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Contemporary drift
Contemporary Drift combines a theoretical focus on the challenge of conceptualizing the present with a historical account of contemporary literature and film.
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In community, we can
How Latine students rely on relationships with peers, mentors, families, and communities to succeed in college and graduate schoolContrary to conventional narratives, successful transitions from college to graduate school to a university professorship emerge not from isolated instances of knowled...
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Practical issues of european social security law
The European social security law, has been evolving for over 60 years. This book is the result of a dialogue between academia and practitioners in Germany and Greece on practical issues regarding the implementation of the coordination regulations.
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The song dynasty
A definitive new history of China’s influential Song dynasty and its pivotal role in East Asia and beyond, by one of its leading historiansDespite constant pressure from the powerful steppe empires on its borders, the Song dynasty lasted for more than three centuries, from 960 to 1279, becoming o...
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The politics of atrocity
Between hope and failure: short episodes on the history of political violence in Argentina.
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The con men
A hard-edged guide to New York City swindles, street life, and culture, through direct interviews with con artists and hustlers.
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English learner literacy in elementary schools
Drawing on over 150 hours of classroom video and grounded in social constructivism, translanguaging pedagogy and Purdue English Language Development (ELD) Framework, the research offers rare, granular insights into what works, and what doesn’t, for English Language Learners in elementary settings.
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Resistance and the politics of truth
`The truth will set you free' is a maxim central to both theories and practices of resistance. Nonetheless, it is a claim that has come under fire from an array of critical perspectives in the second half of the 20th century. Iain MacKenzie analyses two of the most compelling of these perspective...
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Latter-day pamphlets, part ii
The final volume of the Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, situates the Victorian philosopher, social critic, and essayist’s most contentious works within the social context of mid-nineteenth-century crises, including the revolutions of 1...
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Amnesty international and women's rights
Miriam Ganzfried offers a comprehensive look at Amnesty International’s work on women’s rights. Through interviews with staff members and activists and unprecedented access to archival material from the Swiss and the German sections, she shows how women activists strategized to make AI increase i...
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Sustainable and smart farming eco-systems
Sustainable and Smart Farming Eco-systems bridges the gap between theory and practice by providing actionable insights and strategies for improving the sustainability and resilience of agricultural systems.
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The case for islamo-christian civilization
Conventional wisdom maintains that the differences between Islam and Christianity are irreconcilable. Pre-eminent Middle East scholar Richard W. Bulliet disagrees, and in this fresh, provocative book he looks beneath the rhetoric of hatred and misunderstanding to challenge prevailing—and misleadi...
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The ghetto, and other poems
At last recovered in this enriching annotated edition, this important but neglected work of American modernism offers a unique poetic encounter with the Jewish communities in New York’s Lower East Side.
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The short guide to community development
The only up-to-date, accessibly written short guide to community development, this third edition offers an invaluable and authoritative introduction. Fully updated to reflect changes in policy, practice, economics and culture, it will equip readers with an understanding of the history and theory ...
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The politics of the near
The Politics of the Near offers a novel approach to social unrest in post-apartheid South Africa. Keeping the noise of demonstrations, barricades, and clashes with the police at a distance, this ethnography of a poor people’s movement traces individual commitments and the mainsprings of mobilizat...
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Beyond the plate
Why communities and markets thrive when restaurants invest in their people and the planetHalf of all restaurants will fail before their fifth year in operation. With food, rent, and energy costs skyrocketing, restaurant owners struggle daily to keep the lights on. In today’s climate, it can seem ...
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Social work practice
Social Work Practice synthesizes the latest theories and research findings in social work and related fields and demonstrates how this information is used in working with clients. Because the interview is the medium in which much of social work practice takes place, learning the processes and ski...
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The tentmakers of cairo
Stories from Cairo's historic Street of the Tentmakers, its craft and its people "An expansive and captivating history of an often overlooked traditional art"—Egyptian StreetsIn the crowded center of Historic Cairo lies a covered market lined with wonderful textiles sewn by hand in brilliant col...
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Nietzsche's zarathustra
Volume one of Jung’s seminar on the book that moved him profoundly and had a lifelong influence on his thoughtNietzsche’s infamous work Thus Spake Zarathustra is filled with a strange sense of religiosity that seems to run counter to the philosopher’s usual polemics against religious faith. For s...
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Banking on belonging
Banking on Belonging offers a visionary roadmap that shows how investing in refugees not only empowers displaced communities but also builds more prosperous and resilient economies worldwide.
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Nbic technologies as weapons of modern warfare
What are implications of new technological possibilities in the fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science (NBIC) have for new forms of warfare.
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Commerce with the universe
Gaurav Desai builds a new history of Africa’s encounter with slavery, colonialism, migration, nationalism, development, and globalization.
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Sinkhole
Now in Paperback!“A literary triumph.”—Terry Tempest Williams“A master class in the way truth can pry open the deepest cellar, how language can calm a raw, ragged soul.”—Margaret RenklA haunting and sublimely elegant memoir that reckons with the violence we inflict on the land and ourselves. Whe...
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Ravenous
Breigh is a pregnant elder millennial whose livestreamed quest for momfluencer fame spirals into depravity. An incisive satire of consumerism, performative femininity, and social media.
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The gentrification plot
Thomas Heise identifies and investigates the emerging “gentrification plot” in contemporary crime fiction. He considers recent novels that depict the sweeping transformations of five iconic neighborhoods—the Lower East Side, Chinatown, Red Hook, Harlem, and Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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Under the volcano
This book tells the story of a family leaving northern Europe for a remote Atlantic island. A planned year becomes three, ending in a painful split over whether to return. Amid opera, writing, and village life, their daughter quickly adapts—while the parents grow apart in an island paradise.
