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"How do the experiences of people who have different bodies (deaf versus hearing) shape their thoughts and metaphors? Do different linguistic modes of expression (signed versus spoken) have a shaping force as well? This book investigates the metaphorical production of culturally-Deaf translators who work from English to American Sign Language (ASL). It describes how Event Structure Metaphors are handled across languages of two different modalities. Through the use of corpus-based evidence, several specific questions are addressed: are the main branches of Event Structure Metaphors--the Location and Object branches--exhibited in ASL? Are these two branches adequate to explain the event-related linguistic metaphors identified in the translation corpus? To what extent do translators maintain, shift, add, and omit expressions of these metaphors? While answering these specific questions, this book makes a significant elaboration to the two-branch theory of Event Structure Metaphors. It raises larger questions of how bilinguals handle competing conceptualizations of events and contributes to emerging interest in how body specificity, linguistic modes, and cultural context affect metaphoric variability"--

Introduction -- The development of modern advertising -- From traditional to industrial society -- Advertising in the transition from industrial to consumer society -- Advertising and the development of twentieth-century communications media -- The development of agencies in the bonding of advertising and media -- The structure of advertisements -- Goods as communicators and satisfiers -- Advertising at the end of the twentieth century -- Ushering in the era of demassification -- Late-modern consumer society -- The mediated marketplace -- Mobilizing the culturati in the fifth frame -- Advertising in the twenty-first-century digital age -- Internet, social, and mobile mediated marketplace -- Twenty-first-century promotional and consumer culture -- Issues in social policy -- References -- Index

Introduction -- Shortages and strikes, 1945-1948 -- The era of "The treaty of Detroit," 1949-1950 -- No longer the arsenal of democracy, 1951-1952 -- A post-Korean War boom, 1953 -- A "painfully inconvenient" recession, 1954 -- The fifties in one year, 1955 -- "A severe and prolonged hangover," 1956-1957 -- The nadir, 1958 -- "What is happening? Which way are we headed?" 1959-1960 -- Conclusion

The 'infrastructural ideal': expansive, contested, eroding /Philip Ashton --Infrastructure of urban play /Charles Hoch --Planning and financing infrastructure in the Trump years: what can the administration learn from previous large infrastructure programs? /Beverly Bunch --The built environment: how infrastructure shapes city design today and tomorrow /Sanjeev Vidyarthi --The city within and the architecture around: architecture of tomorrow's city /Sean Lally --The power to move people: public art and public transit /Bill Burton.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and List of Arabic Terms -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: From Revolutionary Activism to Informal Politics -- 1 Women's Peacebuilding: UNSCR 1325 and the Post-Oslo Peace Supermarket -- 2 Women's Popular Resistance: Embodied Protest and Political Claim Making -- 3 Women's Everyday Resistance and the Infrapolitics of Ṣumūd: "Yes, we came here to enjoy!" -- Conclusion: Reclaiming Humanity and the Politics of Women's Everyday Life in Occupied Palestine -- Appendix: Groups, Networks, and Organizations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Intro -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER 1 All Platforms Moderate -- CHAPTER 2 The Myth of the Neutral Platform -- CHAPTER 3 Community Guidelines, or the Sound of No -- CHAPTER 4 Three Imperfect Solutions to the Problem of Scale -- CHAPTER 5 The Human Labor of Moderation -- CHAPTER 6 Facebook, Breastfeeding, and Living in Suspension -- CHAPTER 7 To Remove or to Filter -- CHAPTER 8 What Platforms Are, and What They Should Be -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z

"Alan I. Abramowitz has emerged as a leading spokesman for the view that our current political divide is not confined to a small group of elites and activists but a key feature of the American social and cultural landscape. The polarization of the political and media elites, he argues, arose and persists because it accurately reflects the state of American society. Here, he goes further: the polarization is unique in modern U.S. history. Today's party divide reflects an unprecedented alignment of many different divides: racial and ethnic, religious, ideological, and geographic. Abramowitz shows how the partisan alignment arose out of the breakup of the old New Deal coalition; introduces the most important difference between our current era and past eras, the rise of 'negative partisanship'; explains how this phenomenon paved the way for the Trump presidency; and examines why our polarization could even grow deeper. This statistically based analysis shows that racial anxiety is by far a better predictor of support for Donald Trump than any other factor, including economic discontent."--Provided by publisher

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- REACTION -- one Welcome to Burke County -- two For-Profit Democracy -- MELTDOWN -- three The Moral Economy of Democracy -- four The Rule of Numbers -- FALLOUT -- five The Rural Rebel -- six The Transcendent People -- seven Freedom under the Gun -- RECOVERY -- eight The Moral Economy's Freedom -- Appendix 1: Methodology -- Appendix 2: A Summary of People and Concepts -- Notes -- Illustration Captions and Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y

