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The Economics of Growth in Russia Overcoming the Poverty Trap

The Economics of Growth in Russia Overcoming the Poverty Trap

This book presents theoretical and empirical investigation of economic growth in Russia. The sharp decline in the national production that Russia endured in the 1990s linked directly to the exhausting and ill-planned transition from the planned economy to the market economy resulted in Russia plunging into the poverty trap. The goal of this book is to determine whether and how Russia manages to overcome the poverty trap and initiate and sustain economic growth. This book fills the gap between the volatile economic growth as an objective economic reality of Russia and the lack of scholarly literature on the issue. This study identifies the place and role of foreign aid in economic growth in the market-type post-transitional Russian economy and concludes that foreign aid does not play any significant role in the national economy contrary to what would follow from the classical poverty trap theory considered reviewed applied and tested in this study. Development economists should not overestimate the role of foreign aid in overcoming the poverty trap in those developing economic systems that are currently not in equilibrium and only move toward their steady state. The book will be of interest to those who want to learn more about specific problems in Russia’s newly built capitalism the country’s perspectives and its current semi-peripheral status. The book will also be an excellent supplement for students in Russian studies programs as well as for investors who want to do business in Russia and try to understand the country’s domestic economic conditions and processes. | The Economics of Growth in Russia Overcoming the Poverty Trap

GBP 130.00
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The Fuelwood Trap A study of the SADCC region

The Fuelwood Trap A study of the SADCC region

Over 60 million people live in the SADCC countries; by 2000 AD the number will be over 100 million. The vast majority city-dwellers as well as farmers rely on wood fuel for domestic use. Supplies are diminishing as consumption grows. The quality of life is deteriorating yet further and the environment is more and more degraded. But these phenomena are not simply the consequence of a wood shortage which might be cured by some cropping and management policy. They flow from a complex network of causes each contributing in its way to growing poverty and want which has as one obvious symptom the shortage of fuel for life's basic purposes. The authors by means of case studies examine those causes throughout the nine SADCC countries and consider the policies that can be developed there which will not only help to alleviate the symptom but will help to prevent the imminent catastrophe which it represents. Originally published in 1988 | The Fuelwood Trap A study of the SADCC region

GBP 42.99
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Avoiding the ‘Thucydides Trap’ U.S.-China Relations in Strategic Domains

Avoiding the ‘Thucydides Trap’ U.S.-China Relations in Strategic Domains

As the relationship between China and the United States becomes increasingly complex and interdependent leaders in Beijing and Washington are struggling to establish a solid common foundation on which to expand and deepen bilateral relations. In order to examine the challenges facing U. S. China relations the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) and the Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding (iGCU) at Peking University brought together a group of leading experts from China and the United States in Beijing and Honolulu to develop a conceptual foundation for U. S. China relations into the future tackling the issues in innovative ways under the banner of U. S. China Relations in Strategic Domains. The resulting chapters assess U. S. China relations in the maritime and nuclear sectors as well as in cyberspace and space and through the lens of P2P and mil-to-mil exchanges. Scholars and students in political science and international relations are thus presented with a diagnosis and prognosis of the relations between the two superpowers. | Avoiding the ‘Thucydides Trap’ U. S. China Relations in Strategic Domains

GBP 38.99
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The Choice for Banking Union Power Politics and the Trap of Credible Commitments

The Choice for Banking Union Power Politics and the Trap of Credible Commitments

This book explains why the European Union (EU) Member States – in response to the euro crisis – agreed to establish banking union despite previous objections and why they chose its hybrid institutional design. Analysing its establishment from 2012 to 2020 the book offers a comprehensive view of the preferences of the Member States and EU institutions as well as of the negotiation dynamics and latest developments in the three pillars of banking union namely the Single Supervisory Mechanism the Single Resolution Mechanism and the common backstop and the European deposit insurance scheme. Furthermore empirically the book looks beyond the usual focus of the northern and southern coalition of states to underline the influence of powerful smaller Member States in the intergovernmental bargaining process. Adopting a range of theoretical perspectives it questions the solidity of the northern versus southern camps and reveals distinctive and particular positioning from individual countries during the process. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European financial market regulation European economic governance EU institutions European integration theory and EU politics more broadly. | The Choice for Banking Union Power Politics and the Trap of Credible Commitments

