Table of Contents: “…Re-evaluating the German social model in light of the global recession / John Hudson and Stefan Kühner -- Ireland and the impact of the economic crisis: upholding the dominant policy paradigm -- Mairéad Considine and Fiona Dukelow -- Waving not drowning: Iceland, kreppan and alternative social policy futures / Zoë Irving -- Experiences from two financial crises in the Nordic welfare states: 1990-93 and 2008-10 compared / Pekka Kosonen -- Social policy and the recent economic crisis and in Canada and the United States / Daniel Béland and Alex Waddan -- From economic crisis to a new age of austerity: the UK / Kevin Farnsworth -- Responding to the challenges: some concluding remarks on welfare futures in changed circumstances / Kevin Farnsworth and Zoë Irving.…”
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Table of Contents: “…; Appellate Advocacy: Some Reflections from the Bench; Law and Lawyers: The Road to Reform; Matters of Life and Death; Lawyering for a New Age; The Role of a Supreme Court in a Democracy; The Secret Life of Judges; A Pillar of Democracy: Reflections on the Role and Work of the Constitutional Court of South Africa…”
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Table of Contents: “…Hamilton -- The semiotics of China narratives in the con/texts of Kingston and Tan / Yuan Yuan -- "Chinese and dogs" in Amy Tan's The hundred secret senses: ethnicizing the primitive à la New Age / Seng-Mei Ma -- The silencing effect of canonicity : authorship and the written word in Amy Tan's novels / Lisa M. …”
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Table of Contents: “…/ Wiktor Osiatynski -- Connecting human rights, human development, and human security / Mary Robinson -- Human rights and civil society in a new age of American exceptionalism / Julie A. Mertus.…”

Table of Contents: “…; Conclusion; CHAPTER FOUR: Dynamics of Crisis; Tides of American History; An Interpretation of the Dynamics of Crisis; Conclusion; CHAPTER FIVE: The Search for Meaning; Mixed Systems, Cultural Contradictions, and Cognitive Dissonance; Rising Spirituality and the "New Age"; The Special Role of Absolutism in America; An Integration of Opposites; Summary of Key Findings; APPENDIX A: World Values Surveys.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Epilogue: 'Mummy Maybot': a new age of authoritarian neoliberalism -- The vicar's daughter -- 'Bringing the poor to heel': the future of social insecurity -- References -- Index.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Changing the words: changing the work: -- We are what we say -- How about some new titles? -- New age or common sense? -- Irreverent thoughts about organization charts -- The way we talk -- Learning the truth about power -- The truth about data -- Everybody talkin' bout heaven ain't goin' there -- The problem with policies -- Keeping secrets -- Looking for the easy way out -- Block that metaphor -- Winning redefined -- pt. 3. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Walsh -- Old age pipers and new age punters: Irish traditional music and musicians in San Francisco, 1850-2000 / Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin -- Women in Irish dance in San Francisco, 1900-1935 / Lynn Lubamersky -- Maggie's Boarding House: Irish-American assimilation in San Francisco, 1910-1930 -- Vignette: An Irishman goes to San Francisco / Michael Corrigan -- Pioneers in the classroom: Irish-American teachers in San Francisco in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Janet Nolan -- Educating Catholic young men--"Princiaplly Irish": men's Catholic colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area / Timothy J. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Nussbaum -- Perceiving reality: artistotelian liberalism from ancient Greece to the United Nations interpreting the social reality by means of the upheaval of emotions -- Transforming social reality: Nussbaum's capability approach to justice -- Concluding remarks: compassion as an upheaval -- Compassion as interruption in the political theology of Johann Baptist Metz -- Facing the suffering people of the times -- Perceiving reality: compassion as political -- Interpreting reality: compassion as mystical -- Transforming reality: an anthropology of the political subject -- Political compassion as a first-world interruption -- Christian ethics after Katrina: political compassion in social disasters -- The massively uneven tragedies of a social disaster -- Perceiving social disasters through relational anthropology -- Interpreting social disasters through interruptions -- Transforming social disasters through empowerment, humility, and solidarity -- Compassion after Katrina -- Transforming the Jericho road: political compassion and global ethics -- Global ethics: an age-old question with new-age urgency -- Political compassion: loving our neighbor in an age of globalization -- Justice as experiential vision -- A reprise of the Good Samaritan.…”

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover -- The Great Decline: From the Era of Hope and Progress to the Age of Fear and Rage -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The New Age of Angst -- Notes -- Part I Being Human in an Evolving World -- 1 Who Are We and Why Does It Matter? …”
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