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  • Warfare in the Western World, 1882-1975
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    Warfare in the Western World, 1882-1975

    In this companion volume to "Western Warfare, 1775-1882," Jeremy Black takes his analysis of modern warfare into the twentieth century. As before, a distinctive feature of the author's approach is...
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  • Figures in a Western Landscape
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    Figures in a Western Landscape

    "Figures in a Western Landscape is an absolutely stunning book. A biographer's take on the story of the American West, it posits that the turns of history are based on people-major 'figures' who...
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  • Anorexic Bodies
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    Anorexic Bodies

    This book explores the ways in which anorexic women use their eating to control their bodies. It argues that the female body in modern Western culture is understood as open and accessible and female...
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  • Yan Fu and Fukuzawa Yukichi
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    Yan Fu and Fukuzawa Yukichi

    This book compares the enlightenment thought of China and Japan amid 19th-century Western imperialism, offering a groundbreaking analysis of how two iconic thinkers shaped their nations’ divergent...
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  • Aesthetics of the Novel
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    Aesthetics of the Novel

    Aesthetics of the Novel: Beyond Bakhtin examines the history of the novel through the diverse aesthetic currents that this literary genre has adopted from antiquity to the present day. Drawing on...
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  • Hombre & Three-Ten to Yuma
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    Hombre & Three-Ten to Yuma

    A classic Western from one of the masters of the genre.A remote stage-coach station is closing down and a small group of travellers are thrown together on the last wagon out- the mysterious Doctor...
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  • Invention of Childhood Creativity
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    Invention of Childhood Creativity

    This text offers a comprehensive analysis of the concept of the modern creative and imaginative child in Western education. Drawing on archived sources and historical works, it reframes childhood...
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  • The Icarus Curse
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    The Icarus Curse

    Economic anxiety and loss of trust in civic institutions are driving more and more people to political extremes. How did we get here, and how do we get our economic policies back on track before the...
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  • The Renaissance of Plotinus The Renaissance of Plotinus
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    The Renaissance of Plotinus

    Plotinus (204/5-270 C.E.) is a central figure in the history of Western philosophy. However, during the Middle Ages he was almost unknown. None of the treatises constituting his Enneads were...
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  • Lu Xun’s Affirmative Biopolitics
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    Lu Xun’s Affirmative Biopolitics

    This book explores an extraordinary case of affirmative biopolitics through the study of Lu Xun (1881–1936), the most prominent cultural figure of modern China. Diverging from the...
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  • Evolution of Chinese Popular Music
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    Evolution of Chinese Popular Music

    Ya-Hui Cheng examines the emergence of popular music genres – jazz, rock, and hip-hop – in Chinese society, covering the social underpinnings that shaped the development of popular music in China and...
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  • Lu Xun’s Affirmative Biopolitics
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    Lu Xun’s Affirmative Biopolitics

    This book explores an extraordinary case of affirmative biopolitics through the study of Lu Xun (1881–1936), the most prominent cultural figure of modern China. Diverging from the...
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  • White Moon on the Mountain Peak
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    White Moon on the Mountain Peak

    Explaining the process and energetics of Daoist internal alchemy, the author describes in detail the practice of Nei Dan, the alchemical firing practice of Daoism that has until very recently been a...
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  • Should the World Fear China?
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    Should the World Fear China?

    For Washington, China is a strategic competitor: the only country with both the will to reshape the world order and, increasingly, the means to do so. For Europe, the People's Republic is a 'partner...
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  • Putin and Eurasian Relations
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    Putin and Eurasian Relations

    This book explores Russia’s relations with Eurasian countries in response to its growing isolation from the Western world.Vladimir Putin’s world view, shaped by history and personal experience, has...
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  • Revival: Contemporary Indian Philosophy (1936)
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    Revival: Contemporary Indian Philosophy (1936)

    The book includes essay which are all written by philosophers of or about forty -five years of age. They fall into two main groups: those in which the writer devotes himself chiefly to the exposition...
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  • It All Depends on the Dose
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    It All Depends on the Dose

    This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a...
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  • Encounters with Jesus
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    Encounters with Jesus

    What was there in Jesus' person, behavior, and words that prompted not only much enthusiasm but also much hostility? This compelling portrait of the man Jesus of Nazareth by two pioneers of the...
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    Old Ones In The Old Book

    The Hebrew Old Testament, which contains some of the world s most ancient religious texts, was written and repeatedly re-edited over the course of several centuries from about 1000 BCE. It reached...
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  • Serfdom and Slavery Serfdom and Slavery
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    Serfdom and Slavery

