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  • The Beta Israel

    Falasha in Ethiopia: From Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century

    Series series Falasha in Ethiopia
    This "balanced and well informed" historical study is "a striking piece of scholarship aimed at demythologizing the origins of the Ethiopian Falasha" ( Foreign Affairs).The origin of the "Black Jews" of Ethiopia has long been a source of fascination and controversy. The culmination of almost a decade of research, The Beta Israel (Falasha) in Ethiopia is the first comprehensive and authoritative ... Read more

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  • Globalizing Patient Capital

    The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas

    China's overseas financing is a distinct form of patient capital that marshals the country's vast domestic resources to create commercial opportunities internationally. Its long-term risk tolerance and lack of policy conditionality has allowed developing economies to sidestep the fiscal austerity tendencies of Western markets and multilaterals. Employing statistical tests and extensive field ... Read more

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  • Proof

    The Rational Case for God

    Proof: The Rational Case for GodA Book for Skeptics. A Challenge for Atheists. A Companion for Seekers.In a world dominated by scientific confidence and philosophical doubt, Proof: The Rational Case for God offers something rare: a calm, structured, intellectually serious examination of whether belief in a Creator is rationally defensible.Barry B. Kaplan, author of Horology and a lifelong student ... Read more

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  • Globalization and Austerity Politics in Latin America

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    In an age of financial globalization, are markets and democracy compatible? For developing countries, the dramatic internationalization of financial markets over the last two decades deepens tensions between politics and markets. Notwithstanding the rise of left-leaning governments in regions like Latin America, macroeconomic policies often have a neoliberal appearance. When is austerity imposed ... Read more

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  • The Expedition

    Trish accidentally time travels to Lieutenant-Colonel Custer’s army camp during its final preparations for the 1873 Yellowstone Expedition. Luckily for her, she has her old-style flip cell phone with her, along with a ballpoint pen and plastic reading glasses. Even luckier, she is befriended by the regiment’s surgeon, who is officially in charge of her. He soon believes her story that she is from ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics contains 39 original chapters on a broad range of topics in applied linguistics by a diverse group of contributors. Its goal is to provide a comprehensive survey of the current state of the field, the many connections among its various sub-disciplines, and the likely directions of its future development. The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics ... Read more

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  • Sodom on the Thames

    Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times

    Sodom on the Thames looks closely at three episodes involving sex between men in late-nineteenth-century England. Morris Kaplan draws on extensive research into court records, contemporary newspaper accounts, personal correspondence and diaries, even a pornographic novel. He focuses on two notorious scandals and one quieter incident. In 1871, transvestites "Stella" (Ernest Boulton) and "Fanny" ... Read more

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  • Organizational Innovation

    Studies of Program Change in Community Agencies

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Innovation in the private and public sectors has been the subject of a great deal of study, since it is central to the economic growth and effective governance of most organizations. Determining the changes needed in an organization is less difficult than determining how to make the changes work. This volume is the result of a three-year study that investigated the factors associated with the ... Read more

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  • Symbol Formation

    First published in 1984. The authors’ basic aim in this volume has been to set forth a certain perspective on psychological phenomena and to show how this perspective enables one to order and integrate data on symbolization and language behavior—data obtained by a variety of methods and garnered from domains that are too often treated in isolation from each other. ... Read more

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  • Social Psychology of Self-Referent Behavior

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book is about human behavior and, more particularly, about a class of human behaviors-those behaviors by people that have themselves as the object of their behaviors. These self-referent behaviors are social in nature in the sense that in large measure, they are the outcomes of pervasive social processes and are themselves major influences on social outcomes. As such, self-referent behaviors ... Read more

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  • Theory and Practice of Writing

    An Applied Linguistic Perspective

    Series series Applied Linguistics and Language Study
    This book undertakes a general framework within which to consider the complex nature of the writing task in English, both as a first, and as a second language. The volume explores varieties of writing, different purposes for learning to write extended text, and cross-cultural variation among second-language writers. The volume overviews textlinguistic research, explores process approaches to ... Read more

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