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This work presents a treatment of the issue of death, comparing the Western approach of "optimising" with the Eastern approach of "adapting". It analyses the nature of happiness, and explains how adaption may be implemented.

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This work presents a treatment of the issue of death, comparing the Western approach of "optimising" with the Eastern approach of "adapting". It analyses the nature of happiness, and explains how adaption may be implemented.

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An ethnographic study of ritual performance and place-making among Shi'a Muslim Iraqi women in Copenhagen -- .

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This book provides an engaging and informative insight into the experiences, dreams and hopes of children and teenagers in contemporary Ireland. -- .

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This is the first book in almost two decades to bring together scholars of Indonesia from the Australian academy to reflect on and engage in a deep critique of their field, resulting in some divergent views on the fundamental questions of how Indonesia should be studied and the uses of Indonesia knowledge for activism. Purdey, Monash University.

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How is it that labour has become the means of capitalist discipline, exploitation, and domination in modern society The book provides a systematic analysis of the role of labour in the processes of capitalist production and the establishment of capitalist legal and social institutions.

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Tom Brass takes the lessons drawn by Development Studies and deftly applies them to metropolitan capitalist nations.

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From the diverse voices of young Shi'i Muslims searching for places to hang out, to the Hezbollah officials who want this media-savvy generation to be more politically involved, to the religious leaders worried that Lebanese youth are losing their moral compasses, this title looks at leisure in the Lebanese capital.

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Leverage of the Weak enhances knowledge of movement emergence and offers the first systematic, multilayered comparisons across movements and nations in East Asia. Hwa-Jen Liu argues that examining material factors versus ideational factors is crucial to understanding the successes (or failures) of social movements.

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Leverage of the Weak enhances knowledge of movement emergence and offers the first systematic, multilayered comparisons across movements and nations in East Asia. Hwa-Jen Liu argues that examining material factors versus ideational factors is crucial to understanding the successes (or failures) of social movements.

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Yet another book of poems from the ubiquitous poet, playwright, actor, director, visual artist and standardized patient (yes, standardized patient), Stan Rogal. This is the first of Rogal's books to feature samples of his collage work.

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Made in America presents the first look at self-made men and omen from a multicultural perspective. Jefferey Louis Decker discusses the emergence of self-starters in relation to the changing consumer markets of the twentieth century, and he locates the new breed of entrepreneurs within the changing rhetoric of personal success.

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A cross-national account of working mothers' daily lives--and the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve them.

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Exploring contradictions between the democratic rhetoric of empowerment programs and the bureaucratic hurdles that volunteers learn to navigate, this book demonstrates that empowerment projects work best with less precarious funding, more careful planning, and mandatory training, reflection, and long-term commitments from volunteers.

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Looks at the hunting of humans in the West, from ancient Sparta, through the Middle Ages, to the modern practices of chasing undocumented migrants. This title provides the historical events and philosophical reflection. It also investigates the psychology of manhunting.