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In the first half of the 20th century the German-speaking world became the international centre of medical-scientific sex research - and the birthplace of sexology and psychoanalysis. This is the first book to closely examine encounters among this era's German-speaking researchers across their emerging professional and disciplinary boundaries.

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Examines archaeological evidence of Roman colonization of the Middle Republican period. In delving deeply into the uniqueness of select colonial contexts, these essays invite a novel discussion on the phenomenon of colonialism in the political landscape of Rome's early expansion.

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In Utopia in Performance, Jill Dolan traces the sense of visceral, emotional and social connection that we experience at the theatre, connections that allow us to feel for a moment not what a better world might look like, but what it might feel like, and how that hopeful utopic sentiment might become motivation for social change.

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Highlights the ways in which genocide and enforced disappearances are intertwined - each centering on human rights violations. This book draws on insight and expertise of human rights advocates worldwide and each chapter is informed by in-depth study of a given country.

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The stuff of nightmares in both their looks and the horrifying wounds inflicted on their victims, sea lampreys are perhaps the deadliest invasive species to ever enter the Great Lakes. This book draws on interviews with people who experienced the invasion as well as unexplored archival materials to tell the incredible story of sea lamprey.

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The extraordinary Swahili poetry collection Sauti ya Dhiki, in English Voice of Agony, is a collection of prison poems composed by Abdilatif Abdalla between 1969 and 1972. Imaginative Vision is the first complete literary translation into English of one of the most esteemed and influential collections of Swahili poetry of the twentieth century.

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Presents a study of the creation of youth drug culture in Hamburg during the 1960s and 1970s and an exploration of the paradoxes of modernization. Placing Hamburg's drug scene within national and international contexts, this book examines the ways in which mass consumerism created complicated forms of resistance to state power and cultural norms.

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Details the life and work of Bradford Ropes, author of the bawdy 1932 novel 42nd Street, on which the classic film and its stage adaptation are based. Each of Ropes’s long-forgotten novels was inspired by his own experiences as a performer, and focused on the lives of gay men in show business.

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A fascinating ethnographic history that analyses how popular resistance actively molded both the form of colonialism and the social, economic, and political experience of the Javanese laboring communities on Sumatra's plantation borders.

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Uses new as well as previously under-appreciated documentary evidence to link the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Checkpoint Charlie tank standoff to achieve the impossible - craft a new, thoughtful, original analysis of a political showdown everyone thought they knew everything about.

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Explores the history of cross-cultural teaching approaches, to highlight how women writer-educators used stories about their collaborations to promote community-building. Robbins demonstrates how educators used stories that resisted dominant conventions and expectations about learners to navigate cultural differences.

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Explores how television and online dramas imagine the Chinese nation and form postsocialist Chinese gendered subjects. The book addresses a conspicuous paradox in Chinese popular culture today: the coexistence of increasingly diverse gender presentations and conservative gender policing by the government, viewers, and society.

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Examines the dynamism and vibrancy of stage spectacle and its impact in an era of momentous social upheaval and aesthetic change. Situating theatrical production as key to understanding visuality ca. 1780-1830, this book reenvisions traditional approaches to artistic and social production.

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Focuses on not only the turn toward technological solutions to managing the risk of crime through digital (and software-based) surveillance and automated information systems, but also the introduction of somewhat bizarre and fly-by-night experimental ‘answers’ to perceived risk and danger.

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Challenges traditional views of the Ottonian Empire's rulership. Drawing from a broad array of sources including royal diplomas, manuscript illuminations, Ottonian kingship and the administration of justice are investigated using traditional historical and comparative methodologies as well as through the application of modern systems theories.

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Explores how dictators design elections and what consequences those elections have on political order. The book argues that strong autocrats who can effectively garner popular support through extensive economic distribution become less dependent on coercive electioneering strategies.

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Bridges the gap between Japanese popular culture studies and game studies by encouraging a dialogue centered around Japanese-designed video games and social issues. The book examines four contemporary Japanese video games in terms of how they engage with some of Japan’s biggest social and personal issues.

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While there are a number of survey textbooks in American politics, Citizenship in the American Republic is based on a fundamental premise that many have contended for the last century - a more informed, participatory citizenry is required for a more effective democratic republic.

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These collected essays provide a comparative historical investigation of gender and political culture as they explore eighteenth-century revolutionary movements. The contributors bring a rich variety of sources, methods, and perspectives to the investigation, making this anthology a useful contribution to the study of comparative history.

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Only a few plays by Sophocles have survived, and each of them dramatizes events from the rich store of myths that framed literature and art. Sophocles’ treatment evokes issues that were vividly contemporary for Athenian. Late Sophocles traces the evolution of the Sophoclean hero through the final three plays, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus.

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The Thackeray Edition proudly announces two additions to its collection: Catherine and The Luck of Barry Lyndon. The Thackeray Edition is the first full-scale scholarly edition of William Makepeace Thackeray's works to appear in over seventy years, and the only one ever to be based on an examination of manuscripts and relevant printed texts.

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Focuses on the constitutional order that characterized the High Middle Ages. The authors provide a historical account of how this constitutional order evolved following the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

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Flips the script on communication disability, positioning the unruly, disabled speaker at the centre of analysis to challenge the belief that more communication is unquestionably good. Joshua St Pierre brings together the dysfluent speaker, the talking head, and the troll to show how speech is made cheap to meet the inhuman needs of capital.

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