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The Battle for Veterans’ Healthcare: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Policy Making and Patient Care
by Suzanne GordonIn The Battle for Veterans' Healthcare, award-winning author Suzanne Gordon takes us to the front lines of federal policymaking and healthcare delivery, as it affects eight million Americans whose military service makes them eligible for Veterans Health Administration (VHA) coverage.Gordon’s collected dispatches provide insight and information too often missing from mainstream media reporting on the VHA and from Capitol Hill debates about its future. Drawing on interviews with veterans and their families, VHA staff and administrators, health care policy experts and Congressional decision makers, Gordon describes a federal agency under siege that nevertheless accomplishes its difficult mission of serving men and women injured, in myriad ways, while on active duty.The Battle for Veterans’ Healthcare is an essential primer on VHA care and a call to action by veterans, their advocacy organizations, and political allies. Without lobbying efforts and broader public understanding of what’s at stake, a system now functioning far better than most private hospital systems may end up looking more like them, to the detriment of patients and providers alike.
The Battle for Yellowstone: Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict
by Justin FarrellYellowstone holds a special place in America's heart. As the world's first national park, it is globally recognized as the crown jewel of modern environmental preservation. But the park and its surrounding regions have recently become a lightning rod for environmental conflict, plagued by intense and intractable political struggles among the federal government, National Park Service, environmentalists, industry, local residents, and elected officials. The Battle for Yellowstone asks why it is that, with the flood of expert scientific, economic, and legal efforts to resolve disagreements over Yellowstone, there is no improvement? Why do even seemingly minor issues erupt into impassioned disputes? What can Yellowstone teach us about the worsening environmental conflicts worldwide?Justin Farrell argues that the battle for Yellowstone has deep moral, cultural, and spiritual roots that until now have been obscured by the supposedly rational and technical nature of the conflict. Tracing in unprecedented detail the moral causes and consequences of large-scale social change in the American West, he describes how a "new-west" social order has emerged that has devalued traditional American beliefs about manifest destiny and rugged individualism, and how morality and spirituality have influenced the most polarizing and techno-centric conflicts in Yellowstone's history.This groundbreaking book shows how the unprecedented conflict over Yellowstone is not all about science, law, or economic interests, but more surprisingly, is about cultural upheaval and the construction of new moral and spiritual boundaries in the American West.
The Battle for Yellowstone: Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict
by Justin FarrellYellowstone holds a special place in America's heart. As the world's first national park, it is globally recognized as the crown jewel of modern environmental preservation. But the park and its surrounding regions have recently become a lightning rod for environmental conflict, plagued by intense and intractable political struggles among the federal government, National Park Service, environmentalists, industry, local residents, and elected officials. The Battle for Yellowstone asks why it is that, with the flood of expert scientific, economic, and legal efforts to resolve disagreements over Yellowstone, there is no improvement? Why do even seemingly minor issues erupt into impassioned disputes? What can Yellowstone teach us about the worsening environmental conflicts worldwide?Justin Farrell argues that the battle for Yellowstone has deep moral, cultural, and spiritual roots that until now have been obscured by the supposedly rational and technical nature of the conflict. Tracing in unprecedented detail the moral causes and consequences of large-scale social change in the American West, he describes how a "new-west" social order has emerged that has devalued traditional American beliefs about manifest destiny and rugged individualism, and how morality and spirituality have influenced the most polarizing and techno-centric conflicts in Yellowstone's history.This groundbreaking book shows how the unprecedented conflict over Yellowstone is not all about science, law, or economic interests, but more surprisingly, is about cultural upheaval and the construction of new moral and spiritual boundaries in the American West.
A Battle Plan for Supporting Military Families: Lessons for the Leaders of Tomorrow (Risk and Resilience in Military and Veteran Families)
by Linda Hughes-Kirchubel Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth David S. RiggsThis unique reference integrates knowledge culled from fifteen years of U.S. deployments to create an action plan for supporting military and veteran families during future conflicts. Its innovative ideas stretch beyond designated governmental agencies (e.g., Department of Defense, VA) to include participation from, and possible collaborations with, the business/corporate, academic, advocacy, and philanthropic sectors. Contributors identify ongoing and emerging issues affecting military and veteran families and recommend specific strategies toward expanding and enhancing current programs and policy. This proactive agenda also outlines new directions for mobilizing the research community, featuring strategies for addressing institutional challenges and improving access to critical data.Included in the coverage: Lessons learned inside the Pentagon.Merging reintegration streams for veterans and military families.The unique role of professional associations in assisting military families: a case study. Philanthropy for military and veteran families: challenges past, recommendations for tomorrow.Rules of engagement: media coverage of military families during war. Designing and implementing strategic research studies to support military families.A Battle Plan for Supporting Military Families is of immediate usefulness to leaders, professionals, and future professionals in interdisciplinary academic, governmental, advocacy, and philanthropic areas of focus interested in the theoretical, practical, and real-life concerns and needs of military-affiliated families.