GBP 130.00
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A Trip to the Zoo: A Grammar Tales Book to Support Grammar and Language Development in Children

A Trip to the Zoo: A Grammar Tales Book to Support Grammar and Language Development in Children

Pete and Jem are having lots of fun at the zoo but they both want to see different animals and are pulling their mother in different directions! Targeting Subject-Verb-Object sentences and regular plurals this book provides repeated examples of early developing syntax and morphology which will engage and excite the reader while building pre-literacy skills and make learning fun as well as exposing children to multiple models of the target grammar form. Perfect for a speech and language therapy session this book is an ideal starting point for targeting client goals and can also be enjoyed at school or home to reinforce what has been taught in the therapy session. | A Trip to the Zoo: A Grammar Tales Book to Support Grammar and Language Development in Children

GBP 11.99
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Current Practice of Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry

Current Practice of Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry

This volume details the principles and instrumentation of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (CG-MS) and outlines industrial environmental pharmaceutical clinical toxicological forensic and food-related applications revealing findings from the laboratories of 40 contributing scientists around the world using GC-MS in practice. It describes upstream and downstream applications of GC-MS in the petroleum industry and identifies chlorinated compounds in the environment with quadrupole ion-trap technology and high-resolution sector instruments. | Current Practice of Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry

GBP 59.99
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Water Poverty The Next “Oil” Crisis

Water Poverty The Next “Oil” Crisis

A water crisis on our immediate horizon is destined to hurt even kill millions of children and the window of opportunity to do something about it is rapidly closing. There is however a glimmer of hope that could turn into rays of sunshine. Water is a commodity and we have just come through some painful times dealing with the shortage of another commodity—energy. For those who lived through the energy crisis this book offers a brief trip down memory lane. | Water Poverty The Next “Oil” Crisis

GBP 51.99
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Rock And Roll A Social History

Rock And Roll A Social History

Now updated with two new chapters and an extraordinary collection of photographs this second edition of Paul Friedlander's Rock and Roll: A Social History is a smash hit. The social force of rock and roll music leaps off the page as Paul Friedlander provides impressive insights based on hits from Johnny B. Goode to Smells Like Teen Spirit and beyond. In this musical journey Friedlander offers the melodious strains and hard-edged riffs of Elvis the Beatles The Who Dylan Clapton Hendrix Motown the San Francisco Beat Punk New Wave rap metal 90's grunge plus file sharing and much more. The book is written in a refreshing captivating style that pulls the reader in offering no less than a complete social and cultural history of rock and roll for students and general audiences alike. Friedlander writes 'This book chronicles the first forty years of rock/pop music history. Picture the various musical styles as locations on a giant unfolding road map. As you open the map you travel from place to place stopping at each chapter to sample the artistry. Don't forget to dress your imagination appropriately for this trip because each genre is affected by the societal topography and climate that surround it. Enjoy your trip. We promise it will be a good one!'. | Rock And Roll A Social History

GBP 130.00
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Culture and Cultures in Tourism Exploring New Trends

Culture and Cultures in Tourism Exploring New Trends

According to the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) international tourists engaging in cultural activities accounted for more than 500 million of international tourist numbers in 2017. City tourism relies on culture as a major product providing benefits not only for interested visitors but also for the local resident population. New trends in tourism include experiential tourism where the interactions between tourists and residents become a key part of the tourism experience and overall customer satisfaction. New technologies and IT applications allow tourists to design their own trip given the presence of global companies like Trip Advisor Booking. com and AirBnB. This comprehensive volume explores new trends in cultural tourism demonstrating how and why culture has become a central factor in tourism. The authors analyse a wide range of relevant issues including: how heritage-based and cultural tourism could contribute to the sustainability of destinations; the increase of religious travels to and within Arab countries; and how cultural tourism fosters understanding among people and cultures and could even potentially help to consolidate peace at a regional level. The book also analyses interactions between hosts (the local residents) and guests (the cultural visitors) revisiting the pioneer hippy travelling experiences in Turkey of the 1960s and how they shaped youth culture. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of cultural tourism. The chapters were originally published in the journal Anatolia. | Culture and Cultures in Tourism Exploring New Trends

