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ABOUT THE BOOKThis book examines the development and implementation of the
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This
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ABOUT THE BOOKThis book examines US President Barack Obama's characterizations in the Brazilian media, with a specific focus on political cartoons and internet memes. Brazilia..
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International debate has recently focused on increased
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Leadership and the Unmasking of Authenticity presents a
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While liberal-representative democracies tend to conform to a
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The European higher education sector is moving online, but to
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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a
given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in
provocative ways, and map out the potentia..
There has been a rapid global expansion of academic and
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The first of its kind, this book critically and
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Territory continues to be an essential part of modern
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The debate on whether high standards of labour market
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Hurricane Katrina was a pivotal event in the history of
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A Social and Cultural History of Late Antiquity examines the social and cultural landscape
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We have long been told that corporations rule the world, their interests
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How could a person portrayed as a terrorist by the Tajik
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This book focuses on various concepts of space and their
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The book offers a critical evaluation of Qatar’s path from
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ABOUT THE BOOKThis book focuses on photography within the social research field, building a solid foundation for photography as a social research method and describing different te..
This theory-to-practice guide offers mental health
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This insightful volume details the implementation and
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Dieses Buch gibt einen breit angelegten und anschaulichen
Überblick über internationale Migration und Integration. Im Mittelpunkt stehen
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This book is about our ordinary concept of matter in the
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the macroscopic realm. It emphasises what sc..
This third edition provides translations of all chapters of
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provid..
This book systematically assesses the value systems of active
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What is happening to gender studies and gender research as
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This book presents the outcomes of the workshop sponsored
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This volume addresses children and young people’s
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This volume addresses the varied response to domestic
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ABOUT THE BOOKPolitics and Conflict in Governance and Planning offers a critical evaluation of manifold ways in which the political dimension is reflected in contemporary plan..
ABOUT THE BOOKThe adoption of the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the UN General Assembly in 2015
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ABOUT THE BOOKFacing censorship and being confined to the fringes of the political debate of his time, Thomas Hobbes turned his attention to translating Homer’s Iliad and the Odyss..
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the specific experiences and understand..
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ABOUT THE BOOKGender equality is one of the founding democratic principles of the EU. However, recent studies of the Federation of Olympic Sports in Europe have shown that women oc..
ABOUT THE BOOKThe year 2018 marks the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the Belfast Agreement that initiated an uneasy peace in Northern Ireland after the forty years of the ..
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work deals with the heavy end of human difficulties such as cruelty,
self-destructiveness, and severe and enduring mental health problems. How do
social wor..
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introduction to modern strategy, covering the context, theory, and practice of
military strategy in all its different forms.C..
ABOUT THE BOOKWhat is happening emotionally when we grieve for a loved one? Is there a ‘right’ way to grieve? What effect does grief have on how we see ourselves?The Psychology of ..
Public
budgets follow rules of presentation and use terms that make sense to few
outside the world of public finance. Moreover, practices vary widely among the
thousands of gove..
Exploring
to what extent the BRICS group is a significant actor challenging the global
order, this book focuses on the degree and consequence of their emergence and
explores how..
ABOUT THE BOOKIn contrast to other disciplines, social
psychology has been slow in responding to the questions posed by the issue of
ethnicity. The Social Psychology
of Eth..
TABLE OF CONTENTSThis fully revised and updated edition of Social Psychology is an engaging exploration of the question, "what makes us who we are?" presented in a new, s..
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Spirit and Capital in an Age of Inequality brings together a diverse group of scholars, activists and public intellectuals to consider one of t..
Laying
the foundations of a theory of ‘international social closure’ this book
examines how actors compete for a seat at the table in the management of
international society and..
This
is the fourth, revised and updated, edition of Geoffrey Till's Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-first
Century.The rise of the Chinese and other Asian navies, worse..
ABOUT THE TABLEThe rise of the multi-billion dollar ancestry testing industry points to one immutable truth about us as human beings: we want to know where we come from and who our..
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ABOUT THE BOOKThis book considers contemporary international
interventions with a specific focus on analyzing the frameworks that have
guided recent peacekeeping operations led b..
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growing influence of Russia on the Western far right has been much discussed in
the media recently. This book is the first detailed inquiry into what has
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ABOUT THE BOOKResolving International Conflict rethinks the dynamics of conflict escalation and continuation by engaging with research from the wide range of subfields in this..
ABOUT THE BOOK Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe provides imagined biographies of twenty different figures from all walks of life living in Eastern Europe from 900 to ..
ABOUT THE BOOKThis book examines the changing dynamics of power in the international arena since the end of the Cold War. Brown engages in analysis of how the United States and the..
ABOUT THE BOOKMost
of economics takes politics for granted. Through some (often implausible)
assumptions, it seeks to explain away political structures by characterizing
them as..
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live in a time in which photographs have become extraordinarily mobile. They
can be exchanged and circulated at the swipe of a finger across a screen. The
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ABOUT THE BOOKPolitical and Economic Foundations in
Global Studies provides an innovative introductory
examination of the global forces shaping the world today, seen through..
The
new and updated seventh edition of Political
Geography once again shows itself fit to tackle a frequently and
rapidly changing geopolitical landscape. It retains t..
ABOUT THE BOOKThe
intersection between morality and emotion is not always easily discernible.
Researchers often choose to treat these concepts separately, and in doing so an
imp..