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Rising poverty in the crisis-plagued eurozone has one of the world's largest humanitarian agencies reconsider where it allocates resources — raising questions about the impact on its operations in the developing world.
According to Eurostat, 120 million people in the European Union are at risk of poverty or social exclusion.
"Our assessment is that the next two to four years will be very tough in Europe," Yves Daccord, director-general of the International Committee of the Red Cross, told Danish daily Politiken.
Daccord acknowledged that, for the first time in recent history, its European chapters are focusing their efforts domestically rather than overseas.
In Spain for instance, the Red Cross chapter devoted its 2012 annual appeal (worth €30 million ($39 million) to locals, particularly to help feed 2.3 million "extremely vulnerable" citizens over the next two years. In the past, such an appeal sought to help victims of famine in Africa and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
The Danish Red Cross, meanwhile, had to reorganize because it could no longer get donations for its international work, its secretary-general, Anders Ladekarl, told Politiken. It is now preparing to help its sister organizations in Europe.
The local chapter in Greece is in an even worse situation: It expects to go bankrupt.
ICRC is reportedly working on a strategy to help its European branches cope with problems they are not used to. Daccord warned that southern Europe may see unrest similar to the Arab Spring because of the increasing gap between the demand for social welfare and the capacity of authorities to respond. Said to be part of the ICRC plan is for its staff experienced working in conflict areas to concentrate their efforts on Europe.
Other charities are facing similar challenges, increasing the likelihood that their international development programs could be scaled back in the coming years unless additional funding sources are found.
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The Torah says that homosexuality is an abomination; but isn't there a more modern view? Aren't people compelled to engage in homosexuality? Isn't a clear percentage of any given population of homosexual orientation? How can God prohibit an activity that one has no control over?
I think there is a misunderstanding of the purpose of the Torah. The Torah is not coming to allow us to gratify our individual desires. It is to help us each attain the perfection inherent in our unique personalities. When Moses was on Mount Sinai receiving the Torah, the angels wanted to prevent the Torah from being taken to Earth. Moses said to the angels, "Doesn't the Torah say: Do not murder, do not steal, etc. Do you angels have an inclination to murder? Do you then have an inclination to steal?" Whereupon the angels agreed to let Moses take the Torah.
The Sages explain: God purposely created us with different inclinations for good and bad, and commands us to overcome the bad inclinations by adhering to the Torah. We are all here to perfect a different part of the Torah, according to our unique desires, upbringing and environment.
All humans by nature have spiritual shortcomings; this is why teshuva (spiritual realignment) was given to us. Teshuva has the capacity to return a person to a state even higher than before the challenge.
Judaism doesn't get involved with the issue of nature-nurture (i.e. genetic or acquired). The Torah teaches that humans are neither homosexual or heterosexual, but simply sexual – essentially open to persuasion and able to make choices regarding their sexual expression.
It is anyway unnecessary to take sides on the scientific debate about homosexuality. Even when someone has a genetic disposition toward something, that does not mean they are incapable of refraining from that activity – or from changing.
Many studies have been done, with varying results, though there is a massive body of biological, anthropological and ethnological evidence to support the contention that homosexual behavior can be controlled. A 1994 report in MacIntosh revealed that, in a survey of 285 psychoanalysts who had dealt with 1,215 homosexual patients, 23% changed to heterosexuality and 84% of the group received significant therapeutic benefit.
In places like prisons where men are unable to express heterosexuality, homosexual interaction increases; upon release from prison the regular heterosexual behavior resumes. Today, Batak males of northern Sumatra are openly homosexual between the ages of 9 and 19. After that, without any apparent trauma, they switch to relative exclusive heterosexuality.
The Torah understanding is that people can control their behavior if they're motivated. There may be a predisposition toward homosexuality for some, but there exist many such predispositions. The Talmud says certain people have more of a genetic tendency toward bloodshed. The Talmud advises one to become a butcher or Mohel, to channel this tendency into a useful pursuit.
There are some homosexuals who would like to, and probably could, change their sexual orientation. If you offered someone a million dollars to stop for one year, they would be able. It's an issue of motivation, and unfortunately society provides little incentive to change behavior. Because there is a strong homosexual voice in Hollywood and the media, the public perception is largely that homosexuality can never be changed; therefore homosexuals are generally discouraged from seeking psychiatric consultation.
From a Jewish perspective, a homosexual should commit to a course through which he will ultimately rid himself of homosexual activity. If he is unable to change his sexual orientation, then he should at least cease this activity. It is obvious that for many people this will be difficult and will have to be accomplished over a period of time.
For those interested in more on this perspective, see www.jonahweb.org and www.narth.com
Read a first-person account of one man changing his homosexual orientation: http://www.aish.com/sp/so/48949396.html
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"How Ya Like Me Now, Fergie!!!!?"
There have been plenty of 'new Patrick Vieira's' in the past decade or so, but in the leggy, muscular and mohawked form of Paul Pogba, France may well have found their next world-class midfield dominator.
Against Udinese on Saturday night, the former Man Utd youngster produced a quite stunning long-range effort which topped off a fine display in the centre of the Bianconeri's midfield. Indeed, after the break, the youngster then netted another, if less spectacular, long-range effort as the Italian champions cruised to a 4-0 win.
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Michael (Babe) McGrane, 22, a native of Yonkers, died on Saturday, Nov. 25.
Born on Jan.19, 1995 to Peter McGrane and Joan Huberty, McGrane graduated from Fordham Prep in 2013, where he served as captain of the football and will be remembered as a leader.
Described as a kind and gentle person, McGrane also loved nature and his two dogs, Toby and Frank.
McGrane is survived by his mother Joan Huberty; father Peter McGrane; grandmother Mary Huberty, and brothers Kevin and PJ, Cara, and niece Blake.
He is preceded by grandfather Robert Huberty, uncle Paul Huberty, grandmother Myrtle and grandfather Leo McGrane.
Visiting hours will be held 3 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29, at the Whalen & Ball Funeral Home, 168 Park Ave., Yonkers. A Mass of Christian Burial will be in Sacred Heart Church on Thursday at 11 a.m. Interment will follow at St. Joseph's Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, please send donations to NAMI of Westchester County, 100 Clearbrook Road, Elmsford, NY 10523. Or https://namiwestchester.org/donate_now/
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
So here's what I've been doing...
This is the reason you haven't seen many recipes on GLG in the past 6 months... I've been a bit preoccupied. If you've read any of my meal plans in the past year you know I like my slow cookers.
And the folks at Adams Media picked up on that too. I'm thrilled to be writing my first cookbook for them! The recipes are coming along. I have a band of faithful readers and friends who are helping me test, test, test recipes.
To say I'm proud of this book, would be an understatement. I've wanted to write a book for years. A few years into blogging gluten free.. I REALLY wanted to write a cookbook, but I honestly didn't know where to start.
This process has been hard. It's brought tears, frustration, and absolute joy. I'm really proud of myself for making this book happen. And more importantly, I'm thankful for my friends who have inspired me, uplifted me, and been tough critics when necessary.
I'll share some more details very soon, but seeing the book actually listed on Amazon today is an incredibly good feeling.
