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This overview of the ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence moves beyond hype and nightmare scenarios to address concrete questions offering a compelling, necessary read for our ChatGPT era. Artificial intelligence powers Google s search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention. These and other AI applications raise complex ethical issues that are the subject of ongoing debate. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers an accessible synthesis of these issues. Written by a philosopher of technology, AI Ethics goes beyond the usual hype and nightmare scenarios to address concrete questions. Mark Coeckelbergh describes influential AI narratives, ranging from Frankenstein s monster to transhumanism and the technological singularity. He surveys relevant philosophical discussions: questions about the fundamental differences between humans and machines and debates over the moral status of AI. He explains the technology of AI, describing different approaches and focusing on machine learning and data science. He offers an overview of important ethical issues, including privacy concerns, responsibility and the delegation of decision making, transparency, and bias as it arises at all stages of data science processes. He also considers the future of work in an AI economy. Finally, he analyzes a range of policy proposals and discusses challenges for policymakers. He argues for ethical practices that embed values in design, translate democratic values into practices and include a vision of the good life and the good society.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "One of those life-changing reads that makes you see-or, in this case, hear-the whole world differently." -Megan Angelo, author of Followers The New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Magical Overthinking and Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how "cultish" groups, from Jonestown and Scientologists to SoulCycle and social media gurus, use language as the ultimate form of power. What makes "cults" so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and fall down rabbit holes researching suburban moms gone QAnon is because we're looking for a satisfying explanation for what causes people to join-and more importantly, stay in-extreme groups. We secretly want to know: could it happen to me? Amanda Montell's argument is that, on some level, it already has . . . Our culture tends to provide pretty flimsy answers to questions of cult influence, mostly having to do with vague talk of "brainwashing." But the true answer has nothing to do with freaky mind-control wizardry or Kool-Aid. In Cultish, Montell argues that the key to manufacturing intense ideology, community, and us/them attitudes all comes down to language. In both positive ways and shadowy ones, cultish language is something we hear-and are influenced by-every single day. Through juicy storytelling and cutting original research, Montell exposes the verbal elements that make a wide spectrum of communities "cultish," revealing how they affect followers of groups as notorious as Heaven's Gate, but also how they pervade our modern start-ups, Peloton leaderboards, and Instagram feeds. Incisive and darkly funny, this enrapturing take on the curious social science of power and belief will make you hear the fanatical language of "cultish" everywhere.

Josef Ackermann is a household name: banker, business leader, crisis manager – and a controversial figure for many. Hailed one moment as “Switzerland’s best export” for the banking industry, castigated the next as the “bogeyman of the nation,” Ackermann was never out of the headlines for long. He traveled to New York in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. He was an advisor to former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, numerous finance ministers and top EU politicians during the global financial and eurozone crises, and played a key role in preventing the meltdown of the global financial system. For the first time, Ackermann recounts the dramatic hours negotiating the rescue of Hypo Real Estate, the giant German lender that came within a whisker of collapse. He takes a critical look at the causes and lessons of banking crises, analyzes the downfall of Credit Suisse, calls for “war games for bank executives,” tougher stress tests, and greater powers for Switzerland’s regulator FINMA, including a “Special Financial Action Task Force.” Ackermann puts forward concrete suggestions on how to prevent a future financial collapse and formulates his “Ten Maxims of a Good Banker.” The author dedicates other chapters to his childhood and family life and shares many personal anecdotes of encounters with politicians, business leaders and royalty around the world. “To me he has always been a person of great dignity, elegance, insight, perspicacity, with the ability to grasp issues in next to no time.” Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank

Why can't there be enough food, shelter, jobs, health care, homes, schools, education, safety and security for everyone? How can people work together to challenge the way things are, to help redistribute wealth and power, to create a more just and humane society? The answer is Creative Community Organizing. This latest work by legendary activist, musician and author Si Kahn, is a different kind of community organizing book. As with other books, including some by Kahn himself, it does outline many of the practical tactics organizers use. But it's also about community organizing as a way of thinking and a way of life. Creative Community Organizing suggests ways that readers can identify and analyze the various options for action, weigh the positives and negatives and make choices among them. In other words, focus on the end goal and then determine the best strategies, tactics and methods to achieve that goal. It will help established community organizers become more creative and innovative, encourage them to question established principles and decide whether or not they still work. Those new to the field will discover a whole new way of looking at the world - they'll gain a new sense of empowerment, understand that things don't have to be the way they are, that the world can be more fair and humane and that they can live and work in ways that help make that happen.

In a world increasingly driven by technology, the advent of AI-generated influencers is rewriting the rules of social media engagement and digital marketing. In "AI Influencers as Game Changers in the Social Media Landscape," John D. Norse explores the emergence of these artificial personalities and their profound impact on brand strategies and audience interaction. This book delves into the cutting-edge technologies behind AI influencers, examining the evolution of machine learning, deepfakes, and natural language processing that make these digital personas possible. With a keen eye on current trends, Norse analyzes how AI-generated influencers are shifting the balance of power in the influencer economy, offering brands new opportunities for personalized engagement and global reach. But as this transformative technology gains traction, it also presents unique challenges. What does it mean for authenticity and trust in a world where digital faces can be as influential as human ones? How should brands and marketers navigate the ethical considerations that come with deploying AI personas? Through a comprehensive overview of key case studies, industry insights, and ethical debates, "AI Influencers as Game Changers in the Social Media Landscape" provides readers with a nuanced understanding of this rapidly evolving phenomenon and its implications for the future of social media and digital influence. A must-read for marketers, technologists, and anyone curious about the future of online engagement, this book offers a roadmap for harnessing the potential of AI-generated influencers while maintaining the integrity of digital interaction.

