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Through one figure- Badin, an eighteenth-century Afro-Caribbean slave given to the Swedish royal court- Allan Pred shows how stereotypes endure through the repeated confusion of facts and fiction, providing a highly original perspective on the perpetuation of racializing stereotypes in the West.

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Terrifying and touching, Patpong Sisters is a gripping account of one woman s personal experience with the prostitutes, managers, and clients at the throbbing heart of Bangkok s thriving sex industry.

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The author, a young American anthropologist, spent three years studying Bangkok's red-light district, Patpong, an area of a few blocks teeming with bars and explicit sex shows. In this book, she concludes that some of the Patpong people, far from being downtrodden and exploited, reveal themselves to be intelligent, and highly entrepreneurial.

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A feminist exploration of the works of Karl Marx and Marxist thinking.

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In their own words, the narrators of Patriot Acts recount their lives before the 9/11 attacks and their experiences of the backlash that have deeply altered their lives and communities.

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In their own words, the narrators of Patriot Acts recount their lives before the 9/11 attacks and their experiences of the backlash that have deeply altered their lives and communities.

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Recently discovered and newly translated, this memoir from one of German Communism's founders sheds important new light on the Revolution

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Originally published in 1928, this title remains a classic work of Marxist economics.

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Pay Me Forty Quid and I'll Tell You - packed with shrewd and funny observations from real voters - proves that although most people have better things to do than follow every storyline in the political soap opera, nothing very important gets past them.

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In a provocative cultural history of the 1960s Peace Corps, Molly Geidel argues that the agency's representative development ventures legitimated the violent exercise of American power around the world and the destruction of indigenous ways of life.

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O'Rourke casts his ever-shrewd and mordant eye on America's latest adventures in warfare. He is both incisive reporter and absurdist, relevant and irreverent, with a clear eye for everyone's confusion, including his own. O'Rourke understands that peace is sometimes one of the most troubling aspects of war.

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Following the events of September 11, 2001, public focus has been on the power of religion. This book addresses the role of religious education in a world where terrorism has impacted on western democracy. Through an analysis and evaluation of the models of religious education, it considers if religion is part of the answer or part of the problem.

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First awarded in 1901, the Nobel Peace Prize has contended with the key issues of the age, from the first and second world wars, through the cold war, to the war against terror, and more. This title examines the controversial history of the world's most famous prize and asks: Just how do we define peace, anyway

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In Peaceful Families, Hammer chronicles and examines the efforts, stories, arguments, and strategies of individuals and organizations doing Muslim anti-domestic violence work in the U.S.

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Provides a comprehensive look at the social engineering process that ensued. This title examines how collectivization assaulted the foundations of rural life, transforming village communities that were organized around kinship and status hierarchies into segments of large bureaucratic organizations, forged by the language of "class warfare".

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Originally published: Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Corwin, c2010.

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The inspiring story of political newcomers who are knocking down built-in barriers to creating better government.

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People of the Bomb mixes empathic and vivid portraits of individual weapons scientists with hard-hitting scrutiny of defense intellectuals' inability to foresee the end of the cold war, government rhetoric on missile defense, official double standards about nuclear proliferation, and pork barrel politics in the nuclear.