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THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE SOVIET UNION AND THE GULF WAR HAVE FORCED JAPAN TO QUESTION ITS DEFENSE POLICY. JAPAN CAN NO LONGER IGNORE THE VARIOUS SIGNS OF DETENT IN EAST ASIA. THE QUESTION IS ASKED: WILL JAPAN CONTINUE FOR MUCH LONGER TO PLAY A SECOND ROLE IN THE UNITED STATES' SYSTEM OF BILATERAL ALLIANCES IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION WHICH THAT COUNTRY CAN AFFORD LESS AND LESS? THIS IS THE REAL DILEMMA OF JAPANESE DEFENSE POLICY: IT CAN NEITHER REMAIN AS IT IS NOR CAN IT EASILY CHANGE DIRECTION.

"When Susan MacLeod accompanied her 90-year-old mother through a labyrinthine long-term care system, it was a nine-year journey navigating a government without a heart in a system without compassion. Her family, much like the system, erected walls rather than opening arms. She found herself involuntarily placed at the pivot point between her frail, elderly mother's need for love and companionship, the system's inability to deliver, and her brother's indifference. She had also spent three years as a government spokesperson enthusiastically defending the very system she now experienced as brutally cold. MacLeod's tone is defined by a gentle, self-effacing humour touched by exasperation for the absurdities and the newfound wisdom around expectations. Dying for Attention is the latest memoir in the graphic medicine field, shelved alongside My Begging Chart by Keiler Roberts and Tangles by Sarah Leavitt. MacLeod includes helpful tips for communicating with nursing homes, as well as background research, to provide a larger context for this under-discussed experience."--

The economization of museums and the 'truth' of space -- Landscapes of potential: the social and spatial underpinnings of museums -- Design for creative lives: new museum design cultures -- Battersea Arts Centre, London, UK -- Blue House, Wanchai, Hong Kong -- Boston Children's Museum, Boston, USA -- Derby Silk Mill Museum of Making, Derby, UK -- District Six Museum, Cape Town, South Africa -- Exile, Kingston Lacy, UK -- Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA -- Festival of Britain, London, UK -- Fun Palace, London, UK -- Galleries of Modern London, Museum of London, UK -- Guggenheim Helsinki, Finland -- Humankind, Calke Abbey, UK -- Jubilee Arts, The Bus Project, UK -- Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow, UK -- Launchpad, Science Museum, London, UK -- Lost Childhoods, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, USA -- Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark -- Museo Casa de la Memoria Medellin, Colombia -- Museo Taller Ferrowhite, Bahia Blanca, Argentina -- Museum at the Gateway Arch, St Louis, USA -- National Human Rights Museum, Jing-Mei White Terror Memorial Park, Taipei, Taiwan -- Parque Explora, Medellín, Colombia -- Pride and Prejudice, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK -- SESC Pompéia, Sao Paulo, Brazil -- Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling, New York, USA -- Talking About...Disability and Art, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK -- The Past is Now, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK -- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, USA.

"For readers of Walden, Wild, Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek, A Book of Silence, A Gift from the Sea and other celebrations of the inner adventure. An utterly engaging dive into our modern ways of retreat -- where we go, why we're drawn, and how it's urgent From pilgrim paths to forest cabins, and from rented hermitages to arts temples and quiet havens for yoga and meditation, In Praise of Retreat explores the pleasures and powers of this ancient practice for modern people. Kirsteen MacLeod draws on the history of retreat and personal experiences to reveal the many ways readers can step back from society to reconnect with their deepest selves -- and to their loftiest aspirations in life. In the 21st century, disengaging, even briefly, is seen by many as self-indulgent, unproductive, and antisocial. Yet to retreat is as basic a human need as being social, and everyone can benefit, whether it's for a weekend, a month, or a lifetime. Retreat is an uncertain adventure with as many peaks and valleys as any mountain expedition, except we head inward, to recharge and find fresh energy and brave new ideas to bring back into our everyday lives."--

Intro; Irish Queer Cinema; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Queerly National and Nationally Queer: Paradoxes of an Irish Queer Cinema; 2. Mapping Ireland's Queer Films; 3. Re-imagined Kinship and Failed Communities; 4. The Contested Space of the Irish Pub; 5. Compartmentalised Cosmopolitans and Rigid Fluidity; 6. The Queerly Productive Constraints of Rural Space; 7. Queer Mobilities and Disassociated Masculinities; 8. Contested Belongings within Diasporic Space; 9. The Irish Queer Short Film; 10. Concluding Remarks; Select Filmography; Bibliography; Index.