Have a great week!!
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- AnonymousJanuary 18, 2012 at 12:53 PM
Congrats! (And I'd love to see a paleo-focused slow-cooker cookbook from you, too...)ReplyDelete
CARRIE! That's wonderful news. Congratulations!ReplyDelete
fatlazyceliac -- thank you!! And I'd love to do a paleo slow cooker cookbook! We can cross our fingers!! :-)ReplyDelete
Abby -- THANK YOU! I'm so excited!! (((((((((((hugs!)))))))))))))
Congratulations! Can't wait to see it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 18, 2012 at 6:21 PM
Congratulations! Wishing you the best. Actually holding a copy of the book for the first time and then seeing it on the shelves at a bookstore are also experiences you will never forget.ReplyDelete
Congrats... That's amazing news! :)ReplyDelete
Congratulations, it is a labor of love, hard work, and great determination to write a book of any sort, but especially a cookbook. I'm in that process myself and it is harder than I ever imagined, though I am confident the reward will far surpass the rest. Happy for you, it must be a great relief and wonderful feeling.ReplyDelete
Publishing your first Cookbook, how exciting! Congrats!ReplyDelete
Way to go, Carrie! I knew we'd see you on Amazon one day!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 19, 2012 at 2:32 PM
Congratulations, Carrie! ...I am soooo happy for you! I've been wanting to use my crockpot more, too. I had recently made up my mind not to buy any more cookbooks, but this looks too good to pass up!ReplyDelete
Margaret Bobb
Congratulations-so exciting!ReplyDelete
Nice! Great accomplishment.ReplyDelete
Fabulous.. now is it worth me clicking the can I have it on the kindle button do you think? Will I be able to buy it in the UK?ReplyDelete
Wow!! COngrats to you!!ReplyDelete
Such an accomplishment!!!
That is so awesome! What an incredible accomplishment! How nice to see your "baby" up online.ReplyDelete
I'm so happy to see this! I've been following your blog for a while and I LOVE my slow cooker, so this will be FUN!ReplyDelete
Congratulations, Carrie! I've been following along with you, and I hope it sounds okay to say that I'm really really proud of you.ReplyDelete
With love,
- AnonymousJanuary 20, 2012 at 6:16 PM
Hope you'll include some gluten free vegan recipes, too!ReplyDelete
Congratulations! That's so exciting. I look forward to seeing the results and trying out some new slow-cooker recipes. :)ReplyDelete
The book sounds good. I've never really used a slow cooker before, but your pictures on the site always look so good. I'll have to check it out, and will definately give it a +1 on google plus and a link from our FB page.ReplyDelete
I got behind on my reader and am just seeing this. Congratulations! We need to do more slow cooking! Eating this way takes so much time to prep and cook... gluten-free slow cooking is genius :)ReplyDelete
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This global consciousness inspires space travellers who then provide emotional and spiritual observations. Their views from outer space awaken them to a grand realization that all who share our planet make up a single community. They think this viewpoint will help unite the nations of the world in order to build a peaceful future for the present generation and the ones that follow.
Many poets, philosophers, and writers have criticized the artificial borders that separate people preoccupied with the notion of nationhood. Despite the visions and hopes of astronauts, poets, writers, and visionaries, the reality is that nations are continuously at war with one another, and poverty and hunger prevail in many places throughout the world, including the United States.
So far, no astronaut arriving back on Earth with this new social consciousness has pro- posed to transcend the world's limitations with a world where no national boundaries exist. Each remains loyal to his/her particular nation-state, and doesn't venture beyond patriotism - "my country, right or wrong" – because doing so may risk their positions.
Most problems we face in the world today are of our own making. We must accept that the future depends upon us. Interventions by mythical or divine characters in white robes descending from the clouds, or by visitors from other worlds, are illusions that cannot solve the problems of our modern world. The future of the world is our responsibility and depends upon decisions we make today. We are our own salvation or damnation. The shape and solutions of the future depend totally on the collective effort of all people working together.
With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that have brought millions of readers to his New York Times column and his previous bestsellers, David Brooks has consistently illuminated our daily lives in surprising and original ways. In The Social Animal, he explored the neuroscience of human connection and how we can flourish together. Now, in The Road to Character, he focuses on the deeper values that should inform our lives.
Looking to some of the world's greatest thinkers and inspiring leaders, Brooks explores how, through internal struggle and a sense of their own limitations, they have built a strong inner character. Labor activist Frances Perkins understood the need to suppress parts of herself so that she could be an instrument in a larger cause. Dwight Eisenhower organized his life not around impulsive self-expression but considered self-restraint. Dorothy Day, a devout Catholic convert and champion of the poor, learned as a young woman the vocabulary of simplicity and surrender. Civil rights pioneers A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin learned reticence and the logic of self-discipline, the need to distrust oneself even while waging a noble crusade.
Blending psychology, politics, spirituality, and confessional, The Road to Character provides an opportunity for us to rethink our priorities, and strive to build rich inner lives marked by humility and moral depth.
"Joy," David Brooks writes, "is a byproduct experienced by people who are aiming for something else. But it comes."
Praise for The Road to Character
"A hyper-readable, lucid, often richly detailed human story."—The New York Times Book Review
"This profound and eloquent book is written with moral urgency and philosophical elegance."—Andrew Solomon, author of Far from the Tree and The Noonday Demon
"A powerful, haunting book that works its way beneath your skin."—The Guardian
"Original and eye-opening . . . Brooks is a normative version of Malcolm Gladwell, culling from a wide array of scientists and thinkers to weave an idea bigger than the sum of its parts."—USA Today
Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs. But in How Children Succeed, Paul Tough argues that the qualities that matter more have to do with character: skills like perseverance, curiosity, optimism, and self-control.
How Children Succeed introduces us to a new generation of researchers and educators, who, for the first time, are using the tools of science to peel back the mysteries of character. Through their stories—and the stories of the children they are trying to help—Tough reveals how this new knowledge can transform young people's lives. He uncovers the surprising ways in which parents do—and do not—prepare their children for adulthood. And he provides us with new insights into how to improve the lives of children growing up in poverty. This provocative and profoundly hopeful book will not only inspire and engage readers, it will also change our understanding of childhood itself.
"Illuminates the extremes of American childhood: for rich kids, a safety net drawn so tight it's a harness; for poor kids, almost nothing to break their fall."—New York Times
"I learned so much reading this book and I came away full of hope about how we can make life better for all kinds of kids."—Slate
For Deep Down Dark, the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Héctor Tobar received exclusive access to the miners and their tales. These thirty-three men came to think of the mine, a cavern inflicting constant and thundering aural torment, as a kind of coffin, and as a church where they sought redemption through prayer. Even while still buried, they all agreed that if by some miracle any of them escaped alive, they would share their story only collectively. Héctor Tobar was the person they chose to hear, and now to tell, that story.
The result is a masterwork or narrative journalism—a riveting, at times shocking, emotionally textured account of a singular human event. A New York Times bestseller, Deep Down Dark brings to haunting, tactile life the experience of being imprisoned inside a mountain of stone, the horror of being slowly consumed by hunger, and the spiritual and mystical elements that surrounded working in such a dangerous place. In its stirring final chapters, it captures the profound way in which the lives of everyone involved in the disaster were forever changed.
