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This book candidly provides assistant professors and graduate sutdents contemplating a career in academia with practical information that will facilitate their meeting collegiality and service expectations for promotion and tenure.

The focus is on meeting departmental and institutional expectations for collegiality and service.

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This book analyses the 1984-5 miners' strike by focusing on its vital Scottish dimensions, especially the role of workplace politics and community mobilisation. -- .

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Previously published in 2013 as Collision 2012: Obama vs. Romney and the future of elections in America.

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Colonial ambition tells the story of the politicians and would be politicians of Sydney who were driven by a determination to push themselves and their new colony to a higher level.

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Almost from the first arrival of French and English colonists in eastern North America in the 16th century, settlers were forced to raise militias to protect themselves from the Indians. They made alliances with different tribes and fought alongside them during a series of frontier wars.

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Focusing on British educational policy in colonial Zimbabwe, this historical study provides a detailed examination of a British educational programme for Africans established in the 1930s, the purposes it was intended to serve, and its long-term consequences.

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This book offers an in-depth sociological exploration of present-day colorism in the lives of black women, investigating the lived experiences of a phenomenon that continues to affect women of African descent.

Race still matters.

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Viewing "race talk" through the lens of a California high school and district, this book draws on three years of ethnographic research on everyday race labeling in education. It discusses the role race plays in everyday and policy talk about such familiar topics as discipline, achievement, curriculum reform, and educational inequality.

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Samuel Colt's revolvers have been iconic American handguns since 1836. Essential reading for anyone interested in small arms and their impact on the history of warfare.

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He also discusses numerous other U.S. Army units--infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineering, medical, quartermaster and signal--and offers important data on the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps.

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This is the first book to describe martial arts and martial behaviors as serious topics deserving of serious study.

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A one-stop resource for information about U.S. military commands and their organizations, this book describes the six geographic combat commands and analyzes their contributions to national security.

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Experts from the United States, Canada and Europe examine the historical, institutional, judicial and sociological conditions of affirmative action and look at shifting concepts of racism, equality, integration and assimilation.

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An insightful collection of essays that explains why the global war on terror framework cannot work and how a new paradigm in countering transnational terrorism can be found.

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"Offering a competitive strategy to defeat authoritarians' all-domain warfare, this book suggests a new combined effects and influence framework for democracies to employ before deterrence fails"--

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A searing assessment of the meaning of Hurricane Katrina combining interviews with survivors of the disaster and the historical context that has been sorely missing from public conversation.

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Gleason's Gym is the last remaining institution of New York's Golden Age of boxing. Jake LaMotta, Muhammad Ali, Hector Camacho, Mike Tyson--the alumni of Gleason's are a roster of boxing greats. Founded in the Bronx in 1937, Gleason's moved in the mid-1980s to what has since become one of New York's wealthiest residential areas--Brooklyn's DUMBO. G

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Schorr, at CBS for decades and a 20-year mainstay of NPR, offers his observations on politics and American life from the years 1990 to the present. As a record of these perilous times and as a cogent primer on politics, this is an unparalleled record of political analysis.