Oman. Politics and Society in the Qaboos State, Paperback - Marc Valeri

Analyses the successful stability of Oman despite very real social pressures

This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.

Reducere. DescriptionThis study of politics and the role of the state in the Arab world is aimed at students of Middle East politics, political theory and po...

Numerous metallic artefacts, deposited in a hoard in ancient times, came to light by chance on the campus of the Sultan Qaboos University in Al Kha...

Politics and society in Central and South-East Europe - Zsuzsanna Kopeczny

This edited volume examines the political, social, and economic developments in contemporary Spain, with a particular focus on the period of the So...

Space and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds - Michael Scott

DescriptionIn popular imagination few phenomena are as strongly associated with medieval society as knighthood and chivalry. At the same time, and ...

By 1940 going to the movies was the most popular form of public leisure in Britain's empire. This book explores the social and cultural impact of t...

A collection of essays examining literary discussions of the role of science, focusing on the interactions between processes of knowledge formation...

Expanded and updated, Charles Eisenstein's classic treatise on capitalism, currency, and the gift economy. This revised version traces the history ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Alan R. H. (University of Cambridge, UK) BakerIllustration(s): 13 MapsNumber of pages: 248Publica...

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The Kuwaiti population includes around 100, 000 people - approximately 10 per cent of the Kuwaiti nationals -whose legal status is contested. Often...

Reducere. The half century of European activity in the Caribbean that followed Columbus's first voyages brought enormous demographic, economic, and social ch...

The stateless (bidun) of Kuwait represent around 10 per cent of Kuwaiti nationals - approximately 100, 000 people. In this book, the author argues ...

Publisher: HAU Society Of Ethnographic TheoryAuthor(s): Marion FourcadeNumber of pages: 474Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 229 x 38Cover ty...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anthony GiddensModernity differs from all preceding forms of social order because of its dynamism, its deep undercutting of...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 226Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 174 x 244 x 19Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Tom O...

DescriptionAmerican violence is schizophrenic. On the one hand, many Americans support the creation of a powerful bureaucracy of coercion made up o...

Publisher: BibliogovIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsPublication date: 2012Dimensions: 246 x 189 x 4Cover type: Paperback / softbackRede...

A supplemental text for American government courses in California that also include a CA politics component. Exploring the nature of public opinion...

Politics in Japan is undergoing a major transformation. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has,...

DescriptionAs recently as the 1970s, gay and lesbian history was a relatively unexplored field for serious scholars. The past quarter century, howe...

In Maimonides and the Merchants, Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewish law, introduced by Moses...

By their social and material context as markers of graves, dedications and public signs of honour, inscriptions offer a distinct perspective on the...

Lumbering State, Restless Society offers a comprehensive and compelling understanding of modern Egypt. Nathan J. Brown, Shimaa Hatab, and Amr Adly ...

As U.S. forces withdraw from Afghanistan, a Taliban victory in that besieged, long-suffering country and the further Talibalization of Pakistan its...

This book critically examines the role of cinema and television in shaping and spreading narratives of memory politics in contemporary Russia to pr...

Reducere. Alcheringa is a story filled with intrigue, deception, and the planned destruction of a mission that left only ninety survivors to be cast upon the...

Utilizing a historical context, this work underscores the continued struggle within these societies between the hardliners who wish to relegate fem...

Reducere. In this book, Birol Başkan explains the variation in attitudes and approaches towards the Muslim Brotherhood across 5 Gulf States: Bahrain, Kuwait,...

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Provides a politics-based explanation for the post-1980 transformation of the Turkish welfare system, in which poor relief policies have replaced e...

Publisher: PM PressNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Kirk HellikerRede...

States are powerful actors in world politics, and we wish to hold them accountable - especially when they violate the rights of their people. By be...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 1 Tables, black and whiteNumber of pages: 236Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 22Cover ...

This book is a study of the British casino industry and how it has been shaped by criminality, prohibition, regulation and liberalization since the...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

After Tunisia's 2010-11 uprising and the downfall of its dictator, a period of transformation occurred as new actors and groups rushed to actively ...

What is the purpose of an intelligence organisation? The short answer is to transform disparate and ambiguous information into a product that clari...

A pioneering treatment of the development and importance of writing in ancient Cypriot society, throughout the second and first millennia BC. Explo...

An examination of the part played by violent non-state actors in Middle Eastern and North African current affairs. Individual chapters on the Islam...

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