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Applied General Equilibrium: An Introduction (Springer Texts in Business and Economics)
By Ana-Isabel Guerra, Ferran Sancho, Manuel Alejandro Cardenete. 2012
This advanced textbook aims at providing a simple but fully operational introduction to applied general equilibrium. General equilibrium is the…
backbone of modern economic analysis and as such generation after generation of economics students are introduced to it. As an analytical tool in economics, general equilibrium provides one of the most complete views of an economy since it incorporates all economic agents (households, firms, government, foreign sector) in an integrated way that is compatible with microtheory and microdata. The integration of theory and data handling is required for successful modeling but it requires a double ability that is not found in standard books. With this book we aim at filling the gap and provide advanced students with the required tools, from the building of consistent and applicable general equilibrium models to the interpretation of the results that ensue from the adoption of policies. The topics include: model design, model development, computer code examples, calibration and data adjustments, practical policy examples.Behind a Veil of Ignorance?: Power and Uncertainty in Constitutional Design (Studies in Public Choice #32)
By Louis Imbeau, Steve Jacob. 2015
This volume is a very interesting research project that includes the most careful work on constitutional power and limits to…
authority of which I am aware In general the contributors find that constitutional negotiations normally took place in settings where uncertainty was considerable They also find that the more detailed the characterization of power relationships the more liberal and durable the democracy tends to be Roger D Congleton This book addresses the issue of the impact of uncertainty in constitutional design To what extent do constitution drafters and adopters make their decisions behind a veil of ignorance More fundamentally can we infer from constitutional texts the degree of uncertainty faced by constitution drafters and adopters After an introduction chapter 1 the book proceeds in two parts The first part chapters 2 to 4 introduces to the intellectual filiation of the project and to its theoretical and methodological foundations The second part chapters 5 to 13 presents nine case studies built on the same structure historical account of the making of the Constitution results of the content analysis of the constitutional text and discussion of specific issues raised in the analysis Chapter 14 concludesGlobal Health Governance (Global Institutions)
By Sophie Harman. 2010
In the light of scares about potential pandemics such as swine fever and avian flu the issue of global…
health and its governance is of increasing concern to scholars and practitioners of medicine public health social work and international politics alike Providing a concise and informative introduction to how global health is governed this book Explores the various ways in which we understand global health governance Explains the nuts and bolts of the traditional institutions of global health governance highlights key frameworks and treaties and their relative successes and failings Examines the actors in global health governance their purpose influence and impact Offers an in depth analysis of the effectiveness of global health interventions focusing particularly on HIV AIDS tuberculosis and malaria Highlighting the wide variety of actors issues and approaches involved this work shows the complex nature of global health governance forcing the reader to examine who or what really governs global health to what outcome and for whomThe Construction of Canadian Identity from Abroad (Canada and International Affairs)
By Christopher Kirkey, Richard Nimijean. 2022
Migration and the impact that immigrants have on Canada is and always has been central to a robust understanding of…
Canadian identity. However, despite claims that “the world needs more Canada,” Canadians, their governments, and scholars pay much less attention to the estimated 3 million Canadian expatriates who live elsewhere. The Construction of Canadian Identity from Abroad features Canadian scholars who live and work outside Canada (or have recently returned to Canada) and who write and think deeply about identity construction. What happens when that Canadian is a scholar whose teaching, research and scholarship, professional development, and/or community engagement focuses directly on Canada? How does being abroad affect how we interpret Canada? In short, in what ways does “externality” affect how Canadian expat scholars intellectually approach, construct, and identify with Canada? This engaging volume is ideal for university students, scholars, government officials, and the general public.America’s Two Cold Wars: From Hegemony to Decline?