GURT is nationally and internationally recognized as one of the world's star gatherings for scholars in the fields of language and linguistics. In 2001, the best from around the world in the disciplines of anthropological linguistics and discourse analysis meet to present and share the latest research on linguistic analysis and to address real-world contexts in private and public domains. The result is this newest, invaluable 2001 edition of the Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics. This volume brings together the plenary speakers only, all leaders in their fields, showcasing discourse contexts that range from medical interactions to political campaigns, from classroom discourse and educational policy to current affairs, and to the importance of everyday family conversations. The contributors expand the boundaries of discourse to include narrative theory, music and language, laughter in conversation, and the ventriloquizing of voices in dialogue. Frederick Erickson explores the musical basis of language in an elementary school classroom; Wallace Chafe analyzes laughter in conversation. William Labor examines narratives told to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, while Deborah Schiffrin compares multiple accounts of Holocaust narratives, and Alessandro Duranti considers competing speaker and audience interpretations during a political candidate's campaign tour. Robin Lakoff uncovers contrasting narratives shared by different cultural groups with respect to such current events as the O.J. Simpson trial. Deborah Tannen examines the integration of power and connection in family relationships, while Heidi Hamilton considers accounts that diabeticpatients give their doctors. Shirley Brice Heath looks at discourse strategies used by policymakers to deny research findings, and G. Richard Tucker and Richard Donato report on a successful bilingual program.

A new look at a contentious period in the history of the Atlantic world Within just a half century, the American, French, Haitian, and Spanish American revolutions transformed the Atlantic world. This book is the first to analyze these events through a comparative lens, revealing several central themes in the field of Atlantic history. From the murky position of the European empire between the Old and New Worlds to slavery and diaspora, Wim Klooster offers insights into the forces behind the many conflicts in the Atlantic world in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Digging deeply into the structural causes and oppressive environments in which these revolutions occurred, Klooster debunks the popular myth that the "people” rebelled against a small ruling elite, arguing instead that the revolutions were civil wars in which all classes fought on both sides. The book reveals the extent to which mechanisms of popular mobilization were visible in the revolutions. For example, although Blacks and Indians often played an important role in the success of the revolutions, they were never compensated once new regimes rose to power. Nor was democracy a goal or product of these revolutions, which usually spawned authoritarian polities. The new edition covers the latest historiographical trends in the study of the Atlantic world, including new research regarding the role of privateers. Drawing on fresh research - such as primary documents and extant secondary literature - Klooster ultimately concludes that the Enlightenment was the ideological inspiration for the Age of Revolutions, although not its cause.

Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery Mindy McGinnis, the acclaimed author of Not a Drop to Drink and In a Handful of Dust, combines murder, madness, and mystery in a beautifully twisted gothic historical thriller perfect for fans of novels such as Asylum and The Diviners as well as television’s True Detective and American Horror Story. Grace Mae is already familiar with madness when dark family secrets and the bulge in her belly send her to a Boston insane asylum—but it is in the darkness that she finds a new lease on life. When a visiting doctor interested in 19th-century criminal psychology recognizes Grace’s brilliant mind beneath her rage, he recruits her as his assistant. Continuing to operate under the cloak of madness at crime scenes allows her to gather clues from bystanders who believe her less than human. Now comfortable in an ethical asylum, Grace finds friends—and hope. But gruesome nights bring Grace and the doctor into the circle of a killer who will bring her shaky sanity and the demons in her past dangerously close to the surface. Gothic Historical Thriller: Step into the grim wards of a 19th-century asylum, where a brilliant young woman must feign madness to survive—and solve a crime. Early Criminal Profiling: Watch as Grace uses her sharp intellect to analyze gruesome crime scenes, pioneering a new science to hunt a killer who preys on the vulnerable. A Haunting Murder Mystery: As Grace and the doctor get closer to the truth, the investigation forces Grace to confront the horrifying demons of her own past. Strong Female Lead: Trapped by family secrets but armed with a brilliant mind, Grace Mae discovers her own power in the darkest of places.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Politik - Internationale Politik - Thema: Europäische Union, Note: keine, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: At the end of 2005, the European Commission released a white paper on financial service policy (EC 2005: 3). It was called ¿the best financial framework in the world¿ (EU Press 2005 found in Stichele 2008: 13). After the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in September 2008 and the accompanied full break out of the financial crisis, the question on, how such a crisis could occur with the regulation in place, was raised for good reason. Independent experts have warned that the actual lax regulation would lead to a crisis, but according to Haar et al. the Commission preferred to listen to the one-sided advice from the financial industry (2009b: 3). After the full extent of the crisis and the failures in regulation policy became obvious, one might have expected that new financial regulation would be set up fast. On the G-20 meeting in London in April 2009, Gordon Brown and others proclaimed a counter strike against the financial and economic crisis by. But according to observers, after these confessions, not much has happened in practice due to financial lobby resistance (Zeit 2009). Still in April 2010, the German newspaper Zeit pointed out that the financial industry¿s power has prevented new financial regulation. Although financial lobby influence is certainly not the only reason, why regulatory reform is not getting further, it has a strong influence in the policy process and overshadows other interests. In Europe, it is especially effective: The European market has been continuously liberalized, but supervision did not keep up with this trend. Financial regulation must satisfy the international level but should also be flexible enough to grasp national differences. Moreover countries are played off against each other. When a single country decides to regulate more strictly, companies can always threaten to leave the country (Stichele 2008: 40, 48). All these considerations give good reason to analyze how the financial industry seeks influence in the European policy process. This paper aims to introduce the different institutional channels where influence can be exercised.

