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This indispensable reader maps a comprehensive and global study of food through key sources in folklore, unpacked with expert commentary and student-focused learning features.

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With the proliferation of food history courses and avid interest amongst scholars and the public, the need for a comprehensive collection of primary texts is urgent. This is the definitive reader, spanning the globe from classical antiquity to the present.

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With the proliferation of food history courses and avid interest amongst scholars and the public, the need for a comprehensive collection of primary texts is urgent. This is the definitive reader, spanning the globe from classical antiquity to the present.

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Why do things always get harder before they get easier Why is foresight useful What does foresight really cost These and other questions form the backbone of this strongly argued and thoroughly referenced work from the highly experienced educational futurist Richard A. Slaughter of the Futures Study Centre in Melbourne, Australia.

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Why do things always get harder before they get easier Why is foresight useful What does foresight really cost These and other questions form the backbone of this strongly argued and thoroughly referenced work from the highly experienced educational futurist Richard A. Slaughter of the Futures Study Centre in Melbourne, Australia.

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A collection of essays taking a new look at social and cultural aspects of the 1950s in Australia. Research presented here suggests a much more complex cultural period, drawing out themes such as sexuality, modernism, suburbanism and popular and public culture.

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The coerced displacement of people within the borders of their own countries by armed conflicts, internal strife, and systematic violations of human rights has become a pervasive feature of the post Cold War era.

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This volume examines the issue of the timing of cultural change, problems of Revolutionary anticipations and reverberations, and the relationship between culture, politics, and society.

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There are over 1,000 McDonald's on French soil. Two Disney theme parks have opened near Paris in the last two decades. And American-inspired vocabulary such as "le weekend" has been absorbed into the French language. But as former French president Jacques Chirac put it: "The U.S. finds France unbearably pretentious. And we find the U.S. unbearably

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Using the New Social History method and examining nearly every document produced over the years covered, this study examines the growth of communities in the Upper Pee Dee region of the South Carolina backcountry in the 18th century.

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An important new study that assesses comparatively the future of Islamic fundamentalism in three key countries: Egypt, Algeria, and Saudi Arabia. The book focuses on the limits of Islamic fundamentalism as a system of thought, as well as a force for changing the established order.

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This book makes the case for an inclusive form of socialist feminism that puts multiply disadvantaged women at its heart. It moves feminism beyond contemporary disputes, including those between some feminists and some trans women. Its combination of accessibility, new thinking and academic rigour will make it attractive to a wide market.

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This book makes the case for an inclusive form of socialist feminism that puts multiply disadvantaged women at its heart. It moves feminism beyond contemporary disputes, including those between some feminists and some trans women. Its combination of accessibility, new thinking and academic rigour will make it attractive to a wide market.

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Meanwhile, Internet gambling, more or less regulated at home, has found willing government sponsors abroadremoving an ever-larger segment of the industry from U.S. government jurisdiction and recasting the gambling debate.

Using this book, citizens can:

Learn the ethical and rhetorical framework of the gambling debate.

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Recasts various ideas about the fertility myth of Adonis. This book challenges Sir James Frazer's thesis that the vegetation god Adonis represented the annual cycle of growth and decay in agriculture. It uses the analytic tools of structuralism and shows instead that the festivals of Adonis depict a seductive but impotent and fruitless deity.

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Offers an exploration of the lives of gay men in Indonesia. Based on a range of field methods, this book explores how Indonesian gay and lesbian identities are shaped by nationalism and globalization. It examines the possibilities of an "archipelagic" perspective on sameness and difference.

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From a vantage point of 100 years on, readers can, with this book, look back on the excitement and ferment of the turbulent decade of the "Gay Nineties" and find the seeds of the joys and anguish, the excesses and successes of the 20th century. It is suitable for browsing or research.

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The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle explores the lived experiences of LGBT+ persons in an era of heightened visibility. The contributors analyze the future of LGBT+ politics and look beyond the commercialized rainbow spectacle of gayborhoods into the communities and aspirations within.