Ronson investigates the strange things we're willing to believe in, from lifelike robots programmed with our loved ones' personalities to indigo children to hypersuccessful spiritual healers to the Insane Clown Posse's juggalo fans. He looks at ordinary lives that take on extraordinary perspectives, for instance a pop singer whose life's greatest passion is the coming alien invasion, and the scientist designated to greet those aliens when they arrive. Ronson throws himself into the stories—in a tour de force piece, he splits himself into multiple Ronsons (Happy, Paul, and Titch, among others) to get to the bottom of credit card companies' predatory tactics and the murky, fabulously wealthy companies behind those tactics. Amateur nuclear physicists, assisted-suicide practitioners, the town of North Pole, Alaska's Christmas-induced high school mass-murder plot: Ronson explores all these tales with a sense of higher purpose and universality, and suddenly, mid-read, they are stories not about the fringe of society or about people far removed from our own experience, but about all of us.
Incisive and hilarious, poignant and maddening, revealing and disturbing—Ronson writes about our modern world, the foibles of contemporary culture, and the chaos that lies at the edge of our daily lives.
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Every year, the average American eats thirty-three pounds of cheese and seventy pounds of sugar. Every day, we ingest 8,500 milligrams of salt, double the recommended amount, almost none of which comes from the shakers on our table. It comes from processed food, an industry that hauls in $1 trillion in annual sales. In Salt Sugar Fat, Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter Michael Moss shows how we ended up here. Featuring examples from Kraft, Coca-Cola, Lunchables, Frito-Lay, Nestlé, Oreos, Capri Sun, and many more, Moss's explosive, empowering narrative is grounded in meticulous, eye-opening research. He takes us into labs where scientists calculate the "bliss point" of sugary beverages, unearths marketing techniques taken straight from tobacco company playbooks, and talks to concerned insiders who make startling confessions. Just as millions of "heavy users" are addicted to salt, sugar, and fat, so too are the companies that peddle them. You will never look at a nutrition label the same way again.
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"[Michael] Moss has written a Fast Food Nation for the processed food industry. Burrowing deep inside the big food manufacturers, he discovered how junk food is formulated to make us eat more of it and, he argues persuasively, actually to addict us."—Michael Pollan
"If you had any doubt as to the food industry's complicity in our obesity epidemic, it will evaporate when you read this book."—The Washington Post
"Vital reading for the discerning food consumer."—The Wall Street Journal
"The chilling story of how the food giants have seduced everyone in this country . . . Michael Moss understands a vital and terrifying truth: that we are not just eating fast food when we succumb to the siren song of sugar, fat, and salt. We are fundamentally changing our lives—and the world around us."—Alice Waters
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Let Kaleb take you on a closely intimate and highly personalized sexual journey through ninety-two of his favorite gay sex positions. Whether you're new to the whole sex game or have hit a lot of home runs and are looking for a new challenge, Starting Positions has all bases covered.
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In Privilege, Shamus Khan returns to his alma mater to provide an inside look at an institution that has been the private realm of the elite for the past 150 years. He shows that St. Paul's students continue to learn what they always have--how to embody privilege. Yet, while students once leveraged the trappings of upper-class entitlement, family connections, and high culture, current St. Paul's students learn to succeed in a more diverse environment. To be the future leaders of a more democratic world, they must be at ease with everything from highbrow art to everyday life--from Beowulf to Jaws--and view hierarchies as ladders to scale. Through deft portrayals of the relationships among students, faculty, and staff, Khan shows how members of the new elite face the opening of society while still preserving the advantages that allow them to rule.
With 174 million gamers in the United States alone, we now live in a world where every generation will be a gamer generation. But why, Jane McGonigal asks, should games be used for escapist entertainment alone? In this groundbreaking book, she shows how we can leverage the power of games to fix what is wrong with the real world-from social problems like depression and obesity to global issues like poverty and climate change-and introduces us to cutting-edge games that are already changing the business, education, and nonprofit worlds. Written for gamers and non-gamers alike, Reality Is Broken shows that the future will belong to those who can understand, design, and play games.
Although many of us feel we can prepare for our future by thinking, acting, and learning using present methods and values, nothing is farther from the truth – especially in today's rapidly changing world. A newborn child enters a world not of his or her own making. Each succeeding generation inherits the values, accomplishments, hopes, successes, and failings of previous generations. And they inherit the results of the decisions made by those generations.
For the hundreds of thousands of years of human existence when technologies were simple or non-existent, this may have had little impact on human life and the earth that sustains it. Each generation of hunters and gatherers, then plowmen and pioneers, passed on tools to the next generation to help them survive. Change from one generation to the next was slow and hardly noticeable. In those days there was little understanding of science and how things worked, and explanations were not scientific.
This is no longer the case in today's high-tech world where a change that affects millions may happen in a matter of seconds. A child born today inherits a world vastly different from that of its parent's generation, let alone that from centuries ago. Previous generations left a legacy of, exploitation, occupation, and irrelevant values that present great challenges, but also opportunities to the people of today.
The application of scientific principles, for better or worse, accounts for every single advance that has improved people's lives. Important documents and proclamations have been issued granting rights and privileges to members of societies, but at the heart of human progress – or destruction – is the rock-solid foundation of science.
For generations past it was impossible to direct the future much beyond the present moment, and forecasts of the future were based on non- scientific methods. Prophets and sages presented visions of the future based on dreams, hallucinations, religious fervor, divination of animal parts, crystal balls, etc. Some may even have been accurate, but this was more because of luck than because of any direct channel to the supernatural.
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With startling originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about a new American era that will begin just after the millennium.
William Strauss and Neil Howe base this vision on a provocative new theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four eras--or "turnings"--that last about twenty years and that always arrive in the same order.
First comes a High, a period of confident expansion as a new order takes root after the old has been swept away. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion against the now-established order. Then comes an Unraveling, an increasingly troubled era in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis--the Fourth Turning--when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. Together, the four turnings comprise history's seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth.
Strauss and Howe locate today's America as midway through an Unraveling, roughly a decade away from the next era of Crisis. In a brilliant analysis of the post-World War II period, they show how generational dynamics are the key to understanding the cycles of American history. They draw vivid portraits of all the modern generations: the can-do G.I.s, the mediating Silent, the values-absorbed Boomers, the pragmatic 13ers, and the child Millennials. Placed in the context of history's long rhythms, the persona and role of each generation become clear--as does the inevitability of the coming Crisis.
Whatever your stage of life, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for America's next rendezvous with destiny.
Duneier spent five years with these individuals, and in Sidewalk he argues that, contrary to the opinion of various city officials, they actually contribute significantly to the order and well-being of the Village. An important study of the heart and mind of the street, Sidewalk also features an insightful afterword by longtime book vendor Hakim Hasan. This fascinating study reveals today's urban life in all its complexity: its vitality, its conflicts about class and race, and its surprising opportunities for empathy among strangers.
