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Iterative methods in combinatorial optimization by Lau, Lap Chi

Table of Contents: “…Matroids; 6. Arborescence and rooted connectivity; 7. Submodular flows and applications; 8. …”
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Chinese Chicago race, transnational migration, and community since 1870 / by Ling, Huping, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : rethinking Chinese Chicago -- Searching roots of a transnational community -- Locating Chinatown, 1870s-1910s -- Operating transnational businesses, 1880s-1930s -- Living transnational lives, 1880s-1930s -- Bridging the two worlds : community organizations, 1870s-1945 -- Connecting the two worlds : Chinese students and intellectuals, 1920s-2010s -- Diverging and converging transnational communities, 1945-2010s -- Epilogue : the "hollow center phenomenon" and the future of transnational migration.…”
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Theatrical Jazz : Performance, Àṣẹ, and the Power of the Present Moment / by Jones, Omi Osun Joni L., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Troubling jazz, Abínibí, Black theatre for the twenty-first century -- The ensemble, Ẹgbẹ́, community -- The marrow : Laurie Carlos -- The blue note : Daniel Alexander Jones -- The roots : Sharon Bridgforth -- The break, Awo, process -- The bridge, Áṣẹ, transformation -- Appendix I. …”
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The Ethiopian revolution war in the Horn of Africa / by Gebru Tareke, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…The specter of revolution and war -- Roots and outcomes of revolution: a review -- Comrades against comrades -- The victorious nationalists: insurgent Eritrea -- The victorious ethnonationalists: insurgent Tigray -- The vanquished revolutionary army: birth and evolution -- The vanquished revolutionary army: defeat and demise -- Battlefield Ethiopia -- Ogaden: "socialist" neighbors at war -- Nakfa: "even the mountains fought" -- Af Abet: Ethiopia's Dienbienphu? …”
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Mysticism and madness the religious thought of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav / by Mark, Zvi

Table of Contents: “…Nachman of Bratslav -- The land of imagination -- 'Smallness' and 'greatness' and their roots in the kabbalah of the Ari -- The ultimate purpose of knowing is that we do not know -- 'The story of the humble king' : on laughter and foolishness in the service of God.…”
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Writing blackness John Edgar Wideman's art and experimentation / by Coleman, James W. (James Wilmouth), 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Brothers and keepers, Fatheralong, Hoop roots, and The island: Martinique: the fictionalized auto/biographies -- A glance away, Hurry home, and the Lynchers: modernist experimentation and the early novels -- Hiding place, Damballah, and Sent for you yesterday: new dimensions of postmodern experimentation in the Homewood trilogy -- Reuben and Philadelphia fire: progressive experimentation after the Homewood trilogy -- The cattle killing, Two cities, and Fanon: extending experimental writing, making it clear, and extending it further.…”
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Jewish renaissance and revival in America essays in memory of Leah Levitz Fishbane /

Table of Contents: “…Common bonds: a collective portrait -- On the road to renaissance: the young mens' Hebrew associations of New York and Philadelphia, 1877-1883 -- A renaissance of Jewish readers in Victorian Philadelphia -- Preserving the past to fashion the future: the editorial board of the Jewish Encyclopedia -- Leah's hope: the legacy of German-Jewish humanism in America --- Revival through celebrity: American fame, Jewish identity, and the early 1960s -- Renewal and havurah: American movements, European roots.…”
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Reborn in America French exiles and refugees in the United States and the vine and olive adventure, 1815-1865 / by Saugera, Eric

Table of Contents: “…Treason and terror -- A critical moment -- The "chief culprits" -- Political reaction in Gironde -- Across the Atlantic -- Maritime exodus -- A conflictual friendship -- Settling in America -- Alabama's exotic roots -- Grape harvests in America -- The new Thebaid -- A gift from Congress -- A family affair -- French lands in Alabama -- Routes to the South -- The promised land -- The French and the others -- A model colonist -- Choice of a world -- Rebirth in America -- Return to the homeland.…”
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Then sings my soul the culture of southern gospel music / by Harrison, Douglas, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : A native informant's report from the field -- Glory bumps, or the psychodynamics of the southern gospel experience -- Nostalgia, modernity, and the reconstruction roots of a tradition -- The rise of "southern" gospel music and the compensations of history -- The gaitherization of contemporary southern gospel -- Southern gospel in the key of queer -- Epilogue : the soul's best song -- List of songs referenced -- Appendix : methods and preliminary findings of a survey of attitudes and beliefs about southern gospel music.…”
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Mr. New York : Lew Rudin and his love for the city / by Lachman, Seymour

