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Corporate governance and the global financial crisis international perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…: evidence from Japan during the financial crisis / Chunyan Liu, Jianlei Liu and Konari Uchida -- Risk management in corporate law and corporate governance / Christoph Van der Elst -- Corporate governance, capital market regulation and the challenge of disembedded markets / Peer Zumbansen -- The focus of regulatory reforms in Europe after the global financial crisis : from corporate to contract governance / Florian M�oslein -- The great recession's impact on global corporate governance / James Shinn -- Corporate governance in the Islamic finance industry and mitigation of risks in the post global financial crises / Nasser Saidi -- A holistic approach to corporate governance : lessons from the financial crisis and the way forward / Suzanne Young and Vijaya Thyil.…”
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European transformations the long twelfth century /

Table of Contents: “…Miller -- Sutri 1046; Canossa 1077; Rome 1111 : Problems of Communication and the Perceptions of Neighbors / Hanna Vollrath -- The Europeanization of Europe : The Case of Scandinavia / Sverre Bagge -- Ambiguous Beginnings : East Central Europe in the Making, 950-1200 / Piotr G�orecki -- Lords, Markets, and Communities : The Urban Revolution of the Twelfth Century / David Nicholas -- Peasants, the Seigneurial Regime, and Serfdom in the Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries / Paul Freedman -- Clothing, Iron, and Timber : The Growth of Christian Anxiety about Islam in the Long Twelfth Century / Olivia Remie Constable -- Continuity and Change in Twelfth-Century Christian-Jewish Relations / Anna Sapir Abulafia -- The Legal Revolution of the Twelfth Century / Anders Winroth -- Liminalities : Literate Women in the Long Twelfth Century / Barbara Newman -- Philosophy and Theology / John Marenbon -- Semiotic Anthropology : The Twelfth-Century Approach / Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak -- Three-in-One : Making God in Twelfth-Century Liturgy, Theology, and Devotion / Rachel Fulton Brown -- John of Salisbury, a Philosopher of the Long Eleventh Century / C. …”
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La communauté politique en question : Regards croisés sur l’immigration, la citoyenneté, la diversité et le pouvoir /

Table of Contents: “…""; ""La polarisation du discours sur l'Islam en Occident ""…”
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Migration, culture conflict, crime, and terrorism

Table of Contents: “…: migration, culture conflict, and terrorism / Roland Eckert -- The 21st century kultur kampf : fundamentalist Islam against occidental culture / Shlomo Giora Shoham -- Immigration, security, and civil liberties post 9/11 : an analysis comparison of legislative and policy responses to migrants/non-citizens in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, and and the United States / Matthew R. …”
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Travel sketches from Liberia Johann Büttikofer's 19th century rainforest explorations in West Africa : annotated English edition / by Büttikofer, Johann, 1850-1928

Table of Contents: “…Everyday life, ways and customs. Islam and Christianity -- The animal world -- XI. …”
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Pakistan at seventy : a handbook on developments in economics, politics and society /

Table of Contents: “…Mitra -- Evolution of politics / Shirin Tahir-Kheli -- Islam, society and politics in Pakistan / Riaz Hassan -- Sustained political progress : the supportive role of the military / Jehangir Karamat -- Media in Pakistan : idiom, ideology and the army / Khaled Ahmed -- Pakistan, power-play and a new South Asian paradigm / Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury -- Making of foreign policy : changing parameters / Aziz Ahmad Khan -- Taking stock : Pakistan-India relations / Khurshid Kasuri -- Living in a rapidly changing world / Shahid Javed Burki -- Defenders of the crescent : Pakistan-Saudi Arabia relations / Farah Jan -- Adversarial peace : India-Pakistan nuclear rivalry / Farah Jan -- A potential game changer : the China Pakistan economic corridor / Daud Ahmad -- Macroeconomic achievements and challenges / Masood Ahmed -- History of the development discourse in Pakistan / Asad Ejaz Butt -- Recent economic developments and prospects / Farrukh Iqbal -- Economic governance / Ishrat Husain -- Praetorian bureaucratization of political system and politicization of bureaucracy / Shahid Najam -- Getting technology to work for social development / Ayub Ghauri -- Akhwuat : new microcredit stories / Muhammad Saleem Ahmad Ranjha -- Private sector in education / Shahid Kardar -- Educating and employing women / Nasreen Kasuri -- The downward spiral of quality-of-life in Pakistan : is control possible, or even desired? …”
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Consumption and the literary cookbook /

