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The Elections in Israel 2022 (Elections of Israel)
by Gideon Rahat, Noam Gidron and Michal ShamirThe 2022 Israeli elections stand out as a turning point in the country’s political history. Following a period of unprecedented political instability, the right-wing government formed following the elections—Benjamin Netanyahu's sixth government—was the most radical in Israel’s history.This book examines the 2022 Israeli elections through various theoretical perspectives and diverse research designs and data sources. The first part scrutinizes various aspects of Israeli democracy related to the elections. These include ideological and affective polarization, cleavages, voter turnout, involvement of citizens and civil organizations in election campaigns and the nature of the government that was established following the elections. The second part of the book presents studies of parties that participated in the elections: those that declined (Labor), those that ascended (Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit), and those that ascertained their power (United Torah Judaism and Shas). A valuable addition to the Elections in Israel series, the book—written by leading scholars of Israeli politics and society—touches on key themes, including political personalization, polarization, populism, the radical right, party decline and adaptation and democratic backsliding.The book will be of particular interest to students and researchers of Israeli politics and society—especially relating to the events of 2023 and the war in Gaza—as well as to social scientists interested in these political phenomena and their effects on democratic countries worldwide.
Artists, Cosmopolitanism, and the Civic Imagination: Artists as Political Agents (Global Connections)
by Maria RoviscoArtists, Cosmopolitanism, and the Civic Imagination unpacks the political agency of artists by looking at artists as moral, reflexive, and political agents. Do artists play a role in civil society? Can artists “make a difference” in the world? In what ways do artists act politically? To address these questions, this book moves away from a focus on social organisation and the production of art, to ask how artists attach meaning to their interventions in social and political conditions.Maria Rovisco draws from in-depth interviews with UK-based visual artists and theatre practitioners with a migrant background, and semiotic analysis of a theatre play, visual artworks, and film texts, to argue that artists are quintessential cosmopolitans who care deeply about changing society for the better. By explaining how artists get involved in cross-cultural encounters, this book reveals the processes of listening, reflection, imagination, social learning, and moral intentionality through which artists imagine and realise their visions of a better world. In so doing, it offers a new direction in thinking about the intersection of art and politics, by showing how artists play a crucial role in building a civic culture outside traditional sites of political participation.This book will be essential reading for students and scholars across the social sciences and the humanities with interests in migration, citizenship and the public sphere, cultural sociology, media and culture, cosmopolitanism, and art.
A New Approach to Human Social Evolution: Persistence of Ancient Drives in Behaviour and Development
by Jorge A. ColomboThis book provides an important examination into the role of evolution of human traits of dominance as central to understanding social and political events, proposing a new view on human social evolution. It also examines basic biological universal needs and behavioural profiles of non- human living beings, from which humans share essential survival components. It invites readers to think critically about the psychological evolution of the human brain. Using comparative psychology, it argues that the core of human behaviour lies in the ancient, animal, universal set of survival resources hidden under various socialization profiles. However, it generally fails to replace drives of dominance and aggression for physical and social survival. Genuine replacement of those primal behavioural drives would require fundamental neuro- socio- behavioural changes. This book supports the thesis that without education and the promotion of universal values involving environmental protection and individual opportunities to evolve, there will be negative consequences for individuals and communities. This book represents a critical tool for students of behavioural sciences, anthropology, politics, and evolutionary neurosciences, and will also greatly benefit other readers, such as teachers and professional researchers.
Developing High-Impact Course Design Institutes: A Model for Change
by Jordan D. Troisi Michael S. Palmer Mary C. Wright Lori A. Hostetler Carol A. HurneyDrawing on the authors’ extensive experience and robust survey data, this critical resource unpacks the inner workings of one of the most powerful mechanisms for improving teaching and learning in higher education: the course design institute (CDI).CDIs are intensive, often multi-day facilitated experiences where instructors design or redesign a course based on learning-focused and equity-minded teaching and learning principles. This resource offers a comprehensive introduction to CDIs, discussing both key elements and why they are worth the time and investment to design, implement, and assess. The chapters cover the values, structures, and approaches that designers use to develop CDIs, along with evidence of their transformative impact on instructors and institutional teaching cultures. The book also provides institutional leaders the rationale and evidence needed to support investment decisions.Developing High-Impact Course Design Institutes is a playbook providing educational developers with the critical background knowledge and vetted direction needed to launch or refine their own CDIs.
