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IT-Security and Privacy

Design and Use of Privacy-Enhancing Security Mechanisms

By: Simone Fischer-Hübner

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IT-Security and Privacy

Design and Use of Privacy-Enhancing Security Mechanisms

By: Simone Fischer-Hübner

Invasion of privacy and misuse of personal data are among the most obvious negative effects of today's information and communication technologies. Besides technical issues from a variety of fields, privacy legislation, depending on national activities and often lacking behind technical progress, plays an important role in designing, implementing, and using privacy-enhancing systems. Taking into account technical aspects from IT security, this book presents in detail a formal task-based privacy model which can be used to technically enforce legal privacy requirements. Furthermore, the author specifies how the privacy model policy has been implemented together with other security policies in accordance with the Generalized Framework for Access Control (GFAC). This book will appeal equally to R&D professionals and practitioners active in IT security and privacy, advanced students, and IT managers.

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3540451501

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Deadpool Classic Vol. 10

By: Gail Simone,Buddy Scalera,Evan Dorkin,Daniel Way

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Deadpool Classic Vol. 10

By: Gail Simone,Buddy Scalera,Evan Dorkin,Daniel Way

Collects Agent X #7-15, Fight-Man #1.

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Marvel Entertainment

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1302439685

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9781302439682

Making Sense of the Holocaust

Lessons from Classroom Practice

By: Simone Schweber

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Making Sense of the Holocaust

Lessons from Classroom Practice

By: Simone Schweber

What lessons are conveyed implicitly and explicity in teaching and learning about the Holocaust? Through case studies, the author reflects on the lessons taught, highlighting strengths and missed opportunities and illuminating important implications for the teaching of other historical episodes.

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Teachers College Press

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0807744352

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Urban Violence

Security, Imaginary, Atmosphere

By: Andrea Pavoni,Simone Tulumello

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Urban Violence

Security, Imaginary, Atmosphere

By: Andrea Pavoni,Simone Tulumello

Urban violence still has a peculiar standing within social and urban research. This book works to unpack the link between urban, violence, and security with three main arguments. The first is that urban violence is under-theorized because long-term theoretical problems with both of its elements (‘urban’ and ‘violence’). The second is to answer these questions: (1) how can violence be conceptualized in a way that opens to an understanding of the specificity of urban violence? (2) What is the urban in urban violence? And (3) How can ‘urban’ and ‘violence’ be articulated in a way that makes urban violence a category with both analytical and strategic power? The third, and central, argument of this book is that, through a genealogy that articulates political economic and vital materialism, urban violence can ultimately be framed as a precise category shaped by three interlocking trajectories: the process of (capitalist) urbanization, the spatio-political project of the urban, and the concrete urban atmospheres in and through which the process and the project materialize, often violently so, in the urban.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793637318

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9781793637314

Greening the Alliance

The Diplomacy of NATO's Science and Environmental Initiatives

By: Simone Turchetti

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Greening the Alliance

The Diplomacy of NATO's Science and Environmental Initiatives

By: Simone Turchetti

Following the launch of Sputnik, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization became a prominent sponsor of scientific research in its member countries, a role it retained until the end of the Cold War. As NATO marks sixty years since the establishment of its Science Committee, the main organizational force promoting its science programs, Greening the Alliance is the first book to chart NATO’s scientific patronage—and the motivations behind it—from the organization’s early days to the dawn of the twenty-first century. Drawing on previously unseen documents from NATO’s own archives, Simone Turchetti reveals how its investments were rooted in the alliance’s defense and surveillance needs, needs that led it to establish a program prioritizing environmental studies. A long-overlooked and effective diplomacy exercise, NATO’s “greening” at one point constituted the organization’s chief conduit for negotiating problematic relations between allies. But while Greening the Alliance explores this surprising coevolution of environmental monitoring and surveillance, tales of science advisers issuing instructions to bomb oil spills with napalm or Dr. Strangelove–like experts eager to divert the path of hurricanes with atomic weapons make it clear: the coexistence of these forces has not always been harmonious. Reflecting on this rich, complicated legacy in light of contemporary global challenges like climate change, Turchetti offers both an eye-opening history of international politics and environmental studies and a thoughtful assessment of NATO’s future.

