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Heavy Metal at the Movies

The chapters collected in this volume shed light on the areas of interaction between film studies and heavy metal research exploring how the audio-visual medium of film relates to builds on and shapes metal culture. At one end of the spectrum metal music serves as a form of ambient background in horror films that creates an intense and somewhat threatening atmosphere; at the other end the high level of performativity attached to the metal spectacle is emphasized. Alongside these tendencies the recent and ongoing wave of metal documentaries has taken off relying on either satire or hagiography. | Heavy Metal at the Movies

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Sport Gender and Power The Rise of Roller Derby

As a new breed of lifestyle sport enthusiasts ’derby grrrls’ are pushing the boundaries of gender as they negotiate the nexus of pleasure pain and power relations. Offering a socio-cultural analysis of the rise and reinvention of roller derby as both a new globalized women’s sport and an everyday creative leisure space this book explores the manner in which roller derby has emerged as a gendered space for self-transformation belonging and embodied contest in which women are invited to experience their emotions differently embrace pain and overcome limits. Sport Gender and Power: The Rise of Roller Derby presents detailed interview ethnographic and autoethnographic material together with a range of media texts to shed new light on the complex relationships of power experienced by women in derby as a sport culture whilst also examining the darker relationships that characterise the sport including those of inclusion and exclusion difference and identity and competition and participation. A contemporary feminist study of empowerment sexual difference gender and affect this book will appeal to scholars of gender and sexuality embodiment feminist thought and the sociology of sport and leisure. | Sport Gender and Power The Rise of Roller Derby

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Gender Sport and the Role of Alter Ego in Roller Derby

Gender Sport and the Role of the Alter Ego in Roller Derby focuses on the resurgence of roller derby by examining the appeal and dedication to a sport that combines the masculine aggression and physicality of sport with a more feminine or alternative style of organizing and community building. No longer a scripted sport filled with fake fighting and hair pulling derby though still dangerous has nevertheless exploded in popularity around the world. Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with women players Colleen Arendt reveals how derby has come to serve as a site of gender rebellion and emancipation that empowers participants. She demonstrates how players find roller derby a place to build friendships and support networks while giving back to their community. The book also analyzes the adoption of derby personas or alter egos which many players use. While many players derive joy and other benefits from their derby personas others argue that personas and alter egos detract from the athleticism and legitimacy of the sport. Finally by considering the relationship between gender sport society and power this book tries to answer the question: Why derby? Why now? | Gender Sport and the Role of Alter Ego in Roller Derby

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First-Line Clinical Approaches with Active Duty Service Members and Veterans

This book offers a culturally responsive and empirically based approach to working with active-duty service members veterans and their families. It examines the assessment and evidenced-based treatment of sexual trauma alcohol and substance abuse depression insomnia intimacy issues and OCD in service members and veterans and the major ethical and clinical challenges for licensed independent providers. The chapters are written by distinguished scholars and experienced healthcare providers who deliver health-focused interventions and integrate relevant cross-cultural factors for working with diverse patients. Loaded with clinical examples and up-to-date research this book is essential for all mental health professionals working or in training to serve military personnel or veterans in the United States. | First-Line Clinical Approaches with Active Duty Service Members and Veterans

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Virtues in the Public Sphere Citizenship Civic Friendship and Duty

Virtues in the Public Sphere features seventeen chapters by experts from a variety of different perspectives on the broad theme of virtue in the public sphere. Spanning issues such as the notion of civic friendship and civic virtue it sheds light on the role that these virtues play in the public sphere and their importance in safeguarding communities from the threats of a lack of concern for truth poor leadership charlatanism and bigotry. This book highlights the theoretical complexity of putting virtue ethics into practice in the public domain at a time when it has been shaken by unpredictable political social technological and cultural developments. With contributions from internationally acclaimed scholars in the fields of philosophy psychology sociology and education this book highlights the main issues both theoretical and practical of putting virtue ethics into practice in the public domain. Split into three sections – Virtues and vices in the public sphere Civic friendship and virtue and Perspectives on virtue and the public sphere – the chapters offer a timely commentary on the roles that virtues have to play in the public sphere. This timely book will be of great interest to researchers academics and post-graduate students in the fields of education character and virtue studies and will also appeal to practitioners. | Virtues in the Public Sphere Citizenship Civic Friendship and Duty

