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The Arabian frontier of the British Raj merchants, rulers, and the British in the nineteenth-century Gulf / by Onley, James, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Conventions, terminology, and transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The subject -- The sources -- Overview -- Empire -- British India's informal empire and spheres of influence in Asia and Africa -- British India's residency system in Asia and Africa -- The origins of the residency system, 1613-1763 -- The politicization and expansion of the residency system, 1764-1947 -- The residency system and Britain's Indian empire -- Imperialism and the strategy of informal empire -- The Indian political service (IPS), 1764-1947 -- Early British involvement in the Gulf, 1616-1822 -- Britain's political residency in the Gulf, 1822-1971 -- Britain's native agency in Bahrain, c. 1816-1900 -- Agents of empire -- British India's native agency system in Asia -- British India's native agency system in Asia -- British India's native agency system in the Gulf -- British motives for employing native agents -- Robinson's theory of collaboration -- The Indian origins of the native agency system -- The politicization of the native agency system in India and the Gulf -- Early native agents in the Gulf -- The establishment of the native agency system in the Gulf -- Advantages for the British -- Disadvantages for the British -- Advantages and disadvantages for the native agents -- The operation of British India's native agency in Bahrain -- The agency building -- The agency's finances and organization -- The agent's intelligence-gathering duties, c.1816-1900 -- The agent's judicial duties, 1861-1900 -- The agents' political duties, 1872-1900 -- The agents' social duties -- British India's native agents in Bahrain -- The banias, c.1816-34 -- The Safar family agents -- Mirza Muhammad Cali Safar, 1834-42 -- Hajji Jasim (Hajji Abu'l Qasim), 1842-62 -- Hajji Ibrahim bin Muhsin bin Rajab, 1862-4 -- Years of abeyance, 1865-71 -- Hajji Cabd al-Nabi Khan Safar, 1872-84 -- Hajji Ahmad Khan Safar, 1884-91 -- Temporary agents, 1891-3 -- Agha Muhammad Rahim Safar, 1893-1900 -- Hajji Cabbas bin Muhammad bin Fadhil, 1900 -- The native agency staff after 1900 -- Challenges to the agents, 1834-97 -- The decline of British India's native agency system in Bahrain and the Gulf -- The rift in agent-ruler relations, 1895-1900 -- The agent's conflict between trade and politics, 1897-9 -- The argument for a political agency, 1897-9 -- The transition to a political agency, 1899-1900 -- The Arabian frontier of the Indian empire -- Appendix A a British India's residency system in Asia and Africa -- British India's residency system, 1880s -- Gulf residency organization -- Gulf residency staff -- Gulf residency budget -- Graded officers serving in political residencies, 1877 -- British military establishments in the Gulf -- Appendix B rulers and residents -- Rulers of Bahrain -- Residents in Bushire -- Agents for the lower Gulf (qishm island) -- Political residents in the Gulf (Bushire) -- Political residents in the Gulf (Ras al-Jufair, Bahrain) -- Governors of Bombay -- Viceroys of India -- Appendix C British India's native agents in Bahrain -- Native agents -- Native agency staff -- British-Indian steam navigation Co. agents (Gray Paul & Co.) -- Merchant grades -- Appendix D British control : Bahrain v. the Indian states -- Appendix E Anglo-Bahraini legal obligations and rights.…”
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From Preschool to Prosperity : The Economic Payoff to Early Childhood Education / by Bartik, Timothy J.

Table of Contents: “…Why early childhood education makes sense now: ECE's place in the ongoing struggle for broader economic opportunities : Labor supply and labor demand ; History matters ; The continuing argument over expanding educational access ; But why early childhood education? …”
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Complex variables : a physical approach with applications / by Krantz, Steven G. (Steven George), 1951-

Table of Contents: “…2.1 The Exponential Function2.1.1 Laws of Exponentiation; 2.1.2 The Polar Form of a Complex Number; Exercises; 2.1.3 Roots of Complex Numbers; 2.1.4 The Argument of a Complex Number; 2.1.5 Fundamental Inequalities; Exercises; 3: Holomorphic and Harmonic Functions; 3.1 Holomorphic Functions; 3.1.1 Continuously Differentiable and Ck Functions; 3.1.2 The Cauchy-Riemann Equations; 3.1.3 Derivatives; 3.1.4 Definition of Holomorphic Function; 3.1.5 Examples of Holomorphic Functions; 3.1.6 The Complex Derivative; 3.1.7 Alternative Terminology for Holomorphic Functions; Exercises…”
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AI and Human Thought and Emotion. by Freed, Sam (Philosophy professor)

