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Sarajevo, 1941-1945 Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Hitler's Europe / by Greble, Emily, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Between identities : the fragile bonds of community -- 5. Dilemmas of the new European order : the Muslim question and the Yugoslav Civil War -- 6. …”
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Breaking bread : insurgent Black intellectual life / by hooks, bell, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Dialogue between bell hooks and Cornel West -- 8. The dilemma of the black intellectual by Cornel West -- 9. …”
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Jacksonian antislavery and the politics of free soil, 1824-1854 by Earle, Jonathan Halperin

Table of Contents: “…Hale and the New Hampshire independent democracy -- Marcus Morton and the dilemma of Jacksonian antislavery in Massachusetts -- David Wilmot, the proviso, and the congressional movement to abolish slavery -- The Cincinnati clique, true democracy, and the Ohio origins of the Free Soil Party -- Free soil, free labor, free speech, and free men : the election of 1848 -- Free soilers, Republicans, and the third party system, 1848-1854.…”
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Annual reports 101 [what the numbers and the fine print can reveal about the true health of a company] / by Thomsett, Michael C.

Table of Contents: “…The accounting dilemma: the gap in GAAP -- The basic financial statements: what your Mama didn't tell you about the balance sheet -- Essential ratios: rolling up your numerical sleeves -- What statements do not reveal: dirty little accounting secrets -- Footnotes, part one: an overview of the real disclosures -- Footnotes, part two: red flags you can find on your own -- Structure of the annual report: a public relations document -- The auditing role: accounting culture and the audit mentality -- How the numbers are manipulated: accounting shell games -- Sources of free information: you don't need to pay for help -- Modifying your game plan: a new form of portfolio management.…”
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Patenting lives life patents, culture and development /

Table of Contents: “…: an ethic of patents on genetically modified organisms / Kathryn Garforth -- The right to development, African countries and the patenting of living organisms : a human rights dilemma / Adejoke Oyewunmi -- The genetic sequence right : a sui generis alternative to the patenting of biological materials / Luigi Palombi -- Forfeited consent : body parts in eminent domain / Angela A . …”
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Burma or Myanmar? the struggle for national identity /

Table of Contents: “…Yangon : the reasons behind the Junta's decision to move the Burmese capital / Daniel Gomà -- Burma's poverty of riches : natural gas and the voracious state / Sean Turnell -- Myanmar/Burma : international trade and domestic power under an "isolationist" indentity / Jalal Alamgir -- China-Burma relations : China's risk, Burma's dilemma / Min Zin -- India's unquenched ambitions in Burma / Renaud Egreteau -- Burma and ASEAN : a marriage of inconvenience / Stephen McCarthy -- Conclusion / Lowell Dittmer.…”
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Miraculous medicines and the chemistry of drug design / by Keighley, Nathan

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Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan : A Transdisciplinary Perspective /

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Bridging the information gap : legislative member organizations as social networks in the United States and the European Union / by Ringe, Nils

Table of Contents: “…Bridging the information gap: the social and political power of legislative member organizations -- Solutions to informational collective action dilemmas: theorizing the benefits of legislative member organizations -- Where in the world are LMOs? …”
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Preaching prevention : born-again Christianity and the moral politics of AIDS in Uganda / by Boyd, Lydia

Table of Contents: “…: the meaning and morality of sex -- Abstinence and the healthy body : spiritual frameworks for health and -- Healing, or "the right way to live long" -- Faithfulness : urban sexuality and the moral dilemmas of love -- Freedom and the accountable subject : Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill -- Epilogue : beyond the accountable subject.…”
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When Right Makes Might : Rising Powers and World Order / by Goddard, Stacie E., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…The great powers' dilemma : uncertainty, intentions, and rising power politics -- The politics of legitimacy : how a rising power's right makes might -- America's ambiguous ambition : Britain and the accommodation of the United States, 1817-1823 -- Prussia's rule-bound revolution : Europe and the destruction of the balance of power, 1863-1864 -- Germany's rhetorical rage : Britain and the abandonment of appeasement, 1938-1939 -- Japan's folly : Manchuria and the turn to revolution, 1931-1933 -- Conclusion : legitimacy, power, and strategy.…”
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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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Not white enough, not black enough racial identity in the South African coloured community / by Adhikari, Mohamed

