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1. 1. When More Is Not Better

   Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency

   

   Argues that an obsessive pursuit of efficiency and ever-increasing growth has made the economy brittle, inequitable, and prone to systemic failure. Drawing on systems thinking, it recommends shifting from optimization to resilience by embracing slack, redundancy, and diverse problem-solving, while redesigning incentives and metrics to promote broad-based prosperity. It offers practical guidance for business leaders and policymakers to build institutions and workplaces that favor robustness, fairness, and long-term adaptability.

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2. 2. The Bioarchaeology Of Violence

   

   This volume synthesizes case studies of skeletal remains to explore how violence is inscribed on the body and what those traces reveal about past societies. Moving beyond simple counts of injuries, it examines warfare, captivity, sacrifice, abuse, and structural violence, linking trauma patterns to gender, status, identity, and environment. Integrating osteological analysis with ethnographic, historical, and taphonomic perspectives, it highlights the variability, scale, and social meanings of aggression across time and place while addressing methodological and ethical challenges in interpreting embodied harm.