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Product Description: It is said that when an American reporter asked Gandhi what he thought of Western civilisation, he responded: 'It would be a nice idea'.In this book Jeremy Smith interrogates debates on Civilizational Analysis both in its classical iteration, with discussions of Toynbee and Spengler, to its post Cold war iterations in the work of Huntington and Eisenstadt, to the third generation of scholars now engaging with these debates, notably Johann Arnason ...read more

Product Description: A comprehensive study of George Clooney's work through the lens of ten of his most iconic roles.A new title in the fascinating Anatomy of an Actor series from world-renowned cinema magazine Cahiers du cinema.This book explores the career of George Clooney (b...read more

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Product Description: Jeremy Smith explores relations between Britain and Ireland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century with a story that still raises deep passions and bitter disagreements both among historians and within wider public opinion...read more

Product Description: Red Nations offers an illuminating and informative overview of how the non-Russian republics of the Soviet Union experienced communist rule. It surveys the series of historical events that contributed to the break-up of the Soviet Union and evaluates their continuing resonance across post-soviet states today...read more

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Product Description: The From the Deep Adventure Path resumes after the PCs have returned to the city of Arbil for some much-deserved rest. But instead of finding a peaceful city, increasingly frequent and vicious raids by the tribal orcs found along the unclaimed coastlines spoil the plans of the party...read more

Product Description: This book presents a new picture of the politics, economics and process of government in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev. Based in large part on original research in recently declassified archive collections, the book examines the full complexity of government, including formal and informal political relationships; economic reforms and nationality relations in the national republics of the USSR; the treatment of political dissent; economic progress through technological innovation; relations with the Eastern bloc; corruption and deceit in the economy; and the reform of the railways and construction sectors...read more

Product Description: "Clean Breaks" unearths 500 unique experiences and new ways to travel that make a real difference to the lives of local people and the planet. It lets you discover a wealth of new adventures from sleeping in houseboats in Kerala and witnessing the zebra migration in Botswana to taking the train-hotel from Paris to Madrid...read more

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Product Description: The Mind Divine is a new sourcebook focused on the concept of godminds, psionic entities wielding power on the magnitude of deities. Within the pages of The Mind Divine can be found: - Over 25 new feats, including 10 new Mantra feats and 7 new Epic feats - Over 40 new psionic powers - Over 20 new psionic items, including new cursed items and a new minor psionic artifact - 6 new psionic organizations, including one that ties into the Enlightenment from Untapped Potential: New Horizons in Psionics - 12 new psionic godminds, including their power level, their psionic nodes, an overview of their philosophy, history, and demeanor, and the doctrine that those who follow are expected to adhere - 5 types of psionic locations, including sentient areas - 8 prestige classes, including a modified Spirituel from Hyperconscious: Explorations in Psionics - 10 new psionic creatures, 22 if you include the subtypes of Mentats and Phrenic Guardian...read more

Product Description: This volume takes up current debates in comparative and historical sociology that deal with multiple modernities and civilizations. It does so through an examination of patterns of state formation, civilization and the development of capitalism in the interaction of European and American worlds over three centuries...read more

A step-by-step guide to the wildly popular world of collectible gaming explains how the games work, defines key terms like starters, boosters, draft packs, anthology sets, and sealed tournaments, and covers some of the most popular games, such as Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, Lord of the Rings, and others. Original.

A comprehensive translation reference to British and American idiomatic terms and expressions offers coverage of differences in English-language vocabulary, usage, pronunciation, and spelling; sharing additional information about how differences in American and British language evolved. Original.

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