Table of Contents: “…Take care of our city -- Family roots -- Entree to politics and policy -- Birth of the association for a better New York -- New York's film and television industry comes of age in New York City -- Advent of the fiscal crisis -- Pre-payment of property taxes, and the road back to prosperity -- New York City marathon -- International tennis becomes synonymous with New York -- Protecting local and state tax deductions -- Living landmark.…”
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Bugle resounding music and musicians of the Civil War era /

Table of Contents: “…Kelley -- Music and community in the Civil War era / D.L. Root -- They weren't all like Lorena: musical portraits of women in the Civil War era / L. …”
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From the nature of the mind to personal dignity the significance of Rosmini's philosophy / by Franck, Juan F., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Rosmini's life and work -- Toward an ontological foundation of personhood -- The present study -- The nature of knowledge -- The problem of knowledge -- Fundamental difference between sensation and idea -- Activity and passivity in sense perception -- The subjective and the extrasubjective in sensation -- Sensation and idea compared -- The intellective perception -- The judgment contained in the idea of the thing -- The idea of existence -- Characteristics of this idea -- Innatism of the idea of existence -- The idea and sensation are primitive elements -- The idea as a necessary means of knowledge -- Ideas and reality -- The idea of being, pure mediator of knowledge -- The knowledge of existing reality through the idea -- Kant's a priori synthesis and Rosmini's primitive synthesis -- Kant, innatism, and the lumen intellectuale -- The idea is one form of being -- Ideal being is the knowability of real being -- Ideal being is the possibility of things -- Note on the possibility and necessity of ideas -- The idea and the mind -- The book about the idea in the Teosofia -- Essere per sè manifesto : manifestato and manifestante -- Objective mode (or form) of being : absolute and relative existence -- Absolute and relative existence of ideas and ideal being -- Intelligibility is an attribute of being itself -- The intimate bond between the idea and the intelligence -- Objective being and Plato's Parmenides -- Self-contradictory objects -- The idea and the dignity of the person -- Initial being and the place of intelligences in the whole of being -- Initial being and the lumen intellectuale -- The divine in nature -- Individuality and immortality -- The intelligent will -- Objective being and ethics -- The ultimate root of personal dignity.…”
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Seeing Wittgenstein anew

Table of Contents: “…Hagberg -- The bodily root: seeing aspects and inner experience / Victor J. …”
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Language acquisition the growth of grammar / by Guasti, Maria Teresa

Table of Contents: “…10 -- 1.6 The Critical Period 20 -- Chapter 2 -- First Steps into Language 23 -- Introduction 23 -- 2.1 The Quest for the Native Language 24 -- 2.2 Learning the Phonemic Contrasts of the Native Language 40 -- 2.3 Infants' Speech Production 47 -- 2.4 Summary and Concluding Remarks 52 -- Chapter 3 -- Acquisition of the Lexicon 55 -- Introduction 55 -- 3.1 Why Finding Words Is a Problem 56 -- 3.2 Why Acquiring the Meaning of Words Is a Problem 74 -- 3.3 Acquisition of Verbs 80 -- 3.4 Bootstrapping of Syntax 90 -- 3.5 Summary and Concluding Remarks 96 -- Chapter 4 -- The Emergence of Syntax 101 -- Introduction 101 -- 4.1 Word Order in Children's Productions 101 -- 4.2 The Structure of Early Clauses 103 -- 4.3 The Subject Agreement Relation 120 -- 4.4 Root Infinitives 128 -- 4.5 Summary and Concluding Remarks 146 -- Chapter 5 -- Null Subjects in Early Languages 151 -- Introduction 15 -- 5.1 Parametric Accounts of Early Null Subjects 152 -- 5.2 Root Null Subjects 160 -- 5.3 Performance Accounts 179 -- 5.4 Summary and Concluding Remarks 183 -- Chapter 6 -- Acquisition of Wh-Movement 187 -- Introduction 187 -- 6.1 Question Formation in Early Systems 188 -- 6.2 Auxless Questions in Early English 202 -- 6.3 Long-Distance Wh-Movement 209 -- 6.4 Relative Clauses 220 -- 6.5 Summary and Concluding Remarks 240 -- Chapter 7 -- Acquisition of NP-Movement 245 -- Introduction 245 -- 7.1 Passive Constructions in Adult and Child Grammar 246 -- 7.2 A Maturational Account of Early Passive Constructions 252 -- 7.3 Problems with the Maturational Account 254 -- 7.4 New Findings about Early Passives 260 -- 7.5 Summary and Concluding Remarks 268 -- Chapter 8 -- Acquisition of the Binding Principles 271 -- Introduction 271 -- 8.1 The Binding Theory 272 -- 8.2 Principle A 285 -- 8.3 Principle B 290 -- 8.4 Principle C 300 -- 8.5 Summary and Concluding Remarks 308 -- Chapter 9 -- Aspects of the Acquisition of Quantification 313 -- Introduction 313 -- 9.1 Prerequisites for Handling Quantificational Structures 314 -- 9.2 The Structure of Quantified NPs and the Syntax-Semantics Mapping 316 -- 9.3 Children's Errors with Universal Quantification 329 -- 9.4 Summary and Concluding Remarks 343 -- Chapter 10 -- Acquisition of Control 347 -- Introduction 347 -- 10.1 Aspects of the Theory of Control 348 -- 10.2 The Structure-Changing Hypothesis 350 -- 10.3 The Maturation Iypothesis 356 -- 10.4 The Lexical-Syntactic Integration Hypothesis 365 -- 10.5 Summary and Concluding Remarks 371 -- Chapter 11 -- Dissociation between Language and Other Cognitive Abilities 375 -- Introduction 375 -- 11.1 Impaired Language in Otherwise Normal Children: Specific Language -- Impairment 376 -- 11.2 Approaches to Specific Language Impairment 378 -- 11.3 Relatively Intact Language in an Otherwise Impaired System: Williams -- Syndrome 398 -- 11.4 Summary and Concluding Remarks 403 -- Appendix A: Normal or Gaussian Distribution 405 -- Appendix B: Tests to Assess Specific Language Impairment 406 -- Notes 409 -- Glossary 423 -- References 429 -- Index 467.…”
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Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium by Öykü Tekten, Alexander R. Galloway, Benjamin H. Bratton, McKenzie Wark, Ed Keller (ed.), Nicola Masciandaro (ed.), Eugene Thacker (ed.), Zach Blas, Melanie Doherty, Anthony Sciscione, Kate Marshall, Alisa Andrasek, Dan Mellamphy, Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, Ben Woodard, Lionel Maunz, Reza Negarestani

