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SCOTUS 2022: Major Decisions and Developments of the US Supreme Court
by Morgan MariettaEach year, the Supreme Court of the United States announces new rulings with deep consequences for our lives. This fifth volume in Palgrave’s SCOTUS series describes, explains, and contextualizes the landmark cases of the US Supreme Court in the term ending 2022. With a close look at cases involving key issues and debates in American politics and society, SCOTUS 2022 tackles the Court’s rulings on abortion, guns, religion, environmental regulation, pandemic controls, immigration and more. Written by notable scholars in political science and law, the chapters in SCOTUS 2022 present the details of each ruling, its meaning for constitutional debate, and its impact on public policy or partisan politics. Finally, SCOTUS 2022 offers an analysis of the current ideological and interpretive divisions on the Court, including an analysis of the unprecedented leak of the Dobbs draft ruling.
SCOTUS 2023: Major Decisions and Developments of the US Supreme Court
by Morgan Marietta Howard SchweberEach year, the Supreme Court of the United States announces new rulings with deep consequences for our lives. This sixth volume in Palgrave’s SCOTUS series describes, explains, and contextualizes the landmark cases of the US Supreme Court in the term ending 2023. With a close look at cases involving key issues and debates in American politics and society, SCOTUS 2023 tackles the Court’s rulings on affirmative action, LGBT equality, internet platform liability, the Clean Water Act, immigration enforcement, and more. Written by notable scholars in political science and law, the chapters in SCOTUS 2023 present the details of each ruling, its meaning for constitutional debate, and its impact on public policy or partisan politics. Finally, SCOTUS 2023 offers an analysis of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's first year on the court, as well as court reform.
SCOTUS 2024: Major Decisions and Developments of the US Supreme Court
by Howard SchweberEach year, the Supreme Court of the United States announces new rulings with deep consequences for our lives. This seventh volume in Palgrave’s SCOTUS Decisions series explains and contextualizes the landmark cases of the US Supreme Court in the term ending 2024. With a close look at cases involving key issues and debates in American politics and society, SCOTUS 2024 tackles the Court's rulings on ballot access, executive immunity, access to mifepristone, funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Equal Protection clause and state redistricting, the Securities and Exchange Commission's ability to levy civil penalties, the power of federal agencies to interpret the laws they administer, the the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to reduce air pollution from power plants, and more. Written by notable scholars in political science and law, the chapters in SCOTUS 2024 present the details of each ruling, its meaning for constitutional debate, and its impact on public policy or partisan politics. Finally, SCOTUS 2024 analyzes ethics scandals on the Court and charts its shifts in ideology.
SCUM Manifesto
by Valerie SolanasFirst circulated on the streets of Greenwich Village in 1967, the SCUM Manifesto is a searing indictment of patriarchal culture in all its forms.<P><P> Shifting fluidly between the worlds of satire and straightforward critique, this no-holds-barred classic is a call to action-a radical feminist vision for a different world. This is an update of the essential AK Press edition, with a new foreword.Valerie Solanas was a radical feminist playwright and social propagandist who was arrested in 1968 after her attempted assassination of Andy Warhol. Deemed a paranoid schizophrenic by the state, Solanas was immortalized in the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol.
SDG18 Communication for All, Volume 1: The Missing Link between SDGs and Global Agendas (Sustainable Development Goals Series)
by Jan Servaes Muhammad Jameel Yusha’uThe 2030 agenda for development, or what is known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is the most ambitious agenda collectively agreed upon by 193 countries in human history. In 2015, the UN Member States adopted the 17 SDGs as a framework that would help address the challenges being faced by humanity. From eradicating poverty, ending hunger, providing universal access to healthcare and education, and addressing climate change; to the partnering of individuals, communities, and nation-states to achieve global goals. Yet, the framers of the 2030 agenda forgot to dedicate one goal focused on the role of communication in achieving the SDGs. It is nearly impossible to achieve the SDGs without the articulation and embrace of the role of communication in development. Today, development has become a communication issue, and communication is a development issue. How could such a vital pillar of life be missing in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals? Volume 1 provides an overview of what the contributors have termed as the 'missing link' between existing SDGs: Communication for All.
