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View book details for Solidarity
Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism
Despite the frequency with which the word 'solidarity' is invoked the concept itself has rarely been subjected to close scrutiny. In this original and stereotype-busting work, David Featherstone helps redress this imbalance through an innovative combination of archival research, activist …
View book details for Between Two Empires
Ahmet Agaoglu and the New Turkey
Ahmet Agaoglu's life and writings reflect huge 20th-century historical events, such as revolutions in Russia in1905 and 1917, in Ottoman Turkey in 1908, World War I, the Turkish War of Independence and the establishment of Azerbaijan. His life is a …
View book details for We Kill Because We Can
From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age
Welcome to the Drone Age. Where self-defense has become naked aggression. Where courage has become cowardice. Where black ops have become standard operating procedure. In this remarkable and often shocking book, Laurie Calhoun dissects the moral, psychological, and cultural impact …
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David Livingstone and Expeditionary Science in Africa
"Zambesi" tells the story of David Livingstone's Zambesi Expedition. It exposes the rivalry among some of Victorian Britain's leading establishment figures and institutions - including the Foreign Office, the Royal Society, Royal Geographical Society, British Museum, Kew Gardens and the …
View book details for Babies for Sale?
Transnational Surrogacy, Human Rights and the Politics of Reproduction
Transnational surrogacy the creation of babies across borders has become big business. Globalization, reproductive technologies, new family formations and rising infertility are combining to produce a 'quiet revolution' in social and medical ethics and the nature of parenthood. Whereas much …
View book details for Occidentalisms in the Arab World
Ideology and Images of the West in the Egyptian Media
In the decades since Edward Said first christened the term 'Orientalism', the discourse on the West's historical representation of the East has been inundated with new literature. While the Western perception of the 'the Orient' has become a well-worn topic …
View book details for The Arabian Nights and Orientalism
Perspectives from East and West
The Arabian Nights and Orientalism in Resonance was especially commissioned to celebrate the tercentenary of the first Western edition of The Arabian Nights. This volume marries Western and Japanese perspectives on The Arabian Nights to provide a fascinating study of …
View book details for The Millennium Development Goals
Raising the Resources to Tackle World Poverty
This volume provides an up-to-date and detailed tour d'horizon of the exciting diversity of new proposals and mechanisms currently being discussed in order to raise the necessary financial resources to make the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals a reality …
View book details for Fly and Be Damned
What Now for Aviation and Climate Change?
Peter McManners gets underneath the well-known facts about the unsustainable nature of the aviation industry and argues for fundamental change to our travelling habits. The first book to transcend the emotional debate between the entrenched positions of those who are …
View book details for The European Union and Africa
The Restructuring of North-South Relations
This book is an in depth study of one of the most important agreements in the recent history of EU-developing world relations: the Lome convention - the principles upon which all relations between the states of the European union and …
View book details for Pleasure and Ambition
The Life, Loves and Wars of Augustus the Strong
Augustus the Strong of Saxony's life was consumed by two addictions: the relentless pursuit of power and the no less relentless pursuit of pleasure. From his accession as Elector of Saxony in 1694 he pursued political power and glory by …
View book details for Of Cargoes, Colonies and Kings
Diplomatic and Administrative Service from Africa to the Pacific
"Of Cargoes, Colonies and Kings" gives an offbeat account of Andrew Stuart's wide-ranging experiences. Never a stereotypical colonialist, as the son of a missionary, he knew the people, the politicians and the kings of Uganda from his childhood and worked …
View book details for The World of Achaemenid Persia
History, Art and Society in Iran and the Ancient Near East
Interest and fascination in Achaemenid Persia has burgeoned in recent years. It is time for a major new appraisal of the glorious civilization founded by Cyrus the Great and continued by his successors, the Great Kings Darius I, Xerxes and …
View book details for Little Black Box
Speculative Poetry from Ohio
Open up this Little Black Box and find the best multi-form, experimental, speculative poetry by twenty-plus Ohio poets: science fiction, fantasy, horror, dystopia/utopia, fairy tale, mythology and myth, the miraculous, alternative histories, cyberpunk, magic realism, occult/paranormal, gothic, steampunk, beast fables, …
View book details for Wisdom for Mindful Living
Dwelling in Awareness
Stress, anxiety, and depression are running rampant in the twenty-first century. We're imploding, our internal systems are crashing. We need rescuing, self-caring, self-nurturing, self-healing, and self-transcendence. We need to discover mindsets and methods that will allow us to continue on …
View book details for The Great Cylinder Inscriptions A & B of Judea, Part I Text and Sign-Lift
Copied from the Original Clay Cylinders of the Telloh Collection Preserved in the Louvre, Autographed, Signs Listed, Tentatively Transliterated and Translated with Commentary and Notes
View book details for The Rising Global Cancer Pandemic
Health, Ethics, and Social Justice
The Global Theological Ethics book series focuses on works that feature authors from around the world, draw on resources from the traditions of Catholic theological ethics, and attend to concrete issues facing the world today. It advances the Journal of …
View book details for Ballet for Adults
The Physical and Psychological Benefits
The benefits of ballet lessons for adults are examined and explained by master teacher Robert Brassel, whose international ballet career was the basis for his 2006 memoir, Always a Dancer. Drawn from his experience of teaching ballet to health club …
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What Patients Teach Their Doctors about Life, Death, and the Balance in Between
From the OR to the ICU, Dr. David Alfery brings you into a hidden world of medicine that has never before been seen. You will witness the exhilaration a physician feels when a life is miraculously saved, the terror when …
View book details for The Divine Inquiry
Questions Jesus Asked to Change Your Life
Jesus had a lot to say about the way we live out our daily lives. In the process, he asks a lot of questions that are insightful, penetrating, and thought-provoking, all demanding an honest appraisal of oneself and an appropriate, …
View book details for Recovering the Soul
Aquinass and Spinozas Surprising and Helpful Affinity on the Nature of Mind-Body Unity
Recovering the Soul explores an area of historical philosophy that few if any others have attempted by critically comparing the metaphysical doctrines of Thomas Aquinas and Baruch Spinoza on the identity of mind and body. The central premise is that …
This book explores the function of buildings for worship, shrines and pilgrimage centers, and the part they play in the lives of individuals and the community, while also recognizing that "sacred place" is not defined as architectural buildings.
View book details for Agribusiness and Society
Corporate Responses to Environmentalism, Market Opportunities and Public Regulation
This volume examines how far agribusiness corporations are responding to the opportunities and pressures resulting from emerging environmental awareness. In particular, in what ways are they changing their R & D and business practices in order to develop new environmentally …
View book details for Fascism in Britain
From Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts to the National Front
This edition investigates fascist activities in the period of turmoil leading to World War II and raises disturbing questions: how far was the British establishment involved? What were the links with Nazi Germany? What were the plans for the future …
View book details for A House of Many Mansions
The History of Lebanon Reconsidered
Today Lebanon is one of the world's most divided countries - if it remains a country at all. But paradoxically the faction-ridden Lebanese, both Christians and Muslims, have never shown a keener consciousness of common identity. How can this be? …
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