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A powerful memoir of a woman plunged into fraudulent debt that explores America’s broken student loan system and illumin......more

This volume examines humanitarianism in Central and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century. It challenges the often......more

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In this edited volume, leading scholars and experts explore the extraordinary potential of diaspora communities in drivi......more

The Routledge Handbook of European Borderlands reassesses the concept of borderlands in Europe, balancing case-specific ......more

A rich and long history of revolutions--the English Civil War, the American War of Independence, the French, Russian, an......more

This volume presents the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the collective memory of the Holodomor-the Ukrainian ......more

This open access book analyses the relationship between language proficiency and political participation from abroad amo......more

In Brainmaker Sukanto Bhattacharya examines the co-evolution of human and synthetic intelligence from a socio-anthropolo......more

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Framing the Opioid Crisis in Canada empirically examines public debates about the opioid crisis by politicians, journali......more

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The second edition of From Dust to Ashes brings up-to-date this classic text investigating the replacement of burial by ......more

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