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In Don't Janet E. Halley explains how the military's new anti-gay policy is fundamentally misdescribed by its common nickname, "Don't Ask/Don't Tell." This ubiquitous phrase, she points out, implies that it discharges servicemembers not for who...

In Smoldering Ashes Charles F. Walker interprets the end of Spanish domination in Peru and that country's shaky transition to an autonomous republican state. Placing the indigenous population at the center of his analysis, Walker shows how the Indian...

When federal and state policy makers' efforts to enact sweeping health care reform in the mid-1990s ended in stalemate, the private sector unleashed initiatives that have affected virtually every aspect of health care. With updated essays first published...

Once a marginal political coalition, the French National Front has become the most high-profile far-right organization in Europe. In Politics on the Fringe Edward G. DeClair provides the first extensive analysis of the Front's history, from its creation...

This definitive study brings together recent critiques of development and work in postcolonial studies to explore what the postcolonial condition has meant to rural people in the Third World. Focusing on local-level agricultural practices in India since...

As countries in the European Union struggle to comply with the Maastricht Treaty, the question of monetary integration is at the forefront of European politics. Germany and the Politics of Europe's Money explores how and why Germany-whose economic power...

In the political landscape emerging from the end of the Cold War, making U.S. foreign policy has become more difficult, due in part to less clarity and consensus about threats and interests. In After the End James M. Scott brings together a group of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904879640Author Susan DebnamFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Cyan BooksPublisher Cyan BooksWeight(grams) 138g

This new edition of the PasTest bestseller aims to test the widest breadth of the MRCP 1 candidate's knowledge. Incorporating new questions and clinical scenarios, "MRCP 1 Best of Five Multiple Choice Revision Book, Second Edition" captures new...

Roy Madron and John Jopling argue that the main purpose of our Western democracies is to satisfy a global debt-money system through the pursuit of economic growth. This 'Global Monetocracy' is a hugely powerful system that is imposing social injustice,...

Personal privacy and security on your PC are the topics addressed by this guide. It reveals to the average user the security secrets the experts already know and shows users how to protect their computer files from unwanted intruders.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904132936Author Joel LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vision Paperbacks / Satin PublicationsPublisher VISION Paperbacks

This volume investigates the concepts of nation, identity, and culture as they have evolved within the contexts of exile and as a result of the consolidation of the ethnic and the political. The contributors explore various theoretical issues involved in...

As countries in the European Union struggle to comply with the Maastricht Treaty, the question of monetary integration is at the forefront of European politics. Germany and the Politics of Europe's Money explores how and why Germany-whose economic power...

In Public Privates, a book about looking and being looked at, about speculums, spectacles, and spectators, about display, illumination, and reflection, Terri Kapsalis makes visible the practices and representations of gynecology. The quintessential...

Since the events of September 11 2001, the uses of the word terrorism seem to have multiplied, and it has never been clearer that one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. This No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism looks at debates about September 11...

What better way to kick off a new year than with a major update of the world's most popular productivity suite, Microsoft Office? With Microsoft Office 97 For Windows For Dummies, you can start using all of this product's new features that enable your...

Through films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation as one of the most significant filmmakers working today. Her...

Religious organizations in many countries of the communist world have served as agents for the preservation, defense, and reinforcement of nationalist feelings, and in playing this role have frequently been a source of frustration to the Communist Party...

Domination and Cultural Resistance examines the social life of the Yura, a Quechua-speaking Andean ethnic group of central Bolivia, and focuses especially on their indigenous authorities, the kuraqkuna or elders. Combining ethnohistorical research with...

Ecology of the Body presents an argument for describing our behavior in accordance with the ways we experience our bodies. Increasingly, psychologists are recognizing that human beings show great diversity in the ways they perform the vast repertoire of...

This is the latest in the At the Polls series, in which Duke University Press has joined with the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research to publish studies on the electoral process as it functions around the world. Cited by Choice for...

This volume examines 150 years of Canadian political life in light if one of the country's most intractable problems, its cultural identity. Although many thoughtful Canadians remain dubious about the existence of a truly Canadian way of life, Douglas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780821409428Author A.R. AftabizadehFormat PaperbackPage Count 1000Imprint Ohio University PressPublisher Ohio University Press

Established in the early days of aviation, "Flight" and "The Aeroplane" were considered essential reading for all aviation enthusiasts of the period, "Aeroplane Monthly", the latter's successor, is today viewed in a similar...

This essential and highly acclaimed guide, now updated and revised in its seventh edition, explains the business of the British music industry. Drawing on her extensive experience as a media lawyer, Ann Harrison offers a unique, expert opinion on the...

"Transatlantic Voices" is the first collection of critical essays by European scholars on contemporary Native North American literatures. Devoted to the primary genres of Native literature - fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry - the essays chart...

'"Not since "Edward Said's Beginnings" has as much pressure been applied on the vexed concept of origin as in this remarkable book. John Pizer succeeds in rescuing it from the unearned abuse to which it has been subjected by much...

Nevada's highly individualistic political culture has produced a conservative political philosophy in an open society. Economic developments resulting from mining and gambling reinforced and heightened the individualistic ethic that many early settlers...

An analysis of how the quality of social life should be evaluated and the strengths and weaknesses in CanadaBook InformationISBN 9780773525764Author Raymond BretonFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859609064Author A. K. LeggFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Haynes Manuals IncPublisher Haynes Manuals Inc

The Second Edition of this important book on emergency driving in the ambulance service has been completely revised and updated since the First Edition, published in 2012. The text has been comprehensively reviewed by experts from many branches of the...

Whether to intervene in conflicts in the developing world is a major and ongoing policy issue for the United States. In Deciding to Intervene, James M. Scott examines the Reagan Doctrine, a policy that provided aid to anti-Communist insurgents-or...

This reflection on colonial culture argues for an examination of "Indochina" as a fictive and mythic construct, a phantasmatic legacy of French colonialism in Southeast Asia. Panivong Norindr uses postcolonial theory to demonstrate how French...

The American public responded to the first cases of AIDS with fear and panic. Both policymakers and activists were concerned not only with stopping the spread of the disease, but also with guiding the public's response toward those already infected...

One of the most respected and honored historians of the media, Erik Barnouw has been called a major national resource by The Nation. Norman Corwin dubbed him America's Gibbon. He is the writer, says critic John Leonard, "from whom the rest of us...

Having multiple wives was one of the mainstays of male privilege during the Ming and Qing dynasties of late imperial China. Based on a comprehensive reading of eighteenth-century Chinese novels and a theoretical approach grounded in poststructuralist,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903798140Author Andrew JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Cornwall County CouncilPublisher Cornwall Council

Fiercely committed to the separation of church and state, thoroughly pluralistic, largely secular: Where does a society like ours find common terms for conducting a moral debate? In view of the crises surrounding the issue of abortion, it is tempting to...

The United States has been distinguished among free governments as a "presidential" republic. In The Effective Republic, Harvey Flaumenhaft shows how the study of Alexander Hamilton's political thought opens the way to understanding the nature...