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Trautman, Baxter. Spirit of the valley: An ecological mythology of an oak savanna. Santa Margarita, Calif: Black Mountain Press, 1998.
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Angeletos, Marios. Wall Street and Silicon Valley: A delicate interaction. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2007.
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Angeletos, Marios. Wall Street and Silicon Valley: A delicate interaction. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2007.
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Angeletos, Marios. Wall Street and Silicon Valley: A delicate interaction. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2007.
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Angeletos, Marios. Wall Street and Silicon Valley: A delicate interaction. Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007.
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Angeletos, Marios. Wall street and silicon valley: A delicate interaction. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007.
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1992, France Commission de réflexion économique pour la préparation de l'échéance de. Fiscalité et marché unique européen: Rapport d'étape au ministre d'État, ministre de l'Économie, des Finances et de la Privatisation. Paris: Documentation française, 1988.
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France. Commission de réflexion économique pour la préparation de l'échéance 1992. Fiscalité et marché unique européen: Rapport d'étape au ministre d'Etat, ministre de l'Economie, des finances et de la privatisation. Paris: Documentation française, 1988.
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Takahashi, Hidenao. "Shihonron" kenkyū: Rōdō kachiron, hinkon no chikusekiron, keizaigaku hihan. [Hirosaki-shi]: Hirosaki Daigaku Shuppankai, 2011.
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Schor, Juliet. The overspent American: Upscaling, downshifting, and the new consumer. New York, NY: HarperPerennial, 1999.
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Schor, Juliet. The overspent American: Upscaling, downshifting, and the new consumer. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1998.
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The overspent American: Upscaling, downshifting, and the new consumer. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1998.
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The overspent American: Why we want what we don't need. New York: HarperPerennial, 1999.
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Thrift: A cyclopedia : being an early attempt to assemble the best of what is known from history and literature about one of our most provocative words for those who are not ashamed to think anew about happiness, extravagance, and thriving. West Conshohocken, Pa: Templeton Foundation Press, 2008.
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Johnson-Weiner, Karen. The Mohawk Valley Amish. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501707605.003.0005.
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This chapter examines how other Amish began to think about settling in the Mohawk Valley region—they were motivated primarily by the need for farmland, but were partly attracted by idyllic reports of life in the Fort Plain settlement. Meanwhile, non-Amish in the area began to think about how they could attract Amish settlers. Whether Amish life is truly slower, calmer, or as often depicted, simpler, is debatable. Nevertheless, having to earn a living, feed numerous children, build homes and barns, milk cows, grow much of one's own food, do laundry, and preserve gallons of fruit and vegetables each year, all without the aid of many of the labor-saving devices that mainstream America deems essential, makes for a challenging and sometimes complicated life.
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Hogg, Carolyn, Samantha Fox, David Pemberton, and Katherine Belov, eds. Saving the Tasmanian Devil. CSIRO Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486307197.
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The Tasmanian devil is threatened by Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD), a transmissible form of cancer that has reduced the population by over 80%. Persecution, extreme climate events, vehicle collision and habitat destruction also put pressure on this endangered species. The recovery effort to save the Tasmanian devil commenced over 15 years ago as a collaborative initiative between the Tasmanian government, the Australian government, the Zoo and Aquarium Association Australasia, and many research institutions.
Saving the Tasmanian Devil documents the journey taken by partner organisations in discovering what DFTD is, the effect it has on wild devil populations, and the outcomes achieved through research and management actions. Chapters describe all aspects of devil conservation, including the captive devil populations, applied pathology, immunology and genetic research findings, adaptive management, and the importance of advocacy and partnerships. This book will provide management practitioners and conservation scientists with insight into the complexities of undertaking a program of this scale, and will also be of value to researchers, students and others interested in conservation.
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Trautman, Baxter. The Spirit of the Valley: Where the Light of Science Meets the Shadow of Myth (Sierra Club Books Publication). Sierra Club Books, 2000.
