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Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York

Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York

Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York examines the cinematic representation of New York from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s placing the dominant discourse of urban decline in dialogue with marginal perspectives that reimagine the city along alternative paths as a resilient adaptive and endlessly inspiring place. Drawing on mainstream independent documentary and experimental films the book offers a multifaceted account of the power of film to imagine the city’s decline and reimagine its potential. The book analyzes how filmmakers mobilized derelict space and various articulations of “nature” as settings and signifiers that decenter traditional understandings of the city to represent New York alternately as a desolate wasteland a hostile wilderness a refuge and playground for outcasts a home to resilient and resourceful communities a studio for artistic experimentation an arcadia conducive to alternative social arrangements and a complex ecosystem. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of film studies media studies urban cinema urban studies and eco-cinema.

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Pestilence Insanity and Trees How Stephen Smith Changed New York

Pestilence Insanity and Trees How Stephen Smith Changed New York

This is the first full-length biography of New York surgeon and social activist Stephen Smith (1823–1922) who was appointed to fifty years of public service by three mayors seven governors and two U. S. presidents. The book presents the complex life of Stephen Smith a consistent figure in the history of public health mental health housing reform in New York and even urban reforestation. Utilizing Smith’s writings public records and recently discovered personal correspondence this research shows how Smith succeeded where others failed. It also acknowledges that Smith was unsuccessful in convincing his fellow professionals to fight for a cabinet level public health department or to resist the rise of custodial care for the mentally impaired. Given Smith’s many accomplishments the book asks us to consider if what stopped him stops us highlighting the relevance of Smith’s story to contemporary debates. Pestilence Insanity and Trees is a readable and well-documented narrative and a resource for students and scholars filling gaps in the history of American medicine public health mental health and New York social reform. | Pestilence Insanity and Trees How Stephen Smith Changed New York

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The New York City Police Department The Impact of Its Policies and Practices

The New York City Police Department The Impact of Its Policies and Practices

Studying the flagship New York City Police Department is critical to understanding policing and democratic society. An examination of the department by experts who have been studying it for years The New York City Police Department: The Impact of Its Policies and Practices provides a frank and open discussion about the NYPD from an elite group of scholars with varying viewpoints and concerns. The authors in this book are uniquely qualified to discuss and analyze the intricacies of policies and their impact. Researchers working the streets of Brooklyn expose stop-and-frisk policies. An expert academic covers marijuana arrest policies and their implications on citizens. The impact of the NYPD‘s development of innovative technology is demonstrated by a recently retired captain who worked on developing the department‘s real-time crime center. Presenting the insight of these and other experts the book explores critical questions such as: How are victims of crime faring in the NYPD‘s performance management system? Does the NYPD manipulate crime reports to make them appear better? How does the NYPD handle mass demonstrations? How does the community view the NYPD? How can an individual start a grassroots movement to influence policy and practices? The book explores hiring firing and retention; analyzes crime-fighting strategies; discusses the drop in homicide rate in recent years; and reviews legal concerns and the response to public demonstrations such as the Occupy Wall Street movement. The final chapter evaluates implications of the policies the NYPD follows and analyzes how it affects policing worldwide. A scintillating expos n police culture and resistance to change the book is destined to encourage enhanced social discourse on the topic for years to come. | The New York City Police Department The Impact of Its Policies and Practices

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The Red Sea Prospects for Stability

The Red Sea Prospects for Stability

First published in 1984 The Red Sea shines light on one of the world’s most important strategic waterways: Red Sea. A large proportion of Europe’s energy requirements are transported through the Red Sea and provides a vital navigation for western military transport. It is also at the heart of an area of volatile regional conflict. This book reviews the economic political and strategic prospects for the Red Sea and the countries which adjoin it. There is also discussion of the wider international implications of conflict in the Red Sea in particular the strategic concerns of the United States and the erstwhile USSR. This book will be of interest to students of history geography and international relations. | The Red Sea Prospects for Stability

GBP 89.99
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Civil Society in the Baltic Sea Region

Civil Society in the Baltic Sea Region

This title was first published in 2003. The Baltic Sea region offers exceptionally rich material for the discussion of civil society. This is because it has witnessed the erosion of communist regimes the crisis of the welfare state the increasing importance of new social movements and the shift from a centralist paradigm to one oriented towards networks. This engaging book focuses on the phenomena and prospects for civil society in north-eastern Europe which have had a major impact on political and scholarly debates since 1989. Nineteen experts from the region provide a comprehensive and comparative account of the history the present state and the perspectives of civil society in the Baltic Sea area. The reader will learn that civil society should not only be seen in opposition to the state and that it has a major impact on current developments of European integration. | Civil Society in the Baltic Sea Region

