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A Psychosocial Exploration of Love and Intimacy
Clearly organised around a single question–is love possible?–Joanne Brown’s book provides conceptualizations of love and of its possibility from sociological, philosophical and psychoanalytic viewpoints. Material from biographical, narrative interviews are…
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Accentuation and Active Interpretation
Hans-Christian Schmitz argues that a speaker has to utter a sentence in a way that makes the hearer perceive at least those words that are sufficient for understanding the entire…
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Aesthetic Leadership
Leaders in business and art stand to gain a great deal by listening to each other. In this book thirteen research-based cases demonstrate how software programmers and art curators, financial…
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Agents of the Welfare State
Have globalization pressures and neo-liberal ideas led to convergence in how countries respond to welfare claimants? Through ethnographic case studies of social assistance offices in the United States, Germany and…
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American Education, Democracy, and the Second World War
American Education, Democracy, and the Second World War examines how U.S. educational institutions during World War II responded to the dilemma of whether to serve as “weapons” in the nation’s…
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American Power after the Berlin Wall
American Power After The Berlin Wall traces the global projection of U.S. military power and political influence from the end of the Cold War to the present. Along with summarizing…
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An Identity for Europe
This book looks at the role of multiculturalism in the complex construction of the European Union, acknowledging the tension of creating a new political space for identities that are simultaneously…
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Anglo-American Media Interactions, 1850-2000
This book reveals the complicated ways in which British and American media have influenced each other over the past two centuries. Through fourteen original essays by leading historians…
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Applying the Dismal Science
A distinguished collection of insider accounts of the revolution in UK economic policy making since 1964. This collection shows what went wrong in UK economic policy-making in the…
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Appropriation as Practice
This book makes a major contribution to the current debate on globalization, and more precisely to the question of how the “traffic in culture” is practiced, rationalized and experienced by…
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Arming Conflict
This book uncovers and analyzes the structures and dynamics of the proliferation of small arms and light weapons that fuel conflicts. Small arms and light weapons are the…
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Asia Future Shock
30 essential insights into Asian business The transformation of China, India and much of the rest of Asia is seismic. Never has the region changed so much in…