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Asian Handmade Textiles in Motion

by Ayami Nakatani, Monisha Ahmed, Eriko Aoki, Willemijn de Jong, Michele A. Hardy, Miwa Kanetani, Aarti Kawlra, Sachiko Kubota, Chie Miyawaki, Okpyo Moon0, Susan Rodgers1, Seiko Sugimoto2, Ulara Tamura3, Yoko Ueba4 ...

Textiles play a decisive role in history: attire not only indicates status, gender, ethnicity, and religion but illustrates how such boundaries are continuously being negotiated, shifted, and recreated. Fashionable Traditions captures the complex reality of Asian handmade textile production and consumption. From traditionalist discourse and cultural authenticity to fashion and market trends, the ... Read more

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Textiles play a decisive role in history: attire not only indicates status, gender, ethnicity, and religion but illustrates how such boundaries are continuously being negotiated, shifted, and recreated. Fashionable Traditions captures the complex reality of Asian handmade textile production and consumption. From traditionalist discourse and cultural authenticity to fashion and market trends, the
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Claudia Roth's work on Bobo-Dioulasso, a city of half a million residents in Burkina Faso, provides uniquely detailed insight into the evolving life-world of a West African urban population in one of the poorest countries in the world. Closely documenting the livelihood strategies of members of various neighbourhoods, Roth’s work calls into question established notions of “the African family” as a ... Read more

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Claudia Roth's work on Bobo-Dioulasso, a city of half a million residents in Burkina Faso, provides uniquely detailed insight into the evolving life-world of a West African urban population in one of the poorest countries in the world. Closely documenting the livelihood strategies of members of various neighbourhoods, Roth’s work calls into question established notions of “the African family” as a
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De stille elite

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by Donna Leon ...

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Series Book 12 - Commissario Brunetti
Het lichaam van een student wordt gevonden in de streng afgesloten militaire academie van Venetië. Het is de zoon van arts en voormalig parlementslid dokter Moro, die een smetteloze reputatie heeft. Dokter Moro en zijn vrouw weigeren te geloven dat hun zoon zelfmoord heeft gepleegd. Toch zijn ze niet erg bereid mee te werken aan het onderzoek. Commissario Brunetti ontdekt verontrustende feiten die ... Read more

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Het lichaam van een student wordt gevonden in de streng afgesloten militaire academie van Venetië. Het is de zoon van arts en voormalig parlementslid dokter Moro, die een smetteloze reputatie heeft. Dokter Moro en zijn vrouw weigeren te geloven dat hun zoon zelfmoord heeft gepleegd. Toch zijn ze niet erg bereid mee te werken aan het onderzoek. Commissario Brunetti ontdekt verontrustende feiten die
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Anna Karenina (Illustrated)

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This is an illustrated edition featuring elegant artwork, a complete summary, an author biography, and a full characters list.Anna Karenina is Leo Tolstoy’s profound and emotionally rich masterpiece, exploring love, betrayal, family, and the search for meaning within the complex worlds of Russian society. At its heart is the passionate yet tragic romance between Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky, a ... Read more

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This is an illustrated edition featuring elegant artwork, a complete summary, an author biography, and a full characters list.Anna Karenina is Leo Tolstoy’s profound and emotionally rich masterpiece, exploring love, betrayal, family, and the search for meaning within the complex worlds of Russian society. At its heart is the passionate yet tragic romance between Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky, a
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Distant Love

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Love and family life in the global age: grandparents in Salonika and their grandson in London speak together every evening via Skype. A U.S. citizen and her Swiss husband fret over large telephone bills and high travel costs. A European couple can finally have a baby with the help of an Indian surrogate mother.In their new book, Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim investigate all types of ... Read more

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Love and family life in the global age: grandparents in Salonika and their grandson in London speak together every evening via Skype. A U.S. citizen and her Swiss husband fret over large telephone bills and high travel costs. A European couple can finally have a baby with the help of an Indian surrogate mother.In their new book, Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim investigate all types of
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Africa

The Politics of Suffering and Smiling

by Patrick Chabal ...

