This book is a blue print on the steps that must be taken to make America great again.

It addresses America's problems from war to health care; from energy and nuclear power to global warming; from illegal immigrants to reinstitution of the draft of all young Americans; from a national registration system for all Americans to a practical solution to the financial difficulties of Social Security. The views and solutions to these problems are expressed through the eyes of Richard Michael White, a seventy-one year old man who holds advanced degrees in both engineering and mathematics. As Richard's life progresses from being a student in high school, to serving as an Army Officer on active duty, to a thirty year professional career, to his eventual, early retirement at the age of fifty-seven, his view of America's most pressing problems changes and solidifies into a coherent and detailed plan on solving these problems.

The book begins as Richard describes the differences in the current world from 1957 when he graduated from high school to the present. He discusses Christianity and concludes that he might, or might not, be a Christian depending or your definition what it takes to be a Christian. He deals with the topics of love, sex, marriage, and divorce, and shows that although they are all related, they are all different. He believes that the most pressing problem facing the world is population growth.

Richard addresses the subject of America's energy dependence and pushes for an expansion of nuclear power. He also presses for the development of nuclear power from the element Thorium. He lays out a detailed blueprint to address Thorium's usage in power generation as well as using government owned Thorium nuclear reactors for coal gasification, shale oil extraction, and seawater desalination.

While the role of metaphor in economics and business has produced multiple research articles, no comprehensive book-length study has yet appeared. The present book is a timely attempt to fill this gap, giving a global coverage of the role of metaphor in business and economics. It spans time (from Classical Greece to the current business network meeting-room), space (from Europe through the Americas to Asia), cultures and languages (from continental European languages, Brazilian Portuguese to Chinese). The theoretical grounding of the book is the Conceptual Theory of Metaphor taken in a dynamic sense as evolving with on-going research. The theory is thus used, adapted and refined in accordance with the evidence provided. Metaphor is shown to be theory constitutive in the elaboration of economic thinking down through the ages while, at the same time, the emphasis on evidence open to historical, cross-cultural and cross-linguistic considerations align with the current notion of situatedness. The book is a rich source of information for researchers and students in the fields of Metaphor Studies, Economics, Discourse Analysis, and Communication Studies, among others.

Fiction or Nonfi ction, You read it and decide yourself... I don't have to try to justify my story... for I lived thru and experienced this chain of events.

Groundbreaking biography of Galileo, one of the greatest scientists and religious heretics in history A giant of science, Galileo's achievements allow him to be bracketed alongside Newton, Einstein and Darwin. A devout Roman Catholic, his genius threw him into conflict with his Church and his refusal to back down turned him into a martyr for many. Here, bestselling author Michael White gets to grips with the man and the world he challenged. Both biography and exploration of a time when religious and scientific understanding had become deeply and dangerously intertwined, GALILEO ANTICHRIST traces the path that led to its subject's denunciation as a heretic. And here the story is tainted with the suggestion of conspiracy and cover up. For while it is perfectly possible to view Galileo's collision with the Catholic Church as near inevitable, White draws on evidence recently discovered in the Vatican archives to question the accepted reasons for his trial. In doing so he shows why Galileo became such a contentious figure, so contentious in fact that, centuries later, the Pope, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger felt driven to declare the process against the father of science as 'reasonable and just'.

Much of the received wisdom about the world of work emphasizes the marketization of the employment relationship; the decline of class-based forms of inequality, and the individualization of employment relations. Non-standard forms of employment, the delayering of organizational hierarchies, and the use of individual performance-based payment systems are all held up as examples of a new neo-liberal order in which employers and employees no longer feel a sense of obligation to each other.
Drawing on a range of employee and employer surveys, including the authors own Working in Britain 2000 survey, this ambitious study presents a comprehensive examination of the conditions, attitudes, and experiences of British employees from the mid-1980s to the early years of this century. The authors' analyses provides a compelling critique of the received wisdom, while also providing an original, alternative account of recent developments in work and labour markets. Along the way, the book covers such topical issues as the changing nature of trade union membership, the consequences of Britain's 'long hours' culture', and the apparent inability of women to ask for pay rises. Significantly, the authors seek to reposition debates about the future of work by restoring the concepts of contracts and social class to the analysis of the employment relationship.
Based on the ESRC funded Future of Work research programme this book is destined to shape our understanding of employment in Britain for the foreseeable future.

