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Unconventional Combat


Michael A. Messner


In recent decades, there has been a generational shift of the US veterans' peace movement, from one grounded mostly in the experiences of older white men of the Vietnam War era, to one informed by a young, diverse cohort of post-9/11 veterans.In Unconventional Combat,...

Publication date: 2098-12-22
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Brazilian Cultural Criminology


Salah H. Khaled Jr.


This book identifies an emerging Brazilian cultural criminology which combines Brazilian and Latin American critical criminology with the new avenues of investigation and methodologies that characterize cultural criminology more broadly. Bringing together various...

Publication date: 2026-01-30
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Download this eBook The Materiality of Digital Comics
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The Materiality of Digital Comics


Ian Hague


The Materiality of Digital Comics asks how we can speak meaningfully about digital comics, and how we can do so in a way that remains meaningful as time passes and technology changes. In Part I, the book proposes a model for the study of digital comics that is...

Publication date: 2026-01-27
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Download this eBook Addiction and the Medicalisation of Conspicuous Behaviour
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Addiction and the Medicalisation of Conspicuous Behaviour


Peter J. Adams , Bruce M. Z. Cohen , Martin Harbusch , Jo Reichertz


This volume critically interrogates the dominant understanding of ‘addiction’ and ‘addicts’. It examines the proliferation of the addiction concept by psychiatry and other psy-professions, exploring the processes and underlying drivers of this...

Publication date: 2026-01-25
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Download this eBook Extreme Weather Events and Vulnerability of Older People
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Extreme Weather Events and Vulnerability of Older People


Md Isahaque Ali , Dharmalingam Arunachalam , Helen Forbes-Mewett


This book examines the critical intersection of demographic ageing and climate change in Bangladesh, including comparison with other Asia countries. Located in the dynamic delta system of Southeast Asia, Bangladesh is constantly exposed to extreme weather events, the...

Publication date: 2026-01-24
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Publisher: Springer
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Download this eBook Transitional Justice and Gender-Based Violence in South Africa
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Transitional Justice and Gender-Based Violence in South Africa


Stephanie Wild


This book explores how transitional justice mechanisms can address sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and femicide in South Africa. The central argument is that SGBV and femicide in South Africa are deeply rooted in historical injustices, the legacy of apartheid,...

Publication date: 2026-01-24
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Download this eBook An African Diaspora in the Making
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An African Diaspora in the Making


Angela Nwagbo , Stephanie Inge Rudwick , Martin Schmiedl


This book addresses the timely research field of Afropean identity politics and provides a first account of the lived experience of Afroczechs and Africans in Czechia. Against the background of country-specific evasive politics on race and a discourse of colonial...

Publication date: 2026-01-24
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Download this eBook The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Body Modification
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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Body Modification


Francesco D'errico , Franz Manni


Body modification practices express identity, conform to social norms, and convey cultural values that express cultural, social, and individual meanings. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology ofBody Modification provides a comprehensive understanding...

Publication date: 2026-01-23
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Nowhere Girl


Carla Ciccone


Pre-order the ground-breaking memoir of one woman coming to terms with her ADHD diagnosis, shedding new light on her past, her family history and reframing the condition __________For Carla Ciccone, the feeling of not quite knowing how to perform adult life was all too...

Publication date: 2026-01-22
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Publisher: Penguin
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The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet


Bogna Konior


The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet investigates how intelligence–human and artificial–manifests under conditions of secrecy, hostility, and concealment.Departing from Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin’s dark forest theory, which frames the universe as a...

Publication date: 2026-01-22
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Publisher: Polity
Collection: Theory Redux
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Download this eBook Speech Begins After Death
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Speech Begins After Death


Robert Bononno , Michel Foucault


In 1968, Michel Foucault agreed to a series of interviews with critic Claude Bonnefoy, which were to be published in book form. Bonnefoy wanted a dialogue with Foucault about his relationship to writing rather than about the content of his books. The project was...

Publication date: 2026-01-22
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Publisher: Polity
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Download this eBook Lake Urmia's Hydro-Social Dilemma
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Lake Urmia's Hydro-Social Dilemma


Robert Gonda


This book provides an in-depth study of Lake Urmia in north-western Iran, a region that has mutated from a turquoise solitaire into a white desert. While hydrological and technical perspectives dominate existing research of this region, this book turns to the...

Publication date: 2026-01-21
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Download this eBook Preventing Child Abuse
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Preventing Child Abuse


Edward Cohen , Melissa Santos , Rosemary Tisch


Preventing Child Abuse introduces the evidence, theories, concepts, essential components, and practice issues for family-based prevention programs (FBPs) for families dealing with substance use problems. FBPs are interventions that involve the family in program...

Publication date: 2026-01-21
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Download this eBook Comics is…: Debating the Subject of Comics Studies
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Comics is…: Debating the Subject of Comics Studies


Martin Lund


Taking the contested and contestable meaning of “comics” as its starting point, Comics is… brings together ten comics scholars from different disciplines and with different approaches to what some of us call comics, to debate and discuss the...

Publication date: 2026-01-19
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Download this eBook The BRICS Imperative
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The BRICS Imperative


Fulufhelo Netswera , Andréa Santos , Ndivhuho Tshikovhi , Xiaolong Zou


This book offers a multidisciplinary exploration of how BRICS countries, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, are addressing climate change through policy innovation, technological progress and collaborative governance. With contributions from academics...

Publication date: 2026-01-19
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Download this eBook Psychosocial and Mental Health Support for Disaster Management in India
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Psychosocial and Mental Health Support for Disaster Management in India


Collectif


This edited book reflects on the development and importance of psychosocial and mental health support in disaster interventions and management in India. Drawing on scientific studies and reports from the Indian context and Asian countries, this collection discusses the...

Publication date: 2026-01-19
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Download this eBook Armed Conflicts and Forced Displacements in the Anthropocene
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Armed Conflicts and Forced Displacements in the Anthropocene


Annet Adong


This book focuses on the incentives for armed conflict in the Great Lakes Region of Sub-Saharan Africa and its consequences, including social preferences and refugee integration. The contribution of this book is twofold. First, the book adds to the limited literature on...

Publication date: 2026-01-19
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Publisher: Springer
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Download this eBook Communication and Applied Technologies
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Communication and Applied Technologies


Daniel Barredo Ibáñez , Úrsula Freundt-Thurne , Paulo Carlos López-López , Matthieu Vernier


This book features selected papers from the International Conference on Communication and Applied Technologies (ICOMTA 2025), Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile, during 2–4 September 2025. It covers recent advances in the field of digital communication...

Publication date: 2026-01-19
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Download this eBook Exploring Justice as a Social Indicator of Life
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Exploring Justice as a Social Indicator of Life


Sooraj Kumar Maurya


This book explores justice as both a philosophical concept and a measurable social indicator for evaluating quality of life. It offers an original framework that integrates ethical theory with empirical applications in public policy, especially in sectors such as...

Publication date: 2026-01-19
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The Anxious State


Megan Corn , Savannah Havird , Stephen Neely , Kevin B. Smith


An exploration of how politics is undermining Americans’ mental health The Anxious State: Stress, Polarization, and Elections in America examines the increasing political stress and emotional polarization in the United States. It examines the physiological toll of...

Publication date: 2026-01-19
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Publisher: Wiley
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