Books: 'Growth faults'

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Fleming, Robert W. Growth of a tectonic ridge. Denver, Colo: U.S. Geological Survey, 1997.

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E, Ewing Thomas. Structural styles of the Wilcox and Frio growth-fault trends in Texas: Constraints on geopressured reservoirs. Austin, Texas: Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, 1986.

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Garrity, Robert M. O happy fault: Personal recovery through spiritual growth. New York: Paulist Press, 1994.

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General, Michigan Office of the Auditor. Audit report: Financial audit including the provisions of the single audit act of the Department of Labor and Economic Growth, October 1, 2004 through September 30, 2006. [Lansing, Mich: Michigan Office of the Auditor General, 2007.

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Michigan. Office of the Auditor General. Audit report: Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Health, Department of Public Health, December 1, 1985 through August 31, 1989. [Lansing, Mich.]: The Office, 1990.

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Michigan. Office of the Auditor General. Audit report: Intangibles and Inheritance Tax Division, Department of Treasury, July 1, 1986 through June 30, 1989. [Lansing, Mich.]: The Office, 1990.

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Michigan. Office of the Auditor General. Audit report: Mental Health Services, Bureau of Health Care Services, Department of Corrections, October 1, 1984 through June 30, 1989. [Lansing, Mich.]: The Office, 1990.

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Michigan. Office of the Auditor General. Audit report: Performance audit of the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association, July 1, 1992 through June 30, 1995. [Lansing] (201 N. Washington Square, Lansing 48913): The Office, 1996.

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General, Michigan Office of the Auditor. Audit report: Financial audit, including the provisions of the Single Audit Act, of the Department of Mental Health, October 1, 1987 through September 30, 1989. [Lansing, Mich.] (201 N. Washington Square, Lansing 48913): The Office, 1990.

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Michigan. Office of the Auditor General. Audit report: Performance audit of the Michigan Department of Transportation architecture project, user application and registration system, bid express system, and contruction related system : Department of Transportation and Department of Information Technology. [Lansing, Mich: Michigan Office of the Auditor General, 2007.

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General, Michigan Office of the Auditor. Audit report: Performance audit, Enforcement Program, Bureau of Health Services, Department of Licensing and Regulation, May 1, 1985 through January 31, 1989. [Lansing, Mich.]: The Office, 1990.

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Michigan. Office of the Auditor General. Audit report: Financial audit including the provisions of the Single Audit Act of the Department of History, Arts, and Libraries, October 1, 2002 through September 30, 2004. [Lansing, Mich.]: Office of the Auditor General, 2005.

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Michigan. Office of the Auditor General. Audit report: Performance and financial audit of the Automobile Theft Prevention Authority, Department of State Police, October 1, 1987 through September 30, 1989. [Lansing, Mich.] (201 N. Washington Square, Lansing 48913): The Office, 1991.

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Michigan. Office of the Auditor General. Audit report: Financial related audit of the Medicaid payment process, Medical Services Administration, Department of Social Services, October 1, 1986 through December 31, 1988. [Lansing, Mich.] (201 N. Washington Square, Lansing 48913): The Office, 1991.

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General, Michigan Office of the Auditor. Audit report: Financial audit including the provisions of the Single Audit Act of the Department of History, Arts and Libraries, October 1, 2004 through September 30, 2006. [Lansing, Mich.]: Office of the Auditor General, 2007.

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Michigan. Office of the Auditor General. Audit report: Department of Management and Budget, financial and compliance audit, including the provisions of the Single Audit Act, October 1, 1984 through September 30, 1986. [Lansing, Mich.] (333 S. Capitol Ave., Suite A, Lansing 48913): State of Michigan, Office of the Auditor General, 1988.

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Michigan. Office of the Auditor General. Audit report: Performance audit of commercial vehicle enforcement, Michigan Department of State Police. [Lansing, Mich.]: Michigan Office of the Auditor General, 2008.

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Michigan. Office of the Auditor General. Audit report: Department of Labor financial and compliance audit, including the provisions of the Single Audit Act, October 1, 1984 through September 30, 1986. [Lansing, Mich.] (333 S. Capital Ave., Suite A, Lansing 48913): State of Michigan, Office of the Auditor General, 1988.

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Michigan. Office of the Auditor General. Audit report: Performance audit of the Bureau of Health Systems, Department of Community Health. [Lansing, MI]: Office of Auditor General, 2005.

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Michigan. Office of the Auditor General. Audit report: Performance audit of the delivery of services to the aging : October 1, 1992 through December 31, 1995. [Lansing] (201 N. Washington Square, Lansing 48913): The Office, 1996.

