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  • China's Modernization I China's Modernization I
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    China's Modernization I

    The idea of only one way leading to a modern society seems to be hardly tenable. But even if we agree to this, our theories and terms describing modernization are gained on our own Western history...
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  • Above sea
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    Above sea

    Shanghai, long known as mainland China's most cosmopolitan city, is today a global cultural capital. This book offers the first in-depth examination of contemporary Shanghai-based art and design -...
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  • Netherlands - Culture Smart!
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    Netherlands - Culture Smart!

    Offering invaluable information and illustrations to help travelers understand a country's people and avoid cultural faux pas Taking readers beyond the stereotypical images of windmills, clogs, and...
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    Melville and Repose

    John Bryant's book is a strong and significant argument for the centrality of the comic and repose in Melville's novels. The purpose of Melville and Repose is dual: to ground the uses of romantic...
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  • Nations Matter Nations Matter
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    Nations Matter

    Craig Calhoun, one of the most respected social scientists in the world, re-examines nationalism in light of post-1989 enthusiasm for globalization and the new anxieties of the twenty-first century...
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  • Justice, Community and Globalization Justice, Community and Globalization
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    Justice, Community and Globalization

    This book takes up the tension between globalization and community in order to articulate a new theory of global justice. Although the process of globalization is not new, its current manifestation...
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  • Branding Cities Branding Cities
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    Branding Cities

    Fierce competitiveness between established and emerging major cities, such as Berlin, London, Shanghai and Sydney, has led to a pressure to excel as desirable locations for business, cultural...
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  • Sir Harry & Lady Frankland of Boston Sir Harry & Lady Frankland of Boston
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    Sir Harry & Lady Frankland of Boston

    A destitute young lady is swept off her feet by a swashbuckling baron – the stuff that fairytales  and Hollywood movies are made of… But, this timeless tale of Lady Frankland,...
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  • Rawls's Law of Peoples
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    Rawls's Law of Peoples

    John Rawlsis considered the most important theorist of justice in much of western Europe and the English-speaking world more generally. This volume examines Rawls?s theory of international justice as...
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    Rose in the Sand

    Each of us has dreams that we inherit. The work of life is discovering our own. Author Julie Lindahl reflects on 9 unexpected years spent raising her young family on a small isolated island in the...
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  • The Weekender Stockholm
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    The Weekender Stockholm

    The iconic, Scandinavian city of Stockholm is where The Weekender series takes us in late Summer, 2019. Matt Porter visits the diverse and cosmopolitan capital to discover the charm of the old town,...
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  • Trini Mlange Trini Mlange
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    Trini Mlange

    Through the story of Lucy a woman born of rape, this narrative sensitively explores racism, poverty and oppression in a tumultuous cosmopolitan society which, redolent of genteel pretensions and...
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  • German History from the Margins German History from the Margins
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    German History from the Margins

    German History from the Margins offers new ways of thinking about ethnic and religious minorities and other outsiders in modern German history. Many established paradigms of German history are...
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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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  • The Vanishing Indian Upper Class
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    The Vanishing Indian Upper Class

    This book itemize the familial, cultural, religious, and historical themes in a unique life story. The book is distinctive in that it continues the life story as a sociological genre, and as a...
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  • Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema
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    Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema

    Ruth Ben-Ghiat provides the first in-depth study of feature and documentary films produced under the auspices of Mussolini's government that took as their subjects or settings Italy's African and...
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  • From Global Poverty to Global Equality
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    From Global Poverty to Global Equality

    This book provides a philosophical exploration of some of the central questions in the flourishing debate of global justice: Do we have a duty to help eradicate global poverty? Do we also have a duty...
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  • Europeanism
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    Europeanism

    In Europeanism the author attempts to identify and outline the political, economic, and social norms and values associated with Europe and Europeans. It argues that regardless of the doubts...
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  • Maurice Guest: Text Classics
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    Maurice Guest: Text Classics

    Introduced by Carmen Callil Henry Handel Richardson's debut, published in London in 1908, is set in the music scene of turn-of-the-century Leipzig, a cosmopolitan centre for the arts drawing...
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  • E.M. Forster and the Politics of Imperialism E.M. Forster and the Politics of Imperialism
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    E.M. Forster and the Politics of Imperialism

    In Howards End, Forster remarks that the Imperialist "hopes to inherit the earth" and with the strong temptation he has to acclaim it "as a superyeoman, who carries his country's virtue overseas". He...
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  • Globalization and Everyday Life Globalization and Everyday Life
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    Globalization and Everyday Life

    Globalization and Everyday Life provides an accessible account of globalization by developing two themes in particular. First, globalization is an outcome of structural and cultural processes that...
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  • Ann Arbor in the 20th Century Ann Arbor in the 20th Century
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    Ann Arbor in the 20th Century

