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Amber is a remarkable substance that originates from the resin of
trees that lived millions of years ago. Anything that became
trapped in this sticky resin was fossilized and perfectly
preserved. The insects and other inclusions found in amber today
are providing scientists with unique insights into the history of
life on Earth. In this new edition of "Amber", Andrew Ross provides
an engaging overview of this prehistoric substance and its
fossilized inclusions. The book explains how amber is formed, where
it is found and how to distinguish genuine amber from fakes. It
describes its many uses, both in art and science, and recounts the
elusive search for DNA from fossilized insects. Detailed keys and
stunning photographs, including previously unseen pieces of Burmese
amber from the Museum's collections, guide the reader in the
identification of species of insects and other amber inclusions.
"Amber" is essential reading for all those with an interest in this
natural time capsule.
"Racism is like a Cadillac, they bring out a new model every year."
- Malcolm X (a former auto worker) Written in a lively, accessible
fashion and drawing extensively on interviews with people who were
formerly incarcerated, Cars and Jails examines how the costs of car
ownership and use are deeply enmeshed with the U.S. prison system.
American consumer lore has long held the automobile to be a
"freedom machine," consecrating the mobility of a free people. Yet,
paradoxically, the car also functions at the cross-roads of two
great systems of entrapment and immobility- the American debt
economy and the carceral state. Cars and Jails investigates this
paradox, showing how auto debt, traffic fines, over-policing, and
automated surveillance systems work in tandem to entrap and
criminalize poor people. The authors describe how racialization and
poverty take their toll on populations with no alternative, in a
country poorly served by public transport, to taking out loans for
cars and exposing themselves to predatory and often racist
policing. Looking skeptically at the frothy promises of the
"mobility revolution," Livingston and Ross close with
thought-provoking ideas for a radical overhaul of transportation.
The science-policy interface is critical to the design and
implementation of water policies. In theory, scientists provide
policy makers with robust facts and data that can help guide
decision making, and lessons from the political economy of reforms
can push scientific boundaries further to trigger further research
for wise solutions. While evidence-based policy is obviously
desirable, in practice such a connection is not always
straightforward. Another assumption behind the science-policy gap
is the discrepancy between scientists and policy makers in terms of
culture, process, timing, language and expected outcome. This book
tries to reconcile this discrepancy through a multi-stakeholder
approach to authoring its different articles. This joint initiative
between the OECD - particularly its Water Governance Initiative -
and the International Water Resources Association seeks to provide
a canvas for grounding water policy in science, and vice versa. The
objective of this book, devoted to the OECD Principles on Water
Governance, is to use the OECD Principles as a common thread across
the articles to draw lessons from theoretical work and practical
experiences in water governance reforms; but also to only feature
papers authored by groups of diverse stakeholders from different
institutional backgrounds. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Water International.
A brilliantly reported true-life thriller that goes behind the
scenes of the financial crisis on Wall Street and in Washington.
In one of the most gripping financial narratives in decades,
Andrew Ross Sorkin-a "New York Times" columnist and one of the
country's most respected financial reporters-delivers the first
definitive blow- by-blow account of the epochal economic crisis
that brought the world to the brink. Through unprecedented access
to the players involved, he re-creates all the drama and turmoil of
these turbulent days, revealing never-before-disclosed details and
recounting how, motivated as often by ego and greed as by fear and
self-preservation, the most powerful men and women in finance and
politics decided the fate of the world's economy.
The science-policy interface is critical to the design and
implementation of water policies. In theory, scientists provide
policy makers with robust facts and data that can help guide
decision making, and lessons from the political economy of reforms
can push scientific boundaries further to trigger further research
for wise solutions. While evidence-based policy is obviously
desirable, in practice such a connection is not always
straightforward. Another assumption behind the science-policy gap
is the discrepancy between scientists and policy makers in terms of
culture, process, timing, language and expected outcome. This book
tries to reconcile this discrepancy through a multi-stakeholder
approach to authoring its different articles. This joint initiative
between the OECD - particularly its Water Governance Initiative -
and the International Water Resources Association seeks to provide
a canvas for grounding water policy in science, and vice versa. The
objective of this book, devoted to the OECD Principles on Water
Governance, is to use the OECD Principles as a common thread across
the articles to draw lessons from theoretical work and practical
experiences in water governance reforms; but also to only feature
papers authored by groups of diverse stakeholders from different
institutional backgrounds. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Water International.
