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  • The Politics of Trauma and Peace-Building The Politics of Trauma and Peace-Building
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    The Politics of Trauma and Peace-Building

    This book explores the debate on trauma and peacebuilding and presents the challenges for democratization that the politics of trauma present in transitional periods. It demonstrates how ideas about reconciliation are filtered through ideological lenses...
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  • The Politics of Economic Restructuring in India The Politics of Economic Restructuring in India
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    The Politics of Economic Restructuring in India

    State re-scaling is the central concept mobilized in this book to interpret the political processes that are producing new economic spaces in India. In the quarter century since economic reforms were introduced, the Indian economy has experienced strong...
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  • Hinduism and Environmental Ethics Hinduism and Environmental Ethics
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    Hinduism and Environmental Ethics

    This book argues that the standard arguments for and against the claim that certain Hindu texts and traditions attribute direct moral standing to animals and plants are unconvincing. It presents careful, extensive, and original interpretations of...
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  • Civil-Military Relations in Chinese History Civil-Military Relations in Chinese History
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    Civil-Military Relations in Chinese History

    Modern studies of civil--military relations recognise that the military is separate from civil society, with its own norms and values, principles of organization, and regulations. Key issues of concern include the means by which - and the extent to which...
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  • Advancing the Regional Commons in the New East Asia Advancing the Regional Commons in the New East Asia
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    Advancing the Regional Commons in the New East Asia

    Advancing the Regional Commons in the New East Asia highlights a number of interests which members of ASEAN and Plus Three countries collectively recognize. This set of common interests includes not only economic development but also social development...
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  • Principles of American Journalism Principles of American Journalism
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    Principles of American Journalism

    Designed to engage, inspire, and challenge students while laying out the fundamentals of the craft, this textbook introduces readers to the core values of journalism and its singular role in a democracy.From the First Amendment to Facebook, this popular...
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  • The Turkish Deep State The Turkish Deep State
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    The Turkish Deep State

    The deep state ranks among the most critical issues in Turkish politics. This book traces its origins and offers an explanation of the emergence and trajectory of the deep state; the meaning and function of informal and authoritarian institutions in the...
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  • Cemeteries of New Orleans Cemeteries of New Orleans
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    Cemeteries of New Orleans

    In The Cemeteries of New Orleans, Peter B. Dedek reveals the origins and evolution of the Crescent City's world-famous necropolises, exploring both their distinctive architecture and their cultural impact. Drawing on a fascinating body of research,...
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  • The State of Affairs The State of Affairs
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    The State of Affairs

    The book explores the paradox of why affairs continue to be condemned as immoral at a time when the incidence of affairs continues to rise, and they have become the basic ingredients of soap operas, novels and the media.
    $392.00

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  • Understanding Face-to-face Interaction Understanding Face-to-face Interaction
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    Understanding Face-to-face Interaction

    Challenging current work in communication and social psychology that assumes face-to-face interaction can be adequately understood without attending to discourse expression, this volume examines how people's goals, concerns, and intentions can be related...
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    Semiotic Investigations

    In Semiotic Investigations, Alec McHoul develops a theory of meaning that he calls "effective semiotics"-a theory that investigates "the ways in which signs have meaning by virtue of their actual uses." As McHoul notes, "these uses take place in a number...
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  • Jews and the American Slave Trade Jews and the American Slave Trade
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    Jews and the American Slave Trade

    The Nation of Islam's Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews has been called one of the most serious anti-Semitic manuscripts published in years. This work of so-called scholars received great celebrity from individuals like Louis Farrakhan, Leonard...
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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...
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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",...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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