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The construction of knowledge in Islamic civilization Qudāma b. Jaʻfar and his Kitāb al-Kharāj wa-ṣināʻat al-kitāba / by Heck, Paul L.

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Chapter One: Introduction1 -- Chapter Two: Language And Administration26 -- Introduction26 -- E pistles39 -- The Grammatical Category44 -- Ibn Qutayba45 -- Qudama and the Grammatical Category: I 48 -- al-Nahhas 51 -- Qudama and the Grammatical Category: -- II5 8 -- The Bureaucratic Category60 -- al-Baghdadi60 --6 5 -- Qudama and the Bureaucratic Category72 -- The Linguistic Categor)79 -- Qudama and the Linguistic Category85 -- Qudama's Category89 -- Conclusion92 -- Chapter Three: Geography94 -- Introduction94 -- Preface to Section VI101 -- The Ptolemaic Approach103 -- The Administrative Approach111 -- The Descriptive Approach123 -- The Literary Approach136 -- Conclusion144 -- Chapter Four: Fiscal Jurisprudence146 -- Introduction146 -- Kitaba-consciousness157 -- Sharfa-consciousness179 -- Conclusion191 -- Chapter Five: Political Thought194 -- Introduction194 -- The Philosophical Strand205 -- The Administrative Strand213 -- Fitrespieg 225 -- Conclusion239 -- Chapter Six: Concluding Remarks240 -- Appendix (Arabic Citations)245 -- Bibliography265 -- Index277.…”
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The construction of knowledge in Islamic civilization Qudāma b. Jaʻfar and his Kitāb al-Kharāj wa-ṣināʻat al-kitāba / by Heck, Paul L.

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Chapter One: Introduction1 -- Chapter Two: Language And Administration26 -- Introduction26 -- E pistles39 -- The Grammatical Category44 -- Ibn Qutayba45 -- Qudama and the Grammatical Category: I 48 -- al-Nahhas 51 -- Qudama and the Grammatical Category: -- II5 8 -- The Bureaucratic Category60 -- al-Baghdadi60 --6 5 -- Qudama and the Bureaucratic Category72 -- The Linguistic Categor)79 -- Qudama and the Linguistic Category85 -- Qudama's Category89 -- Conclusion92 -- Chapter Three: Geography94 -- Introduction94 -- Preface to Section VI101 -- The Ptolemaic Approach103 -- The Administrative Approach111 -- The Descriptive Approach123 -- The Literary Approach136 -- Conclusion144 -- Chapter Four: Fiscal Jurisprudence146 -- Introduction146 -- Kitaba-consciousness157 -- Sharfa-consciousness179 -- Conclusion191 -- Chapter Five: Political Thought194 -- Introduction194 -- The Philosophical Strand205 -- The Administrative Strand213 -- Fitrespieg 225 -- Conclusion239 -- Chapter Six: Concluding Remarks240 -- Appendix (Arabic Citations)245 -- Bibliography265 -- Index277.…”
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Drowning in laws labor law and Brazilian political culture / by French, John D.

Table of Contents: “…The CLT in foreign and domestic perspective -- The enigma of Brazilian labor law : Vargas and the government's bureaucratic Trabalhista Empire, 1950-1954 -- Labor law through the prism of subjectivity : legal consciousness, grievances, and class mobilization -- The politics of aphorism : the social question as a police matter (caso de polićia)…”
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Urban design, chaos, and colonial power in Zanzibar by Bissell, William Cunningham, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: landscapes of power and planning -- Cosmopolitan lives, urbane worlds: space and society in Zanzibar City -- Uncertain states: colonial practices and the ambiguities of power -- Colonial cartographies: struggling to make sense of urban space -- Disease, environment, and social engineering: clearing out and cleaning up the colonial city -- Development and the dilemmas of expertise -- Failures of implementation: circularity and secrecy in the pursuit of planning -- Disorder by design: legal confusion and bureaucratic chaos in colonial planning -- Conclusion: reflections on planning, colonial power, and continuities in the present.…”
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Urban design, chaos, and colonial power in Zanzibar by Bissell, William Cunningham, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: landscapes of power and planning -- Cosmopolitan lives, urbane worlds: space and society in Zanzibar City -- Uncertain states: colonial practices and the ambiguities of power -- Colonial cartographies: struggling to make sense of urban space -- Disease, environment, and social engineering: clearing out and cleaning up the colonial city -- Development and the dilemmas of expertise -- Failures of implementation: circularity and secrecy in the pursuit of planning -- Disorder by design: legal confusion and bureaucratic chaos in colonial planning -- Conclusion: reflections on planning, colonial power, and continuities in the present.…”
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Corazón de Dixie : Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910 / by Weise, Julie M.

