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In the public debate about the success or failure of Australia's Indigenous policies, opinions have been grounded more often in personal experience than in social scientists' research. This work asks: What vision of the "good life" should guide an assessment of policy

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Examines the religious practices and identities of Indonesian Muslim women in the post-Suharto era. Underscores the negotiations Muslim women have made in arenas such as schools, organisations, popular culture and village life.

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Uncovering the insect logic that informs contemporary media technologies and the network society.

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Teaches you that the criminal justice system may actually be making the problem of domestic violence worse. Addressing the real dynamics of intimate abuse and incorporating proven methods of restorative justice, this work focuses on healing and transformation rather than shame or punishment.

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"Takes readers on a ... cross-country journey, introducing [them] to the people challenging America's xenophobic impulses by welcoming immigrants and collaborating with the foreign-born as they become integral members of their new communities"--

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A landmark examination of the work of acclaimed sociologist Ivan Szelenyi, and its enduring relevance.

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The essays in this volume re-examine the controversy over the role of the intellectual in society. Placing intellectuals in a specific historical context, they evaluate their real and potential role in the circumstances that define public life, including the media, government and social movements.

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An intimate series of compelling stories that take a no-holds-barred look at sex, gender, family, and community.

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Short, forceful commentaries on U.S. politics from Latin America to the Middle East.

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An examination of the promise and peril of digital communication technologies.

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The author traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender discourses in Yoruba studies. THE INVENTION OF WOMEN demonstrates that biology as a rationale for organizing the social world is a Western construction not applicable in Yoruban culture where social organization was determined by relative age.

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'The only book on the social history of Ireland that you'll ever need' Richard Corrigan

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The movement to canonise the Catholic Queen Isabel has recently been revived and, therefore, this detailed and original scrutiny of both Isabel and the power she wielded is timely.

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This study aims to go beyond isolating and stating Islamic economic ideals in relation to Western conceptions, and to progress toward implementation. It offers an integrated picture of the programme that Islam offers to help realise the kind of well-being it envisages.

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This text portrays the Islamic approach to issues of poverty and income distribution in the perspective of Islam's overall scheme for the establishment of a just socio-economic order.

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Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is the most influential Islamist organization in India. This book offers an in-depth examination of India's Jamaat-e-Islami and SIMI, exploring political Islam's complex relationship with democracy and providing a rare window into the Islamist trajectory in a Muslim-minority context.

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This text surveys the theory of money, banking and monetary policy in an Islamic economy. It also considers policy recommendations on how to eliminate payment of interest from the economy of Pakistan.

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It Is The Seeing is a book of poetry written by Mississippi-born, Black lesbian author, Renita Martin. The book is a meditation of emotional and spiritual evolution.

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Scrutinises the intellectual and institutional foundations of cultural studies and puts forward the provocative thesis that cultural studies has become part of the academy it has so regularly critised.

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James Carey - scholar, media critic, and teacher of journalists - established the importance of defining a cultural perpective when analyzing communications. This collection provides a critical introduction to the work of this significant figure.

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