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Just neighbors? : research on African American and Latino relations in the United States /

Table of Contents: “…Barreto -- Follow the leader? : elite messages and Latino perceptions of commonality with African Americans / Kevin Wallsten and Tatishe Nteta -- African Americans and Latinos in Houston : intergroup perceptions and relations / Nestor Rodriguez and Tatcho Mindiola -- Myths and realities : Black and brown politics in Los Angeles / Mark Q. …”
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Mergers and Alliances in Higher Education International Practice and Emerging Opportunities /

Table of Contents: “…Level - Experiences and Lessons -- Strategy to Join the Elite: Merger and the 2015 Agenda at the University of Manchester – an update. …”
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Japan's foreign policy since 1945 by Cooney, Kevin J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the story of Japan after World War II -- The catalyst for change -- The problem and the questions -- The literature -- Elite Interviews -- The variables -- Objectives and expected significance of the book -- Ouline of the book -- The legacy of the occupation: an abnormal foreign policy -- Historical background -- Japanese foreign and security policy 1952-1990 -- The Gulf War requires change -- The Gulf War and Japanese foreign policy -- The peace keeping operations law (PKO) -- Towards a security council seat and beyond -- Theorectically speaking: realism and alternative security -- Japanese limitations -- Alternative security -- The theoretical foundations of foreign policy restructing -- Alternative views of Japanese security -- Foreign-policy restructuring in Japan -- A model of foreign-policy restructuring -- Talking to the policy makers themselves -- What are the foreign-policy makers thinking -- Planning for Japan's future security -- Japan's national security -- Abandonment -- Japan's options -- The myth of Gaiatsu: how Japan views its place in the world -- Adjusting to the post-cold war world -- Gaiatsu -- The myth of Gaiatsu -- What is Japan doing? …”
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Mergers and Alliances in Higher Education International Practice and Emerging Opportunities /

Table of Contents: “…Level - Experiences and Lessons -- Strategy to Join the Elite: Merger and the 2015 Agenda at the University of Manchester – an update. …”
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Knowledge and Networks

Table of Contents: “…Exploring the Interaction of Space and Networks in the Creation of Knowledge: An Introduction: Johannes Glückler, Emmanuel Lazega, and Ingmar Hammer -- I: The Significance of Knowledge About Networks: The Relational Dimension as a Bridging Principle Between Economic, Social, and Geographic Issues: Reversing the Instrumentality of the Social for the Economic: A Critical Agenda for 21st-Century Knowledge Networks: Nancy Ettlinger -- Interpersonal Networks in Foreign Assignments and Intercultural Learning Processes: Erika Spieß -- Family Networks for Learning and Knowledge Creation in Developing Regions: Pengfei Li -- Studying Networks Geographically: World Political Regionalization in the United Nations General Assembly (1985–2010): Laurent Beauguitte -- (Post)graduate Education Markets and the Formation of Mobile Transnational Economic Elites: Sarah Hall -- II: Relational Opportunity: Network Evolution and Its Impact on Individuals and Regions: Organized Mobility and Relational Turnover as Context for Social Mechanisms: A Dynamic Invariant at the Heart of Stability from Movement: Emmanuel Lazega -- Trajectory Types Across Network Positions: Jazz Evolution from 1930 to 1969: Charles Kirschbaum -- Topology and Evolution of Collaboration Networks: The Case of a Policy-anchored District: Laura Prota, Maria Prosperina Vitale, and Maria Rosaria D’Esposito -- Platforming for Path-Breaking? …”
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Familia y educación en Iberoamérica /

Table of Contents: “…Familia y educación en el Brasil colonial / María Beatriz Nizza da Silva -- El papel de los capellaniás de misas en el campo de la educación en Nueva España: siglos XBI a XVIII / Gisela Von Wobeser -- La familia educadora en Nueva España: un espacio para las contradicciones / Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru -- La casa y el educación familiar en una ciudad novohispana: los hogares poblanos del siglo XVIII / Rosalva Roseto López -- Artesanos, aprendices y saberes en la Zacatecas del siglo XVIII / Francisco García González -- Enseñanza religiosa y patriótica: historia de la primera historieta en Mexico y su costo de publicación en 1801 / Dorothy Tanck de Estrada -- Educación, elites y estrategias familiares: la aristocracia mercantil santiaguina a fines del siglo XVIII y sus proyecciones a comienzos del XIX / Eduard Cavieres -- La transición hacia una moral laica / Anne Staples -- Quien quiere la educación?…”
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Knowledge and Networks

