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Contemporary Africa and the Foreseeable World Order brings together rich and diverse contributions from seasoned scholars from around the globe. Anchored in a wide array of disciplinary perspectives, the contributors explore the interesting and complex dynamics at play in Africas interactions with the rest of the world.

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This reference book sheds light on the achievement of African American female playwrights, both in the theatre and the literary world, including contemporary African American women dramatists within the circle of production, publication, and criticism.

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During the last two decades, African American writers have emerged as a distinct and dominant force in world literature.

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The plays included in this volume are: "Death and the King's Horseman" by Wole Soyinka; "Anowa" by Ama Ata Aidoo; "The Chattering and the Song" by Femo Osofisan; "The Rise and SHine of Comrade Fiasco" by Andrew Whalley; "Woza Albert!" by Percy Mtwa, et al; and "The Other War" by Alemseged Tesfai.

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The backmatter includes a number of appendices that allow the reader to pursue biographies of business leaders according to industry, company, location of business operations, and birthplace, along with listings of black and women business leaders.

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This volume has been written specifically for students of the U.S. system of government, and for students interested in federalism in practice.

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This volume has been written specifically for students of the U.S. system of government, and for students interested in federalism in practice.

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Contemporary American Immigrants provides an overview to the immigration history of three of the largest groups of Asian immigrants to the United States--Filipinos, Koreans, and Chinese.

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This reference highlights American women writers who continue to build upon the formerly male-dominated canon.

Included are alphabetically arranged entries for more than 60 American women writers of diverse ethnicity who wrote or published their most significant fiction after World War II.

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Contemporary Anti-Muslim Politics provides a succinct but potent critique of the foreign policies of Western nations toward majority Muslim nations. For decades, foreign policies that rely on exclusion, ghettoization, and war have triggered conflict escalation with majority Muslim nations and caused an increase in extremist activity.

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Contemporary Anti-Muslim Politics provides a succinct but potent critique of the foreign policies of Western nations toward majority Muslim nations. For decades, foreign policies that rely on exclusion, ghettoization, and war have triggered conflict escalation with majority Muslim nations and caused an increase in extremist activity.

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Describing "apocalyptic" as a rhetorical genre of discourse, Brummett examines scholarly and theological studies to demonstrate their relevance to contemporary apocalyptic, and then considers a variety of "real" apocalyptic as examples of these rhetorical discourses at work.

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Presents a comprehensive survey of the ways in which linguistics is being used by researchers in a range of interdisciplinary areas. This title also presents fresh research in the 'traditional' areas of applied linguistics, including multilingualism, language education, teacher-learner relationships, and assessment.

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Presents a comprehensive survey of the ways in which linguistics is being used by researchers in a wide-range of interdisciplinary areas. This book presents an overview of various applications of linguistics to such diverse fields as economics, law, religion, tourism, media studies and health care.

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Using Cyprus as a case study, this edited volume explores notions of the global and the local, identity, and regionalism in contemporary art practices.

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Asia produces more films than any other part of the world. With chapters on Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Korea, Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan, this book analyzes key films in the context of the national, the regional and the global.

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With chapters on Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and others, this book presents an assessment of contemporary Asian cinema. Each chapter describes the cultural aspects of popular film production, analyzing key films in the context of the national, the regional and the global.