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Unstaging War, Confronting Conflict and Peace
by Tony FryThis book presents the concept of ‘unstaging’ war as a strategic response to the failure of the discourse and institutions of peace. This failure is explained by exploring the changing character of conflict in current and emergent global circumstances, such as asymmetrical conflicts, insurgencies, and terrorism. Fry argues that this pluralisation of war has broken the binary relation between war and peace: conflict is no longer self-evident, and consequentially the changes in the conditions, nature, systems, philosophies and technologies of war must be addressed. Through a deep understanding of contemporary war, Fry explains why peace fails as both idea and process, before presenting ‘Unstaging War’ as a concept and nascent practice that acknowledges conflict as structurally present, and so is not able to be dealt with by attempts to create peace. Against a backdrop of increasingly tense relations between global power blocs, the beginnings of a new nuclear arms race, and the ever-increasing human and environmental impacts of climate change, a more viable alternative to war is urgently needed. Unstaging War is not claimed as a solution, but rather as an exploration of critical problems and an opening into the means of engaging with them.
The Unsteady State
by Keith Culver Michael GiudiceAnalytical jurisprudence often proceeds with two key assumptions: that all law is either contained in or traceable back to an authorizing law-state, and that states are stable and in full control of the borders of their legal systems. What would a general theory of law be like and do if these long-standing presumptions were loosened? The Unsteady State aims to assess the possibilities by enacting a relational approach to explanation of law, exploring law's relations to the environment, security, and technology. The account provided here offers a rich and renewed perspective on the preconditions and continuity of legal order in systemic and non-systemic forms, and further supports the view that the state remains prominent yet is now less dominant in the normative lives of norm-subjects and as an object of legal theory.
The Unstoppable Ruth Bader Ginsburg: American Icon
by Antonia Felix“An adoring photo history that wonderfully shows Ginsburg in her private life as well as public.” (Publishers Weekly)Not only did Ruth Bader Ginsburg—the second woman appointed to the Supreme Court—possess one of the greatest legal minds of our time, she was an admired cultural icon whose work on behalf of gender equality, and whose unprecedented career itself, indelibly changed American society. This gorgeously illustrated book celebrates Ginsburg’s legacy with 130 photographs, inspiring quotes, highlights from notable speeches and judicial opinions and insightful commentary. With a foreword by Mimi Leder, award–winning filmmaker and director of the 2018 major motion picture about RBG, On the Basis of Sex.
Unsustainable: Measurement, Reporting, and the Limits of Corporate Sustainability
by Matthew ArcherA behind-the-scenes look at how corporate and financial actors enforce a business-friendly approach to global sustainabilityIn recent years, companies have felt the pressure to be transparent about their environmental impact. Large documents containing summaries of yearly emissions rates, carbon output, and utilized resources are shared on companies’ social media pages, websites, and employee briefings in a bid for public confidence in corporate responsibility.And yet, Matthew Archer argues, these metrics are often just hollow symbols. Unsustainable contends with the world of big banks and multinational corporations, where sustainability begins and ends with measuring and reporting. Drawing on five years of research among sustainability professionals in the US and Europe, Unsustainable shows how this depoliticizing tendency to frame sustainability as a technical issue enhances and obscures corporate power while doing little, if anything, to address the root causes of the climate crisis and issues of social inequality. Through this obsession with metrics and indicators, the adage that you can’t manage what you can’t measure transforms into a belief that once you’ve measured social and environmental impacts, the market will simply manage them for you.The book draws on diverse sources of evidence—ethnographic fieldwork among a wide array of sustainability professionals, interviews with private bankers, and apocalyptic science fiction—and features analyses of name-brand companies including Volkswagen, Unilever, and Nestlé. Making the case for the limits of measuring and reporting, Archer seeks to mobilize alternative approaches. Through an intersectional lens incorporating Black and Indigenous theories of knowledge, power and value, he offers a vision of sustainability that aims to be more effective and more socially and ecologically just.
