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Gauntt, Randall Owen. The DF-4 fuel damage experiment in ACRR with a BWR control blade and channel box. Washington, DC: Division of Systems Research, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1989.

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Gauntt, Randall Owen. The DF-4 fuel damage experiment in ACRR with a BWR control blade and channel box. Washington, DC: Division of Systems Research, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1989.

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Blame teachers: The emotional reasons for educational reform. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2015.

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Lee, Laura. Blame it on the rain: How the weather has changed history. New York: Harper, 2006.

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Eisler, Riane Tennenhaus. The chalice andthe blade: Our history, our future. Cambridge, Mass: Harper & Row, 1987.

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O'Connell, Anne. Centralizing power, decentralizing blame: What Ontarians say about education reform. Ottawa: Caledon Institute of Social Policy, 1998.

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O'Connell, Anne. Centralizing power, decentralizing blame: What Ontarians say about education reform. Ottawa, Ont: Caledon Institute of Social Policy, 1998.

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Daniel, Elizabeth. Don't blame the tools: The adoption and implementation of managerial innovations. Amsterdam: Elsevier/Cima Pub., 2009.

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Eisler, Riane Tennenhaus. The chalice and the blade: Our history, our future. Cambridge [Mass.]: Harper & Row, 1987.

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Eisler, Riane Tennenhaus. The chalice and the blade: Our history, our future. [San Francisco]: HarperCollins, 1988.

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Eisler, Riane Tennenhaus. The chalice and the blade: Our history, our future. [San Francisco, Calif.]: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995.

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The chalice and the blade: Our history, our future. San Francisco: Perennial Library, 1988.

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Blame it on the rain: How the weather has shaped history and changed culture. New York: Harper Paperbacks, 2006.

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Transforming America's schools: An Rx for getting past blame. Arlington, VA: American Association of School Administrators, 1994.

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Bartoli, Roberto, ed. Responsabilità penale e rischio nelle attività mediche e d'impresa (un dialogo con la giurisprudenza). Florence: Firenze University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-8453-570-2.

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This book presents the proceedings of the conference held in Florence on 7 and 8 May 2009 upon the conclusion of a MUIR study. The inspiration behind it can be summarised in two keywords. The first is "modernity", because it focuses on the sectors of criminal liability of the doctor and the entrepreneur, those that have been most dramatically affected by social change and technological developments, straining to the limit the "classic" configuration of criminal law categories. The second is "case law", in the sense that we have sought to focus on the reality of living law and to investigate the concepts of the causality, blame and complicity of individuals as they are actually illustrated by precedents.

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The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience. Totnes, Devon: Green Books, 2008.

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Baylouny, Anne Marie. When Blame Backfires. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501751516.001.0001.

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The recent influx of Syrian refugees into Jordan and Lebanon has stimulated domestic political action against these countries' governments. This is the dramatic argument at the heart of this book. The book examines the effects on Jordan and Lebanon of hosting huge numbers of Syrian refugees. How has the populace reacted to the real and perceived negative effects of the refugees? The book shows how the demographic changes that result from mass immigration put stress on existing problems in these two countries, worsening them to the point of affecting daily lives. One might expect that, as a result, refugees and minorities would become the focus of citizen anger. But as the book demonstrates, this is not always the case. What the book exposes, instead, is that many of the problems that might be associated with refugees are in fact endemic to the normal routine of citizens' lives. The refugee crisis exacerbated an already dire situation rather than created it, and Jordanians and Lebanese started to protest not only against the presence of refugees but against the incompetence and corruption of their own governments as well. From small-scale protests about goods and public services, citizens progressed to organized and formal national movements calling for economic change and rights to public services not previously provided. This dramatic shift in protest and political discontent was, the book shows, the direct result of the arrival of Syrian refugees.

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Personally I Blame My Fairy Godmother. Avon Books, 2010.

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Freedman, Linda. ‘Break on Through’. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813279.003.0008.

