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Mass Media and Media Policy in Western Europe - Peter J. Humphreys - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=2vlTzbOGhdIC&pg=PA88#v=onepage
Television and press systems in Western Europe are currently undergoing revolutionary changes, raising profound questions for public policy. This comparative, textbook analysis explores how mass media systems across Europe have been shaped by technology,…
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Histories of Tourism: Representation, Identity and Conflict - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=i54UEQoLjcAC
This collection of essays presents develops the historical dimension to tourism studies through thematic case studies. The editor's introduction argues for the importance of a closer relationship between history and tourism studies, and an…
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The Construction of Homosexuality - David F. Greenberg - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=tSJkCFH11YcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg%22&source=gbs_summary_r
"At various times, homosexuality has been considered the noblest of loves, a horrible sin, a psychological condition or grounds for torture and execution. David F. Greenberg's careful, encyclopedic and important new book argues that homosexuality is only…
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U.S. National Security and Foreign Policymaking After 9/11: Present at the ... - M. Kent Bolton - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=IETboc9ajpQC&pg=PA290
In December 2004 the 109th Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed the Intelligence Reform and Intelligence Prevention Act (IRTPA). M. Kent Bolton argues that IRTPA represented a change in the trajectory of U.S. national-security policy-the…
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The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets - Alan Boss - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=nx3E2YV3nnIC&pg=PA7#v=onepage
We are nearing a turning point in our quest for life in the universe—we now have the capacity to detect Earth-like planets around other stars. But will we find any? In The Crowded Universe, renowned astronomer Alan Boss argues that based on what we already…
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The Construction of Homosexuality - David F. Greenberg - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=RKhFRgR-1awC&pg=PA211
"At various times, homosexuality has been considered the noblest of loves, a horrible sin, a psychological condition or grounds for torture and execution. David F. Greenberg's careful, encyclopedic and important new book argues that homosexuality is only…
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A Critical Appraisal of Karl Olivecrona's Legal Philosophy - Torben Spaak - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=kVYlBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA31#v=onepage&q&f=false
This book offers a critical appraisal of Karl Olivecrona’s legal philosophy. Based on Olivecrona’s critique of the view that law has binding force, the analysis of the concept and function of a legal rule, and the idea that law is a matter of organized…
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Feminism in the Arab World: The Silent Revolution - Qantara.de
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The predominant image of Arab societies in the West is that of patriarchal systems, oppressive regimes and women in passive, subordinate roles. Gema Martín Muñoz argues that in order to fully understand the diversity and complexity of the Arab world and…
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France and Iraq: Oil, Arms and French Policy Making in the Middle East - David Styan - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=8U_sWfvgToQC&pg=PA143#v=onepage
France's opposition to the Iraq war in 2003 was greeted with surprise and outrage by Anglo-American politicans. But as David Styan argues in his penetrating new book, Chirac's stance was consistent with a decades-long reorientation of French foreign…
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Theory of Culture Change: The Methodology of Multilinear Evolution - Julian Haynes Steward - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=VF4FE9SeQwAC&pg=PA122&dq=band#v=onepage
"In a collection of papers spanning some 20 years of work, Steward argues persuasively that cultural change consists of complex, continuing processes, rather than isolable acts or events of unitary character ('diffusion' versus 'independent invention')....…