The material assembled in this volume offers a deeper insight into Walter Eucken's attitudes, thought, and actions during the darkest years of Germany's history: the period of National Socialism. Although Eucken, like his associates, destroyed potentially incriminating documents after the failed assassination attempt by Count Stauffenberg on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944, the surviving texts mark key stages in a process that ultimately led this determined opponent of the Nazi regime - an opponent from the very beginning - into active resistance against Hitler.
What rendered Eucken immune to National Socialism from the outset was his philosophically grounded abhorrence of the dissolution of the free individual into the collective, as is inherent in all totalitarian, especially voelkisch (ethno-nationalist) ideologies. His systematic opposition to the Nazi regime began with refusal, open protest, and confrontation, particularly in response to the rapid Gleichschaltung (forced coordination) of the universities, Martin Heidegger's rectorship, and the dismantling of academic freedom by the Nazis. Following Germany's invasion of Poland and several ultimately unsuccessful attempts to exert positive influence on the centers of power in Berlin, his resistance culminated in a - necessarily cautious - participation in conspiratorial activities as an advisor and confidant to the plotters.
The texts in this volume include notes and sketches of ideas, completed manuscripts that remained unpublished during his lifetime, published essays, a transcript of the lecture "Kampf der Wissenschaften," the record of a public discussion with a Nazi district leader, an expert report commissioned by the Reich Ministry of Economics on possible "sources of war financing" at the end of 1939, the academically significant essay "Wettbewerb als Grundprinzip der Wirtschaftsverfassung" prepared within the Academy for German Law, the chapter Eucken authored for the "Primer of Economics" initiated by Carl Goerdeler, as well as the appendix he co-authored to the memorandum "Wirtschafts- und Sozialordnung" of the Bonhoeffer Circle. This memorandum was prepared on behalf of the Confessing Church with a view to a future world church conference planned for the time after the war and the hoped-for overthrow of Hitler. Retrospective additions include, among other things, Eucken's "Notizen ueber die Haltung der rechts- und staatswissenschaftlichen Fakultaet in Freiburg waehrend der Herrschaft des Nationalsozialismus," his funeral oration for his prematurely deceased colleague Adolf Lampe, and drafts for an obituary of Hans Grossmann-Doerth, with whom, together with Franz Boehm, Eucken had launched the research program of the Freiburg School: the development of a legal order conceived as an economic constitution, whose fundamental principle would be competition.
These materials make it possible to trace how Eucken, precisely through his confrontation with the rapidly escalating regime of injustice - with the enforced Gleichschaltung, the increasing move toward a planned economy, the persecution of the Jews culminating in genocide, the other atrocities of the dictatorship, and the devastating Second World War - was able to sharpen his conception of a "humane and functional order," diametrically opposed to such a cataclysm. Eucken's theoretical design of a competitive order would later provide direction in the postwar years for the establishment of a social market economy in the young Federal Republic of Germany.

Technologische Innovation ist ein wichtiger Motor fuer wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Wohlstand. Sie praegt die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung, indem sie neue Produkte und effizientere Produktionsprozesse hervorbringt. Die Faehigkeit, Innovationen anzustossen und zu nutzen, wird auch kuenftig entscheidend fuer die Leistungsfaehigkeit von Unternehmen, Branchen, Laendern und der Weltwirtschaft sein.
Dieses Lehrbuch befasst sich mit den Wechselwirkungen zwischen verschiedenen Ebenen der Wirtschaftsanalyse. Manfred Stadler verfolgt einen konsequenten Bottom-up-Ansatz, der auf der Ebene des einzelnen Unternehmens und dessen Entscheidungen in Bezug auf Forschung und Entwicklung (F&E) beginnt. Anschliessend geht er weiter zur Branchenebene, auf der Unternehmen strategisch interagieren, und wendet diesen Wettbewerbsrahmen schliesslich an, um Innovationsprozesse in geschlossenen und offenen Volkswirtschaften zu analysieren. Dieser Aufbau verdeutlicht, wie sich mikrooekonomisches Verhalten zu Branchendynamiken und makrooekonomischen Ergebnissen aggregiert.
Sowohl praktische Erfahrungen als auch empirische Belege weisen auf zwei Schluesselkriterien fuer geeignete Innovationsmodelle hin. Erstens sollte Innovation als dynamischer und stochastischer Prozess betrachtet werden, der von den F&E-Aktivitaeten der Unternehmen angetrieben wird, was den Einsatz geeigneter Werkzeuge aus der stochastischen dynamischen Optimierung erfordert. Zweitens sollten Modelle die empirisch relevanten Determinanten der F&E-Aktivitaeten von Unternehmen sowie die daraus resultierenden technologischen und strukturellen Veraenderungen in Branchen und Volkswirtschaften erfassen. Dies erfordert einen integrierten Mikro-Makro-Ansatz.
In diesem Lehrbuch werden erstmals dynamische und stochastische Innovationsmodelle und technologischer Wandel in einem konsistenten Bottom-up-Ansatz praesentiert. Es ergaenzt und erweitert die bestehende Literatur, indem es einen einheitlichen und analytisch stringenten Ansatz fuer die Untersuchung von Innovation bietet.

