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  • Middle East Politics Middle East Politics
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    Middle East Politics

    Aimed at undergraduate-level courses, this brand-new textbook provides an overview of Middle Eastern politics, offering in-depth examination of the forces of stability, change, uncertainty, and progress in the region.Building on both historical and...
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  • Globalising Everyday Consumption in India Globalising Everyday Consumption in India
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    Globalising Everyday Consumption in India

    This book brings together historical and ethnographic perspectives on Indian consumer identities. Through an in-depth analysis of local, regional, and national histories of marketing, regulatory bodies, public and domestic practices, this...
    $373.00

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  • Privacy and the News Media Privacy and the News Media
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    Privacy and the News Media

    Critically examining current journalistic practices using both theoretical and applied approaches, this book addresses the interplay between the right to free expression (and what that means to a free press) and the right to privacy.Privacy, and the...
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  • Ethiopians in an Age of Migration Ethiopians in an Age of Migration
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    Ethiopians in an Age of Migration

    The migration of Ethiopians across international borders is a recent phenomenon because of the limited integration of the country and society to the global economy. Since it was never colonized - aside from the Italian occupation of 1936-1941 -...
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  • The Rādhā Tantra The Rādhā Tantra
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    The Rādhā Tantra

    The Rādhā Tantra is an anonymous 17th century tantric text from Bengal. The text offers a lively picture of the meeting of different religious traditions in 17th century Bengal, since it presents a Śākta version of the famous Vaiṣṇava story of Rādhā and...
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  • Nation-Building and National Identity in Timor-Leste Nation-Building and National Identity in Timor-Leste
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    Nation-Building and National Identity in Timor-Leste

    Timor-Leste's long journey to nationhood spans 450 years of colonial rule by Portugal, a short-lived independence in 1975, and a 24-year occupation by Indonesia. This book examines the history of nation-building and national identity in Timor-Leste, and...
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  • Vanishing Generation Vanishing Generation
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    Vanishing Generation

    As a young reporter in Uzbekistan, Bagila Bukharbayeva was a witness to her countrys search for an identity after the collapse of the Soviet Union. While self-proclaimed religious leaders argued about what was the true Islam, Bukharbayeva shows how some...
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  • Wars, Guns, and Votes Wars, Guns, and Votes
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    Wars, Guns, and Votes

    "Collier has made a substantial contribution to current discussions. His evidence-based approach is a worthwhile corrective to the assumptions about democracy that too often tend to dominate when Western policy makers talk about the bottom billion."...
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    The City in the Distance

    Nancy's book offers nothing less than a philosophy of the city. Drawing on his widely discussed accounts of sense and of the fraught question of community, Nancy views the city as the site of a disposition that is constantly undergoing metamorphoses.
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  • Political Influence of the Media in Developing Countries Political Influence of the Media in Developing Countries
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    Political Influence of the Media in Developing Countries

    The media plays an intricate role in the political economy of developing nations as it conveys the social issues and impacts of a government's legislation and policy. However, information is often miscommunicated or biased in emergent economies as media...
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  • Working through Surveillance and Technical Communication Working through Surveillance and Technical Communication
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    Working through Surveillance and Technical Communication

    Addresses contemporary surveillance practices and examines technical communicators' roles in carrying them out.What is surveillance, and why should we care? Why are those who use technology susceptible to being both agents and targets of contemporary...
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  • The Story Is True, Second Edition The Story Is True, Second Edition
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    The Story Is True, Second Edition

    Delves into the meaning of stories, their tellers, and those who experience them.In The Story Is True, folklorist, filmmaker, and professor of English Bruce Jackson explores the ways we use the stories that become a central part of our public and private...
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  • Mentoring and Communication Mentoring and Communication
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    Mentoring and Communication

    This book examines mentoring in the communications discipline and using critical communication for effective relationships with students and junior faculty in higher education. Via qualitative and narrative-based research and critical and cultural...
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  • Divine Service? Divine Service?
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    Divine Service?