Table of Contents: “…Curiosity and consumption in Alice eats: a Wonderland cookbook and The Anne of Green Gables cookbook / Janet Wesselius -- Nadiya Hussain's Bake me a story, children's cookbooks and British Islam / Antje Rauwerda -- "Recipes for living" : meals, memories and stories in Pat Mora's House of houses / Méliné Kasparian -- "Sometimes, it is better to crave" : Asian-American fusion cuisine, the politics of substitutions, and the taste of diasporic loneliness / Shuyin Yu -- Consuming the past : food metaphors in the intergenerational food memoir / Brita M. …”
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The making of the slave class by Carrier, Jerry, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The not so free market -- The American class system -- The Okies, a case study -- Class traits -- One nation under God -- The European roots of Christian class culture, predestination and the divine rights of kings -- Christianity and predestination comes to America -- The early history -- The revivalist movement -- The Catholic experience in Protestant America, and growing conflicts within the working classes -- Other American working-class Christian movements -- The ghetto complex -- Christianity vs. science and modernism -- Jewish impact on America, Anti-Semitism and more class conflict -- The Ku Klux Klan & other white Christian supremacists -- Christianity & capitalism, the creation of American economic and class culture -- The first sexual revolution -- Prohibition -- War on the working class: the war on drugs -- The Christian conservatives take control of American politics -- More politics and decline of the liberals and moderates -- Christian conservatives vs. the civil rights movement -- Christian conservatives vs. the judiciary -- Father knows best, Christianity vs. women -- Class and the gay movement -- Class warfare: Christianity vs. Islam -- Conclusions about class and Christianity -- Class and the military -- Health and the working class -- The geography of class -- Income distribution -- American poverty -- The middle class and the myth of upward class mobility -- Anomie: the price of upward mobility -- Education, intelligence and middle-class bias -- The graying of working-class America -- Class and race -- Gentrification -- Self-cleaning ovens -- A brief history of banking and the working class, no shoes, no shirt, no credit -- The credit union movement -- A sad story -- Nonprofits and the community economic development movement -- More middle-class bias, new urbanism, and more gentrification -- Transportation and class -- In the hood -- Housing, mortgage lending and secondary markets -- Manipulation and madness: the housing bubble and financial crisis -- Greed, stupidity and arrogance -- Conclusion: The Americans slave class.…”
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Community radio in the twenty-first century

Table of Contents: “…/ KENNEDY JAVURU -- Community Radio and Cultural Citizenship: Reflections on Radio Islam and Democratic Citizenship in South Africa / LAST MOYO -- Praxis and Participation in Community Radio Training in Europe / CAROLINE MITCHELL -- Practical Community Radio Audience Measurement / EMMA WARD, TOM BUCKHAM AND LAWRIE HALLETT -- The Role of University Radio in the Development of Community Radio Stations: a History / JANEY GORDON.…”
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Sex, power and slavery /

Table of Contents: “…: Roger Casement, slavery, and sexual imperialism / Brian Lewis -- Sodomy, love, and slavery in colonial Brazil: a case study of Minas Gerais during the eighteenth century / Ronoldo Vainfas -- Eunuchs, power, and slavery in the early Islamic world / Salah Trabelsi -- Legacies: discourse, dishonor, and labor: slaves, coolies, and garrison whores: a colonial discourse of "unfreedom" in the Dutch East Indies / Joost Coté -- Lure of the impure: sexuality, gender, and agency of "slave" girls in contemporary Madagascar / Sandra J. …”
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Conserving Cultural Heritage : Proceedings of the 3rd International Congress on Science and Technology for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage (TechnoHeritage 2017), May 21-24, 2...

Table of Contents: “…Noninvasive investigation of common, painted and glazed Islamic pottery (10th13th century) from the cities of Mrtola and vora (Portugal) using portable XRF spectrometry --M. …”
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Justice and mercy will kiss the vocation of peacemaking in a world of many faiths /

Table of Contents: “…Linahan -- The complementary perspectives of Muhammad and Jesus : an analysis of moral leadership and discipleship with secular application / Edward J. Grippe -- Islam and Christianity agree on core values : justice as a basis for a universal morality and peace / Ayse Sidika Oktay -- Inspirations from the Bhagavad-Gita for peace-builders / Brian Bloch -- The nature of the ongoing terrorist threats to American cities : some thoughts on the problem of ethical living post 9/11 / Deborah S. …”
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Debating security in Turkey challenges and changes in the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : debating security, changes and challenges for Turkey in the twenty-first century / Ebru Canan-Sokullu -- Approaches to "security" and "challenges" in the twenty-first century -- "Security" and "challenges" in the twenty-first century : a theoretical outlook / Craig Snyder -- Insulator, bridge, regional center : Turkey and regional security complexes / Thomas Diez -- Continuities and changes in Turkish foreign and security policy in the twenty-first century and the EU / Selcen �Oner -- Turkey and internal security challenges in the twenty-first century -- Beyond military tutelage : civil-military relations and the AKP government / Asmet Ak�ca and Evren Balta-Paker -- Islamization : a challenge to Turkey's secular democracy? …”
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Information warfare in the age of cyber conflict /

