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  • eHealth Applications eHealth Applications
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    eHealth Applications

    eHealth Applications: Promising Strategies for Behavior Change provides an overview of technological applications in contemporary health communication research, exploring the history and current uses of eHealth applications in disease prevention and...
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  • Reengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric Reengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric
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    Reengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric

    Reengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric reanimates the debate over the function and scope of rhetoric. Providing a contemporary response to the volume The Prospect of Rhetoric (1971), this volume reconceptualizes that classic work to address the challenges...
    $114.10

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  • Imaging Wisdom Imaging Wisdom
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    Imaging Wisdom

    This book contributes to the history of religions and Buddhist studies fields by focussing on what is a far too frequently ignored aspect of religious experience: visual images.
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  • Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China
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    Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China

    This book sheds light on the social imagination of nature and environment in contemporary China. It demonstrates how the urgent debate on how to create an ecologically sustainable future for the world's most populous country is shaped by its complex...
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  • Understanding the Middle East Peace Process Understanding the Middle East Peace Process
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    Understanding the Middle East Peace Process

    Asima Ghazi-Bouillon examines the Middle East peace process since Oslo and how Israel's sense of national identity has changed and been interpreted. In particular the book analyzes the highly contentious academic debates between the "New Historians",...
    $131.67

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  • Globalization and the Decolonial Option Globalization and the Decolonial Option
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    Globalization and the Decolonial Option

    This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of "coloniality", understood as the hidden agenda and the darker side of modernity and whose members are based in South America and the...
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  • Language and the Market Society Language and the Market Society
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    Language and the Market Society

    Language plays a central role in creating and sustaining the market society-a society, that is, in which market exchange is no longer simply a process, but an all-encompassing social principle. The social domains affected include education, politics and...
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  • Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah
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    Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah

    Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah presents a collection of innovative research on the interaction of culture and politics accompanying the vigorous modernization programme of the first Pahlavi ruler. Examining a broad spectrum of this...
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  • The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey
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    The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey

    The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey examines political violence, the politics of fear and the Kurdish experience of pain through an analysis of life stories, personal narratives and testimonies of Kurdish subjects in contemporary Turkey. It traces the...
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  • Palestinian-Israeli Contact and Linguistic Practices Palestinian-Israeli Contact and Linguistic Practices
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    Palestinian-Israeli Contact and Linguistic Practices

    Offering insight into linguistic practices resulting from different kinds of Palestinian-Israeli contact, this book examines a specific conceptualisation of the link between the political and economic contexts and human practices, or between structure...
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  • The Teaching and Study of Islam in Western Universities The Teaching and Study of Islam in Western Universities
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    The Teaching and Study of Islam in Western Universities

    Public interest in the religion of Islam and in Muslim communities in recent years has generated an impetus for Western Universities to establish an array of Institutes and programs dedicated to the study of Islam. Despite the growth in number of...
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  • Suicide Protest in South Asia Suicide Protest in South Asia
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    Suicide Protest in South Asia

    The radical act of suicide protest is undertaken by social movement participants in order to demand a particular previously articulated political outcome. This book examines the history and impact of suicide protest, which has been increasingly used as a...
    $413.95

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  • Japanese Adult Videos in Taiwan Japanese Adult Videos in Taiwan
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    Japanese Adult Videos in Taiwan

    This book explores the debate between those who argue that globalisation is leading to worldwide cultural homogeneity, with American cultural good predominating, and those who argue that cultural goods are always adapted and contextualised in the...
    $401.63

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  • Communication and Organizational Knowledge Communication and Organizational Knowledge
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    Communication and Organizational Knowledge

    This book provides an overview of communication-centered theory and research regarding organizational knowledge and learning. It brings the work of scholars in communication, management, information technology, and other disciplines together in a...
    $140.45

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  • Indonesia-Malaysia Relations Indonesia-Malaysia Relations
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    Indonesia-Malaysia Relations

    Drawing on social media, cinema, cultural heritage and public opinion polls, this book examines Indonesia and Malaysia from a comparative postcolonial perspective. The Indonesia-Malaysia relationship is one of the most important bilateral relationships...
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  • Environmental Politics in Egypt Environmental Politics in Egypt
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    Environmental Politics in Egypt

    Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in Egypt from the late 1990s to 2011, this book shows how experts and activists used distinctive approaches to influence state and firm decision-making in three important environmental policy domains. These...
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  • Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture
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    Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture

    This is a study of the great, and curiously underappreciated, engagement of a medieval European Jewish community with the philosophic tradition. The lucid description of southern French Jewry's multigenerational cultivation of - and acculturation to...
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  • The Future of Islam The Future of Islam
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    The Future of Islam

    When it first appeared in 1882, this book was a pioneering work in every respect. This new edition includes an Introduction and numerous footnotes, explaining the background to historical events and religious and political figures.
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  • The Middle East in World Politics (Routledge Revivals) The Middle East in World Politics (Routledge Revivals)
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    The Middle East in World Politics (Routledge Revivals)

    The Middle East is, and has always been, of major global economic and political importance. First published in 1981, this edited collection analyses many of the crucial issues that have had international repercussions during the second half of the...
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  • Internationalising Japan Internationalising Japan
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    Internationalising Japan

    In the twenty-first century, the concept of internationalisation remains a crucial tool for understanding the dynamics of globalising processes. It draws attention to the dimensions of conscious action in inter- and trans-national phenomena, connecting...
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  • The Routledge Handbook of Critical Public Relations The Routledge Handbook of Critical Public Relations
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    The Routledge Handbook of Critical Public Relations

    Timely, authoritative and provocative, this major volume meets the emerging need for an introduction to critical public relations, to look at the diverse perspectives in the field and to construct a tentative mapping of possible ways forward.  This...
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  • The Circassian Diaspora in Turkey The Circassian Diaspora in Turkey
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    The Circassian Diaspora in Turkey

    A North Caucasian ethnic group that has been largely obscured in world history as a result of their expulsion from their homeland by Tsarist Russia in the 1860s, Circassians now comprise significant communities not only in the Northwest Caucasus but also...
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  • Reconciliation after Terrorism Reconciliation after Terrorism
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    Reconciliation after Terrorism

    This book brings together scholars from the hitherto disparate fields of terrorism and reconciliation studies to examine whether reconciliation is a possible strategy for dealing with and ending a terrorist conflict.
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  • Cartographies of Exile Cartographies of Exile
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    Cartographies of Exile

    This book proposes a fundamental relationship between exile and mapping. It seeks to understand the cartographic imperative inherent in the exilic condition, the exilic impulses fundamental to mapping, and the varied forms of description proper to both...
    $450.41

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  • The Changing Policy-Making Process in Greater China The Changing Policy-Making Process in Greater China
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    The Changing Policy-Making Process in Greater China

    This book explores how the policy-making process is changing in the very volatile conditions of present day mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. It considers the overall background conditions - the need to rebalance in mainland China after years of...
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  • The Politics of Truth Management in Saudi Arabia The Politics of Truth Management in Saudi Arabia
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    The Politics of Truth Management in Saudi Arabia

    Exploring the management of 'truth' in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this book aims to investigate the ways in which the official 'truth' is constructed and institutionalised in the country. The Politics of Truth Management in Saudi Arabia argues that...
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  • Votes, Party Systems and Democracy in Asia Votes, Party Systems and Democracy in Asia
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    Votes, Party Systems and Democracy in Asia

    This book looks at the link between voters and political party systems in Asian democracies, focusing on India, Indonesia, Korea and the Philippines. It discusses this link in terms of three distinct elements: the formation of voters preferences, the...
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  • The Soviet Union - Federation or Empire? The Soviet Union - Federation or Empire?
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    The Soviet Union - Federation or Empire?

    The Soviet Union is often characterised as nominally a federation, but really an empire, liable to break up when individual federal units, which were allegedly really subordinate colonial units, sought independence. This book questions this...
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  • Mapping China and Managing the World Mapping China and Managing the World
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    Mapping China and Managing the World

    From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the concept of order (zhi). This cultural preoccupation has found expression not only in China's highly refined bureaucratic institutions and methods...
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  • Trans-Colonial Urban Space in Palestine Trans-Colonial Urban Space in Palestine
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    Trans-Colonial Urban Space in Palestine

    Taking a multidisciplinary approach to examine the dynamics of ethno-national contestation and colonialism in Israel/Palestine, this book investigates the approaches for dealing with the colonial and post-colonial urban space, resituating them within the...
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  • Inclusion and Exclusion in the Liberal Competition State Inclusion and Exclusion in the Liberal Competition State
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    Inclusion and Exclusion in the Liberal Competition State