    Ann Arbor began the 20th century as a modest manufacturing and farm trading center with a small co-existing university community. By the end of the century, Ann Arbor had developed into a...
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  • San Francisco's Excelsior District San Francisco's Excelsior District
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    San Francisco's Excelsior District

    The Excelsior District traditionally has not been among San Francisco's "spotlight" neighborhoods, yet this area is an important residential and commercial zone that is home to some 30,000 residents...
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  • Youth on Edge Youth on Edge
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    Youth on Edge

    This book explores disrupted youth cohesion in France within the context of multiple ongoing global economic, migratory, social, political, and security-related crises. While these trends can be...
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  • Johannesburg Johannesburg
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    Johannesburg

    Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa's largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa's premier metropolis. Yet theories of...
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  • Entrepreneurship for Deprived Communities
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    Entrepreneurship for Deprived Communities

    This study investigates barriers to developing enterprise in deprived communities, highlights trade-offs local authorities face and offers guidance that contributes to a model for developing a...
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  • Flesh and Fish Blood
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    Flesh and Fish Blood

    In Flesh and Fish Blood Subramanian Shankar breaks new ground in postcolonial studies by exploring the rich potential of vernacular literary expressions. Shankar pushes beyond the postcolonial...
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  • Global Middle East
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    Global Middle East

    Localities, countries, and regions develop through complex interactions with others. This striking volume highlights global interconnectedness seen through the prism of the Middle East, both...
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  • Hearing Luxe Pop
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    Hearing Luxe Pop

    Hearing Luxe Pop explores a deluxe-production aesthetic that merges popular-music idioms with lush string orchestrations and big-band instrumentation. John Howland presents an alternative music...
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  • Marcus Clarke's Bohemia
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    Marcus Clarke's Bohemia

    Marcus Clarke's Bohemia is the first major critical study of Marcus Clarke; arguably Australia's best known and most important nineteenth-century writer. It situates Clarke both within the bohemian...
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  • Souvenir of Vancouver, B.C. Souvenir of Vancouver, B.C.
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    Souvenir of Vancouver, B.C.

    A collection of black and white photo-gravures showcasing the natural beauty and urban development of Vancouver, British Columbia, in the early 20th century. This souvenir provides a glimpse of the...
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  • Nation and Identity Nation and Identity
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    Nation and Identity

    Nation and Identity provides a concise and comprehensive account of the place of national identity in modern life. Ross Poole argues that the nation became a fundamental organising principle of...
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  • The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
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    The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit

    “Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an indelible history of the largely forgotten Jews of Egypt . . . ”--Miami Herald In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and...
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  • The Baby Party The Baby Party
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    The Baby Party

    "...the very vitality of the child irritated him...and one Sunday afternoon when she had disrupted a bridge game by permanently hiding up the ace of spades, he had made a scene that had reduced his...
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  • Legions of the Moon Legions of the Moon
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    Legions of the Moon

    In AD180 Quintus Suetonius and his stepson Manius are frumentarii, the Roman Empire's secret police. Dispatched to Britannia on a mission whose purpose is from them they they join forces with the...
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  • Historic Photos of Paris
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    Historic Photos of Paris

    Paris, the capital of France, is one of the most popular destinations in the world. The "City of Lights" is renowned for many things. Its history, beauty, high quality of life, cosmopolitanism, art,...
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  • Transmodal Communications
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    Transmodal Communications

    This book examines semiotics, meaning-making and the co-construction of relations in transmodal communications. Through the lens of transpositioning - the multiple and interwoven layers of...
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  • Mediating Islam Mediating Islam
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    Mediating Islam

    Broadening an overly narrow definition of Islamic journalism, Janet Steele examines day-to-day reporting practices of Muslim professionals, from conservative scripturalists to pluralist...
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  • Paris Along the Nile
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    Paris Along the Nile

    Cairo, 'Mother of the World': its vividly diverse neighborhoods and building styles reveal its cosmopolitan energy and reflect the myriad of economic, political, and cultural forces that have shaped...
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  • Tourism Research Paradigms
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    Tourism Research Paradigms

    The theme of this book is the phenomenon of tourism and knowledge construction in tourism. Adopting a broad understanding of the paradigmatic field of tourism as the evolution and relationship...
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  • The Struggle for a Better World The Struggle for a Better World
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    The Struggle for a Better World

    In The Struggle for a Better World, Peter J. Boettke explores how the social sciences, and political economy in particular, help us understand society and its institutions of governance. Boettke...
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  • Prayers from the Caribbean Prayers from the Caribbean
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    Prayers from the Caribbean

    Prayers from the Caribbean is a collection of prayers written by Pastor Megan Rohrer. Inspired by a cruise through Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Kitts, Barbados, St. Marten, and St. Lucia, this book...
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  • Introducing Comparative Literature Introducing Comparative Literature
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    Introducing Comparative Literature

    Introducing Comparative Literature is a comprehensive guide to the field offering clear, concise information alongside useful analysis and examples. It frames the introduction within recent...
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