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Administrative Vitality The Conflict with Bureaucracy

Administrative Vitality The Conflict with Bureaucracy

Originally published in 1960. This title presents a discussion of bureaucracy and enterprise and how they are related and might be combined. Case studies of various businesses including Marks and Spencer are used to illustrate this idea. Most of the companies examined are large and have all been at least partially successful in solving some of the difficulties of administration that businessmen and government officials constantly encounter. The present book was an attempt to break new ground to suggest some new syntheses to seek some practical explanations and to propose some practical solutions. This title will be of interest to students of Business Studies and Management. | Administrative Vitality The Conflict with Bureaucracy

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Ibbs and Tillett The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire

Ibbs and Tillett The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire

For the greater part of the twentieth century Ibbs and Tillett's concert agency was to the British music industry what Marks and Spencer is to the world of the department store. The roll-call of famous musicians on its books was unmatched and included such international stars as Clara Butt Fritz Kreisler Pablo Casals Sergei Rachmaninov Andr Segovia Kathleen Ferrier Myra Hess Jacqueline du Pr Clifford Curzon and Vladimir Ashkenazy to name but a handful. From 1906 the success of the company was due to the dedication of its founders Robert Leigh Ibbs and John Tillett. After their deaths the agency was run by the latter's wife Emmie who dubbed the 'Duchess of Wigmore Street' became one of the most formidable yet respected women in British music. The history of this unique institution and its owners is told here for the first time often through the fascinating letters that were exchanged between the artists themselves and the agency. It begins in the latter years of the 19th century with the concert and theatrical manager Narciso Vert for whom both Ibbs and Tillett worked until his death in 1905. The story then becomes a history of musical life in twentieth-century Britain illuminating aspects of the day-to-day management of concerts and festivals the lives and livelihoods of professional musicians as well as those who strove to join their ranks through audition or recommendation. The changing profile and particularly the onset and development of personal management of artists represented by Ibbs and Tillett and their reception in the press can be viewed as a barometer of musical taste. The demise of the agency in 1990 was indicative of just how much the world of British music had changed by the end of the century but despite its loss to the profession the legacy and influence of Ibbs and Tillett has remained a benchmark in today's highly competitive world of artist management and concert promotion many of whose principal operators began | Ibbs and Tillett The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire

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Polarisation Arrogance and Dogmatism Philosophical Perspectives

Polarisation Arrogance and Dogmatism Philosophical Perspectives

Polarisation intransigence and dogmatism in political and moral debate have in recent years threatened to overwhelm many Western-style democracies where for centuries reasoned argument has been a hallmark feature of tackling disagreement. For many people this marks a worrying deterioration in the moral and political climate threatening to create a divisive environment of us versus them. In this superb collection a team of international contributors examine these pressing issues from a philosophical perspective. Topics explored include: the problem of deep disagreements; martial conceptions of argumentation and the motivation to argue to win; epistemic egocentrism; intellectual trust; bullshit and dogmatism; intellectual humility and the internet; epistemic and tribal arrogance and authoritarianism; empathy and polarisation; and epistemic rights violations. Polarisation Arrogance and Dogmatism: Philosophical Perspectives will be of great interest to researchers in political philosophy applied and social epistemology ethics and feminist philosophy as well as those working in politics and sociology. | Polarisation Arrogance and Dogmatism Philosophical Perspectives

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Mobilities and Complexities

Mobilities and Complexities

The new ‘mobilities turn’ has become a powerful perspective in social theory. John Urry’s oeuvre has been very influential in the emergence of this new field and has had lasting impacts on many scholars. This collection presents originally commissioned essays from leading scholars in the field who reflect on how Urry’s writing influenced the course of their research and theorizing. This volume gathers contributions in relation to John Urry’s path-breaking work. The new ‘mobilities turn’ made a strong imprint in European social theory and is beginning to make an impact in the Americas and Asia as well. It challenges mainstream theoretical and empirical approaches that were grounded in a sedentary and bounded view of states. It propels innovative thinking about social and media ecologies complex systems and social change. It bridges many disciplines and methodologies leading to new approaches to existing problems while also resonating with questions about both history and the future. Mobilities research marks the rise of academic and intellectual cooperation and collaboration ‘beyond societies’ as nations around the world face the ecological limits of contemporary mobility and energy systems. The contributors represent several national contexts including England Germany Denmark Finland Taiwan Brazil Canada Australia and the USA. This book collects personal essays and gives insight into a vivid network of scientists who have connections of various degrees to the late John Urry as an academic figure an author and a person. | Mobilities and Complexities

