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Folklorist Alan Dundes offers a radical analysis of caste in India, focusing on the rationale underlying the customs surrounding untouchability.

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Who drives change in Iran Who envisions democracy and fuels the movement Who fulfills Iran's unfinished Constitutional RevolutionIn three words: The Iranian Citizenry Inspired by Iran's youth, Two, Three Words (Do, Se Kalameh, ) echoes the legacy of One Word (Yek Kalameh, ) -challenging tyranny, advocating the rule of law, and shaping a new democratic discourse.

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Now with a new Foreword, this revised edition marks the tenth anniversary of "Type Talk at Work" with a new chapter on leadership techniques for each of the 16 personality types.

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Although originally designed as an interceptor fighter Hawker's mighty Typhoon actually made a name for itself in a ground attack role, and veteran Battle of Britain pilots like 'Beau' Beaumont and Denis Crowley-Milling led squadrons that enjoyed some success with the big fighter.

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Power grabs, partisan stand-offs, propaganda, and riots make for tantalizing fiction, but the US seems to have devolved into a land that celebrates real-life dictators. Applying historical lessons to contemporary events, Fiala uses the history of tyranny to reveal how we can safeguard against the draw of idealogues and their sycophants.

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This work highlights the distortion of Guinier's written record, clarifies and explains her creative approach to voting-rights problems and opens a crucial dialogue on race and democracy.

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One of the greatest threats to Britain during World War I was the German U-Boat menace. Gordon Williamson traces the development of the U-Boat from the Brandtaucher, designed by Wilhelm Bauer in 1850, through to the commissioning of Germany's first U-Boat to go into service, the U-1, in 1906.

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This book provides an analytical guide to the modern political campaign, chronologically covering key federal, state, and local campaign laws, election commission rules, and the court decisions interpreting them.

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This work is a fascinating overview of Americans' complex and occasionally uneasy relationship with military service, from World War II to the age of global terrorism.

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This book provides a survey of the U.S. civilian and military agencies responsible for postconflict reconstruction and peace-building around the world and how these agencies function in the interagency process.

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Increased fluidity and pluralism in U.S. policy toward China in the postDCold War period have led to growing non-governmental influence as both the administration and Congress have become the target of intense lobbying by organized groups concerned with human rights, trade opp...

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This handbook is a one-stop forum for nonpartisan discussion of the major proposals for addressing Social Security's coming financial crisis.

This timely volume details the history and development of the American system of Social Security and examines the serious problems it faces.

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Examines the ties between the United States and the nations of Latin America. This book discusses the participants in shaping and implementation of policies toward Latin America. It shows how the United States makes policy toward Latin America and how the Latin Americans respond to policy initiatives.

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Examines the ties between the United States and the nations of Latin America. This book discusses the participants in shaping and implementation of policies toward Latin America. It shows how the United States makes policy toward Latin America and how the Latin Americans respond to policy initiatives.

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The US-Mexican borderlands form the region where the United States and Latin America have interacted with the greatest intensity. This work addresses the protracted conflict rooted in the vast difference in power between Mexico and its northern neighbor. Each of the seven parts explores a key issue in borderlands studies.

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Describes and analyzes the history, uniforms, weaponry and military practices of United Nations peace-keeping forces since 1948, which have been deployed in trouble-spots across the globe, including two major wars, in Korea and the Gulf, fought under the UN banner.

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The animosity of classical liberalism towards groups and associations, termed by Boyd (political science, U. of Wisconsin, Madison) "the perils of pluralism," was a fundamental factor in the shaping of the institutional and intellectual form of Anglo-American liberalism, he argues.

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Uncommon Sense looks at a range of issues that the United States faces today: gun legislation, abortion, unequal distribution of wealth, the dominance of the military/industrial complex, redistricting, corruption in government, etc. It offers sensible solutions to these problems.

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"A groundbreaking guide to improve teaching based on the latest research in neuroscience, from the bestselling author of A Mind for Numbers"--

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Throwing light on a timely and controversial subject, this volume considers the privacy rights of alleged criminals, convicted criminals, crime victims, and justice personneland the violation of those rightsin light of post-9/11 privacy policy changes.

This revealing book answers many crucial questions.

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