• Part 1: Utopia, Eutopia, Youtopia
• Chapter 1: What If You Could?
• Chapter 2: Little Commonwealth
• Chapter 3: Defense of Poetry
• Part 2: Dischtopia: Thomas M. Disch
• Chapter 4: Enter the Chamleleon
• Chapter 5: East 11th Street
• Chapter 6: The Shape of Things to Come
• Part 3: Pantopia: Bernard Malamud
• Chapter 7: Earth Abides
• Chapter 8: You Tell Me That It's Evolution
• Chapter 9: Proverbial Wisdom
• Part 4: Uchronia: Kurt Vonnegut
• Chapter 10: The Islands of the Day Before
• Chapter 11: Do the Chronomotion with Me
• Chapter 12: The Imp of the Perverse
• Part 5: Biotopia: Margaret Atwood
• Chapter 13: Oryx and Crick
• Chapter 14: The Advocate's Devil
• Chapter 15: Talkin' `Bout My Gene-ration
• Bibliography
• Index.
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From Black Tuesday to the White House, from Plato to Robert Nozick, from Eugene Debs to Richard Nixon, from Peter Cornelis Plockhoy to the hippie communes of the Sixties, from universal basic income to utopian basic income, from proverbial wisdom to multilevel selection, from Big Data to paleomorality, from Prisoner's Dilemma to social-engineering Israeli kindergartens, from time travel to gene engineering, from the pretzel logic of meritocracy to deaggressing humanity, American Utopia maps the pitfalls and windfalls of social reform in the name of the human use of human beings. Interrogating the assumptions behind four outre utopias by Thomas M. Disch, Bernard Malamud, Kurt Vonnegut, and Margaret Atwood, the book interrogates the assumptions that have historically been central to the utopian project. Whence the seeds of social discontent? Whence our taste for egoism and altruism? For waging war and waging peace? Can we bioengineer human nature to specifications? Should we? Who makes better guardians: humans or machines? And who will guard the guardians?
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Assessment of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students seeks to pose and answer the important questions that are arising as levels of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) learners increase in classrooms across the country. This classroom-ready resource places the emphasis of assessment on the student as an individual and explores questions such as "Where should assessment efforts for CLD students be concentrated?; " ''What are the key aims of assessments?; " and "How should teachers use CLD student assessment findings?" The 3rd Edition has been completely updated with a new chapter on data-driven problem solving, new Teaching Tips, Activity Lesson Plans, and more.
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• Introduction
• Laying the foundation of punishment against black males
• Black males and their experiences with policing under the "iconic ghetto" in Ferguson, Missouri
• From savages to super-predators: race, lynching, and the persistence of colonial violence
• Perceptions of black male disproportionality in the criminal justice system
• Black males and courts
• Prison health and black males
• Black male mental health and prison
• Failures of reintegration and the return to prison
• Racial politics and policies of reentry
• Institutionalized mental trauma and generational transmission.

• Introduction and the road map
• What is the problem : copyright and creativity in crisis
• What is causing the problem : disruptive innovation
• What are creative industries afraid of : known risks
• What should creative industries be afraid of, but may not be aware of : unseen risks
• What doesn't work : focusing exclusively on business- or IP-based solutions
• What does work : tailoring
• Tailoring business models and strategies
• Tailoring legal policies and practices
• Tailoring technological measures
• Tailoring cultural and normative features
• What is exacerbating the problem? : Big Tech, the thumb on the scales
• What to do when tailoring doesn't suffice : countervailing Strategies
• Copyright, democracy and art

• Strategic narratives of the
• 2016 US presidential election : contestations of US, Chinese, Arab, and Russian soft power constructions / Robert S. Hinck, Skye C. Cooley, Randolph Kluver
• Research design : measuring narratives within local media ecologies / Robert S. Hinck, Skye C. Cooley, Randolph Kluver
• Illegitimacy of US democracy and declining US influence : juxtaposing Chinese success among US failures within Chinese media coverage of the US election / Robert S. Hinck, Skye C. Cooley, Randolph Kluver
• Arab views of the US election : culturally-positive and politically-negative depictions of US democracy / Natalie Khazaal and Robert S. Hinck
• The crumbling facade of US democracy : Russian resurgence amidst US moral decay within Russian media coverage of the US election / Robert S. Hinck, Skye C. Cooley, Randolph Kluver
• Compelling narratives and the implications on US soft power and the global order : comparative analysis of Chinese, Arab, and Russian narratives of the US election / Robert S. Hinck, Skye C. Cooley, Randolph Kluver.

