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Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures

Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures

Literary works play a crucial role in modelling and conceptualising temporalities. This becomes particularly apparent in times of crises which put conventionalised temporal patterns and routines under pressure. During crises past present and future appear to collapse into each other and give way to temporal disjunction and rupture. Offering pluralised and context-sensitive approaches to temporalities in and of crises this volume explores how literature’s engagement with crises suggests both the need for and possibility of rethinking ‘time’. The volume is committed to examining the affordances of specific genres and their potential in pointing beyond temporalities of crises to facilitate a sense of futurity. Individual essays are grounded in recent theories of temporality and literary form which are related to novel advancements in ecocriticism queer studies affect theory and postcolonial studies. The chapters cover a broad range of examples from different literary genres to reveal the knowledge of literature about temporalities in and of crises. | Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures

GBP 130.00
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Lives in Motion Celebrating Dance in Thailand

Lives in Motion Celebrating Dance in Thailand

Lives in Motion celebrates dance in Thailand focusing on the diversity of Thailand’s dance cultures and their place in today’s world. Giving voice to eminent artists and scholars on the complex roles that Thailand is pursuing for artful movement at home and abroad the book provides key perspectives on Thai dance traditions and practitioners. It explores the many forms and meanings in contemporary dance changing local traditions in the country the evolution of Thai dance on the global stage and hybrid features of the Thai dance world. The book examines how hybridity has been integral to dance cultures in Thailand and discusses how they have actively adapted and negotiated their knowledge in relation to modernity and globalization. Developing new models standards and sites for dance movement and theater dance in Thai has been advancing in innovative ways whether it is to include fresh forms of skilled bodily movement or to expand in new arenas like tourism and online platforms. Similarly old systems of training which included artists’ homes palaces and temples have been adapted into the new world of modern education media home schooling and new community rituals. A pioneering contribution on Thai performing arts this volume examines contemporary Thai dance cultures in the local national regional and global contexts. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of dance and performance studies cultural studies Southeast Asia studies and art. | Lives in Motion Celebrating Dance in Thailand

GBP 130.00
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Advances in Metaheuristics Applications in Engineering Systems

Advances in Metaheuristics Applications in Engineering Systems

Advances in Metaheuristics: Applications in Engineering Systems provides details on current approaches utilized in engineering optimization. It gives a comprehensive background on metaheuristic applications focusing on main engineering sectors such as energy process and materials. It discusses topics such as algorithmic enhancements and performance measurement approaches and provides insights into the implementation of metaheuristic strategies to multi-objective optimization problems. With this book readers can learn to solve real-world engineering optimization problems effectively using the appropriate techniques from emerging fields including evolutionary and swarm intelligence mathematical programming and multi-objective optimization. The ten chapters of this book are divided into three parts. The first part discusses three industrial applications in the energy sector. The second focusses on process optimization and considers three engineering applications: optimization of a three-phase separator process plant and a pre-treatment process. The third and final part of this book covers industrial applications in material engineering with a particular focus on sand mould-systems. It also includes discussions on the potential improvement of algorithmic characteristics via strategic algorithmic enhancements. This book helps fill the existing gap in literature on the implementation of metaheuristics in engineering applications and real-world engineering systems. It will be an important resource for engineers and decision-makers selecting and implementing metaheuristics to solve specific engineering problems. | Advances in Metaheuristics Applications in Engineering Systems

GBP 175.00
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Language in Society in Bangladesh and Beyond Voices of the Unheard in the Global South

Language in Society in Bangladesh and Beyond Voices of the Unheard in the Global South

This collection presents a holistic picture of the sociolinguistic landscape in Bangladesh offering a critical understanding of language ideologies and social inequalities in the country as they connect more widely to dynamics in the Global South. The book seeks to untangle the voices embedded in the language practices of a range of communities and professions in the region which have been little studied in the literature and encourage a rethinking of the relationships between language and nationality class ethnicity race and gender. Highlighting perspectives from established and emerging researchers and drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches and methodologies the volume is organized around such key themes as bilingualism and diglossia; language variation across domains; language and identity in literature; and the interconnectedness of language identity and globalization. Taken together the collection calls attention to the socially and spatially situated nature of language practices in Bangladesh and in turn the ways in which scholars in the Global South make sense of the sociolinguistic landscape at both the local and global levels. This book will appeal to scholars working in sociolinguistics particularly those working on language policy language and identity language variation and in or about the Global South. | Language in Society in Bangladesh and Beyond Voices of the Unheard in the Global South

GBP 130.00
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Racism in Contemporary Germany Islamophobia in East and West