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Industrial Heritage and Regional Identities

Heritage is not what we see in front of us it is what we make of it in our heads. Heritage sites have been connected to a range of identarian projects both spatial and non-spatial. One of the most common links with heritage has been national identity. This book stresses that heritage has developed powerful links to regional and local identities. Contributors deal explicitly with regions of heavy industry in different parts of the world exploring non-spatial forms of identity: including class religious ethnic racial gender and cultural identities. In many heritage sites non-spatial forms of identity are interlinked with spatial ones. Civil society action has been important in representations of regional identities and industrial-heritage campaigns. Region-branding seems to determine the ultimate success of industrial heritage a process that is closely connected to the marketing of regions to provide a viable economic future and attract tourism to the region. Selected case-studies on coal and steel producing regions in this book provide the first global survey of how regions of heavy industry deal with their industrial heritage and what it means for regional identity and region-branding. This book draws a range of powerful conclusions about the path dependency of particular forms for post-industrial regional identity in former regions of heavy industry. It highlights both commonalities and differences in the strategies employed with regard to the regions’ industrial heritage. This book will appeal to lecturers students and scholars in the fields of heritage management industrial studies and cultural geography. | Industrial Heritage and Regional Identities

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Why It's OK to Ignore Politics

Do you feel like you’re the only person at your office without an I Voted! sticker on Election Day? It turns out that you're far from alone – 100 million eligible U. S. voters never went to the polls in 2016. That’s about 35 million more than voted for the winning presidential candidate. In this book Christopher Freiman explains why these 100 million need not feel guilty. Why It’s OK to Ignore Politics argues that you’re under no obligation to be politically active. Freiman addresses new objections to political abstention as well as some old chestnuts (But what if everyone stopped voting?). He also synthesizes recent empirical work showing how our political motivations distort our choices and reasoning. Because participating in politics is not an effective way to do good Freiman argues that we actually have a moral duty to disengage from politics and instead take direct action to make the world a better place. Key Features: Makes the case against a duty of political participation for a non-expert audience Presupposes no knowledge of philosophy or political science and is written in a style free of technical jargon Addresses the standard much-repeated arguments for why one should vote (e. g. one shouldn’t free ride on the efforts of others) Presents the growing literature on politically motivated reasoning in an accessible and entertaining way Covers a significant amount of new ground in the debate over a duty of political participation (e. g. whether participating absolves us of our complicity in state injustice) Challenges the increasingly popular argument from philosophers and economists that swing state voting is effective altruism Discusses the therapeutic benefits of ignoring politics—it’s good for you your relationships and society as a whole. | Why It's OK to Ignore Politics

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The Effect An Introduction to Research Design and Causality

The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality is about research design specifically concerning research that uses observational data to make a causal inference. It is separated into two halves each with different approaches to that subject. The first half goes through the concepts of causality with very little in the way of estimation. It introduces the concept of identification thoroughly and clearly and discusses it as a process of trying to isolate variation that has a causal interpretation. Subjects include heavy emphasis on data-generating processes and causal diagrams. Concepts are demonstrated with a heavy emphasis on graphical intuition and the question of what we do to data. When we “add a control variable” what does that actually do? Key Features: • Extensive code examples in R Stata and Python • Chapters on overlooked topics in econometrics classes: heterogeneous treatment effects simulation and power analysis new cutting-edge methods and uncomfortable ignored assumptions • An easy-to-read conversational tone • Up-to-date coverage of methods with fast-moving literatures like difference-in-differences | The Effect An Introduction to Research Design and Causality

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Hippeis The Cavalry Of Ancient Greece

