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Campus Sexual Violence: A State of Institutionalized Sexual
Terrorism conceptualizes sexual violence on college campuses as a
form of sexual terrorism, arguing that institutional compliance and
inaction within the neoliberal university perpetuate a system of
sexual terrorism. Using a sexual terrorism framework, the authors
examine a myriad of examples of campus sexual violence with an
intersectional lens and explore the role of the institution and the
influence of neoliberalism in undermining sexual violence
prevention efforts. The book utilizes Carole Sheffield's five
components of sexual terrorism (ideology, propaganda, amorality,
perceptions of the perpetrator, and voluntary compliance) to
describe how the "ivory tower stereotype" and adoption of
neoliberal values into education contribute to an environment where
victimization is painfully common. Cases such as those from
Michigan State University and Baylor University are used as
examples to highlight institutional culpability and neoliberal
value systems within higher education, as well as illustrating the
pervasiveness of rape culture that contributes to a system of
sexual terrorism. Crucially, the book focuses on systems of
inequality and oppression, and uses an intersectional perspective
that recognizes victimization experienced by multiple marginalized
groups including women, LGBTQ+, and racially minoritized people.
Building on campus violence research and institutional harm
research, the authors define campus sexual violence as a serious
social problem based in structural inequality and advocate for
civic responsibility at the institutional level and the development
of institutional advocates. Weaving together theoretical and
practical perspectives, the book will be of great interest to
students and scholars of sociology, criminal justice, women's and
gender studies, social/political policy, victimology, and
education. It will also be of use to those working in higher
education administration and other student life and student health
professions.
Campus Sexual Violence: A State of Institutionalized Sexual
Terrorism conceptualizes sexual violence on college campuses as a
form of sexual terrorism, arguing that institutional compliance and
inaction within the neoliberal university perpetuate a system of
sexual terrorism. Using a sexual terrorism framework, the authors
examine a myriad of examples of campus sexual violence with an
intersectional lens and explore the role of the institution and the
influence of neoliberalism in undermining sexual violence
prevention efforts. The book utilizes Carole Sheffield's five
components of sexual terrorism (ideology, propaganda, amorality,
perceptions of the perpetrator, and voluntary compliance) to
describe how the "ivory tower stereotype" and adoption of
neoliberal values into education contribute to an environment where
victimization is painfully common. Cases such as those from
Michigan State University and Baylor University are used as
examples to highlight institutional culpability and neoliberal
value systems within higher education, as well as illustrating the
pervasiveness of rape culture that contributes to a system of
sexual terrorism. Crucially, the book focuses on systems of
inequality and oppression, and uses an intersectional perspective
that recognizes victimization experienced by multiple marginalized
groups including women, LGBTQ+, and racially minoritized people.
Building on campus violence research and institutional harm
research, the authors define campus sexual violence as a serious
social problem based in structural inequality and advocate for
civic responsibility at the institutional level and the development
of institutional advocates. Weaving together theoretical and
practical perspectives, the book will be of great interest to
students and scholars of sociology, criminal justice, women's and
gender studies, social/political policy, victimology, and
education. It will also be of use to those working in higher
education administration and other student life and student health
professions.
How can the truth about the devastating atrocities committed by the
German army on the Eastern Front in the Second World War be
reconciled with the propaganda of their heroism and their
victories? And how did a simple soldier, caught up in the turmoil
of a vast conflict, make sense of the actions he had taken and the
ruthlessness he had seen? Luis Raffeiner's plain and simple account
of his direct experience of the Nazi war of annihilation in the
Soviet Union records in graphic detail circumstances which made him
a victim and perpetrator at the same time. Raffeiner describes his
family life in a remote village in the Tyrol in the 1930s, his
military service in Italy, his transfer to the Wehrmacht and his
training as a mechanic on assault guns, and then his march into the
Soviet Union in 1941\. There he experienced, as he himself says,
war in its brutal and cruel reality'. He was captured by the Red
Army, barely survived as a prisoner of war and, many years later,
he recounted his vividly remembered experiences in order to produce
this insightful -and thought-provoking -book. His recollections are
dramatic, honest and concise. He shatters the myth of the clean
conduct of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front. He can testify to
the vicious actions of his fellow soldiers, including some in which
he himself was involved. His memoir is not a heroic tale -it shows
how a man from an ordinary background can become acquainted with,
and a participant in, the horrors of war.
