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This book argues the modern mass transit of ordinary people derives from common conditions in modernising societies and that they were first manifested in the British Isles. -- .

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Introduces and tests a theory of ethnic violence, which provides an explanation of not only most ethnic violence, civil wars, and terrorism but many interstate wars as well. This book offers a synthesis of comparative politics and international relations theories, as well as a blend of statistical and historical case study methodologies.

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This volume is a comprehensive, critical examination of cultural diversity in Germanic-speaking societies. It aims to go beyond ethnic, religious and gender stereotypes, seeking to interpret philosophical, aesthetic and literary thinking about diversity in literature and language.

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This is a condensed version of three yearbooks of German public opinion for the period 1947-1966. It joins the forces of psychology and statistics in public opinion research for the purpose of measuring political, economic, social and cultural data crystallized into the hard language of figures.

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This text examines all aspects of administering services to older adults. The authors surveyed practising administrators over a two-year period and address a variety of topics including leadership styles, management techniques, ethical issues and community relations.

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A work that chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes.

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The Global Dynamics of News is an attempt to locate the study of news-perhaps the genre best epitomizing the process of media globalization-within contemporary debate about news flow, transnational media-cultures and globalization.

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The Global Dynamics of News is an attempt to locate the study of news-perhaps the genre best epitomizing the process of media globalization-within contemporary debate about news flow, transnational media-cultures and globalization.

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This book presents the reception of Hallyu ("the Korean Wave") and the real and imaginary maps of the export of South Korean cultural products around the world. It is an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach to the impact of Hallyu, including chapters on the effects of South Korean culture on countries in Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

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This book presents the reception of Hallyu ("the Korean Wave") and the real and imaginary maps of the export of South Korean cultural products around the world. It is an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach to the impact of Hallyu, including chapters on the effects of South Korean culture on countries in Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

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This book explores the global migration of athletes who have played soccer outside their country of birth. Inspired by the sociology of migration, it addresses the causes of migration as well as the process of adapting to living and working in a new country.

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Tackling a subject that is as timely as it is complex, this expert work examines the turmoil inside Muslim communities, helping outsiders to understand and insiders to examine ways in which Islam can be reinterpreted for a modern world.

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A guide to various issues involving globalization and the production, distribution and consumption of food. It demonstrates the central role of food in many of the crucial and most controversial social and political issues of the 21st century. It investigates the multiple ways in which globalization and food are interrelated.

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A guide to various issues involving globalization and the production, distribution and consumption of food. It demonstrates the central role of food in many of the crucial and most controversial social and political issues of the 21st century. It investigates the multiple ways in which globalization and food are interrelated.

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A collection of true stories that present a fascinating insight into a culture that remains mysterious to many non-Lebanese Muslims. Warm, provocative, funny and poignant, these tales of family and community life, contradictions and customs, are a vivid insight into an exotic and vibrant culture.

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From a previously rather underdeveloped perspective, Breton looks at the ethnic community as a stateless political entity with political structures and political processes for self-governance, arguing that although these groups have no state institutions, they do have public ones.

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The medieval legend of the Grail, a tale about the search for supreme mystical experience, has never ceased to intrigue writers and scholars by its wildly variegated forms. This title shows how the Grail, once a Celtic vessel of plenty, evolved into the Christian Grail with miraculous powers.