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The paradox of professionalism lawyers and the possibility of justice /

Table of Contents: “…The legal complex, religion, and the fates of political liberalism Terence C. Halliday; 4. More lawyers than people: the global multiplication of legal professionals Marc Galanter; 5. …”
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In Search of Social Democracy : Responses to Crisis and Modernisation /

Table of Contents: “…Explanations for the neo-liberal direction of social democracy : Germany, Sweden and Australia compared / Ashley Lavelle -- Fiscal policies, social spending and economic performance in France, Germany and the UK since 1970 / Norman Flynn -- From The future of socialism (1956) to a future without socialism? …”
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Households of faith family, gender, and community in Canada, 1760-1969 /

Table of Contents: “…DRAPER -- Reinventing Christian Masculinity and Fatherhood: The Canadian Protestant Experience, 1900-1920 290 -- PATRICIA DIRKS --MODERNITY, SEXUALITY, AND THE INDIVIDUALIST TEMPER -- The Emergence of Personalist Feminism: Catholicism and the Marriage-Preparation Movement in Quebec, -- 1940-1966 319 -- MICHAEL GAUVREAU -- Sacred Sex: The United Church and the Privatization of the Family in Post-War Canada 348 -- NANCY CHRISTIE -- Conclusion: "Patriarchal Piety" and Canada's Liberal Tradition 377.…”
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Collapse of an empire lessons for modern Russia / by Gaĭdar, E. T. (Egor Timurovich)

Table of Contents: “…The grandeur and the fall of empires -- Modern economic growth and the era of empires -- Crisis and the dismantling of overseas empires -- Problems of dissolving territorially integrated empires -- The yugoslav tragedy -- Authoritarian regimes: the causes of instability -- Challenges in the early stages of modern economic growth and authoritarianism -- The instability of authoritarian regimes -- Mechanics of the collapse of authoritarianism -- The oil curse -- The Spanish prologue -- Resource wealth and economic development -- Specifics of the oil market -- Regulating the oil market in the twentieth century -- Challenges related to price fluctuations of commodities: Mexico and Venezuela -- In search of a way out: a response to the dangers of unstable commodity pricing -- Cracks in the foundation: the Soviet Union in the early 1980s -- Growing problems and bad decisions -- Food supply problems -- Food shortages-a strategic challenge -- The USSR as the largest importer of food -- Oil in Western Siberia: the illusion of salvation -- A drop in oil prices: the final blow -- The collapse of the USSR: the unexpected becomes the rule -- The political economy of external shocks -- Deteriorating conditions for foreign trade: political alternatives -- The ussr and the drop in oil prices: the essence of the choice -- A series of mistakes -- Mounting problems in the soviet economy -- The hard currency crisis -- Economic and political liberalization against the background of the hard currency and financial problems -- Development of the crisis of the socialist system -- Political credits -- The price of compromise -- The crisis of the empire and the nationality question -- Loss of control over the economic and political situation -- The currency crisis -- From crisis to catastrophe -- "Extraordinary efforts" instead of reforms -- On the brink of default -- On the path to state bankruptcy -- The grain problem -- Prices skyrocket -- Money and the fate of the empire -- The fall -- The political economy of the failed coup -- Political death throes -- Political disintegration: economic consequences -- A civilized divorce.…”
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The trinitarian theology of Hilary of Poitiers by Weedman, Mark

Table of Contents: “…The development and context of Hilary's trinitarian theology: Latin anti-modalism in 'In Matthaeum' -- Regula fidei and "the economy" -- Logos-sarx christology -- The passion of the Son -- The Latin West and the beginning of the Homoian crisis -- Sirmium 357 and the "Homoian plot" -- The first Latin response : Phoebadius of Agen -- The second Latin response : Marius Victorinus -- Hilary's first attempts to engage the Homoians -- Liber adversus Valentem et Ursacium -- De fide -- Hilary, Basil of Ancyra and Sirmium -- Basil of Ancyra and the Creed of Sirmium 357 -- De synodis and Hilary's response to Sirmium 357 -- Sirmium 357 and the Homoiousian anathemas -- The dedication creed, Serdica 343 and Sirmium 357 -- De synodis, part II -- The Nicene Creed -- Hilary to the Homoiousians.…”
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Sitting in darkness New South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow colonialism, 1865-1920 / by Schmidt, Peter, 1951 Dec. 23-

Table of Contents: “…Harper's cultural work in Iola Leroy (1892) -- Conflicted race nationalism : Sutton Griggs's Imperium in imperio (1899) -- Lynching and the liberal arts : rediscovering George Marion McClellan's Old Greenbottom Inn and other stories (1906) -- JIm Crow colonialism's dependancy model for "uplift": promotion and reaction -- Ghosts of Reconstruction : Samuel C. …”
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Thinking in dark times Hannah Arendt on ethics and politics /

Table of Contents: “…Culbert -- Arendt's banality of evil thesis and the Arab-Israeli conflict / Yaron Ezrahi -- Judaism and cosmopolitanism -- Liberating the pariah : politics, the Jews, and Hannah Arendt / Leon Botstein -- Hannah Arendt's Jewish experience : thinking, acting, judging / Jerome Kohn -- The pariah as rebel : Hannah Arendt's Jewish writings / Ron H. …”
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A circle of friends Romanian revolutionaries and political exile, 1840-1859 / by Jianu, Angela

