -- 2. Designing a model of social capital -- 3. Work -- 4. Family -- 5. Social networks -- 6. Voluntary association -- 7. The model of social capital -- 8. Modeling trends -- 9. Social capital and social inequality -- 10. Social capital futures.

In 'Abolishing the Taboo', Brian Madison Jones takes a new look at the integral role played by Dwight D. Eisenhower in the creation of a new nuclear creed for the United States during the Cold War. The author centers the narrative on Eisenhower, the man, the general, and the president, with specific focus on his intellectual and political understanding of nuclear technology in general and nuclear weapons in particular. Abolishing the Taboo presents an analysis of Eisenhower's thinking about nuclear weapons since 1945 as well as a survey of nuclear developments from 1953-1961.With heavy relianc