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Iterative methods in combinatorial optimization by Lau, Lap Chi

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A Nation on the Line : Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines / by Padios, Jan M., 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Listening between the lines: relational labor, productive intimacy, and the affective contradictions of call center work -- Contesting skill and value: race, gender, and Filipino/American relatability in the neoliberal nation-state -- Inside Vox Elite: call center training and the limits of Filipino/American relatability -- Service with a style: aesthetic pleasures, productive youth, and the politics of consumption -- Queering the call center: sexual politics, HIV/AIDS, and the crisis of (re)production.…”
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A Nation on the Line : Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines / by Padios, Jan M., 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Listening between the lines: relational labor, productive intimacy, and the affective contradictions of call center work -- Contesting skill and value: race, gender, and Filipino/American relatability in the neoliberal nation-state -- Inside Vox Elite: call center training and the limits of Filipino/American relatability -- Service with a style: aesthetic pleasures, productive youth, and the politics of consumption -- Queering the call center: sexual politics, HIV/AIDS, and the crisis of (re)production.…”
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California earthquakes science, risk, & the politics of hazard mitigation / by Geschwind, Carl-Henry, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Reactions to the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 -- Setting up a scientific infrastructure : seismology California style, 1910-1925 -- Bailey Willis and the promotion of earthquake safety in the mid-1920s -- Engineering a regulatory-state apparatus : seismic safety in the 1930s -- Earthquake experts and the Cold War state -- New initiatives for earthquake preparedness, 1964-1971 -- Seismic politics : responses to the San Fernando earthquake of 1971 -- Pushing prediction : establishment of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program -- The regulatory-state apparatus in action.…”
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Mother leads best 50 women who are changing the way organizations define leadership / by Grzelakowski, Moe

Table of Contents: “…The case for motherhood: what moms can teach us about leadership -- The dragon lady syndrome -- The motherhood decision -- Pregnancy : transitioning to a softer, more accountable, more value-conscious style -- Babies : nurturing becomes second nature -- The toddler years : managing chaos -- Elementary school : developing and motivating teams -- Tweens : listening at a higher level -- Teenagers : coaching with unconditional love -- The character of a leader : how motherhood brings out the best in people -- Applying the lessons of maternal leadership.…”
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Critical thinking for addiction professionals by Taleff, Michael J.

Table of Contents: “…-- A crash course in fallacies -- Fallacies that appeal to authority and irrelevant fallacies -- Causal fallacies and weak inductions -- Fallacies that presume a conclusion before it is proven and classification fallacies -- Fallacies caused by perception problems and fallacies of manner and style -- The ethics of using critical thinking -- What price critical thinking?.…”
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To kill the king post-traditional governance and bureaucracy / by Farmer, David John, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…-- Justice systems : more in heaven and earth? -- Self, with style -- Other and hesitation -- Tradition : golden ruling -- Other traditions : silver ruling -- Start with Michelangelo : what I, a bureaucrat, expect -- Visible hand : cult of the leader -- Invisible hand : unexamined rhetoric -- A nun and barbed wire -- Love and mere efficiency -- To kill the king, and "good and no places".…”
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Getting your way every day mastering the lost art of pure persuasion / by Axelrod, Alan, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Get ready to win -- Profit from ancient wisdom -- Look for an argument -- Lay it all out -- Be reasonable -- Be ethical, be emotional -- Stay out of the palace of fallacy -- Welcome to the house of style -- Go beyond words -- Make your case and get your way -- Talk yourself into the job you want -- Move your boss -- Inspire your staff -- Motivate your colleagues -- Win your customers -- Satisfy your customers -- Convince your customers -- Deal with your vendors -- Close with your investors and lenders -- Commemorate and celebrate -- Epilogue - when rhetoric hits the speed of light.…”
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Essaying Shakespeare by Newman, Karen, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Myrrha's revenge: Ovid and Shakespeare's reluctant Adonis -- Hayman's missing Hamlet -- Renaissance family politics and Shakespeare's The taming of the shrew -- And wash the ethiop white: femininity and the monstrous in Othello -- Portia's ring: gender, sexuality, and theories of exchange in The merchant of Venice -- Ghostwriting: Hamlet and Claude Chabrol's Ophilia -- Englishing the other: Le tiers exclu and Shakespeare's Henry V -- Cultural capital's gold standard: Shakespeare and the critical apostrophe in Renaissance studies -- Charactery -- Sartorial economies and suitable style: the anonymous woodstock and Shakespeare's Richard II -- French Shakespeare: Dryden, Vigny's Othello, and British cultural expansion.…”
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Winning library grants a game plan / by Landau, Herbert B.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Grantsmanship fundamentals, definitions, and rules -- Preproposal market analysis and planning -- Finding grants and granting organizations relevant to libraries -- Initiating contact with grantors -- Obtaining solicited competitive grant application packages -- Preproposal research and fact finding -- Proposal management and project planning -- Proposal writing style -- Proposal writing section by section -- Proposal assembly, editing, review, and submission -- Postproposal preaward marketing -- Contract award and project management -- Writing a request for proposal -- Conclusion : why become a grantsman (or -woman)?.…”
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Essaying Shakespeare by Newman, Karen, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Myrrha's revenge: Ovid and Shakespeare's reluctant Adonis -- Hayman's missing Hamlet -- Renaissance family politics and Shakespeare's The taming of the shrew -- And wash the ethiop white: femininity and the monstrous in Othello -- Portia's ring: gender, sexuality, and theories of exchange in The merchant of Venice -- Ghostwriting: Hamlet and Claude Chabrol's Ophilia -- Englishing the other: Le tiers exclu and Shakespeare's Henry V -- Cultural capital's gold standard: Shakespeare and the critical apostrophe in Renaissance studies -- Charactery -- Sartorial economies and suitable style: the anonymous woodstock and Shakespeare's Richard II -- French Shakespeare: Dryden, Vigny's Othello, and British cultural expansion.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Winning library grants a game plan / by Landau, Herbert B.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Grantsmanship fundamentals, definitions, and rules -- Preproposal market analysis and planning -- Finding grants and granting organizations relevant to libraries -- Initiating contact with grantors -- Obtaining solicited competitive grant application packages -- Preproposal research and fact finding -- Proposal management and project planning -- Proposal writing style -- Proposal writing section by section -- Proposal assembly, editing, review, and submission -- Postproposal preaward marketing -- Contract award and project management -- Writing a request for proposal -- Conclusion : why become a grantsman (or -woman)?.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Remade in Hollywood the global Chinese presence in transnational cinemas / by Chan, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : remaking Chinese cinemas, Hollywood style -- Visualizing Hong Kong : Hollywood's 1997 response to the Hong Kong handover -- The global return of the Wuxia pian (Chinese sword-fighting movie) -- Enter the triads : American cinema's new racialized criminal other -- Hollywood's Sino-chic : Kung fu parody, mimicry, and play in cross-cultural citationality -- Chinese supernaturalism : mythic ethnography and the mystical other -- Coda : global cinematic technologies of ethnic (un)representation.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

