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"A revelatory vision of the world today, as it is seen by the rising powers of the East. "All roads used to lead to Rome. Now they lead to Beijing." So argues Peter Frankopan in this timely and visionary new book about the present and future of a world that is changing dramatically before our very eyes. In this age of Brexit and Trump, the West is buffeted by the tides of isolation and fragmentation. Yet to the East, this is a moment of optimism as a new network of relationships takes shape along the routes of the ancient trade routes. In The New Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan takes us on an eye-opening journey through the region, from China's breathtaking infrastructure investments to the flood of trade deals among Central Asian republics to the growing rapprochement between Turkey and Russia. This important book asks us to put aside our preconceptions and see the world from a new -- and ultimately hopeful -- perspective"--

Part I. Intersections of ableism and speciesism -- Animal crips / Sunaura Taylor -- Productive bodies: how neoliberalism makes and unmakes disability in human and non-human animals / Kelly Somers and Karen Soldatic -- Zoos, circuses and freak shows: a cross-movement analysis / Sammy Jo Johnson -- Disability and the ahuman: a story about a dog, a duck, and the woman who cared for them / Agnes Trzak -- Part II. Thinking animality and disability together in political and moral theory -- Against performance criteria / Stephanie Jenkins -- Service dogs: between animal studies and disability studies / Kelly Oliver -- Veganism as universal design: accommodation and inclusion in law and social justice praxis / Chloë Taylor and Kelly Struthers Montford -- Part III: Neurodiversity and critical animal studies -- Lost in translation: Temple Grandin, humane meat, and the myth of consent / Vasile Stǎnescu and Debs Stǎnescu -- Disrupting Temple Grandin: resisting a 'humane' face for autistic and animal oppression / Vittoria Lion -- Cripping mad cow disease / Hallie Abelman -- Part IV. Melancholy, madness, and misfits -- Vegan madness: Han Kang's The vegetarian / Chloë Taylor -- 'There, there': Disability, animality, and the allegory of Elizabeth Costello / A. Marie Houser -- Of gimps, gastropods and grief: feminist new materialist reflections on Elizabeth Tova Bailey's The sound of a wild snail eating / Chloë Taylor.

"Discord and domestic violence end in murder Albin Ludwig was furious. He had caught his wife, Cecilia, with other men before; now, after secretly following Cecilia one evening in 1906, Albin was overcome with suspicion. Albin and Cecilia quarreled that night and again the next day. Prosecutors later claimed that the final quarrel ended when Albin knocked Cecilia unconscious with a wooden potato masher, doused her with a flammable liquid, lit her on fire, and left her to burn to death. Albin claimed self-defense, but he was convicted of second-degree murder. Newspaper coverage of the dramatic crime and trial was jarringly explicit and detailed, shocking readers in Indiana, where the crime occurred. Peter Young of the South Bend Times wrote that the murder's "horrors and its shocking features . . . have never before been witnessed in Mishawaka." The story was front-page news throughout northern Indiana for much of a year. For several generations, the families of both Cecilia and Albin would be silent about the crime-until Cecilia's great-grandson, award-winning journalist Gary Sosniecki, uncovered the family's dark secret. As he discovered, wife beating was commonplace in the early 20th century (before the gender-neutral term of "domestic violence" was adopted), and "wife murder" was so common that newspapers described virtually every case by that term. At long last, The Potato Masher Murder: Death at the Hands of a Jealous Husband unearths the full story of two immigrant families united by love and torn apart by domestic violence"--

"In the early evening of June 25, 1980, Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were killed in an isolated clearing in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. They were hitchhiking to a festival known as the Rainbow Gathering but never arrived. For thirteen years no one was prosecuted for the "Rainbow Murders," though suspicion was cast on a succession of local men. In 1993, a local farmer was convicted, only to be released when a known serial killer and diagnosed schizophrenic named Joseph Paul Franklin claimed responsibility. With the passage of time, as the truth seemed to slip away, the toll became more inescapable--the unsolved murders were a trauma, experienced on a community scale. Emma Copley Eisenberg spent five years re-investigating these brutal acts, which once captured the national media's imagination, only to fall into obscurity. A one-time New Yorker who took a job in Pocahontas County, Eisenberg shows how a mysterious act of violence against a pair of middle-class outsiders, has loomed over all those involved for generations, shaping their identities, fates, and the stories they tell about themselves. In The Third Rainbow Girl, Eisenberg follows the threads of this crime through the complex history of Appalachia, forming a searing portrait of America and its divisions of gender and class, and of its violence"--

How silence is a hiatus or a scream (and everything in between) -- Who is she? -- Feeling silenced can make you sick! -- Relationships that silence -- Systems that silence -- When women silence themselves -- How voice is a screech or a sanctification -- Dominant discourse, a voice with currency -- The journey to voice recovery, who or what is coming along? -- Caring for self (and all the ways female leaders are getting it wrong) -- The important role men play -- Refusing to become a silencer -- Women creating a new normal with voice and silence.

"This case study offers scholars, policy makers, and the public a deep analysis of one of the few districts that is making progress toward true integration. The research team behind the book has diverse content and research design expertise and have been able to study the legal, educational, political, historical, and sociological dimensions of the case of the Morris School District by employing qualitative and quantitative research along with GIS mapping. This book provides policy makers and the public with a series of lessons learned from the Morris School District. Many of these lessons-which are at times inspiring and also still continuing to challenge the district-will prove valuable for those engaged in building equitable school systems. It will provide scholars with a superb example of mixed methods research and draws on a range of essential theoretical frameworks to aid in the analysis of one district's journey towards true integration"--