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Wohl, Ellen. Saving the Dammed. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190943523.001.0001.
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The ability of beavers to create an abundant habitat for a diverse array of plants and animals has been analyzed time and again. The disappearance of beavers across the northern hemisphere, and what this effects, has yet to be comprehensively studied. Saving the Dammed analyzes the beneficial role of beavers and their dams in the ecosystem of a river, focusing on one beaver meadow in Colorado. In her latest book, Ellen Wohl contextualizes North St. Vrain Creek by discussing the implications of the loss of beavers across much larger areas. Saving the Dammed raises awareness of rivers as ecosystems and the role beavers play in sustaining the ecosystem surrounding rivers by exploring the macrocosm of global river alteration, wetland loss, and the reduction in ecosystem services. The resulting reduction in ecosystem services span things such as flood control, habitat abundance and biodiversity, and nitrate reduction. Allowing readers to follow her as she crawls through seemingly impenetrable spaces with slow and arduous movements, Wohl provides a detailed narrative of beaver meadows. Saving the Dammed takes readers through twelve months at a beaver meadow in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park, exploring how beavers change river valleys and how the decline in beaver populations has altered river ecosystems. As Wohl analyzes and discusses the role beavers play in the ecosystem of a river, readers get to follow her through tight, seemingly impenetrable, crawl spaces as she uncovers the benefit of dams.
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Stecker, Robert. Value in Art. Edited by Jerrold Levinson. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199279456.003.0017.
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Questions about artistic value are not nicely uniform or all raised at the same level of inquiry. In this article they are divided up into three groups of issues: meta-aesthetic, ontological, and normative. The first of these concern the nature of a judgement of artistic value. The second concerns the nature of such value itself. The last concerns the core question of what is artistically valuable about art, and how one brings the various valuable features of a work to bear in arriving at an evaluation of the work. Though these are different questions, there are not sharp boundaries between them. The article begins with the latter two issues, saving meta-aesthetics for last.
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Ayala, Francisco J., and Camilo J. Cela-Conde. The hominin lineage. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198739906.003.0003.
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This chapter describes the origin of the human lineage within the evolution of the hominoids, which raises the difficult issue of how to integrate the evolution of dentition and terrestrial locomotion. Next is the investigation of the appearance and initial dispersal of the hominins toward the end of the Miocene, with particular attention to the models of colonization of new territories as a function of climate changes. The hypothesis of the adaptation to the open savanna by bipedalism is explored. Finally, there is a summary description of the different deposits and localities of the main African localities with human fossils, pointing out the different geological formations and exemplars found in each deposit, including two sites north of the Rift Valley of great importance: Toros-Menalla (Tchad) and Dmanisi (Georgia).
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Pettigrew, Richard. Making Things Right. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779681.003.0010.
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Pettigrew focuses on trade-off objections to epistemic consequentialism. Such objections are similar to familiar objections from ethics where an intuitively wrong action (e.g., killing a healthy patient) leads to a net gain in value (e.g., saving five other patients). The objection to the epistemic consequentialist concerns cases where adopting an intuitively wrong belief leads to a net gain in epistemic value. Pettigrew defends the epistemic consequentialist against such objections by accepting that the unintuitive verdicts of consequentialism are unintuitive, but offering an error theory for why these intuitions do not show the view to be false.
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Hamilton, Kirk, John Hartwick, Kirk Hamilton, and John Hartwick. Wealth and Sustainability. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803720.003.0015.
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In 1974, it was a live question whether the exhaustion of natural resources, such as oil, would necessarily lead to the decline of economic activity. Solow showed that constant levels of consumption could be sustained if there is sufficient substitutability between produced and natural factors of production. Hartwick then proved that underpinning this result is a saving rule—set investment in produced capital equal to the value of resource depletion at each point in time. A large literature has shown that a comprehensive measure of the change in real wealth—net saving—plays a central role in determining whether current well-being can be sustained. The current composition of wealth serves to define the policy challenges that countries face in achieving sustainable development. If substitution possibilities are limited between natural and other factors of production, as one might expect, then technical progress is a necessary complement to policies for sustainability.
