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Foreign affairs litigation in United States courts /

Table of Contents: “…Stephan -- Non-state actors and the Alien Tort Claims Act / Ralph Steinhardt -- Equity, damages, and the rule of law / Baher Azmy -- The act of state doctrine in recent "looted" art litigation / Allan Gerson -- Foreign affairs takings : the question of foreign plaintiff standing / Douglas J. …”
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Intergovernmental management for the twenty-first century

Table of Contents: “…Posner -- Intergovernmental lobbying : how opportunistic actors create a less structured and balanced federal system / Troy E. …”
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Foreign affairs litigation in United States courts /

Table of Contents: “…Stephan -- Non-state actors and the Alien Tort Claims Act / Ralph Steinhardt -- Equity, damages, and the rule of law / Baher Azmy -- The act of state doctrine in recent "looted" art litigation / Allan Gerson -- Foreign affairs takings : the question of foreign plaintiff standing / Douglas J. …”
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The Future of Scholarly Publishing : Open Access and the Economics of Digitisation /

Table of Contents: “…Recommendations, statements, declarations and activities of science policy actors on shaping the scholarly communication system / Ulrich Herb -- 7. …”
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Chinese Heritage in the Making : Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations /

Table of Contents: “…Mapping the Chinese heritage regime: ruptures, governmentality, and agency / Marina Svensson and Christina Maags -- Section I: Re-imagining the past: contested memories and contemporary issues -- Telling stories in a borderland: the evolving life of Ma Bufang's official residence / Susette Cooke -- From a symbol of imperialistic penetration to a site of cultural heritage: the 'Italian-style exotic district' in Tianjin / Hong Zhang -- Historic urban landscape in Beijing: the Gulou project and its contested memories / Florence Graezer Bideau and Haiming Yan -- Section II: Celebrating and experiencing the cultural heritage: top-down and bottom-up processes and negotiations -- Creating a race to the top: hierarchies and competition within the Chinese ICH transmitters system / Christina Maags -- Heritagizing the Chaozhou Hungry Ghosts Festival in Hong Kong / Selina Chan -- Recognition and misrecognition: the politics of intangible cultural heritage in Southwest China / Tami Blumenfield -- Holy heritage: identity and authenticity in a Tibetan village / Sonja Laukkanen -- Section III: Public debates in heritage work: possibilities and limitations for plural voices and new forms of engagements -- Heritage visions of Mayor Geng Yanbo: re-creating the city of Datong / Jinze Cui -- The revitalization of Zhizhu Temple: policies, actors, and debates / Lui Tam -- Heritage 2.0: maintaining affective engagements with the local heritage in Taishun / Marina Svensson.…”
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The Future of Scholarly Publishing : Open Access and the Economics of Digitisation /

Table of Contents: “…Recommendations, statements, declarations and activities of science policy actors on shaping the scholarly communication system / Ulrich Herb -- 7. …”
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Chinese Heritage in the Making : Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations /

Table of Contents: “…Mapping the Chinese heritage regime: ruptures, governmentality, and agency / Marina Svensson and Christina Maags -- Section I: Re-imagining the past: contested memories and contemporary issues -- Telling stories in a borderland: the evolving life of Ma Bufang's official residence / Susette Cooke -- From a symbol of imperialistic penetration to a site of cultural heritage: the 'Italian-style exotic district' in Tianjin / Hong Zhang -- Historic urban landscape in Beijing: the Gulou project and its contested memories / Florence Graezer Bideau and Haiming Yan -- Section II: Celebrating and experiencing the cultural heritage: top-down and bottom-up processes and negotiations -- Creating a race to the top: hierarchies and competition within the Chinese ICH transmitters system / Christina Maags -- Heritagizing the Chaozhou Hungry Ghosts Festival in Hong Kong / Selina Chan -- Recognition and misrecognition: the politics of intangible cultural heritage in Southwest China / Tami Blumenfield -- Holy heritage: identity and authenticity in a Tibetan village / Sonja Laukkanen -- Section III: Public debates in heritage work: possibilities and limitations for plural voices and new forms of engagements -- Heritage visions of Mayor Geng Yanbo: re-creating the city of Datong / Jinze Cui -- The revitalization of Zhizhu Temple: policies, actors, and debates / Lui Tam -- Heritage 2.0: maintaining affective engagements with the local heritage in Taishun / Marina Svensson.…”
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10th Nordic conference on construction economics and organization /

