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World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to address climate change. In Climate Uncertainty and R...

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Latin America, with 8 percent of the worlds population and 30 percent of the worlds deaths from COVID-19, is Ground Zero of the pandemic. The region has also had the worlds worst economic performance in this period. Moreover, it is presently caugh...

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In this novel-length road story, the female protagonist, who is haunted by an audio hallucination twenty ells of linen are worth a coat that plays over and over in her mind, escapes from a mental hospital with a young man. This is the story of the...

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On Beckett: Essays and Criticism is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prizewinning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett. More has been written about Samuel Becket...

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Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar's Five Cities was first published in Turkish as Be ehir in 1946 and revised in 1960. It consists of five essays, each focused on a city significant in Anatolian history and in Tanpinar's emotional life. Part history,...

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Using digital storytellinga new media genre that began in California in the late 1990s and that proliferated across the West in the 2000sas a site of analysis, this book asks, What is done in the name of the everyday? Like everyday multiculturalis...

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With the use of artificial intelligence (AI), the border that has traditionally separated fact, or nonfiction, and fiction has become increasingly porous. Think of posts on social media by bots pretending to be human, altered photos and videos, in...

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This book presents the very first analysis of male homosexuality in modern rural Thailand that is based on sociological/anthropological research directly with 25 young same-sex attracted men. It explores changes in the way men view and describe th...

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The Slumdog Phenomenon addresses multiple issues related to Slumdog Millionaire and, in the process, provides new ways of looking at this controversial film. Each of the books four sections considers a particular aspect of the film: its relation t...

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Lloyd Lewis is moving to yet another children's home, but this one is different. It seems to be cast in an unremitting, sunless winter. The staff and children are surly and aggressive, and he soon discovers why: Sarson Hall is gripped in a curse. ...

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In West Belfast in the late 1960s, Brendan OHara and his teenage son, Seamus, are drawn to the nationalist cause and join the IRA. Their obsession divides them from other members of the family, especially Seamus mother, Ruth, and his gentle younge...

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This book focuses on the Ranchi Indian Mental Hospital, the largest public psychiatric facility in colonial India during the 1920s and 1930s. It breaks new ground by offering unique material for a critical engagement with the phenomenon of the ind...

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Tokyo Seven Roses' is set in Japan during the waning months of WWII and the beginning of the Occupation. It is written as a diary kept from April 1945 to April 1946 by Shinsuke Yamanaka, a fifty-three-year-old fan-maker living in Nezu, part o...

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Tokyo Seven Roses' is set in Japan during the waning months of WWII and the beginning of the Occupation. It is written as a diary kept from April 1945 to April 1946 by Shinsuke Yamanaka, a fifty-three-year-old fan-maker living in Nezu, part o...

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Responsibility to Protect and Prevent: Principles, Promises and Practicalities explores the evolution of responsibility to protect (R2P), a principle which according to its supporters has evolved into a new type of responsive norm for how the inte...

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This book explores the history of hypertext, an influential concept that forms the underlying structure of the World Wide Web and innumerable software applications. Barnet tells both the human and the technological story by weaving together contem...

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This interactive guide serves to make glacial systems and landforms more accessible, as students use Google Earth and other satellite imagery to understand the patterns and processes found within glacial environments. Guided inquiry activities ran...

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This book explores the multiple effects of globalization on urban and rural communities, providing anthropological case studies from postsocialist Bulgaria. As globalization has been studied largely in urban contexts, the aim of this volume is to ...

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South Asia 2060 is a dialogue among 47 experts from a diverse range of expertise and backgrounds, ranging from policymakers to academia to civil society activists and visionaries, on the likely longer-range trajectories of South Asias future. The ...

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The historical schools of economics have been neglected within the arena of economic theory since the Second World War in favour of the now-dominant classical and neoclassical schools of economic thought. As alternative frameworks re-emerge, this ...

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Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science is an edited collection of essays from leading authorities in the field of Victorian literature and science, including Gillian Beer and George Levine. Darwin, Ten...

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Summer, 1914. Clara, a passionate young London wife and the mother of two small girls, is married to Henry, a manager at an insurance company, but the marriage is not in good shape. Both of them have, in their own ways, given up on it.Henry begins...

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When experienced people who have been in a steady job for years are made redundant, coming to terms with today's workplace is a major challenge. This challenge is even greater for those fresh out of college or university and who are looking to get...

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How much do economists really know? In most cases, they claim to have profound knowledge but in fact understand little and obscure almost everything. Most people are convinced that economics should be left to the experts, when they themselves are ...

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This book traces the heightened time-consciousness that has emerged since the 1990s in popular Indian discourses across cinema, television, print and consumer culture and argues that these anxieties concerning time are symptomatic of the struggle ...

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This book explores the memory of the First Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, which proved crucial for communist Hungarian political culture in the twentieth century. Apor approaches the topic in an innovative way, focusing on the understudied asp...

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This ground-breaking study, the first of its kind, outlines a theory of publishing that allows publishing houses to focus on their core competencies in times of crisis. Tracing the history of publishing from the press works of fifteenth-century Ge...

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Combining commercial success with philanthropy and social activism, Quakernomics offers a compelling model for corporate social responsibility in the modern world. Mike King explores the ethical capitalism of Quaker enterprises from the eighteenth...

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Over the past two decades, projects supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) have critically examined the ways in which information and communications technologies (ICTs) can be used to improve learning, empower the disenf...

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Drawing lessons from the eFez Project in Morocco, this volume offers practical supporting material to decision makers in developing countries on information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D), specifically e-government implemen...

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