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Albrecht, Glenn A. Public Heritage in the Symbiocene. Edited by Angela M. Labrador and Neil Asher Silberman. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190676315.013.12.
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The chapter argues that all forms of heritage are at risk from population and development pressures within the Anthropocene. We lose our sense of place in the age of solastalgia, as natural and built heritage, the integral parts of loved home environments, are lost. No amount of citizen collaboration or soliphilia can save heritage from desolation when government and corporate power values profit over all other forms of value. The concept of the Symbiocene is proposed as an antidote to the Anthropocene. However, in the Symbiocene, heritage will remain an ironic and elusive experience. This is because the full reunification of human praxis with life support systems will produce almost no distinctive signature on Earth that could be highlighted as exclusively “human” heritage. Heritage as something that defies the natural “beauty of decay” will be a deliberate, educative act of creation.
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Surya, Deva. Part VI Rights—Structure and Scope, Ch.35 Saving Clauses: the Ninth Schedule and Articles 31A–C. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198704898.003.0035.
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This chapter examines the drafting history, nature, scope, (mis)use, and relevance of the so-called ‘saving clauses’ of the Indian Constitution: Article 31A, Article 31B read with the Ninth Schedule, and Article 31C. They are designed to protect laws aimed at agrarian reforms or at implementing certain Directive Principles of State Policy (DPSPs) from a potential constitutional challenge on the ground of violating fundamental rights (FRs), andexceptionally allow certain laws to override FRs. This chapter offers an alternative reading of the saving clauses and discusses the Ninth Schedule, arguing that, despite being misused in the past, it might not be abused in the future, and that the Basic Structure doctrine is inappropriate to test the validity of laws inserted in the Ninth Schedule. It also suggests that the judiciary misconstrued their role with respect to the right to property as a FR, as well as the value of DPSPs relative to FRs.
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Pass it On: The Astonishing Story of Savers and Value Villiage. Tribute Books, 2005.
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Joyce, James M. Accuracy, Ratification, and the Scope of Epistemic Consequentialism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779681.003.0011.
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Joyce focuses on trade-off objections to epistemic consequentialism. Such objections are similar to familiar objections from ethics where an intuitively wrong action (e.g., killing a healthy patient) leads to a net gain in value (e.g., saving five other patients). The objection to the epistemic consequentialist concerns cases where adopting an intuitively wrong belief leads to a net gain in epistemic value. Joyce defends the epistemic consequentialist against such objections by denying that his version of epistemic utility theory is properly thought of as a species of epistemic consequentialism, and given this, does not condone the problematic trade-offs. His argument turns on distinguishing between treating degrees of belief as final ends and treating them as a basis for estimation.
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Hanna, Jason. The Imposition of Values. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190877132.003.0004.
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This chapter critically considers the common objection that paternalism imposes values on people or violates a plausible conception of liberal neutrality. This objection, it is argued, endorses a constraint according to which a rationale cannot provide a good reason to restrict a person’s liberty unless he can accept that it provides such a reason. The first half of the chapter considers several different interpretations of this constraint and argues that none poses a problem for paternalistic intervention that promotes neutral goods such as health or financial security. The second half of the chapter argues that defenders of paternalism can consistently reject rationales that appeal to controversial “perfectionist” values without relying on a problematic distinction between “means-related” and “ends-related” intervention. Moreover, it argues that pro-paternalists are probably right to permit intervention in some religiously motivated choices, such as that of a Jehovah’s Witness who refuses a life-saving blood transfusion.
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McNeil, Bryan T. Fighting Back … Again. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036439.003.0003.
