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First, Do Less Harm

Harm Reduction as a Principle of Law and Policy

by Stephanie Arlt, Professeure Line Beauchesne, Full Professor, Richard Elliott, Dr. Marewa Glover, Amelia Howard, PhD Candidate, Professor Martha Jackman, Professor Sam Halabi, Professor; Director Centre for Transformational Health Law, Sandra Ka Hon Chu, Stephanie Lake, Emily McBain Ashfield, Ryan Pusiak, Professor Joao Velloso, Associate Professor, Margot Young ...

Series series Health and Society
Readers will be able to gain a deeper understanding of how different approaches to harm reduction can create a stronger foundation for more effective policies and legislation. Scholars from law and social sciences collaborate with frontline organizations as well as with individuals with lived experience to reflect diverse perspectives, and transform how society addresses substance-related ... Read more

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Readers will be able to gain a deeper understanding of how different approaches to harm reduction can create a stronger foundation for more effective policies and legislation. Scholars from law and social sciences collaborate with frontline organizations as well as with individuals with lived experience to reflect diverse perspectives, and transform how society addresses substance-related
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Where are the people? People's Theater in Inter-Asian Societies

by Ratu Selvi Agnesia, Glecy Cruz ATIENZA, AU Sow Yee, BAEK Dae-hyun, Richard BARBER, Assane Alberto CASSIMO, CHUNG Chiao, Dindon W.S., Muhammad FEBRIANSYAH, HAN Jia-ling, HONG Seung-yi, Hsiao-Chuan HSIA, KUO Liang-ting, LEE Show Shin, LIU Hsin-hung, Adaw Palaf LANGASAN, WANG Chu-yu, WANG Mo-lin, Robin WEICHERT, WU Sih-Fong, ZHAO Chuana ...

Where Are the People?How Could the People’s Bodies Voice Themselves in the Form ofTheatrical Aesthetics?At That Time, the Audience Really Stood Up.In this evening, theater practitioners initiated the conversation with physical action. They engage with contemporary issues through their unique performance styles. From a discursive context, they enter the scene of resistance and undertake the labor ... Read more

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Where Are the People?How Could the People’s Bodies Voice Themselves in the Form ofTheatrical Aesthetics?At That Time, the Audience Really Stood Up.In this evening, theater practitioners initiated the conversation with physical action. They engage with contemporary issues through their unique performance styles. From a discursive context, they enter the scene of resistance and undertake the labor
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Filipinx American Studies

Reckoning, Reclamation, Transformation

by Rick Bonus, Antonio Tiongson Jr., Angelica Allen, Gina Apostol, Nerissa Balce, Victor Bascara, Jody Blanco, Alana Bock, Sony Coranez Bolton0, Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns1, Richard Chu2, Gary Colmenar3, Kim Compoc4, Denise Cruz5, Reuben Deleon6, Josen Diaz7, Robert Diaz8, Vernadette Gonzales9, Theodore Gonzalves0, Anna Guevarra1, Allan Punzalan Isaac2, Martin Manalansan3, Dina Maramba4, Cynthia Marasigan5, Edward Nadurata6, JoAnna Poblete7, Anthony Bayani Rodriguez8, Dylan Rodríguez9, Evelyn Rodriguez0, J. A. Ruanto-Ramirez1, Michael Schulze-Oechtering2, Sarita Echavez-See3, Roy Taggueg4 ...

This volume spotlights the unique suitability and situatedness of Filipinx American studies both as a site for reckoning with the work of historicizing U.S. empire in all of its entanglements, as well as a location for reclaiming and theorizing the interlocking histories and contemporary trajectories of global capitalism, racism, sexism, and heteronormativity. It encompasses an interrogation of ... Read more

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This volume spotlights the unique suitability and situatedness of Filipinx American studies both as a site for reckoning with the work of historicizing U.S. empire in all of its entanglements, as well as a location for reclaiming and theorizing the interlocking histories and contemporary trajectories of global capitalism, racism, sexism, and heteronormativity. It encompasses an interrogation of
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India: Economic Reform and Growth

by Richard Mr. Hemming, Woosik Chu, Charles Mr. Collyns, Karen Ms. Parker, Ajai Mr. Chopra, Oliver Mr. Fratzscher ...

Series Book 134 - Occasional Papers
This paper explores the Indian adjustment program of 1991/92 and its initial results. The contents include long-term growth trends for output, investment, and macroeconomic condition; education, labor employment, and poverty; growth, accumulation, and productivity; results of India-specific studies; the stabilization and adjustment strategy; the response to the reforms; the impact on unemployment ... Read more

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This paper explores the Indian adjustment program of 1991/92 and its initial results. The contents include long-term growth trends for output, investment, and macroeconomic condition; education, labor employment, and poverty; growth, accumulation, and productivity; results of India-specific studies; the stabilization and adjustment strategy; the response to the reforms; the impact on unemployment
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Public Expenditure Handbook: A Guide to Public Policy Issues in Developing Countries

Edited by Richard Mr. Hemming, Ke-young Mr. Chu ...

