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Deals with a critical factor of development that has been ignored by orthodox development thinking and theorizing - the human factor.

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Peircean introduction to visual rhetoric and a powerful system of semiotics quite distinct from the Saussurean structuralist tradition.

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Peircean introduction to visual rhetoric and a powerful system of semiotics quite distinct from the Saussurean structuralist tradition.

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This glossary offers an introduction to Irish culture and society and a route-map to further study. Designed specifically with undergraduates in mind, it contains around 400 short and accessible explanations of the key events, figures and concepts in Irish Studies since the pre-modern period.

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Few issues have captured media headlines over the past two decades like Islam and Muslims. This tackles head-on the Australian news media's treatment of Islam and Muslims. It brings together the research and insights of academics, editors and journalists on the representation of Islam and its impact on social relations, the newsworthiness of Muslim issues and the complexities of covering Islam.

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Spanish language classes now have a reference source to encourage critical thinking and debate important, current topics in Spain, Mexico, and the rest of Latin and South America.

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This introduction to life and culture in Japan presents a captivating portrait of the island nation, home to 127 million people and one of the most robust economies in the world.

This volume focuses on an often misunderstood nation with vast economic and cultural influence in the United States and around the world.

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A comprehensive and compelling critique of Just War Theory and Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

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Offers a deep engagement with developments at the intersection of Habermasian communicative ethics and international relations. -- .

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Exposes the secret world of international peace deals. This book reveals what it really takes to broker peace in conflicts. It provides insights into the lengthy, fragile and often stormy process of transforming war into peace. It explores the ethical tightrope that the mediators themselves walk, between being kings of peace and pawns of war.

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Drawing on fieldwork in rural South India over more than a decade, the book uses a 'class-relational' approach that focuses on 'the poor's' iniquitous relations with others. -- .

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Drawing on fieldwork in rural South India over more than a decade, the book uses a 'class-relational' approach that focuses on 'the poor's' iniquitous relations with others. -- .

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This book describes language diversity and classroom discourse: language use in the classroom in which children are dialect speakers. Finally, dialect diversity in the classroom is considered in light of the relationship between language, education, and society at large.

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This volume explores in detail the ways that working with word processing interacts with the social processes of classrooms to shape participants' theories and practices of writing.

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A highly original account of the Liberian civil wars and their aftermath, uncovering the forgotten voices of the conflicts female child soldiers.

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As a result of the tens of thousands of small village projects that they have initiated, these farmers are improving their living conditions.

Because most people outside Africa know little of these changes, Pradervand has written of a grassroots revolution which could be the greatest sign of hope for Africa today.

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This book highlights the socio-political nature of literacy and illuminates the potential in literacy for the empowerment of individuals and communities subordinated by race/ethnicity, culture, language, gender, and class.