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The Battle of Midway by Symonds, Craig L.

Table of Contents: “…CinCPac -- The Kidō butai -- The brownshoe navy -- American counterstrike -- Seeking the decisive battle -- Pete and Jimmy -- The codebreakers -- The Battle of the Coral Sea -- The eve of battle -- Opening act -- Nagumo's dilemma (4:00 A.M. to 8:30 A.M.) -- The flight to nowhere (7:00 A.M. to 11:20 A.M.) -- Attack of the torpedo squadrons (8:30 A.M. to 10:20 A.M.) -- The tipping point (7:00 A.M. to 10:30 A.M.) -- The Japanese counterstrike (11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.) -- Dénouement -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: American and Japanese aircraft carriers -- Appendix B: American and Japanese aircraft -- Appendix C: American order of battle -- Appendix D: Japanese order of battle -- Appendix E: How much did the U.S. know of Japanese plans? …”
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Maras gang violence and security in Central America /

Table of Contents: “…/ Florina Cristiana Matei -- Conclusion : the dilemma of fighting gangs in new democracies / Thomas Bruneau and Luca Dammert.…”
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Nation of cowards black activism in Barack Obama's post-racial America / by Ikard, David, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…-- The teaching moment that never was : Henry Louis Gates, Barack Obama, and the post-racial dilemma -- "I know what's in his heart" : enlightened exceptionalism and the problem with using Barack Obama as the racial litmus test for Black progress and achievement -- The audacity of Reverend Wright : speaking truth to power in the twenty-first century -- Setting the record straight : why Barack Obama and America cannot afford to ignore a Black agenda -- Pull yourself up by your bootstraps : Barack Obama, the Black poor, and the problems of racial common sense thinking.…”
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Child abuse, family rights, and the child protective system a critical analysis from law, ethics, and Catholic social teaching /

Table of Contents: “…Fagan, Anna Dorminey, and Emily Hering -- Dilemma by design : child welfare policy and ethical problems at the frontline / Ruth A. …”
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Impounded People : Japanese-Americans in the Relocation Centers / by Spicer, Edward Holland, 1906-1983, Opler, Marvin K. (Marvin Kaufmann), 1914-1981, Luomala, Katherine, Hansen, Asael T.

Table of Contents: “…The process of scapegoating ; A west coast dilemma ; The evacuated people -- Moving in. Impact of the relocation centers ; The administrative staff ; Evacuee and caucasian ; Work and wages ; A world of rumor ; The blocks: foundations of community life ; Community cross currents ; The outside ; Crises -- Being sorted. …”
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Crime : emerging issues /

Table of Contents: “…Violence and the city.--The dilemmas of crime prevention: National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals. …”

Working ethics how to be fair in a culturally complex world / by Rowson, Richard

Table of Contents: “…A framework for ethical thinking in the professions -- 10. Dealing with dilemmas -- 11. Blame -- 12. Rights.…”
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Dialectical behavior therapy with suicidal adolescents by Miller, Alec L.

Table of Contents: “…-- Dialectical behavior therapy: treatment stages, primary targets, and strategies -- DBT program structure: functions and modes -- Dialectical dilemmas for adolescents : addressing secondary treatment target -- Assessing adolescents: suicide risk, diagnosis, and treatment feasibility -- Orienting adolescents and families to treatment and obtaining commitment -- Individual therapy with adolescents -- Including families in treatment -- Skills training with adolescents -- Assessing progress, running a graduate group, and terminating treatment -- Program issues.…”
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Strategic leadership in the business school keeping one step ahead / by Fragueiro, Fernando

Table of Contents: “…The business school landscape: trends and dilemmas; 3. Business schools as professional organisations (professional service firms); 4. …”
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Ricardo on Money : A Reappraisal / by Deleplace, Ghislain

Table of Contents: “…The question of taxation -- 3.3 The standard of money and the standard of value -- The invariable standard of value: "a mean between the extremes" -- The standard of money -- A dilemma -- 3.4 Conclusion -- Appendix 3: An aborted attempt at the non-neutrality of money in respect to relative prices -- 4 The two causes of change in the value of money -- 4.1 The direction of the causality between the quantity and the value of money -- An alleged inconsistency or contradiction -- The "analogy" with a gold mine -- The effect of a monopoly in issuing money -- 4.2 Ricardos distinction between "a fall in the value of money" and "a depreciation of money" -- From the Bullion Essays to Proposals and beyond -- The definition and measure of depreciation -- 4.3 The MoneyStandard Equation -- Two channels of change in the value of money -- Ricardos factual illustration -- 4.4 Conclusion -- Appendix 4: Evidence on the MoneyStandard Equation: The "Draft on Peel" (1821) -- 1. …”
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To save the land and people a history of opposition to surface coal mining in Appalachia / by Montrie, Chad

