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Investigations Into the Phenomenology and the Ontology of the Work of Art What are Artworks and How Do We Experience Them? /

Table of Contents: “…Bundgaard -- Depiction; John Hyman -- Green war banners in central Copenhagen: A recent political struggle over interpretation — and some implications for art interpretation as such; Frederik Stjernfelt -- The appropriation of the work of art as a semiotic act; Francis Édeline and Jean-Marie Klinkenberg -- Sculpture, diagram, and language in the artwork of Joseph Beuys; Wolfgang Wildgen. …”
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The politics of vaccination : A global history /

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Vaccination and national identity -- The uneasy politics of epidemic aid: the CDC's mission to Cold War East Pakistan, 1958 -- Fallacy, sacrilege, betrayal and conspiracy: the cultural construction of opposition to immunisation in India -- Vaccination and the communist state: polio in Eastern Europe -- 'A vaccine for the nation': South Korea's development of a hepatitis B vaccine and national prevention strategy focused on newborns -- Part II: Nationality, vaccine production and the end of sovereign manufacture -- Vaccine production, national security anxieties and the unstable state in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico -- The erosion of public sector vaccine production: the case of the Netherlands -- Yellow fever vaccine in Brazil: fighting a tropical scourge, modernising the nation -- A distinctive nation: vaccine policy and production in Japan -- Part III: Vaccination, the individual and society -- The MMR debate in the United Kingdom: vaccine scares, statesmanship and the media -- Pandemic flus and vaccination policies in Sweden -- Polio vaccination, political authority and the Nigerian state -- The power of individuals and the dependency of nations in global eradication and immunisation campaigns.…”
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Investigations Into the Phenomenology and the Ontology of the Work of Art What are Artworks and How Do We Experience Them? /

Table of Contents: “…Bundgaard -- Depiction; John Hyman -- Green war banners in central Copenhagen: A recent political struggle over interpretation — and some implications for art interpretation as such; Frederik Stjernfelt -- The appropriation of the work of art as a semiotic act; Francis Édeline and Jean-Marie Klinkenberg -- Sculpture, diagram, and language in the artwork of Joseph Beuys; Wolfgang Wildgen. …”
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The politics of vaccination : A global history /

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Vaccination and national identity -- The uneasy politics of epidemic aid: the CDC's mission to Cold War East Pakistan, 1958 -- Fallacy, sacrilege, betrayal and conspiracy: the cultural construction of opposition to immunisation in India -- Vaccination and the communist state: polio in Eastern Europe -- 'A vaccine for the nation': South Korea's development of a hepatitis B vaccine and national prevention strategy focused on newborns -- Part II: Nationality, vaccine production and the end of sovereign manufacture -- Vaccine production, national security anxieties and the unstable state in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico -- The erosion of public sector vaccine production: the case of the Netherlands -- Yellow fever vaccine in Brazil: fighting a tropical scourge, modernising the nation -- A distinctive nation: vaccine policy and production in Japan -- Part III: Vaccination, the individual and society -- The MMR debate in the United Kingdom: vaccine scares, statesmanship and the media -- Pandemic flus and vaccination policies in Sweden -- Polio vaccination, political authority and the Nigerian state -- The power of individuals and the dependency of nations in global eradication and immunisation campaigns.…”
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A Brief History of Islam in Europe : Thirteen Centuries of Creed, Conflict and Coexistence / by Berger, Maurits

Table of Contents: “…Secular and Religious Rule -- 3. Wars and Terrorism -- 4. Europe and Its 'Neighbourhood' -- III. …”
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A Brief History of Islam in Europe : Thirteen Centuries of Creed, Conflict and Coexistence / by Berger, Maurits

Table of Contents: “…Secular and Religious Rule -- 3. Wars and Terrorism -- 4. Europe and Its 'Neighbourhood' -- III. …”
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Shalom/salaam/peace a liberation theology of hope / by Hammond, Constance A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: From the particular to the global and back to the project -- The land of Israel/Palestine -- Jerusalem -- The ownership of land -- The theology of the land -- Generations of God gifting the land -- Conquering in the name of God -- One God : three faiths -- The Word of God -- Scripture from a Palestinian Christian perspective -- Scripture from a Muslim perspective -- Scripture from a Jewish perspective -- A timeline from 1840-1967 -- The land and population in modern day Israel/Palestine -- Settlers and settlements -- Zionism : secular and religious -- Politics, wars and new beginnings -- Peacemakers : Jewish, Christian, and Muslim -- The wall, the fence, the barrier -- The law ancient, the reality today -- Exodus -- Peacemakers versus disturbers of the peace -- Liberation theology and Vatican II -- Economic development and developing revolutions -- Founders of liberation theology -- Leaders and martyrs of the revolution -- Martyrs of liberation theology -- Base Christian communities (communidades de base) -- Liberation theology in North America -- Liberation theology : Jewish and Islamic -- Liberation theology : Palestinian Christian -- Palestinian resistance groups -- The peacemakers in Israel/Palestine -- Israeli Jewish peace groups -- Palestinian Christian and Muslim peace groups -- International peace groups -- Tragedy behind the theology.…”
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National interest and international solidarity particular and universal ethics in international life /

