An in-depth and personal view of removal and homesteading in Colorado, through the experience of the Ute Tribes and Ferry Carpenter, ranch owner, and the first director of the Federal Grazing Service.

This chapter provides an introduction to the book’s subject matter and an initial sense of its ‘worldly’ orientation and themes. Some common spheres in which dignity is important are surveyed (end-of-life arrangements and funerals, access to sanitation and hygiene products, practices of health and social care, relations in the workplace, etc.), leading to the postulation of three general points: dignity is performative, embodied and ineliminably relational; dignity is emergent – a process, and not simply a quality, attribute or state of being; dignity is political, in that it is enmeshed with the wider conditions affecting economy, society and culture.

Wessex Tales is Thomas Hardy’s first collection of stories. Published as two volumes in 1888, it contains some of his best-known short works, including ‘The Three Strangers’, ‘The Withered Arm’ and ‘Fellow-Townsmen’. The longest story in the collection, ‘The Distracted Preacher’, is an exciting tale of smuggling on the Dorset coast based on the recollections of Hardy’s family. The Cambridge copy-text is the first edition of Wessex Tales, but it also includes Hardy’s story ‘An Imaginative Woman’, which was added later in the 1896 Osgood, McIlvaine edition. As with all volumes in the Cambridge Edition, full information on the publication history of the text is provided, along with a complete record of substantive variants. Illustrations include frontispieces for the first American edition along with those for the Osgood, McIlvaine and Wessex Editions. All of the illustrations for ‘An Imaginative Woman’ that appeared with its original publication in the Pall Mall Magazine are also reproduced.

Despite the contrasts in history and hydroclimatic contexts, the water diaries of Bangladeshis and Kenyans reveal similar daily practices. Rains stand out as the most defining driver of water source choice. Rural populations in Khulna and Kitui shift to rainwater when available, whether harvested in containers from their own roof catchments or in rocks and dams. Whether in sarees or sarongs, in kolshis stacked on the waist or jerrycans balanced on the head, women are the primary drawers of water. When water needs to be transported via motorcycles or boats, a well is dug or a community tube well is installed, men come onto the scene. Individual practices are shaped by institutional behaviours and the quality of water governance. Regulation is missing or ineffective for rural drinking water services in Kitui and Khulna, while non-compliance is normalised in case of urban water pollution in Dhaka and unreliable piped supply in Lodwar. Our findings propose that policy and practice focus more attention on the interactions between rainfall and water use behaviours in a changing climate, and the need for better information on water risks for institutional accountability and sustainable finance. We finally chart where change is happening to improve water security in Bangladesh and the opportunities that exist in Kenya.

This chapter describes the principles and practice of anaesthesia for dental surgery. A comprehensive account of the assessment, planning and conduct of anaesthesia is given. Commonly performed dental procedures will be considered in detail, together with the management of dentofacial infection and maxillofacial trauma in children.

People cannot survive without plants. We rely on them for food, shelter, clothes, tools – as much now as we ever did before modernity. Our relationship with plants predated the emergence of written language: that history is archaeological. But as long as we have had the words to write we have written about plants: that writing is the subject of this book. The history of literature about plants is long, rich, and varied: the task of accounting for it would demand many volumes. Nonetheless, this collection is ambitious in scope. Its sections cover historical periods of Greek, Latin, Norse, and Anglophone plant literatures; prominent modern plant genres, and the plant writing of most global regions. The scholars who took on the difficult task of accounting for a region’s plant literature have done so with elegance, many of them focusing on the long history of literature about a single plant species whose place in the region’s culture deserves attention for its sustained national, religious, or ethnic importance.

Explains Doctrine of Discovery as foundation for land divestiture that allowed non-Indigenous ranchers to acquire title to vast areas of Tribal land in 1800s and 1900s.