Table of Contents: “…. -- Common People and Private Property 1 --1 Making, Taking, and Stripping the Land 7 --2 Our Country Would BeBetter Fit for Farming: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Ohio 25 --3 Selfish Interests: -- Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Pennsylvania 43 --4 We Feel We Have Been Forsaken: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Kentucky, 1954-1967 61 --5 We Will Stop the Bulldozers: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Kentucky, 1967-1972 85 -- 6 The Dilemma Is a Classic One: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in West Virginia 107 --7 Liberty in a Wasteland Is Meaningless: Strip Mining Opposition at the Federal Level, 1968-1972 127 --8 Getting More and More Cynical: Decline of the Opposition, 1973-1977 155 --9 Against the Little Man Like Me: Legalized Destruction in the SMCRA Era 181 --Conclusion. -- Having to Fight the Whole System 201 --Notes 207 -- Selected Bibliography 235 -- Index 241.…”
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A socio-cultural perspective on patient safety

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Paul Barach -- Introduction : a socio-cultural perspective on patient safety / Emma Rowley and Justin Waring -- All news is bad news : patient safety in the news media / Cecily Palmer and Toby Murcott -- Broadening the patient safety movement : listening, involving, and learning / Josephine Ocloo -- Narrowing the gap between safety policy and practice : the role of nurses' implicit theories and heuristics / Anat Drach-Zahavy and Anit Somech -- Resources of strength : an exnovation of hidden competences to preserve patient safety / Jessica Mesman -- Deviantly innovative : when risking patient safety is the right thing to do / Emma Rowley -- The precarious gap between information technology and patient safety : lessons from medication systems / Habibollah Pirnejad and Roland Bal -- The politics of learning : the dilemma for patient safety / Justin Waring and Graeme Currie -- Exploring the contributions of professional-practice networks to knowledge sharing, problem-solving, and patient safety / Simon Bishop and Justin Waring -- Challenges to learning from clinical adverse events : a study of root cause analysis in practice / Jeanne Mengis and Davide Nicolini -- Patient safety and clinical practice improvement : the importance of reflecting on real-time, in situ care processes / Rick Iedema.…”
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Media archaeology approaches, applications, and implications /

Table of Contents: “…The "baby talkie," domestic media, and the Japanese modern / Machiko Kusahara -- The observer's dilemma : to play or not to play / Wanda Strauven -- The game player's duty : the user as the gestalt of the ports / Claus Pias -- The enduring ephemeral, or the future is a memory / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun -- Between analog and digital. …”
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Outsourcing technical communication issues, policies, and practices /

Table of Contents: “…-owned maquilas in Mexico / Barry Thatcher and Victoriano Garza-Almanza -- The information developer's dilemma / Joann Hackos and William Hackos, Jr. -- Language, culture, and collaboration in offshore outsourcing : a case study of international training team communication competencies / Jim Melton -- The implications of outsourcing for technical editing / Clint Lanier -- The privacy problems related to international outsourcing : a perspective for technical communicators / Kirk St. …”
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The nuclear renaissance and international security

Table of Contents: “…Hastings -- The logic of nuclear patronage : a comment / Erik Gartzke -- Nuclear weapons programs and the security dilemma / Kyle Beardsley and Victor Asal -- Nuclear power and militarized conflict : is there a link? …”
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The political economy of terrorism by Enders, Walter, 1948-

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Naming evil, judging evil

Table of Contents: “…Peter Euben -- Evil and the morality of conviction / David Wong -- Combining clarity and complexity : a layered approach to cross-cultural ethics / Elizabeth Kiss -- Liberal dilemmas and moral judgment / Malachi Hacohen -- Between bigotry and nihilism : moral judgment in pluralist democracies / Thomas A. …”
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Enacting Brittany tourism and culture in provincial France, 1871-1939 / by Young, Patrick, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…From romance to patrimony : Breton culture and originality in the nineteenth century tourism, culture and place in a changing Brittany, 1860-1914 -- La Bretagne, au sein de son passé : dilemmas of tourist modernity in the French countryside -- Refashioning Breton costume -- Of pardons, loss and longing : Breton religious processions in an age of tourism and cultural change -- A tasteful patrimony : landscape preservation and tourism in Brittany -- From terre du passé to modern leisure ground? …”
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Coaching, counseling & mentoring how to choose & use the right technique to boost employee performance / by Stone, Florence M.

Table of Contents: “…-- How to turn around problem employees and employees with problems -- Let's talk : specific counseling sessions -- Counseling dilemmas : traps and pitfalls to avoid -- What mentoring can do to help high achievers- and you -- Mentor as a role model, broker, advocate, and career counselor -- Let's talk : face-to-face and e-conversations -- Mentoring traps to avoid -- Epilogue : your role as a leader.…”
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