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  • Causation in Educational Research Causation in Educational Research
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    Causation in Educational Research

    Calls to understand 'what works' in education are being made the world over. We need to know not only 'what works' but under what conditions, how and why. Causation is central to this. Researchers, educationists, readers and users of research need to...
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  • Governance through Development Governance through Development
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    Governance through Development

    Governance through Development locates the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) framework within the broader context of international law and global governance, exploring its impact on third world state engagement with the global political economy and...
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  • Feminist Research Methodology Feminist Research Methodology
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    Feminist Research Methodology

    This book focuses on feminist research methodology, exploring and analysing its constituting methods, theory, ontology, epistemology, ethics and politics, and research issues relating to women, gender and feminism in Sri Lanka. The book examines ways of...
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  • Japanese Cinema and Otherness Japanese Cinema and Otherness
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    Japanese Cinema and Otherness

    Over the last 20 years, ethnic minority groups have been increasingly featured in Japanese Films. However, the way these groups are presented has not been a subject of investigation. This study examines the representation of so-called Others -...
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  • Taxation and Gender Equity Taxation and Gender Equity
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    Taxation and Gender Equity

    Around the world, there are concerns that many tax codes are biased against women, and that contemporary tax reforms tend to increase the incidence of taxation on the poorest women while failing to generate enough revenue to fund the programs needed to...
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  • Drugs, Crime and Public Health Drugs, Crime and Public Health
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    Drugs, Crime and Public Health

    Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent policy on illicit drugs. Using a comparative approach - centred on the UK, but with insights and complementary data gathered from the USA and other countries - it...
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  • Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure
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    Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure

    What does it mean to "fail" in performance? How might staging failure reveal theatre's potential to expand our understanding of social, political and everyday reality? What can we learn from performances that expose and then celebrate their ability to...
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  • Immigration, Social Integration and Crime Immigration, Social Integration and Crime
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    Immigration, Social Integration and Crime

    The problem of social control has constituted the acid test for the entire issue of immigration and integration. But whilst recent studies show that the crime rate for non-nationals is three, four or more, times higher than that of the country's 'own'...
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  • Muslim Women and Sport Muslim Women and Sport
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    Muslim Women and Sport

    Examining the global experiences, challenges and achievements of Muslim women participating in physical activities and sport, this important new study makes a profound contribution to our understanding of both contemporary Islam and the complexity and...
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  • The Making of the Arab Intellectual The Making of the Arab Intellectual
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    The Making of the Arab Intellectual

    In the wake of the Ottoman Empire's nineteenth-century reforms, as guilds waned and new professions emerged, the scholarly 'estate' underwent social differentiation. Some found employment in the state's new institutions as translators, teachers and...
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  • International Secured Transactions Law International Secured Transactions Law
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    International Secured Transactions Law

    This book focuses on international harmonisation and the law of secured transactions by distilling and analysing the unifying principles of various significant international conventions and instruments such as the UN Convention on the Assignment of...
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  • Archaeology of the Military Orders Archaeology of the Military Orders
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    Archaeology of the Military Orders

    Including previously unpublished and little known material, this cutting-edge book presents a detailed discussion of the archaeological evidence of the five military orders in the Latin East:the Hospitallersthe Templarsthe Teutonic Knightsthe Leper...
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  • Managing Military Organizations Managing Military Organizations
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    Managing Military Organizations

    This book deals with the processes and theories involved in managing military organisations in both peacetime and crisis conditions.Examining the challenges faced by policymakers and military commanders in conducting military operations, this book...
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  • Googlization of Libraries Googlization of Libraries
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    Googlization of Libraries

    This book includes a variety of articles which look critically and judiciously at Google and its products, with a focus on Google Scholar and Google Book Search. It also examines their usefulness in a public service context. Its ultimate aim is to assess...
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  • Climate Change and Foreign Policy Climate Change and Foreign Policy
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    Climate Change and Foreign Policy

    Climate Change and Foreign Policy: Case Studies from East to West and its companion volume, Environmental Change and Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice, examine and explain the role of foreign policy politics, processes and institutions in efforts to...
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  • Performance in Bali Performance in Bali
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    Performance in Bali