Cisco Systems WS-C3850-48P-L Eine grundlegende Komponente eines Unternehmensnetzwerks ist die LAN-Switching-Infrastruktur, die Anwender, Applikationen und Kommunikationssysteme untereinander verbindet. Seit 1995 ist Cisco Systems führend bei der Innovation des LANSwitching, von der Einführung der Catalyst 5000 Serie bis hin zur Entwicklung der heutigen intelligenten Switch-Plattformen. Die Cisco Catalyst LAN Switches bieten Intelligenz und Leistung nach dem neuesten Stand der Technik und unterstützen die Unternehmensziele durch den Schutz, die Optimierung und die Skalierbarkeit der Infrastruktur. Produktinformationen Produktbeschreibung Cisco Catalyst 3850-48P-L - Switch - 48 Anschlüsse - verwaltet - an Rack montierbar Gerätetyp Switch - 48 Anschlüsse - verwaltet - stapelbar Art An Rack montierbar 1U Untertyp Gigabit Ethernet Ports 48 x 10/100/1000 (PoE+) Power Over Ethernet (PoE) PoE+ PoE-Budget 435 W Leistung Switching-Kapazität: 176 Gbps Mehrfachbandbreite: 480 GBit/s Kapazität IPv4-Routen: 24000 NetFlow-Einträge: 48000 Switched virtual interfaces (SVIs): 1000 Größe der MAC-Adresstabelle 32.000 Einträge Jumbo-Rahmenunterstützung 9198 Byte Remoteverwaltungsprotokoll SNMP 1, RMON 1, RMON 2, Telnet, SNMP 3, SNMP 2c, SSH, CLI Leistungsmerkmale Auto-Negotiation, ARP-Unterstützung, Trunking, VLAN-Unterstützung, Auto-Uplink (Auto MDI/MDI-X), IGMP Snooping, Syslog-Unterstützung, IPv6-Unterstützung, Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)-Unterstützung, Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)-Unterstützung, DHCP-Snooping, Unterstützung für Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP), Unterstützung für Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP), Unterstützung für Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP), Unterstützung für Access Control List (ACL), Quality of Service (QoS), RADIUS-Unterstützung, Virtual Route Forwarding-Lite (VRF-Lite), MLD-Snooping, Dynamic ARP Inspection (DAI), PoE+, STP Root Guard, Uni-Directional Link Detection (UDLD), Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVRST+), IPv4-Unterstützung, Shaped Round Robin (SRR), Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP), Remote Switch Port Analyzer (RSPAN), Layer 3-Lastausgleich, Energy Efficient Ethernet, Cisco StackWise-480-Technologie, Cisco StackPower-Technologie, Flexible NetFlow (FNF) Produktzertifizierungen IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3z, IEEE 802.1D, IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE 802.3ab, IEEE 802.1p, IEEE 802.3af, IEEE 802.3x, IEEE 802.3ad (LACP), IEEE 802.1w, IEEE 802.1x, IEEE 802.1s, IEEE 802.3at Stromversorgung Wechselstrom 120/230 V (50/60 Hz) Redundante Stromversorgung Optional Abmessungen (Breite x Tiefe x Höhe) 44.5 cm x 45 cm x 4.45 cm Gewicht 7.9 kg Erweiterte Produktdetails Allgemein Gerätetyp Switch - 48 Anschlüsse - verwaltet - stapelbar Art Desktop, an Rack montierbar 1U Untertyp Gigabit Ethernet Ports 48 x 10/100/1000 (PoE+) Power Over Ethernet (PoE) PoE+ PoE-Budget 435 W Leistung Switching-Kapazität: 176 Gbps Mehrfachbandbreite: 480 GBit/s Kapazität IPv4-Routen: 24000 NetFlow-Einträge: 48000 Switched virtual interfaces (SVIs): 1000 Größe der MAC-Adresstabelle 32.000 Einträge Jumbo-Rahmenunterstützung 9198 Byte Remoteverwaltungsprotokoll SNMP 1, RMON 1, RMON 2, Telnet, SNMP 3, SNMP 2c, SSH, CLI Authentifizierungsmethode Kerberos, Secure Shell (SSH), RADIUS, TACACS+ Leistungsmerkmale Auto-Negotiation, ARP-Unterstützung, Trunking, VLAN-Unterstützung, Auto-Uplink (Auto MDI/MDI-X), IGMP Snooping, Syslog-Unterstützung, IPv6-Unterstützung, Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)-Unterstützung, Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)-Unterstützung, DHCP-Snooping, Unterstützung für Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP), Unterstützung für Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP), Unterstützung für Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP), Unterstützung für Access Control List (ACL), Quality of Service (QoS), RADIUS-Unterstützung, Virtual Route Forwarding-Lite (VRF-Lite), MLD-Snooping, Dynamic ARP Inspection (DAI), PoE+, STP Root Guard, Uni-Directional Link Detection (UDLD), Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVRST+), IPv4-Unters

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New York Times Bestseller "A powerful guide for taking control of our attention." -Tony Schwartz, author of The Power of Full Engagement and CEO of The Energy Project From the author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, comes a groundbreaking look at today's scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention. For more than two decades, psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman has been scouting the leading edge of the human sciences for what's new, surprising, and important. In Focus, he delves into the neuroscience of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long-overdue discussion of this little-noticed and underrated mental asset that matters enormously for how we navigate life. Attention works much like a muscle: use it poorly and it can wither; work it well and it grows. In an era of unstoppable distractions, Goleman persuasively argues that now more than ever we must learn to sharpen focus and improve our self-control if we are to contend with, let alone thrive in, a complex world. Goleman analyzes attention research as a threesome: inner focus for self-awareness, other focus for empathy, and outer focus for navigating the wider world. Goleman shows why high-performers need all three kinds of focus, as demonstrated by rich case studies from fields as diverse as competitive sports, education, the arts, and business. Those who excel rely on what Goleman calls smart practice that helps them improve habits, add new skills, and sustain excellence. Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings, Focus reveals what distinguishes experts from amateurs and stars from average performers, delivering a master class in high performance. This essential guide to the science of attention reveals: The Anatomy of Attention: Explore the hidden world of your mind, from the value of a wandering mind to the two distinct mental systems-top-down and bottom-up-that compete for your focus. The Power of Willpower: Learn why willpower is a stronger predictor of life success than IQ and how to train this vital mental muscle for yourself and your children. Leadership and Focus: Understand how leaders direct attention, why a triple focus is essential for navigating strategy, and what distinguishes great leaders from the rest. Smart Practice and Mindfulness: Go beyond the 10,000-hour rule with cutting-edge techniques, from smart practice that builds excellence to mindfulness exercises that calm your mind and sharpen your concentration.

