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Suicide Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781909718296
Pub Date: 01 Mar 2015
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
In 2011, 525 people died by suicide in Ireland - an increase of 7 percent on the previous year. After these figures were published, the Minister for Health, Dr James Reilly, described suicide as "a tragedy that we are constantly working to prevent". Ireland, like most countries, has a national suicide prevention strategy, but there is scant evidence to support most of the initiatives set out in national suicide prevention strategies.
Civil Society and Politics in Central Asia Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 366
ISBN: 9780813150772
Pub Date: 27 Feb 2015
Illustrations: 2 figures, 9 tables
Description:
The five Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan constitute an area of increasing importance in global politics. The region currently serves as the main route for transporting American and NATO supplies and personnel into Afghanistan. Its Turkic Muslim peoples share ethnic and religious roots with China's Uighurs in neighboring Xinjiang, where some Uighurs have connections to the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, fueling Beijing's already acute fears of terrorism and separatism.
Hajj Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 275
ISBN: 9789088902857
Pub Date: 19 Feb 2015
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Every year, in the last month of the Islamic calendar, millions of Muslims from around the world come together in Mecca to perform the Hajj, the pilgrimage that all capable Muslims should perform at least once in their lives. In 2013, the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden organised the exhibition Longing for Mecca. The Pilgrim’s Journey.
People of the Prophet's House Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9781898592327
Pub Date: 12 Feb 2015
Imprint: Azimuth Editions
Description:
Despite their distinct theological differences, Shi'a and Sunni Muslims, followers of the two main branches of Islam, share a number of core beliefs including an allegiance to and love for the Prophet Muhammad and members of his family. For Shi'a Muslims, reverence for the Prophet and allegiance to his household (Ahl al-bayt, 'People of the House'), comprising his immediate family and their descendants, constitutes an essential principle of belief that has directly impacted how Shi'i artists, rulers, patrons and ritual participants have conveyed their love and loyalty through material culture and religious ritual. The 22 essays in this volume, richly illustrated with over 200 coloured images, present a diversity of beliefs and practices expressed through the arts, architecture, material culture and ritual that spans Shi'i history from the tenth century to the present day.
The Vandana Shiva Reader Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 364
ISBN: 9780813145600
Pub Date: 27 Jan 2015
Series: Culture of the Land
Illustrations: 6 figures, 60 tables
Description:
"Her great virtue as an advocate is that she is not a reductionist. Her awareness of the complex connections among economy and nature and culture preserves her from oversimplification. So does her understanding of the importance of diversity.
Welcome Home Mr Swanson Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 236
ISBN: 9789187675119
Pub Date: 22 Jan 2015
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Between 1840 and 1940, over one million people emigrated from Sweden to America. The fact that so many chose to leave to seek a better life across the Atlantic was a major trauma for the Swedish nation. Filmmakers were not slow to pick up on an exodus that proved to be of lasting importance for the Swedes' national identity.
Mercados de la Mixteca Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9789088902895
Pub Date: 20 Jan 2015
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Los mercados de la Mixteca son colectividades vibrantes y dinámicas que funcionan y forman parte del macrocontexto de la globalización, desde el consumismo hasta el movimiento mundial de productos y personas. Por lo general, la historia económica más formal deja mudos a los actores que definen esta economía: los comerciantes. Por medio de sus relatos, este libro documenta una historia informal que ha sido poco registrada.
Dalton Trumbo Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 716
ISBN: 9780813146805
Pub Date: 13 Jan 2015
Series: Screen Classics
Illustrations: 75 b&w photos
Description:
James Dalton Trumbo (1905--1976) is widely recognized for his work as a screenwriter, playwright, and author, but he is also remembered as one of the Hollywood Ten who opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee. Refusing to answer questions about his prior involvement with the Communist Party, Trumbo sacrificed a successful career in Hollywood to stand up for his rights and defend political freedom.In Dalton Trumbo, authors Larry Ceplair and Christopher Trumbo present their extensive research on the famed writer, detailing his work, his membership in the Communist Party, his long campaign against censorship during the domestic cold war, his ten-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress, and his thirteen-year struggle to break the blacklist.
