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  • Building Bangalore Building Bangalore
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    Building Bangalore

    Examining spatial transformations in Bangalore, one of India's fastest growing cities, this book highlights the influence of information and communications technology (ICT) development on the city. Focusing on the production of urban space and the...
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  • U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective
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    U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective

    This book refutes the claim that American foreign policy has varied considerably across time and space, arguing that key policy goals and underlying ideological and political factors have not significantly changed over the last hundred years.
    $375.76

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  • New Democracies in Crisis? New Democracies in Crisis?
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    New Democracies in Crisis?

    This book considers whether the potential of democracy following the end of the Cold War was diminished by technocratic, judicial control of politics in the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe. It explores the complexities and drawbacks of...
    $413.95

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  • Civil Society Activism under Authoritarian Rule Civil Society Activism under Authoritarian Rule
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    Civil Society Activism under Authoritarian Rule

    This book examines how civil society actors operate under authoritarian constraints, and examines how this is linked to regime change.This book moves beyond traditional notions of civil society and explains the complexity of state-society relations in...
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  • States of War since 9/11 States of War since 9/11
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    States of War since 9/11

    This multidisciplinary edited volume explores how the spread of the 'War on Terror' has entwined matters of state sovereignty and states of war into mutually affecting relations. Pre-emptive attacks on terrorist groups in 'rogue' states, 'outsourcing' of...
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  • Spiraling Webs of Relation Spiraling Webs of Relation
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    Spiraling Webs of Relation

    This work builds on indigenous theory as evident in the writing of Willie Ermine, Gregory Cajete, Craig Womack, Jace Weaver, Laurie Anne Whitt, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Voila Cordova, Dennis McPherson, and others. It works towards a criticism that, in...
    $81.37

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  • The Maastricht Treaty The Maastricht Treaty
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    The Maastricht Treaty

    The Maastricht Treaty introduced a number of revolutionary changes to the European Union. This volume brings together a group of leading scholars to reflect on the developments in each of these key areas over the past 20 years, and on this basis to...
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  • Insuring War Insuring War
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    Insuring War

    Insurance is a central, if until now ignored, instrument of war in the modern period. Ever since the eighteenth century, interaction between governments and insurers in Western countries has materialised in the form of war risk schemes that have...
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  • Issues in American Politics Issues in American Politics
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    Issues in American Politics

    This wide ranging book provides readers with a reliable and lively guide to contemporary American political practices, processes and institutions.
    $131.67

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  • Islamization of Turkey under the AKP Rule Islamization of Turkey under the AKP Rule
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    Islamization of Turkey under the AKP Rule

    This book examines the decade in office of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its efforts to transform the Turkish republic toward a more Islamist-oriented system.This book was published as a special issue of the Turkish Studies.
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  • Politics and Religion in the United States Politics and Religion in the United States
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    Politics and Religion in the United States

    There is a complex relationship between religiosity and secularism in the American experience. America is notable both for its strict institutional separation of church and state, and for the strong role that religion has played in its major social...
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  • International Security, Conflict and Gender International Security, Conflict and Gender
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    International Security, Conflict and Gender

    This book challenges the conventional security-based international policy frameworks that have developed for dealing with HIV/AIDS during and after conflicts, and examines first-hand evidence and experiences of conflict and HIV/AIDS.
    $73.10

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  • Security Games Security Games
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    Security Games

    Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events addresses the impact of 'Mega-Events' - such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup - on wider practices of security and surveillance.
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  • Political Representation and European Union Governance Political Representation and European Union Governance
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    Political Representation and European Union Governance

    This book confronts and discusses different conceptions of political representation with respect to their application to the system of multi-level governance in the European Union. This book was based on a special issue of  Journal of European...
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  • The Labour Movement in the Global South The Labour Movement in the Global South
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    The Labour Movement in the Global South

