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The Discourse of Police Interviews

The pioneer of social media marketing and New York Times bestselling author Gary Vaynerchuk shows how to go from personal brand to building a business empire using the technologies, tools, and social platforms in the modern era. In 2009, Gary Vaynerchuk’s Crush It! became the first definitive blueprint for a new generation of internet entrepreneurs. Nearly two decades later, the game has significantly evolved. In 2009, individuals were just learning how to make a living from their personal brands. Today, we’re in a new age where individuals build their global empires.In Your Individual Empire, visionary marketer and business operator Gary Vaynerchuk explains how to build your own empire in this new era, featuring insights from those in the process of doing it. While breaking through the noise is more challenging than ever, the rewards are exponentially greater. Today’s elite creators aren't just monetizing content; they are launching global agencies, building media empires, creating consumer packaged goods (CPG), leveraging the blockchain, and scaling their footprints through content at an unprecedented level.Crush It! was for people aspiring to make $100,000 a year. Your Individual Empire is for those looking to do that, while laying down the foundations to become a multi-billion dollar enterprise. <ul><li>Cutting Edge Information from a Trusted Pro: Bestselling author and social media marketing pioneer Gary Vaynerchuk explains how to build a global, multi-billion-dollar, personal¿brand¿based empire using modern technology and social media.</li><li>Crush It! for a New World Order: Gary’s 2009 book Crush It! was a foundational guide for early internet entrepreneurs. This new book is poised to become the essential handbook for a new generation.</li><li>Grounded in Real-Life Experience: Your Individual Empire highlights insights from Gary and other creators who are breaking through the noise to achieve greater rewards, advice that will inspire others and help them succeed in their own ventures.</li><li>A How-to Packed with Essential Tools: Gary reveals how modern elite creators go beyond monetizing content—they build agencies, media companies, consumer packaged goods brands, leverage blockchain, and scale through unprecedented levels of content output.</li></ul>

The pioneer of social media marketing and New York Times bestselling author Gary Vaynerchuk shows how to go from personal brand to building a business empire using the technologies, tools, and social platforms in the modern era. In 2009, Gary Vaynerchuk’s Crush It! became the first definitive blueprint for a new generation of internet entrepreneurs. Nearly two decades later, the game has significantly evolved. In 2009, individuals were just learning how to make a living from their personal brands. Today, we’re in a new age where individuals build their global empires.In Your Individual Empire, visionary marketer and business operator Gary Vaynerchuk explains how to build your own empire in this new era, featuring insights from those in the process of doing it. While breaking through the noise is more challenging than ever, the rewards are exponentially greater. Today’s elite creators aren't just monetizing content; they are launching global agencies, building media empires, creating consumer packaged goods (CPG), leveraging the blockchain, and scaling their footprints through content at an unprecedented level.Crush It! was for people aspiring to make $100,000 a year. Your Individual Empire is for those looking to do that, while laying down the foundations to become a multi-billion dollar enterprise. <ul><li>Cutting Edge Information from a Trusted Pro: Bestselling author and social media marketing pioneer Gary Vaynerchuk explains how to build a global, multi-billion-dollar, personal‑brand‑based empire using modern technology and social media.</li><li>Crush It! for a New World Order: Gary’s 2009 book Crush It! was a foundational guide for early internet entrepreneurs. This new book is poised to become the essential handbook for a new generation.</li><li>Grounded in Real-Life Experience: Your Individual Empire highlights insights from Gary and other creators who are breaking through the noise to achieve greater rewards, advice that will inspire others and help them succeed in their own ventures.</li><li>A How-to Packed with Essential Tools: Gary reveals how modern elite creators go beyond monetizing content—they build agencies, media companies, consumer packaged goods brands, leverage blockchain, and scale through unprecedented levels of content output.</li></ul>

Your Individual Empire

Using an aesthetic culture and techniques termed as jihadi cool, terrorist groups have been able to recruit members from around the world, so how do we begin to respond? This book analyzes the rhetorical and ethical dynamics of a culture of jihadi cool/chic, and why these rhetorical and aesthetic techniques have been such a powerful recruitment force for particular transnational terrorist groups. The author uses an evidence-based approach, with frameworks derived from law, politics, philosophy, rhetoric, feminist theory, and communication studies, to examine various attempts to construct counter-narratives to the jihadi cool master narrative. The book closes with an examination of how to begin to respond critically and effectively to the lure of jihadi cool.

