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Intranets and Push Technology: Creating an Information-Sharing Environment

Intranets and Push Technology: Creating an Information-Sharing Environment

This guide examines the use of technology for sharing information both within an organisation and between companies and their clients and customers. It looks in particular at the use of push/ pull technologies for delivering current awareness services. The guide also discusses the pros and cons of the technology particularly information overload and suggests a number of ways of minimising the problems. The guide contains a useful list of books reports journals and other information sources. Contents: Introduction; Intranets; Extranets; Groupware; Case studies; Push/pull technologies; Information overload; Key players; Useful information sources; References; Further reading. | Intranets and Push Technology: Creating an Information-Sharing Environment

GBP 115.00
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Hidden Markets Public Policy and the Push to Privatize Education

Hidden Markets Public Policy and the Push to Privatize Education

Across the United States test publishers software companies and research firms continue to take advantage of the revenues made available by federal policies like the No Child Left Behind Act Race to the Top and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. In effect the education industry has assumed a central place in the day-to-day governance and administration of public schools—a previously hidden trend that has begun to be a ubiquitous component of public education. Drawing on analytic tools Hidden Markets examines specific domains that the education industry has had particular influence on—home schooling remedial instruction management consulting test development data management and staff development. With updated and new material added this second edition also highlights how technology and technology policy shape the conditions for teachers’ work the role of natural disasters as education market opportunities and the connection between racism and educational privatization. Burch's analysis demonstrates that only when we subject the education industry to systematic and in-depth critical analysis can we begin to demand more corporate accountability and organize to halt the slide of education funds into the market. Additional updates include: Discussion of the role that policy elites play in allowing CEOS to regulate the student identity market Examination of the rise of online tutoring engineered in part by the No Child Left Behind Act New chapter that offers an updated road map for policymakers and activists concerned about the issues raised within the book | Hidden Markets Public Policy and the Push to Privatize Education

GBP 39.99
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World War II A Global History

World War II A Global History

Fully revised and restructured the sixth edition of World War II: A Global History offers students a concise and yet thorough textbook that examines history’s bloodiest conflict. The chapters alternate between chronological chapters on Europe and Asia-Pacific and thematic chapters on innovations home fronts brutal regimes and logistics. This textbook includes the following features: A lively narrative of facts events people and ideas that incorporates thoughtful analysis New material and restructured content on global factors that affected the causes conduct and consequences of World War II Balanced pace that does not bog readers down in too many details yet gives them sufficient depth and breadth for context Chapters sections and sidebars arranged in ways that can complement lectures and assignments Fifty new photographs that illustrate the human condition and weaponry during World War II. Global in focus by blending both geographic and thematic chapters to ensure readers gain a comprehensive understanding of impact of the war worldwide this is the perfect volume for all students of the biggest global conflict of the twentieth century. | World War II A Global History

GBP 115.00
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Striking Images Iconoclasms Past and Present

Striking Images Iconoclasms Past and Present

All cultures make and break images. Striking Images Iconoclasms Past and Present explores how and why people have made and modified images and other cultural material from pre-history into the 21st century. With its impressive chronological sweep and disciplinary breadth this is the first book about iconoclasm (the breaking of images) and the transformation of broader sets of signs that includes contributions from archaeologists curators and museum conservators as well as historians of art literature and religious studies. The chapters examine themes critical to the study of iconoclasm: violence punishment memory intentionality ruins and relics and their survival. The conclusion shows how cross-disciplinary debate amongst the contributors informed Tate Britain’s 'Art under Attack' exhibition (2013) and addresses the challenges iconoclasm presents to the modern museum. By juxtaposing objects and places usually considered in isolation Striking Images raises provocative questions about our understandings of cross-cultural differences and the value of representational objects from the broken swords of pre-historical bog graves to the Bamiyan Buddhas and contemporary art. Are any such objects ever ’finished’ or are they simply subject to constant transformation? In dialogue with each other the essays consider this question and expand the field of iconoclasm - and cultural - studies.

