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A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream (Book)

Mark Gevisser

ISBN:9780230619999

In this gripping social history of South Africa, award-winning journalist Mark Gevisser follows the family of former South African President Thabo Mbeki to make sense of his legacy and understand the future of the country under new President Jacob Zuma. With unparalleled access to Mbeki and Zuma...more details
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Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses (Book)

Birgit Meyer

ISBN:9780230622296

The central theme of this volume is the incorporation of newly accessible mass media into practices of religious mediation in a variety of settings...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:292

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Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education (Book)

Melanie Walker

ISBN:9780230104594

This compelling book introduces Nobel laureate, Amartya Sen's, capability approach, and explores its significance for theory, policy and practice in education. The capability approach has attracted attention across disciplinary boundaries in recent years contributing to debates in economics...more details
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Arab Voices: What They Are Saying to Us, and Why It Matters (Book)

James Zogby

ISBN:9780230102996

The Middle East is a region that has been vastly misunderstood in the West. It is a part of the world in which we plan to abolish terrorism and encourage ambitious democratic reform...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:248

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Brazil on the Rise: How a Nation of Samba and Soccer Became the Next Superpower (Book)

Larry Rohter

ISBN:9780230618879

Two decades ago Brazil had a debt that made some Third World countries blush, but today it has the world's eighth largest economy, poised to overtake France. It has achieved energy independence and...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:304

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Capital Rising: How Capital Flows Are Changing Business Systems All Over the World (Book)

Peter Cohan

ISBN:9780230612310

"Capital Rising" looks at globalization in a new way, namely, through the lens of global capital flows.  These flows create new opportunities and threats for business-- compelling them to rethink fundamental strategic choices such as where to perform activities...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:268

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Consumed: Rethinking Business in the Age of the Mindful Shopper (Book)

Andrew Benett

ISBN:9780230101784

"Consumed" is a forward-thinking look at how shoppers--and consumption--have changed, now and for the foreseeable future, and how businesses must rethink their strategies in order to thrive in this new economic landscape...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:242

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Crossing Sex and Gender in Latin America (Book)

Vek Lewis

ISBN:9780230104020

Signifying "others" or signs of life? This book critically examines the ways in which crossing sex and gender is imagined in key cultural texts from contemporary Latin America. Unlike previous studies...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:282

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Cuba in the Special Period: Culture and Ideology in the 1990s (Book)

Ariana Hernandez-Reguant

ISBN:9780230104792

This collection is a multidisciplinary evaluation of the impact of market reforms in Cuba's cultural policies and practices after the fall of the Soviet bloc. Anthropologists...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:226

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Culture,Identity,and Islamic Schooling (Book)

Michael S Merry

ISBN:9780230103535

In light of the growing phenomenon of Islamic schools in the United States and Europe, this compelling study outlines whether these schools share similar traits with other religious schools...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:248

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Custer: Lessons in Leadership (Book)

Duane Schultz

ISBN:9780230617087

Colorful, charismatic, and controversial, George Armstrong Custer became a national hero at the age of 23 when he was promoted to the rank of general--barely two years after graduating at the bottom of his class from West Point. Dubbed the "Boy General" by the press...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:224

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Dreaming of Eden (Book)

Thistlethwaite Susan Brooks

ISBN:9780230107809

The Reverend Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, Chicago Theological Seminary. Thistlethwaite offers a new perspective for how Americans can understand themselves as a nation and their roles in their community and the world. She offers the novel and arresting thesis that the American concept of exceptional innocence...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:228

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Emptying the Nest: Launching Your Young Adult Toward Success and Self-Reliance (Book)

Brad Sachs

ISBN:9780230620582

Drawing on Dr. Sachs' extensive clinical experience and his illuminating discussion of the latest psychological research, Emptying the Nest will support parents in their efforts to cultivate their young adult's success and self-reliance while simultaneously maintaining healthy family relationships....more details
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Engaging the Muslim World (Book)

Juan Cole

ISBN:9780230102750

With clarity and concision, Juan Cole disentangles the key foreign policy issues that America is grappling with today--from our dependence on Middle East petroleum to the promotion of Islamophobia by the American right--and delivers his informed advice on the best way forward...more details
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Evo Morales: The Extraordinary Rise of the First Indigenous President of Bolivia (Book)

Martin Sivak

ISBN:9780230623057

The fascinating Bolivian president Evo Morales is vying with the brash and provocative leader of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, to be the most influential figure in South American politics today. Since coming into office four years ago...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:241

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Feminist Theory In Pursuit of the Public (Book)

Goodman Robin Truth

ISBN:9780230616417

"Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public "argues that feminism needs to develop a theory of the public. The waning of power in the public sphere diminishes the influence that citizens can have in deciding on the conditions of life...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:263