The whole supply chain of natural gas, from the gas well through several kinds of elements to final customers, creates an integrated and complex network system. Such complex systems in Europe are owned and operated by different companies. The legal framework of liberalization of the energy markets requires gas network operators to publish flow capacities at their entry and exit stations. In combination with publicly available knowledge about the gas transportation infrastructures, an overall hydraulic simulation of the gas flows over Germany and Europe becomes possible. Considering the logistics and integrity of the natural gas supply system, it is obvious that such models are significant to present the overall gas flow, assess detailed infrastructures and analyze emergency situations based on national or European levels and from a technical point of view. In this thesis, the author depicts the workflow and methodologies of modeling such large scale and complex gas grids, using the German H-gas system as an example. The established model is able to simulate the major gas transmission systems in Germany, with consideration of the storage facilities. The modeling work is described in this thesis from three major aspects: the creation of network topology, the definition of simulation scenarios and the methodologies for capacity calculations. The author further explains in detail the integration of available databases and some simplification and assumption approaches developed for the modeling work. By investigating on German gas consumption sectors and gas demand behaviors over years, various scenarios are defined and simulated. Through the simulations, the technical potentials for both individual entry / exit points and the nationwide grid can be analyzed. The investigation in this thesis also illustrates several case studies to technically evaluate new infrastructures and German “energy transformation” technologies (e.g. synthetic methane from "Power–to–Gas" projects and “Nuclear Moratorium”). Some bottleneck areas in the existing gas transmission system under such newly developed conditions are presented in the model, which could provide good reference information for future pipeline grid extension and facilities enhancement.

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich VWL - Fallstudien, Länderstudien, Note: 2,5, Technische Universität Dresden (Professur für VWL, insb. internationale Wirtschaftspolitik und Wirtschaftsforschung), Veranstaltung: Masterarbeit, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The aim of this study is to analyze the Swiss debt brake as a model for controlling public finances and achieving more effective fiscal policies. Furthermore this study thus strives to contribute to the evolution of fiscal policy. While the benefits to the economy via more effective fiscal policy are straightforward, better fiscal performance is not only a matter of economics and economic welfare: ensuring all citizens¿ trust and belief in public finance forms a major part of democracy (and indeed of every political system). The debate over effective fiscal policies should not neglect the way in which citizens consider sustainable fiscal policy to be a central issue for future generations and a general question of responsible government and legitimacy. Before the 2015 parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom in 2015, the British Labour Party made fiscally responsible behavior its top priority in the election campaign. The Budget Responsibility Lock, as the fiscal plan is called in the Labour manifesto, puts a premium on the national finances by making the plan the basis of all proposed campaign plans. The commitment to sound public finances is on the cover of the manifesto, and Ed Miliband, leader of the Labour Party at the time, said his party was the ¿party of fiscal responsibility.¿ The party pledges to bind its policies to fiscally prudent behavior and to achieving deficit reduction every year. This focus on solid public finances is indicative of the heightened importance of fiscal responsibility in politics and society. Not only in Britain, but also in the majority of countries, both politicians and the public have realized the relevance of sustainable fiscal policy. But how can those in power materialize their electoral promises or make efforts to assert control of public finances?

Historian and civil rights activist proves how progressive movements can flourish even in conservative times. Despair and mourning after the election of an antagonistic or polarizing president, such as Donald Trump, is part of the push-pull of American politics. But in this incisive book, historian Mary Frances Berry shows that resistance to presidential administrations has led to positive change and the defeat of outrageous proposals, even in challenging times. Noting that all presidents, including ones considered progressive, sometimes require massive organization to affect policy decisions, Berry cites Indigenous peoples' protests against the Dakota pipeline during Barack Obama's administration as a modern example of successful resistance built on earlier actions. Beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Berry discusses that president's refusal to prevent race discrimination in the defense industry during World War II and the subsequent March on Washington movement. She analyzes Lyndon Johnson, the war in Vietnam, and the antiwar movement and then examines Ronald Reagan's two terms, which offer stories of opposition to reactionary policies, such as ignoring the AIDS crisis and retreating on racial progress, to show how resistance can succeed. The prochoice protests during the George H. W. Bush administration and the opposition to Bill Clinton's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, as well as his budget cuts and welfare reform, are also discussed, as are protests against the war in Iraq and the Patriot Act during George W. Bush's presidency. Throughout these varied examples, Berry underscores that even when resistance doesn't achieve all the goals of a particular movement, it often plants a seed that comes to fruition later. Berry also shares experiences from her six decades as an activist in various movements, including protesting the Vietnam War and advocating for the Free South Africa and civil rights movements, which provides an additional layer of insight from someone who was there. And as a result of having served in five presidential administrations, Berry brings an insider's knowledge of government. History Teaches Us to Resist is an essential book for our times which attests to the power of resistance. It proves to us through myriad historical examples that protest is an essential ingredient of politics, and that progressive movements can and will flourish, even in perilous times.

A psychoanalytic and philosophical exploration of sublimation as a key term in Jacques Lacan's theories of ethics and feminine sexuality. Jacques Lacan claimed that his theory of feminine sexuality, including the infamous proposition, "the Woman does not exist," constituted a revision of his earlier work on "the ethics of psychoanalysis." In Imagine There's No Woman, Joan Copjec shows how Freud's ragtag, nearly incoherent notion of sublimation was refashioned by Lacan to become the key term in his ethics. To trace the link between feminine being and Lacan's ethics of sublimation, Copjec argues, one must take the negative proposition about the woman's existence not as just another nominalist denunciation of thought's illusions about the existence of universals, but as recognition of the power of thought, which posits and gives birth to the difference of objects from themselves. While the relativist position currently dominant insists on the difference between my views and another's, Lacan insists on this difference within the object I see. The popular position fuels the disaffection with which we regard a world in a state of decomposition, whereas the Lacanian alternative urges our investment in a world that awaits our invention. In the book's first part, Copjec explores positive acts of invention/sublimation: Antigone's burial of her brother, the silhouettes by the young black artist Kara Walker, Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills, and Stella Dallas's final gesture toward her daughter in the well-known melodrama. In the second part, the focus shifts to sublimation's adversary, the cruelly uncreative superego, as Copjec analyzes Kant's concept of radical evil, envy's corruption of liberal demands for equality and justice, and the difference between sublimation and perversion. Maintaining her focus on artistic texts, she weaves her arguments through discussions of Pasolini's Salo, the film noir classic Laura, and the Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination.