• 1. The Characteristics of Story: Conflict, Chronicle, and Violence
• 2. The Journeys of Brutal Stories
• 3. Helpless Audiences and The Magic Bullet
• 4. Obstinate Violence
• 5. Learning Violence: The Drama of Aggression
• 6. Mean Worlds and Remorseless Strangers With Guns
• 7. What an Audience Wants: Selection, Gratification, and Violence
• 8. Gender, Hyper-Masculinity, and the Violent Story
• 9. Terrorism, War, and Media Systems
• 10. The Violent Aesthetic.
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Graphic Violence provides an innovative introduction to the relationship between violence and visual media, discussing how media consumers and producers can think critically about and interact with violent visual content. It comprehensively surveys predominant theories of media violence and the research supporting and challenging them, addressing issues ranging from social learning, to representations of war and terrorism, to gender and hyper-masculinity. Each chapter features original artwork presenting a story in the style of a graphic novel to demonstrate the concepts at hand. Truly unique in its approach to the subject and medium, this volume is an excellent resource for undergraduate students of communication and media theory as well as anyone interested in understanding the causes and effects of violence in media.
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• List of Figures and Tables. Preface, Mark Berends, Ann Primus, Matthew G. Springer I. Perspectives on School Choice
• 1. Economic Perspectives on School Choice, Susanna Loeb, Jon Valant
• 2. The Political Perspective on School Choice, Patrick J. Wolf
• 3. Social Perspectives on School Choice, Mark Berends
• 4. The Law of Parental Choice, Nicole Stelle Garnett, John Schoenig
• 5. School Choice in American History, John L. Rury
• 6. Critical Perspectives on School Choice: An Examination of Race, Class, and Gender in School Choice Policies, Adrienne D. Dixson, Chaddrick James-Gallaway, Nancy D. Cardenas, Ruqayyah Perkins-Williams
• 7. International Perspectives on School Choice, Helen F. Ladd, Edward B. Fiske II. Charter Schools
• 8. Hopes, Fears, and New Solutions: Charter Schools in 2018, Betheny Gross, Christine Campbell, Sivan Tuchman, Roohi Sharma
• 9. Charter School Governance and Politics, Katrina E. Bulkley, Jeffrey R. Henig
• 10. The Social Context of Charter Schools, Zachary W. Oberfield
• 11. Charter School Competition, Megan J. Austin
• 12. Charter School Outcomes, Joseph J. Ferrare III. School Vouchers
• 13. Perspectives on School Vouchers, Samuel E. Abrams
• 14. The New Politics and Governance of School Vouchers: Outcomes and Oversight in an Era of At-Scale Choice, Joshua M. Cowen
• 15. Social Context of Vouchers, R. Joseph Waddington
• 16. Market Competition and School Vouchers, Henry M. Levin
• 17. Voucher Outcomes, Karin Gegenheimer, Matthew G. Springer IV. Magnet Schools
• 18. Perspectives on Magnet Schools, Ellen B. Goldring, Walker A. Swain
• 19. The Social Context of Magnet School Programs: How Choosing Schools Intersects with District Policies to Influence Racial Integration, Claire Smrekar
• 20. Magnet School Outcomes, Julian R. Betts, Chenzi Cao V. Other Aspects of School Choice
• 21. Accountability and School Choice, Laura S. Hamilton, Andrew McEachin
• 22. Portfolio Management Models, Katrina E. Bulkley, Ayesha K. Hashim
• 23. Schools of Choice and Marginalized Students: Students with Disabilities and English Learners, Madeline Mavrogordato, Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj
• 24. The Comingling of Neoliberal Ideology, Methods, and Funding in School Choice Politics and Research, Julian Vasquez Heilig, T. Jameson Brewer, Frank Adamson
• 25. Parent Decision-Making and School Choice, Huriya Jabbar, Sarah Winchell Lenhoff
• 26. Information and School Choice, Sean P. Corcoran, Jennifer L. Jennings
• 27. Tax Credit Scholarships in an Evolving School Choice Arena: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice, Luis A. Huerta, Steven Koutsavlis. List of Contributors.
