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Intro -- Table of Contents -- A note on notes -- Disclaimer -- Preface -- Chapter 1.Louis Riel and the Name Métis -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Métis, the First Name of a New First People -- 1.3 Conclusions -- Chapter 2. Louis Riel and Métis Identity -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Sauvages [Indians / First Nations] -- 2.3 Natives / Indians -- 2.4 Aboriginals -- 2.5 Original Half-Breeds / Aboriginal Half-Breeds -- 2.6 Whites -- 2.7 French -- 2.8 French-Canadians -- 2.9 Bois-Brûlés / Burnt Wood -- 2.10 Métis Canadien / Canadian Métis -- 2.11 Half-Breeds -- 2.12 English Half-Breeds -- 2.13 Métis Anglais / English Métis -- 2.14 Métis Français / French Métis -- 2.15 Métis-Celte / Celtic Métis -- 2.16 Métis -- 2.17 Métis Canadiens Français / French-Canadian Métis -- 2.18 Conclusions -- Chapter 3. Louis Riel and the Métis Nation -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Métis Diversity -- 3.3 The Métis Race -- 3.4 The Métis People -- 3.5 The Métis Flock -- 3.6 The Métis Tribe -- 3.7 The Métis Country -- 3.8 The Métis of the Northwest -- 3.9 The Métis Nation -- 3.10 Métis Self-Rule -- 3.11 Métis Nationhood -- 3.12 Métis Nation or Métis Reservation? -- 3.13 The Future of the First Nations, Colonization, and Mass Immigration -- 3.14 Confederation or Separation? -- 3.15 The Birth of the Métis Nation -- 3.16 Conclusions -- Chapter 4. Louis Riel and the "Indians" -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 A Name is a Name is a Name -- 4.3 The People of the Red River Will Not Allow the Indian Nations to be Mistreated -- 4.4 Ban the Booze -- 4.5 Organize the Indian Movement -- 4.6 Feed the Indians -- 4.7 Métis-First Nations Relations -- 4.8 Joint Ownership of the Land -- 4.9 The Indians are Sell-Outs -- 4.10 And the First Nations Shall Become Métis -- Chapter 5. Louis Riel and the Jews -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Louis Riel, the Jew -- 5.3 Louis Riel and the Jewish Indians.

How can we explain - and prevent - such large-scale atrocities as the Holocaust? In Unconscionable Crimes, Paul Morrow presents the first general theory of the influence of norms on genocide and mass atrocity. After offering a clear overview of norms and norm transformation rooted in recent work in moral and political philosophy, Morrow examines numerous twentieth-century cases of mass atrocity, drawing on documentary and testimonial sources to illustrate the influence of norms before, during, and after such crimes. Morrow considers such key explanatory pathways as the erosion of moral norms through brutalization and demoralization, the exploitation of legal norms to legitimize persecution and deny violence, and the enduring influence of gender-based social norms on targets and perpetrators of atrocities. Key constraints on atrocities would include the revision of moral norms that have traditionally guided the conduct of soldiers and humanitarian aid workers, the strengthening of legal prohibitions on large-scale crimes through statutory and institutional reform, and the elimination of social norms prescribing silence about personal experience of atrocities. Throughout, Morrow emphasizes the differences among moral, legal, and social norms, which stand in different relations to real or perceived social practices, and exhibit different patterns of creation, modification, and elimination. Ultimately, he argues, norms of each kind are integral to the explanation and the prevention of mass atrocities.

"This book is about the partnership of God and Mammon in the New World--- about how Americans have made money and lost money, and about how they have thought about that obsessive and peculiarly American subject. Money is the basic American thing, the life's blood of the country. God and Mammon shows how the dynamics of money in its many dimensions (material, spiritual, cultural, psychological) worked to make America what it is. It traces the grand American binaries of Success and Failure to their theological origins in Calvinism's anxieties about Salvation and Damnation. Author Lance Morrow sees a reconciliation of God and Mammon in the concept of the American Dream"--

Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION -- LIST OF 'THINKER' BOXES -- INTRODUCTION -- Periodisation -- The focus of the book -- Western political thinking: A brief overview -- Themes -- PART I THE ENDS OF POLITICS -- 1 POLITICS AND VIRTUE -- Cooperative order in ancient political theory: Protagoras, Democritus, Plato and Aristotle -- Negative and positive conceptions of order in medieval political theory: St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas -- Order and sovereignty in early modern political theory: Bodin, Grotius and Hobbes -- Cooperation and order in modern political theory: Rousseau, Kant and Green -- Order, authoritarianism and totalitarianism in modern political theory: Carlyle, Maurras, Mussolini and Hitler -- Order without politics: Anarchism and Marxism -- Conclusion -- 2 POLITICS AND VIRTUE -- Politics and virtue in ancient political theory: Plato and Aristotle -- Virtue, politics and Christianity: Aquinas, Machiavelli, Luther, Calvin and Radical Protestantism -- Virtue, perfection and freedom: Kant and the British idealists -- Conclusion -- 3 POLITICS AND FREEDOM -- Freedom and politics in the classical republican tradition: Marsilius, Bartolus and Machiavelli -- Politics and 'natural' liberty: Locke, Paine, J. S. Mill -- Gender and freedom: Olympe de Gouges, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Thompson and Anna Wheeler, and Harriet Taylor -- Black emancipation: Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois -- Conclusion -- 4 FREEDOM, POLITICS AND SOCIABILITY -- Freedom, sociability and the state: Rousseau, Hegel and Green -- Social freedom and the critique of state theory: Marx -- Freedom and anarchy: Godwin, Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Stirner, Warren and Tucker -- Conclusion -- 5 POLITICS, HAPPINESS AND WELFARE -- Early utilitarianism: Paley, Saint-Pierre, Hume, Helvetius and Beccaria.