NOW IN PAPERBACK—AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “One of those life-changing reads that makes you see—or, in this case, hear—the whole world differently.” —Megan Angelo, author of Followers The New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Magical Overthinking and Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how “cultish” groups, from Jonestown and Scientologists to SoulCycle and social media gurus, use language as the ultimate form of power. What makes “cults” so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and fall down rabbit holes researching suburban moms gone QAnon is because we’re looking for a satisfying explanation for what causes people to join—and more importantly, stay in—extreme groups. We secretly want to know: could it happen to me? In this captivating work of nonfiction cultural commentary, Amanda Montell’s argument is that, on some level, it already has . . . Our culture tends to provide pretty flimsy answers to questions of cult influence, mostly having to do with vague talk of “brainwashing.” But the true answer has nothing to do with freaky mind-control wizardry or Kool-Aid. In Cultish, Montell argues that the key to manufacturing intense ideology, community, and us/them attitudes all comes down to the specific language of fanaticism. In both positive ways and shadowy ones, cultish language is something we hear—and are influenced by—every single day.   Through juicy storytelling and cutting original research, Montell exposes the verbal elements that make a wide spectrum of communities “cultish,” revealing how they affect followers of groups as notorious as Heaven’s Gate, but also how they pervade our modern start-ups, cult fitness classes, Peloton leaderboards, and Instagram feeds. Incisive and darkly funny, this enrapturing take on the curious social science of power and belief will make you hear the fanatical language of “cultish” everywhere. This gripping exploration of sociolinguistics reveals: The Linguistics of Influence: A fascinating breakdown of how specific linguistic techniques-from loaded language to thought-terminating clichés-create intense ideology and control, without any freaky mind-control wizardry. From Jonestown to Social Media: An eye-opening look at a wide spectrum of "cultish" groups, connecting the dots between notorious cults like Heaven's Gate and the subtle persuasion in modern start-ups and Instagram feeds. The Social Science of Power: Through juicy storytelling and cutting research, Montell decodes why we're so drawn to these groups and answers the secret question we all have: "Could it happen to me?" MLMs and #BossBabes: A sharp analysis of how multilevel marketing schemes and other modern tribes use the language of empowerment and inspiration as a powerful tool for recruitment and retention.

Der WS-C2960X-48LPS-L gehört zu der Serie 2960-X und enthält den Cisco LAN-Base-Funktionssatz . Sie erhalten dadurch Vorteile in der Sicherheit, Skalierung und in der Zuverlässigkeit . Durch die Menge an Ports werden Ihnen beim Cisco Catalyst WS-C2960X-48LPS-Switch insgesamt 48 Anschlussmöglichkeiten geboten. Eigenschaften des WS-C2960X-48LPS-L Ports: 48 x 10/100/1000 (PoE+) + 4 x Gigabit SFP Flash-Speicher: 128 MB Max. Einheiten pro Stack: 8 Statusanzeiger: Port Status, Anschluß-Übertragungsgeschwindigkeit, Anschluß-Duplexmodus, System, RPS, PoE, Link/Aktivität Stromversorgung Ein für Sie wichtiger Bestandteil des WS-C2960X-48LPS-L ist das interne Netzteil . Eine weitere Besonderheit besteht darin, dass ein Redundant Power System (RPS) angeschlossen werden kann. Maße und Gewicht des WS-C2960X-48LPS-L Breite: 44,5 cm Tiefe: 36,8 cm Höhe: 4,5 cm Gewicht: 5,8 kg Übersichtstabelle: technische Daten Gruppe Netzwerkgeräte Hersteller Cisco Hersteller Art. Nr. WS-C2960X-48LPS-L EAN/UPC 0882658554384 Beschreibung Eine grundlegende Komponente eines Unternehmensnetzwerks ist die LAN-Switching-Infrastruktur, die Anwender, Applikationen und Kommunikationssysteme untereinander verbindet. Seit 1995 ist Cisco Systems führend bei der Innovation des LANSwitching, von der Einführung der Catalyst 5000 Serie bis hin zur Entwicklung der heutigen intelligenten Switch-Plattformen. Die Cisco Catalyst LAN Switches bieten Intelligenz und Leistung nach dem neuesten Stand der Technik und unterstützen die Unternehmensziele durch den Schutz, die Optimierung und die Skalierbarkeit der Infrastruktur. Hauptmerkmale Produktbeschreibung Cisco Catalyst 2960X-48LPS-L - Switch - 48 Anschlüsse - managed - an Rack montierbar Gerätetyp Switch - 48 Anschlüsse - managed - stapelbar Gehäusetyp An Rack montierbar 1U Untertyp Gigabit Ethernet Ports 48 x 10/100/1000 (PoE+) + 4 x Gigabit SFP Power Over Ethernet (PoE) PoE+ PoE-Budget 370 W Leistung Switching-Kapazität: 216 Gbps | Weiterleitungsleistung (Paketgröße 64 Byte): 107.1 Mpps Kapazität Virtuelle Schnittstellen (VLANs): 1023 Jumbo-Rahmenunterstützung 9216 Byte Remoteverwaltungsprotokoll SNMP 1, RMON 1, RMON 2, RMON 3, RMON 9, Telnet, SNMP 3, SNMP 2c, HTTP, TFTP, SSH, CLI Leistungsmerkmale Layer 2 switching, DHCP Support, Power Over Ethernet (PoE), Auto-Negotiation, ARP-Unterstützung, VLAN-Unterstützung, Auto-Uplink (Auto MDI/MDI-X), IGMP Snooping, Intrusion Detection System (IDS), IPv6-Unterstützung, Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)-Unterstützung, Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)-Unterstützung, Unterstützung für Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP), Unterstützung für Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP), Unterstützung für Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP), Unterstützung für Access Control List (ACL), RADIUS-Unterstützung, SSH-Unterstützung, Jumbo-Frames-Support, MLD-Snooping, Dynamic ARP Inspection (DAI), PoE+, Cisco EnergyWise-Technologie, Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (URPF), Uni-Directional Link Detection (UDLD), Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVRST+), IPv4-Unterstützung, Shaped Round Robin (SRR), Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP), MAC Address Notification, Remote Switch Port Analyzer (RSPAN), NetFlow, Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)-Unterstützung, Energy Efficient Ethernet, Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR), Class of Service (CoS), Cisco FlexStack Plus Produktzertifizierungen IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3z, IEEE 802.1D, IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE 802.3ab, IEEE 802.1p, IEEE 802.3af, IEEE 802.3x, IEEE 802.3ad (LACP), IEEE 802.1w, IEEE 802.1x, IEEE 802.3ae, IEEE 802.1s, IEEE 802.1ae, IEEE 802.1ab (LLDP), IEEE 802.3at, IEEE 802.3az, IEEE 802.1AX Stromversorgung Wechselstrom 120/230 V (50/60 Hz) Redundante Stromversorgung Optional Abmessungen (Breite x Tiefe x Höhe) 44.5 cm x 36.8 cm x 4.5 cm Gewicht 5.8 kg Ausführliche Details Allgemein Gerätetyp Switch - 48 Anschlüsse - managed - stapelbar Gehäusetyp Desktop, an Rack montierbar 1U Untertyp Gigabit Ethernet Ports 48 x 10/100/1000 (PoE+) + 4 x Gigabit