GBP 42.99
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Trajectories and Imaginaries in Migration The Migrant Actor in Transnational Space

Trajectories and Imaginaries in Migration The Migrant Actor in Transnational Space

This book draws attention to the various factors that characterize migrant flows and mobilities calling into question familiar concepts such as push and pull migration as a life project and sociocultural integration. It highlights processes such as fl exible migrant routes temporary and return migration mental aspects of migration processes and transnationalism which are organised around the themes of shaping trajectories frictions in space and the migrant mental framework. It brings together work from scholars from Europe and beyond with the contributions collected emphasizing the social and mental processes that underpin the migratory process which can be seen as the ‘soft side’ of migration. Too often this side is neglected when the governance of migration is discussed. The novel ideas expressed here also help to overcome the mechanistic view of migration as a push-pull event. Thus the book suggests a different understanding of migration and mobility as relational non-linear and fluid social processes characterized by instability in migrant life trajectories. Emphasizing the fl exibility of migrants and migration and advocating the importance of emotionally charged individual perceptions as central to migrant decision-making it will appeal to scholars of sociology anthropology politics and geography with interests in migration and diaspora studies. | Trajectories and Imaginaries in Migration The Migrant Actor in Transnational Space

GBP 39.99
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Reform in Europe Breaking the Barriers in Government

Reform in Europe Breaking the Barriers in Government

One of the most prevailing myths within the social sciences is the difficulty of achieving reform. Governments are either unwilling to push for reform or if they are willing they are unable to do so. This volume illustrates that reform can and does happen and therefore need not by mythologized. Through carefully selected case studies the contributions to this volume illustrate reform in several policy sectors and countries to include the smoking bans in Ireland public housing in the Netherlands and asylum procedures in Germany. Designed to enhance our understanding of the reform process this volume is highly suited to the fields of public administration and policy. | Reform in Europe Breaking the Barriers in Government

GBP 11.99
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Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Who were the non-Western women delegates who took part in the drafting of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) from 1945-1948? Which member states did these women represent and in what ways did they push for a more inclusive language than the rights of Man in the texts? This book provides a gendered historical narrative of human rights from the San Francisco Conference in 1945 to the final vote of the UDHR in the United Nations General Assembly in December 1948. It highlights the contributions by Latin American feminist delegates and the prominent non-Western female representatives from new member states of the UN. | Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

GBP 39.99
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The Philosopher's Habitat An Introduction to

The Philosopher's Habitat An Introduction to

First published in 1990 The Philosopher's Habitat introduces the subject by investigating a variety of the problems which are currently engaging philosophers and which can be made intelligible to an absolute beginner. Rather than introducing philosophy by examining in the traditional way the writings of great philosophers the author has inverted this procedure. The idea is that the reader will become absorbed in these dramas will thereby come to appreciate the ways in which the stage was set by the great writers of the past and will feel the urge to participate. Questions at the end of each chapter encourage the reader to push beyond the text. This book is a must read for students of philosophy. | The Philosopher's Habitat An Introduction to

GBP 90.00
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Animating with Stop Motion Pro

Animating with Stop Motion Pro

Animating with Stop Motion Pro is comprehensive hands-on guide to achieving professional results with Stop Motion Pro 7. 0 software. Gone are the days of stop motion guesswork and waiting to see the finalized result of your meticulous labor intensive animations. With the push of a mouse button and the Stop Motion Pro software animators have ten times the capability of simple camera stop motion capture. Re-visualize stop motion character movements graph these movements and composite characters into a flawless animations with the techniques and step by step tutorials featured in Animating with Stop Motion Pro. Create professional stop motion animation immediately with detailed exercises at the companion website: www. focalpress. com/cw/sawicki-9780240812199/. Integrate classic stop motion animation techniques with the latest stop motion software features.

GBP 175.00
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Artificial Intelligence and Learning Futures Critical Narratives of Technology and Imagination in Higher Education

Artificial Intelligence and Learning Futures Critical Narratives of Technology and Imagination in Higher Education

Artificial Intelligence and Learning Futures: Critical Narratives of Technology and Imagination in Higher Education explores the implications of artificial intelligence’s adoption in higher education and the challenges to building sustainable instead of dystopic schooling. As AI becomes integral to both pedagogy and profitability in today’s colleges and universities a critical discourse on these systems and algorithms is urgently needed to push back against their potential to enable surveillance control and oppression. This book examines the development risks and opportunities inherent to AI in education and curriculum design the problematic ideological assumptions of intelligence and technology and the evidence base and ethical imagination required to responsibly implement these learning technologies in a way that ensures quality and sustainability. Leaders administrators and faculty as well as technologists and designers will find these provocative and accessible ideas profoundly applicable to their research decision-making and concerns. | Artificial Intelligence and Learning Futures Critical Narratives of Technology and Imagination in Higher Education

GBP 36.99
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Globalization and the Human Factor Critical Insights