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Updated to reflect the latest developments and increasing scope of school-based options, the second edition of the Handbook of Research on School Choice makes readily available the most rigorous and policy-relevant research on K-12 school choice. This comprehensive research handbook begins with scholarly overviews that explore historical, political, economic, legal, methodological, and international perspectives on school choice. In the following sections, experts examine the research and current state of common forms of school choice: charter schools, school vouchers, and magnet schools. The concluding section brings together perspectives on other key topics such as accountability, tax credit scholarships, parent decision-making, and marginalized students. With empirical perspectives on all aspects of this evolving sphere of education, this is a critical resource for researchers, faculty, and students interested in education policy, the politics of education, and educational leadership.
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• Introduction: an American way of war
• Surviving in a wilderness, 1585-1676
• Competing for a continent, 1565-1763
• 'Tis time to part, 1763-1776
• Maintaining independence, 1777-1782
• Securing the republic, 1782-1812
• Empire of expansion, 1810-1849
• Disunion, 1849-1861
• Hard war, 1862-1865
• Reconstruction and conquest, 1865-1890
• Empire and intervention, 1890-1917
• The Great War and beyond, 1917-1940
• Saving the world from evil, 1939-1945
• War without mercy: fighting in the Pacific, 1942-1945
• Different kind of war: the early Cold War and the Forgotten War, 1945-1951
• From the top of the world to a quagmire, 1953-1975
• The endless wars: the Cold War and beyond, 1975-present

"Main text for the US Military History Course. This text will provide a comprehensive yet clear, concise, and very accessible survey of American military history from colonial times to the 21st century"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: the "wave" of populism
• Mapping populism
• Should we stay or should we go? European immigration, globalization, and Brexit
• Reality bites: the unexpected victory of Donald Trump
• Steps forward and one step back? Marine le Pen and the National Front in France
• When in Rome...populism and the Five Star movement in Italy.

• Foreword by Nile Rodgers Preface Online Resources Acknowledgments About the Authors Part I. Setting the Stage
• 1. Overture Music and Society: We've Got Music in Us Adjusting to a Fast-Changing World Historical Development The Digital Future in Context
• 2. The Music Business System Help Wanted! Getting through the Maze Show Me the Money Tools of the Trade: Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime Part II. Copyright, Songwriting, Publishing, and Licensing
• 3. Music Copyright Background Essential Provisions Key Terms Coverage Exclusive Rights Fair Use of Copyrighted Material Copyright Ownership Transfer or Assignment Work Made for Hire Musical Arrangements Sound Recordings Compulsory Mechanical License Royalty Payments (Section 115[C]) Duration of Copyright Formalities Infringement, Remedy Record Counterfeiting, Penalties Determining Infringement Changing Laws Rights in Names and Trademarks A Final Note on Law
• 4. Professional Songwriting The Market Predictors of Success The Craft The Business of Writing Income Sources Publishing Options Evaluating Publishers The Songwriters Guild of America Contract Reassignment or Default Breaking In
• 5. Music Publishing Types of Publishers Subpublishing Administration Contracts with Writers Split Publishing, Copublishing Sampling Promotion, Advertising Income Sources Trade Associations and Rights Administration
• 6. Music Licensing Music Rights: An Overview Performance Licensing for Compositions Keeping Track of the Music Comparing PROs Regulation of PROs Performance Licensing for Sound Recordings Mechanical Licenses Synchronization Licenses Cable Television Licenses Video Licenses Audio Transcription Licenses Special Use Permits Jukebox Licenses Dramatic Music Rights Creative Commons Part III. Managing Artist Relationships
• Chapter 7. Agents, Managers, and Attorneys Agents Managers Attorneys Professional Associations
• 8. Artist Management Discovering Each Other The Financial Relationship Manager's Commission The Manager's Role Advancing the Career Personal Management Agreements
• 9. Unions and Guilds American Federation of Musicians SAG-AFTRA American Guild of Musical Artists American Guild of Variety Artists Actors' Equity Association International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Other Unions and Guilds Part IV. The Recorded Music Industry
• 10. Record Labels Perspective Major Labels Independent Labels Specialty Labels Record Company Structure Associations