Narrative, Law, Culture, and Philosophy Against Global Jihad

Countering Jihadi Cool

Realising that the need for conservation of the Outstanding Universal Values (OUVs) of World Heritage Sites still remains much more dominant than a holistic approach towards the wider social, economic and environmental implications, the book "World Heritage and Sustainable Development" aims to examine and propose ways in which sustainable cultural development can become an integral part of successful conservation and management within the context of World Heritage Sites (WHSs). In order to do so, thematic chapters concentrating on issues of building conservation, climate change and human development within the context of World Heritage Sites (WHSs) will be included.

Realising that the need for conservation of the Outstanding Universal Values (OUVs) of World Heritage Sites still remains much more dominant than a holistic approach towards the wider social, economic and environmental implications, the book “World Heritage and Sustainable Development” aims to examine and propose ways in which sustainable cultural development can become an integral part of successful conservation and management within the context of World Heritage Sites (WHSs). In order to do so, thematic chapters concentrating on issues of building conservation, climate change and human development within the context of World Heritage Sites (WHSs) will be included.

World Heritage and Sustainable Development

To paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill, never has so much pornography been available to so many people for so little. This is the story of how the online adult industry has plummeted from its lofty heights of the late 1990s, when a savvy Web entrepreneur could charge premium prices to thousands of eager subscribers. It is also the story of how the law has completely failed to keep pace with the technological innovations that boosted and then savaged the online adult industry. It concludes by analysing the social impact of virtually unlimited pornography of every description, available to all ages at the click of a button. Useful reading for the general reader and for students and researchers involved with business strategy, the history of technology, cultural studies, sexuality, media studies and technology more generally.

Traditionally, the presence of pornography in American society has been mediated by two primary factors: legal restrictions and the relatively high cost of the product. The degree of legal restrictions on adult material has varied from era to era and community to community, but the porn premium has remained relatively constant. Given this, these should be heady days for adult business owners. Thanks to the Internet, distribution costs are virtually nil and even the most hardcore content is easily accessible in the smallest coastal hamlet and most rural farmhouse in America. Adult industry balance sheets should be bulging with profit. But in reality, far from it. The World Wide Web has completely eradicated both the legal restrictions and premium cost that used to govern adult industry economics. To paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill, never has so much pornography been available to so many people for so little. This is the story of how the online adult industry has plummeted from its lofty heights of the late 1990s, when a savvy Web entrepreneur could charge thousands of eager subscribers premium prices. It is also the story of how the law has completely failed to keep pace with the technological innovations that boosted and then savaged the online adult industry. It concludes with a detailed analysis of the social impact of virtually unlimited pornography of every description, available to all ages at the click of a button.Accessible to the general reader, this book will appeal to those who want to know more about the adult entertainment industry in America and will prove useful reading for students and researchers involved with a wide variety of academic disciplines including business strategy, the history of technology, cultural studies, sexuality, media studies and technology more generally.

The Pornography Business

Zum Werk Rückversicherung bedeutet die Übernahme von einem anderen versicherten Risiko. Auf Rückversicherungsverträge sind die Vorschriften des Versicherungsvertragsgesetzes grundsätzlich nicht anwendbar. Vielmehr hat sich für diese Vertragsbeziehungen ein eigenständiges Rechtsregime herausgebildet, das sich vor allem aus Handelsbräuchen und aus nach dem Grundsatz von Treu und Glauben abgeleiteten Prinzipien speist. Einer der wichtigsten Standorte der Rückversicherungswirtschaft weltweit ist Deutschland. Die schwer zugängliche Materie wird mit diesem Handbuch umfassend in deutscher Sprache behandelt. Das Werk geht dabei nicht nur auf den Rückversicherungsvertrag ein, sondern behandelt alle im Zusammenhang mit der Rückversicherung stehenden Fragen, etwa des Unternehmens- und des Aufsichtsrechts. Mit Beiträgen zu den Themen: Unternehmensrecht der Rückversicherung - Rechnungslegung und Steuern - Internationales Privatrecht - Deutsches Rückversicherungsvertragsrecht - Compendium Entscheidungen Schweizer Gerichte zum Rückversicherungsvertragsrecht - Rechtsvergleichende Hinweise zum Vertragsrecht der Rückversicherung und zu den Principles of Reinsurance Contract Law (PRICL) - Recht der Rückversicherung des Lebensversicherungsgeschäfts - Rückversicherungsverhältnisse in der Insolvenz - Recht der Vermittlung von Rückversicherungsverträgen - Nichttraditionelle Rückversicherung in den Personen- und Schaden-Versicherungen - Schadenbearbeitung - Schadenmanagement - Nachhaltigkeit und Rückversicherung - Datenschutz - Gerichtliche Konfliktlösung bei Rückversicherungsverträgen - Alternative Konfliktlösung bei Rückversicherungsverträgen - KI im Run-Off-Management von Rückversicherungs-Verbindlichkeiten Vorteile auf einen Blick<ul><li>eine der wenigen Darstellungen zum Thema</li><li>Beiträge zu allen Rechtsfragen der Rückversicherung</li><li>Berücksichtigung internationaler Aspekte</li></ul> Zur Neuauflage Berücksichtigt wird der aktuelle Stand von Rechtsprechung und Literatur. Zielgruppe Für Versicherungsjuristinnen und Versicherungsjuristen, Praktikerinnen und Praktiker sowie Rechtsanwältinnen und Rechtsanwälte im In- und Ausland.