Kingsley Davis (1908-1997) was one of the pioneers in social
demography, and was particularly identified with the theory of the
demographic transition. This holds that the process of
industrialization first causes mortality to decline, leading to a
substantial rate of population growth and only later causes
fertility to fall, leading eventually to the cessation of
population growth. Kingsley Davis is especially remembered for his
arresting and forceful critique of family-planning programs
intended to achieve zero population growth. Before he devoted his
major attention to social demography, Davis had distinguished
himself through influential articles on the structure of family and
kinship, including the topics of jealousy and sexual property, the
sociology of prostitution, and illegitimacy. He had an early
interest in structural-functional analysis, which resulted in his
famous and controversial article on stratification, co-authored
with Wilbert Moore, and his equally famous presidential address to
the American Sociological Association in 1959. David Heer's
biography of Kingsley Davis is based on material contained in the
Kingsley Davis Archive at the Hoover Institution Library at
Stanford University, the Kingsley Davis graduate file at Harvard
University, the interview of Kingsley Davis by Jean van der Tak in
Demographic Destinies (1990), and David Heer's personal
relationship with Kingsley Davis. The book also contains thirty of
the most important writings by Kingsley Davis. These were chosen,
in part, for the number of citations received in the Cumulative
Social Science Citation Index, and in part to ensure that readers
would be able to assess the continuity of Kingsley Davis's ideas at
all stages of his career.
Kingsley Davis (1908-1997) was one of the pioneers in social
demography, and was particularly identified with the theory of the
demographic transition. This holds that the process of
industrialization first causes mortality to decline, leading to a
substantial rate of population growth and only later causes
fertility to fall, leading eventually to the cessation of
population growth. Kingsley Davis is especially remembered for his
arresting and forceful critique of family-planning programs
intended to achieve zero population growth.
Before he devoted his major attention to social demography, Davis
had distinguished himself through influential articles on the
structure of family and kinship, including the topics of jealousy
and sexual property, the sociology of prostitution, and
illegitimacy. He had an early interest in structural-functional
analysis, which resulted in his famous and controversial article on
stratification, co-authored with Wilbert Moore, and his equally
famous presidential address to the American Sociological
Association in 1959.
David Heer's biography of Kingsley Davis is based on material
contained in the Kingsley Davis Archive at the Hoover Institution
Library at Stanford University, the Kingsley Davis graduate file at
Harvard University, the interview of Kingsley Davis by Jean van der
Tak in "Demographic Destinies" (1990), and David Heer's personal
relationship with Kingsley Davis. The book also contains thirty of
the most important writings by Kingsley Davis. These were chosen,
in part, for the number of citations received in the Cumulative
Social Science Citation Index, and in part to ensure that readers
would be able to assess the continuity of Kingsley Davis's ideas at
all stages of his career.
" "Kingsley Davis" is] An excellent selection of Kingsley Davis'
most important writings, enriched by bibliographic detail about his
career." -Harriet B. Presser, Distinguished University Professor,
University of Maryland
"David Heer has produced an unusually rich and personal biography
of one of the greatest intellects in the history of sociology. In a
very scholarly yet intimate way, Heer has assembled the pieces of
Davis's personal life and interwoven them with a narrative about
Davis's most influential writings. But, importantly, these
influential writings are also included in "Kingsley Davis"], so
that you can judge for yourself how insightful Kingsley Davis was
about human society. This book ensures that we will continue to
learn from him for decades to come." -John R. Weeks, Director,
International Population Center
David M. Heer is professor of sociology emeritus at the University
of Southern California and senior fellow at the Center for
Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California,
San Diego. He is the author of "After Nuclear Attack, Society and
Population, Undocumented Mexicans in the United States," and
"Immigration in America's Future."