    This book examines the increasingly international division of labour, which promotes transnational integration. It analyses the change in worker solidarity as it moves from collective national welfare to a transnational inclusion of workers from various...
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  • Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore
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    Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore

    This book examines the relationship between population policies and individual reproductive decisions in low-fertility contexts. Using the case study of Singapore, it demonstrates that the effectiveness of population policy is a function of competing...
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  • A History of Early Al-Andalus A History of Early Al-Andalus
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    A History of Early Al-Andalus

    The Akhbār majmū'a, or 'Collected Accounts', deal with the Muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula in 711 and subsequent events in al-Andalus, down to and including the reign of 'Abd al-Rahmān III (912-961), founder of the Umayyad caliphate of...
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  • Islamic Area Studies with Geographical Information Systems Islamic Area Studies with Geographical Information Systems
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    Islamic Area Studies with Geographical Information Systems

    In this volume the contributors use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to reassess both historic and contemporary Asian countries and traditionally Islamic areas. This highly illustrated and comprehensive work highlights how GIS can be applied to the...
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  • Kashmir's Right to Secede Kashmir's Right to Secede
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    Kashmir's Right to Secede

    A separatist conflict has been ongoing in India-administered Kashmir since 1989. Focusing on this region, this book critiques the existing normative theories of secession, and offers a comprehensive examination of the right of sub-groups to secede.The...
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  • China and the Global Financial Crisis China and the Global Financial Crisis
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    China and the Global Financial Crisis

    This book examines China's response to the 2007-2008 global financial crisis, and the resulting new status acquired by China within the international economy. It considers the things China did to weather the crisis, discussing the stimulus package put in...
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  • Youth and Internet Addiction in China Youth and Internet Addiction in China
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    Youth and Internet Addiction in China

    A form of 'electronic opium' is how some people have characterised young people's internet use in China. The problem of 'internet addiction' (wangyin) is seen by some parents as so severe that they have sought psychiatric help for their children...
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  • Military Integration after Civil Wars Military Integration after Civil Wars
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    Military Integration after Civil Wars

    This book examines the role of multiethnic armies in post-conflict reconstruction, and demonstrates how they can promote peacebuilding efforts.The author challenges the assumption that multiethnic composition leads to weakness of the military, and shows...
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  • Civil-Military Relations in Russia and Eastern Europe Civil-Military Relations in Russia and Eastern Europe
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    Civil-Military Relations in Russia and Eastern Europe

    This book examines how civil-military relations have been transformed in Russia, Poland, Hungary and Ukraine since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact in 1991. It shows how these countries have worked to reform their obsolete armed...
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  • British Business in Post-Colonial Malaysia, 1957-70
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    British Business in Post-Colonial Malaysia, 1957-70

    This book explores the limits of the idea of 'neo-colonialism' - the idea that in the period immediately after independence Malaya/Malaysia enjoyed only a 'pseudo-independence', largely because of the entrenched and dominant position of British business...
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  • Social Activism in Southeast Asia Social Activism in Southeast Asia
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    Social Activism in Southeast Asia

    Social Activism in Southeast Asia brings together cutting-edge accounts of social movements concerned with civil and political rights, globalization, peace, the environment, migrant and factory labour, the rights of middle- and working-class women, and...
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  • Iranian-Russian Encounters Iranian-Russian Encounters
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    Iranian-Russian Encounters

    Over the past two hundred years, encounters between Iran and Russia have been both rich and complex. This book explores the myriad dimensions of the Iranian-Russian encounter during a dramatic period which saw both Iran and Russia subject to...
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  • Economy Hotels in China Economy Hotels in China
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    Economy Hotels in China

    While economy or budget hotels have been popular in western countries since the end of the Second World War, they have only emerged as a sector in their own right in China since the mid-1990s. Indeed, as a new service industry sector, economy hotels in...
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  • The Politics of Social Exclusion in India The Politics of Social Exclusion in India
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    The Politics of Social Exclusion in India

    Social exclusion and inclusion remain issues of fundamental importance to democracy. Both exclusion and inclusion relate to the access to participation in the public realm, public goods and services for certain groups of people who are minorities,...
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