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Sustainable Peacebuilding and Social Justice in Times of Transition: Findings on the Role of Education in Myanmar

Springer, 2018

This book offers a unique insight into the ways in which education systems, governance, and actors at multiple scales interact in initial steps towards building peace. It presents a spectrum of recently conducted research in the context of Myanmar, a society in the midst of challenging transitions, politically, socio-culturally and...

The Falklands War: An Imperial History

Cambridge University Press, 2019

Why did Britain and Argentina go to war over a wintry archipelago that was home to an unprofitable colony? Could the Falklands War, in fact, have been a last-ditch revival of Britain's imperial past? Despite widespread conjecture about the imperial dimensions of the Falklands War, this is the first history of the conflict from the...

The Marxian Legacy: The Search for the New Left (Political Philosophy and Public Purpose)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

The Marxian Legacy, first published in 1977 and released in a second edition in 1988, was and remains distinct in its view of Marxian theory as 'critique, ' aware of its own origins and limitations and self-conscious about its own historical rootedness in changing social and political conditions. This new and...

South Korea’s 70-Year Endeavor for Foreign Policy, National Defense, and Unification

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book brings Korea's finest foreign policy minds together in contemplating the risks and rewards of finally ending the 70 year stalemate between North and South Korea through reunification. While North Korea is in conflict with the United States over denuclearization and regime security, the South Korean government is focusing on...

Don't Let Me Down: A Memoir

Atria, 2019

A fierce, vivid memoir about a father-daughter relationship steeped in God, rebellion, and the Beatles.

Erin Hosier’s coming-of-age was full of contradiction. Born into the turbulent 1970s, she was raised in rural Ohio by lapsed hippies who traded 1960s rock ‘n’ roll for 1950s-era Christian hymns....

Kashmir in Conflict: India, Pakistan and the Unending War

I. B. Tauris, 2021

In 1846, under the terms of the Treaty of Amritsar, the British sold the beautiful valley of Kashmir to the Hindu Dogra ruler, Gulab Singh. It was not a sale in the traditional sense of the word since Britain was not physically occupying the land it sold, but rather a confirmation of an existing state of affairs where by Gulab Singh...

Simply Quantum Physics

DK Adult, 2021

A clear, simple, graphic-led introduction to quantum physics.

Are you short of time but hungry for knowledge? This beginner’s quantum physics book proves that sometimes less is more. Bold graphics and easy-to-understand explanations make it the most accessible guide to quantum physics on the market.
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Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

Random House, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life—from the author of the Life, Interrupted column in The New York Times

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Japan’s Asian Diplomacy: Power Transition, Domestic Politics, and Diffusion of Ideas (Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Japan’s Asian diplomacy under Prime Minister Shinz? Abe. Under the Kantei-centred policymaking system, Shinz? Abe has implemented assertive foreign policies with a slogan of ‘diplomacy taking a panoramic perspective of the world’. The analyses in...

Correspondents: A Novel

Grove Press, 2019

“Murphy artfully connects multiple narratives to produce a sprawling tale of love, family, duty, war, and displacement. It is above all a stinging indictment of the ill-fated war in Iraq and the heavy tolls it continues to exact on its people.”?Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner

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Terrorism, Technology and Apocalyptic Futures

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book centers on the power of mythical narratives and technology in creating the idea of a world that should be purged. The introduction of sin, the fall and other disruptive conflict have led mankind towards a world of scarcity, where suffering and sacrifice prevail. The author analyzes this apocalypse theory, which describes...

Independence in Central America and Chiapas, 1770–1823

University of Oklahoma Press, 2019

Central America was the only part of the far-reaching Spanish Empire in continental America not to experience destructive independence wars in the period between 1810 and 1824. The essays in this volume draw on new historical research to explain why, and to delve into what did happen during the independence period in Central...

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