SDG18 Communicaton for All, Volume 2: Regional Perspectives and Special Cases (Sustainable Development Goals Series)
by Jan Servaes Muhammad Jameel Yusha’uThe 2030 agenda for development, or what is known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is perhaps the most ambitious agenda collectively agreed upon by 193 countries in human history. Yet, the framers of the 2030 agenda for development forgot to dedicate one goal focused on the role of communication in achieving the SDGs. Such oversight has attracted the attention of media and communication scholars alike, journalists, and policymakers who understand that it is nearly impossible to achieve the SDGs without the articulation and embrace of the role of communication in development. Volume 2 provides in-depth and specific explorations into regional perspectives concerning communication and the SDGs, with research on a rich array of sources, including Latin America, Africa, Australia, as well as special cases relating to timely studies such as social media, COVID-19, marginalized voices, and women's equality.
SDGs in Africa and the Middle East Region (Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals – Regional Perspectives)
by Walter Leal FilhoAfrica is one of the most vulnerable regions, and one where the implementation of the SDGs is particularly urgent. Underinvestments in natural conservation are increasing the vulnerability of people across many African countries, whose well-being is endangered by deteriorating socio-economic and environmental conditions. This volume provides a contribution towards showcasing how natural resources may be more efficiently used and investments may be mobilised to augment the limited public sector funds available to achieve the SDGs.This book is part of the "100 papers to accelerate the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals initiative".
SDGs in the Americas and Caribbean Region (Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals – Regional Perspectives)
by Bruno Borsari Noé Aguilar-Rivera Paulo R. B. de Brito Baltazar Andrade GuerraThis volume provides an overview of the ways sustainable development issues as a whole, and the SDGs in particular, are perceived and practiced in a variety of countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region. It also discusses the extent to which its many socio-economic problems hinder progresses towards the pursuit of a sustainable future, and documents successful experiences from across the region.This book is part of the "100 papers to accelerate the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals initiative".
SDGs in the Asia and Pacific Region (Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals – Regional Perspectives)
by Walter Leal Filho Ayyoob Sharifi Usha Iyer-Raniga Artie Ng Theam Foo NgThe Asia and the Pacific region is actively seeking ways to optimise the use and availability of its natural resources, which have been contributing to environmental degradation and hindering its sustainable development. This volume documents and promotes various initiatives showcasing the efforts countries in the region are making towards the implementation of the SDGs.This book is part of the "100 papers to accelerate the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals initiative".
SDGs, Transformation, and Quality Growth: Insights from International Cooperation (Sustainable Development Goals Series)
by Akio HosonoThis is an Open Access book. The primary objective of this book is to seek out insights into the concept of high-quality growth (HQG). It explores the essential attributes of HQG, such as inclusiveness, sustainability, and resilience, as well as its relationship with transformation, by drawing principally on illustrative cases and instances of international cooperation. The United Nations document on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) states that “We resolve to create conditions for sustainable, inclusive and sustained economic growth, shared prosperity and decent work for all.” As such, the concept of quality growth is inherent in many aspects of the SDGs. A similar approach can be seen in the Development Cooperation Charter announced by the Japanese government in 2015. According to the Charter, one of the most important challenges of development is quality growth and the reduction of poverty achieved through such growth. The approach in the Charter emphasizes inclusiveness, sustainability, and resilience.This volume is a pioneering study on quality growth as well as its relationship with SDGs and transformation. Comprehensive studies on quality growth are very few. The case study approach distinguishes the present volume from some previous literature that discussed quality growth within the framework of general policy. Instead, in this book, concrete cases and experiences provide insights into hands-on “ingredients”. Through the case studies, it can be seen more clearly that transformation and quality growth are phenomena that do not occur automatically but, rather, ones that require specific, properly designed strategies and approaches. Another unique feature of this book is that it aims to make explicit some of the consistent, but implicit, principles of Japan’s international cooperation.
