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Fair and foul beyond the myths and paradoxes of sport / by Eitzen, D. Stanley

Table of Contents: “…Myth and Reality -- Chapter 11: Professional Sports Franchises: Public Teams, Private Businesses -- Chapter 12: The Globalization of Sport -- Chapter 13: The Challenge: Changing Sport -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.…”
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The business solution to poverty designing products and services for three billion new customers / by Polak, Paul

Table of Contents: “…-- Why business is best equipped to fight global poverty -- Zero-based design and the bottom billions -- What to do before you launch your business -- The ruthless pursuit of affordability -- Zero-based design in practice : low-cost drip irrigation -- Design for the market -- Zero-based design in practice : a cautionary tale -- Design for scale -- Zero-based design in practice: safe drinking water for small villages -- Design for delivery the last 500 feet -- Building a mission-driven global business -- Opportunities abound -- It's your turn now -- Resources : takeaways and what we say to critics -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- Index.…”
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Gesture and Power : Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo / by Covington-Ward, Yolanda, 1979-

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Gesture and Power : Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo / by Covington-Ward, Yolanda, 1979-

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Crowds and democracy : the idea and image of the masses from revolution to fascism / by Jonsson, Stefan, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introducing the Masses : Vienna, 15 July 1927 (Elias Canetti -- Alfred Vierkandt -- Hannah Arendt -- Karl Kraus -- Heimito von Doderer) -- Shooting Psychosis -- Not a Word About the Bastille -- Explaining the Crowd -- Representing Social Passions -- A Work of Madness -- Invincibles -- Mirror for Princes -- Workers on the Run -- Lashing -- Authority Versus Anarchy : Allegories of the Mass in Sociology and Literature (Georg Simmel -- Werner Sombart -- Fritz Lang -- Leopold von Wiese -- Wilhelm Vleugels -- Gerhard Colm -- Max Weber -- Theodor Geiger -- August Sander -- Hermann Broch -- Ernst Toller -- Rainer Maria Rilke) -- The Missing Chapter -- Georg Simmel's Masses -- In Metropolis -- The Architecture of Society -- Steak Tartare -- Delta Formations -- Alarm Bells of History -- Sleepwalkers -- I Am Mass -- Rilke in the Revolution -- The Revolving Nature of the Social : Primal Hordes and Crowds Without Qualities (Sigmund Freud -- Hans Kelsen -- Theodor Adorno -- Wilhelm Reich -- Siegfried Kracauer -- Bertolt Brecht -- Alfred Doblin -- Georg Grosz -- Robert Musil) -- Sigmund Freud Between Individual and Society -- Masses Inside -- In Love with Many -- Primal Hordes -- Masses and Myths -- The Destruction of the Person -- The Flaneur-Medium of Modernity -- Ornaments of the People -- Beyond the Bourgeoisie -- Shapeless Lives -- Organizing the Passions -- Collective Vision : A Matrix for New Art and Politics (Laszlo Moholy-Nagy -- Marianne Brandt -- Walter Benjamin -- Ernst Junger -- Edmund Schultz -- Willi Munzenberg -- Der Arbeiter-Fotograf -- Erwin Piscator -- Walther Gropius) -- Mass Psychosis and Photoplastics -- Johanna in the Revolution -- A Socialist Eye -- The Secret Code of the Nineteenth Century -- Speaking Commodities -- Deus ex Machina -- Democracy's Veil -- The Face of the Masses -- Learning to Hold a Camera -- The Gaze of the Masses -- Total Theater -- Coda: Remnants of Weimar.…”
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Environment, society and the Black Death : an interdisciplinary approach to the late-medieval crisis in Sweden /

Table of Contents: “…Conclusions in a wider perspective -- Environment-society interactions / Per Lagerås -- Studying the late-medieval crisis : reflections on research perspectives / Lars Ersgård -- Epidemics in a social context / Caroline Arcini -- Summary of conclusions / Per Lagerås -- Author presentations -- Appendix 1: Pollen sites -- Appendix 2: Osteological stature data -- Appendix 3: Isotope data.…”
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Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World /

Table of Contents: “…Wellcome Library London; Figure 8.1 Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi), Judith, c. 1464, bronze, located between mid-1460s and 1495 in the garden of Palazzo Medici, today in the Sala dei Gigli, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Photo: author…”
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Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World /

Table of Contents: “…Wellcome Library London; Figure 8.1 Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi), Judith, c. 1464, bronze, located between mid-1460s and 1495 in the garden of Palazzo Medici, today in the Sala dei Gigli, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Photo: author…”
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Cocaine : From Coca Fields to the Streets /

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Cocaine : From Coca Fields to the Streets /

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Personal Effects

Table of Contents: “…Salvio -- Knowledge has a face : the Jewish, the personal, and the pedagogical / Susan Handelman -- Who was that masked author? : the faces of academic editing / Louise Z. …”
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Personal Effects /

Table of Contents: “…Salvio -- Knowledge has a face : the Jewish, the personal, and the pedagogical / Susan Handelman -- Who was that masked author? : the faces of academic editing / Louise Z. …”
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Personal Effects /

