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Globalization and challenges to building peace

Table of Contents: “…-- Beyond criminal justice : promoting the rule of law in post-conflict societies -- Peace by pact : data on the implementation of peace agreements -- Refugee repatriation as a necessary condition for peace -- Catapulting conflicts or propelling peace : diasporas and civil wars -- UN peace operations as norm entrepreneurs : the challenge of achieving communicative action on human rights -- To practice what they preach : international transitional administrations and the paradox of norm promotion -- Re-examining the roots of war in West Africa in a globalizing world -- The African Union (AU) and its commitment to non-indifference : can the AU be an actor for the promotion of human security? …”
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Haram in the harem domestic narratives in India and Algeria / by Rajakumar, Mohanalakshmi

Table of Contents: “…Muslim women in colonial India : the importance of the proper housewife -- The Algerian resistance : non-combat women within the family fold -- The partition of India : women's bodies embody men's honor -- Multiple narratives in short fiction -- When real life and fiction converge -- Alternative domesticity in the South Asian Muslim zenna : "I am a realist" -- The sister-in-law and her husband's family : ' " --the complete housewife" -- Discovering homoerotic desire in the household of "The quilt" -- Conclusion -- "Severed sound" : the emotional sister in Assia Dejbar's Women of Algiers in their apartments -- Returning home in post-revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed female fighter -- Family politics in post-revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed widow -- Conclusion -- Between women and their bodies : male perspectives of female partition experiences -- Abducted female during partition : historical fact and literary figure -- Caught between the communal and the familial : "his only sister, his treasure" -- Conclusion -- Thematic intersections.…”
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A class with Drucker : the lost lessons of the world's greatest management teacher / by Cohen, William A., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…How I became the student of the father of modern management -- Drucker in the classroom -- What everybody knows is frequently wrong -- Self-confidence must be built step-by-step -- If you keep doing what worked in the past you're going to fail -- Approach problems with your ignorance--not your experience -- Develop expertise outside your field to be an effective manager -- Outstanding performance is inconsistent with fear of failure -- The objective of marketing is to make selling unnecessary -- Ethics, honor, integrity and the law -- You can't predict the future, but you can create it -- We're all accountable -- You must know your people to lead them -- People have no limits, even after failure -- A model organization that Drucker greatly admired -- The management control panel -- Base your strategy on the situation, not on a formula -- How to motivate the knowledge worker -- Drucker's principles of self-development.…”
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Beyond Ainu studies : changing academic and public perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Hudson -- Trade and the paradigm shift in research on Ainu hunting practices / Deriha Kōji -- Our ancestors' handprints: the evolution of Ainu women's clothing culture / Tsuda Nobuko -- The gender of cloth: Ainu women and cultural revitalization / ann-elise lewallen -- From collecting words to writing grammars: a brief history of Ainu linguistics / Kirsten Refsing -- The Ainu, law, and legal mobilization, 1984-2009 / Georgina Stevens.…”
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Reaching for a new deal : ambitious governance, economic meltdown, and polarized politics in Obama's first two years /

Table of Contents: “…Jacobs, Theda Skocpol -- Eliminating the market middle-man: redirecting and expanding support for college students / Suzanne Mettler -- The contest of lobbies and disciplines: financial politics and regulatory reform / Daniel Carpenter -- The unsurprising failure of labor law reform and the turn to administrative action / Dorian T. …”
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The consequences of counterterrorism /

Table of Contents: “…Counterterrorism regimes and the rule of law : the effects of emergency legislation on separation of powers, civil liberties, and other fundamental constitutional norms / John E. …”
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Human Remains and Mass Violence : Methodological Approaches /

Human remains and mass violence : methodological approaches /

Table of Contents: “…Corpses and mass violence : an inventory of the unthinkable / Elisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus -- The biopolitics of corpses of mass violence and genocide / Yehonatan Alsheh -- Seeking the dead among the living : embodying the disappeared of the Argentinian dictatorship through law / Sevane Garibian -- The human body : victim, witness and evidence of mass violence / Caroline Fournet -- Moral discourse and action in relation to the corpse : integrative concepts for a criminology of mass violence / Jon Shute -- The disposal of corpses in an ethnicized civil war : Croatia, 1941-45 / Alexander Korb -- Renationalizing bodies? …”
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"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights" : Michigan, 1948-1968 / by Fine, Sidney, 1920-2009

