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  • A Ride Through The Nubian Desert (1852) A Ride Through The Nubian Desert (1852)
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    A Ride Through The Nubian Desert (1852)

    A Ride Through The Nubian Desert is a travelogue written by William Peel and published in 1852. The book describes Peel's journey through the Nubian Desert, a vast expanse of arid land in northeastern Africa that stretches from the Nile River to the Red...
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  • Junk Food Politics Junk Food Politics
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    Junk Food Politics

    Why do sugary beverage and fast food industries thrive in the emerging world?An interesting public health paradox has emerged in some developing nations. Despite government commitment to eradicating noncommunicable diseases and innovative prevention...
    $125.00

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  • The Hindutva The Hindutva
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    The Hindutva

    The definitions of Hindutva in terms of Vedic interpretations or Hindu nationalism are merely to cloud the intentions of the Hindutva proponents. The verisimilitude of the intentions of returning honor and glory to all Hindus is just that. It is meant...
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  • The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management
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    The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management

    This collection provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of current research in the field of New Public Management (NPM) reform. Aimed primarily at a readership with a special interest in contemporary public-sector reforms, The Ashgate Research...
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  • Civic and Moral Learning in America Civic and Moral Learning in America
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    Civic and Moral Learning in America

    The book comprises a lively and wide-ranging discussion of the intersecting discourses of race, gender, and empire in literature, history, and contemporary culture generally.
    $58.00

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  • Beyond the Front Lines Beyond the Front Lines
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    Beyond the Front Lines

    The recent war with Iraq has had the greatest impact on journalism since the Vietnam War. Before the next war arrives, how the news media cover conflict -- and international affairs more generally -- should be scrutinized. The questions explored in this...
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  • The Dynamics of Israeli-Palestinian Relations The Dynamics of Israeli-Palestinian Relations
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    The Dynamics of Israeli-Palestinian Relations

    Reading semiotically against the backdrop of medieval mirrors of princes, Arthurian narratives, and chronicles, this study examines how René d'Anjou (1409-1480), Geoffrey Chaucer's House of Fame (ca. 1375-1380), and Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376)...
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  • Politics Is about Relationship Politics Is about Relationship
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    Politics Is about Relationship

    In this straightforward exploration of core problems facing humanity, hope is combined with realism based on confidence in the energies and capacities of citizens outside government to meet the pressing challenges we face today. Saunders presents an...
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  • Rethinking Freedom Rethinking Freedom
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    Rethinking Freedom

    This book is aimed at those who are puzzled by the different ways in which the term "freedom" is used and abused. Based on interviews with people concerning the nature of freedom, the author compares what the people he talked with said about freedom with...
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  • The EU as International Environmental Negotiator The EU as International Environmental Negotiator
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    The EU as International Environmental Negotiator

    This examination of the EU's participation in international environmental negotiations reveals the internal decision-making process behind multilateral environmental agreements. The book's empirical evidence is based on an extensive review of existing...
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  • States and Development States and Development
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    States and Development

    This important book explores the contribution states can make to overcoming collective action problems and create collective goods favorable to social, economic, and political development. It examines how state-society relations as well as features of...
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  • Postmemories of Terror Postmemories of Terror
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    Postmemories of Terror

    Postmemories of Terror focuses on how young Argentineans remember the traumatic events of the military dictatorship (1976-83). This work is based on oral histories with sixty-three young people who were too young to be directly victimized or politically...
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  • Sticking to the Union Sticking to the Union
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    Sticking to the Union

    Although married four times, Julia Ruuttila claimed that the love of her life was not a man but a union. From her Industrial Workers of the World origins to the CIO, the International Woodworkers of America, and the International Longshore and Warehouse...
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  • Modernist and Fundamentalist Debates in Islam Modernist and Fundamentalist Debates in Islam
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    Modernist and Fundamentalist Debates in Islam

    With resurgent interest in the Muslim world and in particular political Islam, this collection of original essays by major Muslim thinkers from the Middle East and South Asia demonstrates the ongoing and contentious debate between modernizers seeking to...
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  • Palgrave Advances in International Environmental Politics Palgrave Advances in International Environmental Politics
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    Palgrave Advances in International Environmental Politics

    This book provides authoritative and up-to-date research for anyone interested in the study of international environmental politics. The first section reviews the historical development of international environmental politics as well as the theoretical...
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  • Egalitarian Politics in the Age of Globalization Egalitarian Politics in the Age of Globalization
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    Egalitarian Politics in the Age of Globalization

    In recent years women's movements and democracy movements appear to have been more successful in promoting social equality than labour movements or development movements. Wage gaps between men and women have narrowed. New democracies have flourished...
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  • In Praise of Empires In Praise of Empires
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    In Praise of Empires

