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Greater America a new partnership for the Americas in the twenty-first century / by Scheman, L. Ronald

Table of Contents: “…Undermining prosperity : corruption and narcotics -- The Americas in the global economy : building a Greater America -- Commerce and foreign policy -- The new Americans -- The new geopolitics of Latin America -- The muse of the markets -- Trade and integration -- Investment and economic growth -- Building a greater America.…”
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Make believe in film and fiction visual vs. verbal storytelling / by Kroeber, Karl, 1926-2009

Table of Contents: “…Brutal Beginnings: Imagining Murder/ Watching Murder -- Moving Eyes, Moving Sculptures -- Inside and outside Somebody Else's Fantasy -- Make Believe Is Always a Story -- Single-Handed and Collective Make Believe -- Movies and Hyper-Visual Culture -- La Strada and the Conjecturing Imagination -- Madame Bovary: Linguistic Configurings of Imaginative Corruption -- Rashomon and Wuthering Heights -- Form in Visual Storytelling: Buster Keaton's The General -- Genre and Transforming Sources: High Noon Forenoon -- Seeing and Imagining Ethical Crises: High Noon: Afternoon -- Great Expectations: Insights from the Impossibility of Adaptation -- Magnifying Criminality: Fargo, Film Noir, and A Perfect World -- Innovative Lawfulness: Learning to Read.…”
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How "American" is globalization? by Marling, William, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…-- Seeing ourselves everywhere -- The resistance of the local -- Language -- Communicative distance -- Food -- Gender -- Education -- Work -- Land use -- Tribalism -- Corruption -- Smuggling and counterfeiting -- Taxes -- The resistance of the local -- "More than we know" -- ATMs -- The money market -- Flexible manufacturing -- Franchising -- Airfreight -- Containerized freight -- Bar codes -- Computing -- Logistics.…”
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The occupation of Iraq winning the war, losing the peace / by Allawi, Ali A., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…-- April 2004 : the turning point -- The interim Iraqi government -- Arabs and Persians -- Showdown at the shrine -- To hold or abort an election -- Corruption and the Potemkin state -- Iraqi society on the eve of free elections -- The vote -- Negotiating a constitution -- Crises and the Jaafari government -- Into uncharted waters.…”
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Shaping tradition civil society, community and development in colonial northern Ghana, 1899-1957 / by Grischow, Jeff D. (Jeff Douglas), 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Civil society, community and development in colonial northern Ghana, 1899-1957 -- From developing the estates to preserving the peasantry: development in the northern territories, 1895-1919 -- Corruptions of development and the "steep slope of civilisation", 1919-1933 -- Developing community: land, native administration and direct taxation, 1928-1936 -- Overpopulation, depopulation and the loss of productive power: development in the Zuarungu and Lawra-Tumu districts, 1935-44 -- Questioning mixed farming, tsetse eradication and indirect rule, 1940-1949 -- Land planning, local government and party politics, 1940-1957 -- Mechanised agriculture and community development, 1948-1957.…”
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Journeys to war & peace a congressional memoir / by Solarz, Stephen J.

Table of Contents: “…-- Crossing the Allenby Bridge : Israel, the Arabs, and the peace process -- A Jewish agenda : rescue abroad and relief at home -- African encounters : liberation struggles, civil war, corruption, and tyranny -- Indochina : bringing peace to Cambodia, protecting Vietnamese "boat people" -- The Philippines : the impossible dream -- Korea and Taiwan : the struggle for democracy and human rights -- South Asia : the "voice of India in Congress" and "the Lafayette of Pakistani democracy" -- Central America and Cuba : revolutions closer to home -- Encounters in Europe : Turkey, Cyprus, and Poland -- The Gulf War : when evil is on the march, it must be confronted -- The year of the Shlemazel.…”
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Friars, Soldiers, and Reformers : Hispanic Arizona and the Sonora Mission Frontier, 1767–1856 / by Kessell, John L.

Table of Contents: “…A Quarrel Among Friars, 1795-1808; 9. "Corruption Has Come Among Us," 1808-20; 10. A Trampled Guarantee, 1820-28; 11. …”
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Winchester warriors Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874-1901 / by Alexander, Bob (James R.)

