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  • LIVING LEGACIES OF SOCIAL INJUSTICE
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    LIVING LEGACIES OF SOCIAL INJUSTICE
    CHRIS BEASLEY
    Through a wide range of international and interdisciplinary case studies, this book develops the notion of legacy, and in particular, ‘living legacy’– that is, it explores power relations in the context of time as a means to considering and challenging social injustice. Legacies of social injustice are very frequently erased, denied or declared redundant. Framed by the concept ...

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  • PERFORMANCE, ART, AND POLITICS IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
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    PERFORMANCE, ART, AND POLITICS IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
    MYRON BEASLEY
    This book examines necropolitics and performance art, with a particular focus on the black body and the African diaspora. In this book, Myron M. Beasley situates artists as cultural workers and theorists who illuminate the political linkages between their own and others’ specific locales. The focus is an interrogation of the political systems that dictate and determine the valu...

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  • MY FIRST THIRTY YEARS
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    MY FIRST THIRTY YEARS
    GERTRUDE BEASLEY
    "Thirty years ago, I lay in the womb of a woman, conceived in a sexual act of rape, being carried during the prenatal period by an unwilling and rebellious mother, finally bursting from the womb only to be tormented in a family whose members I despised or pitied, and brought into association with people whom I should never have chosen." Shortly after its 1925 publication, Gertr...

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  • INTERNET DATING
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    INTERNET DATING
    CHRIS BEASLEY / MARY HOLMES
    Internet Dating deals primarily with the experiences of UK and Australian daters, examining their online accounts to see what kinds of narratives, norms, emotions and ‘chemistry’ shape their dating. Has the emergence and growth of internet dating changed the dating landscape for the better? Most commentators, popular and academic, ask whether online dating is more efficient for...

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  • SALONS, HISTORY, AND THE CREATION OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
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    SALONS, HISTORY, AND THE CREATION OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
    FAITH E. BEASLEY
    The first half of the book is a detailed study of how the salons influenced the development of literature. Beasley argues that many women were not only writers, they also served as critics for the literary sphere as a whole. In the second half of the book Beasley examines how historians and literary critics subsequently portrayed the seventeenth century literary realm, which be...

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  • POWER AND INEQUALITY IN INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS
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    POWER AND INEQUALITY IN INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS
    ERIC BEASLEY
    This book explores interpersonal situations in which weak or vulnerable people find themselves and the ways in which others help create, sustain, and eradicate such social dynamics. Vladimir Shlapentokh and Eric Beasley demonstrate that people can gain power over each other and then abuse this power because of unequal resource conditions. The authors define resources as the mea...

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  • RESTRICTING FREEDOMS
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    RESTRICTING FREEDOMS
    ERIC BEASLEY
    Today, freedom is so closely associated with the United States that most people still view America as the ultimate symbol of freedom. This is one reason why the desire to immigrate to the United States from almost anywhere in the world has not waned for more than a century. Because of this image, the idea that Americans are constrained by restrictive ordinances and rules seems ...

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  • REVALUING CARE IN THEORY, LAW AND POLICY
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    REVALUING CARE IN THEORY, LAW AND POLICY
    ROSIE HARDING, RUTH FLETCHER AND CHRIS BEASLEY
    Care is central to life, and yet is all too often undervalued, taken for granted, and hidden from view. This collection of fourteen substantive and highly innovative essays, along with its insightful introduction, seeks to explore the different dimensions of care that shape social, legal and political contexts. It addresses these dimensions in four key ways. First, the contribu...

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  • THE CHARTIST GENERAL
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    THE CHARTIST GENERAL
    EDWARD BEASLEY
    General Charles James Napier was sent to confront the tens of thousands of Chartist protestors marching through the cities of the North of England in the late 1830s. A well-known leftist who agreed with the Chartist demands for democracy, Napier managed to keep the peace. In South Asia, the same man would later provoke a war and conquer Sind. In this first-ever scholarly biogra...

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  • GREAT BRITAIN AND THE OPENING OF JAPAN 1834-1858
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    GREAT BRITAIN AND THE OPENING OF JAPAN 1834-1858
    WILLIAM G BEASLEY / WILLIAM G. BEASLEY
    Reissue in paperback (with new Introduction) of the 1951 classic analysis of the crucial years leading up to the Meiji restoration in which Britain provided Japan with its wealth and power model. ...

