This chapter explores the political theory within this educational work. It draws on self-produced works, cassettes, photocopied pamphlets, song sheets, and lyric books collected from people’s own archives as they returned from Khartoum, and the interviews, group translations, and discussions of these works and photographs conducted during their collection. These texts, poems, and songs are engaged in critiques of their authors’ economic, political, racial, and social circumstances; they build competing political philosophies and set out a spectrum of ideas about the future. Together the discussions across these projects centred on the possible shape and extent of a new political community rooted in common Black experience of exploitation and marginalisation, versus a political community drawing on more specific ethnic or localised parameters, based on a more conservative and pessimistic reading of the war economy and its futures. At the same time it contains shared common critiques of the civic and moral failings of the wealthy, apathetic, culturally promiscuous, and politically ignorant.

Chapter 1 provides a long view of the living standards and economic growth from the Mughal Empire to the end of British rule, followed by economic changes in independent India. Living standards are measured in terms of income categories such as average wages and estimates of per capita incomes. I show that Indian per capita GDP was 60 percent of British level in 1600. But Indian per capita GDP began to decline from the seventeenth century, well before the conquest of Bengal by the East India Company. It stabilized in the nineteenth century and stagnated until the end of colonial rule. The economy moved from stagnation to positive economic growth after independence until the policies of regulation and import substitution. Although the rate of growth was low compared to recent decades, it marked a structural break with its historical trend and set India on the path of modern economic growth.

Introduces readers to the history and legacy of Black homesteading through the story of the Dearfield Colony, established in Colorado prior to the Dust Bowl Era.

This chapter describes the principles and practice of anaesthesia for paediatric hepatobiliary surgery, including transplantation. Hepatobiliary physiology, the pathophysiology of paediatric liver disease and its sequelae are discussed. A comprehensive account of the assessment, planning and conduct of anaesthesia for these patients is given. Commonly performed hepatobiliary surgical procedures and their associated conditions are considered in detail. Particular focus on liver transplantation in children is given.

In April 2014, two months before the start of the World Cup, 2,500 Brazilian Army and Marine soldiers occupied Complexo da Maré. They would stay there for the next fifteen months. The occupation of Maré was the culmination of Rio’s once-heralded Police Pacification Units, a public security program intended to recapture the state’s monopoly of violence from drug-trafficking gangs in hundreds of favelas throughout the city. This chapter begins by tracing the confluence of factors which led to the Brazilian military’s intervention. A mix of participant observations, interviews, and newspaper accounts then document the military’s arrival and their various operations and activities to combat gangs and gain the support of the local population. The chapter proceeds to analyze how and why each of Maré’s gangs responded differently to the challenges of occupation, arguing that the military lacked the capacity to fully expel or dismantle them though their presence shifted the dynamics of rival competition and threat, which produced the divergent gang responses observed.

The Sagebrush Rebellion provides a backdrop to the story of a notorious ranch in Nevada, where Wayne Hage fought a thirty-year battle over grazing on public lands with the BLM and Forest Service.

The catheterisation laboratory (cath lab) continues to advance with updated technology and novel devices, allowing catheter-based interventions on more complex cases of congenital and acquired heart disease with the added benefit of reduced radiation exposure. Today, a wider range of catheter-based interventions exist, replacing or postponing the need for a surgical approach. Even extremely preterm infants (some less than 800 g) can now be offered interventional procedures in the cardiac catheter laboratory. Conversely, there is a reduced need for cardiac catheterisation as a purely diagnostic tool, as non-invasive imaging modalities such as cardiac CT and MRI continue to increase in their application and sophistication. The anaesthetist will find themselves undertaking high-risk anaesthetics, with challenges inherent to the cath lab, with riskier and more complex children, in a location which may be remote from the theatre suite. Anaesthetists managing children with complex congenital cardiac disease have to understand the pathophysiology of these patients and, importantly, the effects that anaesthesia and any intervention will have on their underlying physiology.

In the previous chapter we examined how to value entire companies. To do so, we took the perspective of someone—such as an investor—looking at the company from the outside and determining its value based on how it currently operates.

In this chapter, we shift to the perspective of someone within the company, and shift our unit of analysis from the firm as a whole to the investment projects within a firm. Company value and project choice are tightly connected because managers try to choose projects that will increase the company’s value. In this chapter, we examine how to evaluate a firm’s investment projects and look at how managers can choose projects that increase company value the most.

This chapter describes the principles and practice of regional anaesthesia and analgesia in children. The anatomy, imaging, pharmacology and clinical principles of the most commonly used blocks are described.

This chapter presents the book’s conclusions. Drawing together the threads of the three mini-studies, the chapter puts forward an account of human dignity that calls into question the conventional distinction between ‘status dignity’ and ‘intrinsic dignity’, and highlights the status-based character of dignity, viewed from the standpoint of less privileged people. Regarding the book’s title, it is recalled that this is a reference to the stare often commented upon by viewers of one of the photographs discussed in Chapter 3. Trucanini’s stare may be taken to suggest both the enigma of dignity and the dignity that stems from the ultimate inaccessibility to others of private experience and thoughts.