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In Africa's forest and jungle six years among the Yorubas / by Stone, R. H. (Richard Henry)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Along the coast -- Up the Ogun -- In native homes -- The story of Crowther -- In a native caravan -- An African despot -- Our first dwelling -- Some beasts and insects -- Life and language -- Superstitions -- Polygamy -- Some African maladies -- Hunting -- Mental solitude -- Waylaid and captured -- Flight from Ebaddan -- Home again -- Opening battles around Ejahyay -- Worshipping the dead prince -- Leaving the doomed city -- Partial civilization -- Love letters -- A narrow escape -- The human sacrifice -- The stolen child -- Improvements -- Cast among robbers -- The colony of Lagos.…”
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The African trilogy : Things fall apart; Arrow of God; No longer at ease / by Achebe, Chinua

Nigeria's critical election, 2011

Table of Contents: “…Lawal -- The elections in Lagos State as a political monologue / Abubakar Momoh -- The battle of the titans: Ogun State politics / Gboyega Akinsanmi -- The judiciary and democracy in Nigeria: an independent messenger / Elijah A. …”
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Nigeria's critical election, 2011

Table of Contents: “…Lawal -- The elections in Lagos State as a political monologue / Abubakar Momoh -- The battle of the titans: Ogun State politics / Gboyega Akinsanmi -- The judiciary and democracy in Nigeria: an independent messenger / Elijah A. …”
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Looking forward comparative perspectives on Cuba's transition /

Table of Contents: “…Pérez-López -- Social policy and social welfare / Carmelo Mesa-Lago -- Escaping the corruption curse / Daniel P. …”
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Looking forward comparative perspectives on Cuba's transition /

Table of Contents: “…Pérez-López -- Social policy and social welfare / Carmelo Mesa-Lago -- Escaping the corruption curse / Daniel P. …”
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Contemporary African fashion

Table of Contents: “…Cameron -- Contemporary wedding fashions in Lagos, Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne -- African fashion: design, identity, and history / Victoria L. …”
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Creativity and change in Nigerian Christianity

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Contemporary African fashion

Table of Contents: “…Cameron -- Contemporary wedding fashions in Lagos, Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne -- African fashion: design, identity, and history / Victoria L. …”
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Creativity and change in Nigerian Christianity

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New Frontiers of Slavery /

Table of Contents: “…Tomich -- Agency and transnational perspectives on the constitution of waged, unfree, and free labor: the role of mobility in the nineteenth century / Yann Moulier Boutang -- The discovery of progress in Cuba: machines, slaves, businesses / Jose Antonio Piqueras -- Antislavery and nationalism on the two sides of the Atlantic: in search of forgotten links between the nineteenth-century Americas and Europe / Enrico Dal Lago -- African labor in Guyana and the expansion of the second slavery / Wazir Mohamed -- On the blurred boundaries of freedom: liberated Africans in Cuba, 1817-1870 / Ines Roldán de Montaud -- Plantation laboratories: industrial experiments in the Cuban sugar mill, 1830-1860 / Daniel Rood -- Slavery, frontier, and diplomatic relations: Brazil-Uruguay, 1840-1860 / Keila Grinberg and Rachel Cae -- Ruling the household: masters and domestic slaves in the Paraiba Valley, Brazil, during the nineteenth century / Mariana Muaze -- French travelers and journalists debate the Lei do Ventre Livre of 1871 / Claudia Santos.…”
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The Impact of the Presidency of Donald Trump on American Jewry and Israel /

Table of Contents: “…The American Jewish Community: A Divergence of Political Perspectives -- Orthodox Jews and Trump -- Seeing Mar-A-Lago from Jerusalem: Perceptions of President Trump in Israel -- How the Jewish Press Saw 45 -- Why Donald Trump's Vision Repelled American Jews -- They Said It Couldn't Be Done: Historic Achievements of President Donald Trump -- Trump and the Jews: What Did We Learn? …”
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New Frontiers of Slavery /

Table of Contents: “…Tomich -- Agency and transnational perspectives on the constitution of waged, unfree, and free labor: the role of mobility in the nineteenth century / Yann Moulier Boutang -- The discovery of progress in Cuba: machines, slaves, businesses / Jose Antonio Piqueras -- Antislavery and nationalism on the two sides of the Atlantic: in search of forgotten links between the nineteenth-century Americas and Europe / Enrico Dal Lago -- African labor in Guyana and the expansion of the second slavery / Wazir Mohamed -- On the blurred boundaries of freedom: liberated Africans in Cuba, 1817-1870 / Ines Roldán de Montaud -- Plantation laboratories: industrial experiments in the Cuban sugar mill, 1830-1860 / Daniel Rood -- Slavery, frontier, and diplomatic relations: Brazil-Uruguay, 1840-1860 / Keila Grinberg and Rachel Cae -- Ruling the household: masters and domestic slaves in the Paraiba Valley, Brazil, during the nineteenth century / Mariana Muaze -- French travelers and journalists debate the Lei do Ventre Livre of 1871 / Claudia Santos.…”
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The Impact of the Presidency of Donald Trump on American Jewry and Israel /