Table of Contents: “…Exploring the Interaction of Space and Networks in the Creation of Knowledge: An Introduction: Johannes Glückler, Emmanuel Lazega, and Ingmar Hammer -- I: The Significance of Knowledge About Networks: The Relational Dimension as a Bridging Principle Between Economic, Social, and Geographic Issues: Reversing the Instrumentality of the Social for the Economic: A Critical Agenda for 21st-Century Knowledge Networks: Nancy Ettlinger -- Interpersonal Networks in Foreign Assignments and Intercultural Learning Processes: Erika Spieß -- Family Networks for Learning and Knowledge Creation in Developing Regions: Pengfei Li -- Studying Networks Geographically: World Political Regionalization in the United Nations General Assembly (1985–2010): Laurent Beauguitte -- (Post)graduate Education Markets and the Formation of Mobile Transnational Economic Elites: Sarah Hall -- II: Relational Opportunity: Network Evolution and Its Impact on Individuals and Regions: Organized Mobility and Relational Turnover as Context for Social Mechanisms: A Dynamic Invariant at the Heart of Stability from Movement: Emmanuel Lazega -- Trajectory Types Across Network Positions: Jazz Evolution from 1930 to 1969: Charles Kirschbaum -- Topology and Evolution of Collaboration Networks: The Case of a Policy-anchored District: Laura Prota, Maria Prosperina Vitale, and Maria Rosaria D’Esposito -- Platforming for Path-Breaking? …”
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Familia y educación en Iberoamérica /

Table of Contents: “…Familia y educación en el Brasil colonial / María Beatriz Nizza da Silva -- El papel de los capellaniás de misas en el campo de la educación en Nueva España: siglos XBI a XVIII / Gisela Von Wobeser -- La familia educadora en Nueva España: un espacio para las contradicciones / Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru -- La casa y el educación familiar en una ciudad novohispana: los hogares poblanos del siglo XVIII / Rosalva Roseto López -- Artesanos, aprendices y saberes en la Zacatecas del siglo XVIII / Francisco García González -- Enseñanza religiosa y patriótica: historia de la primera historieta en Mexico y su costo de publicación en 1801 / Dorothy Tanck de Estrada -- Educación, elites y estrategias familiares: la aristocracia mercantil santiaguina a fines del siglo XVIII y sus proyecciones a comienzos del XIX / Eduard Cavieres -- La transición hacia una moral laica / Anne Staples -- Quien quiere la educación?…”
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Making sense of AIDS culture, sexuality, and power in Melanesia /

Table of Contents: “…ethnographic and statistical insights from New Caledonia / Christine Salomon and Christine Hamelin -- Buying betel and selling sex : contested boundaries, risk milieus, and discourses about HIV/AIDS in the Markham Valley, Papua New Guinea / Bettina Beer -- Silence speaks volumes : elite responses to AIDS in highlands Papua / Leslie Butt --…”
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Systematic musicology empirical and theoretical studies /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Albrecht Schneider, Arne von Ruschkowski -- Techno, decibels, and politics : an empirical study of modern dance music productions, sound pressure levels, and "loudness perception" / Albrecht Schneider, Arne von Ruschkowski -- Polynomial functions as a representation of melodic phrase contour / Daniel Müllensiefen, Geraint Wiggins -- Meloworks : an integrated retrieval, analysis and e-learning platform for melody research / Klaus Frieler, Frank Höger, Jörg Korries -- Perception of musical intervals at very low frequencies : some experimental findings / Albrecht Schneider, Valeri Tsatsishvili -- Nasality in musical sounds - a few intermediate results / Robert Mores -- Air modes in stringed lute-like instruments from Africa and China / Florian Pfeifle -- Psychoacoustic effects in wave field synthesis applications / Tim Ziemer -- Sound radiation patterns in classical singing styles / Orie Takada -- Some observations on a Stein-Conrad Hammerflügel from 1793 / Andreas Beurmann, Albrecht Schneider -- Playing "live" at the Star-Club : reconstructing the room acoustics of a famous music hall / Rolf Bader, Albrecht Schneider -- "You don't see the stitching" : some comments on stylistic diversity in rock using the example of Jethro Tull / Till Strauf -- Comments about Joni Mitchell's composing techniques and guitar style / Jan Clemens Moeller -- Egalitarianism and elitism in ethnomusicology and folk music scholarship / Ulrich Morgenstern -- Buddhism, animism, and entertainment in Cambodian melismatic chanting smot : history and tonal system / Rolf Bader -- Concerning the question of "loosely-knit" roughly equidistant scale in traditional music / Rytis Ambrazevičius.…”
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Making sense of AIDS culture, sexuality, and power in Melanesia /

