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  • Constructing Qatar: Migrant Narratives from the Margins of the Global System

    Every year, tens of thousands of men and women from South Asia, Africa, and other parts of the world journey to Qatar and the other petroleum-rich states of the Arabian peninsula to work. As construction workers, drivers, servants, accountants, shopkeepers, custodians, general laborers, and countless other vocations, these men and women toil in relative obscurity. Constructing Qatar is an attempt ... Read more

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  • Binkley

    A Congregational History

    Series series America’s Baptists
    What makes a Baptist church Baptist? Casual observers might be tempted to stereotype the churches of the American South, but scholar Andrew B. Gardner paints a portrait of one North Carolina congregation that defies easy categorization.Established in 1958 in the college town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church immediately sought to establish a welcoming ... Read more

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  • An Archaeology of Identity

    Soldiers and Society in Late Roman Britain

    Series series UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
    What happened to Roman soldiers in Britain during the decline of the empire in the 4th and 5th centuries? Did they withdraw, defect, or go native? More than a question of military history, this is the starting point for Andrew Gardner’s incisive exploration of social identity in Roman Britain, in the Roman Empire, and in ancient society. Drawing on the sociological theories of Anthony Giddens and ... Read more

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  • The Fragmentary City

    Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the Urban Landscape of Doha, Qatar

    As Andrew M. Gardner explains in The Fragmentary City**, in Qatar and elsewhere on the Arabian Peninsula, nearly nine out of every ten residents are foreign noncitizens**. Many of these foreigners reside in the cities that have arisen in Qatar and neighboring states. The book provides an overview of the gulf migration system with its diverse migrant experiences. Gardner focuses on the ways that ... Read more

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  • City of Strangers

    Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain

    In City of Strangers, Andrew M. Gardner explores the everyday experiences of workers from India who have migrated to the Kingdom of Bahrain. Like all the petroleum-rich states of the Persian Gulf, Bahrain hosts an extraordinarily large population of transmigrant laborers. Guest workers, who make up nearly half of the country's population, have long labored under a sponsorship system, the kafala, ... Read more

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  • Oxford Textbook of Heart Failure

    Series series Oxford Textbooks in Cardiology
    Taking the reader from an understanding of the basic mechanisms of heart failure through to an appreciation of the complexities of heart failure management and the remarkable improvements possible with good treatment, the Oxford Textbook of Heart Failure 2e covers all aspects necessary to manage a patient with heart failure. In full colour throughout, containing over 300 illustrations, and ... Read more

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  • The Transfer Experience

    A Handbook for Creating a More Equitable and Successful Postsecondary System

    Co-published with At last there is a handbook that everyone in higher education can use to help increase transfer student success. This comprehensive resource has been brought together to meet the need for a truly holistic approach to the transfer experience. The book brings together research, theory, practical applications, programmatic illustrations, case studies, encouragement, and inspiration, ... Read more

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  • For the Love of Opium

    Nature's Most Powerful Medicine

    Series Book 1 - The Magic Garden
    From Roman emperors to the most famous Queen of Egypt, from Mary Shelley to Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Dickens to Pablo Picasso, so much of art and history were inspired by the one and only plant that nature saw fit to deliver us from pain, both physical, mental, and spiritual. It gave us our very first medicine, our first extracted alkaloid, and our first controlled substance. Man's quest to ... Read more

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  • Love, Dad: Inspiring Notes from Fathers to Kids

    Illustrated by David Cooper ...
    This illustrated collection of heartfelt letters is about the many beautiful hopes and dreams that fathers have for their children. A perfect gift for any dad!When you grow up, I hope you......let your smile change the world...feel you are loved, in every cell of your body...learn how to help those who need a handEighteen dads from different walks of life took turns finishing that sentence. Some ... Read more

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  • Agency Uncovered

    Archaeological Perspectives on Social Agency, Power, and Being Human

    Edited by Andrew Gardner ...
    Series series UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
    This book questions the value of the concept of 'agency', a term used in sociological and philosophical literature to refer to individual free will in archaeology. On the one hand it has been argued that previous generations of archaeologists, in explaining social change in terms of structural or environmental conditions, have lost sight of the 'real people' and reduced them to passive cultural ... Read more

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  • Evolutionary and Interpretive Archaeologies

    A Dialogue

    Series series UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
    This collection of original articles compares various key archaeological topics—agency, violence, social groups, diffusion—from evolutionary and interpretive perspectives. These two strands represent the major current theoretical poles in the discipline. By comparing and contrasting the insights they provide into major archaeological themes, this volume demonstrates the importance of theoretical ... Read more

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