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Mapping European security after Kosovo

Table of Contents: “…": virtuousness, virtuality and virtuosity in NATO's representation of the Kosovo campaign / Andreas Behnke -- Of models and monsters: language games in the Kosovo war / Mika Aaltola -- "War is never civilised": civilisation, civil society and the Kosovo war / Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen -- Chechnya and Kosovo: reflections in a distorting mirror / Christoph Zürcher.…”
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Mapping European security after Kosovo

Table of Contents: “…": virtuousness, virtuality and virtuosity in NATO's representation of the Kosovo campaign / Andreas Behnke -- Of models and monsters: language games in the Kosovo war / Mika Aaltola -- "War is never civilised": civilisation, civil society and the Kosovo war / Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen -- Chechnya and Kosovo: reflections in a distorting mirror / Christoph Zürcher.…”
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Cognitive-behavioral stress management for prostate cancer recovery facilitator guide / by Penedo, Frank J.

Table of Contents: “…Introductory information for facilitators -- Logistics of the cognitive-behavioral stress management intervention program -- Session 1: Introduction to the program/Stress awareness and physical responses/8-muscle-group progressive muscle relaxation -- Session 2: Diaphragmatic breathing and 4-muscle-groups progressive muscle relaxation/Stress awareness and the appraisal process -- Session 3: Deep breathing and counting with passive progressive muscle relaxation/Sex and sexuality after prostate cancer treatment and automatic thoughts -- Session 4: Special place imagery/Cognitive distortions -- Session 5: Relaxation for healing and well-being/Cognitive restructuring -- Session 6: Autogenic training/Coping I -- Session 7: Autogenics with visual imagery and positive self-suggestions/Coping II -- Session 8: Mantra meditation/Anger management -- Session 9: Mindfulness meditation/Assertive communication -- Session 10: Group favorite relaxation exercise/Social support and program wrap-up.…”
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The lost Politburo transcripts from collective rule to Stalin's dictatorship /

Table of Contents: “…the British general strike and the formation of the "united opposition" / Alexander Vatlin -- Stalin, Syrtsov, Lominadze : preparations for the "second great breakthrough" / Oleg Khlevniuk -- The "right opposition" and the "Smirnov-Eismont-Tolmachev affair" / Charters Wynn -- The way they talked then : the discourse of politics in the Soviet Party Politburo in the late 1920s / Robert Service -- Making the unthinkable thinkable : language microhistory of Politburo meetings / Leona Toker -- The short course of the history of the all-union Communist Party : the distorted mirror of party propaganda / Rustem Nureev -- Grain, class, and politics during NEP : the Politburo meeting of december 10, 1925 / R.W. …”
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The lost Politburo transcripts from collective rule to Stalin's dictatorship /

Table of Contents: “…the British general strike and the formation of the "united opposition" / Alexander Vatlin -- Stalin, Syrtsov, Lominadze : preparations for the "second great breakthrough" / Oleg Khlevniuk -- The "right opposition" and the "Smirnov-Eismont-Tolmachev affair" / Charters Wynn -- The way they talked then : the discourse of politics in the Soviet Party Politburo in the late 1920s / Robert Service -- Making the unthinkable thinkable : language microhistory of Politburo meetings / Leona Toker -- The short course of the history of the all-union Communist Party : the distorted mirror of party propaganda / Rustem Nureev -- Grain, class, and politics during NEP : the Politburo meeting of december 10, 1925 / R.W. …”
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Cognitive-behavioral stress management for prostate cancer recovery facilitator guide / by Penedo, Frank J.

