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The Scrum That Changed My LifeFive minutes into a rugby match between Bala and Nant Conwy on 21 April 2007, the first scrum collapsed leaving Bala hooker, Bryan Yogi' Davies, with life-changing injuries: a broken neck and damaged lungs. This book tells the story of his life before the...
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The Quest for Socialist Utopia: The Ethiopian Student Movement, C. 1960-1974A lively historical account of the rise of Ethiopia's student movement by one of those involved, its role in overthrowing the imperial regime, and its impact on the shaping of the country's future. Finalist for the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize to the author...
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Sects & Social Disorder: Muslim Identities & Conflict in Northern NigeriaAnalyses Muslim-Muslim divisions within northern Nigeria, which are as important for understanding the violence in the region as those between Muslim and Christian (for which, see the companion volume, Creed and Grievance), with consequences for long-term peacemaking. Nigerian society has long been perceived as...
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Mandela's Kinsmen: Nationalist Elites and Apartheid's First BantustanA novel study of the complex connections between Nelson Mandela and the nationalist leadership in the ANC with their kinsmen inside the Transkei Bantustan state, that reveals the significance of ethnic belonging, so important in African history. At a time of increasing regional fractures...
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Empire, Development and Colonialism: The Past in the PresentThis book makes a unique contribution to the renewed debate about empire and imperialism and will be of great interest to all those concerned with understanding the historical antecedents and wider implications of today's emergentliberal interventionism, and the various logics of international development. This...
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Postcolonial Thought in the French Speaking WorldIn the late 1990's, Postcolonial Studies risked imploding as a credible area of academic enquiry. Repeated anthologization and an overemphasis on the English-language literatures led to sustained critiques of the field and to an active search for alternative approaches to the globalized and transnational...
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In the Name of the People: Pseudo-Democracy and the Spoiling of Our WorldAre our 'democracies' truly democratic? In the Name of the People examines the myth of modern democracy and finds it wanting. The various oligarchies of the world blame the madness of modern life on the greed and stupidity of ordinary people: this book argues...
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Politics and the Other SceneEssays on politics by the pupil of Althusser.Author: Etienne BalibarPublisher: VersoPublished: 01/16/2012Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.40dISBN: 9781844677856About the AuthorÉtienne Balibar is a French Marxist philosopher and the most celebrated student of Louis Althusser. He is also one of the...
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Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous IdentitiesForty years after the defeat of Nazism, and twenty years after the great wave of decolonization, how is it that racism remains a growing phenomenon? What are the special characteristics of contemporary racism? How can it be related to class divisions and to the...
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Mapping IdeologyFor a long time, the term 'ideology' was in disrepute, having become associated with such unfashionable notions as fundamental truth and the eternal verities. The tide has turned, and recent years have seen a revival of interest in the questions that ideology poses to...
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Parecon: Life After Capitalism'What do you want?' is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation and degradation. In this highly praised new work, destined to attract worldwide attention and support, Michael Albert provides an answer: Participatory Economics, 'Parecon' for short, a...
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Another Knowledge Is Possible: Beyond Northern EpistemologiesThis is the third volume of the series Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestoes. Another Knowledge Is Possible explores the struggles against moral and cultural imperialism and neoliberal globalization that have taken place over the past few decades, and the alternatives that have emerged...
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The Rule of Freedom: Liberalism and the Modern CityThe liberal governance of the nineteenth-century state and city depended on the "rule of freedom." As a form of rule it relied on the production of certain kinds of citizens and patterns of social life, which in turn depended on transforming both the material...
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Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan NasrallahIn July 2006, with the commencement of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the longstanding secretary general of the "Party of God," burst into the spotlight of the Western media -- cast, almost inevitably, as an even more dangerous incarnation of Osama...
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MuhammadMuhammad is a shimmering, lyrical biography of the Prophet, composed from the words of Muslims throughout the centuries. Drawing on a variety of Islamic sources, from the hadith, or sayings of Muhammad and his companions, to Abbasid and Persian texts, Weinberger weaves a subtle,...
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Intelligence and Intelligence AnalysisThis book tracks post 9/11 developments in national security and policing intelligence and their relevance to new emerging areas of intelligence practice such as: corrections, biosecurity, private industry and regulatory environments. Developments are explored thematically across three broad sections: applying intelligence understanding structures developing...
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French Revolutionaries and English Republicans: The Cordeliers Club, 1790-1794An in-depth study of the radical Cordeliers Club and its influence on political and constitutional thought of the time. Following the cataclysmic events of 1789, some of those involved in the Revolution began to take seriously the possibility of a French republic. Various ideas...
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George Chastelain and the Shaping of Valois Burgundy: Political and Historical Culture at Court in the Fifteenth CenturyChastelain's chronicle and career supply the context for a reappraisal of the political aspirations of Philip the Good and Charles the Bold, 15c dukes of Burgundy. Few texts offer as many insights into the history of Valois Burgundy as the work of George Chastelain...
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An Account of Japan, 1609In 1608, Roderigo de Vivero, soldier and administrator, set out from Acapulco to take up his post as interim Governor of the Philippines. On the way home, his ship was wrecked off the coast of Japan and he lost everything. While in the Philippines,...
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The Ethic of Traditional Communities and the Spirit of Healing Justice: Studies from Hollow Water, the Iona Community, and Plum VillageWhat is healing justice? Who practices it? What does it look like? In this groundbreaking international comparative study on healing justice, Jarem Sawatsky examines traditional communities including Hollow Water - an Aboriginal and Métis community in Canada renowned for their holistic healing work in...
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