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30 Years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Turns and Twists in Economies, Politics, and Societies in the Post-Communist Countries (Palgrave Studies in Economic History)
30 Years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Turns and Twists in Economies, Politics, and Societies in the Post-Communist Countries (Palgrave Studies in Economic History)

The year 2019 marks 30 years since the fall of the Berlin wall. This symbolic event led to German unification and the collapse of communist party rule in countries of the Soviet-led Eastern bloc. Since then, the post-communist countries of Central, Eastern and South-eastern Europe have tied their post-communist transition to deep...

Selected Cases from the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China: Volume 1 (Library of Selected Cases from the Chinese Court)
Selected Cases from the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China: Volume 1 (Library of Selected Cases from the Chinese Court)
This volume includes guiding cases of the Supreme People’s Court, cases deliberated on by the Judicial Council/Committee of the Supreme People’s Court, and cases discussed at the Joint Meetings of Presiding Judges from the various tribunals. This book is divided into four sections, including Cases by Justices, Selected...
Transnational Identities on Okinawa’s Military Bases: Invisible Armies
Transnational Identities on Okinawa’s Military Bases: Invisible Armies

This book considers the role of civilian workers on U.S. bases in Okinawa, Japan and how transnational movements within East Asia during the Occupation period brought foreign workers, mostly from the Philippines, to work on these bases. Decades later, in a seeming “reproduction of base labour”, returnees of both Okinawan...

Barriers to Entry: Overcoming Challenges and Achieving Breakthroughs in a Chinese Workplace
Barriers to Entry: Overcoming Challenges and Achieving Breakthroughs in a Chinese Workplace
This book offers a unique perspective on the challenges that non-Chinese employed by Chinese companies face and provides insight into the issues foreign employees working for Chinese management encounter. As its source of content the book analyzes the experiences of those currently working for Chinese companies both inside and outside...
Modern Diplomacy in Practice
Modern Diplomacy in Practice

This textbook, the first comprehensive comparative study ever undertaken, surveys and compares the world’s ten largest diplomatic services: those of Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Chapters cover the distinctive histories and cultures of the services,...

Women, Performance and the Material of Memory: The Archival Tourist,  1780–1915
Women, Performance and the Material of Memory: The Archival Tourist, 1780–1915

This book proposes that the performance of archival research is related to the experience of tourism, where an individual immerses herself in a foreign environment, relating to and analyzing visual and sensory materials through embodiment and enactment. Each chapter highlights a particular set of tangible objects including: pocket...

Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America
Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America
Foreword by Janet Yellen

Weijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Americans view China, and how the Chinese view life in America.

Shan, a former hard laborer
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American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell Us
American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell Us
How Trump got to the Oval Office—and how both parties and the mainstream media are keeping him there

Donald Trump’s residency in the White House is not an accident of American history, and it can’t be blamed on a single cause. In American Breakdown, David Bromwich provides an essential analysis of...

Positioning Theory in Applied Linguistics: Research Design and Applications
Positioning Theory in Applied Linguistics: Research Design and Applications
This book is about Positioning Theory (Davies & Harré, 1990) and its potential applications in bilingual and multilingual contexts involving teachers, learners, speakers, and users of a second/foreign or additional language. By using Positioning Theory as a theoretical lens and analytical approach, the author illustrates how various...
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold USA Today bestselling story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units.


Surprise . . . your target. Kill . . . your enemy. Vanish . . . without a trace.


When
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Linguistic Legitimacy and Social Justice
Linguistic Legitimacy and Social Justice
This book examines the nature of human language and the ideology of linguistic legitimacy – the common set of beliefs about language differences that leads to the rejection of some language varieties and the valorization of others. It investigates a broad range of case studies of languages and dialects which have for various reasons been...
The Europeanisation of the Western Balkans: A Failure of EU Conditionality? (New Perspectives on South-East Europe)
The Europeanisation of the Western Balkans: A Failure of EU Conditionality? (New Perspectives on South-East Europe)
This volume casts a fresh look on how the political spaces of the Western Balkan states (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania) are shaped, governed and transformed during the EU accession process. The contributors argue that EU conditionality in the Western Balkans does not work...
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