Accurate music spectrum analyzer & clock display: adopts dedicated VFD display screen with 25 × 15 high resolution, guaranteeing the accuracy of each frequency band. Also with a high-precision clock display, using SD3078 built-in crystal oscillator which can ensure that the clock accuracy is ±3.8ppm, month error within 10 seconds, very cool and interesting. Wide frequency range display & 3.5mm AUX/MIC input: support 20Hz-20KHz frequency sweep, high-precision display even can do frequency point test. With a 3.5mm AUX and sensitive MIC pick-up, perfectly achieve wired and wireless connections, you can easily see every subtle change in sound. Special AGC and spectrum algorithm & customized output curve: ensure ideal visual effects even the input signal is in a small to large range, even can switch the gain between -10/-5/-3/-1/0dB. With 3 kinds of display modes: real output / smooth output I / smooth output II, both ensure accuracy and best display effects, satisfy different usage requirements. Many adjustable items & display effects: the brightness, the falling speed of main light column, the holding time and the falling speed of the peak can be adjusted separately. Supports displaying date and time, 4 fonts, 5 music spectrum display modes, 5 clock display modes, and 3 level modes for free selection, all settings with power-off memory function, no need to set it again after restarting. Frequency division/amplification curve function and noise filtering: 5 frequency division modes can make the visual effect better; 5 amplification curve modes can suppress low-frequency or boost high-frequency. With one click noise filtering function, effectively improves the clarity of sound, and is well-adapted for use in different environments.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “One of those life-changing reads that makes you see—or, in this case, hear—the whole world differently.” —Megan Angelo, author of Followers “At times chilling, often funny, and always perceptive and cogent, Cultish is a bracing reminder that the scariest thing about cults is that you don't realize you're in one till it's too late.”—Refinery29.com The New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Magical Overthinking and Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how “cultish” groups, from Jonestown and Scientologists to SoulCycle and social media gurus, use language as the ultimate form of power. What makes “cults” so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and fall down rabbit holes researching suburban moms gone QAnon is because we're looking for a satisfying explanation for what causes people to join—and more importantly, stay in—these cultish groups. We secretly want to know: could it happen to me? Amanda Montell's argument is that, on some level, it already has . . . Our culture tends to provide pretty flimsy answers to questions of cult influence, mostly having to do with vague talk of “brainwashing.” But the true answer has nothing to do with freaky mind-control wizardry or Kool-Aid. In Cultish, Montell argues that the key to manufacturing intense ideology, community, and us/them attitudes all comes down to the specific language of fanaticism. In both positive ways and shadowy ones, cultish language is something we hear—and are influenced by—every single day. Through juicy storytelling and cutting original research, Montell exposes the verbal elements that make a wide spectrum of communities “cultish,” revealing how they affect followers of groups as notorious as Heaven's Gate, but also how they pervade our modern start-ups, Peloton leaderboards, and Instagram feeds. Incisive and darkly funny, this enrapturing take on the linguistics and curious social science of power and belief will make you hear the fanatical language of “cultish” everywhere. This smart, journalistic deep dive into the language of fanaticism reveals: From Jonestown to SoulCycle: An inside look at how the same linguistic techniques empower notorious cults, modern fitness studios, and even Instagram influencers. The Social Science of Influence: Why vague talk of "brainwashing" isn't the full story, and how specific verbal tactics create intense communities and us-versus-them attitudes. Fanatical Language in Plain Sight: How the same patterns of speech that build cults show up in MLMs, start-ups, and online, shaping the world you interact with every day. Could It Happen to You?: A fascinating exploration of the psychology of power and belief that answers the secret question we all have when we fall down the cult research rabbit hole.

Here is the ultimate, self-instructional cross-cultural training manual. Craig Storti, author of The Art of Crossing Cultures, The Art of Coming Home, Incident at Bitter Creek and Cross-Cultural Dialogues, brings his wealth of knowledge and his creative mind to this exceptional new resource. Figuring Foreigners Out is designed for anyone who wants to help in "figuring out" the behavior of someone from another culture. Educators, trainers and individuals will profit from this user-friendly workbook. readers can work through exercises which are vintage Storti - on their own, or in a training group. Concepts at the heart of intercultural communication are addressed in a step-by-step manner and include individualism and collectivism, monochronic and polychronic concepts of time, verbal and nonverbal communication styles and power distance relationships in the workplace. Storti uses cross-cultural dialogues as a sort of pre- and post-test for many of the ideas he introduces - inviting readers to return to them after completing the exercises to analyze them in light of what they have learned. Storti ends with a definition of four stages of cultural awareness - unconscious incompetence, concious incompetence, conscious competence and unconcious competence - and invites readers to assess their level of awareness after working through the activities. Readers will find themselves better able to incorporate new attitudes and behaviors into their dealings with people who view the world from a different perspective. Throughout, Storti uses literary quotations to enrich his text. This is one of the few books that individuals can work through and, without the aid of a structured training program, effectively prepare themselves for dealing with cultural differences they encounter. Yet it is also ideal as a training text. It should be high-priority reading for anyone who may come into contact with people from foreign cultures whether overseas (corporate expatriates, study abroad participants, volunteers, missionaries, military personnel) or at home in multicultural settings (the workplace, school and other social or organizational contexts). Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of this book is its universality - it is neither overtly nor implicitly oriented to one culture and therefore can be used by anyone interested in understanding people who are culturally different from themselves.