Economics and Management offers an intermediate-level introduction to economic and operations research concepts, tailored for upper-level undergraduate and MBA students from non-economics backgrounds. Blending economic theory with practical applications, it equips future managers, engineers, and policymakers with the analytical tools to navigate today's complex economic landscape.

At the macroeconomic level, the book explores fiscal and monetary policy, technological change, economic growth, inflation, unemployment, and international trade. At the microeconomic level, it examines production economics, firm theory, consumer demand, market structures, cost-benefit analysis, and pricing strategies through an applied economics lens. The text uniquely addresses risk and uncertainty by examining global challenges such as climate change and the energy transition, highlighting how financial instruments like insurance, weather derivatives, and prediction markets can mitigate these risks.

A key feature of the book is its integration of Artificial Intelligence into economic analysis. Students learn to use AI to write R code for simulations, regression modeling, and optimization problems, making complex coding accessible to non-programmers. Applications include stochastic cost-benefit analysis, sales forecasting, and tariff analysis. Excel tools are also employed for regression and optimization tasks, with AI guidance simplifying problem-solving.

Economics and Management provides a holistic and practical approach to economics, enabling students from non-economics backgrounds to confidently address real-world challenges.

Alan Acock's book, A Practical Guide to Logistic Regression Using Stata, is written for students and researchers who are new to logistic regression and who want to focus on applications rather than theory. This guide teaches when and why logistic regression is appropriate, how to easily fit these models by using Stata, and how to interpret and present the results.

The book begins with a review of OLS regression and an introduction to the concepts of logistic regression. It compares and contrasts these two methods and explains why logistic regression is usually the better approach to modeling binary outcome data. Along the way, readers will learn about parameter estimation for logistic regression models.

The author then turns his attention to interpreting the models and assessing model fit. The book demonstrates how to transform the coefficients into more interpretable odds ratios and how to estimate relative risks when appropriate. Acock next explains tools such as the pseudo-R (2), likelihood-ratio tests, Akaike's information criterion (AIC), and Schwarz's Bayesian information criterion (BIC) and shows how to use these tools to assess the fit of the model to the data.

Subsequent chapters focus on assessing a model's predictive utility using sensitivity, specificity, and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. These concepts are explained clearly and demonstrated with practical examples.

The book concludes with a detailed discussion of how to build models with different kinds of predictor variables, how to use Stata's margins command to transform the model coefficients to predicted probabilities, and how to use marginsplot to create easily interpretable visualizations of the results. The author includes many examples using continuous and categorical predictors, illustrates various interactions between different predictor variables, and explains complications that may arise, such as multicollinearity.

A Practical Guide to Logistic Regression Using Stata provides a comprehensive, applications-oriented introduction to modeling binary outcomes using logistic regression. Readers at all levels will learn the skills to confidently fit, assess, interpret, and visualize these models using their own data.

The Routledge Companion to Transnational Westerns breaks new ground in the study of how Westerns from around the world combine different national storytelling traditions to critically revise the myths of the American West.

