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Media filters and personal preconceptions can make it hard to get a clear view of present-day Indian America. The reality is that the 500+ Native nations in the United States confront many of the same day-to-day challenges that are faced by other nations and communities--raising children with strong identities, practicing religion, providing economic sustenance, strengthening culture, managing business and governmental affairs, and protecting public health and safety--but they are doing so from foundations built on their distinct histories, cultures, and circumstances. The State of the Native Nations: Conditions under U.S. Policies of Self-Determination chronicles the efforts, obstacles, and accomplishments that are shaping Indian Country under contemporary federal policies and responsive tribal strategies of self-determination.
In The State of the Native Nations, the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development brings together scholars and Native leaders to produce the most comprehensive, cohesive interdisciplinary study available on current conditions and trends in Indian Country. Broad in scope and thematically organized, the volume features twenty-three chapters covering issues ranging from tribal governance, land and natural resources, and economic and social development, to arts and culture, the large off-reservation Native population, and federal Indian policy. Fourteen accompanying essays bring to life the personal perspectives of noted national leaders in Native affairs. The result is invaluable insight into the universal challenges of creating resilient, sustained, and self-determined communities.

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* Balances first-person accounts and field findings with extensive and up-to-date data and facts
* Emphasizes the critical issues of Native self-determination and nation-building
* Puts contemporary issues in their historical and policy contexts
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Terrific experience
The book arrived on time, in perfect condition, and just as described. Great Experience! --- and excellent book. ... Read more

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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A326163. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: All organizations, both private and public, must improve, streamline, and automate their business practices to adjust to rigorous demands of a highly volatile marketplace, austere financial resources, and manpower reductions. This thesis analyzes the potential of business process reengineering (BPR) to dramatically improve the Military Pay Document Process (MPDP) for the United States Army and the United States Coast Guard financial communities. Based on Nissen's methodology the MPDP is analyzed and three redesign alternatives are developed, which are capable of yielding order of magnitude improvements in cycle time and cost. This thesis includes process simulation and intelligent systems analysis of the Army and Coast Guard's baseline MPDP to generate and evaluate the three redesign alternatives. Simulation runs demonstrate that cycle time and cost can be reduced substantially by redesigning the MPDP. The redesign alternatives take a comprehensive look at transformation enablers and information technology (IT) capable of eliminating the Personnel Administrative Clerks (PAC) and the finance office functions as they pertain to pay transaction processing. The research concludes that the Army and Coast Guard's MPDP can be dramatically improved by eliminating middlemen functions (PAC and finance office) and shortening the value chain using IT along with other transformation enablers. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on November 30, 2001. The length of the article is 643 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: El quinto estado de la materia.(física)(TT: The fifth state of matter.)(TA: physics)(Artículo Breve)
Author: Esperanza G. Molina
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
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Book has many black & white photographs of sculptures in Rottneros Park. ... Read more

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In an original and provocative reading of Vladimir Nabokov's work and the moral peril to which its readers are subjected, Eric Naiman explores the significance and consequences of Nabokov's insistence on bringing the issue of art's essential perversity to the fore. Nabokov's fiction is notorious for the interpretive panic it occasions in its readers, the sense that no matter how hard he or she tries, the reader has not gotten Nabokov 'right.' At the same time, the fictions abound with characters who might be labeled perverts, and questions of sexuality lurk everywhere. Naiman argues that the sexual and the interpretive are so bound together in Nabokov's stories and novels that the reader confronts the fear that there is no stable line between good reading and overreading, and that reading Nabokov well is beset by the exhilaration and performance anxiety more frequently associated with questions of sexuality than of literature. Nabokov's fictions pervert their readers, obligingly training them to twist and turn the text in order to puzzle out its meanings, so that they become not better people but closer readers, assuming all the impudence and potential for shame that sexually oriented close-looking entails.

In Nabokov, Perversely, Naiman traces the connections between sex and interpretation in Lolita (which he reads as a perverse work of Shakespeare scholarship), Pnin, Bend Sinister, and Ada. He examines the roots of perverse reading in The Defense and charts the enhanced attention to the connection between sex and metafiction in works translated from the Russian. He also takes on books by other authors--such as Reading Lolita in Tehran--that inappropriately incorporate Nabokov's writing within frameworks of moral usefulness. In a final, extraordinary chapter, Naiman reads Dostoevsky's The Double with Nabokov-trained eyes, making clear the power a strong writer can exert on readers. ... Read more

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Most crimes of sexual violence are committed by people known to the victim-acquaintances and family members. Yet politicians and the media overemphasize predatory strangers when legislating against and reporting on sexual violence. In this book, Eric S. Janus goes far beyond sensational headlines to expose the reality of the laws designed to prevent sexual crimes. He shows that "sexual predator" laws, which have intense public and political support, are counterproductive. Janus contends that aggressive measures such as civil commitment and Megan's law, which are designed to restrain sex offenders before they can commit another crime, are bad policy and do little to actually reduce sexual violence. Further, these new laws make use of approaches such as preventive detention and actuarial profiling that violate important principles of liberty.