Individuals all over the world can use Airbnb to rent an apartment in a foreign city, check Coursera to find a course on statistics, join PatientsLikeMe to exchange information about one's disease, hail a cab using Uber, or read the news through Facebook's Instant Articles. The promise of connective platforms is that they offer personalized services and contribute to innovation and economic growth, while bypassing cumbersome institutional or industrial overhead. In The Platform Society, Van Dijck, Poell and De Waal offer a comprehensive analysis of a connective world where platforms have penetrated the heart of societies-disrupting markets and labor relations, circumventing institutions, transforming social and civic practices and affecting democratic processes. This book questions what role online platforms play in the organization of Western societies. First, how do platform mechanisms work and to what effect are they deployed? Second, how can platforms incorporate public values and benefit the public good? The Platform Society analyzes intense struggles between competing ideological systems and contesting societal actors-market, government and civil society-raising the issue of who is or should be responsible for anchoring public values and the common good in a platform society. Public values include of course privacy, accuracy, safety, and security, but they also pertain to broader societal effects, such as fairness, accessibility, democratic control, and accountability. Such values are the very stakes in the struggle over the platformization of societies around the globe. The Platform Society highlights how this struggle plays out in four private and public sectors: news, urban transport, health, and education. Each struggle highlights local dimensions, for instance fights over regulation between individual platforms and city governments, but also addresses the level of the platform ecosystem as well as the geopolitical level where power clashes between global markets and (supra-)national governments take place.

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich VWL - Fallstudien, Länderstudien, Note: 2,5, Technische Universität Dresden (Professur für VWL, insb. internationale Wirtschaftspolitik und Wirtschaftsforschung), Veranstaltung: Masterarbeit, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The aim of this study is to analyze the Swiss debt brake as a model for controlling public finances and achieving more effective fiscal policies. Furthermore this study thus strives to contribute to the evolution of fiscal policy. While the benefits to the economy via more effective fiscal policy are straightforward, better fiscal performance is not only a matter of economics and economic welfare: ensuring all citizens¿ trust and belief in public finance forms a major part of democracy (and indeed of every political system). The debate over effective fiscal policies should not neglect the way in which citizens consider sustainable fiscal policy to be a central issue for future generations and a general question of responsible government and legitimacy. Before the 2015 parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom in 2015, the British Labour Party made fiscally responsible behavior its top priority in the election campaign. The Budget Responsibility Lock, as the fiscal plan is called in the Labour manifesto, puts a premium on the national finances by making the plan the basis of all proposed campaign plans. The commitment to sound public finances is on the cover of the manifesto, and Ed Miliband, leader of the Labour Party at the time, said his party was the ¿party of fiscal responsibility.¿ The party pledges to bind its policies to fiscally prudent behavior and to achieving deficit reduction every year. This focus on solid public finances is indicative of the heightened importance of fiscal responsibility in politics and society. Not only in Britain, but also in the majority of countries, both politicians and the public have realized the relevance of sustainable fiscal policy. But how can those in power materialize their electoral promises or make efforts to assert control of public finances?

NOW IN PAPERBACK—AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “One of those life-changing reads that makes you see—or, in this case, hear—the whole world differently.” —Megan Angelo, author of Followers The New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Magical Overthinking and Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how “cultish” groups, from Jonestown and Scientologists to SoulCycle and social media gurus, use language as the ultimate form of power. What makes “cults” so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and fall down rabbit holes researching suburban moms gone QAnon is because we’re looking for a satisfying explanation for what causes people to join—and more importantly, stay in—extreme groups. We secretly want to know: could it happen to me? In this captivating work of nonfiction cultural commentary, Amanda Montell’s argument is that, on some level, it already has . . . Our culture tends to provide pretty flimsy answers to questions of cult influence, mostly having to do with vague talk of “brainwashing.” But the true answer has nothing to do with freaky mind-control wizardry or Kool-Aid. In Cultish, Montell argues that the key to manufacturing intense ideology, community, and us/them attitudes all comes down to the specific language of fanaticism. In both positive ways and shadowy ones, cultish language is something we hear—and are influenced by—every single day. Through juicy storytelling and cutting original research, Montell exposes the verbal elements that make a wide spectrum of communities “cultish,” revealing how they affect followers of groups as notorious as Heaven’s Gate, but also how they pervade our modern start-ups, cult fitness classes, Peloton leaderboards, and Instagram feeds. Incisive and darkly funny, this enrapturing take on the curious social science of power and belief will make you hear the fanatical language of “cultish” everywhere. This gripping exploration of sociolinguistics reveals: The Linguistics of Influence: A fascinating breakdown of how specific linguistic techniques-from loaded language to thought-terminating clichés-create intense ideology and control, without any freaky mind-control wizardry. From Jonestown to Social Media: An eye-opening look at a wide spectrum of "cultish" groups, connecting the dots between notorious cults like Heaven's Gate and the subtle persuasion in modern start-ups and Instagram feeds. The Social Science of Power: Through juicy storytelling and cutting research, Montell decodes why we're so drawn to these groups and answers the secret question we all have: "Could it happen to me?" MLMs and #BossBabes: A sharp analysis of how multilevel marketing schemes and other modern tribes use the language of empowerment and inspiration as a powerful tool for recruitment and retention.

