This chapter outlines the reasons why a linguistically oriented book-length analysis of memes is a necessary step. It also previews the main theoretical tools to be used and highlights the ways in which this book differs from other books on memes. It includes a preview of the remaining chapters of the book.

Chapter 3 explores the origins of German housing programs in the post-WWII period, arguing that these programs reinforced the country's export-oriented economy and contributed to its economic miracle. Facing severe housing shortages after WWII, German policymakers adopted extensive housing programs, including tax subsidies and social housing programs for both rental housing and homeownership, savings subsidies, and rent controls. These programs aimed to establish low-cost housing for workers and the middle class, which improved industrial productivity by alleviating labor shortages in industrial centers and limiting wage demands and inflation detrimental to export-oriented growth. Unlike American housing programs focused on boosting domestic demand, German supply-side initiatives were designed to overcome the immediate post-WWII housing crisis and support the country's manufacturing sector. These efforts thus made housing programs a pivotal element in Germany's coordinated, export-oriented postwar economy.

1. Reflect on the power of personal stories. How can telling your own story of becoming a social worker help others engage in the profession? 2. In this story, the author writes about burnout and the need for a self- reflective practice. Think about how a self-reflective practice can be carried out. 3. In what way can an active relationship with your own social work story be helpful in your everyday practice?

The concluding chapter provides a synthesis and reflection on insights from this book. It first summarizes the main findings regarding how disaster risk today is a legacy of urban history, drawing on salient examples from the six case study cities and cautioning that risk becomes very “path dependent” as future options are constrained by past decisions. After discussing limitations of the study and further research needs, the chapter suggests that the Urban Risk Dynamics framework and findings from the six cases are relevant to any city, demonstrating this for Vancouver (Canada). It then reflects on the practical significance of the book. It argues that the findings demonstrate why disaster risk and risk reduction should be viewed dynamically; why understanding risk should start with the city, not the hazard or disaster; and why interdisciplinary approaches are critical for reducing risk. Recognizing this can help analysts, planners, and policy-makers, for example, to not only identify current risk hotspots but anticipate future ones, to consider risk from a multihazard standpoint, and to develop strategies and solutions that are effective in the long term.

Science and theatre were intertwined from the start of ‘modern drama’ in the works of Georg Buchner and Émile Zola, who ushered modern ideas about science into the theatre and made conscious engagement with science an intrinsic part of a break with the theatrical past. This chapter traces the explicit, conscious interaction between science and the modern stage, from August Strindberg and Henrik Ibsen’s works through to those of Bernard Shaw, Leonid Andreyev, Maxim Gorky, Elizabeth Robins, Eugène Brieux, Harley Granville Barker, Karel Čapek, Tawfiq al-Hakim, James Ene Henshaw, Mary Burrill, Susan Glaspell, and Sophie Treadwell; the probing of race science on stage by Harlem Renaissance playwrights; the Federal Theatre Project’s science-inflected productions; and Bertolt Brecht’s changing depiction of science and scientists. In addition, there is another meaning of ‘science in the theatre’ that the chapter draws out: the hidden, often unacknowledged roles played by science and technology in staging.

1. When was the last time you had a social work conversation-that-mattered? Who was it with? What did you discuss? How did you feel? What was the outcome? 2. What do you do that gives your social work meaning and purpose? 3. What are the existing possibilities and dilemmas facing social work? 4. What is the social worker’s key role in an era of profound social change? 5. In what ways do you see your social work being in the business of building a better world?

This chapter covers the multivalent, multidirectional relationship that developed between theatre and philosophy during the modernist era. It begins with the rise of German idealism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its influence on Friedrich Nietzsche’s landmark The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music. From Nietzsche’s own sway over a new generation of dramatists worldwide, the chapters expands to consider other thinkers taken as influences by global theatre-makers as well as leading philosophers and theorists around the world who took explicit interest in the stage. The chapter also explores the tensions inherent in these relationships, including open disavowals of philosophic influence by prominent dramatists and outright criticisms of the entire philosophical project by members of the avant-garde. In both its avowals of influence and disavowals of the same, the interaction between theatre and philosophy in the modernist age proved to be enormously generative for both.

After Johnson’s exit from the race, Senator Robert Kennedy is assassinated. This and other events, such as the assassination of Martin Luther King and urban unrest, bring reflection on violence in US society, which in turn raises questions about American actions in Vietnam. The Catonsville Nine protest brings national attention to the Catholic antiwar movement while also summoning criticism and even condemnation from other sectors of the Catholic community.