Table of Contents: “…1.4 A Half-Approach, and a Point or Two1.5 Watson; 1.5.1 Explicit Motivations; 1.5.2 Arguments against Introspection; 1.5.3 Interesting Points; 1.5.4 Watson -- Summary; 1.6 Simon; 1.6.1 Economics; 1.6.2 Hostile to Subjectivity -- Rationalistic; 1.6.3 Artificial Intelligence; 1.6.4 Against His Critics; 1.6.5 Flirting with Subjectivity; 1.7 AI as It Stands -- Summary; 2 Current Critiques of Artificial Intelligence; 2.1 Background: Phenomenology and Heidegger; 2.1.1 Phenomenology; 2.1.2 Heidegger; 2.2 The Cognition vs Phenomenology Debate; 2.3 Dreyfus…”
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Foundations of Evidence-Based Medicine Clinical Epidemiology and Beyond. by Jenicek, Milos, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…The logic in modern medicine: Reasoning and underlying concepts; Introductory comments; 3.1 Logic in medicine; 3.2 Logic around us; 3.2.1 Philosophy in medicine is more than ethics: Some definitions of common terms in philosophy; 3.2.2 Definitions of logic; 3.2.3 Some basic elements and principles of logic; 3.2.3.1 Arguments and syllogisms; 3.2.3.2 Deduction and induction in logic and medicine; 3.2.3.3 Abduction; 3.2.3.4 Implications of logic for medicine…”
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Luttes paysannes en Colombie 1970-2016 : Conflit agraire et perspectives de paix / by Celis, Leila, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Couverture -- Demi page de titre -- Page titre -- Page de droit d'auteur -- Table des matieres -- INTRODUCTION -- L'analyse de la lutte paysanne par ses dynamiques : justification et tensions -- Les organisations à l'etude ... et leurs ramifications -- Le spectre politico-ideologique -- Le champ geographique et la realite socio-economique du Magdalena Medio -- Les termes de reference -- Les arguments et la structure -- CHAPITRE 1 Origine et contexte du conflit agraire : rapports de domination -- 1.1 Pouvoir politique et rapports sociaux : reperes theoriques…”
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Luttes paysannes en Colombie 1970-2016 : Conflit agraire et perspectives de paix / by Celis, Leila, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Couverture -- Demi page de titre -- Page titre -- Page de droit d'auteur -- Table des matieres -- INTRODUCTION -- L'analyse de la lutte paysanne par ses dynamiques : justification et tensions -- Les organisations à l'etude ... et leurs ramifications -- Le spectre politico-ideologique -- Le champ geographique et la realite socio-economique du Magdalena Medio -- Les termes de reference -- Les arguments et la structure -- CHAPITRE 1 Origine et contexte du conflit agraire : rapports de domination -- 1.1 Pouvoir politique et rapports sociaux : reperes theoriques…”
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Boats of the world : from the Stone Age to Medieval times / by McGrail, Sean

Table of Contents: “…SOURCES AND THEMES -- I.I Maritime archaeology and boat archaeology -- 1.2 Sources of evidence -- 1.3 The reconstruction and interpretation of excavated vessels -- 1.4 Concepts behind some of the arguments in this study -- I.5 Presentation of the evidence -- 2. …”
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Handbook of conformal mappings and applications / by Kythe, Prem K.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Notations, Definitions, and Acronyms; Part 1: Theory and Conformal Maps; 1: Introduction; 1.1 Historical Background; 1.2 Modern Developments; 1.3 In Retrospect; 2: Conformal Mapping; 2.1 Definitions; 2.1.1 Analytic Functions; 2.1.2 Integration; 2.1.3 Fatou's Lemma; 2.2 Jordan Contour; 2.2.1 Hölder Condition; 2.3 Metric Spaces; 2.4 Basic Theorems; 2.4.1 Singularities; 2.4.2 Residues; 2.4.3 Boundary Values for Cauchy Integral; 2.4.4 Argument Principle; 2.4.5 Plemelj Formulas; 2.5 Harmonic Functions…”
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The price of doubt by Nathan, N. M. L.

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Human rights and civil liberties

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Inventing falsehood, making truth : Vico and Neapolitan painting / by Bull, Malcolm

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The edge of evolution : the search for the limits of Darwinism / by Behe, Michael J.

Relativism / by Baghramian, Maria

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Logic, form, and grammar by Long, Peter, 1926-

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Late Sophocles : The Hero’s Evolution in Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus / by Van Nortwick, Thomas, 1946-

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Late Sophocles : The Hero’s Evolution in Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus / by Van Nortwick, Thomas, 1946-

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Critical psychology praxis : psychosocial non-alignment to modernity/coloniality /

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Disputed Territories and International Criminal Law Israeli Settlements and the International Criminal Court. by McKenzie, Simon

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The Sources of Anti-Slavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760-1848 / by Wiecek, William M.

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