The Untameable
by Guillermo ArriagaGoodfellas meets White Fang. By the BAFTA-winning screenwriter of Amores Perros."An epic tale" Sunday Times Crime Club"A fast-moving, intriguing and virile novel" Irish Examiner"Of all the wolves you will see in your life, one alone will be your master."Yukon, Canada's far north. A young man tracks a wolf through the wilderness. The one his grandfather warned him about. In Mexico City, Juan Guillermo has pledged vengeance. For his murdered brother, Carlos. For his parents, sentenced to death by their grief. But in 1960s Mexico justice is sold to the highest bidder, and the Catholic fanatics who killed Carlos are allied to Zunita, a corrupt and influential police commander. If he is to quench his thirst for revenge Juan Guillermo will have to answer his inner call of the wild and discover what links his destiny to a hunter on the other side of America.A gripping coming of age thriller of vengeance and destiny set between Mexico City's murderous 1960s underworld and the bleak tundras of Canada's most remote province.Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne and Jessie Mendez Sayer
Untangling the USA: The Cost of Complexity and What Can Be Done About It
by Etienne DeffargesTom Brady and the “tuck rule”; “Nobody knew health care could be so complicated”; “The financial world has become way too complicated and very secretive.” What could Tom Brady, Donald Trump, and Michael Lewis possibly have in common? Complexity. Lewis has analyzed it; Trump has discovered it; Brady has benefited from it. And the USA is entangled in it. Complex systems are an inevitable part of business and socio-economic structures. We reach a breaking point, however, when social and organizational structures become cumbersome and unintelligible. Entire new systems need to be constructed just to manage this complexity, with questionable or negative value to society at large. The outcome is high costs, poor results, deepening social inequality, and the erosion of public trust. Wholesale changes must be contemplated. This is particularly true in the USA today, where complexity is piled upon complexity in a number of critical sectors, such as health care, energy, finance, and government. The author takes a common sense, broad-based, and analytical approach to some of the most complicated issues facing the US today. He examines the costs of complexity through a wide-angle lens, provides analysis of the root causes involved, and explains what is necessary to improve results and lower costs. The ever-increasing level of complexity in the US is compared to that in other developed economies. History is referenced as a guide to show that in many areas, America’s success has relied on simple and elegant solutions. These contrasting paths are used to propose alternative approaches and new solutions. Beyond analyzing how incredibly complex socio-economic systems have emerged in recent years in the US, the author steps back, reflects on the fundamental values of this country, and offers a number of actionable proposals to improve the lives of all American citizens. Etienne Deffarges has enjoyed a successful career, first as a senior strategy consultant to many leading global companies, then as a heath care technology entrepreneur in the US. He is perfectly positioned to observe how complex systems are stifling socio-economic progress. He brings a unique insider view of the issues involved and examines a number of key sectors that impact American society at large, including health care, energy, finance, regulations, taxation, utilities, and welfare.
Unternehmensführung für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by Thomas LauerUnternehmensführung gehört zu den Königsdisziplinen der BWL, weil hier die Weichen für den Erfolg oder Misserfolg eines Unternehmens gestellt werden. Thomas Lauer wappnet Sie mit allem Wichtigen für Ihren Schein. Zunächst erläutert er das Fundament, die strategische Analyse, und betrachtet dann verschiedene Methoden sowie die Auswahl und Umsetzung. Da die Beschäftigten die Strategien umsetzen, geht es danach um Mitarbeiterführung und unterschiedliche Führungsstile sowie um Leadership und traditionelles Management. Sie erfahren auch etwas über die Bedeutung der Unternehmenskultur und die verschiedenen Ansätze für eine Unternehmensethik. Abschlieà end erhalten Sie Einblicke in die unterschiedlichen Organisationsformen von Unternehmen und in die Herausforderung, wie planvolles Change Management Unternehmen in Zeiten des Wandels stark machen kann. Immer wieder geben zahleiche Praxisbeispiele interessante Einblicke in die Arbeit bekannter Unternehmen.
Unternehmenskauf in der Steuerpraxis
by Patrick SineweBeim Unternehmenskauf sind neben gesellschaftsrechtlichen und arbeitsrechtlichen Regelungen gerade auch steuerliche Gesichtspunkte von großer Bedeutung. Dieses Werk stellt rechtsgebietsübergreifend die typischen Problemfelder eines Unternehmenskaufs vor. Im Fokus stehen dabei mittelständische Unternehmen. Zahlreiche Beispiele, Beratungshinweise und Übersichten zu den relevanten arbeitsrechtlichen, gesellschaftsrechtlichen und steuerrechtlichen Fragestellungen runden das Werk ab.Für die 3. Auflage wurde das Buch umfassend aktualisiert und erweitert.