Table of Contents: “…"An ugly picture" : civil rights in Michigan, 1948 -- "A jewel in the crown of all of us" : Michigan enacts a Fair Employment Practices Act, 1949-1955 -- "A small beginning" : Fair Employment Practices, 1955-1963 -- "Wrestling with ... the cause of civil rights, 1949-1962 -- "The most pressing problem" in civil rights : housing discrimination, 1949-1962 -- The disadvantaged, 1949-1962 : the aged, women, Native Americans, and the physically handicapped -- "The excluded" : migrant farm labor, 1949-1962 -- "The Democrats must stand up and be counted" -- Civil rights and the Michigan Constitution of 1963 -- The year of transition : 1963 -- The Civil Rights Commission and employment discrimination -- The Civil Rights Commission and discrimination in education, public accommodations, and housing -- Women, Native Americans, and the physically handicapped, 1964-1968 -- "Disturbing conditions and unmet needs" : the migrant labor problem, 1964-1968 -- The Civil Rights Commission, law enforcement, and the Detroit riot of 1967 -- Since 1968.…”
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Paris-Amsterdam Underground : Essays on Cultural Resistance, Subversion, and Diversion /

Table of Contents: “…(In)audible Frequencies: Sounding out the Contemporary Branded City / Carolyn Birdsall -- Red Lights and Legitimate Trade: Paying for Sex in the Branded City / Joyce Goggin -- Visibly Underground: When Clandestine Workers Take the Law into Their Own Hands / Anna-Louise Milne -- Archaeology of the Parisian Underground / Stephen W. …”
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Decolonising the Human : Reflections from Africa on difference and oppression /

Table of Contents: “…: Of culture, politics, law. and LGBT rights in Nigeria / Olayinka Akanle, Gbenga S. …”
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Leadership roles and management functions in nursing : theory and application / by Marquis, Bessie L, Huston, Carol Jorgensen

Table of Contents: “…Decision making, problem solving, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning : requisites for successful leadership and management -- Classical views of leadership and management -- Twenty-first century thinking about leadership and management -- Ethical issues -- Legal and legislative issues -- Patient, subordinate, and professional advocacy -- Strategic and operational planning -- Planned change -- Time management -- Fiscal planning -- Career development : from new graduate to retirement -- Organizational structure -- Organizational, political, and personal power -- Organizing patient care -- Employee recruitment, selection, placement, and indoctrination -- Socializing and educating staff for team building in a learning organization -- Staffing needs and scheduling policies -- Creating a motivating climate -- Organizational, interpersonal, and group communication -- Delegation -- Effective conflict resolution and negotiation -- Collective bargaining, unionization, and employment laws -- Quality control -- Performance appraisal -- Problem employees : rule breakers, marginal employees, and the chemically or psychologically impaired.…”

Being reduced new essays on reduction, explanation, and causation /

Table of Contents: “…/ John Bickle -- Reduction in real life / Peter Godfrey-Smith -- Group agency and supervenience / Christian List and Philip Pettit -- Reduction and reductive explanation : is one possible without the other? / Jaegwon Kim -- CP laws, reduction, and explanatory pluralism / Peter Lipton -- Must a physicalist be a microphysicalist? …”
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Human Remains and Mass Violence : Methodological Approaches /

Human remains and mass violence : methodological approaches /

Table of Contents: “…Corpses and mass violence : an inventory of the unthinkable / Elisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus -- The biopolitics of corpses of mass violence and genocide / Yehonatan Alsheh -- Seeking the dead among the living : embodying the disappeared of the Argentinian dictatorship through law / Sevane Garibian -- The human body : victim, witness and evidence of mass violence / Caroline Fournet -- Moral discourse and action in relation to the corpse : integrative concepts for a criminology of mass violence / Jon Shute -- The disposal of corpses in an ethnicized civil war : Croatia, 1941-45 / Alexander Korb -- Renationalizing bodies? …”
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Paris-Amsterdam Underground : Essays on Cultural Resistance, Subversion, and Diversion /