Table of Contents: “…: a structural analysis -- Quality evaluation of contractor's schedule in the bidding phase -- Activity cruciality as measure of network schedule structure resilience -- Construction programmes and programming: a critical review -- Procurement research: current state and future challenges in the Nordic countries -- Exploitative learning in inter-organizational projects: evidence from dutch infrastructure practices -- The transition from design-bid-build contracts to design-build -- Exploring the dynamics of supplier innovation diffusion -- Understanding collaborative working in a facilitated interdisciplinary environment -- Ensuring successful knowledge transfer in building renovation projects -- Public private collaboration in the context of zero emission neighbourhood -- Strategizing and project management in construction projects: an exploratory literature review -- Building information, data and digitalization -- BIM-enabled education: A systematic literature review -- A BIM-enabled learning environment: a conceptual framework -- "I work all day with automation in construction: I am a sociomaterial-designer" -- Developing smart services to smart campus -- An overview of BIM adoption in the construction industry: benefits and barriers -- BIM for construction education: initial findings from a literature review -- Model for smart, self-learning and adaptive resilience building -- Investigating the drop-out rate from a BIM course -- Innovations in the construction process -- Senior residence concepts in Norway: challenges and actions for a sustainable development -- 3D-printing technology in construction: results from a survey -- Product and manufacturing systems alignment: a case study in the timber house building industry -- Opening the black box of accessibility regulation -- Orchestrating multi-actor collaborative innovation across organizational boundaries -- Sustainability and resource efficiency -- Social sustainability in modelling of value creation in housing refurbishment -- Reviewing the role of sustainability professionals in construction -- Exploring the evolution and impact of building environment assessment methods in achieving green building -- Stakeholders of construction and real estate -- Challenging the rhetoric of construction briefing: insights from a formula 1 sports venue -- Underlying causes for risk taking behaviour among construction workers -- Towards developing a framework for user-driven innovation in refurbishment -- Reconstructing knowledge integration in the Norwegian AEC-industry -- Institutional complexity for Chinese international contractors -- Built environments -- BIM related innovation in healthcare precinct design and facilities management -- Location is crucial in retrofit: strategy selection in different regions -- Construction education and research -- From theoretical to practical competence on health and safety -- A test platform of viable methods to improve production and learning on construction sites.…”
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10th Nordic conference on construction economics and organization /

Table of Contents: “…: a structural analysis -- Quality evaluation of contractor's schedule in the bidding phase -- Activity cruciality as measure of network schedule structure resilience -- Construction programmes and programming: a critical review -- Procurement research: current state and future challenges in the Nordic countries -- Exploitative learning in inter-organizational projects: evidence from dutch infrastructure practices -- The transition from design-bid-build contracts to design-build -- Exploring the dynamics of supplier innovation diffusion -- Understanding collaborative working in a facilitated interdisciplinary environment -- Ensuring successful knowledge transfer in building renovation projects -- Public private collaboration in the context of zero emission neighbourhood -- Strategizing and project management in construction projects: an exploratory literature review -- Building information, data and digitalization -- BIM-enabled education: A systematic literature review -- A BIM-enabled learning environment: a conceptual framework -- "I work all day with automation in construction: I am a sociomaterial-designer" -- Developing smart services to smart campus -- An overview of BIM adoption in the construction industry: benefits and barriers -- BIM for construction education: initial findings from a literature review -- Model for smart, self-learning and adaptive resilience building -- Investigating the drop-out rate from a BIM course -- Innovations in the construction process -- Senior residence concepts in Norway: challenges and actions for a sustainable development -- 3D-printing technology in construction: results from a survey -- Product and manufacturing systems alignment: a case study in the timber house building industry -- Opening the black box of accessibility regulation -- Orchestrating multi-actor collaborative innovation across organizational boundaries -- Sustainability and resource efficiency -- Social sustainability in modelling of value creation in housing refurbishment -- Reviewing the role of sustainability professionals in construction -- Exploring the evolution and impact of building environment assessment methods in achieving green building -- Stakeholders of construction and real estate -- Challenging the rhetoric of construction briefing: insights from a formula 1 sports venue -- Underlying causes for risk taking behaviour among construction workers -- Towards developing a framework for user-driven innovation in refurbishment -- Reconstructing knowledge integration in the Norwegian AEC-industry -- Institutional complexity for Chinese international contractors -- Built environments -- BIM related innovation in healthcare precinct design and facilities management -- Location is crucial in retrofit: strategy selection in different regions -- Construction education and research -- From theoretical to practical competence on health and safety -- A test platform of viable methods to improve production and learning on construction sites.…”
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The new Black gods Arthur Huff Fauset and the study of African American religions /

Table of Contents: “…Johnson -- The perpetual primitive in African American religious historiography / Kathryn Lofton -- Turning African Americans into rational actors : the important legacy of Fauset's functionalism / Carolyn Rouse -- Defining the "Negro problem" in Brazil : the shifting significance of Brazil's African heritage from the 1890s to the 1940s / Kelly E. …”
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Social and ecological history of the Pyrenees state, market, and landscape /