Racism in Contemporary Germany Islamophobia in East and West

This book presents a critical and empirically informed examination of Islamophobia and related issues of racism and nationalism in Germany today with particular attention to the East/West distinction. The authors representing several disciplines such as anthropology sociology and media and literary studies situate the topic in the global and German context of the 2015-16 migration crisis and its aftermath and of the ongoing transformations seen in the postsocialist regions of the European Union. Since the 2015-16 refugee crisis illiberal leaders and parties within Europe have instrumentalized Islamophobia in an attempt to dislodge the traditional political elites. Strikingly such illiberal movements have been most successful in the formerly socialist areas of the EU. This is mirrored within Germany itself where political formations with an Islamophobic agenda remain more popular in the East than in the West. This volume examines the reasons for this difference including not only the ideological heritage of Soviet-dominated socialism but also the effects of western interventions in the formerly socialist areas in and beyond Germany since the end of the Cold War. Some Islamophobic and other hateful tendencies were in fact introduced from and continue to prosper also in the West. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies. | Racism in Contemporary Germany Islamophobia in East and West

GBP 130.00
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New Technology in Sociology Practical Applications in Research and Work

New Technology in Sociology Practical Applications in Research and Work

When technology has been applied in business environments its justification has usually been cast in terms of saving time or saving money. In the social sciences the justification must be different; the viability of sociology as a profession for example will not be enhanced by cost reductions. The focus in this volume is on a different bottom line: the quality and content of work. | New Technology in Sociology Practical Applications in Research and Work

GBP 130.00
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Advances in Distance Learning in Times of Pandemic

Advances in Distance Learning in Times of Pandemic

The book Advances in Distance Learning in Times of Pandemic is devoted to the issues and challenges faced by universities in the field of distance learning in COVID-19 times. It covers both the theoretical and practical aspects connected to distance education. It elaborates on issues regarding distance learning its challenges assessment by students and their expectations the use of tools to improve distance learning and the functioning of e-learning in the industry 4. 0 and society 5. 0 eras. The book also devotes a lot of space to the issues of Web 3. 0 in university e-learning quality assurance and knowledge management. The aim and scope of this book is to draw a holistic picture of ongoing online teaching-activities before and during the lockdown period and present the meaning and future of e-learning from students’ points of view taking into consideration their attitudes and expectations as well as industry 4. 0 and society 5. 0 aspects. The book presents the approach to distance learning and how it has changed especially during a pandemic that revolutionized education. It highlights • the function of online education and how that has changed before and during the pandemic. • how e-learning is beneficial in promoting digital citizenship. • distance learning characteristic in the era of industry 4. 0 and society 5. 0. • how the era of industry 4. 0 treats distance learning as a desirable form of education. The book covers both scientific and educational aspects and can be useful for university-level undergraduate postgraduate and research-grade courses and can be referred to by anyone interested in exploring the diverse aspects of distance learning.

GBP 110.00
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Psychoanalysis in Asia

Psychoanalysis in Asia

The world is looking East. Whilst in the West psychoanalysis is fighting to maintain its position among the other therapies in a society which has less time for introspection and self-reflective thought in Asia a new frontier is opening up: we are witnessing a surge of interest for psychoanalysis among the mental health professionals and among the younger generations interest which is articulated and nuanced differently in the different Asian countries. In Asia and particularly in India Japan South Korea Taiwan and China the development of psychoanalysis reflects separate socio-political historical contexts each with a rich cultural texture and fuelled by the interest of a new generation of mental health professionals for psychoanalysis as a therapeutic method. | Psychoanalysis in Asia

GBP 130.00
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Multimodality in Translation Studies Media Models and Trends in China

Multimodality in Translation Studies Media Models and Trends in China

Focusing on multimodality in translation studies this edited volume presents insights into the models trends and practices of multimodal translation across a variety of media contexts in contemporary China. The book is structured into five main themes investigating audiovisual translation in digital media multimodal translation of Chinese classics in print media multimodal design in website translation stance and ideology of paratexts in news translation and the use of paralanguage and visual cues in quasi-on-site multimodal translation such as conference interpreting. Contributors draw on various theoretical models and research methods including systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis narrative theory Skopos-functional theory multimodal analysis of digital discourse corpus-assisted multimodal analysis questionnaire surveys and interviews. The volume covers major topics in multimodal translation studies ranging from emerging multimodal translation models to multimodal creativity in inter-lingual subtitling for social media image framing in multimodal metaphor translation and intersemiotic structure information value cohesion and coherence in different textures of media translation. Through ample solid empirical studies it aims to shed lights on the methodological development of multimodal translation across various media forms including social media websites on-site interactions and books. The title will be of great value to scholars and students studying linguistics translation studies multimodal discourse analysis and digital media. | Multimodality in Translation Studies Media Models and Trends in China