Unternehmensnachfolge: Praxishandbuch für Familienunternehmen
by Andreas WiesehahnDieses Buch unterstützt Sie umfassend bei der Unternehmensnachfolge in allen wichtigen betriebswirtschaftlichen, rechtlichen, organisatorischen, steuerlichen und psychologischen Fragen und bei der Umsetzung Ihrer individuellen Nachfolgestrategie.Hierzu werden u.a. die verschiedenen Formen der Unternehmensnachfolge, etwa familieninterne Lösungen, Verkauf oder die Gründung einer Stiftung dargestellt. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt ist die Finanzierung der Unternehmensnachfolge, wobei sowohl traditionelle Finanzierungswege als auch alternative Lösungen wie Private Equity-Beteiligungen vorgestellt werden. Für die 2. Auflage wurde das Werk aktualisiert und erweitert. Thematisch neu aufgenommen wurden v.a. die Rolle von Frauen bei der Unternehmensnachfolge, die Analyse der Entwicklung der Unternehmensnachfolge in der Region Bonn/Rhein-Sieg und Überlegungen zum Nachfolgecontrolling.Durch seinen klaren Aufbau und eine verständliche Sprache bietet das Buch in 35 Kapiteln umfassende und praxisnahe Orientierung. Ein besonderes Highlight sind 12 Interviews mit Unternehmern, unter ihnen zahlreiche „Hidden Champions“, die persönliche Einblicke in ihre Erfahrungen gewähren.
Unternehmensverkauf: Leitfaden für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen
by Jürgen Wegmann Hilmar SiebertNeben den rechtlichen und steuerlichen Besonderheiten beim Unternehmensverkauf sind die Hürden durch unterschiedliche Unternehmenskulturen zu kennen. Schon die Entscheidung für den richtigen Käufer kann viele Punkte in der Umsetzung und Integration erleichtern. Das Buch erläutert daher alle wichtigen Schritte von der Konzeptionsphase bis zur Integration.
Until Death Do Us Part
by Christine McguireAssisant District Attorney Kathryn Mackay takes on the case of her lifetime, and the personal crisis of a lifetime too.
Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala
by Rachel NolanThe poignant saga of Guatemala’s adoption industry: an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigenous dispossession.In 2009 Dolores Preat went to a small Maya town in Guatemala to find her birth mother. At the address retrieved from her adoption file, she was told that her supposed mother, one Rosario Colop Chim, never gave up a child for adoption—but in 1984 a girl across the street was abducted. At that house, Preat met a woman who strongly resembled her. Colop Chim, it turned out, was not Preat’s mother at all, but a jaladora—a baby broker.Some 40,000 children, many Indigenous, were kidnapped or otherwise coercively parted from families scarred by Guatemala’s civil war or made desperate by unrelenting poverty. Amid the US-backed army’s genocide against Indigenous Maya, children were wrested from their villages and put up for adoption illegally, mostly in the United States. During the war’s second decade, adoption was privatized, overseen by lawyers who made good money matching children to overseas families. Private adoptions skyrocketed to the point where tiny Guatemala overtook giants like China and Russia as a “sender” state. Drawing on government archives, oral histories, and a rare cache of adoption files opened briefly for war crimes investigations, Rachel Nolan explores the human toll of an international industry that thrives on exploitation.Would-be parents in rich countries have fostered a commercial market for children from poor countries, with Guatemala becoming the most extreme case. Until I Find You reckons with the hard truths of a practice that builds loving families in the Global North out of economic exploitation, endemic violence, and dislocation in the Global South.
Until Judgment Day
by Christine McguireKathryn Mackay is on the hunt for a serial killer who targets Catholic priests in this thoroughly modern thriller by New York Times bestselling author and veteran prosecutor Christine McGuire. Kathryn Mackay has had her share of triumphs and tragedies throughout her career in the California District Attorney's office. In and out of the courtroom, she's seen the best of times -- such as her marriage to Santa Rita County Sheriff Dave Granz -- and the worst of crimes, including the ones she's currently investigating: the serial murders of three local priests during the Christmas holiday season. Now it's up to Kathryn to stop the killer before he makes his final judgment. . . . But with the specter of sexual abuse and money laundering hanging high above the Church's spire, few individuals are willing to offer their confessions. So it's up to Kathryn and Dave to break the silence and learn some impossible truths -- including a devastating one of their own.
