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Criminal Capital explores the relationship between neoliberalism, criminality and the reshaping of class in modern India. It discusses how the political vocabularies of urban industrial workers reflect the processes by which power is distributed across the region. Based upon field research among a ‘casualised’ workforce in the industrial city of Jamshedpur, the book examines the links between the decline of employment security, and criminality in trade unions, corporations and the state. The volume compares popular discourses of corruption against the ethnography of local labour politics, business enterprise and debt collection, and shows how corruption and criminality consolidate class power in industrial environments. Using an interdisciplinary ethnographic approach, this study interrogates the relationship between capitalism, corruption, violence and labour politics in contemporary Indian society. An important intervention in the study of Indian political economy, this work will be of interest to scholars and researchers of Indian politics, social anthropology, economics, labour relations and criminology.

In a world of glittering ballrooms and carefully guarded reputations, Lady Celia Grant has always been the picture of grace and elegance. But beneath the polished exterior, Celia hides a yearning for something more-an untamed passion that refuses to be constrained by society's rules. Enter Lord Nathaniel Ward, a dashing, unconventional man who has captured London's attention with his charm and charisma. He's notorious for breaking hearts but suddenly finds himself captivated by the one woman he can't easily impress. What starts as a playful flirtation quickly becomes a smoldering romance, drawing them both into a whirlwind of stolen moments and forbidden affection. As their passion grows, so do the obstacles that threaten to tear them apart. With every look, every touch, Celia and Nathaniel must decide if they're willing to risk everything to pursue a love that defies expectations-or if they'll be forced to walk away from the greatest love of their lives. Sensual, captivating, and achingly romantic, Admired Love is a story of two souls drawn together against all odds, proving that some loves are too powerful to ignore. Perfect for fans of regency romance who dream of love that's as irresistible as it is admired.

Technical Support Essentials is a book about the many facets of technical support. It attempts to provide a wide array of topics to serve as points of improvement, discussion, or simply topics that you might want to learn. The topics range from good work habits to the way technical support groups establish their own style of work. This book applies theories, models, and concepts synthesized from existing research in other fields—such as management, economics, leadership, and psychology—and connects them to technical support. The goal is to build on the work of others and allow their success to evolve the profession. The book’s broad perspective looks at proven practices, legal issues, dealing with customers, utilizing resources, and an array of other topics of interest to tech support professionals.

Teacher accountability has been a major strategy for “fixing” education for the last 2 decades. In this book, Cochran-Smith and her research team argue that it is time for teacher educators to reclaim accountability by adopting a new approach that features intelligent professional responsibility, challenges the structures and processes that reproduce inequity, and sustains multi-layered collaboration with diverse communities. The authors analyze and critique major accountability initiatives, including Department of Education regulations, CAEP accreditation procedures, NCTQ teacher preparation reviews, and edTPA, and expose the lack of evidence behind these policies, as well as the negative impact they are having on teacher education. However, the book does not conclude that accountability is the wrong direction for the next generation of teacher education. Instead, the authors offer a clear and achievable vision of accountability for teacher education based on a commitment to equity and democracy. “This book should be at the center of teacher education conversations everywhere.” —Gloria Ladson-Billings, professor emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison “This is one of the most brilliant books in education, period.” —Kevin Kumashiro, education consultant “In these frightening days of uncertainty, chaos, and conflict, this timely volume dares to call for hope and collective action.” —A. Lin Goodwin, Teachers College, Columbia University “This very important book exposes the lack of evidence supporting dominant accountability policies in teacher education. It is a must-read for teacher educators and policymakers.” —Ken Zeichner, University of Washington

Late Antiquity witnessed a major transformation in the authority and power of the Episcopate within the Church, with the result that bishops came to embody the essence of Christianity and increasingly overshadow the leading Christian laity. The rise of Episcopal power came in a period in which drastic political changes produced long and significant conflicts both within and outside the Church. This book examines these problems in depth, looking at bishops' varied roles in both causing and resolving these disputes, including those internal to the church, those which began within the church but had major effects on wider society, and those of a secular nature.

Documents the modeling framework Project AIR FORCE developed to evaluate combat support requirements, basing posture vulnerabilities, operational resilience, and potential mitigation strategies to support combat operations in a denied environment.

'The book comes at a time of transition, in which the nature of architectural thinking and work must transform if we are to participate in the great redirection of society, economy and, finally, ecology- the change that is necessary for human survival.' - Gerard Reinmuth Territories is the third book in a series that purposefully reframes what a practice monograph might be. While architecture publishing often treats its subject as self-contained hermetic object, this series of books collectively challenge this professional convention. The book fundamentally posits architecture as a relational discipline, reversing the logic of building as the endpoint of architecture. Instead, buildings are the after-effect of relations. And while physical or spatial relations are long-established constituent ingredients of architecture, this book adds to this architectural repertoire cultural, political, economic and social relations. Seen through this lens, the architect's scope and agency expands, as a professional who works within a network of complex real-world relations, in which designing buildings is only one territory of action. For this reason, Territories departs somewhat from the two previous volumes, Instruments and Third Spaces, which only contained built projects. Territories includes political advocacy, manifestos, strategies and masterplans, as well as buildings. The book divides projects into three distinct categories, from very large-scale strategic projects where the outcomes are sometimes not always immediately spatial, to precinct planning and further, to individual built works. Each section is introduced with an essay that contextualises the projects in that section as acts of reterritorialisation. At a time when the architect's role is both under attack and arguably suffering from self-harm, this book offers a bold reassessment of what architecture is and can be. Territories argues that this repositioning is not only possible, but also vitally necessary if architecture wishes to claim any agency in addressing the social, economic and ecological challenges we face today.

This report documents the results of the project "Developing a Methodology Framework for Conducting Risk-Informed Trade Space Analyses." The primary objective of this study was to develop a framework and acquisition risk-assessment tool that conducts schedule, funding, and performance trades for a given materiel alternative and that provides the consequences of these trades in terms of quantifiable risk. The U.S. Army has a process by which it can assess the risk and performance of a given analysis-of-alternatives (AoA) alternative; however, it does not have a robust quantitative framework to link the outcome of the AoA risk (cost, schedule, and technical) and performance assessments to consistently assess the impact of a schedule, funding, or performance trade among alternatives.

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) started a new phase in 2008 August, with new instrumentation and new surveys focused on Galactic structure and chemical evolution, measurements of the baryon oscillation feature in the clustering of galaxies and the quasar Ly[Greek letter alpha] forest, and a radial velocity search for planets around ~8000 stars. This paper describes the first data release of SDSS-III (and the eighth counting from the beginning of the SDSS). The release includes five-band imaging of roughly 5200 deg2 in the southern Galactic cap, bringing the total footprint of the SDSS imaging to 14,555 deg2, or over a third of the Celestial Sphere. All the imaging data have been reprocessed with an improved sky-subtraction algorithm and a final, self-consistent photometric recalibration and flat-field determination. This release also includes all data from the second phase of the Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE-2), consisting of spectroscopy of approximately 118,000 stars at both high and low Galactic latitudes. All the more than half a million stellar spectra obtained with the SDSS spectrograph have been reprocessed through an improved stellar parameter pipeline, which has better determinationof metallicity for high-metallicity stars.