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The story of gay rights has long been told as one of single-minded focus on the fight for sexual freedom. Yet its origins are much more complicated than this single-issue interpretation would have us believe, and to ignore gay liberation's multidimensional beginnings is to drastically underestimate its radical potential for social change. Ferguson shows how queer liberation emerged out of various insurgent struggles crossing the politics of r...

Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If it has drifted rightward, the answer is to fight for reform from within. In this iconoclastic polemic, economist Costas Lapavitsas demolishes this view. He contends that the EU's response to the Eurozone crisis represents the ultimate transformation of the union into a neoliberal citadel that insti...

The extent to which a critical stance on the EU can be reconciled with decent leftist principles is considered realistically here.

This second edition of the guide features updated information about newer psychotropic agents, as well as new drugs to help manage iatrogenic weight gain, metabolic dysregulation, involuntary movement disorders, and other common problems.

The (very) hungry goat has a big appetite that gets him into all kinds of adventures. He'll eat anything, from pig swill to flies, bugs, and bees, from frying pans to barbed wire and the bark of trees. The insatiable goat grows fatter and fatter, until one day he gobbles up something that sends him on the biggest adventure of all. Whimsical illustrations and beautifully paced rhymes bring this greedy animal to life. Originally published in 196...

In this volume of papers, deriving from two conferences held in Rome and Leicester in 2016, nineteen leading European archaeologists discuss and interpret the complex evolution of landscapes ¿ both urban and rural ¿ across Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (c. AD 300¿700). The geographical coverage extends from Italy to the Mediterranean West through to the Rhine frontier and onto Hadrian¿s Wall. Core are questions of impacts due to the...

In this reissued classic, Richard Titmuss compares blood donation in the US and UK, contrasting the British system of reliance on voluntary donors to the American one in which the blood supply is in the hands of for-profit enterprises, concluding that a system based on altruism is safer and more economically efficient.

Ann Oakley develops a sociology of the research process, telling how a research project on caring and social support is undertaken. It has much resonance for social science researchers and others interested in the experiences of mothers, and the relations between social research, academic knowledge and public policy.

Ann Oakley interviewed 60 women to find out what it's really like to have a baby. She discusses whether and why women want to become pregnant, how they imagine motherhood to be, the experience of birth, post-natal depression, feeding and caring routines and the challenges for the domestic division of labour and to fathers.

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What does a legitimate threat to the republic actually look like? Ginsburg and Huq tell you, using examples from failed democracies in history around the world.

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Originally published in English by the British Library Publishing Division as Lost Mars: the golden age of the red planet"--Copyright page.

In Moving Up, Moving Out, Will Cooley discusses the damage racism and discrimination have exacted on black Chicagoans in the twentieth century, while accentuating the resilience of upwardly-mobile African Americans. Cooley examines how class differences created fissures in the black community and produced quandaries for black Chicagoans...

What's actually in the Bible? Where do we find the story of Moses or Jesus' parable of the Prodigal Son? A Guide to Bible Basics discusses important people, places, and terms for each biblical book so that the reader can quickly see its primary focus. This accessible and concise book introduces the content of the Bible without theological, historical, or literary commentary. Tyler Mayfield provides a summary and chapter outline of each biblica...

An argument for greater philosophical attention to plants, as the creator of the atmosphere and therefore logical central point for analysis of life.

We barely talk about them and seldom know their names. Philosophy has always overlooked them, even biology considers them as mere decoration on the tree of life. And yet plants give life to the Earth: they produce the atmosphere that surrounds us, they are the origin of the oxygen that animates us. Plants embody the most direct, elementary connection that life can establish with the world. In this highly original book, Emanuele Coccia argues ...

Os sons do português is a practical introduction to the phonetics and pronunciation of Portuguese, with a focus on the sound patterns of Portuguese from a non-theoretical perspective.

Wheat Songs is memoir about war, survival and the love between a grandson and his grandfather. The piece is the result of WWII and the Nazi occupation of Greece, a trip across the Atlantic and a yearlong conversation between the author, Perry Rizopoulos and his grandfather or pappou, Pericles Rizopoulos.

Wheat Songs is memoir about war, survival and the love between a grandson and his grandfather. The piece is the result of WWII and the Nazi occupation of Greece, a trip across the Atlantic and a yearlong conversation between the author, Perry Rizopoulos and his grandfather or pappou, Pericles Rizopoulos.