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  • Getting to Smart Growth II Getting to Smart Growth II
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    Getting to Smart Growth II

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. ...
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  • Parliamentary Opposition in Old and New Democracies Parliamentary Opposition in Old and New Democracies
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    Parliamentary Opposition in Old and New Democracies

    Previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies, this volume offers a broad comparative assessment of the many faces of parliamentary opposition in different political, legal and cultural settings.Issues of political...
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  • Emigration and Empire Emigration and Empire
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    Emigration and Empire

    Maria S. Rye, a woman motivated by both feminist and philanthropic ideals, devoted her life to the migration of women and girls out of England. This biography gives an account of Rye's activities from her early engagement with liberal feminism through...
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  • Politics of Difference Politics of Difference
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    Politics of Difference

    This book develops a notion of differences and 'otherness' beyond hegemonic and hierarchical thinking as represented by the legacies of Western philosophical and political thought.In doing so, it relates to the phenomenological discourse of the twentieth...
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  • Ethnic Diversity and the Nation State Ethnic Diversity and the Nation State
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    Ethnic Diversity and the Nation State

    This book explores a largely forgotten legacy of multicultural political thought and practice from within Eastern Europe and examines its relevance to post-Cold War debates on state and nationhood. Featuring a Preface by former UK Home Secretary Charles...
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  • Law, Force and Diplomacy at Sea (Routledge Revivals) Law, Force and Diplomacy at Sea (Routledge Revivals)
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    Law, Force and Diplomacy at Sea (Routledge Revivals)

    Law, Force and Diplomacy at Sea, first published in 1985, is one of the few comprehensive treatments on the subject from a strategic perspective. It offers a detailed strategic analysis of the background and outcome of the Third UN Conference on the Law...
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  • Navies and Foreign Policy (Routledge Revivals) Navies and Foreign Policy (Routledge Revivals)
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    Navies and Foreign Policy (Routledge Revivals)

    First published in 1977, this study offers a comprehensive, systematic and integrated survey of the important relationship between navies and the making and execution of foreign policy. Ken Booth explains the functions navies can perform in both war and...
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  • Making Public Policy Decisions Making Public Policy Decisions
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    Making Public Policy Decisions

    To understand public policy decisions, it is imperative to understand the capacities of the individual actors who are making them, how they think and feel about their role, and what drives and motivates them. However, the current literature takes little...
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  • Understanding Global Politics Understanding Global Politics
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    Understanding Global Politics

    Contemporary international affairs are largely shaped by widely differing thematic issues and actors, such as nation states, international institutions, NGOs and multinational companies. Obtaining a deeper understanding of these multifaceted themes...
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  • Religion, Community and Development Religion, Community and Development
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    Religion, Community and Development

    By making religious community a relevant category for discussing development deficit, the Sachar Committee Report (that was submitted to the Prime Minister of India in 2007) initiated a new political discourse in India. While the liberal secular...
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  • Insurgent Sepoys Insurgent Sepoys
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    Insurgent Sepoys

    The Revolt of 1857 in India has so far largely been viewed as an event that was of interest to British and Indian scholars investigating the various consequences of British colonial rule in India. What has remained out of the focus of study during the...
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  • Citizen Initiatives and Democratic Engagement Citizen Initiatives and Democratic Engagement
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    Citizen Initiatives and Democratic Engagement

    This book looks at a series of citizen-led campaigns to provide information about and energise the institutions of local self-governance in India following the 73rd and 74th Amendment Acts. Staggering in their outreach and magnitude, the campaigns,...
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  • Of Women 'Inside' Of Women 'Inside'
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    Of Women 'Inside'

    Based on original research and personal encounters, this book narrates the real-life-stories of women locked up in Indian prisons for alleged or actual violations of the state's criminal laws. It contextualises women offenders' experiences of the...
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  • Looking Back into the Future Looking Back into the Future
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    Looking Back into the Future

    The book examines questions of identity, ethnicity, sovereignty and insurgency in northeastern India, and especially on Assam and its neighbourhood. Written by an academic-journalist, the various articles situate these in their larger social, economic,...
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  • Between Love and Freedom Between Love and Freedom
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    Between Love and Freedom

