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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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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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Explores the history of the royal city during the civil war and interregnum -- .

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The What Every American Should Know series returns with a timely guide to the region Americans need to understand the most (yet know the least).

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Xenakis examines the responses of Soviet experts in American academiaprimarily political scientists, but also economists and defense scholars who specialized in the USSRto the unfolding evidence of Soviet reform during the 1970s and 1980s and to its ultimate collapse.

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From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wood, a battlefield view of moral injury, the signature wound of America's 21st century wars.

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In the same vein as the Robert Cowley book on British hypothetical histories, What if asks the same questions about Australia's past. Leading Australian historians including Stuart Macintyre, presents counterfactual history.

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This wide-ranging collection examines the relationship among Islam, civil society, and the state. The contributorsincluding both Muslims and non-Muslimsinvestigate how radical Islamists can be distinguished from moderate Muslims, analyze the potential for moderate Islamic governance, and challenge monolithic conceptions of Islam.

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This wide-ranging collection examines the relationship among Islam, civil society, and the state. The contributorsincluding both Muslims and non-Muslimsinvestigate how radical Islamists can be distinguished from moderate Muslims, analyze the potential for moderate Islamic governance, and challenge monolithic conceptions of Islam.

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Looks at the War of 1812 in part through the lens of today's America. This provocative book asks: What did Americans learn - and not learn - from the experience What instructive parallels and distinctions can be drawn with more recent events How did it shape the nation

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The West's actions in the Middle East are based on a fundamental misunderstanding.

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Even though in most cases, the names and events in the book will be recognizable, most of the stories about them will be new to the reader. If you're a young teacher, perhaps you'll find some material to help you get through those less-than-exciting areas of your textbook. If ...

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Even though in most cases, the names and events in the book will be recognizable, most of the stories about them will be new to the reader. If you're a young teacher, perhaps you'll find some material to help you get through those less-than-exciting areas of your textbook. If ...

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Dr. David Clarke shares his 'guerilla love' technique and equips readers to take an active, not passive, role in reviving a failing marriage.

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And some Rymer, Brocklebank, Stolbof offer a hint of something just a little more exotic or esoteric.

All are grist to the mill for David McKie who, in Whats in a Surname, sets off on a journey around Britain to find out how such appellations have evolved and what they tell us about ourselves.

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How Asia's great civilization spread when its traveling merchants, scholars, and holy men brought their shining civilization to Europe's Dark Ages

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