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Social Work Practice. Concepts, Processes, and Interviewing, Paperback - Marion Bogo

294,99 RON

Aimed at students and educators in the helping professions as well as practitioners, this book presents information on how to interview clients. It...

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Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language, Hardback - Julia Kristeva

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Julia Kristeva embarks on a wide-ranging and stimulating inquiry into Dostoyevsky's work and the profound ways it has influenced her own thinking. ...

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The Savage Detectives Reread, Paperback - David Kurnick

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David Kurnick argues that the controversies surrounding Roberto Bolano's life and work have obscured his achievements-and that The Savage Detective...

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Longing and Other Stories, Paperback - Jun'ichiro. Tanizaki

114,99 RON

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki is one of the most prominent Japanese writers of the twentieth century. This book presents three powerful stories of family fro...

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Great Minds Don't Think Alike. Debates on Consciousness, Reality, Intelligence, Faith, Time, AI, Immortality, and the Human, Paperback - ***

114,99 RON

Leading scientists, philosophers, historians, and public intellectuals debate the big questions. These public dialogues model constructive engageme...

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Managing Environmental Conflict. An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer, Paperback - Joshua D. Fisher

114,99 RON

Conflicts frequently arise over environmental issues such as land use, natural resource management, and laws and regulation. This book is a primer ...

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Trans-Pacific Mobilities. The Chinese and Canada, Hardback - ***

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As China's international influence grows, this timely collection reveals how the global movement of the country's people, culture, information, and...

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Cities of the Dead. Circum-Atlantic Performance, twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Paperback - Joseph Roach

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Joseph Roach reveals how performance can revise the unwritten past, comparing patterns of remembrance and forgetting in how communities forge their...

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Conversion Disorder. Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis, Paperback - Jamieson Webster

167,99 RON

Part memoir, part clinical case, part theoretical investigation, this book searches for the body. Jamieson Webster traces conversion's shifting mea...

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The Everyday Practice of Valuation and Investment. Political Imaginaries of Shareholder Value, Paperback - Horacio Ortiz

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Horacio Ortiz provides a critical analysis of the social institutions and practices that produce and regulate stock pricing and valuation. Drawing ...

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Minjian. The Rise of China's Grassroots Intellectuals, Paperback - Sebastian Veg

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Sebastian Veg explores the rise of minjian-unofficial, unaffiliated, and among the people-intellectuals and how they have profoundly transformed Ch...

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China's War on Smuggling. Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842-1965, Paperback - Philip Thai

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Philip Thai chronicles the vicissitudes of smuggling in modern China to demonstrate how defiance helped the state redefine its power. China's War o...

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At the Mercy of Their Clothes. Modernism, the Middlebrow, and British Garment Culture, Paperback - Celia Marshik

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At the Mercy of Their Clothes explores the agency of fashion in modern literature. Celia Marshik's study combines close readings of modernist and m...

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Kill the Documentary. A Letter to Filmmakers, Students, and Scholars, Paperback - Jill Godmilow

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In Kill the Documentary, the award-winning director Jill Godmilow issues an urgent call for a new kind of nonfiction filmmaking. In place of the co...

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The Boundaries of Human Nature. The Philosophical Animal from Plato to Haraway, Paperback - Matthew (Chair, CSU Fullerton) Calarco

190,99 RON

Matthew Calarco explores key issues in the philosophy of animals and their significance for our contemporary world. The Boundaries of Human Nature ...

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Antagonistic Cooperation. Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture, Paperback - Robert (Columbia University) O'Meally

190,99 RON

From the collages of Romare Bearden and paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison to the music of Louis A...

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Heroes and Toilers. Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961, Paperback - Cheehyung Harrison Kim

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Heroes and Toilers offers an unprecedented account of life and labor in postwar North Korea that looks at both governance and popular resistance. C...

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Political Exercise. Active Living, Public Policy, and the Built Environment, Paperback - ***

190,99 RON

Lawrence D. Brown presents five case studies of cities that have promoted active living with varying success through a range of approaches. He show...