Table of Contents: “…Continuity and context : an overview of coloured identity in white supremacist South Africa -- History from the margins : changing perceptions of its past within the coloured community -- The predicament of marginality : case studies from the earlier period of white rule -- The hegemony of race : coloured identity within the radical movement during the mid-twentieth century -- The emperor's new clothes : coloured rejectionism during the latter phases of the apartheid era -- New responses to old dilemmas : coloured identity in a transforming South Africa.…”
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'Good Women do not Inherit Land' : Politics of Land and Gender in India / by Rao, Nitya

Table of Contents: “…-- chapter 10 Reframing the Debate: Challenges and Dilemmas.…”
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Professional lives, personal struggles

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: rediscovering homelessness-- and ourselves / Randall Amster -- Advocacy and identity -- Social justice, ethics, and advocacy in street research : a personal accounting / Talmadge Wright -- The advocate researcher / Rob Rosenthal -- Homelessness and drag / Kathleen Arnold -- Writing the streets : dilemmas of depiction / Trenna Valado -- Relationships and ethics -- Planning and managing ethical dilemmas in homelessness research / Michael Rowe -- A "buddy researcher" prospects, limitations, and ethical considerations in ethnographic research on homeless people in berlin / Jürgen von Mahs -- Ethics and studying homelessness : tales from the field / Kurt Borchard -- Weapons of the weak, by the weak, and for the weak : negotiating power between and among homeless persons and service providers / Julie Adkins -- Research and transformation -- Do we really need more research on homelessness? …”
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Eat My Dust Early Women Motorists / by Clarsen, Georgine, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Movement in a minor key : dilemmas of the woman motorist -- A war product : the British motoring girl and her garage -- A car made by English ladies for others of their sex : the feminist factory and the lady's car -- Transcontinental travel : the politics of automobile consumption in the United States -- Campaigns on wheels : American automobiles and a suffrage of consumption -- "The woman who does" : a Melbourne women's motor garage -- Driving Australian modernity : conquering Australia by car -- Machines as the measure of women : Cape-to-Cairo by automobile.…”
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Eat My Dust : Early Women Motorists / by Clarsen, Georgine, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Movement in a minor key : dilemmas of the woman motorist -- A war product : the British motoring girl and her garage -- A car made by English ladies for others of their sex : the feminist factory and the lady's car -- Transcontinental travel : the politics of automobile consumption in the United States -- Campaigns on wheels : American automobiles and a suffrage of consumption -- "The woman who does" : a Melbourne women's motor garage -- Driving Australian modernity : conquering Australia by car -- Machines as the measure of women : Cape-to-Cairo by automobile.…”
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Repression and mobilization

Table of Contents: “…McCarthy -- Precarious regimes and matchup problems in the explanation of repressive policy / Vince Boudreau -- The dictator's dilemma / Ronald A. Francisco -- When activists ask for trouble : state-dissident interactions and the New Left cycle of resistance in the United States and Japan / Gilda Zwerman and Patricia Steinhoff -- Talking the walk : speech acts and resistance in authoritarian regimes / Hank Johnston -- Soft repression : ridicule, stigma, and silencing in gender-based movements / Myra Marx Ferree -- Repression and the public sphere : discursive opportunities for repression against the extreme right in Germany in the 1990s / Ruud Koopmans -- On the quantification of horror : notes from the field / Patrick Ball -- Repression, mobilization, and explanation / Charles Tilly -- How to organize your mechanisms : research programs, stylized facts, and historical narratives / Mark Lichbach.…”
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Sustainable economy corporate, social and environmental responsibility /

Table of Contents: “…Carsrud and Malin Brünnback -- Poverty : a social disgrace and dilemma / Franco Gandolfi and Philip A. Neck -- Sustainability and health care / Catherine Popadiuk -- Minimization of resource drains and environmental damage / Peter Hing -- Building a sustainable future for ourselves and our common home / Mirian Vilela -- Sustainability and entrepreneurship education at the university level / Lloyd W. …”
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Strange Jeremiahs civil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W.E.B. Du Bois / by Stewart, Carole Lynn

Table of Contents: “…Pierre; or, The Ambiguities and the formation of the American dilemma -- A revolutionary marriage deferred -- The mystery of Melville's darkwoman -- From "self" to "soul": W.E.B. …”
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