SEAL Team Six: Hunt The Fox (A Thomas Crocker Thriller #5)
by Ralph Pezzullo Don MannIn war-torn Syria, the heroes of the SEAL Team Six series defuse an ISIS warlord's explosive plot.After a meeting with a CIA source in Istanbul ends in tragedy, SEAL Team Six Chief Warrant Officer Thomas Crocker vows revenge. He suspects the men who attacked him and his contact are involved in the the latest and most harrowing scheme SEAL Team Six is charged with preventing, in a region that grows more volatile by the day.Syria's government is unraveling, with the alliances among rebel groups increasingly complex and ISIS dangerously in the mix. Farid al-Kazaz, aka the Fox, leads the most threatening of the ISIS factions. The Fox believes Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ordered the murder of the Fox's brother and is planning a sarin gas attack that would wreak havoc across not just Syria, but the entire Middle East. It's up to Crocker and the rest of SEAL Team Six to stop a ruthless killer and keep an explosive plan from detonating.The SEAL Team Six series has been hailed by special forces veterans and members of the intelligence community as a fascinating, behind-closed-doors look at the real-life heroism of our country's bravest soldiers. Now, Mann and Pezzullo use their experience and insight to tell the story of a terrifying plot ripped straight from the headlines.
SEAL Team Six: Hunt the Leopard (A Thomas Crocker Thriller #8)
by Ralph Pezzullo Don MannThomas Crocker's SEAL Team Six crew deploys to the Nigerian jungle to combat arms and human trafficking by Boko Haram, in Don Mann and Ralph Pezzullo's latest fiercely authentic military thriller. The charismatic Boko Haram leader Ratty Festus, also known as the Leopard, has been terrorizing drought-ridden northeastern Nigeria: raiding villages, blowing up government buildings, and kidnapping schoolgirls. When Thomas Crocker and his Black Cell team, who are in the country on a special training mission, hear about a possible arms-for-schoolgirls exchange between Boko Haram and a Russian arms dealer on the Cameroon border, they convince a Nigerian Special Forces unit to join them in trying to stop it. The operation quickly goes south, with a deadly helicopter crash and an ambush. They can't manage to save all of the girls, even with assistance from a quick-thinking group of British private-security contractors.A week later, the Leopard seizes control of a $500-million dollar Gulf Oil natural gas plant, demanding a $50-million dollar ransom and safe passage out of the compound. Crocker has just 24 hours to plan and execute a high-risk, low-probability, mission to rescue all eighty innocent hostages--including two of his own who are trapped with the civilians.
SEAL Team Six: Hunt the Viper (SEAL Team Six #7)
by Ralph Pezzullo Don MannDon Mann and Ralph Pezzullo's shockingly authentic military thriller sends Thomas Crocker and his SEAL Team Six brothers to confront a notorious ISIS general, The Viper, during the occupation of Aleppo, Syria.Despite the efforts of the Assad government and its Russian and Turkish allies, Syria is succumbing to the Islamic State. While Crocker and his SEAL Team Six comrades try to help a small Kurdish border town organize a resistance army, he finds an unexpected connection with Severine, a French epidemiologist working for Doctors Without Borders. As Severine and her colleagues establish a makeshift hospital in besieged Aleppo, Crocker counsels caution. He knows too well that their NGO status will be no protection from the Viper, a notoriously vicious ISIS general with a deeply personal hatred of the West. When the Viper's men kidnap one of Severine's American colleagues, Crocker will pull every string at his disposal to launch a rescue mission. But in a situation where the US has no official business, he'll push every boundary of how far he's willing to go--and how far his SEAL brothers in arms will follow him--to save innocent lives.