Janus argues that to prevent sexual violence, policymakers must address the deep-seated societal problems that allow it to flourish. In addition to criminal sanctions, he endorses the specific efforts of some advocates, organizations, and social scientists to stop sexual violence by, for example, taking steps to change the attitudes and behaviors of school-age children and adolescents, improving public education, and promoting community treatment and supervision of previous offenders.

Janus also warns that the principles underlying the predator laws may be the early harbingers of a "preventive state" in which the government casts wide nets of surveillance and intervenes to curtail liberty before crimes of any type occur. More than a critique of the status quo, this book discusses serious alternatives and how best to overcome the political obstacles to achieving rational policy. ... Read more

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A real inspiration
This book is one of the first books I read when doing research for my legal website and book on sex crime laws, and much of my work was influenced by this book. Janus gives a very detailed history of how our current state of sex offender laws evolved and shows the dangers of passing laws based on emotion rather than on facts. It is truly an innovative approach; this book was written back in 2006, yet the message is still too difficult for many to accept, as evidenced by the amount of hate mail I've received for adopting some of the conclusions Janus reaches in his book. This work is heavily referenced in my own book. Once Fallen

A must-read!
In this insightful book, law professor Eric Janus cogently explains why sexual predator legislation, despite its allure of zero tolerance for sexual violence, makes for very bad public policy.

Predator laws will never work, he argues, because they target only a tiny fraction of sexual violence. An empty "cleansing ritual," they require no fundamental societal change. But they are far from harmless. They siphon vast sums of money away from other programs that could do more good for more people. And they reinforce a distorted notion of sexual assailants as mainly stranger rapists with abnormal psychological makeups.

On a potentially more dangerous level, they provide a template for the resurrection of preventive laws on a massive scale. Janus reminds us of the historical struggles that went into dismantling earlier preventive detention laws that locked up outsiders for what they might (or might not) do. These included slave laws, the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, and eugenic programs to forcibly sterilize and incapacitate "mental defectives." Sexual predator civil commitment laws are especially dangerous because we can all unite around hating the archetypal sexual bogeyman, and the "science" of risk prediction has a scientific and naturalized veneer that makes preventive detention seem more palatable.

One of Janus' most interesting arguments is that - perhaps accidentally - the sexual predator laws have become a powerful force for the politically conservative agenda of dismantling hard-fought feminist rape reforms. The "tabloid model of gender violence" epitomized in these laws favors biological and psychological explanations over sociocultural ones, and supports the patriarchal rape myth that rapists "lack control" over their sexual impulses.

Janus is no newcomer to this topic. He has written and lectured extensively on sex offender civil commitment and psychology-law topics more generally for the past 17 years or so. His knowledge base allows him to back up his arguments with empirical data. In this meticulously researched book, he also offers solutions, such as a public health harm reduction model and the proposition that sex offender risk can be lowered through carefully designed risk management and containment programs.

Everyone who is interested in the prevention of sex offending, as well as the creation of sound, scientifically based public policy, should read this book.

Gracefully written and powerfully argued
It might not seem an inviting task to try to stem the mounting popular tide in favor of ever longer detention, by any means possible, of convicted sexual predators, but Eric Janus has managed to do so in a book that is carefully argued and evinces clearly both his wisdom and his compassion for the victims of crime.In addition to discussing the merits of extended detention of known predators and public monitoring of released sex offenders, treating both trends in the context of the question of how best to prevent sexual violence, Failure to Protect also takes up two larger social questions:why we are so focused on the "worst of the worst;" and our apparent willingness to trade civil liberties for safety (or the illusion of safety).

