Portuguese Intervention in the Manila Galleon Trade: The Structure and Networks of Trade Between Asia and America in the 16th and 17th Centuries as Revealed by Chinese Ceramics and Spanish Archives
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In this study of the Portuguese intervention in the Manila Galleon Trade, Etsuko Miyata explores its...
Post-Socialist Informalities: Power, Agency and the Construction of Extra-Legalities from Bosnia to China
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This book is a comprehensive collection of key scholarship on informality from the whole...
Provisional Authority: Police, Order, and Security in India
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Policing as a global form is often fraught with excessive violence, corruption, and even...
Reptile Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques
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This practical handbook of reptile field ecology and conservation brings together a distinguished,...
The Common Body: Horses, Movement, and Awakening Our Essential Humanity
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Between 60 and 80 percent of human communication is nonverbal, spoken in the physical languages of...
Virtualism, Governance and Practice: Vision and Execution in Environmental Conservation
James G. Carrier and Paige West
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Many people investigating the operation of large-scale environmentalist organizations see signs of...
Global Metal Music and Culture: Current Directions in Metal Studies
Karl Spracklen, Andy R. Brown, Keith Kahn-Harris and Niall Scott
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This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to...
Rethinking Mahler
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As one of the most popular classical composers in the performance repertoire of professional and...
Big Dreams, Small Garden: A Guide to Creating Something Extraordinary in Your Ordinary Space
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Creating a spectacular garden is challenging when you thought you'd be living somewhere else by now....
DIY Utopia: Cultural Imagination and the Remaking of the Possible
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At first glance, contemporary popular culture, filled with bleak images of the future, seems to have...