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From Criminalization to Harm Reduction
Axel Klein, Marcus Day, Anthony Harriott
The Caribbean poses a significant drugs problem for the UK and the US, as the recent phenomenon of yardie gangs in British cities graphically illustrates. But in the islands themselves ganja, crack cocaine and the policies to control them have …

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The African Union and Post-coup Intervention in Madagascar
Antonia Witt
Since the beginnings of independence, a number of African nations have been plagued by repeated coup d'etats. Within the African Union (AU), there has been a concerted effort to break this cycle through the official adoption of an 'anti-coup norm', …
Alberto Cimadamore, Maurice Mittelmark, Gro Therese Lie, Fungisai P. Gwanzura Ottemöller
While the need for effective action toward a greener and socially inclusive economy has long been evident, health promotion in the context of sustainable development has faltered. Arguing that human health is the key factor to sustainable development, Development and …

View book details for Scroungers

Moral Panics and Media Myths
James Morrison
Scroungers, spongers, parasites ...These are just are some of the terms that are typically used, with increasing frequency, to describe the most vulnerable in our society, whether they be the sick, the disabled, or the unemployed. Long a popular scapegoat …

View book details for Jerusalem

From the Ottomans to the British
Roberto Mazza
Led by General Allenby, British troops entered Jerusalem in December 1917, thereby ending Ottoman rule and opening a new and important era in the history of Jerusalem. This historical moment has often been described as the beginning of a period …

View book details for The 39 Steps

The British Film Guide 3
Mark Glancy
The British Film Guides are a fresh departure for the Cinema and Society series, each telling the story of an important British film, presented and priced for a readership spanning scholars, students and general film enthusiasts. These compact guides, based …

View book details for Everyday Corruption and the State

Citizens and Public Officials in Africa
Giorgio Blundo, Jean-Pierre Olivier de-Sardan, N. B. Arifari, M. T. Alou
Daily life in Africa is governed by the 'petty' corruption of public officials in services such as health, transport, or the judicial system. This remarkable study of everyday corruption in three African countries investigates the reasons for its extraordinary prevalence.The …
Bronwen Manby
Hundreds of thousands of people living in Africa find themselves non-persons in the only state they have ever known. Because they are not recognised as citizens, they cannot get their children registered at birth or entered in school or university; …
David Simon
The thousands uprooted and displaced by the Holocaust had a profound cultural impact on the countries in which they sought refuge, with numerous Holocaust escapees attaining prominence as scientists, writers, filmmakers and artists. But what is less well known is …

View book details for The Uncultured Wars

Arabs, Muslims and the Poverty of Liberal Thought New Essays
Doctor Steven Salaita
The Uncultured Wars is a powerful indictment of dominant American liberal-left discourse. Through twelve stylish essays Steven Salaita returns again and again to his core themes of anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia and the inadequacy of critical thought amongst the 'chattering …
Isak Niehaus
The Bushbuckridge region of South Africa has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world. Having first arrived in the area in the early 1990s, the disease spread rapidly, and by 2008 life expectancies had fallen by …

View book details for Depicting the Veil

Transnational Sexism and the War on Terror
Robin L. Riley
This powerful book exposes how gendered Orientalism is wielded to justify Western imperialism.Over the last ten years, Western governments and mainstream media have utilized concepts of white masculine supremacy and feminine helplessness, juxtaposed with Orientalist images depicting women of color …

View book details for A Good Comrade

Janos Kadar, Communism and Hungary
Roger Gough
Few political lives have been as dramatic, or as marked by sudden changes of fortune, as that of Janos Kadar, Hungary's communist leader from 1956 to 1988. A reformist who at first supported Imre Nagy's 1956 attempt to distance his …

View book details for Gender and Identity in North Africa

Postcolonialism and Feminism in Maghrebi Women's Literature
Abdelkader Cheref
Literary fiction has always provided an outlet for social and political critique. In the writing of key North African women authors, the dissection of Maghrebi society is at the very heart of the narratives. Here, Abdelkader Cheref charts the rise …

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Thinking about Women's Violence in Global Politics
Caron E. Gentry, Laura Sjoberg
Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores takes the suggestion in Mothers, Monsters, Whores that it is important to see genderings in characterizations of violent women, and to use critique of those genderings to retheorize individual violence in global politics. It begins by …
Erol Koroglu
The Great War was the first example of a total war in history, reflected in the cultures and literatures of Europe in the shape of propaganda. What began as civic patriotism developed into a weapon of war, programmed and organized …

View book details for A Victorian Woman's Place

Public Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Simon Morgan
While the image of bourgeois Victorian women as 'angels in the house' isolated from the world in private domesticity has long been dismissed as an unrealistic ideal, women have remained marginalised in many recent accounts of the public culture of …

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Ottoman Border Forts and Garrisons in Europe
Mark L. Stein
The seventeenth-century Ottoman-Habsburg frontier was the scene of chronic conflict. The defences of both empires were based on a line of fortresses, spanning the border. Mark Stein gives us a fascinating insight into everyday life on the frontier in this …

View book details for Cosmic Shift

Russian Contemporary Art Writing
Ilya Kabakov, Emilia Kabakov, Boris Groys, Pavel Pepperstein, Dmitri Prigov, Anton Vidokle, Andrey Monastyrsky, Arseny Zhilyaev, Bart de Baere, Elena Zaytseva, Alex Anikina
A TLS Book of the Year 2017In this, the first anthology of Russian contemporary art writing to be published outside Russia, many of the country's most prominent contemporary artists, writers, philosophers, curators and historians come together to examine the region's …

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The Christian Right and US Foreign Policy
Lee Marsden
Religious fundamentalism is a powerful force not only in American domestic politics but also in the way America acts abroad. In For God's Sake Lee Marsden investigates the way that the Christian Right have influenced US foreign policy, arguing that …

View book details for Military Leadership and Counterinsurgency

The British Army and Small War Strategy Since World War II
Victoria Nolan
Offering a unique and original perspective on Britain's 'Small Wars' leadership culture - this title is an essential reading for serving soldiers and scholars of military studies. It is based on original archival research. It offers fascinating survey of counterinsurgency …
Vandana Shiva
'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.'The Guardian'A star among environmental, activist, and anti-corporate circles.'ViceThe world's food supply is in the grip of a profound crisis. Humanity's ability to feed itself is threatened by a wasteful, globalized agricultural industry, …

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The Legacy of Conflict in the Balkans
Janine N. Clark
Since the regime of Slobodan Milosevic was spectacularly overthrown on 5 October 2000, little has been written about subsequent political developments in Serbia. The perception of Milosevic as a criminal leader who plunged the former Yugoslavia into bloodshed and used …
Lydia Alpízar Durán, Noël D. Payne, Anahi Russo
The struggle for the advancement of women's rights and gender equality globally is impossible without strong women's organizations and movements to provide leadership and momentum. But what does a strong women's organization look like? And what does it take to …

View book details for Chelmno and the Holocaust

A History of Hitler's First Death Camp
Patrick Montague
As the first extermination camp established by the Nazi regime and the prototype of the single-purpose death camps of Treblinka, Sobibor and Belzec, the Chelmno death camp stands as a crucial but largely unexplored element of the Holocaust. This book …
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