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This chapter introduces Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW) as an organization and describes its formation, organization and growth over the first five to seven years of its existence. The outrage that greeted mountaintop removal coal mining in the late 1990s was by no means new to the Appalachian region. Time and again conditions of social relations and political and economic domination have given rise to reform movements. Author Stephen Fisher argues that for an enduring social movement to achieve substantive change in Appalachia, it must transcend single issues in ongoing, democratic, membership-driven organizations. He cited groups like Save Our Cumberland Mountains in Tennessee, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, and the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition as existing examples of the activism he described.
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Antrobus, John S. How Does the Waking and Sleeping Brain Produce Spontaneous Thought and Imagery, and Why? Edited by Kalina Christoff and Kieran C. R. Fox. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190464745.013.36.
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Although mind-wandering and dreaming often appear as trivial or distracting cognitive processes, this chapter suggests that they may also contribute to the evaluation, sorting, and saving of representations of recent events of future value to an individual. But 50 years after spontaneous imagery—night dreaming—was first compared to concurrent cortical EEG, there is limited hard evidence on the neural processes that produce either visual dreaming imagery or the speech imagery of waking spontaneous thought. The authors propose here an outline of a neurocognitive model of such processes with suggestions for future research that may contribute to a better understanding of their utility.
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Gong, Qian. The Red Sister-in-Law Remakes. Hong Kong University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888390892.003.0009.
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Ode to Yimeng (Yingmeng Song), a major ballet production created in May 1974, was based on the short story “Red Sister-in-Law” (Hongsao). It is one of the “red classics” that deals with a revolutionary “base area,” and in essence, is about how the Communist Party won the support of the subaltern, the backbone of Chinese society at a tipping point in modern Chinese history, when CCP triumphed over the Nationalist army. The story of heroine, Sister-in-Law Ying, who saved a seriously wounded Communist soldier with her breast milk and nurtured him back to life, was once metaphoric and metonymic of the symbiotic relationships between army and the people. This chapter argues that the post-Mao remake in the format of a television drama has significantly re-defined the essence of the “fish-and-water” relationship in the spirit of traditional Chinese values and, in particular, Confucian values.
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Arjaliès, Diane-Laure, Philip Grant, Iain Hardie, Donald MacKenzie, and Ekaterina Svetlova. Chains of Finance. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802945.001.0001.
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Investment is no longer a matter of individual savers directly choosing which shares or bonds to buy. Rather, most of their money flows through a ‘chain’: an often extended sequence of intermediaries. What goes on in that chain is of huge importance: the world’s investment managers, who are now almost as well paid as top bankers, control assets equivalent in value to around a year of total global economic output. In Chains of Finance, five social scientists (four of whom have worked in investment management) discuss the ways in which the intermediaries in the chain influence each other, channel the flows of savers’ money, enhance investment decisions, and form audiences for each other’s performances of financially competent selves. The central argument of the book is that investment management is fashioned profoundly by the opportunities and constraints this chain creates. Whether chains constrain or enable, however, they always entangle, tying intermediaries to each other—silently and profoundly shaping the investment management industry. Chains of Finance is a novel analysis that will make students, social scientists, financial professionals and regulators look at the workings of financial markets in a new light. A must-read for anyone looking for insights into the decision-making processes of investment managers and those influenced by and working for them.
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Walsh, Bruce, and Michael Lynch. Short-term Changes in the Mean: 2. Truncation and Threshold Selection. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198830870.003.0014.
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The selection intensity, the mean change in a trait within a generation expressed in phenotypic standard deviations, provides an important metric for comparing the strength of selection over designs. Further, under truncation selection (only individuals above some threshold leave offspring), the selection intensity is a function of the fraction saved, and hence the breeder's equation is often expressed in terms of the selection intensity. An important special case of truncation selection is a threshold trait, wherein an individual only expresses a particular phenotype when its underlying liability value exceeds some threshold. This chapter examines selection on such traits, and generalizes this binary-trait setting (with binomial residuals) to other classes of discrete traits, wherein some underling linear model (generating the threshold) is this transformed via a generalized linear mixed model into an observed trait value.
