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Security after Christendom

Global Politics and Political Theology for Apocalyptic Times

by John Heathershaw ...

Series series Theopolitical Visions
We live in the wealthiest and most heavily defended world in history, so why do we feel so insecure? In a secular world, what does Christian theology have to say about this problem? Security after Christendom combines practical examples, social scientific research, and an ecumenical approach to political theology to answer these questions. It argues that Christendom was a plural phenomenon of ... Read more

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We live in the wealthiest and most heavily defended world in history, so why do we feel so insecure? In a secular world, what does Christian theology have to say about this problem? Security after Christendom combines practical examples, social scientific research, and an ecumenical approach to political theology to answer these questions. It argues that Christendom was a plural phenomenon of
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For Nothing Is Hidden

by John A. Valenti 3rd ...

Halloween, 1955.A frantic young mother tells police her three-year-old son and infant daughter have gone missing from outside a suburban supermarket on an otherwise tranquil Fall afternoon. The girl is found a short time later, unharmed.The boy? Gone, without a trace.The debut novel by national award-winning journalist and critically-acclaimed author John A. Valenti 3rd, For Nothing is Hidden is ... Read more

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Halloween, 1955.A frantic young mother tells police her three-year-old son and infant daughter have gone missing from outside a suburban supermarket on an otherwise tranquil Fall afternoon. The girl is found a short time later, unharmed.The boy? Gone, without a trace.The debut novel by national award-winning journalist and critically-acclaimed author John A. Valenti 3rd, For Nothing is Hidden is
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13 Poets from Long Island

by John A. Valenti 3rd, Evelyn Kandel ...

FEATURING POETRY BY 2025 FRENCH LEGION d'HONNEUR RECIPIENT VICTORIA BJORKLUND!FINALIST, 2023 AMERICAN BOOK FEST BEST BOOK AWARDS FOR BEST FICTION AND POETRY ANTHOLOGIES!"A wild ride through a poetic landscape of trauma, tradition, and whimsy . . . This diverse collection celebrates the power of poetry, blending emotional unburdening with joyful wordplay" -- Kirkus Reviews"As wide-ra... ... Read more

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FEATURING POETRY BY 2025 FRENCH LEGION d'HONNEUR RECIPIENT VICTORIA BJORKLUND!FINALIST, 2023 AMERICAN BOOK FEST BEST BOOK AWARDS FOR BEST FICTION AND POETRY ANTHOLOGIES!"A wild ride through a poetic landscape of trauma, tradition, and whimsy . . . This diverse collection celebrates the power of poetry, blending emotional unburdening with joyful wordplay" -- Kirkus Reviews"As wide-ra...
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Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention

A Guide to Research in Violent and Closed Contexts

by Henri Myrttinen, Angela Muvumba Sellström, Kathleen M Jennings, Katarina Kušić, Mateja Peter, Daniela Lai, Louise Clausen, Jesse Driscoll, Judith Verweijen, Jaimie Bleck, Boukary Sangaré0, Parviz Mullojonov1, John Heathershaw2, Francesco Strazzari3, Alessandra Russo4, Morten Bøås5, Markus Göransson7, Casey Mcneill8, Roland Kostić9 ...

Series series Spaces of Peace, Security and Development
Using detailed insights from those with first-hand experience of conducting research in areas of international intervention and conflict, this handbook provides essential practical guidance for researchers and students embarking on fieldwork in violent, repressive and closed contexts.Contributors detail their own experiences from areas including the Congo, Sudan, Yemen, Bosnia and Herzegovina and ... Read more

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Using detailed insights from those with first-hand experience of conducting research in areas of international intervention and conflict, this handbook provides essential practical guidance for researchers and students embarking on fieldwork in violent, repressive and closed contexts.Contributors detail their own experiences from areas including the Congo, Sudan, Yemen, Bosnia and Herzegovina and
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Experiences in Researching Conflict and Violence

Fieldwork Interrupted

by John Heathershaw, Michael P. Broache, Fabio Cristiano, Sandra McEvoy, Henri Myrttinen, Corinna Jentzsch, Dr Paul Stubbs, Patrick James Christian ...

This international, edited collection brings together personal accounts from researchers working in and on conflict and explores the roles of emotion, violence, uncertainty, identity and positionality within the process of doing research, as well as the complexity of methodological choices.It highlights the researchers’ own subjectivity and presents a nuanced view of conflict research that goes ... Read more

$46.79 USD

This international, edited collection brings together personal accounts from researchers working in and on conflict and explores the roles of emotion, violence, uncertainty, identity and positionality within the process of doing research, as well as the complexity of methodological choices.It highlights the researchers’ own subjectivity and presents a nuanced view of conflict research that goes
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Kyrgyzstan beyond "Democracy Island" and "Failing State"

Social and Political Changes in a Post-Soviet Society

by Marlene Laruelle, Johan Engvall, Diana Asanalieva, Aisalkyn Botoeva, Asel Doolotkeldieva, David Gullette, Erica Marat, Madeleine Reeves, Elmira Satybaldieva0, Regine A. Spector1, Bermet Zhumakadyr kyzy2, Emil Nastridinov3, John Heathershaw4, Shairbek Juraev5, David W. Montgomery6 ...