Table of Contents: “…Mexicans as Europeans: Mexican nationalism and assimilation in New Orleans, 1910-1939 -- Different from that which is intended for the colored race: Mexicans and Mexico in Jim Crow Mississippi, 1918-1939 -- Citizens of somewhere: braceros, Tejanos, Dixiecrats, and Mexican bureaucrats in the Arkansas delta, 1939-1964 -- Mexicano stories and rural white narratives: creating pro-immigrant conservatism in rural Georgia, 1965-2004 -- Skyscrapers and chicken plants: Mexicans, Latinos, and exurban immigration politics in greater Charlotte, 1990-2012 -- Conclusion.…”
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Drowning in laws labor law and Brazilian political culture / by French, John D.

Table of Contents: “…The CLT in foreign and domestic perspective -- The enigma of Brazilian labor law : Vargas and the government's bureaucratic Trabalhista Empire, 1950-1954 -- Labor law through the prism of subjectivity : legal consciousness, grievances, and class mobilization -- The politics of aphorism : the social question as a police matter (caso de polićia)…”
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Corazón de Dixie : Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910 / by Weise, Julie M.

Table of Contents: “…Mexicans as Europeans: Mexican nationalism and assimilation in New Orleans, 1910-1939 -- Different from that which is intended for the colored race: Mexicans and Mexico in Jim Crow Mississippi, 1918-1939 -- Citizens of somewhere: braceros, Tejanos, Dixiecrats, and Mexican bureaucrats in the Arkansas delta, 1939-1964 -- Mexicano stories and rural white narratives: creating pro-immigrant conservatism in rural Georgia, 1965-2004 -- Skyscrapers and chicken plants: Mexicans, Latinos, and exurban immigration politics in greater Charlotte, 1990-2012 -- Conclusion.…”
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Navigating austerity : currents of debt along a South Asian river / by Bear, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Unpredictable circulations : the bureaucratic life of fiscal crisis -- Nationalist melancholia and the limits of austerity public sector unionism -- Family capital, state pedigree and the limits of austerity public goods -- Making a river of gold : speculation, friendship and entrepreneurial society -- Ajeet's accident : timespaces of global trade and ethical fixes in circulation -- Uncertain futures and eternal returns : timespaces of production in an informalised shipyard -- Conclusion 1 : towards a new social calculus -- Conclusion 2 : sovereign debt, equality and redistribution : a global social calculus.…”
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Navigating austerity : currents of debt along a South Asian river / by Bear, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Unpredictable circulations : the bureaucratic life of fiscal crisis -- Nationalist melancholia and the limits of austerity public sector unionism -- Family capital, state pedigree and the limits of austerity public goods -- Making a river of gold : speculation, friendship and entrepreneurial society -- Ajeet's accident : timespaces of global trade and ethical fixes in circulation -- Uncertain futures and eternal returns : timespaces of production in an informalised shipyard -- Conclusion 1 : towards a new social calculus -- Conclusion 2 : sovereign debt, equality and redistribution : a global social calculus.…”
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In pursuit of Alaska : an anthology of travelers' tales, 1879-1909 / by Meaux, Jean Morgan