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The Long Year. A 2020 Reader, Paperback - ***

137,99 RON

In The Long Year, some of the world's most incisive thinkers excavate 2020's buried crises, revealing how they must be confronted in order to achie...

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Undoing the Liberal World Order. Progressive Ideals and Political Realities Since World War II, Paperback - Leon Fink

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Leon Fink examines key cases of progressive influence on postwar U.S. foreign policy, tracing the tension between liberal aspirations and the polit...

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Wine Markets. Genres and Identities, Paperback - Giacomo Negro

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Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in Italy and France as well as interviews with critics and data analysis, this book provides an unprecedented soci...

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1960. When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern, Paperback - Al Filreis

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Al Filreis recasts 1960 as a turning point to offer a groundbreaking account of postwar culture. He examines an eclectic group of artistic, literar...

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Teaching in Social Work. An Educator's Guide to Theory and Practice, second edition, Paperback - Jeane Anastas

213,99 RON

This book is a comprehensive survey of the theories, principles, methods, and formats that are most appropriate and applicable to teaching in the f...

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Earthlings. Imaginative Encounters with the Natural World, Paperback - Adrian Parr

129,99 RON

Combining poetic observation with philosophical contemplation and scientific evidence, Adrian Parr offers a moving vision of a world in upheaval an...

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Let in the Light. Learning to Read St. Augustine's Confessions, Paperback - James Boyd White

190,99 RON

James Boyd White invites readers to join him in a close and engaged encounter with St. Augustine's Confessions. He offers an accessible guide to re...

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When Good Government Meant Big Government. The Quest to Expand Federal Power, 1913-1933, Paperback - Jesse Tarbert

190,99 RON

The years after World War I have often been seen as an era when Republican presidents and business leaders brought the growth of government in the ...

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Staged. Show Trials, Political Theater, and the Aesthetics of Judgment, Paperback - Minou Arjomand

190,99 RON

Minou Arjomand draws on a rich archive of postwar German and American performances to reveal theater as a place for forms of judgment that are inad...

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The Soft City. Sex for Business and Pleasure in New York City, Paperback - Terry Williams

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In The Soft City, the ethnographer Terry Williams ventures deep into the underground world of sex in New York. The book explores different aspects ...

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The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush, Paperback - Vannevar Bush

190,99 RON

The influence of Vannevar Bush on the history and institutions of twentieth-century American science and technology is staggeringly vast. Edited by...

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Politics for Social Workers. A Practical Guide to Effecting Change, Paperback - Stephen Pimpare

190,99 RON

This book is a concise, accessible guide to help social workers understand how politics and policy making really work-and what they can do to help ...

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Lars von Trier Beyond Depression. Contexts and Collaborations, Paperback - Professor Linda Badley

190,99 RON

Linda Badley offers an in-depth examination of Lars von Trier's Antichrist (2009), Melancholia (2011), Nymphomaniac (2013-14), and The House That J...

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The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China. From Dreamscapes to Theatricality, Paperback - Ling Hon Lam

190,99 RON

Ling Hon Lam gives a deeply original account of the history of emotions in Chinese literature centered on the idea of emotion as space. Tracing how...

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The Digital Banal. New Media and American Literature and Culture, Paperback - Zara Dinnen

190,99 RON

Zara Dinnen analyzes a range of contemporary novels, films, and artworks to contend that we live in the condition of the "digital banal, " not noti...

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Women in the Mosque. A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice, Paperback - Marion Katz

190,99 RON

Juxtaposing Muslim scholars' debates over women's attendance in mosques with historical descriptions of women's activities within Middle Eastern an...

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My Brilliant Friends. Our Lives in Feminism, Paperback - Nancy K. Miller

114,99 RON

My Brilliant Friends is an innovative group biography of three friendships forged in second-wave feminism. Poignant and politically charged, the bo...

