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An International Perspective An International Perspective

An International Perspective An International Perspective

While the health effects of many aspects of life from diet to marital status have been extensively explored little study has been made of the health effects of work. Covering such topics as on-the-job dangers the role of unions in worker protection and occupational health in both developed and developing countries this collection of articles conclusively demonstrates the negative impact that neglect of citizens' working lives has on pubic health. With more Americans dying each year from job-related causes than were killed in a decade of combat in Vietnam Health and Work Under Capitalism is a long-overdue and unusually significant book. | An International Perspective An International Perspective

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The British Empire and the First World War

The British Empire and the First World War

The British Empire played a crucial part in the First World War supplying hundreds of thousands of soldiers and labourers as well as a range of essential resources from foodstuffs to minerals mules and munitions. In turn many imperial territories were deeply affected by wartime phenomena such as inflation food shortages combat and the presence of large numbers of foreign troops. This collection offers a comprehensive selection of essays illuminating the extent of the Empire’s war contribution and experience and the richness of scholarly research on the subject. Whether supporting British military operations aiding the British imperial economy or experiencing significant wartime effects on the home fronts of the Empire the war had a profound impact on the colonies and their people. The chapters in this volume were originally published in Australian Historical Studies The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History First World War Studies or The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs. | The British Empire and the First World War

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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Flags Football and the NFL’s “Foxy” Patriotism Problem

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Flags Football and the NFL’s “Foxy” Patriotism Problem

This book examines how the game of football and militarism have historically overlapped due to their shared celebration of strength might and besting a clear and definitive foe. Nevertheless since September 11 a variety of staged patriotic vignettes dominated most NFL broadcasts giving the once easy and unforced union a stilted feel. That the War on Terror became a fixture of modern- day Super Bowls was easy to portend; what was more difficult to predict was the imprint it would leave on U. S. citizens and American politics. Ben Fountain’s award-winning novel Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk reveals what passes for patriotism in a country that has reduced the sober and stark reality of combat to pageantry and production for the crowd back home leaving our troops to unwittingly play the part of entertainers destined to be sexualized just like the cheerleaders and dancers so frequently performing alongside them. | Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Flags Football and the NFL’s “Foxy” Patriotism Problem

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Forging Pathways to Improvise Music For Classical Jazz Comedic and Church Musicians

Forging Pathways to Improvise Music For Classical Jazz Comedic and Church Musicians

A step-by-step resource on forging one’s own pathway to improvise music this book guides the musician through a clear and simple method that will easily translate to the reader’s genre of choice. Many musicians struggle with improvisation. Coincidentally educators also find it challenging to integrate improvisation into curriculum. This book breaks down the barriers most performers and educators combat in the learning and teaching of improvisation and is a helpful approach to demystify the complicated sphere of music improvisation. Divided into three sections the first part of the book helps the reader develop an improvisatorial mindset to mentally conceive musical ideas regardless of genre. The second portion then connects the improviser’s mindset to translating those ideas into a compelling musical performance in real time. The book’s final third assists the reader with discovering how to apply this method of improvisation to the nuanced liturgical comedic jazz and classical styles. Forging Pathways to Improvise Music offers a practical introduction to improvisational methods essential for educators students and musicians of diverse educational backgrounds and musical genres. | Forging Pathways to Improvise Music For Classical Jazz Comedic and Church Musicians

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Routledge Handbook of Human Rights and Climate Governance

Routledge Handbook of Human Rights and Climate Governance

Over the last decade the world has increasingly grappled with the complex linkages emerging between efforts to combat climate change and to protect human rights around the world. The Paris Climate Agreement adopted in December 2015 recognized the necessity for governments to take into consideration their human rights obligations when taking climate action. However important gaps remain in understanding how human rights can be used in practice to develop and implement effective and equitable solutions to climate change at multiple levels of governance. This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to offer a timely and comprehensive analysis of the opportunities and challenges for integrating human rights in diverse areas and forms of global climate governance. The first half of the book explores how human rights principles and obligations can be used to reconceive climate governance and shape responses to particular aspects of climate change. The second half of the book identifies lessons in the integration of human rights in climate advocacy and governance and sets out future directions in this burgeoning domain. Featuring a diverse range of contributors and case studies this Handbook will be an essential resource for students scholars practitioners and policy makers with an interest in climate law and governance human rights and international environmental law. | Routledge Handbook of Human Rights and Climate Governance