Battle Scars: The Sunday Times bestseller
by Jason FoxTHE EXTRAORDINARY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER.'The most important book you'll ever read... Battle Scars will save lives.' TOM MARCUS, author of SOLDIER SPYBattle Scars tells the story of Jason Fox's career as an elite operator, from the gunfights, hostage rescues, daring escapes and heroic endeavours that defined his service, to a very different kind of battle that awaited him at home.After more than two decades of active duty, Foxy was diagnosed with complex PTSD, forcing him to leave the military brotherhood and confront the hard reality of what follows. What happens when you become your own enemy? How do you keep on fighting when life itself no longer feels worth fighting for?Unflinchingly honest, Battle Scars is a breathtaking account of Special Forces soldiering: a chronicle of operational bravery, and of superhuman courage on and off the battlefield.---'A vivid, searing account of a life at war.' BEAR GRYLLS'A must read.' ANT MIDDLETON, bestselling author of FIRST MAN IN.--- What readers are saying: 'Outstanding' *****'Inspiring' *****'Courageous' *****'Remarkable' *****'An absolute must-read' *****--- Life Under Fire, Jason Fox's powerful and inspiring new book is OUT NOW
Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention (Battleground Ser.)
by Frank KuschThe 1968 Democratic Convention, best known for police brutality against demonstrators, has been relegated to a dark place in American historical memory. Battleground Chicago ventures beyond the stereotypical image of rioting protestors and violent cops to reevaluate exactly how—and why—the police attacked antiwar activists at the convention. Working from interviews with eighty former Chicago police officers who were on the scene, Frank Kusch uncovers the other side of the story of ’68, deepening our understanding of a turbulent decade. “Frank Kusch’s compelling account of the clash between Mayor Richard Daley’s men in blue and anti-war rebels reveals why the 1960s was such a painful era for many Americans. . . . to his great credit, [Kusch] allows ‘the pigs’ to speak up for themselves.”—Michael Kazin “Kusch’s history of white Chicago policemen and the 1968 Democratic National Convention is a solid addition to a growing literature on the cultural sensibility and political perspective of the conservative white working class in the last third of the twentieth century.”—David Farber, Journal of American History
Battling Boredom, Part 1: 99 Strategies to Spark Student Engagement
by Bryan HarrisDrive boredom out of your classroom – and keep it out – with the student-engagement strategies in this book. You’ll learn how to gain and sustain the attention of your students from the moment the bell rings. Perfect for teachers of all subjects and grade levels, these ready-to-use activities go head-to-head with student boredom and disengagement, resulting in class time that’s more efficient, more educational, and loads more fun! Contents include: Strategies to Begin a Lesson Strategies to End a Lesson Strategies for Solo/Independent Work Strategies for the Whole Group Strategies for Engaging Reluctant Learners Bonus: The book also features a Quick Guide to Parent Engagement, with loads of suggestions for increasing student engagement by partnering with families. Companion Book Available! For more strategies, don’t miss the companion book Battling Boredom, Part 2. Bryan Harris teams up with technology integration expert and former teacher Lisa Bradshaw to provide additional activities on academic talk, feedback to boost student performance, meaningful writing and reflection prompts, movement-based activities, effective classroom technology integration, and more!
Battling Boredom, Part 1: 99 Strategies to Spark Student Engagement
by Bryan HarrisDrive boredom out of your classroom – and keep it out – with the student-engagement strategies in this book. You’ll learn how to gain and sustain the attention of your students from the moment the bell rings. Perfect for teachers of all subjects and grade levels, these ready-to-use activities go head-to-head with student boredom and disengagement, resulting in class time that’s more efficient, more educational, and loads more fun! Contents include: Strategies to Begin a Lesson Strategies to End a Lesson Strategies for Solo/Independent Work Strategies for the Whole Group Strategies for Engaging Reluctant Learners Bonus: The book also features a Quick Guide to Parent Engagement, with loads of suggestions for increasing student engagement by partnering with families. Companion Book Available! For more strategies, don’t miss the companion book Battling Boredom, Part 2. Bryan Harris teams up with technology integration expert and former teacher Lisa Bradshaw to provide additional activities on academic talk, feedback to boost student performance, meaningful writing and reflection prompts, movement-based activities, effective classroom technology integration, and more!