Table of Contents: “…ethnographic and statistical insights from New Caledonia / Christine Salomon and Christine Hamelin -- Buying betel and selling sex : contested boundaries, risk milieus, and discourses about HIV/AIDS in the Markham Valley, Papua New Guinea / Bettina Beer -- Silence speaks volumes : elite responses to AIDS in highlands Papua / Leslie Butt --…”
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Systematic musicology empirical and theoretical studies /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Albrecht Schneider, Arne von Ruschkowski -- Techno, decibels, and politics : an empirical study of modern dance music productions, sound pressure levels, and "loudness perception" / Albrecht Schneider, Arne von Ruschkowski -- Polynomial functions as a representation of melodic phrase contour / Daniel Müllensiefen, Geraint Wiggins -- Meloworks : an integrated retrieval, analysis and e-learning platform for melody research / Klaus Frieler, Frank Höger, Jörg Korries -- Perception of musical intervals at very low frequencies : some experimental findings / Albrecht Schneider, Valeri Tsatsishvili -- Nasality in musical sounds - a few intermediate results / Robert Mores -- Air modes in stringed lute-like instruments from Africa and China / Florian Pfeifle -- Psychoacoustic effects in wave field synthesis applications / Tim Ziemer -- Sound radiation patterns in classical singing styles / Orie Takada -- Some observations on a Stein-Conrad Hammerflügel from 1793 / Andreas Beurmann, Albrecht Schneider -- Playing "live" at the Star-Club : reconstructing the room acoustics of a famous music hall / Rolf Bader, Albrecht Schneider -- "You don't see the stitching" : some comments on stylistic diversity in rock using the example of Jethro Tull / Till Strauf -- Comments about Joni Mitchell's composing techniques and guitar style / Jan Clemens Moeller -- Egalitarianism and elitism in ethnomusicology and folk music scholarship / Ulrich Morgenstern -- Buddhism, animism, and entertainment in Cambodian melismatic chanting smot : history and tonal system / Rolf Bader -- Concerning the question of "loosely-knit" roughly equidistant scale in traditional music / Rytis Ambrazevičius.…”
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México y la economía Atlántica (siglos XVIII-XX) /

Table of Contents: “…Mexico y la economía atlántica: redes comerciales, comerciantes y poĺtica exterior ca. 1770-1830 / Horst Pietschmann -- El Golfo-Caribe en la economía del Atlántico: su percepción en la literatura económica-política de la España borbónica / Johanna von Grafenstein -- Una vieja elite en un nuevo marco político: el clero mexicano y el inicio del conservadurismo en la epoca de las revoluciones atlánticas (1808-1821) / Peer Schmidt -- Competencia comercial europea a traves del Atlántico: el caso de Mexico, siglo XIX / Walter L. …”
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México y la economía Atlántica (siglos XVIII-XX) /

Table of Contents: “…Mexico y la economía atlántica: redes comerciales, comerciantes y poĺtica exterior ca. 1770-1830 / Horst Pietschmann -- El Golfo-Caribe en la economía del Atlántico: su percepción en la literatura económica-política de la España borbónica / Johanna von Grafenstein -- Una vieja elite en un nuevo marco político: el clero mexicano y el inicio del conservadurismo en la epoca de las revoluciones atlánticas (1808-1821) / Peer Schmidt -- Competencia comercial europea a traves del Atlántico: el caso de Mexico, siglo XIX / Walter L. …”
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Ebla and its landscape early state formation in the ancient Near East /

