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Bally : A History of Footwear in the Interwar Period
Carl Franz Bally founded a shoe factory in Switzerland in 1851. Within decades, the Bally name had achieved worldwide recognition for its high-quality footwear. The history of modern footwear can be traced through the lens of Bally's corporate evolution. This book brings together the results of research on such topics as the economic importance of fashion, Bally's fortunes in the US, the career…
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- 978-3-8394-5738-2
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- 338.476 87 BAL
Bad new for refugees
Bad News for Refugees analyses the political, economic and environmental contexts of migration and looks specifically at how refugees and asylum seekers have been stigmatised in political rhetoric and in media coverage. Through forensic research it shows how hysterical and inaccurate media accounts act to legitimise political action which can have terrible consequences both on the lives of refu…
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- 9781849649575
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- 325.21 PHI b
Avoiding the Subject : Media, Culture and the Object
What can Roger Rabbit tell us about the Second Gulf War? What can a woman married to the Berlin Wall tell us about posthumanism and inter-subjectivity? What can DJ Shadow tell us about the end of history? What can our local bus route tell us about the fortification of the West? What can Reality TV tell us about the crisis of contemporary community? And what can unauthorized pictures of Osama Bi…
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- 90 5356 716 X
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- 302.23 CLE a
The autonomous life? : Paradoxes of hierarchy and authority in the squatters …
This book is an ethnographic study of the internal dynamics of a subcultural community that defines itself as a social movement. While the majority of scholarly studies on this movement focus on its official face, on its front stage, this book concerns itself with the ideological and practical paradoxes at work within the micro-social dynamics of the backstage, an area that has so far been negl…
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- 978 1784 99756 4
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- 361.24
Automobiles and the Future : Competition, Cooperation, and Change
At the time of the U.S.-Japan auto conferences in March 1983, the hoped-for economic recovery as manifested in auto sales had revealed itself quite modestly. Three months later, the indicators were more robust and certainly long overdue for those whose livelihood depends on the health of the industry--some of whom are university professors. With Japanese import restrictions in place until Ma…
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- 9780472902088
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- Michigan papers in Japanese studies no. 10
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- 338.476 AUT
Australian native title anthropology : Strategic practice, the law and the state
"The Australian Federal Native Title Act 1993 marked a revolution in the recognition of the rights of Australia’s Indigenous peoples. The legislation established a means whereby Indigenous Australians could make application to the Federal Court for the recognition of their rights to traditional country. The fiction that Australia was terra nullius (or ‘void country’), which had prevailed …
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- 9781760461881
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- 301 PAL a
Asylum Determination in Europe : Ethnographic Perspectives
Drawing on new research material from ten European countries, Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectives brings together a range of detailed accounts of the legal and bureaucratic processes by which asylum claims are decided.The book includes a legal overview of European asylum determination procedures, followed by sections on the diverse actors involved, the means by which they …
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- 978-3-319-94749-5
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- Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
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- 342.082 ASY
Assessing the evidence on Indigenous socioeconomic outcomes : A focus on the…
This monograph presents the refereed, and peer-reviewed, edited proceedingsof the conference on Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes: Assessing RecentEvidence. The conference was organised by the Centre for Aboriginal EconomicPolicy Research and held at the Shine Dome, the Australian National University(ANU) in Canberra on 11 and 12 August 2005. The conference aimed to presentthe latest …
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- 9209426 4 5
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- Research monograph (Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research)
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- 362.849 915 ASS
Asexual Erotics : Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality
Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality attends to the silence around asexuality in queer, feminist, and lesbian thinking from the late 1960s to the present. Drawing on the knowledge generated by asexual community, activism, and scholarship, Ela Przybylo gives us the first queer and feminist monograph on asexuality.
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- Abnormativities: queer/gender/embodiment
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- 306.7 PRZ a
Cooling Down: Local Responses to Global Climate Change
Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented policies, most actual climate change assessments, adaptations, and countermeasures take place at the local level. People are responding by adjusting their practices, livelihoods, and cultures, protesting and migratin…
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