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The Law of the Sea Normative Context and Interactions with other Legal Regimes

The Law of the Sea Normative Context and Interactions with other Legal Regimes

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea follows a comprehensive approach and can be interpreted dynamically to include the regulation of all potential human uses of the ocean but the law of the sea cannot be viewed in isolation from other fields of international law. International law does not resemble a hierarchically structured legal system; its different parts interact when different rules address the same activity or situation. The academic discussion concerning the specialization and proliferation of international legal rules and dispute settlement bodies has theoretical as well as practical relevance for the law of the sea and its interaction with other parts of international law. The intensified use of the oceans for different purposes and the ongoing proliferation of international rules addressing different activities from different perspectives and with distinct foci require a more thorough evaluation of how the law of the sea relates to other fields of international law how the normative context can be approached theoretically and if interdisciplinary interfaces can be adequately addressed. This book discusses the normative context of the law of the sea and the interactions of the law of the sea with other legal regimes. By connecting high-quality research with new ideas and perspectives this book offers expertise from different fields and perspectives in which the interaction between the law of the sea and other fields of international law becomes particularly relevant. | The Law of the Sea Normative Context and Interactions with other Legal Regimes

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Future Foreign Investment SEA

Future Foreign Investment SEA

This book explains the dynamics behind Southeast Asia's foreign investment activity and looks at the region's options for reviving its reputation as an attractive host for foreign investors. Each chapter focuses on a key element; together they portray southeast Asia's foreign investment profile and prospects. By bringing these key interlocking elements together under a single cover the book aims to provide a more profound understanding of the challenges southeast Asian countries face in their on-going attempts both to attract new foreign investment inflows and to continue hosting substantial existing foreign-invested assets. | Future Foreign Investment SEA

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Migrant Labour in Europe 1600–1900 The Drift to the North Sea

Migrant Labour in Europe 1600–1900 The Drift to the North Sea

Migrant Labour in Europe (1987) examines the movement of workers from less prosperous parts of Europe to areas with demand for their services. The author identifies seven major systems of migrant labour: the North Sea System (mainly Westphalian workers heading for the German and Dutch North Sea Coast and Walloon/French workers bound for the Belgian and Zeeland coasts); the area between London and the Humber; the Paris Basin; Provence Languedoc and Catalonia; Castile; Piedmont; and central Italy with Corsica. A detailed study of the first of these systems tracing its development and changes is brought into a synchronic relation with data for the other regions. The evidence shows major waves of immigration in the seventeenth century and a rapid diminution of migratory labour to the North Sea in the last quarter of the nineteenth century a time when new ‘pull areas’ were created by the expanding industrial complexes of Germany and labour began to come in from areas outside Europe. | Migrant Labour in Europe 1600–1900 The Drift to the North Sea

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Transport Systems and Processes Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation

Transport Systems and Processes Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation

The TransNav 2011 Symposium held at the Gdynia Maritime University Poland in June 2011 has brought together a wide range of participants from all over the world. The program has offered a variety of contributions allowing to look at many aspects of the navigational safety from various different points of view. Topics presented and discussed at the Symposium were: navigation safety at sea sea transportation education of navigators and simulator-based training sea traffic engineering ship's manoeuvrability integrated systems electronic charts systems satellite radio-navigation and anti-collision systems and many others. This book is part of a series of six volumes and provides an overview of Transport Systems and Processes and is addressed to scientists and professionals involved in research and development of navigation safety of navigation and sea transportation. | Transport Systems and Processes Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation

GBP 175.00
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Cosmopolitanism from the Grassroots A New Chinese Migrant Community

Cosmopolitanism from the Grassroots A New Chinese Migrant Community

This book aims to present a holistic picture of the Chinese immigrants from Fuzhou in New York. It shows how a small village in Southeast China has expanded to New York and has undergone a transformation over the past few decades from rural Third World peasants to ethnic entrepreneurs in a global city. Validating Marshall Sahlins’s statement that migrants can “organise the irresistible forces of the world system according to their own system of the world ” the book seeks to explain the following aspects: first how Chinese migrants from Fuzhou built a self-governing community and provided public goods for its members. Second how they adapted their pre-modern social relations to a market environment creating interwoven economic networks in an ethnic economy and reshaping local culture-based economies into a distinctive form of capitalism. Third how they transformed their religious world adapting Chinese Buddhism and folk religion as a focus for their society and economy. Fourth the characteristics of the migrants’ cultural identity examining the continuities in their identity and how it has changed over time. Students and scholars in anthropology Chinese studies and cultural studies will find this book essential reading. | Cosmopolitanism from the Grassroots A New Chinese Migrant Community