Table of Contents: “…Introductory information for facilitators -- Logistics of the cognitive-behavioral stress management intervention program -- Session 1: Introduction to the program/Stress awareness and physical responses/8-muscle-group progressive muscle relaxation -- Session 2: Diaphragmatic breathing and 4-muscle-groups progressive muscle relaxation/Stress awareness and the appraisal process -- Session 3: Deep breathing and counting with passive progressive muscle relaxation/Sex and sexuality after prostate cancer treatment and automatic thoughts -- Session 4: Special place imagery/Cognitive distortions -- Session 5: Relaxation for healing and well-being/Cognitive restructuring -- Session 6: Autogenic training/Coping I -- Session 7: Autogenics with visual imagery and positive self-suggestions/Coping II -- Session 8: Mantra meditation/Anger management -- Session 9: Mindfulness meditation/Assertive communication -- Session 10: Group favorite relaxation exercise/Social support and program wrap-up.…”
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Reforming severance pay an international perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Severance pay under review : key issues, policy conclusions, and research agenda / Robert Holzmann and Milan Vodopivec -- Severance pay programs around the world : history, rationale, status, and reforms / Robert Holzmann, Yann Pouget, Milan Vodopivec, and Michael Weber -- Mandated severance pay and firing cost distortions : a critical review of the evidence / Donald O. …”
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Reforming severance pay an international perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Severance pay under review : key issues, policy conclusions, and research agenda / Robert Holzmann and Milan Vodopivec -- Severance pay programs around the world : history, rationale, status, and reforms / Robert Holzmann, Yann Pouget, Milan Vodopivec, and Michael Weber -- Mandated severance pay and firing cost distortions : a critical review of the evidence / Donald O. …”
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Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy by Thompson, A. Richard, Moran, James M., Swenson Jr., George W.

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Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy by Thompson, A. Richard, Moran, James M., Swenson Jr., George W.

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Contested constitutionalism reflections on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms /

Table of Contents: “…Kelly -- Compromise and the notwithstanding clause : why the dominant narrative distorts our understanding / Janet L. Hiebert -- Judicializing health policy : unexpected lessons and an inconvenient truth / Christopher P. …”
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Contested constitutionalism reflections on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms /

Table of Contents: “…Kelly -- Compromise and the notwithstanding clause : why the dominant narrative distorts our understanding / Janet L. Hiebert -- Judicializing health policy : unexpected lessons and an inconvenient truth / Christopher P. …”
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Learning from the global financial crisis creatively, reliably, and sustainably /

Table of Contents: “…/ Tony Tinker and Aida Sy -- The normative foundation of finance : how misunderstanding the function of models distorts the way we think about the efficiency of financial markets / Andreas Georg Scherer and Emilio Marti -- A multi-level, multi-systems approach to sustainable finance / Mark Starik -- The global financial crisis : lessons from India / Murali Murti and N.V.Krishna.…”
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Taxation, the state and society the fiscal sociology of interventionist democracy / by Leroy, Marc, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The importance of multidisciplinary fiscal sociology -- The fiscal state and interventionist democracy -- Tocqueville pioneer of fiscal sociology -- Tocqueville and the expenditures of democracy -- Finance, centralization, and revolution -- The founders of fiscal sociology -- The Austrian founders -- Pareto's fiscal sociology -- The Italian school (strictu sensu) -- Fiscal sociology as a social science -- The factors of institutional recognition -- Fiscal sociology viewed as a social science -- The relation of fiscal sociology to other disciplines -- The political logic of the evolution of the tax state -- The tax genesis of the modern state in Western Europe -- The modern tax state in the history of ideas (an outline) -- Typological approach of the tax state -- The public finance system -- The systemic analysis of tax revenue -- Public revenue and expenditure in the OECD -- The case of developing countries -- The elemental factors of fiscal policy -- The influence of ideas -- The institutional shaping -- Socio-economic groups -- The left-right division -- Obstacles to fiscal democracy -- Against the determinism of contectual factors -- The distorted configuration of fiscal public action -- Bureaucratic regulation -- Fiscal bureaucracy in France -- The organization of tax control -- The individual's logic in the face of taxes -- The factors involved in tax revolts -- The concrete rationality of taxpayer -- The citizen's contribution-tax -- Fiscal deviance becoming commonplace -- The phenomenon of fiscal deviance -- The deviation of fiscal state regulation -- The destabilization of the functions of the interventionist tax state -- The financial function -- The economic function -- The social function -- The ecological territorial function -- The political function -- Globalization, Europe, and taxation -- Durkheim's model of economic anomie -- Neo-liberal globalization of the economy -- The insufficiencies of the European response.…”
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Learning from the global financial crisis creatively, reliably, and sustainably /

