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From "e;failed states"e; such as Haiti, to countries undergoing political transformation, such as Russia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, democratic reform has grown enormously since the end of the Cold War in 1991. Every day the American government, the United Nations, and other international institutions send people into non-English speaking,...

Dzogchen, meaning "e;great perfection"e; in Tibetan, is an advanced practice associated particularly with Bon, the native religion of Tibet, and the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism. Both these traditions describe their teaching as comprising 'nine Ways' or paths of practice leading to enlightenment or realization, and in both...

Billie Melman takes us on a panoramic voyage of the 'culture of history' which developed in England after the French Revolution. She vividly recovers unexplored aspects of popular history, and unpicks notions of the uncosy past, a place of pleasurable horror and sensationalism, which survived into the 1950s....

Perspectives on Gender, Wealth, and Investment 1850-1930There has been considerable research into the growth of limited companies in Great        Britain in the nineteenth century, but not much is known about their investors, both        men and women. This interdisciplinary book, based on new research, investigates the        identity and...

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