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Negotiating Techniques in Diplomacy and Business ContractsDiplomacy is an established discipline, but it is still wearing its old garments, failing to display its capacity to deal with new unique bi-lateral and international disputes. In conformity with the provisions of Article 33 of the UN Charter, thisbook emphasises the need for...
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Remaking Social Work for the New Global EraFuture social work practice requires a holistic framework to deal effectively with the great social and economic disruptions of this unprecedented time. Innovation and creativity are indispensable to empowering social workers and social service organizations to make an impact on the lives of people...
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The Political Economy of Human Behaviour and Economic Development: Psychology and Economic DevelopmentThis book explores how economics can be based around studies on human behaviour, rather than relying on overly simplified assumptions generated from mathematical modelling. Through examining the link between human economic activity and psychology, specifically regarding the development of cognitive and non-cognitive ability, insight...
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Muslim Women as Speakers of EnglishThis book examines representations of Muslim women as speakers of English in the context of a language ideological debate in the UK in 2016. The author shows how Muslim women are stereotyped as non-speakers of English through the manipulation of census data, and how...
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Die Digitalisierung Des Politischen: Theoretische Und Praktische Herausforderungen Für Die DemokratieWährend die technische Entwicklung in Bezug auf Informationsverarbeitung und Informations-verbreitung mit rasanten Schritten vorangeht, können Gesellschaft und Wissenschaft die faktische Bedeutung der Entwicklung kaum noch hinreichend erfassen. Ohne eine grundlegende Reflexion der technischen Rahmensetzung von Politik und Gesellschaft wird es aber nicht möglich sein,...
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Walls - Challenges of a City: The Case of BaghdadFor almost 30 years, the face of Baghdad has been littered with military control, and thus, it has affected the city intensely. Constant wars left behind blank, concrete walls (T-Walls), surrounding communities and isolating neighborhoods. The T-Walls were implemented by the US-led Multinational Forces...
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We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing EarthA powerful, intimate collection of conversations with Indigenous Americans on the climate crisis and the Earth's futureAlthough for a great many people, the human impact on the Earth--countless species becoming extinct, pandemics claiming millions of lives, and climate crisis causing worldwide social and environmental...
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Al Luvis Woke UpAl Luvis Woke Up is an adult fable written as a simple children's book. It is a satire of the obvious issues in our current political climate told in rhyme with colorful pictures so as to not overcomplicate the lessons. Al Luvis Woke Up...
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Black Liberation / Red Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist PartyBlack Liberation/Red Scare is a study of an African American Communist leader, Ben Davis, Jr. (1904-64). Though it examines the numerous grassroots campaigns that he was involved in, it is first and foremost a study of the man and secondarily a study of the...
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Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of EmpireShortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political WritingLonglisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural UnderstandingA Guardian Book of the Year 'Brilliantly arranged and rich with fresh insights' Akala 'A radical, beautifully written understanding of our history' Owen Jones 'You can't understand...
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Against the Carceral Archive: The Art of Black Liberatory PracticeAgainst the Carceral Archive is a meditation upon what author Damien M. Sojoyner calls the "carceral archival project," offering a distillation of critical, theoretical, and activist work of prison abolitionists over the past three decades. Working from five collections at the Southern California Library...
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Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song ContestPostwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest examines how the Eurovision Song Contest has reflected and become intertwined with the history of postwar Europe from a political perspective. Established in 1956, the Eurovision Song Contest is the world's largest popular music event and one...
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The Codex Fori Mussolini: A Latin Text of Italian FascismThe year is 1932. In Rome, the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini unveils a giant obelisk of white marble, bearing the Latin inscription MVSSOLINI DVX. Invisible to the cheering crowds, a metal box lies immured in the obelisk's base. It contains a few gold coins...
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The Political and Social Thought of Kwame NkrumahInspired by Gandhi's non-violent campaign of civil disobedience to achieve political ends, Kwame Nkrumah led present-day Ghana to independence. This analysis of his political, social and economic thought centres on his own writings, and re-examines his life and thought by focusing on the political...
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The Science of Fingerprints: Classification and UsesCONTENTS Introduction The Identification Division of the FBI Types of Patterns and Their Interpretation Questionable Patterns The Classification Formula and Extensions Classification of Scarred Patterns-Amputation-Missing at Birth Filing Sequence Searching and Referencing How To Take Inked Fingerprints Problems in the Taking of Inked Fingerprints...
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Endemic: A Post-Pandemic PlaybookEndemic aims squarely at reckoning with our present condition: comprehending and living with a new respiratory disease and how to face the coming variants and next pandemic with reason, science, understanding, courage, and compassion. It does not shy from rigorous scrutiny, and it pulls...
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Rivalry in the Information Sphere: Russian Conceptions of Information ConfrontationInformation confrontation has become an important and distinct element of Russian strategy. Russia sees itself as being in a constant state of information confrontation with the West. The authors examine prevailing definitions and types of information confrontation, as well as the historical evolution of...
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Voluntary and Public Sector Collaboration in Scandinavia: New Approaches to Co-ProductionIn thirteen chapters, the contributors to this volume analyse the different dimensions of a new form of collaboration, termed collective co-production, in the Scandinavian countries. It is a characteristic of the Scandinavian countries - Sweden, Norway and Denmark - that they have both a...
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Local Government in the European Union: Completing the Integration CycleThis book addresses the 'bigger picture' of local-European relations and adds a new dimension to existing studies on multilevel governance and the Europeanisation of local government. Drawing from a combination of European integration theories and operational approaches, it introduces the idea of an integration...
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American Administrative Capacity: Decline, Decay, and ResilienceChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Mask is Off.- Chapter 3: The Concept of Capacity.- Chapter 4: Capacity and Reform Movements.- Chapter 5: Traditional Approaches to Controlling Administrative Capacity.- Chapter 6: Transactional Approaches to Controlling Administrative Capacity.- Chapter 7: Decay and the Battle to...
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