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Murray examines sex work and sexuality as they exist in diverse urban subcultures of Southeast Asia. She considers changing sexualities, street prostitutes, global gay styles, lesbian communities, and responses to the AIDS crisis.

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A serious look at the enemies we face in the twenty-first...

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Examines the importance of place in shaping nationalism. This book argues for the need to explore how various people - embedded within particular places and operating across different scales - contribute to its reproduction. It seeks to re-energise both geographical and social constructivist understandings of nationalism.

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"Covers the history, causes, medical treatments, human responses, and aftermath of the world's biggest pandemics as well as several modern diseases of note and those that are making a comeback"--

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It changes societies. It disrupts life. A history of the pandemic, from ancient Greece to the current covid-19 crisis.

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Argues that by leading an international process to plan for recovery and reconstruction after President Robert Mugabe eventually departs, the United States can increase the likelihood that change can bring constructive reform instead of conflict and state collapse. This book says that this planning could encourage and hasten Mugabe's exit.

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Plans for Sentences is the latest interdisciplinary work of genius from poet, novelist, editor, and artist Renee Gladman.

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This book takes a journey around the world to demonstrate how plants influence peoples lives. From mealtimes to belief systems, from addictions to medical support, plants are instrumental in organising what people do, and what it means to be human.

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In Players and Their Pets, Mia Consalvo and Jason Begy chart the brief life of a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) called Faunasphere, examining how the game evolved over the course of its entire life cycle from 2009 to 2011 in terms of design as well as how its player community responded to changes and events.

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Offering an insight into the presidential mind, this title analyses each US administration since Nixon and, including George W Bush, presents information about the decision-making processes of the leaders. It also includes the author's presidential interviews, along with interview transcripts and selected writings.

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Offers an understanding the labor and politics of NGOs through the lives of seven Indian women employed by a large NGO as activists in their communities. This work reveals larger themes and questions of sexism, casteism, and communalism. It addresses the dispute in the context of the politics of NGOs and feminist theory.

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Best-selling author and activist William Upski is back with a blueprint for political activists in 2010.

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Before becoming Bolivia's vice-president, lvaro Garca Linera was one of Latin America's foremost intellectuals. This is his most famous work.

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In this original and insightful new take on Spinoza, Morfino convincingly argues that materialist philosophers must base themselves on Althusser.

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Plus-Size: A Memoir of Pop Culture, Fatphobia, and Social Change chronicles the rise of the body positive movement and body positivity through pop culture reviews and personal reflections. This essay collection illustrates the insidiousness of fatphobia through analyses of film, television, books, and how they affect our perceptions and treatment of others.

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The most detailed, sophisticated and theoretically grounded analysis of wartime media coverage written to date. Describes and explains how British news media variously supported, and dissented from, coalition propaganda campaigns during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. -- .

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In 2002, after an altercation between Muslim vendors and Hindu travelers at a railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat, fifty-nine Hindu pilgrims were burned to death. This title provides a riveting ethnographic account of this collective violence.

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