Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, "Decline & Fall" is one of the greatest narratives in European Literature. About the Author Edward Gibbon was born in 1737 in Putney, England, and was the only child of his parents to survive infancy. Although his education was frequently interrupted by ill health, his knowledge was far-reaching. His brief career as an undergraduate at Magdalen College, Oxford, ended when he joined the Catholic Church. His father sent him to Lausanne, in Switzerland, where, while studying Greek and French for the next five years, he re-joined the Protestant Church. In 1761 he published his  Essai sur l'étude de la Littérature ; the English version appeared in 1764. Meanwhile, Gibbon served as a captain in the Hampshire Militia until 1763, when he returned to the Continent. It was while he was in Rome in 1764 that he first conceived the work that was eventually to become The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . In 1774, after the death of his father, Gibbon settled in London and was elected to Parliament where he sat for the next eight years, although he never once spoke in the Commons. He also took his place among the literary circles of London. The first volume of his famous History  was published in 1776; it was highly praised for its learning and style but incurred some censure for its treatment of the early Christians. The second and third volumes appeared in 1781 and the final three, which were written in Lausanne, in 1788. He died while on a visit to his friend, Lord Sheffield, who posthumously edited Gibbon's autobiographical papers and published them in 1796. http://www.archive.org/details/historydeclinefa02gibb

LETTERS FROM PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY TO WILLIAM GODWIN. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. 1891. London : Privately Printed. {Not for Sale.)

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This volume offers an analysis of the intertwined relationship between public health and the biopolitical dimensions of state- and nation building in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It challenges the idea of diverging paths towards modernity of Europe s western and eastern countries by not only identifying ideas, discourses and practices of solving public health issues that were shared among political regimes in the region; it also uncovers the ways in which, since the late nineteenth century, the biopolitical organization of the state both originated from and shaped an emerging common European framework. The broad range of local case studies stretches from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechoslovakia, the GDR, Greece, and Hungary, to Poland, Serbia, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia. Taking a time span that begins in the late nineteenth century and ends in the post-socialist era, the book makes an original contribution to scholarship examining the relationship between public health, medicine, and state- and nation building in Europe s long twentieth century. Close readings and dense descriptions of local discourses and practices of public health help to reflect on the transnational and global entanglements in the sphere of public health. In doing so, this volume facilitates comparisons on the regional, European, and global level. ** Cover 1 Series title page 3 Title page 4 Copyright page 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS 6 List of Figures 8 Acknowledgments 10 INTRODUCTION: From the Midwife’s Bag to the Patient’s File: Public Health in Eastern Europe 12 PART I. Medical Agents and Modern State Building 36 Chapter I Moving Backward Toward Modernity: The Role of the Medical Council in the Organization of Public Health in Greece, 1834–1924 38 Chapter II Creating the “Railway Population”: Public Health and Statistics in Late Imperial Russia 62 Chapter III Mastering Troubling Borders: The Ambivalence of Medical Modernization in the Prussian Province of Posen 84 Chapter IV The Material Side of Modernity: The Midwife’s Bag in Bosnia and Herzegovina around the Turn of the Century 108 PART II. Public Health After Europe’s World Wars 128 Chapter V Who Belongs to the Healthy Body of the Nation? Health and National Integration in Poland and the Polish Army after the First World War 130 Chapter VI Transatlantic Humanitarianism: Jewish Child Relief in Budapest after the Great War 156 Chapter VII The Bodily Disabled as a Poster Boy-Veteran: War Invalids in the Soviet Union after the Second World War 184 Chapter VIII Afflicted Heroes: The Rise and Fall of Yugoslav War Neurosis after the Second World War 206 PART III. Regulating Societies After 1945: State-Socialist Policies and Legacies 228 Chapter IX Politics and Family Conflicts through the Psychiatric Lens: East Berlin’s Charité in the early GDR 230 Chapter X Turning Women into Alcoholics: The Politics of Alcohol in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia 254 Chapter XI “The Gypsy Population Is Constantly Growing”: Roma and the Politics of Reproduction in Cold War Hungary 274 Chapter XII Underimplementing the Law: Social Work, Bureaucratic Error, and the Politics of Distribution in Postsocialist Serbia 304 Collective Bibliography 326 List of Contributors 346 Index 350 back cover 360

