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Biofuel crop sustainability

Table of Contents: “….] -- Biofuel crops and soil quality and erosion / Dmitri Chatskikh ... [et al.] -- Nutrient management in biofuel crop production / Rocky Lemus -- Food, farming, and land use for biofuels / József Popp -- Biofuel crops and ecosystem services and biodiversity / Andrew Fieldsend and Hari P. …”
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Mississippi politics the struggle for power, 1976-2006 / by Nash, Jere

Table of Contents: “…History of Mississippi Democrats, 1948-1975 -- History of Mississippi Republicans, 1955-1975 -- The beginning of the end, 1976 -- The campaign to succeed Jim Eastland, 1977-1978 -- Democrats win one and Republicans lose one, 1979 -- The origins of reapportionment, 1890-1979 -- Ronald Reagan and Jon Hinson, 1980-1981 -- Education transforms the legislature, 1982 -- The Allain/Bramlett campaign and William Winter's legacy, 1983 -- The erosion of legislative power, 1984 -- The rise of Mike Espy, 1985-1986 -- Highways, Buddie Newman, and Ray Mabus, 1987 -- The campaign to succeed John Stennis, 1988 -- Liquor and gambling in Mississippi, 1989-1990 -- Republicans gain the governor's mansion, 1991 -- The politics of reapportionment, 1992-1993 -- The GOP consolidates power, 1994-1996 -- Tobacco, 1997-1998 -- The legacy of Kirk Fordice, 1999 -- The state flag and congressional reapportionment, 2000-2001 -- The consequences of tort reform, 2002 -- The Haley Barbour years, 2003-2006.…”
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Black reflective sociology epistemology, theory, and methodology / by Stanfield, John H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Epistemological considerations -- The ethnocentric basis of social science -- Epistemological considerations -- Slipping through the front door : relevant social scientific evaluation in the people of color century -- Prophetic social scientists -- Epistemological reconsiderations and new considerations : or what have i been learning since 1993 -- Rethinking and reconceptualizing race and ethnicity -- Theoretical and ideological barriers to the study of race making in mature industrial societies -- Racism in America and in other race-centered nation-states : synchronic considerations -- Ethnic pluralism and civic responsibility in post Cold War America -- The nebulous state of American race relations theories : anomalies, paradigmatic erosion, and decline -- The myth of race and the human sciences -- Building functional and productive multiethnic societies -- Sociological and theological musings about race -- Qualitative methods : epistemological and theory of practice considerations -- Methodological reflections : an introduction to race and ethnicity in research methods -- Life history analysis and racial stratification research -- Archival methods in race relations research -- Ethnic modeling in qualitative research -- Racial and ethnic conflict studies : methodological dilemmas -- Psychoanalytic ethnography and the transformation of racially wounded communities -- The possible restorative justice functions of qualitative research.…”
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Black reflective sociology epistemology, theory, and methodology / by Stanfield, John H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Epistemological considerations -- The ethnocentric basis of social science -- Epistemological considerations -- Slipping through the front door : relevant social scientific evaluation in the people of color century -- Prophetic social scientists -- Epistemological reconsiderations and new considerations : or what have i been learning since 1993 -- Rethinking and reconceptualizing race and ethnicity -- Theoretical and ideological barriers to the study of race making in mature industrial societies -- Racism in America and in other race-centered nation-states : synchronic considerations -- Ethnic pluralism and civic responsibility in post Cold War America -- The nebulous state of American race relations theories : anomalies, paradigmatic erosion, and decline -- The myth of race and the human sciences -- Building functional and productive multiethnic societies -- Sociological and theological musings about race -- Qualitative methods : epistemological and theory of practice considerations -- Methodological reflections : an introduction to race and ethnicity in research methods -- Life history analysis and racial stratification research -- Archival methods in race relations research -- Ethnic modeling in qualitative research -- Racial and ethnic conflict studies : methodological dilemmas -- Psychoanalytic ethnography and the transformation of racially wounded communities -- The possible restorative justice functions of qualitative research.…”
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Governing failure : provisional expertise and the transformation of global development finance / by Best, Jacqueline, 1970-

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Governing failure : provisional expertise and the transformation of global development finance / by Best, Jacqueline, 1970-

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Governing failure : provisional expertise and the transformation of global development finance / by Best, Jacqueline, 1970-

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Agricultural investment and productivity : building sustainability in East Africa /

Table of Contents: “…: empirical evidence from the Ethiopian highlands / Menale Kassie -- Soil conservation and small scale food production in highland Ethiopia : a stochastic metafrontier approach / Haileselassie Medhin and Gunnar Köhlin -- Public policies and sustainable land management investments -- Policy instruments to reduce downstream externalities of soil erosion and surface run-off / Anders Ekbom -- Incentives for sustainable land management in East African countries / Berhanu Gebremedhin -- Conclusions and key lessons / Randall A. …”

Counter realignment political change in the northeastern United States / by Reiter, Howard L.

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Agricultural investment and productivity : building sustainability in East Africa /

Table of Contents: “…: empirical evidence from the Ethiopian highlands / Menale Kassie -- Soil conservation and small scale food production in highland Ethiopia : a stochastic metafrontier approach / Haileselassie Medhin and Gunnar Köhlin -- Public policies and sustainable land management investments -- Policy instruments to reduce downstream externalities of soil erosion and surface run-off / Anders Ekbom -- Incentives for sustainable land management in East African countries / Berhanu Gebremedhin -- Conclusions and key lessons / Randall A. …”

Counter realignment political change in the northeastern United States / by Reiter, Howard L.