Zum Werk 
 Rückversicherung bedeutet die Übernahme von einem anderen versicherten Risiko. Auf Rückversicherungsverträge sind die Vorschriften des Versicherungsvertragsgesetzes grundsätzlich nicht anwendbar. Vielmehr hat sich für diese Vertragsbeziehungen ein eigenständiges Rechtsregime herausgebildet, das sich vor allem aus Handelsbräuchen und aus nach dem Grundsatz von Treu und Glauben abgeleiteten Prinzipien speist. Einer der wichtigsten Standorte der Rückversicherungswirtschaft weltweit ist Deutschland.
 
 Die schwer zugängliche Materie wird mit diesem Handbuch umfassend in deutscher Sprache behandelt. Das Werk geht dabei nicht nur auf den Rückversicherungsvertrag ein, sondern behandelt alle im Zusammenhang mit der Rückversicherung stehenden Fragen, etwa des Unternehmens- und des Aufsichtsrechts.
 
 Mit Beiträgen zu den Themen: Unternehmensrecht der Rückversicherung - Rechnungslegung und Steuern - Internationales Privatrecht - Deutsches Rückversicherungsvertragsrecht - Compendium Entscheidungen Schweizer Gerichte zum Rückversicherungsvertragsrecht - Rechtsvergleichende Hinweise zum Vertragsrecht der Rückversicherung und zu den Principles of Reinsurance Contract Law (PRICL) - Recht der Rückversicherung des Lebensversicherungsgeschäfts - Rückversicherungsverhältnisse in der Insolvenz - Recht der Vermittlung von Rückversicherungsverträgen - Nichttraditionelle Rückversicherung in den Personen- und Schaden-Versicherungen - Schadenbearbeitung - Schadenmanagement - Nachhaltigkeit und Rückversicherung - Datenschutz - Gerichtliche Konfliktlösung bei Rückversicherungsverträgen - Alternative Konfliktlösung bei Rückversicherungsverträgen - KI im Run-Off-Management von Rückversicherungs-Verbindlichkeiten
 Vorteile auf einen Blick<ul><li>eine der wenigen Darstellungen zum Thema</li><li>Beiträge zu allen Rechtsfragen der Rückversicherung</li><li>Berücksichtigung internationaler Aspekte</li></ul> Zur Neuauflage 
 Berücksichtigt wird der aktuelle Stand von Rechtsprechung und Literatur.
 Zielgruppe 
 Für Versicherungsjuristinnen und Versicherungsjuristen, Praktikerinnen und Praktiker sowie Rechtsanwältinnen und Rechtsanwälte im In- und Ausland.

Rückversicherungsrecht

Over the last two decades, Pakistan has seen major legislative changes in the area of gender-based violence. This book explores the impact and ongoing influence of these changes. A frequent refrain in political and social commentary in Pakistan is that these laws, while transformative on paper, have not translated to actual change in the lives of women and girls because of poor implementation. Through analysis of court cases, data on criminal proceedings, and interviews with activists and survivors, this book demonstrates how the impact of progressive laws is influenced by entrenched social norms and structural flaws in state institutions, especially the criminal justice system. Sara Malkani sheds light on limitations of the formal justice system while showing how law reform can create openings for activists to pursue gender justice.