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University of Chicago Press

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022659579X

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9780226595795

Banking in Europe

The Quest for Profitability after the Great Financial Crisis

By: Mariarosa Borroni,Simone Rossi

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Banking in Europe

The Quest for Profitability after the Great Financial Crisis

By: Mariarosa Borroni,Simone Rossi

This Palgrave Pivot provides a comprehensive overview of the dynamics that are affecting the profitability of European banks since the recent crisis period. More specifically, it sheds light on the most crucial changes in profit generation and on the consequential changes in banking strategies due to fiercer competition, reduced margin and changing regulation. The work is divided in four main parts. The first section introduces the changes in bank management policies, considering the periods before and since the crisis. In the second section, the authors review the literature on bank profitability and outline the main determinants of profit generation, and in the third section they provide a cross-country analysis of profitability for a wide sample of European banks during the great financial crisis. In the last section, the authors discuss the results of the quantitative analysis under the new regulatory and competitive framework that is progressively affecting the banking sector (fintech, Basel regulations, etc.). This book will be of interest to academics, researchers and students of European banking.

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Springer

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3030150135

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9783030150136

Deadpool Classic Vol. 9

By: Gail Simone

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Deadpool Classic Vol. 9

By: Gail Simone

Collects Deadpool (1997) #65-69, Agent X #1-6. When Deadpool crosses paths with the Black Swan, the telepathic villain infects Wade with a virus that eats away at his mind. Can Deadpool overcome his degenerating thought processes and continue his merc work? No, probably not. Plus, Deadpool is hired to steal the Rhino's horn and protect Dazzler, and gathers new allies Sandi Brandenberg, Ratbag, Outlaw and the Taskmaster. But when a showdown with the Black Swan goes wrong, who - if anyone - will survive?

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Marvel Entertainment

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1302432834

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9781302432836

Participation by hard-of-hearing students in integration classrooms: Facets of interactional competence

By: Simone Girard-Groeber

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Participation by hard-of-hearing students in integration classrooms: Facets of interactional competence

By: Simone Girard-Groeber

A growing number of deaf and hard-of-hearing students attend regular classrooms where they face specific opportunities and challenges concerning their participation. This book focuses on plurilingual (spoken and sign language) adolescents in partial integration, who are supported by a teaching assistant in the spoken language classrooms. How does the presence of an assistant shape the students’ participation and the overall classroom interaction? How do the students design their engagement in classroom activities and how do they negotiate their hearing and understanding, which are particularly at risk for them? Managing these tasks calls for the participants’ interactional competence, which is observed on the basis of their multimodal practices including verbal and non-verbal resources.

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Frank & Timme GmbH

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3732904334

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9783732904334

Sport Design

Four Elements

By: Simone K. Schleifer

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Sport Design

Four Elements

By: Simone K. Schleifer

Sport Design presents the newest models and prototypes of well-known designers in the world of sports. Generously illustrated with over 400 color photographs that focus exclusively on the products themselves, the book features equipment organized by sports corresponding to each of the four elements: "Earth" represents soccer, handball, and basketball equipment for example, "Water" features swimming equipment, and so on through sections entitled "Wind" and "Snow & Ice". Sport Design has been compiled by an editorial team closely connected to the world of design and will be of great appeal to sports enthusiasts and designers of every stripe. The línea editorial team has edited several design books for publishing houses on both sides of the Atlantic ILLUSTRATIONS 200 colour photos

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teNeues

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3823845624

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9783823845621

The Bachelor's Promise

By: Naima Simone

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The Bachelor's Promise

By: Naima Simone

If Noelle Rana wants to move forward with her life, she has to make a deal with the devil—devastatingly gorgeous, broody millionaire Aiden Kent. He made a promise years ago, and she’s come to collect, even if it means facing down the only man who ever broke her heart. And there's a really good chance he'll do it again. Aiden never expected to see Noelle again, and he’s determined to keep his distance from the beautiful enigma wrapped in denim and leather. He can’t trust anyone with the last name Rana. But he made a promise to his dying mother and he intends to keep it, Except it isn't long before Noelle invades his personal space. Suddenly, he can't stop thinking about the exotic beauty's alluring curves. He wants the daughter of his enemy, and he’s determined to have her...if only for one night Each book in the Bachelor Auction series is a standalone, full-length story that can be enjoyed out of order. Series Order: Book #1 Beauty and the Bachelor Book #2 The Millionaire Makeover Book #3 The Bachelor’s Promise Book #4 A Millionaire at Midnight