Law, Social Movements and the Politics of the Commons: Cases from the Italian South
by Veronica PecileThis book reinterprets the notion of the commons by tracing how it has been mobilised in the aftermath of economic crisis. In a period of widespread activism against the privatisation of resources and services implemented through austerity policies, the reconceptualisation of property as a non-absolute and non-individualistic institution has attracted a great deal of attention. Drawing on the case of the Italian South, and in the wake of economic crisis, this book offers a critical analysis of the struggle for the commons. More specifically, as it details how discourses, legal tools and policies based on disciplinary ideas of the commons are deployed in the neoliberal restructuring of societies, the book considers how conflicting ideas of the commons express different, and often clashing visions, of urban space. In this regard, moreover, it shows how law plays a central, albeit ambivalent, role in the struggle for the commons: as both a governmental technique to regulate urban space and its residents and as an emancipatory tactic to advance non-proprietary visions of ownership.This book will be of interest to scholars in socio-legal studies, property law, legal sociology and politics, as well as others with more general interests in the critical potential of contemporary social movements.
A Financial Theory of the Business Cycle: Net Present Value and Fractional Reserve Banking (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)
by Edward W. Fuller Warren YoungA Financial Theory of the Business Cycle presents a new approach to business cycle theory based on the net present value. The book develops a novel diagrammatic approach to illustrate how fractional reserve banking systematically distorts net-present-value calculations. In addition to providing fresh insights, the new diagrammatic approach provides a comparative framework that can be used to compare pre-existing theories, including those of John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Robert E. Lucas, Jr.The net present value is the most important concept in the theory and practice of modern finance. As such, it is the proper framework for explaining the systematic financial losses that occur during the business cycle. Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk and Irving Fisher developed the modern theory of the net present value, and the financial theory of the business cycle developed in this book is rooted in their tradition. Although financial elements played a central role in their respective theories, Keynes and Hayek did not use the net present value. This failure created problems that still haunt business cycle theory today. This book addresses these problems and attempts to steer financial theories of the business cycle back to the course set by Böhm-Bawerk and Fisher.In addition to macroeconomists, this book will appeal to financial economists, money and banking experts, accountants, financial analysts, and businesspeople generally.
Agricultural and Climate Change Adaptation Law in Africa: Reflections from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa (Earthscan Food and Agriculture)
by Habib Sani UsmanThis book presents an analysis of climate change and agricultural laws in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa in order to determine whether they adequately addressed the concept of agricultural adaptation.Agriculture is one of the sectors of the economy that is contributing to climate change, and at the same time the sector is heavily impacted by climate change. Therefore agricultural adaptation is required. Focusing on three countries, this book provides a novel, comparative examination of how and to what extent the law promotes agriculture-focused adaptation in these countries. The role of the law in addressing issues such as water management strategies, soil conservation methods, and crop production methods is discussed. This book identifies gaps in the regulatory frameworks for agricultural adaptation and highlights the lack of adaptive capacity of African agriculture due to weak or non-existing legal frameworks. It discusses ways to remedy these gaps through specific on-farm adaptation strategies, legislative amendments to consolidate all relevant national climate change-related policies and laws with agricultural policies and laws that have relevant provisions on adaptation as medium-term solutions, and the development of a specific framework law for agriculture-focused adaptation, incorporating essential agricultural adaptation strategies, could perhaps be enacted as long-term solutions to the regulatory gaps.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of law, climate change, food and agriculture, sustainable development, and African studies.
Medical Optical Imaging and Virtual Microscopy Image Analysis: Second International Workshop, MOVI 2024, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco, October 10, 2024, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15371)
by Xiao Wang Yuankai Huo Bryan A. Millis Yuyin Zhou Khaled Younis Yucheng TangThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Medical Optical Imaging and Virtual Microscopy Image Analysis, MOVI 2024, held in conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2024, in Marrakesh, Morocco, in October 2024. The 21 regular papers presented at MOVI 2024 were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. They are grouped into these two topical sections: Medical Optical Imaging and Virtual Microscopy Image Analysis and Kidney Pathology Image segmentation (KPIs) Challenge.