The achievements of the Greek cavalry on the battlefield were monumental and yet until now the heavy infantry - the hoplite - has received by far the most attention from military historians. This book traces the history of the Greek cavalry offering a reassessment of the place of mounted troops in the warfare of Ancient Greece. Its historical sweep is broad with coverage which extends from 1400 BC through the Archaic period to the Classical period. | Hippeis The Cavalry Of Ancient Greece

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The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work

Green social work espouses a holistic approach to all peoples and other living things – plants and animals and the physical ecosystem; emphasises the relational nature of all its constituent parts; and redefines the duty to care for and about others as one that includes the duty to care for and about planet earth. By acknowledging the interdependency of all living things it allows for the inclusion of all systems and institutions in its remit including both (hu)man-made and natural disasters arising from the (hu)made ones of poverty to chemical pollution of the earth’s land waters and soils and climate change to the natural hazards like earthquakes and volcanoes which turn to disasters through human (in)action. Green social work’s value system is also one that favours equality social inclusion the equitable distribution of resources and a rights-based approach to meeting people’s needs to live in an ethical and sustainable manner. Responding to these issues is one of the biggest challenges facing social workers in the twenty-first century which this Handbook is intended to address. Through providing the theories practices policies knowledge and skills required to act responsibly in responding to the diverse disasters that threaten to endanger all living things and planet earth itself this green social work handbook will be required reading for all social work students academics and professionals as well as those working in the fields of community development and disaster management. | The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work

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RIBA Ethical Practice Guide

Ethical practice distinguishes an RIBA chartered architect from other design professionals. The RIBA Code of Professional Conduct requires practitioners to uphold high standards while encouraging and empowering them to reflect critically and to continually strive to improve. The Grenfell Tower tragedy was a significant reminder of the ethical responsibilities of the architect and the importance of ethical decision-making. By making ethical practice one of its mandatory competences the RIBA has made it a requirement that students and professionals develop a fundamental level of awareness and understanding of ethics. This guide is designed to improve industry’s grasp of ethical decision-making as it relates to the wider world society clients the workplace the profession and the individual. Each chapter introduces an ethical duty setting out the relevant legal regulatory and professional context before exploring the detailed subject matter and key principles. It includes an ethical dilemma for each duty and views and experiences from inside the profession. Delving into issues of equity diversity and inclusion social value wellbeing and integrity it does not seek our ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answers. Rather it encourages reflection on different interests consequences and considerations in order to reach a considered and balanced position. While ethical practice is invaluable in itself it is also vital for establishing trust with clients improving transparency enhancing reputation attracting and retaining high-quality staff avoiding disputes and for a high-level of accountability that benefits the entire industry and society more broadly. | RIBA Ethical Practice Guide

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Trade Policy Protectionism and the Third World

The 1980s saw an alarming revival of protectionism among Western countries as a result of a decade of persistent economic crises slow growth industrial decline and rising unemployment. The two major actors the US and the European Community between them bore the major responsibility for the breakdown of the liberal world trading system. Protection in the 1970s and 1980s took the form of replacing free international markets by bilateral agreements. This book first published in 1986 examines the European Community’s Generalized System of Preferences whereby the manufactured exports of developing nations would have duty-free access to the markets of the EEC and the consequences to this System of the new protectionism. | Trade Policy Protectionism and the Third World

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The Theology of Unity

Originally published in 1966 this was the first of Muhammad ‘Abduh’s works to be translated into English. Risālat al Tauhid represents the most popular of his discussion of Islamic thought and belief. ‘Abduh is still quoted and revered as the father of 20th Century Muslim thinking in the Arab world and his mind here accessible constituted both courageous and strenuous leadership in his day. All the concerns and claims of successive exponents of duty and meaning of the mosque in the modern world may be sensed in these pages. The world and Islam have moved on since ‘Abduh’s lifetime but he remains a source for the historian of contemporary movements and a valuable index to the self-awareness of Arab Islam. | The Theology of Unity

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Mentoring Teachers in the Primary School A Practical Guide