Table of Contents: “…Vacca -- Working for the Elites : The Pottery Assemblage of Building P4 / N. …”
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Ebla and its landscape early state formation in the ancient Near East /

Table of Contents: “…Vacca -- Working for the Elites : The Pottery Assemblage of Building P4 / N. …”
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Nuevos textos y renovados pretextos /

Table of Contents: “…Denman -- Salud y doble jornada: las taquilleras del Sistema del Transporte Colectivo (Metro) / María de los Ángeles Garduño y Julia del Carmen Rodríguez -- Multimortalidad y estructura familiar / Mario Bronfman -- Las mujeres y la reproducción práctica e ideológica del curanderismo: un estudio de caso en la ciudad de Mexico / Roberto Campos Navarro -- Algunos aspectos sociodemográficos del trabajo femenino en siete ciudades de Mexico / María Edith Pacheco Gómez Muñoz -- La organización de la vida familiar: un estudio de caso, La Candelaria, Coyocán / Eloísa Norman -- Condiciones de vida y daños a la salud de las mujeres en dos poblados del Estado de Mexico / Carolina Martínez Salgado -- Participación popular femenina en la defensa del voto: Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, 1982-1986 / Delia Barrera Bassols y Lilia Venegas Aguilera -- Vida cotidiana y expresiones del poder en las mujeres de la comunidad: estudio de caso, municipio de Apaseo el Alto, Guanajuato / Rosa Aurora Espinosa Gómez -- Ámbito domestico y participación social de las mujeres: el caso del Moviemiento Popular de Pueblos y Colonias del Sur / Florinda Riquer Fernández -- Genero, parentesco y movilidad social: la formaciób de elites de origen libanes en Yucatán, Mexico / Luis Alfonso Ramírez Carrillo -- Representaciones de mujeres católicas (sobre el "deber ser" femenino) / María Gabriela Hita…”
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Nuevos textos y renovados pretextos /

Table of Contents: “…Denman -- Salud y doble jornada: las taquilleras del Sistema del Transporte Colectivo (Metro) / María de los Ángeles Garduño y Julia del Carmen Rodríguez -- Multimortalidad y estructura familiar / Mario Bronfman -- Las mujeres y la reproducción práctica e ideológica del curanderismo: un estudio de caso en la ciudad de Mexico / Roberto Campos Navarro -- Algunos aspectos sociodemográficos del trabajo femenino en siete ciudades de Mexico / María Edith Pacheco Gómez Muñoz -- La organización de la vida familiar: un estudio de caso, La Candelaria, Coyocán / Eloísa Norman -- Condiciones de vida y daños a la salud de las mujeres en dos poblados del Estado de Mexico / Carolina Martínez Salgado -- Participación popular femenina en la defensa del voto: Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, 1982-1986 / Delia Barrera Bassols y Lilia Venegas Aguilera -- Vida cotidiana y expresiones del poder en las mujeres de la comunidad: estudio de caso, municipio de Apaseo el Alto, Guanajuato / Rosa Aurora Espinosa Gómez -- Ámbito domestico y participación social de las mujeres: el caso del Moviemiento Popular de Pueblos y Colonias del Sur / Florinda Riquer Fernández -- Genero, parentesco y movilidad social: la formaciób de elites de origen libanes en Yucatán, Mexico / Luis Alfonso Ramírez Carrillo -- Representaciones de mujeres católicas (sobre el "deber ser" femenino) / María Gabriela Hita…”
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From socialism to capitalism eight essays / by Kornai, János

Table of Contents: “…-- Introduction -- Positive versus normative approach -- A positive approach to the change of system -- A positive approach to changing the political structure -- The reception of capitalism and democracy: a normative approach -- "Replacing the elite" and "dispensing justice": a normative approach -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix: The transformation of China -- What can countries embarking on post-socialist transformation learn from the experiences so far? …”
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Processes of integration and identity formation in the Roman Republic

Table of Contents: “…Hoyer -- The Weakest Link: elite social networks in Republican Italy / Kathryn Lomas -- Contact, Co-operation, and Conflict in Pre-Social War Italy / John R. …”
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