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Emotional and Cognitive Overload The Dark Side of Information Technology

Emotional and Cognitive Overload The Dark Side of Information Technology

We live in a world of limitless information. With technology advancing at an astonishingly fast pace we are challenged to adapt to robotics and automated systems that threaten to replace us. Both at home and at work an endless range of devices and Information Technology (IT) systems place demands upon our attention that human beings have never experienced before but are our brains capable of processing it all? In this important new book an in-depth view is taken of IT's under-studied dark side and its dire consequences on individuals organizations and society. With theoretical underpinnings from the fields of cognitive psychology management and information systems the idea of brain overload is defined and explored from its impact on our decision-making and memory to how we may cope with the resultant 'technostress'. Discussing the negative consequences of technology on work substitution technologically induced work-family conflicts and organizational design as well as the initiatives set up to combat these the authors go on to propose measurement approaches for capturing the entangled aspects of IT-related overload. Concluding on an upbeat note the book's final chapter explores emerging technologies that can illuminate our world when mindfully managed. Designed to better equip humans for dealing with new technologies supported by case studies and also exploring the idea of 'IT addiction' the book concludes by asking how IT processes may aid rather than hinder our cognitive functioning. This is essential reading for anyone interested in how we function in the digital age. | Emotional and Cognitive Overload The Dark Side of Information Technology

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Accounting Irregularities in Financial Statements A Definitive Guide for Litigators Auditors and Fraud Investigators

Accounting Irregularities in Financial Statements A Definitive Guide for Litigators Auditors and Fraud Investigators

Accounting irregularities are at the heart of those kinds of frauds that hit financial statements and include misstatement misclassification as well as misrepresentation. In essence they involve manipulation of accounting data description or disclosure in order to distort the true financial picture of the organization in question. This book provides an in-depth practical reference designed for litigators investigators auditors accountants and other professionals who need to understand and combat accounting irregularities and to uphold the integrity of financial statements. Regulators will find this book an essential source of ideas and references when considering reforms. Educators and students will see this book as an alternative inspiring way of understanding accounting and how to stay alert for accounting irregularities. The first two chapters introduce the basics of accounting irregularities in the context of the financial reporting environments and generally accepted accounting principles in the UK and Hong Kong. Perpetrators often seek ways to creating financial illusions in four common directions - selling more costing less owning more and owing less as discussed in Chapters 3 to 6. The seventh chapter considers various ways that perpetrators manipulate the classification and disclosure of financial statements. Chapter 8 explores three scenarios of accounting irregularities - tax evasion theft and commercial dispute. The concluding chapter sets out the deterrents to accounting irregularities in two dimensions. At the micro-level deterrents are implemented within the authority of the organization in question whilst the macro-level deterrents refer to the external environment beyond the controls of any individual organization. | Accounting Irregularities in Financial Statements A Definitive Guide for Litigators Auditors and Fraud Investigators

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Naval Presence and the Interwar US Navy and Marine Corps Forward Deployment Crisis Response and the Tyranny of History

Naval Presence and the Interwar US Navy and Marine Corps Forward Deployment Crisis Response and the Tyranny of History

This book examines the US Navy and Marine Corps during the interwar years from a new perspective. Rather than focusing on the technologies developed the wargames conducted or the results of the now famous Fleet Problems this work analyzes the global deployments of the rest of the US fleet. By examining the annual reports of the Secretary of the Navy the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps over 20 years the book traces the US ships squadrons and fleets conducting naval diplomacy and humanitarian missions maritime security patrols and deployments for deterrent effect across the world’s oceans. Despite the common label of the interwar years as isolationist the deployments of the US Navy and Marine Corps in that period were anything but isolated. The majority of the literature on the era has a narrow focus on preparation for combat and wartime which provides an incomplete view of the history of US naval power and also establishes a misleading set of precedents and historical context for naval thinkers and strategists in the contemporary world. Offering a wider and more complete understanding of the history of the U. S. Navy and Marine Corps from 1920 to 1939 this book demonstrates the tension between the execution of peacetime missions and the preparation for the next war while also offering a broader understanding of American naval forces and their role in American and global history. This book will be of much interest to students of naval and military history sea power and International History. | Naval Presence and the Interwar US Navy and Marine Corps Forward Deployment Crisis Response and the Tyranny of History

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Financial Crimes A Threat to Global Security

