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"The Sanema are an Indigenous people living in Venezuelan Amazonia whose lives increasingly intersect with forces outside their forest homeland, including those of oil extraction, gold mining, and a market economy. This ethnography focuses on predation as understood though Sanema cosmology and history, which incorporate ideas of trickery, mimicry, supplication, and seduction as they relate to predatory others, to investigate consumer goods and labor; government administrators as sorcerers/raiders; "conjuring" (i.e., meeting with) the state when oil wealth made it more generous; bureaucracy; and the seductive nature of resources such as oil, gasoline, and gold"--

Why doesn't healthcare get better and cheaper like the cell phones we carry in our pockets? In this book, James B. Rebitzer and Robert S. Rebitzer argue that it's because the healthcare system generates the wrong kinds of innovation. Further, they show that incentive contracts, professional norms, social narratives, and the nature of competition and disruption in the health sector conspire against cost-reducing innovation. The book not only sheds new light on the trajectory of innovation in healthcare, but it also highlights how we can point innovation in a better direction to deliver more value to patients and society.

Within international relations scholarship, the nature of international organizations and their relationship with each other and nation-states has been widely contested. This edited volume brings together a team of experts to shed new light on inter-organizational relations in world politics. The book covers areas from the rule of law and international security to business and sport. Through its analysis, it demonstrates that, just as inter-organizational relations themselves are diverse and complex, research on this topic should also be pluralistic in order to draw new and valuable results and insights.

"This book provides an overview of interdisciplinary approaches that have applied social science to research focused on issues around food, agriculture and natural resource management. The book demonstrates that those who work in rural sociology either as researchers or practitioners apply community development and participatory techniques to socio-environmental interaction. The book discusses how the evolving concept of interconnected social and ecological systems (SES) emerged, recognizing the inherent complexity, adaptive nature, and resilience of such systems. This book engages with contemporary theory, as well as new cutting-edge transdisciplinary research evidenced in case studies from three continents." --

Chapter 1. The turmoiled emergence of methodological individualism within the social sciences landscape: a path to its understanding.Chapter 2. Carl Menger (1883). On the theoretical understanding of social phenomena that are neither the products of convention nor of positive legislation, but the unintended results of historical development.Chapter 3. Joseph Schumpeter (1908). Methodological individualism and the emergence of the marginalist school of economics.Chapter 4. Georg Simmel (1905-1907). The intrinsic conditions of historical knowledge and the mental nature of history.Chapter 5. Max Weber (1922). The basic concepts of sociology.

Examines how microeconomic principles apply to health care delivery and its policies by exploring the changing nature of health care, the social and political sides of issues, and the future of health care delivery and finance as the U.S. transitions beyond the Affordable Care Act. Discusses how to analyze public policy from an economic perspective, and addresses today's policy environment and changes as well as reform alternatives. Includes special features that discuss issues in healthcare today, profile health care leaders and offer global comparisons. Appendices show how to interpret empirical results and perform economic evaluations

"What is the nature of the 'laws' that Marx and Engels sought to formulate for the development of capitalism? How to understand and judge Engels's attempt to formulate a general philosophy and worldview? These are the questions highlighted in this magnificent work that situates Marx and Engels's writing against the background of the entire nineteenth-century world of scientific problems, from physics to historiography. One of the major contributions to scholarship on Marx, Engels and nineteenth-century science, Liedman's work is here presented in English translation and with a new preface by the author"--

Sarah Logan provides the first exploration of counter-radicalization policy and homegrown extremism through a theoretical and historical lens. While there are some basic similarities in approach across countries, there are important divergences too. Logan argues that this stems from different ideas about the nature of citizenship and national belonging. Providing the first detailed policy history of counter-radicalization in the US and the UK, as well as a detailed overview of counter-radicalization policies globally, 'Hold Your Friends Close' is an essential read for scholars and policymakers who work on terrorism and its sources.

Die lehr- und forschungserfahrenen Herausgeber_innen und Mitautor_innen des Lehrbuchs für Pflegeforschung orientieren über die Pflegeforschung, den Forschungsbegriff, die Aufgaben und den Gegenstand der Pflegeforschung sowie die Phasen des Forschungsprozesses führen in wissenschaftstheoretische Positionen ein und diskutieren Designs und Methoden der Pflegeforschung reduzieren die Komplexität konkurrierender Ansätze durch exemplarische Methodenauswahl geben einen Einblick in das natur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Methodenspektrum sowie den Methodenmix der Pflegeforschung erläutern die Grundlagen, Werkzeuge, Formen und Suchtechniken der Literaturrecherche und zeigen Recherchetechniken am Beispiel von PubMed vergleichen und stellen qualitative, quantitative und spezielle Forschungsdesigns mit ihren Differenzierungen vor stellen verschiedene Erhebungsmethoden vor und vermitteln welche Gütekriterien zur Bewertung von Datenerhebungsmethoden gelten leiten zur kritischen Analyse, Recherche, Rezeption und Anwendung von quantitativen und qualitativen Studien und ausgewählten Methoden an vermitteln Kenntnisse und Fähigkeiten zur Forschungsethik erleichtern das selbstgesteuerte Lernen durch Übungsbeispiele, Lesetipps, weiterführende Literaturangaben und Glossarbegriffe fördern den Umgang mit englischsprachiger Literatur und erleichtern den Zugang zu pflegewissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen.