Lessons from Pakistan

Progressive Laws in Patriarchal Societies

Haufe Fachbuch

In Zeiten von Gender Pay Gap, Fachkräftemangel und Generation Z benötigen wir faire, transparente und diskriminierungsfreie Entgeltsysteme. Bisherige Vergütungssysteme sind längst nicht mehr zeitgemäß, in denen soziale Kompetenzen und Belastungen vernachlässigt wurden. Die EU-Entgelttransparenzrichtlinie, die bis Juni 2026&nbsp; geschlechterneutrale Entgeltsystem vorschreibt, setzt dafür neue Standards.&nbsp;
Dr. Stefan Waschmann ist selbstständiger Berater für Entgeltsysteme und Vorkämpfer für "Fair Pay". Sein Buch hilft dabei, Schwächen in Vergütungssystemen zu erkennen, analysiert die durch die Entgelttransparenzrichtlinie erforderlichen Veränderungen und skizziert ein diskriminierungsfreies Fair-Pay-Gehaltssystem. Er versteht dabei die von der EU vorgegebenen Kriterien zur Funktionsbewertung als Chance. Diese bilden die Grundlage für eine Equal-Pay-Stellenbewertung, die heutigen Anforderungen wie Innovation, Anpassungsfähigkeit, psychosozialen Belastungen und sozialer Verantwortung gerecht wird.
Inhalte:
<ul><li>Der hartnäckige Gender Pay Gap</li><li>Bestandsaufnahme: die zerklüfteten Gehaltssysteme Mitteleuropas</li><li>Paradigmenwechsel Entgelttransparenz-/Lohntransparenzrichtlinie (ETRL)</li><li>Fair-Pay-Stellenbewertung: Grundsätze, Struktur und Kriterien</li><li>Die optimale Lohnkurve</li><li>Abgeltung atypischer Arbeitszeiten</li></ul>
Neu in der 2. Auflage:
<ul><li>Deutsches Gesetz zur Umsetzung der EU-Entgelttransparenzrichtlinie ab 2026</li><li>Umgang mit überdurchschnittlich bezahlten Mitarbeitern, deren Stellenbewertung höheres Gehalt nicht rechtfertigt</li><li>Wie Vergleichsgruppen zu bilden sind</li><li>Findung objektiver und geschlechtsneutraler Leistungskriterien</li></ul>

In Zeiten von Gender Pay Gap, Fachkräftemangel und Generation Z benötigen wir faire, transparente und diskriminierungsfreie Entgeltsysteme. Bisherige Vergütungssysteme sind längst nicht mehr zeitgemäß, in denen soziale Kompetenzen und Belastungen vernachlässigt wurden. Die EU-Entgelttransparenzrichtlinie, die bis Juni 2026&nbsp; geschlechterneutrale Entgeltsystem vorschreibt, setzt dafür neue Standards.&nbsp;Dr. Stefan Waschmann ist selbstständiger Berater für Entgeltsysteme und Vorkämpfer für "Fair Pay". Sein Buch hilft dabei, Schwächen in Vergütungssystemen zu erkennen, analysiert die durch die Entgelttransparenzrichtlinie erforderlichen Veränderungen und skizziert ein diskriminierungsfreies Fair-Pay-Gehaltssystem. Er versteht dabei die von der EU vorgegebenen Kriterien zur Funktionsbewertung als Chance. Diese bilden die Grundlage für eine Equal-Pay-Stellenbewertung, die heutigen Anforderungen wie Innovation, Anpassungsfähigkeit, psychosozialen Belastungen und sozialer Verantwortung gerecht wird.Inhalte:<ul><li>Der hartnäckige Gender Pay Gap</li><li>Bestandsaufnahme: die zerklüfteten Gehaltssysteme Mitteleuropas</li><li>Paradigmenwechsel Entgelttransparenz-/Lohntransparenzrichtlinie (ETRL)</li><li>Fair-Pay-Stellenbewertung: Grundsätze, Struktur und Kriterien</li><li>Die optimale Lohnkurve</li><li>Abgeltung atypischer Arbeitszeiten</li></ul>Neu in der 2. Auflage:<ul><li>Deutsches Gesetz zur Umsetzung der EU-Entgelttransparenzrichtlinie ab 2026</li><li>Umgang mit überdurchschnittlich bezahlten Mitarbeitern, deren Stellenbewertung höheres Gehalt nicht rechtfertigt</li><li>Wie Vergleichsgruppen zu bilden sind</li><li>
 Findung objektiver und geschlechtsneutraler Leistungskriteri
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EU-konforme und diskriminierungsfreie Gehaltssysteme – die EU-Entgelttransparenzrichtlinie sicher umsetzen für mehr Lohngerechtigkeit, faire Vergütung und Chancengleichheit