    Religion now plays an increasingly prominent role in the discourse on international security. Within that context, attention largely focuses on the impact exerted by teachings rooted in Christianity and Islam. By comparison, the linkages between Judaism...
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  • Contemporary Feminist Historical Crime Fiction Contemporary Feminist Historical Crime Fiction
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    Contemporary Feminist Historical Crime Fiction

    By examining the feminist interventions of contemporary women writers working in this subgenre, Johnsen advances the existing critical discussion of women's crime fiction. The writers studied here bring research expertise to bear on their chosen...
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  • Race and Identity in Hemingway's Fiction Race and Identity in Hemingway's Fiction
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    Race and Identity in Hemingway's Fiction

    Race and Identity in Hemingway s Fiction explores how Hemingway negotiates race as a defining element of American identity. His interest in race and racial identity emerged in his writing and his personal life, through attention to skin color,...
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  • Africa's Elusive Quest for Development Africa's Elusive Quest for Development
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    Africa's Elusive Quest for Development

    Matt Houngnikpo examines how domestic conflict, economic stagnation, political instability, poverty and underdevelopment have plagued Africa for decades. He argues that a reversal of the political, economic and social plight of Africa lies in better...
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  • Theology and Literature Theology and Literature
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    Theology and Literature

    By examining theological and literary narratives through an engagement with well-known theorists of reading and religion, this collection of essays, international in perspective, brings together varied, refreshing and provocative responses to...
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  • Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing
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    Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing

    This study discovers how contemporary writers have imagined possible relationships between African American and white women that overcome the stereotypical patterns of racism, using novels and autobiographies and focusing on works by William Faulkner,...
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  • Aid Impact and Poverty Reduction Aid Impact and Poverty Reduction
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    Aid Impact and Poverty Reduction

    Developing broad, holistic notions of 'impact' to measure the effects of international development assistance, this book makes a significant contribution to understanding the international political economy. Leading experts focus on enhancing aid's...
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  • Discourses of Service in Shakespeare's England Discourses of Service in Shakespeare's England
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    Discourses of Service in Shakespeare's England

    One way and another, nearly all of Shakespeare's countrymen and women (including the playwright himself) spent at least parts of their lives as servants of someone else. But until now that fact has gone largely unregarded. This book remedies the...
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  • The Medieval Author in Medieval French Literature The Medieval Author in Medieval French Literature
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    The Medieval Author in Medieval French Literature

    Thirty-five years ago Roland Barthes proclaimed the death of the Author. For medievalists no death has been more timely. The essays in this volume create a prism through which to understand medieval authorship as a process and the medieval author as an...
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  • Beyond Arthurian Romances Beyond Arthurian Romances
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    Beyond Arthurian Romances

    Leaving the traditional focus on Arthurian romance and Gothic tales, the essays in this collection address how the Victorians looked back to the Middle Ages to create a sense of authority for their own ideas in areas such as art, religion, gender...
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  • The Legacy of Primo Levi The Legacy of Primo Levi
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    The Legacy of Primo Levi

    This collection represents some of the latest research on Primo Levi, the famous Auschwitz survivor Italian author, in the field of Italian Studies, Holocaust Studies, Jewish Studies, literary theory, philosophy, and ethics. The author has collected an...
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  • Late Postmodernism Late Postmodernism
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    Late Postmodernism

    Does the novel have a future? Questions of this kind, which are as old as the novel itself, acquired a fresh urgency at the end of the twentieth-century with the rise of new media and the relegation of literature to the margins of American culture. As a...
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  • The Historical Evolution of World-Systems The Historical Evolution of World-Systems
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    The Historical Evolution of World-Systems

    The rise and decline of great powers remains a fascinating topic of vigorous debate. This book brings together leading scholars to explore the historical evolution of world systems through examining the ebb and flow of great powers over time, with...
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  • Territories of the Psyche Territories of the Psyche
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    Territories of the Psyche

    Jean Rhys is widely credited for exposing issues of gender, nationality, race, and class in technically sophisticated, arresting narratives. Her lifelong exploration of the dynamics of the human psyche has, however, gone unrecognized. This examination...
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  • Langland's Early Modern Identities Langland's Early Modern Identities
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    Langland's Early Modern Identities