Award-winning author Andrew MacLeod digs deep to discover how to build a healthy society, examines inequities within Canada and draws on international comparisons to assess why Canada's high spending on health care has failed to achieve better results. Meticulously researched and enlivened with interviews and personal stories, MacLeod explains the complexities of public health policy in an immediate and approachable way, making a passionate case for how best to maximize the health of the many. Residence: Victoria, B.C

Author Jay MacLeod 's classic ethnography-a defining work on the cycle of social reproduction and inequality as lived through the young men from the Clarendon Heights housing project-now includes a third section that continues the lives of the original Brothers and Hallway Hangers through new interviews and analysis

Since the election of President Hugo Chavez in 1998, Venezuela has become an important news item. Western coverage is shaped by the cultural milieu of its journalists, with news written from New York or London by non-specialists or by those staying inside wealthy guarded enclaves in an intensely segregated Caracas. Journalists mainly work with English-speaking elites and have little contact with the poor majority. Therefore, they reproduce ideas largely attuned to a Western, neoliberal understanding of Venezuela. Through extensive analysis of media coverage from Chavez's election to the present day, as well as detailed interviews with journalists and academics covering the country, Bad News from Venezuela highlights the factors contributing to reportage in Venezuela and why those factors exist in the first place. From this examination of a single Latin American country, the book furthers the discussion of contemporary media in the West, and how, with the rise of 'fake news', their operations have a significant impact on the wider representation of global affairs "Bad News from Venezuela" is comprehensive and enlightening for undergraduate students and research academics in media and Latin American studies.

"Since the election of President Hugo Chavez in 1998, Venezuela has become an important news item. Western coverage is shaped by the cultural milieu of its journalists, with news written from New York or London by non-specialists or by those staying inside wealthy guarded enclaves in an intensely segregated Caracas. Journalists mainly work with English-speaking elites and have little contact with the poor majority. Therefore, they reproduce ideas largely attuned to a Western, neoliberal understanding of Venezuela. Through extensive analysis of media coverage from Chavez's election to the present day, as well as detailed interviews with journalists and academics covering the country, Bad News from Venezuela highlights the factors contributing to reportage in Venezuela and why those factors exist in the first place. From this examination of a single Latin American country, the book furthers the discussion of contemporary media in the West, and how, with the rise of 'fake news', their operations have a significant impact on the wider representation of global affairs. Including introductions to each chapter and a summary of all the viewpoints on the matter, Bad News from Venezuela is comprehensive and enlightening for undergraduate students and research academics in media and Latin American studies. "--Provided by publisher.

Andrew MacLeod is the Legislative Bureau Chief for TheTyee.ca website. His work has been referred to in the BC legislature, Canadian House of Commons and senate. He won a 2006 Association of Alternative Newsweeklies award for news writing and was a finalist for a 2007 Western Magazine Award for best article in BC and the Yukon. His reporting has appeared in Monday Magazine, the Georgia Straight, BC Business, 24 Hours, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Detroit's MetroTimes, Portland's Willamette Week and elsewhere. Andrew lives with his family in Victoria, BC

Introduction: Advanced liberalism, journalism, and literary culture -- Between literature and politics: The Massingham Network and the institutions of advanced liberalism -- The 'self-conscious evolution of humanity': advanced liberalism and the politics and culture of 'life' -- Advanced liberalism and the cultural value of 'life': ethics, aesthetics, and political economy -- Writing the east end: advanced liberalism, realism and social reform -- Contesting the new: advanced liberalism and the emergence of modernism

evocative and wholly magnificent'- Roger Hutchison, The Scotsman On 31 December 1918, hours from the first New Year of peace, hundreds of Royal Naval Reservists from the Isle of Lewis poured off successive trains onto the quayside at Kyle of Lochalsh. A chaotic Admiralty had made no adequate arrangements for their safe journey home. Corners were cut, an elderly and recently requisitioned steam-yacht was sent from Stornoway, and that evening HMY Iolaire sailed from Kyle of Lochalsh, grossly overloaded and with life-belts for less than a third of all on board. The Iolaire never made it. At two