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Back to the future of Irish studies festschrift for Tadhg Foley /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Maureen O'Connor -- Walking westward / Robert Young -- The leaving of Wessex: Thomas Hardy's emigrants / Penny Boumelha -- Nomadic figures: the "rhetorical excess" of Irishness in political economy / David Lloyd -- Roots of modernity: primitivism and primitive accumulation in nineteenth-century Ireland / Luke Gibbons -- Economy and ascendancy in nineteenth-century Ireland / Gordon Bigelow -- The art and science of political economy: Nassau Senior and Ireland in the 1830s / Ciara Boylan and Tom Boylan -- Some notes on Hutcheson Macauley Posnett (1855-1927) / Joep Leerssen -- From Bruff to the Balkans: James David Bouchier / Michael Foley -- Reading between the lines / Niamh O'Sullivan -- The world, the music, and the critic: some thoughts on Said's musical transgressions / Helen O'Shea -- Noses and monotheism / Maud Ellmann.…”
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Russia before the radiant future essays in modern history, culture, and society / by Confino, Michael, 1926-2010

Table of Contents: “…The fate of ideas in history -- Alexander Herzen and Isaiah Berlin on Russia's elusive counter-Enlightenment -- Russian and Western European roots of Soviet totalitarianism -- Traditions, old and new : patterns of protest and dissent in modern Russia -- pt. 2. …”
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A concise history of Nazi Germany by Bendersky, Joseph W., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…The origins and development of Nazism, 1919-1928 -- Weimar democracy in crisis -- The rise of Hitler and Nazism -- The historical roots of Nazi ideology -- Party structure, propaganda, and followers during the "early years of struggle" -- The seizure and consolidation of power, 1929-1934 -- Parliamentary paralysis and the Nazi breakthrough of 1930 -- Hitler's legal path to power -- The pseudolegal revolution -- The nazification of German society, 1934-1938 -- The total state versus the dual state and polycracy -- Political biology, culture, and society -- SS terror, anti-semitism, and resistance to nazification -- The rise and fall of the Nazi empire in Europe, 1933-1945 -- The fuhrer as statesman: ideology and foreign policy -- The fuhrer as warrior: victory and conquest -- From domination to retreat -- The Holocaust, resistance, and defeat -- The struggle for justice and historical memory -- From Nuremberg to vergangenheitsbewltigung -- The intractable Nazi legacy in film: propaganda and history.…”
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The Time of the Sign : A Semiotic Interpretation of Modern Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Caterpillar / Lao She -- Two women / Wu Tsu-hsiang -- On the Oxcart / Hsiao Hung -- Garbage cleaner / Lo Hua-sheng -- West wind ; Chang Sao / Ping Hsin -- Little Liu / Ling Shu-hua -- Parting / Tʻien Tʻao -- At the precipice / Teng Yu-mei -- Spring is just around the corner / Tsʻao Ming -- Rain / Ai Wu -- Corduroy / Hsi Jung -- Old team captain welcomes a bride / Sung Shun-kʻang -- A day in Pleasantville / Pai Hsien-yung -- Nightfall / Yü Li-hau -- A rose in June / Ch'en Ying-chen -- Born of the same roots / Yang Chʻing chʻu -- May he return soon / Wang Tʻo -- My friend Ai Fen / Chen Jo-hsi.…”
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Introductory engineering mathematics / by Reeping, David, Reid, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…Employing functions -- 3.1 Relations to functions -- 3.1.1 Composition -- 3.1.2 Inverse functions -- 3.2 Fitting data -- 3.3 Locating roots of a function -- 3.3.1 Locating roots within a tolerance, or "getting close enough" -- 3.4 Functional behavior --…”
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Biotechnologies for Plant Mutation Breeding Protocols /

Table of Contents: “….) -- Optimization of Somatic Embryogenesis in Cassava -- Creation of a TILLING Population in Barley after Chemical Mutagenesis with Sodium Azide and MNU -- Site-Directed Mutagenesis in Barley by Expression of TALE Nuclease in Embryogenic Pollen -- Doubled Haploidy as a Tool for Chimera Dissolution of TALEN-Induced Mutations in Barley -- Field Evaluation of Mutagenized Rice Material -- Root Phenotyping Pipeline for Cereal Plants -- Breeding New Aromatic Rice with High Iron using Gamma Radiation and Hybridization -- Utilizing NIRS for Qualitative and Non-Destructive Identification of Seed Mutants in Large Populations -- Protocols for Proteome Analyses of Jatropha curcas -- Low-Cost Methods for DNA Extraction and Quantification -- A Protocol for Benchtop Extraction of Single-Strand-Specific Nucleases for Mutation Discovery -- A Protocol for Validation of Doubled Haploid Plants by Enzymatic Mismatch Cleavage -- Bioinformatics-Based Assessment of the Relevance of Candidate Genes for Mutation Discovery -- Mutation Detection by Analysis of DNA Heteroduplexes in TILLING Populations of Diploid Species -- Determining Mutation Density using Restriction Enzyme Sequence Comparative Analysis (RESCAN) -- Next-Generation Sequencing for Targeted Discovery of Rare Mutations in Rice.…”
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Revisiting the Origin of Species : The Other Darwins / by Hoquet, Thierry

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Crazy funny : popular black satire and the method of madness / by Guerrero, Lisa

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Lexicon of pulse crops / by Mikić, Aleksandar

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Big data war : how to survive global big data competition / by Park, Patrick H.

