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Alexander K. Davis

Today’s debates about transgender inclusion and public restrooms may seem unmistakably contemporary, but they have a surprisingly long and storied history in the United States—one that concerns more than mere “potty politics.” Alexander K. Davis takes readers behind the scenes of two hundred years’ worth of conflicts over the existence, separation, and equity of gendered public restrooms, documenting at each step how bathrooms have been entangled with bigger cultural matters: the importanc...

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Alexander E. Davis

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Political Science and International Studies (R0)

The book addresses the urgent need for rethinking the geopolitics and ecology in the Himalaya, by emphasising the entanglements between these two factors. Most international relations analyses of the Himalaya emphasize the central role of the region’s states and their great power struggles. By reducing the region to its state actors, however, we miss the intense more-than-human diversity of the region, and the crucial role that the mountains play in the global environment.In doing ...

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Alexander E Davis, Vineet Thakur, Peter Vale

This book questions the accepted origins of the field of International Relations (IR). Commonly understood to have emerged from the horrors of WW1 with the goal of bringing about world peace, the authors argue that on the contrary, IR came from a somewhat less noble tradition – that of the Round Table.The Round Table were a network of imperialists emerging in the late 1800s across five key British imperial societies: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and India. Their aim...

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Alexander Davis

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Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) South Asian Series

India has become known in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia as ‘the world’s largest democracy’, a ‘natural ally’, the ‘democratic counterweight’ to China and a trading partner of ‘massive economic potential’. This new foreign policy orthodoxy assumes that India will join with these four states and act just as any other democracy would. A set of political and think tank elites has emerged which seek to advance the cause of a culturally superior, if ill-defined, ‘Anglosphere’.Buil...

Geomorphic Impacts of Earthquakes: Post-Seismic Landscape Evolution summarizes the full range of landscape alterations that can result from large earthquakes, ranging from slope instability and river aggradation to prograded coastlines. The book underpins the consequences of major earthquakes, which are increasing as Earth's population burgeons and climate and anthropogenic effects are ongoing. Although the damage to society that results directly from the shaking and ground rupture in larg...

This collection of new perspectives on Hegel's Philosophy of Right breaks down some of the most stubborn barriers between the book and its readers. From its polemical preface to its closing ruminations on the state and world history, Hegel's seminal text can appear antiquated and conservative to even the most motivated reader. These essays remove those obstacles by demonstrating how radical many of his reflections on politics and ethics remain some 200 years after its publication....

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Alexander Davies

There’s more than one way to achieve high availability for MySQL and this Cookbook covers a range of techniques and tools in over 60 practical recipes. The only book of its kind, you’ll be learning the natural, engaging way.Key FeaturesAnalyze and learn different high availability options, including clustering and replication solutions within MySQLImprove uptime of your MySQL databases with simple recipes showing powerful high availability technique...

Multimodal Composing and Writing Transfer explores transfer across various contexts of multimodal composing, extending the early conversations connecting multimodality to writing. Contributors address how writing transfer theories intersect with multimodal composing and present methods for facilitating transfer across modes and media, offering insight into how writers can learn to compose when they encounter familiar modes in new contexts.Over the past two decades the conc...

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Wanda Alexander Davis

Come let us stroll down memory lane together. Your spirits will be uplift ed, tears shed, and joyous ti mes remembered. This selecti on of favorites will certainly remind you of pleasurable experiences, solitary moments and definitely stir up the litt le bit of a child in you. Some may amuse you and even puzzle you.Like no other book of poems, this one tells you what inspired the poet to write each one.May your emoti ons run wild as you recall the various occasions menti on...

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Wanda Alexander Davis

Marvin Reese and his friend Tommy are given free tickets at their local middle school to go to the annual fair that comes to town every year in November. While at the fair, Marvin and Tommy separate and go different ways. Marvin ends up at the livestock show alone. People are lined up waiting to guess the weight of a pig in order to win the two-hundred dollar prize. Marvin wins the two-hundred dollars, but loses it when gang members take it. The money is recovered with the help of a securi...

"Responsible gambling" refers to a range of strategies, initiatives, and activities introduced by gambling regulators, policymakers, and industry operators to reduce gambling-related harms. There is an absence of agreement about the definition of responsible gambling among these parties, and stakeholders' experiences reflect varied and often conflicting positions about the development, implementation, and maintenance of existing responsible gambling programs. Complicating these issues furt...

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S.B. Alexander, Siobhan Davis

Secretly dating Coach Parker’s daughter was never part of the plan. Neither was becoming her dealer…ADAMReturning to my drug-dealing past wasn’t on the agenda when I accepted the full ride to play ball at Cypress U. But Mom lost her job. And my sister’s medical bills are mounting. So, I’ve no choice but to change the playbook.When Emily walks into my life, like a fallen goddess with the ultimate power to destroy me, I know I...