Sidewalk is an excellent supplementary text for a range of courses:
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY: Shows how to make important links between micro and macro; how a research project works; how sociology can transform common sense.
RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS: Untangles race, class, and gender as they work together on the street.
URBAN STUDIES: Asks how public space is used and contested by men and women, blacks and whites, rich and poor, and how street life and political economy interact.
DEVIANCE: Looks at labeling processes in treatment of the homeless;
interrogates the "broken windows" theory of policing.
LAW AND SOCIETY: Closely examines the connections between formal and informal systems of social control.
METHODS: Shows how ethnography works; includes a detailed methodological appendix and an afterword by research subject Hakim Hasan.
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Sidewalk engages the rich terrain of recent developments regarding representation, writing, and authority; in the tradition of Elliot Liebow and Ulf Hannerz, it deals with age old problems of the social and cultural experience of inequality; this is a telling study of culture on the margins of American society.
CULTURAL STUDIES: Breaking down disciplinary boundaries, Sidewalk shows how books and magazines are received and interpreted in discussions among working-class people on the sidewalk; it shows how cultural knowledge is deployed by vendors and scavengers to generate subsistence in public space.
SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE: Sidewalk demonstrates the connections between culture and human agency and innovation; it interrogates distinctions between legitimate subcultures and deviant collectivities; it illustrates conflicts over cultural diversity in public space; and, ultimately, it shows how conflicts over meaning are central to social life.
For twenty years, Father Gregory Boyle has run Homeboy Industries, a gang-intervention program located in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles—also known as the gang capital of the world. In Tattoos on the Heart, he has distilled his experience working in the ghetto into a breathtaking series of parables inspired by faith.
From giant, tattooed Cesar, shopping at JC Penney fresh out of prison, you learn how to feel worthy of God's love. From ten-year-old Pipi you learn the importance of being known and acknowledged. From Lulu you come to understand the kind of patience necessary to rescue someone from the dark—as Father Boyle phrases it, we can only shine a flashlight on a light switch in a darkened room.
This is a motivating look at how to stay faithful in spite of failure, how to meet the world with a loving heart, and how to conquer shame with boundless, restorative love.
Ho, who worked at an investment bank herself, argues that bankers' approaches to financial markets and corporate America are inseparable from the structures and strategies of their workplaces. Her ethnographic analysis of those workplaces is filled with the voices of stressed first-year associates, overworked and alienated analysts, undergraduates eager to be hired, and seasoned managing directors. Recruited from elite universities as "the best and the brightest," investment bankers are socialized into a world of high risk and high reward. They are paid handsomely, with the understanding that they may be let go at any time. Their workplace culture and networks of privilege create the perception that job insecurity builds character, and employee liquidity results in smart, efficient business. Based on this culture of liquidity and compensation practices tied to profligate deal-making, Wall Street investment bankers reshape corporate America in their own image. Their mission is the creation of shareholder value, but Ho demonstrates that their practices and assumptions often produce crises instead. By connecting the values and actions of investment bankers to the construction of markets and the restructuring of U.S. corporations, Liquidated reveals the particular culture of Wall Street often obscured by triumphalist readings of capitalist globalization.
When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn't Disneyland, but Denmark, a land often thought of by foreigners as consisting entirely of long dark winters, cured herring, Lego and pastries.
What is the secret to their success? Are happy Danes born, or made?
Helen decides there is only one way to find out: she will give herself a year, trying to uncover the formula for Danish happiness. From childcare, education, food and interior design (not to mention 'hygge') to SAD, taxes, sexism and an unfortunate predilection for burning witches, The Year of Living Danishly is a funny, poignant record of a journey that shows us where the Danes get it right, where they get it wrong, and how we might just benefit from living a little more Danishly ourselves.
"Every page sparkles with sharp insight and keen observation. Mistakes were made—but not in this book!" —Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness
Why is it so hard to say "I made a mistake"—and really believe it?
When we make mistakes, cling to outdated attitudes, or mistreat other people, we must calm the cognitive dissonance that jars our feelings of self-worth. And so, unconsciously, we create fictions that absolve us of responsibility, restoring our belief that we are smart, moral, and right—a belief that often keeps us on a course that is dumb, immoral, and wrong. Backed by years of research, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) offers a fascinating explanation of self-justification—how it works, the damage it can cause, and how we can overcome it. This updated edition features new examples and concludes with an extended discussion of how we can live with dissonance, learn from it, and perhaps, eventually, forgive ourselves.
"A revelatory study of how lovers, lawyers, doctors, politicians—and all of us—pull the wool over our own eyes . . . Reading it, we recognize the behavior of our leaders, our loved ones, and—if we're honest—ourselves, and some of the more perplexing mysteries of human nature begin to seem a little clearer." —Francine Prose, O, The Oprah Magazine
As a professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation's brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critically and creatively and how to find a sense of purpose. Now he argues that elite colleges are turning out conformists without a compass.
Excellent Sheep takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with parents and counselors who demand perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications Deresiewicz saw firsthand as a member of Yale's admissions committee. As schools shift focus from the humanities to "practical" subjects like economics, students are losing the ability to think independently. It is essential, says Deresiewicz, that college be a time for self-discovery, when students can establish their own values and measures of success in order to forge their own paths. He features quotes from real students and graduates he has corresponded with over the years, candidly exposing where the system is broken and offering clear solutions on how to fix it.
"Excellent Sheep is likely to make…a lasting mark….He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America….Mr. Deresiewicz's book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness" (The New York Times).
Tim Wise is one of America's most prolific public intellectuals. His critically acclaimed books, high-profile media interviews, and year-round speaking schedule have established him as an invaluable voice in any discussion on issues of race and multicultural democracy.
In Under the Affluence, Wise discusses a related issue: economic inequality and the demonization of those in need. He reminds us that there was a time when the hardship of fellow Americans stirred feelings of sympathy, solidarity for struggling families, and support for policies and programs meant to alleviate poverty. Today, however, mainstream discourse blames people with low income for their own situation, and the notion of an intractable "culture of poverty" has pushed our country in an especially ugly direction.
Tim Wise argues that far from any culture of poverty, it is the culture of predatory affluence that deserves the blame for America's simmering economic and social crises. He documents the increasing contempt for the nation's poor, and reveals the forces at work to create and perpetuate it. With clarity, passion and eloquence, he demonstrates how America's myth of personal entitlement based on merit is inextricably linked to pernicious racial bigotry, and he points the way to greater compassion, fairness, and economic justice.
Tim Wise is the author of many books, including Dear White America and Colorblind.
The fourteenth edition's exceptional new readings include selections on the role of sympathy in everyday life, mistaken perceptions of the American family, the effects of a criminal record on getting a job, and the major social trends affecting our future. Together with these essential new articles, the selections by Peter Berger, Herbert Gans, Erving Goffman, Donna Eder, Zella Luria, C. Wright Mills, Deborah Tannen, Barrie Thorne, Sidney Katz, Philip Zimbardo, and many others provide firsthand reporting that gives students a sense of "being there." Henslin also explains basic methods of social research, providing insight into how sociologists explore the social world. The selections in Down to Earth Sociology highlight the most significant themes of contemporary sociology, ranging from the sociology of gender, power, politics, and religion to the contemporary crises of racial tension, crime, rape, poverty, and homelessness.