Mentoring Teachers in the Primary School helps mentors of trainee and newly qualified primary school teachers to both develop their own mentoring skills and provide the essential guidance their beginning teachers need as they navigate the roller-coaster of the first years in the classroom. Offering tried and tested strategies based on the best research it covers the knowledge skills and understanding every mentor needs. Together with tools for self-evaluation this book is a vital source of support and inspiration for all those involved in developing the next generation of outstanding teachers. Key topics for primary mentors include: the role of the mentor mentoring relationships mentoring in specialist areas mentoring development. Filled with guidance to support mentors’ own development as well as the development of beginning primary teachers Mentoring Teachers in the Primary School is a vital guide for mentors of primary school teachers both trainee and newly qualified with ready-to-use strategies that support and inspire mentors. | Mentoring Teachers in the Primary School A Practical Guide

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Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese System and Theory behind cai jiu dou and ye

This is an investigation into the grammaticalized system of focus-background agreement in Mandarin Chinese. The particles cái jiù dou and ye are in a specific use type shown to form the core of a highly systematic paradigm. This book is not just a valuable companion for anyone interested in core aspects of Mandarin Chinese grammar. It caters for the interests of theoretical linguists as well as for linguists from other fields with an interest in information-structure focus and contrastive topics and quantification. The outstanding characteristic of this book viz. its effortless integration of findings from formal semantics without heavy formal load makes it rewarding reading both for linguists with a less formal background and for researchers with some knowledge of formal semantics. | Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese System and Theory behind cai jiu dou and ye

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The Architecture of Ethics

Ethics is one of the most important and least understood aspects of design practice. In his latest book Thomas Fisher shows how ethics are inherent to the making of architecture – and how architecture offers an unusual and useful way of looking at ethics. The Architecture of Ethics helps students in architecture and other design disciplines to understand the major approaches to ethics and to apply them to the daily challenges they face in their work. The book covers each of the four dominant approaches to ethics: virtue ethics social contract ethics duty ethics and utilitarian ethics. Each chapter examines the dilemmas designers face from the perspective of one of these categories. Written in an accessible jargon-free style the text also features 100 illustrations to help integrate these concepts into the design process and to support visual understanding. Ethics is now a required part of accredited architecture programs making this book essential reading for all students in architecture and design.

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The Ethics of Climate Engineering Solar Radiation Management and Non-Ideal Justice

This book analyzes major ethical issues surrounding the use of climate engineering particularly solar radiation management (SRM) techniques which have the potential to reduce some risks of anthropogenic climate change but also carry their own risks of harm and injustice. The book argues that we should approach the ethics of climate engineering via non-ideal theory which investigates what justice requires given the fact that many parties have failed to comply with their duty to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Specifically it argues that climate justice should be approached comparatively evaluating the relative justice or injustice of feasible policies under conditions that are likely to hold within relevant timeframes. Likely near-future conditions include pessimistic scenarios in which no available option avoids serious ethical problems. The book contends that certain uses of SRM can be ethically defensible in some pessimistic scenarios. This is the first book devoted to the many ethical issues surrounding climate engineering. | The Ethics of Climate Engineering Solar Radiation Management and Non-Ideal Justice

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A Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Manual: The Sylloge Tacticorum

The Sylloge Tacticorum is a mid-Byzantine example of the literary genre of military manuals or Taktika which stretches back to antiquity. It was one of a number produced during the tenth century CE a period when the Byzantine empire enjoyed a large measure of success in its wars against its traditional enemy the Arabs. Compiled to record and preserve military strategies know-how and tactics the manual discusses a wide variety of matters: battle formations raids sieges ambushes surprise attacks the treatment of prisoners of war and defectors distribution of booty punishment of military offences how to mount effective espionage and how to send and receive envoys. There is even advice on the personal qualities required by generals on how to neutralize enemy horses and on how to protect the troops against poisoned food. The work culminates in an account of the stratagems employed by great Greek and Roman military commanders of the past. While like so much of Byzantine literature the Sylloge often simply reproduces material found in earlier texts it also preserves a great deal of information about the military tactics being developed by the Byzantine army during the tenth century. It is the first Byzantine source to record the reappearance of a specialized heavy cavalry (the kataphraktoi) and of a specialized infantry (the menavlatoi) used to repel the attacks of the opposing heavy cavalry. There is also a great deal of information on new infantry and cavalry formations and on the new tactics that required them. This is the first complete translation of the Sylloge into English. It is accompanied by a glossary of the specialised Greek military vocabulary used in the work and by footnotes which explain obscure references and identify the author’s classical and Byzantine sources. An introduction places the work in its historical and literary context and considers some of the questions that | A Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Manual: The Sylloge Tacticorum