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Cognitive impairment and depression in older people have challenged clinicians and families for decades. These conditions affect well over half of people after age 65 with an incidence that increases with advancing age. Many factors account for this including the aging brain, loss of purpose, social isolation, personal losses, medical morbidity, and others. The mortality, disability, and burdens associated with these conditions, affecting patients, family members, and society at large are legion. Advances in epidemiology, brain science, therapeutics, and in service delivery continue to improve our understanding of these conditions, their causes, and the best ways to treat them. Despite this cognitive impairment and depression in later life remain underdiagnosed and undertreated in the United States. This book provides a single source for clinicians who treat older people to become more effective in the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of these challenging late life conditions. It offers a pragmatic, easy-to-use, resource that guides clinicians in how to best evaluate and treat older people with depression and cognitive impairment. **

<p>originally Published Between 1909 And 1917 Under The Name Harvard Classics, This Stupendous 51-volume Set-a Collection Of The Greatest Writings From Literature, Philosophy, History, And Mythology-was Assembled By American Academic Charles William Eliot (1834-1926), Harvard University's Longest-serving President. Also Known As Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, It Represented Eliot's Belief That A Basic Liberal Education Could Be Gleaned By Reading From An Anthology Of Works That Could Fit On Five Feet Of Bookshelf.<br><br>volume Xx Features The Divine Comedy, The Masterpiece By Italian Poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). Written In The Vernacular-a Groundbreaking Step For Literature-it Is Considered The Greatest Work In The Italian Language And An Important Explication Of The Medieval Mindset, Particularly Regarding Religion. The Journey Of Dante, As His Own Fictional Protagonist, Through The Afterlife Has Inspired Writers From Geoffrey Chaucer To T.s. Eliot To Today's Popular Novelists, Filmmakers And Videogame Designers, And Continues To Profoundly Influence Modern Ideas Of Heaven And Hell.</p>

Throughout the 1950s, a coalition of developers, politicians, and planners bulldozed vast areas of land deemed “slums” or “blighted” to make way for freeways, public and private housing projects, cultural centers, and skyscrapers. While the program was national, New York was ground zero, and the demolition and monumental reconstruction of the city created a distinctive urban sensorium, rooted in the new segregated landscapes of prosperous white private space and poor black public space. Novel Shocks situates these landscapes at the center of the midcentury novel, arguing that James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Patricia Highsmith, Ayn Rand, William Burroughs, Sylvia Plath, and Warren Miller all registered these new urban spaces as traumatic “shocks” that required new aesthetic forms. Rejecting older shock-based modernisms, these novelists forged a new modernism, which reimagined shock as a therapeutic force that would create a more flexible, self-reliant, and resilient subject that would nourish neoliberalism’s roots. In offering a cultural prehistory of neoliberalism, Novel Shocks resituates the Cold War novel as a key archive for understanding neoliberalism’s emergence and offers a more materialist and historically grounded account of neoliberalism’s subjective, affective, and ideological structures. **

This is the first catalogue of an important twentieth century musical composer. Auric was influential in the twentieth-century art scene, and worked with Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, and George Bernard Shaw among others. This serves as the first comprehensive catalogue of the orchestral, vocal, and chamber music composed by Georges Auric, one of France's most important twentieth-century musicians. Approximately three hundred-fifty compositions are considered here with full descriptions of all known printed and manuscript sources; locations of literary works on which some are based; selections of important reviews; discographies and lists of videos; and relevant performance data including first performances or showings. Auric was an influential figure in French art and culture and was widely known to the entire French artistic establishment. His compositional abilities were extremely facile and he could write a significant film score in the short time of a few weeks. On more than one occasion he scored four or more films in the same year in addition to a myriad of other duties. He was a child prodigy who studied at the Paris Conservatory and the Schola Cantorum while still a teenager. Later in life he was a major member of the so called Les Six (Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, and Germaine Tailleferre), which was a major force in twentieth century music. With the recent interest in Auric's contribution to films, it provides rich detail culled from libraries and private archives around the world, numerous newspapers and journals, unpublished letters by Auric, and the secondary literature. With the publication of this catalogue all the members of Les Six are now represented. **

This volume assembles English translations of three of Wilhelm Raabe's most intriguing narratives. Raabe (1831-1910) was one of the most complex and multi-layered German writers of the second half of the nineteenth century. The three pieces published here for the first time in English are: 'German Moonlight', a tongue-in-cheek study of lunacy and split personality as a quintessentially German condition; 'Höxter and Corvey', an unsettling reconstruction of civil unrest and anti-Jewish violence in the seventeenth century which advocates tolerance and sobriety in troubled times; and At the Sign of The Wild Man, an inverted genre piece in which a rural idyll is devastated by an agent of global capitalism. All three narratives, written during the first half of the 1870s, contain stinging criticism of the mentality of complacency so prevalent in the newly-founded German Empire; but they also offer moving stories of personal crisis, quiet heroism and noble resignation. **