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Michigan. Office of the Auditor General. Audit report: Financial audit of state employees' deferred compensation fund I (457 plan) and fund II (401(K) plan), Department of Civil Service, October 1, 1989, through September 30, 1991. [Lansing] (201 N. Washington Square, Lansing 48913): The Office, 1993.

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Michigan. Office of the Auditor General. Audit report: Performance audit of the selection activities, Department of Civil Service, December 1, 1985 through December 31, 1989. [Lansing, Mich.] (201 N. Washington Square, Lansing 48913): The Office, 1990.

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Michigan. Office of the Auditor General. Audit report: Performance audit of the Indian Gaming Oversight Program, Office of Racing Commissioner, Department of Agriculture. [Lansing] (201 N. Washington Square, Lansing 48913): The Office, 1997.

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General, Michigan Office of the Auditor. Audit report: Performance audit of the Child Support Enforcement System, Family Independence Agency : January 1, 1985 through April 30, 1996. [Lansing] (201 N. Washington Square, Lansing 48913): The Office, 1996.

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General, Michigan Office of the Auditor. Audit report: Performance audit of the Statewide Child Support Program, Department of Social Services, January 1, 1991 through September 30, 1994. [Lansing] (201 N. Washington Square, Lansing 48913): The Office, 1995.

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Michigan. Office of the Auditor General. Audit report: Performance audit of selected Medicaid prescription drug cost containment practices, Department of Social Services, January 1, 1991 through April 30, 1994. [Lansing, Mich.]: The Office, 1994.

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Michigan. Office of the Auditor General. Audit report: Performance audit of the Center for Substance Abuse Services, Michigan Department of Public Health, October 1, 1991 through April 15, 1995. [Lansing] (201 N. Washington Square, Lansing 48913): The Office, 1995.

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General, Michigan Office of the Auditor. Audit report: Financial audit of state employees' deferred compensation fund I (457 plan) and fund II (401(K) plan), Department of Civil Service, October 1, 1991, through September 30, 1993. [Lansing] (201 N. Washington Square, Lansing 48913): The Office, 1995.

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Michigan. Office of the Auditor General. Audit report: Performance audit of the Michigan State Disbursement Unit, Office of Child Support, Department of Human Services. [Lansing, MI]: State of Michigan, Office of the Auditor General, 2007.

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Michigan. Office of the Auditor General. Audit report: Financial audit of the Department of Treasury, October 1, 1989 through June 30, 1993. [Lansing, Mich.] (201 N. Washington Square, Lansing 48913): The Office, 1994.

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Michigan. Office of the Auditor General. Audit report: Performance audit of the Bureau of Health Services Review, Medical Services Administration, Department of Social Services, October 1, 1989 through April 30, 1993. [Lansing] (201 N. Washington Square, Lansing 48913): The Office, 1995.

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Michigan. Office of the Auditor General. Audit report: Performance audit of the Adult Services Administration, Department of Social Services, January 1, 1988 through February 28, 1990. [Lansing, Mich.]: The Office, 1991.

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Michigan. Office of the Auditor General. Audit report: Corporation and Securities Bureau, Department of Commerce, December 1, 1985 through October 31, 1989. [Lansing, Mich.]: The Office, 1990.

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Desai, Deepakbhai, ed. Fault Is of the Sufferer (In Manipuri). Dada Bhagwan Vignan Foundation, 2022.

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Mody, Ashoka. The ECB Hesitates, the Italian Fault Line Deepens, 2014–2017. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199351381.003.0009.

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This chapter assesses the effect of the legacies of the global financial crisis in Italy. By the early 1990s, Italian economic growth had slowed, the unemployment rate was racing up towards 10 percent, and the government was running large fiscal deficits of around 10 percent of GDP and racking up debt at an alarming pace. Generations of Italian leaders and policymakers believed that the single currency was Italy's magical path to economic prosperity. However, after the launch of the euro, Italy's fractious political system had remained unable to deal with the country's endemic problems. Since the start of the crisis in 2007, Italians had actually become poorer: average Italian incomes had dropped sharply. The crisis had struck at all of Italy's economic and financial fragilities. The Italian economy had suffered from near-zero productivity growth, the government's debt burden had remained high, and the banks had remained unstable.

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Smithers, Andrew. Productivity and the Bonus Culture. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198836117.001.0001.