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Racism, Not Race. Answers to Frequently Asked Questions, Hardback - Alan H. Goodman

167,99 RON

In this book, two distinguished scientists tackle common misconceptions about race, human biology, and racism. Using an accessible question-and-ans...

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A Culture of Ambiguity. An Alternative History of Islam, Paperback - Thomas Bauer

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In this magisterial cultural and intellectual history, Thomas Bauer reconsiders classical and modern Islam by tracing differing attitudes toward am...

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The Cage of Days. Time and Temporal Experience in Prison, Paperback - K. C. Carceral

213,99 RON

This book combines the perspectives of K. C. Carceral, a formerly incarcerated convict criminologist, and Michael G. Flaherty, a sociologist who st...

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Alluring Monsters. The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization, Paperback - ***

213,99 RON

The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures. Exploring how and why the pontianak found new life in pos...

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The Musha Incident. A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan, Paperback - ***

213,99 RON

This book brings together leading scholars to provide new perspectives on one of the most traumatic episodes in Taiwan's modern history and its fra...

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Fantastic Fossils. A Guide to Finding and Identifying Prehistoric Life, Paperback - Donald R. Prothero

149,99 RON

In Fantastic Fossils, Donald R. Prothero offers an accessible, entertaining, and richly illustrated guide to the paleontologist's journey. He detai...

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Experiments in Democracy. Human Embryo Research and the Politics of Bioethics, Paperback - Benjamin J. Hurlbut

179,99 RON

Experiments in Democracy presents a history of American debates over human embryo research from the late 1960s to the present, exploring their cruc...

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Locked in Time. Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils, Paperback - Robert Nicholls

99,99 RON

From dinosaurs fighting to their deaths to elephant-sized burrowing ground sloths, this book takes readers on a global journey deep into the earth'...

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An Internet in Your Head. A New Paradigm for How the Brain Works, Paperback - Daniel Graham

129,99 RON

The computational neuroscientist Daniel Graham offers an innovative paradigm for understanding the brain. He argues that the brain is not like a si...

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Climate Change Adaptation. An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer, Paperback - Lisa Dale

109,99 RON

This book offers a concise overview of climate adaptation governance. In clear, accessible language, Lisa Dale presents the theory and practice tha...

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Art and Posthistory. Conversations on the End of Aesthetics, Paperback - Demetrio Paparoni

109,99 RON

From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended conversations about conte...

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Under Empire. Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World, 1775-1945, Paperback - Michael Francis Laffan

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Michael Francis Laffan offers a sweeping exploration of two centuries of interactions among Muslim subjects of empires and nation-states around the...

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Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations. New Histories, Paperback - ***

199,99 RON

How does the history of U.S. foreign relations appear differently when viewed through the lens of ideology? This book explores the ideological land...

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Not Exactly Lying. Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History, Paperback - Andie Tucher

159,99 RON

From fibs about royal incest in America's first newspaper to social-media-driven conspiracy theories surrounding Barack Obama's birthplace, Andie T...

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Enemies Near and Far. How Jihadist Groups Strategize, Plot, and Learn, Paperback - Thomas Joscelyn

179,99 RON

Two internationally recognized experts use newly available documents from al-Qaeda and ISIS to explain how jihadist groups think, grow, and adapt. ...

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Mind Thief. The Story of Alzheimer's, Paperback - Han Yu

129,99 RON

Mind Thief is a comprehensive and engaging history of Alzheimer's that demystifies efforts to understand the disease. Beginning with the discovery ...

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Self-Improvement. Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Paperback - Mark Coeckelbergh

109,99 RON

This book shows how self-improvement culture became so toxic-and why we need both a new concept of the self and a mission of social change in order...

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When the Garden Isn't Eden. More Psychodynamic Concepts from Life, Paperback - Linda Kanefield

149,99 RON

Through poignant and sometimes painful stories from their personal and professional lives, three practicing psychoanalysts demonstrate the richness...