    Based on extensive original research, this book examines the challenges confronting trade unions in the global South, by focusing on trade union struggles in Sri Lanka under neo-liberal globalisation. It centres on movement politics of unions; explains...
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  • The Contested Politics of Mobility The Contested Politics of Mobility
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    The Contested Politics of Mobility

    Irregular migration has emerged as an issue of intensive political debate and governmental practice over recent years. Critically intervening in debates around the governing of irregular migration, The Contested Politics of Mobility explores the politics...
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  • Presidential Power and Accountability Presidential Power and Accountability
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    Presidential Power and Accountability

    Many analysts now believe that the growth of presidential war power relative to Congress is irreversible. This book was written to contest that view. Its purpose is to identify what would be required to restore presidential war power to constitutional...
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  • The US Public and American Foreign Policy The US Public and American Foreign Policy
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    The US Public and American Foreign Policy

    Though often overlooked, public opinion has always played a significant role in the development and promotion of US foreign policy and this work seeks to comprehensively assess the impact and nature of that opinion through a collection of historical and...
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  • Subalternity and Religion Subalternity and Religion
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    Subalternity and Religion

    This book explores the relationship between mainstream and marginal or subaltern religious practice in the Indian subcontinent, and its entanglement with ideas of nationhood, democracy and equality. With detailed readings of texts from Marathi and Hindi...
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  • Palestinian Civil Society Palestinian Civil Society
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    Palestinian Civil Society

    Palestinian Civil Society examines the development of civil society in the Arab Middle East and the impact of western donors, with particular reference to the Palestinian case. Looking at the evolution of Palestinian civil society organizations from...
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  • Intersectionality and Beyond Intersectionality and Beyond
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    Intersectionality and Beyond

    This collection addresses the present and the future of the concept of intersectionality within socio-legal studies. Including contributions from a range of international scholars, this book interrogates what has become a key organizing concept across a...
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  • Politics in the USA Politics in the USA
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    Politics in the USA

    This highly acclaimed introduction to the essential elements of the American political system is now available in a new edition, having been fully revised to take into account the developments in American politics over the last ten years.
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  • The Industrial Vagina The Industrial Vagina
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    The Industrial Vagina

    The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global market, involving millions of women, that makes a substantial contribution to national and global economies.The Industrial Vagina examines how prostitution...
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  • Development Issues in Global Governance Development Issues in Global Governance
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    Development Issues in Global Governance

    This is a new study of how and why multilateral organizations are increasingly working with private actors, including for-profit companies and corporations; business organizations and private foundations.
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  • Women's Suffrage in Asia Women's Suffrage in Asia
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    Women's Suffrage in Asia

    This edited work explains why the history of suffrage is neglected in the nationalist historiography and untangles the connections between culture, nationalism and colonialism in the context of women's struggles for suffrage.
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  • Racial Theories in Fascist Italy Racial Theories in Fascist Italy
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    Racial Theories in Fascist Italy

    Racial Theories in Fascist Italy examines the role played by race and racism in the development of Italian identity during the fascist period. The book examines the struggle between Mussolini, the fascist hierarchy, scientists and others in formulating a...
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    Transcending Transaction

    Transcending Transaction examines recent attempts to show how, in theory and history, market transaction can emerge from the unregulated interaction of competitive traders.
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  • Human Trafficking in Asia Human Trafficking in Asia
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    Human Trafficking in Asia

    By analysing the complex issues surrounding internal and cross-border human trafficking in Asia, and asserting critical perspectives and methodologies, this book extends the range of sites for discussion and sectors in which human trafficking takes place...
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  • Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies
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    Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies

    This major new Handbook provides a cutting-edge and transdisciplinary overview of the main issues, debates, state-of-the-art methods, and key concepts in peace and conflict studies today. The fields of peace and conflict studies have grown exponentially...
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  • Adventures in the Bone Trade Adventures in the Bone Trade
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    Adventures in the Bone Trade