    In this timely and controversial book, economist Deepak Lal explores the twin themes of empires and globalization and discusses the place of the US in the current world order. Lal argues that not since the fall of the Roman empire has there been a...
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  • Science and Politics of Foreign Aid Science and Politics of Foreign Aid
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    Science and Politics of Foreign Aid

    Contemporary international aid consists of a wide range of various support programs, where the end-result in many cases not only reflects the needs of the recipient country, but also the interests of the donor country. In...
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  • Capital as Organic Unity Capital as Organic Unity
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    Capital as Organic Unity

    This is a work of historical critical exegesis. It aims to establish the influence of the Science of Logic (SL) of G.W.F. Hegel on the Grundrisse of Karl Marx. It is the first work in the history of Marx Studies to demonstrate...
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  • The Withdrawal of Rights The Withdrawal of Rights
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    The Withdrawal of Rights

    Like most discussions within the tradition of rights-talk, this study is motivated by the desire to promote the idea that rights are moral assets that people should acquire in the course of their membership within social and...
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  • Unveiling Wealth Unveiling Wealth
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    Unveiling Wealth

    Does money blur perspectives for a better life? Lifting the money veil from our yardsticks of progress, income and wealth, reveals the trade-offs of economic growth. The book presents new indicators of the social, economic and...
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  • Greening Society Greening Society
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    Greening Society

    This book can be regarded as a monograph on the debates and developments in Dutch environmental policy. It has been written with a specific perspective in mind. First and foremost, the line of approach we have taken was from a...
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  • Philosophy Bridging the World Religions Philosophy Bridging the World Religions
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    Philosophy Bridging the World Religions

    This is the fifth and last volume of the EXPO-Discourses of the World Religions (World Exposition EXPO 2000, Hannover, Germany). The series aims at a deeper understanding of the similarities and differences between Hinduism,...
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  • Language Education Policy Language Education Policy
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    Language Education Policy

    In this book we will explore in more detail some aspects of the Arab-Jewish divide, which raise fundamental questions regarding the place of the Arabs and Arab language education in the Jewish State. More specifically, the aim...
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  • Nature and Technology in the World Religions Nature and Technology in the World Religions
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    Nature and Technology in the World Religions

    Leading scholars of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism have created with this volume a first-hand source of information which enables the reader to gain a better understanding of these five world religions and...
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  • Economics as a Political Muse Economics as a Political Muse
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    Economics as a Political Muse

    This book looks afresh, from a philosophical perspective, on the role economic theory plays in present-day ecological policy. It starts from fundamental questions concerning the nature of the problem of sustainability, of...
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  • Responding to Environmental Conflicts Responding to Environmental Conflicts
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    Responding to Environmental Conflicts

    A comprehensive tour d'horizon of the debate on the environment and security, focusing on the various policy options for building peace and preventing environmental conflict. Experts from the areas survey the key ...
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  • Science Cultivating Practice Science Cultivating Practice
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    Science Cultivating Practice

    Science Cultivating Practice is an institutional history of agricultural science in the Netherlands and its overseas territories. The focus of this study is the variety of views about a proper relationship between science...
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  • The Reception of Darwinism in the Iberian World The Reception of Darwinism in the Iberian World
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    The Reception of Darwinism in the Iberian World

    I Twenty-five years ago, at the Conference on the Comparative Reception of Darwinism held at the University of Texas in 1972, only two countries of the Iberian world-Spain and Mexico-were represented.' At the time, it was...
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  • Breaking Together Breaking Together
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    Breaking Together

    The collapse of modern societies has already begun. That is the conclusion of two years of research by the interdisciplinary team behind Breaking Together. How did it come to this? Because monetary systems caused us to harm each other and nature to...
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  • Abortion Is Good for America--and the World Abortion Is Good for America--and the World
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    Abortion Is Good for America--and the World

    Abortion makes sense in every area--unless you believe that God made alot of souls 6000 years ago when he supposedly created the world-- or if you have faith that we all have souls and they are put in us at conception.  There is no evidence for...
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  • Rebels of Solitude Rebels of Solitude
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    Rebels of Solitude

    By their actions, Henri Dunant, Donald Morrison and Peter Madden, changed the way people think about themselves and about others. Their stories are ones of tenacity, resilience and creativity within the seething cauldrons of war, revolution, and prison...
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  • Diary Of A Madman, Book 3 Diary Of A Madman, Book 3
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    Diary Of A Madman, Book 3

    A little bit of everything. Political reform ideas. Opinion pieces on television programming. Show ideas. And more. Jay shows what he believes in  and why. From education and business to politics and economic reform, Jay shows why he is a...
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