GBP 39.99
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Quantitative Methods in Transportation

Quantitative Methods in Transportation

Quantitative Methods in Transportation provides the most useful simple and advanced quantitative techniques for solving real-life transportation engineering problems. It aims to help transportation engineers and analysts to predict travel and freight demand plan new transportation networks and develop various traffic control strategies that are safer more cost effective and greener. Transportation networks can be exceptionally large and this makes many transportation problems combinatorial and the challenges are compounded by the stochastic and independent nature of trip-planners decision making. Methods outlined in this book range from linear programming multi-attribute decision making data envelopment analysis probability theory and simulation to computer techniques such as genetic algorithms simulated annealing tabu search ant colony optimization and bee colony optimization. The book is supported with problems and has a solutions manual to aid course instructors.

GBP 48.99
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Cultural Pragmatism for US-China Relations Breaking the Gridlock and Co-creating Our Future

Cultural Pragmatism for US-China Relations Breaking the Gridlock and Co-creating Our Future

The Thucydides trap and a US-China face-off are not structurally inevitable; US-China relations are what the US and China make of them. Phua focuses on the ability to see US as US and China as China to trigger both countries’ cultural tendencies towards pragmatism. Phua examines China’s arduous journey to fit in the Westphalian system the deep cultural misunderstandings by the West of Sunzi’s The Art of War and attempts to offer an inside-out cultural synthesis of classical and modern Chinese thought as a proxy of their operational code beyond the standard clichés about Confucian and Daoist thought. He builds on Jervis’ perception and misperception as well as Alastair Johnston’s cultural realism. Readers will benefit from a culturally-Chinese western-educated and politically neutral understanding of China as China. An essential primer for academics practitioners and students of international relations diplomacy and Chinese culture. | Cultural Pragmatism for US-China Relations Breaking the Gridlock and Co-creating Our Future

GBP 34.99
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Diving and Subaquatic Medicine

Diving and Subaquatic Medicine

Considered an essential resource by many in the field Diving and Subaquatic Medicine remains the leading text on diving medicine written to fulfil the requirements of any general physician wishing to advise their patients appropriately when a diving trip is planned for those accompanying diving expeditions or when a doctor is required to assess and treat anyone who has been involved in a diving accident. For this fifth edition the original author Carl Edmonds is joined by a new team of collaborators and the content has been entirely refreshed and updated throughout. Clinical cases a feature popular with readers are expanded as is the illustrative content. Established and emerging diseases of diving medicine are all covered in full as is the latest in types of diving including free and indigenous diving and associated equipment. Each medical disorder is discussed from a historical etiological clinical pathological preventative and therapeutic perspective in the informative and accessible style that has made previous editions so popular.

GBP 59.99
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Looking Through Freud's Photos

Looking Through Freud's Photos

A moody Freud posed against a background of holiday pictures pinned to a wall; or lurking at the very edge of a large family group; or lost in a crowd of nineteenth-century scientists. These snapshots or posed portraits not only tell stories they also carry a specific emotional charge. The earlier essays in this book follow traces of Freud's early years through the evidence of such album photographs; the later essays use them to reconstruct the stories of various family members. An unknown photo of his half-brother Emanuel initiates an investigation into the Manchester Freuds. An identity photo of his daughter Anna and the document to which it is attached throw light on the critical final days of her trip to England in 1914. A faded idyllic print of children playing evolves into a discussion of Ernst Freud's luck and childhood. The suicide of Anna's artist cousin Tom Seidmann Freud emerges from a snap of her infant daughter Angela. | Looking Through Freud's Photos