Fair Pay

Selected pieces on nature, history, politics, and urban culture from a master of the nonfiction narrative. Writing on subjects as diverse as the megafires that burned the grasslands of the Great Plains in 2018, the tragic secret life of the manufacturer of maraschino cherries, the world's largest beaver dam, and the invasive Burmese pythons of the Florida Everglades, Ian Frazier captures the multiplicity, the strangeness, and the wonder of contemporary life. This collection of pieces-consisting of features and reportage for The New Yorker and other magazines beginning in 1974, alongside work published as recently as 2024-showcases the wide-ranging play of Frazier's imagination. Astute and engaged, he is the supreme chronicler of the everyday, and a unique social and political anthropologist. More than fifty years of keen observation and avid curiosity come together in The Snakes That Ate Florida: wry, humane, and endlessly surprising, this volume once again confirms Frazier as one of the finest (and most delightful) essayists writing today.

Reporting, Essays, and Criticism

The Snakes That Ate Florida

Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities

Adopting a multidisciplinary approach to climate adjudication, this open access book addresses how adjudicators decide cases by considering the influence of psychology, philosophy, legal education, film, literature, political economy, political ecology, judicial appointments, history, and climate science on their decision-making and ultimately on the (inconsistent) outcomes in climate cases. Drawing upon the humanities, science of climate change and/or social sciences to identify extra-legal factors that may drive the decision-making processes and outcomes of climate cases, this book uses case studies from different jurisdictions across the globe, addressing climate cases decided or pending in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin and North America, and Oceania. In all, the volume will: - Engage with extra-legal influence to how show judges and arbitrators make their decisions in climate cases, shedding light on the inconsistent responses that climate cases have generated so far - Challenge assumptions of legal universalism, by recognising differences in how the law works in various - Inform actors involved in climate litigation (lawyers, judges, arbitrators, disputants), policymakers, and the public about how cases are decided. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Universities of Cambridge, Newcastle and Oxford.

Exploring Extra-Legal Factors

Adjudicating Climate Change

The Law of Financial Crime

Following the events of 9\11 individual countries and the international community became increasingly concerned about how best to prevent the funding of terrorist groups. Alternative remittance systems such as Hawala, where money is moved informally between a network of brokers in the Middle East, north Africa and south Asia have been identified as a potential source of terrorist financing leading to calls for greater regulation of such alternative remittance systems.This book analyses the risk such alternative remittance systems pose in terms of terrorist financing, offering a detailed overview of the historical origins and methods of operation of alternative remittance systems or informal value transfer systems. The factors that have come to ensure that these systems have remained operationally viable in modern times are identified along with the risks they present balanced against an overview of their actual misuse for illicit purposes to date. The book presents a detailed critique of the UK framework for the regulation of these systems drawing where possible on existing data to assess the use and effectiveness of these measures in practice. A range of options for mitigating risks associated with specific remittance corridors is considered ranging from initiatives that promote remittances through the banking sector, to efforts to mitigate risk and the impact on the delivery of UK overseas development aid. The book concludes with key recommendations as to the effectiveness of the current regulatory framework within the UK viewed from the perspective of international efforts to secure the regulation of these systems, and in stemming terrorist finance as part of national and international counter-terrorism policy.

Following the events of 9\11 individual countries and the international community became increasingly concerned about how best to prevent the funding of terrorist groups. Alternative remittance systems such as Hawala, where money is moved informally between a network of brokers in the Middle East, north Africa and south Asia have been identified as a potential source of terrorist financing leading to calls for greater regulation of such alternative remittance systems.This book analyses the risk such alternative remittance systems pose in terms of terrorist financing, offering a detailed overview of the historical origins and methods of operation of alternative remittance systems or informal value transfer systems. The factors that have come to ensure that these systems have remained operationally viable in modern times are identified along with the risks they present balanced against an overview of their actual misuse for illicit purposes to date. The book presents a detailed critique of the UK framework for the regulation of these systems drawing where possible on existing data to assess the use and effectiveness of these measures in practice. A range of options for mitigating risks associated with specific remittance corridors is considered ranging from initiatives that promote remittances through the banking sector, to efforts to mitigate risk and the impact on the delivery of UK overseas development aid. The book concludes with key recommendations as to the effectiveness of the current regulatory framework within the UK viewed from the perspective of international efforts to secure the regulation of these systems, and in stemming terrorist finance as part of national and international counter-terrorism policy.

