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Advancing Equity Planning Now /

Table of Contents: “…Local equity planning : Growth without displacement -- The evolution of the community development industry -- Economic diversity in low-status communities Regional equity planning -- Can we talk? …”
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Fighting their own battles Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the struggle for civil rights in Texas / by Behnken, Brian D.

Table of Contents: “…Advancing the cause of democracy : the origins of protest in the long civil rights movement -- Sleeping on another man's wounds : the battle for integrated schools in the 1950s -- Nothing but victory can stop us : direct action and political action in the early 1960s -- Venceremos : the evolution of civil rights in the mid-1960s -- Am I my brother's keeper? …”
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Forging Napoleon's Grande Armée motivation, military culture, and masculinity in the French army, 1800-1808 / by Hughes, Michael J., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : military culture and motivation in the armies of Napoleon -- From the coasts of the ocean to the snows of Poland : the grande Armée and Napoleonic military culture -- Honneur, gloire, et patrie : honor in Napoleon's legions -- Imperial virtue : the evolution of French patriotism -- Napoleon's manhood : sex and martial masculinity in the French army -- Clothing the new emperor : creating the cult of Napoleon -- The emperor's grognards : the officer corps -- Devoted soldiers and reluctant conquerors : the rank-and-file -- Conclusion : vive l'empereur! …”
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Submarine torpedo tactics : an American history / by Monroe-Jones, Edward, Roderick, Shawn S., 1976-

Table of Contents: “…"The torpedo is born -- First World War fire control techniques -- Between the wars -- An analysis of the fire control problem -- The Second World War -- The Era of the GUPPY -- From Tang to Nautilus -- A most unusual torpedo -- Skipjack, the convergence of Nautilus and Albacore -- The Sturgeon-class submarine -- The Los Angeles class submarine -- The ballistic missile submarine -- The Seawolf and Virginia submarines -- The future of American submarines -- Appendix A: A glossary of submarine fire control terminology -- Appendix B: An evolution of submarine torpedo fire control equipment."…”
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Unemployment Insurance Reform : Fixing a Broken System /

Table of Contents: “…Wandner -- UI reform proposals in the fiscal year 2017 Obama Budget request / Suzanne Simonetta -- The employment service-unemployment insurance partnership: origin, evolution, and revitalization / David E. Balducchi and Christopher J. …”
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International economic law / by Lowenfeld, Andreas F, 1930-

Table of Contents: “…Economic law and the laws of economics -- Money, exchange rates, and the balance of payments -- The general agreement on tariffs and trade : origins and overview -- Evolution of the GATT and GATT law -- The GATT/WTO system after the Uruguay Round : a preliminary survey -- The international exchange of services and the creation of GATS -- Dispute resolution in the GATT, 1948-94 -- Dispute settlement in the WTO -- The question of subsidies -- Dumping and anti-dumping -- Agriculture -- Intellectual property law and the world trading system -- The environment and international economic law -- Competition law -- The responsibility of host states to foreign investors : customary international law -- Dispute settlement and international investment -- Evolving standards of international law on international investment -- The Bretton Woods System -- The international monetary fund as amended -- The international monetary system and regional crises -- Other institutions of the international monetary system -- The European Monetary System and the rise of the Euro -- International monetary law and private activity -- United Nations and other collective sanctions -- Economic sanctions without benefit of treaty.…”
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DNA promise and peril / by McCabe, Linda L., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…-- Genetic determinism -- The evolution and deconstruction of human-centered biology -- Race and ethnicity : your history is written in your genes -- Gender as a spectrum, not a dichotomy -- Genome-based forensics -- When genes belong to groups and not individuals -- Genes as commodities : ownership of genes by business interests -- Protection against genetic discrimination : the new civil right -- Reproductive technologies : on the road to designer babies? …”
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Brain metastasis a multidisciplinary approach /

Table of Contents: “…Neurologic manifestations of brain metastases : recognition, evolution, and management / Jessica Kraker and Jaishri Blakeley -- Radiation therapy for brain metastases / James B. …”
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Genocides by the oppressed subaltern genocide in theory and practice /

Table of Contents: “…Taylor -- Genocide, humiliation, and inferiority : an interdisciplinary perspective / Evelin G. Lindner -- Evolution, primates, and subaltern genocide / E.O. …”
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Power play the Bush presidency and the Constitution / by Pfiffner, James P.

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The triumph of provocation by Mackiewicz, Józef

Table of Contents: “…-- Between Bolshevism and nationalism -- Mikaszewicze -- "Gomułkaism" (national communism) of the twenties -- The first great provocation about the alleged "evolution of communism" -- The second phase of national communism -- Alliance or collaboration with the Soviet invader? …”
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To shake their guns in the tyrant's face libertarian political violence and the origins of the militia movement / by Churchill, Robert H.