In this concluding chapter, we review our findings in the context of our initial pre-analysis plan and discuss the limitations of our studies. We then analyze the implications of our study and findings for their scholarly contributions and discuss next steps for future research. We conclude with a discussion of the normative implications of our findings. Despite the hubbub about Fox News being a bull-in-the-china shop, its effects on politicians were contingent on the context of the district they represented. Even if its effects were circumscribed, our evidence shows that the consequences were real. The implications of our findings are twofold. On the one hand, it throws some cold water on the popular notion that Fox News was a right-wing bulldozer that pulled American politics uniformly in a conservative direction. On the other hand, it makes clear that standard theoretical models of congressional behavior are founded on an assumption that, while useful, is most certainly flawed. Namely, politicians are not fully informed rational calculators. Politicians are people.

This chapter aims to understand the entrepreneurial perspective on legal innovation. How do those who create legal innovation make the services and products that improve the way law is used? The conversation centres on topics such as passion for innovation, identifying needs for new products and services, dealing with failure, keys to success in the market, innovation networks, regulatory approaches to innovation and innovation in the financial services industry. The chapter also considers aspects of innovation that are particular to legal services. Among them are the creation and availability of legal datasets for the application of artificial intelligence and the transferability of legal innovation to other jurisdictions with different laws.

The introduction starts by recounting the history of this project, from an ignorant first encounter with the traces of expos, through the enthusiastic embrace of the burgeoning academic literature on them, to a puzzling first experience of an expo in real life. It suggests that the existence of expos, and their endurance in Japan, challenges the existing literature, which either mines them to explore other phenomena, or assumes that as exemplars of modern spectacle they can serve as an effective ideological apparatus. Rather, it argues, they might help us refine our understanding of development, spectacle, and their relationship, and of modern Japan. Doing so, however, requires us to be alert to the limits of our sources, however extensive the expo archive, and to craft our accounts to reflect these.

This chapter charts the historical evolution of second-tier patent systems in Australia – looking at the establishment of the petty patent system, the rise and fall of the innovation patent, and the new focus of the Albanese Government upon breakthrough inventions. In terms of its methodology, this chapter provides a historical study of intellectual property reform in Australia. It also uses socio-legal methodologies to highlight the gap between the aspirations for the innovation patent system, and the operation of the system in practice. The chapter also draws upon empirical research into intellectual property registration data. This work is an investigation of litigation in respect of innovation patents – the so-called ‘patent wars’. As well as exploring intellectual property, this chapter also considers Australia’s innovation policies – particularly in respect of small-to-medium enterprises and lone inventors. It highlights the tensions between the nationalistic vision of Australian policy-makers, and the larger forces of globalization.

This chapter examines the opportunities and challenges for the management of biodiversity in desert and water-scarce regions, in particular sub-regions of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It explores the need for the integrated management of water and biodiversity in the region, how the current legal framework of biodiversity protection can advance an integrated governance approach, the gaps in integrative governance in the region, and how these gaps can be addressed. Although MENA is one of the regions most vulnerable to climate change, it is not homogenous. Its geography deserves a nuanced investigation of the threats of climate change and biodiversity loss to each of its sub-regions. The integrated management of water and biodiversity resources is essential to address the impacts of climate change and other ecological pressures coherently. To advance such integrated governance of water and biodiversity, a wide array of cross-sub regional and cross-national initiatives have been developed. However, problems of diverse political landscape, economic priorities, varied institutional capacities, and transboundary challenges hinder their effective and coherent implementation. This chapter examines the legal framework on the integrated management of water and biodiversity in the MENA region, offering recommendations for improving the current regime of water conservation.

This chapter develops the concept of criminalized governance, defining it as the structures and practices through which criminalized groups control territory and manage relations with local populations. It distinguishes between two primary dimensions: coercion and the provision of benefits. The chapter then provides detailed descriptions of the various activities and behaviors included within each of these dimensions. A typology of criminalized governance regimes is then presented, which contains five ideal types: disorder, benevolent dictator, tyrant, social bandit, and laissez-faire. Finally, existing explanations from the literature on criminalized governance in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas are addressed.