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Octopus is a real-life thriller that tells the inside story of a GBP300 million hedge fund fraud and the wild-goose chase through Europe by its drug-fuelled manager for a lucrative "secret market" beneath the financial market we all know. Sam Israel was a man who seemed to have it all. Born into one of the world's richest families, he founded his own hedge fund, promising his investors guaranteed profits. But, after suffering devastating losses and faking tax returns, Israel knew his real performance would soon be discovered. So when a former CIA-operative turned conman told him about a "secret market" run by the Federal Reserve, Israel bet his last $150 million of other people's money on a chance to make it all back. So began his crazy year-long adventure in a world populated by clandestine bankers, conspiracy theories, and gun-toting spooks issuing cryptic warnings about a mysterious cabal known only as the Octopus..

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Volume 1: Pre-contact through the American Revolution -- List of Entries -- List of Primary Documents -- Introduction -- Chronology -- A-Z entries -- Primary Source Documents -- Bibliography -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index -- Volume 2: Independence through the Civil War -- List of Entries -- List of Primary Documents -- Introduction -- Chronology -- A-Z entries -- Primary Source Documents -- Bibliography -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index -- Volume 3: Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Movement -- List of Entries -- List of Primary Documents -- Introduction -- Chronology -- A-Z entries -- Primary Source Documents -- Bibliography -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index -- Volume 4: Post-Civil Rights to the Present -- List of Entries -- List of Primary Documents -- Introduction -- Chronology -- A-Z entries -- Primary Source Documents -- Bibliography -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.

Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Finding Simone Weil in an Ecological Void -- Notes -- Part I Growing Roots: A Reading of Simone Weil -- 1 Mapping an Ethics of Decreation -- Contraries in Weil's Writings and Ideas -- Critiques and Defenses of Weil's Contradictions -- The Ethics of Balancing Contraries -- Linking the Natural and the Supernatural Through Decreation -- Decreative Contradiction in Ecological Ethics -- Notes -- 2 The Faculties -- The Faculty of Knowing -- The Faculty of Loving -- The Faculty of Willing -- Notes -- 3 The Power of Force -- Defining Force -- Force and Necessity -- Force and Necessity in the Anthropocene -- An Ethical Critique of Weil's Force -- Balancing Force -- The Impact of Necessity and Force On the Meaning of the Faculties -- The Necessity of Absurdity (Contra Knowing) -- The Necessity of Absence (Contra Loving) -- The Necessity of Suffering (Contra Willing) -- Notes -- 4 Attention and Mediation -- Attention: The Balance of Faculty and Force -- The Balance of Metaxu -- Wisdom as an Open Mediation (Between Knowing and Absurdity) -- Loving God as an Open Mediation (Between Loving and Absence) -- Consent as an Open Mediation (Between Willing and Suffering) -- Notes -- God's Decreation -- Individual Decreation Versus Destruction -- The Action of Science (Via Wisdom) -- The Action of Art (Via Loving God) -- The Action of Work (Via Consent) -- Weilian Ethics -- Notes -- Part II Plato and the Environment -- 6 Contemporary Dualist Ecological Readings of Plato's Phaedrus -- Philosophical Responses and Readings of Phaedrus -- Eco-feminism and the History of Platonic Thought -- Plumwood On Plato and the Ethics of Exclusion.

Stephanie Lawson's book is by far the most comprehensive study of regional politics in Oceania produced to date. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary sources, she provides a systematic account of major issues facing the region and presents conceptual and theoretical issues in a sophisticated but accessible manner. She traces the trajectories of regional politics from the earliest human settlements to European exploration and colonization, the period of formal regionalization in the post-war period, decolonization, the Cold War, and key geopolitical developments in the post-Cold War period. She also focuses on identity politics, manifest at various levels from the local through to the national, subregional and regional, as well as broader configurations around the West/non-West divide. This book will be of interest to anyone engaged with the history and politics of Oceania or comparative regional studies, especially given the relevance of themes to Asian, African and Latin American contexts

Debates about masculinity have come to dominate the media landscape. This growing cultural tension around masculinities has been analyzed both for general audiences and in scholarship. What has been typically overlooked, however, is the role that language plays in these mediated performances of masculinity. Robert Lawson furthers our understanding of how language is implicated in (re)creating gender ideologies and how it shapes contemporary gender relations. Against a cultural backdrop of neoliberalism, ethnic nationalism, online radicalization, networked misogyny, and fractious gender relations, Language and Mediated Masculinities charts how language is used to monitor, evaluate, and police masculinities in online and offline spaces.

"Abolishing Poverty argues for a project of relationality that refuses the whiteness of liberal poverty studies and instead centers critiques of the poverty relation and political futures disavowed under liberal governance. In disrupting poverty thinking, the author collective opens space for diverse frameworks for understanding impoverishment and articulating antiracist knowledges and political visions. The book explores new infrastructures of possibilities and political solidarities rooted in accountable relations to each other and from flights to the future that animate diverse communities. This book is boundary and genre crossing, with broad appeal to scholars of such disciplines as human geography, ethnic studies, decolonial theory, and feminist studies. As a volume, the work is unique in its primary field of human geography in the form of its making, its collective authorship, and its investigation of politics that abolish poverty thinking and engage in activism against the poverty relation produced through settler colonialism, heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalist exploitation"--

Introduction --The Constitution and the administrative state --Statutory constraints on agency procedure --Scope of review of agency action --Constitutional constraints on agency procedure --Timing and availability of judicial review --Appendix A.The Constitution of the United States --Appendix B.The Administrative Procedure Act --Appendix C.Government records and meetings --Appendix D.Executive orders.