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Eastern and Western Europe continue to change in their relationship
to one another and in their ongoing dynamic with the post-Soviet
states. Economic development, electoral upheaval, and the Bosnian
crisis all color the transition from communism to democracy and
from a Cold War outlook to a new global order still taking shape.In
this fully revised and updated edition of his popular and
critically acclaimed text, David Mason brings the revolutionary
events of 1989 into context with the transitional yet turbulent
1990s. We see new parties, new politics, new constitutions, and new
opportunities in light of economic shock therapies, ?left turns? in
recent elections, and dissolving sovereignties and alliances.
Despite savage ethnic conflict, economic scarcity, and political
insecurity, Mason shows us that East-Central Europe is
consolidating and reemerging as a region to be reckoned with on the
global stage.
David Mason was born in Washington State, forty-odd degrees north
latitude, and now lives on the Australian island of Tasmania,
forty-odd degrees south latitude. That Pacific crossing is the work
of a lifetime of devotion and change. The rich new poems of Pacific
Light explore the implications of the light as well as peace and
its opposing forces. What does it mean to be an immigrant and face
the ultimate borders of our lives? How can we say the word home and
mean it? These questions have obsessed Mason in his major narrative
works, The Country I Remember and Ludlow, as well as his lyric and
dramatic writing. Pacific Light is a culmination and a deepening of
that work, a book of transformations, history and love, endurance
and unfathomable beauty, by a poet "at the height of his powers."
This volume provides an overview of the costs, benefits,
consequences, and prospects for rebuilding nations emerging from
violent conflict. The rationale for this comes from the growing
realization that, in the post-Cold War era and in the aftermath of
9/11, our understanding of conflict and conflict resolution has to
include consideration of the conditions conducive to sustaining the
peace in nations torn by civil war or interstate conflict. The
chapters analyze the prospects for building a sustainable peace
from a number of different perspectives, examining: the role of
economic development democratization respect for human rights the
potential for renewal of conflict the United Nations and other
critical topics. In an age when 'nation-building' is once again on
the international agenda, and scholars as well as policy makers
realize both the tremendous costs and benefits in fostering
developed, democratic, peaceful and secure nations, the time has
truly come for a book that integrates all the facets of this
important subject. Conflict Prevention and Peace-building in
Post-War Societies will appeal to students and scholars of peace
studies, international relations, security studies and conflict
resolution as well as policy makers and analysts.
This title was first published in 2002: Numerous reports have
identified the serious problems of under-representation of, and
discrimination against, minority ethnic groups in the British NHS.
It is widely argued that this both raises issues of social justice
and undermines the quality of service to minority ethnic patients.
Nowhere are these problems more acute than among the largest
occupational group in the NHS - nurses. This book reports the
results of research carried out for the English National Board for
Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting to evaluate NHS equal
opportunities policy. Drawing on additional original research
involving interviews with key policy actors, this fascinating book
examines the prospects for a national strategy linking the business
and justice cases for the delivery of greater equity in employment
and service delivery.
This volume provides an overview of the costs, benefits,
consequences, and prospects for rebuilding nations emerging from
violent conflict. The rationale for this comes from the growing
realization that, in the post-Cold War era and in the aftermath of
9-11, our understanding of conflict and conflict resolution has to
include consideration of the conditions conducive to sustaining the
peace in nations torn by civil war or interstate conflict.
First, whereas wars between sovereign nations had dominated
international politics for the previous 300 years, civil wars
within nations - revolutions, secessionist wars, ethnic conflicts,
and terrorism - have become the most frequent and deadly forms of
armed conflict since the end of World War II. Second, the Third
World - Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East - has
become the site of most of the armed conflict in last half century.
Third, not only has civil war become the dominant conflict modality
in the international community but once it occurs in a nation, it
is highly likely to recur at some time in the future. Fourth, while
the end of the Cold War has not significantly diminished the
frequency and destructiveness of war, the international community
has compiled an unprecedented record of mediating peaceful
settlements to a number of protracted conflicts in the Third World.
