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George Ritzer
[Paperback 1991]
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This book presents essays reflecting the current state and near-term prospects of sociological theory.... more
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[Paperback 2012]
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Epigenetics can potentially revolutionize our understanding of the structure and behavior of biological life on Earth. It explains why mapping an organism's genetic code is not enough to determine how it develops or acts and shows how nurture combines with nature to engineer biological diversity. Surveying the twenty-year history of... more
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Zahid Hussain
[Paperback 2008]
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Veteran Pakistani journalist and commentator Zahid Hussain explores Pakistan's complex political power web and the consequences of Musharraf's decision to support America's drive against jihadism, which essentially took Pakistan to war with itself. Conducting exclusive interviews with key players and grassroots radicals, Hussain pinpoints the origin of the jihadi movement... more
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Mansoor Moaddel
[Paperback 1994]
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A common weakness of many current dominant theories of revolution, argues author Mansoor Moaddel, is their exclusion of the role of ideology. He examines the Iranian revolution, highlighting class politics and contention for power within the context of changing the ideological relation between the state and civil society. In Moaddel's... more
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Padma Desai
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Using the same presentation and detail that has earned her such wide-ranging acclaim for her previous books, Padma Desai explains in a course-friendly way the complexities of economic policy and financial reform. She merges a compelling narrative with scholarly research to teach and to engage the reader. Paul Krugman described... more
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Dante Alighieri
[Paperback 2009]
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Robin Kirkpatrick's masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy , tracing Dante's journey from Hell to Purgatory and finally Paradise, is published here for the first time in a single volume. The volume includes a new introduction, notes, maps and diagrams, and is the ideal edition for students as well... more
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Frederic G Reamer
[Hardcover 2005, 2nd Edition]
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About the Book : In response to the new Code of Ethics adopted in 1997 by the National Association of Social Workers, Frederic G. Reamer has written a completely updated edition of his classic work, exploring the implications of the new code for fulfilling social works enduring commitment to vulnerable... more
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Leela Gandhi
[Paperback 2010]
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This is the first book of its kind to clearly map out the field of postcolonialism in its own terms. The book provides an overview of postcolonialism's pervasiveness in the academy, and lucidly illustrates the debates about the often conflicting consensus regarding the proper content, scope and relevance of its... more
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Rebecca Bell Metereau
[Hardcover 1985]
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A renowned film scholar reveals the surprisingly frequent instances of cross-dressing, transvestism, and every kind of gender-bending in more than 250 films from "Sylvia Scarlett" to "The Crying Game." A renowned film scholar reveals the surprisingly frequent instances of cross-dressing, transvestism, and every kind of gender-bending in more than 250... more
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Umberto Eco ,
William Weaver
[Paperback 2011]
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From Leibniz's belief that the "I Ching" illustrated the principles of calculus to Marco Polo's mistaking a rhinoceros for a unicorn, Umberto Eco offers a dazzling tour of intellectual history, illuminating the ways in which we project the familiar onto the strange to make sense of the world. Serendipities is... more
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Emily Bronte
[Paperback 1995]
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The poems of Emily Jane BrontA" are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit and of the natural world. Only twenty-one of her poems were published during her lifetime - this volume contains those and all others attributed to her. Many poems describe the mythic... more
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Prachi Deshpande
[Paperback 2013]
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The "Maratha period" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in the history of the region of Maharashtra in western India. In this book, Prachi Deshpande considers the importance of this period for a variety of political projects... more
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Sudipta Kaviraj
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For decades Sudipta Kaviraj has worked with and improved upon Marxist and subaltern studies, capturing India's social and political life through its diverse history and culture. While this technique has been widely celebrated in his home country, Kaviraj's essays have remained largely scattered and untranslated abroad. This collection finally presents... more
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Barbara Stoller Miller ,
Barry Moser
[Mass market paperbound 1986]
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The dramatic moral crisis that is central to the "Bhagavad-Gita" has inspired centuries of Indian philosophers as well as Western thinkers. Renown translator Barbara Stoler Miller presents here a new English-language version of this exemplary text of Hindu culture. "The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in... more
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Tubten Khtsun
[Paperback 2009]
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Born in 1941, Tubten Kh'tsun is a nephew of the Gyatso Tashi Khendrung, one of the senior government officials taken prisoner after the Tibetan peoples' uprising of March 10, 1959. Kh'tsun himself was arrested while defending the Dalai Lama's summer palace, and after four years in prisons and labor camps,... more
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Ian Talbot
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This book fills the need for a broad, historically sophisticated understanding of Pakistan, a country at fifty which is understood by many in the West only in terms of stereotypes--the fanatical, authoritarian and reactionary "other" which is unfavorably compared to a tolerant, democratic and progressive India. There is a need... more
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Confucius ,
Chichung Huang
[Paperback 2005]
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In the long river of human history, if one person can represent the civilization of a whole nation, it is perhaps Master Kong, better known as Confucius in the West. If there is one single book that can be upheld as the common code of a whole people, it is... more
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Joyce O Beckett
[Hardcover 2008]
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The Contributors to this volume, who are predominantly African American, talk of the joys and difficulties of being both a professional social worker and a family caregiver. They provide a rare look at the emotional and organizational dynamics between individuals, couples, and families who provide care, and yet who are... more
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Jonathan Derrick
[Paperback 2008]
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In This Compelling history, Jonathan Derrick, a renowned scholar of Africa's past, recounts the opposition to British and French rule practiced both by Africans living on the continent and by European anticolonialists and members of the Black Diaspora. He covers campaigns waged by an early incarnation of the African National... more
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Valerie Alia ,
Simone Bull
[Paperback 2006]
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This Book Addresses cross-cultural representations of ethnic minority peoples throughout the world. It also looks at indigenous self-representation in the context of language, culture, and identity and the role of media in liberation struggles.... more