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Haunted Europe Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic Writing Film and New Media

Haunted Europe Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic Writing Film and New Media

Haunted Europe offers the first comprehensive account of the British and Irish fascination with a Gothic vision of continental Europe tracing its effect on British intellectual life from the birth of the Gothic novel to the eve of Brexit and the symbolic recalibration of the UK’s relationship to mainland Europe. By focusing on the development of the relationship between Britain and Ireland and continental Europe over more than two-hundred years this collection marks an important departure from standard literary critical narratives which have tended to focus on a narrow time-period and have missed continuities and discontinuities in our ongoing relationship with the mainland. | Haunted Europe Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic Writing Film and New Media

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Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women’s Writing Feminist Interventions and Imaginings

Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women’s Writing Feminist Interventions and Imaginings

Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women’s Writing: Feminist Interventions and Imaginings analyzes and explores women’s writing of the post-Tiger period and reflects on the social cultural and economic conditions of this writing’s production. The Post-Celtic Tiger period (2008–) in Ireland marks an important moment in the history of women’s writing. It is a time of increased visibility and publication dynamic feminist activism and collective projects as well as a significant garnering of public recognition to a degree that has never been seen before. The collection is framed by interviews with Claire Kilroy and Melatu Uche Okorie—two leading figures in the field—and closes with Okorie’s landmark short story on Direct Provision “This Hostel Life. ” The book features the work of leading scholars in the field of contemporary literature with essays on Anu Productions Emma Donoghue Grace Dyas Anne Enright Rita Ann Higgins Marian Keyes Claire Kilroy Eimear McBride Rosaleen McDonagh Belinda McKeon Melatu Uche Okorie Louise O’Neill and Waking The Feminists. Reflecting on all the successes and achievements of women’s writing in the contemporary period this book also considers marginalization and exclusions in the field especially considering the politics of race class gender sexuality ethnicity nationality and ability. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory. | Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women’s Writing Feminist Interventions and Imaginings

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Theatre-Rites Animating Puppets Objects and Sites

Theatre-Rites Animating Puppets Objects and Sites

Theatre-Rites are regarded as pioneers in the field of object-led and site-specific performance creating ground-breaking work for family audiences since 1995. This book marks the company’s 25th anniversary offering the first in-depth exploration of artistic director Sue Buckmaster’s visionary practice in which anything can be animated. This book draws on original research including five years of in-depth interviews between its authors images from Theatre-Rites’ archive and Buckmaster’s private collection detailed observations from the company’s professional training workshops and personal reflections on past productions. A timely and compelling advocacy for the importance of high-quality experimental arts provision for young audiences is made distilling learning from decades of the company’s professional activities to motivate and empower the next generation of object-led theatre-makers. Theatre-Rites: Animating Puppets Objects and Sites is an invaluable resource for any puppeteer actor dancer visual artist poet or student interested in expanding their understanding of how to incorporate puppetry and/or symbolic objects as metaphors in their work. | Theatre-Rites Animating Puppets Objects and Sites

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Gender and Educational Achievement

Gender and Educational Achievement

Gender inequalities in education – in terms of systematic variations in access to educational institutions in competencies school marks and educational certificates along the axis of gender – have tremendously changed over the course of the 20th century. Although this does not apply to all stages and areas of the educational career it is particularly obvious looking at upper secondary education. Before the major boost of educational expansion in the 1960s women’s participation in upper secondary general education and their chances to successfully finish this educational pathway have been lower than men’s. However towards the end of the 20th century women were outperforming men in many European countries and beyond. The international contributions to this book attempt to shed light on the mechanisms behind gender inequalities and the changes made to reduce this inequality. Topics explored by the contributors include gender in science education in the UK; women’s education in Luxembourg in the 19th and 20th century; the ‘gender gap’ debates and their rhetoric in the UK and Finland; sociological perspectives on the gender-equality discourse in Finland; changing gender differences in West Germany in the 20th century; the interplay of subjective well-being and educational attainment in Switzerland; and a psychological perspective on gender identities gender-related perceptions students’ motivation intelligence personality and the interaction between student and teacher gender. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Research. | Gender and Educational Achievement