Table of Contents: “…A carnival of crime and corruption -- A big six-shooter and a good horse -- I'm shot, sure as hell -- I was acting the fool kid -- As yet they've harmed no good men -- They'd killed every damn one of us -- Buckskin officials in full blast -- Or borrow from some of the men -- Walked into his own trap -- Got drunk often, and stayed drunk long -- Smoke boiled from that gentleman's gun -- A deplorable mistake on both sides -- A dynamite cartridge under the saloon -- Compelled to do some killing -- But such is life in the Far West -- Wants us in the parade.…”
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Cooperative collegial democracy for Africa and multi-ethnic societies democracy without tears / by Ezeani, Emefiena

Table of Contents: “…-- Centripetalism : a competitive model of democracy -- Consociationalism : a quasi-cooperative model of democracy -- Democracy in pre-colonial and post-colonial Africa -- Ethnicity, religion, the judiciary and liberal democracy in a multi-ethnic society -- Godfatherism, privatisation of the state and diminution of political space -- Giovanni Sartori : political parties, party-less state and competitive democracy -- The unanswered national questions and the party model of democracy -- The party system and some specific issues -- Voting under the veil of ignorance and the belief in the people's power -- Cooperative collegial democracy : a workable model for Africa and multi-ethnic societies -- Epilogue : corruption and democracy : learning from the Nigerian experience.…”
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Corporate social responsibility in China : a vision, an assessment and a blueprint / by Vermander, Benoît, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…-- The legal, professional and social framework -- Chinese cultural resources relevant to CSR -- CSR and corporate strategy -- Corruption and business activities -- Thematic analysis and lines of action : an assessment -- Environmental standards and concerns -- Safety issues -- Social standards and the working force -- Gender equality/training/well-being at work -- Conflict management and prevention -- Transversal issues : a blueprint -- Making ethical assessments : finances, engineering and conflicts of interests -- CSR and corporate governance -- Reports, foundation, projects and networks -- Social entrepreneurship -- The role of the corporation in tomorrow's China -- Conclusion and prospects -- Recommendations -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Framing Africa portrayals of a continent in contemporary mainstream cinema /

Table of Contents: “…the re-presencing of Africa in twenty-first-century film / Nigel Eltringham -- "Print the legend": myth and reality in The last King of Scotland / Mark Leopold -- Black Hawk down: recasting U.S. military history at Somali expense / Lidwien Kapteijns -- Pharma in Africa: health, corruption and contemporary Kenya in The constant gardener / Daniel Branch -- War in the city, crime in the country: Blood diamond and the representation of violence in the Sierra Leone War / Danny Hoffman -- Showing what cannot be imagined: Shooting dogs and Hotel Rwanda / Nigel Eltringham -- Torture, betrayal and forgiveness: Red dust and the search for truth in post-apartheid South Africa / Annelies Verdoolaege -- Go Amabokoboko! …”
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Democracy and elections in Africa by Lindberg, Staffan I., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The transition paradigm ; Corruption and democratization ; Stateness and social citizenship ; Lessons on consolidation ; Policy implications ; The power of elections in unfavorable conditions.…”
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Practical Economics Economic Transformation and Government Reform in Georgia 2004–2012 / by Gilauri, Nika

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Kyiv, Ukraine - Revised Edition : The City of Domes and Demons from the Collapse of Socialism to the Mass Uprising of 2013-2014 / by Cybriwsky, Roman Adrian 1945-, Cybriwsky, Roman Adrian 1945-

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Dirt, undress, and difference critical perspectives on the body's surface /

Table of Contents: “…: baths and morality in Botswana / Deborah Durham -- The politics of dirt and gender : body techniques in Bengali India / Sarah Lamb -- Corrupted alterities : body politics in the time of the Iranian diaspora / Janet Bauer.…”
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Between evidence and ideology essays on the history of ancient Israel read at the joint meeting of the Society for Old Testament Study and the Oud Testamentisch Werkgezelschap, Lin...

Table of Contents: “…Bartlett -- Origins of Israel between history and ideology / Meindert Dijkstra -- The case of the corrupting consensus / Lester L. Grabbe -- Hasidisms and their militant ideologies : 1 and 2 Maccabees, Psalms 144 and 149 / Harm van Grol -- The Old Testament as a diachronic corpus / Marinus Koster -- Pharaoh Shishak's invasion of Palestine and the Exodus from Egypt / Andrew Mayes -- The Greek Esthers and the search for history : some preliminary observations / Jill Middlemass -- Does archaeology really deserve the status of a 'high court' in biblical historical research? …”
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Looking forward comparative perspectives on Cuba's transition /

Table of Contents: “…Pérez-López -- Social policy and social welfare / Carmelo Mesa-Lago -- Escaping the corruption curse / Daniel P. Erikson -- The émigré community and Cuba's future / Lisandro Pérez -- Ideology, culture, and memory : symbolic dilemmas of the Cuban transition / Rafael Rojas -- Cuba's future relations with the United States / William M. …”
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Disaster Labs : How American States Use Partnerships to Manage the Unthinkable / by Givens, Austen D., 1982-

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