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Blushing and the Social Emotions(2006) CROZIER, W.The blush is a ubiquitous, but little understood, phenomenon. It involves an involuntary change in the face that can express feelings, reveal character and cause intense anxiety. Crozier provides a scholarly, yet accessible, synthesis of new research, locVezava: Mehka68,89 € -
Defining Literary Criticism(2005) ATHERTON, CAROLOutlining the controversies that have surrounded the academic discipline of English Literature since its institutionalization in the late nineteenth century, this important book draws on a range of archival sources.Vezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Using History, Making British Policy(2006) BECK, P.The extent to which history has been used to inform policy remains a neglected topic. Focusing upon the 1957 Whitehall policy initiative, this book enhances our knowledge of post-1945 Britain, illuminates debates about the nature and the use of history inVezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction(2005) PAYNE, D.An ambitious weave of ideological, literary, and commodity history, The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction shows how Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot sacralized Victorian modernity in two contradictory ways: by incarnating their moment as oneVezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Dress, Distress and Desire(2005) BATCHELOR, J.Dress, Distress and Desire explores representations of sartorial experience in eighteenth-century literature. It shows how dress dispelled the sentimental myth that the body acted as a moral index and enabled the women reader to resist some of sentimentalVezava: Mehka68,89 €
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English Historical Drama, 1500-1660(2008) RAVELHOFER, BARBARAWhile not wishing to ignore the influence of Shakespeare, this collection of essays explores other historical drama between 1500 and 1660, covering a wide range of different formats. Individual essays in chronological order discuss a wide variety of possiVezava: Mehka68,89 €
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National Interest in International Relations Theory(2005) BURCHILL, S.This is the first systematic and critical analysis of the concept of national interest from the perspective of contemporary theories of International Relations, including realist, Marxist, anarchist, liberal, English School and constructivist perspectivesVezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Empire's New Clothes(2008) PALTIEL, J.This book assesses the challenge to the dominance of Euro-American political and economic liberalism from China's emergence as a global presence. China presents the most significant present-day example of the dual process of participation and resistance.Vezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Peasants, Famine and the State in Colonial Western India(2005) HALL-MATTHEWS, D.Recent literature has suggested that famines are complex, long-drawn-out and political processes, rather than sudden, natural phenomena. It does so by investigating their factors of production - land, capital and labour - as well as markets in credit andVezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Managing Development(2005) FRANKEL, E.This book presents a critical view of economic development in the last 50 years and evaluates different approaches taken that led to success or failure.Vezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Realigning Interests(2004) CHANG, M.Michele Chang pays particular attention to the role of domestic elections, since these may prevent governments from credibly committing to a fixed exchange rate and from responding quickly and coherently to market instability, thus encouraging speculationVezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Taking on the World's Repressive Regimes(2007) KOREY, W.A study of the Ford Foundation's support and of funding of human rights projects and NGOs, illuminating its extraordinary role in helping undermine and destroy major world repressive authoritarian and totalitarian regimes during the latter part of the tweVezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Woodrow Wilson and the Press(2004) STARTT, J.Esteemed journalism historian James Startt has crafted an intriguing case study of the relationship between political leadership and the mass media during its early days, using the political ascendancy of Woodrow Wilson as its focus.Vezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Inter-Korean Relations(2004)In post-cold War thinking, North Korea was expected to collapse and be absorbed into a single Korean state by the democratic regime in South Korea.Vezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Middle East and Palestine(2004)Taking issue with the convenient views that the Middle East is an irrational and exceptional region of world politics, and that the long and bloody history of the Palestine conflict is proof, the authors combine theoretical reflection and empirical investVezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Landing Votes(2004) LAPP, N.Landing Votes explores the conditions under which democratic Latin American governments address persistent political and economic inequities. rather, they sought political power by extending the right to vote while redistributing land.Vezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Personal and the Political(2004) KUMLIN, S.This study investigates the extent to which personal welfare state experiences affect general political orientations and attitudes.Vezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Designing West Africa(2004) SCHWAB, P.Many African nations are now described as 'fourth world nations', ones which essentially have no future. Focusing on the six most visible leaders of the period - painting detailed portraits of them both as leaders and as people - Schwab looks at how AfricVezava: Mehka41,57 €
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Beyond Reconstruction in Afghanistan(2004)The interaction of failed states, terrorism and the need for 'nation building' is at the top of the international agenda, with particular focus on Afghanistan and Iraq.Vezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Women, Partisanship, and the Congress(2005) EVANS, J.As women increasingly play a role and gain even greater prominence in congressional politics, they need to navigate the at times conflicting demands of loyalty to party culture, responsiveness to party leadership, political goals, and the need to get re-eVezava: Mehka68,89 €