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Things that Travelled : Mediterranean Glass in the First Millennium CE by ROSENOW, Phelps

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An epistemology of religion and gender biopolitics, performativity and agency / by Auga, Ulrike

Table of Contents: “…PART V Religion, gender, visual culture and performativity -- 14 Creating archives of agency photography after the post-secular turn: on the performativity of tattoos, textiles and Islam in Mali -- 15 Résumé -- Index.…”
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Changing Space, Changing City : Johannesburg after apartheid - Open Access selection /

Table of Contents: “…Transformation through transportation: Some early impacts of Bus Rapid Transit in Orlando, Soweto -- Section C: Spatial identities. 23. Footprints of Islam in Johannesburg -- 24. Being an immigrant and facing uncertainty in Johannesburg : The case of Somalis -- 25. …”
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Handbook of flexible and stretchable electronics /

Table of Contents: “…Franklin 5 Mechanics of Flexible and Stretchable Electronics .........................................91 Nouha Alcheikh Section ii Devices 6 Printed Electronics ..........................................................................................111 Mohammad Vaseem and Atif Shamim 7 Ferroic Materials and Devices for Flexible Memory .....................................149 Saidur R. Bakaul, Mahnaz Islam, and Md. Kawsar Alam 8 Flexible and Stretchable High-Frequency RF Electronics ............................ 165 Juhwan Lee, Inkyu Lee, and Zhenqiang Ma 9 Flexible and Stretchable Sensors ....................................................................189 Tae Hoon Eom and Jeong In Han 10 Artificial Skin .................................................................................................213 Joanna M. …”
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Big data in multimodal medical imaging /

Table of Contents: “…Frieboes -- Big data in prostate cancer / Islam Reda, Ashraf Khalil, Mohammed Ghazal, Ahmed Shalaby, Mohammed Elmogy, Ahmed Aboulfotouh, Ali Mahmoud, Mohamed Abou El-Ghar, Ayman El-Baz -- Automatic detection of early signs of diabetic retinopathy based on feature fusion from OCT and OCTA scans / Nabila Eladawi, Ahmed ElTanboly, Mohammed Elmogy, Mohammed Ghazal, Ali Mahmoud, Ahmed Aboelfetouh, Alaa Riad, Magdi El-Azab, Jasjit S. …”
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The Dutch intersection the Jews and the Netherlands in modern history /

Table of Contents: “…Cooperman -- The boundaries of community : urban space and intercultural interaction in early modern, Sephardi Amsterdam, and London / Adam Sutcliffe -- Amsterdam, the forbidden lands, and the dynamics of the Sephardi diaspora / Yosef Kaplan -- Mosseh Pereyra de Paiva : an Amsterdam Portuguese Jewish merchant abroad in the seventeenth century / Jonathan Schorsch -- Amsterdam as "locus" of Iberian printing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Harm den Boer -- The Temple mount in the Lowlands / Gary Schwartz -- The persistence of images : reproductive success in the history of Sephardi sepulchral art / Michael Studemund-Halévy -- Patrocinio and authority : assessing the metropolitan role of the Portuguese Nation of Amsterdam in the eighteenth century / Evelyne Oliel-Grausz -- Philosophy, deism, and the early Jewish enlightenment (1655-1740) / Jonathan Israel -- Yiddish book production in Amsterdam between 1650-1800 : local and international aspects / Shlomo Berger -- "In Hamburg a High German Jew was murdered" : the representation of foreign Jews in the Dinstagishe un Fraytagishe Kuranten (Amsterdam, 1686-1687) / Hilde Pach -- Amsterdam and the inception of the Jewish Republic of Letters / Avriel Bar-Levav -- Ashkenazi-Dutch pinkassim as sources for studying European-Jewish migration : the cases of Middelburg and The Hague in the eighteenth century / Stefan Litt -- The Hague, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Jerusalem : David de Pinto and the Jesiba Magen David, 1750-1767 / Gérard Nahon -- From Amsterdam to Bombay, Baghdad, and Casablanca : the influence of the Amsterdam Haggadah on haggadah illustration among the Jews in India and the lands of Islam / Shalom Sabar -- A maskil reads Zunz : Samuel Mulder and the earliest Dutch reception of the Wissenschaft des Judentums / Irene E. …”
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