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University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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" When is a war not a war? When it is undertaken in the name of democracy, against the forces of racism, sexism, and religious and political persecution? This is the new world of warfare that Neda Atanasoski observes in Humanitarian Violence, different in name from the old imperialism but not so different in kind. In particular, she considers U.S. militarism--humanitarian militarism--during the Vietnam War, the Soviet-Afghan War, and the 1990s wars...
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New York University Press
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Not Supplied
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English
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In "Toilet," noted sociologist Harvey Molotch and Lauren Noren bring together twelve essays by urbanists, historians and cultural analysts (among others) to shed light on the public restroom and how it reflects and sustains our cultural attitudes towards gender, class, and disability.
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Biosocial Society symposium volume 12
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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Series
Social sciences in Asia volume Volume 38
Publisher
BRILL
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
We've all asked, "What is the world coming to?" But we seldom ask, "How bad was the world in the past?" In this startling new book, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the past was much worse. Evidence of a bloody history has always been around us: genocides in the Old Testament, gory mutilations in Shakespeare and Grimm, monarchs who beheaded their relatives, and American founders who dueled with their rivals. The murder rate in medieval...
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Series
Routledge studies in accounting volume 3
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English