The book is astonishingly well written.It is lucidly organized into chapters and sections; you always know where you are in the argument.The prose is as elegant and clear as the reasoning is strong, free of the jargon that might so easily have marred a book on this subject.The punctuation and footnoting deserve commendation, as they unobtrusively guide the flow and document the argument.Rarely these days does any author get every detail of writing so right.Even the production gives evidence of unhurried care, with next to no misprints.

a book for everyone interested in justice for all
Eric Janus, with a clear mind and precise hand, sets out to lead the call for reasonableness in an era of too eager politcally and socially to respond to "sexual predators" without consideration of the long term impacts of our political and legal tendencies to punish without logic and demonize without understanding the true causes of sexual violence in our everyday lives.This book raises questions about the future of us all as we rush to "fix" a problem we don't really understand and certainly don't want to talk about among ourselves. ... Read more

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For this new edition, Eric Alterman has made revisions throughout the book, with new material on the impact of the O. J. Simpson trial and the rise of MSNBC as well as on the Clinton scandals, the media's obsession with Monica Lewinsky, and the resulting conflation of investigative reporting with gossip. ... Read more

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Definitley biased, but makes great points...
I had to read this book for my Problems in Contemporary Journalism class and loved it.Throughout this book, Alterman covers the history of pundits from the first essays by the founding fathers, to Walter Lippmann, to the rise of television news and ends at the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal.At the end, his argument is that pundits have more influence in Washington than they do with the people, and it's up to the true journalists to knock them down.

The book could be an eye-opener for journalists and journalisms students.It argues that rather than uphold objectivity, journalists themselves should put commentary into their stories.This way there would be no need for pundits and news articles could provide for a greater understanding of an issue, rather than just shooting back the facts.

Sound and Fury is fascinating in its story of the history of pundits (the description of the first Gulf War sounds scarily like the second), and it provides some compelling arguments (although I don't know if they'll ever be able to work in the real world).It's also funny in its description of some of the pundits.(Jack Germond is "the pundit that Fred Mertz would have become if Ethel ever let him out of the house."Morton Kondracke is "the boy in the class waving his hands to answer the question only to promptly forget the answer when called upon.")

Unfortunately, the book is incredibly biased.A former pundit himself, Alterman just goes after the conservative and centrist pundits.Perhaps there truly are more conservative pundits, but there have to be a few truly liberal ones out there.The fact that he ignores them completely is a real down-side to this book.

Still, despite the bias, the book still has a lot of good things to say about journalism, the history of pundits, and the threats that pundits pose to journalism.For that, this book is very informative, and a little funny too.

Important Topic;Impressive Effort
Although this revised study of the chattering class incorporates some of its author's liberal-left proclivities and perspectives, Mr. Alterman seems to this reader to try to be as objective as he can be.

Alterman's relative objectivity is crucial because his topic is so important: public opinion in the United States is often shaped by clever phrases, memorable sound bites, and comfortable beliefs spouted into popular culture via broadcast or written media.Alterman's contention is that conventional beliefs are molded and common sense is formed in large measure through the influence of observers who are more famous than informed.

Pundits rule America, the author argues, by constructing and maintaining "informed opinion" that marginalizes alternative perspectives left and right.Commentators narrow the possibilities and discount the imponderables, thereby deepening troughs in the stream where the opinion-shapers feel most comfortable.If these spinmeisters succeed in moving this or that trough closer to the opinions fashionable in their own circles, so much the better.Their most important goal, however, is to preserve, protect, and defend the mass-mediated mainstream in which they are reckoned to be authoritative.

This "dredging" narrows the diversity of acceptable facts, beliefs, perspectives, and insights that will be carried in mass media.As a consequence, novel critiques, original thinking, and perceptive syntheses usually cannot penetrate sequences of fabricated, exaggerated threats and reassurances that characterize everyday debates on television, the Internet, or radio and in newspapers and periodicals.This conventional wisdom tended by the pundits not only amplifyies the problem that so many ordinary Americans know little about politics, government, their own country, and the world but also exacerbates the difficulty that so many people who trouble themselves to follow the news know so much that is not true.

Alterman deftly describes and documents how pundits set themselves up as experts by making themselves well known for being well known (to steal Daniel Boorstin's phrase).Many of them know a little about a little.Through marketing and self-promotion, they pose as knowing much about nearly everything.The reader is first amused and then amazed at how little it takes for this columnist or that essayist to become a frequent guest on chatfests.The more that the pundit pretends to know without actually risking his or her "authority" (often pundits have no "authority" in any subject to begin with; they have merely recognition or notoriety) and the more memorable their snappy patter, the more invitations that television is likely to extend.If you have wondered how Alec Baldwin or Martin Sheen or Ann Coulter or Peggy Noonan came to populate cable "news" shows, this book will suggest some plausible hypothesies.

When Alterman documents how succinct phrases and other arts of punditry actually clash with genuine knowledge and merited authority, the reader begins to appreciate how the sound and fury of these media creations have diminished politics and impoverished discourse.

P.S.Does anyone else suspect that the customer review from "A reader from Alexandria, VA USA" was crafted by some lefty to imply that one who disliked Alterman's book due to Alterman's writing would himself or herself write so poorly?

