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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: From Ōoka Tadasuke to Hozumi Yatsuka -- Chapter 2: Suehiro Izutarō and the Founding of the Law-and-Society Movement in Japan -- Chapter 3: The Caselaw Study Group -- Chapter 4: Settlement Houses and the Law-and-Society Movement after the Great Kantō Earthquake -- Chapter 5: Minoda Muneki, Tanaka Kōtarō, and the Shibboleth of the Kokutai -- Chapter 6: Defeat, Purge, and Rehabilitation -- Photos -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Adebayo Adedeji (1930-2018) -- Irma Adelman (1930-2017) -- Anil Agarwal (1947-2002) -- Elmar Altvater (1938-2018) -- Samir Amin (1931-2018) -- Alice Amsden (1943-2012) -- A.T. Ariyaratne (1931-) -- Jagdish Bhagwati (1934-) -- Piers Blaikie (1942-) -- James M. (Jim) Blaut (1927-2000) -- Norman Borlaug (1914-2009) -- Ester Boserup (1910-1999) -- Harold Brookfield (1926-) -- Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1931-) -- Michael Cernea (1934-) -- Robert Chambers (1932-) -- Hollis B. Chenery (1918-1994) -- Diane Elson (1946-) -- Arturo Escobar (1952-) -- Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) -- Fei Xiaotong (1919-2005) -- Andre Gunder Frank (1929-2005) -- Paolo Freire (1921-1997) -- John Friedmann (1926-2017) -- Celso Furtado (1920-2004) -- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi (1869-1948) -- Susan George (1934-) -- Alexander Gerschenkron (1904-1978) -- Jayati Ghosh (1955-) -- Eduardo Gudynas (1960-) -- Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) -- Gerald K. Helleiner (1936-) -- Albert O. Hirschman (1915-2012) -- Philippe Hugon (1939-2018) -- Richard Jolly (1934-) -- Naila Kabeer (1950-) -- Michał Kalecki (1899-1970) -- Inge Kaul (1944-) -- Akhtar Hameed Khan (1914-1999) -- Charles Poor Kindleberger (1910-2003) -- Sir William Arthur Lewis (1915-1991) -- Michael Lipton (1937-) -- Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) -- Mao Zedong (1893-1976) -- Karl Marx (1818-1883) -- Manfred Max-Neef (1932-) -- Terence Gary Mcgee (1936-) -- Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987) -- Kwame Francis Nkrumah (1909-1972) -- Ragnar Nurkse (1907-1957) -- Julius Kambaragwe Nyerere (1922-1999) -- Elinor Ostrom (1933-2012) -- François Perroux (1903-1987) -- Karl Polanyi (1886-1964) -- Raúl Prebisch (1901-1986) -- Aníbal Quijano (1928-2018) -- Joan Robinson (1903-1983) -- Walter Rodney (1942-1980).

"Prior to World War I, George S. Patton was a lowly Lieutenant known more for his wealth than military ability. When the United Stated entered World War I, Patton joined General John J. Pershing's American Expeditionary Force (AEF) on the Western Front, where he was given the chance to prove his abilities. A driven and intrepid solider, Patton soon learned how to organize, command, and lead men in battle as the first tank commander in the US Army, and before long, his name became associated with armored warfare. Although the tank was a crude armored behemoth in 1918 with only a mixed record in battle, Patton personally oversaw the logistics of their first combat use by US forces and commanded the Light Tank Brigade during the Battle of Saint Mihiel, the attack into Pannes, and the Meuse Argonne Offensive. His successes during World War I laid the groundwork for not only his own personal future triumphs but also for the success of the entire US Army armored forces in World War II. In Blood, Guts, Grease and Oil: George S. Patton in World War I, Jon B. Mikolashek explores, for the first time, George S. Patton's World War I career and the role it played in his learning the art of command, how to lead large units of soldiers, and more importantly, how he would react to enemy fire. This work considers every aspect of Patton's trajectory from his relationship with Pershing to the selection of tanks for combat, from the creation of the Tank Corps and the Light Tank School to Patton's eventual successes and injuries in battle. Blood, Guts, Grease and Oil will reveal how the experience Patton gained in World War I was seminal in his development as a leader and laid the foundation for many of the attributes and characteristics he would later exhibit during World War II"--