Series series World Political Theories
The question usually asked about Africa is: 'why is it going wrong?' Is the continent still suffering from the ravages of colonialism? Or is it the victim of postcolonial economic exploitation, poor governance and lack of aid? Whatever the answer, increasingly the result is poverty and violence.In Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling Patrick Chabal approaches this question differently by ... Read more

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The question usually asked about Africa is: 'why is it going wrong?' Is the continent still suffering from the ravages of colonialism? Or is it the victim of postcolonial economic exploitation, poor governance and lack of aid? Whatever the answer, increasingly the result is poverty and violence.In Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling Patrick Chabal approaches this question differently by
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Public Justice and the Anthropology of Law

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Series series New Departures in Anthropology
In this powerful, timely study Ronald Niezen examines the processes by which cultural concepts are conceived and collective rights are defended in international law. Niezen argues that cultivating support on behalf of those experiencing human rights violations often calls for strategic representations of injustice and suffering to distant audiences. The positive impulse behind public responses to ... Read more

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In this powerful, timely study Ronald Niezen examines the processes by which cultural concepts are conceived and collective rights are defended in international law. Niezen argues that cultivating support on behalf of those experiencing human rights violations often calls for strategic representations of injustice and suffering to distant audiences. The positive impulse behind public responses to
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The Case for Parity

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It’s already passé to ask if parity is important for today’s Canada. What’s needed now is to ask how we can make sure more women run for office and that they’re well-represented in government. There are no easy answers to this, but it’s clear that half-measures just won’t do. Pascale Navarro argues that quotas are essential for women to achieve parity with men in politics. Over a hundred other ... Read more

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It’s already passé to ask if parity is important for today’s Canada. What’s needed now is to ask how we can make sure more women run for office and that they’re well-represented in government. There are no easy answers to this, but it’s clear that half-measures just won’t do. Pascale Navarro argues that quotas are essential for women to achieve parity with men in politics. Over a hundred other
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Max Havelaar

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by Multatuli, Eduard Douwes Dekker ...

"Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company" is a culturally and socially significant 1860 novel by Multatuli (the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker) which was to play a key role in shaping and modifying Dutch colonial policy in the Dutch East Indies in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. In the novel, the protagonist, Max Havelaar, tries to battle against a corrupt ... Read more

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"Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company" is a culturally and socially significant 1860 novel by Multatuli (the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker) which was to play a key role in shaping and modifying Dutch colonial policy in the Dutch East Indies in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. In the novel, the protagonist, Max Havelaar, tries to battle against a corrupt
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Police in Africa

The Street Level View

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Often overlooked by journalists and scholars, the police forces of the African continents are a significant and little-studied phenomenon. This book seeks to redress that lacuna. The studies span the continent, from South Africa to Sierra Leone, keeping a strong ethnographic focus on police officers and their work. ... Read more

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Often overlooked by journalists and scholars, the police forces of the African continents are a significant and little-studied phenomenon. This book seeks to redress that lacuna. The studies span the continent, from South Africa to Sierra Leone, keeping a strong ethnographic focus on police officers and their work.
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This book brings together fifty of today’s finest thinkers. They were asked to let their imaginations run free to advance new ideas on a wide range of social and political issues. They did so as friends, on the occasion of Philippe Van Parijs’s sixtieth birthday. Rather than restricting themselves to comments on his numerous writings, the authors engage with the topics on which he has focused his ... Read more

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This book brings together fifty of today’s finest thinkers. They were asked to let their imaginations run free to advance new ideas on a wide range of social and political issues. They did so as friends, on the occasion of Philippe Van Parijs’s sixtieth birthday. Rather than restricting themselves to comments on his numerous writings, the authors engage with the topics on which he has focused his
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