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Entangled: Indulgence

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1633756963

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9781633756960

When We Imagine Grace

Black Men and Subject Making

By: Simone C. Drake

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When We Imagine Grace

Black Men and Subject Making

By: Simone C. Drake

Plutarch, the famed Greek biographer, wrote The Lives of the Roman Emperors early in his career. Simone Drake could have called her book The Lives of Black Men. She contrasts the portrayal of black men in mainstream media with the way she insists black men must imagine their lives, ambitions, and desires in both the civic arena and the domestic arena. The narrow popular representation of black men as being in perennial crisis is one she rejects, opting instead to see them as active agents of their own destinies. Her book uncovers the ways in which black men in history, literature, film, political arenas, and popular culture have either challenged or been challenged by pathological constructions of black masculinity. Imagining Grace refers to Toni Morrison s Beloved, a black feminist framework Drake uses to see power in vulnerability and emotivenessfrom Tom Joyner s radio show to Richard Pryor s comedy to some of President Obama s social policy. Drake is synthesizing black feminist and black masculinity studies. Her black lives feature the African American cowboy, Nat Love, also Drake s own grandfather, who imagined grace through military service in the first colored military unit to fight in World War II (what emerges is a narrative of black pride and shame), and thence to movies, where Drake explores the theme of black fathers and daughters (framed by a court case involving The Cosby Show as intellectual property). The chapter that follows, on twisted criminalities, contrasts the valorization of black criminals (thugs) as heroes with the denigration of gay black men, where we encounter the limits of grace in American Gangster, Cornelius Edy s poetry, and the viral video of Antoine Dodson (discussing the attempted rape of his sister). In concluding with Berry Gordy and hi-hop (Jay-Z), Drake meditates on black entrepreneurship as a nationalist site of redemption. We are given in this book a way of seeing and knowing black malenesssophisticated in concept but bracingly vivid in the telling.

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University of Chicago Press

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022636397X

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9780226363974

Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary

Occitan Poetry

By: Anna Klosowska,Valerie Wilhite,Cary Howie,Bill Burgwinkle,Isabel de Riquer,Andreu Comas,Miriam Cabré,Simone Marchesi,Huw Grange,Marion Coderch,Luke Sunderland,Wendy Pfeffer,Virginie Greene

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Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary

Occitan Poetry

By: Anna Klosowska,Valerie Wilhite,Cary Howie,Bill Burgwinkle,Isabel de Riquer,Andreu Comas,Miriam Cabré,Simone Marchesi,Huw Grange,Marion Coderch,Luke Sunderland,Wendy Pfeffer,Virginie Greene

Volume 4 of the journal Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary. Occitan Poetry. Edited by Anna Klosowska and Valerie Wilhite. CONTENTS Valerie M. Wilhite A/ESPIRAR: THE LOST SIGH OF THE TROUBADOUR TRADITION Anna Klosowska INTRODUCTION Cary Howie INEXTRICABLE Bill Burgwinkle RHETORIC AND ETHICS IN SORDELLO'S "ENSENHAMEN D'ONOR" Isabel de Riquier & Andreu Comas FAMILY MATTERS Miriam Cabré WHO ARE CERVERÍ'S WORST ENEMIES? Simone Marchesi DANTE ALIGHIERI, PURGATORIO XXVI.139-148 Huw Grange A MUSICO-LITERARY COMMENTARY ON BERNART DE VENTADORN'S "QUAN VEI LA LAUDETA MOVER" Marion Coderch "LO ROSSINHOLS S'ESBAUDEYA" (70, 29): BERNART DE VENTADORN, COURTLY ETHICS, AND THE CATALAN TRADITION Luke Sunderland MARCABRU IN MOTION: "DIRE VOS VUOILL SES DUPTANSSA" IN CHANSONNIERS A AND C, AND IN MATFRE ERMENGAUD'S BREVIARI D'AMOR Wendy Pfeffer THE PASSION OF OCCITAN Virginie Greene SUITE PROVENÇALE FOR OCARINA, TRIANGLE, AND POWERPOINT Glossator publishes original commentaries, editions and translations of commentaries, and essays and articles relating to the theory and history of commentary, glossing, and marginalia. The journal aims to encourage the practice of commentary as a creative form of intellectual work and to provide a forum for dialogue and reflection on the past, present, and future of this ancient genre of writing. By aligning itself, not with any particular discipline, but with a particular mode of production, Glossator gives expression to the fact that praxis founds theory. GLOSSATOR.ORG

