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When The Village People appeared on the music scene in the late 1970s, they struck a cultural nerve and fueled a craze. Never before had gay sexuality been as up-front and in the face of American audiences. This book shows how this novel band paralleled activities over the years within the gay culture and gay rights movement.

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A respected writer of naval history, Long is most qualified to write this first biography of Mad Jack, an unusual and controversial figure in the early days of the U.S. Navy.

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This collection of essays explores the philosophical and political dimensions of America as revealed by AMCs Mad Men, investigating topics including freedom, equality, consumerism and justice.

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The follow-up to Casino capitalism, this is another classic text, and the last book written by Susan Strange. It builds on the previous work, discussing the weak points of a financial system driven by volatile markets rather than by governments. -- .

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Madame Ambassador is an intimate description of what being an ambassador is really like. Tova Herzl draws on her twenty-one year career and shares her unique experiences as a single, Jewish orthodox woman serving as Israels Ambassador to paint a vivid, entertaining picture of the lives and work of contemporary diplomats.

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This book explores the forces that structure life in France from the cradle to the grave. These rules, norms and power relations are the result of work conducted by a wide range of politicians, administrators, business people and activists. Some have changed recently, but most have resisted the calls of neo-liberalism, globalisation and populism.

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This book explores the forces that structure life in France from the cradle to the grave. These rules, norms and power relations are the result of work conducted by a wide range of politicians, administrators, business people and activists. Some have changed recently, but most have resisted the calls of neo-liberalism, globalisation and populism.

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Why do the combat capabilities of individual soldiers vary so much In this first social scientific study of the effectiveness of combat troops, Newsome evaluates competing explanations for the varying combat capabilities and performances.

There are four main explanations, each emphasizing the influence of a single factor.

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The story of the woman who, with unprecedented enthusiasm and openness, helped forge a new foreign policy for America.

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Organized crime is spreading like a global virus as mobs take advantage of open borders to establish local franchises at will. That at least is the fear, inspired by stories of Russian mobsters in New York, Chinese triads in London, and Italian mafias throughout the West. As Federico Varese explains in this compelling and daring book, the truth is

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Political rhetoric has consequences and defines electoral narratives that create policy. MAGA and the White Social Conservative Worldview: The Rhetoric that Colonized the Republican Party examines the narratives of the White social conservative worldview proponents that provided the foundations for the colonization of the Republican Party by Donald Trump.

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The author takes into account the various views of religion which Tylor, Frazer, Marett, and Durkheim have given and goes on from there to provide his own conception that religion and magic are ways men have to make the world acceptable.

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Administrators, teachers, and parents who are dedicated to the best interests, social development, and academic success of their children can accomplish great things by using a wide variety of creatively humorous approaches.

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Championing an approach to political culture and political discourse from an "internal perspective," this work investigates meanings in Hungarian politics around the start of the twenty-first century.

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While the great medieval philosopher, theologian, and physician Maimonides is acknowledged as a leading Jewish thinker, his intellectual contacts with his surrounding world are often described as related primarily to Islamic philosophy. This title demonstrates that he was deeply influenced not only by Islamic philosophy but by Islamic culture.

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Main Concepts of Russian Politics addresses key concepts of political life in Russia. Specific attention is given to how Russian terms relate to their English-language equivalents.

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A political insider for more than thirty years, Christian P. Potholm addresses the dynamics of political change in the Pine Tree State by using qualitative analysis and anecdotal situations.