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Cities with 'slums' from informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa / by Huchzermeyer, Marie

Table of Contents: “…Informal settlements, global governance and Millennium Development Goal Seven Target 11 -- Urban competitiveness or improving poor people's lives: why 'Cities Without Slums'? …”
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The afterlife of Adam Smith : the influence, interpretation and misinterpretation of his economic philosophy, 1760s-2010s / by Farina, William, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Businessmen become revolutionaries (1764/1777) -- A new republic grapples with old issues (1778/1790) -- The british empire makes war against its offspring (1791/1815) -- Almost free labor (1816/1837) -- Might makes right (1838/1850) -- Northern industry tames southern agriculture (1851/1865) -- More competition, more oppression (1866/1877) -- The great american relocation (1878/1890) -- A clumsy foray into colonialism (1891/1901) -- Trustbuster (1901/1913) -- Anglo-american power shift (1914/1921) -- Ascendant consumerism (1922/1928) -- The implosion of ?…”
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Promoting the general welfare new perspectives on government performance /

Table of Contents: “…Fiorina -- Taking the Brandeis metaphor seriously : policy experimentation within a federal system / Mark Carl Rom -- The states as a laboratory : legal innovation and state competition for corporate charters / Roberta Romano -- Two perspectives on governmental underperformance / Eugene Bardach.…”
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Science and the university

Table of Contents: “…Freeman, Emily Jin, and Chia-Yu Shen -- Global research competition affects U.S. output / Diana M. Hicks -- The workforce for biomedical research-- who will do the work? …”
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Complex processes in new languages

Table of Contents: “…Economy, innovation and degrees of complexity in creole formation / Marlyse Baptista -- Competition and selection: that's all! / Enoch O. Aboh -- Complexity and the age of languages / Umberto Ansaldo and Sebastian Nordhoff -- Part VI. …”
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National space legislation in Europe issues of authorisation of private space activities in the light of developments in European space cooperation /

Table of Contents: “…Gerhard / Authorisation of space activities after the entry into force of the EU -- reform treaty -- B. Schmidt-Tedd / EU competition law and issues of national authorisation of private space activities -- L.J. …”
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The struggle in Black and brown African American and Mexican American relations during the civil rights era /

Table of Contents: “…Behnken -- Complicating the beloved community: the student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the National Farm Workers Association / Lauren Araiza -- The Neighborhood Adult Participation Project: Black-brown strife in the war on poverty in Los Angeles / Robert Bauman -- "Mexican versus negro approaches" to the war on poverty: Black-brown competition and the Office of Economic Opportunity in Texas / William Clayson -- Cesar and Martin, March '68 / Jorge Mariscal -- Black, brown, and poor: civil rights and the making of the Chicano movement / Gordon Mantler -- Brown-eyed soul: popular music and cultural politics in Los Angeles / Luis Alvarez and Daniel Widener -- Raising a neighborhood: informal networks between African American and Mexican American women in South Central Los Angeles / Abigail Rosas -- A new day in Babylon: African American and Mexican American relations at the dawn of the millennium / Matthew C. …”
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Sound in the age of mechanical reproduction

Table of Contents: “…Sound commerce -- "The people's orchestra" : jukeboxes as the measure of popular musical taste in the 1930s and 1940s / Chris Rasmussen -- Sounds local : the competition for space and place in early U.S. radio / Bill Kirkpatrick -- The sound of print : newspapers and the public promotion of early radio broadcasting in the United States / Michael Stamm.…”
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Change and execute how to transform and design your business for sustainable success / by Phillips, Kevin E.

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Putting Federalism in Its Place : The Territorial Politics of Social Policy Revisited / by Greer, Scott L., Dubin, Kenneth, Lecours, Andre, 1972-, Beland, Daniel

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Japan's bubble, deflation, and long-term stagnation

Table of Contents: “…Weinstein -- The Japanese asset price bubble : a heterogeneous approach / Robert Barsky -- Time of troubles : the yen and Japan's economy, 1985-2008 / Maurice Obstfeld -- The Japan-US exchange rate, productivity, and the competitiveness of Japanese industries / Robert Dekle and Kyoji Fukao, with the Assistance of Murat Ungor -- International financial integration and Japanese economic performance / Philip R. …”
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Congress Responds to the Twentieth Century /

Table of Contents: “…Oppenheimer -- The decline of competition and change in congressional elections / James E. …”
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Beyond the state : The colonial medical service in British Africa /

Table of Contents: “…Heaton -- 7 Social disease and social science: the intellectual influence of non-medical research on policy and practice in the Colonial Medical Service in Tanganyika and Uganda: Shane Doyle -- 8 Cooperation and competition: missions, the colonial state and constructing a health system in colonial Tanganyika: Michael Jennings -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Making Furniture in Preindustrial America : The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut / by Cooke, Edward S.

Table of Contents: “…List of Tables and Charts -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Need for the Artisanal Voice (starting p. 3) -- 1 The Preindustrial Joiner in Western Connecticut, 1760-1820 (starting p. 13) -- 2 The Social Economy of the Preindustrial Joiner (starting p. 33) -- 3 The Joiners of Newtown and Woodbury (starting p. 49) -- 4 Socioeconomic Structure in Newtown and Woodbury (starting p. 69) -- 5 Consumer Behavior in Newtown and Woodbury (starting p. 91) -- 6 Workmanship of Habit: The Furniture of Newtown (starting p. 118) -- 7 Workmanship of Competition: The Furniture of Woodbury (starting p. 151) -- Conclusion: The Response to Market Capitalism (starting p. 190) -- Appendix A: Biographies of Newtown Joiners, 1760-1820 (starting p. 201) -- Appendix B: Biographies of Woodbury Joiners, 1760-1820 (starting p. 217) -- Notes (starting p. 233) -- Glossary of Furniture Terms (starting p. 273) -- Note on Sources and Methods (starting p. 277) -- Index (starting p. 285)…”
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Moriz Rosenthal in word and music a legacy of the nineteenth century /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Review of a concert by M.R. in Manchester / Arthur Johnstone -- Rosenthaliana / Leonard Liebling -- The Diémer Competition, Paris [1903] / M.R. -- The bane of virtuosity (excerpt) / Lawrence Gilman -- From Music, the mystery and the reality / Paul Roës -- On Liszt's Don Juan fantasie / M.R. -- A stroll with Ferruccio Busoni / M.R. -- Mahleriana / M.R. -- Czar Alexander II / M.R. -- Review of a concert by M.R. / H.C.C. -- Letter to the editor / M.R. -- As others see us : H.C.C.'…”
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Antiphon the Athenian oratory, law, and justice in the age of the Sophists / by Gagarin, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Paradox and Play -- 4. Public Competition -- 5. Logos, Argument, Rhetoric -- 6. Relativism and Humanism -- 7. …”
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The relational economy geographies of knowing and learning / by Bathelt, Harald

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Thirty years of China-U.S. relations analytical approaches and contemporary issues /

Table of Contents: “…Thirty years of China-U.S. relations : reappraisal and reassessment / Baogang Guo and Sujian Guo -- Manipulating the "balance of power" : historical reappraisal of the Sino-U.S. rapprochement / Yongshin Kim -- The regional logic of China-U.S. rivalry / Yves-Heng Lim -- Cooperation for competition : China's strategic response to U.S. supremacy in East Asia / Li Mingjiang and Keith Eric Flick -- The Korean peninsula as a test bed for the future direction of Sino-U.S. relations : from structural realism to neoclassical realism and beyond / Ji-Yong Lee -- A complex interdependence : China-U.S. relations / Pei-Shan Kao -- A new era for U.S.…”
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