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Glossator

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1461130670

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The Surrounds

Urban Life within and beyond Capture

By: AbdouMaliq Simone

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The Surrounds

Urban Life within and beyond Capture

By: AbdouMaliq Simone

In The Surrounds renowned urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the interface of the urban and the political. Working at the intersection of Black studies, urban theory, and decolonial and Islamic thought, Simone centers the surrounds—those urban spaces beyond control and capture that exist as a locus of rebellion and invention. He shows that even in clearly defined city environments, whether industrial, carceral, administrative, or domestic, residents use spaces for purposes they were not designed for: schools become housing, markets turn into classrooms, tax offices transform into repair shops. The surrounds, Simone contends, are where nothing fits according to design. They are where forgotten and marginalized populations invent new relations and ways of living and being, continuously reshaping what individuals and collectives can do. Focusing less on what new worlds may come to be and more on what people are creating now, Simone shows how the surrounds are an integral part of the expansiveness of urban imagination.

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Duke University Press

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1478022744

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On the Abolition of All Political Parties

By: Simone Weil

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On the Abolition of All Political Parties

By: Simone Weil

An NYRB Classics Original Simone Weil—philosopher, activist, mystic—is one of the most uncompromising of modern spiritual masters. In “On the Abolition of All Political Parties” she challenges the foundation of the modern liberal political order, making an argument that has particular resonance today, when the apathy and anger of the people and the self-serving partisanship of the political class present a threat to democracies all over the world. Dissecting the dynamic of power and propaganda caused by party spirit, the increasing disregard for truth in favor of opinion, and the consequent corruption of education, journalism, and art, Weil forcefully makes the case that a true politics can only begin where party spirit ends. This volume also includes an admiring portrait of Weil by the great poet Czeslaw Milosz and an essay about Weil’s friendship with Albert Camus by the translator Simon Leys.

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New York Review of Books

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1590177908

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9781590177907

Effective Field Theories for Heavy Majorana Neutrinos in a Thermal Bath

By: Simone Biondini

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Effective Field Theories for Heavy Majorana Neutrinos in a Thermal Bath

By: Simone Biondini

In this thesis we discuss the construction of an effective field theory (EFT) for non-relativistic Majorana fermions, show how to use it to calculate observables in a thermal medium, and derive the effects of these thermal particles on the CP asymmetry. The methods described in this thesis allow a systematic and effective description of the non-relativistic dynamics of a heavy Majorana fermion at finite temperature. The CP asymmetry is studied for hierarchical and nearly degenerate heavy-neutrino masses and the analysis includes the treatment of lepton-flavor effects. Heavy Majorana neutrinos are involved in many scenarios of physics beyond the standard model and, in the leptogenesis framework, they are at the root of the baryon asymmetry in the Universe. Besides simplifying exist in g results, the EFT approach provides useful tools for addressing even more involved observables. Indeed, taken together, the approach and the material presented here represent an important step toward a systematic improvement of our knowledge of the CP asymmetry in heavy-neutrino decays at finite temperature.

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Springer

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3319639013

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9783319639017

Restitutionary Rights to Share in Damages

Carers' Claims

By: Simone Degeling

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Restitutionary Rights to Share in Damages

Carers' Claims

By: Simone Degeling

Rights and obligations can arise, amongst other things, in tort or in unjust enrichment. Simone Degeling deals with the phenomenon whereby a stranger to litigation is entitled to participate in the fruits of that litigation. Two prominent examples of this phenomenon are the carer, entitled to share in the fund of damages recovered by a victim of tort, and the indemnity insurer, entitled to participate in the fruits of the insured's claim against the wrongdoer. Degeling demonstrates that both are rights raised to reverse unjust enrichment. Careful examination of these two categories reveals the existence of a novel policy-motivated unjust factor called the policy against accumulation. Degeling argues that this is an unjust factor of broad application, applying to configurations other than that of the carer and the indemnity insurer. This will interest restitution and tort lawyers, both academic and practitioner, as well as academic institutions and court libraries.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139435590

