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Unlivable lives : the origins and outcomes of identity-based anti-violence activism -- Violence matters : producing identity through accounts of murder -- Atypical archetypes : the causes and consequences of famous victims of violence -- Homogeneous subjecthood : how activists' focus on identity obscures patterns of violence -- Valuable and vulnerable : how activists' tactical repertoires shape subjecthood and generate fear -- Shaping solutions : how identity politics influence violence prevention efforts -- Facilitating livable lives : alternative approaches to anti-violence activism -- Methodological appendix A : transgender anti-violence organizations -- Methodological appendix B : collecting data on murders of transgender people.

"In today's aggressive marketplace, listed companies can no longer rely on their numbers to do the talking. If companies can't communicate their achievements and strategy, mounting research evidence suggests they will be overlooked, their cost of capital will increase and stock price will suffer. In Strategic Financial and Investor Communication: The Stock Price Story, Ian Westbrook, principal of Australia's leading independent financial communication firm, argues just this: stock price is more a story than a number. This book sets out how to tell a corporate story, providing a guide through the fast-paced world of financial and investor communication with a professional's pragmatism as well as academic rigour. Whether you're a student or a professional of PR, investor relations or corporate communications, this much-needed guide will teach you how to tell a compelling story about your company that the stockbroker, fund manager and business media can't ignore"--

"In today's aggressive marketplace, listed companies can no longer rely on their numbers to do the talking. If companies can't communicate their achievements and strategy, mounting research evidence suggests they will be overlooked, their cost of capital will increase and stock price will suffer. In Strategic Financial and Investor Communication: The Stock Price Story, Ian Westbrook, principal of Australia's leading independent financial communication firm, argues just this: stock price is more a story than a number. This book sets out how to tell a corporate story, providing a guide through the fast-paced world of financial and investor communication with a professional's pragmatism as well as academic rigour. Whether you're a student or a professional of PR, investor relations or corporate communications, this much-needed guide will teach you how to tell a compelling story about your company that the stockbroker, fund manager and business media can't ignore"--

As the image of anthropologists exploring exotic locales and filling in blanks on the map has faded, the idea that cultural anthropology has much to say about the contemporary world has likewise diminished. In an increasingly smaller world, how can anthropology help us to tackle the concerns of a global society? David A. Westbrook argues that the traditional tool of the cultural anthropologist-ethnography-can still function as an intellectually exciting way to understand our interconnected, yet mysterious worlds. Navigators of the Contemporary describes the changing nature of ethno

David Westbrook argues that we live in 'the city of gold' - a global, cosmopolitan polity where politics are done through markets, and where global capital markets, not states, have become the dominant force in our social life.

The history of law can only begin after the written record of it commences; in the Middle East, that is a few centuries after the advent of writing itself in the fourth millennium BCE. That law is the oldest recorded, and is the foundation of the two great modern Western systems, the Common Law and the Civil Law. In sections covering the next three