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In Humanitarian Development Paradigm, Wilfred L. David makes a plea for the fundamental reorientation of the economics that guide conventional development discourse, moving toward an emancipatory conversation focusing on human well-being or people-centered liberation. His para...

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A compilation of articles and essays concerning the Hummer as a cultural object, this book is designed to be used by a diverse audience. It spans a variety of disciplinary approaches and methodologies, including material culture, marketing and advertising, popular culture, technology, urban planning, literature and media, and political economy.

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With his characteristically very personal anecdotal style, Charles Handy analyses how materialistic capitalism is self-limiting, how efficiency may be the enemy of a cohesive society, and examines the false certainties of science and religion.

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In this brilliant smart-thinking book about the power and influence of social media, Professor Sinan Aral shows how hyper-socialization has profoundly changed us.

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Includes the essays that examine both the historical dimension of the European idea and the problems of national and transnational identity confronting European integration in the 1990s.

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Illicit cross-border flows, such as the smuggling of drugs, migrants, weapons, toxic waste, and dirty money, are proliferating on a global scale. This book explores the selective nature of the state's retreat, persistence, and reassertion in relation to the illicit global economy.

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In a rigorous critique of public opinion polling in the U.S., George F. Bishop makes the case that a lot of what passes as "public opinion" in mass media today is an illusion, an artifact of measurement created by vague or misleading survey questions presented to respondents w...

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Quietly but implacably, powerful transnational corporations are gaining power over our visual world. This book exposes the interior workings of the visual content industry, which produces approximately 70 per cent of the images that define consumer cultures. It provides an exploration of industrialized commercial photography, its uses and abuses.

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Quietly but implacably, powerful transnational corporations are gaining power over our visual world. This book exposes the interior workings of the visual content industry, which produces approximately 70 per cent of the images that define consumer cultures. It provides an exploration of industrialized commercial photography, its uses and abuses.

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Political scientist and social activist Armando Navarro takes a hard look at four hundred years of immigration into the territories that now form the United States, paying particular attention to the ways in which immigrants have been received. The book provides a political, h...

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Normal human development progresses through a process of differentiation and integration, and it is distorted and impeded by the fusion and fragmentation resulting from traumatic experiences. The Impact of Complex Trauma on Development documents the pathological consequences o...

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This book will show administrators how to 'read' the political climate of a community, how to make meaning from the information, and how to proactively manage political issues in such a way that a stable school environment can be maintained.

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Current trends suggest that the fog of war continues to make strategy an opaque enterprise notwithstanding enormous U.S. investments in high-tech weapons, intelligence capabilities, and homeland defense.

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The India Policy Forum (IPF) is a new annual publication dedicated to research on the contemporary Indian economy. This inaugural issue contains highlights from a conference held in New Delhi in March 2004.

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The largest army in the British Empire is detailed here, describing the developing organization, uniforms and equipment of the Imperial and other regiments during the 30 years which saw the Indian army at the peak of their numbers and combat service.

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This book describes the innovative transformation of institutions of higher education (HEIs) across the world in response to the emerging realities of the twenty-first century global knowledge-based economy. It also describes how HEIs are defining many of today's economic realities on a regional level.

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Using examples taken from current affairs and historical analysis this study examines religion as an increasing factor in world politics and US foreign policy. The text concentrates on the American reaction to overseas religious persecution and faith-based groups involved with the foreign policy.