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As Blake had espoused horror at rebellious spirit turned to murderous bloodshed, so the sounds of the sixties often reflected disillusionment with organized revolution, believing real change came from within. Bob Dylan, Ed Sanders, and Patti Smith sounded the voice of experience as well as innocence. Jim Morrison was driven by the dark and destructive energy of the prophet–artist who finds that, in trying to change the world, he has destroyed it. Morrison and Smith reflected the two sides of the psychedelic Blake of the sixties. Morrison’s Blake was one of terror and dark vision. Smith paid tribute to the Blake of compassion and social justice. Both found him deeply relevant to the crisis they perceived in their own country and historical moment.

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Don't Blame the Tools: The Adoption and Implementation of Managerial Innovations. Elsevier Science & Technology Books, 2009.

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Freedman, Linda. William Blake and the Myth of America. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813279.001.0001.

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This book tells the story of William Blake’s literary reception in America and suggests that ideas about Blake’s poetry and personality helped shape mythopoeic visions of America from the abolitionists to the counterculture. It links high and low culture and covers poetry, music, theology, and the novel. American writers have turned to Blake in times of cataclysmic change, terror, and hope to rediscover the symbolic meaning of their country. Blake entered American society when slavery was rife and civil war threatened the fragile experiment of democracy. He found his moment in the mid-twentieth-century counterculture as left-wing Americans took refuge in the arts at a time of increasingly reactionary conservatism, vicious racism, pervasive sexism, dangerous nuclear competition, and an increasingly unpopular war in Vietnam, the fires of Orc raging against the systems of Urizen. Blake’s America, as a symbol of cyclical hope and despair, influenced many Americans who saw themselves as continuing the task of prophecy and vision. Blakean forms of bardic song, aphorism, prophecy, and lament became particularly relevant to a literary tradition which centralized the relationship between aspiration and experience. His interrogations of power and privilege, freedom and form resonated with Americans who repeatedly wrestled with the deep ironies of new world symbolism and sought to renew a Whitmanesque ideal of democracy through affection and openness towards alterity.

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Caps, John. The Curse of the Pink Panther. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036736.003.0012.

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This chapter describes how one chance meeting on the beach with Blake Edwards brought about a sea change in his career and, as a direct result, a return to the famous world of the Pink Panther. Return of the Pink Panther was planned for distribution in 1975, and the public was so very ready to be amused all over again by the Sellers/Clouseau character that the success of that sequel was followed the very next year by The Pink Panther Strikes Again. For Mancini, the task of scoring a Pink Panther movie had changed, too—the first film scored with that sly, sneaking sax theme and a lot of beguiling, equally sly cocktail music; the second film scored a bit more like a cartoon where the clever, plodding, main mystery theme on that wavering pump organ represented Clouseau's dysfunctional focus on the case at hand. Now with large-scale visual jokes taking up more screen space than the character comedy of Clouseau, the scoring needed to serve two masters: it needed scene-setting background tunes for clubs, discos, and resorts, and, more than ever, it needed bigger descriptive music to bolster the increasingly unrealistic and aggressive plot devices.

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Radical Responsibility: How to Move Beyond Blame, Fearlessly Live Your Highest Purpose, and Become an Unstoppable Force for Good. Sounds True, Incorporated, 2019.

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Gary, Steuber, and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration., eds. Flow in rotating serpentine coolant passages with skewed trip strips: Under contract NAS3-27378. [Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1996.

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Bastian, Rebekah, and Sarah Lacy. Blaze Your Own Trail: An Interactive Guide to Navigating Life with Confidence, Solidarity and Compassion. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated, 2020.

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Coates, D. Justin, and Neal A. Tognazzini, eds. Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility Volume 5. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198830238.001.0001.

