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Leading menstrual rights advocate, writer, and attorney Jennifer Weiss-Wolf's PERIODS GONE PUBLIC examines the cultural and political history of menstruation and the new, high-profile menstrual equity movement dispelling stigma and promoting advocacy on a global level.

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Castaneda offers a remarkably candid account of Mexican presidential politics, "destined to become the most important political book of the decade" ("Foreign Policy"). In six penetrating essays combined with interviews with each of the living Mexican ex-presidents, the author provides a candid account of the country's political machinery.

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Marx was among the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. Henning shows he was also the most misinterpreted.

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The Pictish warrior was part of an identifiable and close-knit unit. This volume shows how, despite this, group cohesion does not seem to have been a military strong point and the emphasis for the warrior was on individual skill in single combat.

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This collection brings together African American writers, scholars and film-makers to analyze and respond to photographic images of blacks through history. The personal issues embedded in family portraits, news photographs, movie stills and mug shots are examined by the book's contributors.

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Throughout the 17th century large parts of Europe were depopulated during the wide-ranging and savage wars of religion and dynasty, involving various major powers. This was hence a key period in the development of 'modern' infantry tactics. This title covers the Dutch-Spanish wars of independence, The Thirty Years' War and the English Civil Wars.

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Pineapple is a culinary love story enriched with vivid illustrations andirresistible recipes from around the world for eating and drinking thepineapple.

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

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