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Island Fantasia
The Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan, for long an isolated outpost off southeast China, was suddenly transformed into a military frontline in 1949 by the Cold War and the Communist-Nationalist conflict. The army occupied the islands, commencing more than 40 long years of military rule. With the lifting of martial law in 1992, the people were confronted with the question of how to move…
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- 9781009023481
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- xvii, 330p, ill
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- 951.249 WEI
Decoupling: Gender Injustice in China's Divorce Courts
Michelson's analysis of almost 150,000 divorce trials reveals routine and egregious violations of China's own laws upholding the freedom of divorce, gender equality, and the protection of women's physical security. Using 'big data' computational techniques to scrutinize cases covering 2009–2016 from all 252 basic-level courts in two Chinese provinces, Henan and Zhejiang, Michelson reveals tha…
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- 9781108768177
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- xiii, 574p,: ill
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- 306.8930951 ETH
A Political Science Manifesto for the Age of Populism
Populism and authoritarian-populist parties have surged in the 21st century. In the United States, Donald Trump appears to have become the poster president for the surge. David M. Ricci, in this call to arms, thinks Trump is symptomatic of the changes that have caused a crisis among Americans - namely, mass economic and creative destruction: automation, outsourcing, deindustrialization, globali…
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- 9781108785440
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- x, 258p: ill,
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- 320.473 DAV
'The Philosophes' by Charles Palissot
DOI https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0201 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Copyright Jessica Goodman Published On 2021-01-21 ISBN Paperback 978-1-78374-908-9 Hardback 978-1-78374-909-6 PDF 978-1-78374-910-2 HTML 978-1-80064-612-4 XML 978-1-78374-913-3 EPUB 978-1-78374-911-9 MOBI 978-1-78374-912-6 Language English Print Length 234 pages (viii+226) Dimens…
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- 978-1-80064-612-4
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- vii, 234p, : ill
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- 842.5 JES
Heritage conservation and social engagement
Heritage Conservation and Social Engagement explores different kinds of engagement, participation, access, and creative use of resources motivated by the practice of conservation, and offers ethical and practical perspectives from which to approach cultural heritage projects. The chapters are structured around the themes of engagement and participation, with an emphasis on the value of cross-di…
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- 9781787359239
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- xiv, 182 p. : ill.
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- 363.69 HER h
Intersectionality in feminist and queer movements: confronting privileges
Examining the ways in which feminist and queer activists confront privilege through the use of intersectionality, this edited collection presents empirical case studies from around the world to consider how intersectionality has been taken up (or indeed contested) by activists in order to expose and resist privilege. The volume sets out three key ways in which intersectionality operates within …
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- 17
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- 9780367257859
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- viii, 302 p.
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- 306.766 ELI i
Building communities of trust creative work for social change
Drawing upon a combination of ethnographic research and media and communication theory, Building Communities of Trust: Creative Work for Social Change offers pathways to building trust in a range of situations and communities. Ann Feldman presents rich examples from her own life and social-impact journey with nonprofit, Artistic Circles, along with supplemental case studies from interviews w…
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- first
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- 9781003296423
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- vii, 144 p. : ill
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Amnesty international and women's rights: feminist strategies, leadership com…
Amnesty International's (AI) focus on civil and political rights has marked their work with a gender bias from the outset. In the first comprehensive look at AI's work on women's rights, Miriam Ganzfried illustrates the development of their activities regarding women's rights issues over twenty years. Through interviews with staff members and activists and unprecedented access to archive materi…
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- 9783839460085
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- 320 p.
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- Edition Politik, 128
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- 305.42 MIR a
Buried in the Red Dirt Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine
Bringing together a vivid array of analog and non-traditional sources, including colonial archives, newspaper reports, literature, oral histories, and interviews, Buried in the Red Dirt tells a story of life, death, reproduction and missing bodies and experiences during and since the British colonial period in Palestine. Using transnational feminist reading practices of existing and new archive…
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- 5
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- 9781009072854
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- vii, 288p, : ill,
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- 610.73092 FRA b
German Operetta on Broadway and in the West End, 1900–1940
This book provides the first in-depth empirical study of the European Parliament's powers of scrutiny of the executive in the European Union (EU) political system, focusing on the politically salient field of the Economic and Monetary Union. The expansion of executive decision-making during the euro crisis was accompanied by an empowerment of the European Parliament through legislative oversigh…
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- first edition
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- 9781108614306
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- x, 396p,:ill,
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- 782.120943097471 DER g
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