Table of Contents: “…(In)audible Frequencies: Sounding out the Contemporary Branded City / Carolyn Birdsall -- Red Lights and Legitimate Trade: Paying for Sex in the Branded City / Joyce Goggin -- Visibly Underground: When Clandestine Workers Take the Law into Their Own Hands / Anna-Louise Milne -- Archaeology of the Parisian Underground / Stephen W. …”
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"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights" : Michigan, 1948-1968 / by Fine, Sidney, 1920-2009

Table of Contents: “…"An ugly picture" : civil rights in Michigan, 1948 -- "A jewel in the crown of all of us" : Michigan enacts a Fair Employment Practices Act, 1949-1955 -- "A small beginning" : Fair Employment Practices, 1955-1963 -- "Wrestling with ... the cause of civil rights, 1949-1962 -- "The most pressing problem" in civil rights : housing discrimination, 1949-1962 -- The disadvantaged, 1949-1962 : the aged, women, Native Americans, and the physically handicapped -- "The excluded" : migrant farm labor, 1949-1962 -- "The Democrats must stand up and be counted" -- Civil rights and the Michigan Constitution of 1963 -- The year of transition : 1963 -- The Civil Rights Commission and employment discrimination -- The Civil Rights Commission and discrimination in education, public accommodations, and housing -- Women, Native Americans, and the physically handicapped, 1964-1968 -- "Disturbing conditions and unmet needs" : the migrant labor problem, 1964-1968 -- The Civil Rights Commission, law enforcement, and the Detroit riot of 1967 -- Since 1968.…”
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Decolonising the Human : Reflections from Africa on difference and oppression /

Table of Contents: “…: Of culture, politics, law. and LGBT rights in Nigeria / Olayinka Akanle, Gbenga S. …”
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"They take our jobs!" and 20 other myths about immigration / by Chomsky, Aviva, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Immigrants send most of what they earn out of the country in the form of remittances -- pt. 2. Immigrants and the law -- Myth 7. The rules apply to everyone, so new immigrants need to follow them just like immigrants in the past did -- Myth 8. …”
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"They take our jobs!" and 20 other myths about immigration / by Chomsky, Aviva, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Immigrants send most of what they earn out of the country in the form of remittances -- pt. 2. Immigrants and the law -- Myth 7. The rules apply to everyone, so new immigrants need to follow them just like immigrants in the past did -- Myth 8. …”
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Paging New Jersey a literary guide to the Garden State / by Broderick, James F., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Philip Freneau -- James Fenimore Cooper -- Mary Griffith -- Walt Whitman -- Mary Mapes Dodge -- Thomas Nast -- Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Stephen Crane -- Albert Payson Terhune -- William Carlos Williams -- Joyce Kilmer -- Allen Ginsberg -- Mary Higgins Clark -- Toni Morrison -- Amiri Baraka -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Peter Benchley -- Anna Quindlen -- Cheaper by the dozen -- Goodbye, Columbus -- The Pine Barrens -- Eddie and the Cruisers -- Jersey luck -- Rosamund's vision -- Laying down the law -- One for the money -- Our guys -- Lost legends of New Jersey -- Searching for Captain Kidd's treasure -- Burr, Hamilton, and the duel of history in Weehawken -- The Lindbergh baby kidnapping -- The Hindenburg disaster -- The trials of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter -- Mobbed in New Jersey -- On the (paper) trail of the New Jersey Devil -- Dodge Poetry Festival -- The New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame -- Stages of greatness: a survey of the history of theater in New Jersey -- Reaching critical mass in the Garden State -- Stoned in New Jersey.…”
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Insult to injury libel, slander, and invasions of privacy / by Jones, William K.

Table of Contents: “…The man who had to leave town -- "Heed their rising voices" -- An uncommon common law -- The First Amendment -- Anything that touches on fitness for office -- The tale of the furtive night watchman -- Into the vortex of public controversy -- The big football fix -- The frame-up of officer nuccio -- The golden fleece of the month award -- The reluctant Soviet agent -- Special cases : unlimited, irrelevant and involuntary public figures -- Strictly business -- Purely private libels -- Group libels -- Looking for love? …”
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