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9781139435598

External Democracy Promotion and Diversity Among International Agencies

Evaluating Variances in the Impact of the UNDP and the EC in Rwanda

By: Simone Beetz

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External Democracy Promotion and Diversity Among International Agencies

Evaluating Variances in the Impact of the UNDP and the EC in Rwanda

By: Simone Beetz

The book offers new insight into the diversity of democracy promotion. It takes up the puzzle of mixed results for international agencies in external democracy promotion despite the global goal of democracy and the attempt to shape a common policy emphasized in various international agreements. On the background of backlashes and the search for new answers; it analyzes how the UNDP and the EC promoted democracy in Rwanda from 2003 until 2013 with a selective outlook until today. As a result, it outlines how democracy strategies differ. Furthermore, it develops a new concept of variances which can be applied for other international organizations and agencies as well as in other recipient states.

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Verlag Barbara Budrich

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3863883187

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9783863883188

Solving Public Problems

A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World

By: Beth Simone Noveck

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Solving Public Problems

A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World

By: Beth Simone Noveck

How to take advantage of technology, data, and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems The challenges societies face today, from inequality to climate change to systemic racism, cannot be solved with yesterday's toolkit. Solving Public Problems shows how readers can take advantage of digital technology, data, and the collective wisdom of our communities to design and deliver powerful solutions to contemporary problems. Offering a radical rethinking of the role of the public servant and the skills of the public workforce, this book is about the vast gap between failing public institutions and the huge number of public entrepreneurs doing extraordinary things--and how to close that gap. Drawing on lessons learned from decades of advising global leaders and from original interviews and surveys of thousands of public problem solvers, Beth Simone Noveck provides a practical guide for public servants, community leaders, students, and activists to become more effective, equitable, and inclusive leaders and repair our troubled, twenty-first-century world.

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Yale University Press

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030023015X

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9780300230154

A Sourcebook on Equity and Trusts in Australia

By: Michael Bryan,Simone Degeling,Scott Donald,Vicki Vann

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A Sourcebook on Equity and Trusts in Australia

By: Michael Bryan,Simone Degeling,Scott Donald,Vicki Vann

Provides a selection of primary legal materials with accompanying commentary and discussion, covering the principal areas of equity and the law of trusts taught in Australian law schools. Fully revised and updated, the second edition features a new chapter on the termination of trusts and includes extracts from recent decisions.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108703100

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9781108703109

A Life in Letters

By: Simone Weil

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A Life in Letters

By: Simone Weil

The first complete English-language collection of Simone Weil's letters to her loved ones, A Life in Letters deepens appreciation of one of the twentieth century's great thinkers by offering insight into her relationships, spiritual and occupational experiments, political commitments, restless mobility, and wide-ranging interests.

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Harvard University Press

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0674292375

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9780674292376

Postcolonial Agency

By: Simone Bignall

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Postcolonial Agency

By: Simone Bignall

Newly available in paperback, this book complements and balances the attention given by postcolonial theory to the revitalisation and recognition of the agency of colonised peoples.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748688544

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9780748688548

Critical Appropriations

African American Women and the Construction of Transnational Identity

By: Simone C. Drake

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Critical Appropriations

African American Women and the Construction of Transnational Identity

By: Simone C. Drake

From the novels of Toni Morrison to the music of Beyoncé Knowles, the cultural prevalence of a transnational black identity, as created by African American women, is more than a product of geographic mobility. Rather, as author Simone C. Drake shows, these constructions illuminate our understanding of a chronically marginalized demographic. In Critical Appropriations, Drake contends that these fluid and hetero-geneous characterizations of black females arise from multiple creative outlets -- literature, film, and music videos -- and reflect African Ameri-can women's evolving concept of home, community, gender, and family. Through a close examination of Toni Morrison's Paradise, Danzy Senna's Caucasia, Gayl Jones's Corregidora, Erna Brodber's Louisiana, and Kasi Lemmons's film Eve's Bayou, as well as Beyoncé Knowles's B-Day album and music-video collaboration with Shakira, "Beautiful Liar," Drake reveals how concepts of hybridity -- whether positioned as créolité, Candomblé, négritude, Latinidad, or Brasilidade -- are appropriated in each work of art as a way of challenging the homogeneous paradigm of black cultural studies. This redefined notion of identity enables African American women to embrace a more complex, transnational blackness that is not only more liberating but also more pertinent to their experiences. Drawing from this borderless exchange of ideas and a richer concept of self, Critical Appropriations offers a rewarding reconsideration of the creative implications for African American women, mapping new directions in black women's studies.