You have probably heard the term Old School, but what you might not know is that there is a concentrated effort to tear that school down.
It's a values thing. The anti–Old School forces believe the traditional way of looking at life is oppressive. Not inclusive. The Old School way may harbor microaggressions. Therefore, Old School philosophy must be diminished.
Those crusading against Old School now have a name: Snowflakes. You may have seen them on cable TV whining about social injustice and income inequality. You may have heard them cheering Bernie Sanders as he suggested the government pay for almost everything. The Snowflake movement is proud and loud, and they don't like Old School grads.
So where are you in all this?
Did you get up this morning knowing there are mountains to climb—and deciding how you are going to climb them? Do you show up on time? Do you still bend over to pick up a penny? If so, you're Old School.
Or did you wake up whining about safe spaces and trigger warnings? Do you feel marginalized by your college's mascot? Do you look for something to get outraged about, every single day, so you can fire off a tweet defending your exquisitely precious sensibilities? Then you're a Snowflake.
So again, are you drifting frozen precipitation? Or do you matriculate at the Old School fountain of wisdom?
This book will explain the looming confrontation so even the ladies on The View can understand it.
Time to take a stand. Old School or Snowflake. Which will it be?
Steven Maynard-Moody is Director of the Policy Research Institute and Professor of Public Administration at the University of Kansas.
Michael Musheno is Professor of Justice and Policy Studies at Lycoming College and Professor Emeritus of Justice Studies, Arizona State University.
Not long ago, Christine Carter, a happiness expert at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center and a speaker, writer, and mother, found herself exasperated by the busyness of modern life: too many conflicting obligations and not enough time, energy, or patience to get everything done. She tried all the standard techniques—prioritizing, multitasking, delegating, even napping—but none really worked. Determined to create a less stressful life for herself—without giving up her hard-won career success or happiness at home—she road-tested every research-based tactic that promised to bring more ease into her life. Drawing on her vast knowledge of the latest research related to happiness, productivity, and elite performance, she followed every strategy that promised to give her more energy—or that could make her more efficient, creative, or intelligent.
Her trials and errors are our reward. In The Sweet Spot, Carter shares the combination of practices that transformed her life from overwhelmed and exhausting to joyful, relaxed, and productive. From instituting daily micro-habits that save time to bigger picture shifts that convert stress into productive and creative energy, The Sweet Spot shows us how to
• say "no" strategically and when to say "yes" with abandon
• make decisions about routine things once to free our minds to focus on higher priorities
• stop multitasking and gain efficiency
• "take recess" in sync with the brain's need for rest
• use technology in ways that bolster, instead of sap, energy
• increase your ratio of positive to negative emotions
Complete with practical "easiest thing" tips for instant relief as well as stories from Carter's own experience of putting The Sweet Spot into action, this timely and inspiring book will inoculate you against "The Overwhelm," letting you in on the possibilities for joy and freedom that come when you stop trying to do everything right—and start doing the right things.
"[For fans] of a certain kind of self-improvement book—the kind, like The Happiness Project or 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think or Getting Things Done, that offers up strategies for making certain areas of life work better without requiring that you embrace a new belief system."—KJ Dell'Antonia, The New York Times (Motherlode blog)
"A breath of fresh air . . . Based on personal experiments with living life in what she calls the 'pressure cooker,' Dr. Carter offers advice in easily digestible nuggets."—Working Mother
"Carter gives actionable ways to balance your life, your health, and your career. This book is packed with smart advice and hard-earned wisdom."—Inc.
"Learn more about escaping the 'busyness trap' and uncovering a happier, less stressed you."—Shape
"A highly readable, diligently researched advice book that offers concrete tips on how to get off the treadmill of busyness."—Greater Good
"Chock-full of concrete tips on how to sharpen your focus, improve your efficiency, and use technology to your advantage."—The Week
"Illuminates the simple and sustainable path toward a precious and happy balance."—Deepak Chopra
Days after 9/11, an avowed "American terrorist" named Mark Stroman, seeking revenge, walks into a Dallas minimart and shoots Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a Bangladeshi immigrant, maiming and nearly killing him. Ten years after the shooting, Bhuiyan wages a campaign against the State of Texas to have his attacker spared from the death penalty. The True American is a rich, colorful, profoundly moving exploration of the American dream in its many dimensions.
Winner of the NYPL Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism and named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, Boston Globe, NPR, and Publishers Weekly.
"[A] first-rate analytical demonstration that the civil rights movement was the culmination of a long process of building institutions in the black community."—Raymond Wolters, Journal of American History
"A fresh, rich, and dynamic model to explain the rise and decline of the black insurgency movement in the United States."—James W. Lamare, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie, and Cory Booker were ready to reform our failing schools. They got an education.
When Mark Zuckerberg announced to a cheering Oprah audience his $100 million pledge to transform the downtrodden schools of Newark, New Jersey, then mayor Cory Booker and Governor Chris Christie were beside him, vowing to help make Newark "a symbol of educational excellence for the whole nation." But their plans soon ran into the city's seasoned education players, fierce protectors of their billion-dollar-a-year system. It's a prize that, for generations, has enriched seemingly everyone, except Newark's children.
Dale Russakoff delivers a riveting drama of our times, encompassing the rise of celebrity politics, big philanthropy, extreme economic inequality, the charter school movement, and the struggles and triumphs of schools in one of the nation's poorest cities. As Cory Booker navigates between his status as "rock star mayor" on Oprah's stage and object of considerable distrust at home, the tumultuous changes planned by reformers and their highly paid consultants spark a fiery grass-roots opposition stoked by local politicians and union leaders. The growth of charters forces the hand of Newark's school superintendent Cami Anderson, who closes, consolidates, or redesigns more than a third of the city's schools—a scenario on the horizon for many urban districts across America.
Russakoff provides a close-up view of twenty-six-year-old Mark Zuckerberg and his wife as they decide to give the immense sum of money to Newark and then experience an education of their own amid the fallout of the reforms. Most moving are Russakoff's portraits from inside classrooms, as homegrown teachers and principals battle heroically to reach students damaged by extreme poverty and violence.
The Prize is an absorbing portrait of a titanic struggle, indispensable for anyone who cares about the future of public education and the nation's children.
"Roy Scranton's Learning to Die in the Anthropocene presents, without extraneous bullshit, what we must do to survive on Earth. It's a powerful, useful, and ultimately hopeful book that more than any other I've read has the ability to change people's minds and create change. For me, it crystallizes and expresses what I've been thinking about and trying to get a grasp on. The economical way it does so, with such clarity, sets the book apart from most others on the subject."--Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach trilogy
"Roy Scranton lucidly articulates the depth of the climate crisis with an honesty that is all too rare, then calls for a reimagined humanism that will help us meet our stormy future with as much decency as we can muster. While I don't share his conclusions about the potential for social movements to drive ambitious mitigation, this is a wise and important challenge from an elegant writer and original thinker. A critical intervention."--Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
"Concise, elegant, erudite, heartfelt & wise."--Amitav Ghosh, author of Flood of Fire
"War veteran and journalist Roy Scranton combines memoir, philosophy, and science writing to craft one of the definitive documents of the modern era."--The Believer Best Books of 2015
Coming home from the war in Iraq, US Army private Roy Scranton thought he'd left the world of strife behind. Then he watched as new calamities struck America, heralding a threat far more dangerous than ISIS or Al Qaeda: Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy, megadrought--the shock and awe of global warming.