This book probes the complex interweaving, across time and cultures, of violence and non-violence from the perspective of the present. One of the first of its kind, it offers a comprehensive examination of the interpenetration of violence and non-violence as much in human nature as in human institutions with reference to different continents, cultures and religions over centuries. It points to the present paradox that even as violence of unprecedented lethality threatens the very survival of humankind, non-violence increasingly appears as an unlikely feasible alternative. The essays presented here cover a wide cultural–temporal spectrum — from Vedic sacrifice, early Jewish–Christian polemics, the Crusades, and medieval Japan to contemporary times. They explore aspects of the violence–non-violence dialectic in a coherent frame of analysis across themes such as war, jihad, death, salvation, religious and philosophical traditions including Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, mysticism, monism, and Neoplatonism, texts such as Ramayana, Mahabharata and Quran, as well as issues faced by Dalits and ethical imperatives for clinical trials, among others. Offering thematic width and analytical depth to the treatment of the subject, the contributors bring their disciplinary expertise and cultural insights, ranging from the historical to sociological, theological, philosophical and metaphysical, as well as their sensitive erudition to deepening an understanding of a grave issue. The book will be useful to scholars and researchers of history, peace and conflict studies, political science, political thought and cultural studies, as well as those working on issues of violence and non-violence.

In the wake of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, investors and the electorate alike are seeking clarity on a wide range of macro policy issues that will impact the economy and markets in the years ahead. The primary goal of this book is to provide an objective source for investors to learn about economic policy issues that surfaced. Topics include long-term growth, the federal budget deficit, healthcare reform, tax reform, regulatory policies affecting the financial system and environment, the nexus of monetary, exchange rate and trade policies, and globalization. The book explains how these issues have evolved, considers arguments from both sides of the political divide, and draws upon evidence from studies by experts in the respective areas. A related goal is to assess the likely impact of economic policies on financial markets. While the presidential election was close, the markets? Response was decisive: U.S. and global equity markets went on a tear as consumer and business confidence soared. This surprised many investors who believed a Trump victory would be bad for financial markets. It also caused many to question whether expectations embedded in markets were too optimistic. Sargen's assessment is presented in the opening and concluding chapters.

Title Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Terrorist Use of Cyberspace: The Worst Is Yet to Come -- Cyber Defense in NATO's Perspective: Counter-Terrorism Context in SEE -- What State Needs to Counter Non-State Groups in Cyberspace -- Hybrid Challenges to Human Factor in Cyberspace -- The Nexus Between Cyberspace and Modern Terrorism -- Radical Islamic Extremists Affiliated to Terrorist Organizations' Use of a Cyberspace in the Region of South East Europe -- Terrorism, Radicalism and IS in the Case of Muslim Population in SEEC -- Understanding Terrorist Motivation with an Emphasis on ISIS Recruitment Methods -- Artificial Intelligence Against Terrorist Use of Cyberspace - A Brief Review -- Online Radicalization, The West, and The "Web 2.0": A Case Study Analysis -- Financial Sector as an Open Field for Cyber Crime and Fundraising of Terrorist Activities -- Risk Management in (Cyber-) Terrorism: Modeling Insights and Perspectives -- Segregation of Duties" and "Know Your Customer" as a Countermeasure Against Terrorism -- Subject Index -- Author Index

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Algorithmic Urban Planning: The Return of Experts -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2. From technological breakthroughs to urban planning transformations -- 1.2.1.City and technique: centralization or decentralization? -- 1.2.2.Cities in the age of Big Data -- 1.2.3. Big Data to better understand the territories and urban planning actors -- 1.3. What is the genesis of the smart city? -- 1.3.1. Origins of the smart city -- 1.3.2. Dissemination of the models -- 1.3.3. Local acceptance of models -- 1.4. The return of rational planning under a smart veneer -- 1.4.1. Actors: behind the geek urban planner aspect, the return of the engineer -- 1.4.2. Processes and methods: toward an algorithmic governance? -- 1.4.3. Projects: the dominance of smart -- 1.5. Conclusion -- 2. Uberized Urban Planning: Extension of the Area of Urban Capitalism -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. A new stage in the privatization of cities: from the enhancement of large groups to uberization -- 2.2.1. Capitalism in the age of digital technology -- 2.2.2. GAFA: Internet giants -- 2.2.3. Development of a "sharing" economy -- 2.3. Territorial effects on the ability of public actors to develop and manage the city -- 2.3.1. Paris, the world capital of Airbnb -- 2.3.2. The legitimacy of planning challenged by the sharing economy -- 2.4. No longer planning against but with the sharing economy? -- 2.5. Renewal of strategic planning under an innovative veneer -- 2.5.1. Actors: behind the start-up's figure, challenging the planner -- 2.5.2. Processes and methods: from disintermediation to the city of offer -- 2.5.3. Projects: the dominance of private technological devices -- 2.6. Conclusion -- 3. A Wiki-Urban Planning: Searching for an Alternative City -- 3.1. Introduction