Intensivmedizin - Fragen und Antworten: 850 Fakten für die Zusatzbezeichnung
by Sebastian Schulz-Stübner Franz KehlWollen Sie als Fachärztin oder Facharzt die Zusatzweiterbildung Intensivmedizin absolvieren oder in der Intensivmedizin arbeiten? Dann können Sie Ihr Wissen mit diesem Lernbuch oder der App SN Flashcards optimal überprüfen! Über 170 Multiple-Choice-Fragen mit kommentierten Antworten bringen Sie auf den aktuellen Stand von Themen der Intensivmedizin wie Pharmakotherapie, Atmung und Beatmung, Infektiologie, Notfälle und Komplikationen. Plus: Fallorientierte Fragen und Auszüge von über 70 wichtiger klinischer Studien mit Kernaussagen und neu: Aktualisierung bekannter Themen und Ergänzung um „Hot Topics“ der Intensivmedizin aufgrund aktueller Entwicklungen in der Literatur. Ideal für Fachärztinnen und Fachärzte der Anästhesiologie, Chirurgie, Innere Medizin, Neurochirurgie, Neurologie und Wiedereinsteiger*innen in der Intensivmedizin.
A Guide to Breast Cancer Research: From Cellular Heterogeneity and Molecular Mechanisms to Therapy (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology #1464)
by Robert B. Clarke Therese SørlieThe book presents key topics at the forefront in breast development and cancer research in chapters authored by leading scientists in the field. The chapters provide a basis for understanding major concepts, model systems, cells of origin and heterogeneity in human breast development and cancer. The book builds on this understanding to guide readers through the cellular and molecular basis of breast cancer and the most important signaling pathways. Finally, the book describes mechanisms of metastasis and cancer immunity, and treatment options and resistance to therapy. It is targeted at young scientists and early career researchers and provides an overview of current topics in breast cancer research. Each chapter includes key learning points, boxes and conclusions to highlight the most important information. This book will interest anyone who wants to learn about the main areas of breast cancer research and the most important recent advances.
Elbow Arthroscopy and Minimal Invasive Surgery
by Andreas B. Imhoff Andreas LenichThis book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to a selection of tried-and-tested arthroscopic and minimally invasive surgical procedures for treating pathologic conditions of the elbow. With the help of numerous figures, it explores in detail the elbow anatomy and biomechanics and provides a step-by-step guide to each surgical procedure – from simple diagnostics to complex reconstructions. Further, sharing the authors’ experience gained in their daily medical practice the book discusses borderline indications as well as potential complications, such as infection management – a topic that is rarely addressed. Intended primarily for arthroscopic surgeons interested in the field of elbow repair, this exhaustive guide is also a valuable resource for residents and elbow specialists.
A Start-Up's Definitive Guide to Failure: Learning from the Most Common Mistakes Founders Make (Business Guides on the Go)
by Carsten A. Lexa Émilie NolletSeven out of ten start-ups fail. The reasons for failure are well-known. Yet founders often fail to approach the topic of failure with the seriousness and commitment it deserves. This book aims to change that and offers a new approach for founders to “drive their start-up off a cliff.” Structured as a “how-to guide to failure,” it highlights the most common mistakes founders make, explains where they come from, and illustrates them with real-life examples. The goal of the book is to help founders make the “right” mistakes in order to fail more efficiently (and perhaps help them avoid making these mistakes in the first place). The book includes an interview with German “start-up legend” Prof. Günter Faltin.
Low Back Pain and Sciatica: A New Pathogenetic Model and Treatment Principles
by Luigi TesioChronic benign “back pain “, with or without sciatica, is a descriptive diagnosis hiding the mechanisms leading to this symptom. The literature still refers to it as a “non-specific” disease. Not surprisingly, both conservative and invasive treatments are inconsistent and highly subjective. The book aims to highlight the main pathogenetic mechanisms leading to pain based on a thorough analysis of the lumbar spine anatomy and mechanics (including its vascular content) and a selection of published evidence converging towards an original integrated model. The result is a downgrading of back pain from a “non-specific” disease to a symptom and clarifying the underlying causes. The book presents an original pathogenetic model named CoVIn (Compressive-Venous-Inflammatory). The cornerstones of the model are a) the compression of nerve endings within the narrow spinal canal from disc herniation or arthritic spurs, b) local inflammation caused by discal material and/or local phlebitis and -most importantly- c) venous congestion of the Batson (epidural) plexus. The model explains the diversity of the clinical pictures: e.g., pain at rest vs. pain during spinal loading; pain unrelated to the severity of MRI or CT imaging; changes of pain (spontaneous or caused by treatments) with no changes in imaging, and others. Consistent with the model, a few physiotherapy treatments are proposed to widen the spinal canal and decongest local veins. These are “flexor” lumbar exercises, water exercises, and—first choice—Active Lumbar Traction (former “Autotraction”). Treatments targeting pain become a second-choice approach. Surgery is shown to be rational only after conservative treatments fail. Other rare causes of back pain, unrelated to the CoVin model, are overviewed and discussed. The book will interest Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians, Physiotherapists, Orthopedic and Trauma Surgeons, Neurosurgeons, Rheumatologists, Neurologists, and Family physicians.
