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  • Diversity and Decolonization in Teaching Russian Studies

    Series series Education (R0)
    This edited volume is the first to address diversity and decolonization in teaching Russian language, literature, and culture. For multicultural scholars and classrooms in both K-12 and higher education, the editors aim to expand representations of Russian speaker identities and Russian-speaking communities outside of Russia, as well as the culturally- and linguistically- diverse identities of ... Read more

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  • Discounting for Time and Risk in Energy Policy

    Series series RFF Energy Policy Set
    This is a collection of theoretical papers, including contributions by Partha Dasgupta and three Nobel prize-winning economists: Kenneth Arrow, Amartya Sen, and Joseph Stiglitz. Originally published in 1982. ... Read more

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  • The Pathfinder

    The third novel in James Fennimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, starring the heroic Natty Bumppo.Vigorous, self-reliant, amazingly resourceful, and moral, Natty Bumppo is the prototype of the Western hero. A faultless arbiter of wilderness justice, he hates middle-class hypocrisy. But he finds his love divided between the woman he has pledged to protect on a treacherous journey and the ... Read more

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    Past and Present

    A panoramic, interdisciplinary survey of Russian lives and "a must-read for any scholar engaging with Russian culture" ( The Russian Review).In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, distinguished scholars survey the cultural practices, power relations, and behaviors that characterized Russian daily life from pre-revolutionary times through the post-Soviet present. Microanalyses and ... Read more

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  • Adaptation of Western Economics by Russian Universities

    Intercultural Travel of an Academic Field

    This book examines an intercultural translation of economics as an academic field from Western to post-Soviet university settings. ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd

    A Study of the Changing American Character

    by Jarrod Homer ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    David Riesman’s The Lonely Crowd: A Study in the Changing American Character is one of the best-known books in the history of sociology – holding a mirror up to contemporary America and showing the nation its own character as it had never seen it before.Its success is a testament to Riesman’s mastery of one key critical thinking skill: interpretation. In critical thinking, interpretation focuses ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Hunting the Lions

    Dr Tom Brown has always been fascinated by lions. When he receives a letter from his father informing him that a pair of officers of the Cape Rifles and a hunter named Hicks are planning a hunting trip to South Africa and need a final man, Tom doesn't need any persuading to join them. Very much of its time, 'Hunting the Lions' by R.M. Ballantyne is nonetheless a fascinating insight into the very ... Read more

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  • Everyday Politics in Russia

    From Resentment to Resistance

    What do Russians really want? Do they want authoritarianism and are they prepared to go along with a war of conquest and destruction? Or do they want something else?A landmark contribution to the field, Morris is the only social researcher to have carried out fieldwork in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine, engaging with communities in Moscow, regional cities, as well as rural areas to bring ... Read more

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  • Czech Feminisms

    Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe

    Sixteen essays "apply the intersectional theory in an inspiring way in the analysis of gender issues in the past and in contemporary Czech society" ( Aspasia).In this wide-ranging study of women's and gender issues in the pre- and post-1989 Czech Republic, contributors engage with current feminist debates and theories of nation and identity to examine the historical and cultural transformations of ... Read more

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  • Ethnicity without Groups

    Despite a quarter-century of constructivist theorizing in the social sciences and humanities, ethnic groups continue to be conceived as entities and cast as actors. Journalists, policymakers, and researchers routinely frame accounts of ethnic, racial, and national conflict as the struggles of internally homogeneous, externally bounded ethnic groups, races, and nations. In doing so, they ... Read more

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  • The Settler and the Savage

    "The Settler and the Savage" is a unique written through R. M. Ballantyne that explores the cultural conflict between European settlers and indigenous peoples inside the context of nineteenth-century colonialism. The story revolves around the man or woman of Alan Redmain, a younger settler who reveals himself stuck among the conflicting worlds of his European historical past and the untamed desert ... Read more

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  • Autobiographies of Transformation

    Lives in Central and Eastern Europe

    Edited by Mike Keen, Janusz Mucha ...
    Series series Studies in European Sociology
    Autobiographies of Transformation is a completely unique history of sociology in Central and Eastern Europe in the post-Communist era.Through the autobiographies of ten key sociological witnesses from the region, the sociological imagination is turned upon itself, resulting in a compelling and revealing account of the struggles, triumphs, and continuing challenges faced. The sociologists examined ... Read more

    $54.99 USD