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Preface -- Introduction -- Christopher Winship, Harvard University -- Peter V. Marsden, Harvard University -- Mary C. Waters, Harvard University -- John L. Campbell, Dartmouth College -- Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard University -- Frank Dobbin, Harvard University -- Mario L. Small, Harvard University -- Jeffery C. Alexander, Yale University -- James A. Evans, University of Chicago -- Andrew D. Abbott, University of Chicago -- Dingxin Zhao, University of Chicago -- Arlie R. Hochschild, University of California, Berkeley -- Peter S. Bearman, Columbia University -- Michele Lamont, Harvard University -- Viviana A. Zelizer, Princeton University -- Annette P. Lareau, University of Pennsylvania -- Philip S. Gorski, Yale University -- Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania -- Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley -- Andrew G. Walder, Stanford University -- Postscript.

Reiner Schürmann's thinking is, as he himself would say, "riveted to a monstrous site." It remains focused on and situated between natality and mortality, the ultimate traits that condition human life. This book traces the contours of Schürmann's thinking in his magnum opus Broken Hegemonies in order to uncover the possibility of a politics that resists the hegemonic tendency to posit principles that set the world and our relationships with one another into violent order. The book follows in the footsteps of Oedipus who, in abject recognition of his finitude, stumbles upon the possibility of another politics with the help of his daughters at Colonus. The path toward this other, collaboratively created and thus poetic politics begins with an encounter with Aristotle, a thinker whom Schürmann most frequently read as the founder of hegemonic metaphysics, but whose thinking reveals itself as alive to beginnings in ways that open new possibility for human community. This return to beginnings leads, in turn, to Plotinus, who Schürmann reads as marking the destitution of the ancient hegemony of the Parmenidean principle of the One. By bringing Schürmann's innovative and compelling reading of René Char's poem, The Shark and the Gull, into dialogue with Plotinus we come to encounter the power of symbols to transform reality and open us to new constellations of possible community. In Plotinus, where we expected to encounter an end, we experience a new way of thinking natality in terms of what comes to language in Char as the nuptial. Having thus been awakened to the power of symbols, we are prepared to experience how in Kant being itself comes to expression as plurivocal in a way that reveals just how pathologically delusional it is to attempt to deploy univocal principles in a plurivocal world. This opens us to what Schürmann calls the "singularization to come," a formulation that gestures to a mode of comportment at home in the ravaged site between natality and mortality. This then returns us to Oedipus at Colonus; but not to him alone. Rather, it points to the relationship that emerges for a time between Antigone, Ismene, and Oedipus, as they navigate a way between their exile from Thebes and Oedipus's final resting place near Athens. Here, having been awakened to the power of a poetic politics, we attend to three symbolic moments of touching between Oedipus and his daughters through which we might discern something of the new possibilities a poetic politics opens for us if we settle into the ravaged site that conditions our existence, together

Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Mindset and approach -- Before you investigate -- The investigation process -- The technical and scientific stuff -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- A. Interviewing : having meaningful conversations -- B. Incident cause analysis method (ICAM) process -- Bibliography and reading list -- Index

Tony Long was the best 'shot' the Met ever had. Under the codename 'Echo 7', he was 'licenced to kill' bringing down scores of targets, sometimes with deadly force. In 1985 he opened fire on a suspect to save a four-year-old girl whose mother had been stabbed to death by her assailant. Two years later he was involved in another high profile shooting while confronting three armed criminals. On both occasions Tony was commended by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner. But in the spring of 2005, coming face to face with suspected drug dealer and armed robber Azelle Rodney, a volley of point blank shots would bring his career crashing to an end, tarnish his reputation and leave him fighting a murder charge and possible life sentence. From life or death cases and botched operations to political fallouts, this book charts the controversial career from rookie seventies beat cop to Long's command of SO19 - the Met's most elite specialist firearms unit. Long's personal testimony and professional insight raises serious issues about the duties, pressures and responsibilities that fall on the shoulders of those we task to risk their lives, and take the lives of others, in our name

"Latin America Confronts the United States offers a new perspective on US-Latin America relations. Drawing on research in six countries, the book examines how Latin American leaders are able to overcome power asymmetries to influence US foreign policy. The book provides in-depth explorations of key moments in post-World War II inter-American relations - foreign economic policy before the Alliance for Progress, the negotiation of the Panama Canal Treaties, the expansion of trade through NAFTA, and the growth of counternarcotics in Plan Colombia. The new evidence challenges earlier, US-centric explanations of these momentous events. Though differences in power were fundamental to each of these cases, relative weakness did not prevent Latin American leaders from aggressively pursuing their interests vis-...-vis the United States. Drawing on studies of foreign policy and international relations, the book examines how Latin American leaders achieved this influence - and why they sometimes failed"--

""The Book of War" chronicles the military organization, equipment, key personalities, and major campaigns that produced China. This book focuses predominantly on ancient Chinese military history from 500 BC to 200 BC. Military accomplishments and developments of that era left an indelible legacy in the field of warfare for ensuing generations to study and learn."--Provided by publisher

1. Military Doctrine and the Challenge of Counterinsurgency 1 . - 2. Culture, Doctrine, and Military Professionalization 13. - 3. "The Habits and Usages of War": U.S. Army Professionalization, 1865-1962 35. - 4. From the Halls of Montezuma: Marine Corps Professionalization, 1865-1960 62. - 5. A Family of Regiments: British Army Professionalization, 1856-1948 82. - 6. "A Nasty, Untidy Mess": U.S. Counterinsurgency in Vietnam, 1960-71 105 . - 7. A Natural Experiment in I Corps, 1966-68 139 . - 8. Out of Africa: British Army Counterinsurgency in Kenya, 1952-56 152 . - 9. Counterinsurgency in the Land of Two Rivers: The Americans and British in Iraq, 2003-8 170 . - 10. Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, 2003-11 207