• 11. Artists' Recording Contracts SAG-AFTRA Agreements AFM Agreements Royalty Artist Contracts
• 12. Record Production Record Producers Matching Producer to Artist Production Deals The Recording Studio: Operation and Selection The Five Stages of Record Production Getting Started in the Business Professional Associations
• 13. Record Label Marketing and Distribution The Daunting Challenge The Marketing Plan Digital Distribution and Marketing Physical Product Promotion and Distribution Physical Distribution International Marketing
• 14. Music Streaming Reshaping the Landscape Streaming Technology A Crowded Marketplace: Audio and Video Licensing Sound Recording Rights Streaming Royalties Economics of Streaming Audience Targeting Looking Downstream
• 15. Market Analytics Methodology Research Topics Data Sources Part V. Live Performance
• 16. Concert Promotion and Production Concert Promotion Getting Started Booking the Artist Making an Offer The Art of the Deal Contracts Production Planning Marketing Publicity and Public Relations Sponsorships The Future of Live
• 17. Concert Venues Venue Contracts Ticketing Licensed Merchandise Venue Trade Association
• 18. Arts Administration Perspective Representative Organizations Symphonic Music Funding the Arts Classical Artist Management Administration Part VI. Music in the Marketplace
• 19. Music in Radio Types of Broadcast Radio Stations Audience Identification and Market Research Spectrum of Formats How Commercials Radio Stations Work
• 20. Music in Television and Video Variety and Talk Shows Music Specials/Events/Awards Shows Theme Songs Background Music and Foreground Spotlights The Evolving TV Picture MTV and the Rise of the Music Video Music Video Economics and Distribution DIY Avenues
• 21. Dramatic Scoring for Movies, TV, and Games Background The Craft Music Scoring for TV Music SCoring for Video Games Production Music Libraries Hiring Practices
• 22. Music in Advertising Influences on Style Jobs Music Uses Budgets Station Branding Logos The Agency Role Spot Production
• 23. Music and Theater Types of Musical Theater Theater Associations Production Components
• 24. Music Products Music Retailers Sales Leaders Promotion of Musical Products A Changing Industry Trade Associations Opportunities for Employment
• 25. Business Music and Production Libraries Foreground and Background Music Business Music Production Music Libraries Part VII. The Entrepreneurial Musician
• 26. The DIY Toolkit The Direct-to-Fan Era Doing the Math Making Money with "Free" Tools of the Trade Major Online Platforms: Now You see It, Now You Don't Conclusion
• 27. Starting Your Own Business Getting the Process Started Choosing a Name Forms of Ownership Permits and Legal Issues Raising Funds Marketing Accounting and Finance Keeping Track of the Money Operations Management Management Where to From Here? Part VIII. Career Planning and Development
• 28. Career Options Creative Careers Directing/Producing Careers Performing Careers Teaching Careers Broadcasting/Film/Video Game Careers Music-Related Careers Entrepreneurs/Starting Your Own Business
• 29. Career Development Defining Goals Climbing the Ladder Finding Work Part IX. The Global View
• 30. The World Outside the United States The International Scene New Patterns around the World
• 31. International Copyright Copyright Conventions Multilateral Agreements Bilateral Treaties Intergovernmental Bodies and International Industry Organizations Appendix A: Membership and Copyright Forms Appendix B: Selected Resources Glossary Index.
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Both readers new to the music business and seasoned professionals will find David and Tim Baskerville's handbook the go-to source, regardless of their specialty within the music field. The text includes a comprehensive discussion of the streaming revolution and its impact on all parts of the value chain, including composers, performing artists, publishers, and labels. Shifts in the competing platforms of consumption are also analysed, ranging from fast-shrinking physical formats and broadcasting to downloads and subscription services. This edition offers more vignettes than ever, illustrating how individuals in different industry roles advanced their careers, as well as how they've adjusted to the intertwining influences of technology, law, and culture.
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• 1. Introduction: The Great Depression, Museums, and Narratives of Vulnerability
• 2. Shaking Off the Dust Bowl: Strikes and the Challenge of Iconic History
• 3. Belonging: Interpretations of Home, Homelessness, and Neighbourhoods
• 4. The Arts and the Imagined Audience: Theatre, Radio, and the Emotion of Vulnerability
• 5. The Big Ball of String: Concluding Thoughts.
