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Gay Life Stories Same-Sex Desires in Post-Revolutionary Iran / by Kjaran, Jón Ingvar

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The Path to Post-Galilean Epistemology Reinterpreting the Birth of Modern Science / by Capecchi, Danilo

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Politics and technology in the post-truth era /

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Queerly Cosmopolitan Bohemia and Belonging in a Brazilian Middle-of-Nowhere City / by Murphy, Timothy Eugene

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Political power and social theory.

Table of Contents: “…/ Grzegorz Ekiert -- The spatial dynamics of middle-class formation in post-apartheid South Africa : enclavization and fragmentation in Johannesburg / Amy Kracker Selzer, Patrick Heller -- The contested spaces of Chile's middle classes / Joel Stillerman -- The middle class in India : a social formation or political actor? …”
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Hong Kong Architecture 1945-2015 From Colonial to Global / by Xue, Charlie Q. L.

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Rent-Seekers, Profits, Wages and Inequality The Top 20% / by Mihályi, Péter, Szelényi, Iván

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2: Rent in Classical Economic, Social and Political Theory -- Chapter 3: Thirteen Types of Rent in the Globalized World -- Chapter 4: Class Reproduction of the Upper Middle Class (Top 20%) -- Chapter 5: Stages of Rent-Seeking Under Post-Communism -- Chapter 6: Rent-Securing by the Nation-States and Rent Destruction by Globalization -- Chapter 7: Theoretical and Policy Conclusions.…”
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The century of science : the global triumph of the research university /

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Notions of family intersectional perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Aldridge -- Women of color participating in personal advertising : dating, mating, and relating in a 'Post' racial, gendered, and modern society / Pamela Anne Quiroz -- Marrying for the kids : gender, sexual identity, and family in same-sex marriage / Katrina Kimport -- Why do you think we don't get married? …”
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An Urban History of China by Fu, Chonglan, Cao, Wenming

Table of Contents: “…INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE HISTORY OF URBAN HABITATION -- The Commencement of Urban Habitation -- The Urban Habitation of the Slavery Society -- The Urban Habitation in the Early Feudal Society -- The Urban Habitation in the Middle Stage of the Feudal Society -- Urban Habitation in Late Feudal Society -- The Features of the Modern Urban Dwelling Areas -- The Features of Spatial Structure of the Urban Residential Areas After 1949 -- The New Workers' Villages and Residential Environment of Industrial Cities in 1950s -- The "Villages in the City": A Phenomenon of On-the-Spot Urbanization -- PART TWO HISTORY OF CHINESE URBAN PUBLIC SQUARES -- Urban Public Squares and Social Public Life -- Chinese Traditional Squares: the Most Longevous Square Systems -- The Disruption of Traditional Squares and the Rise of New-Type Squares -- An Exploration of the Vigorous Growth of Urban Squares -- A Cultural Comparison between Chinese and Western Squares.…”
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Investigating Developmentalism Notions of Development in the Social Sphere /

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Introduction: Developmentalism: On a Trope of (Dis)Enchantment -- Part One: Discontentment and Disenchantment -- Chapter 2: The Danger of Development Today: An Inevitable Polemic -- Chapter 3: The Enchantment of Urbanization: Closer Look at Market's Narrative in Indian Cities -- Part Two: Dramatics and Enchantment -- Chapter 4: The Art of Showing: Imagining Development in Indian Mediascape -- Chapter 5: Crafting Development and Developing Craft: An On-going Dialogue -- Chapter 6: Documentaries and the Development Project: Filmmaking as a Discursive Practice -- Chapter 7: "Tayyari Jeet Ki": The Production of Childhood as a Cultural Trope of Developmentalism -- Part Three: Details of Discontents -- Chapter 8: Development, Marginality, and 'Contested Space' in th eCoastal Kerala, South India -- Chapter 9: Resurgence of Community in the Midst of Despair: Development's Changing Course in Northeast India -- Chapter 10: (Re)producing Middle Class" On Development as Middle Classes Mission -- Chapter 11: Frictions in Resistance: Imagining Post-neoliberal Developmental Possibilities.…”
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Political power and social theory

Table of Contents: “…Free riding on revolution : conservatism and social change / Robin Archer -- Parties and the articulation of neoliberalism : from "the emergency" to reforms in India, 1975-1991 / Manali Desai -- "A new health order as part of the new social order" : the strategic response of the WHO to its member states / Nitsan Chorev -- The reconfiguration of the Palestinian national question : the indirect rule route and the civil society route / Silvia Pasquetti -- Transforming citizenship : the subjective consequences of local political mobilization / Rachel Meyer -- Political fields and religious movements : the exclusion of the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan / Sadia Saeed -- Racialized class formation : blacks in the professional middle class in the post-civil rights era / Eric S. …”
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Sense and sensibility / by West, Clare

Inference in Argumentation A Topics-Based Approach to Argument Schemes / by Rigotti, Eddo, Greco, Sara

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SDG5 gender equality and empowerment of women and girls / by Pandey, Umesh Chandra, Kumar, Chhabi

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Troubled regions and failing states the clustering and contagion of armed conflicts /

Table of Contents: “…Troubled regions and failing states: introduction / Kristian Berg Harpviken -- The theory of failure and the failure of theory: 'state failure', the idea of the state and the practice of state building / Stein Sundstøl Eriksen -- Strong chieftaincies out of weak states, or elemental power unbound / Georgi Derluguian and Timothy Earle -- Corruption and conflict: contrasting logics of collective action / Jens Christopher Andvig -- Colliding state-building projects and regional insecurity in post-Soviet space: Georgia versus Russia in South Ossetia / S. …”
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Ancient Engineers' Inventions Precursors of the Present / by Rossi, Cesare, Russo, Flavio

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Education for a knowledge society in Arabian Gulf countries

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Symbolic interaction and new social media

Table of Contents: “…Martin -- Surfing to an alternative self : internet technology and sexuality among 'married straight homosexual men' / Avi Shoshana -- "The wall is the city" : a narrative analysis of Vancouver's post-riot "apology wall" / Jennifer A.A. Lavoie, Judy Eaton, Carrie B. …”
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Globalization, changing demographics, and educational challenges in East Asia

Table of Contents: “…The educational progress of mainland Chinese immigrant students in Hong Kong / Suet-ling Pong and Wing Kwong Tsang ; Postsecondary educational expansion and social integration in Hong Kong / David Post ; 'Downed' and stuck in Singapore: lower/middle class South Korean wild geese (kirogi) children in Singapore / Jeehun Kim.…”
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