SER O NO SER (EBOOK)
by Gabriel PandolfoUn jurado de notables del automovilismo lo definió con una exactitud que trasciende las pistas: era un piloto con talento, pero inconsistente. Condenado a ser el segundo de todas las escuderías, perdió el campeonato de 1981 por un punto, boicoteado por su propio equipo. Problemas emocionales? Carácter huraño? Poco confiable? Incapacidad para trabajar en equipo? Preguntas que se han hecho los expertos de la Fórmula 1 y que luego también se harían diversos referentes del mundo político ante sus vacilaciones hamletianas. Ser o no ser, candidato a presidente. Esa fue, es y será la cuestión. Con su ex mujer, Mimicha Bobbio, tuvo una relación tumultuosa; con la actual, Verónica Ghío, intenta tejer un improbable entramado político que le otorgue seguridad absoluta. Ayer fue uno de los primeros en apoyar a Carlos Menem en su carrera por desguazar al Estado y ponerlo en manos privadas. Hoy, mientras la oposición santafesina dice que su impoluta figura sólo se puede relacionar con una alta polución judicial, el arco antikirchnerista se lo disputa: ni Duhalde, ni Carrió, Solá, Macri o Cobos tienen sus posibilidades de triunfar en las elecciones de 2011. "Ser o no ser" descubre con agudeza los secretos de un hombre solitario y candidato por inconveniencia.
SIMBOLOS Y FANTASMAS (EBOOK)
by Germán FerrariPor qué la evocación en torno de las víctimas de la guerrilla implica siempre de manera explícita o velada una reivindicación de la última dictadura militar? Partiendo de cuatro casos emblemáticos de víctimas atribuidas a la guerrilla -Argentino del Valle Larrabure, Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, Jordán Bruno Genta y José Ignacio Rucci-. Germán Ferrari indaga en las relaciones entre estos personajes y la aparición de un nuevo discurso que equipara el terrorismo de Estado con las acciones de las organizaciones milicianas. Los casos elegidos reúnen todos los elementos necesarios para ensayar una respuesta a ese interrogante crucial ante la construcción de un futuro sin lastres de autoritarismo. Fueron símbolos para la última dictadura y son fantasmas que aún acosan a esta democracia imperfecta. A través de testimonios, archivos periodísticos y documentos judiciales, entre otras fuentes, el autor de esta investigación bucea en el resurgimiento, en los últimos años, de la denominada "teoría de los dos demonios", a partir de la reapertura de los juicios a represores del régimen que imperó en el país entre 1976 y 1983. Y analiza la estrategia desplegada por diversos sectores del centro a la derecha para calificar como "crímenes de lesa humanidad" a los atentados de la guerrilla. Símbolos y fantasmas demuestra cómo detrás del lema "justicia para todos" se oculta una realidad más compleja, en la que se mezclan el dolor y el oportunismo político.
SINGAPORE: WHICH DEMOCRACY? External influences and Asian values in the formation process of a democratic model
by Mihaiela Corsatea Mauro GilardiIn the dominant dynamics of our days marks, with increasing force and vehemence since the fateful events from 9/11, the debate about the relationship between Western culture and the other cultures takes places. In this analysis it is highlighted how the capacity and the need to export a political model, of undeniable Western matrix, in areas of the world characterized by an individual substrate and unique characteristics, is even more difficult to realize. The examples cited, such as Singapore, Japan, remember how the values of a culture are not forcibly, on the whole, changeable from the outside. A journey in the discovery in Singapore, where the nation dominates the community, society stays above the self, family is a central social unit, the respect and the help prioritize the consent and not the conflict between different races and religions. The essay, published for the first time in 2006, retains its validity and the insights offered, especially in light of the most recent events that have characterized the conflicts and revolutions from the last decade.