GBP 130.00
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Digital Transformation in Aviation Tourism and Hospitality in Southeast Asia

Digital Transformation in Aviation Tourism and Hospitality in Southeast Asia

Technological advances and the drive to digitalize business processes in aviation tourism and hospitality have forced the industries to go along with the digital movement. The results are often mixed. This book brings together contributions from leading scholars in the field and explores the digital transformation in these industries in Southeast Asia. The book looks at the impact of digital transformation on the region and the issues and challenges brought about by this transformation. It also addresses trends in the industries from blockchain technology AI biometric and mobile technology applications to in-flight catering. It examines the impact of COVID-19 on the industries and how the pandemic has led to businesses adopting new business models. Through the case studies of digital adoptions in the region readers will gain insights on how the countries have leveraged new technologies and the implementation processes to drive digital transformation. The book aims to help scholars and policy makers understand the digital advances in the industries to better formulate responses in research and policy making and deliver effective digital transformation. | Digital Transformation in Aviation Tourism and Hospitality in Southeast Asia

GBP 120.00
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Telecollaboration in Translator Education Implementing Telecollaborative Learning Modes in Translation Courses

Telecollaboration in Translator Education Implementing Telecollaborative Learning Modes in Translation Courses

This volume provides a comprehensive treatment of telecollaboration as a learning mode in translator education surveying the state-of-the-art exploring its distinctive challenges and affordances and outlining future directions in both theoretical and practical terms. The book begins with an overview of telecollaboration and its rise in prominence in today’s globalised world one in which developments in technology have significantly impacted practices in professional translation and translator education. The volume highlights basic design types and assessment modes and their use in achieving competence-based learning outcomes drawing on examples from seven telecollaboration projects. In incorporating real-life research Marczak draws readers’ attention to not only the practical workings of different types of projects and their attendant challenges but also the opportunities for educators to diversify and optimize their instructional practices and for budding translators to build competence and better secure their future employability in the language service provision industry. This volume will be a valuable resource for students and researchers in translation studies particularly those with an interest in translator education and translation technology as well as stakeholders in the professional translation industry. | Telecollaboration in Translator Education Implementing Telecollaborative Learning Modes in Translation Courses

GBP 130.00
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Conflict Continuity and Change in Social Movements in Southeast Asia

Conflict Continuity and Change in Social Movements in Southeast Asia

This book demonstrates how preserving ideology and relationships with other activists affords social movements to persist over time amid limited resources and political opportunities in Southeast Asia. Examining two peace movements in Indonesia – the largest democratic country in Southeast Asia – to illuminate discontinuity continuity and change in social movements the author uses a cultural approach to understanding why social movements persist. He argues that the activists’ memory relationship with others collective identity and emotion are reasons for social movements to ascend and peak. This is a direct response to the argument that the availability of resources and political opportunities is the main ingredient for any social movements to rise. While having different fates the two movements studied arose in the midst of violence between Christian and Muslim communities in Ambon Indonesia: The Kopi Badati movement and Filterinfo. The book extends the applicability of the cultural approach in explaining why social movements discontinue continue and change over time without discounting the importance of available resources and political opportunities. Addressing a gap in the existing social movement studies the book explains why a social movement disbands and why the other manages to continue and change after achieving its immediate goal. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of Asian studies (new)-media and communications civil society and international development. | Conflict Continuity and Change in Social Movements in Southeast Asia

GBP 130.00
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The Ethics of Sustainability in Management Storymaking in Organizations

The Ethics of Sustainability in Management Storymaking in Organizations

Organizational storytelling has been taught for many years in many different places as part of organizational development organizational change organizational learning and business ethics. There has not been any comprehensive framework that addresses sustainability in organizations and so this book develops a new ethics of sustainability for management and organizations. A terrestrial ethics of storymaking is proposed which responds to Latour’s claim that the Terrestrial has become a new decisive political actor in politics. The Terrestrial is born from Gaia a metaphor for a new look on life on Earth. Gaia situates life in the thin layer of matter that is the surface of the Earth. It entails the view that nature is a process that humans are part of. Storymaking is constructed from Arendt’s political philosophy which is rooted ontologically in the principle of natality: rebirth of life. The term ‘storymaking’ is developed from Arendt’s understanding of storytelling as political action to emphasize not only that stories are spatial embodied and material practices that are tied to a specific time and space but also that technology is an important dimension in making stories. Stories are thus human practices that apart from meaning making and politics involve the use and manipulation of material and objects and which are crucial for how a human world is shaped. This human world is furthermore shaped by the rhythms of life embedded in the complex landscapes that humans move through. Storymaking is developed through rethinking the links between the central categories of labor work action and thinking in Arendt’s writings. Implications for business ethics are drawn out and a comprehensive ethics framework is constructed that connects the biological and physical with the social economic and political regarding how organizations work. Finally a storymaking philosophy of management is constructed making this book especially relevant to researchers academics managers and students in the fields of business ethics management studies leadership organizational studies and international business. | The Ethics of Sustainability in Management Storymaking in Organizations