Table of Contents: “…Robin Mackay, "A Brief History of Geotrauma" -- McKenzie Wark, "An Inhuman Fiction of Forces" -- Benjamin H. Bratton, "Root the Earth: On Peak Oil Apophenia" -- Alisa Andrasek, "Dustism" -- Zach Blas, "Queerness, Openness" -- Melanie Doherty, "Non-Oedipal Networks and the Inorganic Unconscious" -- Anthony Sciscione, "Symptomatic Horror: Lovecraft's 'The Colour Out of Space'" -- Kate Marshall, "Cyclonopedia as Novel (a meditation on complicity as inauthenticity)" -- Alexander R. …”
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Fictions of justice the International criminal court and the challenges of legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa / by Clarke, Kamari Maxine, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Constructing fictions : moral economies in the tribunalization of violence -- Crafting the victim, crafting the perpetrator : new spaces of power, new specters of justice -- Multiple spaces of justice : Uganda, the International Criminal Court and the politics of inequality -- "Religious" and "secular" micropractices : the roots of secular law, the political content of radical Islamic beliefs -- "The hand will go to hell" : Islamic law and the crafting of the spiritual self -- Islamic sharia at the crossroads : human rights challenges and the strategic translation of vernacular imaginaries.…”
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At the jazz band ball sixty years on the jazz scene / by Hentoff, Nat

Table of Contents: “…Finding the first American groove -- pt. 8. Roots -- pt. 9. The survivors -- pt. 10. The regenerators -- pt. 11. …”
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The history of Texas music by Hartman, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Understanding the music of Texas and the American Southwest -- Texas music begins : Native American musical traditions of the Southwest -- Música tejana : Mexican American music in the Southwest -- See that my grave is kept clean : the African roots of Texas music -- From polkas to pirogues : the German, Jewish, Czech, Polish, and French influence on Texas -- Deep within my heart lies a melody : Anglo American music in Texas -- Groover's paradise : Texas rock & roll.…”
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India and Pakistan continued conflict or cooperation? / by Wolpert, Stanley A., 1927-

Table of Contents: “…Historic roots of the problem -- The first Indo-Pakistani war over Kashmir -- The second Indo-Pakistani war over Kashmir -- The third Indo-Pakistani war and the birth of Bangladesh -- The Indo-Pakistani Simla summit and Zia's coup -- Afghanistan's impact on Indo-Pakistani relations -- Pakistan's proxy war and Kashmir's Azaadi revolution -- Recent attempts to resolve escalating Indo-Pakistani conflicts -- The stalled Indo-Pakistani peace process -- Potential solutions to the Kashmir conflict.…”
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