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Theological Perspectives for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Public Intellectuals for the Twenty-First Century
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Rather than wield religion as a weapon or a ruse in irrational appeals, the book attempts to reimagine a shared American mythos and ethos, by remin...
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Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy
Rachel RickettsCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99'But to white readers in particular, I say: Pull up a chair, grab a pen, lay down your defenses, and listen very respectfully to Rachel Ricketts. S...
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Theological Perspectives for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Public Intellectuals for the Twenty-First Century
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Rather than wield religion as a weapon or a ruse in irrational appeals, the book attempts to reimagine a shared American mythos and ethos, by remin...
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Islamic Higher Education in Indonesia: Continuity and Conflict
R. Lukens-BullCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This project looks at the work of the faculty in Indonesia's National Islamic Institutes to address, respond, and prevent the success of radical Is...
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Masculinity and Monstrosity in Contemporary Hollywood Films
B. BoyleCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99In film, Men are good and Monsters are bad. In this book, Combe and Boyle consider the monstrous body as a metaphor for the cultural body and regar...
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First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
Slavoj ZizekCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50Billions of dollars were hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilisation. So why has it not been poss...
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What Has the Black Church to do with Public Life?
A. PinnCurrent price €46.79Original price €51.99The role in public life of religious organizations such as black churches has been a contested and heated topic, with their advocates calling for t...
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Honor Killings in the Twenty-First Century
N. PopeCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Thousands of women are murdered every year by close relatives for allegedly violating an unwritten social code or rebelling against the patriarchal...
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Changing Saudi Arabia: Art, Culture, and Society in the Kingdom
Sean FoleyCurrent price €74.69Original price €82.99T. E. Lawrence once observed that Saudi Arabia had so little art that it could be said to have no art at all. Whether that was once the case is arg...
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State, Religion, and Revolution in Iran, 1796 to the Present
B. MoazamiCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Two basic assumptions have shaped understanding of recent Iranian history. One is that Shi'ism is an integral part of Iran's religious and cultural...
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State, Religion, and Revolution in Iran, 1796 to the Present
B. MoazamiCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Two basic assumptions have shaped understanding of recent Iranian history. One is that Shi'ism is an integral part of Iran's religious and cultural...
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Fiqh al-Aqalliyy?t: History, Development, and Progress
S. HassanCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99This book examines the development of a contemporary internal debate among Muslim minorities living in Western Europe and North America to establis...
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Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists: A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance
Timothy JenkinsCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99What happens when prophecies fail? Timothy Jenkins' re-reading of Leon Festinger's classic work on cognitive dissonance seeks to answer this questi...
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Pornography and Seriality: The Culture of Producing Pleasure
S. SchaschekCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Repetition and seriality are inherent in pornography and is constitutive for its functionality as a film genre, an industry, and an area of gender ...
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State Terrorism and Post-transitional Justice in Argentina: An Analysis of Mega Cause I Trial
C. DavisCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Mega Cause I was one of the largest in a recent surge of trials in Argentina for human rights violations committed during the dictatorship of 1976-...
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White Middle-Class Identities and Urban Schooling
D. JamesCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book examines experiences and implications of 'against-the-grain' school choices, where white middle class families choose ordinary and 'low p...
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Smart Energy Technologies in Everyday Life: Smart Utopia?
Y. StrengersCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book interrogates the global utopian vision for smart energy technologies and the new energy consumer intended to realise it. It enriches and ...
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Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Everyday Life in an In-Between City
C. KihatoCurrent price €83.69Original price €92.99Through rich stories of African migrant women in Johannesburg, this book explores the experience of living between geographies. Author Caroline Kih...
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Islam in Europe: Public Spaces and Civic Networks
R. TsagarousianouCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Drawing upon extensive fieldwork and suggesting novel ways of approaching the phenomenon of European Islam and the continent's Muslim communities, ...
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New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €70.19Original price €77.99This collection of original essays looks at the way in which experiences and representations of femininity are changing, and explores the possibili...
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Changing the Rules of the Game: Economic, Management and Emerging Issues in the Computer Games Industry
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99The computer games industry is one of the most vibrant industries today whose potential for growth seems inexhaustible. This book adopts a multi-di...
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Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction
P. BedoreCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between...
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Socialising Children
A. JamesCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Drawing on children's narratives about their everyday life this book explores how children come to understand the process of socialization at home,...
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Queer Theatre and the Legacy of Cal Yeomans
R. SchankeCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99A forgotten yet award-winning playwright, Cal Yeomans was one of the founders of gay theater whose work was fueled by gay liberation and extinguish...
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