This handbook, edited by Ke-young Chu and Richard Hemming, offers guidance to officials formulating public policy recommendations, so that the aggregate level of public spending conforms with the economy's overall resource capacity. The handbook looks at the impact of public spending on the efficiency of resource use and explores the basis for distinguishing between productive and unproductive ... Read more

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This handbook, edited by Ke-young Chu and Richard Hemming, offers guidance to officials formulating public policy recommendations, so that the aggregate level of public spending conforms with the economy's overall resource capacity. The handbook looks at the impact of public spending on the efficiency of resource use and explores the basis for distinguishing between productive and unproductive
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It's All Too Much

Adventures of a Teenage Beatles Fan in the '60s and Beyond

by David Stark ...

Narrated by David Stark, Richard Buskin (Foreword #1), Lesley-Ann Jones (Foreword #2), Pete Shotton (1983 interview) ...

Unabridged

7 hours 22 min

British music industry veteran David Stark grew up in north-west London during the 1960s as a dedicated Beatles fan, who was lucky enough to meet his musical heroes on various memorable occasions. From gatecrashing the Yellow Submarine film premiere in 1968 and sitting right behind them, to meeting the group individually in some extraordinary circumstances, he recalls his many Beatles encounters ... Read more

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British music industry veteran David Stark grew up in north-west London during the 1960s as a dedicated Beatles fan, who was lucky enough to meet his musical heroes on various memorable occasions. From gatecrashing the Yellow Submarine film premiere in 1968 and sitting right behind them, to meeting the group individually in some extraordinary circumstances, he recalls his many Beatles encounters
... Read more
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Rockydennis Presents Internet Pictures

by Richard Garlick ...

Narrated by asafeoasis2, Lawrence McLachlan ...

Unabridged

29 min

The narrated version of Rockydennis Presents Internet Pictures. We give our narrator absolutely no time to prepare as we demand that they analyze, interpret, and describe a bunch of random images - all in one go! ... Read more

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The narrated version of Rockydennis Presents Internet Pictures. We give our narrator absolutely no time to prepare as we demand that they analyze, interpret, and describe a bunch of random images - all in one go!
... Read more
Dynamics of Local Governance in China During the Reform Era

by Chih-Jou Jay Chen, Jianyu He, Shu Keng, Richard Madsen, Jean C. Oi, Kaoru Shimizu, Anne F. Thurston, Shaoguang Wang, Susan H. Whiting, Peter T.Y. Cheung ...

Series series Key Concepts in Philosophy
Since the Chinese economic reform was realized in the early 1990s, a significant revolution has been launched socially, economically, and politically in China. At present, China is an indispensable actor in the international arena, so that the transitions domestically bring about substantial influence on the whole world. Dynamics of Local Governance in China during the Reform takes close look at ... Read more

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Since the Chinese economic reform was realized in the early 1990s, a significant revolution has been launched socially, economically, and politically in China. At present, China is an indispensable actor in the international arena, so that the transitions domestically bring about substantial influence on the whole world. Dynamics of Local Governance in China during the Reform takes close look at
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Fatal Invention

How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

by Dorothy Roberts ...

An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era.Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a ... Read more

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An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era.Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a
... Read more

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The Subplot

What China Is Reading and Why It Matters

by Megan Walsh ...

What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics?The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you’ve never seen before: a vast migrant-worker poetry movement, homoerotic romances by “rotten girls,” swaggering literary popstars, millionaire e-writers churning out the longest-ever novels ... Read more

$10.69 USD

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What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics?The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you’ve never seen before: a vast migrant-worker poetry movement, homoerotic romances by “rotten girls,” swaggering literary popstars, millionaire e-writers churning out the longest-ever novels
... Read more

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Activists beyond Borders

Advocacy Networks in International Politics

by Margaret E. Keck, Kathryn A. Sikkink ...

Valuable reading for anyone concerned with contemporary dynamics of social change. â• International AffairsMargaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. ... Read more

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Valuable reading for anyone concerned with contemporary dynamics of social change. â• International AffairsMargaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states.
... Read more
Between Flexibility and Reliability

Changing Planning Culture in China

by Chiu-Yuan Wang ...

The aim of this thesis is to provide an outline to address questions with regard to the transformation of planning in China that has occurred after the 1980s. The research is using “planning evolution” as the main research skeleton. The starting point is to investigate to what extent Chinese urban planning has developed after the opening up and other reforms under the state-led and market-driven ... Read more

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The aim of this thesis is to provide an outline to address questions with regard to the transformation of planning in China that has occurred after the 1980s. The research is using “planning evolution” as the main research skeleton. The starting point is to investigate to what extent Chinese urban planning has developed after the opening up and other reforms under the state-led and market-driven
... Read more

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