An exploration of how and why social media content is tagged as “not safe for work” and an argument against conflating sexual content with risk. The hashtag #NSFW (not safe for work) acts as both a warning and an invitation. NSFW tells users, “We dare you to click on this link! And by the way, don't do it until after work!” Unlike the specificity of movie and television advisories (“suggestive dialogue,” “sexual content”), NSFW signals, nonspecifically, sexually explicit content that ranges from nude selfies to pornography. NSFW looks at how and why social media content is tagged “not safe” and shows how this serves to conflate sexual content and risk. The authors argue that the notion of “unsafety” extends beyond the risk of losing one's job or being embarrassed at work to an unspecified sense of risk attached to sexually explicit media content and sexual communication in general. The authors examine NSFW practices of tagging and flagging on a range of social media platforms; online pornography and its dependence on technology; user-generated NSFW content―in particular, the dick pic and associated issues of consent, desire, agency, and social power; the deployment of risqué humor in the workplace; and sexist and misogynist online harassment that functions as an enforcer of inequalities. They argue against the categorical effacement of sexual content by means of an all-purpose hashtag and urge us to shift considerations of safety from pictorial properties to issues of context and consent.

Before "New Age" there was "New Thought," a philosophy that sought spiritual comfort through metaphysics and was wildly popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. American mystic and bestselling author RALPH WALDO TRINE (1866-1958) was one of the most significant writers on New Thought principles, and here, in this 1907 work, Trine gathers bite-size essays culled from his many books of affirmation and encouragement, one for each week of the year. Discover how to. . harness the creative power of thinking . form positive habits . wield powerful thoughts . put into action the universal law of attraction . attract success . open windows onto your soul . and much more. ALSO FROM COSIMO: Trine's: Through the Sunlit Year . What All the World's A-Seeking . On the Open Road . My Philosophy and My Religion . The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit . Every Living Creature . Character-Building Thought Power . The Greatest Thing Ever Known . The New Alinement of Life . In the Fire of the Heart

Challenging the way the Middle Ages have been treated in general histories of sexuality, Sexuality in Medieval Europe shows how views at the time were conflicted and complicated; there was no single medieval attitude towards sexuality any more than there is one modern attitude. Focusing on marital sexual activity, as well as behavior that was seen as transgressive, the chapters cover such topics as chastity, the role of the church, and non-reproductive activity. Combining an overview of research on the topic with original interpretations, Ruth Mazo Karras demonstrates that medieval culture developed sexual identities that were quite distinct from the identities we think of today, yet were still ancestral to our own. Using a wide collection of evidence from the late antique period until the fifteenth century, this fully revised third edition has been updated to include the latest scholarship throughout, including expanded coverage of Islamic and Jewish cultures and new ideas on how medieval sexual violence relates to the modern world. A new companion website supplements the text featuring an interactive timeline of key events, links to key primary sources, and references to further reading. * Sexuality in Medieval Europe is essential reading for those who study medieval history and culture. ** About the Author Ruth Mazo Karras is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. Her books include the Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe edited with Judith M. Bennett (2013) , Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages (2012) and From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe (2002).

"What does it mean to be a social and cultural historian today? In the wake of the 'cultural turn', and in an age of digital and public history, what challenges and opportunities await historians in the early 21st century? In this exciting new text, leading historians reflect on key developments in their fields and argue for a range of 'new directions' in social and cultural history. Focusing on emerging areas of historical research such as the history of the emotions and environmental history, New Directions in Social and Cultural History is an invaluable guide to the current and future state of the field. The book is divided into three clear sections, each with an editorial introduction, and covering key thematic areas: histories of the human, the material world, and challenges and provocations. Each chapter in the collection provides an introduction to the key and recent developments in its specialist field, with their authors then moving on to argue for what they see as particularly important shifts and interventions in the theory and methodology and suggest future developments. New Directions in Social and Cultural History provides a comprehensive and insightful overview of this burgeoning field which will be important reading for all students and scholars of social and cultural history and historiography."-- Provided by publisher