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Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: Medieval Studies and New Media (Book)

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ISBN:9780230105072

"Medieval Studies and New Media "presents all of the most memorable posts of the medievalist internet phenomenon "Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:197

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Green Writing (Book)

James McKusick

ISBN:9780230105614

This book describes the emergence of ecological understanding among the English Romantic poets, arguing that this new holistic paradigm offered a conceptual and ideological basis for American environmentalism. McKusick reveals the ways in which writers such as Coleridge...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:265

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Haiti (Book)

Girard Philippe

ISBN:9780230106611

Why has Haiti been plagued by so many woes? Why have multiple U.S. efforts to create a stable democracy in Haiti failed so spectacularly? Philippe Girard answers these and other questions...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:248

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Headless Horsemen: A Tale of Chemical Colts, Subprime Sales Agents, and the Last Kentucky Derby on Steroids (Book)

Jim Squires

ISBN:9780805092479

"An insider's stunning account of the corrupt practices that threaten both the horses and the game . . . an engrossing read." --"Minneapolis Star-Tribune"""

Jim Squires was in trouble. He was in the horse business...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:249

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Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S. (Book)

Amira Jarmakani

ISBN:9780230103306

Winner of the 2008 National Women's Studies Association Gloria Anzaldua prize

"Imagining Arab Womanhood" examines orientalist images of Arab womanhood in the United States since the turn of the twentieth century...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:236

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In Your Face: The New Science of Human Attraction (Book)

David Perrett

ISBN:9780230201293

In our daily lives, in our memories and fantasies, our mental worlds overflow with faces. But what do we really know about this most remarkable feature of the human body? Why do we have faces at all...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:305

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Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism (Book)

M Shahid Alam

ISBN:9780230619982

This book discerns in the history of Zionism the plot of a Shakespearean tragedy.

A small band of European Zionists enters the world stage in late 19th century...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:272

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Jews and Money (Book)

Abe Foxman

ISBN:9780230623859

In the wake of Bernie Madoff's ruinous investment schemes, Abe Foxman takes a cultural and political look at the many variations throughout history of the assumptions made about Jews and money...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:256

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Leading the Charge: Leadership Lessons from the Battlefield to the Boardroom (Book)

Tony Zinni

ISBN:9780230103313

"What's happened to our leaders and to our leadership?"
Based on General Zinni's leadership experiences from the battlefield to the boardroom...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:256

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Lebanon: Liberation, Conflict, and Crisis (Book)

Barry Rubin

ISBN:9780230623064

No country in the world has more political battles, military conflicts, and ethnic complexity per person and per square mile than does Lebanon. Continually for fifty years...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:244

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Manipulating Masculinity: War and Gender in Modern British and American Literature (Book)

Kathy J Phillips

ISBN:9780230623033

"Manipulating Masculinity" uses literature from World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq wars to argue that when a society labels certain human traits "feminine...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:233

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Marshall: Lessons in Leadership (Book)

H Paul Jeffers

ISBN:9780230614161

Of all the honored military commanders in American history, George C. Marshall is the only one who never led a large force in the field. Yet he came close to receiving the most coveted post of all--Supreme Commander of the Allied force that invaded France on the most famous of all D-Days...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:204

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Montgomery: Lessons in Leadership from the Soldier's General (Book)

Trevor Royle

ISBN:9780230614895

Bernard Law Montgomery was a dedicated battlefield tactician, though a controversial one. In North Africa in 1942, he commanded the Eighth Army to a great triumph against Rommel at El Alamein...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:200

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Muslim and Christian Understanding (Book)

Waleed El-Ansary

ISBN:9780230104426

This book explores "A Common Word Between Us and You," a high-level ongoing Christian-Muslim dialogue process. The Common Word process was commenced by leading Islamic scholars and intellectuals as outreach in response to the Pope's much criticized Regensburg address of 2007...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:289

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My Nigeria: Five Decades of Independence (Book)

Peter Cunliffe-Jones

ISBN:9780230620230

His nineteenth-century cousin, paddled ashore by slaves, twisted the arms of tribal chiefs to sign away their territorial rights in the oil-rich Niger Delta. Sixty years later...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:238

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Neoconservatism and the New American Century (Book)

RyanMaria

ISBN:9780230104679

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Format:Hardcover  Pages:273

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New Challenges of North Korean Foreign (Book)

Kyung-Ae Park

ISBN:9780230103634

North Korea’s foreign policy behavior has long intrigued scholars, puzzled laymen, frustrated negotiators, and aggravated policy-makers...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:231

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Peace Philosophy in Action (Book)

Candice C Carter

ISBN:9780230622401

This book documents recent and historical events in the theoretically-based practice of peace development. Its diverse collection of essays describes different aspects of applied philosophy in peace action...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:242