Alice Bacon was one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable female politicians. Born and raised in the Yorkshire town of Normanton, she defied the odds to be elected Labour MP for Leeds North East in the 1945 General Election. Famed in her home town for her unlikely love of sports cars, she was a much-respected, no-nonsense, hard-working representative for her beloved Yorkshire home in Westminster. Mentored by Herbert Morrison and Hugh Gaitskell, she rose through the party becoming a Home Office minister under Roy Jenkins and latterly an Education Minister with responsibility for the introduction of comprehensive schools. In the Home Office in the 1960s she oversaw the introduction of substantial societal changes, including the abolition of the death penalty, the decriminalisation of homosexuality and the legalisation of abortion. Her political career spanned some of the most momentous decades in Britain's postwar history and she played an integral part in some of the most significant social, educational and political changes which the country has ever witnessed. Labour MP Rachel Reeves here tells Alice Bacon's story, narrating one woman's extraordinary progression from the coalfields to the Commons

"The life of Leland Stanford reads like a tall tale of the Old West. Born in a country tavern in upstate New York, Stanford followed the Gold Rush to California, became a successful businessman, and invested in railroads. He then made headway into politics, becoming governor of California and later a US senator. As president of the Central Pacific Railroad, Stanford brought the locomotive Jupiter to preside over the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, which led contemporaries to liken him to the namesake Roman god. He then founded one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Stanford lived large and bold, amassing an astonishing fortune, only to die on the brink of bankruptcy. In American Disruptor, Roland De Wolk balances the accomplishments of this quintessential self-made American man with the darker aspects of his life. He shows how Stanford used high public office to steal taxpayer money, only to squander it on mansions, racehorses, jewels, and vast landholdings. Even the eponymous university in Silicon Valley that bears his name, created from the largest private university endowment of all time, was born of tragedy, a memorial to Stanford's fifteen-year-old son who died from typhoid fever. Following his death, his wife struggled to keep the fledgling university afloat, only to be murdered under mysterious circumstances. Although deeply conservative in belief and style, Leland Stanford's life was one of almost unparalleled risk, failure, and reward. Richly detailed and deeply researched, American Disruptor helps restore his rightful place as an architect of modern America"--Provided by publisher

"Four years after Therese Greenwood and her husband moved to Fort McMurray, Alberta, their new community was devastated by one of the worst wildfires in Canadian history. As the flames approached, they had only minutes to pack, narrowly escaping a fire that would rage for weeks, burn more than 85,000 hectares and force 80,000 people to flee. This skilfully told first-person account is more than a disaster narrative: Greenwood's experience and skill as a journalist and a mystery writer engages and maintains suspense. Her portrayal of how people behave in an emergency and how a community comes together is uplifting. Her stories of what she saved from the fire will resonate with anyone who has lived through a crisis, and help make sense of a life-changing event that garnered interest throughout the world."--

"Michael Cassius McDonald arrived in Chicago as a teenage scam artist who quickly sketched a blueprint for running the city through its criminal underworld. Chicago's original mob boss, he procured presidential pardons, stuffed mayoral ballot boxes and operated the town's plushest gambling parlor. But he was also a philanthropist who befriended Clarence Darrow, employed Theodore Dreiser, promoted the World's Fair and funded the Lake Street L. His scandalous private life mirrored the tumult of his career, with more than one marriage mired in a love triangle and a murder trial. Kelly Pucci charts the rise of Chicago's first kingpin."--Back cover

Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- Ultrastrong -- Didn't Know Anything -- Chasing It -- The Squat -- The Accident -- Totally Fucked -- Flying South -- Waiting -- Family Week -- A Hundred Needles -- Thanksgiving -- Harm Reduction -- Lights in the Night -- The Visit -- The Climb -- Jonah -- The Passport -- Flying East -- Market Street -- Runaway Bunny -- Drugstore Cowboy -- Love Is -- Requiem.