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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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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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The I-15, I-16 and I-153 fighters were the world's first mass-produced fighters. Some 17,000 Polikarpovs had been manufactured by the time production ceased in 1941. They served with the Republicans in the Spain, the Chinese against Japan in 1937-38, and the Soviets against both Japan in the Nomonhan Incident and Finland during the Winter War.

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Pilots of the Polish Air Force saw action from the first day of World War 2 until the final victory in Europe in May 1945.

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The Polish army during the Blitzkrieg conjures up tragic images of infantry and dashing, but ineffective and ultimately doomed cavalry charges. This volume presents a technical study of the machines that formed the backbone of Poland's defences on the ground, using photographs and a comprehensive design and developmental history.

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Of all Allied airmen, Polish pilots had the most experience of fighting the Luftwaffe by the time the war came to Britain. The author presents this peerless account of the fiery, talented Polish "Spit" pilots, whose country had been overrun and whose aggression and determination to shoot down Axis aircraft was unmatched.

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Examines the origins and development of the Polish Winged Hussars. This book provides a view of the training, tactics, appearance and experiences of these legendary and fascinating warriors. The dramatic Hussar characteristics were the wings worn on the back or on the saddle. The Hussars terrified the Turks, Tatars, Swedes and others.

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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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This collection of columns written for openDemocracy between 2004 and 2009 is proof of a subtle worldview that continues to generate questions: what is the relation between religion, nationalism and progress Is a new international order possible When is intervention a force for progress

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The essential guide to the most eagerly awaited general election in recent history. Here, in one volume, is everything you need to make up your mind in the 2015 general election. This is a unique guide to the state of the parties, policies and issues in the run-up to next May's polling, including expert predictions from political pundits.

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Often portrayed as an aloof philosopher, Lahtinen argues that his work on Machiavelli reveals Althusser's deep commitment to political practice.

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A study of precarity as both a condition and a mobilizing force for resistance in migrant communities across the globe

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Offers a comprehensive set of strategies to help progressives channel the energy of political activism into winning issue-based and electoral campaigns. This is a workshop in book form, providing the detailed framework needed to jump-start a new generation of activists plus helpful tools for old pros.

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The unspoken impact of the last taboo care of the internet's well-travelled website.

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What would Ben Franklin say if he could see us...

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Explores the dynamism of the Gulf, reflected not just in high-rise buildings and booming stock markets, but also manifested in the realms of art, ideas and expression and their relationships with political authority.