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Living standards in the UK and the US are in danger of falling. In the past change has brought disruption with the offsetting reward of higher living standards from growth. Today we have disruption without reward. The resulting voter dissatisfaction encourages populist policies which threaten even worse outcomes. The decline in growth has weakened the standing of liberal democracy both at home and internationally. The decline is entirely due to poor productivity combined with an unfavourable change in demography. The UK and the US have changed from having a demographic surplus in which the working population grew faster than the total population to a demographic deficit. Before living standards grew faster than productivity they now grow more slowly. Faster immigration could change demography, but voters are likely to press for less. To avoid falling living standards we must increase the rate at which productivity improves. Faster productivity does not only depend on technology. We can improve it by encouraging more investment. Growth depends on Total Factor Productivity (“TFP”), for which current consensus estimates are based on a faulty model which has induced pessimism about our ability to encourage more growth. The book sets out a revised and superior model of TFP which demonstrates that the weakness in productivity is the result of the bonus culture and suggests ways by which this can be changed so that investment is encouraged and growth returns.

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Pritchett, Lant, Kunal Sen, and Eric Werker, eds. Deals and Development. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198801641.001.0001.

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When are developing countries able to initiate periods of rapid growth and why have so few of these countries been able to sustain growth over decades? Deals and Development: The Political Dynamics of Growth Episodes seeks to answer these questions and many more through a novel conceptual framework built from a political economy of business–government relations. Economic growth for most developing countries is not a linear process. Growth instead proceeds in booms and busts, yet most frameworks for thinking about economic growth are built on the faulty assumption that a country’s economic performance is largely stable. Deals and Development explains how growth episodes emerge and when growth, once ignited, is maintained for a sustained period. It applies its new framework to examining the growth of countries across a range of institutional and political contexts in Africa and Asia, using the examples of Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Rwanda, and Uganda. Through these country analyses it demonstrates the explanatory power of its framework and the importance of feedback cycles in which economic trends interact with political behaviour to either sustain or terminate a growth episode. Offering a lens through which to analyse complex scenarios and unwieldy amounts of information, this book provides actionable levers of intervention to bring around reform and improve a country’s chance at achieving transformative economic growth.

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Gray White, Deborah. Things Fall Apart; the LGBT Center Holds. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040900.003.0006.

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This chapter examines the lgbt marches of 1993 and 2000. It shows that the marches visibilized sexual minorities; made them feel whole and spiritually renewed, and helped people “come out.” It explores how the postmodern consumer economy led to increasing acceptance of lgbts in the 1990s; how the marches expanded the political movement spawned by the HIV/AIDS epidemic; and how lgbts came to express identities beyond sexuality. Ultimately, growth and greater freedom deepened the fault lines in the lgbt community including those between blacks and whites, lesbians and gays, normals and queers, conservatives and liberals. It shows how the special rights campaign mounted in the 1990s by homophobes put pressure on lgbts to assimilate, and how respectability politics prevailed at the 2000 march.

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It wasn't your fault: Freeing yourself from the shame of childhood abuse with the power of self-compassion. New Harbinger Publications, 2015.

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Mockrin, Miranda Hope. Private forests, housing growth, and America's water supply: A report from the Forests on the Edge and Forests to Faucets Projects. 2014.

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Sudhamasapa, Nophadol. A development and simulation of Synergistically Integrated Reliability (SIR) for an ultra-reliable fault tolerance computer under communication software protocol for the growth algorithm. 1986.

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Farrell, David M., and Niamh Hardiman, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Irish Politics. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198823834.001.0001.

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Ireland has enjoyed continuous democratic government for almost a century, an unusual experience among countries that gained their independence in the twentieth century. But the way this works has changed dramatically over time. Ireland’s colonial past has had an enduring influence over political life, enabling stable institutions of democratic accountability, while also shaping economic underdevelopment and persistent emigration. More recently, membership of the EU has brought about far-reaching transformation across almost all aspects of life. But the paradoxes have only intensified. Now one of the most open economies in the world, Ireland has experienced both rapid growth and a severe crash in the wake of the Great Recession. By some measures, Ireland is among the most affluent countries in the world, yet this is not the lived experience for many of its citizens. Ireland is an unequivocally modern state, yet public life continues to be marked by ideas and values in which tradition and modernity are uneasy bedfellows. It is a small state that has ambitions to carry more weight on the world stage. Ireland continues to be deeply connected to Britain through ties of culture and trade, now matters of deep concern post-Brexit. And the old fault lines between North and South, between Ireland and Britain, which had been at the core of one of Europe’s longest and bloodiest civil conflicts, risk being reopened. These key issues are teased out in this book, making it the most comprehensive volume on Irish politics to date.

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Wilson, Alexandra. Opera in the Jazz Age. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190912666.001.0001.