Globalization and the Human Factor Critical Insights

Since the 1980s the world has experienced an unprecedented push towards economic political social cultural financial and technological integration. This integration is a key element of the process of globalization. Much of this revolves around the tensions and conflicts inherent in globalization with emphasis on political economy but at the expense of the human factor (HF) which places people at the centre of all discussions about globalization. This volume brings the HF into the debate and examines to what extent this hitherto marginalized concept holds the key to providing a holistic understanding and contestation of globalization. The volume develops a distinct concept or framework of the human factor; examines the role and significance in global change from an interdisciplinary perspective; analyzes the extent and significance in contemporary globalization discourse; and provokes further debate about the unresolved disputes surrounding globalization. The account will help readers navigate the 'minefields' of the globalization debate. | Globalization and the Human Factor Critical Insights

GBP 38.99
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Family Children and Tourism in China

Family Children and Tourism in China

This edited volume explores various issues in family tourism studies and complements the dramatic development of this market segment in China. The book concentrates on family and children tourism and through its chapters hopes to enrich the landscape of family tourism in academia. The family market in tourism has received increasing attention over past decades. Yet academic endeavors in this area remain somewhat lacking in depth and scope. In addition to imbalanced contributions from authors of diverse backgrounds the extant literature suffers from insufficient inclusion of children. Relevant studies are largely limited to conventional tourism destinations such as beaches and cultural attractions. In response to growing academic interest in family tourism this book is a compilation of eight chapters that attempt to push the scope and boundaries of existing research on family tourism. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of China Tourism Research. | Family Children and Tourism in China

GBP 130.00
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Beyond Citizenship and the Nation-State

Beyond Citizenship and the Nation-State

Beyond Citizenship and the Nation-State examines tensions between a push for clear boundaries defining nation-states and who “legitimately” belongs in them and a pull away from citizenship as capturing what membership in a political community looks like in the twenty-first century. Borders signify and represent these physical and metaphorical challenges in a world where (anti)migration and (anti)refugee rhetoric are central to the production and reproduction of postcolonial and nationalist political discourse and identity formation. With an expansive view of citizenship authors challenge dominant narratives explore alternatives to neoliberal frameworks and link theory and practice through participatory opportunities for non-citizen political participation. In doing so they present possibilities for reimagining citizenship for a just more sustainable future. This book will appeal to academics and practitioners working in the disciplines of Sociology Social Policy Human Geography Political Sciences Citizenship Studies and Migration Studies. It was originally published as a special issue of New Political Science.

GBP 130.00
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Performing Under Pressure Psychological Strategies for Sporting Success

Performing Under Pressure Psychological Strategies for Sporting Success

Performing Under Pressure is an essential resource on improving sporting performance in high-pressure situations. Perry’s work guides coaches and athletes through nine key elements of the sporting mindset to help athletes to perform at the highest standards even under the most pressurized of situations. This valuable read includes empirically-based advice on areas such as embracing competition; building confidence concentration and focus; maintaining emotional control; learning from and coping with failure or injury; being braver; and being able to push harder. Perry also provides 64 strategies to support each sporting mindset offering not just the evidence as to why they work but exactly how to implement them. This book uniquely offers those supporting athletes a toolkit of sport psychology strategies and interventions in a way that is evidence-based accessible and engaging whether you are starting out studying sport psychology on a sports science course or are a coach of many years' standing for both elite and amateur athletes. | Performing Under Pressure Psychological Strategies for Sporting Success

GBP 19.99
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Short Plays with Great Roles for Women

Short Plays with Great Roles for Women

Short Plays with Great Roles for Women is an antidote to the traditional underrepresentation of women on stage by offering twenty-two short plays that put women right at the centre of the action. The push for more women’s roles has gathered force over the last few years and this collection is part of that movement with rich intelligent roles for women of all ages and backgrounds. This anthology offers a vital slice of life addressing relevant and diverse topics such as: a young Islamic woman coming out to her religious mother; black women’s navigation of the natural hair movement; bullying in a small-town American school; social media addiction; and the trials and tribulations of family life. Plays from award-winning playwrights are supported by original production details and playwrights’ afterwords forming a broad and comprehensive collection of complete texts that offer full character journeys. Appealing to aspiring performers playwrights directors and students Short Plays with Great Roles for Women is an essential resource for actor training assessments showcases show-reels short films and theatre performances.

