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This book discusses the convergence of global problems and the shortcomings of our sustainable development model. The author argues possible solutions, such as the Inclusive Sustainable Development Theory against unlimited expansion and materialism in global development, and t...

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This book bridges the discourse on globalization and education with international studies on race, class, gender, ethnicity, culture, and multiculturalism, synthesizing macrosociology with educational research, which provides readers with the background, core knowledge, and gl...

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This volume is a primer on media governance at a global level and the key influencing forces and organizations, such as ITU, WTO, UNESCO, WIPO and ICANN. It raises key questions and suggests where more complete answers can be found.

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In the tradition of the bestselling Aquarian Conspiracy comes the first scientific basis for New Age thinking from one of the nation's most widely recognized thinkers, and the author of Higher Creativit and An Incomplete Guideto the Future.

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Pornography is a volatile issue in the United States_depending on the source of opinion, it can be viewed as either demeaning or empowering. explores whether the issue is similarly contentious around the world.

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Offers a review of the challenges faced by the government of Egypt as well as Egyptian society as a whole. This book focuses on: regime stability; domestic challenges from Islamists, militant as well as nonviolent groups; Egyptian foreign policy and regional relations; and, the role of security forces and domestic security initiatives.

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This book explains the foreign policy decisions of Iranian leaders, as well as the foreign policy decisions of its neighbors and major world powers.

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An original study on the strategic dimensions of Kenya encompasses in-depth examinations of the Kenya Armed Forces, political and military relations with key neighboring countries, and Kenya's crucial strategic relationship with the United States.

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This timely study examines the forces at play in one of the world's most explosive nations, helping readers understand why Syria's popular uprising has been the most violent and hard-fought in the Middle East.

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Offers an analysis of globalization and the lethal explosiveness that characterizes the world order. This work investigates global processes and political forces that determine networks of crime, commerce and terror, and reveals the economic, social and cultural fragmentation of transnational networks.

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This book uses boxing as a vehicle for exploring social, cultural and political change in a global context. It considers to what degree and in what ways boxing reflects social transformations, and how it contributes to those transformations. Woodward provides new ways of thinking critically about our everyday assumptions and social world.

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Gloria Steinem represents second-wave American feminism. Steinem was destined to succeed and showed extraordinary strength dealing with difficult family circumstances, a peripatetic upbringing, and financial straights that forced her as a teenager to support herself and her divorced, emotionally troubled mother.

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The Gloster Gladiator was the ultimate British biplane fighter, and the machine on which many early war aces would "cut their teeth" as tyro pilots. This book provides accounts of combats involving Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Belgian, Chinese and British pilots.

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To help readers gain a better understanding of conflicts over the proper role of religion in American public schools, this book focuses on the seven major types of conflicts that have become particularly confrontational.

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As the world becomes more modern, it is not becoming more secular. Instead, on the street and in the corridors of power, religion is surging. This book shows that if you want to understand the modern world, you cannot afford to ignore God - whether you believe in Him or not.

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This book deftly answers complex questions: Why is there such intense antagonism to the teaching of evolution in the United States What have the courts said about the various attempts to oppose it Sprinkled with interesting tidbits about Charles Darwin and the major players ...

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Covering 30,000 years of goddess worship, this fascinating book is the first and most comprehensive biographical dictionary devoted exclusively to mythological deities.

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Schwab's retellings of stories about Prometheus, Zeus, Heracles, Odysseus, and other ancient Greek gods and heroes are based on close adherence to the original sources.

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An encyclopedia of Greek mythology, this work describes names, places and events in briefly-told tales of the gods of the Olympian pantheon. It features demigods, demons, heroes, and many of the great cycles, fables and nature myths.

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A history of Alaska's treatment of psychiatric patients and my journey to become a mental health advocate.

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Going Dirty is a history of negative campaigning in American politics and an examination of how candidates and political consultants have employed this often-controversial technique. The book includes case studies on notable races throughout the television era in which new neg...

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The "Fresh Air" commentator and New York Times contributor artfully shows how our use of language reveals the true mindset of contemporary America

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A new path to fulfillment that combines lessons from meditation and psychotherapy to offer a radical alternative to the rigid Western prescription for happiness.

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"Goliath is a particular kind of expos-minded, documentary-broadside journalism whose place we generally recognize and respect... Blumenthal has made a sobering prima facie case that there are extreme forces [within Israel's current political-social dynamics] to be aware of, and reckoned with more fully that American discourse usually does." James Fallows, The Atlantic