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  • THE VICTORIAN REINVENTION OF RACE
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    THE VICTORIAN REINVENTION OF RACE
    EDWARD BEASLEY
    In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The 'races' familiar to those in the modern west were invented and elaborated after the decline of faith in Biblical monogenesis in the early nineteenth century, and before the maturity of modern genetics in the middle of the twentieth. Not until the early nineteenth century would polygenetic and ...

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  • THEORISTS OF MODERNIST POETRY
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    THEORISTS OF MODERNIST POETRY
    REBECCA BEASLEY
    Modernist poetry heralded a radical new aesthetic of experimentation, pioneering new verse forms and subjects, and changing the very notion of what it meant to be a poet. This volume examines T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme and Ezra Pound, three of the most influential figures of the modernist movement, and argues that we cannot dissociate their bold, inventive poetic forms from their p...

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  • GENDER AND SEXUALITY
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    GENDER AND SEXUALITY
    CHRIS BEASLEY
    This accessible introduction to gender and sexuality theory offers a comprehensive overview and critique of the key contemporary literature and debates in feminism, sexuality studies and men′s studies. Chris Beasley′s clear and concise introduction combines a wide-ranging survey of the major theorists and key concepts in an ever-growing and often passionately debated field. The...

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  • WHAT IS FEMINISM?
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    WHAT IS FEMINISM?
    CHRIS BEASLEY
    So what is feminism anyway? Is it possible to make sense of the complex and often contradictory debates? In this concise and accessible introduction to feminist theory, Chris Beasley provides clear explanations of the many types of feminism. She outlines the development of liberal, radical and Marxist/socialist feminism, and reviews the more contemporary influences of psychoana...

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  • COLLECTED WRITINGS OF W. G. BEASLEY
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    COLLECTED WRITINGS OF W. G. BEASLEY
    W. G. BEASLEY
    Developed in close collaboration with W. G. Beasley, this book contains a wide and substantial cross-section of writings, thematically structured around essays in the special areas of Bakufu and Meji Studies. ...

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  • MID-VICTORIAN IMPERIALISTS
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    MID-VICTORIAN IMPERIALISTS
    EDWARD BEASLEY
    Throughout the nineteenth century the British Empire was the subject of much writing; floods of articles, books and government reports were produced about the areas under British control and the policy of imperialism. Mid-Victorian Imperialists investigates how the Victorians made sense of all the information regarding the empire by examining the writings of a collection of gen...

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  • EMPIRE AS THE TRIUMPH OF THEORY
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    EMPIRE AS THE TRIUMPH OF THEORY
    EDWARD BEASLEY
    Who were the first people to invent a world-historical mission for the British Empire? And what were the constituencies behind the development of the imperialistic thinking in mid-Victorian England? These questions are vital for understanding where the New Imperialism of the late nineteenth century came from. Empire as the Triumph of Theory takes as its sample the more than two...

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  • HETEROSEXUALITY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
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    HETEROSEXUALITY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
    CHRIS BEASLEY / HEATHER BROOK / MARY HOLMES
    This book explores heterosexualities in their complex and everyday expressions. It engages with theories about the intersection of sexuality with other markers of difference, and gender in particular. The outcome will productively upset equations of heterosexuality with heteronormativity and accounts that cast heterosexuality in "sex critical, sex as danger" terms. Queer/femini...

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  • THIS IS MY STORY
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    THIS IS MY STORY
    PAUL BEASLEY-MURRAY
    This Is My Story is an unusually fascinating account of one man's life. ·It is a story of the making of a man, initially written with grandchildren in mind--"Who was my grandfather? What kind of person was he?" ·At another level it is a story of a growing faith, telling how amidst the ups and down of life he has remained a "soft-hearted" pilgrim. ·At yet another level it is a ...

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  • O VOO DE VIOLET OU, KAHBIA
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    O VOO DE VIOLET OU, KAHBIA
    DAVID RICHARD BEASLEY
    Ex?rcitos japoneses invadiram uma Birm?nia quase indefesa em 1942, obrigando dezenas de milhares de pessoas a fugirem pelas montanhas rumo ? ?ndia. Governaram com arrog?ncia e brutalidade os birmaneses remanescentes, gabando-se de libertarem o pa?s do dom?nio brit?nico. O VOO DE VIOLET?narra as experi?ncias de uma jovem garota anglo birmanesa, e seus familiares, crescendo alegr...

