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"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"--

"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"--

"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"--

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

Times have not been kind to democracy. This book is in its defense. In the new century, the triumph of democracy at the end of the Cold War turned to retrenchment. The core democracies, in America and Britain, succumbed to polarization and misrule. Dictatorships, such as China, made themselves assertive. New democracies in Central Europe turned to muddled ideologies of "illiberal democracy." In this book, Stein Ringen offers a meditation on what democracy is, the challenges it faces, and how it can be defended. Ringen argues that democracy must be rooted in a culture that supports the ability of citizens to exchange views and information among themselves and with their rulers. Drawing on the ideas of Machiavelli, Aristotle, Tocqueville, Max Weber, and others, Ringen shows how power is the fuel of government, and statecraft turns power into effective rule. Democracy should prize freedom and minimizing unfairness, especially poverty. Altogether, Ringen offers powerful insight on the meaning of democracy, including a new definition, and how countries can improve upon it and make it function more effectively. Timely and thought-provoking, How Democracies Live is a sober reminder of the majesty of the democratic enterprise

"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.

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.

This book explains how people can be radically manipulated by extreme groups and leaders to engage in incomprehensible and often dangerous acts through psychologically isolating situations of extreme social influence. These methods are used in totalitarian states, terrorist groups and cults, as well as in controlling personal relationships. Illustrated with compelling stories from a range of cults and totalitarian systems, Stein's bookdefines and analyses the common identifiable traits that underlie these groups, emphasizing the importance ofmaintaining open yet supportive personal networks. Using original attachment theory-based research this book highlights the dangers of closed, isolating relationships and the closed belief systems that justify them, and demonstrates the psychological impact of these environments, ending with evidence-based recommendations to support an educational approach to awareness and prevention. Featuring a foreword by John Horgan, the new edition has been fully updated to include recent work on political extremism and radicalization and totalitarian systems, as well as the recent highly publicized NXIVM case. Terror, Love and Brainwashing, second edition is essential reading for professionals, policy makers, legal professionals, educators and cult survivors and their families themselves.