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What kind of people are suicide bombers How do they justify their actions In this book, the author argues that popular views of these young men and women - as crazed fanatics or brainwashed automatons - fall short of the mark. He tells a story of the modern globalization of suicide bombing.

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Nancy Friday shows that the key to a woman's character lies in her relationship with her mother - that first binding relationship which becomes the model for so much of a woman's adult relationships with men, and whose fetters constrain her sexuality, independence, and very selfhood.

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Offers an analysis of Daniel Paul Schreber's "Memoirs of My Nervous Illness". This book denies that Schreber's delusional system prefigured the totalitarian solution to a defining structural crisis of modernity. It shows how this figure succeeded in avoiding the totalitarian temptation by way of his own series of perverse identifications.

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Domestic violence and abuse can unfortunately happen to anyone and is so often overlooked. In My Partner, My Enemy, Hon. John Michael Leventhal opens the readers eyes to the problem by looking at true cases of domestic violence, and offering solutions and resources to aid in the effort to help stop the problem.

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Domestic violence and abuse can unfortunately happen to anyone and is so often overlooked. In My Partner, My Enemy, Hon. John Michael Leventhal opens the readers eyes to the problem by looking at true cases of domestic violence, and offering solutions and resources to aid in the effort to help stop the problem.

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Amara is a young Filipino-American girl who loves when her big extended family comes over to visit. As their parents prepare lunch, Amara and her pinsans (cousins) can't seem to agree on how to entertain Lolo (grandfather) and Lola (grandmother). My Pinsans & Me: Amara's Talent Show is a story about family, teamwork and celebrating each other's differences.

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This is an account of survival against all odds, but it is more than that - an account of one man's search for the answers to the questions that in one way or other face us all.

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Reconstructing an important but little-known chapter of Islamic spirituality, Schimmel shows the clear equality of women and men in the conception of the prophet Muhammad; the feminine language of the mystical tradition, and the role of holy mothers and unmarried women as manifestations of God.

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An anthology collecting 23 'letters left unsaid' from some of the most exciting voices in the UK and beyond.

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Burma had the brightest prospects of any Southeast Asian nation after World War II. In the years since, however, it has dropped to the bottom of the world's socioeconomic ladder.

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An introduction to the scientific study of psychics and mediums-those who are frauds, those who are psychotic, and those whose claims seem to defy easy dismissal.

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A gathering of more than 1,000 interesting, clever, and hilarious questions and answers about the world of mystery fiction for the ever-inquisitive mystery, crime, and suspense fan by the owner of New York bookstore, Murder Ink.

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This study examines the literary and cultural discourses of ethnic minority regions in southwest China. The author uses the Confucian notion of harmony with difference and Foucaults concept of heterotopia to investigate how these discourses have evolved since the founding of the Peoples Republic of China.

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Offers an analysis of various accounts of the foundation of that most "mythical" of the Greek colonies - Cyrene, in eastern Libya. This book examines the Greeks' symbolic discourse to show that these modern concepts arose much later than commonly believed.

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A comprehensive examination of the origins and outcome of the "Cold War," showing how Marxist-Leninist ideology made the war inevitable.