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By taking an unorthodox approach towards three phenomena that have changed considerably during the past thirty years, this book reveals through conceptual analysis that the three are both private and public, humiliating and empowering, and backward and progressive, and can ultimately be traced by similar social and psychological patterns.

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Velocity is a wildly theatrical, irreverently funny, horrifying European premiere from multi-award-winning Canadian playwright Daniel Macdonald.

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This comprehensive overview of Venezuelan history, culture, and politics is designed to ground the high school student's knowledge of the crucial role of the nation on the international scene.

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A study of the land, people, and politics of Venezuela.

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The material in this book covers more than three decades of exchanges between Betancourt and Robert Alexander, presenting details of Betancourt's career and the evolution of his thinking.

The material begins with Alexander's first meeting with Betancourt, in 1948, and continues up until the political leader's death forty years later.

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In Venezuelan Stick Fighting: The Civilizing Process in Martial Arts, Michael J. Ryan examines the modern and historical role of the secretive tradition of stick fighting within rural Venezuela.

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This work demonstrates the ways in which a complex of ideas with a misogynistic basis relates to the image of the venomous woman--the woman who uses poisons or potions, who has a relationship with a venomous animal, or who is herself poisonous. Hallissy suggests that the venomous woman is an image of feminine power reflected in masculine fear.

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A major theme of the book is that, not only is innovation crucial for U.S. multinationals to survive competition abroad, but that such innovation is increasingly being effected in U.S. subsidiaries overseas following the lead of most Western European multinationals and, to a lesser degree, their Japanese counterparts.

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Tells the life stories of the sisters who came into professional tennis at the end of the 20th century with a force never seen before in the sport. Shares their stories and encourages the reader to consider the impact of race, gender and culture on sport.

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This brave and uncompromising play questions the validity of the myth of the martyred soldier and the true worth of survival for those left behind.

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A study of verbal interaction and development in families with adolescents. Topics covered include: the transformation of mother-daughter relationships in late childhood; the development of adolescent autonomy; and experiments with the role-playing method in the study of interactive behaviour.

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A study of verbal interaction and development in families with adolescents. Topics covered include: the transformation of mother-daughter relationships in late childhood; the development of adolescent autonomy; and experiments with the role-playing method in the study of interactive behaviour.

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Verbal Transformation, Despair, and Hope in The Waste Land argues a prosodically explainable literary case regarding how a hidden phenomenon of verbal transformation serendipitously turns the conspicuous message of despair into the message of hope hidden in the text of The Waste Land.

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Fighting insurgents has always been one of the greatest challenges for regular armed forces during the 20th century. The war between the Germans and the French resistance, also called FFI, during World War II has remained a near-forgotten chapter in the history of these 'Small Wars'. This title includes a discussion about this battle.

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The right to a jury trial is a fundamental feature of the American justice system. In recent years, however, aspects of the civil jury system have increasingly come under attack.

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An account of the 1916 Battle of Verdun, the bloodiest battle between the French and German forces during World War I. It explores the origins of the battle, the German and the French armies, their plans, and the battle and its aftermath, and takes a look at the battlefield today.

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While neither Kate Chopin nor Edith Wharton can be called feminist writers, each did produce female moral art, writings that focus relentlessly on the dialectics of social relations and the position of women therein.

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Selected by a panel of judges which included Times drama critic Irving Wardle and Adrian Mole creator Sue Townsend, Releevo, by a previously unperformed author, was the outright winner of the third Verity Bargate Award, established specifically to encourage new writers.

An essential collection of key readings and foundational sources in the study of the world's vernacular and traditional building cultures.

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"Reimagines the vernacular as a critical concept for rethinking world literatures"--