Spanning the globe, and covering topics as diverse as Chilean and Argentinian film Westerns, sound design in Native American film Westerns, Japanese and French film criticism, Hebrew pulp Westerns, Weird Westerns from Spain, comic book Westerns, and Polish literary Westerns, this companion uncovers the ways that Westerns have crossed the borders of nations and genres, creating vibrant media that speaks to questions of identity, regional belonging, race, and gender.

Written accessibly and designed to situate readers and specialists alike in key critical conversations and methodologies, this volume is an important contribution to the study of the ideological versatility of the Western as a genre.

Participatory Governance, Social Work and Social Policy in Times of AI explores the intersection of participatory governance, inclusive social welfare, social work, and artificial intelligence in the transformation of social services systems worldwide.

Rooted in the experiences and insights of professionals such as experts, policy practitioners, and civic innovators, this book provides a timely examination of how digital tools, especially AI, are reshaping civic engagement, helping professions such as social work, democratic accountability, and welfare systems worldwide. Based on the outcomes of the Ronda meetings of experts in 2024 and 2025, as well as a UN side event seminar aligned with the annual session of the Commission for Social Development in 2025, this volume offers theoretical grounding, comparative case studies, and practical recommendations. Addressing global trends such as post-COVID recovery, climate transitions, population ageing, and digital transformation, with a special focus on ensuring inclusivity, equity, and ethical use of AI, it also analyses the problems related to social protection and social services in different contexts, with special attention to the challenges faced by local administrations, which, in many countries, are responsible for the provision of social services.

This book is essential reading for all scholars, students, and professionals in social work, social policy, and governance who seek to build welfare systems that are not only technologically advanced but also equitable, transparent, and genuinely responsive to community needs.

Illuminating and captivating stories of life in the American Revolutionary era, from the dean of Virginia history

Brent Tarter knows how to make history come alive. More than that, he knows that the best histories encompass everyone, not just "great men" making speeches in domed statehouses. Drawing on a celebrated career's worth of experience in the archive, producing scholarship aimed not at the ivory tower but at the general reader, Vignettes of Revolutionary Virginia gathers together the most dramatic, poignant, and compelling tales of ordinary people who lived through the extraordinary days of the American Revolution.

As in Vignettes of Colonial Virginia, Tarter relates the incredible stories of his subjects in their own words. They show how life for everyone in Virginia then was radically different from life for anyone in Virginia now. They illuminate the differences that emerged between the struggle for independence and the revolution that it set in motion, and they illustrate the consequences of the disconnect between the Revolutionary language of liberty of 1776 and the continuing existence of slavery and of the hierarchical society of the colonial period. The past may be a foreign country, but Tarter is a handy, engaging guide.

A wealth of guidance is available on supporting clients with lived experience of disability - yet there is little available that focuses on understanding the first-hand experience of psychologists who themselves identify as having a disability. This book responds to this gap in literature by providing narratives of psychologists with disabilities and exploring how their disability interacts with their experience of working in clinical practice.

The accounts represented within this book are varied, reflecting the wide range of experiences and challenges that psychologists with disabilities may encounter during their practice. Reflecting on the contributing authors' lived experience, chapters provide guidance on a range of topics related to navigating disability in clinical practice. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Normalizing mental health and disability
• Self-disclosure of disability, inside and out of the therapy room
• Late diagnosis of disability and adapting to shifts in identity
• Managing disability and unpredictability, including fluctuations in conditions
• Disability and intersectionality
• The role of autonomy

Providing a much-needed exploration of the experiences of psychologists who identify as having a disability, this will be an essential read for any mental health practitioner who resonates with this experience, or for any practitioner who wishes to better understand and support colleagues with disabilities.

Explores the lasting echoes of an unprecedented pandemic that continues to shape politics in the MENA region today

From the Maghreb in North Africa to the Levant in the East, the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically impacted politics - and the promise of democratic governance - within the MENA region. In this edited volume, Anis Ben Brik assembles a group of scholars to explore how the Middle East and North Africa grappled with an unprecedented global health crisis that transcended medical dimensions and continues to manifest profound social, political, and economic implications for its people.

