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Examines the predicament of Western Communist Parties faced with the impact of reforms in the Soviet Union initiated by Gorbachev, the collapse of the Eastern bloc and the end of 'really existing socialism' in the USS in the USSR in the early 1990s.

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These thought-provoking analyses and policy implementations will interest scholars and students of European History and Politics, Comparative Politics, United States Foreign Policy and Defense, as well as government policy makers and decision makers in international business.

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In this text, Phil Gurski examines why some people decide to abandon their homeland to join terrorist groups, and whether they pose a significant threat to their societies if they survive and return.

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In this text, Phil Gurski examines why some people decide to abandon their homeland to join terrorist groups, and whether they pose a significant threat to their societies if they survive and return.

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Western Higher Education in Asia and the Middle East examines the emergence of the global university in the Middle East and Asia, focusing in particular on the phenomenon of branch campuses and universities with foreign accreditation.

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This book invites faculty teaching at international branch campuses (IBCs), and international institutions using western curricula, to consider the opportunities and challenges of implementing American-style education in non-western contexts.

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A high-level scholarly collection of articles on the transmission of knowledge and culture from a Mediterranean world politically fragmented by the fall of the western Roman empire and the Islamic expansion into Latin Europe, 400-800 AD

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A high-level scholarly collection of articles on the transmission of knowledge and culture from a Mediterranean world politically fragmented by the fall of the western Roman empire and Islamic expansion into Latin Europe, 400-800 AD.

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Using the framework of Edward Saids Orientalism, this work examines how Western rock and pop artistsparticularly during the age of album rock from the 1970s through the 1990sperpetuated long-held stereotypes of Japan in their direct encounters with the country and in songs and music videos with Japanese content.

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Using the framework of Edward Saids Orientalism, this work examines how Western rock and pop artistsparticularly during the age of album rock from the 1970s through the 1990sperpetuated long-held stereotypes of Japan in their direct encounters with the country and in songs and music videos with Japanese content.

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"A major contribution to translation and adaptation studies as well as to our understanding of East Asian culture and literature"--

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"A major contribution to translation and adaptation studies as well as to our understanding of East Asian culture and literature"--

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Inspired by her own contact with Africa, Caroline Oliver has written biographies of five intrepid women who traveled through the interior of Africa during colonial times. Mary Slessor, who became the first female magistrate of the Okon district of Calabar, and Mother Kevin, who established many schools throughout East Africa.

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Western Women Working in Japan is a research-based description of the work and living situations facing foreign professional women who work in Japan.

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It is a paradox that there are few monographs committed to examining Western-centrism in the discipline of (Western) political theory, an intellectual tradition that has long been proud of critical self-reflection. This book is an outgrowth of examining Western political theory and the ideational processes by which contemporary Korean political theory has interacted with it.

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Through their own experience, and through personal interviews conducted with many of the key media and political figures, the authors construct a vivid picture of how political communication is managed and the direction in which it is going.

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Through their own experience, and through personal interviews conducted with many of the key media and political figures, the authors construct a vivid picture of how political communication is managed and the direction in which it is going.

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Students and fans of the Old West will find this volume a rich source of history for this time period.

Many images and items in today's popular culture were born in the time of westward expansion.

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This bibliography brings together works on the economic and related restoration and delineation aspects of wetland resources. It includes entries on methodological aspects of wetland economics, empirical issues on wetland restoration/creation economics and delineation/definition issues.

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In Wetlands and Western Cultures: Denigration to Conservation, Rod Giblett examines the portrayal of wetlands in Western culture and argues for their conservation.

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Weyland is an epic poem telling the story of Weyland, in Norse myth a smith who is crippled and imprisoned by the mad King Nud. This version of the poem has been created by Peter Oswald, in a composition devised with the help of the renowned trumpeter Martin Holland.

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Designed around the new IRA/NCTE Standards, (reading, writing, representing, viewing, speaking, and listening) these stimulating activities applicable to a variety of novels create opportunities for students to develop their skills as readers, writers, and speakers.

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Thompson designed an empirical study to gather feedback from African-American parents on numerous issues pertaining to their children's schooling experiences.

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A new edition of the 1974 classic. A list of questions for discussion makes this an idea book for study groups as well as for individual contemplation.