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Political economies of the Aegean Bronze Age papers from the Langford Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 22-24 February 2007 /

Table of Contents: “…Pullen -- Beyond the peer: social interaction and political evolution in the Bronze age Aegean / William A. Parkinson -- Spirit of place: Minoan houses as major actors / Jan Driessen -- Making elites: political economy and elite culture(s) in middle Minoan Crete / Ilse Schoep -- From the kinship economy to the palatial economy: the Argolid in the second millennium BC / Sofia Voutsaki -- Political economies in ritual: a comparative study of the rise of the state in pre- and protopalatial Knossos and Phaistos / Joanne M.A. …”
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Castles, battles, & bombs how economics explains military history / by Brauer, Jurgen, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Economics -- Economics -- Principle I: Opportunity cost -- Principle II: Expected marginal costs and benefits -- Principle III: Substitution -- Principle IV: Diminishing marginal returns -- Principle V: asymmetric information and hidden characteristics -- Principle VI: Hidden actions and incentive alignments -- Conclusion: economics--and military history -- The high Middle Ages, 1000-1300: The case of the medieval castle and the opportunity cost of warfare -- Opportunity cost and warfare -- The ubiquity of castles -- The cost of castling -- The advantages of castles -- The cost of armies -- Castle building and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The Renaissance, 1300-1600: the case of the condottieri and the military labor market -- The principal-agent problem -- Demand, supply, and recruitment -- Contracts and pay -- Control and contract evolution -- The development of permanent armies -- Condottieri and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of battle, 1618-1815: the case of costs, benefits, and the decision to offer battle -- Expected marginal costs and benefits of battle -- The 1600s: Gustavus Adolphus and Raimondo de Montecuccoli -- The 1700s: Marlborough, de Saxe, and Frederick the Great -- Napoleonic warfare -- The age of battle and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of revolution, 1789-1914: the case of the American Civil War and the economics of information asymmetry -- Information and warfare -- North, South, and the search for information -- Major Eastern campaigns through Gettysburg -- Grant in Virginia -- The American Civil War and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of the world wars, 1914-1945: the case of diminishing marginal returns to the strategic bombing of Germany in World War II -- A strategic bombing production function -- Bombing German war production -- Bombing the supply chain and the civilian economy -- Bombing German morale -- Assessing the effect of strategic bombing -- Strategic bombing and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of the Cold War, 1945-1991: the case of capital-labor substitution and France's Force de Frappe -- History of the Force de Frappe -- The force post-De Gaulle -- Justifying the force -- The force's effect on France's conventional arms -- Substituting nuclear for conventional forces -- The Force de Frappe and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- Economics and military history in the twenty-first century -- Economics of terrorism -- Economics of military manpower -- Economics of private military companies -- Economics, historiography, and military history -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.…”
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Extending the frontiers essays on the new transatlantic slave trade database /

Table of Contents: “…Map of the transatlantic slave trade, 1501-1867 -- A new assessment of the transatlantic slave trade / David Eltis and David Richardson -- Origins and destinations -- The foundations of the system: a reassessment of the slave trade to the Spanish Americas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / António de Almeida Mendes -- The slave trade to Pernambuco, 1561-1851 / Daniel Barros Domingues da Silva and David Eltis -- The transatlantic slave trade to Bahia, 1582-1851 / Alexandre Vieira Ribeiro -- The origins of slaves leaving the Upper Guinea coast in the nineteenth century / Philip Misevich -- The African origins of slaves arriving in Cuba, 1789-1865 / Oscar Grandío Moráguez -- National slave trades -- The significance of the French slave trade to the evolution of the French Atlantic world before 1716 / James Pritchard, David Eltis, and David Richardson -- The Dutch in the Atlantic world: new perspectives from the slave trade with particular reference to the African origins of the traffic / Jelmer Vos, David Eltis, and David Richardson -- The slave trade of northern Germany from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries / Andrea Weindl -- Some wider consequences and implications of the new data -- The slave trade, colonial markets, and slave families in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ca. 1790-ca. 1830 / Manolo Florentino -- The suppression of the slave trade and slave departures from Angola, 1830s-1860s / Roquinaldo Ferreira -- The demographic decline of Caribbean slave populations: new evidence from the transatlantic and intra-American slave trades / David Eltis and Paul Lachance.…”
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Physiology and biochemistry of extremophiles

Table of Contents: “…Marion and Dirk Schulze-Makuch -- Extremophiles, a unique resource of biocatalysts for industrial biotechnology / Garabed Antranikian and Ksenia Egorova -- Lessons from extremophiles: early evolution and border conditions of life / Ying Xu and Nicolas Glansdorff.…”
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Gameplay mode war, simulation, and technoculture / by Crogan, Patrick

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The struggle for equality essays on sectional conflict, the Civil War, and the long reconstruction /

Table of Contents: “…Flipper, USMA 1877 / Tom Carhart -- For god and lodge : black fraternal orders and the evolution of African American religion in the postbellum South / John M. …”
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Biomedical materials and diagnostic devices

Table of Contents: “….] -- Intelligent drug delivery systems for cancer therapy / Mousa Jafari ... [et al.] -- The evolution of abdominal wall reconstruction and the role of nonobiotecnology in the development of intelligent abdominal wall mesh / Cherif Boutros, Hany F. …”
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Water law and cooperation in the Euphrates-Tigris region : a comparative and interdisciplinary approach /

