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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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"Portions of chapter 4 were previously published in slightly different form in "So bad she's good: the masochist's heroine in Japan, Abe Sada," in Bad girls of Japan, edited by Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 141-67"--T.p. verso.

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Contains stories of 16 great explorers who journeyed to the Arctic and Antarctic regions, two exquisite and unique ice wildernesses. This work recounts the exciting North Pole adventures of Erik the Red in 982 and the elusive searches for the Northwest Passage and Farthest North of Henry Hudson, Fridtjof Nansen, Fredrick Cook, and Robert Peary.

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"With a new afterword by the author"--Title page.

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Exposing the deeply harmful impact of street-style policing on urban high school students

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An in-depth critical analysis of how ruling elites use the police institution in order to control communities.

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Ferguson's former police chief offers a plan for easing tension between the public and law enforcement officers.

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This work explores the various police strategies of coercion, negotiation, and information surveillance. It discusses specific countries' governments and considers public opinion, media and the police's perception of reality to illustrate the reciprocal ways in which police and protest are defined.

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This book examines the way in which the issue of crime, and the response of the authorities to it, became central to the peace process in Northern Ieland after 1998. -- .

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"An urgent look at the relationship between the politics of guns, race, and policing in America today"--

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Through the lens of South Wales Police, this volume reflects upon the changing role of the police in society. Written by police officers and researchers working collaboratively, it covers key topics including neighbourhood policing; major crime investigation and violence prevention; gender and policing; police technologies; and leadership.

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In this ground-breaking work, Heather Neilson examines the centrality of the theme of power throughout Gore Vidal's writings. Political Animal: Gore Vidal on Power focuses primarily, although not exclusively, on Vidal's historical fiction. Heather Neilson is from UNSW.

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Behind every financial crisis lurks a "political bubble"--policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than tilting against risky behavior, political bubbles--arising from a potent combination of beliefs, institutions, and interests--aid, abet, and amplify risk. Demonstrating how political bubbles helped creat

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Provides readers with an engaging introduction to cartoon analysis and a novel insight into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. -- .