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Opening standards the global politics of interoperability /

Table of Contents: “…Linda Garcia -- Securing the root / Brenden Kuerbis and Milton Mueller -- Open document standards for government, the South Africa experience / Andrew Rens -- An economic basis for open standards / Rishab Ghosh -- Open innovation and interoperability / Nick Tsilas -- Standards, trade, and development / John Wilson -- Questioning copyright in standards / Pamela Samuelson -- Constructing legitimacy : the W3C's patent policy / Andrew Russell -- Common and uncommon knowledge : reducing conflict between standards and patents / Brian Kahin -- ICT standard setting today : a system under stress / Andrew Updegrove -- Software standards, openness, and interoperability / Robert Sutor -- Open standards : definition and policy / Ken Krechmer.…”
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New plant physiology research

Table of Contents: “….] -- Physical and chemical signals and their action in systemic responses of plants to local wounding / Vladimíra Hlaváčková -- Root water transport under abiotic stress conditions / Ricardo Aroca, Juan Manuel Ruiz-Lozano -- Amino acids in the rhizosphere: a review / Rejsek Klement, Formanek Pavel & Vranova Valerie -- Harnessing the bacterial endophytes for crop improvement / M. …”
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Rwanda's Popular Genocide : A Perfect Storm / by Kimonyo, Jean Paul

Table of Contents: “…Historical background -- The pre-colonial period -- The colonial period -- The First Republic -- The Second Republic -- The years of hegemony (1973-1990) -- The discourse of reconciliation and the continued policy of exclusion -- Attempt to create a rural totalitarian state -- A brief and fragile economic recovery (1974-1986) -- Insubordination, social violence and despair -- War, multipartism and genocide -- The MRND party-state resistance to change -- The political opposition at the root of the genocide -- Butare: origins of the prefecture's political moderation -- Historical background -- Butare under the Second Republic -- Tolerance, violence and genocide in Butare -- The October 1990 war -- Multipartism in Butare -- Genocide in the prefecture --Kigembe: a social and political history -- The First Republic -- The Second Republic -- Political radicalism in Kigembe -- The impact of the 1990 war on Kigembe -- The multiparty era -- Genocide in Kigembe -- Kibuye: land conflict and political violence -- Historical and social context -- The final years of the MRND party-state -- Popular mobilization, war and the transition to democracy -- Multipartism in Kibuye prefecture -- : moderate politics and genocide in Gitesi commune -- 1984-1990: social crisis and the rise of subversive behavior -- War and multiparty rule -- Genocide in gitesi commune -- General conclusion: massive popular participation in the genocide.…”

Spinal drug delivery technology, biology and toxicology /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Pain: concepts and early anatomy -- Role of sensory nerves and spinal cord -- Enabling technology for spinal anesthesia -- Rapid evolution of spinal anesthetic delivery in the US -- Early appreciation of risks of spinal anesthesia -- Modulation of spinal processing -- Targeting drugs at spinal function -- Other systems which regulate spinal afferent transmission -- Pain selectively diminished by spinal opioids -- Spinal mu/delta opioid action -- Spinal analgesics: animal and human pain -- Safety of spinal drugs -- Early safety issues with spinal anesthetic -- Classes of spinal toxicity -- Intrathecal lidocaine and toxicity -- Spinal toxicity: root, parenchyma, meningeal -- Human intrathecal morphine: granuloma -- IT morphine and granulomas concentration vs. dose -- Future and neuraxial drug delivery.…”
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Vietnam the (last) war the U.S. lost / by Allen, Joe, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…From the French conquest to the overthrow of Diem -- From the overthrow of Diem to the Tet Offensive -- Cold War liberalism and the roots of the antiwar movement -- Black America and Vietnam -- From the birth of the antiwar movement to 1968 -- The U.S. working class and the war -- From quagmire to defeat -- From Watergate to the fall of Saigon.…”
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Women's movements and the Filipina, 1986-2008 / by Roces, Mina, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…The religious roots of women's oppression -- Prostitution, women's movements, and the victim narrative -- The woman as worker -- Indigenous women -- Hindi kailangan magtiis (there is no need to endure) -- Women's studies on the air -- Fashioning women through activism, ritual, and dress -- Women's movements in transnational spaces -- Women's movements in liminal spaces.…”
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Public education in New Mexico by Mondrag�on, John B., 1930-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The roots of public education in New Mexico -- Governance of public education in New Mexico -- Indian education in New Mexico -- Education as a profession -- Curriculum -- Financing schools in New Mexico -- School improvements and educational reform -- Public education and higher education connection -- Future trends -- Epilogue.…”
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Silent scourge children, pollution, and why scientists disagree / by Moore, Colleen F., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Lead and the roots of environmental controversies -- Mercury : not just a fish story -- PCBs : another global pollutant -- Why organophosphorus and carbamate pesticides should be studied -- Noise and children's development -- It isn't fair : environmental pollution disasters and community relocations -- The best science, values, and the precautionary principle to protect children.…”
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A man's game masculinity and the anti-aesthetics of American literary naturalism / by Dudley, John, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Inside and outside the ring : the establishment of a masculinist aesthetic sensibility -- "Subtle brotherhood" in Stephen Crane's tales of adventure : alienation, anxiety, and the rites of manhood -- "Beauty unmans me" : diminished manhood and the leisure class in Norris and Wharton -- "A man only in form" : the roots of naturalism in African American literature.…”
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Others in mind social origins of self-consciousness / by Rochat, Philippe, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : main ideas -- Self-conscious species -- Six propositions -- Variety of self-reflective mind states -- Mind states in development -- Birth of self-consciousness -- Shame and self-knowledge -- Roots of guilt -- Giving and sharing -- Origins of owning and sharing -- Social construction of identity -- Conclusion : moral space and the self.…”
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Black liberation and socialism by Shawki, Ahmed