GBP 130.00
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Economic Change in Asia Implications For Corporate Strategy and Social Responsibility

Economic Change in Asia Implications For Corporate Strategy and Social Responsibility

Since the 2008 global economic crisis East Asian economies have faced a number of macroeconomic issues including China’s new growth model the middle-income trap in developing East Asian countries and the growing natural fibre market and its socio-economic implications. This book addresses these key topical issues which East Asian economies are facing today. Written by international experts in the area of Asian economics and business it presents the most recent macroeconomic outlook in the region and then goes on to analyse a number of business corporations and industry-related cases focussing on the theme of firms’ strategies. Examining the links between environmental and financial performance corporate social responsibility and the transfer of environmental management financial accounting standards the relationship between corporate sustainability activities and corporate profit and the different cultural approaches towards business ethics this book provides both practical strategies and new theoretical insights. As such it will appeal to students scholars and practitioners interested in Asian business and economics. | Economic Change in Asia Implications For Corporate Strategy and Social Responsibility

GBP 42.99
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The Golden Triangle An Ethno-semiotic Tour of Present-day India

The Golden Triangle An Ethno-semiotic Tour of Present-day India

This book offers a semiotically informed ethnographic study of contemporary culture in Rajasthan and in India generally. It adapts the methodology of analyzing cultures found in Roland Barthes' semiotic portrait of Japanese culture Empire of Signs but adds an analysis of lifestyles as explicated in the work of social anthropologist Mary Douglas political scientist Aaron Wildavsky and a number of other social scientists. This manuscript is at first a guide to Rajasthan and India and it is that but it is also more in that it considers tourism from both an anthropological and sociological level. Berger begins with statistics on tourism and other aspects of life in Rajasthan and India and then considers how tourism in India compares with tourism in other important tourism destinations. He refers to the Imaginary India as the picture created in tourists' minds with the help of guidebooks media and the Internet before they actually travel to India. He then discusses these representations and how they are actually different from the country itself. The trip itself then becomes the search for the authentic India-the goal is to find places before they are discovered. He calls this Semiotic Rajasthan where the representations are compared to actuality. After offering a discussion of semiotic theory it interprets and analyzes a number of important aspects of Rajasthani and Indian culture such as: the Taj Mahal the Palace of Winds in Jaipur the notorious rat temple in Deshnok and sacred cows. Lastly he discusses his own trip and how the impact of Rajasthan did not fully register until he returned home. This volume's strength lies in the author's ability to write in an accessible manner assemble the project in an interesting way and include only that information which will guide the reader along the narrative trail. While this manuscript really is a guidebook to Rajasthan it could also serve as a good introduction to ethnography for beginning students and an interested general audience. It moves from basic explanations such as that of semiotics to complex applications all with the grace of good story telling. | The Golden Triangle An Ethno-semiotic Tour of Present-day India

GBP 84.99
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Family Events Practices Displays and Intimacies

Family Events Practices Displays and Intimacies

An unprecedented exploration of the intersection of events and family studies Family Events uses events as a lens through which to explore the concepts of families family practices family displays and family intimacies. Family Events explores the idea that how families come to be and moreover come to be defined as ‘families’ relies on events: whether that be via ‘family events’ – those which serve to celebrate being part of ‘my’ family – (e. g. birthdays weddings funerals) ‘events experienced as a family’ (e. g. a holiday or day trip) or ‘events which impact families’ (e. g. recession war global health emergency). Family Events brings together contributions from the social sciences leisure and event studies which focus on a variety of different event contexts including the life cycle death and illness sport holidays and community and religious festivals. Family Events offers a multitude of insightful perspectives on the intersection of events and family studies and is a valuable resource for academics and students with a research interest in events leisure and the family. | Family Events Practices Displays and Intimacies

