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This edited volume describes various analytic methods used by
intelligence analysts supporting military operations in Iraq and
Afghanistan as members of the Iraq and Afghan Threat Finance
Cells-interagency intelligence teams tasked to disrupt terrorist
and insurgent funding. All contributors have deployed to Iraq
and/or Afghanistan and detail both the bureaucratic and
intellectual challenges in understanding terrorist and insurgent
finance networks and then designing operations to attack such
networks via conventional military operations, Special Forces
kill/capture targeting operations, and non-kinetic operations such
as asset freezing or diplomacy. The analytic methods described here
leverage both quantitative and qualitative methods, but in a
language and style accessible to those without a quantitative
background. All methods are demonstrated via actual case studies
(approved for release by the U.S. government) drawn from the
analysts' distinct experiences while deployed. This book will be of
interest to current or aspiring intelligence analysts, students of
security studies, anti-money laundering specialists in the private
sector, and more generally to those interested in understanding how
intelligence analysis feeds into live operations during wartime at
a very tactical level.
This edited volume describes various analytic methods used by
intelligence analysts supporting military operations in Iraq and
Afghanistan as members of the Iraq and Afghan Threat Finance
Cells-interagency intelligence teams tasked to disrupt terrorist
and insurgent funding. All contributors have deployed to Iraq
and/or Afghanistan and detail both the bureaucratic and
intellectual challenges in understanding terrorist and insurgent
finance networks and then designing operations to attack such
networks via conventional military operations, Special Forces
kill/capture targeting operations, and non-kinetic operations such
as asset freezing or diplomacy. The analytic methods described here
leverage both quantitative and qualitative methods, but in a
language and style accessible to those without a quantitative
background. All methods are demonstrated via actual case studies
(approved for release by the U.S. government) drawn from the
analysts' distinct experiences while deployed. This book will be of
interest to current or aspiring intelligence analysts, students of
security studies, anti-money laundering specialists in the private
sector, and more generally to those interested in understanding how
intelligence analysis feeds into live operations during wartime at
a very tactical level.
Winner, 2016 Outstanding Publication in the Sociology of
Disability, American Sociological Association, Section Disability
and Society Examines the experiences of mothers coping with their
children's "invisible disabilities" in the face of daunting social,
economic, and political realities Recent years have seen an
explosion in the number of children diagnosed with "invisible
disabilities" such as ADHD, mood and conduct disorders, and
high-functioning autism spectrum disorders. Whether they are viewed
as biological problems in brain wiring or as results of the
increasing medicalization of childhood, the burden of dealing with
the day-to-day trials and complex medical and educational decisions
falls almost entirely on mothers. Yet few ask how these mothers
make sense of their children's troubles, and to what extent they
feel responsibility or blame. Raising Generation Rx offers a
groundbreaking study that situates mothers' experiences within an
age of neuroscientific breakthrough, a high-stakes knowledge-based
economy, cutbacks in public services and decent jobs, and increased
global competition and racialized class and gender inequality.
Through in-depth interviews, observations of parents' meetings, and
analyses of popular advice, Linda Blum examines the experiences of
diverse mothers coping with the challenges of their children's
"invisible disabilities" in the face of daunting social, economic,
and political realities. She reveals how mothers in widely varied
households learn to advocate for their children in the dense
bureaucracies of the educational and medical systems; wrestle with
anguishing decisions about the use of psychoactive medications; and
live with the inescapable blame and stigma in their communities.
This two-volume book provides the first comprehensive survey of
opioid research, a field which has accumulated a tremendous amount
of literature since the identification of opioid receptors and
their endogenous ligands. In more than 60 chapters experts present
state-of-the-art reviews of this fascinating field, the topics
ranging from molecular biology to clinical applications. Part I
covers the multiplicity of opioid receptors, the chemistry of
opiates and opioid peptides as well as the neurophysiology of
opioids. Part II reviews a broad spectrum of physiological and
behavioral functions and pharmacological actions of opioids,
together with their neuroendocrinology, opioid tolerance and
dependence, concluding with pathophysiological aspects and clinical
use.