SINGAPURA: que tipo de democracia?
by Antonio Costa Mauro GilardiNas dinâmicas dominantes a que temos recurso nos dias de hoje, com a força e veemência crescente daquele fatídico 11/9, o debate sobre a relação entre cultura ocidental e as outras culturas. Nesta análise evidencia-se como a capacidade e a necessidade de exportar um modelo político, de inegável matriz ocidental, em áreas do mundo caracterizadas por um substrato próprio e personagens únicos, seja, pelo menos, difícil de realizar. Os exemplos citados, Singapura, Japão, lembram o quanto os valores próprios de uma cultura não são obrigatoriamente, na totalidade, modificáveis a partir do exterior. Uma viagem à descoberta de Singapura, onde domina o país perante a comunidade, a sociedade acima de si própria, a família como uma unidade social central, o respeito e a ajuda, para privilegiar o consenso e não o conflito entre raças e religiões diferentes. O ensaio, publicado pela primeira vez em 2006, mantém a sua validade tal como os pontos de reflexão que ele oferece, especialmente à luz dos recentes acontecimentos que têm caracterizado os conflitos e as revoluções na última década
SMEs as the Unknown Stakeholder
by Massimiliano Di BitettoInvestigates how and to what extent the self-employed and micro-enterprise workers can be represented in the social arena. A cross-sector approach to responsibility for government as well as private businesses.
SMEs in an Era of Globalization
by Ilan BijaouiThis book identifies the driving forces behind globalization and proposes innovative ways for small and medium-enterprises (SMEs) to confront them. More than ever, sustainable competitive advantage requires SMEs to continually adapt their strategy and confront new and current competition in the international market. SMEs working with multinational companies could also benefit from winning strategies based on a sensible analysis of rational and irrational phenomena at the micro- and macro-economic levels. This book uses different models developed and established through international business experiences to determine the relevant strategy in the global market. It illustrates each model through real, successful case studies of globalization of factor, efficiency, and innovation-driven SMEs. It will benefit scholars of entrepreneurship, international business, regional development as well as managers, governmental institutions, and regional development, and consultants to SMEs.
SNAFU: The Definitive Guide to History's Greatest Screwups
by Ed HelmsFrom actor, comedian, writer, and host of the hit history podcast SNAFU, Ed Helms brings you an absurdly entertaining look at history’s biggest blunders, complete with lively illustrations. <p> History contains a plethora of insane screwups—otherwise known as SNAFUs. Coined during World War I, SNAFU is an acronym that stands for Situation Normal: All F*cked Up. In other words, “things are pretty screwed up, but aren’t they always?” <p> Spanning from the 1950’s to the 2000’s, Ed Helms steps in as unofficial history teacher for a deep dive into each decade’s craziest SNAFUs. From planting nukes on the moon to training felines as CIA spies to weaponizing the weather, this book will unpack the incredibly ironic decision-making and hilariously terrifying aftermath of America’s biggest mishaps. <p> Filled with sharp humor, SNAFU is a wild ride through time that not only entertains but offers fresh insights that just might prevent history from repeating itself again and again. <b>New York Times Bestseller</b>
SNAP Matters
by James Ziliak Judith Bartfeld Timothy Smeeding Craig GundersenIn 1963, President Kennedy proposed making permanent a small pilot project called the Food Stamp Program (FSP). By 2013, the program's fiftieth year, more than one in seven Americans received benefits at a cost of nearly $80 billion. Renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in 2008, it currently faces sharp political pressure, but the social science research necessary to guide policy is still nascent. In SNAP Matters, Judith Bartfeld, Craig Gundersen, Timothy M. Smeeding, and James P. Ziliak bring together top scholars to begin asking and answering the questions that matter. For example, what are the antipoverty effects of SNAP? Does SNAP cause obesity? Or does it improve nutrition and health more broadly? To what extent does SNAP work in tandem with other programs, such as school breakfast and lunch? Overall, the volume concludes that SNAP is highly responsive to macroeconomic pressures and is one of the most effective antipoverty programs in the safety net, but the volume also encourages policymakers, students, and researchers to continue examining this major pillar of social assistance in America.