Table of Contents: “…The return of the exiles, 1856-1857 -- A republican funeral -- The ad-hoc assemblies and the European commissioners -- July 1856 -- October : the Brighton meeting -- 1857 -- The elections -- 1858 : the Congress of Paris and the union of the principalities -- Epilogue: After exile -- The uses of the press -- The "people question" -- The uses of exile -- Liberalism in Romania -- Conclusions -- Dramatis personae.…”
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Power and policy America's first steps to superpower, 1889-1922 / by Lenz, Lawrence, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: 1865-1889 : America grows and changes, as do its old foreign, Army, and naval policies -- Samoa, 1889 : how a hurricane built US battleships--and a military-industrial complex -- Appendix: Excerpts from Secretary of Navy report, 1889 -- Hawaiian "revolution" with an American gunboat -- Venezuela, 1895 : Great Britain vs. the United States, with a little help from the Kaiser -- Spanish-American War, 1898 : how a war to liberate Cuba created a worldwide empire -- Appendix: 1898 messages to George Dewey prior to Spanish-American War -- Philippines, 1899-1902 : America's first overseas guerrilla war and the ideas that won it -- Venezuela, 1902-1903 : the Roosevelt corollary, big stick or big bluff? …”
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Multicultural student services on campus building bridges, re-visioning community /

Table of Contents: “…Lee -- Multicultural student services at private, liberal arts colleges / Kimberly M. Ferguson & Timeka L. …”
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Veterans' policies, veterans' politics new perspectives on veterans in the modern United States /

Table of Contents: “…Bill of Rights, and the contours of liberalism / Nancy Beck Young -- 9. "A veteran does not have to stay a veteran forever": Congress and the Korean G.I. …”
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Enemy combatants, terrorism, and armed conflict law a guide to the issues /

Table of Contents: “…Stephens -- Muslim perspectives on the invasion of Iraq : informed publics, regime leaders, and Islamic jurists / Shahrough Akhavi -- Contested morality in U.S. foreign policy / Janice Love -- Paradigm shifts, executive power, and the War on Terror / Norman C. Bay -- Promotion of liberal Islam by the United States / John H. Mansfield -- The 9/11 Commission report and public discourse project / Michael Hurley -- International legal limits on the government's power to detain "enemy combatants" / Geremy C. …”
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What We Are Becoming Developments in Undergraduate Writing Majors /

Table of Contents: “…/ Lori Baker and Teresa Henning -- Remembering the canons' middle sisters: style, memory, and the return of the progymnasmata in the liberal arts writing major / Dominic F. Delli Carpini and Michael J. …”
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What We Are Becoming : Developments in Undergraduate Writing Majors /

Table of Contents: “…/ Lori Baker and Teresa Henning -- Remembering the canons' middle sisters: style, memory, and the return of the progymnasmata in the liberal arts writing major / Dominic F. Delli Carpini and Michael J. …”
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Advanced coal preparation and beyond : CO₂ capture conversion of waste to byproducts / by Kawatra, S. K.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Author -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Need for Carbon Dioxide Capture -- 1.2 Need for Sulfur Removal -- 1.3 Forms of Sulfur in Coal -- 1.3.1 Sources of Sulfur in Coal -- 1.3.2 Pyritic Sulfur -- 1.3.3 Organic Sulfur -- 1.3.3.1 Thiols -- 1.3.3.2 Suldefis -- 1.3.3.3 Disuldefis -- 1.3.3.4 Thiophenes -- 1.3.3.5 Occurrence of the Forms of Organic Sulfur -- 1.3.4 Sulfate Sulfur -- 1.3.5 Elemental Sulfur -- 1.4 Properties of Coal -- 1.5 Liberation -- 1.6 Advanced Coal Cleaning…”
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Agglomeration of iron ores / by Bhagat, Ram Pravesh

Table of Contents: “…Mineralogical Characterization; 2.5.4. Liberation Characteristic of Minerals; 2.6. Preparation of Ores and Other Raw Materials; 2.6.1. …”
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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. …”
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Deliberation and democracy : innovative processes and institutions /

Table of Contents: “…Steenbergen, André Bächtiger, Seraina Pedrini, Thomas Gautschi -- Group processes in deliberative setting : qualitative analysis / Elzbieta Wesolowska -- Assessing deliberative potential : evaluative dimensions of discursive interaction in contemporary democracy / Marcin Zgiep -- Deliberative democracy : reflexive perspectives -- Under construction : the field of online deliberation research / Stephen Coleman, Giles Moss -- Random selection, republican self-government, and deliberative democracy / Yves Sintomer -- Crisis and innovation of liberal democracy : can deliberation be institutionalized? …”
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Communication centers and oral communication programs in higher education advantages, challenges, and new directions /

Table of Contents: “…Communication Centers and Liberal Arts Education: Problems and Possibilities Associated with Cross-Disciplinary Engagements -- Chapter 4. …”
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L'ère du chiffre / The Age of Numbers : Systèmes statistiques et traditions nationales/Statistical Systems and National Traditions /

Table of Contents: “…Chapitre 7_Tensions et contradictions du systeme statistique sovietique: de la Revolution à la Seconde Guerre mondialeChapitre 8_L'INSEE, histoire d'une institution; Chapitre 9_Les reseaux de l'internationalisme statistique (1885-1914); Chapitre 10_La commission de statistique de l'ONU; Chapitre 11_La construction des statistiques sur la science et la technologie; Savoirs et pratiques; Chapitre 12_The Buller Education Commission; or, the London Statistical Society Comes to Canada, 1838-1842; Chapitre 13_Styles of Statistical Reasoning: The French Liberal Tradition Reconsidered.…”
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