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Product Description: Although Mau Mau was militarily crushed in the mid-fifties, the struggle for land rights was only contained in Kenya's post-independence era. Kikuyu squatters on European estates who formed the backbone of this movement are the main subject of this book...read more
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9780852550519 | Heinemann, July 1, 1989, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Although Mau Mau was militarily crushed in the mid-fifties, the struggle for land rights was only contained in Kenya's post-independence era.

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Product Description: Although Mau Mau was militarily crushed in the mid-fifties, the struggle for land rights was only contained in Kenya's post-independence era. Kikuyu squatters on European estates who formed the backbone of this movement are the main subject of this book...read more
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9780821409404 | Ohio Univ Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Although Mau Mau was militarily crushed in the mid-fifties, the struggle for land rights was only contained in Kenya's post-independence era.

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9780821409411 | Ohio Univ Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Although Mau Mau was militarily crushed in the mid-fifties, the struggle for land rights was only contained in Kenya's post-independence era.

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Product Description: An examination of the controversies that surround education, tradition and history in an international context. The author examines the sources of the controversy that have arisen around the question of history in Germany, Japan, Britain and the USA...read more
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9780745305301 | Pluto Pr, November 1, 1991, cover price $66.50 | About this edition: An examination of the controversies that surround education, tradition and history in an international context.

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Product Description: An examination of the controversies that surround education, tradition and history in an international context. The author examines the sources of the controversy that have arisen around the question of history in Germany, Japan, Britain and the USA...read more
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9780745305318 | Pluto Pr, November 15, 1991, cover price $37.00 | About this edition: An examination of the controversies that surround education, tradition and history in an international context.

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Product Description: The crisis now facing many post-colonial societies has raised important questions about the nature of Third World nationalist movements and their struggle against Western domination. Histories of Britain's colonial past have tended to regard the process of decolonization as having taken place as a direct consequence of British policy, with the result that the influence of anti-colonial movements on British imperialism has been overlooked...read more
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9781850437840 | I B Tauris & Co Ltd, April 15, 1994, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: The crisis now facing many post-colonial societies has raised important questions about the nature of Third World nationalist movements and their struggle against Western domination.

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Product Description: During the 19th century vast areas of the underdeveloped world were invaded and colonized under the justification of anti-slavery and the civilizing mission. In this analysis, Furedi demonstrates how, in the late 20th century, the major nations of the West are again intervening in the Third World - this time legitimizing their action on new moral grounds...read more
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9780745308456 | Pluto Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: During the 19th century vast areas of the underdeveloped world were invaded and colonized under the justification of anti-slavery and the civilizing mission.

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9780745308463 | Pluto Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: 'In this timely and thought-provoking book, Frank Furedi provides a powerful critique of Western notions of moral superiority and the closely linked perception that the Third World constitutes a major threat to the West .

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9780745308470 | Pluto Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $64.95

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9780745308487 | Pluto Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $19.95

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Some fear that population growth is the major threat facing humanity. Others argue that the link between population growth and insecurity is unproven. This book discusses both sides of this debate, examining how the arguments have evolved, and questioning the assumptions of the main protagonists. (view table of contents)
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9780312176563 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 1, 1997, cover price $75.00

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9780312176587 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 1, 1997, cover price $22.95
9780745615387 | Blackwell Pub, August 9, 1997, cover price $30.20 | About this edition: Some fear that population growth is the major threat facing humanity.

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Product Description: Fear has become an ever-expanding part of life in the West in the twenty-first century. We live in terror of disease, abuse, stranger danger, environmental devastation and terrorist onslaught. We are bombarded with reports of new concerns for our safety and that of our children, and urged to take greater precautions and seek more protection...read more
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9780826459299 | Revised edition (Continuum Intl Pub Group, May 1, 2002), cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Fear has become an ever-expanding part of life in the West in the twenty-first century.
9780304337507 | Cassell, September 1, 1998, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Safety has become one of the fundamental preoccupations of the 1990s.

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9780826476166 | Revised edition (Continuum Intl Pub Group, July 15, 2005), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Fear has become an ever-expanding part of life in the West in the twenty-first century.
9780826459305 | 2 revised edition (Continuum Intl Pub Group, May 1, 2002), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Fear has become an ever-expanding part of life in the West in the 21st century.
9780304337514 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, November 1, 1997, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Safety has become one of the fundamental preoccupations of the 1990s.

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9780813526119 | Rutgers Univ Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $59.00

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9780813526126 | Rutgers Univ Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $22.00

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Product Description: Therapy Culture explores the powerful influence of therapeutic imperative in Anglo-American societies. In recent decades virtually every sphere of life has become subject to a new emotional culture. Professor Furedi suggests that the recent cultural turn toward the realm of the emotions coincides with a radical redefinition of personhood...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780415321600 | Routledge, November 1, 2003, cover price $184.00 | About this edition: Therapy Culture explores the powerful influence of therapeutic imperative in Anglo-American societies.

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Product Description: Therapy Culture explores the powerful influence of therapeutic imperative in Anglo-American societies. In recent decades virtually every sphere of life has become subject to a new emotional culture. Professor Furedi suggests that the recent cultural turn toward the realm of the emotions coincides with a radical redefinition of personhood...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780415321594 | Routledge, January 1, 2004, cover price $48.95 | About this edition: Therapy Culture explores the powerful influence of therapeutic imperative in Anglo-American societies.