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Opera in the Jazz Age examines the place of opera in the contemporary ‘battle of the brows’: a debate, prompted by the growth of the mass entertainment industry, about the extent to which art forms ought to be labelled ‘highbrow’, ‘middlebrow’, or ‘lowbrow’. The book considers this question from a number of viewpoints, examining topics including: the audience for opera during the period; opera’s interactions with forms of popular culture including jazz, film, and middlebrow novels; and the ways in which different types and nationalities of opera were categorised differently. A number of significant figures in the highbrow–lowbrow debate are scrutinised, among them highbrow and middlebrow critics, the mythical figure of the ‘man in the street’, and the much reviled celebrity singer. The book explains how modern technological dissemination methods such as gramophone recordings and broadcasting came to bear upon questions of cultural categorisation, as did contemporary anxieties about national identity. The book concludes that opera was very difficult to categorise according to the new terms: for some commentators it was too highbrow; for others not highbrow enough. Examining the battle of the brows through an operatic lens challenges received wisdom by revealing the fault lines in this supposedly definitive system of cultural categorisation, undermining any simplistic binary between the high and the low. More broadly, the book also gives a detailed account of British operatic culture of the 1920s from the perspectives of performance, staging, opera-going, and criticism.

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Price, Trevor. Ecology of a Changed World. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197564172.001.0001.

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Abstract In a rapidly changing world, six threats to biodiversity can be summarized by the acronym COPHID: Climate change, Overharvesting, Pollution, Habitat loss, Invasive species, and Disease. These threats have led to many extinctions and are on course to generate many more. Each threat can be traced back to the growth of the human population and a general increase in wealth and technology. This text is designed to provide a summary of what has happened and why, as well as ask how to predict what will happen under various scenarios. The ecological principles of species interactions—mutualism, competition, predation, and parasitism—are applied to food security and to human disease, demonstrating how simplification of communities threatens both wild species and humans. Dramatic changes in the environment have been brought about by the removal of species (collapse of coral reefs), by addition of species (predators destroying island faunas), by pollution (dead zones in the ocean), and by habitat conversion (about 75% of the world’s productive land is now exploited for agriculture or forestry). Despite these issues, the global increase in wealth and education, coupled with a decline in the fertility rate, are causes for optimism. Eventually, the result may be a declining human population, as well as placement of more value on an increasingly scarce commodity, wild lands and wild oceans.

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Faust, Lisa J., Claudine André, Raphaël Belais, Fanny Minesi, Zjef Pereboom, Kerri Rodriguez, and Brian Hare. Bonobo population dynamics: Past patterns and future predictions for the Lola ya Bonobo population using demographic modelling. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198728511.003.0018.

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Wildlife sanctuaries rescue, rehabilitate, reintroduce and provide life-long care for orphaned and injured animals. Understanding a sanctuary’s population dynamics—patterns in arrival, mortality and projected changes in population size—allows careful planning for future needs. Building on previous work on the population dynamics of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in sanctuaries of the Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA; Faust et al. 2011), this chapter extends analyses to the only PASA bonobo sanctuary. Its authors analysed historic demographic patterns and projected future population dynamics using an individual-based demographic model. The population has been growing at 6.7 per cent per year, driven by arrivals of new individuals (mean = 5.5 arrivals per year). Several model scenarios projecting varying arrival rates, releases and breeding scenarios clarify potential future growth trajectories for the sanctuary. This research illustrates how data on historic dynamics can be modelled to inform future sanctuary capacity and management needs. Les sanctuaires de faune secourent, réhabilitent, réintroduisent, et fournissent des soins pour toute la vie aux animaux orphelins et blessés. Comprendre les dynamiques de la population d’un sanctuaire—les motifs d’arrivée, mortalité, et de changements projetés de la taille de la population—permet une planification prudente pour les nécessités du futur. En se basant sur le travail déjà fait sur les dynamiques de la population chimpanzé (Pan troglodytes) dans les sanctuaires du Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA; Faust et al. 2011), nous étendons notre analyse au seul sanctuaire bonobo par PASA. Nous avons analysé les motifs démographiques historiques et avons projeté les futures dynamiques de la population en utilisant un modèle démographique basé sur l’individu. La population augmente de 6.7 per cent par an, poussée par l’arrivée de nouveaux individus (moyenne = 5.5 arrivées par an). Plusieurs scénarios modèles montrent une trajectoire de potentielle croissance pour le sanctuaire. Cette recherche illustre comment modeler les données sur les dynamiques historiques pour informer la capacité future du sanctuaire et les besoins gestionnaires.

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Roett, Riordan. Brazil. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190224523.001.0001.