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Preventing Terrorist Attacks at Sea Maritime Terrorism Risk and International Law

Preventing Terrorist Attacks at Sea Maritime Terrorism Risk and International Law

Over recent decades it has been widely recognised that terrorist attacks at sea could result in major casualties and cause significant disruptions to the free flow of international shipping. After discussing the overlaps and distinctions between piracy and maritime terrorism this book considers how the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code and other vessel identification and tracking measures in the 1974 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea would be likely to reduce the risk of terrorist attacks at sea. It explains how the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is less than clear on the powers of states to protect offshore installations submarine cables and pipelines from interference by terrorists. In light of these uncertainties it considers how the 2005 Protocol to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against Maritime Navigation the doctrine of necessity and states’ inherent self-defence rights might apply in the maritime security context. A significant contribution of the book is the formulation of the Maritime Terrorism Threat Matrix which provides a structured framework for examining how maritime terrorism incidents have occurred and might occur in the future. The book also examines the relevant national maritime security legislation for preventing maritime terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom and in Australia. The book concludes by formulating guidelines for the unilateral interdiction of suspected terrorist vessels in exceptional circumstances and recommending priorities for governments and international maritime industries to focus on in order to reduce the risk for terrorist attacks at sea. It will be of interest to those working in the areas of Law and Terrorism Law of the Sea Maritime Law and Insurance and International Law. | Preventing Terrorist Attacks at Sea Maritime Terrorism Risk and International Law

GBP 120.00
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Seemings New Arguments New Angles

Seemings New Arguments New Angles

This volume presents new research on the epistemology of seemings. It features original essays by leading epistemologists on the nature and epistemic import of seemings and intuitions. Seemings and intuitions are often appealed to in philosophical theorizing. In fact epistemological theories such as phenomenal conservatism and dogmatism give pride of place to seemings. Such views insist that seemings are of central importance to theories of epistemic justification. However there are many questions about seemings that have yet to be answered satisfactorily. What kinds of seemings are there? How do seemings justify? Are seemings connected to truth? Do they play a significant role in inquiry? The chapters in this volume offer a range of useful arguments and fresh ideas about seemings the nature of justification and evidential support intuitions inquiry and the nature of inference. Seemings: New Arguments New Angles will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in epistemology and philosophy of mind. | Seemings New Arguments New Angles

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Nuclear France New Questions New Sources New Findings

Nuclear France New Questions New Sources New Findings

This book offers the first non-official history of French nuclear policies which goes beyond the divide between nuclear weapons and nuclear energy policies. It addresses the sizing of France’s nuclear forces technological assistance to countries with nuclear weapons programs uranium prospection nuclear testing its health effects and protests against it as well as plans to prevent and manage accidents in nuclear power plants. It is based on new questions and new sources from France and abroad. The chapters in this volume show how independent and interdisciplinary scholarship free from conflicts of interests can uniquely advance our understanding of nuclear history and politics. This is the case because it does not treat the categories and judgments of official discourse as neutral starting points of the analysis. This volume is based on untapped primary sources from France the UK the US India South Africa and Iran on a new assessment of the health consequences of French nuclear testing in Polynesia thanks to a modern atmospheric particle transport code coupled with historical weather data open-source information about radioactive debris (“mushroom”) clouds as well as data on the composition and particle sizes of the fallout; and on new survey data about French knowledge of and attitudes towards nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. They show notably that the first generation of French nuclear forces lacked technical credibility despite reliance on outside help. Several French officials knew this as did France's allies and adversaries. Moreover French strategic collaborations associated to nuclear programs extended to India and South Africa; nuclear safety regulations changed fundamentally after the Cold War and approximately 110 000 people i. e. 90% of the French Polynesian population in the 1970s could have received doses that would qualify them for compensation according to French law. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of history politics international relations military history war studies conflict and global governance. Most of the chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in Cold War History. A few chapters were first published in the Nonproliferation Review Diplomacy & Statecraft and Science & Global Security. | Nuclear France New Questions New Sources New Findings

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Invasion Operation Sea Lion 1940