Baudrillard: Critical and Fatal Theory (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory)
by Mike GaneBaudrillard is widely recognised as a powerful new force in cultural and social criticism, and is often referred to as the ‘High Priest of Postmodernism’. This study presents a detached assessment of his social thought and his reputation, challenging the way his work has been received in postmodernism and proposing a new reading of his contribution to social theory. Using many sources currently available only in French, Mike Gane provides the keys to understanding Baudrillard’s project and reveals the extent and scope of Baudrillard’s challenge to modern social theory and cultural criticism. He looks at the sources of Baudrillard’s ideas, analysing how Baudrillard has turned these sources against themselves. He describes Baudrillard’s dramatic encounter with critical Marxist theory and psychoanalysis, showing how Baudrillard’s post-Marxist writings define, through the exploration of fatal theory, a new episode in cultural history: a period of cultural implosion. This balanced account of Baudrillard’s social theory emphasises the originality of his work and argues that his significance can only be understood by grasping the paradoxes of his project – Baudrillard’s work is poetic, yet, at the same time, critical and fatal.
Baudrillard: Critical and Fatal Theory (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory)
by Mike GaneBaudrillard is widely recognised as a powerful new force in cultural and social criticism, and is often referred to as the ‘High Priest of Postmodernism’. This study presents a detached assessment of his social thought and his reputation, challenging the way his work has been received in postmodernism and proposing a new reading of his contribution to social theory. Using many sources currently available only in French, Mike Gane provides the keys to understanding Baudrillard’s project and reveals the extent and scope of Baudrillard’s challenge to modern social theory and cultural criticism. He looks at the sources of Baudrillard’s ideas, analysing how Baudrillard has turned these sources against themselves. He describes Baudrillard’s dramatic encounter with critical Marxist theory and psychoanalysis, showing how Baudrillard’s post-Marxist writings define, through the exploration of fatal theory, a new episode in cultural history: a period of cultural implosion. This balanced account of Baudrillard’s social theory emphasises the originality of his work and argues that his significance can only be understood by grasping the paradoxes of his project – Baudrillard’s work is poetic, yet, at the same time, critical and fatal.
Baudrillard and Lacanian Psychoanalysis (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
by Victoria GraceThis book is the first to develop a Baudrillardian critique of the problematic way Lacanian psychoanalysis, as a clinical practice and by extension as a source of socio-cultural and philosophical theory, continues its vain attempt to (re)animate a subject of the unconscious. The text throws into question Lacan’s notion of the ‘real,’ the unconscious ‘structured as a language,’ and his construct of surplus, while interrogating the links between psychoanalysis and Marxism. It shows how Lacanian psychoanalysis, with its questionable ethics, transpires as an endlessly recursive simulation model. Lacan’s clinical seminar was influential in the intellectual milieu of Paris while Baudrillard was writing. Although frequently referring to psychoanalysis, Baudrillard never wrote a detailed critique of psychoanalysis; the scaffolding of such a work, however, transpires throughout the extent of his writing. The text also outlines Deleuze and Guattari’s critique of psychoanalysis stressing how the alternative they propose remains within the oppressive terms of our current world. This book is an essential resource for social, critical, cultural, literary, feminist, and psychoanalytic theory. While of interest to students, researchers, and scholars of Jean Baudrillard’s work and Lacanian psychoanalysis, this book particularly addresses those for whom not all is well with psychoanalysis, opening towards renewed directions through questioning.
