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  • - Phenomenology and Phantasmatology
    av Rodolphe Gasche
    335,99

    The book situates the philosophical significance of Bataille's anthropological reflections within the fourfold made up by the names of Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud.

  • - Human Rights Advocacy in Practice
    av Jo Becker
    319 - 1 235

    Explores the strategies behind some of the most innovative human rights campaigns and exciting human rights victories of recent years.

  • - The Rise and Fall of State-Sponsored Militias
    av Ariel I. Ahram
    295,-

    The book explains why some Third World states have centralized, conventional military forces while others rely on militias, paramilitaries, and other non-state actors using detailed case studies of Indonesia, Iraq, and Iran and offers policy recommendations for dealing with weak states based on this analysis.

  • - Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq
    av Orit Bashkin
    335

    Chronicling the rise of the Iraqi public sphere from 1921 to 1958, The Other Iraq reveals Iraqi intellectuals' democratic and pluralistic ideals, deconstructing the notion that Iraq has always been a totalitarian, artificial state, torn by sectarian violence.

  • - From Pacifism to Realism?
    av Paul Midford
    1 375

    Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security argues that Japanese public opinion matters and has acted to prevent overseas military deployments involving combat while increasingly supportive of a more normal military establishment capable of autonomously defending Japanese territory.

  • - Change and Continuity in Asian International Relations Since World War II
    av Alice Lyman Miller & Richard Wich
    1 459

    This student-friendly text details the fascinating history of how Asia has evolved from being little more than a geographic expression to becoming a vibrant, assertive region with an increasing impact on global political, economic, and security affairs.

  • - The Politics of Equitable Development in Southeast Asia
    av Erik Martinez Kuhonta
    389

    This book is a comparative-historical study of the politics of equitable development in Southeast Asia and the role of political institutions in addressing structural inequalities.

  • - A Practitioner's Toolkit
    av Richard Hummelbrunner & Bob Williams
    615

    Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit offers out a wide range of systems methods to help readers investigate, evaluate and intervene in complex messy situations.

  • - Youth Migration, Heroin, and AIDS in Southwest China
    av Shao-hua Liu
    305,-

    Passage to Manhood is a groundbreaking and beautifully written ethnography that addresses the intersection of modernity, heroin use, and AIDS as they intersect in a new "rite-of-passage" among young ethnic-minority males in contemporary China.

  • - The Impact of Cultural Factors on the Revolution in Military Affairs in Russia, the US, and Israel.
    av Dima Adamsky
    335

    This book studies the impact of cultural factors on the course of military innovations.

  • - Autonomy, Dignity, and Character
    av Mark White
    679

    This book integrates the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant-particularly the concepts of autonomy, dignity, and character-into economic theory, enriching models of individual choice and policymaking, while contributing to our understanding of how the economic individual fits into society.

  • - In Defense of Literature
    av Gregory Jusdanis
    315,-

    Fiction Agonistes defends literature as a space where we experience the difference between living and imagining, life and life-like, reality and invention.

  • - U.S.-Korea Relations in a New Era
    av Gi-Wook Shin
    1 305

    Using newly collected data from American and Korean newspapers, this book examines relations between the United States and South Korea from 1992 to 2003, a particularly contentious period in the history of the two allies.

  • - Change and Reform Under Blair and Brown
    av Patrick Le Gales & Florence Faucher-King
    293

    The book provides a clear assessment of the New Labour governments in Britain, when Tony Blair then Gordon Brown were Prime Ministers between 1997 and 2009. This assessment is based upon a review of implemented public policies and their outcomes instead of programmes or discourses.

  • - Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization
    av Michael Rothberg
    385

    Multidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time to put forward a new theory of cultural memory and uncover an unacknowledged tradition of exchange between the legacies of genocide and colonialism.

  • - An Anthropology of Human Rights
    av Mark Goodale
    295 - 1 389

    A broad and ambitious reexamination of anthropology's potential and obligation to transform human rights theory and practice.

  • av Kaja Silverman
    405

    Through a wide-ranging discussion, that extends from Ovid and Leonardo da Vinci to Gerhard Richter, and from philosophy and literature to time-based art, Kaja Silverman shows that the master myth of Western subjectivity is the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, not that of Oedipus, and this Janus-faced myth has the capacity both to destroy and to save us.

  • - The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism
    av Susan Wolfson
    319,-

    Shows how senses of gender shape and get shaped by sign systems that prove arbitrary, fluid, and susceptible of lively transformation.

  • - Sovereignty, Civil Society, Culture
    av Helen M. Stacy
    315 - 1 235

    Considers the legal, moral and pragmatic issues at stake when international standards of human rights are trumped by culture and politics, and proposes new approaches to fill the gaps in current human rights theories and practice, namely relational sovereignty, reciprocal adjudication, and regional human rights courts.

  • - For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government
    av Giorgio Agamben
    349,-

    Arguing that Western power is both "government" and "glory," this book reveals the "theological-economic" paradigm at the origin of several of the most important components of modern politics and illuminates the function of consent and the media in today's democracies.

  • - International Norm Adoption and Compliance in Japan
    av Petrice R. Flowers
    735

    Refugees, Women, and Weapons examines the role of domestic advocates, state identity and domestic norms in Japan's counterintuitive adoption of and compliance with three treaties-related to women's rights, refugee protection, and land mines-whose international normative framework conflict with Japan's domestic norms.

  • - The Exploitation and Transformation of a Stereotype in Gogol, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky
    av Gary Rosenshield
    935

    Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky and the Ridiculous Jew: A Study in the Exploitation and Transformation of the Jewish Stereotype is a study devoted to exploring the dynamic use of a Russian version of the Jewish stereotype (the ridiculous Jew) in the works of three of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century.

  • - Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900-1950
    av Ellen Widmer & Daniel Bays
    1 679

    A new generation of China scholars offers a fresh look at the unusual cross-cultural territory constituted by China's missionary-established Christian colleges before 1950 in this fascinating work.

  • - Race, Religion, Literature
    av Gil Anidjar
    255

    This book is a collection of essays about the invention-and disappearance-of the 'Semites' and the lingering effects, both institutional and theologico-political, of this invention.

  • av Jose van Dijck
    335

    This book studies how our personal memory is transformed as a result of technological and cultural transformations: digital photo cameras, camcorders, and multimedia computers inevitably change the way we remember and affect conventional forms of recollection.

  • - The Political and Cultural Struggle over Early Education
    av Bruce Fuller
    979

    This book examines the universal preschool movement-its growth, its proponents and opponents, and how preschools have become a popular element of school reform.

  • - Indigenous Politics in Postmulticultural Bolivia
    av Nancy Grey Postero
    1 659

    The book traces current Indian activism in Bolivia, arguing that a new social formation is emerging to challenge racism and the harsh effects of the dominant neoliberal economic model.

  • av Benjamin Harshav & Barbara Harshav
    279

    The book provides a lucid and systematic theory of the work of literature and its major aspects.

  • - The Jurisprudence of Popular Culture
    av William P. MacNeil
    349,-

    Talks about jurisprudence - or legal philosophy. This book attempts not only a jurisprudential reading of popular culture, but a popular rereading of jurisprudence, removing it from the legal experts in order to restore it to the public at large: a lex populi by and for the people.

  • - Indigenous Analysis of Social and Environmental Relations in New Guinea
    av Stuart Kirsch
    329

    Stuart Kirsch is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He has consulted widely on environmental issues and land rights in the Pacific, and was actively involved in the political campaign and legal case against the environmental impact of the Ok Tedi mine in Papua New Guinea.

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