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All In The Future of Business Leadership

All In The Future of Business Leadership

Written by three leading thinkers in the field of sustainability 'All In' defines the essential attributes of high-impact corporate sustainability leadership and describes how companies can combine and apply those characteristics for future success. All In draws on research involving thousands of experts globally as collected via the GlobeScan-SustainAbility Leaders Survey over two decades. The book also reveals insights from dozens of interviews with Chairs CEOs and Chief Sustainability Officers of pioneering companies including 3M BASF BP DuPont Google GE Huawei IKEA Interface Marks Spencer Natura Nestle acute; Nike Novo Nordisk Patagonia Shell Tata Toyota Unilever and Walmart explaining how they have gained recognition created value and boosted resiliency based on their sustainability leadership. All In also outlines what the private sector must do to lift sustainability performance protect business's license to operate and help deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. This unique book rich with quantitative and qualitative insights offers current and aspiring business leaders a succinct overview of the most important developments and trends in corporate sustainability and responsible leadership. 'All In' will also appeal to others interested in why sustainability has become a critical mainstream business issue. With a foreword by Dan Hendrix Chairman Interface and afterword by Paul Polman CEO Unilever. | All In The Future of Business Leadership

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Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks Volume 1: Actors and Sectors in Russia Between Accommodation and Resistance to Globalization

Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks Volume 1: Actors and Sectors in Russia Between Accommodation and Resistance to Globalization

This title was first published in 2001: Based on extensive research this trilogy provides new insights into Post-Soviet transformations without taking refuge in the traditional assumption that Russia is unique. Using powerful analytical tools this trilogy marks the re-integration of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) into the main current of political science. An invaluable resource for all those interested in Russia and the Post-Soviet states. This first volume focuses on state sectoral and transnational actors from a predominantly rational choice perspective. The book includes an extensive introduction by the editor which uses additional material gathered by the project team on two polls 1999 and 2000 which in addition to the individual studies provide sufficient data to obtain unprecedented insights into the basic preferences and the logic of action of the main players in Russia. The outcomes of this research will be particularly relevant for students researchers journalists and decision-makers interested in Russia and the Post-Soviet states’ politics international relations economics social policy and sociology. | Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks Volume 1: Actors and Sectors in Russia Between Accommodation and Resistance to Globalization

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Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Revolution ‘They Call My Name Disturbance'

Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Revolution ‘They Call My Name Disturbance'

The Rolling Stones’ Beggars Banquet is one of the seminal albums in rock history. Arguably it not only marks the advent of the ‘mature’ sound of the Rolling Stones but lays out a new blueprint for an approach to blues-based rock music that would endure for several decades. From its title to the dark themes that pervade some of its songs Beggars Banquet reflected and helped define a moment marked by violence decay and upheaval. It marked a move away from the artistic sonic flourishes of psychedelic rock towards an embrace of foundational streams of American music – blues country – that had always underpinned the music of the Stones but assumed new primacy in their music after 1968. This move coincided with and anticipated the ‘roots’ moves that many leading popular music artists made as the 1960s turned toward a new decade; but unlike many of their peers whose music grew more ‘soft’ and subdued as they embraced traditional styles the music and attitude of the Stones only grew harder and more menacing and their status as representatives of the dark underside of the 60s rock counterculture assumed new solidity. For the Rolling Stones the 1960s ended and the 1970s began with the release of this album in 1968. | Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Revolution ‘They Call My Name Disturbance'

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Reanimating Regions Culture Politics and Performance