    As co-founder of the expedition that discovered Lucy, and leader of most of the first site-surveys in the Afar Depression in Ethiopia, Jon Kalb has years of experience with the region, its politics, and the scientists involved...
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  • Media Practices, Social Movements, and Performativity Media Practices, Social Movements, and Performativity
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    Media Practices, Social Movements, and Performativity

    As individuals incorporate new forms of media into their daily routines, these media transform individuals' engagement with networks of heterogeneous actors. Using the concept of media practices, this volume looks at processes of social and political...
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  • US Policies in Central Asia US Policies in Central Asia
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    US Policies in Central Asia

    Democracy promotion, security and energy are the predominant themes of US policy in Central Asia after the Cold War. This book analyses how the Bush administration understood and pursued its interests in the Central Asia states, namely Kyrgyzstan,...
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  • Science, Risk, and Policy Science, Risk, and Policy
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    Science, Risk, and Policy

    For decades, experts and the public have been at odds over the nature and magnitude of risks and how they should be mitigated through policy. Experts argue that the fears of the public are irrational, and that public policy should be based on sound...
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  • The Israeli Conflict System The Israeli Conflict System
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    The Israeli Conflict System

    The Middle East conflict system is perhaps the world's most important and intractable problem area, whose developments carry global consequences. An effective investigation of the context and change in the region calls for a melding of academic...
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  • The New European Community The New European Community
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    The New European Community

    This book describes the adoption and implementation of the Single European Act and the accompanying institutional changes that have taken place in the European Community during the 1980s. It emphasizes the decisions on European integration in the context...
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  • Ngos And Women's Development In Rural South India Ngos And Women's Development In Rural South India
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    Ngos And Women's Development In Rural South India

    This book provides an approach to analyzing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and rural women by using specific criteria to compare the effectiveness, especially with women's development, of two NGOs in Karnataka, South India: India Development...
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  • Diplomacy In A Dangerous World Diplomacy In A Dangerous World
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    Diplomacy In A Dangerous World

    This book identifies the political and legal issues surrounding the codification of the law of diplomatic protection. It analyses the seriousness of the security issue for diplomats and increase in diplomatic attacks and the impact of this form of...
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  • China Under Reform China Under Reform
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    China Under Reform

    This book is a study of the political consequences of economic reform in the People's Republic of China, considering the progress and pitfalls of Chinese reform socialism and focusing on the three central policy arenas of the reform era: political...
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  • Bipolar Cossack Bipolar Cossack
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    Bipolar Cossack

    This is a true story of a young Canadian man who has psychosis and is commanded by voices to start travelling. His mental health deteriorates as he travels. He ends up in Kyiv, Ukraine. He somehow manages to meet with a group of Cossacks whom he finds...
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  • Japan and the Wider World Japan and the Wider World
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    Japan and the Wider World

    Akira Iriye assesses Japan's international relations, from a Japanese perspective, in the century and a half since she ended her self-imposed isolation and resumed her place in the international community. The book is the author's own adaptation of two...
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  • Resilient Europe Resilient Europe
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    Resilient Europe

    Studying the period 1870 to 1990 and offering an opinion on future developments, this book examines threats to European stability from such countries as Germany and Russia. Topics covered range from Bismarck, Hitler and Stalin to the growth of the...
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  • Fear and Loathing in the Lone Star State Fear and Loathing in the Lone Star State
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    Fear and Loathing in the Lone Star State

    In the bizarro, comic book version of the Lone Star State, Red numbskulls run things, and "Captain Texas"--Greg Abbott--is their current leader. He inspires no one, but, for a smarmy, vacuous climber, he's hell on wheels. And Abbott follows on the heels...
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  • 3 Musketeers of Evil 3 Musketeers of Evil
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    3 Musketeers of Evil

    The writing of this book came from the inspiration of my alter ego Josephus Flavius Solo. He's a mess and opinionated as can be, Flavius arrived on the scene to cure the world's problems and issues in a world that learns nothing by its history. This book...
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