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The ten-thousand year fever rethinking human and wild primate malarias / by Cormier, Loretta A.

Table of Contents: “…Malaria as a Primate Disorder 2. Co-Evolution: Parasites, Vectors, and Hosts 3. Falciparum-Type: The Chimpanzee Malaria 4. …”
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Healthcare without borders : understanding Cuban medical internationalism / by Kirk, John M., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: setting the scene -- Origins and evolution: from "beggar's helper" to a "white-jacketed army" -- Elam, a school for all nations -- Dealing with the "handicapped" of ALBA: setting the balance right -- Operación milagro: bringing vision to millions -- Cuba's international disaster responses: from 1960s Chile to the 2005 Henry Reeve Brigade -- South-South cooperation in biotechnology: medicine for the masses -- The Cuba-Venezuela medical partnership: the Castro-Chávez dream lives on -- Cuba's role in Haiti: hurricanes, an earthquake, and cholera -- Cuba's medical internationalism in the South Pacific -- The children of Chernobyl: 25,000 treated -- Cuba's medical internationalism in El Salvador since Hurricane Ida -- Conclusion: no longer the world's best-kept secret.…”
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Church laws and ecumenism : a new path for Christian unity /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Norman Doe -- The evolution of the principles of Christian Law / Norman Doe -- Roman Catholic Canon Law / Aidan McGrath OFM and Robert Ombres OP -- The Law of the Eastern Catholic Churches / Astrid Kaptijn -- The Orthodox Canonical Tradition / Nikos Maghioros -- The Anglican Canonical Tradition / Mark Hill -- Lutheran Church Law / Andreas Aarflot -- Methodist Law and Discipline / John Harrod -- Reformed Church Order / Leon van den Broeke -- Presbyterian Polityand Practice / John Chalmers -- Baptist Church Polity / Paul Goodliff -- Pentecostal Church Polity / Paul Rochester -- The Polityofthe United and Uniting Churches / Leo J.Koffeman -- Conclusion / Aetios, Grand Ecclesiarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.…”
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Going to Court to Change Japan : Social Movements and the Law in Contemporary Japan /

Table of Contents: “…Steinhoff -- Karōshi activism and recent trends in Japanese civil society : creating credible knowledge and culture / Scott North -- Courting justice, contesting "bureaucratic informality" : the Sayama case and the evolution of Buraku liberation politics / John H. Davis, Jr. -- Becoming unforgettable : leveraging law for labor in struggles for employment security / Christena Turner -- Suing for redress : Japanese consumer organizations and the courts / Patricia L. …”
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Restoring the balance a Middle East strategy for the next president /

Table of Contents: “…Haass and Martin Indyk -- The evolution of Iraq strategy / Stephen Biddle, Michael E. …”
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OPEC and the world's energy future : its legacy and promise / by Alsahlawi, Mohammed A., 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Pre-OPEC -- OPEC evolution -- OPEC finds its way -- Internal rivalry -- External conflicts -- Saudi Arabia vs the US -- Energy and technology -- Technology effects -- The economics of energy technology -- Energy technology mix and future energy -- The economics of renewable energy -- Economics of unconventional oil and gas technologies -- Economics of energy demand technologies -- Economics of energy efficiency technologies -- Changes and challenges -- Forces at work -- Challenges to OPEC -- OPEC's strategies -- OPEC future -- Energy future -- OPEC gloomy future -- A world without OPEC -- Qatar and natural gas -- Oil spill in the Gulf -- Kuwait oil fires -- Oil price crashes -- OPEC and Iran-Iraq war -- Coronavirus (COVID-19) -- What is the point of OPEC -- Energy future.…”
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Future NATO : adapting to new realities /

Table of Contents: “…Breedlove -- NATO as a partner / Malcolm Chalmers -- The evolution of the Russian threat to NATO / Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jeffrey Edmonds -- NATO's China challenge / Janka Oertel -- NATO and its southern flank / Ziya Meral -- NATO's maritime domain / Keith Blount and James Henry Bergeron -- Maintaining NATO's technological edge / Tim Sweijs and Frans Osinga -- NATO's nuclear posture and arms control / Corentin Brustlein -- The need for the alliance to adapt further / Heinrich Brauss.…”
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The European financial crisis : debt, growth, and economic policy / by Godby, Robert

