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Intro -- Our Inherently Controversial Human Nature - and How We Should Hack It -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Copyright Information © -- Acknowledgement -- Preface -- Traces of Our Past -- Our Ego -- We Are Alone -- Being Submissive -- Rearing Children -- Scenarios of Our Extinction -- Ignorantly Avoiding Adaptation -- Cosmic Impact -- The Atomisation of Societies -- Shrinking Population -- Getting Over Tipping Points -- Failing to Solve the Basic Free-Rider Problem -- Carpe Diem -- Tidying Up After Ourselves -- Controversies of Distribution -- Controversies of Efficiency -- Aiming for Balance Between Our Environment and Our Global Economy -- How We Should Hack Our Controversial Human Nature?.

What does it mean to put down roots, to inhabit a space, make it our own, transform it to our liking, and, in return, change under its influence? In short, what does it mean to become a habitant? A term considered pejorative, wrongly, for so long. There is no greater destiny than to fully inhabit a place. This short book bears witness to this.

Crisis, austerity, and the neoliberal turn -- The architects of austerity -- The question of growth in a global economy -- Opening and closing the door on the Italian left -- The erratic march of Labour -- Global finance and the U.S. growth agenda -- Guns, butter, and gold -- Globalization, coercion, and the resiliency of austerity

Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction: The Unitary Executive and the News Media 2. Headlining Presidential Power: New York Times Front-Page Coverage of Executive Orders from Truman through Clinton 3. Torturing Unilateralism: The Case of Abu Ghraib, the News Media, and a Broken Political System 4. Unilateralism Tortured: Critical Press Coverage of the McCain Amendment and Signing Statements 5. Predator in Chief: Framing Obama's Drone Warfare 6. Going It E-Lone in the 2012 Election: Covering Obama's We Can't Wait in the Traditional and Online Public Spheres 7. Conclusion: The Unilateral Presidency, the News Media, and the Politics of Hiding in Plain Sight

"Since George Washington's Proclamation of Neutrality in 1793, there has been an ongoing debate concerning the proper scope and exercise of presidential unilateral powers. With a mere 'stroke of the pen, ' presidents can change the political status quo. The Constitution is silent about these powers, Congress seldom acts to limit them, and the public is usually unaware of this aspect of executive authority. The Unilateral Presidency and the News Media investigates the role media play in bringing attention to unwritten presidential powers; examining the amount of coverage, type of frames used, influencers of frames, and where these frames place the unilateral powers of the American presidency in a constitutional context"--

Leo Strauss's What Is Political Philosophy? addresses almost every major theme in his life's work and is often viewed as a defense of his overall philosophic approach. Yet precisely because the book is so foundational, if we want to understand Strauss's notoriously careful and complex thinking in these essays, we must also consider them just as Strauss treated philosophers of the past: on their own terms. Each of the contributors in this collection focuses on a single chapter from What Is Political Philosophy? in an effort to shed light on both Strauss's thoughts about the history of philosop

Using Britannia as a central figure, this book explores the neglected relationship between women, church, and nation. Drawing on a wealth of manuscript, printed, and graphic material, Emma Major argues that Britannia became established as an emblem of nation from 1688 and gained in importance over the following century.

Other slaveries. Introduction ; 'To call a slave a slave' : recovering Indian slavery -- European slaveries. Introduction : slavery and colonial expansion in India ; 'A shameful and ruinous trade' : European slave-trafficking and the East India Company ; Bengalis, caffrees and Malays : European slave-holding and early colonial society -- Indian slaveries. Introduction : locating Indian slaveries ; 'This household servitude' : domestic slavery and immoral commerce ; 'Open and professed stealers of children' : slave-trafficking and the boundaries of the colonial state ; 'Slaves of the soil' : caste and agricultural slavery in south India -- Imagined slaveries. Introduction : evangelical connections ; 'Satan's wretched slaves' : Indian society and the evangelical imagination ; 'The produce of the east by free men' : Indian sugar and Indian slavery in British abolitionist debates, 1793-1833 ; Conclusion : 'Do justice to India' : abolitionists and Indian slavery, 1839-1843

"There are no two things in the world more different from each other than East-Indian and West Indian-slavery" (Robert Inglis, House of Commons Debate, 1833). In Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772-1843, Andrea Major asks why, at a time when East India Company expansion in India, British abolitionism and the missionary movement were all at their height, was the existence of slavery in India so often ignored, denied or excused? By exploring Britain's ambivalent relationship with both real and imagined slaveries in India, and the official, evangelical and popular discourses which surrounded them, she seeks to uncover the various political, economic and ideological agendas that allowed East Indian slavery to be represented as qualitatively different from its trans-Atlantic counterpart. In doing so, she uncovers tensions in the relationship between colonial policy and the so-called 'civilising mission', elucidating the intricate interactions between humanitarian movements, colonial ideologies and imperial imperatives in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The work draws on a range of sources from Britain and India to provide a trans-national perspective on this little known facet of the story of slavery and abolition in the British Empire, uncovering the complex ways in which Indian slavery was encountered, discussed, utilised, rationalised, and reconciled with the economic, political and moral imperatives of an empire whose focus was shifting to the East.--