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Ty, Eleanor. Que(e)rying the American Dream in Films of the Early Twenty-First Century. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040887.003.0003.
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This chapter looks at a selection of post-2000 Asian American films that feature Asian American protagonists who are 1.5 or second-generation immigrants. The Debut (dir. Gene Cajayon), Red Doors (dir. Georgia Lee), Saving Face (dir. Alice Wu), and Charlotte Sometimes (dir. Eric Byler) question the professional and financial ambitions that were hallmarks of the model minority ideal of the economically successful Asian American established in the 1960s. The films depict protagonists who find themselves unable to fulfill what Sara Ahmed calls the "happiness duty" and experience melancholia and depression. A number of these independent Asian American filmmakers explore non-heteronormative and non-conjugal ways of expressing love and passion, revealing the shifting values, transcultural affiliations and desires that are now part of the multiplicity of Asian North American identity.
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Bátiz-Lazo, Bernardo. A Bank Branch in a Box. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198782810.003.0009.
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Chapter 9 (‘A Bank Branch in a Box’) tackles the long-running debate on the impact of automation within the retail bank branch. This debate concerns whether the introduction of labour saving devices (such as the ATM) will almost immediately be followed by the reduction of retail branch bank staff. Data in the quantitative analysis include information on ATMs, employment of bank staff, and retail branches. However, the analysis here departs from traditional approaches. The latter have focused on the economics of capital replacing labour. In contrast, this chapter looks at the alternative channels (namely transaction volume and the value of cash withdrawals) as the variables to explain technological change in retail banking. The discussion also speculates on the future of the ATM within retail banks’ self-service strategies. This while focusing not on obsolescence but on a narrative of maintenance and reinvention.
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Scott, Peter. Bringing Power to the People. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198783817.003.0008.
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This chapter examines the marketing of white goods—labour-saving appliances powered by electricity or gas. While small devices such as the electric iron were typically sold through shops, power-hungry durables such as cookers, refrigerators, water heaters, and wash boilers, were sold mainly through specialist electrical contractor/retailers, some larger department stores, and, especially, the power utilities. Power supply concerns saw such appliances as key to building power sales and thus gaining productivity advantages from a larger and more even load. Crucially, they also regarded these appliances as a key competitive weapon in the battle with rival local utility providers (electricity/gas). We explore the nature of production systems and value chains in this sector, the range of appliances on offer and their advantages and costs, and the ways in which the marketing battle between gas and electricity suppliers boosted their diffusion.
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Godfrey, Donald G. Jenkins’ Heritage and Youth. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038280.003.0002.
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This chapter provides a background on C. Francis Jenkins' heritage and youth. Jenkins' life spanned six decades of American history that witnessed the birth of photography, radio, television, the automobile, and the airplane. He lived in an age dominated by things mechanical, from the Industrial and Gilded Ages through World War I, the Roaring Twenties, and the Great Depression. Jenkins, a Quaker farm boy, was born just north of Dayton, Ohio, on August 22, 1867. Two years after his birth, Jenkins' parents moved to Richmond, Indiana, where he grew up through his teenage years. This chapter first discusses Jenkins' early years on the farm, his family and family values, and his education before considering his sojourn to the West Coast. It also examines Jenkins' time in Washington, D.C., where he worked for the Life Saving Service and where he also met his future wife, Grace Hannah Love, culminating in their wedding on January 30, 1902.
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1967-, Werner Cynthia Ann, and Bell Duran 1936-, eds. Values and valuables: From the sacred to the symbolic. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira, 2004.
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Bhopal, Raj S. Summarizing, presenting, and interpreting epidemiological data: Building on incidence and prevalence. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198739685.003.0008.