    Between Love and Freedom interprets the figure of the revolutionary in the Hindi novel by establishing its lineage in representative Bengali novels, as well as in the contending moralities of Mahatma Gandhi and Bhagat Singh on the idea of violence. It...
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  • Ramchandra Gandhi Ramchandra Gandhi
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    Ramchandra Gandhi

    Ramchandra Gandhi, famous for his rich and varied interests, left behind a large corpus of writings, both philosophical and non-philosophical. Introducing the readers to the creative Indian philosopher, this volume highlights the principal thrust of his...
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  • Routeing Democracy in the Himalayas Routeing Democracy in the Himalayas
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    Routeing Democracy in the Himalayas

    Historically treated as an amorphous borderland and marginal to the understanding of democratic politics and governance in South Asia, Southeast Asia and northern Asia, the Himalayan region, in the last 50 years, has become an 'active political...
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  • India's Grand Strategy India's Grand Strategy
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    India's Grand Strategy

    As India prepares to take its place in shaping the course of an 'Asian century', there are increasing debates about its 'grand strategy' and its role in a future world order. This timely and topical book presents a range of historical and contemporary...
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  • Conflict and Reconciliation Conflict and Reconciliation
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    Conflict and Reconciliation

    Diverging from reductionist studies of Northeast India and its multifarious conflicts, this book presents an exclusive and intricate, empirical and theoretical study of Assam as a conflict zone. It traces the genesis and evolution of the ethnic and...
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  • Ordinary People, Extraordinary Violence Ordinary People, Extraordinary Violence
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    Ordinary People, Extraordinary Violence

    The book engages with an urgent and disturbing question: how are ordinary people readied to willingly kill others in the name of a cause? It compares narratives of actors in domains often assumed incomparable in academic discourse: Naxalites studied...
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  • Writing Wrongs Writing Wrongs
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    Writing Wrongs

    This book examines the 'cultural apparatus' of Human Rights in India today. It unravels discourses of victimhood, oppression, suffering and witnessing through a study of autobiographies, memoirs, reportage and media coverage, and documentaries. Moving...
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  • A Resurgent China A Resurgent China
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    A Resurgent China

    Bringing together a range of South Asian perspectives on rising China in a comparative framework, an attempt has been made, for the first time, to identify and examine the political, economic and socio-cultural stakeholders and constituencies that...
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  • What are you Reading? What are you Reading?
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    What are you Reading?

    This book offers a material critique on various aspects of Indian literary production and its reception by its audiences. Taking a historical and contemporary lineage into account, the author variously discusses the social, political, and economic...
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  • India and the Republic of Korea India and the Republic of Korea
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    India and the Republic of Korea

    Examining the underlying logic of the strategic and economic partnership between the Republic of Korea and India, this book is the first detailed study of the numerous facets - cultural, economic, people-to-people, and strategic - of blossoming relations...
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  • The Role of the State The Role of the State
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    The Role of the State

    This series of books brings together results of an intensive research programme on aspects of the national systems of innovation in the five BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. It provides a comprehensive and comparative...
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  • A Century of Protests A Century of Protests
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    A Century of Protests

    Addressing an important gap in the historiography of modern Assam, this book traces the relatively unexplored but profound transformations in the agrarian landscape of late- and post-colonial Assam that were instrumental in the making of modern Assamese...
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  • Politics of the Global Economic Crisis Politics of the Global Economic Crisis
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    Politics of the Global Economic Crisis

    A crucial commentary on the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression, this book argues for 'Three Rs' - Regulation, Responsibility and Radicalism - i.e., state regulation of finance, state responsibility towards society, and radical social...
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  • Federalism in South Asia Federalism in South Asia
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    Federalism in South Asia

    This book is one of the first in-depth and systematic studies on the functioning and aspiring federations of South Asia. It examines how federal dynamics in India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka are impinged on by the nature of their specific...
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  • An Alternative Idea of India An Alternative Idea of India
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    An Alternative Idea of India