By Alfredo Toro Hardy. 2022
This book focuses on ascertaining what distinguishes the Cold War that the U.S. sustained with the USSR from the one…
now emerging with China. By comparing their characteristics, it elaborates on how well prepared the US is to undertake this fresh challenge. In doing so, the book analyses six fundamental differences between both cold wars; ideology, alliances, strategic consistency, military, economics, and containment. While the configuration of factors benefited the US during its first Cold War, they now point in the opposite direction. While the first Cold War was instrumental in projecting the US to the pinnacle, the second can only accelerate its dwindling.Donald Winnicott and the Politics of Care (Studies in the Psychosocial)
By Joanna Kellond. 2022
This book explores the significance of psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott’s ideas for contemporary debates about care. Locating Winnicott in relation to…
a range of fields, including psychology, philosophy, sociology, critical theory and feminist theory, it examines the implications of his thinking for understanding and transforming the relationship between care and society. Winnicott was unique amongst psychoanalysts for the emphasis he placed on care in the development of subjectivity. The book unpacks Winnicott’s understanding of care and assesses its relevance for conceptions of social responsibility, justice and transformation. In a world where care is in crisis, how might we theorise the conditions necessary for the development of caring subjectivities, and is it possible to infer a relationship between those conditions and progressive social change? This unique book will be of interest to readers in psychosocial studies, politics and anyone concerned with thinking about the relationship between care and social transformation.Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice
By Merrick Daniel Pilling. 2022
This book urges those invested in social justice for 2SLGBTQ people to interrogate the biomedical model of mental illness beyond…
the diagnoses that specifically target gender and sexual dissidence. In this first comprehensive application of Mad Studies to queer and trans experiences of mental distress, Pilling advances a broad critique of the biomedical model of mental illness as it pertains to 2SLGBTQ people, arguing that Mad Studies is especially amenable to making sense of queer and trans madness. Based on empirical data from two qualitative research studies, this book includes analyses of inpatient chart documentation from a psychiatric hospital and interviews with those who have experienced distress. Using an intersectional lens, Pilling critically examines what constitutes mental health treatment and the impacts of medical strategies on mad queer and trans people. Ultimately, Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice explores the emancipatory promise of queer and trans madness, advocating for more resources to respond to crisis and distress in ways that are non-coercive, non-carceral, and honour autonomy as well as interdependence within 2SLGBTQ communities.Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement
By Victoria W. Wolcott. 2022
Living in the Future reveals the unexplored impact of utopian thought on the major figures of the Civil Rights Movement.…
Utopian thinking is often dismissed as unrealistic, overly idealized, and flat-out impractical—in short, wholly divorced from the urgent conditions of daily life. This is perhaps especially true when the utopian ideal in question is reforming and repairing the United States’ bitter history of racial injustice. But as Victoria W. Wolcott provocatively argues, utopianism is actually the foundation of a rich and visionary worldview, one that specifically inspired the major figures of the Civil Rights Movement in ways that haven’t yet been fully understood or appreciated. Wolcott makes clear that the idealism and pragmatism of the Civil Rights Movement were grounded in nothing less than an intensely utopian yearning. Key figures of the time, from Martin Luther King Jr. and Pauli Murray to Father Divine and Howard Thurman, all shared a belief in a radical pacificism that was both specifically utopian and deeply engaged in changing the current conditions of the existing world. Living in the Future recasts the various strains of mid-twentieth-century civil rights activism in a utopian light, revealing the power of dreaming in a profound and concrete fashion, one that can be emulated in other times that are desperate for change, like today.Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement
By Victoria W. Wolcott. 2022
Living in the Future reveals the unexplored impact of utopian thought on the major figures of the Civil Rights Movement.…
Utopian thinking is often dismissed as unrealistic, overly idealized, and flat-out impractical—in short, wholly divorced from the urgent conditions of daily life. This is perhaps especially true when the utopian ideal in question is reforming and repairing the United States’ bitter history of racial injustice. But as Victoria W. Wolcott provocatively argues, utopianism is actually the foundation of a rich and visionary worldview, one that specifically inspired the major figures of the Civil Rights Movement in ways that haven’t yet been fully understood or appreciated. Wolcott makes clear that the idealism and pragmatism of the Civil Rights Movement were grounded in nothing less than an intensely utopian yearning. Key figures of the time, from Martin Luther King Jr. and Pauli Murray to Father Divine and Howard Thurman, all shared a belief in a radical pacificism that was both specifically utopian and deeply engaged in changing the current conditions of the existing world. Living in the Future recasts the various strains of mid-twentieth-century civil rights activism in a utopian light, revealing the power of dreaming in a profound and concrete fashion, one that can be emulated in other times that are desperate for change, like today.Drawing on the author's extensive clinical and research experience, this book presents practical strategies purposefully developed for parents, therapists and…