    Leon Rubin and I Nyoman Sedana, both international theatre professionals as well as scholars, collaborate to give an understanding of performance culture in Bali from inside and out.The book describes four specific forms of contemporary performance that...
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  • Controversies in Local Economic Development Controversies in Local Economic Development
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    Controversies in Local Economic Development

    Efforts to promote the economic development of individual localities engage the attention of academics, students and professionals. Many such analysts argue that competitive advantage can be fostered within local economies, complimenting the advent of a...
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  • Screening Gender on Children's Television Screening Gender on Children's Television
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    Screening Gender on Children's Television

    Screening Gender on Children's Television offers readers insights into the transformations taking place in the presentation of gender portrayals in television productions aimed at younger audiences. It goes far beyond a critical analysis of the existing...
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  • Rights, Gender and Family Law Rights, Gender and Family Law
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    Rights, Gender and Family Law

    There has been a widespread resurgence of rights talk in social and legal discourses pertaining to the regulation of family life, as well as an increase in the use of rights in family law cases, in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia. Rights, Gender and...
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  • Intellectual Property, Community Rights and Human Rights Intellectual Property, Community Rights and Human Rights
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    Intellectual Property, Community Rights and Human Rights

    This book considers the issue of biodiversity in developing countries in relation to intellectual-property rights, community rights and human rights. Drawing together a number of case studies of developing countries rich in biological and genetic...
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  • The Securitization of Humanitarian Migration The Securitization of Humanitarian Migration
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    The Securitization of Humanitarian Migration

    This book examines how western liberal states are progressively restricting access to refugees and asylum seekers, even though these states have signed international agreements obliging them to offer protection to those fleeing persecution and to...
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  • Housing and Health in Europe Housing and Health in Europe
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    Housing and Health in Europe

    In this cross-disciplinary research David Ormandy and expert contributors explain the nature and development of the World Health Organization's study of housing across Europe. In-depth analysis provides new evidence of links between the health...
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  • Life After Cancer in Adolescence and Young Adulthood Life After Cancer in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
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    Life After Cancer in Adolescence and Young Adulthood

    Adolescence and young adulthood is often a difficult enough time without serious illness. However, research has shown that cancer, and surviving cancer, at this age presents distinctive problems medically, socially and psychologically. This important...
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  • Theory After 'Theory' Theory After 'Theory'
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    Theory After 'Theory'

    This volume argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions of today. Offering an overview of theory's new directions, this groundbreaking collection...
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  • Improving Learning in a Professional Context Improving Learning in a Professional Context
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    Improving Learning in a Professional Context

    Improving Learning in a Professional Context provides vital new evidence on exactly how teachers learn to be teachers; evidence that is likely to affect and influence the profession for many years to come. Demonstrating that learning in schools is more...
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  • Young People, Physical Activity and the Everyday Young People, Physical Activity and the Everyday
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    Young People, Physical Activity and the Everyday

    Despite society's current preoccupation with interrelated issues such as obesity, increasingly sedentary lifestyles and children's health, there has until now been little published research that directly addresses the place and meaning of physical...
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  • The Qur'an in its Historical Context The Qur'an in its Historical Context
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    The Qur'an in its Historical Context

    Providing commentary on the controversial revisionist school of Qur'anic studies, this book explores the origins, scholarship and development of the Qur'an. The collection of articles, each written by a distinguished author, treat very familiar passages...
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  • Reclaiming Chinese Society Reclaiming Chinese Society
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    Reclaiming Chinese Society

    Reclaiming Chinese Society analyses the mechanisms, processes and actors producing a wide spectrum of social and cultural changes in reform China. Contrary to most literature that emphasizes economic and political processes at the expense of Chinese...
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  • The Decroux Sourcebook The Decroux Sourcebook
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    The Decroux Sourcebook

    The Decroux Sourcebook is the first point of reference for any student of the 'hidden master' of twentieth century theatre. This book collates a wealth of key material on Etienne Decroux, including:an English translation of Patrice Pezin's 'Imaginary...
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  • Leadership Mindsets Leadership Mindsets
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    Leadership Mindsets