Warlords have come to represent enemies of peace, security, and 'good governance' in the collective intellectual imagination. This book asserts that not all warlords are created equal. Under certain conditions, some become effective governors on behalf of the state. This provocative argument is based on extensive fieldwork in Afghanistan, where Mukhopadhyay examined warlord-governors who have served as valuable exponents of the Karzai regime in its struggle to assert control over key segments of the countryside. She explores the complex ecosystems that came to constitute provincial political life after 2001 and exposes the rise of 'strongman' governance in two provinces. While this brand of governance falls far short of international expectations, its emergence reflects the reassertion of the Afghan state in material and symbolic terms that deserve our attention. This book pushes past canonical views of warlordism and state building to consider the logic of the weak state as it has arisen in challenging, conflict-ridden societies like Afghanistan. ** Review "Mukhopadhyay brings the much abused category of "warlord" to life in this innovative and path breaking study of regional politics in Afghanistan. It provides the previously missing analytic rigor in a comparative study of the fraught relationship of a weak state center and its unruly peripheries." Thomas Barfield, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University "This is an outstanding volume not only for the courageous fieldwork on which it is based and its subsequent empirical insights, but because it provides a needed alternative to outdated notions of state building. It challenges the too often accepted idea that power equals centralization. It also takes our focus away from normative, and nominal structures to the real informal processes behind any kind of authority. Third, it once again shows that the search for political perfection may be the worst enemy of basic governance. Should be read by anyone interested in 21st century politics." Miguel Angel Centeno, Musgrave Professor of Sociology, Princeton University "Warlords, Strongman Governors, and the State in Afghanistan could not be timelier. This book is among the few that take seriously the dynamic processes of state-building in Afghanistan and the resilience of its current and surprisingly resilient phase. Mukhopadhyay provides a keen analysis of how and under what conditions state authority benefits from local warlord strengths in terms of personal reputation, charisma and skill as a patron. Through extensive field research in Afghanistan, Mukhopadhyay shows how politics in Afghanistan really works, and reveals concrete and specific information on how the convergence of politics at the center and in the provinces makes the Afghan state stronger in significant ways. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary strategies of state-building generally and in this important process in this critical region." William Reno, Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin "Few terms are as pejorative in common usage as "warlord", and warlordism has been a source of great suffering in many settings. In Warlords, Strongman Governors, and the State in Afghanistan, however, Dipali Mukhopadhyay argues that Afghan warlordism has had highly variable dynamics and consequences: while some strongmen have brought suffering and instability, others have actually advanced the cause of political order in a weak state, with systematic variations in local conditions accounting for the difference. She builds her case on a foundation of richly detailed field research, with results that pose important implications for counterinsurgency, governance reform, and theories of political development. Her provocative analysis will cause both scholars and policy makers to re-examine their views on this critical topic." Stephen Biddle, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, The George Washington University Book Description In this book Dipali Mukhopadhyay argues that Afghani warlords, often considered the enemy of peace, security, and good governance, can under certain conditions become effective governors on behalf of the state. Based on extensive field work, she shows that although this brand of governance falls far short of international expectations, its emergence reflects the reassertion of the Afghan state in material and symbolic terms that deserve our attention. Political Science General Comparative Politics Law Comparative Cover 1 Half-title page 3 Title page 5 Copyright page 6 Dedication page 7 Contents 9 Acknowledgments 11 1 Building a Theory of Strongman Governance in Afghanistan 15 Reconceptualizing the Warlord’s Relation to the State 18 The Ups and Downs of Afghan State Formation 26 The State Pushes Forward 29 The State Pulls Back 33 The Maximalist State Returns to Afghanistan 36 The Warlords Come to Bonn 38 The Challenges of the “De Facto State” 43 State Building Marches On 46 Where the Center and Periphery Meet 48 The Office of Provincial Governor 51 Informal Power Politics from Top to Bottom 54 Building a Theory of Strongman Provincial Governance 62 The Argument 63 The Outcome of Interest: Strongman Provincial Governance 67 The Research Design 77 Methods in the Field 82 2 Atta Mohammad Noor, the Son of Balkh 90 The Fight for Balkh, 2001–2004 91 Strength in the Face of Competition 93 Looking to the Center from the Start 98 Constructing a Formidable Presence 101 The Man for the Job 103 The Emergence of a Governor 106 The Final Act 107 The Frankenstein Effect? 110 The Concentration of Coercion as Disguised Combatanthood 115 Informal Consolidation of the Formal Security Sector 116 Keeping the Old Gang Together 121 Managing Rivals 125 Foreign Troops: The Lightest of Footprints 131 The Concentration of Capital as the Tajik Tycoon 135 Losing Hearts and Minds? 135 A Patron of the Traders 139 The Tajik Tycoon 142 Concentration of Connection as the Son of Balkh 146 Restoring the Pride of Balkh 147 A Leader of the Northern Afghans 150 The Emergence of Strongman Governance 152 Enterprising Technocracy as Ruling Infrastructure 160 The Demonstration of Upward Deference 166 Deference Turns to Defiance 171 Conclusion 176 3 Gul Agha Sherzai, the Neo-Khan of Nangarhar 180 The Wild, Wild East: Nangarhar 2001–2005 182 The Rise of a Pashtun Strongman 188 The Concentration of Coercion as “First Among Equals” 191 Informal Consolidation of the Formal Security Sector 192 Managing the Local Competition 195 Tribal Elders as Enforcers, Buffers, and Counterinsurgents 198 The Coercive Cover of the Coalition 208 Ties to the Other Side? 211 The Concentration of Capital as the Bulldozer’s Bounty 213 Winning Hearts and Minds with the Americans 213 The Best Man for the Job 217 A Businessman among Businessmen 219 The Concentration of Connection as the Neo-Khan of Nangarhar 224 A Man of the People 224 A Democrat in Jalalabad? 227 The Emergence of Ruling Infrastructure 229 Darbar Rule as Ruling Infrastructure 238 The Demonstration of Upward Deference 246 Up and Down, Back and Forth 250 Conclusion 254 4 Ismail Khan, the Emir of Herat, and Juma Khan Hamdard, the Wandering Wali 257 Ismail Khan, the “Too Strong” Emir of Herat 258 Concentrating Coercion as the Warrior of the West 260 Raising an Emir’s Army 261 Managing Rivalries 263 The Persian Patrons of Old 266 The American Patrons of New 269 The Borderland Baron 272 The Buffer Province’s Strategic Rent 272 Capturing the Cash from Customs 275 Concentrating Connection as the Retro-Khan 277 Ruling Infrastructure as Authoritarian Rule 281 An Escalating Competition between the Center and Periphery 287 Rebel Governance? 287 Clash over Revenue Remittance 292 Clash over the Center’s Monopolization of Violence 294 The End of an Era 298 The Tale of Too Strong 300 Juma Khan Hamdard: The “Too Weak” Wandering Wali 302 One Strongman Among Many Stronger Men, Balkh 2001–2004 304 A Governor without a Grip, Baghlan and Jowizjan 2005–2007 310 A Short Stay in Baghlan 311 A Foray into the General’s Den 313 The Persistent Pashtun Proxy, 2009 321 The Tale of Too Weak 327 Conclusion 11 Bringing the Weak State Back In 331 The Politics of “Just Strong Enough” 336 Where Are They Now? 342 Strongman Governance: Where to from Here? 373 Appendix: Map and Provincial Security Metrics 377 Index 385

Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African-Americans in the South. As the Civil Rights Movement exploded across the United States, the media of the time was able to show the rest of the world images of horrific racial violence. And while some of the bravest people of the 20th century risked their lives for the right to simply order a cheeseburger, ride a bus, or use a clean water fountain, there was another virtually unheard of struggle—this one for the right to read. Although illegal, racial segregation was strictly enforced in a number of American states, and public libraries were not immune. Numerous libraries were desegregated on paper only: there would be no cards given to African-Americans, no books for them read, and no furniture for them to use. It was these exact conditions that helped create Freedom Libraries. Over eighty of these parallel libraries appeared in the Deep South, staffed by civil rights voter registration workers. While the grassroots nature of the libraries meant they varied in size and quality, all of them created the first encounter many African-Americans had with a library. Terror, bombings, and eventually murder would be visited on the Freedom Libraries—with people giving up their lives so others could read a library book. This book delves into how these libraries were the heart of the Civil Rights Movement, and the remarkable courage of the people who used them. They would forever change libraries and librarianship, even as they helped the greater movement change the society these libraries belonged to. Photographs of the libraries bring this little-known part of American history to life. **

Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African-Americans in the South. As the Civil Rights Movement exploded across the United States, the media of the time was able to show the rest of the world images of horrific racial violence. And while some of the bravest people of the 20th century risked their lives for the right to simply order a cheeseburger, ride a bus, or use a clean water fountain, there was another virtually unheard of struggle—this one for the right to read. Although illegal, racial segregation was strictly enforced in a number of American states, and public libraries were not immune. Numerous libraries were desegregated on paper only: there would be no cards given to African-Americans, no books for them read, and no furniture for them to use. It was these exact conditions that helped create Freedom Libraries. Over eighty of these parallel libraries appeared in the Deep South, staffed by civil rights voter registration workers. While the grassroots nature of the libraries meant they varied in size and quality, all of them created the first encounter many African-Americans had with a library. Terror, bombings, and eventually murder would be visited on the Freedom Libraries—with people giving up their lives so others could read a library book. This book delves into how these libraries were the heart of the Civil Rights Movement, and the remarkable courage of the people who used them. They would forever change libraries and librarianship, even as they helped the greater movement change the society these libraries belonged to. Photographs of the libraries bring this little-known part of American history to life. **