GBP 130.00
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Nanomaterials in Healthcare

Nanomaterials in Healthcare

This cutting-edge reference book discusses the biomedical applications of nanomaterials. It covers different types of nanoparticles such as polymeric nanoparticles lipoidal nanoparticles and metallic nanoparticles. It discusses the current trends and challenges in the development of safe biomedicines. The book reviews FDA-approved medicines nanohybrid systems for early-stage diagnosis and treatment of diseases advanced approaches of cost-effective bio-imaging and theragnostics. It also covers the basic design and fundamental understanding of surface-engineered biomedicine. The book is meant for experts in the healthcare industry as well as post-graduates in biomedical engineering and nanotechnology. | Nanomaterials in Healthcare

GBP 170.00
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Rationality in Context Unstable Virtues in an Uncertain World

Rationality in Context Unstable Virtues in an Uncertain World

This book uses the psychological literature on rationality to weigh in on the recent debate between virtue epistemologists and epistemic situationists. It argues that both sides have misconstrued the literature and that an interactionist framework is needed to square epistemic theory with empirical facts about reasoning and inference. The explosion of empirical literature on human rationality has led to seismic shifts across a multitude of academic disciplines. This book considers its implications for epistemology. In particular it critically evaluates the treatment of the rationality literature within the recent controversy between virtue epistemologists who attempt to ground knowledge in stable epistemic virtues and epistemic situationists who claim that such a project is doomed by empirical evidence of widespread irrationality. It links this foundational controversy to two of the most important debates in psychology: the Rationality Wars and the person-situation debate. The book argues that both virtue theorists and epistemic situationists have misunderstood the implications of these debates leading them to focus exclusively on personal dispositions and situational factors as two independent sources of epistemic success failure and improvement. A more accurate reading of the empirical literature implies that interactions between epistemic agents and their social informational and institutional environments are the fundamental drivers of both rational and irrational behaviour. An interactionist framework motivated by this insight conceives of epistemic virtues and vices as both responsive to and responsible for the environments in which they’re manifested and cultivated. The central aim of this book is to present and defend this novel type of virtue epistemology. Rationality in Context will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in epistemology philosophy of science philosophy of psychology cognitive psychology and social psychology. | Rationality in Context Unstable Virtues in an Uncertain World

GBP 130.00
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Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism Lean in Action

Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism Lean in Action

This book explores how Lean – a global management doctrine – operates and is adopted in the real corporeal collective and affective environments of health and social care services. During Lean implementation processes knowledges affects skills and materialities come together in manifold complex ways. Based on ethnographic fieldwork interviews and observation and with empirical and theoretical rigour the book provides an answer to the question of what happens to care work when processes become ‘Leaned’. As in many other fields the predominantly female health and social care sectors suffer from devaluation in terms of wages and working conditions. The book explores how Lean management is ultimately lived in this gendered context of work and labour. Moreover the book situates Lean and related management doctrines in the current mutation of capitalism – that is biocapitalism – in which bios life itself becomes the core of value production. The book adds to the corpus of work organisation and management studies on Lean that have rarely focused on gender affect or sociomateriality. It provides scholars in Social Science Management and Gender Studies with a fresh outlook and a cross-disciplinary take on Lean management. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4. 0 license. Funded by University of Eastern Finland. | Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism Lean in Action

GBP 130.00
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Policing in America

Policing in America

Policing in America Ninth Edition provides a thorough analysis of the key issues in policing today and offers an issues-oriented discussion focusing on critical concerns such as personnel systems organization and management operations discretion use of force culture and behavior ethics and deviance civil liability and police-community relations. In the field of law enforcement in the United States it is essential to know the contemporary problems being faced and combine that knowledge with empirical research and theoretical reasoning to arrive at best practices and an understanding of policing. The text opens with a critical assessment of police history and the role politics played in the development of American police institutions and concludes with consideration of such contemporary issues as globalization terrorism and homeland security. Appropriate for introductory policing courses this new edition not only offers updated research and examples it also incorporates ways for the reader to connect to the content through learning objectives discussion questions and Myths and Realities of Policing boxes. Video and Internet links provide additional coverage of important issues. With completely revised and updated chapters Policing in America Ninth Edition provides an up-to-date examination of what to expect as a police officer in America.

