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Culture Studies

Gender Studies

Censoring Sexuality

Bailey Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781905422562, Seagull Books, May 2008
160 pp., 17.8x10.9 cm, 8 black&white illus.

Despite Western culture's roots and much touted pride in its classical Greek and Roman legacy, the sexual freedoms of the ancient world have had no place in the official cultures of Western societies. As late as the 19th Century, homosexuality was th...

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Political Science

America

Guerrilla Movements in Latin America

Gott Richard

ISBN: PB: 9781905422593, ISBN: HB: 9781905422586, Seagull Books, May 2008
632 pp., 23.6x16.2 cm, 40 halftones

Che Guevara's death began a legend and closed an era. Based directly on the documents produced by the guerrillas themselves, this is the first comprehensive history of that era. In theory, immense disparity in local wealth combined with the heavy h...

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Poetry

Purabi The East in its Feminine Gender

Tagore Rabindranath

ISBN: HB + CD: 9781905422739, Seagull Books, February 2008
178 pp., 19.6x15.8 cm

Purabi brings together 52 of Tagore's poems and songs. The collection reveals a very different Tagore from the one the West has come to know, bringing to light a passionate poet who celebrated the wonders of this earth instead of just pondering the m...

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Ecology

Anthropology

Forest Futures Global Representations and Ground Realities in the Himalayas

Linkenbach Antje

ISBN: PB: 9781905422524, ISBN: HB: 9781905422517, Seagull Books, February 2008
344 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 8 halftones, 4 maps, 10 tables, 13 figures

Under their slogan, "Ecology is permanent economy", the "Chipko Movement" drew world attention to the struggle over forest rights. Taking its name from the Hindi word for 'embrace', villagers hugged trees and prevented contractors´ from felling them....

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Ecology

Philosophy

Sick Planet

Debord Guy

ISBN: PB: 9781905422692, Seagull Books, February 2008
104 pp., 17.6x11 cm, 7 halftones

"All my life I have seen only troubled times, extreme divisions in society, and immense destruction; I have taken part in these troubles" – Guy Debord. Guy Debord is one of the 20th Century's most prophetic critics. His bestselling work, "Society of...

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