"What does it mean to be a social and cultural historian today? In the wake of the 'cultural turn', and in an age of digital and public history, what challenges and opportunities await historians in the early 21st century? In this exciting new text, leading historians reflect on key developments in their fields and argue for a range of 'new directions' in social and cultural history. Focusing on emerging areas of historical research such as the history of the emotions and environmental history, New Directions in Social and Cultural History is an invaluable guide to the current and future state of the field. The book is divided into three clear sections, each with an editorial introduction, and covering key thematic areas: histories of the human, the material world, and challenges and provocations. Each chapter in the collection provides an introduction to the key and recent developments in its specialist field, with their authors then moving on to argue for what they see as particularly important shifts and interventions in the theory and methodology and suggest future developments. New Directions in Social and Cultural History provides a comprehensive and insightful overview of this burgeoning field which will be important reading for all students and scholars of social and cultural history and historiography."-- Provided by publisher

Classical social choice theory relies heavily on the assumption that all individuals have fixed preference orderings. This highly original book presents a new theory of social preferences that explicitly accounts for important social phenomena such as coordination, compromise, negotiation and altruism. Drawing on cybernetics and network theory, it extends classical social choice theory by constructing a framework that allows for dynamic preferences that are modulated by the situation-dependent social influence that they exert on each other. In this way the book shows how members of a social network may modulate their preferences to account for social context. This important expansion of social choice theory will be of interest to readers in a wide variety of disciplines, including economists and political scientists concerned with choice theory as well as computer scientists and engineers working on network theory. **

Throughout the 1950s, a coalition of developers, politicians, and planners bulldozed vast areas of land deemed “slums” or “blighted” to make way for freeways, public and private housing projects, cultural centers, and skyscrapers. While the program was national, New York was ground zero, and the demolition and monumental reconstruction of the city created a distinctive urban sensorium, rooted in the new segregated landscapes of prosperous white private space and poor black public space. Novel Shocks situates these landscapes at the center of the midcentury novel, arguing that James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Patricia Highsmith, Ayn Rand, William Burroughs, Sylvia Plath, and Warren Miller all registered these new urban spaces as traumatic “shocks” that required new aesthetic forms. Rejecting older shock-based modernisms, these novelists forged a new modernism, which reimagined shock as a therapeutic force that would create a more flexible, self-reliant, and resilient subject that would nourish neoliberalism’s roots. In offering a cultural prehistory of neoliberalism, Novel Shocks resituates the Cold War novel as a key archive for understanding neoliberalism’s emergence and offers a more materialist and historically grounded account of neoliberalism’s subjective, affective, and ideological structures. **

An exploration of how and why social media content is tagged as “not safe for work” and an argument against conflating sexual content with risk. The hashtag #NSFW (not safe for work) acts as both a warning and an invitation. NSFW tells users, “We dare you to click on this link! And by the way, don't do it until after work!” Unlike the specificity of movie and television advisories (“suggestive dialogue,” “sexual content”), NSFW signals, nonspecifically, sexually explicit content that ranges from nude selfies to pornography. NSFW looks at how and why social media content is tagged “not safe” and shows how this serves to conflate sexual content and risk. The authors argue that the notion of “unsafety” extends beyond the risk of losing one's job or being embarrassed at work to an unspecified sense of risk attached to sexually explicit media content and sexual communication in general. The authors examine NSFW practices of tagging and flagging on a range of social media platforms; online pornography and its dependence on technology; user-generated NSFW content―in particular, the dick pic and associated issues of consent, desire, agency, and social power; the deployment of risqué humor in the workplace; and sexist and misogynist online harassment that functions as an enforcer of inequalities. They argue against the categorical effacement of sexual content by means of an all-purpose hashtag and urge us to shift considerations of safety from pictorial properties to issues of context and consent.

Recent Economic Crises Have Made The Centrality Of Debt, And The Instability It Creates, Increasingly Apparent. This Realization Has Led To Cries For Change - Yet There Is Little Popular Awareness Of Possible Alternatives. Beyond Debt Describes Efforts To Create A Transnational Economy Free Of Debt. Based On Ethnographic Fieldwork In Malaysia, Daromir Rudnyckyj Illustrates How The State, Led By The Central Bank, Seeks To Make The Country's Capital Kuala Lumpur The New York Of The Muslim World - The Central Node Of Global Financial Activity Conducted In Accordance With Islam. Rudnyckyj Shows How Islamic Financial Experts Have Undertaken Ambitious Experiments To Create More Stable Economies And Stronger Social Solidarities By Facilitating Risk- And Profit-sharing, Enhanced Entrepreneurial Skills, And More Collaborative Economic Action. Building On Scholarship That Reveals The Impact Of Financial Devices On Human Activity, He Illustrates How Islamic Finance Is Deployed To Fashion Subjects Who Are At Once More Pious Muslims And More Ambitious Entrepreneurs. In So Doing, Rudnyckyj Shows How Experts Seek To Create A New Geoeconomics - A Global Islamic Alternative To The Conventional Financial Network Centered On New York, London, And Tokyo. A Groundbreaking Analysis Of A Timely Subject, Beyond Debt Tells The Captivating Story Of Efforts To Re-center International Finance In An Emergent Islamic Global City And, Ultimately, To Challenge The Very Foundations Of Conventional Finance. Introduction: Pious Finance In The Islamic Global City -- Infrastructure -- An Infrastructure For Islamic Finance -- Expertise In Action -- Counterdebt -- Operations -- Making Bonds Islamic -- Adjacent System Or Original Knowledge? -- Consuming Form, Investing In Substance -- Problematization -- Experimenting With Risk -- Subjects Of Debt, Subjects Of Equity -- Conclusion: An Emergent Geoeconomics. Daromir Rudnyckyj. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