Neuroepigenetics Mechanisms in Health and Disease (Subcellular Biochemistry #108)
by Brigitte Van Zundert Martin MontecinoThe book Neuroepigenetic Mechanisms in Health and Disease provides insight into mechanisms of epigenetic control, focusing on molecular, cellular and integrative aspects of neurobiology. Here, leading investigators in the field discuss in each chapter landmark scientific discoveries and recent advances in (neuro) epigenetics. Whereas some chapters concentrate in overviewing basic epigenetic mechanisms and the power of epigenome editing, other sections of the book discuss epigenetic control during learning and memory as well as in diverse brain related alterations, including neurodegenerative and rare neurologic diseases, and psychiatric disorders. In addition, the book covers relevant topics for modern human societies, including how drug abuse, environmental enrichment and meditation can influence brain function through epigenetic mechanisms. This book aims to serve as a useful source for junior scientists to first learn about the topic, as well as to more experienced researchers that seek for a broader view of this rapidly growing field that is beyond their area of specialization.
Winning the Advertising Game: Lessons from the Super Bowl Ad Champions (Business Guides on the Go)
by Sascha Raithel Charles R. Taylor David W. Stewart Alexander MafaelUnlock the secrets of advertising success with this comprehensive guide! Dive into practical insights and real-world data to enhance your campaigns. Explore the Super Bowl as a live advertising lab, dissecting branding strategies, creative elements, and societal impacts. Learn from advertisers, agencies, and experts, and apply these lessons to your own efforts. Perfect for marketing managers, advertisers, and educators looking to leverage the biggest advertising event in the world. This book provides actionable research findings and tools to transform your advertising approach, ensuring your ads stand out and resonate with audiences. Discover how the NFL and Super Bowl are expanding globally, reaching new audiences worldwide. This book is ideal for marketing managers and advertisers seeking to apply key lessons from the Super Bowl to their campaigns. It’s also a valuable resource for marketing and advertising educators who want to illustrate fundamental principles with real-world examples.
Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics, Volume 1: Select Proceedings of HYDRO 2023 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering #547)
by Manish Pandey Giuseppe Oliveto N. V. Umamahesh Z. AhmadThis book comprises the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources, River and Coastal Engineering (HYDRO 2023) focusing on broad spectrum of emerging opportunities and challenges in the field of hydraulics and fluid mechanics. It covers a range of topics, including, but not limited to, experimental and computational fluid mechanics, sediment dynamics, environmental impact assessment of water resources projects, environmental flows, pollutant transport, etc. Presenting recent advances in the form of illustrations, tables, and text, it offers readers insights for their own research. In addition, the book addresses fundamental concepts and studies in the field of flood forecasting and hydraulic structures, making it a valuable resource for both beginners and researchers wanting to further their understanding of hydraulics, water resources and coastal engineering.
Paradoxes of PrEP for HIV Prevention
by Morten SkovdalAvailable open access digitally under CC-BY licence. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a drug taken by HIV-negative people that reduces the risk of getting HIV. Comparing two case studies in Denmark and Zimbabwe, this book demonstrates six paradoxes that users often encounter in navigating their PrEP journey. These paradoxes lead to contentions, uncertainties, dilemmas and ambiguities that need to be carefully and pensively responded to through what the author terms ‘everyday PrEP negotiations’. The social nature and need for such everyday PrEP negotiations help explain why PrEP works for some people and not for others. This book argues that such insight is critical to make PrEP work for more people and to inform social public health responses.