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Product Description: This collection of case studies introduces particular social movements concerned with women's rights, ethnicity and race, mental health, peace, and antiprivatization. Issues of youth and political involvement, free speech, unemployment, and the role of voluntary and community groups in challenging traditional perspectives on democracy are explored...read more
By Frank Furedi (foreword by), Gary Taylor (editor) and Malcolm J. Todd (editor)
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9780850365382 | Merlin Pr, October 30, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This collection of case studies introduces particular social movements concerned with women's rights, ethnicity and race, mental health, peace, and antiprivatization.

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Product Description: The intellectual is an endangered species. In place of such people as Bertrand Russell, Raymond Williams or Hannah Arendt - people with genuine learning, breadth of vision and a concern for public issues - we now have only facile pundits, think tank apologists and spin doctors...read more
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9780826467690 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, October 30, 2004, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: The Intellectual is an endangered species.

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9780826488213 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, July 1, 2005, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The intellectual is an endangered species.

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Product Description: The terms "left" and "right" pervade all our discussions of politics. But, argues Frank Furedi, these terms have lost their meaning - and in fact are often used to mean the opposite of what they once meant. For a grown-up politics we need to replace these terms with a less simplistic language...read more
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9780826487285 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, November 30, 2005, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Furedi argues that the traditional terms "left" and "right" have been both distorted and proved inadequate by a number of developments, notably the Cold War, the Culture Wars and (as he's shown in previous books) the prevalance of risk-adverse managerialism.

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9780826492944 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, March 15, 2007, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The terms "left" and "right" pervade all our discussions of politics.

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Product Description: In this urgent and passionate book, Frank Furedi explains the essential contribution of intellectuals both to culture and to democracy - and why we need to recreate a public sphere in which intellectuals and the general public can talk to each other again. >
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9780826490964 | 2 edition (Continuum Intl Pub Group, December 9, 2006), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In this urgent and passionate book, Frank Furedi explains the essential contribution of intellectuals both to culture and to democracy - and why we need to recreate a public sphere in which intellectuals and the general public can talk to each other again.

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Product Description: Fear has become an ever-expanding part of life in the West in the twenty-first century. We live in terror of disease, abuse, stranger danger, environmental devastation and terrorist onslaught. We are bombarded with reports of new concerns for our safety and that of our children, and urged to take greater precautions and seek more protection...read more
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9780826493958 | 2 edition (Continuum Intl Pub Group, December 10, 2006), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Fear has become an ever-expanding part of life in the West in the twenty-first century.

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Product Description: Fear has become an ever-expanding part of life in the West in the twenty-first century. We live in terror of disease, abuse, stranger danger, environmental devastation and terrorist onslaught. We are bombarded with reports of new concerns for our safety and that of our children, and urged to take greater precautions and seek more protection...read more
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9780826493941 | 2 edition (Continuum Intl Pub Group, December 10, 2006), cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Fear has become an ever-expanding part of life in the West in the twenty-first century.

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9781905745326 | Vision Paperbacks, August 1, 2010, cover price $16.95

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Product Description: Paranoid Parenting is an important book that shows how parental fears have been stoked and families harmed as a consequence. It ought to be read by every sensible individual interested in regaining a sane viewpoint that advances children's well-being...read more
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9781847065216 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, December 25, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Paranoid Parenting is an important book that shows how parental fears have been stoked and families harmed as a consequence.
9781556524646 | Chicago Review Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Hardly a day goes by without parents being warned of a new threat to their children's well-being.

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Product Description: Frank Furedi argues that Western culture appears to feed off a diet of terror and inadvertently offers its enemies an invitation to be terrorised. We have not developed an intellectual framework in which to be able to confront the fear of terrorism...read more
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9780826499578 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, December 10, 2007, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Frank Furedi argues that Western culture appears to feed off a diet of terror and inadvertently offers its enemies an invitation to be terrorised.

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9780826424549 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, May 5, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Frank Furedi argues that Western culture appears to feed off a diet of terror and inadvertently offers its enemies an invitation to be terrorised.

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Product Description: In 1959 C.P. Snow delivered the annual Rede Lecture in Cambridge under the title of 'The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution'. Snow warned of a gap that had opened up between scientists and the 'literary intellectuals' that made it almost impossible for the two groups to communicate...read more
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9781906837044 | Civitas/Inst for the Study of, December 29, 2009, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: In 1959 C.

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Product Description: Furedi turns his attention to the education system, skilfully analyzing current processes and providing a way forward. Never has so much attention been devoted to education - and the problems with it. Yet we rarely ask why everyone from the government to parents continually obsess about it...read more
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9781847064165 | 1 edition (Continuum Intl Pub Group, November 26, 2009), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Furedi turns his attention to the education system, skilfully analyzing current processes and providing a way forward.

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Product Description: Since the establishment of the Criminal Records Bureau in 2002 millions of adults have had to vetted to say they are safe to be near children. When Licensed to Hug was first published in June 2008, this system of police vetting was hardly a public policy issue...read more
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9781906837167 | Civitas/Inst for the Study of, December 21, 2010, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: Since the establishment of the Criminal Records Bureau in 2002 millions of adults have had to vetted to say they are safe to be near children.

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Product Description: Outwardly, we live in an era that appears more open-minded, non-judgemental and tolerant than in any time in human history. The very term intolerant invokes moral condemnation. We are constantly reminded to understand the importance of respecting different cultures and diversities...read more
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9781441120106 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, October 20, 2011, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Outwardly, we live in an era that appears more open-minded, non-judgemental and tolerant than in any time in human history.

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