Until the Final Verdict
by Christine McguireDistrict Attorney Kathryn Mackay finds herself the prime murder suspect in this mesmerizing thriller by New York Times bestselling author and real-life prosecutor Christine McGuire. Judge Jemima Tucker has been brutally murdered in her chambers at the Santa Rita County courthouse -- and Kathryn Mackay vows to bring her friend's killer to justice. But when both Tucker's husband and another judge become suspects, Kathryn ends up walking a minefield of deadly accusations. Meanwhile, Kathryn and her newly reconciled lover, Sheriff Dave Granz, bring an old enemy, Robert Simmons, back into custody. But when Simmons dies unexpectedly under Kathryn's sole supervision -- and the cause of death is found to be homicide -- Kathryn finds herself fighting for her job, her family, and her life. A shocking novel of murder and betrayal, Until the Final Verdict is suspense at its finest.
Until We Meet Again
by Christine McguireHours after her beloved boss and mentor dies, Kathryn Mackay is thrust into her biggest challenge as the new District Attorney.
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
by Danielle SeredAlthough over half the people incarcerated in America today have committed violent offenses, the focus of reformers has been almost entirely on nonviolent and drug offenses. Danielle Sered’s brilliant and groundbreaking Until We Reckon steers directly and unapologetically into the question of violence, offering approaches that will help end mass incarceration and increase safety. <p><p> Widely recognized as one of the leading proponents of a restorative approach to violent crime, Sered asks us to reconsider the purposes of incarceration and argues persuasively that the needs of survivors of violent crime are better met by asking people who commit violence to accept responsibility for their actions and make amends in ways that are meaningful to those they have hurt—none of which happens in the context of a criminal trial or a prison sentence. <p> Sered launched and directs Common Justice, one of the few organizations offering alternatives to incarceration for people who commit serious violent crime and which has produced immensely promising results. <p> Critically, Sered argues that the reckoning owed is not only on the part of those who have committed violence, but also by our nation’s overreliance on incarceration to produce safety—at great cost to communities, survivors, racial equity, and the very fabric of our democracy.
Unto This Last and Other Writings
by John RuskinFirst and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto this Last is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy, which dominated the Victorian period. Ruskin was a profoundly conservative man who looked back to the Middle Ages as a Utopia, yet his ideas had a considerable influence on the British socialist movement. And in making his powerful moral and aesthetic case against the dangers of unhindered industrialization he was strangely prophetic. This volume shows the astounding range and depth of Ruskin's work, and in an illuminating introduction the editor reveals the consistency of Ruskin's philosophy and his adamant belief that questions of economics, art and science could not be separated from questions of morality. In Ruskin's words, 'There is no Wealth but Life.'
The Untold Story of the Worlds Leading Environmental Institution: UNEP at Fifty (One Planet)
by Maria IvanovaThe past, present, and possible future of the agency designed to act as "the world's environmental conscience."The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) was founded in 1972 as a nimble, fast, and flexible entity at the core of the UN system--a subsidiary body rather than a specialized agency. It was intended to be the world's environmental conscience, an anchor institution that established norms and researched policy, leaving it to other organizations to carry out its recommendations. In this book, Maria Ivanova offers a detailed account of UNEP's origin and history. Ivanova counters the common criticism that UNEP was deficient by design, arguing that UNEP has in fact delivered on much (though not all) of its mandate.
Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away with It
by Elie HonigA NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB 'MUST-READ'CNN senior legal analyst and nationally bestselling author Elie Honig explores America’s two-tier justice system, explaining how the rich, the famous, and the powerful— including, most notoriously, Donald Trump—manipulate the legal system to escape justice and get away with vast misdeeds.How does he get away with it? That question, more than any other, vexes observers of and participants in the American criminal justice process. How do powerful people weaponize their wealth, political power, and fame to beat the system? And how can prosecutors fight back?In Untouchable, Elie Honig exposes how the rich and powerful use the system to their own benefit, revealing how notorious figures like Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, and Bill Cosby successfully eluded justice for decades. He demonstrates how the Trump children dodged a fraud indictment. He makes clear how countless CEOs and titans of Wall Street have been let off the hook, receiving financial penalties without suffering criminal consequences. This doesn’t happen by accident.Over the four years of his administration, Donald Trump’s corruption seemed plain for all to see. The former president obstructed justice, flouted his responsibility to the Constitution, lied to the American people, and set the United States on a dark path to disunity and violence. Yet he has never been held accountable for any of his misdeeds. Why not?Untouchable holds the answer. Honig shows how Trump and others use seemingly fair institutions and practices to build empires of corruption and get away with misdeeds for which ordinary people would be sentenced to years behind bars. It’s not just that money talks, Honig makes clear, but how it can corrupt otherwise reliable institutions and blind people to the real power dynamics behind the scenes.In this vital, incisive book, Honig explains how the system allows the powerful to become untouchable, takes us inside their heads, and offers solutions for making the system more honest and fairer, ensuring true justice for all—holding everyone, no matter their status, accountable for their criminal misdeeds.