Table of Contents: “…Slavery in the United States -- Abolitionism -- The Civil War -- Reconstruction and populism -- Accommodation, racism, and resistance -- The rise of Marcus Garvey -- The Socialist, Communist, and Trotskyist parties -- The roots of the civil rights movement -- The politics of Malcolm X -- Black power -- The Black Panthers and DRUM -- Making race a central wedge issue.…”
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Women's health psychology

Table of Contents: “…Women's health in context -- Historical roots of women's healthcare / Heather Munro Prescott and Wendy Kline -- Using intersectionality to study women's health / Lisa Bowleg -- Employment and women's health / Nancy L. …”
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Equality under the Constitution : Reclaiming the Fourteenth Amendment / by Baer, Judith A.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction -- Equality in the American context -- The roots of equal protection -- Equality and the Reconstruction congress -- From equal protection to suspect classification -- When equal is not the same -- The question of age -- The rights of the disabled -- Gay rights and the courts -- Toward a theory of constitutional equality -- Bibliography -- General index -- Index of cases.…”
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American pogrom the East St. Louis Race Riot and Black politics / by Lumpkins, Charles L.

Table of Contents: “…Historical roots of an African American community, 1800-1898 -- The African American political experience, 1898-1915 -- The May uprising : an end to expanding Black power -- The July massacre : "we'll have a White man's town" -- Return to the political arena, 1917-1929 -- Breaking the deadlock, 1930-1945.…”
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The Louisiana coast guide to an American wetland / by Gomez, Gay M. (Gay Maria), 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Prelude: Coastal roots -- The Louisiana coast : vital, valuable, and vulnerable -- Deltaic plain and Chenier plain landscapes -- Coastal vistas : vegetation -- Coastal vistas : wildlife -- Coastal vistas : human activities -- Wetland loss and restoration -- Visiting the coast -- Conclusion: Tenacity -- Books and other resources to enhance your wetland experience.…”
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The making and unmaking of the English Catholic intellectual community, 1910-1950 by Lothian, James R., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- From political radicalism to political Catholicism : Hilaire Belloc and the roots of the English Catholic intellectual community -- The greater servants : McNabb, Gill, Chesterton, and the establishment of the Bellocian orthodoxy -- The lesser servants : the next generation and the maturation of the Bellocian orthodoxy -- The Dawsonite challenge -- The unmaking of the English Catholic intellectual community -- Epilogue.…”
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Jobs for the boys patronage and the state in comparative perspective / by Grindle, Merilee Serrill

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Weber's ghost -- A system for all seasons -- Politics in the construction of reform -- Apres reform: deconstruction and reconstruction -- Latin America: patterns of patronage and politics -- Roots and branches -- Crafting reform: elite projects and political moments -- Ambiguous futures: the politics of implementation -- Conclusion: the politics of institutional creation and re-creation.…”
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Susanne Langer in focus the symbolic mind / by Innis, Robert E.

Table of Contents: “…The roots of Langer's philosophical project : on the "logic" of meaning -- Symbolic transformation : philosophy's new key -- Meaning after language : ritual, myth, and art -- Framing the art symbol : forms of feeling -- Art forms : the logic of primary illusions -- The mind of feeling -- From acts to symbolization -- The symbolic animal -- Placing Langer's philosophical project.…”
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Girls of Liberty : The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine / by Shilo, Margalit

Table of Contents: “…Feminism and its Zionist and Hebrew roots -- The women's struggle begins: local organization -- The national campaign commences -- From associations to political party: the union of Hebrew women for equal rights -- One step forward, two steps back -- The union comes of age -- Five years of struggle and a victory -- Victory and defeat.…”
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Food and faith : a theology of eating / by Wirzba, Norman

Table of Contents: “…Thinking theologically about food -- 2. The 'roots' of eating: our life together in gardens -- 3. …”