Table of Contents: “…The flawed sociopolitical architecture of the Eurozone -- Part III. Evolution of the Euro crisis -- 5. Flight of the bumblebee: precrisis structural imbalances and their influence in the Eurozone -- 6. …”
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Global perspectives on industrial transformation in the American South

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The oestrid flies biology, host-parasite relationships, impact and management /

Table of Contents: “…Roncalli Amici -- Phylogeny and evolution of bot flies / T. Pape -- Molecular phylogeny and identification / D. …”
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Beyond preemption force and legitimacy in a changing world /

Table of Contents: “…Steinberg -- Military force against terrorism : questions of legitimacy, dilemmas of efficacy / Bruce W. Jentleson -- The evolution of humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect / Susan E. …”
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From pews to polling places faith and politics in the American religious mosaic /

Table of Contents: “…: religious diversity and Latino political attitudes and behaviors / Louis Desipio -- The evolution of Jewish pluralism : public opinion and political preferences of American Jews / Paul A. …”
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Brazil a century of change /

Table of Contents: “…A cartographic and statistical portrait of twentieth-century Brazil / Hervé Thery -- Traces of the big house and the slave quarters: social transformation in rural Brazil during the twentieth century / Afrânio Garcia, Moacir Palmeira -- Economic evolution and the international connection / Paulo Singer -- Brazil and the world / Celso Lafer -- Culture and society / Renato Ortiz -- From the patrimonial state to the managerial state / Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira -- Political transition and the (un)rule of law in the republic / Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro -- Federalism and national identity / Aspásia Camargo -- Amazonia: past progress and future prospects / José Seixas Lourenço -- The northeast: five hundred years of discoveries / Cristovam Buarque -- When the future arrives / Celso Furtado -- The challenges of the globalized economy / Gilberto Dupas -- Metropolises and the far west in the twenty-first century / Jorge Wilheim -- Quo Vadis, Brazil? …”
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Risk management foundations for a changing financial world /

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Practical enterprise risk management a business process approach / by Duckert, Gregory H., 1949-

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Business in the cloud what every business needs to know about cloud computing / by Hugos, Michael H.

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Advanced control of aircraft, rockets, and spacecraft by Tewari, Ashish

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Birth of a market the U.S. Treasury securities market from the Great War to the Great Depression / by Garbade, Kenneth D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : before the Great War -- The payments system before World War I -- Treasury debt management before World War I : financing the Great War -- Treasury finance during World War I -- Designing the liberty loans -- Marketing the liberty loans -- Treasury cash management : certificates of indebtedness -- Treasury cash management : war loan deposit accounts -- Federal Reserve support of the treasury market during World War I -- Coda on treasury debt management during World War I : paying down the war debt -- Treasury finance during the 1920s -- Paying down the war debt -- Revival of the over-the-counter market -- Evolution of the primary market and the introduction of treasury bills -- Coda on treasury debt management during the 1920s : the Great Depression -- Treasury finance during the Great Depression -- Non-marketable treasury debt -- Treasury debt management during the great contraction -- Treasury debt management during the new deal -- The primary market during the Great Depression -- Statutory control of treasury indebtedness -- The brief revival and subsequent extinction of national bank notes -- Coda on treasury debt management during the Great Depression -- Treasury debt management since 1939.…”
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Transatlantic Scots

Table of Contents: “…Transatlantic Scots and ethnicity / Celeste Ray -- Scottish immigration and ethnic organization in the United States / Celeste Ray -- A brief history of organized Scottishness in Canada / Michael Vance -- From the Quebec-Hebrideans to "les écossais-québécois" : tracing the evolution of a Scottish cultural identity in Canada's eastern townships / Margaret Bennett -- Powerful pathos : the triumph of Scottishness in Nova Scotia / Michael Vance -- You play it as you would sing it : Cape Breton, Scottishness, and the means of cultural production / Jonathan Dembling -- The North American émigré, highland games, and social capital in international communities / Grant Jarvie -- Troubling times in the Scottish-American relationship / Andrew Hook -- Bravehearts and patriarchs : masculinity on the pedestal in southern Scottish heritage celebration / Celeste Ray -- Finding Colonsay's emigrants and a "heritage of place" / John W. …”
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International security and war politics and grand strategy in the 21st century /

Table of Contents: “…Gray -- The utility of strategy / Hew Strachan -- The evolution of strategic thought since the 19th century : the German Moltke-Schlieffen-Ludendorff-triad vs. …”
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