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LSU Press

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0807153885

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9780807153888

Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina

By: Adrienne Spinozzi,Michael J. Bramwell,Vincent Brown,Katherine C. Hughes,Ethan W. Lasser,Simone Leigh,Jason R. Young

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Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina

By: Adrienne Spinozzi,Michael J. Bramwell,Vincent Brown,Katherine C. Hughes,Ethan W. Lasser,Simone Leigh,Jason R. Young

A reckoning of the central role of enslaved and free Black potters in the long-standing stoneware traditions of Edgefield, South Carolina Recentering the development of industrially scaled Southern pottery traditions around enslaved and free Black potters working in the mid-nineteenth century, this catalogue presents groundbreaking scholarship and new perspectives on stoneware made in Edgefield, South Carolina. Among the remarkable works included are a selection of regional face vessels as well as masterpieces by enslaved potter and poet David Drake, who signed, dated, and incised verses on many of his jars, even though literacy among enslaved people was criminalized at the time. Essays on the production, collection, dispersal, and reception of stoneware from Edgefield offer a critical look at what it means to collect, exhibit, and interpret objects made by enslaved artisans. Several featured contemporary works inspired by or related to Edgefield stoneware attest to the cultural and historical significance of this body of work, and an interview with acclaimed contemporary artist Simone Leigh illuminates its continued relevance.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588397262

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9781588397263

Yellow Cat

By: George Simone

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Yellow Cat

By: George Simone

Yellow Cat explores the conflicts that led to the near extinction of the Apaches, the Indians who called themselves The People, during the 1870s. The story is driven by three protagonists: Yellow Cat, visionary warrior, who leads The People against encroaching White Eyes; General Crowe, Christian soldier, whose efforts toward peace meet political doom; and Indian Agent Osprey, who seeks to perpetuate a personally lucrative conflict. Sometimes aiding, and sometimes thwarting the aims of the protagonists, are: The G’an, animistic guardians of The People; Two Foxes, Yellow Cat’s sister, who becomes the Bride of the Sun; Chaco, traitor to The People; and Red Grass Rising, shamaness, leader of The People, and friend of the G’an; and enforcement officerWalter, who may be related to The Prince of Fire. Yellow Cat is the cymbal clash of a war between cultures whose reverberations continue to ring. [Author bio]George Simone lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from which base he frequently extends his years of study and travel in the Southwest.

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iUniverse

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0595010385

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9780595010387

City Life from Jakarta to Dakar

Movements at the Crossroads

By: AbdouMaliq Simone

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City Life from Jakarta to Dakar

Movements at the Crossroads

By: AbdouMaliq Simone

By showing how much of what is considered peripheral to urban life is actually critical to it, the book opens up new ways for understanding what it is possible to do in cities from now on.

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Routledge

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1135850240

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9781135850241

Mentored to Perfection

The Masculine Terms of Success in Academia

By: Simone Dennis,Alison Behie

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The Masculine Terms of Success in Academia

By: Simone Dennis,Alison Behie

Mentored to Perfection: The Masculine Terms of Success in Academia examines how mentoring programs between women tend to replicate the hierarchical relations of patriarchy that they are meant to dismantle. Simone Dennis and Alison Behie argue that, while paradigmatic mentoring programs look like networking support services for neophytes, these mentorships nevertheless replicate the very institutional structures they seek to uproot. The generosity that senior women show to junior women as they share their tips and offer their support ironically obscures participants’ involvement in debt relations and the biases of replicating a particular type of success. This book considers the possibilities for disrupting our tendency to reproduce ourselves in the masculine terms of success.

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The Coming of Age

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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By: Simone de Beauvoir

As the definitive study of the universal problem of growing old, The Coming of Age is "a brilliant achievement" (Marc Slonin, New York Times).