SOCIAL RIGHTS IN EUROPE IN AN AGE OF AUSTERITY (Critical Studies in Jurisprudence)
by Simon Halliday Stefano Civitarese MatteucciThis collection of essays examines the promise and limits of social rights in Europe in a time of austerity. Presenting in the first instance five national case studies, representing the biggest European economies (UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), it offers an account of recent reforms to social welfare and the attempts to resist them through litigation. The case studies are then used as a foundation for theory-building about social rights. This second group of chapters develops theory along two complementary lines: first, they explore the dynamics between social rights, public law, poverty and welfare in times of economic crisis; second, they consider the particular significance of the European context for articulations of, and struggles over, social rights. Employing a range and depth of expertise across Europe, the book constitutes a timely and highly significant contribution to socio-legal scholarship about the character and resilience of social rights in our national and regional constitutional settings.
SOE Hero: Bob Maloubier and the French Resistance
by Robert MaloubierRobert 'Bob' Maloubier, otherwise known as the French James Bond and as Churchill’s Secret Agent, led a life straight out of a spy thriller. At the age of just 19, he escaped occupied France and ended up in England, where he was given intensive training by the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Back in occupied France, Maloubier’s SOE duties saw him commit large-scale industrial sabotage in Le Havre and Rouen, suffer gunshot wounds while evading capture and be evacuated in the nick of time by 161 Special Duties Squadron. Always at the centre of the action, just after D-Day he was flown back to France alongside fellow agents Philippe Liewer, Violette Szabó and Jean Claude Guiet, where he operated in guerilla warfare conditions and destroyed vital bridges. After another mission with Force 136 in the Far East, the sheer wealth of experience Maloubier gathered during the war made him a perfect candidate to help found the French Secret Service, for whom he proved invaluable. Bob Maloubier was undoubtedly one of the Second World War’s most remarkable, courageous and flamboyant characters. His simply and uniquely told personal account of wartime spent as an SOE agent and with the French Resistance is poignant, brutally truthful, and is told here for the first time in English.
SOE's Balls of Steel: Operation Rubble, 147 Willing Volunteers and 25,000 Tons of Ball Bearings
by Sophie JacksonIn 1940 the Nazis hoped to cripple the British war effort by blockading Swedish cargo ships containing ball bearings, steel and tools vital for making arms and equipment. In desperation the newly formed SOE was asked to rescue these badly needed supplies and a daring escapade was dreamt, which involved sneaking in under the Germans' noses to steal the ships. It was a dangerous mission and the 147 men involved knew there was a high chance they would not come home. The terrifying operation to rescue cargoes of ball bearings in clunky transport ships, while trying to outrun the Luftwaffe and German navy, had never been attempted before. It was a success that was never repeated. Making use of newly released files from the National Archives, Sophie Jackson tells the story of a forgotten adventure that saved Britain and her troops from certain defeat, all because of brave men willing to sacrifice their lives for millions of small balls of steel.
SOE's Ultimate Deception: Operation Periwig
by Fredric BoyceIn the closing months of the Second World War, General Eisenhower exhorted the Western Allied forces to redouble their efforts to break the German will to resist. In considering this appeal, General Gubbins, whose Special Operations Executive was making a significant contribution to the liberation of occupied territory, was faced with a fundamental difficulty in the case of Germany. Although opposition to Nazism was present in some areas, it was neither organised nor pro-Allied. Then someone had the idea of creating an entirely fictional German resistance movement and 'selling it' to the Nazi security authorities. From January until April 1945, SOE rained propaganda leaflets on the hapless population fleeing the ruins of their cities and the oncoming Allied ground forces; they broadcast messages to the 'resistance'; they planted the most scandalous lies about eminent Nazis; and at the end they even dropped four agents on fictitious missions. This imaginative response to Ike's exhortation and the sheer audacity of the operation itself demand to be told to a wider audience.