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Brazil is one of the most important but puzzling countries in the world. A nation of 200 million people, it has vast natural resource reserves, rich cultural traditions, a middle class undergoing explosive growth, and social welfare policies that are models for much of the world (‘la bolsa familia,’ which provides a guaranteed income to poor families). And, after decades of authoritarian rule, it is a stable democracy. Yet it is beset by problems that no other advanced economy suffers from: staggeringly high crime rates, sky-high inequality levels, and endemic political corruption. Emblematic of these two sides of Brazil is the selection of Rio as site of both the next Summer Olympics and the next World Cup. While the choice of Rio for these events points to Brazil’s expanding presence on the world stage, so far the construction and planning for the events have been disastrous, threatening to deeply embarrass the nation. In Brazil: What Everyone Needs to Know, Riordan Roett, an eminent scholar of Brazil and Latin America, will provide a rich overview of Brazil, covering Brazilian society, politics, culture, and the economy. The book begins with a series of chapters on Brazilian history, beginning with the pre-colonial period and moving on, in succession, to the long era of Portuguese rule, the birth of independent Brazil, the emergence of modern Brazil in the 1930s, the era of the dictators, and - finally - to the democratic regime that came into being in the 1980s. Throughout the book, Roett will focus sharply on the fault lines -- racial, economic, political, and cultural - that have plagued Brazil from its beginnings to this day. As the 2016 World Cup and Summer Olympics approach, interest in Brazil is sure to rise. Roett’s synthesis will provide interested readers with an accessible, authoritative overview of this troubled yet fascinating giant.

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Fitzsimmons, Rebekah, and Casey Alane Wilson, eds. Beyond the Blockbusters. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496827135.001.0001.

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While the critical and popular attention afforded to twenty-first century young adult literature has exponentially increased in recent years, the texts selected for discussion in both classrooms and scholarship has remained static and small. Twilight, The Hunger Games, The Fault in Our Stars, and The Hate U Give dominate conversations among scholars and critics—but they are far from the only texts in need of analysis. Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction offers a necessary remedy to this limited perspective by bringing together a series of essays about the many subgenres, themes, and character types that have been overlooked and under-discussed until now. The collection tackles a diverse range of subjects—modern updates to the marriage plot; fairy tale retellings in dystopian settings; stories of extrajudicial police killings and racial justice—but is united by a commitment to exploring the large-scale generic and theoretical structures at work in each set of texts. As a collection, Beyond the Blockbusters is an exciting glimpse of a field that continues to grow and change even as it explodes with popularity, and would make an excellent addition to the library of any scholar, instructor, or reader of young adult literature.

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Hardin, Garrett. Living within Limits. Oxford University Press, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195078114.001.0001.

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We fail to mandate economic sanity, writes Garrett Hardin, "because our brains are addled by...compassion." With such startling assertions, Hardin has cut a swathe through the field of ecology for decades, winning a reputation as a fearless and original thinker. A prominent biologist, ecological philosopher, and keen student of human population control, Hardin now offers the finest summation of his work to date, with an eloquent argument for accepting the limits of the earth's resources--and the hard choices we must make to live within them. In Living Within Limits, Hardin focuses on the neglected problem of overpopulation, making a forceful case for dramatically changing the way we live in and manage our world. Our world itself, he writes, is in the dilemma of the lifeboat: it can only hold a certain number of people before it sinks--not everyone can be saved. The old idea of progress and limitless growth misses the point that the earth (and each part of it) has a limited carrying capacity; sentimentality should not cloud our ability to take necessary steps to limit population. But Hardin refutes the notion that goodwill and voluntary restraints will be enough. Instead, nations where population is growing must suffer the consequences alone. Too often, he writes, we operate on the faulty principle of shared costs matched with private profits. In Hardin's famous essay, "The Tragedy of the Commons," he showed how a village common pasture suffers from overgrazing because each villager puts as many cattle on it as possible--since the costs of grazing are shared by everyone, but the profits go to the individual. The metaphor applies to global ecology, he argues, making a powerful case for closed borders and an end to immigration from poor nations to rich ones. "The production of human beings is the result of very localized human actions; corrective action must be local....Globalizing the 'population problem' would only ensure that it would never be solved." Hardin does not shrink from the startling implications of his argument, as he criticizes the shipment of food to overpopulated regions and asserts that coercion in population control is inevitable. But he also proposes a free flow of information across boundaries, to allow each state to help itself. "The time-honored practice of pollute and move on is no longer acceptable," Hardin tells us. We now fill the globe, and we have no where else to go. In this powerful book, one of our leading ecological philosophers points out the hard choices we must make--and the solutions we have been afraid to consider.

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