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No one has written more insightfully on the promises and perils of human agency than Gary Watson, who has spent a career thinking about issues such as moral responsibility, blame, free will, weakness of will, addiction, and psychopathy. The chapters of this volume pay tribute to Watson’s work by taking up and extending themes from his pioneering essays. Themes covered include:: compatibilist views of freedom and moral responsibility, the distinction between attributability and accountability, the responsibility of psychopaths, the nature of blame and its relationship to morality, the relevance of addiction to responsibility, the continuing influence of P. F. Strawson’s work, the connection between criminal and moral responsibility, the philosophical development of Gary Watson and the ways Watson’s views have changed over time. Contributors include: Michael McKenna, Susan Wolf, Pamela Hieronymi, R. Jay Wallace, Michael Smith, T. M. Scanlon, Jeanette Kennett, Antony Duff, Gideon Yaffe, Gary Watson, Sarah Buss, Neal Tognazzini, and D. Justin Coates.

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Cohn, Jr., Samuel K. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198819660.003.0001.

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Since the 1980s the dominant hypothesis has been: big epidemics throughout history have sparked hatred and blame of the ‘other’, especially when diseases were mysterious with no prevention or cure to hand. This book dumps on its head this implied chronology. Instead of hate, epidemics before the nineteenth century and the ‘laboratory revolution’ that ensued overwhelmingly inspired altruism and unity. Things changed with modernity. But even from the nineteenth century to the present, different epidemic diseases had radically different socio-psychological effects. Just as different diseases affect our bodies differently, so too have they tended to affect our collective mentalities differently.

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Pereboom, Derk. Responsibility, Regret, and Protest. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805601.003.0007.

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Is morality viable without the notions of desert, moral demand, and moral obligation, notions threatened by possible limitations in human abilities? This essay contends that it may well be. Instead of invoking desert, blame can be largely forward-looking, recast as appropriate moral protest, and aiming at protection, moral formation, and reconciliation. Moral demands in relationships can be re-envisioned as commitments deriving from care, and failure to act in accord with one’s commitments can be conceived as wrong in the sense that they are appropriately protested. Moral obligations can be reconfigured as axiological recommendations. Revision of morality poses risks, but it is argued that the changes envisioned are practically viable.

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Cloud, Dana L. Carrying the Memory of Agitation. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036378.003.0008.

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This chapter presents an exchange between the author and Keith Thomas, which both have referred to as a “postmortem” on Unionists for Democratic Change. The exchange was edited and compiled from two conversations: The first is a recorded interview between Cloud and Thomas in Wichita, Kansas, on July 17, 2001, the evening after a small demonstration at the union hall earlier that afternoon; the second source is a series of letters exchanged in summer 2006. Here Thomas complicates the author's arguments that mistakes and misdirected focus were to blame for the decline of the union democracy movement at Boeing. His observations will also encourage readers to understand the limitations of the movement in the contexts of the real lives of activists set against a renewed employer's offensive and a very powerful and change-resistant union bureaucracy.

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Folkenflik, Robert. The Rise of the Illustrated English Novel to 1832. Edited by Alan Downie. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199566747.013.033.

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This chapter describes the rise of the illustrated English novel. Eighteenth-century novels were cheap; illustrations expensive. Illustrated novels typically were not first editions, though some of the best known (Robinson Crusoe, Sir Launcelot Greaves) anomalously were. Looking at novels from roughly twenty years apart, one can see a number of changes from the increased presence of native engravers and designers to the burgeoning of illustrated volumes with the overthrow of perpetual copyright in 1774 (making possible the novel series of James Harrison and others), as well as shifting technologies leading from copperplates to the use of steel engravings in the nineteenth century. Important illustrators of novels included Pine and Clark, Hayman and Gravelot, Hogarth, Thomas Stothard, Thomas Rowlandson, Blake, and George Cruikshank.

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Dobson, Andrew. Are There Limits to Limits? Edited by Teena Gabrielson, Cheryl Hall, John M. Meyer, and David Schlosberg. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199685271.013.41.