In Real Love, Andrew Ross, one of our preeminent social critics,
explores the vital connection between economic life and cultural
expression. From the consequences of cyberspace for work and play
to the uses and abuses of genetics in the O.J. trial, from world
scarcity to world music, Ross interrogates the cultural forms
through which economic forces take their daily toll upon our
communities and environment.
Examining the effects of debates about race, technology, ecology,
and the arts on social and legal change, Ross focuses in particular
on how demands for certain forms of cultural justice often go hand
in hand with injustices of other sorts, and shows why cultural
politics are a real and inescapable part of any argument for social
change.
In a world increasingly beset by ethnocultural conflicts, the
pursuit of cultural rights has taken on new urgency. Claims for
cultural justice affect economic distribution as much as they
address demands for recognition from marginalized groups. It is
this vital connection between economic life and cultural expression
that Andrew Ross explores in this text. From the consequences of
cyberspace for work and play to the uses and abuses of genetics in
the O.J. trial, from world scarcity to world music, Ross
interrogates the cultural forms through which economic forces take
their daily toll upon our communities and environment.
Youth music is the most creative and contested location on the cultural landscape. It is a vehicel for generational moods and aspirations, a public refuge for fantasies outlawed in daily life, a testing ground for technical ingenuity, an enormously profitable commercial channel for mainstream narratives of thought and behaviour, and one of the corporate state's main theatres for national moral panic. Today's sounds and the debates about their various forms, are inseparable from teh social conditions of the last two decades: class polarization, racial marginalisation, and economic violence enacted to a degree that has left youth, as a whole, with drastically reduced opportunities in life. Youth culture is still responding to these uneven developments with a passion that has been romanticised by some critics as a significant form of resistance, and denigrated by others as an avoidance of direct and political protest. Microphone Fiends, a collection of original essays and interviews, brings together some of the best known scholars, critics, journalists and performers to focus on the contemporary scene. It includes theoretical discussions of musical history along with social commentaries about genres like disco, metal and rap music, and case histories of specific movements like the Riots Girls, funk clubbing in Rio de Janeiro, and the British rave scene. The contents of the volume engage with the broad tradition of cultural studies and sociology of youth music and culture, but it is also designed to address audiences reached by mainstream music journalism and fans of any musical taste. responding
The intellectual and the popular: Irving Howe and John Waters,
Susan Sontag and Ethel Rosenberg, Dwight MacDonald and Bill Cosby,
Amiri Baraka and Mick Jagger, Andrea Dworkin and Grace Jones, Andy
Warhol and Lenny Bruce. All feature in Andrew Ross's lively history
and critique of modern American culture. Andrew Ross examines how
and why the cultural authority of modern intellectuals is bound up
with the changing face of popular taste in America. He argues that
the making of "taste" is hardly an aesthetic activity, but rather
an exercise in cultural power, policing and carefully redefining
social relations between classes.
Shows how and why the cultural authority of modern intellectuals is mutually bound up with the changing face of popular taste in America over the past fifty years.
Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the
right level Explore the extraordinary world of fossils! Find out
how they're formed, where to find them and how to identify them in
this information book. Written by palaeontology expert Dr Andrew
Ross, in conjunction with the National Museum of Scotland, this
book will help children discover all the fascinating details of
different species for themselves. This is a Band 10/White book in
the Collins Big Cat reading programme which has more complex
sentences and figurative language. This is an information book and
has an illustrated archaeological dig of the fossils mentioned in
the book on pages 30 and 31, which helps children to recap what
they've learnt and provides a wealth of speaking and listening
opportunities. This book supports learning about geography near the
seaside, as well as sparking discussions about history and what it
was like to live in the past. This book has been quizzed for
Accelerated Reader. For another story in this Collins Big Cat book
band for guided reading, try Cinderella (9780007336180) written by
David Wood and illustrated by Shahab Shamshirsaz.
2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title A survey into an emerging
pattern of labor instability and uneven global development Is job
insecurity the new norm? With fewer and fewer people working in
steady, long-term positions for one employer, has the dream of a
secure job with full benefits and a decent salary become just
that-a dream? In Nice Work If You Can Get It, Andrew Ross surveys
the new topography of the global workplace and finds an emerging
pattern of labor instability and uneven development on a massive
scale. Combining detailed case studies with lucid analysis and
graphic prose, he looks at what the new landscape of contingent
employment means for workers across national, class, and racial
lines-from the emerging "creative class" of high-wage professionals
to the multitudes of temporary, migrant, or low-wage workers.