    This book uses the methodologies of cultural studies and the history of the book to show how editors and readers of the Sixteenth through the early Nineteenth century successively remade Piers Plowman and its author according to their own ideologies of...
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  • Revisionist Shakespeare Revisionist Shakespeare
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    Revisionist Shakespeare

    Revisionist Shakespeare appropriates revisionist history in order to both criticize traditional transitional interpretations of Shakespearean drama and to offer a new methodology for understanding representations of social conflict in Shakespeare's play...
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  • Citizen Shakespeare Citizen Shakespeare
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    Citizen Shakespeare

    Shakespeare was not a citizen of London. But the language of his plays is shot through with the concerns of London 'freemen' and their wives, the diverse commercial class that nevertheless excluded adult immigrants from country towns and northern Europe...
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  • Reflections on the Balkan Wars Reflections on the Balkan Wars
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    Reflections on the Balkan Wars

    In this collection scholars, policymakers and military officials explore the conditions that gave rise to the Balkan wars in the 1990s, the application of international law to the wars the conduct of the wars, and post-war issues. The essays are based on...
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  • Narrative Bodies Narrative Bodies
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    Narrative Bodies

    Although the body has recently emerged throughout the humanities and social sciences as an object revealing the power and limits of representation, the study of narrative has almost entirely ignored human corporeality. As this book shows, attention to...
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  • Authorship in Context Authorship in Context
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    Authorship in Context

    Theories of authorship and material culture provide the framework for this study. It maps Anglo-American authorship as it shifts from a theoretical to a more material approach to its study in contexts recognized as key to its development: the...
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  • Defining Literary Criticism Defining Literary Criticism
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    Defining Literary Criticism

    Outlining the controversies that have surrounded the academic discipline of English Literature since its institutionalization in the late nineteenth century, this important book draws on a range of archival sources. It addresses issues that are central...
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  • The Myth of Civil Society The Myth of Civil Society
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    The Myth of Civil Society

    Almost irrespective of the geographic setting, the debate about the future of democracy in post-authoritarian societies is increasingly tied to the strength of civil society. A strong civil society is thought to be crucial to the emergence of successful...
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  • The Contemporary Deathbed The Contemporary Deathbed
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    The Contemporary Deathbed

    How do we picture ourselves dying? A 'death with dignity', the darkened room, and a few murmured farewells? Or in the lights' flashing, siren wailing, chest-pumping maelstrom of the back of an ambulance hurtling towards an ER? Over the last decade, the...
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  • Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare's England Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare's England
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    Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare's England

    Hamlin's study provides the first full-scale account of the reception and literary appropriation of ancient scepticism in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (c. 1570-1630). Offering abundant archival evidence as well as fresh treatments of Florio's...
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  • Masculinity in Male-Authored Fiction, 1950-2000 Masculinity in Male-Authored Fiction, 1950-2000
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    Masculinity in Male-Authored Fiction, 1950-2000

    Tracing the influence of masculinity on fictional form and theme through an era of dizzying social change, this timely new book conducts a close analysis of English novels selected for contrasting definitions of the male gender, from the allegedly Angry...
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  • French NGOs in the Global Era French NGOs in the Global Era
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    French NGOs in the Global Era

    This book provides a systematic account of the changing priorities, procedures and practices of French NGOs active in overseas development work. It explores whether French NGOs are eschewing wider trends in the Northern NGO sector and uses Resource...
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  • A Black British Canon? A Black British Canon?
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    A Black British Canon?

    This much-needed collection examines the formation of a black British canon including writers, dramatists, film-makers and artists. Contributors including John McLeod, Michael McMillan, Mike Phillips and Alison Donnell discuss the textual, political and...
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  • D.H. Lawrence, Science and the Posthuman D.H. Lawrence, Science and the Posthuman
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    D.H. Lawrence, Science and the Posthuman

    Why was D.H. Lawrence preoccupied with the enigma of the human as thinking matter? This first sustained study of Lawrence and science shows how 'posthuman' conceptions of a material kinship between humans, animals and machines can transform our...
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