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  • Thailand in the Cold War Thailand in the Cold War
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    Thailand in the Cold War

    Thailand's position during the Cold War was ambiguous: the country's political leadership was very keen to maintain the country's independence on the world stage, yet at the same time was anxious to...
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  • Video Methods Video Methods
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    Video Methods

    This interdisciplinary collection provides a set of innovative and inventive approaches to the use of video as a research method. Building on the development of visual methods across the social...
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  • Young Muslim Women in India Young Muslim Women in India
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    Young Muslim Women in India

    Based on extensive, original research, this book portrays a different and an under-represented perspective of young Muslim girls in the bustees (shanty towns) of Kolkata. Through a series of personal...
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  • The First American School of Sociology The First American School of Sociology
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    The First American School of Sociology

    This book examines the contributions of one of the most significant programs of social science research ever established in the United States. Under the leadership of W.E.B. Du Bois, the Atlanta...
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  • Teaching Evidence-Based Practice Teaching Evidence-Based Practice
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    Teaching Evidence-Based Practice

    Many national professional organizations of speech-language pathologists have adopted evidence-based practice (EBP) as the preferred approach to clinical practice. This title focuses on the teaching...
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  • Toddlers, Parents and Culture Toddlers, Parents and Culture
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    Toddlers, Parents and Culture

    One doesn't have to travel extensively to realize that there are intriguing differences in the ways in which people from different cultures tend to behave. Gartstein and Putnam explore whether these...
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  • Corruption and Legislatures Corruption and Legislatures
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    Corruption and Legislatures

    This book investigates parliaments' role in curbing corruption. In addition to discussing the definition, causes, and costs of corruption and the role that parliaments have in reducing...
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  • Animus, Psyche and Culture Animus, Psyche and Culture
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    Animus, Psyche and Culture

    Animus, Psyche and Culture takes Carl Jung's concept of contra-sexual psyche and locates it within the cultural expanse of India, using ethnographic narratives, history, religion, myth, films,...
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  • Variedades de la lengua española Variedades de la lengua española
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    Variedades de la lengua española

    Variedades de la lengua española ofrece un panorama general de la variación dialectal y sociolingüística en el espacio hispanohablante, presentado por uno de los más prestigiosos expertos en la...
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  • The 2030 Spike The 2030 Spike
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    The 2030 Spike

    The clock is relentlessly ticking!Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of...
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  • Gender, Bodies and Work Gender, Bodies and Work
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    Gender, Bodies and Work

    Enhancing our knowledge of all three terms, Gender, Bodies and Work develops a perspective that has considerable potential both for assessing the past and exploring the future. The authors provide a...
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  • Pursuing Quality of Life Pursuing Quality of Life
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    Pursuing Quality of Life

    From anxieties over work-life balance and entangling technologies, to celebrations of cool jobs and great places to live, quality of life frames the ways we enhance our lives and legitimate social...
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  • Heritage in the Digital Era Heritage in the Digital Era
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    Heritage in the Digital Era

    What happens to traditional conceptions of heritage in the era of fluid media spaces? 'Heritage' usually involves intergenerational transmission of ideas, customs, ancestral lands, and artefacts, and...
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  • Terrorism and the Politics of Social Change Terrorism and the Politics of Social Change
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    Terrorism and the Politics of Social Change

    Terrorism and political violence have invariably accompanied the progressive modernization of states; a socio-cultural reaction to the problems of social change and development. To understand this...
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  • The Brave Educator The Brave Educator
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    The Brave Educator

    The Brave Educator equips you with accessible and refreshingly useful tools for real conversations about race that prepare students for the world beyond the school walls. More than a toolkit, this...
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  • Ethnographies of Science Education Ethnographies of Science Education
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    Ethnographies of Science Education

    Researchers who conduct ethnography in science education tend to have a deep commitment for transforming science to improve the lives of people in underserved communities. This edited volume explores...
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  • Greater China Greater China
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    Greater China

    This book, first published in 1996, focuses on the possible (but problematic) emergence of a so-called 'Greater China' encompassing mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and the economic reforms,...
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  • China Trade Agreements China Trade Agreements
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    China Trade Agreements

