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From buying a computer to making hotel reservations to choosing the right Christmas tree, this fun and savvy guide offers sound advice and solid information for every spending scenario.

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In dozens of categories, 'new luxury' brands sell at huge premiums over conventional goods, and in much larger volumes than traditional 'old luxury' goods. Trading Up is the definitive book on this growing trend.

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Explores how the pooling of trade policy-making and external representation affects the EU's bargaining power in international trade talks. Through analysis of four transatlantic commercial negotiations over agriculture, public procurement, and civil aviation, this book explores the politics of international trade bargaining.

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Provides an exploration of Jewish marriage and its alternatives in traditional Jewish texts from a feminist perspective. This book shows how the marriage is an acquisition and contextualises the gender hierarchy of marriage within the rabbinic exclusion of women from Torah study.

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Essays on the Iwakura Embassy, the realistic painter Takahashi Yuichi, the educational system, and music, show how the Japanese went about borrowing from the West in the first decades after the Restoration: the formulation of strategies for modernizing and the adaptation of Western models to Meiji culture. In the second half of the volume, the dark

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Mohiniyattam dance is a semeiotic system replete with controversy, embodied gender ideals, and cultural information. Tradition and Transformation in Mohiniyattam Dance: An Ethnographic Historyexamines the emergence of Mohiniyattam dance in relation to its historical and cultural context with a particular focus on the semiotics of femininity.

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In this volume, Xin Ren presents the tradition of law in China as an exception to the Western model of social control. She considers the Maoist concept of revolutionary justice and the tradition of conformist acculturation in China.

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This book compares and contrasts the ideas of some of the leading twentieth-century critics of rationalism: Gadamer, Hayek, Kolnai, MacIntyre, Oakeshott, Polanyi, Ryle, Voegelin, and Wittgenstein. This book provides important insights into this major intellectual trend of the past century.

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When a reporter disappears in Huichol Indian territory in Mexico's forbidding Sierra Madre, newspaper editor Robert Rivard goes on his own long journey to discover what happened to him -- and why.

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Training in government is not a primary mission for a variety of reasons, and this book attempts to increase the importance of training in government organizations by showing how training can increase individual performance and overall productivity.

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Examines attempts by the Conservative party in the interwar years to capture the 'brains' of the new electorate and create a counter-culture to what they saw as the intellectual hegemony of the Left. -- .

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Examines attempts by the Conservative party in the interwar years to capture the 'brains' of the new electorate and create a counter-culture to what they saw as the intellectual hegemony of the Left. -- .

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This collection of essays reflects on the questions of trans visibility and recognition in a French context through engagement in media analysis.

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Through the voices of 51 trans men, Baker A. Rogers analyzes what it means to be a trans man in the southeastern United States. Rogers argues that the common themes that pervade trans mens experiences in the South are complicated by other intersecting identities, such as sexuality, religion, race, class, and place.

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Through the voices of 51 trans men, Baker A. Rogers analyzes what it means to be a trans man in the southeastern United States. Rogers argues that the common themes that pervade trans mens experiences in the South are complicated by other intersecting identities, such as sexuality, religion, race, class, and place.

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Americans and Europeans are divided by more than an ocean when it comes to designing and carrying out policies toward countries that repress human rights, develop weapons of mass destruction, and/or support terrorism and subversion.

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This broad-based study of Western-Asian relations considers images of and actions by the United States, along with Britain and Germany, in the course of dealings with Asian nations such as China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Other case studies focus on inter-Asian relations between Japan and Korea;

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Examines the militant Irish republican movement in the United States from the final months of the Irish Civil War through to the Second World War -- .

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Written within the perspective of Africana critical studies, this book presents a transatlantic voyage and the depths of historical Black experience in Liverpool, England. The author addresses the narrative of the Black Atlantic propounded by Paul Gilroy and further reveals a firsthand account of a largely hidden aspect of Black British history.