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Swiss Foreign Policy, 1945-2002 presents for the first time a comprehensive collection of eight essays addressing the post-war foreign policy of Switzerland. The essays deal with a diverse range of issues: general foreign policy and neutrality; defense and security policy; relations with the United Nations; the Swiss policy of good offices; relations with the International Committee of the Red Cross; Swiss human rights policy; arms control and non-proliferation and foreign economic policy. Through these essays, the dualistic nature of Swiss foreign policy, being at once both strongly internationalist and strongly unilateralist, is examined.
This is a study of global political history since 1941 with a particular emphasis on America's attitude to neutrality. This important revised and updated edition contains three entirely new chapters including an insightful new introduction and conclusion, drawing on newly released documentation, most importantly on Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War. Like the previous edition, this book looks at world affairs through the eyes of neutrality. It covers America's contribution to the decline of world-neutrality, the major economic and military events surrounding the Second World War, the founding of NATO and the problems of neutralism during the Vietnam War. This new edition, however, goes one step further to confirm, with fresh new evidence, the central thesis of the original volume.
Political Economy Goes to the Movies provides an introduction to
political economy using a wide range of popular films and
documentaries as the objects of analysis. The work helps readers to
understand and analyze the economic and related political,
cultural, and ecological relationships depicted in selected films.
This is achieved through the lens of past and present economic
theories and in the context of debates over the dynamic influence
of economics on individual life chances. Film may have more to
teach us about the real world than the abstractions of certain
economic theories. A world of income inequality, child labor in
mills and mines, local rebellions against land seizures, and wars
triggered by economic conflicts provide the context for many films
mirroring real world events. Some films depict the interacting and
intersecting political, economic, cultural, and ecological contexts
within and between variant economic relationships, whereas other
films show "catastrophes" such as economic depressions, disruptive
social transitions, violent revolutions, and existential
environmental degradation - a world in disequilibrium. Films allow
us to see a panoply of human social relationships and related
problems, even to explore cataclysmic moments in our species life,
but not to necessarily see the why of these relationships and
problems. Simultaneously, mainstream economics has severe
constraints on what can be analyzed. Film exposes this weakness of
the mainstream model. Twelve Years a Slave, Trumbo, The Big Short
and others are analyzed for their realism by referencing documented
historical social events, and behavioral economics provides further
data for analyzing the realism of social interaction within the
films. Exploring events and contexts absent from the typical
economics text or the basic level economics classes, this work is
essential reading for students and scholars of political economy in
both economics and politics departments, as well as those of
pluralist economics and Marxist economics.
Political Economy Goes to the Movies provides an introduction to
political economy using a wide range of popular films and
documentaries as the objects of analysis. The work helps readers to
understand and analyze the economic and related political,
cultural, and ecological relationships depicted in selected films.
This is achieved through the lens of past and present economic
theories and in the context of debates over the dynamic influence
of economics on individual life chances. Film may have more to
teach us about the real world than the abstractions of certain
economic theories. A world of income inequality, child labor in
mills and mines, local rebellions against land seizures, and wars
triggered by economic conflicts provide the context for many films
mirroring real world events. Some films depict the interacting and
intersecting political, economic, cultural, and ecological contexts
within and between variant economic relationships, whereas other
films show "catastrophes" such as economic depressions, disruptive
social transitions, violent revolutions, and existential
environmental degradation - a world in disequilibrium. Films allow
us to see a panoply of human social relationships and related
problems, even to explore cataclysmic moments in our species life,
but not to necessarily see the why of these relationships and
problems. Simultaneously, mainstream economics has severe
constraints on what can be analyzed. Film exposes this weakness of
the mainstream model. Twelve Years a Slave, Trumbo, The Big Short
and others are analyzed for their realism by referencing documented
historical social events, and behavioral economics provides further
data for analyzing the realism of social interaction within the
films. Exploring events and contexts absent from the typical
economics text or the basic level economics classes, this work is
essential reading for students and scholars of political economy in
both economics and politics departments, as well as those of
pluralist economics and Marxist economics.