Winner, 2016 Outstanding Publication in the Sociology of
Disability, American Sociological Association, Section Disability
and Society Examines the experiences of mothers coping with their
children's "invisible disabilities" in the face of daunting social,
economic, and political realities Recent years have seen an
explosion in the number of children diagnosed with "invisible
disabilities" such as ADHD, mood and conduct disorders, and
high-functioning autism spectrum disorders. Whether they are viewed
as biological problems in brain wiring or as results of the
increasing medicalization of childhood, the burden of dealing with
the day-to-day trials and complex medical and educational decisions
falls almost entirely on mothers. Yet few ask how these mothers
make sense of their children's troubles, and to what extent they
feel responsibility or blame. Raising Generation Rx offers a
groundbreaking study that situates mothers' experiences within an
age of neuroscientific breakthrough, a high-stakes knowledge-based
economy, cutbacks in public services and decent jobs, and increased
global competition and racialized class and gender inequality.
Through in-depth interviews, observations of parents' meetings, and
analyses of popular advice, Linda Blum examines the experiences of
diverse mothers coping with the challenges of their children's
"invisible disabilities" in the face of daunting social, economic,
and political realities. She reveals how mothers in widely varied
households learn to advocate for their children in the dense
bureaucracies of the educational and medical systems; wrestle with
anguishing decisions about the use of psychoactive medications; and
live with the inescapable blame and stigma in their communities.
"I can't recommend this book highly enough " -Katha Pollitt In our
ironic, "postfeminist" age few experiences inspire the kind of
passions that breastfeeding does. For advocates, breastfeeding is
both the only way to supply babies with proper nutrition and the
"bond" that cements the mother/child relationship. Mother's milk
remains "natural" in a world of genetically modified produce and
corporate health care. But is it a realistic option for all women?
And can a well-intentioned insistence on the necessity of
breastfeeding become just another way to cast some women as bad
mothers? "At the Breast is feminist research of the highest order,
setting a standard for how the work ought to be done. . . What is
striking and admirable about Blum's] analysis is that in a
discussion that has been almost entirely subsumed in concerns about
what is best for babies, Blum focuses unwaveringly on mothers, on
women as minded social beings." -Barbara Katz Rothman, American
Journal of Sociology " Blum] discovers that in the contemporary
world such an ancient and seemingly natural procedure as
breastfeeding is embedded in a plethora of historical, political,
racial, and economic contexts. . . . For the modern feminist, Blum
concludes, the choice between the bottle or the breast should
proceed from a careful assessment of the woman's own needs and
desires." -Kirkus Reviews "In the hands of Linda Blum,
breastfeeding is a locus for conversations between women in
different race and class locations about the female body,
children's needs, and the legitimizing role of fathers." -Ellen
Ross, author of Love and Toil: Motherhood in Outcast London,
1870-1918 "At the Breast is sociology at its best-we think of
breastfeeding as 'natural' but of course it is social and cultural
too. Blum's discussion of how race and class shape women's
attitudes toward breastfeeding-and their chances of success with
it-was a revelation to me." -Katha Pollitt, columnist, The Nation
Linda M. Blum is author of Between Feminism and Labor: The
Significance of the Comparable Worth Movement. She teaches
sociology and women's studies at the University of New Hampshire,
and wrote this book while a Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study.
'Equal pay for equal work' has long been a forceful slogan of the
feminist and labor movements. Now, however, as the American economy
depends more and more on 'women's work', it has become clear that
this objective does not benefit the majority of women, who are
employed in sex-segregated jobs. In "Between Feminism and Labor",
Linda M. Blum examines the movement for comparable worth, or equal
pay for comparable work, as a strategy to raise wages for the
'pink-collar' jobs that are most frequently occupied by women. She
explores the larger political implications of the movement and
provides the first study of pay equity to focus directly on the
mobilization of the female work force at the grass-roots level.
Through two case studies of local comparable worth movements - in
San Jose and Contra Costa County, California - Blum probes several
important issues. She asks whether comparable worth can contribute
to the formation of active labor-feminist alliances, and after a
nuanced, intelligent analysis of the complexities and
contradictions of comparable worth, endorses its radical potential
to improve women's wages and forge links between gender- and
class-based politics. Between "Feminism and Labor" also situates
comparable worth in the context of the limitations of affirmative
action, a strategy seeking to move women into male jobs as opposed
to raising the value of women's work. It is the first study to
contrast these two strategies and to place them within the
theoretical and political debates over the validation of gender
difference versus the requirement of gender neutrality. As such,
the book should stimulate debate among those concerned with the
future of the feminist movement, as well as those interested in the
future of organized labor and progressive politics in America.
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