Baudrillard and Lacanian Psychoanalysis (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
by Victoria GraceThis book is the first to develop a Baudrillardian critique of the problematic way Lacanian psychoanalysis, as a clinical practice and by extension as a source of socio-cultural and philosophical theory, continues its vain attempt to (re)animate a subject of the unconscious. The text throws into question Lacan’s notion of the ‘real,’ the unconscious ‘structured as a language,’ and his construct of surplus, while interrogating the links between psychoanalysis and Marxism. It shows how Lacanian psychoanalysis, with its questionable ethics, transpires as an endlessly recursive simulation model. Lacan’s clinical seminar was influential in the intellectual milieu of Paris while Baudrillard was writing. Although frequently referring to psychoanalysis, Baudrillard never wrote a detailed critique of psychoanalysis; the scaffolding of such a work, however, transpires throughout the extent of his writing. The text also outlines Deleuze and Guattari’s critique of psychoanalysis stressing how the alternative they propose remains within the oppressive terms of our current world. This book is an essential resource for social, critical, cultural, literary, feminist, and psychoanalytic theory. While of interest to students, researchers, and scholars of Jean Baudrillard’s work and Lacanian psychoanalysis, this book particularly addresses those for whom not all is well with psychoanalysis, opening towards renewed directions through questioning.
Baudrillard and Signs: Signification Ablaze
by Gary GenoskoThis book relates Baudrillard's work to contemporary social r4248y. The author traces the connections between Baudrillard's work and Marx and Marxism; Lefebvre and structuralist method; the works of Saussure, Bataille, Barthes, Foucault, Mauss, Peirce, McLuhan and the Prague School. The result is an authoritative and stimulating account of Baudrillard and modern social theory.
Baudrillard and Signs: Signification Ablaze
by Gary GenoskoThis book relates Baudrillard's work to contemporary social r4248y. The author traces the connections between Baudrillard's work and Marx and Marxism; Lefebvre and structuralist method; the works of Saussure, Bataille, Barthes, Foucault, Mauss, Peirce, McLuhan and the Prague School. The result is an authoritative and stimulating account of Baudrillard and modern social theory.
Baudrillard and the Culture Industry: Returning to the First Generation of the Frankfurt School
by Amirhosein KhandizajiThis book argues for the importance of the theory of the culture industry in today's world. It begins by considering the neglect of the culture industry in the second and third generation of the Frankfurt School, presenting historical background information and criticisms on the theories of Habermas and Honneth. In our age, the culture industry is something quite different from what Adorno and Horkheimer described or could even imagine in the twentieth century. Today, the masses can not only access the media but can also respond to the messages they receive. A key question that arises, then, is why the masses, even after gaining access to their own media, still adhere to the values of the capitalist system? Why haven't they achieved a class consciousness? This work seeks to answer those questions. Drawing on Jean Baudrillard's work, it reveals the semiotic aspects of the culture industry and describes the industry in the age of simulation and hyperreality. The book argues that the culture industry has now entered the micro level of our everyday life through shopping centers, the image of profusion and more. Further, it explores new aspects of the culture industry, such as a passion for participating in the media, the consumed vertigo of catastrophe, and masking the absence of a profound reality. As such, the book will particularly appeal to graduates and researchers in sociology and sociological theory, and all those with an interest in the Frankfurt School and the works of Jean Baudrillard.
Baudrillard Live: Selected Interviews
by Mike GaneJean Baudrillard arouses strong opinions. In this collection of his most important interviews the reader gains a unique and accessible overview of Baudrillard's key ideas. The collection includes many interviews that appear in English for the first time as well as a fascinating interview and encounter between the editor and Baudrillard in Paris.
Baudrillard Live: Selected Interviews
by Mike GaneJean Baudrillard arouses strong opinions. In this collection of his most important interviews the reader gains a unique and accessible overview of Baudrillard's key ideas. The collection includes many interviews that appear in English for the first time as well as a fascinating interview and encounter between the editor and Baudrillard in Paris.
Baudrillard's Bestiary: Baudrillard and Culture
by Mike GaneMike Gane provides an introduction to Baudrillard's cultural theory: the conception of modernity and the complex process of simulation. He examines Baudrillard's literary essays: his confrontation with Calvino, Styron, Ballard and Borges. Gane offers a coherent account of Baudrillard's theory of cultural ambience, and the culture of consumer society. And it provides an introduction to Baudrillard's fiction theory, and the analysis of transpolitical figures. The book also includes an interesting and provocative comparison of Baudrillard's powerful essay against the modernist Pompidou Centre in Paris and Frederic Jameson's analysis of the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. An interpretation of this encounter leads to the presentation of a very different Baudrillard from that which figures in contemporary debates on postmodernism.
