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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1 Hic Sunt Dracones? -- 2 Time, Care, (In)visibility -- 3 Chapters Outline -- References -- Chapter 2: A Queer-Crip Perspective on Chronic Illness -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Chronic Illness: Biographical Disruption or Normal Chaos of Life -- 2.1 The Prismatic Nature of Chronic Illness -- 2.2 Chronic Illness and LGBTQ+ People -- 3 Against Normalcy: Crip Theory, Disability, and Illness -- 3.1 The Emergence of Crip Theory -- 3.2 Cripping Chronic Illness -- 4 Queer-Crip Temporalities: A Proposal -- 4.1 Chrononormativity: The Obligation to (Re)produce, Be Happy, and Get Well -- 4.2 Too Much of the Wrong Thing at the Wrong Time: Queering Kronos -- 4.3 Can We Queer and Crip Time? -- References -- Chapter 3: LGBTQ+ Rights and Access to Healthcare in Italy and Portugal -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Southern Europe: God, Family, and Austerity -- 2.1 Catholic Culture -- 2.2 Familism -- 3 Economic Precariousness -- 4 LGBTQ+ Rights Between Tensions and Surprise -- 4.1 The Politics of Indifference: Italy -- 4.2 The Avalanche of Legal Changes: Portugal -- 4.3 Healthcare and Welfare -- 5 Methodology and Challenges of the Research -- 5.1 Doing Queer-Crip Research: The Tools -- 5.2 The Sample and the Fieldwork -- 5.3 The Inside Job -- 5.4 The Wounded Researcher -- References -- Chapter 4: Intimacy and Sexuality: Weaving Significant Relationships -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Closer Ones: Negotiating Identities with Families and Friends -- 2.1 Inherited Families: The Struggles as LGBTQ+ and Ill -- 2.2 Alternating Closets: Friendships -- 2.3 Friendship: A Matter of Time and Place -- 3 Spaces of Intimacy -- 3.1 (In)visibility in the Time of Dating -- 3.2 Desire, Communication, and Sexual Practices: When Illness Comes to Bed -- 3.3 Bodies That Change, Relationships That Change.

This book provides an engaging, jargon-free introduction to the threat of global pandemics, offering an overview of the many origins and triggers of pandemic events. It covers the impacts generated by novel infectious disease outbreaks across various dimensions - from social and ethical to medical and political, from media to economic and legal implications. The author discusses the preparedness strategies developed globally, the lessons learned from various outbreaks and the mitigation measures deployed -- from quarantine and social distancing to data sharing and surveillance systems -- including their unintended impacts. While the risk of global pandemics is certainly intensely debated by the scientific community, and increasingly by policy makers at various levels, the threat is hardly discussed in the public domain. It only permeates the media during crisis events, such as during the SARS outbreak in 2003, the West African Ebola outbreak in 2014-15, and most notably the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic crisis. This book is thus highly timely and topical. It has a global scope, whilst at times zooming in on the implications of pandemic risk and mitigation for the Global North or the Global South. Given the interdisciplinarity of the topic, this book will be of great interest to a wider non-academic audience, as well as students from a range of subjects including politics, sociology, geography, anthropology, and international development, along with entry-level medical students keen to widen their appreciation of the social dimensions of the medical work they set out to conduct.

Introduction -- A brief history of consumer products -- Where do great ideas come from? -- Educating the new entrepreneur -- Tapping established expertise sources -- Market research -- Design and documentation -- Intellectual property -- Prototyping -- Industry access and exposure -- Funding -- Manufacturing -- Packaging -- Marketing -- Retail distribution -- Direct to consumer (DTC) -- Logistics -- E-commerce and payments -- Customer experience -- Financial management -- Inventory management -- Growing into the future -- Conclusion

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Specialized terms; 1 Introduction; 2 On the Islamic history of Nigeria; 3 The prelude to violence; 4 "Western education is forbidden"; 5 Construction of a caliphate; 6 Beyond Boko Haram?; 7 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

This book reveals a shocking and sensational story: the mafia and the huge syndicates it controls have infiltrated the government in Italy, the US, the highest levels of the Catholic Church, and in modern times, are even implicated in the murder of an American president and the pope. At lower levels of criminality the mafia is omnipresent - from prostitution, gambling and boot-legging during the Prohibition era in the 1920's, to the present day control of drug trafficking in Europe and America. The annals of the mafia are bloodstained and littered with corpses, both of the mobsters themselves

The Northern Division used to be the name given to the police force which operated within the Glasgow City boundaries until the creation of the Strathclyde Police Force. Its recruits were largely drawn from ex-servicemen who were demobbed after the Second World War and, as a result, they became known as 'The Big Men'. Their name was well-deserved as they set about clearing Glasgow's streets on the gangland 'neds' who had overrun the city during the war. They did not 'take prisoners' and they gained a fearsome reputation for no-nonsense street policing. This biography is written by a man who wa