    The evidence is clear - school leaders make a difference to the learning of the pupils they serve. And yet, not all leaders have the same degree of impact. What are the factors that make the difference to student learning? Why are some leaders able to...
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  • Muslims in Singapore Muslims in Singapore
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    Muslims in Singapore

    This book examines Muslims in Singapore, analysing their habits, practices and dispositions towards everyday life, and also their role within the broader framework of the secularist Singapore state and the cultural dominance of its Chinese elite, who are...
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  • Intangible Heritage Intangible Heritage
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    Intangible Heritage

    This volume examines the implications and consequences of the idea of 'intangible heritage' to current international academic and policy debates about the meaning and nature of cultural heritage and the management processes developed to protect it. It...
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  • HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China
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    HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China

    Approximately 90% of urban HIV/AIDS education in China occurs indirectly through non-specialist media reports. Many of these reports use images of extreme suffering and poverty to communicate an understanding of who gets HIV, why and how. This book...
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  • The Discursive Politics of Gender Equality The Discursive Politics of Gender Equality
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    The Discursive Politics of Gender Equality

    This book explores the discursive constructions of gender equality and the implications of these understandings in a broad range of policy fields.Using gender equality as a prime example, a number of internationally renowned scholars offer a new...
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  • China on Video China on Video
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    China on Video

    China On Video is the first in-depth study that examines smaller-screen realities and the important role they play not only in the fast-changing Chinese mediascape, but also more broadly in the practice of experimental and non-mainstream cinema. At the...
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  • Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design
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    Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design

    Developments in Earthquake Engineering have focussed on the capacity and response of structures. They often overlook the importance of seismological knowledge to earthquake-proofing of design. It is not enough only to understand the anatomy of the...
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  • On Death and Dying On Death and Dying
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    On Death and Dying

    Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. The five stages of grief, first formulated in this hugely influential work forty years ago, are now part of our common understanding of bereavement. The five stages were first identified by Elisabeth...
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  • Global Citizenship and the Legacy of Empire Global Citizenship and the Legacy of Empire
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    Global Citizenship and the Legacy of Empire

    This book investigates the parallels between mainstream development discourse and colonial discourse as theorized in the work of Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and Edward Said. Aiming to repoliticize post-colonial theory by applying its understandings to...
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  • Sufis in Western Society Sufis in Western Society
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    Sufis in Western Society

    In recent years Sufism has undergone something of a revival as a spiritual alternative to other manifestations of Islam. This book investigates the development of Sufism in Western societies, with a regional focus on North America and Europe. Exploring a...
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  • Arguing about Disability Arguing about Disability
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    Arguing about Disability

    Disability is a thorny and muddled concept - especially in the field of disability studies - and social accounts contest with more traditional biologically based approaches in highly politicized debates. Sustained theoretical scrutiny has sometimes been...
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  • Chinese Male Homosexualities Chinese Male Homosexualities
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    Chinese Male Homosexualities

    This book presents a groundbreaking exploration of masculinities and homosexualities amongst Chinese gay men. It provides a sociological account of masculinity, desire, sexuality, identity and citizenship in contemporary Chinese societies, and within the...
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  • Gothic Romanced Gothic Romanced
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    Gothic Romanced

    The dark, destructive and monstrous elements of gothic fiction have traditionally been seen in opposition to the rose-tinted idealism of Romanticism. In this ground-breaking study, Fred Botting re-evaluates the relationship between the two genres in...
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  • The Child That Haunts Us The Child That Haunts Us
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    The Child That Haunts Us

    The Child That Haunts Us focuses on the symbolic use of the child archetype through the exploration of miniature characters from the realms of children's literature. Jung argued that the child archetype should never be mistaken for the 'real' child. In...
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  • Participation in Environmental Organizations Participation in Environmental Organizations
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    Participation in Environmental Organizations

    For decades, social scientists have searched for factors that shape pro-environmentalbehaviour. However, only a few studies have investigated the causes andconsequences of participation in environmental organizations. This book fills the gap by analysing...
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  • Veena Dhanammal Veena Dhanammal
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    Veena Dhanammal

    This book looks at the life and music of Veena Dhanammal (1866-1938), considered the embodiment of 'classicism' in Karnatik music. It locates her art within the cultural, social and intellectual milieu she inhabited, allowing readers to track the...
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