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The idea that there might be “limits to growth” is a key and contested feature of environmental politics. This chapter outlines the limits to growth thesis, describes and assesses critical reactions to it, and comments upon its relevance today. It argues that, after an initial highpoint in the early 1970s, the thesis declined in importance during the 1980s and 1990s under criticism from “ecological modernizers” and from environmental justice advocates in the global South who saw it as way of diverting blame for ecological problems from the rich and powerful to the poor and dispossessed. “Peak oil” and climate change have, though, given renewed impetus to the idea, and this has given rise to new discourses and practices around “sustainable prosperity” and “degrowth.”

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Schillemans, Thomas, and Jon Pierre, eds. Media and Governance. Policy Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447341437.001.0001.

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First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this updated volume explores the intersections between governance and media in western democracies, which have undergone profound recent changes. Many governmental powers have been shifted toward a host of network parties such as NGOs, state enterprises, international organizations, autonomous agencies, and local governments. Governments have developed complex networks for service delivery and they have a strategic interest in the news media as an arena where their interests can be served and threatened. How do the media relate to and report on complex systems of government? How do the various governance actors respond to the media and what are the effects on their policies? This book considers the impact of media-related factors on governance, policy, public accountability and the attribution of blame for failures.

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Bégin, Camille. Romance of the Homemade. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040252.003.0003.

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This chapter examines the Federal Writers' Project's (FWP) sensory nostalgia for regional food as a cathartic reaction to the standardization of taste triggered by the industrialization of the U.S. food system since the late nineteenth century. Categories of race and gender interplayed in the New Deal sensory economy both to buffer sensory change and to allow its critique. Women often took the blame for the decreased sensory quality of American food, making the 1930s a significant moment in the elaboration of conservative gender roles that dominated the war and postwar period. To counter this feminine threat, New Deal food writing held “virile” and uncorrupted tastes as the pinnacle of American cuisine, which, as the analysis of racial interaction in public cooking events shows, often meant tapping into the raw sensory power of racial others.

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Stevenson, Leslie. Eighteen Takes on God. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190066109.001.0001.

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This is a compact introduction to a variety of conceptions of God. Part I examines eight theologies: God as an old man in the sky; as an incorporeal person; as a necessary being; as truth, goodness, and beauty; apophatic theology (beyond all words); pantheism; deism; and open theology in which God acts and changes. The discussion shows differences over whether God is a person, whether he (?) is gendered, whether he is simple, whether he changes over time, and whether he can be spoken of at all. Part II reviews five different ways of understanding language about God: instrumentalism, reductionism, postmodernism, relativism, and a Wittgensteinian view. Part III moves closer to religious experience and practice, looking at the views of Otto, Buber, Kant, Tillich, and Quakers. There are also comments and endnotes on such diverse figures as William Blake, Samuel Palmer, Feuerbach, Don Cupitt, Goethe, Kierkegaard, Iris Murdoch, Simone Weil, Abbe Louf, John Gray, and Keith Ward. There is no overall commitment to theism, atheism, or agnosticism. Instead there is a sympathetic account of various views of the divine, combined with critical questioning about their meaning and practical application. In Chapter 18 Quakerism is recommended as one good way.

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Hood, Christopher, and Rozana Himaz. Conclusions. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779612.003.0011.

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This concluding chapter (a) compares all the episodes of fiscal squeeze in the UK over a century in terms of loss imposition, political costs to incumbents in pursuing fiscal squeeze, and the degree of state effort involved; (b) shows how the fiscal squeeze ‘game’ changed over a century (in terms of depth, length, composition, blame allocation, and of the tactics adopted, including stealth taxes and bear traps); (c) explores consequences of fiscal squeezes, and shows that a puzzle in the literature about apparently erratic voter ‘punishment’ of governments imposing austerity policies can be resolved if austerity is defined in terms of losses imposed rather than debt and deficit outcomes, and if political costs incurred by incumbents in pursuing fiscal squeeze are considered; (d) considers the future of fiscal squeeze, exploring what future fiscal squeezes will be like if past trends continue into the future.

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Russell, Paul. Sorabji and the Dilemma of Determinism. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190627607.003.0001.

