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Over the course of more than three decades as an American diplomat,
William J. Burns played a central role in the most consequential
diplomatic episodes of his time-from the bloodless end of the Cold
War to the collapse of relations with Putin's Russia, from
post-9/11 tumult in the Middle East to the secret nuclear talks
with Iran. Burns draws on a treasure trove of newly declassified
cables and memos to offer rare insight into US diplomacy in action.
He illuminates the back channels of his profession, and its value
in a world that resembles neither the zero-sum Cold War of his
early career, nor the 'unipolar moment' of American primacy that
followed. The Back Channel recounts with vivid detail and incisive
analysis the seminal moments of a legendary career and makes an
eloquent and impassioned argument for diplomacy in an increasingly
volatile world.
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Daniel J Burns; As told to Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Jonathan Franzen is one of the most influential,
critically-significant and popular contemporary American novelists.
This book is the first full-length study of his work and attempts
to articulate where American fiction is headed after postmodernism.
Stephen Burn provides a comprehensive analysis of each of Franzen's
novels - from his early work to the major success of The
Corrections - identifying key sources, delineating important
narrative strategies, and revealing how Franzen's themes are
reinforced by each novel's structure. Supplementing this analysis
with comparisons to key contemporaries, David Foster Wallace and
Richard Powers, Burn suggests how Franzen's work is indicative of
the direction of experimental American fiction in the wake of the
so-called end of postmodernism.
Consumer culture influences virtually all activities within modern
societies and has become an important area of study for businesses.
Logical analysis of consumer behavior is difficult as humans have
different reasons for repeatedly buying products they need or want,
and it is challenging to follow why they buy unneeded or unwanted
products regularly. Without a comprehensive understanding of
consumer culture as the basis, market discussions become empty and
produce little insight into the power consumers hold in affecting
other individuals and society. Multifaceted Explorations of
Consumer Culture and Its Impact on Individuals and Society provides
emerging research from different perspectives on the basis and
ramifications of consumer culture, as well as how it affects all
aspects of the lives of individuals. While providing a platform for
exploring interpersonal interactions and issues related to ethics
in marketing, readers will gain valuable insight into areas such as
consumer vs. producer mentality, the effects of consumerism on
developing countries, and the consequences of consumerism. This
book is an important resource for marketing professionals, business
managers, sociologists, students, academicians, researchers, and
consumer professionals.
Dallas Seminary Professors Make Basic Theology Accessible for All
Theology doesn't have to be complicated. In this book, trusted
Dallas Seminary professors present a concise systematic theology
that distills the essential spiritual truths in a way that makes
sense to readers--students, lay people, and pastors. Here are
introductions, overviews, and reviews of key tenets of orthodox
protestant evangelical doctrines. The book also includes an
annotated list of key applicable Bible texts, a quick-paced story
of doctrine throughout church history, heresies or distortions to
be aware of, and more.
"Exploring Christian Theology "is useful for discipleship,
catechism, membership training, preview or review of doctrine, or
quick personal reference. It can also be used by ministry training
programs, Bible colleges, or seminaries as an introductory primer
to orient students in preparation for a more in-depth study of
theology.
In the era of the Anthropocene, site matters are more pressing than
ever. Building on the concepts, theories, and multi-disciplinary
approaches raised in the first edition, this publication strives to
address the changes that have taken place over the last 15 years
with new material to complement and re-position the initial volume.
Reaching across design disciplines, this highly illustrated
anthology assembles essays from architects, landscape architects,
urban designers, planners, historians, and artists to explore ways
to physically and conceptually engage site. Thoughtful discourse
and empirically grounded pieces combine to provide the language and
theory to contextualize the meanings of site in the built
environment. The increasingly complex hybridity of constructed
environments today demands new tools for thinking about and working
with site. Drawing contributions from outside and within the
traditional design disciplines, this edition will trace important
developments in site thinking with new essays on topics such as
climate change, landscape as infrastructure, shifts from global to
planetary urbanization debates, and the proliferation of
participatory site transformation practices. Edited by two leading
practitioners and academics, Site Matters juxtaposes timeless
contributions from individuals including Elizabeth Meyer, Robert
Beauregard, and Robin Dripps with original new writings from Peter
Marcuse, Jane Wolff, Neil Brenner, and Thaisa Way, amongst others,
to recontextualize and reignite the debate around site. An ideal
text for students, academics, and researchers interested in site
and design theory.