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Documentary
In using case studies such as Touching the Void (2003) and the films of Nick Broomfield, this timely introduction to the growing field of documentary explores the definition and understanding of the form, as well as the relationship between documentary and drama, specifically the notion of recons...
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Postdramatic dramaturgies
This book compiles lectures by the world’s leading practitioners of postdramatic theater from East Asia and the German-speaking world, which were given at Asia’s only dramaturgy degree program at The Central Academy of Drama in Beijing 2018/19. It includes English-language scripts of the discusse...
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Precarious urbanism
This book explores relationships between war, displacement and city-making. Focusing on people seeking refuge in Somali cities after being forced to migrate by violence, environmental shocks or economic pressures, it highlights how these populations are actively transforming urban space. Using f...
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Conversations with those who ask about war
Ukrainian scholars discuss the practicalities and personal experiences of interviewing and preserving the voices of war witnesses.
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The book of china
In the early sixteenth century, a Persian-speaking Muslim merchant traveled to China and stayed for six years. In a treatise presented to the rulers of the Ottoman Empire, he laid out his observations—here translated in full into English for the first time.
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Wandering mind and metaphysical thoughts
This English-Chinese bilingual edition is the complete first book of poems written by Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian. His poems offer an array of snapshots over various themes where politics, dreams, and metaphysical concerns are mixed. With original art works by Gao, this collection advances hi...
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The future as catastrophe
The Future as Catastrophe offers a novel critique of the fascination with disaster. Analyzing the catastrophic imaginary from its historical roots to the contemporary popularity of disaster fiction and end-of-the-world blockbusters, Eva Horn argues that apocalypse always haunts the modern idea of...
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Brokering development?
Portrayals of the private sector as an engine of poverty alleviation in Africa have drawn criticism. Idil Ires provides a political-economy analysis of whether smallholders prosper when they coordinate with input suppliers, banks, and crop buyers through markets and contract farming in the Southe...
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Southern visions of nature
Aravena-Ortiz examines how Chilean environmental organisations use visual digital media to shape public discourse, build collective identity, and collaborate during political upheaval, revealing the unique intersections of environment, politics, and communication in a Global South context.
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The quest for god and the good
Diana Lobel takes readers on a journey across Eastern and Western philosophical and religious traditions to discover a beauty and purpose at the heart of reality that makes life worth living. Guided by the ideas of ancient thinkers and the insight of the philosophical historian Pierre Hadot, The ...
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Genocide in canada
This book exposes deeply flawed genocide denialism surrounding residential schools, examining how Canada sought to resolve the “Indian problem” through genocide.
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Mental states
Based on more than a year of in-depth fieldwork in France, Mental States shows that, beneath the chaotic trajectories of people with mental illness and the fragmented agencies and professionals serving them, there is an underlying order to the ways societies classify, treat, and control madness.
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The dream
A Syrian filmmaker's haunting record of his time in Lebanon's Palestinian refugee campsIn 1980, Syrian filmmaker Mohammad Malas traveled to Lebanon to film a documentary of interviews with Palestinians of the refugee camps around Beirut about their dreams. The Dream: A Diary of the Film is Malas’...
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The self in context
The Self in Context: Pathways to Flourishing, Learning, and Well-Being explores the dynamic and multifaceted nature of self-related processes—such as self-concept, self-esteem, self-efficacy, self-control, self-identity, self-regulation, and self-determination—and their exponential growth in rese...
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Speaking parts
How direct speech in the novel shapes our understanding of literary characters and their social worldsFor many readers, to think of nineteenth-century fiction is to recall characters speaking: Elizabeth refusing Darcy in Pride and Prejudice; Jane excoriating Rochester in Jane Eyre; Dorothea and C...
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Subjects and occasions
This collection gathers essays, reviews, interviews, and reports spanning over a generation, exploring radicalism—especially far-right movements, fascist ideology, and terrorism. It links scholarship and public engagement, highlighting civil courage and the value of every human life.
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People get ready
WINNER, COLLEGE THEOLOGY SOCIETY 2024 BEST BOOK AWARDWhat does it mean to be a community of difference?St. Mary of the Angels is a tiny underground Catholic parish in the heart of Boston’s Egleston Square. More than a century of local, national, and international migrations has shaped and reshape...
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Cinema/politics/philosophy
Nico Baumbach revisits the much-maligned tradition of seventies film theory to reconsider: What does it mean to call cinema political? He explores how cinema can condition philosophy through its own means, challenging received ideas about what is seeable, sayable, and doable.
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Culture war
Assessing the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia, this essay explores the cultural and historical tensions shaping their relations. Key events like the Pereyaslav Agreement, Holodomor, and WWII are analyzed, highlighting their ideological significance in Ukraine’s national identity and i...
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Ethics in action for sustainable development
This book presents an in-depth and deeply engaged conversation among interfaith religious leaders and interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners in pursuit of an ethical consensus that could ground sustainable development efforts.
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After 1177 b.c.
In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed—why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared forever“A landmark book: lucid, deep, and insightful. . . . You cannot understan...
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World war ii, uncontrived and unredacted
This book presents first-hand accounts of the worst war of the twentieth century, in which ordinary people describe how their lives were divided forever into “before” and “after.” It includes the stories of Ukrainians who fought in various armies, and it describes the lives of deported people and...
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Silent cinema
Since the spectacular success of The Artist (2011) there has been a resurgence of interest in silent cinema, and particularly in the lush and passionate screen dramas of the 1920s. This book offers an introduction to the cinema of this extraordinary period, outlining the development of the form b...
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Living with an infected planet
Living with an infected planet has led to an unprecedented crisis of care, especially since the outbreak of the coronavirus. Elke Krasny presents a feminist mapping of key terms and key images defining the “pandemicscape.” Arguing against going back to normal, she outlines a new global internatio...
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