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In Necessity, Cause and Blame (London, 1980) Richard Sorabji argues that what is caused need not be necessitated. On this basis he argues that human actions may be caused but not necessitated and that in this way we can escape the usual difficulties associated with the dilemma of determinism. This chapter argues that this strategy runs into serious difficulties and that in important respects it gets impaled on both horns of the dilemma at once. The main thrust of the criticism advanced is that on Sorabji’s account, while an agent may have more than one available set of reasons to act on, she still lacks effective control over which of these reasons becomes her will—leaving the agent vulnerable, in significant respects, to the play of chance and luck. The relevance of these issues to the contemporary debate is explained in an addendum from 2016.

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McPherson, Alan. Ghosts of Sheridan Circle. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653501.001.0001.

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On September 21, 1976, a car bomb killed Orlando Letelier, the former Chilean ambassador to the United States, along with his US colleague Ronni Moffitt. The murder shocked the world, especially because of its setting--Sheridan Circle, in the heart of Washington, D.C. Letelier’s widow and her allies immediately suspected the secret police of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who eliminated opponents around the world. Because US political leaders saw the tyrant as a Cold War ally, they failed to warn him against assassinating Letelier and hesitated to blame him afterward. Government investigators and diplomats, however, pledged to find the killers, defying a monstrous, secretive regime. Was justice attainable? Finding out would take nearly two decades. With interviews from three continents, never-before-used documents, and recently declassified sources that conclude that Pinochet himself ordered the hit and then covered it up, Alan McPherson has produced the definitive history of one of the Cold War’s most consequential assassinations. The Letelier car bomb forever changed counterterrorism, human rights, and democracy. This page-turning real-life political thriller combines a police investigation, diplomatic intrigue, courtroom drama, and survivors’ tales of sorrow and tenacity.

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Climate Change and Tradition in a Small Island State: The Rising Tide. Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

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Climate Change and Tradition in a Small Island State. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Parker, Emily Anne. Elemental Difference and the Climate of the Body. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197575079.001.0001.

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The polis, the philosophical concept according to which there is one complete human form, is to blame for political and ecological crises. The polis as a philosophical tradition shares the current complex shape of climate change. A certain perfect body figures the denial of matter of the polis. The book presents a philosophy of elemental difference, an affirmation of the singularities of location, movement, living, aging, dying, valuing, in which humans partake. Elemental difference in the polis can be appreciated in the fact that empirical bodily nonidentity can be called upon to elevate one group of bodies among the rest. Empirical bodily nonidentity is a feature of the original articulation of the polis as a philosophical concept in the work of Aristotle. Sylvia Wynter has argued that the very idea of empirical bodily nonidentity begins with the modern science of racial anatomy. She calls this biocentrism. This book argues that biocentrism is a feature of the polis, according to which the one complete body was defined by its capacity for disembodied thought. The sciences of racial anatomy are a more explicit commitment to biocentrism, but the ranking of matter with respect to one complete human, a body that is the site of supra-natural thinking, is a practice that has always characterized the polis. In this way, the polis is responsible for both political and ecological hierarchy. It is as responsible for what is euphemistically called climate change as it is for the political hierarchy that constitutes it.

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Pasternak, Avia. Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197541036.001.0001.

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International and domestic laws commonly hold states responsible for their wrongdoings. States pay compensation for their unjust wars, and reparations for their historical wrongdoings. Some argue that states should incur punitive damages for their international crimes. But there is a troubling aspect to these practices. States are corporate agents, composed of flesh and blood citizens. When the state uses the public purse to finance its corporate liabilities, the burden falls on these citizens, even if they protested against the state’s policies, did not know about them, or entirely lacked channels of political influence. How can this “distributive effect” of state-level responsibly be justified? The book develops an answer to this question, which revolves around citizens’ participation in their state. It argues that citizenship can be a type of massive collective action, where citizens willingly orient themselves around the authority of their state, and where state policies are the product of this collective action. While most ordinary citizens are not to blame for their participation in their state, they nevertheless ought to accept a share of the remedial obligations that flow from their state’s wrongful policies. However, the distributive effect cannot be justified in all states. Specifically, in (some) nondemocratic states most citizens are not participating in their state in the full sense, and should not pay for their state’s wrongdoings. This finding calls then for a revision of the way we hold states responsible in both the domestic and international levels.

