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This book explores the lessons of recent wars as a way to understand continuity and change in the conduct of war.

This book is about the historical influence insurance has had on American culture.

China's future is neither inevitable nor immutable: it will be shaped by the choices made to address the multiple interlinked challenges that it faces.

"This richly illustrated and highly readable book offers a history of changing trends in amateur and commercial photography from the medium's invention until the present day"--

This Stanford Brief provides a concise overview of capitalism, the most powerful force in modern society.

"Drawing on case studies from infrastructure, health, housing, education and vernacular multi-media initiatives across regional and remote Australia, Lea asks a beguilingly simple question: can there be good Indigenous social policy under liberal settler colonialism?"--

This book offers an up-to-date, in-depth exploration of current Japanese business strategies and management practices, laying out the business foundations that make Japan a leading player in both the global supply chain and the upcoming digital transformation.

Partisan Aesthetics explores art's entanglements with conjunctural and climactic histories of late-colonial and postcolonial India, to foreground political, social, and intellectual formations of modern art during India's long decolonization.

"Stepchildren of the Shtetl considers marginal peoples in East European Jewish society and culture--the disabled, mentally ill, and indigent--and how stereotypes and self-perceptions of Jewish marginality have in turn shaped modern Jewish culture, society, and politics"--

"Queer Alliances investigates coalition formation in the U.S among LGBTQ, immigrant, and labor rights activists, showing how these new alliances reveal their enduring (or not) impact within each respective rights-based movement"--

A flight manual for leveraging advanced technology in long-term investing.

"Trading Life investigates the emergence and evolution of the organ trade in Cairo, Egypt, based on interviews with organ sellers and brokers"--

This book relates a society's prospects for economic and political development to basic types of collective action problems that correspond to particular configurations of institutional systems.

This book is a riveting look at the real reasons Americans feel inadequate in the face of their dreams, and a call to celebrate how we support one another in service of family and work in our daily life.

This is a study of higher education in the world's four largest developing economies-Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Already important players globally, by mid-century, they are likely to be economic powerhouses. But whether they reach that level of development will depend in part on how successfully they create quality higher education that puts their labor forces at the cutting edge of the information society.Using an empirical, comparative approach, this book develops a broad picture of the higher education system in each country in the context of both global and local forces. The authors offer insights into how differing socioeconomic and historic patterns of change and political contexts influence developments in higher education. In asking why each state takes the approach that it does, this work situates a discussion of university expansion and quality in the context of governments' educational policies and reflects on the larger struggles over social goals and the distribution of national resources.

What is meant by being human? What are the grounds on which to justify a human being's claim to being human? Is it not conceivable that our entire civilization is built upon a misinterpretation of man? Or that the tragedy of man is due to the fact that he is a being who has forgotten the question: Who is Man? This book deals with these questions.