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Addressing the threatened future of chocolate in our modern world, Dale Walters discusses the problems posed by plant diseases, pests, and climate change, looking at what these mean for the survival of the cacao tree.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Names -- INTRODUCTION : Rule of Justice or Rule of Law? -- One—An Italian Murder -- Two—Police Investigations -- Three—Brought before the Law -- Four—Justice Is Served -- Five—The Triumph of Common Sense -- CONCLUSION -- Appendix A—The Italians and Their Culture -- Appendix B—The Law -- Appendix C—Police at the Turn of the Century -- Appendix D—Immigrants and Criminal Law -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1: Introducing Time, Temporality and Societal Change -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Thinking Time -- 1.3 Towards a Social Practice Theory of the Socio-Temporal Organization -- References -- 2: The Rise of the Clock: Time Discipline and Consumer Culture -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Time Discipline in Industrial Societies -- 2.3 The Commodification of Time, Leisure Society and Consumer Culture -- 2.4 Conclusion -- References -- 3: Time Scarcity: Work, Home and Personal Lives -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Time Spent Working and Gendered Divisions of Labour -- 3.3 Flexitime and Work-Life Balance -- 3.4 Time for Personal Life -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4: Time Pressure: Innovation, Acceleration and the Speeding-Up of Everyday Life -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Modernity: Speeding-up the Circulation of People and Goods and Compressing Time and Space -- 4.3 Accelerated Societies, Dynamic Stabilization and Desynchronization -- 4.4 Information and Communications Technologies: Empirical Studies of Intensification, Fragmentation and Acceleration of the Pace of Daily Life -- 4.5 Conclusion -- References -- 5: Temporalities of Harriedness -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Feeling Pressed for Time: Popular Perceptions of the Causes of Time Scarcity -- 5.3 Harriedness: Volume, Coordination and Allocation of Practices -- Volumes of Activities -- Temporal Coordination: Sequencing Activities and Synchronizing Networks -- Allocating Time -- Summary: Hot and Cold Spots of Daily Activities -- 5.4 Conclusion -- References -- 6: Past Times: The Contrasting Timings of Everyday Activities -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Mass Observation Archive -- 6.3 1937: 'A Day in the Life' -- 6.4 The Temporal Organization of Everyday Activities -- 6.5 Conclusion -- References.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction Police Torture in Chicago before Jon Burge -- Chapter One Police Torture in Chicago, 1871-1936 -- Chapter Two Murder in Black and White -- Chapter Three On Trial -- Chapter Four Appeal -- Chapter Five Patterns and Practice, 1936-1971 -- Conclusion The Burden of Proof -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Introduction : the garbage fire eternal -- Countering counterculture -- The two sprouls -- It came from something awful -- Moot in raspberry heaven -- Memes, trolls, and Chan girls -- 2008 : anonymous accidentally starts a worldwide revolution -- 2008-2011 : from hope to despair to change -- Anon peeks into the Palantir -- From gentlemen to robots -- From robots to Nazis -- Gamergate : 4chan's depression quest -- Trump the frog -- Steve Bannon : nerd out of time -- #War on the sea owl -- Tumblr and the mosaic of identity -- Politics steps through the looking glass -- Tumblr goes to college -- 2016 : ejecta assemble -- 2017 : the alt-right implodes -- 2018 : what a time to be alive.

"Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy, whose contributions to logic, philosophical semantics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics set the agenda for future generations of theorists in these and related areas. Dale Jacquette's lively and incisive biography charts Frege's life from its beginnings in small-town north Germany, through his student days in Jena, to his development as an enduringly influential thinker. Along the way Jacquette considers Frege's ground-breaking Begriffschrift (1879), in which he formulated his 'ideal logical language', his magisterial Grundgesetze der Arithmetik (1893 and 1903), and his complex relation to thinkers including Husserl and especially Russell, whose Paradox had such drastic implications for Frege's logicism"--

Introduction : banks, bonds, and blues -- "Controlled freedom" : jazz, risk, and political economy -- "Homecoming" : Dexter Gordon and the 1970s fiscal crisis in New York City -- Selling the songbook: the political economy of Verve Records (1956-1990) -- Bronfman's bauble: the corporate history of the Verve Music Group (1990-2005) -- Jazz and the right to the city : jazz venues and the legacy of urban redevelopment in California -- "The Yoshi's effect" : jazz, speculative urbanism, and urban redevelopment in contemporary San Francisco

part 1. What is native advertising?: Why native advertising matters ; A brief history of native advertising ; The global native advertising market -- part 2. How can native advertising impact your business?: The different types of native advertising ; Who can benefit from native advertising? ; Measuring native advertising : how does it work? -- part 3. A practical guide to running native advertising: Getting started with native advertising ; Buidling a team for native advertising success ; The seven habits of highly effective native advertisers -- part 4. Native advertising in a wider business context: The business of digital ; The rise of the content studio ; Objections to native advertising ; part 5. The future of native advertising: Programmatic native advertising ; The next generation of native advertising ; Conclusion: A call to arms

Cover -- Editorial -- Disability and the criminal justice system in Zambia -- Rare instances of individuals with autism supporting or engaging in terrorism -- The Inventory of Legal Knowledge (ILK) and adults with intellectual disabilities -- ASD and offending: reflections of practice in from a New Zealand perspective -- Obituary.

Everybody thinks that it's the system that's broken in politics; but what if it's not the system that's broken but rather our understanding of it? The Unbroken Machine seeks to explore our lack of civic literacy and show how our system of democracy should work