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  • Rhetorical Realism Rhetorical Realism
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    Rhetorical Realism

    Rhetorical Realism responds to the surging interest in nonhumans across the humanities by exploring how realist commitments have historically accompanied understandings of rhetoric from antiquity to the present. For a discipline that often defines itself...
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  • US Policies in Central Asia US Policies in Central Asia
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    US Policies in Central Asia

    Democracy promotion, security and energy are the predominant themes of US policy in Central Asia after the Cold War. This book analyses how the Bush administration understood and pursued its interests in the Central Asia states, namely Kyrgyzstan,...
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  • The Israeli Conflict System The Israeli Conflict System
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    The Israeli Conflict System

    The Middle East conflict system is perhaps the world's most important and intractable problem area, whose developments carry global consequences. An effective investigation of the context and change in the region calls for a melding of academic...
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  • Post-Conflict Literature Post-Conflict Literature
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    Post-Conflict Literature

    This book brings together a variety of perspectives to explore the role of literature in the aftermath of political conflict, studying the ways in which writers approach violent conflict and the equally important subject of peace. Essays put insights...
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  • Education and Ethno-Politics Education and Ethno-Politics
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    Education and Ethno-Politics

    The Iraqi Disputed Territories consist of 15 districts stretching across four northern governorates. While an administrative solution for the disputed territories remains evasive, minority groups across the region have been pulled into a clash over...
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  • Israel and Africa Israel and Africa
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    Israel and Africa

    Israel and Africa critically examines the ways in which Africa - as a geopolitical entity - is socially manufactured, collectively imagined but also culturally denied in Israeli politics. Its unique exploration of moral geography and its comprehensive,...
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  • Capitalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century Capitalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century
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    Capitalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century

    This short book makes a connection between recent 'tectonic shifts' in the world economy and the political problems currently confronted by western democracies. The shift of manufacturing away from the West, allied to the pressure to keep costs down in...
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  • Science and Socio-Religious Revolution in India Science and Socio-Religious Revolution in India
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    Science and Socio-Religious Revolution in India

    Scholars have long noticed a discrepancy in the way non-Western and Western peoples conceptualize the scientific and religious worlds. Non-Western traditions and communities, such as of India, are better positioned to provide an alternative to the...
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  • China Under Reform China Under Reform
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    China Under Reform

    This book is a study of the political consequences of economic reform in the People's Republic of China, considering the progress and pitfalls of Chinese reform socialism and focusing on the three central policy arenas of the reform era: political...
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  • Turkey in the 21st Century Turkey in the 21st Century
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    Turkey in the 21st Century

    Answers the questions: what is the background to issues in external and internal politics? What is the Turks' opinion on European and Turkish identity? On Cyprus? On the role of the generals? Why do human rights problems linger on? What is behind the...
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  • Udanavarga Udanavarga
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    Udanavarga

    This is Volume XIV of sixteen in a collection on Buddhism. Originally published in 1892, This book presents a collection of verses from the Buddhist Canon compiled by Dharmatrata, and is the northern Buddhist version of Dhammapada, translated from...
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  • Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan
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    Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan

    Kanno Suga and Kaneko Fumika were both found guilty on different occasions in 1911 and 1926 of conspiring to assassinate the Japanese emperor. Kanno was executed and Kaneko hanged herself whilst in prison, but both women maintained their defiance of the...
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  • Si-Yu-Ki Buddhist Records of the Western World Si-Yu-Ki Buddhist Records of the Western World
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    Si-Yu-Ki Buddhist Records of the Western World

    Progress which has been made in our knowledge of Northern Buddhism during the last few years is due very considerably to the discovery of the Buddhist literature of China. This literature contains, amongst other valuable works, the records of the travels...
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  • How Greek Science Passed On To The Arabs How Greek Science Passed On To The Arabs
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    How Greek Science Passed On To The Arabs

    First published in 2002. The history of science is one of knowledge being passed from community to community over thousands of years, and this is the classic account of the most influential of these movements -how Hellenistic science passed to the Arabs...
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  • The Black Tents of Arabia The Black Tents of Arabia
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    The Black Tents of Arabia

    Published originally in 1935, this is an account of twenty two years spent, off and on, among the Bedouins of Arabia, migrating, hunting, raiding, starving, feasting and making wonderful desert friendships. The author writes the book for 'the Lord of his...
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  • The Birth of Saudi Arabia The Birth of Saudi Arabia
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    The Birth of Saudi Arabia

    First Published in 1976. Today the name Sa'udi Arabia evokes images of desert wastes, limitless reservoirs of oil and economic might. When one thinks of the predominant foreign power concerned with the desert kingdom, one thinks of the United States...
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  • The Theology of Ramanuja The Theology of Ramanuja
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    The Theology of Ramanuja

    This is the first attempt to understand Ramanuja in the context of his religious and philosophical tradition. It is the only work which establishes his indebtedness to his immediate predecessor Yamuna and which identifies his actual opponents. It is...
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  • Judaising Movements Judaising Movements
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    Judaising Movements

    The history of Judaising movements has been largely ignored by historians of religion. This volume analyzes the interplay between colonialism, a Judaism not traditionally viewed as proselytising but which at certain points was struggling to heed the...
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  • Persian Metaphysics and Mysticism Persian Metaphysics and Mysticism
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    Persian Metaphysics and Mysticism

    One of the foremost 13th-century Persian mystics, 'Aziz Nasaffi with his simple manner of explaining God, His Essence, Attributes and Acts provides the western reader with an overview of all the major interpretations of medieval Islamic thought...
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  • Tibetan Historical Literature Tibetan Historical Literature
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    Tibetan Historical Literature

