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ADA in Details, Second Edition provides a visual interpretation of the Americans with Disabilities Act Standards (ADAS). A comprehensive guide to incorporating accessibility thru bullet points and visual details, the book is a convenient go-to reference of pertinent scoping, technical requirements, and sourcing information. It highlights typical requirements for new projects and alterations, and also covers specialty uses such as assembly areas, kitchens, site elements, hospitality, retail, restaurants, and recreational facilities. This revised edition now integrates the 2010 ADA Standards with the 2021 International Building Code (IBC), the 2022 California Building Code (CBC), and the 2017 ICC A117.1 Standard for Accessible and Usable Buildings and Facilities. The book uses color to differentiate between the different standards and codes, and now includes photos for real-world examples. ADA in Details, Second Edition, includes: Color-coded comparisons between the ADA, IBC, CBC, and ICC A117.1, which help in understanding how to navigate thru the different requirements in accessibility; Visual details and bullet point specifications for both newly constructed and existing facilities are color coded to identify which requirements apply; Solutions for accessible routes, site features, architectural elements, restrooms, electric vehicle charging stations, and more, including public multi-family housing dwelling units; Discussions and notes on various topics to be considered in new and existing facilities due to how building codes have evolved from preceding cycles; and Clear explanation and illustrations that synthesize various federal regulations including limited portions of ABA and HUD's Deeming Notice among other regulations

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- References -- Contents -- 1 Good Jevons, Bad Jevons: William Stanley Jevons and the Roots of Biophysical and Neoclassical Economics -- Introduction -- Jevons and the Marginal Revolution -- The Transition from Classical Political Economy to Neoclassical Economics -- The Physiocrats and Adam Smith -- The Origin of Classical Political Economy and the Role of Labor -- Theories of Value and the Division of Labor -- From the Division of Labor to the Labor Theory of Value -- Smith's Views on Scarcity and Surplus -- Human Population Growth -- The Corn Laws, Accumulation, and the Stationary State -- Another Man's Paradox -- Post-Ricardian Economists: The Ascendency of Utilitarianism and the Precursors of Neoclassical Economics -- Nassau Senior Defends the Manufacturers -- John Stuart Mill and the Apogee of Classical Political Economy -- The Relevance of Mill's Questions to the Great Economic Questions of Today -- Alfred Marshall and the Synthesis of Neoclassical Economics -- Summary: Classical Political Economy, Neoclassical Economics and the Role of Jevons -- Jevons' Place in the History of Economic Thought -- References -- 2 Jevons the Empiricist: Gold -- Coal -- and Sunspots -- Introduction -- Gold and Sunspots -- Sunspot Theory -- The Coal Question -- References -- 3 Jevons the Theorist: The Theory of Political Economy and the Roots of Neoclassical Economics -- Introduction -- The Theory of Political Economy -- Disutility, Discommodity and Dimension -- The Theory of Exchange -- The Theory of Labour -- Rent and Capital -- References -- 4 Energy, Labor, and the Industrial Revolution -- Introduction -- Coal, Population, and the Elizabethan Leap: The Origins of Coal in the 1500s -- Coal and Wood -- Coal and Water -- Labor and the Overproduction Crises -- Coal and Monopoly -- References.

Western academics, politicians, and military leaders alike have labelled Russia's actions in Crimea and its follow-on operations in Eastern Ukraine as a new form of "Hybrid Warfare." In this book, Kent DeBenedictis argues that, despite these claims, the 2014 Crimean operation is more accurately to be seen as the Russian Federation's modern application of historic Soviet political warfare practices-the overt and covert informational, political, and military tools used to influence the actions of foreign governments and foreign populations. DeBenedictis links the use of Soviet practices, such as the use of propaganda, disinformation, front organizations, and forged political processes, in the Crimea in 2014 to the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 (the "Prague Spring") and the earliest stages of the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Through an in-depth case study analysis of these conflicts, featuring original interviews, government documents and Russian and Ukrainian sources, this book demonstrates that the operation, which inspired discussions about Russian "Hybrid Warfare," is in fact the modern adaptation of Soviet political warfare tools and not the invention of a new type of warfare.

