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This book aims to use soccer as a tool to understand key elements of Brazils history from the overthrow of the Monarchy in 1889 to the 1930 Revolution that brought Getulio Vargas to power the so-called First Republic.

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'Social Thought and Rival Claims to the Moral Ideal of Dignity' deals with the legacy from the classical literature of philosophy and sociology of the theorization of the idea and ideal of dignity, which is explored in the wider context of morality, ethics and the basis of the normative order.

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This book addresses the major challenge for HIV prevention: that is, to reach beyond the limitations of biomedical approaches to disease and to design prevention strategies informed by and connected with the social realities of peoples lives.

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This collection on the export of Socialist Realism into Central and Eastern Europe after WWII is the first work on the subject which offers an in-depth analysis of the particularities of distinct national and cultural contexts and explores complexities of the cultural Sovietisation of the region.

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The book examines the world of sociology and its global features and trends. It coversthemes such as: sociologies in the world, major research areas in sociology, collaborationand interdisciplinarity, and contemporary challenges, pertinent issues and debates.

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This book offers a series of critical discussions of how sociology is responding to the challenges of globalization, to local counter-reactions to them, to the many ways the global impacts our lives, and to the new questions about research this poses.

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With the US as the world's most prominent climate change outlaw, "Sophisticated Interdependence in Climate Policy" offers a unique combination of state-level analysis, international comparison and domestic policy prescription, pointing the way to a productive federal-state partnership for climate change policymaking in the United States.

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This book is about the presence of music in novels. More specifically, about music in the early modern novel, with an emphasis on seventeenth-century prose from The Netherlands. The essay provides a concise and an accessible introduction into the subject and presents an overview of this compelling new research area.

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This volume explores the development and application of Responsibility to Protect (R2P), a principle which - according to its supporters - has evolved into a new type of responsive norm regarding how the international community should react to serious and deliberate human rights violations.

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This book examines the rise of South-South economic relations while including a historical, theoretical, and empirical examination that attempts to both place current South-South relations within their historical trajectory and examine in what ways current South-South relations differ from previous attempts such as 'new-regionalism'.

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This book examines the rise of SouthSouth economic relations while including a historical, theoretical, and empirical examination that attempts to both place current SouthSouth relations within their historical trajectory and examine in what ways current SouthSouth relations differ from previous attempts such as 'new-regionalism'.

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By exploring Englands fanatical consumption of the so-calledbooks of the braveconquistadors, this book shows how tales of love and arms mystified global conquest (in such places as Mexico, Peru, Guiana, California, and Australia) and rooted the idea of English empire as a civilized alternative to the cruelty of Spanish conquest.

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By exploring Englands fanatical consumption of the so-calledbooks of the braveconquistadors, this book shows how tales of love and arms mystified global conquest (in such places as Mexico, Peru, Guiana, California, and Australia) and rooted the idea of English empire as a civilized alternative to the cruelty of Spanish conquest.

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This volume collects together Peter Winch's previously unpublished lectures on the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. Winch's original interpretation of Spinoza's Ethics sheds new light on the work of one history's most difficult and admired philosophers from a different perspective.

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Spirituality for the Independent Thinker is a companion and guide for individualists who resist being told what to think about religion.

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The SSAT is a standardized test used by admission officers to assess the abilities of students seeking to enroll in an independent school. The SSAT measures the basic verbal, math, and reading skills students need for successful performance in independent schools. About 80,000 plus students take the SSAT every year to apply to independent schools.

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The SSAT is a standardized test used by admission officers to assess the abilities of students seeking to enroll in an independent school. The SSAT measures the basic verbal, math, and reading skills students need for successful performance in independent schools. About 80,000 plus students take the SSAT every year to apply to independent schools.

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The SSAT is a standardized test used by admission officers to assess the abilities of students seeking to enroll in an independent school. The SSAT measures the basic verbal, math, and reading skills students need for successful performance in independent schools. About 80,000 plus students take the SSAT every year to apply to independent schools.

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This easy-to-read book tells how the Rolling Stones started out 60 years ago as a venture to confess the blues, unprepared for planetary success. It shows how they managed, adapted, innovated and grew, and how they succeeded in dealing with the interpersonal dynamics inherent in any form of human organization.

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This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage of data and statistics as a primary means for the construction of social reality.

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This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage of data and statistics as a primary means for the construction of social reality.

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Stephen Wall, Trollope and Character (1988) and Other Essays on Victorian Literature is a collection of critical essays by the eminent literary critic Stephen Wall, including his exceptional writings on Anthony Trollope, as well as brilliant studies of Charles Dickens and other major Victorian figures.

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Stratagem of the Corpseis a philosophical and literary exposition of death not so much as seen by Baudrillard but Baudrillard as seen by death.