The late Ch.-E. Dufourcq was one of the first to map out the
relations between the Christian and Muslim coastlands of the
medieval western Mediterranean. These studies reveal the extent of
the contribution he made to the subject, and the care and attention
with which he handled the scattered documentary sources. There are
three main themes to the volume: one group of articles focuses on
the political and diplomatic aspects of the relations between Spain
(Catalonia in particular) and the Maghreb (the lands of the modern
Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia); a second is concerned more with
commercial contacts and with a comparison of the economic
conditions north and south of the Mediterranean, and with the
day-to-day life of the sailors and merchants who formed the link
between the two. A third theme, most prominent in the final
articles, is the social and economic history of Catalonia itself, a
subject to which he returned in the final years of his life. Le
regrette Ch.-E. Dufourcq A ete l'un des premiers A etablir les
grandes lignes des rapports existant entre les pays cAtiers
chretiens et musulmans de la Mediterannee occidentale durant le
Moyen Age. Ces etudes revelent l'entendue de la contribution de
l'auteur A ce sujet, ainsi que le soin et l'attention avec lesquels
il en a manie le s sources documentaires dispersees. On retrouve
trois themes principeaux au travers de ce volume : un groupe
d'articles se concentre sur les aspects politiques et diplomatiques
des rapports entre l'Espagne, plus particulierement la Catalogne,
et le Maghreb; le seconde s'attache plus aux contracts
commercieaux, comparant les conditions economiques du Nord et du
Sud de la Mediterranee, et A la vie quotidienne des marins et des
marchands qui formaient le lien entre les deux. Un troisieme theme,
plus proeminent dans les derniers articles, ecrits par l'auteur
vers A la fin de sa vie, est celui de l'histoire sociale et
economique de la Catalogne elle-
This book provides an overview of microgravity-induced changes in
human metabolism, muscle, bone and the cardio-vascular system, and
discusses in detail the nutrient uptake required during spaceflight
to counteract these adaptive mechanisms and ensure an improved
physical constitution upon returning to Earth. It addresses the
needs of professors, researchers and students working in the field
of human physiology and nutrition.
This book provides an overview of microgravity-induced changes in
human metabolism, muscle, bone and the cardio-vascular system, and
discusses in detail the nutrient uptake required during spaceflight
to counteract these adaptive mechanisms and ensure an improved
physical constitution upon returning to Earth. It addresses the
needs of professors, researchers and students working in the field
of human physiology and nutrition.
"The Dynamics of Soviet Politics" is the result of reflective
and thorough research into the centers of a system whose inner
debates are not open to public discussion and review, a system
which tolerates no public opposition parties, no prying
congressional committees, and no investigative journalists to
ferret out secrets. The expert authors offer an inside view of the
workings of this closed system a view rarely found elsewhere in
discussions of Soviet affairs. Their work, building as it does on
the achievements of Soviet studies over the last thirty years, is
firmly rooted in established knowledge and covers sufficient new
ground to enable future studies of Soviet politics and social
practices to move ahead unencumbered by stereotypes,
sensationalism, or mystification.
Among the subjects included are: attitudes toward leadership
and a general discussion of the uses of political history; the
dramatic cycles of officially permitted dissent; the legitimacy of
leadership within a system that has no constitutional provision for
succession; the gradual adoption of Western-inspired administrative
procedures and "systems management"; a study of group competition,
and bureaucratic bargaining; Khrushchev's virgin-lands experiment
and its subsequent retrenchment; the apolitical values of
adolescents; the problems of integrating Central Asia into the
Soviet system; a history of peaceful coexistence and its current
importance in Soviet foreign policy priorities, and, finally, an
overview of Soviet government as an extension of prerevolutionary
oligarchy, with an emphasis on adaptation to political change.
George F. Kennan is well known as the preeminent American expert on
the Soviet Union during the Cold War and the author of the doctrine
of containment. In Mr. X and the Pacific, Paul J. Heer chronicles
and assesses Kennan's work in affecting US policy toward East Asia.
Heer traces the origins, development, and bearing of Kennan's
strategic perspective on the Far East during his time as director
of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff from 1947 to 1950.