    This book, first published in 1988, examines the nature of trade agreements with Chinese companies, and is divided into three parts which are arranged in accordance with the stages of development:...
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  • Foundations of Islamic Governance Foundations of Islamic Governance
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    Foundations of Islamic Governance

    The aim of this book is to explore and analyze the Islamic axioms, foundation principles and values underpinning the field of governance in an attempt to construct the architectonics of a new...
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  • Qualitative Research Skills for Social Work Qualitative Research Skills for Social Work
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    Qualitative Research Skills for Social Work

    Malcolm Carey provides social work students, academics and practitioners with a practical guide that escorts them through the research process relating to the completion of a small-scale qualitative...
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  • Intercultural Dramatherapy Intercultural Dramatherapy
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    Intercultural Dramatherapy

    The first overarching work on dramatherapy intercultural practice and research, this book explores the therapeutic encounter between therapists and participants as an intercultural space,...
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  • The Marion Milner Tradition The Marion Milner Tradition
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    The Marion Milner Tradition

    The Marion Milner Tradition provides a comprehensive overview of Milner's eight-volume oeuvre for the first time, and celebrates her pioneering achievements both in psychoanalytic world and in...
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  • Towards Quality Care Towards Quality Care
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    Towards Quality Care

    This unique evaluation of the outcomes of residential and nursing home care for older people identifies the factors determining the quality of life of older people who have moved into care homes. It...
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  • Health Care in Rural China Health Care in Rural China
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    Health Care in Rural China

    This work examines health, defined in its broadest meaning, in rural China today. It explores the current social distribution of health status, health behaviour and health care and the processes by...
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  • From Traditional to Group Hegemony From Traditional to Group Hegemony
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    From Traditional to Group Hegemony

    Developing a new theory of hegemony, called group hegemony, the author explains how a few wealthy countries maintain the liberal economic order and how this helps to sustain the economic disparity...
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  • Human Perception Human Perception
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    Human Perception

    It takes little or no effort for us to gather information by means of our senses but it would be a mistake to take this as a sign that perception is simple. It was in the 20th century and after the...
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  • The Search for Justice in a Media Age The Search for Justice in a Media Age
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    The Search for Justice in a Media Age

    What can we learn from the legal cases of Stephen Lawrence and Louise Woodward? How do the legal system and the media contribute to a collective understanding of class, nation, race and gender? In...
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  • Psychoanalysis at its Limits Psychoanalysis at its Limits
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    Psychoanalysis at its Limits

    Has psychoanalysis become postmodern? How are the various schools of psychoanalysis being altered by postmodernism? What role does psychoanalysis have to play in the cultural debate in postmodern...
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  • The G8's Role in the New Millennium The G8's Role in the New Millennium
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    The G8's Role in the New Millennium

    First published in 1999, this collection combines the talents of leading scholars and analysts of the G7/G8 from several disciplines and regions. It is the product of two conferences: Explaining G8...
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  • Strikes in Politicisation Strikes in Politicisation
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    Strikes in Politicisation

    First published in 1998, this book, through a combination of theoretical and empirical research, tries to advance beyond the available literature to an understanding of the links between strike...
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  • Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan
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    Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan

    Japan's suicide phenomenon has fascinated both the media and academics, although many questions and paradoxes embedded in the debate on suicide have remained unaddressed in the existing literature,...
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  • Bringing Micro to the Macro Bringing Micro to the Macro
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    Bringing Micro to the Macro

    The field of human services is filled with clinicians turned managers. Many of these managers have not studied business and lack leadership and management experience. Bringing Micro to the Macro:...
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  • MediaWriting MediaWriting
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    MediaWriting

    MediaWriting is an invaluable resource for students planning to enter the dynamic and changing world of media writing in the twenty-first century. With easy-to-read chapters, a wealth of updated,...
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  • Married Cooperators Married Cooperators
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    Married Cooperators

    First published in 1997 in the context of dramatically rising divorce rates, this volume examines Non-Discordant Marital Separations (NMS), what holds families together in difficult times and family...
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  • Men's Work and Male Lives Men's Work and Male Lives
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    Men's Work and Male Lives

    First published in 1999, this volume took part in the emerging sociological debate on gender in the workplace by studying men's work, lives, gender roles and psychological health through the gender...
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