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W. W. Norton & Company

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039331443X

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Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture

Books as Media

By: Simone Murray

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Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture

Books as Media

By: Simone Murray

Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture examines the role of the book in the modern world. It considers the book’s deeply intertwined relationships with other media through ownership structures, copyright and adaptation, the constantly shifting roles of authors, publishers and readers in the digital ecosystem and the merging of print and digital technologies in contemporary understandings of the book object. Divided into three parts, the book first introduces students to various theories and methods for understanding print culture, demonstrating how the study of the book has grown out of longstanding academic disciplines. The second part surveys key sectors of the contemporary book world – from independent and alternative publishers to editors, booksellers, readers and libraries – focusing on topical debates. In the final part, digital technologies take centre stage as eBook regimes and mass-digitisation projects are examined for what they reveal about information power and access in the twenty-first century. This book provides a fascinating and informative introduction for students of all levels in publishing studies, book history, literature and English, media, communication and cultural studies, cultural sociology, librarianship and archival studies and digital humanities.

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Routledge

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1000178293

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Allison's Awakening

By: Simone Brookins

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Allison's Awakening

By: Simone Brookins

Allison Crenshaw comes from one of the wealthiest families in the Tampa Bay Area. She made the choice to become a prosecutor rather than practicing at her family's law firm like her siblings. As a prosecutor for the State Attorney's office, she prides herself on sending the guilty to prison. However, she encounters 16-year-old Darius who she's forced to charge as an adult. As Allison evaluates this decision, she takes a journey that changes her life forever.

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AuthorHouse

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1477268448

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Hospitalist Recruitment and Retention

Building a Hospital Medicine Program

By: Kenneth G. Simone

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Hospitalist Recruitment and Retention

Building a Hospital Medicine Program

By: Kenneth G. Simone

The Right Way to Build and Sustain a Successful Hospital Medicine Program This first complete treatment of hospitalist recruitment and retention gives you all the tools and guidance needed to build a new hospital medicine program for your hospital. Moreover, it shows you how to reinvigorate and maintain an established hospitalist program, enabling your hospital to fully benefit from the improved clinical outcomes that a hospitalist approach can offer. All the key elements for building and maintaining an effective hospitalist program are covered, including: Developing a recruitment plan that attracts the right people and clearly sets forth expectations Hiring the best people to meet organizational objectives Implementing an effective retention plan that keeps high-quality staff motivated and committed to excellence Based on the author's extensive experience in both clinical practice and professional consultation with new and established hospital medicine programs, the book covers such critical topics as: Significance of current trends in hospital medicine Key factors in successful hospitalist recruitment and retention Role of the hospitalist in recruitment, retention, and stabilization of physicians in their communities Recruitment and retention of physicians in all specialties is a national challenge, and it is expected to become even more difficult due to an impending physician shortage. As more and more healthcare organizations come to understand and embrace the hospitalist movement, this book will prove essential in recruiting and retaining the staff they need to implement and sustain an effective hospitalist program.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470568275

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In Whose Image?

Political Islam and Urban Practices in Sudan

By: Abdou Maliqalim Simone

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In Whose Image?

Political Islam and Urban Practices in Sudan

By: Abdou Maliqalim Simone

A Muslim scholar with extensive experience in Africa, T. Abdou Maliqalim Simone was recruited by the Islamic fundamentalist Shari‘a Movement in Sudan to act as consultant for its project to unite Muslims and non-Muslims in Khartoum's shanty towns. Based on his interviews with hundreds of individuals during this time, plus extensive historical and archival research, In Whose Image? is a penetrating examination of the use of Islam as a tool for political transformation. Drawing a detailed portrait of political fundamentalism during the 1985-89 period of democratic rule in the Sudan, Simone shows how the Shari‘a Movement attempted to shape a viable social order by linking religious integrity and economic development, where religious practice was to dominate all aspects of society and individuals' daily lives. However, because Sudanese society is remarkably diverse ethnically and religiously, this often led to conflict, fragmentation, and violence in the name of Islam. Simone's own Islamic background leads him to deplore the violence and the devastating psychological, economic, and cultural consequences of one form of Islamic radicalism, while holding to hope that a viable form of this inherently political religion can in fact be applied. As a counterpoint, he ends with a discussion of South Africa's Call of Islam, which seeks political unity through a more tolerant interpretation of Islam. As an introduction to religious discourse in Africa, this book will be widely read by students and scholars throughout African Studies, Religious Studies, Anthropology, and Political Science.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226758702