GBP 89.99
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Ethics in Planning

Ethics in Planning

Some planners limit discussions of ethics to simple though important questions about the propriety of their daily activities. This approach to ethics restricts discussion of professional ethics to the propriety of everyday social and professional relationships. It ignores the broader ethical content of planning practice methods and policies. While narrow definitions of ethical behavior can easily preoccupy public officials and professional associations they divert attention from more profound moral issues. Martin Wachs argues that ethical issues are implicit in nearly all planning decisions. For illustrative and educational reasons it is useful to divide ethics in planning into four distinct categories. The first category includes the moral implications of bureaucratic practices and rules of behavior regarding clients and supervisors. The second category includes ethical judgments which planners make in exercising their administrative discretion. More complex and represented by a third category are the moral implications of methods and the ethical content of criteria built into planning techniques and models. The final type represents the basic choices which society makes - those inherent in the consideration of major policy alternatives. Ethics in Planning contains a variety of representative papers to capture the current state of thinking. This book will be important as a text for survey classes in professional ethics given by university planning programs. It should also supplement short courses in planning ethics for practicing professionals and provide source materials for discussions of planning ethics sponsored by local chapters of the American Planning Association and similar organizations. It gathers together exemplary and critical works thus it will also interest individual planners in a field that only continues to grow in recognition and importance.

GBP 130.00
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Give and Take in Families Studies in Resource Distribution

Give and Take in Families Studies in Resource Distribution

Originally published in 1987 now with a new preface the focus of this book is the distribution of material resources notably money work care and food within and between households. Hitherto social policy research had tended to roll households and families into one and consider them as ‘private’ spheres which only connected with society via the male head of household – the ‘breadwinner’. Examination of resource distribution had stopped short at the door of the household. The contributors to Give and Take in Families open up the ‘Black Box’ of the family and explore the assumption that resources are equitably distributed between household members. A dominant concern is with gender relations. Each study attempts to make women – as resources in caring for other people as providers of income as transformers of income into goods and services – visible in the household unit. Findings from nine empirical studies are presented examining resource distribution in relation to the composition of households and the life cycles and life experiences of household members. A wide variety of household types is considered and attention is given to households undergoing changes (such as divorce and unemployment) that are likely to have major implications for household structure and resources. The implications of these innovative and thought-provoking studies for social policy are considerable with relevance to the fields of inequality and income support the provision of care for children and the elderly the labour market and divorce law. This book will still appeal to practising researchers and students in the social sciences particularly women’s studies. | Give and Take in Families Studies in Resource Distribution

GBP 90.00
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The Sciences in Islamicate Societies in Context Patronage Education Narratives

The Sciences in Islamicate Societies in Context Patronage Education Narratives

This Variorum volume reprints ten papers on contextual elements of the so-called ancient sciences in Islamicate societies between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries. They address four major themes: the ancient sciences in educational institutions; courtly patronage of science; the role of the astral and other sciences in the Mamluk sultanate; and narratives about knowledge. The main arguments are directed against the then dominant historiographical claims about the exclusion of the ancient sciences from the madrasa and cognate educational institutes the suppression of philosophy and other ancient sciences in Damascus after 1229 the limited role of the new experts for timekeeping in the educational and professional exercise of this science and the marginal impact of astrology under Mamluk rule. It is shown that the muwaqqits (timekeepers) were important teachers at madrasas and Sufi convents that Mamluk officers sought out astrologers for counselling and that narratives about knowledge reveal important information about scholarly debates and beliefs. Colophons and dedications are used to prove that courtly patronage for the ancient sciences continued uninterrupted until the end of the seventeenth century. Furthermore these papers refute the idea of a continued and strong conflict between the ancient and modern sciences showing rather shifting alliances between various of them and their regrouping in the classifications of the entire disciplinary edifice. These papers are suited for graduate teaching in the history of science and the intellectual cultural and social history of the Middle East and for all readers interested in the study of the contexts of the sciences. | The Sciences in Islamicate Societies in Context Patronage Education Narratives

GBP 130.00
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Russia in Transition

Russia in Transition

An accessible book covering the momentous changes that have occurred and are still occurring since the fall of the USSR in 1989. Contributions from an impressive collection of authors are drawn from the most recent and original research available and address political and social issues which impact on all levels of Russian society. The book consists of a selection of specially commissioned pieces which have evolved from the conference of the same name held at Cambridge University in December 1994. | Russia in Transition

GBP 160.00
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