GBP 34.99
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Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy Body Imagery and Change

Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy Body Imagery and Change

Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy (MIT) remains unique in providing instruments for dealing with clients with prominent emotional inhibition and suppression a population for whom treatment options are largely lacking. This book provides clinicians with techniques to treat this population including guided imagery and re-scripting two-chairs role-play body-oriented work and interpersonal mindfulness. Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy is aimed at increasing clients’ awareness of their inner world fostering a sense of agency over their experience and dismantling the core embodied aspects of the schemas. The techniques included also provide clients with fresh instruments to overcome pain and act creatively in their everyday life. Using an improved version of the MIT decision-making procedure the authors have provided a set of techniques aimed at modifying mental imagery body states and behaviour as well as at steering attention to avoid falling prey to rumination. The book is structured to gently push clients towards change but also to always prioritize the clients’ goals and needs. Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy serves as an important guide for clinicians of any orientation. | Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy Body Imagery and Change

GBP 36.99
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Art Therapy for Social Justice Radical Intersections

Art Therapy for Social Justice Radical Intersections

Art Therapy for Social Justice seeks to open a conversation about the cultural turn in art therapy to explore the critical intersection of social change and social justice. By moving the practice of art therapy beyond standard individualized treatment models the authors promote scholarship and dialogue that opens boundaries; they envision cross disciplinary approaches with a focus on intersectionality through the lens of black feminism womanism antiracism queer theory disability studies and cultural theory. In particular specific programs are highlighted that re-conceptualize art therapy practice away from a focus on pathology towards models of caring based on concepts of self-care radical caring hospitality and restorative practice methodologies. Each chapter takes a unique perspective on the concept of care that is invested in wellbeing. The authors push the boundaries of what constitutes art in art therapy re-conceptualizing notions of care and wellbeing as an ongoing process emphasizing the importance of self-reflexivity and reconsidering the power of language and art in trauma narratives. | Art Therapy for Social Justice Radical Intersections

GBP 36.99
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Languages in Migratory Settings Place Politics and Aesthetics

Languages in Migratory Settings Place Politics and Aesthetics

Research on migration has often focused on push and pull factors; and on the mobilities which drive migration. What has often received less attention and what this book recognises is the importance of the creative activities which occur when strangers meet and settle for long periods of time in new places. Contributions consider case studies in Italy Kyrgyzstan France Portugal and Australia as well as taking a careful look at the Commonwealth City of Glasgow. They explore the making and use of literature (for adults and children) of art installations; translation processes in immigration law; education materials; and intercultural understanding. The research reveals the extent to which migration takes a place and takes different forms as life is made anew out of intercultural encounters which have a geographical specificity. This shift in focus allows a different lens to be placed on languages intercultural communication and the activities of migration and enables the settings themselves to come under scrutiny. This book was originally published as a special issue of Language and Intercultural Communication. | Languages in Migratory Settings Place Politics and Aesthetics

GBP 31.99
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Faculty Mobility China and the World

Faculty Mobility China and the World

Adopting curriculum vitae (CV) analysis method this book collects CVs of university faculty from 109 universities of The Double First Class University Plan in China and systematically analyses the mobility pattern of faculty in China for the first time. Examining the overall mobility frequency of Chinese faculty and its growing rate the authors predict that after the epidemic with the growing number of returned overseas talents there may be a third wave of faculty mobility. They demonstrate that East Asia the United States and Europe are the main channels for the inward talent mobility to China and there are significant differences in China’s faculty mobility among different regions disciplines and genders which deserves further investigation. Furthermore they argue the influencing factors of faculty mobility between China and foreign countries are highly different too. Scholars and students of Chinese higher education international and comparative education may find this book helpful and benefit from the analysis framework of Push and Pull Theory as long as CV analysis method. | Faculty Mobility China and the World

GBP 130.00
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Screening American Independent Film

Screening American Independent Film

This indispensable collection offers 51 chapters each focused on a distinct American independent film. Screening American Independent Film presents these films chronologically addressing works from across more than a century (1915−2020) emphasizing the breadth and long duration of American independent cinema. The collection includes canonical examples as well as films that push against and expand the definitions of independence. The titles run from micro-budget films through marketing-friendly Indiewood projects from auteur-driven films and festival darlings to B-movies genre pics and exploitation films. The chapters also introduce students to different approaches within film studies including historical and contextual framing industrial and institutional analysis politics and ideology genre and authorship representation film analysis exhibition and reception and technology. Written by leading international scholars and emerging talents in film studies this volume is the first of its kind. Paying particular attention to issues of diversity and inclusion for both the participating scholars and the content and themes within the selected films Screening American Independent Film is an essential resource for anyone teaching or studying American cinema.