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Democracy at the United Nations : UN reform in the age of globalisation /

Table of Contents: “…: new regionalism as a response to globalisation and the decline of us hegemony / Mario Telò -- The erosion of state sovereignty and the institutions to govern globalisation / Lucio Levi -- Whither United Nations? …”
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Democracy at the United Nations : UN reform in the age of globalisation /

Table of Contents: “…: new regionalism as a response to globalisation and the decline of us hegemony / Mario Telò -- The erosion of state sovereignty and the institutions to govern globalisation / Lucio Levi -- Whither United Nations? …”
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Family welfare gender, property, and inheritance since the seventeenth century /

Table of Contents: “…: widows and the demand for financial services in eighteenth-century Germany / Eve Rosenhaft -- Women without gender : commerce, exchange codes and the erosion of german gender guardianship, 1680/1830 / Robert Beachy -- Minors, guardians and inheritance in early nineteenth-century Sweden : a case of gendered property rights / Ann Ighe -- Marriage and economic rights : women, men and property in Sweden during the first half of the twentieth century / Kirsti Niskanen.…”
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Family welfare gender, property, and inheritance since the seventeenth century /

Table of Contents: “…: widows and the demand for financial services in eighteenth-century Germany / Eve Rosenhaft -- Women without gender : commerce, exchange codes and the erosion of german gender guardianship, 1680/1830 / Robert Beachy -- Minors, guardians and inheritance in early nineteenth-century Sweden : a case of gendered property rights / Ann Ighe -- Marriage and economic rights : women, men and property in Sweden during the first half of the twentieth century / Kirsti Niskanen.…”
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The politics of vaccination : A global history /

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Vaccination and national identity -- The uneasy politics of epidemic aid: the CDC's mission to Cold War East Pakistan, 1958 -- Fallacy, sacrilege, betrayal and conspiracy: the cultural construction of opposition to immunisation in India -- Vaccination and the communist state: polio in Eastern Europe -- 'A vaccine for the nation': South Korea's development of a hepatitis B vaccine and national prevention strategy focused on newborns -- Part II: Nationality, vaccine production and the end of sovereign manufacture -- Vaccine production, national security anxieties and the unstable state in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico -- The erosion of public sector vaccine production: the case of the Netherlands -- Yellow fever vaccine in Brazil: fighting a tropical scourge, modernising the nation -- A distinctive nation: vaccine policy and production in Japan -- Part III: Vaccination, the individual and society -- The MMR debate in the United Kingdom: vaccine scares, statesmanship and the media -- Pandemic flus and vaccination policies in Sweden -- Polio vaccination, political authority and the Nigerian state -- The power of individuals and the dependency of nations in global eradication and immunisation campaigns.…”
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The politics of vaccination : A global history /

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Vaccination and national identity -- The uneasy politics of epidemic aid: the CDC's mission to Cold War East Pakistan, 1958 -- Fallacy, sacrilege, betrayal and conspiracy: the cultural construction of opposition to immunisation in India -- Vaccination and the communist state: polio in Eastern Europe -- 'A vaccine for the nation': South Korea's development of a hepatitis B vaccine and national prevention strategy focused on newborns -- Part II: Nationality, vaccine production and the end of sovereign manufacture -- Vaccine production, national security anxieties and the unstable state in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico -- The erosion of public sector vaccine production: the case of the Netherlands -- Yellow fever vaccine in Brazil: fighting a tropical scourge, modernising the nation -- A distinctive nation: vaccine policy and production in Japan -- Part III: Vaccination, the individual and society -- The MMR debate in the United Kingdom: vaccine scares, statesmanship and the media -- Pandemic flus and vaccination policies in Sweden -- Polio vaccination, political authority and the Nigerian state -- The power of individuals and the dependency of nations in global eradication and immunisation campaigns.…”
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Barbara Jordan speaking the truth with eloquent thunder / by Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996

Table of Contents: “…Biography of Barbara Jordan, with student comments -- My personal introduction of Barbara Jordan -- Erosion of civil liberties : commencement speech, Howard University, May 11, 1974 -- The national political stage : rising to the occasion : the constitutional basis for impeachment, U.S. …”
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Living with the changing California Coast by Griggs, Gary B.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a perspective on the coast of California ; The evolution of the California coast ; Weather, climate change, sea level and the coastline ; Understanding the shoreline ; The erosion of the coastline ; Building or buying on the coast ; Responding to coastal hazards / Gary Griggs, Kiki Patsch, Lauret Savoy -- California's coastal hazards : theory and practice / Charles Lester -- The northern California coast: The Oregon border to Cape Mendocino / Lauret Savoy, Gary Griggs and Derek Rust. …”
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Living with the changing California Coast by Griggs, Gary B.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a perspective on the coast of California ; The evolution of the California coast ; Weather, climate change, sea level and the coastline ; Understanding the shoreline ; The erosion of the coastline ; Building or buying on the coast ; Responding to coastal hazards / Gary Griggs, Kiki Patsch, Lauret Savoy -- California's coastal hazards : theory and practice / Charles Lester -- The northern California coast: The Oregon border to Cape Mendocino / Lauret Savoy, Gary Griggs and Derek Rust. …”
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