teachers working with autistic adolescents experiencing anxiety. In addition, it features chapters dedicated to assisting parents in supporting their anxious child.The book outlines the co-occurence of anxiety and autism, highlights specific anxiety risks and triggers, and presents practical solutions for overcoming barriers to therapeutic engagement. A collection of CBT, ACT and DBT-informed practical worksheets are included, making this book ideal for use at home, at school or in OT, Psychology and Speech sessions.Postnatal PTSD: A Guide for Health Professionals
By Kim Thomas, Shona McCann. 2022
Postnatal PTSD, often referred to as birth trauma, is an underdiagnosed and misunderstood condition. Often mistaken for postnatal depression and…
with 4% of women developing the condition after giving birth, it is essential that health professionals learn to recognise and prevent postnatal PTSD.The book supports professionals to better understand, recognise, treat and help prevent birth trauma. It covers the impact of postnatal PTSD on bonding and relationships, birth trauma in Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, how to support women having another baby and more.An accessible guide to supporting parents with postnatal PTSD, this book is essential reading for healthcare professionals and those involved with the birthing process.The Trans Guide to Mental Health and Well-Being
By Katy Lees. 2022
'The resource trans people need right now' MEG-JOHN BARKER'An excellent book' JOS TWIST'Straightforward and accessible' JENNIE KERMODEThis empowering self-help guide…
provides advice and strategies for trans and/or non-binary people on a range of common mental health issues including anxiety, depression, body image, trauma, suicidal thoughts and dissociation. It provides advice on neutralising negative thoughts, coping with transphobia, coming out, dealing with imposter syndrome, and implementing achievable self-care strategies and mindfulness techniques.Whether you are in a crisis or just looking for ways to improve your life, this reassuring guide is there for you to use in the way that helps you the most, regardless of where you are in your transition, or if you decide not to transition in conventional ways. Combining therapeutic expertise alongside first-hand experience, the book also highlights the importance of understanding and being proud of who you are, to help you live life to the fullest.Arguing that demographic thought begins not with quantification but in attempts to control the qualities of people, Human Empire traces…
two transformations spanning the early modern period. First was the emergence of population as an object of governance through a series of engagements in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, Ireland, and colonial North America, influenced by humanist policy, reason of state, and natural philosophy, and culminating in the creation of political arithmetic. Second was the debate during the long eighteenth century over the locus and limits of demographic agency, as church, civil society, and private projects sought to mobilize and manipulate different marginalized and racialized groups – and as American colonists offered their own visions of imperial demography. This innovative, engaging study examines the emergence of population as an object of knowledge and governance and connects the history of demographic ideas with their early modern intellectual, political, and colonial contexts.Apocalypse, it seems, is everywhere. Preachers with vast followings proclaim the world's end. Apocalyptic fears grip even the nonreligious amid…
climate change, pandemics, and threats of nuclear war. As these ideas pervade popular discourse, grasping their logic remains elusive. Ben Jones argues that we can gain insight into apocalyptic thought through secular thinkers. He starts with a puzzle: Why would secular thinkers draw on Christian apocalyptic beliefs – often dismissed as bizarre – to interpret politics? The apocalyptic tradition proves appealing in part because it theorizes a relation between crisis and utopia. Apocalyptic thought points to crisis as the vehicle to bring the previously impossible within reach, offering resources for navigating challenges in ideal theory, which involves imagining the best, most just society. By examining apocalyptic thought's appeal and risks, this study arrives at new insights on the limits of utopian hope. This title is available as open access on Cambridge Core.Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter
By Robert Hutton. 2018
June 1940. Britain is Europe's final bastion of freedom - and Hitler's next target. But not everyone fears a Nazi…
invasion. In factories, offices and suburban homes are men and women determined to do all they can to hasten it.Throughout the Second World War, Britain's defence against the enemy within was Eric Roberts, a former bank clerk from Epsom. Equipped with an extraordinary ability to make people trust him, he was recruited into the shadowy world of espionage by the great spymaster Maxwell Knight. Roberts penetrated first the Communist Party and then the British Union of Fascists, before playing his greatest role for MI5 - as Hitler's man in London. Codenamed Jack King, he single-handedly built a network of hundreds of British Nazi sympathisers, with many passing secrets to him in the mistaken belief that he was a Gestapo officer. Operation Fifth Column, run by a brilliant woman scientist and a Jewish aristocrat with a sideline in bomb disposal, was kept so secret it was omitted from the reports MI5 sent to Winston Churchill. In a narrative that grips like a thriller, Robert Hutton tells the fascinating story of an operation whose existence has only recently come to light. Drawing on newly declassified documents and private family archives, Agent Jack shatters the comfortable notion that Britain could never have succumbed to fascism, and celebrates - at last - the courage of individuals who protected the country they loved at great personal risk.Read by Roger Davis(P) Orion Publishing Group 2018Owning it: Your Bullsh*t-Free Guide to Living with Anxiety
By Caroline Foran. 2017
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER - For readers of You Are a Badass ... A bullsh*t free perspective and a no-frills…