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9780226758701

Smart Citizens, Smarter State

The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing

By: Beth Simone Noveck

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Smart Citizens, Smarter State

The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing

By: Beth Simone Noveck

Government “of the people, by the people, for the people” expresses an ideal that resonates in all democracies. Yet poll after poll reveals deep distrust of institutions that seem to have left “the people” out of the governing equation. Government bureaucracies that are supposed to solve critical problems on their own are a troublesome outgrowth of the professionalization of public life in the industrial age. They are especially ill-suited to confronting today’s complex challenges. Offering a far-reaching program for innovation, Smart Citizens, Smarter State suggests that public decisionmaking could be more effective and legitimate if government were smarter—if our institutions knew how to use technology to leverage citizens’ expertise. Just as individuals use only part of their brainpower to solve most problems, governing institutions make far too little use of the skills and experience of those inside and outside of government with scientific credentials, practical skills, and ground-level street smarts. New tools—what Beth Simone Noveck calls technologies of expertise—are making it possible to match the supply of citizen expertise to the demand for it in government. Drawing on a wide range of academic disciplines and practical examples from her work as an adviser to governments on institutional innovation, Noveck explores how to create more open and collaborative institutions. In so doing, she puts forward a profound new vision for participatory democracy rooted not in the paltry act of occasional voting or the serendipity of crowdsourcing but in people’s knowledge and know-how.

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Harvard University Press

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0674915453

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Fading Out Black and White

Racial Ambiguity in American Culture

By: Lisa Simone Kingstone

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Fading Out Black and White

Racial Ambiguity in American Culture

By: Lisa Simone Kingstone

What happens to a country that was built on race when the boundaries of black and white have started to fade? Not only is the literal face of America changing where white will no longer be the majority, but the belief in the firmness of these categories and the boundaries that have been drawn is also disintegrating. In a nuanced reading of culture in a post Obama America, this book asks what will become of the racial categories of black and white in an increasingly multi-ethnic, racially ambiguous, and culturally fluid country. Through readings of sites of cultural friction such as the media frenzy around ‘transracial’ Rachel Dolezal, the new popularity of racially ambiguous dolls, and the confusion over Obama’s race, Fading Out Black and White explores the contemporary construction of race. This insightful, provocative glimpse at identity formation in the US reviews the new frontier of race and looks back at the archaism of the one-drop rule that is unique to America.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1786602563

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Governing Metropolitan Transport

Institutional Solutions for Policy Problems

By: Simone Busetti

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Governing Metropolitan Transport

Institutional Solutions for Policy Problems

By: Simone Busetti

This book investigates the link between institutions and public policies with specific reference to transport. It opens by examining the main arguments for the establishment of metropolitan transport authorities. The potential impacts of institutional change on the policy efficiency of institutions are then examined. Key problems for institutional designers are identified, showing how they can hamper the achievement of desired policy outcomes through institutional solutions. Two in-depth case studies on institutional change in metropolitan transport (in London and Barcelona) are presented with a view to testing the aforementioned hypotheses and providing insights into the ways in which the two transport institutions were reformed. The concluding chapter identifies lessons for institutional designers and highlights the policy results that may be expected from the constitution of metropolitan transport authorities.

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Springer

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3319106597

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Leadership Strategies for Community College Executives

By: Gunder Myran,George A. Baker,Beverly Simone,Tony Zeiss

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Leadership Strategies for Community College Executives

By: Gunder Myran,George A. Baker,Beverly Simone,Tony Zeiss

Presidents, executive teams, governing boards, administrators, faculty leaders, and graduate students alike will benefit from this comprehensive primer. Designed to help professionals at all stages of their careers, this resource is particularly useful to the growing number of new CEOs. Thorough attention is paid to operational principles and organizational design as well as policy development in both general and specific contexts such as students, curriculum, staff, and resource development. Look for special chapters on crisis management as well as practical advice for new CEOs.

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0871173476

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