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Unveiling extremely sensitive information for the first time, Bamford exposes the role the NSA played in numerous Soviet bloc Cold War conflicts and discusses its undercover involvement in the Vietnam War.

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Now in paperback: A provocative, urgent exploration of the myths and realities of the "obesity epidemic" and how biology, psychology, media, and culture come together to shape our ongoing obsession with our bodies.

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In a culture where plastic surgery has become nearly as routine as a root canal, this expanded and updated edition of fresh and incisive commentary challenges the media's standard notions of beauty with honesty and humour.

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Reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding identity, resistance, agency and fashion. The result of eleven years' research with urban subcultures from Europe, Australia, Asia and North America, this book will be of particular interest to students of dress and fashion, as well as sociology and cultural studies.

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Reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding identity, resistance, agency and fashion. The result of eleven years' research with urban subcultures from Europe, Australia, Asia and North America, this book will be of particular interest to students of dress and fashion, as well as sociology and cultural studies.

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Develops critical perspectives on a variety of body technologies and implicates biotechnology and plastic surgery in the subversion and reconstruction of late 20th-century discourses of the body and the body politic.

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A comprehensive analysis of the rise of Boko Haram from a small religious cult to a major terrorist group, placing them within the context of Nigerian politics and the international War on Terror.

In 2009, Nigerian security forces stormed a religious cult by the name of Boko Haram, killing its leader and thousands of followers.

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Interspersed with history, this book delves into the roots of the unholy war being waged against the backdrop of an evolving extremist threat worldwide.

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According to conventional wisdom, American social policy has always been exceptional - exceptionally stingy and backwards. This title explains why the country's leading role was short-lived. It shows that the New Deal was in fact a bold program of relief, committed to providing jobs and income support for the unemployed.

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Bolivian Labor Immigrants' Experiences in Argentina examines the projects, trajectories, and everyday lives of Bolivian immigrants, providing insight about their harsh living and working conditions. With a complex yet holistic anthropological approach, this text highlights how people make sense of territorial mobility anchored in life experiences.

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Offers a history of the Bollingen Foundation that confirms its pervasive influence on American intellectual life. This title includes portraits of the central figures, including the Mellons, Jung himself, Heinrich Zimmer, Joseph Campbell, D T Suzuki, Natacha Rambova, Vladimir Nabokov, Gershom Scholem, Herbert Read, and Kurt and Helen Wolff.

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Bollywood Weddings explores how Indian-American Hindus negotiate two vastly different wedding cultures: those of mainstream America and of Hindu India. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and drawing on recent advances in material culture studies, Ramdya suggests that Bo...

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The unknown story of a unique RAAF squadron, its men and its mission to halt the Japanese advance in the Pacific

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Bernard O'Mahoney was a key member of the Essex Boys firm - one of the most violent criminal gangs in Britain.

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In Bonfires of the American Dream, through close cultural studies of classic novels and films Atlas Shrugged, The Great Gatsby, Its a Wonderful Life, and The Wolf of Wall Street Daniel Shaviro helps to provide a better understanding of what went wrong culturally in America.

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Over 550 reproducible bookmarks for grades 4-6, filled with fun facts and trivia

Bookmarks are easy to reproduce and cut apart for your students

Use bookmarks to reinforce concepts, to motivate students to learn, or as rewards

Blank bookmarks are included-students can design their own and trade

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Books as Partners is designed to assist teachers in integrating high quality diverse literature to support instruction across the curriculum.

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This is an original and scholarly study of the role of books and libraries in British prisons during the period of penal reforms between 1700 and 1911.

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This book provides research-based information about the many ways in which teachers can use read alouds to foster childrens literacy development;