GBP 34.99
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Early Modern Ireland New Sources Methods and Perspectives

Early Modern Ireland New Sources Methods and Perspectives

Early Modern Ireland: New Sources Methods and Perspectives offers fresh approaches and case studies that push the field of early modern Ireland and of British and European history more generally into unexplored directions. The centuries between 1500 and 1700 were pivotal in Ireland’s history yet so much about this period has remained neglected until relatively recently and a great deal has yet to be explored. Containing seventeen original and individually commissioned essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of leading and emerging scholars this book covers a wide range of topics including social cultural and political history as well as folklore medicine archaeology and digital humanities all of which are enhanced by a selection of maps graphs tables and images. Urging a reevaluation of the terms and assumptions which have been used to describe Ireland’s past and a consideration of the new directions in which the study of early modern Ireland could be taken Early Modern Ireland: New Sources Methods and Perspectives is a groundbreaking collection for students and scholars studying early modern Irish history. | Early Modern Ireland New Sources Methods and Perspectives

GBP 39.99
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Global Mindsets Exploration and Perspectives

Global Mindsets Exploration and Perspectives

Global Mindsets seeks to tackle a topic that is relatively new in research and practice and is considered by many to be critical for firms seeking to conduct global business. It argues that multiple mindsets exist (across and within organizations) that they operate in a global context and that they are dynamic and undergo change and action. Part of the mindset(s) may depend upon place situation and context where individuals and organizations operate. The book examines the notion of mindset is situational and dynamic especially in a global setting why it is important for future scholars and managers and how it could be conceptualized. The book includes conceptual chapters that push the current boundaries of research on the topic and empirical chapters that demonstrate how different organizations in different countries apply mindset perspectives in their management practices. It seeks to help academics consultants and researchers understand what has been said and studied about global mindsets in action and gain insights into possible directions and challenges that the field may face in the future. | Global Mindsets Exploration and Perspectives

GBP 42.99
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The Interface of Domestic and International Factors in India’s Foreign Policy

The Interface of Domestic and International Factors in India’s Foreign Policy

This book investigates the interplay of internal and external constraints challenges and possibilities regarding foreign policy in India. It is the first attempt to systematically analyse and focus on the different actors and institutions in the domestic and international contexts who impose and push for various directions in India’s foreign policy. Rather than focusing on any one particular theme the book explores the myriad aspects of foreign policymaking and the close interface between the domestic and external aspects in Indian policymaking. In turn this relates to the structural issues shaping and reshaping the Asian regional dynamics and India’s connectivity within a globalized world. This book will be of great interest to postgraduate students; scholars of Asian Studies development and political science and international relations; and all those involved in policy – especially foreign policy – within India and South Asia. It will also be useful for people working in professional branches of consultancy and the private sector dealing with India and with South Asia in general. | The Interface of Domestic and International Factors in India’s Foreign Policy

GBP 38.99
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New Understandings of Twin Relationships From Harmony to Estrangement and Loneliness

New Understandings of Twin Relationships From Harmony to Estrangement and Loneliness

New Understandings of Twin Relationships takes an experience-based approach to exploring how twin attachment and estrangement are critical to understanding the push and pull of closely entwined personal relationships. Based on the research expertise of each of the authors (all identical twins in their own right) and vignettes from twins across the globe this book describes the inner workings of the twin-world showing how the twin-world creates experiences that are often more intense and intricately textured than those in the singleton-world. Chapters debunk myths surrounding twinship and analyze the developmental stages of the twin relationship as well as the effect of being a twin on one’s mental health from different perspectives. The authors articulate how attachment separation anxiety loneliness estrangement and the subjective experience of the twin and non-twin other impact behavior thinking and feeling. Through its careful study of the many psychological challenges that twins face throughout their lifetime this text will help psychologists scholars clinicians and twins themselves attain a deeper understanding of all interpersonal relationships. | New Understandings of Twin Relationships From Harmony to Estrangement and Loneliness

GBP 39.99
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Congress and the Politics of Sports Homefield Advantage

Congress and the Politics of Sports Homefield Advantage

This volume covers an aspect of Congress mostly untouched in literature examining Congress through the lens of sports. Across a set of broad and probing chapters this book offers insights into some of the historic and contemporary challenges that sports have presented to Congress along with highlighting the ways in which Congress has impacted the sports industry. The authors utilize a wide range of case studies to provide readers with a contemporary view of the interplay between Congress and sports at both amateur and professional levels. Perspectives are drawn from an interdisciplinary and cross-organizational roster of authors uniquely positioned to discuss various subjects. With real attention now being given to issues associated with sports and an increasing number of lawmakers using sports to push policy agendas and create legislative opportunities this book will be a vital resource for understanding the dynamic relationship between the two entities. Grounded in relevant literature and written in an accessible and engaging manner Congress and the Politics of Sports will be of great interest to both academic researchers and practitioners involved with US politics Congress and congressional studies public policy sports studies and sport history. | Congress and the Politics of Sports Homefield Advantage

GBP 130.00
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