Reanimating Regions Culture Politics and Performance

Writing regions undertaking a regional study was once a standard form of geographic communication and critique. This was until the quantitative revolution in the middle of the previous century and more definitively the critical turn in human geography towards the end of the twentieth century. From then on writing regions as they were experienced phenomenologically or arguing culturally historically and politically with regions was deemed to be old-fashioned. Yet the region is and always will be a central geographical concept and thinking about regions can tell us a lot about the history of the discipline called geography. Despite taking up an identifiable place within the geographical imagination in scholarship and beyond region remains a relatively forgotten under-used and in part under-theorised term. Reanimating Regions marks the continued reinvigoration of a set of disciplinary debates surrounding regions the regional and regional geography. Across 18 chapters from international interdisciplinary scholars this book writes and performs region as a temporary permanence something held stable not fixed and absolute at different points in time for different purposes. There is as this expansive volume outlines no single reading of a region. Reanimating Regions collectively rebalances the region within geography and geographical thought. In renewing the geography of regions as not only a site of investigation but also as an analytical framework through which to write the world what emerges is a powerful reworking of the geographic imagination. Read against one another the chapters weave together timely commentaries on region and regions across the globe with a particular emphasis upon the regional as played out in the United Kingdom and regional worlds both within and beyond Europe offering chapters from Africa and South America. Addressing both the political and the cultural this volume | Reanimating Regions Culture Politics and Performance

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Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations in Spain A History of Reception Dissemination Adaptation and Application 1777–1840

Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations in Spain A History of Reception Dissemination Adaptation and Application 1777–1840

Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was the product of the rich tradition of the Scottish Enlightenment but the book’s fame immediately spread across the whole of Europe. This book looks at the long journey of Smith’s ideas from Scotland to peninsular Spain reconstructing in detail the reception adaptation interpretation and application of Smith's central concepts from 1777 up to 1840. In light of methodological advances during the last two decades in the history of economic thought and the studies on the late Spanish Enlightenment and early Liberalism the book tackles a series of significant issues and gaps in the historiography. In particular: this book sheds new light on the role of France as an intermediate step as the ideas spread from Britain southwards; the analysis draws not just on translations but also handwritten materials book reviews syntheses summaries plagiarism and rebuttals; a wide range of methods of dissemination are considered including the printing press and periodicals parliamentary debates academic chairs and societies; the role of individual translators and agents is given due prominence; the political interpretations of the Wealth of Nations and the ways in which the book was incorporated into the work of Spanish economists in the decades following publication are also considered. This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on the reception of Smith’s Wealth of Nations studies of the Spanish Enlightenment and history of economic thought more broadly. | Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations in Spain A History of Reception Dissemination Adaptation and Application 1777–1840

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Heritage Memory and Punishment Remembering Colonial Prisons in East Asia

Heritage Memory and Punishment Remembering Colonial Prisons in East Asia

Based on a transnational study of decommissioned postcolonial prisons in Taiwan (Taipei and Chiayi) South Korea (Seoul) and China (Lushun) this book offers a critical reading of prisons as a particular colonial product the current restoration of which as national heritage is closely related to the evolving conceptualization of punishment. Focusing on the colonial prisons built by the Japanese Empire in the first half of the twentieth century it illuminates how punishment has been considered a subject of modernization while the contemporary use of prisons as heritage tends to reduce the process of colonial modernity to oppression and atrocity – thus constituting a heritage of shame and death which postcolonial societies blame upon the former colonizers. A study of how the remembering of punishment and imprisonment reflects the attempts of postcolonial cities to re-articulate an understanding of the present by correcting the past Heritage Memory and Punishment examines how prisons were designed built partially demolished preserved and redeveloped across political regimes demonstrating the ways in which the selective use of prisons as heritage reframed through nationalism leaves marks on urban contexts that remain long after the prisons themselves are decommissioned. As such it will appeal to scholars of sociology geography the built environment and heritage with interests in memory studies and dark tourism. | Heritage Memory and Punishment Remembering Colonial Prisons in East Asia

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Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment The Six Non-Naturals in the Long Eighteenth Century

Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment The Six Non-Naturals in the Long Eighteenth Century

