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And what innovative practices and new (or reinvigorated) theory may emerge from attention to the Global South

and an all-new section on social policy frames the current debate about the Social Security system

the book investigates why officials and analysts continue to portray the defence of Japan’s sea lanes as ‘a matter of life and death’

Recent studies of vocal development in infants have shed new light on old questions of how the speech capacity is founded and how it may have evolved in the human species

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