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  • Biomechanics of Sport Biomechanics of Sport
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    Biomechanics of Sport

    This informative text features current and thorough reviews of the biomechanics of sport for improved performance, etiology, and pre-vention of injuries.
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  • The Impotence Epidemic The Impotence Epidemic
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    The Impotence Epidemic

    Since the 1990s China has seen a dramatic increase in the number of men seeking treatment for impotence. Everett Yuehong Zhang argues in The Impotence Epidemic that this trend represents changing...
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  • Native American Women's Studies Native American Women's Studies
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    Native American Women's Studies

    This introduction to the fundamentals of Native American women's studies first looks at several definitive topics created by the western cultural notion of feminism, and western historical and...
    $66.00

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  • Fast Cars and Bad Girls Fast Cars and Bad Girls
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    Fast Cars and Bad Girls

    Fast Cars and Bad Girls: Nomadic Subjects and Women's Road Stories explores the road narratives of women and the various ways their work re-maps American space. Moving from Mary Rowlandson's famous...
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  • Lost Intimacies Lost Intimacies
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    Lost Intimacies

    Lost Intimacies: Rethinking Homosexuality under National Socialism uses queer theory as a hermeneutic tool with which to read against the grain of heterotextual narratives of the Holocaust and as a...
    $73.00

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  • Locating Latin American Women Writers Locating Latin American Women Writers
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    Locating Latin American Women Writers

    The end of the twentieth century witnessed a boom in the production, publication, readership, and scholarship of women's writing from Latin America. In fact, the emergence of women writers is perhaps...
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  • The Francophone World The Francophone World
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    The Francophone World

    The Francophone World: Cultural Issues and Perspectives introduces readers to French-speaking communities across the globe and offers a perspective on the cultures that have developed in the wake of...
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  • Fairy Tale Mothers Fairy Tale Mothers
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    Fairy Tale Mothers

    Behind every mother lurks The Great Mother with her awesome power over life and death. Numerous fairy tales deal with women's and men's fear of this power and its threat to their individuality. This...
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  • Made Only in India Made Only in India
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    Made Only in India

    What makes Darjeeling tea, Pashmina shawl, Monsooned Malabar Arabica coffee and Chanderi saree special? Why is it that some goods derive their uniqueness through their inherent linkage to a place? In...
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  • Education and Empowerment in India Education and Empowerment in India
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    Education and Empowerment in India

    This volume explores the linkages between education and empowerment of women, marginalized groups and other disadvantaged sections of society. The essays explore various educational policies,...
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  • Land Rights in India Land Rights in India
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    Land Rights in India

    This volume engages with the topical issue of land rights in neoliberal India. It examines government policies, laws, land governance and land reforms from the perspective of social justice and...
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  • Undernutrition and Public Policy in India Undernutrition and Public Policy in India
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    Undernutrition and Public Policy in India

    Despite substantial economic growth, India still has one of the highest undernutrition rates in the world; it is home to almost 40 per cent of the world's stunted children. This volume assesses the...
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  • Rules, Norms and NGO Advocacy Strategies Rules, Norms and NGO Advocacy Strategies
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    Rules, Norms and NGO Advocacy Strategies

    This book analyses the opportunities and barriers that NGOs and civil society actors face when conducting advocacy campaigns against such developments through a comparison of the strategies of two...
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  • Gandhi and Tagore Gandhi and Tagore
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    Gandhi and Tagore

    This book brings together the political thought of Gandhi and Tagore to examine the relationship between politics, truth and conscience. It explores truth and conscience as viable public virtues with...
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  • Profile Pieces Profile Pieces
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    Profile Pieces

    This book examines the history, theory and journalistic practice of profile writing. Profiles, and the practice of writing them, are of increasing interest to scholars of journalism because conflicts...
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  • Communicating Women's Health Communicating Women's Health
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    Communicating Women's Health

    This volume explores the conditions under which women are empowered, and feel entitled, to make the health decisions that are best for them. Bringing together personal narratives, key theory and...
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  • Japanese Women in Science and Engineering Japanese Women in Science and Engineering
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    Japanese Women in Science and Engineering

    This book sheds light on historical developments and the current gender equality situation in Japan through the lens of women in science and technology. Drawing on data from interviews with...
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  • Living with Religious Diversity Living with Religious Diversity
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    Living with Religious Diversity

    Looking beyond exclusively state-oriented solutions to the management of religious diversity, this book explores ways of fostering respectful, non-violent and welcoming social relations among...
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  • Empire Within Empire Within
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    Empire Within

    This work seeks to illuminate the various ways in which the management of imperial or hegemonic spaces contribute to the emergence of more coercive apparatuses of state control.
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  • South Asian Migration to Gulf Countries South Asian Migration to Gulf Countries
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    South Asian Migration to Gulf Countries

    South Asians constitute the largest expatriate population in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Their contribution in the socio-economic, technological and educational development of GCC...
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  • How the EU Really Works How the EU Really Works
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    How the EU Really Works

    The European Union is facing a profound crisis and is confronted with multiple challenges. Over the last two decades, it has experienced a series of dramatic changes to its powers, its institutional...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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  • Global Capital and Social Difference Global Capital and Social Difference
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    Global Capital and Social Difference

    This volume offers insights into ongoing global socioeconomic transformations by directing attention to the significance of labour, work, craft, community, social institutions, social movements and...
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  • Jung and Levinas Jung and Levinas
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    Jung and Levinas

    This book brings C.G. Jung into conversation with the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, taking a radical view of post-modernist theory which, the author argues, is relentlessly introverted...
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  • EU-Russia Relations, 1999-2015 EU-Russia Relations, 1999-2015
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    EU-Russia Relations, 1999-2015

    This book traces the development of EU-Russia relations in recent years. It argues that a major factor influencing the relationship is the changing internal dynamics of both parties, in Russia's case...
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  • Cloud-Based Music Production Cloud-Based Music Production
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    Cloud-Based Music Production

    Cloud-Based Music Production: Samples, Synthesis, and Hip-Hop presents a discussion on cloud-based music-making procedures and the musical competencies required to make hip-hop beats.By investigating...
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  • Pragmatic Humanism Pragmatic Humanism
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    Pragmatic Humanism

    Is sociology best understood as simply chipping away at our ignorance about society, or does it have broader roles and responsibilities? If so, to what-or perhaps to whom-are these responsibilities?...
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  • Prosecuting Slobodan Milošević Prosecuting Slobodan Milošević
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    Prosecuting Slobodan Milošević

    This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the record of the trial of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
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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...
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  • Aberrant Development in Infancy Aberrant Development in Infancy
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    Aberrant Development in Infancy

    Originally published in 1975, this volume deals with animals and human infants. The chapters reflect a mixture of issues and problems ranging from the significance of sucking responses in the...
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  • The Liminal Worker The Liminal Worker
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    The Liminal Worker

    The Liminal Worker examines the experience of work, employment, employment insecurity and precariousness in a context of high unemployment and welfare state crisis in modern Greece. A...
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