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The similar cuisines of the Near East, Middle East, and North Africa stem from ancient cultures and variable climates, ranging from Mediterranean to desert.

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Food: The Key Concepts presents an exciting, coherent and interdisciplinary introduction to food studies for newcomers to the subject. In-depth analysis is Illustrated with lively case studies, and chapter summaries and guides to further reading make this perfect for course use.

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"Football Italia examines the development of Italian football in relation to the wider global transformations impacting football, and addresses the reasons for Serie A's initial success and current malaise"--

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This book considers the original and continuing legacy of Newtonian theories and imaginaries in the vast array of human attempts to understand the world. Drawing from a range of disciplines, the essays in this volume engage with Newton as a thinker and examine his legacy

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This volume examines the work of ten sociologists who have been forgotten or neglected within contemporary sociology. Each chapter examines one of these marginalized scholars including a brief biographical sketch, an overview of the selected theorists work and significance, and the relevance of their work to one or more contemporary social issues.

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In this study of one group of the new nobility, Jonathan Dewald argues that the origin, attitudes, and behavior of the noblesse de robe were in fundamental ways similar to those of the old nobility. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print

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A concise, accessible, and engaging guide for students and practitioners of sociology.

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Charles de Gaulle has often warned France and other European nations of the threat they face from advanced scientific and technological countries such as the United States and the Soviet Union. Robert Gilpin examines this "technological gap," which France fears, and the efforts France is making to introduce change and efficiency into her science ad

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A few years ago, three women set up a table on a street near Greenwich Village--and began offering expert advice to strangers for free. Now, The Advice Ladies take to the pages of their first book, offering pearls of wisdom on such subjects as how to escape from a nightmare date, how to get over an obsession before you turn into Glenn Close, and more.

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Between 1870 and 1960, national boundaries became more evident on the demographic map of Western Europe. In most of the fifteen countries examined here, differences in marital fertility, illegitimacy, and marriage from one province (counties, cantons, arrondissements) to another diminished considerably. From Provinces into Nations describes this sh

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Where do neighborhoods come from and why do certain resources and effects such as social capital and collective efficacy bundle together in some neighborhoods and not in others This title argues that neighborhood communities emerge from neighbor networks, and shows that these social relations are unique because of particular geographic qualities.

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"Analyzes paratextual board games--particularly games based on film, television, and books--as unique media texts"--

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"Analyzes paratextual board games--particularly games based on film, television, and books--as unique media texts"--

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Professional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in which professional te

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This study examines the careers of thirty-five scholarly journal editors through interviews that cover their rise to positions of influence, their views of the work of journal publishing, their assessment of the electronic revolution, and the role played by personal networks in the conduct of their duties.

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Based on in-depth interviews with partners in gay and lesbian relationships that have lasted more than 15 years, this book focuses on how partners worked out their roles, the nature of relational fit between them, conflict management, social supports, and change in sexual and psychological intimacy over the years.

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Based on in-depth interviews with partners in gay and lesbian relationships that have lasted more than 15 years, this book focuses on how partners worked out their roles, the nature of relational fit between them, conflict management, social supports, and change in sexual and psychological intimacy over the years.