Table of Contents: “…/ Tony Tinker and Aida Sy -- The normative foundation of finance : how misunderstanding the function of models distorts the way we think about the efficiency of financial markets / Andreas Georg Scherer and Emilio Marti -- A multi-level, multi-systems approach to sustainable finance / Mark Starik -- The global financial crisis : lessons from India / Murali Murti and N.V.Krishna.…”
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Taxation, the state and society the fiscal sociology of interventionist democracy / by Leroy, Marc, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The importance of multidisciplinary fiscal sociology -- The fiscal state and interventionist democracy -- Tocqueville pioneer of fiscal sociology -- Tocqueville and the expenditures of democracy -- Finance, centralization, and revolution -- The founders of fiscal sociology -- The Austrian founders -- Pareto's fiscal sociology -- The Italian school (strictu sensu) -- Fiscal sociology as a social science -- The factors of institutional recognition -- Fiscal sociology viewed as a social science -- The relation of fiscal sociology to other disciplines -- The political logic of the evolution of the tax state -- The tax genesis of the modern state in Western Europe -- The modern tax state in the history of ideas (an outline) -- Typological approach of the tax state -- The public finance system -- The systemic analysis of tax revenue -- Public revenue and expenditure in the OECD -- The case of developing countries -- The elemental factors of fiscal policy -- The influence of ideas -- The institutional shaping -- Socio-economic groups -- The left-right division -- Obstacles to fiscal democracy -- Against the determinism of contectual factors -- The distorted configuration of fiscal public action -- Bureaucratic regulation -- Fiscal bureaucracy in France -- The organization of tax control -- The individual's logic in the face of taxes -- The factors involved in tax revolts -- The concrete rationality of taxpayer -- The citizen's contribution-tax -- Fiscal deviance becoming commonplace -- The phenomenon of fiscal deviance -- The deviation of fiscal state regulation -- The destabilization of the functions of the interventionist tax state -- The financial function -- The economic function -- The social function -- The ecological territorial function -- The political function -- Globalization, Europe, and taxation -- Durkheim's model of economic anomie -- Neo-liberal globalization of the economy -- The insufficiencies of the European response.…”
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A Wise and Discerning Mind : Essays in Honor of Burke O. Long /

Table of Contents: “…Collins -- The confessions of Jeremiah and traditional discourse / Robert C. Culley -- Desire distorted and exhibited: Lot and his daughters in psychoanalysis, painting, and film / J. …”
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A Wise and Discerning Mind : Essays in Honor of Burke O. Long /

Table of Contents: “…Collins -- The confessions of Jeremiah and traditional discourse / Robert C. Culley -- Desire distorted and exhibited: Lot and his daughters in psychoanalysis, painting, and film / J. …”
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Diversity and Evolution of Butterfly Wing Patterns An Integrative Approach /

Table of Contents: “…Eyespots and Evolution -- Chapter5:Physiology and evolution of wing pattern plasticity in Bicyclus butterflies: a critical review ofthe literature -- Chapter6:Spatial variation in boundary conditions can govern selection and location of eyespots inbutterfly wings -- Chapter7:Self-Similarity, Distortion Waves, and the Essence of Morphogenesis: A Generalized View ofColor Pattern Formation in Butterfly Wings -- Part III. …”
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Diversity and Evolution of Butterfly Wing Patterns An Integrative Approach /

Table of Contents: “…Eyespots and Evolution -- Chapter5:Physiology and evolution of wing pattern plasticity in Bicyclus butterflies: a critical review ofthe literature -- Chapter6:Spatial variation in boundary conditions can govern selection and location of eyespots inbutterfly wings -- Chapter7:Self-Similarity, Distortion Waves, and the Essence of Morphogenesis: A Generalized View ofColor Pattern Formation in Butterfly Wings -- Part III. …”
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