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"Deep-sea fishing has always been a hazardous occupation, with crews facing gale-force winds, huge waves and swells, and unrelenting rain and snow. For those New England and British fishermen whose voyages took them hundreds of miles from the coastline, life was punctuated by strenuous work, grave danger, and frequent fear. Unsurprisingly, every fishing port across the world has memorials to those lost at sea. During the 1960s and 1970s, these seafaring workers experienced new hardships. As modern fleets from many nations intensified their hunt for fish, they found themselves in increasing competition for disappearing prey. Colin J. Davis details the unfolding drama as New England and British fishermen and their wives, partners, and families reacted to this competition. Rather than acting as bystanders to these crises, the men and women chronicled in Contested and Dangerous Seas became fierce advocates for the health of the Atlantic Ocean fisheries and for their families' livelihoods"--

In The Medieval Economy of Salvation, Adam J. Davis shows how the burgeoning commercial economy of western Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, alongside an emerging culture of Christian charity, led to the establishment of hundreds of hospitals and leper houses. Focusing on the county of Champagne, he looks at the ways in which charitable organizations and individuals—townspeople, merchants, aristocrats, and ecclesiastics—saw in these new institutions a means of infusing charitable giving and service with new social significance and heightened expectations of spiritual rewards. In tracing the rise of the medieval hospital during a period of intense urbanization and the transition from a gift economy to a commercial one, Davis makes clear how embedded this charitable institution was in the wider social, cultural, religious, and economic fabric of medieval life.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Monies and Measures -- Introduction: A Charitable Revolution in an Age of Commerce -- 1. Medieval Understandings of Charity: From Penance to Commerce -- 2. The Creation of a Charitable Landscape -- 3. Hospital Patrons and Social Networks -- 4. Managing a Hospital's Property -- 5. "In Service of the Poor": Hospital Personnel in Pursuit of Security -- 6. The Sick Poor and the Economy of Care -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Race and National Identity in Brazil: A Latin American perspective -- 2. Race and Patriotism Beyond Abolition: Forging national citizenry, 1888-1930 -- 3. The Getulio Vargas Regime and the Institutionalization of National Culture, 1930-1945 -- 4. The Nationalization of Popular Culture -- 5. Afro-Brazilians and Civil Rights: Ethnic consciousness versus cultural nationalism -- 6. Conclusion: Race and national culture, the legacy of the 1930s -- Bibliography -- Index

Intro -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Introduction: The Illegitimate President -- Part I: The Invention of a Scandal -- Chapter One: The Wary Candidate -- Chapter Two: The Times Gets the Story Half-Wrong -- Chapter Three: The Times Gets It Wrong Again -- Chapter Four: The FBI Criminal Investigation -- Part II: The Dangers of a Righteous Man -- Chapter Five: Policy and Fairness Be Damned -- Chapter Six: Giuliani in the Shadows? -- Chapter Seven: The Fallacy of the False Choice -- Chapter Eight: Comey's Letter Elects Donald Trump -- Epilogue: It's Time for an Impeachment and Twenty-Fifth Amendment Investigation -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Notes -- Index -- Copyright.

"Providing a deeper understanding of leadership, followership theory, and the follower as servant leader, this book provides employee and follower perspectives of servant leadership in the workplace. The collection brings together both empirical and conceptual research from around the globe to illustrate how the leader is seen through the lens of the follower. Topics discussed include organizational performance, empowerment, competency models, diversity in the workplace, and social roles and stereotypes. With contributions from a range of skilled authors, Servant Leadership and Followership not only provides an overview of servant leadership, but also offers insightful ways for organizations to adapt and progress in line with the shifting moral demands of today's workplace."--

Religion in Philanthropic Organizations explores the tensions inherent in religious philanthropies across a variety of organizations and examines the effect assumptions about ""professional, scientific, nonsectarian"" philanthropy have had on how religious philanthropies carry out their activities. The organizations examined include the American Friends Service Committee, the American Soviet Jewry Movement, Catholic Charities USA, the Salvation Army, the World Council of Churches, and World Vision (in global comparative context). The book also looks at Robert Pierce, founder of World Vision

"In an era when human lives are increasingly measured and weighed in relation to the medical and scientific, notions of what is "normal" have changed drastically. While it is no longer useful to think of a person's particular race, gender, sexual orientation, or choice as "normal," the concept continues to haunt us in other ways. In The End of Normal, Lennard J. Davis explores changing perceptions of body and mind in social, cultural, and political life as the 21st century unfolds. The book's provocative essays mine the worlds of advertising, film, literature, and the visual arts as they consider issues of disability, depression, physician-assisted suicide, medical diagnosis, transgender, and other identities. Using contemporary discussions of biopower and biopolitics, Davis focuses on social and cultural production...particularly on issues around the different body and mind. The End of Normal seeks an analysis that works comfortably in the intersection between science, medicine, technology, and culture, and will appeal to those interested in cultural studies, bodily practices, disability, science and medical studies, feminist materialism, psychiatry, and psychology"

"This paper is the first to study vacancies, hires, and vacancy yields at the establishment level in the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, a large sample of U.S. employers. To interpret the data, we develop a simple model that identifies the flow of new vacancies and the job-filling rate for vacant positions. The job-filling rate moves counter to aggregate employment but rises steeply with employer growth rates in the cross section. It falls with employer size, rises with worker turnover rates, and varies by a factor of four across major industry groups. We show that (a) employers rely heavily on other instruments, in addition to vacancy numbers, as they vary hires, (b) the hiring technology exhibits strong increasing returns to vacancies at the establishment level, or both. We also develop evidence that effective recruiting intensity per vacancy varies over time, accounting for about 35% of movements in aggregate hires. Our evidence and analysis provide useful inputs for assessing, developing and calibrating theoretical models of search, matching and hiring in the labor market"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site

Intellectual transfer : Theodor W. Adorno's American experience / Detlev Claussen -- The limits of praxis : the social-psychological foundations of Theodor Adorno's and Herbert Marcuse's interpretations of the 1960s protest movements / John Abromeit -- America's Vietnam in Germany, Germany in America's Vietnam : on the relocation of spaces and the appropriation of history / Wilfried Mausbach -- Topographies of memory : the 1960s student movement in Germany and the US : representations in contemporary German literature / Susanne Rinner -- "We too are Berliners" : protest, symbolism, and the city in Cold War Germany / Carla MacDougall -- A growing problem for US foreign policy : the West German student movement and the Western Alliance / Martin Klimke -- Ostpolitik as domestic containment : the cultural contradictions of the Cold War and the West German state response / Jeremi Suri -- Transformation by subversion? The New Left and the question of violence / Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey -- "From protest to resistance" : Ulrike Meinhof and the transatlantic movement of ideas / Karin Bauer -- White Negroes : the fascination of the authentic in the West German counterculture of the 1960s / Detlef Siegfried -- The Black Panther Solidarity Committee and the trial of the Ramstein 2 / Maria Höhn -- Between ballots and bullets / Georgy Katsiaficas -- A whole world opening up : transcultural contact, difference, and the politicization of "new left" activists / Belinda Davis -- "We didn't know how it was going to turn out" : contemporary activists discuss their experiences of the 1960s and 1970s