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Inspiration for the Weary Therapist A Practical Clinical Companion

Inspiration for the Weary Therapist is a companion for the modern practitioner. Addressing a diverse audience and written by a master clinician and supervisor Inspiration for the Weary Therapist helps modern therapists traverse the complicated landscape of practicing therapy in the age of COVID-19. Instead of a heavy theoretical approach that can leave the already exhausted therapist feeling more overwhelmed Inspiration for the Weary Therapist guides readers through challenging professional situations soothes them during upsetting clinical moments and encourages them to keep going during changing times. Rather than teaching mental health professionals how to practice this book helps them believe in themselves again and reconnect with their confidence as clinicians through increased self-compassion and personal growth. This practical and helpful guide is essential reading for all mental health practitioners who are searching for inspiration and motivation and who want to reconnect to what it means to be a therapist. | Inspiration for the Weary Therapist A Practical Clinical Companion

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Islam Women's Sexuality and Patriarchy in Indonesia Silent Desire

This book explores the intimate marital relationships of Indonesian Muslim married women. As well as describing and analysing their sexual relationships the book also investigates how Islam influences discourses of sexuality in Indonesia and in particular how Islamic teachings affect Muslim married women’s perceptions and behaviour in their sexual relationships with their husbands. Based on extensive original research the book reveals that Muslim women perceive marriage as a social cultural and religious obligation that they need to fulfil; that they realise that finding an ideal marriage partner is complicated with some having the opportunity for a long courtship and others barely knowing their partner prior to marriage; and that there is a strong tendency with some exceptions for women to consider a sexual relationship in marriage as their duty and their husband’s right. Religious and cultural discourses justify and support this view and consider refusal a sin (dosa) or taboo (pamali). Both discourses emphasise obedience towards husbands in marriage. | Islam Women's Sexuality and Patriarchy in Indonesia Silent Desire

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Ethics Beyond the Limits New Essays on Bernard Williams’ Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy

Bernard Williams’ Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is widely regarded as one of the most important works of moral philosophy in the last fifty years. Williams’s powerful sceptical critique of the morality system sent shockwaves through philosophy the implications of which are still being reckoned with thirty years later. In this outstanding collection of new essays fourteen internationally-recognised philosophers examine the enduring contribution that Williams’s book continues to make to ethics. After a detailed topical summary of Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by Adrian Moore the full scope of the work is assessed including the role of Aristotle and Hume in Williams’ thought and his arguments concerning the history of philosophy; the nature of virtue the good life practical reason and deliberation; and the themes of duty blame and inauthenticity. Ethics Beyond the Limits is required reading for students and researchers in ethics metaethics and moral psychology and highly recommended for anyone studying the work of Bernard Williams. | Ethics Beyond the Limits New Essays on Bernard Williams’ Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy

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Beneath the White Coat Doctors Their Minds and Mental Health

This timely book offers a balanced and thoughtful review of the current mental health emergency and its impact upon and among medical professionals supported by the best available evidence and illustrated through real-life cases. Recognising the increasing stressors in the role including the impact of the environment in which doctors work the book examines some of the key emotional drivers for this unhappiness among doctors at work – shame stigma suffering and sacrifice – and offers practical steps to emotional and physical recovery. Despite the obvious challenges and stresses of the role with the right support in place the vast majority of doctors can thrive in their jobs. In reading this book policy makers politicians educators hospital managers will be reminded of the ethical duty to ensure that doctors are cared for and have access to the time people and spaces to remain psychological healthy while doctors will learn to recognize and seek actively the help that they need and to support and guide one another. | Beneath the White Coat Doctors Their Minds and Mental Health

