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  • Mobile Technologies of the City Mobile Technologies of the City
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    Mobile Technologies of the City

    Mobile communications technologies are taking off across the world, while urban transportation and surveillance systems are also being rebuilt and updated. Emergent practices of physical,...
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  • International Relations in Europe International Relations in Europe
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    International Relations in Europe

    This book examines the discipline of international Relations in Europe. It presents the state of the art, focusing particularly on IR theory and theoretical debates in Western and Central European...
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  • The Iraq War and Democratic Politics The Iraq War and Democratic Politics
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    The Iraq War and Democratic Politics

    This book examines the meaning of the 2003 Iraq war for democratic politics. It shuns simplistic analysis and provides a nuanced and critical overview of this key moment in global politics.
    $419.00

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  • An Introduction to Tantric Philosophy An Introduction to Tantric Philosophy
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    An Introduction to Tantric Philosophy

    The Paramarthasara, or 'Essence of Ultimate Reality', is a work of the Kashmirian polymath Abhinavagupta (tenth and eleventh centuries). It is a brief treatise in which the author outlines the...
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  • Community and Everyday Life Community and Everyday Life
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    Community and Everyday Life

    Grounded in a wide-ranging review of empirical research, this textbook provides an overview of sociological debates surrounding the idea of community, and relates them to the part community plays in...
    $564.00

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  • Paths to Democracy Paths to Democracy
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    Paths to Democracy

    This innovative volume provides a theoretically informed comparative investigation of the links between revolutions, totalitarianism and democracy.
    $160.00

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  • Feminist Film Theorists Feminist Film Theorists
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    Feminist Film Theorists

    Focusing on the ground-breaking work of Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis and Barbara Creed, this book explores how, since it began in the 1970s, feminist film theory has...
    $63.00

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  • Vision and Difference Vision and Difference
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    Vision and Difference

    Griselda Pollock provides concrete historical analyses of key moments in the formation of modern culture to reveal the sexual politics at the heart of modernist art, exploring the writings of...
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  • Museums and Source Communities Museums and Source Communities
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    Museums and Source Communities

    This volume combines some of the most influential published research in this emerging field with newly commissioned essays on the issues, problems and lessons involved in collaborating museums and...
    $105.00

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  • The Stars Down to Earth The Stars Down to Earth
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    The Stars Down to Earth

    In this remarkable work written 50 years ago, Adorno showcases the dangers inherent in modern obsessions with consumption.
    $33.00

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  • Cultural Identity in the Roman Empire Cultural Identity in the Roman Empire
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    Cultural Identity in the Roman Empire

    This well documented and timely book presents cultural identity throughout the Roman empire as a complex and diverse issue, far removed from the previous notion of a dichotomy between the Roman...
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  • Medieval Naval Warfare 1000-1500 Medieval Naval Warfare 1000-1500
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    Medieval Naval Warfare 1000-1500

    How were medieval navies organised, and how did powerful rulers use them? This fascinating account brings vividly to life the dangers and difficulties of medieval seafaring.
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  • Cognitive Mapping Cognitive Mapping
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    Cognitive Mapping

    This important work brings together international academics from a variety of disciplines to explore the topic of spatial cognition on a 'geographic' scale.
    $410.00

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  • Sex Tourism Sex Tourism
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    Sex Tourism

    Sex Tourism examines the issues which emerge from sex worker-client interactions and from tourists visiting 'sex destinations'. It is a comprehensive summary of past research by academics and...
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  • The Triads as Business The Triads as Business
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    The Triads as Business

    Based on interviews with ex members and triad victims, police from Hong Kong, mainland China and Europe, and documentary evidence, The Triads as Business gives a compelling picture of the triads as...
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  • Endö Shüsaku Endö Shüsaku
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    Endö Shüsaku

    Bringing to light the enduring legacy of a great Japanese author who has contributed to an unmasking of the unsustainability of talk of an 'East-West' divide, this volume will be of interest to...
    $373.00

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  • A History of Child Psychoanalysis A History of Child Psychoanalysis
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    A History of Child Psychoanalysis