Invasion Operation Sea Lion 1940

This terrifying alternative reality is actually based on historical facts. The book follows the real course of events up to1 September including the planning in Britain and Germany and the aerial war. The fictional story then supposes that the Germans halted their advance in France along the Seine and the Aisne after the fall of Paris and that Marshal Petain conceded an armistice at that point. The Panzer divisions are thus able to rest and re-equip in northern France…A brilliant blend of meticulous research and imagination this book is bound to appeal to anyone with an interest in the causes and effects of historical events and indeed to anyone interested in world war history itself. | Invasion Operation Sea Lion 1940

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New Thinking for a New Millennium The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies

New Thinking for a New Millennium The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies

In this book Richard Slaughter draws on the relatively new but rapidly developing field of futures studies to illustrate how our thinking must change in order to deal with the challenges presented by the new millennium. In doing so he brings together the latest work from some of the leading international names in futures thinking. Part One considers the foundations of futures thinking in history literature and ideas. Part Two explores some of the ways that futures studies have been and are being applied in different educational contexts around the world from pre-school to postgraduate levels. Part Three takes the crucial step from institutional learning to social learning and explores how futures provides us with insights which can help guide our society into the new millennium together with suggestions for the development of the field itself. This book is essential reading for teachers students and anyone interested in the perils and promise of the twenty-first century. | New Thinking for a New Millennium The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies

GBP 130.00
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Alcoholism New Knowledge and New Responses

Alcoholism New Knowledge and New Responses

Originally published in 1977 alcoholism was acknowledged to be a seriously growing problem in many parts of the world. It is a complex disorder with psychiatric physical psychological and social aspects having far reaching harmful effects on the family and society as well as on physical and mental health of the alcoholic themself. At the time of original publication it had been estimated that in England and Wales 11 out of every 1 000 in the adult population had a serious drink problem and alcoholism was a major cause of admission to psychiatric and general hospitals. Alcoholism was a medico-social problem of such magnitude that this comprehensive volume embodying advances in knowledge of causation treatment and prevention filled an urgent need at the time. Still a major concern today this reissue can be read in its historical context. | Alcoholism New Knowledge and New Responses

GBP 105.00
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Contemporary New Confucianism II

Contemporary New Confucianism II

As the second volume of a two-volume seminal work on contemporary New Confucianism in China this book focuses on six leading thinkers of this intellectual movement in the 20th century. Contemporary New Confucianism refers to the Confucianism or Confucian thought that has emerged in China since the 1920s which aims to revive the spirituality of Confucianism in a changing society. This volume introduces the philosophical thought of Zhang Junmai Feng Youlan He Lin Fang Dongmei Tang Junyi and Mou Zongsan including Zhang's political philosophy and comparative philosophy Feng's transformation of Chinese philosophy He's idea of culture and spirit-only idealism Fang's comparative philosophy Tang's idea of moral self and theory of human spiritual realms and Mou's new ontology for Confucianism. It analyzes their divergences and the contemporary relevance of their thought in terms of revisiting and transforming traditional Chinese philosophy and reconciling Chinese and Western traditions. This title will appeal to scholars and students of modern and contemporary Confucianism intellectual history philosophy and thought of contemporary China and comparative philosophy. | Contemporary New Confucianism II

GBP 130.00
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Sea Level Change and Maritime Boundaries

Sea Level Change and Maritime Boundaries

Climate change is modifying in varying measure the coastal geography of States. The phenomenon is not temporary but is expected to carry on during the 21st century and beyond. A distinctive feature of modern international law is the concept of maritime zones. Each maritime area is subject to an intricate scheme of States’ rights and obligations. Coastal geography is a fundamental component of a long-standing method developed and agreed upon between States to establish the outward limits of these areas. A feature of this method is the baseline. In international law it is the only reference line from where the outward limits of maritime zones are measured. There are clear rules on how this is established along a coast. There is a concern amongst a number of States that rising sea water levels as a result of climate change may compel them to shift their baselines inward thus affecting the outward limits of their maritime zones. It is clear that the stability of maritime boundaries is put into question and this may bring about serious political legal and economic repercussions. This concern may also affect the outcome of dispute settlement procedures before a competent international court or tribunal the purpose of which is to resolve overlapping maritime claims. Key questions emerge. What is the role played by coastal geography in the legal regime determining the outward limits of maritime zones? What are the consequences of changes to coastal geography? To what extent are dispute settlement procedures before a Court or Tribunal immune from this concern? Is international law able to address this? If so in what way and what are its limits? What can be done to resolve this? | Sea Level Change and Maritime Boundaries

GBP 120.00
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Contemporary New Confucianism I