Developing the idea of "precarious livelihoods" to describe this
new world of work and life, Ross explores what it means in
developed nations-comparing the creative industry policies of the
United States, United Kingdom, and European Union, as well as
developing countries-by examining the quickfire transformation of
China's labor market. He also responds to the challenge of
sustainability, assessing the promise of "green jobs" through
restorative alliances between labor advocates and
environmentalists. Ross argues that regardless of one's views on
labor rights, globalization, and quality of life, this new
precarious and "indefinite life,&" and the pitfalls and
opportunities that accompany it is likely here to stay and must be
addressed in a systematic way. A more equitable kind of knowledge
society emerges in these pages-less skewed toward flexploitation
and the speculative beneficiaries of intellectual property, and
more in tune with ideals and practices that are fair, just, and
renewable.
The aim of this book is to document for the first time the
dimensions and requirements of effective integrated groundwater
management (IGM). Groundwater management is a formidable challenge,
one that remains one of humanity's foremost priorities. It has
become a largely non-renewable resource that is overexploited in
many parts of the world. In the 21st century, the issue moves from
how to simply obtain the water we need to how we manage it
sustainably for future generations, future economies, and future
ecosystems. The focus then becomes one of understanding the drivers
and current state of the groundwater resource, and restoring
equilibrium to at-risk aquifers. Many interrelated dimensions,
however, come to bear when trying to manage groundwater
effectively. An integrated approach to groundwater necessarily
involves many factors beyond the aquifer itself, such as surface
water, water use, water quality, and ecohydrology. Moreover, the
science by itself can only define the fundamental bounds of what is
possible; effective IGM must also engage the wider community of
stakeholders to develop and support policy and other socioeconomic
tools needed to realize effective IGM. In order to demonstrate IGM,
this book covers theory and principles, embracing: 1) an overview
of the dimensions and requirements of groundwater management from
an international perspective; 2) the scale of groundwater issues
internationally and its links with other sectors, principally
energy and climate change; 3) groundwater governance with regard to
principles, instruments and institutions available for IGM; 4)
biophysical constraints and the capacity and role of
hydroecological and hydrogeological science including water quality
concerns; and 5) necessary tools including models, data
infrastructures, decision support systems and the management of
uncertainty. Examples of effective, and failed, IGM are given.
Throughout, the importance of the socioeconomic context that
connects all effective IGM is emphasized. Taken as a whole, this
work relates the many facets of effective IGM, from the catchment
to global perspective.
The aim of this book is to document for the first time the
dimensions and requirements of effective integrated groundwater
management (IGM). Groundwater management is a formidable challenge,
one that remains one of humanity's foremost priorities. It has
become a largely non-renewable resource that is overexploited in
many parts of the world. In the 21st century, the issue moves from
how to simply obtain the water we need to how we manage it
sustainably for future generations, future economies, and future
ecosystems. The focus then becomes one of understanding the drivers
and current state of the groundwater resource, and restoring
equilibrium to at-risk aquifers. Many interrelated dimensions,
however, come to bear when trying to manage groundwater
effectively. An integrated approach to groundwater necessarily
involves many factors beyond the aquifer itself, such as surface
water, water use, water quality, and ecohydrology. Moreover, the
science by itself can only define the fundamental bounds of what is
possible; effective IGM must also engage the wider community of
stakeholders to develop and support policy and other socioeconomic
tools needed to realize effective IGM. In order to demonstrate IGM,
this book covers theory and principles, embracing: 1) an overview
of the dimensions and requirements of groundwater management from
an international perspective; 2) the scale of groundwater issues
internationally and its links with other sectors, principally
energy and climate change; 3) groundwater governance with regard to
principles, instruments and institutions available for IGM; 4)
biophysical constraints and the capacity and role of
hydroecological and hydrogeological science including water quality
concerns; and 5) necessary tools including models, data
infrastructures, decision support systems and the management of
uncertainty. Examples of effective, and failed, IGM are given.
Throughout, the importance of the socioeconomic context that
connects all effective IGM is emphasized. Taken as a whole, this
work relates the many facets of effective IGM, from the catchment
to global perspective.