Three scenarios for future approaches to peace and conflict
diplomacy, explored through the lens of regional perspectives and
security threats Diplomacy in pursuit of peace and security faces
severe challenges not seen in decades. The reemergence of strong
states, discord in the UN Security Council, destabilizing
transnational nonstate actors, closing space for civil society
within states, and the weakening of the international liberal order
all present new obstacles to diplomacy. In Diplomacy and the Future
of World Order, an international group of experts confronts these
challenges to peace and conflict diplomacy-defined as the effort to
manage others' conflicts, cope with great power competition, and
deal with threats to the state system itself. In doing so, they
consider three potential scenarios for world order where key states
decide to go it alone, return to a liberal order, or collaborate on
a case-by-case basis to address common threats and problems. These
three scenarios are then evaluated through the prism of regional
perspectives from around the world and for their potential
ramifications for major security threats including peacekeeping,
nuclear nonproliferation, cyber competition, and terrorism. Editors
Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall conclude the
volume by identifying emerging types of diplomacy that may form the
foundation for global peacemaking and conflict management in an
uncertain future.
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Diplomacy and the Future of World Order (Hardcover)
Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, Pamela Aall; Foreword by William J. Burns; Contributions by Chester A. Crocker, …
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Three scenarios for future approaches to peace and conflict
diplomacy, explored through the lens of regional perspectives and
security threats Diplomacy in pursuit of peace and security faces
severe challenges not seen in decades. The reemergence of strong
states, discord in the UN Security Council, destabilizing
transnational nonstate actors, closing space for civil society
within states, and the weakening of the international liberal order
all present new obstacles to diplomacy. In Diplomacy and the Future
of World Order, an international group of experts confronts these
challenges to peace and conflict diplomacy-defined as the effort to
manage others' conflicts, cope with great power competition, and
deal with threats to the state system itself. In doing so, they
consider three potential scenarios for world order where key states
decide to go it alone, return to a liberal order, or collaborate on
a case-by-case basis to address common threats and problems. These
three scenarios are then evaluated through the prism of regional
perspectives from around the world and for their potential
ramifications for major security threats including peacekeeping,
nuclear nonproliferation, cyber competition, and terrorism. Editors
Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall conclude the
volume by identifying emerging types of diplomacy that may form the
foundation for global peacemaking and conflict management in an
uncertain future.
First Published in 1996. The current world order poses new
challenges to the theory and practice of peace education. Drawing
on data gathered from around the world, Burns and Aspeslagh focus
on how peace is presented in formal and informal educational
settings and what effects ideologies have in shaping that
presentation. The book views peace education in the context of
education about other major social and political issues and in a
variety of geopolitical settings, exploring factors that affect the
generation, selection, organization, transmission, and evaluation
of knowledge for peace. Following a review of major approaches to
policy and praxis in peace education, the editors draw on original
research to offer interpretations based on pragmatic, normative,
and conceptual approaches to the individual, the state, and the
role of political literacy. The use of a comparative educational
framework that goes beyond curriculum studies and descriptive case
studies presents a perspective that is innovative, and timely. The
volume includes both bibliography and index.
In William Howard Taft's Constitutional Progressivism Kevin J.
Burns makes a compelling case that Taft's devotion to the
Constitution of 1787 contributed to his progressivism. In contrast
to the majority of scholarship, which has viewed Taft as a
reactionary conservative because of his constitutionalism, Burns
explores the ways Taft's commitment to both the Constitution and
progressivism drove his political career and the decisions he made
as president and chief justice. Taft saw the Constitution playing a
positive role in American political life, recognizing that it
created a national government strong enough to enact broad
progressive reforms. In reevaluating Taft's career, Burns
highlights how Taft rejected the 'laissez faire school,' which
taught that 'the Government ought to do nothing but run a police
force.' Recognizing that the massive industrial changes following
the Civil War had created a plethora of socioeconomic ills, Taft
worked to expand the national government's initiatives in the
fields of trust-busting, land conservation, tariff reform, railroad
regulations, and worker safety laws. Burns offers a fuller
understanding of Taft and his political project by emphasizing
Taft's belief that the Constitution could play a constructive role
in American political life by empowering the government to act and
by undergirding and protecting the reform legislation the
government implemented. Moreover, Taft recognized that if the
Constitution could come to the aid of progressivism, political
reform might also redound to the benefit of the Constitution by
showing its continued relevance and workability in modern America.