Table of Contents: “…Hitchcock -- The Mosquitoes' Bugle on the Koyukuk / J.D. Winchester -- A Bureaucrat Comes to Call / Josiah Edward Spurr -- Pluck on the Kowak / Joseph Grinnell -- No Time for Sonatas / May Kellogg Sullivan -- Playing for Stakes / M. …”
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In pursuit of Alaska : an anthology of travelers' tales, 1879-1909 / by Meaux, Jean Morgan

Table of Contents: “…Hitchcock -- The Mosquitoes' Bugle on the Koyukuk / J.D. Winchester -- A Bureaucrat Comes to Call / Josiah Edward Spurr -- Pluck on the Kowak / Joseph Grinnell -- No Time for Sonatas / May Kellogg Sullivan -- Playing for Stakes / M. …”
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Hatred at home Al-Qaida on trial in the American Midwest / by Welsh-Huggins, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Call to prayer -- The gymnast -- Split personality -- Increasing tensions -- On the move -- Hardworking truck driver -- Little Mujahideen -- Diaspora -- Ready at any time -- Four hundred years -- Busy summer -- Night -- We need people who can vanish -- Collateral damage -- Winning the war on terror -- A great chapter -- I'm doing this as a friend -- Material support -- Guilty -- A secret, double life -- Get this done -- Shopping mall plot -- A symphony of unfairness -- Life goes on -- Atypical psychosis -- Evening -- Radical role-playing -- American soil -- Bureaucratic sloth -- Dirty numbers -- Disturbing picture -- The Ummah is angry -- Changing of the guard.…”
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Hatred at home Al-Qaida on trial in the American Midwest / by Welsh-Huggins, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Call to prayer -- The gymnast -- Split personality -- Increasing tensions -- On the move -- Hardworking truck driver -- Little Mujahideen -- Diaspora -- Ready at any time -- Four hundred years -- Busy summer -- Night -- We need people who can vanish -- Collateral damage -- Winning the war on terror -- A great chapter -- I'm doing this as a friend -- Material support -- Guilty -- A secret, double life -- Get this done -- Shopping mall plot -- A symphony of unfairness -- Life goes on -- Atypical psychosis -- Evening -- Radical role-playing -- American soil -- Bureaucratic sloth -- Dirty numbers -- Disturbing picture -- The Ummah is angry -- Changing of the guard.…”
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Immigration detention law, history, politics / by Wilsher, Daniel, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Modern immigration detention: the growth of the bureaucratic enterprise in United States, United Kingdom, Australia and France; 3. …”
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Immigration detention law, history, politics / by Wilsher, Daniel, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Modern immigration detention: the growth of the bureaucratic enterprise in United States, United Kingdom, Australia and France; 3. …”
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Going to Court to Change Japan : Social Movements and the Law in Contemporary Japan /

Table of Contents: “…Steinhoff -- Karōshi activism and recent trends in Japanese civil society : creating credible knowledge and culture / Scott North -- Courting justice, contesting "bureaucratic informality" : the Sayama case and the evolution of Buraku liberation politics / John H. …”
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Going to Court to Change Japan : Social Movements and the Law in Contemporary Japan /

Table of Contents: “…Steinhoff -- Karōshi activism and recent trends in Japanese civil society : creating credible knowledge and culture / Scott North -- Courting justice, contesting "bureaucratic informality" : the Sayama case and the evolution of Buraku liberation politics / John H. …”
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American politics and society by McKay, David

Table of Contents: “…-- The presidency I : powers and selection -- The presidency II : the president as chief executive -- Bureaucratic power : federal departments and agencies -- The security state -- Organized interests : the real power? …”
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American politics and society by McKay, David

Table of Contents: “…-- The presidency I : powers and selection -- The presidency II : the president as chief executive -- Bureaucratic power : federal departments and agencies -- The security state -- Organized interests : the real power? …”
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