Featuring timely original research, including in-depth case studies and cross-country comparisons, contributors take us inside a region already grappling with complex political systems, social structures, and historical legacies. They show us how the pandemic triggered widespread democratic backsliding in the region, as countries like Egypt, Iran, and Saudi Arabia began to adopt emergency measures that extended well beyond the immediate public health crisis, including increased censorship, arrests of activists and journalists, and the suppression of political dissent. Contributors also examine how the pandemic impacted perceptions of political legitimacy within the region, shaping people's support and opposition to emergency measures, legislation, and regimes and governments themselves.

Ultimately, the book captures the ways in which a global state of emergency created even more opportunities for political abuse and suppression, enabling authoritarian leaders to further consolidate their power within the region.

Trauma and Somatic Healing offers an integrative, non-pathologizing framework for understanding human experience.

Drawing from neuroscience, trauma-informed care, somatics, metaphysics, and poetic narrative, the book invites readers to consider the self as an ecosystem-dynamic, adaptive, and relational. It speaks to clinicians, therapists, educators, and reflective seekers who long for deeper, more compassionate maps of human development and healing.

With nature-based metaphors, dimensional awareness, and emergent theory, this book guides readers into richer relationship with themselves and the world around them.

The fourth edition of this textbook integrates contemporary topics shaped by environmental and public health policy with foundational knowledge about key environmental health policies and threats affecting communities locally and globally. Divided into three parts, Part I explores One Health, highlighting the interconnected health of people, animals, plants, and ecosystems, vaccines and preventable infectious diseases, and climate and health risks, emphasizing policy-driven community resilience. It also addresses natural disasters, emergency preparedness, and sustainability, focusing on the role of environmental policy in managing interdependent systems for long-term health. Part II examines the public health implications of foundational environmental policies developed with prevention in mind, including toxicants, air quality, water, and solid and hazardous wastes. Part III addresses persistent environmental health topics requiring renewed attention, such as noise and light pollution, food safety and security, the built environment, and transportation.

Features

• The only textbook linking environmental policies to the health of people, animals, plants, and ecosystems, authored by experts with extensive teaching experience in policy and public health.
• Integrates contemporary topics with foundational knowledge about environmental health policies and threats globally and locally.
• Critically evaluates sustainability's role in managing interconnected health systems through policy.
• Demonstrates the critical role of policy and the impact of policy gaps on public health and disease prevention.
• Includes practice questions in every chapter to support case-based learning and broad application.

This is a comprehensive textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in public health and environmental sciences. It is also a great reference for professional education fostering transdisciplinary collaboration across public health, veterinary sciences, and sustainability systems.

Throughout much of the twentieth century, an uneasy relationship existed between issues of sexuality and the working-class politics of the Mexican Communist Party and other left-wing organizations. Rather than attributing this tension solely to ideological conservatism, Revolution in the Sheets reinterprets the sexual politics of the Mexican Left by foregrounding toleration as its governing political strategy. Tracing debates in party archives, propaganda, oral histories, and correspondence, Robert Franco demonstrates how leftist parties dismissed issues of sexuality when politically necessary in order to negotiate authority, discipline dissent, or project a moral public image. However, militants also privately practiced interpersonal forms of toleration that, as the social and political winds changed, were later adopted by party leaders as a pragmatic compromise to expand the Left's electoral appeal without upsetting established norms. The embrace of toleration, Franco argues, functioned as a substitute for publicly addressing gender inequality and sexual repression, ultimately circumscribing the revolutionary potential of Mexican leftist politics.

In 1964, East Germany introduced an alternative, unarmed military service that recognized religious belief as a basis for conscientious objection. In a new category of military unit, pacifists performed construction tasks. While accepting a compromise to wear a military uniform, many construction soldiers (Bausoldaten) refused to conform to the military's expectations. Some refused to take the service vow and to work on projects with a direct military orientation. They established the principle that there was more to Bausoldat service than simply getting through the eighteen months of wearing a uniform. As civilians, they continued their advocacy by forming networks and local peace groups that became the foundation of a broader social movement committed to peace. Drawing on oral history interviews, Party-State files, military and secret police documents, and church records, Constructing Peace focuses on the development of this activism amongst the first two cohorts of Bausoldaten in the mid-1960s.