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  • LA GRAN CONSPIRACI?N; UN MISTERIO DE LA BIBLIOTECA DE NUEVA YORK
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    LA GRAN CONSPIRACI?N; UN MISTERIO DE LA BIBLIOTECA DE NUEVA YORK
    DAVID RICHARD BEASLEY
    Rudyard Mack, detective de la Biblioteca de Nueva York, debe determinar si su novia, Arbuthnot Vine, presidente del Sindicato de Bibliotecas, fue la v?ctima intencional de un apu?alamiento. Arbie puede haber sido atacada porque encabezar? una marcha en el Ayuntamiento para protestar por los despidos. Cuando es secuestrada, Mack es llevado?al mundo turbio de la pol?tica de Nueva...

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  • EL VIAJE DE SARAH
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    EL VIAJE DE SARAH
    DAVID RICHARD BEASLEY
    El Viaje de Sarah está ambientada en los Estados Unidos y Canadá del siglo XIX. Sarah, una niña medio negra, nació en la esclavitud en Virginia pero huye en 1820 a la libertad en Canadá, donde no hay esclavitud. La historia comienza cuando Sarah tiene 16 años y sigue su vida hasta su muerte en la parte superior de Canadá. A medida que la historia se desarrolla, Sarah se encuent...

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  • PAEDIATRIC SURGICAL DIAGNOSIS
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    PAEDIATRIC SURGICAL DIAGNOSIS
    SPENCER BEASLEY
    This second edition of Pediatric Diagnosis is a colour atlas of clinical conditions in pediatric surgery. It provides an illustrated guide to the diagnosis of all common and most rare paediatric surgical conditions. Extensively used for examination preparation, the atlas comprises 1400 photographs of congenital and acquired anomalies. This book offers extensive coverage of all ...

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  • MISPERCEPTIONS OF THE SOCIAL WORLD
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    MISPERCEPTIONS OF THE SOCIAL WORLD
    ERIC BEASLEY
    This volume elucidates some of the very concrete ways in which Americans misperceive the social world and how we are all subject to biases and illusions. As such, it challenges the assumption in much social science theorizing that people are rational actors by exploring how the machinations of cognition, the effect of our past experiences, the news, and social media feeds all f...

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  • EL VUELO DE VIOLETTA
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    EL VUELO DE VIOLETTA
    DAVID RICHARD BEASLEY
    Una joven birmana escapa de los japoneses en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Los ejércitos japoneses invadieron una Birmania casi indefensa en 1942, enviando a decenas de miles de personas a huir por las montañas hacia la India. Ellos gobernaron a los birmanos restantes, ante quienes alardearon de liberarlos del dominio británico, con arrogancia y brutalidad. "El vuelo de Violeta" n...

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  • DESDE LOS SANGRIENTOS INICIOS
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    DESDE LOS SANGRIENTOS INICIOS
    DAVID RICHARD BEASLEY
    LA HISTORIA, LA GUERRA AMERICANA, LA GUERRA DE 1812, EL ALTO CANADÁ. Desde 1766, y con tan solo cinco años, Richard Beasley, como testigo, nos narra las rebeliones de los arrendatarios en el estado de Nueva York, las cuales son seguidas por la revolución americana y como las vidas de su padre Henry Beasley y su tío Richard Cartwright son puestas bajo riesgo por las fuerzas leal...

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  • DES DÉBUTS SANGLANTS
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    DES DÉBUTS SANGLANTS
    DAVID RICHARD BEASLEY
    Richard Beasley raconte à partir de l'âge de cinq ans en 1766 en tant que témoin des rébellions des locataires dans l'État de New York, suivies de la Révolution américaine lorsque son père Henry Beasley et son oncle Richard Cartwright à Albany, New York, risquent leur vie à travers les horreurs de la guerre civile pour les forces loyalistes. Richard Beasley devient un commissai...

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  • ESE OTRO DIOS
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    ESE OTRO DIOS
    DAVID BEASLEY
    En Viena, Austria, después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un poeta y místico estadounidense se propone con determinación de unir a los pueblos de la tierra a través de la meditación, la telepatía y el subconsciente colectivo para llevarlos al conocimiento del único Dios verdadero de la humanidad. Encuentra la ayuda poco probable de un artista inglés, un derviche turco y un buróc...

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  • LA MISION SECRETA SECRETA Y ALUCINANTE
    LA MISION SECRETA SECRETA Y ALUCINANTE
    BEASLEY
    Agotado

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  • MEDICIONES MECANICAS TEORIA Y DISEÑO
    MEDICIONES MECANICAS TEORIA Y DISEÑO
    FIGLIOLA-BEASLEY
    Agotado

    $268.00