Although Taft's efforts to promote significant policy-level reforms
attest to his progressivism, his major contribution to American
political thought is his understanding of the US Constitution as a
fundamental law, not a policy-oriented document. In many ways Taft
can be thought of as an originalist, yet his originalism was marked
by a belief in robust national powers. Taft's constitutionalism
remains relevant because while his principles seem foreign to
modern legal discourse, his constitutional vision offers an
alternative to contemporary political divisions by combining
political progressivism-liberalism with constitutional
conservatism.
In the era of the Anthropocene, site matters are more pressing than
ever. Building on the concepts, theories, and multi-disciplinary
approaches raised in the first edition, this publication strives to
address the changes that have taken place over the last 15 years
with new material to complement and re-position the initial volume.
Reaching across design disciplines, this highly illustrated
anthology assembles essays from architects, landscape architects,
urban designers, planners, historians, and artists to explore ways
to physically and conceptually engage site. Thoughtful discourse
and empirically grounded pieces combine to provide the language and
theory to contextualize the meanings of site in the built
environment. The increasingly complex hybridity of constructed
environments today demands new tools for thinking about and working
with site. Drawing contributions from outside and within the
traditional design disciplines, this edition will trace important
developments in site thinking with new essays on topics such as
climate change, landscape as infrastructure, shifts from global to
planetary urbanization debates, and the proliferation of
participatory site transformation practices. Edited by two leading
practitioners and academics, Site Matters juxtaposes timeless
contributions from individuals including Elizabeth Meyer, Robert
Beauregard, and Robin Dripps with original new writings from Peter
Marcuse, Jane Wolff, Neil Brenner, and Thaisa Way, amongst others,
to recontextualize and reignite the debate around site. An ideal
text for students, academics, and researchers interested in site
and design theory.
Interest in the occurence and behaviour of volatile organic
compounds (VOCs) is increasing due to their adverse effects on the
environemnt and human health. The need to enforce more stringent
regulations for levels of VOCs has resulted in the development of
new techniques, chromatographic as well as spectroscopic. Defining
sampling strategies and selecting measuring techniques has become a
multidisciplinary task. Authorities responsible for regulations and
enforcements, and environmental scientists have different
approaches and pose different demands. New insights in
environmental physics and chemistry, in adverse health effects and
in the development of new measuring techniques indicate further
research objectives. It is essential that information is made
available on the various aspects of research on VOCs to enable
better understanding of the various approaches. In particular the
potential and limitations of the described analytial methods will
be essential in defining environmental studies and interpreting the
results. This book addresses general and specific aspects of
research on volatile compounds and is written for analytical and
environmental chemists and policy makers in regulatory authorities
and research institutions.
Originally published in 1992. This work provides insight into
comparative and international education work in Australia and New
Zealand, where an emerging local style may be developing into a
full blown national approach. The 14 essays address issues such as
education in third-world Asia, sexism, and culture and power. There
is recurring focus on ethics in research, education development,
the role of international agencies, inequality, legitimacy and the
link between comparative education and education practice. This a
great reflection on the field as a whole, with contributions mostly
from one area of the world but with a complete international spread
of consideration.
This volume deals with the diverse range of industries concerned
with the supply and processing of food in the UK. It covers sources
relating to food production and processing, including foodstuffs
supplied from abroad, and also fish supply and processing.
The aim of this book is to provide statistical information on the
various food industries. Each chapter covers one particular
industry or a group of related industries and is organized in the
same way. Statistical details are given on industry structure, the
European Community, output, inputs, capital, labour, international
transactions, stocks, consumption, prices, supplies and disposals,
financial information, research and development, advertising and
market research, official investigations and improvements and
comments.