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Basic epidemiological data on disease occurrence and population structure can be manipulated and presented in many ways. Epidemiological summary measures, broadly, estimate absolute or relative frequency of outcomes. Usually, relative measures are more useful in causal enquiry while absolute measures are better in health planning and policy. These measures, usually in association with risk factor prevalence data, allow estimation of the risk attributable to a risk factor in those exposed and in the entire population. Avoidable mortality (and morbidity) refers to the potential to avoid death (or morbidity) from a number of specified causes if the best possible health care actions were taken. Years of life saved measures help to measure the impact of avoidable mortality in the population. Epidemiological data on diseases can be combined with other information, such as socio-economic circumstances, social values and attitudes, and behaviours relevant to health, to build up a community health profile.
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Aderinto, Saheed. Childhood Innocence, Adult Criminality. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038884.003.0004.
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This chapter examines underage sex work and the emergence of the idea of the erotic child. The idea of child prostitution as a sex crime against children and the framing of the sexual child strengthened state paternalism. Indeed, from the early 1940s, the idea of “sexually endangered” children became the target of the state, which attempted to “save” children from the clutches of violence in order to uphold its values of colonial progress, tranquility, and continuity. Numerous and complicated ideas of the psychosexual development of the girl-child emerged, not only in response to the trafficking for sexual exploitation but also in the Colony Welfare Office's (CWO) quest to institutionalize a “development approach” to social vice.
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Falcone, Jessica Marie. Battling the Buddha of Love. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501723469.001.0001.
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This ethnography explores the controversial plans and practices of the Maitreya Project, as they worked to build the “world's tallest statue” as a multi-million dollar “gift” to India. This effort entailed a plan to forcibly acquire hundreds of acres of occupied land for the statue park in the Kushinagar area of Uttar Pradesh. The Buddhist statue planners ran into obstacle after obstacle, including a full-scale grassroots resistance movement of Indian farmers working to “Save the Land.” In telling the “life story” of the proposed statue, the book sheds light on the aspirations, values and practices of both the Buddhists who worked to construct the statue, as well as the Indian farmer-activists who tirelessly protested against it. Since the majority of the supporters of the Maitreya Project statue are “non-heritage” practitioners to Tibetan Buddhism, the book narrates the spectacular collision of cultural values between small agriculturalists in rural India and transnational Buddhists from around the world. The book endeavors to show the cultural logics at work on both sides of the controversy. Thus, this ethnography of a future statue of the Maitreya Buddha—himself the “future Buddha”—is a story about divergent, competing visions of Kushinagar’s potential futures.
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Steffen (Lead Author), Will. Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change. CSIRO Publishing, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643098190.
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Australia's unique biodiversity is under threat from a rapidly changing climate. The effects of climate change are already discernible at all levels of biodiversity – genes, species, communities and ecosystems. Many of Australia's most valued and iconic natural areas – the Great Barrier Reef, south-western Australia, the Kakadu wetlands and the Australian Alps – are among the most vulnerable. But much more is at stake than saving iconic species or ecosystems. Australia's biodiversity is fundamental to the country's national identity, economy and quality of life.
In the face of uncertainty about specific climate scenarios, ecological and management principles provide a sound basis for maximising opportunities for species to adapt, communities to reorganise and ecosystems to transform while maintaining basic functions critical to human society. This innovative approach to biodiversity conservation under a changing climate leads to new challenges for management, policy development and institutional design. This book explores these challenges, building on a detailed analysis of the interactions between a changing climate and Australia's rich but threatened biodiversity.
Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change is an important reference for policy makers, researchers, educators, students, journalists, environmental and conservation NGOs, NRM managers, and private landholders with an interest in biodiversity conservation in a rapidly changing world.
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Defoe, Daniel, and James Kelly. Robinson Crusoe. Edited by Thomas Keymer. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199553976.001.0001.