"What happens when we vote? What are we counting when we count ballots? Who decides what an election should look like and what it should mean? And why do so many people believe that some or all elections are rigged? Moving between intellectual history, literary criticism, and political theory, The Electoral Imagination offers a critical account of the decisions before the decision, of the aesthetic and imaginative choices that inform and, in some cases, determine the nature and course of democratic elections. Drawing on original interpretations of George Eliot and Ralph Ellison, Lewis Carroll and Kenneth Arrow, Anthony Trollope and Arthur Koestler, Richard Nixon and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Palm Beach Butterfly Ballot and the Single Transferable Vote, The Electoral Imagination works both to understand the systems we use to move between the one and the many and to offer an alternative to the "myth of rigging."--

Kent Zetterberg har länge forskat om svensk politik och denna bok består av en sammanställning av sex uppsatser med fokus på Sverige och Tyskland under andra världskriget. Frågan om den svenska neutraliteten och säkerhetspolitiken behandlas, liksom frågan om den svenska politiken mot Nazityskland under det andra världskriget och debatten efter kriget

An innovative book that provides fresh insights into the neglected field of remedies in both international and domestic human rights law. Providing an overarching two-track theory, it combines remedies to compensate and prevent irreparable harm to litigants with a more dialogic approach to systemic remedies. It breaks new ground by demonstrating how proportionality principles can improve remedial decision-making and avoid reliance on either strong discretion or inflexible rules. It draws on the latest jurisprudence from the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights and domestic courts in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Hong Kong, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. Separate chapters are devoted to interim remedies, remedies for laws that violate human rights, damages, remedies in the criminal process, declarations and injunctions in institutional cases, remedies for violations of social and economic rights and remedies for violations of Indigenous rights

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Preface -- One: A Happy Childhood in Lodz -- Two: Golden Summers -- Three: Winds of War -- Four: My Dog Lala -- Five: Moving to the Ghetto -- Six: Ghetto Life -- Seven: Working in the Ghetto -- Eight: The Beginning of the End -- Nine: Auschwitz-Children of the Holocaust -- Ten: Horrendous Life in Auschwitz -- Eleven: Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp -- Twelve: Flossenburg Concentration Camp -- Thirteen: Germany After Liberation -- Fourteen: Reunion At Last -- Fifteen: Coming to America -- Sixteen: Living Through Ballyhoo -- Seventeen: My Brother Leon -- Eighteen: The Business World -- Nineteen: Big Business in The Big Apple -- Twenty: The Birth of Namor -- Twenty-one: The Dreyfus Affair (David vs. Goliath) -- Twenty-two: Starting a Family -- Twenty-three: Communal Involvement -- Twenty-four: United Nations Commemoration-Sixtieth Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz -- Postscript.

Based on the needs of business, marketing and social science students, this book provides an accessible and easy-to-follow guide to survey data analysis. The book avoids the more usual statistics-driven perspective. Rather, it provides an intuitive feel for handling survey data by emphasising that data analysis is more about understanding the research objectives, what kinds of data have been collected, how quantitative data were generated by the process of measurement, how to create a data matrix and how to transform raw data before thinking about appropriate statistical calculations. The author begins by considering what data are, the different kinds of data that surveys generate, and the tripartite format of all quantitative data. The processes of measurement and the errors that may arise are carefully explained. Coverage of the creation and analysis of a data matrix using SPSS is then provided. The author then reviews what kinds of statistical procedure are required for what kinds of data and for what purposes. The book concludes by giving a review of strategies for coping with all the kinds of practical problems that arise in survey research. Reader-friendly throughout, Data Analysis: A Guide to Market and Social Research provides numerous worked examples, end-of-chapter questions and points for further discussion to help reinforce concepts learnt. A data diskette containing the worked examples in SPSS is also provided in the back of the book. Also available is a companion website with extra features to accompany the text, please take a look by clicking below - http://www.palgrave.com/business/kent/index.asp