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Interfaces: Women, Autobiography, Image, Performance, Paperback - Sidonie Ann Smith

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DescriptionModern and contemporary women's artistic production of autobiography frequently occurs at the interfaces of image and text. The many per...

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A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical - Stacy Wolf

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DescriptionSubverting assumptions that American musical theater is steeped in nostalgia, cheap sentiment, misogyny, and homophobia, this book shows...

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Diaphanous Bodies. Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature, Hardback - Jeremy Colangelo

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Analyzing the invisible abled body through the work of Joyce, Beckett, Egerton, and BowenPublisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Jere...

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City Diplomacy. From City-States to Global Cities, Paperback - Raffaele Marchetti

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To understand current sociopolitical dynamics on a planetary level, we need to have two mental maps in mind: the state-centered map and the nonstat...

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The Lines Between the Lines. How Stage Directions Affect Embodiment, Paperback - Bess Rowen

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Focuses on how playwrights have written stage directions that engage readers, production team members, and scholars in a process of embodied creati...

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Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Muzak, Easy-Listening, and Other Moodsong, Paperback - Joseph Lanza

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Reducere. It's campy, it's cool, empty, intrusive, trite, and treacly. It's Big Brother singing. Call it what you will -- elevator music, Moodsong (R) easy l...

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Shugendo: Essays on the Structure of Japanese Folk Religion, Paperback - Hitoshi Miyake

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Reducere. DescriptionThis volume of essays is the first comprehensive publication in English of the work of Miyake Hitoshi, a distinguished scholar of Shugen...

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Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa, Paperback - Rogers Orock

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Examines the ways that accountability offers an effective interpretive lens to the social, cultural, and institutional struggles of both the elites...

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The Works and Days; Theogony; The Shield of Herakles, Paperback - Hesiod

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Presents epic poems by one who has been called the first Greek philosopher and theologian.Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Hes...

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History after Liberty. Tacitus on Tyrants, Sycophants, and Republicans, Hardback - Thomas Strunk

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Roman historian Tacitus wrote a damning critique of the first century CE Roman empire. The image Tacitus creates is of a society that has lost the ...

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Contingent Encounters. Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life, Hardback - Dan DiPiero

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Offers a comparative study of improvisation as it appears between music and everyday life. Drawing on work in musicology, cultural studies, and cri...

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The Infrastructures of Security. Technologies of Risk Management in Johannesburg, Paperback - Martin Murray

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Focuses on not only the turn toward technological solutions to managing the risk of crime through digital (and software-based) surveillance and aut...

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In the Castle of My Skin, Paperback - George Lamming

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Reducere. Nearly forty years after its initial publication, George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin is considered a classic narrative of the Black colonial...

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The Burden of the Past: Problems of Historical Perception in Japan-Korea Relations, Hardcover - Kan Kimura

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DescriptionThe Burden of the Past reexamines the dispute over historical perception between Japan and South Korea, going beyond the descriptive emp...

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Intellectual Empathy: Critical Thinking for Social Justice, Paperback - Maureen Linker

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Reducere. Intellectual Empathy provides a step-by-step method for facilitating discussions of socially divisive issues. Maureen Linker, a philosophy professo...

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The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership, Paperback - Mukoma Wa Ngugi

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The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s ...

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Liberating Economics, Second Edition. Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization, Paperback - Susan F. Feiner

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African Performance Arts and Political Acts, Paperback - Jendele Hungbo

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Presents innovative formulations for how African performance and the arts shape the narratives of cultural history and politics. This collection en...

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Capital Choices. Sectoral Politics and the Variation of Sovereign Wealth, Revised Edition, Paperback - Juergen Braunstein

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Analyses the creation of different sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) from a comparative political economy perspective, arguing that different state-soc...

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Chinese Netizens' Opinions on Death Sentences. An Empirical Examination, Paperback - Jianhong Liu

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Provides the first in-depth examination of what Chinese netizens think about various death sentences and executions in China.Publisher: The Univers...

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Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip-hop Theater and Performance, Paperback - Nicole Hodges Persley

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In a cultural moment where racial identity is performed through Hip-hop culture's resistance to the status quo and complicity in maintaining it, Ho...

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Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life, Paperback - Margaret Price

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Reducere. Description"A very important study that will appeal to a disability studies audience as well as scholars in social movements, social justice, criti...

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Transgenerational Media Industries: Adults, Children, and the Reproduction of Culture, Paperback - Derek Johnson

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Within corporate media industries, adults produce children's entertainment. Yet children, presumed to exist outside the professional adult world, m...

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Coronavirus Politics. The Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19, Paperback - Elize Massard

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Identifies key threads in the global comparative discussion that continue to shed light on COVID-19 and shape debates about what it means for schol...

