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Cultural tourism in Latin America the politics of space and imagery /

Table of Contents: “…Mendoza -- The 'three roots' of Panama's cultural heritage : the construction of racial and national identities in theme parks / Carla Guerrón Montero -- Through the othering gaze : Yucatecan trova music and 'the tourist' in Yucatán, Mexico / Gabriela Vargas-Cetina -- 'A symbol of wisdom and love'? …”
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Crusader for justice : federal judge Damon J. Keith / by Hammer, Peter J.

Table of Contents: “…Humble roots: the lawyer and the janitor -- The early education of Damon J. …”
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Biology, chemistry and applications of apocarotenoids /

Table of Contents: “…Uresti-Rivera -- An Overview of the Role of Abscisic Acid (ABA): from Plants to Humans / Us-Camas Rosa, Aguilar-Espinosa Margarita and Renata Rivera Madrid -- C13 Alpha-Ionol (Blumenol) Glycosides and C14 Mycorradicin: Apocarotenoids Accumulating in Roots During the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis / Michael H. …”
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Jews and Humor /

Table of Contents: “…: Jewish humor and its roots in the Talmud and Midrash / David Brodsky -- But is it funny? …”
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Data analytics in project management / by Spalek, Seweryn

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; About the Editor; Contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Why Data Analytics in Project Management?; Taking Root; The View from 10,000 Meters; Data Warehousing; Project Manager; Project Office; Chief Operating Officer (COO); Executive Committee; Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive Data Analytics; Data Analytics 3.0?…”
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The Enduring Legacy : Structured Inequality in America's Public Schools / by Ryan, Mark, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…A struggle between forces -- An ambiguous philosophical root -- Growing democratic values -- The evolution from common school to public school -- American exceptionalism -- What is the profession of a woman? …”
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Terror tracks music, sound and horror cinema /

Table of Contents: “…Halfyard -- Scary movies, scary music : uses and unities of metal in the contemporary horror film / Lee Barron and Ian Inglis -- Like razors through flesh : Hellraiser/s sound design and music / Karen Collins -- Spooked by sound : the Blair witch project / Rebecca Coyle -- Popular songs and ordinary violence : exposing basic human brutality in the films of Rob Zombie / Laura Wiebe Taylor -- Terror in the outback : Wolf Creek and Australian horror cinema / Philip Hayward and Harry Minassian -- The ghostly noise of J-horror : roots and ramifications / James Wierzbicki.…”
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Representation matters (re)articulating collective identities in a postcolonal world /

Table of Contents: “…Resignifying genesis, identity, and landscape : routes versus roots / Anette Hoffmann ; From Salsipuedes to Tabaré : race, space, and the Uruguayan subject / Vannina Sztainbok ; Bolivian indigenous identities : reshaping the terms of political debate, 1994-2004 / Claret Vargas -- 4. …”
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American cinema and the southern imaginary

Table of Contents: “…Bruce Brasell -- Papa Legba and the liminal spaces of the Blues: roots music in Deep South film / Christopher J. Smith -- Revamping the South: thoughts on labor, relationality, and southern representation / Tara McPherson.…”
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The saints' impresarios dreamers, healers, and holy men in Israel's urban periphery / by Bilu, Yoram

Table of Contents: “…The folk-veneration of saints in Morocco and Israel -- Dream portal -- Roots in the west : the cult of saints in Morocco -- From west to east : Moroccan jewry in Israel -- Native saints and immigrant saints : the sacred geography of Moroccan Jews in Israel -- Avraham Ben-Ayyim and Rabbi David u-Moshe -- A dream journey to the saint -- A saint in the next room : Rabbi David u-Moshe and the Ben-Ayyim family -- The abode of Rabbi David u-Moshe at the dawn of the 21st century -- Ya'ish O'ana, Elijah the prophet and the gate of paradise -- The road to paradise -- Dreamers in paradise -- Paradise lost -- Alu Ezra and Rabbi Avraham Aouriwar -- Early and late revelations -- Life-story as folktale the cinderella of Beit Shean -- Years later -- The folk veneration of saints in Morocco and Israel -- Esther Suissa and Rabbi Shimon bar-Yorai -- From patient to healer -- Written in the egg yolk : the healing art of female -- Saints' impresarios -- Esther and Rabbi Shimon : a return visit -- The cult of saints from a comparative perspective : symbol, narrative, gender, and identity -- Crosscutting stories : the saints' impresarios from a comparative perspective -- Personal symbols and mythic narratives -- Gender and sanctity : the female way to the Tsaddiq -- Migrating traditions : the historic timing and the "shelf life" of the new shrines -- The cult of saints as an Israeli and local phenomenon.…”
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Oral and written narratives and cultural identity interdisciplinary approaches /