The Untouchables: The people who helped wreck Ireland - and are still running the show
by Nick Webb Shane RossA devastating new exposé from the bestselling authors of The Bankers and Wasters.In March 2011, the Irish people elected a new government. But how much had really changed? In The Untouchables, Shane Ross and Nick Webb shine a light into dark corners of official Ireland to show that the blame for running the country into the ground goes well beyond Fianna Fáil, and that a dismaying number of the people who should share the blame are still in situ: in the civil service, on the boards of the leading companies, and in the banks, law firms, and consultancies that carry so much influence in deciding who wins and who loses. They name names, trace connections, and show how the untouchables managed to do so much damage, how they got away with it, and how so many of them are still in positions of power and influence in Ireland.'Fascinating ... required reading for anyone interested in how crony capitalism and power work in practice in Ireland' Irish Times'The Untouchables is hard to put down. Read it and seethe.' Irish IndependentShane Ross is an independent TD for Dublin South, and columnist in the Sunday Independent. Nick Webb is business editor of the Sunday Independent. They are the authors of Wasters, 2010's top-selling Irish current affairs title.
Untreue zum Nachteil der GmbH: Versuch einer strafunrechtsbegründenden Rekonstruktion der Rechtspersonalität der Korporation
by Ralf Peter AndersDie Arbeit untersucht Grund und Grenzen der Dispositionsbefugnis der Gesellschafter über das GmbH-Vermögen im Rahmen der sog. Organuntreue. Der normative Zusammenhang zwischen der juristischen Person und ihren natürlichen "Hinterleuten" wird in einem neuartigen und grundlegenden Zugang in seinem spezifisch gesellschaftsrechtlichen Kontext in Beziehung zu rechtsphilosophischen Begründungszusammenhängen gesetzt, indem in Abgrenzung zu insbesondere systemtheoretischen und ökonomischen Ansätzen die Grundbegriffe Person, Institution und Korporation unabhängig von kontingenten funktionalistischen und wirtschaftlich-utilitaristischen Erwägungen über ein freiheitlich-intersubjektives Anerkennungsverhältnis bestimmt werden. Die Grenze einer Dispositionsbefugnis der GmbH-Gesellschafter wird dabei über eine unternehmensbezogene teilhabegerechtigkeitstheoretische Aktualisierung der Kantischen Privatrechtslehre entwickelt.
Untreuerelevanz des staatlichen Informationsankaufs: Haushaltsuntreue durch zweckwidrigen Mitteleinsatz für V-Leute und steuerrelevante Datensätze
by Andreas GlockDer Autor widmet sich der Haushaltsuntreue gem. § 266 StGB im Zuge des staatlichen Ankaufs von Informationen. Nach einem phänomenologischen Einstieg erarbeitet er die Kriterien für die Annahme einer untreuespezifischen Pflichtverletzung. Hierfür setzt er sich mit den Ermächtigungsgrundlagen für den V-Leute-Einsatz und den Ankauf von Steuer-CDs/Steuerdatensätzen auseinander. Im Weiteren werden in Bezug auf den Vermögensnachteil mögliche Kompensationsansätze und das Kriterium der materiellen Zweckwidrigkeit vorgestellt, welche auf die Haushaltsuntreue angewandt werden. Dabei wird insbesondere ausgeführt, inwieweit die Verfälschung des Staatswillens, mögliche Beweisverwertungsverbote und die Grundsätze der Wirtschaftlichkeit und Sparsamkeit Berücksichtigung finden können. In einem abschließenden Teil bezieht der Autor Stellung, inwieweit eine Untreuestrafbarkeit auch aus dem Unterlassen von staatlichen Informationsankäufen resultieren kann.