California earthquakes science, risk, & the politics of hazard mitigation / by Geschwind, Carl-Henry, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Reactions to the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 -- Setting up a scientific infrastructure : seismology California style, 1910-1925 -- Bailey Willis and the promotion of earthquake safety in the mid-1920s -- Engineering a regulatory-state apparatus : seismic safety in the 1930s -- Earthquake experts and the Cold War state -- New initiatives for earthquake preparedness, 1964-1971 -- Seismic politics : responses to the San Fernando earthquake of 1971 -- Pushing prediction : establishment of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program -- The regulatory-state apparatus in action.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Mother leads best 50 women who are changing the way organizations define leadership / by Grzelakowski, Moe

Table of Contents: “…The case for motherhood: what moms can teach us about leadership -- The dragon lady syndrome -- The motherhood decision -- Pregnancy : transitioning to a softer, more accountable, more value-conscious style -- Babies : nurturing becomes second nature -- The toddler years : managing chaos -- Elementary school : developing and motivating teams -- Tweens : listening at a higher level -- Teenagers : coaching with unconditional love -- The character of a leader : how motherhood brings out the best in people -- Applying the lessons of maternal leadership.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Critical thinking for addiction professionals by Taleff, Michael J.

Table of Contents: “…-- A crash course in fallacies -- Fallacies that appeal to authority and irrelevant fallacies -- Causal fallacies and weak inductions -- Fallacies that presume a conclusion before it is proven and classification fallacies -- Fallacies caused by perception problems and fallacies of manner and style -- The ethics of using critical thinking -- What price critical thinking?.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

To kill the king post-traditional governance and bureaucracy / by Farmer, David John, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…-- Justice systems : more in heaven and earth? -- Self, with style -- Other and hesitation -- Tradition : golden ruling -- Other traditions : silver ruling -- Start with Michelangelo : what I, a bureaucrat, expect -- Visible hand : cult of the leader -- Invisible hand : unexamined rhetoric -- A nun and barbed wire -- Love and mere efficiency -- To kill the king, and "good and no places".…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Getting your way every day mastering the lost art of pure persuasion / by Axelrod, Alan, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Get ready to win -- Profit from ancient wisdom -- Look for an argument -- Lay it all out -- Be reasonable -- Be ethical, be emotional -- Stay out of the palace of fallacy -- Welcome to the house of style -- Go beyond words -- Make your case and get your way -- Talk yourself into the job you want -- Move your boss -- Inspire your staff -- Motivate your colleagues -- Win your customers -- Satisfy your customers -- Convince your customers -- Deal with your vendors -- Close with your investors and lenders -- Commemorate and celebrate -- Epilogue - when rhetoric hits the speed of light.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Remade in Hollywood the global Chinese presence in transnational cinemas / by Chan, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : remaking Chinese cinemas, Hollywood style -- Visualizing Hong Kong : Hollywood's 1997 response to the Hong Kong handover -- The global return of the Wuxia pian (Chinese sword-fighting movie) -- Enter the triads : American cinema's new racialized criminal other -- Hollywood's Sino-chic : Kung fu parody, mimicry, and play in cross-cultural citationality -- Chinese supernaturalism : mythic ethnography and the mystical other -- Coda : global cinematic technologies of ethnic (un)representation.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view