"Transformer, Lou Reed's most enduringly popular album, is described with varying labels: it's often called a glam rock album, a proto-punk album, a commercial breakthrough for Lou Reed, and an album about being gay. And yet, it doesn't neatly fit into any of these descriptors. Buried underneath the radio-friendly exterior lie coded confessions of the subversive, wounded intelligence that gives this album its staying power as a work of art. Here Lou Reed managed to make a fun, accessible rock'n'roll record that is also a troubled meditation on the ambiguities - sexual, musical and otherwise - that defined his public persona and helped make him one of the most fascinating and influential figures in rock history. Through close listening and personal reflections, songwriter Ezra Furman explores Reed's and Transformer's unstable identities, and the secrets the songs challenge us to uncover."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

“A compelling story of the ethnic cleansing of Christian communities caught in the crossfire of the Middle East at war... Urgent and passionate” (Kirkus Reviews). In 2013, alarmed by scant attention paid to the hardships endured by the 7.5 million Christians in the Middle East, journalist Klaus Wivel—who practices no religion himself—traveled to Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, and the Palestinian territories on a quest to learn more about their fate. He found an oppressed minority, constantly under threat of death and humiliation, increasingly desperate in the face of rising Islamic extremism and without hope that their situation would improve, or anyone would come to their aid. Wivel spoke with priests whose churches have been burned, citizens who feel like strangers in their own countries, and entire communities whose only hope for survival may be fleeing into exile. With the increase of religious violence in recent years, The Last Supper is a prescient and unsettling account of a severely beleaguered religious group living, so it seems, on borrowed time. In this book, Wivel recounts this humanitarian crisis in detail and asks why we have we not done more to protect these people.

The image of the Caribbean figure has been reconfigured by photography from the mid-19th century onwards. Initial images associated with the slave and indentured worker from the locations and legacies associated with plantation economies have been usurped by visual representations emerging from struggles for social, political and cultural autonomy. Contemporary visual artists engaging with the Caribbean as a 21st century globalised space have focused on visually re-imagining historical material and events as memories, histories and dreamscapes. Creole in the Archive uses photographic analysis to explore portraits, postcards and social documentation of the colonial worker between 1850 and 1960 and contemporary, often digital, visual art by post-independent, postcolonial Caribbean artists. Drawing on Derridean ideas of the archive, the book reconceptualises the Caribbean visual archive as contiguous and relational. It argues that using a creolising archive practice, the conjuncture of contemporary artworks, historical imagery and associated locations can develop insightful new multimodal representations of Caribbean subjectivities.

In December 1945, at the base of cliffs that run along the Nile River near the modern-day town of Nag Hammadi, an Egyptian farmer discovered, in a sealed jar, thirteen ancient Coptic codices containing more than fifty separate tracts. This discovery represented arguably the most significant manuscript discovery of the twentieth century for the study of the New Testament and Christian origins. Of all the texts in this Nag Hammadi Library, none has been more celebrated than the Gospel of Thomas - a Gospel that has played a crucial role in the newly emerging view of early Christianity as a very diverse phenomenon and in the recent revival of historical Jesus studies. Now, after more than fifty years of study, the best text and the best translation of Thomas are presented here in user-friendly form by the Berlin Working Group for Coptic Gnostic Writings, with Stephen J. Patterson and James M. Robinson. In addition, two essays have been included for persons who may be unfamiliar with this new Gospel or with events that led to its discovery and publication. The first, by Patterson, is a general introduction to the Gospel of Thomas as it appears fifty years after its discovery. The second, by Robinson, tells the fascinating story of that discovery itself by one who was directly involved in bringing this new Gospel to light. An annotated list "for further reading" completes the volume. Stephen J. Patterson is Associate Professor of New Testament at Eden Theological Seminary and author of The God of Jesus: The Historical Jesus and the Search for Meaning (Trinity Press). James M. Robinson is the former director of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Professor Emeritus at The Claremont Graduate School, and editor of The Nag Hammadi Library. **

Uses observations of pedestrians to describe and analyze the city, and assesses the influence of architecture and urban planning.

