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Offers a fresh look at food and cooking as more than the makings of a meal. Including memories of Latina, Geechee, Chinese and Indian kitchens, this book reveals the necessary from the painful struggles to overcome an eating disorder, to the delights of cornbread and barbecue eaten from a lover's hands.

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Americans often forget that, just as they watch the world through U.S. media, they are also being watched. Foreign correspondents based in the United States report news and provide context to events that are often unfamiliar or confusing to their readers back home.

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This book explains the position of the rebels in Southeastern Ukraine. It follows the rebellions fortunes after Moscow did not repeat the Crimea scenario in Donbas, analyzes the logic of armed struggle and the phenomenon of the Russian Spring, and introduces prospects for solutions.

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This book explains the position of the rebels in Southeastern Ukraine. It follows the rebellions fortunes after Moscow did not repeat the Crimea scenario in Donbas, analyzes the logic of armed struggle and the phenomenon of the Russian Spring, and introduces prospects for solutions.

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This book of Thucydidean scholarship demonstrates that international law existed in systematic form in classical Greece. Apart from comprising a philological analysis of some pivotal aspects of the history of the Peloponnesian War, the author argues that the work of Thucydides has greatly influenced contemporary international law and politics.

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Adapting Greek philosopher Thucydides fivefold classification of fear, this book analyses fears emerging in contemporary great-power states facing existential crises in their identity politics.

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General Abercromby's expedition against Ticonderoga embarked from its camp and within hours, Rangers ran into the French and Lord Howe, the darling of the army, was shot. Abercromby then assaulted Montcalm in retaliation, and battalion after battalion was sacrificed. This title tells the story.

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Describes the first of Germany's heavy tanks, the Tiger, which was a devastating combination of armour and firepower. When it entered service its 88mm gun outclassed every other tank it faced. A detailed double page full cutaway of the tank is included.

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Explores how attempts to characterize an 'authentic' Sherpa are complicated by Western fascination with Sherpas and by the Sherpas' desires to live up to Western portrayals of them. This book illustrates how one might undertake an ethnography of transnationally produced subjects by using the notion of 'virtual' identities.

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Tim Fischer and Peter Rees tell the tales of some real outback heroes, their communities and their success in bouncing back from hardship to success. Full of canny thinking, hard work and a refusal to give up, these truly inspiring stories come from every corner of Australia.

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On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and late 1990s, the author offers a sociological analysis of memory, hope and redemption in reggae music. -- .

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Exploring the future of Europe, this work examines a wide variety of topics in detailing the choices the European nations face, including German identity and the German perception of security, doubts about the US and nuclear deterrence and the growing political role of the EC.

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This book offers the first authoratitive guide to, and critical evaluation of, assumptions about time in theories of world politics. It develops a new way of making sense of the 'present' times of world politics. -- .

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In the first book which deals entirely with the subject of time in Africa and the Black Diaspora, Adjaye presents ten critical case studies of selected communities in Africa, the Caribbean, and the American South.

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Rodney Syme has been an advocate for medically assisted dying for more than twenty years. In Time to Die he reflects on those living and dying in pain and shares their stories. Syme makes a powerful case for extending the right to die to those whose suffering is unbearable.

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Including time as a factor in sociological analysis is the only way to reintroduce the dynamic moment of social reality as a mental construct into an analytical process otherwise reified by the limits of quantitative methods.

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"For Italian city builders more than a thousand years ago, the urban realm was the great theater where their best aspirations were played out, the place where society said the most substantial things a"

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