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Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt - Arthur Goldschmidt, Arthur Jr Goldschmidt - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=p3J6IS8t74QC&pg=PA25
Provides biographical sketches and source material for about 400 men and women who have played a major role in Egypt's national life. Entries range in length from half a page to two pages, and describe the contributions of politicians, writers, diplomats,…
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The Origins of Modern Arabic Fiction - Matti Moosa - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=itz5_UEKSZUC&pg=PA425&lpg=PA425&dq=Moosa,+Matti+1924&source=bl&ots=XCXLsT9e1t&sig=MOdTJxi9U36PC
The first edition of this book, completed in 1970, was hailed as a major contribution to scholarship on the development of Arabic fiction in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In this revised and greatly expanded second edition, Matti Moosa has added five…
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Tahitian Transformation: Gender and Capitalist Development in a Rural Society - Victoria S. Lockwood - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=Q-fVWJPQV4wC&pg=PA23&dq=Pomare+tahiti&lr=lang_en&as_brr=3
As culturally diverse, non-Western communities are drawn into the international division of labour, capitalism takes root in a number of ways. This book describes how capitalism has become a part of the lives of rural Tahitians, starting with the arrival…
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Female "circumcision" in Africa: Culture, Controversy, and Change - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=rhhRXiJIGEcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Bettina+Shell-Duncan%22&source=bl&ots=IE3pc66h7V
Though the issue of female genital cutting, or circumcision, has become a nexus for debates on cultural relativism, human rights, patriarchal oppression, racism, and Western imperialism, the literature has been separated by diverse fields of study. In…
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Creating the Zhuang: Ethnic Politics in China - Katherine Palmer Kaup - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=HSKlq1SWwwAC&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35&dq=%22tusi%22+%22song-Dynasty%22&source=web&ots=c3pvdwYKAn&sig=iRy
"The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officially recognized the 16 million Zhuang as China's largest minority nationality in the early 1950s, granting then regional autonomy. Prior to this, however, the Zhuang did not share a common ethnic identity. Katherine…
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The Other Elites: Women, Politics, and Power in the Executive Branch - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=iGELV2S8jyEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9781555879716&source=bl&ots=BWrIMTV53s&sig=yQhpU-SRxbMN
This study explores the career paths of women within the executive branch of US government and considers gender as a variable in complex organizations. The essays investigate the personality and leadership styles of women, and their attitudes towards…
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Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt - Arthur Goldschmidt, Arthur Jr Goldschmidt - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=p3J6IS8t74QC&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=Muhammad+Mahdi+al-'Abbasi&source=bl&ots=-31ct6X_Kf&sig=L4B3uvLBjK
Provides biographical sketches and source material for about 400 men and women who have played a major role in Egypt's national life. Entries range in length from half a page to two pages, and describe the contributions of politicians, writers, diplomats,…
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Peacekeeping in East Timor: The Path to Independence - Louisa May Alcott, Michael Geoffrey Smith, Moreen Dee - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=S5n-fTmJTBIC&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=Pakistan+INTERFET&source=bl&ots=kPes7NKOdD&sig=R_4ZyGyiFIfAMsx
The UN intervention in East Timor illustrates the type of complex operation that the United Nations increasingly being asked to undertake. Michael Smith analyzes the successes and failures of the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), which…
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Gods, Guns, and Globalization: Religious Radicalism and International ... - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=f8hbUa3FZjsC&pg=PA233&dq=Adam+Frank,+%22Falun+Gong+and+the+Threat+of+History,&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0a
"Is it accurate to equate "fundamentalism" with antimodernism? What explains the growing importance of religious activists in world politics? Guns, Gods, and Globalization explores the multifaceted phenomenon of religious resurgence, ranging from the…