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The Political Implications Of Human Genetic Technology

Human genetic technology has advanced rapidly in recent years to the point where amniocentesis is commonplace and in vitro fertilization has been successful. On the horizon looms the specter of human cloning and genetic engineering raising a storm of new moral and ethical questions. These questions asserts the author are not the only ones to be considered; the impact and role of public policy are equally critical. What part should the state play in human genetic intervention? To what extent does a democratic society have the duty to take steps to reduce genetic disease and improve the quality of life through genetic engineering? If society has such responsibility at what stage does societal good preempt individual rights? What is society's obligation toward future generations and is genetic manipulation justifiable on these grounds? After surveying the state of the art the author grapples with these questions contending that decisions ultimately will not be based on ethical and moral grounds –they will be fought out in the political arena. | The Political Implications Of Human Genetic Technology

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Wild Animal Ethics The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering

Though many ethicists have the intuition that we should leave nature alone Kyle Johannsen argues that we have a duty to research safe ways of providing large-scale assistance to wild animals. Using concepts from moral and political philosophy to analyze the issue of wild animal suffering (WAS) Johannsen explores how a collective institutional obligation to assist wild animals should be understood. He claims that with enough research genetic editing may one day give us the power to safely intervene without perpetually interfering with wild animals’ liberties. Questions addressed include: In what way is nature valuable and is intervention compatible with that value? Is intervention a requirement of justice? What are the implications of WAS for animal rights advocacy? What types of intervention are promising? Expertly moving the debate about human relations with wild animals beyond its traditional confines Wild Animal Ethics is essential reading for students and scholars of political philosophy and political theory studying animal ethics environmental ethics and environmental philosophy. | Wild Animal Ethics The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering

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Architecture Mentalities and Meaning

In order to function architectural theory and practice must be shaped to suit current cultural economic and political forces. Thus architecture embodies reductive logic that conditions the treatment of human and social processes – which raises the question of how to define objectivity for architectural mentalities that must conform to a set of immediate conditions. This book focuses on meaning and on the physical and mental processes that define life in built environments. The potential to draw knowledge from aesthetics psychology political economy philosophy geography and sociology is offset by the fact that architectural logic is inevitably reductive cultural socio-economic and political. However despite the duty to conform it is argued that the treatment of human processes and the understanding of architectural mentalities can benefit from interdisciplinary linkages small freedoms and cracks in a system of imperatives that can yield the means of greater objectivity. This is valuable reading for students and researchers interested in architectural theory as a working reality and in the relationships between architecture and other fields. | Architecture Mentalities and Meaning

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Heavy Metal at the Movies

Sport Gender and Power The Rise of Roller Derby

Gender Sport and the Role of Alter Ego in Roller Derby

First-Line Clinical Approaches with Active Duty Service Members and Veterans

Virtues in the Public Sphere Citizenship Civic Friendship and Duty

Industrial Heritage and Regional Identities

Why It's OK to Ignore Politics

The Effect An Introduction to Research Design and Causality

Hippeis The Cavalry Of Ancient Greece

The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work

RIBA Ethical Practice Guide

Trade Policy Protectionism and the Third World

The Theology of Unity

Mentoring Teachers in the Primary School A Practical Guide

Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese System and Theory behind cai jiu dou and ye

The Architecture of Ethics

The Ethics of Climate Engineering Solar Radiation Management and Non-Ideal Justice

A Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Manual: The Sylloge Tacticorum

Inspiration for the Weary Therapist A Practical Clinical Companion

Islam Women's Sexuality and Patriarchy in Indonesia Silent Desire

Ethics Beyond the Limits New Essays on Bernard Williams’ Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy

Beneath the White Coat Doctors Their Minds and Mental Health

The Political Implications Of Human Genetic Technology

Wild Animal Ethics The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering

Architecture Mentalities and Meaning

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