Contemporary New Confucianism I

As the first volume of a two-volume seminal work on contemporary New Confucianism in China this book charts the development of this intellectual trend and examines four leading thinkers of this intellectual movement in the 20th century. Contemporary New Confucianism refers to the Confucianism or Confucian thought that has emerged in China since the 1920s and that seeks to revive Confucian spirituality in a changing society. This volume first analyzes the cultural context logical approach major themes and problems of New Confucianism before delving into the four leading figures namely Liang Shumin Xiong Shili Ma Yifu and Qian Mu. The chapter on Liang Shumin analyzes his concept of will his arguments on Confucian moral ideals and his theory of culture. It then discusses Xiong Shili's contribution to the philosophical metaphysics of New Confucianism. The following chapter on Ma Yifu examines his theory of the mind nature and the six arts. The final chapter on Qian Mu presents his views on nationality history and the Chinese classics. This title will appeal to scholars and students of modern and contemporary Confucianism intellectual history philosophy and thought of contemporary China and comparative philosophy.

GBP 130.00
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The New Realities

The New Realities

Even in the flattest landscape there are passes where the road first climbs to a peak and then descends into a new valley. Most of these passes are simply topography with little or no difference in climate language or culture between the valleys on either side. But some passes are different: they are true divides. History too knows such divides. Once these divides have been crossed the social and political landscape changes; the social and political climate is different and so is the social and political language. Some time between 1965 and 1973 we passed over such a divide and entered the next century. Challenging insightful and provocative Peter Drucker's The New Realities anticipates the central issues of a rapidly changing world. When it was initially published in 1989 some reviewers mistakenly thought The New Realities was a book about the future or in other words a series of predictions. But as indicated in the title the book discusses realities. Drucker argues that events of the next thirty to forty years or even further on had already largely been defined by events of the previous half-century. Thus Drucker discusses episodes in world history that had not yet happened at the time of the book's initial publication such as: the archaism of the hope for salvation by society in The End of FDR's America; the democratization of the Soviet Union in When the Russian Empire is Gone; the technology boom of the 1990s in The Information-Based Organization; and the evolution of management in Management as Social Function and Liberal Art. Graced with a new preface by the author that discusses both reactions to the original publication of the book and how important it is for decision-makers to consider the past and present when planning for the future The New Realities is mandatory reading for understanding politics government the economy information technology and business in an ever-changing world.

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Fashion New Feminist Essays

Fashion New Feminist Essays

Inspired by a rapidly changing fashion landscape Fashion: New Feminist Essays offers historical and contemporary studies that reveal the relationships between fashion with gender sexuality race and age. Fashion is a rich terrain for feminist scholars in the twenty-first century. Explicit engagements with feminist and queer politics critical interventions by industry outsiders across digital platforms diversifying images of stylish bodies and ongoing discussions of the ethics and sustainability of fashion production: all of these point to an urgent need to reappraise the relationship of fashion to feminism and other justice-seeking movements. The essays in this collection take up fashion as a feminist critical tool that uniquely holds together the lived and represented body with larger cultural structures. Contributors unearth surprising new lines of connection between gender sexuality race age and religion in their relationship to capitalism both historically and in the present. Bringing together established and emerging scholars and perspectives from gender studies history sociology philosophy and literary studies Fashion: New Feminist Essays traces the far-reaching impact of this most feminized of forms underscoring the significance of fashion studies for understanding the politics of culture. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Australian Feminist Studies journal. | Fashion New Feminist Essays

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New Omnivorism and Strict Veganism Critical Perspectives

New Omnivorism and Strict Veganism Critical Perspectives

A growing number of animal ethicists defend new omnivorism—the view that it’s permissible if not obligatory to consume certain kinds of animal flesh and products. This book puts defenders of new omnivorism and advocates of strict veganism into conversation with one another to further debate in food ethics in novel and meaningful ways. The book includes six chapters that defend distinct versions of new omnivorism and six critical responses from scholars who are sympathetic to strict veganism. The contributors debate whether it’s ethically permissible to eat the following: freegan meat; roadkill; cultured meat; genetically disenhanced animals; possibly insentient animals such as insects; and fish. The volume concludes with two chapters that examine strict vegan and new omnivore policies. Presenting readers with clear defenses and criticisms of the various dietary proposals this book draws attention to the most important ethical challenges facing traditional animal agriculture and alternative systems of food production. New Omnivorism and Strict Veganism will appeal to scholars and students interested in food ethics animal ethics and agricultural ethics. | New Omnivorism and Strict Veganism Critical Perspectives

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