Baudrillard's Bestiary: Baudrillard and Culture
by Mike GaneMike Gane provides an introduction to Baudrillard's cultural theory: the conception of modernity and the complex process of simulation. He examines Baudrillard's literary essays: his confrontation with Calvino, Styron, Ballard and Borges. Gane offers a coherent account of Baudrillard's theory of cultural ambience, and the culture of consumer society. And it provides an introduction to Baudrillard's fiction theory, and the analysis of transpolitical figures. The book also includes an interesting and provocative comparison of Baudrillard's powerful essay against the modernist Pompidou Centre in Paris and Frederic Jameson's analysis of the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. An interpretation of this encounter leads to the presentation of a very different Baudrillard from that which figures in contemporary debates on postmodernism.
Baudrillard's Challenge: A Feminist Reading
by Victoria GraceThis controversial book is the first systematic feminist reading of the work of Jean Baudrillard, one of the most pivotal figures in contemporary cultural theory, and is essential reading for students of feminist theory, sociology and cultural theory. Drawing on the full range of Baudrillard's writings the author engages in a debate with: * the work of Luce Irigaray, Judith Butler and Rosi Braidotti on identity, power and desire* the feminist concern with 'difference' as an emancipatory construct* writings on transgenderism and the performance of gender* feminist concerns about the objectification of women. Through this critical engagement Grace reveals some of the limitations of some contemporary feminist theorising around gender and identity, patriarchy and power, and in so doing offers a way forward for contemporary feminist thought.
Baudrillard's Challenge: A Feminist Reading
by Victoria GraceThis controversial book is the first systematic feminist reading of the work of Jean Baudrillard, one of the most pivotal figures in contemporary cultural theory, and is essential reading for students of feminist theory, sociology and cultural theory. Drawing on the full range of Baudrillard's writings the author engages in a debate with: * the work of Luce Irigaray, Judith Butler and Rosi Braidotti on identity, power and desire* the feminist concern with 'difference' as an emancipatory construct* writings on transgenderism and the performance of gender* feminist concerns about the objectification of women. Through this critical engagement Grace reveals some of the limitations of some contemporary feminist theorising around gender and identity, patriarchy and power, and in so doing offers a way forward for contemporary feminist thought.
Bauen mit Sinn: Schritte zu einer Philosophie der Architektur (Interdisziplinäre Architektur-Wissenschaft: Praxis – Theorie – Methodologie – Forschung)
by Christian IlliesArchitektur ist mehr als die technisch-funktionale Lösung eines praktischen Problems. In Bauwerken drückt sich immer auch ein Weltverhältnis aus - und macht zugleich ein bleibendes Sinn-Angebot. Architektur ist deswegen ein Anstoß, manchmal auch ein Apell, über sehr unterschiedliche Fragen nachzudenken, sich zu ihnen zu verhalten und sich dabei geistig zu verorten.In diesem Buch begegnen sich eine Vielfalt der Deutungs- und Annäherungsmöglichkeiten durch Vertreter unterschiedlicher Kultur- und Geisteswissenschaften. Die Eigenart der Wahrnehmungen und unterschiedlichen methodischen Herangehensweisen kommen so in ein Gespräch. Es soll zu einem besseres Verstehen, aber auch Bewerten führen. Denn wenn Bauwerke Sinn-Angebote machen, lassen sich diese auch beurteilen, da sie Ideale und mögliche Lebensweisen ausdrücken machen, die nicht alle gleichwertig sind. Der InhaltSchritte zu einer Philosophie der Architektur · Die Struktur des Raumes und die urbane Gemeinschaft · Das ‚Architektonische‘· Zur Aufgabe einer Philosophie des Bauwerks · Geometrische Muster zwischen frühneuzeitlicher Utopie und russischer Avantgarde · Moderne oder historisierende Architektur in der alten Stadt · Die Architektur des Heiligen · Meta Sudans, oder: Akustik und Geruch im antiken Rom -· Die Verallgemeinerung des Besonderen. Die Dresdner Frauenkirche und der gegenwärtige Rekonstruktionsfuror · Die Architektur der Schöpferischen Zerstörung · Architektur und Bild · Stadtbaukunst · Was ist gute Architektur? · Über Wahrheit und Lüge im architektonischen Sinn · Rekonstruktion in historischer und aktueller Perspektive · Wie gefährlich sind Rekonstruktionen? · Wie sollen wir bauen?Der HerausgeberDr. Christian Illies ist Professor für Philosophie an der Universität Bamberg.