Table of Contents: “…Management of environment and landscapes in mountain areas : social representations, actors, and institutions in a regional national park / Pierre Dérioz -- 13. …”
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Russia's penal colony in the Far East a translation of Vlas Doroshevich's "Sakhalin" / by Doroshevich, V. M. (Vlas Mikhaĭlovich), 1864-1922

Table of Contents: “…Portraits of Sakhalin -- First impressions -- The infirmary -- The Katorga cemetery -- A day in prison -- The chains prison -- The free prison -- Workshops -- "Aid station" -- The women's prison -- The isolators -- "Reformed" -- Two Odessans -- The murderers (a married couple) -- Grebeniuk and his homestead -- Paklin (from my notebook) -- Settlements (the exile-settlers) -- The female cohabitant -- The male cohabitant -- Those who've voluntarily followed -- The homeowners -- Reztsov -- Freemen on Sakhalin -- The Katorga theater -- Katorga actors -- The Brodiaga Sokolsky -- Crimes in Korsakovsk District -- Departure -- Real Katorga -- The capital of Sakhalin -- Aleksandrovsk post -- Sentenced to penal labor -- Who runs Katorga? …”
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The new Black gods Arthur Huff Fauset and the study of African American religions /

Table of Contents: “…Johnson -- The perpetual primitive in African American religious historiography / Kathryn Lofton -- Turning African Americans into rational actors : the important legacy of Fauset's functionalism / Carolyn Rouse -- Defining the "Negro problem" in Brazil : the shifting significance of Brazil's African heritage from the 1890s to the 1940s / Kelly E. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Social and ecological history of the Pyrenees state, market, and landscape /

Table of Contents: “…Management of environment and landscapes in mountain areas : social representations, actors, and institutions in a regional national park / Pierre Dérioz -- 13. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Russia's penal colony in the Far East a translation of Vlas Doroshevich's "Sakhalin" / by Doroshevich, V. M. (Vlas Mikhaĭlovich), 1864-1922

Table of Contents: “…Portraits of Sakhalin -- First impressions -- The infirmary -- The Katorga cemetery -- A day in prison -- The chains prison -- The free prison -- Workshops -- "Aid station" -- The women's prison -- The isolators -- "Reformed" -- Two Odessans -- The murderers (a married couple) -- Grebeniuk and his homestead -- Paklin (from my notebook) -- Settlements (the exile-settlers) -- The female cohabitant -- The male cohabitant -- Those who've voluntarily followed -- The homeowners -- Reztsov -- Freemen on Sakhalin -- The Katorga theater -- Katorga actors -- The Brodiaga Sokolsky -- Crimes in Korsakovsk District -- Departure -- Real Katorga -- The capital of Sakhalin -- Aleksandrovsk post -- Sentenced to penal labor -- Who runs Katorga? …”
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Trading Places : Accessing land in African cities / by Napier, Mark

Table of Contents: “…; Understanding urban growth; The meaning and value of land; Putting land markets into perspective; Factors constraining the debate; Ways of seeing markets; From basic land to complex land markets; Endnotes; Chapter 2 -- Defining markets: A set of transactionsbetween actors; Urban areas as the location for market activity; The nature of land markets in urban areas; Shortcomings of state regulated markets.…”
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Big Water : The Making of the Borderlands Between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay /

Table of Contents: “…Jesuit Missions and the Guarani Ethnogenesis: Political Interactions, Indigenous Actors, and Regional Networks on the Southern Frontier of the Iberian Empires / Guillermo Wilde -- Part II. …”
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Trading Places : Accessing land in African cities / by Napier, Mark

Table of Contents: “…; Understanding urban growth; The meaning and value of land; Putting land markets into perspective; Factors constraining the debate; Ways of seeing markets; From basic land to complex land markets; Endnotes; Chapter 2 -- Defining markets: A set of transactionsbetween actors; Urban areas as the location for market activity; The nature of land markets in urban areas; Shortcomings of state regulated markets.…”
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Big Water : The Making of the Borderlands Between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay /

Table of Contents: “…Jesuit Missions and the Guarani Ethnogenesis: Political Interactions, Indigenous Actors, and Regional Networks on the Southern Frontier of the Iberian Empires / Guillermo Wilde -- Part II. …”
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Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origins A Methodological Overview /

Table of Contents: “…Researching the Spanish Second Generation in Switzerland: Marina Richter and Michael Nollert -- 14: Mapping Transnational Networks of Care from a Multi-Actor and Multi-sited Perspective: Valentina Mazzucato, Ernestina Dankyi, Miranda Poeze -- 15 Index.…”
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