Our world is changing. Rising seas, spiking temperatures, and extreme weather imperil global infrastructure, crops, and water supplies. Conflict, famine, plagues, and riots menace from every quarter. From war-stricken Baghdad to the melting Arctic, human-caused climate change poses a danger not only to political and economic stability, but to civilization itself . . . and to what it means to be human. Our greatest enemy, it turns out, is ourselves. The warmer, wetter, more chaotic world we now live in--the Anthropocene--demands a radical new vision of human life.
In this bracing response to climate change, Roy Scranton combines memoir, reportage, philosophy, and Zen wisdom to explore what it means to be human in a rapidly evolving world, taking readers on a journey through street protests, the latest findings of earth scientists, a historic UN summit, millennia of geological history, and the persistent vitality of ancient literature. Expanding on his influential New York Times essay (the #1 most-emailed article the day it appeared, and selected for Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014), Scranton responds to the existential problem of global warming by arguing that in order to survive, we must come to terms with our mortality.
Plato argued that to philosophize is to learn to die. If that's true, says Scranton, then we have entered humanity's most philosophical age--for this is precisely the problem of the Anthropocene. The trouble now is that we must learn to die not as individuals, but as a civilization.
Roy Scranton has published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, Boston Review, and Theory and Event, and has been interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air, among other media.
This book will help give your relationship the chance it deserves. You will learn how to establish the terms of your relationship, including how to know if you are ready to make this commitment, when to schedule phone calls, and when and how often you should visit. You will discover the essential relationship-building skills you need, such as keeping open communication, establishing realistic expectations, and balancing emotional and physical intimacy, so you can have a happy, healthy relationship. You will learn the best ways to share travel costs and what to do when visiting in order to make the most out of your limited time together.
Long-distance relationships cannot be compared to other relationships, and this book gives couples who are living apart dozens of tips to keep that special spark alive. There is more to long-distance relationships than talking on the phone, and this book provides you with dozens of creative things to do together while living apart. You will also learn how to keep and build trust in each other, how to handle not knowing some of your partner s friends, and what to do when jealousy strikes.
This book will show you how to make it easier when fights happen by communicating better with your partner, learning how to pick your battles, and how to kiss and make up even when you are not in the same room. In order to give you a real look into long-distance relationships, we have included anecdotes and advice from couples who have made it work over the weeks, months, and even years as well as tips and tricks from relationship therapists.
Whether you have started your relationship living apart or had to put distance between you, How to Make Your Long-Distance Relationship Work and Flourish is your key to making your long-distance relationship a close relationship after all.
Atlantic Publishing is a small, independent publishing company based in Ocala, Florida. Founded over twenty years ago in the company president s garage, Atlantic Publishing has grown to become a renowned resource for non-fiction books. Today, over 450 titles are in print covering subjects such as small business, healthy living, management, finance, careers, and real estate. Atlantic Publishing prides itself on producing award winning, high-quality manuals that give readers up-to-date, pertinent information, real-world examples, and case studies with expert advice. Every book has resources, contact information, and web sites of the products or companies discussed.
Who will rule in the twenty-first century: allegedly more disciplined Asians, or allegedly more creative Westerners? Can women rocket up the corporate ladder without knocking off the men? How can poor kids get ahead when schools favor the rich?
As our planet gets smaller, cultural conflicts are becoming fiercer. Rather than lamenting our multicultural worlds, Hazel Rose Markus and Alana Conner reveal how we can leverage our differences to mend the rifts in our workplaces, schools, and relationships, as well as on the global stage.
Provocative, witty, and painstakingly researched, Clash! not only explains who we are, it also envisions who we could become.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Black Los Angeles is the culmination of a groundbreaking research project from the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA that presents an in-depth analysis of the historical and contemporary contours of black life in Los Angeles. Based on innovative research, the original essays are multi-disciplinary in approach and comprehensive in scope, connecting the dots between the city's racial past, present, and future. Through historical and contemporary anecdotes, oral histories, maps, photographs, illustrations, and demographic data, we see that Black Los Angeles is and has always been a space of profound contradictions. Just as Los Angeles has come to symbolize the complexities of the early twenty-first-century city, so too has Black Los Angeles come to embody the complex realities of race in so-called "colorblind" times.
Contributors: Melina Abdullah, Alex Alonso, Dionne Bennett, Joshua Bloom, Edna Bonacich, Scot Brown, Reginald Chapple, Lola Smallwood Cuevas, Andrew Deener, Regina Freer, Jooyoung Lee, Mignon R. Moore, Lanita Morris, Neva Pemberton, Steven C. Pitts, Carrie Petrucci, Gwendelyn Rivera, Paul Robinson, M. Belinda Tucker, Paul Von Blum, Mary Weaver, Sonya Winton, and Nancy Wang Yuen.
During that time, the U.S. has seen the most dramatic demographic and cultural shifts in its history, what can be called the colorization of America. But the same nation that elected its first Black president on a wave of hope—another four-letter word—is still plunged into endless culture wars.
How do Americans see race now? How has that changed—and not changed—over the half-century? After eras framed by words like "multicultural" and "post-racial," do we see each other any more clearly? Who We Be remixes comic strips and contemporary art, campus protests and corporate marketing campaigns, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Trayvon Martin into a powerful, unusual, and timely cultural history of the idea of racial progress. In this follow-up to the award-winning classic Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, Jeff Chang brings fresh energy, style, and sweep to the essential American story.
The book critically examines the public debates surrounding the site, demonstrating how it is central to struggles for authority and control in the new media environment. Drawing on a range of theoretical sources and empirical research, the authors discuss how YouTube is being used by the media industries, by audiences and amateur producers, and by particular communities of interest, and the ways in which these uses challenge existing ideas about cultural 'production' and 'consumption'.
Rich with both concrete examples and featuring specially commissioned chapters by Henry Jenkins and John Hartley, the book is essential reading for anyone interested in the contemporary and future implications of online media. It will be particularly valuable for students and scholars in media, communication and cultural studies.
Though Black cultural centers boast a 40-year history, there is much misinformation about them and the ethnic counterparts to which they gave rise. Moreover, little is known about their historical roots, current status, and future prospects. The literature has largely ignored the various culture center models, and the role that such centers play in the experiences of college students.
This book fills a significant void in the research on ethnic minority cultural centers, offers the historic background to their establishment and development, considers the circumstances that led to their creation, examines the roles they play on campus, explores their impact on retention and campus climate, and provides guidelines for their management in the light of current issues and future directions.