Bauern, Kader und Migranten: Ländliche Modernisierungsprozesse am Beispiel einer Dorfgemeinschaft in der Sonderregion Yogyakarta / Indonesien (Edition Centaurus - Sozioökonomische Prozesse in Asien, Afrika und Lateinamerika)
by Günter BurkardSozioökonomische Wandlungsprozesse im ländlichen Java wurden bisher fast ausschließlich im Kontext der für den Naßreisanbau typischen Produktionsweise javanischer Dörfer analysiert. Somit standen vor allem Patron-Klient-Beziehungen und eine auf dem Besitz von Reisfeldern basierende soziale Schichtung im Mittelpunkt der Fallstudien. Diese Elemente aber spielen in den Dörfern der Hochlandregionen von Gunung Kidul nur eine marginale Rolle. Seit den sechziger Jahren haben die Bewohner des Untersuchungsdorfes in großen Scharen als Arbeitsmigranten ihren Wohnort verlassen. Migrationsprozesse und horizontale Kapitalströme zwischen Stadt und Land prägen die sozioökonomischen Verhältnisse weitaus mehr als dorfinterne Dominanzstrukturen. Eine nachhaltige Veränderung der demographischen Strukturen hat eine Zunahme traditioneller und reziprozitärer Arrangements zur Folge, da Landbesitzer ihre Parzellen oft nicht mehr alleine bewirtschaften können. Die Studie zeigt, daß sich traditionelle soziale Formen auch unter den Bedingungen eines raschen sozioökonomischen Wandels als adäquate Anpassung an die Lebensumstände der Handelnden erweisen können. Bäuerliche Arrangements können so durchaus die Funktion von öffentlichen Wohlfahrtsinstitutionen erfüllen, ohne in irgendeiner Weise das Ergebnis von wohlfahrtsorientierten Strategien oder Absichten darzustellen. Der Autor, geb. 1963, studierte Ethnologie und Sinologie. Nach zweijähriger Feldforschung in Indonesien promovierte er 1998 an der Universität Freiburg im Breisgau in der Fachrichtung Ethnologie.
Baukultur in der Stadterneuerung: Jahrbuch Stadterneuerung 2021 (Jahrbuch Stadterneuerung)
Die Stadtkerne gehören zu den Identitätsträgern vieler Städte, sie sind aber auch von Abrissen und Umbauten bedroht. Diskutiert werden Strategien und Instrumente der Baukultur, um das bauliche Erbe behutsam zu erhalten, zu sanieren oder umzubauen. Dazu gehören auch Bauten aus der städtebaulichen Moderne – hier werden teilweise frühere Eingriffe in die Stadtstruktur „korrigiert“. Dies führt zu kontroversen Debatten, inwiefern gestalterische Rückgriffe auf historische Gestaltmerkmale angemessen sind oder welche spezifischen Qualitäten die Nachkriegsmoderne einbringt. Die Frage des Nebeneinanders von Alt und Neu, von Stadterhaltung und Stadtumbau stellt sich immer wieder neu.
Bauman: A Biography
by Izabela WagnerGlobal thinker, public intellectual and world-famous theorist of ‘liquid modernity’, Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was a scholar who, despite forced migration, built a very successful academic career and, after retirement, became a prolific and popular writer and an intellectual talisman for young people everywhere. He was one of those rare scholars who, grey-haired and in his eighties, had his finger on the pulse of the youth. This is the first comprehensive biography of Bauman’s life and work. Izabela Wagner returns to Bauman’s native Poland and recounts his childhood in an assimilated Polish Jewish family and the school experiences shaped by anti-Semitism. Bauman’s life trajectory is typical of his generation and social group: the escape from Nazi occupation and Soviet secondary education, communist engagement, enrolment in the Polish Army as a political officer, participation in the WW II and the support for the new political regime in the post-war Poland. Wagner sheds new light on the post-war period and Bauman’s activity as a KBW political officer. His eviction in 1953 from the military ranks and his academic career reflect the dynamic context of Poland in 1950s and 1960s. His professional career in Poland was abruptly halted in 1968 by the anti-Semitic purges. Bauman became a refugee again - leaving Poland for Israel, and then settling down in Leeds in the UK in 1971. His work would flourish in Leeds, and after his retirement in 1991 he entered a period of enormous productivity which propelled him onto the international stage as one of the most widely read and influential social thinkers of our time. Wagner’s biography brings out the complex connections between Bauman’s life experiences and his work, showing how his trajectory as an ‘outsider’ forced into exile by the anti-Semitic purges in Poland has shaped his thinking over time. Her careful and thorough account will be the standard biography of Bauman’s life and work for years to come.