Table of Contents: “…Wrigglesworth -- It's where my roots are : identity and place in the lives of older rural New Brunswick women / Jane E. …”
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Nature, environment and culture in East Asia the challenge of climate change /

Table of Contents: “…: Epistemological Awareness in the Zhuangzi / Karyn Lai -- Of Eco-Buddhas and Dharma-Roots : Views from the East Asian Buddhist Tradition / Henrik H. …”
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Islamic social finance : entrepreneurship, cooperation and the sharing economy /

Table of Contents: “…Islamic social finance and the importance of roots Valentino Cattelan Part I -- Islam, shared prosperity and the market as socio-economic community From the ontology of tawhid to Islamic social finance: conceptualization and application Masudul Alam Choudhury, Ari Pratiwi and Mohammad Shahadat Hossain A critical appraisal of Islamic finance in the light of maqasid al-Shari'ah Atiq-ur-Rehman Collaborative governance, social capital and the Islamic economic organization Charilaos Mertzanis Experiences in Translation : Islamic finance and the sharing economy Valentino Cattelan Part II -- Social impact entrepreneurship: instruments and cases A new form of global asset-backed debt market through sukuk Mohamed Ariff Islamic entrepreneurship and the fundraising challenge: unlocking capital via crowdfunding in the sharing economy Houssem eddine Bedoui and Rami Abdelkafi Islamic FinTech and the paradigm shift in the financial landscape Fatima Z. …”
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Secularization / by Turner, Charles, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Peter Berger and the deep roots of secularizationPhilip Rieff and the crisis of culture; Conclusion; Notes; 4. …”
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Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19 : Transformative resistance and social reproduction by VISHWAS SATGAR; RUTH NTLOKOTSE; HAWZHIN AZEEZ; ASA

Table of Contents: “…FRONT COVER -- HALF TITLE -- TITLE PAGE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: INDIGENOUS EMANCIPATORY FEMINISM AND TRANSFORMATIVE RESISTANCE -- CHAPTER 1: Extractivism and crises: Rooting development alternatives in emancipatory African socialist eco-feminism -- CHAPTER 2: Jineology and the pandemic: Rojava's alternative anti-capitalist-statist model -- PART TWO: ECOLOGY AND TRANSFORMATIVE WOMEN'S POWER IN SOUTH AFRICA -- CHAPTER 3: Doing Eco-Feminism in a Time of Covid-19: Beyond the Limits of Liberal Feminism…”
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African Archaeology Without Frontiers : Papers from the 2014 PanAfrican Archaeological Association Congress /

Table of Contents: “…Gabriel -- 3. The indigenous roots of Swahili culture in Pangani Bay, Tanzania / Elinaza Mjema -- 4. …”
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Designing healthy communities by Jackson, Richard, 1945-

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Functional Analysis, Calculus of Variations and Numerical Methods for Models in Physics and Engineering by Botelho, Fabio Silva

Table of Contents: “…5.1 Topologies for bounded operators -- 5.2 Adjoint operators -- 5.3 Compact operators -- 5.4 The square root of a positive operator -- 6. Spectral Analysis, a General Approach in Normed Spaces -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Sesquilinear functionals -- 6.3 About the spectrum of a linear operator defined on a banach space -- 6.4 The spectral theorem for bounded self-adjoint operators -- 6.4.1 The spectral theorem -- 6.5 The spectral decomposition of unitary transformations -- 6.6 Unbounded operators -- 6.6.1 Introduction -- 6.7 Symmetric and self-adjoint operators…”
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Operative cardiac surgery /

Table of Contents: “…Valvular Endocarditis. Valve Sparing Aortic Root Replacement. Section Four Surgery for Heart Failure.Heart Transplantation. …”
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Better than conscious? decision making, the human mind, and implications for institutions /

Table of Contents: “…Richerson -- Individual decision making and the evolutionary roots of institutions / Richard McElreath ... [et al.] -- The neurobiology of individual decision making, dualism, and legal accountability / Paul W. …”
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