Table of Contents: “…Johannes Cullmann -- Water law in Iraq : the present model for water resources protection / Yadgar Kamal Ahmmad -- Water management laws in the Syrian Arab Republic / Rana Kharouf-Gaudig -- Legal context in water management policy in Turkey : evolution of a complex framework in three stages / Vakur Sumer -- EU water law and its relevance for the Euphrates and Tigris region / Ulrich Beyerlin -- Procedural system of transboundary water cooperation in the Aral Sea basin / Dinara Ziganshina -- The Jordan River : legal and institutional aspects / Marwan Haddad -- The Amazon River Basin : features, history and legal framework / Lilian del Castillo-Laborde -- International cooperation to protect the Rhine River : lessons to be learned for the Euphrates and Tigris region? …”
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Mediating culture in the seventeenth-century German novel : Eberhard Werner Happel, 1647-1690 / by Scholz Williams, Gerhild, 1942-

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Informatics in the Future Proceedings of the 11th European Computer Science Summit (ECSS 2015), Vienna, October 2015 /

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NATO and transatlantic relations in the 21st century : foreign and security policy perspectives /

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The biological resources of model organisms /

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Indigenous conflict management strategies : global perspectives / by Adebayo, A. G. (Akanmu Gafari), 1956-, Benjamin, Jesse J., Lundy, Brandon D., 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Lundy -- The changing roles of traditional institutions in conflict management : a historical perspective from the Bamenda grassfields, Cameroon / Walter Gam Nkwi -- Jirga an indigenous institution for peace building in the Pukhtoon belt of Pakistan / Ali Gohar -- FATA : finding common ground in uncommon places / Paul Paterson -- Mesopotamia's indigenous revival : political discourse, imagined sovereignty, and contemporary Kurdish representations of identity / Haluk Baran Bingol and Jesse Benjamin -- Socio-political change and the evolution of irrigation disputes in rural China : the Jianghan Plain, 1870s-2011 / Jiayan Zhang -- Conclusion : culture and conflict management : the need for a paradigm shift / Debarati Sen, Ferdinand Kwaku Danso, and Natalia Meneses.…”
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Rethinking workplace regulation : beyond the standard contract of employment /

Table of Contents: “…/ Thomas Bredgaard -- The regulation of private sector and public sector supply chains : an australian contribution to cross-national legal learning / Michael Rawling & John Howe -- Organizing non-standard workers in Japan : the role of old players and new players / Keisuke Nakamura & Michio Nitta -- Safety nets and transition assistance : continuity and change in a "liberal" welfare state / Anthony O'Donnell -- Flexible work, flexible pensions : labor market change and the evolution of retirement savings / Kendra Strauss -- New approaches to work-family balance and gender equality : pension reform and antidiscrimination law / Julie C. …”
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Antibody-drug conjugates : fundamentals, drug development, and clinical outcomes to target cancer /

Table of Contents: “…Schmidt, Manish Gupta -- Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) in clinical development / Patricia LoRusso and Joseph McLaughlin -- ADCs approved for use : Trastuzumab emtansine (Kadcyla, T-DM1) in patients with previously treated HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer / Gail Lewis Phillips, Sanne de Hass, Sandhya Girish, and Ellie Guardino -- ADCs approved for use : Brentuximab Vedotin / Sven DeVos and Monica Mead -- Radioimmunotherapy / Jeffrey Wong and Savita Dandapani -- Radiolabeled antibody-based imaging in clinical oncology / Bart Hendriks and Daniel Gaddy -- Antibody-drug conjugates : the next evolution in the cure for cancer -- William C. Olson and Amy Q. …”
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Colonizing Russia’s Promised Land : Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe / by Friesen, Aileen, 1980-

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Propriété intellectuelle et université : Entre la libre circulation des idées et la privatisation des savoirs / by Couture, Marc, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…La propriete intellectuelle : nature et portee juridique / Marcel Dube -- Les formes de la propriete intellectuelle et leurs domaines d'application / Marcel Dube -- La titularite de la propriete intellectuelle / Marcel Dube -- La protection et l'exploitation de la propriete intellectuelle / Marcel Dube -- La propriete intellectuelle : origine et evolution / Pierrick Malissard -- L'universite et la commercialisation des innovations techniques / Pierrick Malissard -- La diffusion et le partage de l'information scientifique / Marc Couture -- L'enseignement mediatise et le droit d'auteur / Marc Couture -- Les etudiants et la propriete intellectuelle / Marc Couture -- La reglementation de la propriete intellectuelle dans les universites canadiennes / Marc Couture et Pierrick Malissard Conclusion -- Annexe 1 Exceptions à la violation du droit d'auteur applicables aux universites -- Annexe 2 Notes methodologiques sur l'analyse des politiques des universites canadiennes -- Annexe 3 Liste des documents des etablissements universitaires cites -- Annexe 4 Pratiques de cosignature dans diverses disciplines -- Annexe 5 La gestion numerique des droits -- Annexe 6 L'acces libre, le logiciel libre et les licences associees.…”
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Resonant Games : Design Principles for Learning Games that Connect Hearts, Minds, and the Everyday / by Klopfer, Eric, Rosenheck, Louisa, Osterweil, Scot, Haas, Jason

Table of Contents: “…Beetle Breeders: Mendelian GeneticsInvasion of the Beasties: mRNA & Translation; Island Hoppers: Evolution; Chomp!: Food Webs; More Ubiquitous Games; Other Educational Games; Designing Ubiq Games; Adaptive Experiences; Practice-Based Rounds; Adaptive Leveling; Comparison; The Codesign Process; Integration into Life and School; Games that Fit into Everyday Life; Games that Fit into the Classroom; Aligning with Standards and Curriculum; Connecting Data to Practice; Flexibility of Use; Conclusion; 7 Doorway to Games; "Game" Design and "game" Design; Past Partnerships; Problematic Partnerships.…”
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Thought Crime : Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan / by Ward, Max M., 1973-

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The Poetics of Jacobean Drama / by Freer, Coburn

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