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  • Bootycandy
    Robert O'Hara / Robert O’Hara
    'Tells the story of Sutter, who is on an outrageous odyssey through his childhood home, his church, dive bars, motel rooms, and even nursing homes. O’Hara weaves together scenes, sermons, sketches, and daring meta-theatrics to create a kaleidoscope that interconnects to portray growing up gay and black. O’Hara’s uproarious satire crashes headlong into the murky terrain of pain ...
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    17,75 €

  • The Economics of Disability
    This book brings together research relating to the economics of disability in Ireland in order to provide evidence that can help improve disability policies, services and supports. In doing so, it addresses a number of key questions of relevance to the economic circumstances of people with disabilities, with particular emphasis on the relationship between disability and social ...
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    169,86 €

  • India in a globalized world
    Sagarika Dutt
    An explanation of how India has been affected by the different phases of globalization ...
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    35,91 €

  • Psychosocial Stress and Cardiovascular Disease in Women
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    135,02 €

  • Masquerade
    Deborah Bell
    In its conventional meaning, masquerade refers to a festive gathering of people wearing masks and elegant costumes. But traditional forms of masquerade have evolved over the past century to include the representation of alternate identities in the media and venues of popular culture, including television, film, the internet, theater, museums, sports arenas, popular magazines...
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    58,77 €

  • The World’s Population
    Fred Shelley
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    142,53 €

  • Assistive Technologies for Physical and Cognitive Disabilities
    Lau Bee Theng
    Research on assistive technologies is undergoing many developments in its effectiveness in helping those with varying impairments. New technologies are constantly being created, researched, and implemented for those who need these technological aides in daily life. Assistive Technologies for Physical and Cognitive Disabilities combines worldwide cases on people with physical an...
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    268,95 €

  • The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s
    Mariah Adin
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    69,64 €

  • Revolvers and Pistolas, Vaqueros and Caballeros
    D. Figueredo / DFigueredo
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    82,21 €

  • Human remains and mass violence
    Multidisciplinary in scope, this volume will appeal to readers interested in an understanding of mass violence’s aftermath, including researchers in history, anthropology, sociology, law, politics and modern warfare. ...
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    169,83 €

  • Japan’s ASEAN Policy
    Sueo Sudo
    The central puzzle in the study of Japanese foreign policy has been why Japan has continued to play a passive role in international affairs, despite its impressive economic and political power. Challenging this central puzzle, the core argument of this study is to present an alternative path for the study of Japanese foreign policy. In fact, in recent years Japanese foreign pol...
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    36,57 €

  • Migrant Entrepreneurship Collective Violence and Xenophobia in South Africa
    Jonathan Crush / Sujata Ramachandran
    This report focuses on the chronology and geography of collective violence against migrant entrepreneurs since South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994. The overall aim of the research was to document and create a chronological account of attacks on migrant businesses, to categorise the types and frequency of attacks and to map the locations where such events occurred....
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    42,47 €

  • Gender and Citizenship in the Global Age
    One of the major issues this book examines is what the African experience and identity have contributed to the debate on citizenship in the era of globalisation. This volume presents case studies of different African contexts, illustrating the gendered aspects of citizenship as experienced by African men and women. Citizenship carries manifold gendered aspects and given the dis...
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    61,01 €

  • Fiesta de diez pesos
    Moshe Morad
    The ’Special Period’ in Cuba was an extended era of economic depression starting in the early 1990s, characterised by the collapse of revolutionary values and social norms, and a way of life conducted by improvised solutions for survival. In the course of eight visits between 1995 and 2007 Moshe Morad became absorbed in Havana’s thriving, yet necessarily clandestine, gay scene,...
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    240,68 €

  • The Adventures of Yazzy and AJ
    Cheryl Allie
    Yazzy imagines her dad as a little boy in Freetown, Sierra Leone. She often asks what was this place that holds the answer to so many of her questions about her family’s history? The springtime visit to Sapelo Island was far beyond AJ and Yazzy’s imagination! They couldn’t believe that there was so much history on the island! The best part of the visit was learning that the peo...
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    25,77 €

  • The East Is Black
    Robeson Taj Frazier
    During the Cold War, several prominent African American radical activist-intellectuals-including W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois, journalist William Worthy, Marxist feminist Vicki Garvin, and freedom fighters Mabel and Robert Williams-traveled and lived in China. There, they used a variety of media to express their solidarity with Chinese communism and to redefine the relatio...
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    36,33 €

  • Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites
    Susan Ferentinos
    LGBT individuals and families are increasingly visible in popular culture and local communities; their struggles for equality appear regularly in news media. Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites provides a straightforward, accessible guidebook for museum and history professionals as they embark on such worthy efforts. ...
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    143,20 €

  • Arresting Dress
    Clare Sears
    In 1863, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors passed a law that criminalized appearing in public in 'a dress not belonging to his or her sex.' Adopted as part of a broader anti-indecency campaign, the cross-dressing law became a flexible tool for policing multiple gender transgressions, facilitating over one hundred arrests before the century’s end. Over forty U.S. cities passe...
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    32,96 €

  • Victorians on Screen
    Iris Kleinecke-Bates
    Victorians on Screen investigates the representation of the Victorian age on British television from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. Structured around key areas of enquiry specific to British television, it avoids a narrow focus on genre by instead taking a thematic approach and exploring notions of authenticity, realism and identity. ...
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    65,17 €

  • Fairy Tale and Film
    Sue Short
    Sue Short examines how fairy tale tropes have been reworked in contemporary film, identifying familiar themes in a range of genres - including rom coms, crime films and horror - and noting key similarities and differences between the source narratives and their offspring. ...
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    65,23 €

  • The Origins of Himalayan Studies
    David Waterhouse
    Brian Hodgson lived in Nepal from 1820 to 1843 during which time he wrote and published extensively on Nepalese culture, religion, natural history, architecture, ethnography and linguistics. Specialist contributors critically examine Hodgson’s life and his achievements. ...
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    80,91 €

  • The Mark of Oppression
    Abram Kardiner / Lionel Ovesey
    2014 Reprint of 1951 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In this volume the authors have provided what has now become a classic psychodynamic analysis of Black American adaptation that provides a clear understanding of why Black Americans react to many situations in the way that they do. This careful scientific...
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    23,21 €

  • Political Economy of News in China
    Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman
    Hearns-Branaman presents a full-scale application of Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model to the People’s Republic of China, examining the effects of concentrated media ownership, profit motive, the influence of advertisers and flak-generating groups, sourcing patterns of media, and dominant ideology. ...
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    123,92 €

  • Identities on the Move
    The development of new sexualities and gender identities has become a crucial issue in the field of literary and cultural studies in the first years of the twenty-first century. The roles of gender and sexual identities in the struggle for equality have become a major concern in both fields. The legacy of this process has its origins in the last decades of the nineteenth centur...
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    148,35 €

  • Irregularization of Migration in Contemporary Europe
    This carefully curated collection addresses the intertwined political, legal, cultural, and normative dimensions of the irregularization of migration. ...
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    187,14 €

  • The Foreign Policies of Post-Yugoslav States
    The post-Yugoslav states have developed very differently since Yugoslavia dissolved in the early 1990s. This book analyzes the foreign policies of the post-Yugoslav states, thereby focusing on the main goals, actors, decision-making processes and influences on the foreign policies of these countries. ...
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    65,01 €

  • Depoliticising Migration
    A. Pécoud
    Migration has become, since the nineties, the subject of growing international discussion and cooperation. By critically analyzing the reports produced by international organisations on migration, this book sheds light on the way these actors frame migration and develop their recommendations on how it should be governed. ...
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    48,57 €

  • The Politics of Trade and Tobacco Control
    Holly Jarman
    This book uses the concept of political conflict to examine the effects of globalization on tobacco control policies. Analyzing a range of challenges to policies enacted by Australia, Canada, the United States, the European Union and Uruguay, the book examines how the global trading system has narrowed the scope of conflicts over tobacco control. ...
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    65,61 €

  • Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilisation
    Peter I. Barta
    Considers gender and sexuality in Russia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters examine gender and sexuality through history, art, folklore, philosophy or literature, and are also grouped according to the arguments they develop. ...
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    88,94 €

  • Reframing Disability?
    This book explores the predominant narratives surrounding the Paralympics, examining media coverage of the event, the audience response (both among disabled and non-disabled audiences), and asking to what degree the event inspired societal changes (especially for disabled people). ...
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    254,33 €


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