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Governments expect both too much and too little of higher education, and its contribution to the common good is being eroded. Yet universities are much much more than factories for graduate earnings. Higher Education and the Common Good argues that this sector has a key role in rebuilding social solidarity and mobility in fractured societies.

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A seminal Jones/Baraka literary landmine that launches Akashic Books' new African American-focused reprint series.

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When your world is upended, how do you react Who do you become New York Timescolumnists, illustrator Julia Rothman and writer Shaina Feinberg, seek answers to these questions and more in thisgorgeously illustrated collection of sometimes heartbreaking, always illuminating first-person stories.

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Examines the struggle for equality of citizenship of Indian Muslims in light of the release of the Sachar Committee report of 2006, which sparked widespread awareness of socioeconomic disparity and exclusion of religious minorities in India, especially Muslims. The contributors are some of the most eminent social scientists in the fields of applied economics, politics, sociology and demography.

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Throughout the Cold War Paul Dibb worked with the highest levels of Australian and American intelligence, and was one of very few Australian officials to be given the top-secret security clearance for access to Pine Gap. Inside the Wilderness of Mirrors is Paul's unique insight into how Australia saw the threat from the Soviet Union during the Cold War era and beyond.

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Draws on a wide range experts including academics, former and current strategic advisers and members of government, private industry professionals and intelligence community experts, to provide a diagnostic, clear-eyed approach in explaining, accessing and exposing the central foundations and frameworks necessary for effective practice of intelligence.

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Brand-new for Icon's graphic guide series to big ideas: the history, philosophy and politics of the biggest, most successful but most controversial idea ever: Capitalism.

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A succinct and accessible introduction to the philosophical study of the mind.

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An enjoyable, comic-style book on this enigmatic concept that has defined our cultural condition over the past twenty years.

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Another brand new Graphic Guide, on a sometimes baffling but crucial subject, straddling science, philosophy and everyday life.

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An insider's story of unrelenting sexual harassment and sexism from the 1950s to the 2010s as a young woman scratching her way up in a male-dominated world, from farm laborer to PhD scientist to corporate executive--and a call to action for those who wish to become champions for others.

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A collection of personal essays by noted women essayists and emerging women writers that explores the question of why Americans have a love/hate relationship with Hillary Clinton, tied together by analysis and commentary by the editor.

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A mothers memoir about the complicated relationship between herself and her daughtera high-functioning young adult with intellectual disabilities.

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In essays written with humor and wit, Kendrick reimagines what it means to be a good black womanfrom women choosing never to have children to mothers regretting their choice to have them, from being a lonely black atheist to conquering loneliness as a single woman in a foreign countryand, in the process, challenges the expectation that black women serve as noble martyrs or sacrificial lambs.

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Based on in-depth research with divorced Muslim women, community leaders and local religious authorities, this book reveals the complexities facing Muslim women in negotiating family expectations, cultural norms and traditional Islamic laws.

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Australia has found it difficult to effectively influence Pacific Island states in pursuit of its strategic interests. Informed by interviews with key decision makers, Pacific Power analyses why Australia has had difficulty exercising influence in the Pacific Islands and identifies how Australia can more effectively influence Pacific Island states in pursuit of its strategic interests.

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"Police Brutality and White Supremacy demands accountability and justice for those responsible for and impacted by police violence and terror. The books looks at practical solutions for racist policing as well as methods to work against the promotion of white supremacy, stressing the importance of white allyship"--

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"Police Brutality and White Supremacy demands accountability and justice for those responsible for and impacted by police violence and terror. The books looks at practical solutions for racist policing as well as methods to work against the promotion of white supremacy, stressing the importance of white allyship"--

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The Dawkins reforms of the late 1980s and the creation of the Unified National System roused passions at many universities across Australia over fears for the academic enterprise and the system of free, public university education. This volume tells the story of the Dawkins reforms at Australia's oldest university, the University of Sydney.

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A path breaking study of the brain and how the invention of reading has altered man's evolution.