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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 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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"Fulbright and mtvU sponsored scholar Jillian Marshall offers honest and often humorous vignettes that delve far beyond Western stereotypes of Japanese culture to portray a society's deep relationship with music, and what it means to listen and understand as a cultural outsider"--Amazon.com.

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A riveting biography of one of German Communism's most important, if little studied rank and file leaders.

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Addresses the relation of Jewish cultural studies to cultural studies as a whole. Jonathan Boyarin is the author of "Storm from Paradise" (Minnesota, 1993) and the editor of "Remapping Memory" (Minnesota, 1994).

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Looks at Jews' involvement in the military and their attitudes toward war from the 1600s until the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. This title demonstrates that Israel's military ethos did not emerge from a vacuum and that long before the state's establishment, Jews had a vested interest in military affairs.

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The authors set out to reveal the truth about King Arthur by following a new approach to the mystery. Through a programme of painstaking research, they have assembled a jigsaw puzzle of interconnecting identifications and information which throws new light on the history of the Dark Ages.

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Through the voices of high school girls in Ciudad Juarez, understanding how education can promote self-empowerment and resistance against injustice and violence

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Through the voices of high school girls in Ciudad Juarez, understanding how education can promote self-empowerment and resistance against injustice and violence

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The institution of marriage stands at a critical juncture. As gay marriage equality gains acceptance in law and public opinion, questions abound regarding marriage's future. Will same-sex marriage lead to more radical marriage reform Should it Antonin Scalia and many others on the right warn of a slippery slope from same-sex marriage toward polyg

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Returning social justice to the center of urban policy debates

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