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ISBN: 9781780760865 - Becoming Visible in Iran Becoming Visible in Iran
Mehri Honarbin-Holliday

ISBN10: 1780760868  ISBN13: 9781780760865
Publisher: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd I.B.Tauris
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 Jun 2013
The state of women in Islamic societies is the subject of much interest and heated debate, even as representations in the media rely on inadequate information and misperceptions. This title disputes the widespread stereotypes about Muslim women... More

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ISBN: 9780814782781 - Caring Democracy Caring Democracy
Joan C Tronto

ISBN10: 0814782787  ISBN13: 9780814782781
Publisher: New York University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Jun 2013
Argues for the need to make care, not economics, the central concern of democratic political life Americans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people's time for them to care adequately for their children... More

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ISBN: 9780253008404 - Loyal Unto Death Loyal Unto Death
Keith Brown

ISBN10: 0253008409  ISBN13: 9780253008404
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Jun 2013
Focuses on social and cultural mechanisms of loyalty to describe the circuits of trust and terror in Ottoman Macedonia The underground Macedonian Revolutionary Organization recruited and mobilized over 20,000 supporters to take up arms against the... More

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ISBN: 9780871403636 - The Social Conquest of Earth The Social Conquest of Earth
Edward O Wilson

ISBN10: 0871403633  ISBN13: 9780871403636
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 May 2013
New York Times BestsellerFrom the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career. In asking where we came from, what we are and where we are going, Edward O. More

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ISBN: 9781107012745 - Natural Categories and Human Kinds Natural Categories and Human Kinds
Muhammad Ali Khalidi

ISBN10: 1107012740  ISBN13: 9781107012745
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 16 May 2013
Muhammad Ali Khalidi proposes a new approach to classifications in the natural and social sciences, avoiding essentialism and social constructionism. The notion of 'natural kinds' has been central to contemporary discussions of metaphysics and... More

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ISBN: 9780415819336 - Senses and Citizenships Senses and Citizenships
Susanna Trnka, Christine Dureau, Julie Park

ISBN10: 0415819334  ISBN13: 9780415819336
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 15 May 2013
What does disgust have to do with citizenship? How might pain and pleasure, movement, taste, sound and smell be configured as aspects of national belonging? Senses and Citizenships: Embodying Political Life examines the intersections between... More

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ISBN: 9781137309525 - Citizenship and Political Violence in Peru Citizenship and Political Violence in Peru
Fiona Wilson

ISBN10: 1137309520  ISBN13: 9781137309525
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 15 May 2013
Exploring how restrictions on citizenship helped create conditions for political violence in Peru, this book recounts the hidden history of how local processes of citizen formation in an Andean town were persistently overruled, thereby... More

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ISBN: 9780822353645 - Addiction Trajectories Addiction Trajectories
Eugene A Raikhel, William Garriott

ISBN10: 0822353644  ISBN13: 9780822353645
Publisher: Duke University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 May 2013
Bringing anthropological perspectives to bear on addiction, the contributors to this important collection highlight the contingency of addiction as a category of human knowledge and experience. Bringing anthropological perspectives to bear on... More

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ISBN: 9781137274731 - Toward a Good Society in the Twenty-First Century Toward a Good Society in the Twenty-First Century
John Marangos, Nikolaos Karagiannis

ISBN10: 1137274735  ISBN13: 9781137274731
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 14 May 2013
Having previously defined a good society as a sustainable society with a high level of development, significant provision of meaningful jobs, and low levels of inequality and social ills, Toward a Good Society in the Twenty-first Century provides... More

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ISBN: 9780300190236 - Confluences Confluences
Erin L Hasinoff

ISBN10: 0300190239  ISBN13: 9780300190236
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 May 2013
In January 1935, the Vernay-Hopwood Chindwin Expedition departed from Rangoon to explore the Chindwin River valley on behalf of the American Museum of Natural History. This book includes documentation and photographs made during the journey as... More