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Berossos and Manetho, Introduced and Translated: Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, Paperback - Gerald Verbrugghe

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DescriptionBerossos and Manetho begins with a general introduction to the cultural history of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. It then presents a tra...

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Enduring Legacy. Structured Inequality in America's Public Schools, Paperback - Mark Edward Ryan

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Transgenerational Media Industries: Adults, Children, and the Reproduction of Culture, Hardcover - Derek Johnson

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Within corporate media industries, adults produce children's entertainment. Yet children, presumed to exist outside the professional adult world, m...

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Stately Bodies. Literature, Philosophy and the Question of Gender, Paperback - Adriana Cavarero

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Explores the curious prevalence of bodily metaphors in conceptions of noncorporeal institutions: the state, the law, and politics itself. The book ...

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Sex, Identity, Aesthetics. The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies, Paperback - ***

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How Tobin Siebers' foundational work in disability studies resonates in the field todayPublisher: The University of Michigan PressNumber of pages: ...

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Evading the Patronage Trap. Interest Representation in Mexico, Paperback - Brian Palmer-Rubin

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Why have Latin American democracies proven unable to confront the structural inequalities that cripple their economies and stymie social mobility? ...

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Secular Power Europe and Islam. Identity and Foreign Policy, Hardback - Sarah Wolff

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Argues that secularism is not the central principle of international relations but should be considered as one belief system that influences intern...

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Made-Up Asians. Yellowface During the Exclusion Era, Paperback - Esther Kim Lee

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Traces the history of yellowface, the theatrical convention of non-Asian actors putting on makeup and costume to look East Asian. Using specific ca...

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Opposing Power. Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral Autocracies, Paperback - Elvin Jiayun Ong

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Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Elvin Jiayun OngIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 312Collection: We...

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Governing Abroad. Coalition Politics and Foreign Policy in Europe, Paperback - Sibel Oktay

289,99 RON

Building on the rich literatures in political science on coalitions, legislatures, and voting behaviour, this book weaves together sophisticated st...

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Cheap Talk. Disability and the Politics of Communication, Paperback - Joshua St. Pierre

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Flips the script on communication disability, positioning the unruly, disabled speaker at the centre of analysis to challenge the belief that more ...

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Breakfast Served Any Time All Day. Essays on Poetry New and Selected, Paperback - Donald Hall

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Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Donald HallNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 141 x 218 x 19Cover type: Pa...

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Selected Plays of Stan Lai. Volume 2: The Village and Other Plays, Paperback - Stan Lai

317,99 RON

Bringing the iconic plays of Stan Lai to an English-language readershipPublisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Stan LaiIllustration(s...

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Electoral Campaigns, Media, and the New World of Digital Politics, Paperback - Richard Davis

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Today, political leaders and candidates for office must campaign in a multi-media world not only through the traditional media forums, but also thr...

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Blind in Early Modern Japan. Disability, Medicine, and Identity, Paperback - Wei Yu Wayne Tan

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While the loss of sight may be understood as a disability, blind people in the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) could thrive because of disability. The ...

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Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women. The Early Twenty-First Century, Hardback - ***

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Foregrounds some of the ways in which women playwrights from across a range of contexts and working in a variety of forms and styles are illuminati...

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Positive Political Theory I: Collective Preference, Paperback - David Austen-Smith

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Reducere. Positive Political Theory I is concerned with the formal theory of preference aggregation for collective choice. The theory is developed as general...

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The Remarkable Rise of Transgender Rights, Hardcover - Jami Kathleen Taylor

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DescriptionWhile medical identification and treatment of gender dysphoria have existed for decades, the development of transgender as a "collective...

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A Poet's Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry, Paperback - Annie Ridley Crane Finch

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Reducere. A Poet's Craft transcends the limitations of current books, combining the best of three types of poetry-writing guides: textbooks for academic use,...

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Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience, Paperback - Betty Jean Lifton

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Reducere. " Looks] at adoption from all sides of the triangle: adoptee, birth mother, adoptive parents . . . A provocative, comprehensive inquiry." ---Kirkus...

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A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America, Paperback - Craig Werner

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Reducere. ." . . extraordinarily far-reaching. . . . highly accessible."-Notes "No one has written this way about music in a long, long time. Lucid, insightf...

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Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, Paperback - Shelley Lynn Tremain

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Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability is a distinctive contribution to growing discussions about how power operates within the academic fi...

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Echoes of the Great Catastrophe. Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora, Hardback - Panayotis F. League

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A multi-sited exploration of the musical legacy of the Anatolian Greek diaspora.Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Panayotis F. ...

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Acts of Gaiety. LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure, Paperback - Sara Warner

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Explores the mirthful modes of political performance by LGBT artists, activists, and collectives that have inspired and sustained deadly serious st...

