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Foundations and Public Policy

The Mask of Pluralism

By: Joan Roelofs

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In this pathbreaking study of foundation influence, author Joan Roelofs produces a comprehensive picture of philanthropy's critical role in society. She shows how a vast number of policy innovations have arisen from the most important foundations, lessening the destructive impact of global "marketization." Conversely, groups and movements that might challenge the status quo are nudged into line with grants and technical assistance, and foundations also have considerable power to shape such things as public opinion, higher education, and elite ideology. The cumulative effect is that foundations, despite their progressive goals, have a depoliticizing effect, one that preserves the hegemony of neoliberal institutions.

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State University of New York Press

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Foundations and Public Policy

The Mask of Pluralism

By: Joan Roelofs

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The Mask of Pluralism

By: Joan Roelofs

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The Trillion Dollar Silencer

Why There Is So Little Anti-War Protest in the United States

By: Joan Roelofs

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The Trillion Dollar Silencer

Why There Is So Little Anti-War Protest in the United States

By: Joan Roelofs

The Trillion Dollar Silencer investigates the astounding lack of popular protest at the death and destruction that the military industrial complex is inflicting on people, nations, and the environment, and its budget-draining costs. Where is the antiwar protest by progressives, libertarians, environmentalists, civil rights advocates, academics, clergy, community volunteers, artists, et al? This book will focus on how military largesse infests such public sectors’ interests. Contractors and bases serve as the economic hubs of their regions. State and local governments are intertwined with the DoD; some states have Military Departments. National Guard annual subsidies are large. Joint projects include aid to state environmental departments for restoration, and government-environmental organization teams to create buffer zones for bombing ranges. Economic development commissions aim to attract military industries and keep the existing bases and corporations. Veterans Administration hospitals are boons to their communities. Universities, colleges, and faculty get contracts and grants from the DoD and its agencies, such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The Minerva Initiative. Reserve Officers' Training Corps programs are subsidized by the DoD. Civilian jobs in the DoD provide opportunities for scientists, engineers, policy analysts, and others. Every kind of business and nonprofit, including environmental and charitable organizations like The Nature Conservancy and Goodwill Industries feeds at the DoD trough via contracts and grants. Individuals, arts institutions, charities, churches, and universities succumb to the profitability of military-related investments. Pension funds of public and private employees are replete with military stocks. Philanthropy is another silencer. The DoD itself donates equipment to organizations, especially those of youth, and lends equipped battalions to Hollywood. The weapons firms give generously to the arts and charities, heavily to youth and minorities. They also initiate joint programs such as providing tutors and mentors for robotics teams in public schools. Our militarized economy is destructive and wasteful. How can we replace the multitude of dependencies on military funding and restore the boundary between it and civil society? Surely a first step is to see how military spending results in the complicity of civil society in its pernicious outcomes. That is what this book tries to reveal.

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1949762629

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Negotiating a Good Death

Euthanasia in the Netherlands

By: Carlton Muson,Joan K Perry

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Negotiating a Good Death

Euthanasia in the Netherlands

By: Carlton Muson,Joan K Perry

Should human beings be allowed to decide when to die? Should doctors be allowed to assist them?During the last ten years there has been much international interest in euthanasia in the Netherlands. In the discussion of euthanasia in the US and the UK, both sides in the debate continually refer to the “Dutch Experience”. Negotiating a Good Death: Euthanasia in the Netherlands presents firsthand descriptions of euthanasia in practice in the Netherlands--something that has never been done before. This will provide a deeper understanding of the issues involved for all those interested in end-of-life decisions. It will also help clinicians and other medical professionals better understand end-of-life decision making.Negotiating a Good Death is the first inside account of how decisions about euthanasia are made in real-life situations. Documenting two years of observations at a Dutch hospital, this valuable book describes why patients request euthanasia, the social factors that influence doctors’decisions about granting patients’requests, and how patients and doctors confer over peaceful deaths. Some aspects of this delicate, often hidden, and socially taboo subject that Negotiating a Good Death frankly discusses are: the emotions that lead to a wish for death the ideology of easy death the anthropology of death the role of the researcher the line between symptom alleviation and euthanasia where the responsibility lies conservative options for medical personnel how to speak to relatives of someone who has requested euthanasia euthanasia as a cultural construct Through case studies and examples, Negotiating a Good Death: Euthanasia in the Netherlands will help you understand the issues surrounding euthanasia and how life-ending decisions are made by both doctors and patients.