Introduction -- PART I Transnational Securities Regulation: How it Works -- IOSCO: Evolution, Nature, and Governance -- IOSCO in the International Financial Architecture -- Standard-Making, Accountability, and Legitimacy -- Combined Techniques for the Implementation of Securities Standards -- A Mechanism for the Coordination of Cross-border Enforcement -- PART II Transnational Securities Regulation: Who Shapes it -- The Involvement of Regulatory Powers in IOSCO -- Horizontal Standards: Harmonizing Principles and Conflicts of Securities Regulation -- Vertical Standards Addressed to Public Authorities -- Vertical Standards Addressed to Private Parties -- Vertical Standards Set in Concert with Other Institutions -- PART III Conclusions -- Perspectives Around Transnational Securities Regulation.

Peasant revolts were widespread in late medieval Europe. Based on the extensive investigation of the project La signoria rurale nell'Italia del tardo medioevo, this essay examines the numerous cases of peasant rebellion in the Italian peninsula, scarcely known to historians – who have mostly focused on urban uprisings – and never assessed on a large scale. The comparative perspective allows to analyse the causes, contexts, relevance, and results of such revolts, as well as to understand not only the features of lordships in late medieval Italy, but also the nature of the relationship between lords and subjects.

Die apokalyptische Rede - die Rede vom Atomtod und der Klimakatastrophe als zwei Formen einer Selbstauslöschung der Menschheit - findet sich gegenwärtig überall. Sie zirkuliert zwischen Greta Thunberg und Giorgio Agamben, Bruno Latour und Papst Franziskus. Häufig wird die apokalyptische Rede von einem Rückzug auf ein Streben nach Selbsterhaltung bestimmt oder von problematischen Vorstellungen einer Bewahrung und Erneuerung der »Natur«. Unbeantwortet bleibt die Frage nach dem Subjekt einer Veränderung, die die drohende Apokalypse verhindert, die sie obsolet macht oder die eine andere Apokalypse ermöglicht. Um die vorherrschende apokalyptische Rede zu unterbrechen, geht der vorliegende Band von einem Aufsatz aus, den Maurice Blanchot in der ersten Hälfte der 1960er Jahre verfasst hat und der hier wiederabgedruckt wird: »Die Apokalypse enttäuscht«. Blanchot antwortet kritisch auf ein Buch von Karl Jaspers, Die Atombombe und die Zukunft des Menschen (1958), in dem die Drohung eines nuklearen Kriegs mit der Drohung des - totalitären - Kommunismus in Verbindung gebracht und der innere Wandel der einzelnen in den Mittelpunkt eines neuen politischen Bewusstseins gerückt werden.

Inspired by Hannah Arendt's analysis of crisis-ridden modernity, Wolfgang Heuer addresses exemplary aspects of depoliticization and the loss of politics - and thus of freedom - in 20 essays. He argues that politics can recover, if it is based on personal responsibility in the political realm, in civil society, and even under dictatorial conditions; if the pictorial and emotional conditions of successful judgement are understood; if human plurality is given its specific political organisational form; and, finally, if sustainability is understood as a principle of action, not only towards nature but also towards politics and society.

"Sosipatra, Hypatia, Macrina: some of the most famous female philosophers of antiquity were connected to Neoplatonism. But what does it mean to be a woman philosopher in late antiquity? How is the inclusive nature of the Neoplatonic schools connected to their ethical, political, and metaphysical ideas? What role does the religious dimension of late Neoplatonism and the role of women as priestesses play in understanding Neoplatonic women philosophers? This book offers thirteen essays that examine women and the female in Neoplatonism from a variety of perspectives, paying particular attention to the interactions between the metaphysics, psychology, and ethics"--

Dieser populärwissenschaftliche Band beeindruckt durch aussergewöhnliche Fotografien von Flora und Fauna aus aller Welt. Nach einem Vorwort werden in fünf Hauptkapiteln "Tropische Welten", "Wüstenwelten", "Jahreszeitliche Welten", "Wasserwelten" und "Der Mensch" in grossformatigen Fotos vorgestellt und beschrieben. Neben den sichtbaren Erscheinungsformen der Pflanzen haben sie auch ein verborgenes Leben, das mittels geheimer Allianzen, z.B. mit einem Pilzgeflecht feiner wurzelähnlicher Fäden, dem Myzel, oder Tieren (Bestäuber, Samenverbreiter) funktioniert. So werden seltsame und wundervolle Verhaltensweisen gezeigt und dazu teilweise emotionale Geschichten erzählt. - Simon Barnes, verdienter Autor diverser, auch naturkundlicher Bücher, hat die Texte zu diesem besonderen, auf der BBC-TV-Serie von Sir David Attenborough basierenden Bildband geschrieben. Gerade das letzte Kapitel zeigt erschreckend, wie viel Zerstörung in einer vormals intakten Natur auf das rücksichtslose Eingreifen bzw. auf das fahrlässige Handeln des Menschen zurückzuführen ist. Leider läuft die Zeit ab. Ein inspirierendes Buch!