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Common and destructive, limited wars are significant international events that pose a number of challenges to the states involved beyond simple victory or defeat. Chief among these challenges is the risk of escalation-be it in the scale, scope, cost, or duration of the conflict. In this book, Spencer D. Bakich investigates a crucial and heretofore ignored factor in determining the nature and direction of limited war: information institutions. Traditional assessments of wartime strategy focus on the relationship between the military and civilians, but Bakich argues that we must take into account the information flow patterns among top policy makers and all national security organizations. By examining the fate of American military and diplomatic strategy in four limited wars, Bakich demonstrates how not only the availability and quality of information, but also the ways in which information is gathered, managed, analyzed, and used, shape a state's ability to wield power effectively in dynamic and complex international systems. Utilizing a range of primary and secondary source materials, Success and Failure in Limited War makes a timely case for the power of information in war, with crucial implications for international relations theory and statecraft.

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Fire, both inevitable and ubiquitous, plays a crucial role in North American ecosystems. But as necessary as fire is to maintaining healthy ecosystems, it threatens human lives and livelihoods in unacceptable ways. This volume explores the rich yet largely uncharted terrain at the intersection of fire policy, fire science, and fire management in order to find better ways of addressing this pressing dilemma. Written in clear language, it will help scientists, policy makers, and the general public, especially residents of fire-prone areas, better understand where we are today in regard to coping with wildfires, how we got here, and where we need to go. Drawing on abundant historical and analytic information to shed new light on current controversies, Living with Fire offers a dynamic new paradigm for coping with fire that recognizes its critical environmental role. The book also tells how we can rebuild the important ecological and political processes that are necessary for finding better ways to cope with fire and with other complex policy dilemmas.

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In The Making of a Teenage Service Class, Ranita Ray uncovers the pernicious consequences of focusing on risk behaviors such as drug use, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood as the key to ameliorating poverty. Ray recounts the three years she spent with sixteen poor black and brown youth, documenting their struggles to balance school and work while keeping commitments to family, friends, and lovers. Hunger, homelessness, untreated illnesses, and long hours spent traveling between work, school, and home disrupted their dreams of upward mobility. While families, schools, nonprofit organizations, academics, and policy makers stress risk behaviors in their efforts to end the cycle of poverty, Ray argues that this strategy reinforces class and racial hierarchies and diverts resources that could better support marginalized youth's efforts to reach their educational and occupational goals.

Hispanic American students --- African American students --- Poverty --- Urban youth --- Poor youth --- Youth --- City dwellers --- City children --- Afro-American students --- Negro students --- Students, African American --- Students --- Students, Hispanic American --- Education --- academics. --- black youth. --- brown youth. --- career. --- class hierarchy. --- danger. --- drug use. --- family life. --- gangs. --- homelessness. --- hunger. --- illness. --- nonprofit organizations. --- people of color. --- policy makers. --- poverty cycle. --- poverty. --- race hierarchy. --- risk. --- risky behaviors. --- school. --- service class. --- social hierarchy. --- social issues. --- social studies. --- teen parenthood. --- teen parents. --- teen. --- teenagers. --- teens. --- violence. --- work life balance.

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Nearly half of all Americans will be diagnosed with an invasive cancer-an all-too ordinary aspect of daily life. Through a powerful combination of cultural analysis and memoir, this stunningly original book explores why cancer remains so confounding, despite the billions of dollars spent in the search for a cure. Amidst furious debates over its causes and treatments, scientists generate reams of data-information that ultimately obscures as much as it clarifies. Award-winning anthropologist S. Lochlann Jain deftly unscrambles the high stakes of the resulting confusion. Expertly reading across a range of material that includes history, oncology, law, economics, and literature, Jain explains how a national culture that simultaneously aims to deny, profit from, and cure cancer entraps us in a state of paradox-one that makes the world of cancer virtually impossible to navigate for doctors, patients, caretakers, and policy makers alike. This chronicle, burning with urgency and substance leavened with brio and wit, offers a lucid guide to understanding and navigating the quicksand of uncertainty at the heart of cancer. Malignant vitally shifts the terms of an epic battle we have been losing for decades: the war on cancer.

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The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future. With this promise came an injunction: define yourself as you truly are, as an individual, and as a community. Almost two decades later it is clear that it was less the prospect of that future than the habits and horizons of anxious life in racially defined enclaves that determined postapartheid freedom. In this book, Thomas Blom Hansen offers an in-depth analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have accompanied postapartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Durban. Exploring five decades of township life, Hansen tells the stories of ordinary Indians whose lives were racialized and framed by the township, and how these residents domesticated and inhabited this urban space and its institutions, during apartheid and after. Hansen demonstrates the complex and ambivalent nature of ordinary township life. While the ideology of apartheid was widely rejected, its practical institutions, from urban planning to houses, schools, and religious spaces, were embraced in order to remake the community. Hansen describes how the racial segmentation of South African society still informs daily life, notions of race, personhood, morality, and religious ethics. He also demonstrates the force of global religious imaginings that promise a universal and inclusive community amid uncertain lives and futures in the postapartheid nation-state.

East Indians --- Asian Indians --- Indians, East --- Indians (India) --- Indic peoples --- Ethnology --- Durban (South Africa) --- Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) --- Chatsworth, South Africa --- Chatsworth Indian Township (Durban, South Africa) --- Durban, Natal --- eThekwini (South Africa) --- Religion. --- Social conditions. --- Race relations. --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Africans. --- Asiatic question. --- Bollywood films. --- Chatsworth. --- Durban. --- Hinduism. --- Indian life. --- Indian middle class. --- Indian township. --- Indian townships. --- Indian. --- Indians. --- Jacob Zuma. --- Muslims. --- Natal. --- Pentecostal Christianity. --- South Africa. --- South African Indians. --- South Africans. --- ambition. --- apartheid regulation. --- apartheid. --- autonomy. --- charou. --- church communities. --- colonialism. --- coolie. --- cultural economy. --- cultural intimacy. --- cultural mobility. --- culturally alien people. --- cynicism. --- diasporic imagination. --- disengagement. --- ethnoracial definition. --- kombi taxi. --- majoritarianism. --- minorities. --- neo-Hindu movements. --- non-African communities. --- policy makers. --- politics. --- postapartheid city. --- postapartheid freedom. --- postapartheid society. --- postapartheid. --- private taxi industry. --- public culture. --- race lines. --- racial practices. --- racial segregation. --- racialized identities. --- racism. --- religious identity. --- religious purification. --- representative politics. --- roots tourism. --- social activists. --- social mobility. --- spiritual purification. --- township politics. --- traditional conservatism. --- urban landscape. --- urban music. --- working-class Indians. --- youth culture.