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‘I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav'd his Life...I likewise taught him to say Master’ Robinson Crusoe's seafaring adventures are abruptly ended when he is shipwrecked, the solitary survivor on a deserted island. He gradually creates a life for himself, building a house, cultivating the land, and making a companion from the native whose life he saves. Daniel Defoe's enthralling story-telling and imaginatively detailed descriptions have ensured that his fiction masquerading as fact remains one of the most famous stories in English literature. On one level a simple adventure story, the novel also raises profound questions about moral and spiritual values, society, and man's abiding acquisitiveness. This new edition includes a scintillating Introduction and notes that illuminate the historical context. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Livermore, Michael A., and Richard L. Revesz. Reviving Rationality. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197539446.001.0001.
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Reviving Rationality: Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health explains how Donald Trump destabilized the decades-long bipartisan consensus that federal agencies must base their decisions on evidence, expertise, and analysis. Administrative agencies are charged by law with protecting values like stable financial markets and clean air. Their decisions often have profound consequences, affecting everything from the safety of workplaces to access to the dream of home ownership. Under the Trump administration, agencies have been hampered in their ability to advance these missions by the conflicting ideological whims of a changing cast of political appointees and overwhelming pressure from well-connected interest groups. Inconvenient evidence has been ignored, experts have been sidelined, and analysis has been used to obscure facts rather than inform the public. The results are grim: incoherent policy, social division, defeats in court, a demoralized federal workforce, and a loss of faith in government’s ability to respond to pressing problems. This experiment in abandoning the norms of good governance has been a disaster. Reviving Rationality explains how and why our government has abandoned rationality in recent years, and why it is so important for future administrations to restore rigorous and even-handed cost-benefit analysis if we are to return to a policymaking approach that effectively tackles the most pressing problems of our era.
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Doody, Colleen. Anti-Communism and Catholicism in Cold-War Detroit. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037276.003.0005.
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This chapter explores the roots of Catholic conservatism, which developed out of fears that the United States was becoming Godless. The great transformation wrought by the New Deal challenged organized religion in profound ways. During the economic collapse of the 1930s, government stepped in to solve the problems that religious charities could not. From the perspective of numerous workers, the New Deal had saved the nation. The men and women who built the New Deal were secular liberals, socialists, and even Communists. They advocated policies that looked a great deal like Socialism to many Americans. This created tension in places like Detroit, which, like other northern industrial cities, had a large and devout Catholic community. While the New Deal was not hostile to religion, it did in effect encourage Americans to look to government rather than organized religion to solve the nation's problems. The New Deal also provided openings for radicals to influence major public and private organizations. As a result, many Catholics worried that the increased popularity of secular organizations and ideas endangered the nation and the Western world. Catholics challenged the primacy of secularism and sought to reassert traditional, hierarchical Catholic values even as they worked in modern corporations and lived in modern suburbs.
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Steketee, Gail, and Christiana Bratiotis. Hoarding. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190946395.001.0001.
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Hoarding disorder is the excessive saving of objects and difficulty parting with them to a point that interferes with one's ability to properly use rooms and furnishings in the home. Hoarding can become dangerous, sometimes resulting in structural problems and fires, or in hazardous sanitary conditions. Studies indicate that around one in every 25 people suffers from hoarding. This means that almost all of us know someone who hoards. Hoarding: What Everyone Needs to Know demystifies this complex problem, what it looks like and why it may develop, and how it can be treated. With their combined expertise in psychological treatments for hoarding and community interventions, Drs. Steketee and Bratiotis explain how to understand hoarding as a mental illness, describing the disorder in layman's terms and explaining the various facets and manifestations of the behavior. Chapters focus on one or more common questions regarding diagnosis, features, how to assess severity, and treatment. The book will dispel myths and help readers identify hoarding that touches their own lives. As such it will be of great value not only to those who suspect a loved one may be hoarding, but also to first responders, such as firefighters, public health officials, and housing and social service personnel, who will find here an essential resource for use in the field.
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Watson, John Scott. Saving the Land by Developing It. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039867.003.0001.