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Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World (Book)

Eugenie Samuel Reich

ISBN:9780230623842

Highly regarded science journalist Eugenie Samuel Reich recounts the case of wunderkind physicist Jan Hendrik Schon, who faked the discovery of a new superconductor at the world famous Bell Laboratories. Many of the world's top scientific journals and experts...more details
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Robert E. Lee: Lessons in Leadership (Book)

Noah Andre Trudeau

ISBN:9780230103443

General Robert E. Lee was a complicated man and military figure--a tragic hero of a lost war. Here, for the first time, Noah Andre Trudeau follows the general's Civil War path with a special emphasis on Lee's changing set of personal values as the conflict wended through four bloody years...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:234

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Teaching Transformation: Transcultural Classroom Dialogues (Book)

AnaLouise Keating

ISBN:9780230104907

Drawing on indigenous belief systems and recent work in critical "race" studies and multicultural-feminist theory, Keating provides detailed step-by-step suggestions...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:276

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The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution (Book)

Timothy Taylor

ISBN:9780230617636

While Darwin's theory explains our common descent, scientists have grappled with the reasons why human evolution defies the principles of natural selection and why...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:244

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The Green Workplace: Sustainable Strategies That Benefit Employees, the Environment, and the Bottom Line (Book)

Leigh Stringer

ISBN:9780230103368

As 21st-century companies realize they'll need to be green to compete, sustainable ideas are spreading like wildfire throughout all fields of modern business. In "The Green Workplace...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:236

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The House Advantage: Playing the Odds to Win Big in Business (Book)

Jeffrey Ma

ISBN:9780230622722

As part of the notorious MIT Team depicted in Ben Mezrich's now classic "Bringing Down the House," Jeff Ma used math and statistics to master the game of blackjack and reap handsome rewards at casinos. Years later...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:243

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The Kennedy Legacy: Jack, Bobby and Ted and a Family Dream Fulfilled (Book)

Vincent Bzdek

ISBN:9780230623866

The closing of Ted Kennedy's chapter in America's political and cultural life means that, for the first time perhaps, the real measure of the Kennedy legacy can finally be taken. John...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:272

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The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates and Race, Class and Crime in America (Book)

Charles Ogletree

ISBN:9780230103269

Shortly after noon on Tuesday, July 16, 2009, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., MacArthur Fellow and Harvard professor, was mistakenly arrested by Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley for attempting to break into his own home. The ensuing media firestorm ignited debate across the country. The Crowley-Gates incident was a clash of absolutes...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:256

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Tibet Unconquered: The Epic Struggle for Independence (Book)

Diane Wolff

ISBN:9780230622739

East Asia expert Diane Wolff explores the vast history of Chinese-Tibetan relations, tracing the long and tangled history of the two nations from the days of the Mongol invasion...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:248

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Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture (Book)

Steven T Brown

ISBN:9780230103603

Engaging some of the most canonical and thought-provoking anime, manga, and science fiction films, "Tokyo Cyberpunk" offers insightful analysis of Japanese visual culture. Stephen Brown draws new conclusions about the cultural flow of art...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:256

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What Environmentalists Need to Know about Economics (Book)

ScorseJason

ISBN:9780230107311

Provides a conceptual set of tools for how to approach environmental issues in a rigorous and thoughtful manner, based on an analysis of incentives...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:226

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When the Luck of the Irish Ran Out: The Dramatic Rise and Fall of the Celtic Tiger (Book)

David Lynch

ISBN:9780230102736

Few countries have been as dramatically transformed in recent years as Ireland. Once a culturally repressed land shadowed by terrorism and on the brink of economic collapse...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:248

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When the Rivers Ran Red: An Amazing Story of Courage and Triumph in America's Wine Country (Book)

Vivienne Sosnowski

ISBN:9780230103375

Today, millions of people around the world enjoy California's legendary wines, unaware that 90 years ago the families who made these wines--and in many cases still do - turned to struggle and subterfuge to save the industry we now cherish. When Prohibition took effect in 1919...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:228

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White House Diary (Book)

Jimmy Carter

ISBN:9780374280994

The edited, annotated diary of President Jimmy Carter--filled with insights into his presidency, his relationships with friends and foes, and his lasting impact on issues that still preoccupy America and the world
Each day during his presidency...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:570

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Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters (Book)

Peter Langman

ISBN:9780230101487

In the horrific aftermath of school shootings, distraught communities struggle to make sense of these seemingly senseless acts. Despite massive media coverage...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:231

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Why We Hate the Oil Companies: Straight Talk from an Energy Insider (Book)

John Hofmeister

ISBN:9780230102088

As president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister was known for being a straight shooter, willing to challenge his peers throughout the industry. Now...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:249

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