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Fascist Mythologies. The History and Politics of Unreason in Borges, Freud, and Schmitt, Paperback - Federico Finchelstein

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Federico Finchelstein draws on a striking combination of thinkers-Jorge Luis Borges, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Schmitt-to consider fascism as a form ...

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Lost in the Cold War. The Story of Jack Downey, America's Longest-Held POW, Hardback - Jack Downey

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In 1952, John T. "Jack" Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer, was shot down over Manchuria. He was captured by the Chinese and held for the ...

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The Naqab Bedouins. A Century of Politics and Resistance, Paperback - Mansour (BGU) Nasasra

179,99 RON

The Naqab Bedouins represents the first attempt to chronicle Bedouin history and politics across the last century, including the Ottoman era, the B...

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Anxious Eaters. Why We Fall for Fad Diets, Hardback - Kima Cargill

159,99 RON

Anxious Eaters shows that fad diets are popular because they fulfill crucial social and psychological needs-which is also why they tend to fail. Ja...

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What Really Counts. The Case for a Sustainable and Equitable Economy, Paperback - Ronald Colman

129,99 RON

What Really Counts is an essential, firsthand story of the promise and challenges of accounting for social, economic, and environmental benefits. R...

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Generation Gap. Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture, Paperback - Kevin Munger

179,99 RON

Kevin Munger marshals novel data and survey evidence to argue that generational conflict will define the politics of the next decade. He shows that...

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The Analyst. A Daughter's Memoir, Hardback - Alice Wexler

199,99 RON

The Analyst is an intimate and searching portrait of Milton Wexler, written by his daughter, an acclaimed historian. Alice Wexler illuminates her f...

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Marseille, Port to Port, Paperback - ***

149,99 RON

William Kornblum-an eminent urban sociologist and a veteran traveler in the Francophone world-invites readers on an exploration of a changing city....

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Balance. How It Works and What It Means, Hardback - Paul Thagard

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Paul Thagard explores the physiological workings and metaphorical resonance of balance in the brain, the body, and society. Bridging philosophy, ps...

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The Carriers. What the Fragile X Gene Reveals About Family, Heredity, and Scientific Discovery, Hardback - Anne Skomorowsky

159,99 RON

The Carriers investigates a common but still little-known genetic condition and its life-altering consequences. Anne Skomorowsky reveals how fragil...

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The Terroir of Whiskey. A Distiller's Journey Into the Flavor of Place, Paperback - Rob Arnold

109,99 RON

The master distiller Rob Arnold reveals how innovative whiskey producers are recapturing a sense of place to create distinctive, nuanced flavors. H...

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Travels with Trilobites. Adventures in the Paleozoic, Hardback - Andy Secher

219,99 RON

In Travels with Trilobites, Andy Secher invites readers to come along in search of the fossilized remains of ancient arthropods. The book features ...

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Taste. A Book of Small Bites, Paperback - Jehanne Dubrow

109,99 RON

Taste is a lyric meditation on one of our five senses. Structured as a series of "small bites, " the book considers the ways that we ingest the wor...

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What Would Nature Do?. A Guide for Our Uncertain Times, Paperback - Ruth DeFries

109,99 RON

Ruth DeFries argues that a surprising set of time-tested strategies from the natural world can help humanity weather contemporary crises. Exploring...

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World Orders Old and New, Paperback - Noam Chomsky

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Chomsky takes on the international scene since 1945, devoting particular attention to events following the collapse of the Soviet Union. He develop...

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The Symphonies, Paperback - Jonathan Stone

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Reducere. Andrei Bely is best known for the modernist masterwork Petersburg, a paradigmatic example of how modern writers strove to evoke the fragmentation o...

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Going Low. How Profane Politics Challenges American Democracy, Paperback - Finbarr Curtis

159,99 RON

Going Low examines how the offensive style of contemporary politics challenges liberal democratic institutions. Considering the rise of illiberal p...

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