    Child analysis has occupied a special place in the history of psychoanalysis because of the challenges it poses to practitioners and the clashes it has provoked among its advocates. Since the early...
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  • The Handbook of Psychotherapy The Handbook of Psychotherapy
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    The Handbook of Psychotherapy

    Both a comprehensive overview of mental health theory and practice and a rich resource of information and reference for all health professionals and those interested in psychotherapy as practioner or...
    $105.00

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  • Popular Culture in Modern France Popular Culture in Modern France
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    Popular Culture in Modern France

    Traces the changes in French notions of popular culture from 1936 to the present. `Culture' remains a fiercely contested term and Rigby examines the solutions offered by theorists such as Barthes,...
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  • Routledge Handbook of Russian Security Routledge Handbook of Russian Security
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    Routledge Handbook of Russian Security

    The Routledge Handbook of Russian Security offers a comprehensive collection of essays on all aspects of Russian security and foreign policy by international scholars from across the world. The...
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  • Resilient Landscapes Resilient Landscapes
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    Resilient Landscapes

    This volume offers a comprehensive insight on sustainable development of local territories. It recommends the planning of local interventions through the integration of sustainable development with...
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  • Art as Social Practice Art as Social Practice
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    Art as Social Practice

    With a focus on socially engaged art practices in the twenty-first century, this book explores how artists use their creative practices to raise consciousness, form communities, create change, and...
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  • Geographies of Food and Power Geographies of Food and Power
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    Geographies of Food and Power

    This book provides a comprehensive overview of the production and consumption of food, suitable for use in undergraduate classrooms, either at the intermediate or advanced level.
    $373.00

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  • Media Training in Transition Countries Media Training in Transition Countries
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    Media Training in Transition Countries

    This book explores the impact of, and lessons learned from, media development and training programs sponsored by the US government and non-governmental organizations in countries transitioning to...
    $392.00

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  • Human Rights in Sierra Leone, 1787-2016 Human Rights in Sierra Leone, 1787-2016
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    Human Rights in Sierra Leone, 1787-2016

    While acknowledging the challenges associated with the promotion of human rights in an environment of uncertainty, political fragility, lawlessness and deprivation, Lahai sheds light on the...
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  • Political Communication and COVID-19 Political Communication and COVID-19
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    Political Communication and COVID-19

    This edited collection compares and analyses the most prominent political communicative responses to the outbreak and global spread of the COVID-19 strain of coronavirus within 27 nations across five...
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  • Youth Cultures and Subcultures Youth Cultures and Subcultures
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    Youth Cultures and Subcultures

    This volume critically examines 'subculture' in a variety of Australian contexts, exploring the ways in which the terrain of youth cultures and subcultures has changed over the last two decades and...
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  • Routledge Handbook of Water and Development Routledge Handbook of Water and Development
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    Routledge Handbook of Water and Development

    Water is essential for human life and at the centre of political, economic and socio-cultural development. This Routledge Handbook on Water and Development offers a systematic, wide-ranging and...
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  • Nicole Rafter Nicole Rafter
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    Nicole Rafter

    This book is a critical summary and exegesis of the work of Nicole Rafter. It introduces Rafter's key works and assesses her contributions to the fields of feminist criminology, cultural criminology,...
    $373.00

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  • Autistic States in Children Autistic States in Children
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    Autistic States in Children

    Influential on those in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis as well as families, this book remains essential reading for anyone seeking a creative and compelling understanding of autism in children...
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  • Urbanization in the Global South Urbanization in the Global South
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    Urbanization in the Global South

    This book examines the challenges of urbanization in the global south and the linkages between urbanization, economic development and urban poverty from the perspectives of the cities in Asia, Africa...
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  • The Contemporary Art Scene in Syria The Contemporary Art Scene in Syria
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    The Contemporary Art Scene in Syria

    This book focuses on the expanding contemporary art scene in Syria, particularly Damascus, during the first decade of the twenty-first century. The decade was characterized by a high degree of...
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  • The Divided Therapist The Divided Therapist
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    The Divided Therapist

    This important new book explores the nature of the divided brain and its relevance for contemporary psychotherapy.　 Citing the latest neuroscientific research, it shows how the relationship between...
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