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Telling the personal stories of Australians in Japan and Japanese in Australia, this book explores issues of race, identity and ambition in times of war and peace. These essays illuminate a variety of fascinating lives and individual achievements, from trade to literature and the arts, the media and the justice system.

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"Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human"--

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"Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human"--

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Explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium. Drawing on a diverse range of sources, this title focuses on the importance of marriage in imperial statecraft, the tense coexistence of empresses in the imperial court, and the critical relationships of mothers and daughters.

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"Hot Books/Skyhorse [is] launching the 'Unspeakable' series to provide another venue for people like Hedges-- those essential thinkers, writers and activists who have been kept carefully away from the media spotlight. The conversation with Chris Hedges is the first in the 'Unspeakable' series"--Introduction (page xi).

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The University of New South Wales has been phenomenally successful at attracting students from all over the world to study across its faculties. This book tells the story of UNSWs global vision, profiling the pioneers, the innovators and the young researchers who have forged its path into the future.

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In the eloquent tradition of Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy, an award-winning leader in the movement to end mass incarceration takes on the vital problem of violent crime.

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Activists argue about how to define marriage, judges and legislators decide who should benefit from it, and scholars consider how the state should protect those who are denied it. This title argues that marriage, like religion, should be separated from the state. It explains the assumptions hidden in widely held positions and common practices.

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In Unveiling the French Republic, Nilsson uses his analysis of the Veil Affairs to critique the misuse of secular ideology to justify religious intolerance and mask ethnic prejudice.

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Contributors: Carolyn B. Aldana, California State U, San Bernadino; Carol S. Armstrong; Michael Dear, U of Southern California; Gary Dymski, U of California Riverside; Steven P. Erie, USC; Gregory Freeman; William Fulton; Elizabeth Gearin, USC; Genevieve Giuliano, USC; Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, U of Massachusetts, Boston; Enrico A.

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Why was it that a small mining community in Victoria on the margin of Australian coal mining, with a strong union organisation, was able to exert an influence on that industry out or all proportion to its size and numbers for more than sixty years

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"As different as we all are in situations, needs, and views, we hold the world in common. In this brilliant ethnography, Colin Jerolmack vividly highlights this basic environmental conundrum with his compelling account of the local conflicts over fracking in the countryside around Williamsport, Pennsylvania"--

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Once known for slum-like conditions in its immigrant and working-class neighborhoods, New York City's downtown now features luxury housing, chic boutiques and hotels, and, most notably, a vibrant nightlife culture. While a burgeoning bar scene can be viewed as a positive sign of urban transformation, tensions lurk beneath, reflecting the social con

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