The complexities of cancer care management are clearly explained
and illustrated by the use of case histories at the end of each
site-specific chapter. The book also addresses the controversies
and problems surrounding health education programmes and screening.
The book is divided into five main sections. Section one
provides the reader with a definition of cancer and looks at the
epidemiology and predisposing factors linked to specific cancers.
The second section discusses the main treament options. This is
followed by a section looking at the more common site-specific
cancers. Each chapter in this section addresses the issues of
cancer prevention, early detection, investigations and management.
The fourth section discusses problems which could be encountered by
certain groups of patients, e.g. management of fungating wounds,
nutritional support, altered body image and sexuality problems. The
book concludes with a section looking at how complementary
therapies are being integrated into the main framework of cancer
care, the importance of the spiritual/cultural aspects of cancer
for an individual and the complex subject of breaking bad news.
The American Conception of Neutrality After 1941 by Jurg Martin
Gabriel, is a study of global political history since 1941 with a
particular emphasis on America's attitude to neutrality. This
important revised and updated edition contains three entirely new
chapters including an insightful new introduction and conclusion,
drawing on newly released documentation, most importantly on
Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War. Like the previous edition, this
book looks at world affairs through the eyes of neutrality. It
covers, amongst other issues, America's contribution to the decline
of world-neutrality, the major economic and military events
surrounding the Second World War, the founding of NATO and the
problems of neutralism during the Vietnam War. This new edition,
however, goes one step further to confirm, with fresh new evidence,
e.g. the end of the Cold War and the Unification of Germany, the
central thesis of the original volume. American foreign policy is
an important topic of continuing interest.
'This book should be of interest to all students of international
politics, and, of course, especially to those interested in
theory.' - Kenneth N.Waltz, Ford Professor of Political Science,
University of California This book reviews classical and
contemporary theories of international relations, and it does so on
the basis of four interrelated worldviews. Worldviews are simple
but basic devices; they are characterized, on the one hand, by the
duality of war and peace, and, on the other hand, by the duality of
anarchy and hierarchy. Worldviews permit the isolation of concepts
central to describing and analyzing international relations and are
superior to such well-known categories as the billiard-ball, the
cobweb, and the layer-cake approach.
The management of glenohumeral arthritis in the young patient
remains a challenging problem for the treating clinician. The
activity demands seen in such patient populations require a unique
understanding of what the goals of treatment are to ensure
satisfied and sustainable outcomes. In addition, younger patients
have a longer life expectancy and more active lifestyles, which can
negatively impact the longevity of arthroplasty implants that are
traditionally used in the older patient population. As such, the
discovery and implementation of novel and anatomy preserving
techniques continue to evolve to meet the demand of younger
patients without compromising their outcomes. This practical text
serves to educate the treating clinician on how to recognize and
categorize glenohumeral osteoarthritis in young patients and offers
insight into the various operative and non-operative treatment
options. Opening chapters examine the prevalence and burden,
etiology and evaluation of the condition, followed by chapters
discussing the current non-invasive and non-operative approaches to
treatment, such as injection therapy. The main complement of
chapters are detailed descriptions of surgical approaches, from
arthroscopy and cartilage reconstruction to total and reverse
shoulder arthroplasty, stemless approaches and arthrodesis. A final
chapter expands on future management strategies. Radiographs and
intraoperative photos are provided to enhance the text. Presenting
the state of the art for this increasingly common condition,
Glenohumeral Osteoarthritis in the Young Patient is an ideal
resource for orthopedic surgeons and sports medicine specialists
alike.