Much of the received wisdom about the world of work emphasizes the marketization of the employment relationship; the decline of class-based forms of inequality, and the individualization of employment relations. Non-standard forms of employment, the delayering of organizational hierarchies, and the use of individual performance-based payment systems are all held up as examples of a new neo-liberal order in which employers and employees no longer feel a sense of obligation to each other.
Drawing on a range of employee and employer surveys, including the authors own Working in Britain 2000 survey, this ambitious study presents a comprehensive examination of the conditions, attitudes, and experiences of British employees from the mid-1980s to the early years of this century. The authors' analyses provides a compelling critique of the received wisdom, while also providing an original, alternative account of recent developments in work and labour markets. Along the way, the book covers such topical issues as the changing nature of trade union membership, the consequences of Britain's 'long hours' culture', and the apparent inability of women to ask for pay rises. Significantly, the authors seek to reposition debates about the future of work by restoring the concepts of contracts and social class to the analysis of the employment relationship.
Based on the ESRC funded Future of Work research programme this book is destined to shape our understanding of employment in Britain for the foreseeable future.

- Accessible essays that are designed to serve as a touchstone for discussion in the classroom both at postgraduate and advanced undergraduate levels. - Addresses historical anti-feminisms as a means of framing, situating, and interrogating the relationship between contemporary feminisms and anti-feminist manipulations and denigrations. - Engages with the quandary of how to define feminism and live feminist lives in relation to a dense web of pejorative language and concepts that flourish in popular culture. - Actively explores feminist struggles to acknowledge and incorporate people of color, anti-racist and LGBTQIA+ individuals and politics, and relates this to the ways anti-feminists have strategically deployed these debates to thwart the associated movements.

- Accessible essays that are designed to serve as a touchstone for discussion in the classroom both at postgraduate and advanced undergraduate levels. - Addresses historical anti-feminisms as a means of framing, situating, and interrogating the relationship between contemporary feminisms and anti-feminist manipulations and denigrations. - Engages with the quandary of how to define feminism and live feminist lives in relation to a dense web of pejorative language and concepts that flourish in popular culture. - Actively explores feminist struggles to acknowledge and incorporate people of color, anti-racist and LGBTQIA+ individuals and politics, and relates this to the ways anti-feminists have strategically deployed these debates to thwart the associated movements.

Thoughtful, witty, and illuminating, in this book Michele White explores the ways normative masculinity is associated with computers and the Internet and is a commonly enacted online gender practice. Through close readings and a series of case studies that range from wedding forums to men's makeup video tutorials, White considers the ways masculinities are structured through people's collaborations and contestations over the establishment of empowered positions, including debates about such key terms and positions as "the nice guy," "nerd," "bro," and "groom." She asserts that cultural notions of masculinity are reliant on figurations of women and femininity, and explores cultural conceptions of masculinity and the association of normative white heterosexual masculinity with men and women. A counterpart to her earlier book, Producing Women, White has crafted an excellent primer for scholars of gender, media, and Internet studies.

Producing Women examines the ways femininity is produced through new media. Michele White considers how women are constructed, produce themselves as subjects, form vital production cultures on sites like Etsy, and deploy technological processes to reshape their identities and digital characteristics. She studies the means through which women market traditional female roles, are viewed, and produce and restructure their gendered, raced, eroticized, and sexual identities. Incorporating a range of examples across numerous forms of media-including trash the dress wedding photography, Internet how-to instructions about zombie walk brides, nail polish blogging, DIY crafting, and reborn doll production-Producing Women elucidates women's production cultures online, and the ways that individuals can critically study and engage with these practices.

The name De Stijl, title of a magazine founded in the Netherlands in 1917, is now used to identify the abstract art and functional architecture of its major contributors: Mondrian, Van Doesburg, Van der Leck, Oud, Wils and Rietveld. De Stijl achieved international acclaim by the end of the 1920s and its paintings, buildings and furniture made fundamental contributions to the modern movement. This book is the first to emphasize the local context of De Stijl and explore its relationship to the distinctive character of Dutch modernism. It examines how the debates concerning abstraction in painting and spatiality in architecture were intimately connected to contemporary developments in the fields of urban planning, advertising, interior design and exhibition design. The book describes the interaction between the world of mass culture and the fine arts.