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Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time: Michel Serres with Bruno LaTour, Paperback - Michel Serres

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Reducere. Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific...

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Resisting Spirits: Drama Reform and Cultural Transformation in the People's Republic of China, Paperback - Maggie Greene

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Reducere. Resisting Spirits is a reconsideration of the significance and periodization of literary production in the high socialist era, roughly 1953 through...

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Zombie History. Lies About Our Past that Refuse to Die, Paperback - Peter Charles Hoffer

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Open Wounds. Holocaust Theater and the Legacy of George Tabori, Hardback - David Z. Saltz

730,99 RON

This volume collects original essays on Hungarian-German playwright and screenwriter George Tabori (1914-2007) and his remarkable contributions to ...

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What Women Want. Gender and Voting in Britain, Japan and the United States, Hardback - Gill Steel

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Analyses decades of voting preferences, values, and policy preferences to debunk some of the myths about gender gaps in voting and policy preferenc...

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The Era of Great Disasters, Volume 88: Japan and Its Three Major Earthquakes, Paperback - Makoto Iokibe

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362The Era of Great Disasters examines modern disaster response in Japan, from the changing earthquake preparations and regulations, to immediate e...

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Civil Wars and Foreign Powers. Outside Intervention in Intrastate Conflict, Paperback - Patrick M. Regan

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Explores how outside intervention affects the course of civil wars

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Casebook of Inclusive Pedagogical Practices for Second Language Teacher Education, Paperback - Amy B. Gooden

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A casebook designed to broaden L2 teacher knowledge, thinking, and practice with regard to making language and learning accessible to all students....

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Leading Academic Discussions. What Every University Student Needs to Know, Paperback - Robyn Brinks Lockwood

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The ability to lead a successful discussion in a seminar or course, or as part of key project team, is critical to success in and beyond higher edu...

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Dumb Luck: A Novel by Vu Trong Phung, Paperback - Peter Zinoman

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Reducere. Banned in Vietnam until 1986, Dumb Luck--by the controversial and influential Vietnamese writer Vu Trong Phung--is a bitter satire of the rage for ...

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The New Imperial Presidency: Renewing Presidential Power After Watergate, Paperback - Andrew Rudalevige

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DescriptionHas the imperial presidency returned? "Well written and, while indispensable for college courses, should appeal beyond academic audience...

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Transforming Tradition. The Reform of Chinese Theater in the 1950s and Early 1960s, Hardback - Siyuan Liu

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Offers a systematic study of the effects of the comprehensive reform of traditional Chinese theatre conducted in the 1950s and '60s, and is based o...

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Fragmenting Globalization. The Politics of Preferential Trade Liberalization in China and the United States, Paperback - Xiaojun Li

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Argues that global supply chain integration pits firms and industries that are dependent on foreign supply chains against those that are less depen...

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Lawyers Beyond Borders. Advancing International Human Rights Through Local Laws and Courts, Hardback - Maria Armoudian

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A book about agency. About how, in the face of powerful interests and seemingly insurmountable obstacles - political, psychological, economic, geog...

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Liberalism and Transformation. The Global Politics of Violence and Intervention, Paperback - Dillon S. Tatum

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Explores the historical, philosophical, and intellectual development of global liberalism since the nineteenth century in the context of the deploy...

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Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia, Hardcover - Aswin Punathambekar

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DescriptionDigital media histories are part of a global network, and South Asia is a key nexus in shaping the trajectory of digital media in the tw...

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Dignity. Lower Income Women Tell of Their Lives and Struggles, Paperback - Fran Leeper Buss

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Buss has compiled the stories of 10 lower-income women, told in their own words

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Democracy's Meanings. How the Public Understands Democracy and Why It Matters, Hardback - Keith Gaddie

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Challenges conventional wisdom about how the public thinks about and evaluates democracy. Mining both political theory and over 75 years of public ...

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For the Culture. Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice, Hardback - Adolphus Belk

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Documents and analyses the ways in which Hip-Hop music, artists, scholars, and activists have discussed, promoted, and supported social justice cha...

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Collecting Lives. Critical Data Narrative as Modernist Aesthetic in Early Twentieth-Century US Literatures, Paperback - Elizabeth Rodrigues

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Provides a prehistory to the underlying question of the relationship between data, life, and narrative. Rodrigues contextualizes the application of...

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Pride, Not Prejudice. National Identity as a Pacifying Force in East Asia, Hardback - Eunbin Chung

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Noticing clashes of strong nationalisms around the world in areas like Northeast Asia, numerous studies have suggested that more peaceful relations...

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Mountains Without Handrails: Reflections on the National Parks, Paperback - Joseph L. Sax

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DescriptionFocusing on the long-standing and bitter battles over recreational use of our national parklands, Joseph L. Sax proposes a novel scheme ...

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