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Saving the People How Populists Hijack Religion

Marzouki Nadia, McDonnell Duncan, Roy Olivier

ISBN: PB: 9781849045162, ISBN: HB: 9781849045209, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Western democracies are experiencing a new wave of right-wing populism that seeks to mobilise religion for its own ends. With chapters on the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Poland and Israel, S...

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Survival & Combat Guide

Women Studies

Woman's Guide to the Wild Your Complete Outdoor Handbook

McConnell Ruby

ISBN: PB: 9781632170057, GMC Group, Sasquatch Books, April 2016
256 pp., 19x14 cm, illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! For women who enjoy hiking, camping, backpacking and other outdoor recreation -or those inspired by Cheryl Strayed's 'Wild' – this is the definitive guide to being a woman in the great outdoors. This friendly han...

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Windows into the Soul Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology

Marx Gary T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226285917, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 2 line drawings, 8 tables

We live in an age saturated with surveillance. Our personal and public lives are increasingly on display for governments, merchants, employers, hackers – and the merely curious – to see. In "Windows into the Soul", Gary T. Marx, a central figure in t...

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State Built on Sand How Opium Undermined Afghanistan

Mansfield David

ISBN: PB: 9781849045681, Hurst Publishers, March 2016
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Variations in opium poppy production in Afghanistan had long been associated with how the state was perceived at the time of the 2001 invasion. The Taliban, for instance, had imposed a cultivation ban in 2000-1. But the interna...

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Photography

Women Studies

Through Women's Eyes From Diane Arbus to Letizia Battaglia. Passion and Courage

Miglietti Francesca Alfano

ISBN: HB: 9788831722810, DAP, Marsilio Editori, February 2016
288 pp., 25.7x20.8 cm, 80 colour illus., 151 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This thorough and accessible introduction to the greatest women photographers from the 20th century to today features the most important works of 25 artists. Women have played an important role in the development of photogr...

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Africa

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Famine in Somalia Competing Imperatives, Collective Failures, 2011-12

Maxwell Daniel, Majid Nisar

ISBN: PB: 9781849045759, Hurst Publishers, January 2016
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Some 250,000 people died in the southern Somalia famine of 2011-2012, which also displaced and destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands more. Yet this crisis had been predicted nearly a year earlier. The harshest drou...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Tourist Attractions Performing Race and Masculinity in Brazil's Sexual Economy

Mitchell Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780226309101, ISBN: HB: 9780226309071, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 line drawing

While much attention has been paid in recent years to heterosexual prostitution and sex tourism in Brazil, gay sex tourism has been almost completely overlooked. In "Tourist Attractions", Gregory C. Mitchell presents a pioneering ethnography that foc...

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Culture Studies

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How to Be a Good Parent

Mitchell Jaqueline

ISBN: HB: 9781851244386, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2015
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm, 10 black&white illus.

"To keep children clean is something that should never be attempted. It cannot be done". "The mere provision of the vegetable is not sufficient; it must be actually eaten". "If there is room enough for somersaults, the child can be satisfied". Man...

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Military

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Social Science Goes to War The Human Terrain System in Iraq and Afghanistan

McFate Montgomery, Laurence Janice H.

ISBN: PB: 9781849044219, Hurst Publishers, September 2015
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Human Terrain System (HTS) was catapulted into existence in 2006 by the US military's urgent need for knowledge of the human dimension of the battlespace in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its centrepiece was embedded groups of mixed...

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Gender Studies

Criminology

Landscape of Silence Sexual Violence Against Men in War

Misra Amalendu

ISBN: HB: 9781849042826, Hurst Publishers, July 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Why is it that men and boys have been and still are violated in human conflict, be it in conventional war, insurgencies or periods of civil and ethnic strife? Above all, why, throughout history, have victims, perpetrators and s...

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