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Caps, John. Off to See the World. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036736.003.0010.

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This chapter details events following Mancini's break with Blake Edwards. While the break was a private event that seemed to put his future career into a state of flux, Mancini sensed a chance to advance, an opportunity in the making, when a phone call reached him at that songwriting contest in Rio. It was Paramount Studios calling. They had been bankrolling a gritty film about the 1876 Irish coal miners' strike in Pennsylvania called The Molly Maguires (1970), and the project was in trouble. The film was being judged too monotone and grim, while the music was deemed too little, too light, casting the drama into doubt. The studio' thought was that with a little more color in the score, and especially a firmer sense of musical drama, the whole momentum of the film might be lifted. And from Mancini's point of view this was just the breath of fresh air that this composer-in-transition had wanted. Almost immediately on finishing The Molly Maguires, Mancini would receive another surprise call from even further afield, announcing that the great Italian neorealist director Vittorio De Sica and the great producer Carlo Ponti wanted to work with him in the film I Girasoli (1970), soon to take the American title Sunflower.

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Sudra, Paweł. Rozpraszanie i koncentracja zabudowy na przykładzie aglomeracji warszawskiej po 1989 roku = Dispersion and concentration of built-up areas on the example of the Warsaw agglomeration after 1989. Instytut Geografii i Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania im. Stanisława Leszczyckiego, Polska Akademia Nauk, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7163/9788361590057.

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The research problem undertaken in the study is the occurrence of dispersed and concentrated built-up (in particular residential) area patterns caused by suburbanisation processes in a large urban agglomeration, on the example of the Warsaw metropolitan area. The research concerned the period after 1989, when the political and economic transformation in Poland began. The historical and contemporary socio-economic conditions of suburbanization and urban sprawl are described, which have the features of a spontaneous, chaotic dispersion, quite different than in Western countries. It is partly to blame for faulty spatial planning. The succession of urban development into rural areas is subordinated to the factors of the construction market. In the empirical part of the analysis, topographic data on all buildings in the urban agglomeration and databases on land use derived from satellite images were used to investigate settlement changes. A multidimensional study was carried out relating to various spatial scales, types of spatial relations and territorial units. Measures of spatial concentration of point patterns as well as landscape metrics were used for this purpose. The indicators used were subject to critical methodological evaluation afterwards. The study was performed in several temporal cross-sections. The locations of new development in agricultural, forest and wasteland areas have been identified. Finally, recommendations for the implementation of appropriate spatial policy and improvement of the spatial order in the Warsaw agglomeration were formulated

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Beider, Harris, and Kusminder Chahal. The Other America. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447337058.001.0001.

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Widely stereotyped as anti-immigrant, against civil-rights, or supporters of Trump and the right, can the white working class of the United States really be reduced to a singular group with similar views? This book begins with an overview of how the term “white working class” became weaponized and used as a vessel to describe people who were seen to be “deplorable.” The national narrative appears to credit (or blame) white working-class mobilization across the country for the success of Donald Trump in the 2016 US elections. Those who take this position see the white working class as being problematic in different ways: grounded in norms and behaviors that seem out of step with mainstream society; at odds with the reality of increased ethnic diversity across the country and especially in cities; blaming others for their economic plight; and disengaged from politics. Challenging populist views about the white working class in the United States, the book showcases what they really think about the defining issues in today's America—from race, identity, and change to the crucial on-the-ground debates occurring at the time of the 2016 U.S. election. As the 2020 presidential elections draw near, this is an invaluable insight into the complex views on 2016 election candidates, race, identity and cross-racial connections.

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Moore, Michael S. Mechanical Choices. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190863999.001.0001.