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Narratives of Vulnerability in Museums is a study of the challenges museums face when they present narratives of instability, uncertainty, and fear in their exhibitions. As a period of sustained societal and personal vulnerability, the Great Depression remains a watershed era in American history. It is an era when iconic visual culture of deprivation mixes in the popular imagination with groundbreaking government policy and has immense potential for museums, but this is accompanied by significant challenges. Analysing a range of case studies, the book explores both the successes and obstacles involved in translating historical narratives of vulnerability to the exhibition floor. Incorporating an innovative, trans-genre museological model, the book draws connections between exhibitions of history, art, and technology, as well as heritage sites, focused on a single era. Employing interpretations of housing, preserved and reconstructed, to discuss ideas of belonging and community, the book also examines the power of the iconic national story and the struggle for local relevance through discussions on strikes and industrial action. Finally, it examines the use of fine art in history exhibitions to access the emotional aspects of historical experience. The result is a volume that considers both how societies talk about less celebratory aspects of history, but also the expectations placed on museums as interpreters of the public narrative and agents of change. Narratives of Vulnerability in Museums makes a significant contribution to discourses of museum and heritage studies, of interwar history, of the social role of cultural institutions, and to vulnerability and resilience studies. As such, it should be essential reading for scholars and students working in these disciplines, as well as architecture, cultural studies, and human geography.
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• Introduction
• A multidisciplinary approach to the definition of religious manifestation
• Historical origin and significance of religious symbols
• Religious symbols and identity in contemporary pluralist states
• France and laïcité
• England and the established church
• The United States and tolerant neutrality
• Accommodation of minorities and the limitations of pluralist states
• Conclusion.

"Role Development in Professional Nursing Practice, Fifth Edition focuses on the progression of the professional nursing role. The major themes addressed throughout the text include: teamwork and collaboration, communication, leadership, quality improvement and safety, evidence-based practice and informatics. These competencies are essential for undergraduate nursing students, providing them with a solid foundation for a successful career. The Fifth Edition maintains its focus on professional role socialization and integrates the Nurse of the Future Competency Model throughout the text.It will feature new chapters on nursing competencies and system-based practice and leadership.New to the Fifth Edition: New chapter on nursing competencies New content system-based practice and leadershipUpdated Navigate 2 Advantage Access course"--Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Trump's campaign, the "Steele" dossier and the Intelligence Community Assessment
• "Election meddling" and the health of US democracy
• "Bots" and "trolls"
• Cambridge Analytica and Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL)
• Implications for social media
• Fake news and intelligence : enter "spooks"
• Fake news and intelligence : hacks and hackers
• RussiaGate and the Russian "threat".

"This book furthers our understanding of the practice of propaganda with a specific focus on the RussiaGate case. RussiaGate is a discourse about alleged Russian "meddling" in US elections, and this book argues that it functions as disinformation or distraction. The book provides a framework for better understanding of ongoing developments of RussiaGate, linking these to macroconsiderations that rarely enter mainstream accounts. It demonstrates the considerable weaknesses of many of the charges that have been made against Russia by US investigators, and argues that this discourse fails to take account of broader non-transparent persuasion campaigns operating in the election-information environment that are strengthened by social media manipulation. RussiaGate has obscured many of the factors that challenge the integrity of democratic process in the USA. These deserve a much higher priority than any influence that Russia may want to exert. The book concludes that RussiaGate discourse needs to be contextualized with reference to a long-established broader competition between great powers for domination of EurAsia. This pitches the US/European Union against Russia/China and perhaps ultimately, even the USA against Europe. This book will be of much interest to students of media and communication studies, propaganda studies, US politics, Russian politics, and International Relations in general"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction to tax strategy
• Tax-planning fundamentals
• Returns on alternative savings vehicles
• Implicit taxes and clienteles, marginal tax rates, and arbitrage
• Chosing the optimal organizational form
• Corporations: formation, operation, capital structure, and liquidation
• Nontax costs of tax planning
• Compensation planning
• Pension and retirement planning
• Multinational tax planning
• Introduction to mergers, acquistions, and divestitures
• Taxable acquisitions of freestanding C corporations
• Taxable acquisitions of S corporations
• Tax-free acquisitions of freestanding C corporations
• Tax planning for divestitures
• Estate and gift tax planning.