Wade into the endless smoke of Chicago Union Stock Yards, the site of nearly three hundred extra-alarm fires before its closure in 1971, including some of the most disastrous conflagrations of a city famous for fire. In 1910, twenty-one firemen and three civilians were killed in a blaze at a beef warehouse--the largest death roll for an organized fire department in the nation prior to 9/11. The meatpackers who ran the yards considered the cons...
To book a ride on the "World's Shortest Airline" or learn aerial stunts from the redheaded widow of Lawrence Avenue, you've got to go through the airports buried beneath the housing developments and shopping malls of Chicagoland. Many of these airports sprang up after World War I, when training killed more pilots than combat, and the aviation pioneers who developed Chicago's flying fields played a critical role in getting the nation ready to d...
From the arrival of the Quakers in the seventeenth century to the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation, Long Island played an important role in the Underground Railroad's work to guide slaves to freedom. In Old Westbury, the Post family established a major stop on the freedom trail with the help of an escaped Virginia slave. In Jericho, families helped escaping slaves to freedom from the present-day Maine Maid Inn. Elias Hicks helped f...
This instructional Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu book & DVD combo offers a complete guide to ground fighting principles and techniques to use when the fight goes to the ground. In a street defense scenario, the ground is a dangerous place to be. While it's a good idea to learn defensive strategies for ground fighting actively, it is important to put those skills into the context of how you want to use them. Whether you're an experienced submission-grap...
The English legal system in the area of social work with children and families can be bewildering and complex and it is vital therefore that any textbook on the subject uses case law, case studies and research to critically-engage social workers and students alike. This book does just that - by examining, and putting into clear practical context, the current law and policy relating to social work with children and families. A guide for both st...
Ten years after the 9/11 attacks this book reassesses the effectiveness of the "War on Terror", considers how al-Qaeda and other jihadist movements are faring, explores the impact of wider developments in the Islamic world such as the Arab Spring, and discusses whether all this suggests that a new approach to containing international, especially jihadist, terrorism is needed.
This volume brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical, and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources. The contributors argue that these scarcities will put an end to the capitalist system as we know it and alternatives must be created.
Mindfulness considers the mindfulness-based approaches to medicine, psychology, neuroscience, healthcare, education, business leadership, and other major societal institutions that have become increasingly common. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Buddhism.
Incidence of binge eating disorder appears to be on the increase. Treating it, and overcoming it, is all the more difficult, especially for those living in a culture that has an intense body image focus. This book educates the reader about its triggers and behaviours - and describes steps to treat it and resume a full and productive life.
This is a comprehensive reference for the psychology and psychiatry student, intern, or resident, early career psychologist or psychiatrist, and the busy clinician. It distills the most important information regarding combined treatments for anxiety and presents the material in an easily accessible, understandable, and readable format.
A Clinician¿s Guide to Binge Eating Disorder educates the reader about its triggers and behaviours ¿ and describes steps to treat it and resume a full and productive life.
This book examines the challenges of historical reconciliation in East Asia, and, in doing so, calls for a reimagining of how we understand both historical identity and responsibility. With chapters that focus on select experiences from East Asia, while simultaneously situating them within a wider comparative perspective, the contributors to this volume focus on the close relationship between reconciliation and `inherited responsibility¿ and r...
From the freezing streets of Moscow to the baking guerrilla training camps of Angola, Gilder's memoir of his years as an underground intelligence operative makes for compelling reading
First published in 1987 this text considers the practical implications of increasing public access to official information in Britain, both from the perspective of increasing Freedom of Information and reforming Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act.
First published in 1931, Robert Byron's 'Essay on India' evaluates the state of colonial rule in India and analyses the contemporary problems facing the country. Based upon his travels in 1929 as a correspondent for the Daily Express, it evaluates the successes and failures of British colonialism in the region.
In an often overlooked passage, Emmanuel Levinas states that we must "de-face humans, sternly reducing each one's uniqueness to his individuality in the unity of the genus, and let universality rule.” How can Levinas, the great thinker of infinite alterity and the face of the other, make such a provocative claim? This argues that understanding this claim is the key to unlocking the possibility of positive, constructive ethical and political th...
Mel Gurtov takes issue with the widespread view that China is on the way to rivalling, or even displacing, the US as the dominant world power. Arguing that China's economic rise has exacerbated problems of social inequality, environmental degradation, official corruption, and more - and that its military capabilities and ambitions are far more limited than many observers have suggested - he makes a strong case that the most productive US polic...
Mel Gurtov takes issue with the widespread view that China is on the way to rivalling, or even displacing, the US as the dominant world power. Arguing that China's economic rise has exacerbated problems of social inequality, environmental degradation, official corruption, and more - and that its military capabilities and ambitions are far more limited than many observers have suggested - he makes a strong case that the most productive US polic...
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