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Tackles the critical question of how people of diverse cultures confront the common problems that arise with global integration. This book reveals these impacts on an urban US community, on Mandalay rice cultivators, on Mayan and Andean peasants and miners. It is for anthropologists and other social scientists engaged in ethnographic research.

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"Practicing Safe Music" is designed to energize music teachers to open the doors in the minds and hearts of all those students who long to come alive. All while practicing the proper care and feeding of a musician and music teacher so they're not giving from an empty well.

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Providing a conceptual and historical framework for the practice of applied sociology, this work profiles a variety of practicing sociologists and offers case studies in the fields of education, organizational development, work and labour and programme evaluation.

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Providing a conceptual and historical framework for the practice of applied sociology, this work profiles a variety of practicing sociologists and offers case studies in the fields of education, organizational development, work and labour and programme evaluation.

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Focusing on EU practitioners approach the Union's foreign policy to its eastern neighbourhood including Russia from a post-structuralist prospective, this title offers a new methodology to capture practices through the analytical approach of Discursive International Relations and Discursive Practice Model to analysis practitioners' practices.

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This book sets up rhythmanalysis as an innovative methodology for theorizing and practicing cultural historical research.

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This evocative and thought-provoking book calls for an overhaul of how counselling and psychotherapy research is framed and conducted. Packed full of first-hand examples from a wealth of different perspectives, it puts forward an approach to research centred on practical wisdom developed through intense exploration of the lived experience.

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This book explores the writings of Inis L. Claude, Jr., a preeminent scholar on international relations, to define a new approach to the study of international relations. Pragmatic liberalism, an "in-between" approach, argues that a liberal world order can be sustained and promoted by the pragmatic application of liberal principles.

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A work of the author whose writings represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Based on a set of lectures, it also includes works such as "The Meaning of Truth", "Psychology", "The Will to Believe", and "Talks to Teachers on Psychology".

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A description of the contemporary rural condition and efforts to sustain rural life in one small Minnesota community at the turn of the 21st century.

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When the children of Christian Scientists die from a treatable illness, are their parents quilty of murder for withholding that treatment This text debates the issues of who is ultimately responsible for deciding such questions and how to accommodate Christian Science views and practices.

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What kind of society was Iran before the constitutional revolution of 1906, feudal or despotic The author assesses both arguments, examining the works of high social theory from which this controversy derives and developing new concepts to analyze state and social relations in pre-Capitalist Iran.

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In a cool, authoritative and gently ironic biography, Don Baker considers the life of the fiery John Dunmore Lang. A tireless doer, he was a populist politician in the Legislative Council, ran three newspapers and circled the globe eight times. Although he answered only to God, he was a hero to ordinary workers.

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This book reveals the desperate plight of the poor, neglected, illegitimate, and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to "cherish" and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalized and ignored them. -- .

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This is a timely exploration of the traffic between design and activism in the context of precarity - a social and material condition brought about by the growth of temporary, informal and irregular work. The book shows how design objects and practices open up possibilities to recode and reconfigure the effects of precarity. -- .

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Ole Bruun's work depicts the life of a community of Mongolian livestock herders as they begin to adjust to life outside of their contained Soviet-style collectives. The author identifies and addresses the most essential conditions for their continued existence in the age of the market the adaptability of their own culture and working strategies, government policy, and international attention.

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A ground-breaking study on the concept of precision warfare and how it has shaped our view of armed conflict

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A ground-breaking study on the concept of precision warfare and how it has shaped our view of armed conflict

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This study examines several Cold War political leaders and their ability to survive US-sanctioned covert operations. The author argues that by understanding the psychological profile and emotional intelligence of leaders, it is possible to influence their mindsets and decision-making abilities.

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Using Game Theory (a theory based on the rationale that everyone acts in their own self-interest) he can foretell and even engineer events.