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"That democracy is in crisis here and abroad is a staple of the daily news and scholarly writing. In How Democracies Live, Stein Ringen powerfully intervenes in this debate with a meditation on what democracy is, the challenges it faces, and the way it can be defended. Ringen argues that democracy must be strongly rooted in a culture that supports democratic values, protect and foster the ability of citizens to exchange views and information among themselves and with their rulers, and provide a government that both protects freedom and delivers effective governance that serves the needs of the citizens. The book is organized in five essays on core concepts in political theory: power, statecraft, freedom, poverty, and democracy. The logic is to explore how governance works, identify the benefits of democratic governance, and then meet the reality of democracy today. Ringen argues that power is the fuel of government, statecraft turns power into effective rule, freedom is the value to be maximized, poverty the ultimate unfairness to be minimized, and democracy the method to make these combinations possible"--

"Film-makers understand the distinction between individuals and groups. When they shoot a character in a coma, or receiving a bone marrow transplant, they know the viewer is thinking: she could be me. When they sweep across the debris of a village where an earthquake has killed thousands, they know the viewer, thinking on a different scale, may be moved and disturbed, but without any route for self-identification will be less riveted. For filmmakers, our collective reality is most comprehensible through individual life stories rather than large groups"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 What Is a Stroke? -- 2 Finding the Cause of a Stroke -- 3 Stroke Prevention -- 4 How the Brain Works -- 5 Medical Complications after Stroke -- 6 Recovery and Rehabilitation -- 7 Stroke in the Young and the Old -- 8 Impact on Marriage and Relationships -- 9 Impact on Children and Family -- 10 Return to Work and Leisure Activities -- 11 Weakness after Stroke -- 12 Loss of Sensation or Vision -- 13 Problems with Memory and Thinking -- 14 Emotional and Personality Changes -- 15 Communication Difficulties -- 16 Swallowing Difficulties -- 17 Pain and Muscle Spasms -- 18 Equipment and Home Environment -- 19 Nontraditional Treatments -- 20 Understanding Clinical Research -- Appendix: Resources and Information -- Index

"Over the course of the last half century, queer history has developed as a collaborative project involving academic researchers, community scholars, and the public. Initially rejected by most colleges and universities, queer history was sustained for many years by community-based contributors and audiences. Academic activism eventually made a place for queer history within higher education, which in turn helped queer historians become more influential in politics, law, and society. Through a collection of essays written over three decades by award-winning historian Marc Stein, Queer Public History charts the evolution of queer historical interventions in the academic sphere and explores the development of publicly oriented queer historical scholarship. From the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and the rise of queer activism in the 1990s to debates about queer immigration, same-sex marriage, and the politics of gay pride in the early twenty-first century, Stein introduces readers to key themes in queer public history. A manifesto for renewed partnerships between academic and community-based historians, strengthened linkages between queer public history and LGBT scholarly activism, and increased public support for historical research on gender and sexuality, this anthology reconsiders and reimagines the past, present, and future of queer public history"--

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Carving Out an Island -- Constructing the City Symphony -- To Glimpse the Here and Now -- 1 Tomorrow Has No Smell: The City, Regional Planning, and the National Day -- Regional Planning and Cinematic Technologies at the World's Fair -- The Dual Nature of Urban Space and the Reception of The City -- The City and the Utopian Uses of Rhythmanalysis -- New York and the Incongruous Present -- The City as Progenitor of the New York City Symphonies -- 2 City/Text: Weegee's New York, Urban Renewal, and the Miniature-Gigantic -- The Secretariat and the Willow: Urban Renewal and Visual Culture -- New York as Tall Letters: Naked City and the Narration of Space -- Weegee's New York and the Reinvention of the City Symphony -- Together in the Crowd -- 3 Secret Passages: Symphonies of the Margins, Slum Clearance, and Blight -- The Motionless City -- Press Here for Secret Passage: In the Street -- A River, A Trench: Under Brooklyn Bridge -- On the Bowery: Eddies in the Urban River -- Little Fugitive and the Dressage of the Nickel Empire -- Secret Passage as Cinematic Infrastructure -- 4 Spectacle in Progress: Symphonies of the Center and Advocacy Planning -- The Right to the Center and the Possessive Spectator -- Jazz of Lights: The Exploitation of St. Francis -- Wonder Ring: The Infrastructure Ballet -- N.Y., N.Y.: Surface Tension -- Shirley Clarke's Subversive Commissions -- The Empty Image and the Abandoned Island -- 5 Image/City/Fracture: The Cool World, the Urban Crisis, and Nostalgia for Modernity -- Out of Scale: The Appropriated Symphonies of the 1964-1965 World's Fair -- Static City: The Abyss and the Nostalgia for Modernity -- False Narrative: The Cool World and the New Rhythmanalysis -- At the Border -- Coda: Repair -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Sadomasochism and the BDSM Community in the United States: Kinky People Unite chronicles the development of sadomasochistic sexuality and its communities in the United States from the post-war period to the present day. Having evolved from scattered networks of sadomasochists to a coherent body bound by shared principles of "safe, sane, consensual," activists worked to transform popular perceptions of their community, end its routine harassment by law enforcement, and win inclusion in American society. Often paralleling the work of LGBTQ activists, people who engaged in BDSM (Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, and Sadism and Masochism) transformed both their own sexual practices and how outsiders perceived them, successfully changing popular perceptions of them from fascists, murderers, and outlaws to people living an alternative lifestyle. The development of this community highlights the interactions of people of different sexual orientations within a sexual community, the influence of various campaigns for sexual freedom, and the BDSM community's influence on popular perceptions of sexuality and sexual freedom. The text's historical perspective gives depth and texture to a specific dimension of American history of sexuality. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in the history of sexuality. It's clear and direct approach offers an important and useful chronology of a movement that has long been neglected"--

Developing an original theoretical approach to understanding the roots of regional conflict and cooperation, International Relations in the Middle East explores domestic and international foreign policy dynamics for an accessible insight into how and why Middle Eastern regional order has changed over time. Highlighting interactions between foreign policy trajectories in a range of states including Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey, Ewan Stein identifies two main drivers of foreign policy and alignments: competitive support-seeking and ideological externalisation. Clearly linking political, ideological and foreign policy dynamics, Stein demonstrates how the sources of regional antagonisms and solidarities are to be found not in the geopolitical chessboard, but in the hegemonic strategies of the region's pivotal powers. Making the case for historical sociology - in particular the work of Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser - as the most powerful lens through which to understand regional politics in the Middle East, with wider implications for the study of regional order elsewhere.