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Conceptualizes the foreign policies of Europe - defined as the European Union and its member states - toward the states in its immediate southern ‘neighbourhood’ as semi-imperial attempts to turn these states into Europe's southern buffer zone, or borderlands.

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A brilliant and scholarly study of the mercantile world of medieval London in the 14th and 15th centuries. Sylvia Thrupp explores merchant life of the world made famous by Chaucer.

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Western music reached China nearly four centuries ago, with the arrival of Christian missionaries, yet only within the last century has Chinese music absorbed its influence. China and the West brings together essays on centuries of Sino-Western musical exchange by musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and music theorists from around the world.

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Provides a conceptual framework for understanding why people vote strategically, and what the differences are between sincere and strategic voting behaviours. Contributors then explore the facets of strategic voting through case studies in Great Britain, Spain, Canada, Japan, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and the EU.

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Argues that secularism is not the central principle of international relations but should be considered as one belief system that influences international politics. Through an exploration of Europe's secular identity, Sarah Wolff shows how Islam confronts the EU's existential anxieties about its security and its secular identity.

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This guide to advanced reading skills can be used in conjunction with any introductory tertiary level text. Students using this book will develop their text-based processing skills by developing a better understanding of word-level clues and recognising different types of text structures.

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Based on a series of case studies of globally distributed media and their reception in different parts of the world, Imagining the Global reflects on what contemporary global culture can teach us about transnational cultural dynamics in the 21st century. It also explores how individuals’ consumption of global media shapes their imagination of both faraway places and their own local lives.

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Focuses on the case of Bosnian Muslims, a rare historic instance of a new nation emerging. Although for Bosnian Muslims the process of national emergence and the assertion of a new salient identity have been going on for over two decades, Mirsad Krijestorac is the first to explain the significance of the whole process.

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Any and all songs are capable of being remixed. But not all remixes are treated equally. Rock This Way examines transformative musical works - cover songs, remixes, mash-ups, parodies, and soundalike songs - to discover what contemporary American culture sees as legitimate when it comes to making music that builds upon other songs.

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Argues that any attempt to understand how the content and function of the laws of war changed in the second half of the twentieth century should consider two major armed conflicts, fought on opposite edges of Asia, and the legal pathways that link them together across time and space.

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Using new definitions of the concept of power, this book examines the relations between parties in symmetrical and asymmetrical negotiations. I. William Zartman and Jeffrey Rubin argue that negotiations between countries that are not equal in power tend to be more efficient and effective than symmetrical negotiations.

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Examines key aspects of early villa culture and architecture, with the goal of understanding the development and deployment of villas in Republican Italy. This brings together scholars of Latin literature, Roman history, and classical archaeology to offer a multidisciplinary approach to the questions connected to the emergence and development of villas and their farming culture.

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Smart, funny, often irreverent observations on 150 years of science fiction writing, from a literary master. This book brings together, from a quarter century of writing, great essays by the celebrated writer Thomas Disch from such diverse places as ""The Nation"", ""New York Times Book Review"", ""Atlantic Monthly"", ""Fantasy"", and ""Twilight Zone"".

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Analyses the creation of different sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) from a comparative political economy perspective, arguing that different state-society structures at the sectoral level are the drivers for SWF variation.

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Two decades have now passed since the Horace H. Rackham funds were given to the University of Michigan. This book was specially prepared to tell the story of the Rackham funds, to set forth the specific accomplishments and results of the beneficence, and to account for twenty years of responsible stewardship in discharging this trust.

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Provides a brief history of English without assuming any prior knowledge of the subject. This book outlines the historical events that shaped English; describes how its grammar, vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation developed over time; and highlights the ""quirks"" and ""exceptions"" in English that can be explained on a historical basis.

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Success in business today requires an understanding of the nature of globalization and its impact on managers. Now in a fully revised second edition, Handbook for International Management Research provides the definitive guide for researchers in international management.

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Senator Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party in May 2001 and became an independent. Because he agreed to vote with the Democrats on organisational votes, this gave that party a 51-49 majority in the Senate. Using the “Jeffords switch”, Chris Den Hartog and Nathan W. Monroe examine how power is shared and transferred in the Senate.

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Reexamines the dispute over historical perception between Japan and South Korea, clearly identifying the many independent variables that have affected the situation. By seeing behind the public discourse and political rhetoric, this book offers a firmer footing for a discussion and the steps toward resolution.

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Presents a richly annotated, comprehensive collection of examples of etymological wordplay in Vergil's Aeneid, Eclogues and Georgics. An extensive introduction on the etymologizing of Vergil and his poetic forerunners places the poet in historical context and analyses the form and style of his wordplay.

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Illuminates the life and achievements of the remarkable woman scientist who revolutionized the concept of radiation risk. Gayle Greene traces Stewart's life and career as she came up against ever more powerful authorities, first the British medical profession, then the US nuclear industry, and finally the regulatory agencies that set radiation safety standards throughout the world.

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Esteemed scholar and theatre aficionado Marvin Carlson has seen an unsurpassed number of theatrical productions in his long and distinguished career. Ten Thousand Nights is a lively chronicle of a half-century of theatre-going, in which Carlson recalls one memorable production for each year from 1960 to 2010.

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Fujiwara Teika is known as the premier poet and literary scholar of the early 13th century. It is not so widely known that he also tried his hand at fiction. Set in the pre-Nara period, The Tale of Matsura is the story of a young Japanese courtier who is sent to China with an embassy and has a number of supernatural experiences.

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Harry Levine, the owner of a wholesale shoe business in an inner-city Detroit neighborhood, has a front-row seat to the collapse of his city. Of course, like the rest of us, he can't see the consequence of having landed in that particular seat. The middle class is heading to the suburbs; he's not sure what he wants - to stay or go.

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Highlights and interrogates the link between space and politics and explores the spatial dimensions of insurgencies, conflicts, uprisings, and mobilities in the Mediterranean region. The book offers an innovative scheme to rethink the relation between space and power.

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Every day, coalition cabinets make policy decisions critical to international politics. Juliet Kaarbo examines the dynamics of these multiparty cabinets in parliamentary democracies in order to assess both the quality of coalition decision making and the degree to which coalitions tend to favour peaceful or military solutions.

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Explores the factors that shape the Millennial generation's unique political identity, how this identity conditions political choices, and how this cohort's diversity informs political attitudes and beliefs. The book explores politics from a generational perspective, first, and then combines this with other group identities.

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Despite the centrality of mobility to the operations of both state and non-state armed groups as well as the survival strategies of civilians in conflict zones, issues of mobility have remained tangential to how we analyse armed insurgencies. This book foregrounds mobility as a key arena where state and non-state actors jostle for ascendancy.

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