Unveiling the Gender Paradox: Dynamics of Power, Sexuality and Property in Kerala
by Lekha N.B. Antony PalackalBoth nationally and internationally, the south Indian state of Kerala has been an object of study for its matrilineal kinship organization among some communities, as well as its achievements in education, literacy, and life expectancy for women against a weak economic base. Nonetheless, scholars have drawn attention to a paradox in Kerala’s model of development, namely women’s deteriorating social position in Kerala and the rise in violence against women. Against this backdrop, this book explores the intersections of gender, sexuality, marriage, family and kinship as related to the matrilineal Nayar community in Kerala. Chapters unravel the interplay between the triple categories of gender, power and social development as they play out at the micro, meso, and macro levels of society, probing the ways in which Nayar women practice agency. Ultimately, the authors explore how the strength of the Nayar community can be used as a case study toward circumventing the prevailing gender paradox and re-imagine a more liberated, empowered and self-reliant woman not only in Kerala, but in India at large. This book will be of interest to scholars in sociology, gender studies, and development studies, particularly those with a focus on South Asia.
The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between
by Michael DobbsPublished in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a riveting story of Jewish families seeking to escape Nazi GermanyIn 1938, on the eve of World War II, the American journalist Dorothy Thompson wrote that "a piece of paper with a stamp on it" was "the difference between life and death." The Unwanted is the intimate account of a small village on the edge of the Black Forest whose Jewish families desperately pursued American visas to flee the Nazis. Battling formidable bureaucratic obstacles, some make it to the United States while others are unable to obtain the necessary documents. Some are murdered in Auschwitz, their applications for American visas still "pending."Drawing on previously unpublished letters, diaries, interviews, and visa records, Michael Dobbs provides an illuminating account of America's response to the refugee crisis of the 1930s and 1940s. He describes the deportation of German Jews to France in October 1940, along with their continuing quest for American visas. And he re-creates the heated debates among U.S. officials over whether or not to admit refugees amid growing concerns about "fifth columnists," at a time when the American public was deeply isolationist, xenophobic, and antisemitic.A Holocaust story that is both German and American, The Unwanted vividly captures the experiences of a small community struggling to survive amid tumultuous world events.
The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America
by Jeffrey RosenAs thinking, writing, and gossip increasingly take place in cyberspace, the part of our life that can be monitored and searched has vastly expanded. E-mail, even after it is deleted, becomes a permanent record that can be resurrected by employers or prosecutors at any point in the future. On the Internet, every website we visit, every store we browse in, every magazine we skim--and the amount of time we skim it--create electronic footprints that can be traced back to us, revealing detailed patterns about our tastes, preferences, and intimate thoughts. In this pathbreaking book, Jeffrey Rosen explores the legal, technological, and cultural changes that have undermined our ability to control how much personal information about ourselves is communicated to others, and he proposes ways of reconstructing some of the zones of privacy that law and technology have been allowed to invade. In the eighteenth century, when the Bill of Rights was drafted, the spectacle of state agents breaking into a citizen's home and rummaging through his or her private diaries was considered the paradigm case of an unconstitutional search and seizure. But during the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, prosecutors were able to subpoena Monica Lewinsky's bookstore receipts and to retrieve unsent love letters from her home computer. And the sense of violation that Monica Lewinsky experienced is not unique. In a world in which everything that Americans read, write, and buy can be recorded and monitored in cyberspace, there is a growing danger that intimate personal information originally disclosed only to our friends and colleagues may be exposed to--and misinterpreted by--a less understanding audience of strangers. Privacy is important, Rosen argues, because it protects us from being judged out of context in a world of short attention spans, a world in which isolated bits of intimate information can be confused with genuine knowledge. Rosen also examines the expansion of sexual-harassment law that has given employers an incentive to monitor our e-mail, Internet browsing habits, and office romances. And he suggests that some forms of offensive speech in the workplace--including the indignities allegedly suffered by Paula Jones and Anita Hill--are better conceived of as invasions of privacy than as examples of sex discrimination. Combining discussions of current events--from Kenneth Starr's tapes to DoubleClick's on-line profiles--with inno-vative legal and cultural analysis, The Unwanted Gaze offers a powerful challenge to Americans to be proactive in the face of new threats to privacy in the twenty-first century.From the Hardcover edition.