This book explores the complex power dynamics shaping China-Myanmar relations within the framework of asymmetrical geopolitics. By examining disparities in resources, influence and capacity, it delves into how China leverages its economic and strategic dominance, particularly through the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC). It provides a nuanced understanding of Myanmar's geopolitical significance as a site of competition and its delicate balance between dependence on China and autonomy.

The book highlights China's asymmetric foreign policy strategies, the impact of the 2021 Military Coup on bilateral relations, and the challenges posed by stalled BRI projects amidst ethnic conflict and local resistance. It also examines the socio-political and economic implications of China's investments in Myanmar, addressing issues pertaining to migration, ethnic ties and security. Through rigorous analysis, the book connects these elements to broader South Asian geopolitics, emphasizing Myanmar's pivotal role in China's regional ambitions and its access to the Indian Ocean.

This interdisciplinary volume is an essential resource for scholars, researchers and students in International Relations, South Asian studies, Area Studies, Global Studies and Geopolitics. Additionally, journalists, policymakers and academics interested in China's rise, the Belt and Road Initiative and South Asian geopolitics will find this book insightful.

Time and again, in heated debates over Brazil's political economy and democracy, one disputed concept emerges: nationalism. Claiming the Nation traces the contested history of the nationalist label in twentieth-century Brazil, examining how both progressive and conservative forces invoked national interest to advance divergent political agendas. Focusing on the period from the 1920s through the end of military rule in 1985, Andre Pagliarini demonstrates how progressive reformers linked nationalism to social justice, economic sovereignty, and mass participation, while right-wing elites often used it to justify hierarchy and technocratic governance. Through detailed analysis of political debates, media, and activism, the book shows how competing attempts to define and claim nationalism in the public square shaped Brazil's civic identity, development, and political trajectory during the past one hundred years. Ultimately, Pagliarini unveils the enduring ways in which control over nationalist discourse became a proxy for determining who legitimately represented the nation and its future.

Drawing from interviews with professionals across fields who have changed careers, this book offers new knowledge about professional writing experiences and workplace writing transfer during moments of career change.

Writing transfer is the process through which individuals adapt previous writing skills and knowledge into new writing contexts. In this book, the narratives of career change professionals root us firmly in the workplace, and their writing transitions serve as a common professional moment. The book establishes that workplace-to-workplace writing transfer is markedly different from earlier transitions and offers a new concept to help readers make sense of it: Dynamic Workplace Writing Transfer (DWWT). Dynamic Workplace Writing Transfer is the complex, iterative cognitive process by which professionals successfully transform as writers as they move from one workplace role or context to another. More broadly, the book also explores the life of the professional as a communicator. It considers key contexts, cultural dynamics, both writerly and other identities, and the complexities of writing lives during moments of career changes.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of technical and professional communication, writing studies and rhetoric.

Serving Our Trans Communities: A Collaborative Autoethnography by Academic Musical Activists is a scholarly exploration of transgender experiences across music education, musicology, performance, and activism. Edited by Christopher Cayari, the volume features contributions from seven trans musical academics and activists-Stephanie Byers, Felix A. Graham, Sadie Hochman-Ruiz, Emma Joy Jampole, Tatyana C. Louis-Jacques, William Sauerland, and Cayari themself-with a foreword by Tony E. Adams. The book utilizes collaborative autoethnography as its primary research method, systematically analyzing personal experiences to identify and challenge cultural and institutional norms.

Through the framework of collaborative autoethnography, the authors developed identity statements and epiphany/milestone timelines, engaging in rigorous, iterative cycles of collaborative data gathering and analysis to inform their chapters. Each narrative explores how being transgender influences the authors' experiences in music learning, making, and teaching, while also addressing the essential role of activism in academic, performance, and professional spaces. The book concludes with a multiple case study analysis and a reflective afterword, identifying common and unique experiences within the trans music community. Ultimately, Serving Our Trans Communities aims to empower trans musicians and educators, while serving as a rigorous resource for cisgender allies, scholars, and policymakers seeking to support trans individuals in musical contexts.