In a world increasingly beset by ethnocultural conflicts, the
pursuit of cultural rights has taken on new urgency. Claims for
cultural justice affect economic distribution as much as they do
address demands for recognition from marginalized groups. It is
this vital connection between economic life and cultural expression
that Andrew Ross, one of our preeminent social critics, explores in
Real Love. From the consequences of cyberspace for work and play to
the uses and abuses of genetics in the O.J. trial, from world
scarcity to world music, Ross interrogates the cultural forms
through which economic forces take their daily toll upon our labor,
communities, and environment.
In its relentless pursuit of cultural justice - an ideal
comprised, in part, of doing justice to culture, pursuing justice
through cultural means, and seeking justice for cultural claims -
Real Love continues and expands the main concern of Ross's thought,
namely the demonstration that, through rigorous research, the
cultural critic can elucidate the complexity of everyday life. But
even more than in his earlier work, Ross here examines the effects
of debates about race, technology, ecology, and the arts on social
and legal change. In particular, he focuses on how demands for
certain forms of cultural justice often go hand in hand with
injustices of other sorts and at other levels of social
existence.
Through close attention to the concrete details of daily life,
strong argumentation, and a marvelous sense of the anecdotal, Ross
shows why cultural politics are a real and inescapable part of any
advocacy for social change.
"They demolish our houses while we build theirs." This is how a
Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem
suburb, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian "stone men",
utilizing some of the best quality dolomitic limestone deposits in
the world and drawing on generations of artisanal knowledge, have
built almost every state in the Middle East except their own. Today
the business of quarrying, cutting, fabrication, and dressing is
Palestine's largest employer and generator of revenue, supplying
the construction industry in Israel, along with other Middle East
countries and even more overseas. Drawing on hundreds of interviews
in Palestine and Israel, Ross's engrossing, surprising, and
gracefully written story of this fascinating, ancient trade shows
how the stones of Palestine, and Palestinian labor, have been used
to build out the state of Israel-in the process, constructing
"facts on the ground"--even while the industry is central to
Palestinians' own efforts to erect bulwarks against the Occupation.
For decades, the hands that built Israel's houses, schools,
offices, bridges, and even its separation barriers have been
Palestinian. Looking at the Palestine-Israel conflict in a new
light, this book asks how this record of achievement and labor can
be recognized.
Most Americans today are aware that jobs are being outsourced to
China, India, and other nations at an alarming rate. From factory
jobs to white-collar, high-tech positions, the exporting of labor
is one of the most controversial issues in America.
Yet few people know much about the other end -- about the people
who are actually working these jobs and how their own lives have
been throw into tumult by these new economic forces. Andrew Ross
spent a year in China, interviewing local employees and their
managers in Taiwan, Shanghai, and the far western provinces. In
this engaging and informative book, he shows how the Chinese
workforce has inherited many of the same worries as American
workers, such as job instability, long hours, and awareness of
their own expendability. He reports on the daily reality of
corporate free trade and explores the growing competition between
China and India. This is an eye-opening exploration of an unseen
side of our globalized world.
Transoesophageal Echocardiography (TOE/TEE) in cardiac patients is
now almost routine. Its use in cardiac monitoring has also extended
to include critically ill patients for non-cardiac surgery and the
intensive care setting. Specific accreditation is required prior to
practice of TOE/TEE involving a written examination and a
documented logbook of experience. This book has been specifically
designed to help candidates pass the written exam and has been
structured around the syllabus. Providing a summary of all relevant
information, this is an invaluable study aid. Lists of further
reading material are provided with every topic, including
guidelines and safety, cardiomyopathies, heart disease,
haemodynamic calculations and many more. Each chapter ends with a
series of exam-style questions for self-assessment. An extremely
useful book for trainee anaesthetists, intensivists, trainee
cardiologists and cardiac surgeons.
Over the last 30 years, wages have stagnated and average household
debt has more than doubled. People are forced to take on debt to
meet their everyday needs like housing and education, leading to
devastated communities and an increasing reliance on credit to
maintain basic living standards. This system enriches the lives of
few at the expense of many. 'The Debt Resisters' Operations Manual'
is a handbook for debtors everywhere to understand how the debt
system really works, while providing practical tools for fighting
debt in its most exploitative forms.
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