The biggest challenges in public health today are often related to attitudes diet and exercise. In many ways this marks a return to the state of medicine in the eighteenth century when ideals of healthy living were a much more central part of the European consciousness than they have become since the advent of modern clinical medicine. Enlightenment advice on healthy lifestyle was often still discussed in terms of the six non-naturals – airs and places food and drink exercise excretion and retention and sleep and emotions. This volume examines what it meant to live healthily in the Enlightenment in the context of those non-naturals showing both the profound continuities from Antiquity and the impact of newer conceptions of the body. Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/e/9780429465642 | Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment The Six Non-Naturals in the Long Eighteenth Century

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Drawing Parallels Knowledge Production in Axonometric Isometric and Oblique Drawings

Drawing Parallels Knowledge Production in Axonometric Isometric and Oblique Drawings

Drawing Parallels expands your understanding of the workings of architects by looking at their work from an alternative perspective. The book focuses on parallel projections such as axonometric isometric and oblique drawings. Ray Lucas argues that by retracing the marks made by architects we can begin to engage more directly with their practice as it is only by redrawing the work that hidden aspects are revealed. The practice of drawing offers significantly different insights not easily accessible through discourse analysis critical theory or observation. Using James Stirling JJP Oud Peter Eisenman John Hejduk and Cedric Price as case studies Lucas highlights each architect's creative practices which he anaylses with reference to Bergson's concepts of temporality and cretivity discussing ther manner in which creative problems are explored and solved. The book also draws on a range of anthropological ideas including skilled practice and enchantment in order to explore why axonometrics are important to architecture and questions the degree to which the drawing convention influences the forms produced by architects. With 60 black-and-white images to illustrate design development this book would be an essential read for academics and students of architecture with a particular interest in further understanding the inner workings of the architectural creative process. | Drawing Parallels Knowledge Production in Axonometric Isometric and Oblique Drawings

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Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe Studies in the Production Collection and Use of Mathematical Books

Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe Studies in the Production Collection and Use of Mathematical Books

Libraries and archives contain many thousands of early modern mathematical books of which almost equally many bear readers’ marks ranging from deliberate annotations and accidental blots to corrections and underlinings. Such evidence provides us with the material and intellectual tools for exploring the nature of mathematical reading and the ways in which mathematics was disseminated and assimilated across different social milieus in the early centuries of print culture. Other evidence is important too as the case studies collected in the volume document. Scholarly correspondence can help us understand the motives and difficulties in producing new printed texts library catalogues can illuminate collection practices while manuscripts can teach us more about textual traditions. By defining and illuminating the distinctive world of early modern mathematical reading the volume seeks to close the gap between the history of mathematics as a history of texts and history of mathematics as part of the broader history of human culture. | Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe Studies in the Production Collection and Use of Mathematical Books

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Political Economy of Contemporary Italy The Economic Crisis and State Intervention

Political Economy of Contemporary Italy The Economic Crisis and State Intervention

Drawing on Kaleckian and Kaldorian approaches Political Economy of Contemporary Italy: The Economic Crisis and State Intervention explores the reasons behind the stagnation of the Italian economy from the 1970s and suggests policy solutions to ease the crisis. The central thesis of the book is that from the early 1990s Italy experienced a constant reduction of both private and public investment which combined with increasing labour precariousness and wage moderation contributed to the decline of both labour productivity and economic growth. It is argued that lack of industrial policies amplified the problem of the poor macroeconomic performance since Italian firms – small-sized and non-innovating – were incapable of staying competitive on the global scene. Net exports did not compensate for the decline of public spending private investment and consumption. It is also shown that in these respects Italy presents an interesting case study with wider ramifications for it was involved in the global process of intensifying the neoliberal agenda but at a faster rate than other OECD countries. The book concludes with a call for an alternative economic policy in order to promote innovation reduce unemployment and stimulate economic growth. This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on the recent history of the European economy Italian studies and the history of economic thought. | Political Economy of Contemporary Italy The Economic Crisis and State Intervention

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Quality Telefantasy How US Quality TV Brought Zombies Dragons and Androids into the Mainstream