The author follows Kennan's career and evolution of his thinking as
he subsequently became a prominent critic of American participation
in the Vietnam War. Mr. X and the Pacific offers readers a new view
of Kennan, revealing his importance and the totality of his role in
East Asia policy, his struggle with American foreign policy in the
region, and the ways in which Kennan's legacy still has
implications for how the United States approaches the region in the
twenty-first century.
How do democratic and pluralistic societies cope with traumatic
events in their past? What strategies and taboos are employed to
reconstruct wars, revolutions, torturing, mass killings and
genocide in a way to make their contradiction to basic human rights
and values invisible? This interdisciplinary volume analyzes in
detail for the first time, in multiple genres, the history and
image of the "German "Wehrmacht"" and the debates in Austria and
Germany surrounding two highly contested exhibitions about the war
crimes of the German "Wehrmacht" during WWII.
Among the many myths about the relationship of Nazism to the mass
of the German population, few proved more powerful in postwar West
Germany than the notion that the Wehrmacht had not been involved in
the crimes of the Third Reich. Former generals were particularly
effective in spreading, through memoirs and speeches, the legend
that millions of German soldiers had fought an honest and "clean"
war and that mass murder, especially in the East, was entirely the
work of Himmler's SS. This volume contains the most important
contributions by distinguished historians who have thoroughly
demolished this Wehrmacht myth. The picture that emerges from this
collection is a depressing one and raises many questions about why
"ordinary men" got involved as perpetrators and bystanders in an
unprecedented program of extermination of "racially inferior" men,
women, and children in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union during
the Second World War. Those who have seen these terrible photos of
mass executions and other atrocities, currently on show in an
exhibition in Germany and soon to be in the United States, will
find this volume most enlightening.
Among the many myths about the relationship of Nazism to the
mass of the German population, few proved more powerful in postwar
West Germany than the notion that the Wehrmacht had not been
involved in the crimes of the Third Reich. Former generals were
particularly effective in spreading, through memoirs and speeches,
the legend that millions of German soldiers had fought an honest
and "clean" war and that mass murder, especially in the East, was
entirely the work of Himmler's SS. This volume contains the most
important contributions by distinguished historians who have
thoroughly demolished this Wehrmacht myth. The picture that emerges
from this collection is a depressing one and raises many questions
about why "ordinary men" got involved as perpetrators and
bystanders in an unprecedented program of extermination of
"racially inferior" men, women, and children in Eastern Europe and
the Soviet Union during the Second World War. Those who have seen
these terrible photos of mass executions and other atrocities,
currently on show in an exhibition in Germany and soon to be in the
United States, will find this volume most enlightening.
Hannes Heer is a historian and film director. Klaus Naumann is a
historain and journalist; both are Fellows of the Hamburg Institute
for Social Studies.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th
International Conference on Algebraic and Logic Programming, ALP
'97 and the 3rd International Workshop on Higher-Order Algebra,
Logic and Term Rewriting, HOA '97, held jointly in Southampton, UK,
in September 1997.
The 18 revised full papers presented in the book were selected from
31 submissions. The volume is divided in sections on functional and
logic programming, higher-order methods, term rewriting, types,
lambda-calculus, and theorem proving methods.
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Higher-Order Algebra, Logic, and Term Rewriting - Second International Workshop, HOA '95, Paderborn, Germany, September 1995. Selected Papers (Paperback, 1996 ed.)
Gilles Dowek, Jan Heering, Karl Meinke, Bernhard Moeller
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This book presents a collection of revised refereed papers selected
from the presentations accepted for the Second International
Workshop on Higher-Order Algebra, Logic, and Term Rewriting, HOA
'95, held in Paderborn, Germany, in September 1995.
The 14 research papers included, together with an invited paper by
Jan Willem Klop, report state-of-the-art results; the relevant
theoretical aspects are addressed, and in addition existing proof
systems and term rewriting systems are discussed.