Table of Contents: “…The precedent of 1774: the role of insurgent violence in the political theory of the founding -- The revolution as living memory: Fries' Rebellion and The Alien and Sedition Act crisis of 1798-1800 -- The libertarian memory of the revolution in the Antebellum Era -- The roots of modern patriotism: conscription, resistance, and the Sons of Liberty conspiracy of 1864 -- Cleansing the memory of the revolution: Americanism, the black legion, and the first Brown Scare -- The making of the second Brown Scare: liberal pluralism and the evolution of the white supremacist right -- The origins of the militia movement: violence and memory on the suburban-rural frontier -- An exploration of militia ideology: the Whig diagnosis of post-Cold War America -- Epilogue: the defense of liberty in the age of terror.…”
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The gods of Diyala transfer of command in Iraq / by Cage, Caleb S., 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Map of Baquba and Buhriz -- Evolution -- Genesis -- Insurgency : a prelude -- The Easter offensive -- Insurgency : a primer -- All things conventional -- June -- Insurgency : a practicum -- IEDs : the menace beneath -- A city upon a hill : the urban morass -- A city upon a hill : the high ground -- Good things, bad people, and the pictures to prove it -- The moral fight : photogs -- Regime change -- Revisionistas : an interlude -- Holidays : Orient and Occident -- Ramadan in America -- Christmas in Iraq -- The eve of a nation -- Reformation -- Hope and salvation -- To be or not to be -- Up to the task -- Security -- Democracy.…”
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Cartographies of travel and navigation

Table of Contents: “…Ehrenberg -- Maps on wheels : the evolution of automobile navigation / Robert L. French.…”
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Creating and re-creating corporate entrepreneurial culture by Salama, Alzira

Table of Contents: “…-- Biography of organisations and culture transformation -- Biography of organisations : a key for a transformation process -- Organisational culture transformation : cross-case analysis -- From bureaucracy and inertia to entrepreneurship : organic growth -- Causes of inertia and integrative model for culture evolution and transformation -- British airways story -- British nuclear fuels story -- Jaguar cars story -- British airports authority story -- Xerox do Brazil story -- Creating entrepreneurial synergies through cross-border acquisitions -- Corporate entrepreneurship and acquisitions : an introduction and integration process model -- The role of acculturation process : Ford- Volvo; Deutsche Bank- Bankers Trust; British Petroleum- AMOCO -- Integration strategies and entrepreneurial synergies : Electrolux- Zanussi and Elctrolux- Diamond- board -- The future of corporate entrepreneurship.…”
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Libertinage in Russian culture and literature a bio-history of sexualities at the threshold of modernity / by Lalo, Alexei

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: approaching Russian silences and burlesques -- Carnality and eroticism in the history of Russian literature: toward a genealogy of a discourse of silence -- Golden silences in the golden age: Russian anxieties of the body and sexuality from Gogol to Chekhov -- Silence is golden, speech is silver: corporeality, sensuality, and "pornography" in Russian literature of the silver age -- Exploring the impetus of the silver age: the evolution of discourses of carnality and eroticism in pre-revolutionary Russian literature and in emigre writing -- Nabokov's Lolita and its precursors: silver age roots and sexuality in the novel -- Joseph Brodsky's libertinage: sexual and erotic themes in his poetry -- Conclusion: Russia's "threshold of modernity" and literary representations of sexuality in the era of bio-power.…”
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The deaf community in America history in the making / by Nomeland, Melvia M., 1940-

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Hip hop's amnesia from blues and the black women's club movement to rap and the hip hop movement / by Rabaka, Reiland, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…: on the "old school" origins and evolution of rap music, hip hop culture, and the hip hop movement -- "Lifting as we climb!" …”
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Social work and social policy advancing the principles of economic and social justice /

Table of Contents: “…Social welfare policy as a form of social justice / Ira Colby -- Reconceptualizing the evolution of the American welfare state / Bruce Jansson -- Human security and the welfare of societies / Jody Williams -- Social policy from a global perspective / Robin Sakina Mama -- Social justice for marginalized and disadvantaged groups : issues and challenges for social policies in Asia / Joseph Kin Fun Kwok -- Welfare reform : the need for social empathy / Elizabeth A. …”
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Cancer as a metabolic disease on the origin, management, and prevention of cancer / by Seyfried, Thomas N., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…-- Genes, respiration, viruses, and cancer -- Respiratory injury, the retrograde response, and the origin of cancer -- Mitochondria: the ultimate tumor suppressor -- Linking abnormalities in growth control, telomerase activity, apoptosis, and angiogenesis to mitochondrial dysfunction -- Metastasis -- Mitochondrial respiratory dysfunction and the extrachromosomal origin of cancer -- Nothing in cancer biology makes sense except in the light of evolution -- Cancer treatment strategies -- Metabolic management of cancer -- Implementation of metabolic therapies for cancer management -- Cancer prevention -- Case studies and personal experiences in using the ketogenic diet for cancer management.…”
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