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Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana
Knowing Women is a study of same-sex desire in West Africa, which explores the lives and friendships of working-class women in southern Ghana who are intimately involved with each other. Based on in-depth research of the life histories of women in the region, Serena Owusua Dankwa highlights the vibrancy of everyday same-sex intimacies that have not been captured in a globally pervasive language…
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- 9781108863575
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- 306.76 DAN k
Kinks and Domain Walls: An Introduction to Classical and Quantum Solitons
Kinks and domain walls are the simplest kind of solitons and hence they are invaluable for testing various ideas and for learning about non-perturbative aspects of field theories. They are the subject of research in essentially every branch of physics, ranging from condensed matter to cosmology.
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- 9781009290456
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- 539 VAC k
Killing, Capture, Trade and Ape Conservation
The illegal trade in live apes, ape meat and body parts occurs across all ape range states and poses a significant and growing threat to the long-term survival of wild ape populations worldwide. What was once a purely subsistence and cultural activity, now encompasses a global multi-million-dollar trade run by sophisticated trans-boundary criminal networks.
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- Volume 4
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- 9781108768351
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- 639.9 ARC k
KCNQ2- and KCNQ3-Associated Epilepsy
KCNQ2 and KCNQ3 encode subunits (KV7.2, KV7.3) that combine to form a voltage-gated potassium ion (K+) channel responsible for generating an ionic current (M-current) important for controlling activity in the nervous system.
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- 9781009278270
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- 616.853 WEC k
Japan as a Global Military Power: New Capabilities, Alliance Integration, Bil…
Japan is emerging as a more prominent global and regional military power, defying traditional categorisations of a minimalist contribution to the US-Japan alliance, maintaining anti-militarism, seeking an internationalist role, or carving out more strategic autonomy.
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- 9781108975025
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- 355.031 HUG j
Introduction to Experimental Particle Physics
Contributions to the field of experimental particle physics have been accumulating in the literature over the past 40 years and now compose a vast but scattered array of reports and monographs. This book ties together the most important experimental topics into a brief but balanced overview.
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- 9781009290098
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- 539.72 FER i
Global Stock Market Integration
Stock market integration between developing and emerging markets has numerous benefits for creating a global - yet stable - world economy. It increases competition and the efficiency of local markets, in turn reducing price volatility and the cost of capital among integrated markets. It also generates capital flows, which enhance financial stability and spur economic growth. At its core, stock …
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- 978-1-349-56205-3
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- XV, 162
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- 330 MOB g
Global Shocks
his book, which is written from a practitioner’s perspective, fills the void by providing the reader with a toolkit and guiding principles to manage money when markets are in turmoil. It features ten case studies beginning with the breakdown of the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system through the current situation in which investors are assessing whether China could become the next bubble…
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- 978-3-319-41104-0
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- XVII, 192
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- 332 SAR g
Global Research of Cities
This book, written by the national think tank of China, presents a comprehensive analysis of the key elements and unique characteristics in Chengdu’s development into a global city. To do so, it adopts both external and internal perspectives: externally, it highlights Chengdu’s agglomeration and linkage so as to identify the differences in its overall development in comparison with other wo…
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- 978-981-287-980-6
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- XVIII, 205
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- 330 TAY g
Global Research of Cities
In Global Risk Agility and Decision Making, Daniel Wagner and Dante Disparte, two leading authorities in global risk management, make a compelling case for the need to bring traditional approaches to risk management and decision making into the twenty-first century. Based on their own deep and multi-faceted experience in risk management across numerous firms in dozens of countries, the authors …
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- 978-1-349-94859-8
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- XXXI, 415
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- 658 WAG g
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