Rethinking Migration: Challenging Borders, Citizenship and Race
by Bridget AndersonAvailable open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Humans have always moved, but across the world ‘migration’ has become a major policy, political and media concern. How can we understand human movement without positioning ‘the migrant’ as a problem? This interdisciplinary collection rethinks migration and movement. It explores mobility beyond the human and across time, from the movement of soil in the Middle Ages to contemporary cow passports. It also examines the histories of international borders and how they are intertwined with the politics of race and nation. The book illustrates that conceptually based, critical and creative thinking is as important for practice as it is for theory and can help us understand and respond to migration as a force that connects rather than divides.
Folk Music and Song in the WPA Ex-Slave Narratives (American Made Music Series)
by John MintonBetween 1937 and 1940 fieldworkers in the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Writers’ Project interviewed around 3,500 formerly enslaved people in North America, resulting in roughly 20,000 pages of still unedited and inadequately indexed typescript. These accounts—the WPA ex-slave narratives—are the most substantial collection by far of folklore and oral history gathered directly from enslaved people in America. It is arguably the single greatest body of African American folklore extant, and a significant portion is devoted to folk music and song. This book considers this treasure trove in all its relevant social, cultural, and historical contexts. Nineteenth-century Black folk music developed against the backdrop of North American slavery, the American Civil War, Emancipation, the Federal occupation of the South, and a successful white supremacist paramilitary and political insurgency that led to Federal withdrawal, officially sanctioned racial terror, and Southern apartheid. The WPA ex-slave narratives describe that history in remarkable detail. Despite their inestimable value, most of the ex-slave narratives remained unpublished until the late 1970s, being almost unknown except to folklorists. Even after publication, the collection’s sheer size was a barrier. Quoting extensively from the narratives and exhaustively annotated and indexed, this volume provides readers with detailed explanations and full references for every musical item or tradition featured in the ex-slave narratives. John Minton covers instrumental music and social dancing, spirituals and hymns, singing games and lullabies, ring plays and reels, worksongs, minstrel songs, ballads, war songs, slavery laments, and much, much more. Written for both specialists and general readers, with 134 illustrations, the book also offers a general overview of the ex-slave narratives, their contents, creation, and relation to the field of African American folklore as a whole.
Extended Essay for the IB Diploma (For the IB Diploma)
by Paul Hoang Joseph KoszaryUnlock the path to excellence with Extended Essay for the IB Diploma, developed in cooperation with the International Baccalaureate®. Aligned with the latest IB syllabus (first teaching 2025/first assessment 2027), this comprehensive resource is designed to build confidence and clarity at every stage of the Extended Essay journey.- Proven strategies for success: Equip students with expert insights, and effective techniques and strategies for achieving top marks. - Focused on student clarity and confidence: From citation and critical thinking to IB-specific requirements, each chapter is crafted to simplify complex concepts and give students the confidence they need to succeed. - Step-by-step guidance: From topic selection to final reflection, every chapter provides structured support for a seamless writing process. - Focus on academic integrity and responsible AI use: Help students uphold academic honesty and navigate AI responsibly in academic writing. - Real-world relevance and interdisciplinary insight: Encourage deeper exploration and problem-solving that transcends classroom boundaries.
Extended Essay for the IB Diploma (For the IB Diploma)
by Paul Hoang Joseph KoszaryUnlock the path to excellence with Extended Essay for the IB Diploma, developed in cooperation with the International Baccalaureate®. Aligned with the latest IB syllabus (first teaching 2025/first assessment 2027), this comprehensive resource is designed to build confidence and clarity at every stage of the Extended Essay journey.- Proven strategies for success: Equip students with expert insights, and effective techniques and strategies for achieving top marks. - Focused on student clarity and confidence: From citation and critical thinking to IB-specific requirements, each chapter is crafted to simplify complex concepts and give students the confidence they need to succeed. - Step-by-step guidance: From topic selection to final reflection, every chapter provides structured support for a seamless writing process. - Focus on academic integrity and responsible AI use: Help students uphold academic honesty and navigate AI responsibly in academic writing. - Real-world relevance and interdisciplinary insight: Encourage deeper exploration and problem-solving that transcends classroom boundaries.