"An investigative reporter traces the role of DNA evidence in two groundbreaking murder cases involving young girls killed two decades apart in the same town. In 1977, the industrial town of Port Alberni was shaken by the brutal murder of twelve-year-old Carolyn Lee, who had been abducted while walking home from her dance class. In 1996, the town was devastated again when eleven-year-old Jessica States disappeared while chasing foul balls at a local fast-pitch game, her lifeless body later found beaten in the woods. At the time of States's murder, Shayne Morrow was working as a reporter for the Alberni Valley Times. His interest in forensic science led him to cover the States case and relate it back to the Lee case, which had gone unsolved for years. In his coverage, Morrow gained unprecedented access to the investigators and scientists who were on the trail of both killers. Emerging DNA technology in the mid-1990s led to a renewed interest in the Lee case and ultimately to the conviction of her killer, Gurmit Singh Dhillon, in 1998. The technological mechanisms put in place during that case would lay the groundwork for the capture of States's killer, Roderick Patten, a year later. The Bulldog and the Helix is a riveting portrait of a town rocked twice by the most heinous type of crime imaginable and a community's unrelenting search for justice."--

"An investigative reporter traces the role of DNA evidence in two groundbreaking murder cases involving young girls killed two decades apart in the same town. In 1977, the industrial town of Port Alberni was shaken by the brutal murder of twelve-year-old Carolyn Lee, who had been abducted while walking home from her dance class. In 1996, the town was devastated again when eleven-year-old Jessica States disappeared while chasing foul balls at a local fast-pitch game, her lifeless body later found beaten in the woods. At the time of States's murder, Shayne Morrow was working as a reporter for the Alberni Valley Times. His interest in forensic science led him to cover the States case and relate it back to the Lee case, which had gone unsolved for years. In his coverage, Morrow gained unprecedented access to the investigators and scientists who were on the trail of both killers. Emerging DNA technology in the mid-1990s led to a renewed interest in the Lee case and ultimately to the conviction of her killer, Gurmit Singh Dhillon, in 1998. The technological mechanisms put in place during that case would lay the groundwork for the capture of States's killer, Roderick Patten, a year later. The Bulldog and the Helix is a riveting portrait of a town rocked twice by the most heinous type of crime imaginable and a community's unrelenting search for justice."--

Title Page -- Contents -- Editors' Note -- Leena Krohn, Two Stories (translated from Finnish by Eva Buchwald) -- Jeffrey Ford, Not Without Mercy -- Julia Elliott, Clouds -- John Crowley, The Million Monkeys of M. Borel -- Laura Sims, Walking Dead Love Songs -- Valerie Martin, Bromley Hall -- Lavie Tidhar, Tinkerers -- Samuel R. Delany, An Interview (conducted by Brian Evenson) -- Matthew Baker, The Transition -- Paul Park, Blind Spot -- James Tiptree, Jr., Favored by Strange Gods: A Selection of Letters to Joanna Russ (with an introductory note by Nicole Nyhan) -- Michael Parrish Lee, The Showroom Variations -- Peter Straub, The Process Is a Process All Its Own -- Kelly Link, An Interview (conducted by Elizabeth Hand) -- Madeline Bourque Kearin, Fallout -- Jean Muno, Cartoon (translated from French by Edward Gauvin) -- Jonathan Thirkield, Two Poems -- John Clute and John Crowley, Mysterious Strangers: A Conversation -- Joyce Carol Oates, Undocumented Alien -- S. P. Tenhoff, The Unrivaled Happiness of Otters -- Brian Evenson, Smear -- Jessica Reed, Four Atomic Poems -- E. G. Willy, Radio City -- James Morrow, Noh Exit -- Notes on Contributors -- Copyright Page

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- WAYS IN TO THE TEXT -- Who Is Robert D. Putnam? -- What Does Bowling Alone Say? -- Why Does Bowling Alone Matter? -- SECTION 1: INFLUENCES -- Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context -- Module 2: Academic Context -- Module 3: The Problem -- Module 4: The Author's Contribution -- SECTION 2: IDEAS -- Module 5: Main Ideas -- Module 6: Secondary Ideas -- Module 7: Achievement -- Module 8: Place in the Author's Work -- SECTION 3: IMPACT -- Module 9: The First Responses -- Module 10: The Evolving Debate -- Module 11: Impact and Influence Today -- Module 12: Where Next? -- Glossary of Terms -- People Mentioned in the Text -- Works Cited

"Alexis de Tocqueville';s 1838 Democracy in America is a classic of political theory--and of the problem-solving skills central to putting forward political ideas. Problem-solving has several aspects: identifying problems, finding methodologies to deal with them, and applying the right criteria to work out how to solve them. Indeed, offering solutions is only the last stage in a developed process of problem solving. For Tocqueville, the problem at hand was how best to run a democratic state. In the early 19th century, it seemed clear that Europe was headed in the direction of democracy, but in the wake of the French Revolution, it was unclear how to avoid the many pitfalls on that road.Tocqueville therefore turned to America, then point the most established democracy in the world, to investigate the institutions that allowed it to run as a successful state--allowing people their say while preventing both the possible "tyranny of the majority" and the uncontrolled growth of government. Tocqueville';s careful analysis of the strengths of American democracy was then applied to the problems of instituting democracy in France, providing a range of solutions that proved deeply influential in European political thought."--Provided by publisher.

Where the Everyday Begins is a study of environment and everyday life. It uses innovative research methods to bear witness to the ways by which environment defines everyday life. And its lively narrative pulls together a multitude of observations that reveal incredible details about the social and material ecologies that bind the world.