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Routledge

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113541405X

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Negotiating a Good Death

Euthanasia in the Netherlands

By: Joan K Parry,Carlton Munson

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Negotiating a Good Death

Euthanasia in the Netherlands

By: Joan K Parry,Carlton Munson

Social Work Theory and Practice with the Terminally Ill, second edition, takes a compassionate look at ways that social workers can help dying people and their families. The social workers who work most effectively with terminally ill patients and their families are the ones who best understand the multifaceted nature of the dying process and its impact on the the patient, the family, and even on the health care professionals who work with patients at the end of life. Dr. Parry--who specializes in dying and bereavement--offers astute observations on the stages of dealing with the diagnosis of a terminal illness and the impending death that patients and their families confront. This updated second edition provides valuable new information on ways that social workers can help those with AIDS and their families, on traumatic death from any cause, and on the grieving processes of parents.Social Work Theory and Practice with the Terminally Ill, second edition, also includes stimulating discussions on: the interdisciplinary health team the grieving process professional burnout how social workers adapt to working with dying patients euthanasia and physician-assisted dying living wills and patients’rights In touching case studies, this volume illustrates the particular needs and concerns of the terminally ill and their families--impending losses, financial worries, job concerns, pain, unfinished business, and spiritual needs--and reviews successful interventions used by social workers to help patients and their families work through the dying process.

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1317789105

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The Trillion Dollar Silencer

Why There Is So Little Anti-War Protest in the United States

By: Joan Roelofs

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Why There Is So Little Anti-War Protest in the United States

By: Joan Roelofs

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All the Best Contests for Kids

By: Joan M. Bergstrom

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All the Best Contests for Kids

By: Joan M. Bergstrom

Provides information about various types of contests and how to decide which are the best to enter. Also includes ideas for sponsoring and running contests.

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0898156041

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The Art of Joan Brown

By: Karen Tsujimoto,Jacquelynn Baas,Joan Brown,University of California, Berkeley. University Art Museum,Oakland Museum of California

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The Art of Joan Brown

By: Karen Tsujimoto,Jacquelynn Baas,Joan Brown,University of California, Berkeley. University Art Museum,Oakland Museum of California

Examines the California artist's life and work, offering reproductions of many of her pieces

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Univ of California Press

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0520214692

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9780520214699

In the Shadow a Shadow

The Work of Joan Jonas

By: Joan Simon,Joan Jonas,Johanna Burton,Douglas Crimp

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In the Shadow a Shadow

The Work of Joan Jonas

By: Joan Simon,Joan Jonas,Johanna Burton,Douglas Crimp

A career-spanning monograph of the multimedia pioneer Joan Jonas (1936- ) that covers more than 40 years of performances, films, videos, installations, texts and video sculptures

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555

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Gregory R Miller & Company

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0980024285

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9780980024289

Joan Jonas

They Come to Us Without a Word

By: Joan Jonas,Ann Morris Reynolds,Ingrid Schaffner,Marina Warner

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Joan Jonas

They Come to Us Without a Word

By: Joan Jonas,Ann Morris Reynolds,Ingrid Schaffner,Marina Warner

This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Joan Jonas: They Come to Us without a Word, United States Pavilion, organized by the MIT List Visual Arts Center for the 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.

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1941366074

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Foundations and Public Policy

Foundations and Public Policy

Foundations and Public Policy

Foundations and Public Policy

The Trillion Dollar Silencer

The Trillion Dollar Silencer

Negotiating a Good Death

Negotiating a Good Death

Negotiating a Good Death

Negotiating a Good Death

The Trillion Dollar Silencer

The Trillion Dollar Silencer

All the Best Contests for Kids

All the Best Contests for Kids

The Art of Joan Brown

The Art of Joan Brown

In the Shadow a Shadow

In the Shadow a Shadow

Joan Jonas

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