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The language of food: a linguist reads the menu
Stanford University linguist and MacArthur Fellow Dan Jurafsky dives into the hidden history of food. Why do we eat toast for breakfast, and then toast to good health at dinner? What does the turkey we eat on Thanksgiving have to do with the country on the eastern Mediterranean? Can you figure out how much your dinner will cost by counting the words on the menu? In The Language of Food, Stanf…
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- 9780393240832
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- 246 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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- [KOM-LIB-204]
Indonesia's changing political economy: governing the roads
Indonesia is Southeast Asia's largest economy and freest democracy yet vested interests and local politics serve as formidable obstacles to infrastructure reform. In this critical analysis of the politics inhibiting infrastructure investment, Jamie S. Davison utilizes evidence from his research, press reports and rarely used consultancy studies to challenge mainstream explanations for low inves…
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- 9781107086883
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- xvii, 292 pages ; illustration, map : 24 cm
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- [POL-LIB-575]
Decentralization and adat revivalism in Indonesia: the politics of becoming i…
Examines the dynamic process of political transition and indigenous (adat) revivalism in newly decentralized Indonesia. Based on fieldwork and using case studies from Sulawesi to illustrate the key arguments, this book provides an overview of the key analytical concepts, and a concise review of relevant stages in Indonesian history
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- 9780415626682
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- xiv, 210 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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- Rethinking southeast Asia ; 9
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- [POL-LIB-574]
Conflict and confrontation in South East Asia, 1961-1965: Britain, the United…
In the early 1960s, Britain and the United States were still trying to come to terms with the powerful forces of indigenous nationalism unleashed by the Second World War. The Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation--a crisis which was, as Macmillan remarked to Kennedy, 'as dangerous a situation in South East Asia as we have seen since the war'--was a complex test of Anglo-American relations. As Americ…
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- 9780521801119
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- xxi, 325 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
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- [POL-LIB-573]
Indonesia: a global studies handbook
"Indonesia" examines pre-colonial periods of the country's development, as well as its independence movement. It discusses the economic collapse of the 1990s and how the resultant civil chaos impacted Indonesia's present political and social problems, and its neighbours.
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- 1576079139
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- xviii, 251 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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- Global studies
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- [POL-LIB-572]
Foreign policy analysis: a comparative introduction
This book's introduction to foreign policy analysis focuses on decision makers and decision making. Each chapter is organised around puzzles and questions to which undergraduates can relate. The book emphasizes the importance of individuals in foreign policy decision making, while also placing decision makers within their context
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- 1st ed.
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- 9780312296193
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- x, 207 p. ; 22 cm.
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- [POL-LIB-571]
American visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia: US foreign policy …
A revealing reassessment of the American government's position towards Indonesia's struggle for independence
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- 9053564799
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- 382 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- [POL-LIB-570]
The new foreign policy: power seeking in a globalized era
In this cogent text, Laura Neack argues that foreign policy making in this uncertain era of globalization and American global hegemony revolves around seeking and maintaining power
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- 2nd ed.
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- 9780742556317
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- xv, 233 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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- New millennium books in international studies
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- [POL-LIB-569]
Foreign policy in global information space: actualizing soft power
This book aims to explain how foreign policy can adapt to the challenge of globalization. Two central questions are posed to structure the argument such as: how can foreign policy defend or project statist political communities using soft power within a global information space, and does soft power, when exercised in turn by non-state actors, affect foreign policy by undermining statist communi…
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- 9781403975201
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- xiii, 240 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
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- [POL-LIB-568]
Bureaucratic politics and foreign policy
The first edition of Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy is one of the most successful Brookings titles of all time. This thoroughly revised version updates that classic analysis of the role played by the federal bureaucracy --civilian career officials, political appointees, and military officers --and Congress in formulating U.S. national security policy, illustrating how policy decisions…
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- 2nd ed.
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- 9780815734093
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- xi, 400 p. ; 23 cm.
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- [POL-LIB-567]
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