In the first part of this volume, the contributors provide perspectives on culture centers from the point of view of various racial/ethnic identity groups, Latina/o, Asian, American Indian, and African American. Part II offers theoretical perspectives that frame the role of culture centers from the point of view of critical race theory, student development theory, and a social justice framework. Part III focuses specifically on administrative and practice-oriented themes, addressing such issues as the relative merits of full- and part-time staff, of race/ethnic specific as opposed to multicultural centers, relations with the outside community, and integration with academic and student affairs to support the mission of the institution.
For administrators and student affairs educators who are unfamiliar with these facilities, and want to support an increasingly diverse student body, this book situates such centers within the overall strategy of improving campus climate, and makes the case for sustaining them. Where none as yet exist, this book offers a rationale and blueprint for creating such centers. For leaders of culture centers this book constitutes a valuable tool for assessing their viability, improving their performance, and ensuring their future relevance – all considerations of increased importance when budgets and resources are strained. This book also provides a foundation for researchers interested in further investigating the role of these centers in higher education.
Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and National Humanities Medalist Krista Tippett has interviewed the most extraordinary voices examining the great questions of meaning for our time. The heart of her work on her national public radio program and podcast, On Being, has been to shine a light on people whose insights kindle in us a sense of wonder and courage. Scientists in a variety of fields; theologians from an array of faiths; poets, activists, and many others have all opened themselves up to Tippett's compassionate yet searching conversation.
In Becoming Wise, Tippett distills the insights she has gleaned from this luminous conversation in its many dimensions into a coherent narrative journey, over time and from mind to mind. The book is a master class in living, curated by Tippett and accompanied by a delightfully ecumenical dream team of teaching faculty.
The open questions and challenges of our time are intimate and civilizational all at once, Tippett says – definitions of when life begins and when death happens, of the meaning of community and family and identity, of our relationships to technology and through technology. The wisdom we seek emerges through the raw materials of the everyday. And the enduring question of what it means to be human has now become inextricable from the question of who we are to each other.
This book offers a grounded and fiercely hopeful vision of humanity for this century – of personal growth but also renewed public life and human spiritual evolution. It insists on the possibility of a common life for this century marked by resilience and redemption, with beauty as a core moral value and civility and love as muscular practice. Krista Tippett's great gift, in her work and in Becoming Wise, is to avoid reductive simplifications but still find the golden threads that weave people and ideas together into a shimmering braid.
One powerful common denominator of the lessons imparted to Tippett is the gift of presence, of the exhilaration of engagement with life for its own sake, not as a means to an end. But presence does not mean passivity or acceptance of the status quo. Indeed Tippett and her teachers are people whose work meets, and often drives, powerful forces of change alive in the world today. In the end, perhaps the greatest blessing conveyed by the lessons of spiritual genius Tippett harvests in Becoming Wise is the strength to meet the world where it really is, and then to make it better.
A fully revised new edition of the bestselling anthology in this dynamic and multidisciplinary field New contributions include essays from Althusser through to Henry Jenkins, and a completely new section on Globalization and Social Movements Retains important emphasis on the giant thinkers and "makers" of the field: Gramsci on hegemony; Althusser on ideology; Horkheimer and Adorno on the culture industry; Raymond Williams on Marxist cultural theory; Habermas on the public sphere; McLuhan on media; Chomsky on propaganda; hooks and Mulvey on the subjects of visual pleasure and oppositional gazes Features a substantial critical introduction, short section introductions and full bibliographic citations
An immersion into a dangerous world, On the Fireline is also a sophisticated analysis of a high-risk profession—and a captivating read.
"Gripping . . . a masterful account of how young men are able to face down wildfire, and why they volunteer for such an enterprise in the first place."—David Grazian, Sociological Forum
"Along with the risks and sorrow, Desmond also presents the humor and comaraderie of ordinary men performing extraordinary tasks. . . . A good complement to Norman Maclean's Young Men and Fire. Recommended."—Library Journal
Dworkin and Wachs head to the newsstand for this study, examining ten years worth of men's and women's health and fitness magazines to determine the ways in which bodies are "made" in today's culture. They dissect the images, the workouts, and the ideology being sold, as well as the contemporary links among health, morality, citizenship, and identity that can be read on these pages. While women and body image are often studied together, Body Panic considers both women's and men's bodies side-by-side and over time in order to offer a more in-depth understanding of this pervasive cultural trend.
Finalist for the C. Wright Mills Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Winner of the 2017 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association's Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities.
Winner of the 2017 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, sponsored by the American Sociological Association's Sociology of Culture Section.
Honorable Mention in the 2017 Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Race, Class, and Gender.
NAACP Image Award Nominee for an Outstanding Literary Work from a debut author.
Winner of the 2017 Prose Award for Excellence in Social Sciences and the 2017 Prose Category Award for Law and Legal Studies, sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers.
Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards (Current Events/Social Issues category).
Americans are slowly waking up to the dire effects of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration, especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods and communities of color. The criminal courts are the crucial gateway between police action on the street and the processing of primarily black and Latino defendants into jails and prisons. And yet the courts, often portrayed as sacred, impartial institutions, have remained shrouded in secrecy, with the majority of Americans kept in the dark about how they function internally. Crook County bursts open the courthouse doors and enters the hallways, courtrooms, judges' chambers, and attorneys' offices to reveal a world of punishment determined by race, not offense.
Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve spent ten years working in and investigating the largest criminal courthouse in the country, Chicago–Cook County, and based on over 1,000 hours of observation, she takes readers inside our so-called halls of justice to witness the types of everyday racial abuses that fester within the courts, often in plain sight. We watch white courtroom professionals classify and deliberate on the fates of mostly black and Latino defendants while racial abuse and due process violations are encouraged and even seen as justified. Judges fall asleep on the bench. Prosecutors hang out like frat boys in the judges' chambers while the fates of defendants hang in the balance. Public defenders make choices about which defendants they will try to "save" and which they will sacrifice. Sheriff's officers cruelly mock and abuse defendants' family members.
Crook County's powerful and at times devastating narratives reveal startling truths about a legal culture steeped in racial abuse. Defendants find themselves thrust into a pernicious legal world where courtroom actors live and breathe racism while simultaneously committing themselves to a colorblind ideal. Gonzalez Van Cleve urges all citizens to take a closer look at the way we do justice in America and to hold our arbiters of justice accountable to the highest standards of equality.
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"A whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of all things, the theory of evolution." (Dwight Garner, New York Times)
Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech--not evolution--is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.
From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in the Kingdom of Speech.
We're all laboring under our own and society's expectations to be perfect in every way-to look younger, to make more money, to be happy all the time. But according to Tal Ben-Shahar, the New York Times bestselling author of Happier, the pursuit of perfect may actually be the number-one internal obstacle to finding happiness.
OR DO YOU WANT TO BE HAPPY?Applying cutting-edge research in the field of positive psychology-the scientific principles taught in his wildly popular course at Harvard University-Ben-Shahar takes us off the impossible pursuit of perfection and directs us to the way to happiness, richness, and true fulfillment. He shows us the freedom derived from not trying to do it all right all the time and the real lessons that failure and painful emotions can teach us.