These trends define a new agenda for the international community in
the new century: how do we sustain the peace in nations previously
torn by civil war? Each of the chapters here analyzes the prospects
for building a sustainable peace from a number of different
perspectives, examining: the role of economic development,
democratization, respect forhuman rights, the potential for renewal
of conflict, the United Nations, and other critical topics. In an
age when 'nation-building' is once again on the international
agenda, and scholars as well as policymakers realize both the
tremendous costs and benefits in fostering developed, democratic,
peaceful and secure nations, the time has truly come for a book
that integrates all the facets of this important subject.
This title was first published in 2002: Numerous reports have
identified the serious problems of under-representation of, and
discrimination against, minority ethnic groups in the British NHS.
It is widely argued that this both raises issues of social justice
and undermines the quality of service to minority ethnic patients.
Nowhere are these problems more acute than among the largest
occupational group in the NHS - nurses. This book reports the
results of research carried out for the English National Board for
Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting to evaluate NHS equal
opportunities policy. Drawing on additional original research
involving interviews with key policy actors, this fascinating book
examines the prospects for a national strategy linking the business
and justice cases for the delivery of greater equity in employment
and service delivery.
Analysis and debate about economic and political justice rarely
involves research on the views of the common person. Scholars often
make assumptions about what common people think is fair, but for
the most part they confine their thinking to a single country and
argue on rational or moral grounds, with little supporting
empirical data. Social Justice and Political Change, involves the
collaboration of thirty social scientists in twelve countries, and
represents broad-ranging comparative research. The book grows out
of a collaborative study of public opinion about social justice.
Though conceived prior to the revolutions that swept Central and
Eastern Europe in 1989, the ISJP did not put its survey into the
field until the summer of 1991, in a new climate of open
international exchange in social research. Employing common methods
of data collection and, within the limits of translation, identical
survey instruments, the ISJP investigated public opinion in seven
newly emerging post-Communist countries and five of the worlds most
influential capitalist democracies, with special sensitivity to
divergencies in the newly united Germany. Among the themes
addressed by the volumes distinguished contributors are the views
and beliefs of citizens in the post-Communist states on the
transition to market economies and parliamentary democracy; the
role of ideology in legitimating inequality; the structural
determination of beliefs about justice; the processes that shape
individual level evaluations; and the major implications of public
opinion and mass participation in the democratic process.
The first anthology to present the most exciting and unexpected new
movement in American poetry—the revival of rhyme, meter, and
narrative among poets—Rebel Angels gathers the best work of
twenty-five poets who write memorably and movingly in a dazzling
variety of forms—some traditional, some newly minted—out of the
diverse experiences of their generation. Contributors include
Elizabeth Alexander, Julia Alvarez, Bruce Bawer, Rafael Campo, Tom
Disch, Frederick Feirstein, Dana Gioia, Emily Grosholz, R.S. Gwynn,
Marilyn Hacker, Rachel Hadas, Andrew Hudgins, Paul Lake, Sydney
Lea, Brad Leithauser, Phillis Levin, Charles Martin, Marilyn
Nelson, Molly Peacock, Wyatt Prunty, Mary Jo Salter, Timothy
Steele, Frederick Turner, Rachel Wetzsteon, and Greg Williamson.
This book focuses on the changing terrain of ethnic disadvantage in
Britain, drawing on up-to-date sources. It goes further than texts
that merely describe ethnic inequalities to explore and explain
their dynamic nature. It suggests that the increasing diversity of
experience among different ethnic groups is a key to understanding
continuing and emerging tensions and conflicts. Explaining ethnic
differences: provides up to date data and analysis of ethnic
diversity and changing patterns of disadvantage in Britain; *
covers key areas of social life, including demographic trends,
education, employment, housing, health, gender, and policing and
community disorder; * is written by leading experts in the field; *
addresses issues of urgent public importance in the context of
recent community disorder and the resurgence of the far right. *
The book is essential reading for policy makers in central and
local government; academics, postgraduate students and advanced
undergraduates in the social sciences; social work, health,
education and housing professionals; and criminal justice
personnel.