GBP 130.00
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Butoh as Heard by a Dancer

Butoh as Heard by a Dancer

This book explores the origins of Butoh in post-war Japan through orality and transmission in conjunction with an embodied research approach. The book is a gathering of seminal artistic voices – Yoshito Ohno Natsu Nakajima Yukio Waguri Moe Yamamoto Masaki Iwana Ko Murobushi Yukio Suzuki Takao Kawaguchi Yuko Kaseki and the philosopher Kuniichi Uno. These conversations happened during an extended research trip I made to Japan to understand the context and circumstances that engendered Butoh. Alongside these exchanges are my reflections on Butoh’s complex history. These are primarily informed by my pedagogical and performance encounters with the artists I met during this time rather than a theoretical analysis. Through the words of these dancers I investigate Butoh’s tendency to evade categorization. Butoh’s artistic legacy of bodily rebellion plurality of authorship and fluidity of form seems prescient and feels more relevant in contemporary times than ever before. This book is intended as a practitioner's guide for dancers artists students and scholars with an interest in non-Western dance and dance history postmodern performance and Japanese arts and culture. | Butoh as Heard by a Dancer

GBP 130.00
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Semiconductor Memory Devices and Circuits

Semiconductor Memory Devices and Circuits

This book covers semiconductor memory technologies from device bit-cell structures to memory array design with an emphasis on recent industry scaling trends and cutting-edge technologies. The first part of the book discusses the mainstream semiconductor memory technologies. The second part of the book discusses the emerging memory candidates that may have the potential to change the memory hierarchy and surveys new applications of memory technologies for machine/deep learning applications. This book is intended for graduate students in electrical and computer engineering programs and researchers or industry professionals in semiconductors and microelectronics. Explains the design of basic memory bit-cells including 6-transistor SRAM 1-transistor-1-capacitor DRAM and floating gate/charge trap FLASH transistor Examines the design of the peripheral circuits including the sense amplifier and array-level organization for the memory array Examines industry trends of memory technologies such as FinFET based SRAM High-Bandwidth-Memory (HBM) 3D NAND Flash and 3D X-point array Discusses the prospects and challenges of emerging memory technologies such as PCM RRAM STT-MRAM/SOT-MRAM and FeRAM/FeFET Explores the new applications such as in-memory computing for AI hardware acceleration. | Semiconductor Memory Devices and Circuits

GBP 99.99
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Adolescents and Young Adults An Emotion Regulation Approach

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Adolescents and Young Adults An Emotion Regulation Approach

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Adolescents and Young Adults: An Emotion Regulation Approach provides a unique focus on therapeutic practice with adolescents and young adults covering everything from psychological theories of adolescence to the treatment of common emotional difficulties. Beginning with a review of development through adolescence into adulthood and the principles of CBT the book highlights problems with traditional models of CBT for adolescents and young adults. In a fresh approach this book separates CBT from diagnosis and grounds it instead in emotion science. Adolescents and young adults learn not about disorders and symptoms but about emotions emotional ‘traps’ and how they can use CBT to bring about change. There are chapters on fear sadness anger emotion dysregulation and happiness. Each chapter provides an outline of emotion science a clear cognitive behavioural formulation (‘trap’) and evidence-based interventions. Clinicians are walked through the process using case illustrations. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Adolescents and Young Adults represents a transformation of CBT practice and will become a valuable treatment manual to training and practising mental health professionals especially psychotherapists specialising in CBT. | Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Adolescents and Young Adults An Emotion Regulation Approach

GBP 34.99
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Feminist Perspectives on Language

Feminist Perspectives on Language

The Feminist Perspectives Series seeks to provide concise accessible and engaging introductions to key feminist topics and debates. The texts in the series are designed to be used on a wide range of courses exploring feminist issues and are written by experienced teachers who are also well known in their respective fields. Each book in the series includes the most up-to-date statistics research data key sources and suggestions for further reading. Feminist Perspectives On Language provides an accessible introduction to this complex area. It redresses the balance of current feminist texts which tend to concentrate on discourse analysis and fail to connect with feminist thought in other disciplines such as sociology and politics. The text is divided into two parts the first looks at language itself how we learn language exploring such questions as; Does language free or trap us? Does our language affect how we come to understand the world around us? Is our language sexist? If so does that reflect male dominance in society? and many more issues. Part Two explores questions of methodology and interpretation examining language in use communication styles and the analysis of conversation.