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The Retro-Futurism of Cuteness

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George Rochberg, American Composer : Personal Trauma and Artistic Creativity / by Wlodarski, Amy Lynn

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The syntax of aspect deriving thematic and aspectual interpretation /

Table of Contents: “…Demonimal verbs, manner incorporation, and the ontology of verb roots in English / Heidi Harley -- Path predicates / Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Tova Rapoport -- Tense, person, and transitivity / Jacqueline Guéron -- Complex aspectual structure in Hindi/Urdu / Miriam Butt and Gillian Ramchand -- The aspect of agency / Edit Doron -- Agents and causes in Malagasy and Tagalog / Lisa Travis -- Event structure and morphosyntax in Navajo / Carlota S. …”
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Contemporary Caribbean cultures and societies in a global context

Table of Contents: “…Knight -- Challenges to Caribbean economies in the era of globalization / Helen McBain -- Globalization, the World Bank, and the Haitian economy / Alex Dupuy -- Creolization in Havana: the oldest form of globalization / Antonio Benítez-Rojo -- Showing face: Boxing and nation building in contemporary Puerto Rico / Frances Negrón-Muntaner -- Creolité in the hood: diaspora as source and challenge / Juan Flores -- Glocal spirituality: consumerism and heritage in a Puerto Rican Afro-Latin folk religion / Raquel Romberg -- Women's grass-roots organizations in the Dominican Republic: real and imagined female figures / Valentina Peguero -- Race and politics in Cuba / Aline Helg -- Jamaican reggae and the articulation of social and historical consciousness in musical discourse / Jorge L. …”
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Bones of contention the living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero / by Todorova, Marii͡a Nikolaeva

Table of Contents: “…-- The "making" of Vasil Levski -- A banner for all causes : appropriating the hero -- Contesting the hero -- The literary and visual hypostases of the hero -- From hero for all to dissident and back -- The national hero as secular saint : the canonization of Levski -- The split or how a bicephalous organism functions -- The canonization and its implications -- Levski and the Bulgarian Church : memory and narration -- The orchestration of a grass-roots cultus -- Commemoration, ritual and the sacred -- Heroes and saints : the dialectics of reincarnation.…”
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Owning our future the emerging ownership revolution / by Kelly, Marjorie, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…. : extractive design -- The community bank : generative design -- Wall street : capital markets on autopilot -- Overload : the expanding house of claims -- Collapse : the eroding middle-class base -- Returning to earth -- Ecological values as the seedbed of a generative economy -- Waking up : from maximizing profits to sustaining life -- The island : from growth to sufficiency -- Bringing forth a world : from individualism to community -- Creating living companies -- The five core elements of generative ownership design -- Living purpose : creating the conditions for life -- Rooted membership : ownership in living hands -- Mission-controlled governance : humans at the helm -- Stakeholder finance : capital as friend -- Ethical networks : reinforcing shared values -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the author.…”
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The skeptical professional's guide to psychiatry : on the risks and benefits of antipsychotics, antidepressants, psychiatric diagnoses, and neuromania / by Dean, Charles E.

Table of Contents: “…-- Antidepressants and Adverse Events : Falls and Fractures, Vascular Events, Risks in Pregnancy, and Abnormal Movements -- Treatment-Resistant Depression : Combining and Switching Antidepressants, Adding Antipsychotics, and On to Neurotherapeutics -- Desperately Treating Depression : On Psychotogenic and Hallucinogenic Drugs, Anti-Inflammatories, Antidiabetics, Hyperthermia, and Opioids -- Psychiatric Diagnoses : The DSM and the Roots of Failure -- Fear and Loathing at the APA : The DSM-5, The Brain Mapping Quartet, and the Future of Mental Illness.…”
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Doing Business in America : A Jewish History /

Table of Contents: “…Far Away Moses & Company : an Ottoman Jewish business between Istanbul and the United States / Julia Phillips Cohen -- 5. The roots of Jewish concentration in the American popular music business, 1890-1945 / Jonathan Karp -- 6. …”
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The perspective of the acting person essays in the renewal of thomistic moral philosophy / by Rhonheimer, Martin, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…-- "Intrinsically evil acts" and the moral viewpoint : clarifying a central teaching of veritatis splendor -- Intentional actions and the meaning of object : a reply to Richard McCormick -- The cognitive structure of the natural law and the truth of subjectivity -- Practical reason and the "naturally rational" : on the doctrine of the natural law as a principle of praxis in Thomas Aquinas -- The moral significance of pre-rational nature in Aquinas : a reply to Jean Porter (and Stanley Hauerwas) -- The cognitive structure of the natural law and the truth of subjectivity -- The perspective of the acting person and the nature of practical reason : the "object of the human act" in thomistic anthropology of action -- Practical reason and the truth of subjectivity : the self-experience of the moral subject at the roots of metaphysics and anthropology -- Review of Jean Porter's Nature as reason : a thomistic theory of the natural law.…”
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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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