Immigration policy is one of the most contentious issues facing the
United States today. The bitter national debate over California's
Proposition 187, the influx of Cuban refugees into Miami, and the
continuous, often illegal, crossings over the Mexican border into
Texas and California are just a few of the episodes that have
created a furor on local, state, and federal levels.In this timely
and informative book, David Heer invites readers to examine the
data and the trends of immigration to the United States and,
ultimately, make up their own minds about what our national
immigration policy ought to be. He demonstrates how social science
findings, together with a conscious recognition of our individual
values, are necessary for the formation of a balanced policy for
immigration.Some of the the nation's collective values that may be
affected by U.S. immigration policy are the standard of living in
this country, the preservation of existing American culture, ethnic
and class conflict, and the power of the United States in
international affairs. Heer examines the impact of these values on
immigration policy and traces the history of U.S. immigration and
immigration law and patterns of immigration to the United States.
Finally, he offers proposals for change to existing immigration
policy.
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Higher-Order Algebra, Logic, and Term Rewriting - First International Workshop, HOA '93, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 23 - 24, 1993. Selected Papers (Paperback, 1994 ed.)
Jan Heering, Karl Meinke, Bernhard Moeller, Tobias Nipkow
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This volume contains the final revised versions of the best papers
presented at the First International Workshop on Higher-Order
Algebra, Logic, and Term Rewriting (HOA '93), held in Amsterdam in
September 1993. Higher-Order methods are increasingly applied in
functional and logic programming languages, as well as in
specification and verification of programs and hardware. The 15
full papers in this volume are devoted to the algebra and model
theory of higher-order languages, computational logic techniques
including resolution and term rewriting, and specification and
verification case studies; in total they provide a competently
written overview of current research and suggest new research
directions in this vigourous area.
Today, the most pressing challenges for public economics are of
macroeconomic nature: pensions, debt, income distribution, and
fiscal sustainability. All these problems are compounded by the
phenomenon of demographic transition and aging. This graduate
textbook addresses these issues with the help of state-of-the-art
macroeconomic tools that are based on a sound microfoundation and
rooted in empirical evidence. Different from the standard
partial-equilibrium analysis in traditional textbooks on public
economics, the concept of general equilibrium helps to account for
compensating or amplifying side-effects of economic policy. GAUSS
and MATLAB computer code as well as teaching material (slides) are
available as downloads from the author's homepage.
Immigration policy is one of the most contentious issues facing the
United States today. The bitter national debate over California's
Proposition 187, the influx of Cuban refugees into Miami, and the
continuous, often illegal, crossings over the Mexican border into
Texas and California are just a few of the episodes that have
created a furor on loc
THIS BOOK OFFERS YOU "OUT OF THE BOX" CONCEPTS WITH MONEY Money
Isn't The Problem, You Are is written for people who live in a
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Problem, You Are, Gary Douglas and Dain Heer share processes,
tools, and points of view that you can use to change the way money
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regarding money issues. Through innovative tools, Douglas and Heer
have helped those who had $10 in their pocket and people who had
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Money Isn't The Problem, You Are is based on the very popular
Access Money Seminar, which has been taught in cities throughout
the U.S., Costa Rica, Australia and New Zealand. "It's not about
money. It never is. It's about what you're willing to receive. The
Universe is endlessly abundant. Learn to make different choices
with the empowering tools in this book. You CAN create a different
reality." -Gary Douglas, found of Access Consciousness(r)
A key task that any aspiring data-driven organization needs to
learn is data wrangling, the process of converting raw data into
something truly useful. This practical guide provides business
analysts with an overview of various data wrangling techniques and
tools, and puts the practice of data wrangling into context by
asking, "What are you trying to do and why?" Wrangling data
consumes roughly 50-80% of an analyst's time before any kind of
analysis is possible. Written by key executives at Trifacta, this
book walks you through the wrangling process by exploring several
factors-time, granularity, scope, and structure-that you need to
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language and a comprehensive understanding of data wrangling, with
an emphasis on recent agile analytic processes used by many of
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the satisfaction-of wrangling data the right way. Understand what
kind of data is available Choose which data to use and at what
level of detail Meaningfully combine multiple sources of data
Decide how to distill the results to a size and shape that can
drive downstream analysis
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