    This book attempts to unravel the worldview of two prominent Indians of recent Indian history - Tagore and Vivekananda. Both suggested emancipation through political struggles but without transgressing the boundaries of humanism. This is significant, as...
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  • A Mosaic of Indigenous Legal Thought A Mosaic of Indigenous Legal Thought
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    A Mosaic of Indigenous Legal Thought

    This book offers an Indigenous supplement to the rich and growing area of visual legal scholarship. Organized around three narratives, each with an associated politico-poetic reading, the book addresses three major global issues: climate change, the...
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  • Heritage Planning Heritage Planning
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    Heritage Planning

    This new and substantially revised edition of Heritage Planning: Principles and Process offers an extensive overview of the burgeoning fields of heritage planning and conservation.  
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  • Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia
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    Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia

    This book analyzes the constraints on press freedom and the ways in which independent reporting and reporters are at risk in contemporary Asia to provide a barometer of democratic development in the region.Based on in-depth country case studies written...
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  • Western Mainstream Media and the Ukraine Crisis Western Mainstream Media and the Ukraine Crisis
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    Western Mainstream Media and the Ukraine Crisis

    This book explores contemporary propaganda and mainstream Western news media, with reference to the Ukraine crisis.It examines Western media narratives of the immediate causes of the crisis, the respective roles of those who participated in or otherwise...
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  • Right-Wing Terrorism in the 21st Century Right-Wing Terrorism in the 21st Century
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    Right-Wing Terrorism in the 21st Century

    This book is the first comprehensive academic study of German right-wing terrorism since the early 1960s available in the English language. It offers a unique in-depth analysis of German violent, extremist right-wing movements, terrorist events, groups,...
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  • Public Administration in Theory and Practice Public Administration in Theory and Practice
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    Public Administration in Theory and Practice

    Hailed for its timelessness and timeliness, Public Administration in Theory and Practice examines public administration from a normative perspective and provides students with an understanding of the practice of public administration. Combining...
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  • The Global Features & Untold Stories Collected The Global Features & Untold Stories Collected
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    The Global Features & Untold Stories Collected

    THE GLOBAL FEATURES AND UNTOLD STORIES RELEASEDThe world has faced many problems from the economy, politics, thepopulation, and others. Actually, after the Second World War,communism has become a global threat, mostly the pupils of Karl Marxclaim...
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  • Las cenizas del Ejército Libertador Las cenizas del Ejército Libertador
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    Las cenizas del Ejército Libertador

    El partidismo de la Fuerza Armada ha sido refrendado desde el Tribunal Supremo de Justicia por la Sentencia 651 del 11 de junio de 2014, la cual valida la intervención de sus integrantes en actos políticos del PSUV: "la participación de los integrantes...
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  • Blackout Warfare Blackout Warfare
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    Blackout Warfare

    "Blackout Warfare" is the term used in this report to describe a revolutionary new way of warfare planned by Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran that is still little understood in the United States, but poses an imminent and existential threat to...
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  • Did I Really Win? Did I Really Win?
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    Did I Really Win?

    Narges Kalbasi Ashtari, a British/Iranian, life took an unexpected turn when she lost her parents at a tender age. Determined to make a difference, she embarked on a mission to aid orphaned children, leading her to the state of Odisha in India at just 21...
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  • Decency And Deception Decency And Deception
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    Decency And Deception

    Decency and Deception: Encouragement for a Struggling Nation, takes the reader on an information pack journey looking at the events that transpired leading up to and during the Trump Presidency. Describing those elements that defined, and haunted the one...
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  • Supping with Satan Supping with Satan
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    Supping with Satan

    Nightfall ushers in its own set of terrors. With every external light ablaze until dawn, I find solace in the illusion of visibility. But every creak, every rustle throws me into high alert, compelling me to scour the house for signs of the looming...
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  • Twelve Great Scots and Their Roots Twelve Great Scots and Their Roots
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    Twelve Great Scots and Their Roots

    Twelve Great Scots and their Roots brings together People - the Great Scots, Place - where they were shaped and flourished, and Fame - their legacy. None of the Great Scots was born great. There is no Robert the Bruce here, no Mary, Queen of Scots...
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