Current tactics can't solve today's complex global crises. The"bad boys of environmentalism" call for a bold and empowering newvision Environmental insiders Michael Shellenberger and TedNordhaus triggered a firestorm of controversy with theirself-published essay "The Death of Environmentalism," which arguedthat environmentalism cannot deal with global warming and shoulddie so that a new politics can be born. Global warming is far morecomplex than past pollution problems, and American values havechanged dramatically since the movement's greatest victories in the1960s, but environmentalists keep fighting the same old battles.Seeing a connection between the failures of environmentalism andthe failures of the entire left-leaning political agenda, theauthors point the way toward an aspirational politics that willresonate with modern American values and be capable of tackling ourmost pressing challenges. In this eagerly awaited follow-up to theoriginal essay, the authors give us an expansive and eloquentmanifesto

People speak different languages, and always have. The AncientGreeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; theRomans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learnedtheir neighbours' languages - as did many ordinary Europeans intimes past. But today, we all use translation to cope with thediversity of languages. Without translation there would be no worldnews, not much of a reading list in any subject at college, norepair manuals for cars or planes, and we wouldn't even be able toput together flat pack furniture. "Is That a Fish in Your Ear?"ranges across the whole of human experience, from foreign films tophilosophy, to show why translation is at the heart of what we doand who we are. What's the difference between translatingunprepared natural speech, and translating Madame Bovary? How doyou translate a joke? What's the difference between a native tongueand a learned one? Can you translate between any pair of languages,or only between some? What really goes on when world leade

Since the advent of file-sharing technology in the late 1990s,the music industry has been challenged to reinvent itself. What hasit done? How have tSince the advent of file-sharing technology inthe late 1990s, the music industry has been challenged to reinventitself. What has it done? How have the record labels repositionedthemselves to cope with these massive changes? How does all thisaffect creative artists? No one understands the music industry -- from the technology, tothe legalities, to the new industry practices -- better thanveteran music lawyer Donald Passman. In this completely revised andupdated seventh edition of All You Need to Know About the MusicBusiness, which the Los Angeles Times called "the industry bible"and which has sold hundreds of thousands of copies over the lasteighteen years, Passman offers executives and artists, experts andnovices alike the essential information they need not only tosurvive in these volatile and exciting times, but also tothrive. Drawing on his unique, up-to-the-m

The emergence of EU Private Law as an independent legaldiscipline is one of the most significant developments in Europeanlegal scholarship in recent times. In this Companion, leadingscholars provide a critical introduction to the subject's keyareas, while offering original and thought-provoking comment on thefield. In addition to several chapters on consumer law topics, thecollection has individual chapters on commercial contracts,competition law, non-discrimination law, financial services andtravel law. It also discusses the wider issues concerning EUPrivate Law, such as its historical evolution, the role ofcomparative law, language and terminology, as well as theimplications of the Common Frame of Reference project. A useful'scene-setting' introduction and further reading arrangedthematically make this important publication the student's andscholar's first port of call when exploring the field. · Unique combination of introduction to and critical analysis ofan important emerging discipline in

This book describes how social identification and academiclearning can deeply depend on each other, through a theoreticalaccount of the two processes and a detailed empirical analysis ofhow students' identities emerged and how students learnedcurriculum in one classroom. The book traces the identitydevelopment of two students across an academic year, showing howthey developed unexpected identities in substantial part becausecurricular themes provided categories that teachers and studentsused to identify them and showing how students learned aboutcurricular themes in part because the two students were sociallyidentified in ways that illuminated those themes. The book'sdistinctive contribution is to demonstrate in detail how socialidentification and academic learning can become deeplyinterdependent.

In an age when modern reproductive technology is moving at arapid and alarming rate, Conscious Conception is an alternativeexploration into understanding personal fertility, as well as acomprehensive guide to discovering newfound meaning in oursexuality. Combining knowledge of myth and culture, authorsJeannine Parvati Baker and Frederick Baker offer a step-by-stepmanual of fertility awareness, depth psychology, and psychic birthcontrol and interweave the five elements—Earth, Water, Fire, Air,and Ether—as tools for discovery in the face of reproductivechallenges. Including numerous contributions from experts in thefield, the book investigates a broad range of topics, from thecauses of infertility to the spiritualization of sexuality.Conscious Conception urges us to see all of the possibilities inlife’s plan of continuation and to seek a clearer communion withour own reproductive experience. Over 20,000 copies sold.

Though others have published reminiscences of Joseph Conrad,these accounts have frequently contained inaccuracies, sometimeseven simple fabrications. It is partly in an attempt to set therecord straight that John Conrad, the novelist's only survivingson, has committed these memoirs to print. Mr Conrad has not triedto import into the book the biographical interpretations orspeculations of others, but rather to recall and set down ashonestly and directly as possible what he remembers from around1909 to the point of his father's death in 1924. Through his vividand detailed account of the day-to-day existence in the varioushouses the family inhabited during this period, Mr Conrad is ableboth to throw light on many aspects of his father's life and toinvoke the sense of an era of English social life which has nowdisappeared. His memoirs are informal, often anecdotal, recordingwhat amused, irritated or moved his father.