For fans of Sapiens and The Dawn of Everything, a groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression—its origins, its histories, our attempts to understand it, and our efforts to combat itFor centuries, prominent thinkers have treated male domination among humans as natural or inevitable. But how would our understanding of gender inequality—our imagined past and contested present—look if we didn't assume that men have always ruled over women? If we saw gendered oppression as something fragile, that, alongside other forms of inequality, has had to be constantly remade and reasserted?In this bold and radical book, award-winning science journalist Angela Saini explores the roots of what we call patriarchy, uncovering a complex history of how it first became embedded in societies and spread across the globe from prehistory into the present. She travels to the world's earliest known human settlements, analyzes the latest research findings in science and archaeology, and traces cultural and political histories from the Americas to Asia, finding that:Matrilineal societies are more common than we appreciate, existing under a variety of different social and environmental circumstances, and in some cases for thousands of years.From around seven thousand years ago, there are signs that a small number of powerful men were having more children than other men.In societies where women left their own families to live with their husbands, marriage customs came to be informed by the widespread practice of captive taking and slavery, later influencing laws that alienated women from systems of support and denied them equal rights.There was enormous variation in gender and power dynamics in many societies for thousands of years, but colonialism and empire dramatically changed ways of life across Asia, Africa, and the Americas, spreading rigidly patriarchal customs and undermining how people organized their families and work.In our own time, despite the pushback against sexism, abuse,.

The first international examination of how police respond to political protests. The way in which police handle political demonstrations is always potentially controversial. In contemporary democracies, police departments have two different, often conflicting aims: keeping the peace and defending citizens' right to protest. This collection, the only resource to examine police interventions cross-nationally, analyzes a wide array of policing styles. The contributors look at cultures and political power to examine the methods, the trends and cycles, and the consequences of policing protest. Focusing on Italy, France, Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, Spain, the United States, and South Africa, the contributors explore the various police strategies of coercion, negotiation, and information surveillance. They discuss protest policing in relation to specific countries' governments and consider public opinion, media, and the police's perception of reality to illustrate the reciprocal ways in which police and protest are defined. Moreover, this volume considers the profound changes from the forceful 1960s to a "softer" 1990s, including the consequences of this move. Comparative and innovative, Policing Protest highlights the crucial influences of demonstration interventions and lends greater understanding to the study of social movements and their relationship to the state. Contributors: Rocco De Biasi, U of Genoa; Olivier Fillieule, Institute of Political Science, Paris; Oscar Jaime-JimÉnez, Universidad Nacional de EducaciÓn a Distancia, Madrid; Fabien Jobard, U of Rouen, France; Hanspeter Kriesi, U of Geneva; Gary T. Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and U of Colorado, Boulder; John McCarthy, Catholic U of America; Clark McPhail, U of Illinois; Fernando Reinares, Universidad Nacional de EducaciÓn a Distancia, Madrid; Robert Reiner, London School of Economics; David Schweingruber; P. A. J. Waddington, U of Reading, UK; Martin Winter, U of Halle, Germany; Dominique Wisler, U of Geneva.

Following hard on the heels of Kushiel's Dart, Jacqueline Carey's spectacular debut novel, comes Kushiel's Chosen, a glittering and riveting historical fantasy. The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassed beauty and grace. It is said that the angels found the land and saw it was good, and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt. Phèdre nó Delaunay is a young woman who was born with a scarlet mote in her left eye and sold into indentured servitude as a child. Her bond was purchased by Anafiel Delaunay, a nobleman with a very special mission--and the first to recognize her for who and what she is: one pricked by Kushiel's Dart, chosen to forever experience pain and pleasure as one. Phèdre has trained in the courtly arts and the talents of the bedchamber, but, above all, the ability to observe, remember, and analyze. Having stumbled upon a plot that threatened the very foundations of her homeland, she gave up almost everything she held dear to save it. She survived, and lived to have others tell her story, and if they embellished the tale with fabric of mythical splendor, they weren't far off the mark. The hands of the gods weigh heavily upon Phèdre's brow, and they are not yet done with their charge--for while the young queen who sits upon the throne is well loved by the people, there are those who believe that other heads should wear the crown. And those who escaped the wrath of the mighty are not yet done with their schemes for power and revenge. To protect and serve, Phèdre will once again leave her beloved homeland. From the sun-drenched villas of La Serenissima to the wilds of old Hellas, from a prison designed to drive the very gods mad to an island of immutable joy. Phèdre will meet old friends and new enemies and discover a plot so dreadful as to make the earth tremble, masterminded by the one person she cannot turn away from. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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The first international examination of how police respond to political protests. The way in which police handle political demonstrations is always potentially controversial. In contemporary democracies, police departments have two different, often conflicting aims: keeping the peace and defending citizens' right to protest. This collection, the only resource to examine police interventions cross-nationally, analyzes a wide array of policing styles. The contributors look at cultures and political power to examine the methods, the trends and cycles, and the consequences of policing protest. Focusing on Italy, France, Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, Spain, the United States, and South Africa, the contributors explore the various police strategies of coercion, negotiation, and information surveillance. They discuss protest policing in relation to specific countries' governments and consider public opinion, media, and the police's perception of reality to illustrate the reciprocal ways in which police and protest are defined. Moreover, this volume considers the profound changes from the forceful 1960s to a "softer" 1990s, including the consequences of this move. Comparative and innovative, Policing Protest highlights the crucial influences of demonstration interventions and lends greater understanding to the study of social movements and their relationship to the state. Contributors: Rocco De Biasi, U of Genoa; Olivier Fillieule, Institute of Political Science, Paris; Oscar Jaime-JimÉnez, Universidad Nacional de EducaciÓn a Distancia, Madrid; Fabien Jobard, U of Rouen, France; Hanspeter Kriesi, U of Geneva; Gary T. Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and U of Colorado, Boulder; John McCarthy, Catholic U of America; Clark McPhail, U of Illinois; Fernando Reinares, Universidad Nacional de EducaciÓn a Distancia, Madrid; Robert Reiner, London School of Economics; David Schweingruber; P. A. J. Waddington, U of Reading, UK; Martin Winter, U of Halle, Germany; Dominique Wisler, U of Geneva.