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Vortex
Spinifex Press£15.95| /Do we want to live in a world without birdsong? The pesticides, the coal mines, the clear-felling forestry industry, the industrial farmers are des...
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Voyages of Hope
Horsdal & Schubart Publishers Ltd (CA)£16.99| /A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One ...
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Vulnerable Youth
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£159.99| /Congress has long been concerned about the well-being of youth. The nation's future depends on young people today to leave school prepared for coll...
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Vulnerable Youth & Employment Issues
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£185.99| /In an increasingly global economy, and with retirement starting for the Baby Boomer generation, Congress has indicated a strong interest in ensurin...
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Waiting for the Dalai Lama
Blacksmith Books (HK)£9.99| /Why does the issue of Tibet rouse such passions on both sides? And is there any way to find common ground? Chinese-speaking journalist Annelie Roze...
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Walking in the Woods
Brindle & Glass (CA)£22.99| /An updated edition of Herb Belcourt's remarkable life story with a brand-new foreword by the author. The eldest of ten children, Belcourt grew up i...
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Wandering Workers
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£36.99| /This timely book offers a fresh perspective on the issue of contemporary migratory labor, otkhodnichestvo, in Russia-the temporary departure of inh...
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Wanderings in India
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /This book, sharing its title with a curious and entertaining travel book written by Australian-born writer John Lang, is a collection of essays abo...
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War
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£185.99| /In this book, the authors discuss the global assessment, public attitudes and psychosocial effects of war. Topics include war and the effects of po...
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War
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£309.99| /Many students have come to the study of war and peace from a background heavily influenced by media exposure and political commitment. Some tend to...
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War Against Poverty
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£159.99| /The poverty rate increased markedly over the past decade, in part a response to two economic recessions. A strong economy during most of the 1990s ...
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Warrior Kids
Libro International (NZ)£34.99| /"Warrior Kids" is a pioneering programme that over the past 17 years has empowered thousands of children across New Zealand, many of them from chal...
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Ways to Survive, Battles to Win
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£57.99| /Addressing a wide range of theoretical positions and social discourses, Ghorashi shows how a community of women in exile with the same cultural and...
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Ways to Survive, Battles to Win
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£22.99| /Contemporary debates in social sciences are replete with metaphors of displacement such as diaspora, exile, hybridity, and nomadism. Halleh Ghorash...
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We Are Better Than This
ATF Press£31.99| /This is a collection of essays and poetry addressing the Australian governments asylum seeker policy. The aims of the book are several: to provide...
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We Are Better Than This
ATF Press£23.99| /This is a collection of essays and poetry addressing the Australian governments asylum seeker policy. The aims of the book are several: to provide...
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Weave of Life
Bhatkal & Sen (IND)£25.00| /Urmila Pawar is one of the foremost literary figures in Marathi. Her short stories, though comparatively few in number, have caught the imagination...
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Weaving a Malawi Sunrise
University of Alberta Press (CA)£33.99| /"When you educate a girl, you educate a nation." --Malawian saying The women of Malawi, like many other women in developing countries, struggle to ...
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Wee Girls
Spinifex Press£14.95| /This is a selection of writings by women from Ireland, Australia, England, Canada (and other countries) compiled and edited by Irish-Australian poe...
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Weeds & their Ecological Functions
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£194.99| /Weeds are problematic both in agricultural and non-agricultural areas so that they potentially cause economic losses. Weed interference in crops al...
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Weird Canadian Traditions and Superstitions
Blue Bike Books (CA)£14.99| /Don't walk under ladders! Place a star on the top of your Christmas tree. Superstitions and traditions often govern how we participate in life. But...
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Welcome to the Bethlehem Star Hotel
Garrett County Press (US)£13.99| /Ben Granby, frustrated American food service worker, takes a multifarious, back roads ramble through the combat zone of Israel/Palestine, circa 200...
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Werewolves
Schiffer£15.99| /Enter the world of the werewolf, where superstition abounds and shape shifting is possible! Find out what to do if you or a friend turns into a wer...
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Werewolves and Shapeshifters
Ghost House Publishing (CA)£11.99| /Darren Zenko takes us on a cruise around the alternative universe of shapeshifters. Discover the pink river dolphins of Amazonia, said to turn into...
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West Island
Otago University Press (NZ)£21.00| /Five notable twentieth-century New Zealanders who made their lives in Australia are the subject of this fascinating biographical investigation by a...
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West, Europe & the Muslim World
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£52.99| /The Muslim world is rapidly exploding beyond the traditional lands of the Middle East to Europe and America. They are altering voter considerations...
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Westdeutsche und italienische Historiker als Intellektuelle?
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£75.99| /Following the Second World War West German and Italian historians tried to influence the "culture of remembrance" via the mass media. But how succe...
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Western Civilization in the 21st Century
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£101.99| /This book took the task of conceptualising Western civilisation in the 21st century. It examines Western Civilisation and its encounters from a vie...
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Western Civilization in the 21st Century
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£243.99| /This book took the task of conceptualising Western civilisation in the 21st century. It examines Western Civilisation and its encounters from a vie...
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What 1.3 Billion Muslims Really Think
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£110.99| /This book is based on the quantitative, multivariate analysis of the World Values Survey data from more than 80 countries around the globe on the p...
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What Christians Think about Homosexuality
D & F Scott Publishing, Inc (US)£25.99| /An objective description of all Christian points of view on Homosexuality, what the biblical and theological bases for each are, how they are criti...
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What Do We Want?
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£26.99| /The passage of land rights laws in New South Wales in 1983 saw political intrigue, deception and disappointment as well as unprecedented engagement...
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What Happened to the Toronto Slums & Where Did All the Poor Go? (1866-1946)
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£243.99| /By the late 19th century and the early 20th century, there were at least nineteen large and small areas, streets or neighbourhoods that were declar...
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What Makes the Nobility Noble?
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£76.99| /In this volume on the history of the European nobility in the modern era, the boundary between the early modern and 'real' modern periods around 18...
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What Matters?
Monash University Publishing£16.99| /Too often, cultural leaders and policy makers want to chase the perfect metric for activities whose real worth lies in our own personal experience....
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What the Hell Am I Doing Here?
Garrett County Press (US)£12.99| /Abram Shalom Himelstein went all over New Orleans asking people what they think all day but don't say out loud. They wrote their answers on t-shirt...
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