Dexter J. Gabriel's Jubilee's Experiment is a thorough examination
of how the emancipated British Caribbean colonies entered into the
debates over abolition and African American citizenship in the US
from the 1830s through the 1860s. It analyzes this public
discourse, created by black and white abolitionists, and African
Americans more generally in antebellum America, as both propaganda
and rhetoric. Simultaneously, Gabriel interweaves the lived
experiences of former slaves in the West Indies - their daily acts
of resistance and struggles for greater freedoms - to further
augment but complicate this debate. An important and timely
intervention, Jubilee's Experiment argues that the measured success
of former slaves in the West Indies became a crucial focal point in
the struggle against slavery in antebellum North America.
Advances in research and the treatment of cancer mean that more
patients and their carers are asking healthcare professionals about
the latest treatments and how they may be of benefit. It is
essential that staff working with cancer patients understand fully
how these new treatments work in order to disseminate timely and
appropriate information to patients.
The application of biology to the delivery of cancer care is
playing an ever-increasing role in the management of these
diseases. "The Biology of Cancer: Second Edition" provides details
of the most recent developments in cancer care and is divided into
three sections:
Understanding Cancer - examines predisposing factors to
developing cancer, diagnosis and its implications on the individual
and society. The Science of Cancer - a closer look at the cell,
genetics, the immune system, tumour markers and monoclonal
antibodies. Research and Treatment - exploring translational
oncology, applying research methodology to cancer research and
research ethics relating to cancer.
This fully updated edition also looks at evidence-based research
that can be translated directly to patient care and gives details
recent developments. Written by experienced, practicing healthcare
professionals, "The Biology of Cancer: Second Edition" can easily
be applied to patient care. It is an informative text for students,
newly qualified nurses and practising oncology/palliative care
nurses.
Cover image reproduced by permission of Prof Ian Cree,
Translational Oncology Research Centre, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS
Trust
Swiss Foreign Policy, 1945-2002 presents for the first time a
comprehensive collection of eight essays, addressing the post-war
foreign policy of Switzerland. The essays deal with a diverse range
of issues: general foreign policy and neutrality; defense and
security policy; relations with the United Nations; the Swiss
policy of good offices; relations with the International Committee
of the Red Cross; Swiss human rights policy; arms control and
non-proliferation and foreign economic policy. Through these
essays, the dualistic nature of Swiss foreign policy, being at once
both strongly internationalist and strongly unilateralist, is
examined.
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When A Siren Sings (Paperback)
Paul Neufeldt; Introduction by Charly McCreary; Angela J Gabriel
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The Lamplighters
J. Gabriel Gates
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In Search of Liberty explores how African Americans, since the
founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for
freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. The essays in this
volume capture the pursuits of equality and justice by African
Americans across the Atlantic World through the end of the
nineteenth century, as their fights for emancipation and
enfranchisement in the United States continued. This book
illuminates stories of individual Black people striving to escape
slavery in places like Nova Scotia, Louisiana, and Mexico and
connects their eff orts to emigration movements from the United
States to Africa and the Caribbean, as well as to Black
abolitionist campaigns in Europe. By placing these diverse stories
in conversation, editors Ronald Angelo Johnson and Ousmane K.
Power-Greene have curated a larger story that is only beginning to
be told. By focusing on Black internationalism in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries, In Search of Liberty reveals that Black
freedom struggles in the United States were rooted in transnational
networks much earlier than the better-known movements of the
twentieth century.
In Search of Liberty explores how African Americans, since the
founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for
freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. The essays in this
volume capture the pursuits of equality and justice by African
Americans across the Atlantic World through the end of the
nineteenth century, as their fights for emancipation and
enfranchisement in the United States continued. This book
illuminates stories of individual Black people striving to escape
slavery in places like Nova Scotia, Louisiana, and Mexico and
connects their eff orts to emigration movements from the United
States to Africa and the Caribbean, as well as to Black
abolitionist campaigns in Europe. By placing these diverse stories
in conversation, editors Ronald Angelo Johnson and Ousmane K.
Power-Greene have curated a larger story that is only beginning to
be told. By focusing on Black internationalism in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries, In Search of Liberty reveals that Black
freedom struggles in the United States were rooted in transnational
networks much earlier than the better-known movements of the
twentieth century.
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