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"In May 1942 colonial Burma was in a state of military, economic and constitutional collapse. Japanese forces controlled almost the whole country and thousands of evacuees were trapped in a huge area of no-man's-land in the north. They made their way to India through the so-called 'jungles of death', attempting to trek out of Burma amidst perilous conditions. Drawing on diverse and previously unpublished accounts, Michael D. Leigh analyses the experiences of evacuees in both Burma and India and critically examines the impact of evacuation on colonial and Burmese politics in the lead-up to independence in 1948. This study will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Burmese history, 20th-century imperialism and the global reach of the Second World War."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Front Cover -- Clinical Ethics at the Crossroads of Genetic and Reproductive Technologies -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Genomic Editing-From Human Health to the "Perfect Child -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Definitions and Context -- 1.2. Recombinant DNA Technology-The Basis for DNA Modification -- 1.3. Genome Editing -- 1.3.1. Meganucleases -- 1.4. Zinc Finger Nucleases (ZFNs) -- 1.4.1. Transcription-Activator Like Nucleases (TALENs) -- 1.5. CRISPR/Cas9 Technology -- 1.6. Base Editing Technology -- 1.7. Principles of Using Genome Editing in Research and Clinical Practice -- 2. Ethical Issues in Clinical Genome Editing -- 2.1. Nonmaleficence and Risk/Benefit Assessment -- 2.1.1. Risk to Benefit Analysis -- 2.2. Beneficence in Gene-Editing Therapies -- 2.3. Respect for Autonomy -- 2.4. Confidentiality -- 2.4.1. Germline Editing -- 2.5. Applying the Principle of Justice in Clinical Genome Editing -- 2.6. Eugenics, Enhancement, and "Designer Babies -- 3. Conclusions -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 2: Ethics of Mitochondrial Gene Replacement Therapy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What Is Mitochondrial Disease and Mitochondrial Donation? -- 3. The UK Timeline -- 4. The International Position -- 5. Are the Techniques Safe? -- 6. Ethical Issues -- 7. "Three-Parent Babies" and Identity -- 8. Genetic Modification and the ``Slippery Slope´´ -- 9. Donating Eggs (Risks and Benefits) -- 10. Differences Between PNT and MST -- 11. Mitochondrial Disease as Complex: Diagnosis, Predicting Risk, and Genetic Counseling -- 12. Alternative Reproductive Options -- 13. Polar Body Transfer and Gene Editing -- 14. Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3: Reproductive Technologies Used by Same Gender Couples -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Procreative Autonomy -- 3. Gamete and Embryo Donation -- 4. Surrogacy Agreement

While interest in the drivers, consequences, nature and manifestations of voluntary and involuntary childlessness increases, knowledge progress is hampered by poor linkages across disjointed research fields. The book brings together theoretical insights and empirical investigations into the phenomenon, united within a feminist conceptual framework

"This book provides a review of the Lake Chilwa Basin Climate Change Adaptation Programme research study, based on the ecosystem approach."--Publisher's summary

Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations- Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Notes -- References -- PART I: Things 'r' us: archaeological heritage as a preserver of social identity -- Chapter 2: Cultural heritage, minorities and self-respect -- Introduction -- On intangible cultural heritage -- The sceptical challenge to cultural heritage -- Ethnic minorities: fair terms of integration -- Indigenous peoples: a community of recognition -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Ancient places, new arrivals and the ethics of residence -- Homes and histories -- Familiar places -- The ethics of residence -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Foreign and native soils: migrants and the uses of landscape -- Introduction -- Some corner of a foreign field -- Pasts and pastures -- Homes, lands and homelands -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Changing demographics and cultural heritage in Northern Europe: transforming narratives and identifying obstacles - a case study from Oslo, Norway -- Introduction -- Archaeology in the public domain: an ethnic discipline? -- Demography and agendas -- Cultural heritage and archaeology, ethnic professions? -- From producer agendas to user perspectives: two recent museum studies -- Caste and choice -- Good news or bad? -- An ethical rupture: connecting the dots -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Lasting value? Engaging with the material traces of America's undocumented migration "problem" -- Introduction -- Background -- Appropriation -- Removal -- Archaeological curation and heritage -- Conclusion -- References -- PART II: Memory, migrants and museums -- Chapter 7: Concord migrations -- Human movement and material things -- Thoreau, Algonquian peoples, and their things.

Part I: Divinatory societies -- The forest within -- Beyond Turner's watershed division -- Part II: Medicinal rule -- A Sukuma chief on medicine -- Endogenizing Vansina's equatorial tradition -- From cult to dynasty: Nilotic and Niger-Congo extensions -- Magic and the sole mode of production -- Tio shrines of the forest master -- Part III: The ceremonial state -- Kuba, Kongo and Buganda 'miracles': reversions in transition -- From divinatory to ceremonial state: narrative proof from Rwanda -- Conclusions: Reversible transitions