GBP 170.00
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Y Tu Mamá También Mythologies of Youth

Y Tu Mamá También Mythologies of Youth

Charting production distribution censorship and reception this book examines Y Tu Mamá También in its presentation as a journey of self-discoveries. Three young adults enjoy a road trip together in search of a legendary beach. Behind their stories are mythologies of youth a network of ideas in the film that reflects life outside the theaters. The deceptively complex film leaves the characters and its viewers with instead of oversimplified and hollow answers provocative questions and existential concerns. Made independently in Mexico the film crosses over transnational issues global markets and mainstream and alternative aesthetics. It transforms road movie and youth film genres and shows a ‘musical magical’ Mexico to the world. This book synthesizes several approaches in order to extensively examine Y Tu Mamá También. Covering the film’s production history its distribution and censorship and larger industrial political and cultural contexts this book analyzes the too-often overlooked aspects of youthful sexuality alongside figurations of maturity rites of passage and covenants—made broken and remade—that not only inform representations of identity but also complicate the processes of identity formation themselves. | Y Tu Mamá También Mythologies of Youth

GBP 18.99
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The Organized Child An Effective Program to Maximize Your Kid's Potential—in School and in Life

The Organized Child An Effective Program to Maximize Your Kid's Potential—in School and in Life

Are you sick of nagging your child to write down homework assignments? Is his or her backpack a black hole that eats up papers books and gym clothes? Organizational skills problems aren't just frustrating-they get in the way of school success and wreak havoc at home. Fortunately help is at hand. This unique resource stands out from other books because it is based on a scientifically tested program that works. Learn how you can teach your 7- to 13-year-old specific skills to: *Organize school materials and toys. *Track assignments. *Improve time management and planning. *Overcome brain "Glitches"-mischievous creatures that trip kids up. *Create and follow effective routines. Concrete examples tips for strategically using praise and rewards and practical tools (you can download and print additional copies as needed) help you implement each step of the program. Maximizing your kid's potential starts now-here's how. A Greater Good Favorite Parenting Book of 2018 Mental health professionals see also the related intervention manual from Gallagher et al. Organizational Skills Training for Children with ADHD: An Empirically Supported Treatment. | The Organized Child An Effective Program to Maximize Your Kid's Potential—in School and in Life

GBP 12.99
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The Iran Agenda Today The Real Story Inside Iran and What's Wrong with U.S. Policy

The Iran Agenda Today The Real Story Inside Iran and What's Wrong with U.S. Policy

Based on frequent first-hand reporting in Iran and the United States The Iran Agenda Today explores the turbulent recent history between the two countries and reveals how it has led to a misguided showdown over nuclear technology. Foreign correspondent Reese Erlich notes that all the major U. S. intelligence agencies agree Iran has not had a nuclear weapons program since at least 2003. He explores why Washington nonetheless continues with saber rattling and provides a detailed critique of mainstream media coverage of Iran. The book further details the popular protests that have rocked Tehran despite repression by the country’s Deep State. In addition to covering the political story Erlich offers insights on Iran’s domestic politics popular culture and diverse populations over this recent era. His analysis draws on past interviews with high-ranking Iranian officials the former shah’s son Reza Pahlavi and Iranian exiles in Los Angeles as well as the memory of his trip to Tehran with actor Sean Penn. Written in skillful and riveting journalistic prose The Iran Agenda Today provides inside information that academic researchers find hard to obtain. | The Iran Agenda Today The Real Story Inside Iran and What's Wrong with U. S. Policy

GBP 24.99
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