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This book presents the most comprehensive study of the Waffen-SS until this date. It draws on archival studies done in more than 20 archives in 13 different countries over a period of 5 years. The gathered material comprises a wide-ranging selecti...

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Multiculturalism has been a topic of scholarly exploration for almost fifty years. Most recently, these explorations have sought to respond to growing public sentiment that the multicultural ideal, borne out of Western liberalism, has failed. Inde...

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This brilliant, vivid and impressionistic series of sketches, formed during her 1892 stay in Persia, is Gertrude Bell's first published work. Infused with a distinctive orientalism, it is an evocative, virtuosic meditation, moving sinuously betwee...

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For long, Latin America had the conceit of considering itself as "e;the middle class of nations"e;-not as rich as prosperous as the North Atlantic countries but certainly more so than those of Africa and Asia. This notion was always a bit ...

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'Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field' is the first book to use digital humanities strategies to integrate the scope and methods of book and publishing history with issues and debates in literary studies. By mining, visualising and...

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The book was conceived in 1868 by the experienced journalist and author Jerrold. The author and the famous artist Gustav Dore prowled every corner of the heaving metropolis, sometimes accompanied by plainclothes police. As Gordon Ray writes, "...

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This anthology is the first of its kind which integrates chapters on legitimizing narrative medicine in education, practice and research, on analyzing types of patient narratives and on studying interventions applying vulnerable or shared reading,...

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'Responsibility to Protect and Prevent: Principles, Promises and Practicalities' explores the evolution of responsibility to protect (R2P), a principle which - according to its supporters - has evolved into a new type of responsive norm for how th...

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The twentieth century holds many titles that emphasize the extraordinary. It was a century of totalitarianism, but also one of betrayal, an age of extremes and the incomprehensible. Betrayed, that is, at the mercy of unrestrained violence, were no...

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'The Modern State and Its Enemies' considers the historical intellectual developments that provided the fundaments of the modern state, informed the key theoretical questions arising in the democratic context (e.g., representation, participation, ...

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This collection of exercises, compiled for talented high school students, encourages creativity and a deeper understanding of ideas when solving physics problems. Described as 'far beyond high-school level', this book grew out of the idea that tea...

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Time Out of Mind is one of the most ambitious, complex, and provocative albums of Bob Dylan's artistic career. This album marks the culmination of several recurring themes that have preoccupied Dylan for decades, and it serves as a pivotal turning...

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The book presents the text of Edward FitzGerald's three main versions of 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam', together with a non-technical commentary on the background to the poem and the story of its publication. The comment deals with the many spin-...

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'The Anthem Companion to Talcott Parsons' offers the best contemporary work on Talcott Parsons, written by the best scholars currently working in this field. Original, authoritative and wide-ranging, the critical assessments of this volume will ma...

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"The 'Slumdog' Phenomenon" addresses multiple issues related to "Slumdog Millionaire" and, in the process, provides new ways of looking at this controversial film. Each of the book's four sections considers a particular aspect of the film: its rel...

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Lloyd Lewis is moving to yet another children's home, but this one is different. It seems to be cast in an unremitting, sunless winter. The staff and children are surly and aggressive, and he soon discovers why: Sarson Hall is gripped in a curse. ...

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In West Belfast in the late 1960s, Brendan OHara and his teenage son, Seamus, are drawn to the nationalist cause and join the IRA. Their obsession divides them from other members of the family, especially Seamus mother, Ruth, and his gentle younge...

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This book focuses on the Ranchi Indian Mental Hospital, the largest public psychiatric facility in colonial India during the 1920s and 1930s. It breaks new ground by offering unique material for a critical engagement with the phenomena of the 'ind...

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'Responsibility to Prevent and Protect: Principles, Promises and Practicalities' explores the evolution of Responsibility to Protect (R2P), a principle which - according to its supporters - has evolved into a new type of responsive norm regarding ...

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This book explores the history of hypertext, an influential concept that forms the underlying structure of the World Wide Web and innumerable software applications. Barnet tells both the human and the technological story by weaving together contem...

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This interactive guide serves to make glacial systems and landforms more accessible, as students use Google Earth and other satellite imagery to understand the patterns and processes found within glacial environments. Guided inquiry activities ran...

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This book explores the multiple effects of globalization on urban and rural communities, providing anthropological case studies from postsocialist Bulgaria. As globalization has been studied largely in urban contexts, the aim of this volume is to ...

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"South Asia 2060" is a dialogue among 47 experts from a diverse range of expertise and backgrounds, ranging from policymakers to academia to civil society activists and visionaries, on the likely longer-range trajectories of South Asia's future. T...

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The historical schools of economics have been neglected within economic theory since the Second World War, which is today largely dominated by classical and neoclassical thought. This book offers a revaluation of the historical-empirical approach ...

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'Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science' is an edited collection of essays from leading authorities in the field of Victorian literature and science, including Gillian Beer and George Levine. Darwin, T...

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Summer, 1914. Clara, a passionate young London wife and the mother of two small girls, is married to Henry, a manager at an insurance company, but the marriage is not in good shape. Both of them have, in their own ways, given up on it.Henry begins...

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When experienced people who have been in a steady job for years are made redundant, coming to terms with today's workplace is a major challenge. This challenge is even greater for those fresh out of college or university and who are looking to get...

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