Table of Contents: “…Salvio -- Knowledge has a face : the Jewish, the personal, and the pedagogical / Susan Handelman -- Who was that masked author? : the faces of academic editing / Louise Z. …”
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Nature, environment and culture in East Asia the challenge of climate change /

Table of Contents: “…/ Alexander Ruser -- Energy and Climate Change in China / Carlo Carraro & Emanuele Massetti -- List of Names and Subjects in Non-Latin Scripts -- Contributing Authors.…”
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Integral polity : integrating nature, culture, technology and economy / by Lessem, Ronnie

Table of Contents: “…About author -- Prologue: an introduction to integral polity : nature, culture, society, economy -- In pursuit of integrity -- Disintegrated to integral polity -- The origins of political order -- Natural and communal orientation : southern polity -- Natural grounding : constituting Africa -- Natural emergence : tradition and modernity -- Communal navigation: development and auto/centricity -- Natural Rapoko effect : food security at Zimbabwe's Chinyika -- Cultural and spiritual orientation : Eastern polity -- Spiritual grounding : India's human cycle -- Cultural and spiritual emergence : spiral dynamics -- Cultural, political and economic navigation : three/folding -- Conscious, powerful, economic effect : Sri Lanka's sarvodaya -- Technological and societal orientation : northern polity -- Social and political grounding : Europe living in truth -- Emergent innovation : technology, management, aesthetics -- Navigation : self management/cooperative association -- Social and technical effect : integral green Slovenia -- Economic and environmental orientation : western polity -- Environmental and economic grounding : the American soul -- Natural, cultural, social, economic emergence : future primal -- Political and environmental navigation : politics of nature -- Economic and environmental effect : Brazil's curitiba -- Nature, culture, society and economy : centering polity -- Integral ground : Holy Quaran : start sustainable development -- Emergent integral : harmony : sustainable development anew -- Integral navigation : the potential of the Arab spring -- Integral effect : sekem : integral sustainable development -- Epilogue.…”
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Indigenous Textual Cultures : Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire /

Table of Contents: “…Developing and maintaining literacy in Papua New Guinea / Evelyn Ellerman -- Colonial copyright, customs, and indigenous textualities : literary authority and textual citzenship / Isabel Hofmeyr -- He Pukapuka Tataku i ngā Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui : reading Te Rauparaha through time / Arini Loader -- Writing and beyond in indigenous North America : The Occom network / Ivy Schweitzer.…”
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Indigenous Textual Cultures : Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire /

Table of Contents: “…Developing and maintaining literacy in Papua New Guinea / Evelyn Ellerman -- Colonial copyright, customs, and indigenous textualities : literary authority and textual citzenship / Isabel Hofmeyr -- He Pukapuka Tataku i ngā Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui : reading Te Rauparaha through time / Arini Loader -- Writing and beyond in indigenous North America : The Occom network / Ivy Schweitzer.…”
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Automation, innovation and work : the impact of technological, economic, and social singularity / by Johannessen, Jon-Arild

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Migration, intercultural identities and border regions (19th and 20th centuries) Migration, identités interculturelles et espaces frontaliers (XIXe et XXe siècles) /

Table of Contents: “…Naipaul / Florence Labaune-Demeule -- Les images de l'immigra Flamand dans la litterature dialectale Wallonne avant 1914 : leur contribution a la construction d'une identite collective / Yves Quairiaux -- Borders -- Traverser les frontires dans le Montreal de bonheur d'occasion / Chiara Bignamini-Verhoeven -- The border revisited : analysis of space in Rolando Hinojosa's novel the Valley / An Van Hecke -- Transfrontalier migration between Belgium and France from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century / Timothy Baycroft -- A tragic vision of the contact zone : memories of my ghost brother and the challenge to theory / Stephen Joyce -- Interculturality -- L'identite interculturelle du migrant Belge en France : une analyse discursive des chansons populaires / Elien Declercq -- Variations sur une acculturation rebours : Jehan d'Ivray et Valentine de Saint-Point, deux francises en Égypte / Élodie Gaden -- Migrant literature and irony : copi's deconstruction of national identity in la internacional Argentina / Silvana Mandolessi -- Jouer Marseille : quelle interculturalita (1820-1914) / Celine Regnard -- About the authors.…”
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The Unequal Pandemic : COVID-19 and Health Inequalities / by Bambra, C. (Clare), Smith, Katherine E., Lynch, Julia, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover -- Endorsement -- The Unequal Pandemic: COVID- 19 and Health Inequalities -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures and tables -- About the authors -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface -- ONE Introduction: perfect storm -- COVID-19: the unequal pandemic -- Health inequalities -- Perfect storm: syndemic pandemic37 -- The rest of the book -- Chapter Two, 'Pale rider: pandemic inequalities' -- Chapter Three, 'Collateral damage: inequalities in the lockdown' -- Chapter Four, 'Pandemic precarity: inequalities in the economic crisis'…”
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