In The Pursuit of Perfect, Tal Ben-Shahar offers an optimal way of thinking about failure and success--and the very way we live. He provides exercises for self reflection, meditations, and "Time-Ins" to help you rediscover what you really want out of life.
Praise for Tal Ben-Shahar's Happier:
"This fine book shimmers with a rare brand of good sense that is embedded in scientific knowledge about how to increase happiness. It is easy to see how this is the backbone of the most popular course at Harvard today."
-Martin E. P. Seligman, author of Authentic Happiness


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The latest known version is 3.5.5, but 3.5.3 is also available.
A tarball replacing a myriad of implementation-dependent install methods with asdf files is available at http://constantly.at/lisp/zebu-3.5.5-asdf.tgz . (Only very lightly tested at the moment, feedback welcome.)
A "nano-howto", with a patch, to install and run zebu-3.5.5 on clisp-2.30, and two example grammars can be found at http://informatimago.free.fr/archives/develop/lisp/pjb-zebu-clisp.tar.gz.
Note that Zebu does not seem to have a way for the user to control operator precedence and associativity, making it hard to use it to generate a parse for all but the simplest languages. Not meaning to slam Zebu, but it may be more effective to use CL-Yacc or even Bovine or Wisent running under Emacs until Zebu is made more featureful (see also my contribution to the license argument below). -- Joe Corneli
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Some denizens of comp.lang.lisp have tried to contact the author, but did not succeed so far. Zebu is NOT under the GPL - sadly, it's non-free. Someone should contact both authors and get permission to re-issue it under a nicer license. See http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&th=a8758b88cdf4e178&rnum=3 for a Dejanews archive of the relevant thread (can anyone find the clocc discussion it refers to? should be in the geocrawler archives somewhere, probably)
[Zebu _IS_ under the GPL. It says so explicitly in the file COPYRIGHT.]
[Just noticing that it is "(c) Copyright 1992, Hewlett-Packard Company". Perhaps HP will change the license. Anyone reading this on good terms with Bruce Perens (he works at HP)?]
[I just browsed the file COPYRIGHT included with the source of Zebu and for all I can tell it's an old version of the GPL. Ergo it's Free. - James A. Crippen]
[It is true that the GPL is cited in many places but there are a couple of dozen source files which contain the following notice and no mention of the GPL: So it is not clear what the effective legal status is.]
[It's as clear as can be! There is a file COPYRIGHT which states explicitly that permission is granted under the General Public License to use modify and redistribute. How much clearer do you want it? It is NOT required that the GPL be cited in full in every file. You can find dozens of GNU packages which have copyright messages but no GPL in some files.]
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With all the license arguments, it seems that the end result is that Zebu is probably under the GPL, but even so you may not want to adopt it in your software distribution or sell it commercially. Just in case. Other than that, it's quite obvious that the original intent was to distribute Zebu, so there's certainly no reason that you can't use it all you want.
[JAC: I just had another thought. Recall that American copyright laws require that the holder of copyright defend their copyright to retain it. Is this perhaps a situation where the lack of defense or follow-through on copyright could nullify it? A question for lawyers...]
[BM: Not so, AFAIR the above is for trademarks not for copyright]
Just to throw in a little extra information. I contacted William Wells a couple years ago about the copyright notices of his, which granted permission for non-commercial use. I asked him if he would consider granting permission to use the code under GPL and on Aug 23, 2001 he responded, in part: "Souds[sic] like a fine plan to me." If it is those notices that are causing concern, then I think we are okay. -- Russell Senior
I think it would be good to repackage Zebu in a fully GPL-compliant way. Probably the right thing to do would be to get in touch with Hewlett Packard about this. Until the licensing terms are cleared up, I think Zebu will suffer badly, because people won't be willing to work on it or even use it much until it is clear that it is free software. -- Joe Corneli
What good is it to have a GPL parser generator? Is my application written using Zebu not automatically GPL'd, because I need the Zebu runtime?
Agreed that it would be better to get the licensing cleared up on this one, if possible. (Oct. 2005, just to give this a time scale) Also, ideally Zebu itself could be GPL (if that's what is desired) but the use of output wouldn't be constrained to GPL. For Modified BSD licensed code (for example) that could be a real problem. Any effort going on right now to resolve this?


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Olivia Munn gets to star for Broken Lizard in The Babymakers
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Starting from geek roots on G4, Olivia Munn has moved up quite quickly in the Hollywood chain. Love her or leave her, Munn is still getting parts despite her recent series, PERFECT COUPLES getting the axe after one season.
Ever since a maple syrup chugging contest with the Broken Lizard clan on ATTACK OF THE SHOW, Munn has been moving up in their ranks. First she had a small part in SLAMMIN' SALMON and now she has a starring role in THE BABYMAKERS. Munn will co-star with Paul Schneider (LARS AND THE REAL GIRL) who will play her husband and partner in weirdo crime. The comedy follows a married couple who can't conceive, prompting the husband (Schneider) to enlist his friends' help to rob a sperm bank where he made a deposit as a young man. Jay Chandrasekhar will direct the film and fellow Lizard Kevin Heffernan will also star with the rest of the clan soon to follow.
The film will begin shooting after Munn wraps an HBO pilot from Aaron Sorkin titled, MORE AS THE STORY DEVELOPS.
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TOPEKA - A Kansas legislative committee has launched an audit into potential problems in the state's delivery of services to the developmentally disabled but a Democratic leader sees the review as retaliation against groups that have criticized Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's administration.
The audit approved Tuesday by the Post Audit Committee will examine whether conflicts of interest exist in having 27 regional community developmental disability organizations, or CDDOs, act as gatekeepers for developmentally disabled Kansans seeking state-funded services. Some critics of the system have noted that CDDOs can compete with local service providers.
The audit was sought by Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce, a Hutchinson Republican, and authorized after the audit committee's chairman, Sen. Jeff Longbine, an Emporia Republican, broke a tie, The Topeka Capital-Journal. The Legislative Division of Post Audit expects to take six months to compile its report.
Some CDDOs have been vocal critics of Brownback's decision to turn the administration of the state's Medicaid program over to three private health insurance companies, renaming it KanCare. Long-term services for the developmentally disabled won't be included until next year in the overhauled program, but some critics want to leave long-term support services for Kansans with intellectual disabilities out of KanCare.
"This audit is the Brownback administration's political payback for community opposition to the KanCare carve-in of developmental disability services," Hensley said.
But Longbine said the latest audit will follow up on reports in 1999 and 2003 that identified problems in how Kansas provides services for the developmentally disabled, including how clients are referred to providers and how funding is distributed. And Bruce said a claim that the audit is politically motivated "is simply not true."
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But many activists have questioned whether the for-profit companies will be stingy when it comes to long-term, in-home services designed to allow the developmentally disabled to live as independently as possible. And the most vigorous lobbying for a permanent "carve out" has come from InterHab, which represents service providers and most of the CDDOs.
InterHab Executive Director Tom Laing has advocated strict monitoring of the KanCare contractors. He said Tuesday that he doesn't object to the legislative audit but doesn't believe there's credible evidence of conflicts of interest.


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