This captivating book tackles one of humanity's most profound questions: what is consciousness, and could we ever recreate it digitally? From ancient myths of immortality to cutting-edge neuroscience, this book takes readers on a fascinating journey through our evolving understanding of the mind. Written in clear, accessible language for curious minds everywhere, it reveals how we've progressed from discovering the first neurons to mapping entire brain networks with revolutionary technologies like fMRI and brain-computer interfaces. At its heart, however, this is a book about consciousness itself: the mysterious experience of being aware, feeling, and thinking that makes us human. It unpacks the leading theories of consciousness and shows why solving this puzzle is crucial to building truly intelligent machines or achieving digital immortality. It also explores the complex relationship between human and artificial intelligence, comparing how our brains learn and think with how modern AI systems operate. While today's AI can beat us at chess and generate human-like text, it lacks the rich inner experience that defines consciousness. Beyond the science, the book also confronts the real challenges of mind uploading: the staggering technical hurdles, the biological complexities of the brain, and the profound philosophical questions about identity and what makes you "you." This thought-provoking exploration will change how you think about consciousness, technology, and what it means to be human in an age of AI. Whether you're fascinated by the future of AI, intrigued by the mysteries of the mind, or simply wondering if immortality might one day be possible, this book offers an engaging and enlightening journey into the deepest questions of our existence. It is an essential read for AI researchers and engineers, neuroscientists and consciousness researchers, futurists and technologists, along with anyone wanting to learn more about the future of AI.

Drawing on extensive research into archaic Amerindian communities, this book presents a revolutionary thesis: Tupinamba cannibalism was not primarily about absorbing the qualities of the consumed enemy but rather served as a sacred pathway toward constructing an eternal, incorruptible body.

The author meticulously examines how warfare and ritualistic enemy consumption formed the cornerstone of a complex religious system deeply committed to transcending mortality. By reframing cannibalism as an expression of profound spiritual yearning rather than primitive savagery, this work challenges conventional anthropological interpretations and offers fresh insights into the universal human quest for eternity. The analysis reveals how the cultivation of "enmity" and warfare served as vehicles for addressing humanity's most fundamental existential concerns.

It will be an interesting read for researchers in the fields of Jungian psychology, social psychology, anthropology, and archaic communities.

Power and control sit at the heart of statutory social work. In a profession grounded in social justice, practices of control are often positioned as reinforcing inequality and oppression. Yet normative critiques of control embedded within conflictual theories of power can lead to overlooking the complex realities of everyday practice.

Drawing on practitioner and service user interviews, case file analysis and detailed observations, this book offers a rare ethnographic account of how control is enacted, negotiated and experienced in community mental health settings. Informed by Foucauldian conceptions of power, it moves beyond abstract debate to examine what control looks like on the ground.

Combining original research with critical analysis, it reveals the value of an ethically informed but non-prescriptive approach to the ambiguities of control, allowing for a more modest, honest and heterogenous orientation to progressive forms of practice.

This collection showcases the groundbreaking achievements of William A. Kretzschmar's work in sociolinguistics, text and corpus studies, and lexical studies, highlighting both his enduring legacy within the discipline and unique insights into language use and how we study language more broadly.

The volume is organized around the three key thematic strands underpinning Kretzschmar's career, with a section each on Linguistic Atlas Studies, corpus linguistics, and complexity theory, respectively. The different sections link together to offer a holistic portrait of the spirit of innovation that has characterized Kretzschmar's body of work. Each chapter represents a theoretical or methodological innovation that builds on Kretzschmar's research, beginning with his pioneering work in applying complexity theory to language study and its subsequent implications for corpus linguistics and Linguistic Atlas Studies. In reflecting on both Kretzschmar's influence and the cutting-edge emergent work inspired by it, the collection serves as a fitting tribute to the far-reaching impact of Kretzschmar's achievements in linguistics.

This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, language variation, and dialectology.