The Promise and Perils of Populism Cover The Promise and Perils of Populism Cover
Format: 
Pages: 484
ISBN: 9780813146867
Pub Date: 13 Jan 2015
Illustrations: 1 table
Pages: 484
ISBN: 9780813153308
Pub Date: 13 Jan 2015
Illustrations: 1 table
Description:
From the protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square to the Tea Party in the United States to the campaign to elect indigenous leader Evo Morales in Bolivia, modern populist movements command international attention and compel political and social change. When citizens demand "power to the people," they evoke corrupt politicians, imperialists, or oligarchies that have appropriated power from its legitimate owners. These stereotypical narratives belie the vague and often contradictory definitions of the concept of "the people" and the many motives of those who use populism as a political tool.
Porn After Porn Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9788857523590
Pub Date: 30 Dec 2014
Description:
After the “digital turn,” sexual representations have been increasing both quantitatively (thanks to the multiplication of production and distribution channels) and qualitatively (giving rise to a plurality of new representational forms). In this context, several social groups – including women and non-normative sexual subcultures – have obtained full citizenship rights within the “pornosphere,” moving beyond their traditional marginalization or, indeed, exclusion. These “nonconventional” pornographies exist in a dialectical relationship with mainstream production insofar as they are at the same time a development and a repudiation of the latter (on an aesthetic, economic and political level).
Creativity and Culture in Greater China Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 374
ISBN: 9781626430082
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2014
Description:
This publication unveils creative ideas on knowledge transfer from historical references to commercialization of cultural products. It adopts multidisciplinary, cross cultural, and experimental approaches to study the cultural industries, including art, music, popular culture, psychology, entrepreneurship, and economic studies. These scholarly thoughts and ideas were presented in the two conferences held at the Hong Kong Institute of Education in the summer of 2013.
Fingerprinting the Iron Age: Approaches to identity in the European Iron Age Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9781782976752
Pub Date: 13 Nov 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour images
Description:
Archaeology has long dealt with issues of identity, and especially with ethnicity, with modern approaches emphasising dynamic and fluid social construction. The archaeology of the Iron Age in particular has engendered much debate on the topic of ethnicity, fuelled by the first availability of written sources alongside the archaeological evidence which has led many researchers to associate the features they excavate with populations named by Greek or Latin writers. Some archaeological traditions have had their entire structure built around notions of ethnicity, around the relationships existing between large groups of people conceived together as forming unitary ethnic units.
RRP: £48.00
After The Yemeni Spring Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 238
ISBN: 9788857514376
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2014
Series: Politics
Description:
The role of Yemen in the War on Terror throughout the 2000s has been crucial. It is a complex country, all too often trivialized by statistics focusing on its inconvenient position as the youngest and poorest country in the Arab world. Working on the most updated economic, social, political, and strategic data, the authors bring the attention to the new scenarios after Saleh’s era, in which Yemenis are called to rebuild their country and outline a new national pact for the future.
Nation And/Or Homeland Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 122
ISBN: 9788857512433
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2014
Series: Music
Description:
How was national consciousness developed? The present book aims to investigate such matter trough a series of different case studies, in which the terms nation, homeland and people have been applied. This Romantic lexicon identifies similar conceptions of the national idea in some countries dominated by Italian, German and Slavic cultures, and in some groups or minorities such as the Jews and the Vlachs in Central and Mediterranean Europe.
Order and Revolt Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781626430044
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2014
Description:
These original essays debate two ways of theorizing social life. One way is the integrative or holistic model of thought typified in the writings of Confucius. The other, the revolutionary tradition, is suspicious of holism and harmony as principles of social thought because harmony is seen as something that can genuinely occur only when a society has rectified deeply ingrained injustice.
Queer Crossings Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 195
ISBN: 9788857509396
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2014
Series: Sociology
Description:
The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of writings on queer theories and practices. Drawingtogether established and emerging scholars in the field, this volume offers a broad, transdisciplinaryand international approach to queer studies. In the light of recent critical perspectives, it proposes a number of theoretical developments concerning three key thematic fields: theories, bodies and texts.