Across two decades of intense creativity, David Foster Wallace
(1962-2008) crafted a remarkable body of work that ranged from
unclassifiable essays, to a book about transfinite mathematics, to
vertiginous fictions. Whether through essay volumes ("A Supposedly
Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Consider the Lobster"), short story
collections ("Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous
Men, Oblivion"), or his novels ("Infinite Jest, The Broom of the
System"), the luminous qualities of Wallace's work recalibrated our
measures of modern literary achievement. "Conversations with David
Foster Wallace" gathers twenty-two interviews and profiles that
trace the arc of Wallace's career, shedding light on his omnivorous
talent.Jonathan Franzen has argued that, for Wallace, an interview
provided a formal enclosure in which the writer "could safely draw
on his enormous native store of kindness and wisdom and expertise."
Wallace's interviews create a wormhole in which an author's private
theorizing about art spill into the public record. Wallace's best
interviews are vital extra-literary documents, in which we catch
him thinking aloud about his signature concerns--irony's magnetic
hold on contemporary language, the pale last days of postmodernism,
the delicate exchange that exists between reader and writer. At the
same time, his acute focus moves across MFA programs, his
negotiations with religious belief, the role of footnotes in his
writing, and his multifaceted conception of his work's
architecture. "Conversations with David Foster Wallace" includes a
previously unpublished interview from 2005, and a version of Larry
McCaffery's influential "Review of Contemporary Fiction" interview
with Wallace that has been expanded with new material drawn from
the original raw transcript.
First Published in 1996. The current world order poses new
challenges to the theory and practice of peace education. Drawing
on data gathered from around the world, Burns and Aspeslagh focus
on how peace is presented in formal and informal educational
settings and what effects ideologies have in shaping that
presentation. The book views peace education in the context of
education about other major social and political issues and in a
variety of geopolitical settings, exploring factors that affect the
generation, selection, organization, transmission, and evaluation
of knowledge for peace. Following a review of major approaches to
policy and praxis in peace education, the editors draw on original
research to offer interpretations based on pragmatic, normative,
and conceptual approaches to the individual, the state, and the
role of political literacy. The use of a comparative educational
framework that goes beyond curriculum studies and descriptive case
studies presents a perspective that is innovative, and timely. The
volume includes both bibliography and index.
Originally published in 1992. This work provides insight into
comparative and international education work in Australia and New
Zealand, where an emerging local style may be developing into a
full blown national approach. The 14 essays address issues such as
education in third-world Asia, sexism, and culture and power. There
is recurring focus on ethics in research, education development,
the role of international agencies, inequality, legitimacy and the
link between comparative education and education practice. This a
great reflection on the field as a whole, with contributions mostly
from one area of the world but with a complete international spread
of consideration.
This volume is based on the proceedings of an Advanced Study
Institute (ASI) sponsored by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO) held October 1984 in Corfu, Greece. The meeting received
finan cial support from the United States Department of Energy and
the United States National Cancer Institute. A plethora of recent
developments in the molecular biology of DNA are leading to new
ideas concerning how DNA alterations might be involved in the
mechanism of radiation carcinogenesis. Evidence is accumulating
that genetic sequences, known as oncogenes, are involved in the
translation of DNA molecular alterations into phenotypic changes
associated with malignant cells. For example, a chromosome break
often occurs at or near the loca tion of a specific oncogene in
Burkitt's lymphoma. Such breaks could represent initial lesions in
a translocation process that activates the oncogene by inserting it
at a new location, eg., near an active pro moter. Since breakage of
the DNA is one of the principal ways that ion izing radiation
affects mammalian cells, these new molecular ideas sug gest ways
that radiation-induced DNA breaks might be involved as initial
events in carcinogenesis. While the possible involvement of
oncogenes in radiation carcino genesis is an exciting new
development, a direct sequential connection between early molecular
changes in DNA and later tumor development has yet to be
established. Accordingly, there is a tremendous need for
experimental studies of how DNA alterations might convert normal
cells to cancer cells."
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