    First Published in 1995. The Russian original of the present work was posthumously published in 1962 in the revived Bibliotheea Buddhiea series and edited by G. N. Roerich. Improvements have been made to this title: the end-of-book notes are now arranged...
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  • Green Politics in Japan Green Politics in Japan
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    Green Politics in Japan

    An important comparative study of Japanese politics that reveals that green issues have yet to displace the traditional urban politics of post-industrial Japan. This is unlike the rise of green parties and politics in Europe. Unlike Europe, it seems...
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  • A System of Indian Logic A System of Indian Logic
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    A System of Indian Logic

    Nyana is the most rational and logical of all the classical Indian philosophical systems. In the study of Nyana philosophy, Karikavali with its commentary Muktavali, both by Visvanatha Nyayapancanana, with the commentaries Dinakari and Ramarudri, have...
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  • Health Providers in India Health Providers in India
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    Health Providers in India

    This volume has articles contributed by health researchers, practitioners, policy advocates, programme managers and a journalist, and poems by renowned poet-physician Gieve Patel. Each presents a distinctive view of a particular group of frontline health...
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  • Ordinary People, Extraordinary Violence Ordinary People, Extraordinary Violence
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    Ordinary People, Extraordinary Violence

    The book engages with an urgent and disturbing question: how are ordinary people readied to willingly kill others in the name of a cause? It compares narratives of actors in domains often assumed incomparable in academic discourse: Naxalites studied...
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  • Rebuilding Local Communities in the Wake of Disaster Rebuilding Local Communities in the Wake of Disaster
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    Rebuilding Local Communities in the Wake of Disaster

    This book examines the sociological consequences of disaster relief and recovery, and uncovers its impact on the communities that were affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. It is the most extensive and intensive study of post-disaster community...
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  • The Role of the State The Role of the State
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    The Role of the State

    This series of books brings together results of an intensive research programme on aspects of the national systems of innovation in the five BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. It provides a comprehensive and comparative...
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  • Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia
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    Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia

    This book analyzes the constraints on press freedom and the ways in which independent reporting and reporters are at risk in contemporary Asia to provide a barometer of democratic development in the region.Based on in-depth country case studies written...
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  • Emotions in Reading, Learning, and Communication Emotions in Reading, Learning, and Communication
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    Emotions in Reading, Learning, and Communication

    This book brings together experts engaging in empirical studies on how emotion influences learning and processing for varying text types in different contexts. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Discourse Processes.
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  • Reframing Peace Mediation Reframing Peace Mediation
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    Reframing Peace Mediation

    This book explains how facilitative mediators, those without material leverage, contribute to progress in peace negotiations.
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  • Narrating Peace Narrating Peace
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    Narrating Peace

    This book provides practical tools, models, and frameworks for thinking about how story is structured to help us think about conflict, using a wide range of examples.
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  • Economic Shocks and Globalisation Economic Shocks and Globalisation
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    Economic Shocks and Globalisation

    The book answers the question of why the performance of the hyper-globalisation period has not continued during the post-GFC (Global Financial Crisis) period after 2010, and what might be expected going forward. It analyses recent global events to gather...
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  • India's Economic Corridor Initiatives India's Economic Corridor Initiatives
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    India's Economic Corridor Initiatives

    The book highlights INSTC and Chabahar and will be of interest to studies on economic corridors, transnational, trans-regional economic relationships, security, regional, area studies, international and Indo-Iran-Russia relations.
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  • Politics and Poetica of Rights in Modern Iran Politics and Poetica of Rights in Modern Iran
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    Politics and Poetica of Rights in Modern Iran

    This book delves into the history of subjective rights within the context of 19th-century Iran, specifically during the eventful Qajar era. The crux of its research lies in the emergence and evolution of the concept of subjective rights as opposed to the...
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  • Global International Relations in Southeast Asia Global International Relations in Southeast Asia
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    Global International Relations in Southeast Asia

    This edited volume explores Global International Relations in terms of teaching and research in Southeast Asia and China with the purpose of revealing existing and "hidden" pre-theories, conceptual frameworks, and theoretical contributions rooted in...
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  • Three Faces of Populism in Asia Three Faces of Populism in Asia
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    Three Faces of Populism in Asia

    Drawing on evidence from eight Asian cases across three subregions, this volume highlights the distinctive features of Asian populism in comparison with Western experiences, shedding light on the cultural dimension of populism. A valuable resource for...
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  • Communication in a Civil Society Communication in a Civil Society
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    Communication in a Civil Society

    Using the concept of "civility" as the major theme, this fully updated second edition offers a unique and alternative way to teach and learn about communication.
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  • Nation Building in Japan, 1945-1952 Nation Building in Japan, 1945-1952
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    Nation Building in Japan, 1945-1952

    This book begins by explaining why Japan spent roughly fifty years building its own colonial system and declaring war on China and the Western Allies, only to decide after military defeats to surrender before being invaded.
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  • Social Mentality and Public Opinion in China Social Mentality and Public Opinion in China
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    Social Mentality and Public Opinion in China

    This book explores the relationship between social mentality, public opinion, media, and other factors through mixed methods in China, especially since the 21st century.The book deploys qualitative and quantitative research and adopts a...
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  • Rethinking the Occupy Movement in Hong Kong Rethinking the Occupy Movement in Hong Kong
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    Rethinking the Occupy Movement in Hong Kong

    Yang examines the political process of the Occupy Movement and adopts an actor-centered approach in the study of democratization, placing civil society as the focus of the analysis. A valuable resource for scholars of Hong Kong's Politics and a relevant...
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  • Digitalization and Development Digitalization and Development
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    Digitalization and Development

    This book examines the diffusion of digitalization and Industry 4.0 technologies in Malaysia by focusing on the ecosystem critical for its expansion. The chapters examine the digital proliferation in major sectors of agriculture, manufacturing,...
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