Table of Contents: “…The American Jewish Community: A Divergence of Political Perspectives -- Orthodox Jews and Trump -- Seeing Mar-A-Lago from Jerusalem: Perceptions of President Trump in Israel -- How the Jewish Press Saw 45 -- Why Donald Trump's Vision Repelled American Jews -- They Said It Couldn't Be Done: Historic Achievements of President Donald Trump -- Trump and the Jews: What Did We Learn? …”
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A solitary war a diplomat's chronicle of the Iraq war and its lessons / by Muñoz, Heraldo

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / by Kofi Annan -- Introduction -- Early warnings -- A telling phone call from Condi -- A war with multilateral support -- One, two, three Iraqs : the costs of the unilateralist doctrine -- War games in the United Nations : a tale of missed opportunities -- Resolution to act -- A tug of war -- The Blair-Lagos last-ditch effort -- The final diplomatic bets -- High noon in Iraq : diplomacy fails -- Unilateralism in retreat : the hard task of winning the peace in Iraq -- Multilateralism under fire -- The war deepens : the UN is a target -- A turn toward tactical multilateralism -- Why multilateralism matters : the United Nations enables the transfer of sovereignty in Iraq and the 2005 elections -- A sense of loss of direction and moral defeat -- Negotiating the establishment of the Iraqi interim government -- The end of occupation? …”
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A solitary war a diplomat's chronicle of the Iraq war and its lessons / by Muñoz, Heraldo

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / by Kofi Annan -- Introduction -- Early warnings -- A telling phone call from Condi -- A war with multilateral support -- One, two, three Iraqs : the costs of the unilateralist doctrine -- War games in the United Nations : a tale of missed opportunities -- Resolution to act -- A tug of war -- The Blair-Lagos last-ditch effort -- The final diplomatic bets -- High noon in Iraq : diplomacy fails -- Unilateralism in retreat : the hard task of winning the peace in Iraq -- Multilateralism under fire -- The war deepens : the UN is a target -- A turn toward tactical multilateralism -- Why multilateralism matters : the United Nations enables the transfer of sovereignty in Iraq and the 2005 elections -- A sense of loss of direction and moral defeat -- Negotiating the establishment of the Iraqi interim government -- The end of occupation? …”
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Mussels ecology, life habits and control /

Table of Contents: “…Native and Invasive Mussels / Slavka Stankovic, Mihajlo Jovic, Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, and others -- Life and Interaction of Hydrobiological Organisms (Mytilus sp.) with Harmful Algal Blooms : Composition, Distribution and Metabolism of Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Toxins in the Austral Pacific Region / Carlos Garcia, Nestor Lagos, Membrane Biochemistry Laboratory, Physiology and Biophysics Program, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, and others -- Mussels as a Tool to Monitor Pollution / Elena Cubero-Leon, Corina M. …”
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Mussels ecology, life habits and control /

Table of Contents: “…Native and Invasive Mussels / Slavka Stankovic, Mihajlo Jovic, Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, and others -- Life and Interaction of Hydrobiological Organisms (Mytilus sp.) with Harmful Algal Blooms : Composition, Distribution and Metabolism of Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Toxins in the Austral Pacific Region / Carlos Garcia, Nestor Lagos, Membrane Biochemistry Laboratory, Physiology and Biophysics Program, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, and others -- Mussels as a Tool to Monitor Pollution / Elena Cubero-Leon, Corina M. …”
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Public finance lessons from the past and effects on the future /

Table of Contents: “…Ruiz-Fuensanta and Vicent Soler i Marco -- The official development assistance (oda) and fiscal instruments to reduce poverty : an EU perspective / José Manuel Saiz-Álvarez -- Fiscal policy in the Spanish economic thought of xviii century / José Antonio Negrín de la Peña -- Fiscal options in a descentralised public sector / Alfredo Iglesias Suárez and Ma Gabriela Lagos Rodríguez.…”
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Public finance lessons from the past and effects on the future /

Table of Contents: “…Ruiz-Fuensanta and Vicent Soler i Marco -- The official development assistance (oda) and fiscal instruments to reduce poverty : an EU perspective / José Manuel Saiz-Álvarez -- Fiscal policy in the Spanish economic thought of xviii century / José Antonio Negrín de la Peña -- Fiscal options in a descentralised public sector / Alfredo Iglesias Suárez and Ma Gabriela Lagos Rodríguez.…”
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