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This book assays how the remarkable discoveries of contemporary neuroscience impact our conception of ourselves and our responsibility for our choices and our actions. Dramatic (and indeed revolutionary) changes in how we think of ourselves as agents and as persons are commonly taken to be the implications of those discoveries of neuroscience. Indeed, the very notions of responsibility and of deserved punishment are thought to be threatened by these discoveries. Such threats are collected into four groupings: (1) the threat from determinism, that neurosciences shows us that all of our choices and actions are caused by events in the brain that precede choice; (2) the threat from epiphenomenalism, that our choices are shown by experiment not to cause the actions that are the objects of such choice but are rather mere epiphenomena, co-effects of common causes in the brain; (3) the threat from reductionist mechanism, that we and everything we value is nothing but a bunch of two-valued switches going off in our brains; and (4) the threat from fallibilism, that we are not masters in our own house because we lack the privileged knowledge of our own minds needed to be such masters. The book seeks to blunt such radical challenges while nonetheless detailing how law, morality, and common-sense psychology can harness the insights of an advancing neuroscience to more accurately assign moral blame and legal punishment to the truly deserving.

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Boyer-Kassem, Thomas, Conor Mayo-Wilson, and Michael Weisberg, eds. Scientific Collaboration and Collective Knowledge. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190680534.001.0001.

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Descartes once argued that, with sufficient effort and skill, a single scientist could uncover fundamental truths about our world. Contemporary science proves the limits of this claim. From synthesizing the human genome to predicting the effects of climate change, some current scientific research requires the collaboration of hundreds (if not thousands) of scientists with various specializations. Additionally, the majority of published scientific research is now coauthored, including more than 80% of articles in the natural sciences. Small collaborative teams have become the norm in science. This is the first volume to address critical philosophical questions about how collective scientific research could be organized differently and how it should be organized. For example, should scientists be required to share knowledge with competing research teams? How can universities and grant-giving institutions promote successful collaborations? When hundreds of researchers contribute to a discovery, how should credit be assigned—and can minorities expect a fair share? When collaborative work contains significant errors or fraudulent data, who deserves blame? In this collection of essays, leading philosophers of science address these critical questions, among others. Their work extends current philosophical research on the social structure of science and contributes to the growing, interdisciplinary field of social epistemology. The volume’s strength lies in the diversity of its authors’ methodologies. Employing detailed case studies of scientific practice, mathematical models of scientific communities, and rigorous conceptual analysis, contributors to this volume study scientific groups of all kinds, including small labs, peer-review boards, and large international collaborations like those in climate science and particle physics.

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Doz, Yves, and Keeley Wilson. Ringtone. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777199.001.0001.

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In less than three decades, Nokia emerged from Finland to lead the mobile phone revolution. It grew to have one of the most recognizable and valuable brands in the world and then fell into decline, leading to the sale of its mobile phone business to Microsoft. This book explores and analyzes that journey and distills observations and lessons for anyone keen to understand what drove Nokia’s amazing success and sudden downfall. It is tempting to lay the blame for Nokia’s demise at the doors of Apple, Google, and Samsung, but this would be to ignore one very important fact: Nokia had begun to collapse from within well before any of these companies entered the mobile communications market, and this makes Nokia’s story all the more interesting. Observing from the position of privileged outsiders (with access to Nokia’s senior managers over the last twenty years and a more recent, concerted research agenda), this book describes and analyzes the various stages in Nokia’s journey. This is an inside story: one of leaders making strategic and organizational decisions, of their behavior and interactions, and of how they succeeded and failed to inspire and engage their employees. Perhaps most intriguingly, it is a story that opens the proverbial “black box” of why and how things actually happen at the top of organizations. Why did things fall apart? To what extent were avoidable mistakes made? Did the world around Nokia change too fast for it to adapt? Did Nokia’s success contain the seeds of its failure?

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Attain a Happy & Peaceful Life by Nikhil Anshuman: Live a life filled with happiness and inner peace. Nikhil Anshuman, 2019.

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