Quality Telefantasy How US Quality TV Brought Zombies Dragons and Androids into the Mainstream

This book explores the relatively new genre of ‘Quality Telefantasy’ and how it has broadened TV taste cultures by legitimating and mainstreaming fantastical content. It also shows how the rising popularity of this genre marks a distinct and significant development in what kinds of TV are culturally dominant and critically regarded. By expanding and building on the definition of US Quality TV this book brings together a number of popular science fiction fantasy and horror TV series including Game of Thrones The Walking Dead and Westworld as case studies which demonstrate the emergence of the Quality Telefantasy genre. It looks at the role of technology including internet recap culture and subscription video on demand distribution in Quality Telefantasy’s swift emergence and analyses its success internationally by considering series created outside the US like Kingdom (South Korea Netflix) and Dark (Germany Netflix). The book argues that Quality Telefantasy series should be considered a part of the larger Quality TV super-genre and that the impact they are having on the global TV landscape warrants further investigation as it continues to evolve. This is a valuable text for students and scholars studying or undertaking research in the areas of television studies new media and pop-cultural studies. | Quality Telefantasy How US Quality TV Brought Zombies Dragons and Androids into the Mainstream

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Working with Theories of Refusal and Decolonization in Higher Education

Working with Theories of Refusal and Decolonization in Higher Education

This volume argues that refusal is a viable political ethics in education. It is an ethics that allows space for new possibilities to emerge with the potential to enrich higher education study and pedagogies in the future. Chapters examine the ethical epistemological political and affective premises of refusing the colonial university and reflect upon what refusal means for higher education decolonization across international settings. Refusal marks a political ethos and praxis that denies resists reframes and redirects colonial and neoliberal logics while asserting diverse sovereignties and lifeworlds. Whereas resistance may reinscribe the weakness of the colonized in the power relations with the colonizer refusal interrupts the smooth operation of power relations denying the authority of the settler state and remaking the rules of engagement. It is a political stance and action that denies the very legitimacy of power over the subjugated. This collection views refusal not as an end in itself nor as a mode of critique but as a necessary first step for educators and students in higher education to invest in the idea of radically different modes of futurity. It explores how educators and students in higher education can invent pedagogies of refusal that function ethically affectively and politically and asks: What do pedagogies of refusal look like? How might western universities sustain and support refusal rather than discipline it? What assumptions are sustained by ruling out certain educational futures as out of bounds or impossible? This book will be important reading for researchers scholars and educators in Decolonizing Education Higher Education Transformation and Philosophy of Education. It will also be valuable to policymakers and activists who are considering how refusal might be carried out within and outside institutions. | Working with Theories of Refusal and Decolonization in Higher Education

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Pricing Carbon Emissions Economic Reality and Utopia

Pricing Carbon Emissions Economic Reality and Utopia

Pricing Carbon Emissions provides an economic critique on the utopian idea of a uniform carbon price for addressing rising carbon emissions exposing the flaws in the economic propositions with a key focus on the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS). After an Executive Summary of the contents the chapters build up understanding of orthodox economics’ role in protecting the neoliberal paradigm. A salient case the ETS is successful in shielding the Business-as-Usual activities of the EU’s industry however this book argues that the system fails in creating innovation for decarbonizing production technologies. A subsequent political economy analysis by the author points to the discursive power of giant fossil fuel and electricity companies keeping up a façade of Cap-and-Trade utopia and hiding the reality of free permit donations and administrative price control concealing financial bills mostly paid by household electricity customers. The twilights between reality and utopia in the EU’s ETS are exposed concluding an immediate end of the system is necessary for effective and just climate policy. The work argues that the proposition of shifting to a global uniform carbon tax is equally utopian. In practice a uniform price applied on heterogeneous cases is not a source of benefits but one of ad-hoc adjustments exceptions and exemptions. Carbon pricing does not induce innovation however assumed by the economic models used by IPCC for advising global climate policy. Thus it is persuasively demonstrated by the author that these schemes are doomed to failure and room and resources need to be created for more effective and just climate politics. The book’s conclusion is based on economic arguments complementing the critique of political scientists. This book is written for a broad audience interested in climate policy eager to understand why decarbonizing progress is slow as it is. It marks a significant addition to the literature on climate politics carbon pricing and the political economy of the environment more broadly. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Pricing Carbon Emissions Economic Reality and Utopia