Financial Crimes A Threat to Global Security

Financial market reform has focused chiefly on the threats to stability arising from the risky uncontrolled activity of the leaders of financial institutions. Nevertheless organized crime white-collar crime and corruption have a huge impact on financial systems worldwide and must also be confronted if true reform is to be achieved. A collection of articles written by experts in their fields of study Financial Crimes: A Threat to Global Security spotlights the importance of addressing the problem of illegal financial activity as part of a greater comprehensive plan for reforming the financial sector. Drawn from the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) held in Vienna the book explores the major themes discussed at this elite symposium. In the first section the contributors examine changing concepts in security over the course of history and across nations. They discuss how an event in Austria led to the implementation of a new security philosophy that is now followed by the majority of the European Union. The book examines the diverse models of preventing security threats that have grown from that idea as well as the gradual expansion of the role of the security council of the United Nations. The next section analyzes the present state of security worldwide and examines the wide array of criminal activity that plagues the financial sector. Expert contributors reveal methods to identify certain types of behavior and criminals as well as efforts to combat illegal activity—including the role of the media. The final section investigates alternative approaches to preventing another worldwide financial disaster through investigative reporting human factors analysis legislative initiatives and other methods. Filled with insight from international experts the book highlights both the warning signs to illegal activity as well as the mos | Financial Crimes A Threat to Global Security

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Global Trafficking in Women and Children

Global Trafficking in Women and Children

War poverty and famine; political social and economic change; and the deep seated views and rituals rooted in a culture’s history and traditions all contribute to the widespread and growing trafficking of women and children. The multilayered complexity myriad contributing factors enormous amount of money involved and sheer magnitude of the problem render it impossible to solve with the fractured and isolated measures of individual organizations and countries. Only complete cooperation and collaboration at all levels can establish the most proactive and self-sustaining approach to reduce this global crime. Gathering knowledge and experience from more than 40 countries Global Trafficking in Women and Children clearly demonstrates the scale and spread of the problem providing a powerful analysis of the circumstances that contribute to the abuse and victimization of women and children as well as the international policies and strategies used to combat this crime. Divided into two parts the book begins with an introduction to the definition nature and scope of human trafficking. It discusses several social theories as well as evident environmental influences. It also examines measures to control and prevent human trafficking from stricter laws and monetary aid to global community and law enforcement collaboration. Part 2 consists of case studies drawing examples from a range of countries involved in every stage in the process and highlighting the unique characteristics of human trafficking in each. Chapters include the prevalence of child pornography in Japan child abduction in China bonded child labor in India and child soldiering in Congo (Zaire) and other African countries. The final chapters discuss law enforcement in the US and UK community policing in Australia and the cooperative national plan in place in Croatia.

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Myth and Madness The Psychodynamics of Anti-Semitism

Myth and Madness The Psychodynamics of Anti-Semitism

The persistence of anti-Semitism and its current resurgence after a brief post-Holocaust suppression challenge those who study human behavior to locate the causal bases of anti-Semitism and find approaches to combat it. This is an astonishing report of a nine-year study of the psychodynamics of anti-Semitism. Undertaken by Dr. Mortimer Ostow on behalf of the Psychoanalytic Research and Development Fund it puts flesh and bones on the discussion of antisemitism in Sigmund Freud's 1939 classic theoretical study Moses and Monotheism. Its close adherence to case material and application of psychoanalytic theory to historical data and cultural products yields new insights into bigotry and equity alike. By examining prejudiced patients and their myths Dr. Ostow shows the common threads of anti-Semitism in a variety of national and cultural settings even under supposed optimal conditions when antisemitism is stringently controlled. The work uses the psychiatric approach and can be read as a study of how this area of behavioral science reveals the interplay of the individual and the group cultural background and material opportunities. The book is divided into five major segments: Psychoanalytic interpretation of anti-Semitism in the past; clinical data on anti-Semitic sentiments in a variety of personal and national settings; mythological dimensions of anti-Semitism and apocalyptic doctrines; specific anti-Semitic myths including pre-Christian early and medieval Christian racial and post-modern Muslim anti-Semitism. The final segment focuses on the pogrom mentality including the Nazi phenomenon antisemitic fundamentalism and black anti-Semitism. Myth and Madness is informed by an amazing breadth of learning: from biblical exegesis to modern sociology from close attention to mundane patients to evaluating mythic claims of the loftiest and at times most dangerous sort. This is a landmark effort one that will be the touchstone for theoretical and clinical works to come. | Myth and Madness The Psychodynamics of Anti-Semitism

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