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Prostitution and the ends of empire: scale, governmentalities, and interwar India (2014)
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Legg, S. (2014). Prostitution and the ends of empire: scale, governmentalities, and interwar India. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822376170

fficially confined to red-light districts, brothels in British India were tolerated until the 1920s. Yet, by this time, prostitution reform campaigns led by Indian, imperial, and international bodies were combining the social scientific insights of s... Read More about Prostitution and the ends of empire: scale, governmentalities, and interwar India.

The Globalization of Executive Search: Professional Services Strategy and Dynamics in the Contemporary World (2014)
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Beaverstock, J. V., Faulconbridge, J. R., & Hall, S. J. (2014). The Globalization of Executive Search: Professional Services Strategy and Dynamics in the Contemporary World. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315771427

Executive search, headhunting, is now one of the archetypal new knowledge intensive professional services, as well as a labor market intermediary bound up with globalization. In this book, the authors examine the key actors in the process of executiv... Read More about The Globalization of Executive Search: Professional Services Strategy and Dynamics in the Contemporary World.

The American President in Film and Television: Myth, Politics and Representation (2014)
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Frame, G. (2014). The American President in Film and Television: Myth, Politics and Representation. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

As evidenced by the election of celebrity and reality television star Donald Trump, popular culture has played a vital role in the conceptualisation of political leadership. This revised edition of The American President in Film and Television explor... Read More about The American President in Film and Television: Myth, Politics and Representation.

Climate change and poverty: a new agenda for developed nations (2014)
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Fitzpatrick, T. (2014). Climate change and poverty: a new agenda for developed nations. Policy Press

Climate change and poverty offers a timely new perspective on the 'ecosocial' understanding of the causes, symptoms and solutions to poverty and applies this to recent developments across a number of areas, including fuelpoverty, food poverty, housin... Read More about Climate change and poverty: a new agenda for developed nations.

Women and sex work in Cambodia: Blood, sweat and tears (2014)
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Sandy, L. (2014). Women and sex work in Cambodia: Blood, sweat and tears. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315762777

© 2014 Larissa Sandy. All rights reserved. Prostitution is strongly embedded in local cultural practices in Cambodia. Based on extensive original research, this book explores the nature of prostitution in Cambodia, providing explanations of why the p... Read More about Women and sex work in Cambodia: Blood, sweat and tears.

In the Nature of Landscape: Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads (2014)
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Matless, D. (2014). In the Nature of Landscape: Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118295687

© 2014 David Matless. All rights reserved. The research informing this book has been undertaken over two decades or more, beginning as a sideline, moving through various divergent projects on specific themes and individuals, and coming together as a... Read More about In the Nature of Landscape: Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads.

David Bruce and Diplomatic Practice: An American Ambassador in London, 1961-9 (2014)
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YOUNG, J. (2014). David Bruce and Diplomatic Practice: An American Ambassador in London, 1961-9. Bloomsbury Academic

David Bruce (1898-1977) was a prominent American diplomat, who served in France, Germany, and the UK. His work is examined here to provide an in-depth look at the practice of diplomacy and the role of the ambassador as diplomatic actor.This thorough... Read More about David Bruce and Diplomatic Practice: An American Ambassador in London, 1961-9.

Photography in Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures (2014)
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Yacavone, K. (Ed.). (2014). Photography in Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures

"A broad and inclusive account of the multiple manifestations of photography in contemporary French and francophone societies and cultures."

Jewish cryptotheologies of late modernity: philosophical marranos (2014)
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BIELIK-ROBSON, A. (2014). Jewish cryptotheologies of late modernity: philosophical marranos. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315774466

This book aims to interpret ‘Jewish Philosophy’ in terms of the Marrano phenomenon: as a conscious clinamen of philosophical forms used in order to convey a ‘secret message’ which cannot find an open articulation. The Marrano phenomenon is employe... Read More about Jewish cryptotheologies of late modernity: philosophical marranos.

Genealogies of autonomous mobility (2014)
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PAPADOPOULOS, D., & Martignoni, M. (2014). Genealogies of autonomous mobility. In E. F. Isin, & P. Nyers (Eds.), Routledge handbook of global citizenship studies, 38-48. London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

The Making of Israel: Cultural Diversity in the Southern Levant and the Formation of Ethnic Identity in Deuteronomy (2014)
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Crouch, C. (2014). The Making of Israel: Cultural Diversity in the Southern Levant and the Formation of Ethnic Identity in Deuteronomy. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers

In The Making of Israel C.L. Crouch presents the southern Levant during the seventh century BCE as a major period for the formation of Israelite ethnic identity, challenging scholarship which dates biblical texts with identity concerns to the exilic... Read More about The Making of Israel: Cultural Diversity in the Southern Levant and the Formation of Ethnic Identity in Deuteronomy.

Handbook Of Biomimetics And Bioinspiration: Biologically-driven Engineering Of Materials, Processes, Devices, And Systems (2014)
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Jabbari, E., Kim, D. H., Lee, L. P., Ghaemmaghami, A., & Khademhosseini, A. (2014). Handbook Of Biomimetics And Bioinspiration: Biologically-driven Engineering Of Materials, Processes, Devices, And Systems. World Scientific. https://doi.org/10.1142/8169

Global warming, pollution, food and water shortage, cyberspace insecurity, over-population, land erosion, and an overburdened health care system are major issues facing the human race and our planet. These challenges have presented a mandate to devel... Read More about Handbook Of Biomimetics And Bioinspiration: Biologically-driven Engineering Of Materials, Processes, Devices, And Systems.

Judaism in Contemporary Thought: Traces and Influence (2014)
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Bielik-Robson, A., Goetschel, W., Fagenblat, M., Cohen-Levinas, D., Leder, A., Lipszyc, A., …Sherwood, Y. (2014). A. Bielik-Robson, & A. Lipszyc (Eds.). Judaism in Contemporary Thought: Traces and Influence. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315816760

The central aim of this collection is to trace the presence of Jewish tradition in contemporary philosophy. This presence is, on the one hand, undeniable, manifesting itself in manifold allusions and influences – on the other hand, difficult to defin... Read More about Judaism in Contemporary Thought: Traces and Influence.