This book is about the flourishing scrap recycling industry, reconstruction, and state-making in Iraqi Kurdistan within the wider conditions of the war economy, ruination, and state disintegration in Iraq. Through a dialectical relationship between the afterlife and continuity of war over...

Since the late 1980s, the United States has witnessed a dramatic increase in average BMI levels and the proportion of individuals categorized as obese. Obesity is a major risk factor for a variety of illnesses, and an increase in obesity is, therefore, implicated in increased health-care costs...

Foreword Preface AcknowledgementsAuthor Bios Chapter 1: Baby Shoes - How It All Started How We Ventured Into OperationsHow Our Relationship BeganChapter 2: Cowboy Boots - New Sheriffs In Town Setting The VisionGetting StartedUnderstanding Current StateGemba Walks ⁰́₃ Go And SeeChapter 3:...