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The Rabbit (Hardcover)
Jill Mason; Photographs by David Mason
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My values, attitudes, and behaviors, like those of most Americans,
have been profoundly influenced by not-for-profit enterprises. My
parents were students in one when they met. I was born in one. I
learned about God in one, my ABCs in another, how to make a fire
and tie knots in another, how to play ball and be part of a team in
another, and I met my first girlfriend in another. I prepared for
my career at a not-for-profit university, met my wife at a
not-for-profit church, went on to several not-for-profit graduate
schools, joined numerous not-for-profit profes sional and special
interest groups, brought two newly born sons horne from
not-for-profit hospitals. I read magazines published by several of
them, sail Cj. nd hunt with their members, and when I vote I
consider a variety of their admonitions. Voluntary not-for-profit
enterprises have been molding and shaping me as long as I have been
alive, and they will even be represented at my funeral. Therefore,
it seems only fair that I should help to shape some of them. I have
been at that task for some time now-Ieading seminars, consulting,
writing, and serving on boards and committees. This book is an
outgrowth of what I have learned through formal study, observation
and analysis, and personal experience in more than half the states
of the union and many foreign nations."
Eastern and Western Europe continue to change in their relationship
to one another and in their ongoing dynamic with the post-Soviet
states. Economic development, electoral upheaval, and the Bosnian
crisis all color the transition from communism to democracy and
from a Cold War outlook to a new global order still taking shape.In
this fully revised and updated edition of his popular and
critically acclaimed text, David Mason brings the revolutionary
events of 1989 into context with the transitional yet turbulent
1990s. We see new parties, new politics, new constitutions, and new
opportunities in light of economic shock therapies, "left turns" in
recent elections, and dissolving sovereignties and alliances.
Despite savage ethnic conflict, economic scarcity, and political
insecurity, Mason shows us that East-Central Europe is
consolidating and reemerging as a region to be reckoned with on the
global stage.
Emerging trade blocs in North America and the European Community
are altering the global economy and Japan's place in it. This book
asks: will trade blocs be trade diverting or create new
opportunities for Japanese trade and investment?; will a new
Asian-Pacific trade bloc emerge in response to this challenge?; and
how will the collapse of the Soviet empire and the emergence of
China as an economic power affect Japan's approach to trade blocs
in its two most lucrative markets?
Emerging trade blocs in North America and the European Community
are transforming the global economy and Japan's place in it. Will
trade blocs be trade diverting or create new opportunities for
Japanese trade and investment? Will a new Asian-Pacific trade bloc
emerge in response to this new challenge? How will the collapse of
the Soviet empire and the emergence of China as an economic power
affect Japan's approach to trade blocs in its two most lucrative
markets?
Relations between Japan and the US remain strong, and
government-to-government relations continue to be productive.
However, complaints can be heard. This volume reflects these
sentiments and emphasizes the need to promote closer ties and
greater understanding between the US and Japan.
The Rangers Story celebrates the rich history of Rangers FC, one of
the oldest and most successful football clubs in the world. This is
the story of a special city, the story of the birth of football and
of a club that is revered by fans throughout the world. It is a
story of humble beginnings in 19th-century Glasgow that charts the
development of the 'Association game' in Scotland. Drawing on 36
years of research, the author tells of the triumphs - a record
number of Scottish championships and victory in Europe - but also
of the disasters, like the 1902 and 1971 Ibrox tragedies, each
reverberating throughout the UK. The book explores the importance
of men such as Struth, Souness, Smith and Gerrard, who with
determination and ambition built this great club and its
traditions. Then there were the great players such as Baxter,
Gascoigne, and Laudrup. It is no wonder Rangers has followers
worldwide, each carrying the emotional attachment of their fathers
and grandfathers before them. To them the club is everything - the
beginning and the end.
'An unpretentious Aussie's experiences in one of the most
ramshackle and soul-destroying military organisations on Earth.'