Emergence is more than just economic growth -- An international political sociology approach -- Brazil's rural policies and coalitions -- Change in multilateral organisations -- Mozambique's rural policies and coalitions -- Influence of Brazilian solutions in Mozambique : consolidation of an extractive model -- Influence of Brazilian solutions in Mozambique : dissonance around the state's role.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Rawlsian Background -- PART I EQUALITY -- 1 Equality -- 2 What Is the Point of Equality? -- 3 A Defense of Luck Egalitarianism -- PART II JUSTICE -- 4 Rescuing Justice from Constructivism and Equality from the Basic Structure Restriction -- 5 Justice and Boundaries -- 6 Capabilities and Resources -- PART III LIBERTY -- 7 The Instability of Freedom as Noninterference: The Case of Isaiah Berlin -- 8 Can Positive Freedom Be Saved? -- 9 The Myth of "Merely Formal Freedom" -- PART IV DEMOCRACY -- 10 Democracy Is Not Intrinsically Just -- 11 The Authority of Democracy -- 12 Reflections on Deliberative Democracy -- PART V HUMAN RIGHTS -- 13 The Dark Side of Human Rights -- 14 World Poverty and Human Rights -- 15 Capabilities and Social Justice -- About the Contributors -- Source Credits -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- 1 Introduction: contemplating climate change -- A preface to a crime -- The investigation: a brief synopsis -- The plot -- Humans and the weather: the early years of discovery -- The world according to the IPCC -- Waking up to a complex climate change -- Decision-making under conditions of deep uncertainty and denial -- A preface to framing theory -- A preface to mental model theory -- The worldview concept as it relates to mental model theory and Dilthey's dilemma -- Nature versus nurture: the blessing and the curse -- Notes -- 2 The stealthy art of framing -- Framing mental models -- Framing theory -- Media effects and politricks -- Framing public opinion -- Framing climate change -- Framing scientific uncertainty -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 3 Mental-modelling: in search of a theory -- A mental model defined -- Filling the knowledge gap -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 4 The General Model of the Policymaking Process -- The Model -- A language of images -- The efficacy of knowledge: its utilitarian and admirable use -- Policy design and implementation: two sides of the same coin -- Conclusions -- 5 The Institutions Process Model -- The Model -- The language of science -- The language of politics -- Rational choice theory -- Public choice theory -- Men are not angels and power corrupts -- Institutional failure: between civilisation and savagery -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 6 The Mental Model Process -- The Model -- Mental-modelling 101 -- Nicola Tesla: a mental-modelling supremo -- System 1 and System 2 reasoning -- The cultural codebook -- To believe or not to believe: that is the question -- The unconscious mind rules in absentia -- Zombies and learning to think again -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 7 Deductions -- De-framing the politico-mediaist

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Notes on Editors and Contributors -- Introduction: Toward a New(er) Religious Ethic for Animals -- PART I Traditions -- 1 African Religions: Anthropocentrism and Animal Protection -- 2 Anglican Christianity: Animal Questions for Christian Doctrine -- 3 Buddhism: Paradox and Practice - Morally Relevant Distinctions in the Buddhist Characterization of Animals -- 4 Confucianism and Daoism: Animals in Traditional Chinese Thought -- 5 Evangelical Christianity: Lord of Creation or Animal among Animals? Dominion, Darwin, and Duty -- 6 Hinduism: Animating Samadhi - Rethinking Animal-Human Relationships through Yoga -- 7 Islam: Ants, Birds, and Other Affable Creatures in the Qur'an, Hadith, and Sufi Literature -- 8 Jainism: Animals and the Ethics of Intervention -- 9 Judaism: The Human Animal and All Other Animals - Dominion or Duty? -- 10 Mormonism: Harmony and Dissonance between Religion and Animal Ethics -- 11 Native American Religion: Restoring Species to the Circle of Life -- 12 Orthodox Christianity: Compassion for Animals -- 13 Rastafarianism: A Hermeneutic of Animal Care -- 14 Roman Catholicism: A Strange Kind of Kindness - On Catholicism's Moral Ambiguity toward Animals -- 15 Sikh Dharam: Ethics and Behavior toward Animals -- PART II Issues -- Human Interaction with Animals -- 16 "Nations like Yourselves": Some Muslim Debates over Qur'an 6:38 -- 17 Invoking Another World: An Interreligious Reflection on Hindu Mythology -- 18 A New Ethic of Holiness: Celtic Saints and Their Kinship with Animals -- 19 Franciscan Justice, Peace, and the Integrity of Creation: A Creation without Creatures -- Killing and Exploitation -- 20 Animals in Christian and Muslim Thought: Creatures, Creation, and Killing for Food

Cover -- Contents -- "The Blue I Loved" by Benjamin Alire Saenz -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Bienvenidos -- Chapter Two: Making our Homes -- Chapter Three: In and Out of the Kitchen -- Chapter Four: Hard Times -- Chapter Five: Food for the Spirit -- Chapter Six: Adios -- Afterword -- Notes -- About the Authors.

The rise of the Australian welfare state -- The wage earners welfare state and the rediscovery of poverty -- The social democratic Whitlam labor government 1972-75 -- The anti-welfare backlash locally and internationally -- The decline of Keynesianism, the revival of classical liberalism and the alleged welfare state crisis -- The conservative liberal-national party coalition attempts to roll back the welfare state 1975-1983 -- Labor retreats from social democracy and adopts targeted welfare, the Hawke and Keating governments 1983-1996 -- The Australian neoliberal campaign to cut welfare : the role of think tanks, the media and corporate lobby groups -- The new convergence around conditional welfare -- Restoring self-reliance and the work ethic and saving taxpayers funds : the liberal-national party coalition's approach to social welfare 1983-2018 -- Labor accepts welfare conditionality 1996-2018 -- Rejecting the neoliberal consensus : welfare policy dissent and alternatives -- Case studies of the Australian council of social service (ACOSS) and the Australian greens -- Towards a participatory welfare model -- Conclusion -- Index.

Cocaine is a deadly, addictive drug that ruins people's lives. This title explores the history of cocaine, how it affects the body, the laws and policies surrounding it, and ways in which people suffering from addiction can recover and quit. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.