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"In the United States today, a young black man has a sixteen times greater chance of dying from violence than his white counterpart. Violence takes more years of life from black men than cancer, stroke, and diabetes combined. Even black women are more affected by violence than white men, despite its usual gender patterns. These disparities translate into starkly divergent experiences of life and death for whites and blacks in the United States. Yet aside from occasional flare-ups of violence that periodically hit the headlines, the problem has largely receded into the background of public discussion and has nearly disappeared as a target of public policy. The country has been understandably outraged by the recent spate of police shootings of black Americans. But as acclaimed criminologist Elliott Currie points out, the far more widespread problem of "everyday" violent death and injury in black communities has received much less sustained attention or concern. Yet both kinds of violence reflect the same underlying condition: the continuing marginality and structural disadvantage of many black communities in America today. Our unwillingness to confront those conditions helps to perpetuate a level of preventable trauma and needless suffering that has no counterpart anywhere in the developed world. Compelling and accessible, drawing on a rich array of both classic and contemporary research, A Peculiar Indifference describes the dimensions and consequences of this enduring emergency, explores its causes, and offers an urgent plea for long-overdue social action to end it"--

"In the fourth century, clerics began to distinguish themselves from members of the laity by virtue of augmented claims to holiness. Because clerical celibacy was key to this distinction, religious authorities of all stripes-patristic authors, popes, theologians, canonists, monastic founders, and commentators-became progressively sensitive to sexual scandals that involved the clergy and developed sophisticated tactics for concealing or dispelling embarrassing lapses. The fear of scandal dictated certain lines of action and inaction, the consequences of which are painfully apparent today. This book discusses how the scandal-averse policies, which existed at every conceivable level of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, in conjunction with the requirement of clerical celibacy, resulted in the widespread sexual abuse of boys and male adolescents"--

The trajectories of social and cultural theory / Anthony Elliott -- Critical theory of the Frankfurt School / Jordan McKenzie -- Structuralism and post-structuralism / Sam Han -- Structuration theories : Giddens and Bourdieu / Anthony Elliott -- Feminist and post-feminist theories / Ann Branaman -- Zygmunt Bauman and social theory / Keith Tester -- Ideology and social and cultural theory / John Cash -- Psychoanalytic social theory / Anthony Elliott -- Social theories of risk / Patrick Brown -- Networks / Thomas Birtchnell -- Globalization theory / Eric L. Hsu -- Cultural and social things : is there a difference? / Charles Lemert -- British cultural theory / Nick Stevenson -- American cultural theory / Sam Han -- Queer theory / Max Kirsch -- The new mobilities paradigm and social theory / Louis Everuss -- Race/ethnicity and social and cultural theory / Anthony Moran -- Media and cultural identity / Nick Stevenson -- The place of space in social and cultural theory / Simon Susen -- Posthumanism / Anthony Elliott.

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Timeline -- Glossary -- Chapter 1 The Roman Republic -- Chapter 2 The Republican Military -- Chapter 3 The Roman Empire -- Chapter 4 The Principate Military -- Chapter 5 The Dominate Military -- Chapter 6 On Campaign and in Battle -- Chapter 7 Non-Conflict Roles of the Roman Military -- Chapter 8 Allies and Enemies of Rome -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Select Bibliography.

1. Introduction -- 2. Investigating Intersections of Privilege: Whiteness, Class privilege, Heterosexuality and Masculinity -- 3. Closed Narratives of Masculinities -- 4. Challenges and Possibilities of Contemporary Masculinities -- 5. Exploring Movement Towards Openness -- 6. Caring Masculinities in the Margin -- 7. Conclusion.

Julius Caesar has been the inspiration to countless military commanders over the last two millennia. Born into an aristocratic family, his early military campaigns, part of his progression along the cursus honorum, included campaigning in the east, Spain and in the early Roman civil wars. His participation in the Gallic Wars is known mainly through the commentary on the wars that he wrote and published, along with his incursions into Britain. This concise history details his military life, and how it impacted with his political career, from his youth through the civil wars that resulted in his becoming the dictator of Rome, and his legacy

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Turing test and after -- From self-driving cars to space robots: disruptive technology and the digital universe -- The arguments of this book -- 1 The digital universe -- Complex digital systems -- Digital life: theoretical perspectives -- 2 The rise of robotics -- Technology and automation -- The fourth industrial revolution: the sceptics and their critics -- Globalization and offshoring -- Robotics and jobs: where we stand -- 3 Digital life and the self -- The self as information system -- Turkle: narcissism and the new solitude -- Critical remarks -- Containment, storage and digital keys -- 4 Digital technologies and social interaction -- The institutional organization of social interaction: face- to-face and digitally mediated action frameworks -- Bots, talk and co-presence -- Dimensions of the digital revolution: portals, desynchronization, instantaneity -- Digital noise: silence is golden? -- 5 Modern societies, mobility and artificial intelligence -- Automated automobility: the Google car -- New wars, drones and killer robots -- 6 AI and social futures -- Robot intimacy -- Healthcare after AI -- Democracy beyond AI -- AI futures and public policy -- Notes -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Theories and Concepts of Celebrity -- 1 Celebrity and contemporary culture: A critical analysis of some theoretical accounts -- Situating celebrity and the rise of celebrity studies -- Celebrity in the frame of globalization, or the cultural logics of fame -- Celebrity culture, self-identity and reinvention -- References -- 2 Celebrity's histories -- Introduction -- The Graphic Revolution: the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- The Enlightenment and Romanticism: 1750–1850 -- Eighteenth-century print and visual culture -- The theatricalization of society -- A new kind of self -- The feminization of fame -- Early modernity, after the printing press and the Reformation -- Early modern print and visual culture -- Subjectivity, authenticity and the performance of the self -- Theatre, power, market -- If celebrities are like saints, saints are like celebrities -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Celebrity in the contemporary era -- Some major themes in contemporary celebrity studies -- Emerging themes in the twenty-first century -- Concluding comments: new frontiers -- References -- 4 Postmodern theories of celebrity -- Introduction: classic ideas, contemporary celebrity culture -- Revisiting postmodernism -- Postmodernism, fame and media -- Postmodern celebrity identities revisited -- Brand Kardashian and postmodern commodified celebrity -- Conclusion: postmodernism on E! -- References -- 5 Cultural studies and the politics of celebrity: From powerless elite to celebristardom -- Historical and intellectual development of the field -- Contemporary views on the powerless elite -- Ideology recalibrated -- Enter reflexivity as legitimation -- Hollywood and reflexivity