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"Steve Phillips's first book, Brown Is the New White, helped shift the national conversation around race and electoral politics, earning a spot on the New York Times and Washington Post bestseller lists and launching Phillips into the upper ranks of trusted observers of the nation's changing demographics and their implications for our political future. Now, in How We Win the Civil War, Phillips charts the way forward for progressives and people of color after four years of Trump, arguing that Democrats must recognize the nature of the fight we're in, which is a contest between democracy and white supremacy left unresolved after the Civil War. We will not overcome, Phillips writes, until we govern as though we are under attack-until we finally recognize that the time has come to finish the conquest of the Confederacy and all that it represents. With his trademark blend of political analysis and historical argument, Phillips lays out razor-sharp prescriptions for 2022 and beyond, from increasing voter participation and demolishing racist immigration policies to reviving the Great Society programs of the 1960s-all of them geared toward strengthening a new multiracial democracy and ridding our politics of white supremacy, once and for all"--

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Introduction: A Choice Between Democracy and Whiteness -- Part I: We Are Still in a Civil War -- 1. The Confederacy: From Surrender to Success -- 2. The Twentieth Century, Part One: 50 Years,One Battle Plan -- 3. The Twentieth Century, Part Two: 50 More Years,Same Battle Plan -- 4. Fear of a Black President -- 5. Make America White Again -- Part II: How We Win -- 6. The Liberation Battle Plan -- 7. Georgia: "That's Not One We Expected" -- 8. Arizona: "You Tried to Bury Us. You Didn't Know We Were Seeds" -- 9. Virginia: "Alone Among the States of the Confederacy" -- 10. San Diego: "Transformed Within Less Than a Generation" -- 11. Texas: "The Task at Hand Is Epic" -- Epilogue: Once We Win-Creating a New Social Contract -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- About the Author -- Publishing in the Public Interest -- Copyright.

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Preface -- Introduction: A Choice Between Democracy and Whiteness -- Part I: We Are Still in a Civil War -- 1. The Confederacy: From Surrender to Success -- 2. The Twentieth Century, Part One: 50 Years, One Battle Plan -- 3. The Twentieth Century, Part Two: 50 More Years, Same Battle Plan -- 4. Fear of a Black President -- 5. Make America White Again -- Part II: How We Win -- 6.The Liberation Battle Plan -- 7. Georgia: "That's Not One We Expected" -- 8. Arizona: "You Tried to Bury Us. You Didn't Know 205 We Were Seeds" -- 9.Virginia: "Alone Among the States of the Confederacy"234 -- 10. San Diego: "Transformed Within Less Than a Generation" -- 11. Texas: "The Task at Hand Is Epic" -- Epilogue: Once We Win-Creating a New Social Contract -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- Publishing in the Public Interest -- About the Author -- Copyright.

AbstractWith the retreat of the Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) from mainland China to Taiwan in the late 1940s, the island seemed destined to be part of another nation divided by the Cold War—superficially similar to Germany and Korea. The Chinese Communist Party established the People's Republic of China (PRC) on the mainland, while the Nationalist Party (Guomindang) moved its government, the Republic of China (ROC), to Taiwan. It followed, then, that reconciliation between the two would unite both sides of the Taiwan Strait under one nation-state. Much has changed since those early years of the Cold War, however. The Communists have embraced capitalism, most nations have established relations with the PRC while cutting ties to the ROC, and it is difficult to discern whether the Nationalists are devoted to a Chinese or to a Taiwanese nation.1 Despite

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of acronyms -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Grenfell Tower fire -- 2 The Hackitt Review -- 3 The Government response and the draft Building Safety Bill -- 4 Competency frameworks -- 5 The golden thread and traceability -- 6 Four years on -- Glossary of terms -- Index.

AbstractFocusing on both internally and externally social responsibility practices can help dual mission organizations to become "responsible" beyond their raison d'etre and so improve the services they provide to their communities. Organizations within the nonprofit sector are facing dual pressures of being more commercial in approach in addition to adhering to their social mission, particularly in a period of lower public funding and increased stakeholder expectation. The importance of the social mission and the requirements of stakeholders has led to nonprofit organizations having to address social responsibility by adopting Corporate Social Responsibility approaches usually associated with private, for‐profit organizations. Through the study of a Community Housing Mutual Association, concentrating on partnerships, corporate philosophy, and their internal and external features and practices, these organizations can become more socially responsible and, therefore, improve the services they provide to the communities they support.

The UK Government advocates undertaking retrofitting works to the existing housing stock to assist in meeting the carbon reduction targets set out in the Climate Change Act 2008. Over 4 million dwellings within the current stock are managed and maintained by social housing registered providers and a significant number of these properties require retrofitting works in order for the registered providers to deliver low-carbon, energy-efficient dwellings. However, the social housing sector is facing a number of financial challenges which means that registered providers are seeking more streamlined and efficient ways of working to improve productivity in retrofitting contracts. The Government's industrial strategy supports the adoption of Digital Technology [DT] to enable effective and collaborative ways of working throughout the construction supply chain This research sets out to establish whether the innovative use of DT has, to date, been accepted within the UK social housing sector with respect to retrofitting works and endeavours to identify new areas and roles where DT may contribute to improving the productivity of retrofitting works. The research methodology collected data from senior professionals working within the social housing retrofit supply chain, using semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis was used to identify ideas and patterns within the resulting datasets. The findings indicate that DT could be employed throughout the whole-life of a retrofitted property, from the initial design and construction stages through to playing a pivotal role in the management of the asset. This could include the utilisation of smart data and encourage collaborative engagement with all stakeholders including end users. However, for the diffusion of DT within the social housing sector to be successful a change in the perception of DT by actors within the sector is required.

The deadline for greenhouse gas emissions in the UK to be reduced by 80 per cent against the 1990 baseline is 2050. Over a quarter of these emissions are attributable to the 28m properties within the residential sector, with over 4m homes being maintained and managed by social housing registered providers. The UK Government advocates retrofitting of the existing housing stock to help meet the carbon reduction targets, with the UK social housing sector being ideally placed to deliver these types of energy-efficient retrofit projects on a large scale. The Government's industrial strategy also supports the acceleration of the adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM) as an efficient and collaborative way of working throughout the UK construction supply chain. BIM is already used across the social housing sector with respect to new build projects and the aim of this research is to: 1) examine whether the social housing sector has accepted the implementation of BIM for retrofitting works; and 2) endeavour to identify new areas and roles where BIM may contribute in future. The findings indicate that if the diffusion of BIM within the social housing sector is to be successful with respect to retrofitting works, then BIM should not be adopted in isolation. Innovative developments in cloud technology, geomatics and the introduction of complementary software may also need to be accepted in conjunction with a change in the perception of BIM by actors within the sector.