Series series Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
Kyrgyzstan is probably the best known of any central Asian country, the one that has elicited the most academic publications, reports by NGOs or advocacy groups, and op-eds in the media. The country opened up massively to Western influence through development aid for civil society and for economic reforms, faced two revolutions in 2005 and 2010, and experienced bloody interethnic conflict in 2010. ... Read more

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Kyrgyzstan is probably the best known of any central Asian country, the one that has elicited the most academic publications, reports by NGOs or advocacy groups, and op-eds in the media. The country opened up massively to Western influence through development aid for civil society and for economic reforms, faced two revolutions in 2005 and 2010, and experienced bloody interethnic conflict in 2010.
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Indulging Kleptocracy

British Service Providers, Postcommunist Elites, and the Enabling of Corruption

by John Heathershaw, Tena Prelec, Tom Mayne ...

A powerful and sophisticated analysis of how Western professionals have enabled kleptocratic elite networks and undermined the rule of law. After the Cold War ended, the British government created the conditions under which a large, multinational class of extremely wealthy kleptocrats based primarily in Russia and Eurasia could move to and thrive in London with a genuine sense of impunity. What is ... Read more

$19.99 USD

A powerful and sophisticated analysis of how Western professionals have enabled kleptocratic elite networks and undermined the rule of law. After the Cold War ended, the British government created the conditions under which a large, multinational class of extremely wealthy kleptocrats based primarily in Russia and Eurasia could move to and thrive in London with a genuine sense of impunity. What is
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Dictators Without Borders

Power and Money in Central Asia

by John Heathershaw, Alexander A. Cooley, PhD ...

Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

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10 hours 44 min

Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated and irrelevant to the outside world. But are they? This hard-hitting book argues that Central Asia is in reality a globalization leader with more extensive involvement in economics, politics, and security dynamics beyond its borders than any other ... Read more

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Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated and irrelevant to the outside world. But are they? This hard-hitting book argues that Central Asia is in reality a globalization leader with more extensive involvement in economics, politics, and security dynamics beyond its borders than any other
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Dictators Without Borders

Power and Money in Central Asia

by Alexander A. Cooley, John Heathershaw ...

A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout the West Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated and irrelevant to the outside world. But are they? This hard-hitting book argues that Central ... Read more

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A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout the West Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated and irrelevant to the outside world. But are they? This hard-hitting book argues that Central
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Tajikistan on the Move

Statebuilding and Societal Transformations

by Marlene Laruelle, Michele Commercio, Hafiz Boboyorov, Tim Epkenhans, Brent Hierman, Sophie Hohmann, Edward Lemon, Suzanne Levi-Sanchez, Parviz Mullojonov, Kirill Nourzhanov0, Sophie Roche1, Jesse Driscoll2, John Heathershaw3 ...

Series series Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
The southernmost and poorest state of the Eurasian space, Tajikistan collapsed immediately upon the fall of the Soviet Union and plunged into a bloody five-year civil war (1992–1997) that left more than 50,000 people dead and more than half a million displaced. After the 1997 Peace Agreements, Tajikistan stood out for being the only post-Soviet country to recognize an Islamic party—the Islamic ... Read more

$121.99 USD

The southernmost and poorest state of the Eurasian space, Tajikistan collapsed immediately upon the fall of the Soviet Union and plunged into a bloody five-year civil war (1992–1997) that left more than 50,000 people dead and more than half a million displaced. After the 1997 Peace Agreements, Tajikistan stood out for being the only post-Soviet country to recognize an Islamic party—the Islamic
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Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia

Performing Politics

by Madeleine Reeves, John Heathershaw, Eva-Marie Dubuisson, Aksana Ismailbekova, Alima Bissenova, Mateusz Laszczkowski, Ildiko Beller-Hann, Sarah Kendzior0, Tommaso Trevisani1, Morgan Yih-Yang Liu2, Cynthia Werner3, Kathleen Purvis-Roberts4 ...

With fresh and provocative insights into the everyday reality of politics in post-Soviet Central Asia, this volume moves beyond commonplaces about strong and weak states to ask critical questions about how democracy, authority, and justice are understood in this important region. In conversation with current theories of state power, the contributions draw on extensive ethnographic research in ... Read more

$9.99 USD

With fresh and provocative insights into the everyday reality of politics in post-Soviet Central Asia, this volume moves beyond commonplaces about strong and weak states to ask critical questions about how democracy, authority, and justice are understood in this important region. In conversation with current theories of state power, the contributions draw on extensive ethnographic research in
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The True Adventures of a Vagabond

by SA John J DePasquale CW3 (Ret) ...

The True Adventures of a Vagabond is the story of a young boy growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y. without a father and learning first hand street sense where nothing comes easy for survival in a big city and that would, curiously and eventually come in handy in his street-smart career as a Special Agent. His early years unwittingly started the chain of lifes events that would lead him to many foreign ... Read more

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The True Adventures of a Vagabond is the story of a young boy growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y. without a father and learning first hand street sense where nothing comes easy for survival in a big city and that would, curiously and eventually come in handy in his street-smart career as a Special Agent. His early years unwittingly started the chain of lifes events that would lead him to many foreign
... Read more

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