Table of Contents: “…Docking -- Geopolitics and solidarity on the borders of Europe : the Yugoslav wars of succession / Alex J. Bellamy -- Is East Timor an exception in the Southeast Asian landscape? …”
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Film and risk

Table of Contents: “…disability, film, and the Jewish Question / Faye Ginsburg -- Accented filmmaking and risk taking in the age of postcolonial militancy, terrorism, globalization, wars, oppression, and occupation / Hamid Naficy -- Multinational casts and epistemic risk: the case of Pan-Asian cinema / Jinhee Choi -- The financial and economic risks of film production / Michael Pokorny and John Sedgwick -- Motion picture finance and risk in the United States / Bill Grantham -- Encouraging artistic risk taking through film policy: the case of new Danish screen / Eva Novrup Redvall -- After the decisive moment: moving beyond photojournalism's high-risk mode / Michelle L. …”
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Shalom/salaam/peace a liberation theology of hope / by Hammond, Constance A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: From the particular to the global and back to the project -- The land of Israel/Palestine -- Jerusalem -- The ownership of land -- The theology of the land -- Generations of God gifting the land -- Conquering in the name of God -- One God : three faiths -- The Word of God -- Scripture from a Palestinian Christian perspective -- Scripture from a Muslim perspective -- Scripture from a Jewish perspective -- A timeline from 1840-1967 -- The land and population in modern day Israel/Palestine -- Settlers and settlements -- Zionism : secular and religious -- Politics, wars and new beginnings -- Peacemakers : Jewish, Christian, and Muslim -- The wall, the fence, the barrier -- The law ancient, the reality today -- Exodus -- Peacemakers versus disturbers of the peace -- Liberation theology and Vatican II -- Economic development and developing revolutions -- Founders of liberation theology -- Leaders and martyrs of the revolution -- Martyrs of liberation theology -- Base Christian communities (communidades de base) -- Liberation theology in North America -- Liberation theology : Jewish and Islamic -- Liberation theology : Palestinian Christian -- Palestinian resistance groups -- The peacemakers in Israel/Palestine -- Israeli Jewish peace groups -- Palestinian Christian and Muslim peace groups -- International peace groups -- Tragedy behind the theology.…”
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National interest and international solidarity particular and universal ethics in international life /

Table of Contents: “…Docking -- Geopolitics and solidarity on the borders of Europe : the Yugoslav wars of succession / Alex J. Bellamy -- Is East Timor an exception in the Southeast Asian landscape? …”
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Film and risk

Table of Contents: “…disability, film, and the Jewish Question / Faye Ginsburg -- Accented filmmaking and risk taking in the age of postcolonial militancy, terrorism, globalization, wars, oppression, and occupation / Hamid Naficy -- Multinational casts and epistemic risk: the case of Pan-Asian cinema / Jinhee Choi -- The financial and economic risks of film production / Michael Pokorny and John Sedgwick -- Motion picture finance and risk in the United States / Bill Grantham -- Encouraging artistic risk taking through film policy: the case of new Danish screen / Eva Novrup Redvall -- After the decisive moment: moving beyond photojournalism's high-risk mode / Michelle L. …”
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Child's Play : Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan /

Table of Contents: “…: childhood and relative autonomy in medieval Japanese monasteries / Or Porath -- Growing up manly : male Samurai childhood in late Edo Era Tosa / Luke Roberts -- For the love of children : practice, affect, and subjectivities in Hirata Atsutane's household / Anne Walthall -- Consumer consumption for children : conceptions of childhood in the work of Taish' period designers / Jinno Yuki -- 'Children in the wind': reexamining the golden age of childhood film in interwar and wartime Japan / Harald Salomon -- Children and the founding of Manchukuo : young girl and women ambassadors from Manchukuo and the Concordia society / Koresawa Hiroaki -- Reversing the gaze : the construction of 'adulthood' in the wartime diaries of Japanese children and youths / Aaron Moore -- Outdoor play in wartime Japan / Halliday Piel -- ' ... and my heart screams' : children and the war of emotions / Sabine Frühstück -- From grade school to great star : childhood development and the 'golden age' in the world of Japanese soccer / Elise Edwards -- Treatment and intervention for children with developmental disabilities / Junko Teruyama -- Food and affect : constituting a 'household-like' child welfare institution in Japan / Kathryn Goldfarb -- Monju-kun : children's culture as protest / Noriko Manabe.…”
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Security/Mobility : Politics of Movement /

Table of Contents: “…A discourse view on the European Community and the abolition of border controls in the second half of the 1980s -- Part III: Circumscribing movement -- 9 Gender (in)securities: surveillance and transgender bodies in a post- 9/11 era of neoliberalism -- 10 One thing left on the checklist: ontological coordination and the assessment of consistency in asylum requests -- 11 Modelling the self, creating the other: French denaturalisation law on the brink of World War II -- Epilogue -- 12 Unpacking the new mobilities paradigm: lessons for critical security studies?…”
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Child's Play : Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan /

