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THE AUTHOR REFLECTS ON THE ROLE OF THE ECONOMIST AS A FOREIGN POLICY MAKER AND DISCUSSES US TRADE POLICIES. HE STATES THAT PROTECTIONISM IS AN EXAMPLE OF UNWISE GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE AND US EFFORTS SHOULD ALWAYS CONCENTRATE ON ACHIEVING A MORE OPEN GLOBAL TRADING SYSTEM.

This book provides teachers and parents with the 'need-to-knows' to educate groups of young people about consent, pornography, sexting and many other related topics, as well as giving them the tools to ward themselves against abusive behaviour. -- Internet

Cover title : The status of women, 1066-1909. ; Includes bibliographical references and index. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"Red-Green Revolution is an impassioned and informed confrontation with the planetary emergency brought about by accelerated ecological devastation in the last half-century. Its author, distinguished political scientist Victor Wallis, argues that sound ecological policy requires a socialist framework, based on democratic participation and drawing on the historical lessons of earlier efforts. Wallis presents a relentless critique of the capitalist system that has put the human species into a race against time to salvage and restore what it can of the environmental conditions necessary for a healthy existence. He then looks to how we might turn things around, reconsidering the institutions, technologies, and social relationships that will determine our shared future, and discussing how a better framework can evolve through the convergence of popular struggles, as these have emerged under conditions of crisis. This is an important book, both for its incisive account of how we got into the mess in which we find ourselves, and for its bold vision of how we might still go forward."--Publisher's description

Intro -- Series Foreword -- The Marx Revival -- Types of Publications -- Studies on Marx and Engels -- Critical Studies on Marxisms -- Reception Studies and Marxist National Traditions -- Titles Published -- Titles Forthcoming -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Socialist Practice -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The Present Moment and the New Discourse About Socialism -- The Perspective of This Book -- Part I: Issues in Applied Marxist Theory -- Chapter 2: Marx After a Century of "Real Socialism" -- The Relevance of Marxism Today -- The Historical Experience of Socialist Revolutions -- Gravediggers of Capitalism? -- Toward Ecological Class Consciousness -- The Challenge to the US Left -- Toward an Ecological Socialist Society -- Chapter 3: The End of First-Epoch Socialism and the Problem of Transition -- Victory in Defeat? -- Dialectics of Transition -- The Part and the Whole -- Are We Closer to Socialism or Further Away from It? -- The Continuing Relevance of Marxism -- Toward a Global Transition -- Chapter 4: Marxism and the Struggle for Social Justice -- Marxism and the US Left -- Reports of Death Are Exaggerated -- Still, All Is Not Well -- Where the Treatment Needs to Begin -- Class and Other Oppressions -- The Search for a Cure -- The Dialectic of Identity Politics and Class Struggle -- Chapter 5: The Dialectic of Humanity and Nature -- Species Questions and Class Questions -- 1. Overcoming Estrangement -- 2. Exploitation of Man and of Nature -- 3. Domination, Commodification, and Ecological Breakdown -- 4. The Existential Dimension of Capitalist Crisis -- Chapter 6: On "Market Socialism" and the Soviet Experience -- The Market Socialism Debate -- The Soviet Experience -- Part II: Social Movements and Political Leadership -- Chapter 7: Workers' Control and Revolution: History and Theory.

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Introduction: Australia as a Pacific power? -- Part 1 Australia's evolving strategic interests in the Pacific Islands -- 1 From colonial concerns to benign neglect -- 2 From constructive commitment to partnership and engagement -- Part 2 The levers of Australian influence -- 3 Military intervention -- 4 Defence assistance -- 5 State-building assistance -- 6 Economic tools -- 7 Diplomacy -- Part 3 The limits on Australian influence -- 8 The geopolitical landscape -- 9 The evolving regional order -- Conclusion: Pacific partner in an 'arc of opportunity' -- Appendix: List of interviews -- Bibliography -- Index

This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian asylum doctors looked to the bodily fabric to reveal the 'truth' of mental disease, a whole host of techniques and technologies were brought to bear upon the patient's body. These practices encompassed the clinical and the pathological, from testing the patient's reflexes to dissecting the brain. Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum takes a unique approach to the topic, conducting a chapter-by-chapter dissection of the body. It considers how asylum doctors viewed and investigated the skin, muscles, bones, brain, and bodily fluids. The book demonstrates the importance of the body in nineteenth-century psychiatry as well as how the asylum functioned as a site of research, and will be of value to historians of psychiatry, the body, and scientific practice.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Agents of Transmission, Translation and Transformation -- Agents and Agencies? The Many Facets of Translation in Byzantine Medicine -- Galenism at the ?Abbasid Court -- A New Catalogue of Medieval Translations into Latin of Texts on Astronomy and Astrology -- Bernat Metge and Hasdai Crescas: A Conversation -- Transmitting the Astrolabe: Chaucer, Islamic Astronomy, and the Astrolabic Text -- Literary criticism in the Vulgate Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses -- On the Individuality of the Medieval Translator -- Charles I of Anjou as Initiator of the Liber Continens Translation: Patronage Between Foreign Affairs and Medical Interest -- The Transmission of Azarquiel's Magic Squares in Latin Europe -- On the Integration of Islamic and Jewish Thought: An Unknown Project Proposal by Shlomo Pines -- Index.