    Serfdom and Slavery compares the two forms of legal servitude in cultures in Western civilization, in Europe and the New World from ancient times to the modern period. Within a tightly controlled...
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  • Deep Blue
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    Deep Blue

    Nature religions look to rivers, lakes and oceans for inspiration and spiritual transformation. 'Deep Blue' brings together the work of influential scholars in the field of nature religion, ranging...
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  • Greek Buddha
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    Greek Buddha

    Pyrrho of Elis went with Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the Greek invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire in 334-324 BC. There he met with early Buddhist masters. Greek...
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  • Hold It Real Still
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    Hold It Real Still

    How did the American western feature film genre rebrand itself in the late seventies and respond to the fury of global and domestic political affairs? In Hold It Real Still, Lawrence Jackson examines...
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  • Turkey and the West
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    Turkey and the West

    First Published in 1985, Turkey and the West critically examines the likely costs and benefits of closer Turkish relations with the West. Turkey is strategically important to the West and yet set...
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  • Job 1-21
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    Job 1-21

    The Hebrew book of Job is by all accounts an exquisite piece of literary art that holds its rightful place among the most outstanding compositions in world literature. Yet it is also widely...
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  • Hold the Line
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    Hold the Line

    ‘From Fromelles to the final advance — war as it was lived, in the words of the men who faced it.’One battalion. Three years of war. Ordinary men under relentless pressure.‘I was eighteen when I was...
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  • Homer and His Iliad
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    Homer and His Iliad

    One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War. At its centre is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks,...
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    Stalin's Gamble

    Shedding light on the origins of the Second World War in Europe, Stalin's Gamble aims to create a historical narrative of the relations of the USSR with Britain, France, the United States, Poland,...
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  • Chinese Narratology I
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    Chinese Narratology I

    As the first volume of a two-volume set on Chinese narratology, this title introduces the cultural fundamentals that nurture Chinese literary works and investigates the structure and time of Chinese...
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  • Ancient Warfare: The Basics
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    Ancient Warfare: The Basics

    Ancient Warfare: The Basics offers an engaging introduction to warfare in the ancient Mediterranean World from the mythical Trojan War, through the rise of hoplites and conquests of Alexander the...
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  • Three Classic Novels
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    Three Classic Novels

    In addition to being the man who coined the term 'the Big Bang', world-renowned astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle also produced a fine body of science fiction. This omnibus contains three of his SF novels:...
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  • Music, Electronic Media and Culture
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    Music, Electronic Media and Culture

    Technology revolutionised the ways that music was produced in the twentieth century. As that century drew to a close and a new century begins a new revolution in roles is underway. The separate...
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  • Serfdom and Slavery
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    Serfdom and Slavery

    Serfdom and Slavery compares the two forms of legal servitude in cultures in Western civilization, in Europe and the New World from ancient times to the modern period. Within a tightly controlled...
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  • Islam in International Relations
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    Islam in International Relations

    Islam in International Relations: Politics and Paradigms analyses the interaction between Islam and IR. It shows how Islam is a conceptualization of ideas that affect people’s thinking and behaviour...
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  • Connecting Spaces
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    Connecting Spaces

    This book examines how nineteenth-century Bengal witnessed women writers like Krishnabhabini Devi, Prasanyamoyee Devi, Swarnakumari Devi and Abala Bose interrogated social stereotypes. It presents...
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  • 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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  • Planning and Politics
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    Planning and Politics

    First published in 1977, Planning and Politics examines Britain’s economic planning experiments during a period when the country’s seemingly intractable economic problems had become one of the major...
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  • An Oasis City
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    An Oasis City

    Scattered through the vast expanse of stone and sand that makes up Egypt's Western Desert are several oases. These islands of green in the midst of the Sahara owe their existence to springs and wells...
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  • Unnatural Narrative across Borders
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    Unnatural Narrative across Borders

    This book actively engages with current discussion of narratology, and unnatural narrative theory in particular. Unsatisfied with the hegemony of European and Anglo-American narrative theory, it...
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  • Assyria
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    Assyria

    In ancient traditions, Assyria was the first world empire in a series that continued with Persia, Macedonia, and Rome. After Rome, we imagine the series bifurcating into a Western trajectory (from...
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    Assyria

    In ancient traditions, Assyria was the first world empire in a series that continued with Persia, Macedonia, and Rome. After Rome, we imagine the series bifurcating into a Western trajectory (from...
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