Table of Contents: “…: childhood and relative autonomy in medieval Japanese monasteries / Or Porath -- Growing up manly : male Samurai childhood in late Edo Era Tosa / Luke Roberts -- For the love of children : practice, affect, and subjectivities in Hirata Atsutane's household / Anne Walthall -- Consumer consumption for children : conceptions of childhood in the work of Taish' period designers / Jinno Yuki -- 'Children in the wind': reexamining the golden age of childhood film in interwar and wartime Japan / Harald Salomon -- Children and the founding of Manchukuo : young girl and women ambassadors from Manchukuo and the Concordia society / Koresawa Hiroaki -- Reversing the gaze : the construction of 'adulthood' in the wartime diaries of Japanese children and youths / Aaron Moore -- Outdoor play in wartime Japan / Halliday Piel -- ' ... and my heart screams' : children and the war of emotions / Sabine Frühstück -- From grade school to great star : childhood development and the 'golden age' in the world of Japanese soccer / Elise Edwards -- Treatment and intervention for children with developmental disabilities / Junko Teruyama -- Food and affect : constituting a 'household-like' child welfare institution in Japan / Kathryn Goldfarb -- Monju-kun : children's culture as protest / Noriko Manabe.…”
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Security/Mobility : Politics of Movement /

Table of Contents: “…A discourse view on the European Community and the abolition of border controls in the second half of the 1980s -- Part III: Circumscribing movement -- 9 Gender (in)securities: surveillance and transgender bodies in a post- 9/11 era of neoliberalism -- 10 One thing left on the checklist: ontological coordination and the assessment of consistency in asylum requests -- 11 Modelling the self, creating the other: French denaturalisation law on the brink of World War II -- Epilogue -- 12 Unpacking the new mobilities paradigm: lessons for critical security studies?…”
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The geography of American poverty is there a need for place-based policies? / by Partridge, Mark D.

Table of Contents: “…-- Characteristics of high and low poverty rate rural counties -- Changes in 1989-1999 rural poverty rates -- Rural regression findings -- Rural poverty and proximity to metro areas -- Case study : Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska -- Policy implications for fighting rural poverty -- Summary -- How to win the local poverty war -- Synopsis -- Policy recommendations.…”
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Meet me with your black drawers on my life in music / by Cheatham, Jeannie

Table of Contents: “…Arthur Reginald Riley -- Funerals -- The Reverend Uncle Frank, lessons on men, and finding Jesus -- The coming of the cold -- Summer heat -- Wrong direction -- The new house -- It's an ill wind that don't blow somebody some good -- Yellow cab to the red-light district -- Junkies and jazz -- World War II : let the good times roll -- Just get on the greyhound, girl -- The Evans exodus -- Jailhouse blues -- From hell to heaven blues -- Snowbound -- The song of the Colvinaires -- New baby blues -- A blizzard of birdshit -- The colors of many changes -- Triumph, tragedy, turmoil, and tenor players -- A little love song -- Little Mattie, big mama, and the beautiful Miss M -- The blues and the Buffalo scuffle -- Escape from Buffalo -- New York City, ditty-wah-ditty -- Fatback -- Bronx gulag and agoraphobia -- The light shineth in the darkness -- From hell to academia -- Welcome to Wisconsin -- On the move in Madison -- Movin' an' moanin', groovin' an' groanin' in Madison -- The way west -- Pipe dreamin' in the valley of smoke -- A standing O in San Diego -- Take it! …”
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The Greater Middle East in global politics social science perspectives on the changing geography of the world politics /

Table of Contents: “…Eisenstadt -- Iranian foreign policy since the Iranian Islamic Revolution : 1979-2006 / Eva Patricia Rakel -- The Middle East's democracy decit in comparative perspective / Mehran Kamrava -- The challenges of modernity : the case of political Islam / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh -- The Turkish political economy : globalization and regionalism / Nilgun Onder -- The Maghreb : social, political, and economic developments / Louisa Dris-Ait-Hamadouche and Yahia Zoubir -- From Soviet Republics to independent countries : challenges of transition in Central Asia / Mirzohid Rahimov -- Central Asia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union : economic reforms and their impact on state-society relations / Richard Pomfret -- New twists, more intricate congurations : the changing Israel-Palestinian regional security complex / Fred Lawson -- The politics of oil and major power rivalry in the post-cold war Greater Middle East. Global energy security and its geopolitical impediments : the case of the Caspian Region / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and Henk Houweling -- China and the Greater Middle East : globalization no longer equals westernization / Kurt W. …”
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Corruption, global security, and world order

Table of Contents: “…The role of the multi-national corporation in the long war against corruption / Ben W. Heineman, Jr. -- The organization of anti-corruption : getting incentives right / Johann Graff Lambsdorff -- 16. …”
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