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Contemporary Russia

by Edwin Bacon

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 The third edition of Contemporary Russia is fully revised to provide a comprehensive introduction to the society, politics and culture of one of the most important countries in global affairs today. The author details Russia's historical background as well as the nation's current concerns and distinctive features in this accessible analysis.
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Contemporary India

by Andrew Wyatt e Katharine Adeney

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 A broad-ranging introduction to politics and society in India, set in a historical and cultural context. Written by two expert authors it assumes no prior knowledge but aims to provide a balanced and nuanced understanding of the key issues that have faced India since independence and the challenges it confronts in the 21st century.
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Contemporary Ireland

by Eoin O'Malley

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 In the last quarter century, Ireland has experienced dramatic political and economic change. This broad-ranging text provides an accessible and up-to-date introduction to Irish society, politics and culture, as well as developments in its economy and place in Europe and the world.
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Contemporary Latin America

by Ronaldo Munck

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 Fully updated for the third edition, Contemporary Latin America provides an accessible concise introduction to the region. Historical context, the countries and their peoples provides a backdrop to broad-ranging coverage of politics, economy, society and culture and the continent's prospects today.
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Carl Gustav Jung - Avant-Garde Conservative

by J. Sherry

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 Carl Gustav Jung has always been a popular but never a fashionable thinker. This book provides a more accurate and comprehensive account of Jung's controversial opinions about art, politics, and race.
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Beyond The Western Liberal Order - Yanaihara Tadao And Empire As Society

by Ryoko Nakano

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 This book introduces the political thought of Yanaihara Tadao (1893-1961), the most prominent Japanese social scientist working on empire, population migration and colonial policy, and uses it as a platform which to examine the global challenges faced by the U.S. hegemonic world order today, or what is often described as the Western liberal order.
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Legal Stagings - The Visualization, Medialization And Ritualization Of Law In Language, Literature, Media, Art And Architecture

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 Aims to identify the Nordic legal map. This title offers a collection of papers that address legal staging. It shows that law is so much more than law in action and law in books.
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The Palgrave Handbook Of Critical Social Psychology

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Female Combatants In Conflict And Peace - Challenging Gender In Violence And Post-Conflict Reintegration

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 This edited volume illuminates the role of women in violence to demonstrate that gender is a key component of discourse on conflict and peace. Through an examination of theory and practice of women's participation in violent conflicts, the book makes the argument that both conflict and post-conflict situations are gender insensitive.
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Empowering Educators - Proven Principles And Successful Strategies

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 Educators cannot empower their students without being empowered themselves. This book presents a number of proven principles and successful strategies that have been demonstrated by rigorous research to be effective in assisting teachers to carry out their fundamental mission of helping their students to achieve significant learning outcomes.
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Media, Margins And Civic Agency

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 This collection brings together new research on contemporary media, politics and power. It explores ways and means through which media can and do empower or dis-empower citizens at the margins - that is, how they act as vehicles of, or obstacles to, civic agency and social change.
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Post-Feminist Impasses In Popular Heroine Television - The Persephone Complex

by Alison Horbury

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 Alison Horbury investigates the reprisal of the myth of Persephone - a mother-daughter plot of separation and initiation - in post-feminist television cultures where, she argues, it functions as a symptom expressing a complex around the question of sexual difference - what Lacan calls 'sexuation', where this question has been otherwise foreclosed.
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Nitrogen And Climate Change - An Explosive Story

by Dave Reay

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 The world is changing. Human population is surging towards 10 billion, food, water, climate and energy security are all at risk. Nitrogen could be our life raft in this global 'perfect storm'. Get it right and it can help to feed billions, fuel our cars and put a dent in global warming. Get it wrong and it will make things a whole lot worse.
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Holocaust Scholarship - Personal Trajectories And Professional Interpretations

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 Leading international Holocaust scholars reflect upon their personal experiences and professional trajectories over many decades of immersion in the field. Changes are examined within the context of individual odysseys, including shifting cultural milieus and robust academic conflicts.
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Planning And The Case Study Method In Africa - The Planner In Dirty Shoes

by Fred Lerise, James Duminy e Jorgen Andreasen

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 This book addresses the relevance of the case study research methodology for enhancing urban planning research and education in Africa and the global South. It provides an introduction to the case study methodology and features examples of its application to planning research and education on the continent.
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Contemporary Russia

by Edwin Bacon

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 The third edition of Contemporary Russia is fully revised to provide a comprehensive introduction to the society, politics and culture of one of the most important countries in global affairs today. The author details Russia's historical background as well as the nation's current concerns and distinctive features in this accessible analysis.
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Cuco Consumption Norms

by Pellandini Simanya L

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 How much is acceptable to consume? What is appropriate to consume and which goods fall into the disapproved category? Answers to these questions vary widely across time and space. This book examines the sources of this variation by providing an account of how everyday consumption norms develop, why they differ and why they change.
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Britain After Empire - Constructing A Post-War Political-Cultural Project

by Preston P

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 Through compelling analysis of popular culture, high culture and elite designs in the years following the end of the Second World War, this book explores how Britain and its people have come to terms with the loss of prestige stemming from the decline of the British Empire. The result is a volume that offers new ideas on what it is to be 'British'.
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Governing Through Biometrics - The Biopolitics Of Identity

by Btihaj Ajana

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 Managing identity through biometric technology has become a routine and ubiquitous practice in recent years. This book interrogates what is at stake in the merging of the body and technology for surveillance and securitization purposes drawing on a number of critical theories and philosophies.
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Practise As Research In The - Principles, Protocols, Pedagogies, Resistances

by Nelson R

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 At the performance turn, this book takes a fresh 'how to' approach to Practice as Research, arguing that old prejudices should be abandoned and a PaR methodology fully accepted in the academy. Nelson and his contributors address the questions students, professional practitioner-researchers, regulators and examiners have posed in this domain.
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Practise As Research In The - Principles, Protocols, Pedagogies, Resistances

by Nelson R

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 At the performance turn, this book takes a fresh 'how to' approach to Practice as Research, arguing that old prejudices should be abandoned and a PaR methodology fully accepted in the academy. Nelson and his contributors address the questions students, professional practitioner-researchers, regulators and examiners have posed in this domain.
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Contemporary Japan

by Duncan Mccargo

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 Fully revised and updated, this widely-praised introductory text explores Japan through the prism of three alternative perspectives: Mainstream, revisionist and culturalist. Beginning with the notion of Japan as a 'contested territory' the book focuses on debates about the real nature of Japan's successes and shortcomings.
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Comparative Reactions To European Integration - Overlooking Europe.

by Elizabeth Frazer, Florence Haegel e Sophie Duchesne

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 Pre-financial crisis, EU citizens were 'overlooking' Europe ignoring it in favour of globalisation, economic flows, and crises of political corruption. Innovative focus group methods allow an analysis of citizens' reactions, and demonstrate how euroscepticism is a red herring, instead articulating an indifference to and ambivalence about Europe.
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History, Memory And Politics In Central And Eastern Europe - Memory Games

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 Fourteen specialists of Central and Eastern European politics explore memory policies and politics by examining how and why contested memories are constantly reactivated in the former Soviet bloc. The book explores how new social and political actors can challenge the traditional narratives about the past produced by state bodies.
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