Great Irish Heroes: Fifty Irishmen and Women Who Shaped the World
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How did the Irish independence movement lead directly to the invention of the modern submarine? Who...
Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda: Women as Rescuers and Perpetrators
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This book examines the mobilization, role, and trajectory of women rescuers and perpetrators during...
Gendering Counterinsurgency: Performativity, Embodiment and Experience in the Afghan 'Theatre of War'
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This book analyses the various ways in which counterinsurgency in Afghanistan is gendered. The book...
There are Two Sexes: Essays in Feminology
Catherine Porter, Antoinette Fouque and Sylvina Boissonnas
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Antoinette Fouque cofounded the Mouvement de Liberation des Femmes (MLF) in France in 1968 and...
Women and Captivity in Greece: Historical, Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives
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Gender has long attracted the attention of social researchers as key to understanding Mediterranean...
A Family of Gods: The Worship of the Imperial Family in the Latin West
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Roman politics and religion were inherently linked as the Romansattempted to explain the world and...
Beliefs: And the World They Have Created
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An accessible, objective understanding of what the major 'beliefs' are about. The major beliefs...
Communism for Kids
Sophie Lewis, Bini Adamczak and Jacob Blumenfeld
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Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come...
Filming the Everyday: Independent Documentaries in Twenty-First-Century China
Paul G. Pickowicz and Yingjin Zhang
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This cutting-edge book examines the rapidly developing scene of Chinese independent documentary,...
If Only They Didn't Speak English: Adventures in America - the Most Foreign Land on Earth
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As the BBC's North America Editor, Jon Sopel has experienced "The Greatest Country on Earth" from a...