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This chapter provides an introduction to Prairie Crossing, a novel experiment in urban public policy that took root in Grayslake, a small community located in suburban Lake County. Developed by George and Vicky Ranney, Prairie Crossing was conceived as one of the country's first conservation communities. Despite the re-creation and restoration of hundreds of acres of green space, the $100 million project is a profit-making venture designed to compete in the marketplace with conventional housing developments. Prairie Crossing is a for-profit derivative of the traditional land trust concept, a free-market attempt to preserve and restore environmentally sensitive land. The Ranneys wanted to show that it was possible to save the land by developing it. The chapter presents an overview of Prairie Crossing, envisioned by the Ranneys as a creative policy response to urban sprawl, a conservation community for a new kind of living. It also assesses Prairie Crossing's conservation impact and its goal of creating ecological value through development.
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Martin, S. Rebecca, and Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper, eds. The Tiny and the Fragmented. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190614812.001.0001.
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Miniature and fragmentary objects are both remarkably fascinating and easily dismissed. Tiny scale entices users with visions of Lilliputian worlds. The ambiguity of fragments intrigues us, offering vivid reminders of the transitory nature of reality. Yet, the standard scholarly approach to such objects has been to see them as secondary, incomplete things, designed primarily to refer to a complete and often life-sized whole. This volume offers a series of fresh perspectives on the familiar concepts of the tiny and the fragmented, in chapters ranging in focus from Neolithic Europe to Pre-Columbian Honduras to the Classical Mediterranean and Ancient Near East. Diverse in scope, the volume is united in considering the little and broken things of the past as objects in their own right. When a life-sized or whole thing is made in a scaled-down or partial form, deliberately broken as part of its use, or considered successful by ancient users only if it shows some signs of wear, it challenges our expectations of representation and wholeness. Overall, this volume demands a reconsideration of the social and contextual nature of miniaturization, fragmentation, and incompleteness. These were more than just ancient strategies for saving space, time, and resources. Rather, they offered new possibilities of representation, use, and engagement—possibilities unavailable with things that were life size or more conventionally “complete.” It was because of, rather than in spite of, their small or partial state that these objects were valued parts of the personal and social worlds they inhabited.
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Trollope, Anthony. Doctor Thorne. Edited by Simon Dentith. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199662784.001.0001.
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‘Frank has but one duty before him. He must marry money.’ The squire of Greshamsbury has fallen on hard times, and it is incumbent on his son Frank to make a good marriage. But Frank loves the doctor's niece, Mary Thorne, a girl with no money and mysterious parentage. He faces a terrible dilemma: should he save the estate, or marry the girl he loves? Mary, too, has to battle her feelings, knowing that marrying Frank would ruin his family and fly in the face of his mother's opposition. Her pride is matched by that of her uncle, Dr Thorne, who has to decide whether to reveal a secret that would resolve Frank's difficulty, or to uphold the innate merits of his own family heritage. The character of Dr Thorne reflects Trollope's own contradictory feelings about the value of tradition and the need for change. His subtle portrayal, and the comic skill and gentle satire with which the story is developed, are among the many pleasures of this delightful novel.
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Poblete, JoAnna. Conflicting Convictions. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038297.003.0006.
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This chapter examines the multiple roles that Philippine Protestant ethnic ministers such as Flaviano M. Santa Ana filled in Hawaiian plantation communities. Hawaiʻi's sugar plantations cut worker wages up to 20 percent due to the low value of sugar in 1921. Intracolonial Filipino laborers, who were already struggling to save enough of their salary to send monetary remittances to their loved ones in the Philippines, became upset at the change in wage scale and went on strike from 1924 to 1925. This labor stoppage, known as the Filipino Piecemeal Sugar Strike, was one of the largest Filipino labor strikes in Hawaiʻi, as well as one of the most legally aggressive reactions by the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association during the first half of the twentieth century. This chapter considers how Filipino Protestant pastors at the Olaʻa plantation who were working for the Hawaiian Evangelical Association became middlemen for migrant laborers, sugar plantation management, and the Protestant church in the islands. It shows that these middlemen's positions of power were always tenuous and questioned by Filipinos.