The Regulation of Hawala and Alternative Remittance Systems

Stemming Terrorist Finance

An unprecedented dialogue between a long-term federal prisoner and a senior prison official reveals how America’s carceral system scars everyone it touches.
No One Gets Out Unscarred argues that the prison system fails not only those it incarcerates, but also the staff who work inside it and the communities to which most will return. Rather than opposing prisoners and correctional officers, it shows how their lives are shaped by the same punitive culture, institutional incentives, and political decisions.
At its center is an extraordinary exchange between two men on opposite sides of the bars: Robert Barton, incarcerated since adolescence in high-security federal prisons, and Jack Donson, a retired Bureau of Prisons official who rose from correctional officer to case manager. Drawn from more than fifty hours of interviews, their interwoven accounts reveal a system that brutalizes prisoners while eroding staff morale, health, and judgment.
Moving beyond exposés and redemption narratives, the book examines the everyday mechanics of incarceration—lockdowns, restrictive housing, medical neglect, mental-health failures, broken grievance systems, and the hollow promise of rehabilitation—through lived experience on both sides.
Rejecting both abolitionist polemic and law-and-order defenses, it asks a pragmatic question: if more than 95 percent of incarcerated people will return home, what kind of prison system actually serves society?

The Case Against America's Prison System, From Both Sides of the Wall

No One Gets Out Unscarred

A provocative exposé of how our attention, behavior, and desires have been co-opted by the “choice box”—a curated set of options that offer a false sense of agency while funneling us down pre-determined paths controlled by a select few Choice boxes are all around us, but chances are you’ve never noticed them. Every time you click on a recommended video, rate an Uber driver, run a Google search, or invest in your 401k, you may think you’re the one calling the shots—but in reality, you’re limited to making the choices that a corporation wants you to make. Today, structured decision-making governs our lives to such an extent that we hardly see it at all. But who designs these choices, and whose interests do they serve? In Choose Your Own Captivity, historian Eli Cook introduces readers to the choice architects who first built these boxes and trapped us inside—from the maze-building eugenicist who invented the multiple-choice test to the marketing gurus who sold off our supermarket shelves to a few ultra-processed food giants. In less than a generation, architects like these have transformed a handful of online platforms into the richest businesses in the world. And by determining our options, controlling our actions, and even shaping our identities, they have laid the groundwork&nbsp;for the winner-takes-all game of digital capitalism that dominates us today. In a society built around the promise of free choice and personal responsibility, Cook argues, these hidden architects might just have the greatest power of all. A propulsive and vivid history, Choose Your Own Captivity opens readers’ eyes to the immense power of the choice box—and how to escape it.

A provocative exposé of how our attention, behavior, and desires have been co-opted by the “choice box”—a curated set of options that offer a false sense of agency while funneling us down pre-determined paths controlled by a select few Choice boxes are all around us, but chances are you’ve never noticed them. Every time you click on a recommended video, rate an Uber driver, run a Google search, or invest in your 401k, you may think you’re the one calling the shots—but in reality, you’re limited to making the choices that a corporation wants you to make. Today, structured decision-making governs our lives to such an extent that we hardly see it at all. But who designs these choices, and whose interests do they serve? In Choose Your Own Captivity, historian Eli Cook introduces readers to the choice architects who first built these boxes and trapped us inside—from the maze-building eugenicist who invented the multiple-choice test to the marketing gurus who sold off our supermarket shelves to a few ultra-processed food giants. In less than a generation, architects like these have transformed a handful of online platforms into the richest businesses in the world. And by determining our options, controlling our actions, and even shaping our identities, they have laid the groundwork&nbsp;for the winner-takes-all game of digital capitalism that dominates us today. In a society built around the promise of free choice and personal responsibility, Cook argues, these hidden architects might just have the greatest power of all. A propulsive and vivid history, Choose Your Own Captivity opens readers’ eyes to the immense power of the choice box—and how to escape it.

How Corporations Built Our Choices and Sold Our Freedom

Choose Your Own Captivity

The Discourse of Police Interviews

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