Those who can't handle this probably need to read "Slander"
or other such childish trash.Funny how Alterman calls for a more mature discourse in 1993 and Coulter's drek comes out years later calling for the exact same thing....but then goes on a trashing dance all over those she opposes.

Alterman just calls for less BS, ala Coulter and Drugboy Rush, and more honest "where are our similarities?" discourse.Of course the overly moralistic Right takes offense at being called on the carpet for their lack of adult ideas, but hey, the truth hurts.

When our leaders can begin to think outside the box for solutions (considering all the "conservative" ideas have gotten us to where we are today) about what ails our world, then we might find some solutions.Getting "tough" on things has not worked on drugs, poverty or crime.Why anyone thinks it would work on terrorism just shows the neanderthal thinking that comes into play when people have been convinced, ala Bush et al, to be afraid of one another.

Until there is a change in leadership in America, we will be doomed to continue to commit the same mistakes over and over and over again.Cold war "warriors" (people who got wealthy off of the defense contracts paid by you and I) can think of no better solution than to "go to war" for everything from "defense" to economic stimulation.When in fact developing alternative fuels (a "liberal" idea) would make us more indepedent of the fuel in the Middle East, would dry up the money there and would dry up the funds being filtered to Al Quida from such areas.As long as we feed the monster of the Middle East, we had better be prepared for it to continue to bite the hand that feeds it.But that is just so much "liberal" thinking....an so out of the box!

Alterman nails the Right for being Wrong, on so many levels - which is something they can not stand.Just look at the arrogance of Cheney, Rumsfeld and the like who, due to their old white man/priveleged status think that everyone should believe them, no questions asked.They ARE life long politicians aren't they?Or are only life long democrats/liberals the ones who lie?To take the word of ANY life long politician is to naively follow at one's peril.

Infuriate conservatives -- show 'em this book!
Eric Alterman had the right-wing media's number ages ago.This book gives the low-down on the hypocrisy of the screaming class -- and how it has taken over American discourse, hollering about the alleged 'immorality' of the left while engaging in the foulest behavior imaginable.

For instance -- George Will fans:Did you know that your hero, who tsk-tsked at Bill Clinton over his affairs, left his first wife for Marxist author Alec Cockburn's girlfriend?(And that he also left behind a child with Down's Syndrome for his wife to care for by herself?)Kinda at odds with his super-moralist image, eh?(By the way, he soon left Alec's old GF for another woman, whom he married in the early 1990s.)

Must reading for those keeping tabs on the immoral people who run our country.

Typical rantings and ravings from Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman's writings always send the same message, the world is not liberal enough and to the left enough.

Eric Alterman said in "What liberal media" that the only liberal media source in America is the leftist anti-american "The Nation".

This book reads on the lines of sour grapes.Eric is saying that since nobody in politics is liberal enough for his leftist viewpoints, they are all weak players in politics.

Eric needs to realize that he and the leftist liberal fringe that believes in his viewpoints, are way to the left of all americans including Hillary and Bill Clinton.

His writings seem to be expressing frustration that America won't follow his leftist agenda. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1880.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Why was the story of Adam, Eve, and the Serpent so important to medieval literary culture? Eric Jager argues that during the Middle Ages the story of the Fall was incorporated into a comprehensive myth about language. Drawing on a wide range of texts, Jager shows how patristic and medieval authors used the Fall to confront practical and theoretical problems in many areas of life and thought--including education, hermeneutics, rhetoric, feudal politics, and gender relations. Jager explores the Fall’s meaning for clergy and laity, nobles and commoners, men and women.

Among the works Jager discusses are texts by Ambrose, Augustine, the early Christian poet Avitus, and scholastic authors; Old English biblical epics; Middle English spiritual writings; French courtesy books; and the poetry of Dante and Chaucer. Examples from the visual arts are included as well. Jager links medieval interpretations of the Fall to underlying cultural anxieties about the ambiguity of the sign, the instability of oral tradition, the pleasure of the text, and the many rhetorical guises of the tempter’s voice. He also assesses the modern and postmodern legacy of the Fall, showing how this myth continues to embody central ideas concerning language.

The Tempter’s Voice will be essential reading for scholars and students in such fields as medieval studies, literary theory, gender theory, comparative literature, cultural history, and the history of religion. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1887.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1894.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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This book examines the components of Indonesia's rice policy to help policymakers, analysts, and observers sort out the pros and cons of alternative courses of action. Containing the results of the Food Research Institute's third multiyear research project on Indonesian food policy, the book combines new field-based empirical evidence on rice farming profitability and rural employment and wages with long experience in analyzing Indonesian food policy issues and the international market for rice. ... Read more