In the early twentieth century the term 'feminist' was used byself-consciously 'modern' men and women, to distinguish their ideasfrom those of 'the women's movement', and even to adoptanti-suffrage positions. In the first major study oftwentieth-century feminism as an Anglo-American phenomenon, LucyDelap offers a unique perspective on the politics of gender duringthis period. Delap explores the intellectual history and culturalpolitics of Anglo-American feminism in a way that challenges thereader to rethink the nature of both the 'avant-garde' and'feminism'. Focusing on the development of transnational feminismswithin Edwardian and interwar print culture, feminist politicalargument is placed at the centre of an account of modernism,highlighting some unexpected and often uncomfortable components,including the feminist fascination with individualism and egoism;ambivalence over World War One; utopian thinking and captivation bythe idea of 'the simple life'; anti-Semitism; sexual radicalism;and ideas about 'the

This book, published in 1986, addresses questions concerned witha central normative principle in contemporary assessments ofeconomic policies and systems. What does 'consumer sovereignty'mean? Is consumer sovereignty an appropriate principle for theoptimization and evaluation of the design and performance ofeconomic policies, institutions and systems? If not, what is a moreappropriate principle? The author argues that the conception ofconsumer sovereignty has to be broadened so that it is not limitedto the market mechanism but includes environmental, work and socialpreferences. However, even this version runs into seriousdifficulties as the principle of consumer sovereignty still relieson too subjectivist a conception of the interests of individuals tobe suitable for the evaluation of economic institutions. Analternative basis for such evaluation is 'human interests' that arenot contingent on particular economic systems, After consideringvarious possibilities, a basic-needs approach is proposed and itsuse in

Die Top-experten der deutschsprachigen Radiologie verraten Ihnen worauf es bei den wichtigsten Diagnosen jeder korperregion ankommt.

The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A.Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of theSenate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkableperiods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the UnitedStates Senate. Once the most august and revered body in politics,by the time Johnson arrived the Senate had become a parody ofitself and an obstacle that for decades had blocked desperatelyneeded liberal legislation. Caro shows how Johnson’s brilliance,charm, and ruthlessness enabled him to become the youngest and mostpowerful Majority Leader in history and how he used hisincomparable legislative genius--seducing both Northern liberalsand Southern conservatives--to pass the first Civil Rightslegislation since Reconstruction. Brilliantly weaving rich detailinto a gripping narrative, Caro gives us both a galvanizingportrait of Johnson himself and a definitive and revelatory studyof the workings of legislative power.

Drawing on work in critical theory, feminism and socialhistory, this book traces the lines of tension shot throughVictorian culture by the fear that the social world was beingreduced to a display window behind which people, their actions andtheir convictions were exhibited for the economic appetites ofothers. Affecting the most basic elements of Victorian life - thevagaries of desire, the rationalisation of social life, thegendering of subjectivity, the power of nostalgia, the fear ofmortality, the cyclical routines of the household - the ambivalencegenerated by commodity culture organizes the thematic concerns ofthese novels and the society they represent. Taking the commodityas their point of departure, chapters on Thackeray, Gaskell,Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, and the Great Exhibition of 1851 suggestthat Victorian novels provide us with graphic and enduring imagesof the power of commodities to affect the varied activities andbeliefs of individual and social experience.

Life's Solution builds a persuasive case for the predictabilityof evolutionary outcomes. The case rests on a remarkablecompilation of examples of convergent evolution, in which two ormore lineages have independently evolved similar structures andfunctions. The examples range from the aerodynamics of hoveringmoths and hummingbirds to the use of silk by spiders and someinsects to capture prey. Going against the grain of Darwinianorthodoxy, this book is a must read for anyone grappling with themeaning of evolution and our place in the Universe. Simon ConwayMorris is the Ad Hominen Professor in the Earth Science Departmentat the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St. John's Collegeand the Royal Society. His research focuses on the study ofconstraints on evolution, and the historical processes that lead tothe emergence of complexity, especially with respect to theconstruction of the major animal body parts in the Cambrianexplosion. Previous books include The Crucible of Creation (GettyCenter for Education in

Bertrand Russell was renowned for his provocative views oneducation. Considered an educational innovator, Russell attemptedto create the perfect learning institution. Despite the failure ofthis practical vision, it did not stop him from continuing tostrive towards inventing and arguing for a system of education freefrom repression. In Education and the Social Order ,Russell dissects the motives behind educational theory andpractice, and in doing so lays out original and controversialarguments for the reformation of the education of theindividual.

This book is devoted to schizotypal personality. It provides acomprehensive overview of our knowledge from some of the world'sleading researchers in the field, and includes reviews of genetics,neurodevelopment, assessment, psychophysiology, neuropsychology andbrain imaging. Central themes are the exploration of categoricaland dimensional approaches to the understanding of schizotypaldisorder and its relationship to schizophrenia. Valuableintroductory and concluding chapters set in context the sometimesdivergent opinions and findings presented by the book'scontributors and there are reviews of methodological issues andassessment schedules for the benefit of researchers in the field.In setting out to answer, from phenomenological, psychological andneurobiological perspectives, the fundamental question 'What isschizotypal disorder?' and to develop coherent etiological models,this book will serve as an authoritative resource for cliniciansand researchers interested in this major personality disorder.

The study of households and everyday life is increasinglyrecognized as fundamental in social archeological analysis. Thisvolume is the first to address the household as a process and as aconceptual and analytical means through which we can interpretsocial organization from the bottom up. Using detailed case studiesfrom Neolithic Greece, Stella Souvatzi examines how the householdis defined socially, culturally, and historically; she discusseshousehold and community, variability, production and reproduction,individual and collective agency, identity, change, complexity, andintegration. Her study is enriched by an in-depth discussion of theframework for the household in the social sciences and thesynthesis of many anthropological, historical, and sociologicalexamples. It reverses the view of the household as passive,ahistorical, and stable, showing it instead to be active, dynamic,and continually shifting.