account of anxiety from the front line.For those facing the same struggle, Caroline explores exactly what anxiety is, its triggers and the various treatments - from CBT, acupuncture, diet and the often debated role of medication - that worked for her. With honesty, humour and a bullsh*t free perspective, Owning It is a no-frills account of anxiety from the front line.Through the filtered lens of social media, it may seem like life's a peach, but for lots of people - journalist and author Caroline Foran included - anxiety is always bubbling beneath the surface. Here, she chronicles her experiences. From being unable to cope with the thought of venturing outside, to walking away from her fast-paced job, to the different, and sometimes controversial, treatments available - from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to acupuncture to medication - Caroline shows us how she eventually found a way of owning her anxiety so that it doesn't own her.With extensive research and help from the experts, Owning It is written with honesty and a bullsh*t-free perspective; consider it your ultimate, practical guide that aims to get you feeling good again.(P)2018 Hachette Books IrelandCoping with Demographic Change: A Comparative View On Education And Local Government In Germany And Poland (European Studies of Population #19)
By Reinhold Sackmann, Walter Bartl, Bernadette Jonda, Katarzyna Kopycka, Christian Rademacher. 2015
With many OECD countries experiencing a decline in their populations this book offers a theoretical model of coping with…
demographic change and examines different strategies that societies have used to come to terms with demographic change In particular it details the different ways that Germany and Poland have tried to cope with this challenge and reveals three conflicting strategies expansion reduction and phasing out Coverage includes How and why demographic change was used in Poland to expand the education system The variance of linkage between demographic change and growth rates in different fields of education in a German Bundesland Modes of reflexivity and personnel policy in German and Polish municipalities Effects of demographic change and forms of coping on fiscal capacity and unemployment rates in German municipalities Coping with Demographic Change examines how and why societies cope with these detrimental effects It conceptualizes the challenges a society faces as a result of demographic change and focuses on the processes by which actors organizations and nation-states try to cope with this new situationPrimate Change: How the world we made is remaking us
By Vybarr Cregan-Reid. 2018
IF YOU THINK YOU ARE YOU, THINK AGAIN.PRIMATE CHANGE is a wide-ranging, polemical look at how and why the human…
body has changed since humankind first got up on two feet. Spanning the entirety of human history - from primate to transhuman - Vybarr Cregan-Reid's book investigates where we came from, who we are today and how modern technology will change us beyond recognition.In the last two hundred years, humans have made such a tremendous impact on the world that our geological epoch is about to be declared the 'Anthropocene', or the Age of Man. But while we have been busy changing the shape of the world we inhabit, the ways of living that we have been building have, as if under the cover of darkness, been transforming our bodies and altering the expression of our DNA, too.PRIMATE CHANGE beautifully unscrambles the complex architecture of our modern human bodies, built over millions of years and only starting to give up on us now.'Our bodies are in a shock. Modern living is as bracing to the human body as jumping through a hole in the ice. Our bodies do not know what century they were born into and they are defending and deforming themselves in response'(p) 2018 Octopus Publishing GroupCBT: The Comprehensive Guide to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
By Christine Wilding, Dr Stephanie Fitzgerald. 2015
The Audio Masterclass series will give you everything you need to get up to speed on the big topics that…
matter in self-help, psychology, business and the humanities.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based, goal-oriented self-help technique that has worked for millions and can work for you! Discover what CBT is, how you can use it, and learn how to be more assertive, raise your self-esteem, and transform your mentality - becoming happier and more positive in the process.The Audio Masterclass series provides serious coverage of the most vital topics in self-help, psychology and the humanities, combining comprehensive, expert content from the celebrated Teach Yourself series. Each masterclass offers over 12 hours of practical, varied content to get you up to speed and fully informed on the subjects that matter.(P)2018 Hodder & Stoughton LimitedMexicanas en pie de lucha: Pese al gobierno machista, las violencias y el patriarcado
By Laura Castellanos, Valeria Durán, Daniela Rea, Nayeli Roldán, Claudia Ramos, Ivonne Melgar. 2022
A menudo pienso que ese “si tocan a una, respondemos todas” entraña una verdad perturbadora, es así porque todas o…
casi —nueve de cada diez, dirán las estadísticas— hemos sufrido algún tipo de violencia. ¿O de qué tamaño es el espectro de lo que no vemos, de lo que aún no se ha contado? ¿Cuántas historias caben entre la de esa anciana que camina encorvada por las calles, con el cuerpo roto por su marido y Fátima, la niña de doce años que no pudo recoger su premio de declamación de poesía? —alma delia murillo El ESTADO MACHISTA y sus decisiones, el covid-19, la crisis económica subsecuente y la violencia brutal se han ensañado con las mexicanas. Ante esto, la palabra y la sororidad, los datos irrefutables, la explicación, la inteligencia y el diálogo son sus armas. En esta obra, seis periodistas de primer nivel —coordinadas por Nayeli Roldán, ganadora del premio Ortega y Gasset y del Premio Nacionalde Periodismo 2018— ofrecen reportajes que retratan, con sensibilidad combativa, la situación actual de las mujeres, las consecuencias de las políticas públicas vigentes, el estado de las luchas feministas y los escenarios que se avizoran.