COURIER-MAIL A real-life boy's own adventure, MARCHING WITH THE
DEVIL is a hell-raising account of five years in the infamous
French Foreign Legion. 'In 1894 a French Foreign Legion General
said, "Legionnaires, vous etes faits pour mourir, je vous envoie la
ou on meurt." Legionnaires, you are made for dying, I will send you
where you can die. When I was in my mid-teens and first read those
words they were powerful and confronting. I read them as a
challenge and an invitation. The words, and the feelings they
evoked, remained with me until I was ready. On 20 May 1988, I
enlisted in the French Foreign Legion.' Searching for something he
wasn't finding in his life in Australia, David Mason joined the
French Foreign Legion. This is a frank account of how Mason came
first in basic training, trained other Legionnaires, went to
Africa, did sniper, commando and medic training and took part in
two operations, both in the Republic of Djibouti where a civil war
nearly crippled the nation. It tells of his daily life in the
Legion, in the training regiment, in Africa and with the Legion's
Parachute Regiment. But more than this: it reveals his
disillusionment, frustration and disappointment with the much
mythologised Legion, and how the Legion today is not what it seems
- or could be. Now part of the HACHETTE MILITARY COLLECTION.
'Remarkable' THE AGE
This volume seeks to understand more about the lives and histories
of the general population of the Republic of Turkey during the
years 1928 and 1945. During this period, concepts of Turkish
nationalism were expounded in a top-down effort to rally the
population to be united as Turks. Being a top-down effort, there
needed to be mechanisms through which to transmit these concepts to
the general population. This work assesses the level to which
authors of indigenous Turkish detective fiction written between
1928 and 1945 attempted to aid in this process of transmission.
Five series of this period are carefully analysed; the clear
conclusion is that there was authorial intent to spread ideas of
"Turkism" in each and every series.
Much of Roman Chester has been lost through post-Roman dismantling
and "recycling" of building materials, though excavations over
recent years have added substantially to our knowledge of the town
known as Deva. In this companion volume to "Chester: AD400-1066,"
David Mason traces the early history of this military stronghold:
the construction and early years of the fort, and the development
of the garrison town and the surrounding civilian settlement. This
is essentially the first study to focus solely on Roman Chester,
other than excavation reports, and it represents a well-written
informative history of the rise, burgeoning and decline of the
Roman town and its inhabitants.
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Davey McGravey (Paperback)
David Mason; Illustrated by Grant Silverstein
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In a misty, faraway-feeling "land of rain," Davey McGravy lives
with his father and brothers, but mourns his missing mother. He
finds solace in nature and rhyme, birds who speak wisely and
humorously, and his newfound ability to fly. Told in mysterious yet
playful verse, beguilingly illustrated by Grant Silverstein, the
poetry of "Davey McGravy" holds enchantment for all ages.
David Mason is the Poet Laureate of Colorado. He is the author
of numerous books of poetry and the verse-novel "Ludlow." He lives
in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Grant Silverstein, who specializes in etchings, lives in
Mansfield, Pennsylvania.
In Gwinnett County's two hundred years, the area has been western,
southern, rural, suburban, and now increasingly urban. Its stories
include the displacement of Native peoples, white settlement, legal
battles over Indian Removal, slavery and cotton, the Civil War and
the Lost Cause, New South railroad and town development,
Reconstruction and Jim Crow, business development and finance in a
national economy, a Populist uprising and Black outmigration, the
entrance of women into the political arena, the evolution of cotton
culture, the development of modern infrastructure, and the
transformation from rural to suburban to a multicultural urbanizing
place. Gwinnett, as its chamber of commerce likes to say, has it
all. However, Gwinnett has yet to be the focus of a major
historical exploration-until now. Through a compilation of essays
written by professional historians with expertise in a diverse
array of eras and fields, Michael Gagnon and Matthew Hild's
collection finally tells these stories in a systematic way-avoiding
the pitfalls of nonprofessional local histories that tend to ignore
issues of race, class, or gender. While not claiming to be
comprehensive, this book provides general readers and scholars
alike with a glimpse at Gwinnett through the ages. CONTRIBUTORS:
Julia Brock, William D. Bryan, Richard A. Cook Jr., Lisa L.
Crutchfield, Michael Gagnon, Edward Hatfield, Keith S. Hebert,
Matthew Hild, R. Scott Huffard Jr., David L. Mason, Marko Maunula,
Erica Metcalfe, Katheryn L. Nikolich, David B. Parker, Bradley R.
Rice, and Carey Olmstead Shellman
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