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Bisexual and Pansexual Identities Exploring and Challenging Invisibility and Invalidation

Bisexual and Pansexual Identities Exploring and Challenging Invisibility and Invalidation

This book explores the invisibility and invalidation of bisexuality from the past to the present and is unique in extending the discussion to focus on contemporary and emerging identities. Nikki Hayfield draws on research from psychology and the social sciences to offer a detailed and in-depth exploration of the invisibility and invalidation of bisexuality pansexuality and asexuality. The book discusses how early sexologists’ understood gender and sexuality within a binary model and how this provided the underpinnings of bisexual invisibility. The existing research on biphobia and bisexual marginalisation is synthesised to explore how bisexuality has often been invisible or invalidated. Hayfield then evidences clear examples of the invisibility and invalidation of bisexuality pansexuality and asexuality within education employment mainstream mass media and the wider culture. Throughout the book there is consideration of the impact that this invisibility and invalidation has on people’s sense of identity and on their health and wellbeing. It concludes with a discussion of how bisexuality pansexuality and asexuality have become somewhat more visible than in the past and the potential that visibility holds for recognition and representation. This is fascinating reading for students and academics interested in in bisexuality pansexuality and asexual spectrum identities and for those who have a personal interest in bisexuality pansexuality and asexuality. | Bisexual and Pansexual Identities Exploring and Challenging Invisibility and Invalidation

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Bear Cookin' The Original Guide to Bear Comfort Foods

Bear Cookin' The Original Guide to Bear Comfort Foods

Please DO feed the bears! Bear Cookin': The Original Guide to Bear Comfort Foods takes a good-natured approach to good eating presenting home-style recipes with a light-hearted touch. Aimed at husky hairy gay men—and their admirers—the book presents convenient and satisfying recipes for anyone who loves to cook—and eat! Bear Cookin' includes helpful hints “tributes” to favorite foods and meal suggestions for breakfast lunch dinner—and everything in between—that are guaranteed to please burly bears with big appetites. From lip-smacking snacks to belt-loosening main courses Bear Cookin’ is stuffed with easy-to-follow recipes for the hearty and delicious comfort foods bears crave: burgers meatloaf biscuits with sausage gravy pasta potatoes beans muffins and bread cheesecake puddings and pies and homemade ice cream. Collected from family and friends and perfect for summer picnic baskets or winter “hibernation” dinners these filling and flavorful recipes are presented with the love for good food that makes life worth living. Bear Cookin' includes recipes for: (Touch My) Monkey Bread What-A-Crock Pot Stew What’s It All About … Alfredo Polar Bear Chili Fur-ocious Pot Roast and odes to the wonders of Cool Whip® Bisquick® and Velveeta®! Bear Cookin': The Original Guide to Bear Comfort Foods also includes serving ideas and suggestions for making the best use of your cooking utensils. This book is a wonderful addition to any kitchen—bear or otherwise! | Bear Cookin' The Original Guide to Bear Comfort Foods

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Globalization and Politics Promises and Dangers

Globalization and Politics Promises and Dangers

Globalization and Politics brings together vision and imaginative insight to the analysis of the evolution of inter-state politics to produce a clear comprehensive and coherent sense of how globalization works and how it might work better. The study looks upon globalization as a distinct set of phenomena - energy economy environment and politics - all of which interact. Presenting opportunities for interdependency and governance globalization offers both dangers and promises which explains why it is equally feared and praised. Globalization is an economic trend with strong spillovers and as such has become a political trend with cultural implications. This volume is an invaluable highly readable new text for graduate and undergraduate courses. It sets out the key challenges for globalization in the 21st century and looks at the challenges responses and risks of globalization. It is required reading for analysts students and professionals who want to understand what's at stake in the globalization debate. | Globalization and Politics Promises and Dangers

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