Discovered centuries before by a Spanish explorer, Vegas Springs had acquired the status of a myth, its very existence questioned and its precise location unknown except to a few Indians and the occasional lucky traveller who stumbled upon it. In the midst of the desert, it had one redeeming feature: life-giving water. Seb Ashton was one of those lucky ones. With hardcases on his tail, he had fled into the desert, only finding out too late that wandering in a scorching hellhole with an empty canteen was no escape. Now, the fabled watering hole could prove his salvation. However, his ruthless pursuers had been determined enough to follow him across the desert wastes and Ashton knew he must face a showdown - in the blistering sands of Vegas.

<p>With the help of over one hundred illustrations spanning three centuries, Richard Cohen investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. The interaction of Jews with the visual arts takes place, as Cohen says, in a vast gallery of prints, portraits, books, synagogue architecture, ceremonial art, modern Jewish painting and sculpture, political broadsides, monuments, medals, and memorabilia. Pointing to recent scholarship that overturns the stereotype of Jews as people of the text, unconcerned with the visual, Cohen shows how the coming of the modern period expanded the relationship of Jews to the visual realm far beyond the religious context. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the study and collecting of Jewish art became a legitimate and even passionate pursuit, and signaled the entry of Jews into the art world as painters, collectors, and dealers.</p>

Gypsies have for centuries been simultaneously vilified and romanticized—associated with criminality and dirt, but at the same time with color, magic, and music. Gypsy music is popular around the world and often performed with gusto at major events, including at weddings in Bulgaria, jazz bars in Paris, and festivals in the United States. In Gypsy Music , Alan Ashton-Smith explores why this music has such wide appeal, surveying the varied styles that are considered to be gypsy music and asking what links them together. The book begins in the Balkans, home to the world’s largest Romani populations and a major site of gypsy music production. But just as the traditionally nomadic Roma have traveled globally, so has their music. Gypsy music styles have roots and associations outside of the Balkans, including Russian Romani guitar music, flamenco and gypsy jazz, and the more recent forms of gypsy punk and Balkan beats. Covering the thirteenth century to the present day, and with a geographical scope that ranges from rural Romania to New York by way of Budapest, Moscow, and Andalusia, Gypsy Music reveals the remarkable diversity of this exuberant art form. ** Cover 1 Gypsy Music: The Balkans and Beyond 5 Imprint Page 6 Contents 7 Introduction 9 1. The Origins of Balkan Gypsy Music 29 2. Liszt vs Bartók: The Hungarian Question 52 3. Gypsy Music and Balkanism 76 4. Contemporary Gypsy Music in the Balkans 96 5. Gypsy Music in Russia 121 6. Gypsy Music in Spain: Flamenco 140 7. Gypsy Jazz: Hybrid Forms 155 8. Gypsy Punk and Balkan Beats 170 Conclusion 187 References 191 Bibliography 205 Discography 213 Acknowledgements 217 Photo Acknowledgements 219 Index 221

"Transformer, Lou Reed's most enduringly popular album, is described with varying labels: it's often called a glam rock album, a proto-punk album, a commercial breakthrough for Lou Reed, and an album about being gay. And yet, it doesn't neatly fit into any of these descriptors. Buried underneath the radio-friendly exterior lie coded confessions of the subversive, wounded intelligence that gives this album its staying power as a work of art. Here Lou Reed managed to make a fun, accessible rock'n'roll record that is also a troubled meditation on the ambiguities - sexual, musical and otherwise - that defined his public persona and helped make him one of the most fascinating and influential figures in rock history. Through close listening and personal reflections, songwriter Ezra Furman explores Reed's and Transformer's unstable identities, and the secrets the songs challenge us to uncover."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Caleb Ross accepts an invitation from his old friend Tom Watson to join him as a ranching partner. Glad to leave his life of drifting, Caleb makes his way to Ghost Creek, full of optimism, only to find he's ridden into big trouble. He learns that Tom has been gunned down by Jack Sweeney, a hardcase from the Rawl range and mentor in mayhem to Scott Rawl. Enraged, Caleb heads for the ranch seeking vengeance for Tom's humiliation and murder. Up against a crooked law force and formidable opposistion, he'll have to be quick and clever if he's to survive.<div></DIV>