Cyber Security Management and Strategic Intelligence
by Peter Trim Yang-Im LeeWithin the organization, the cyber security manager fulfils an important and policy-oriented role. Working alongside the risk manager, the Information Technology (IT) manager, the security manager and others, the cyber security manager’s role is to ensure that intelligence and security manifest in a robust cyber security awareness programme and set of security initiatives that when implemented help strengthen the organization’s defences and those also of its supply chain partners.Cyber Security Management and Strategic Intelligence emphasizes the ways in which intelligence work can be enhanced and utilized, guiding the reader on how to deal with a range of cyber threats and strategic issues. Throughout the book, the role of the cyber security manager is central, and the work undertaken is placed in context with that undertaken by other important staff, all of whom deal with aspects of risk and need to coordinate the organization’s defences thus ensuring that a collectivist approach to cyber security management materializes. Real-world examples and cases highlight the nature and form that cyber-attacks may take, and reference to the growing complexity of the situation is made clear. In addition, various initiatives are outlined that can be developed further to make the organization less vulnerable to attack. Drawing on theory and practice, the authors outline proactive, and collectivist approaches to counteracting cyber-attacks that will enable organizations to put in place more resilient cyber security management systems, frameworks and planning processes.Cyber Security Management and Strategic Intelligence references the policies, systems and procedures that will enable advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and reflective practitioners to understand the complexity associated with cyber security management and apply a strategic intelligence perspective. It will help the cyber security manager to promote cyber security awareness to a number of stakeholders and turn cyber security management initiatives into actionable policies of a proactive nature.
Extradition and Political Crimes: The Use of the Political Offence Exception in Europe (Transnational Criminal Justice)
by Sibel TopThis book examines the evolution and current application of the political offence exception clause to extradition in Europe.The long-standing academic exploration of terrorism has recently given way to renewed interest in the political offence exception to extradition, prompted by recent events that signal a democratic downturn globally. Despite the significant curtailment – and, in some cases, the complete abolition – of the political offence exception to extradition in Europe, certain European states continue to quietly implement this exception to deny extradition requests. This work studies the development of the political offence exception in Europe by narrowing its focus from an international perspective to the European context, specifically examining the Council of Europe and the European Union, before zeroing in on the Catalan independence crisis, which offers a particularly valuable case for analysing the application of the political offence exception in the European context.By providing a detailed examination of the evolving protections for political offenders within European legal frameworks, the text updates the long overdue academic knowledge on the matter. It is therefore an essential resource for anyone interested in European criminal law and extradition, in particular. It will also be of interest to researchers, academics, and policy-makers working in the areas of criminal law, human rights law, legal theory, criminology, and political science.
The Regulation of Gender Stereotypes in Advertising: Law and Policy in Europe
by David DaviesThis book provides an innovative and policy-oriented analysis of gender stereotypes in advertising regulation from a socio-legal perspective.Examining the law and policy of the European Union and three case studies in Sweden, Spain and the UK, the book draws on interviews, focus group data and desk research to critically assess the legislation and regulation on the use of gender stereotypes in advertising. Its focus is on the largely neglected question of the EU’s competence in the area of gender. And to assess this, the book considers various forms of ‘good practice’ through legislation, regulation and policy. It also explores the proscribing of gender stereotypes in advertising through ‘soft law’ measures such as self-regulation at state level, and action programmes and roadmaps at EU level. Finally, it critiques the lack of progress in achieving a unified code on the regulation of gender stereotypes whilst imagining what such a code might look like.The book will appeal to academics with research and teaching interests in EU law, gender equality and comparative law, as well as academics and practitioners involved with media and advertising regulation, anti-discrimination law and freedom of expression.
Zen, Meaning, and Craft in Jane Hirshfield's Poetry: Heartshoots (Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture)
by Deirdre C. Byrne Garth J. MasonZen, Meaning, and Craft in Jane Hirshfield’s Poetry: Heartshoots is the first scholarly volume to be dedicated to the large body of work produced by North American Zen poet, Jane Hirshfield. The volume is co-authored by a Zen Buddhist scholar and a poetry scholar, who are both practising poets. Its five chapters cover format and structure; three fruitful approaches to the poetry; Zen and the problem of desire; Hirshfield’s response to the more-than-human world and her warnings to humanity not to ignore the ecological crisis; belonging, loss, and the solace of poetry. The book portrays poetry as a “heartshoot” that can bridge the artificial divide between external and internal worlds and can draw forth compassion as well as delight. In Hirshfield’s hands, it mobilises the considerable power of cognitive, verbal, and semantic surprise to lead the reader gently to new insights about the connectedness of all that is.