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Emergence of pico- and nanosatellites for atmospheric research and technology testing

Table of Contents: “…Kimball -- Picosatellite power system design / E.J. Simburger -- Evolution of the ION cubesat software architecture / Leon Arber -- Cubesat radio communication systems / Alex Rein -- Ground station design: mobile approach / Dylan J. …”
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Obsidian and ancient manufactured glasses

Table of Contents: “…Rogers -- Obsidian dating and source exploitation studies in Africa : implications for the evolution of human behavior / Stanley H. Ambrose -- Provenance of Peruvian Wari obsidian : comparing INAA, LA-ICP-MS, and portable XRF / Patrick Ryan Williams, Laure Dussubieux, and Donna J. …”
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Phosphorus(III) ligands in homogeneous catalysis design and synthesis /

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Contemporary Islamic finance innovations, applications, and best practices /

Table of Contents: “…McMillen -- Sharija compliant mutual funds / Monem Salam -- The evolution of shariah compliant indexes and why they outperform conventional indexes over the long term / by Tariq Al-Rifai -- Takaful / Farrukh Siddiqui -- Islamic human resources practices / William Martin -- An integrated islamic poverty alleviation model / Ali Ashraf, Kabir Hassan -- How does an Islamic microfinance model play the key role in poverty alleviation? …”
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The human genome features, variations and genetic disorders /

Table of Contents: “…CpG islands in the human genome : identification, features, mutations, and diseases / Zhongming Zhao and Leng Han -- The sex chromosomes : sequence, evolution, and human diseases / Alfredo Ciccodicola ... …”
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Evidence-based nursing an introduction /

Table of Contents: “…An Introduction to evidence based nursing -- Implementing evidence-based nursing: some misconceptions -- Asking answerable questions -- Of studies, summaries, synopses and systems: the evolution of services for finding current best evidence. -- Searching for the best evidence. …”
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Saturday night live & American TV /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: situating Saturday night live in American television culture / Nick Marx, Matt Sienkiewicz, and Ron Becker -- Live from New York on NBC. The evolution of Saturday Night / Michele Hilmes -- "Live from New York!" …”
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Recovering the Piedmont past : unexplored moments in nineteenth-century Upcountry South Carolina history /

Table of Contents: “…Vecchio -- African Americans and the Presbyterian Church : the Clinton Presbyterian Church and Sloan's Chapel / Nancy Snell Griffith -- "Murder takes the angel shape of justice" : rape, reputation, and retribution in nineteenth-century Spartanburg / Carol Loar -- "May the Lord keep down hard feelings" : the Woodrow evolution controversy and the 1884 Presbyterian Synod of South Carolina / Robert B. …”
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Complementary & alternative therapies in nursing /

Table of Contents: “…Evolution and use of complementary and alternative therapies / Mariah Snyder, Kathleen Niska, and Ruth Lindquist -- Complementary therapies: nurse's self-care / Barbara Leonard -- Presence / Sue Penque and Mariah Snyder -- Therapeutic listening / Shigeaki Watanuki, Mary Fran Tracy, and Ruth Lindquist -- Creating optimal healing environments / Mary Jo Kreitzer and Terri Aborowsky -- Imagery / Maura Fitzgerald and Mary Langevin -- Music intervention / Linda Chlan and Annie Heiderscheit -- Humor / Shirley Trout -- Yoga / Miriam E. …”
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The challenge of linear time : nationhood and the politics of history in East Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Viren Murthy, Axel Schneider -- [1] Time, history, and moral responsibility -- Negativity and historicist time : facticity and intellectual history of the 1930s / Naoki Sakai -- Ontological optimism, cosmological confusion, and unstable evolution : Tan Sitong's Renxue and Zhang Taiyan's response / Viren Murthy -- Nation, history and ethics : the choices of post-imperial historiography in China / Axel Schneider -- Reading Takeuchi Yoshimi and reading history / Sun Ge -- [2] The burden of the past and the hope for a better future -- An eschatological view of history : Yoshimi Takeuchi in the 1960s / Takahiro Nakajima -- The campaign to criticize Lin Biao and Confucius and the problem of "Restoration" in Chinese Marxist historiography / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik -- [3] Recollection of the past and the popularization of history -- Popular readings and wartime historical writings in modern China / Long-Hsin Liu -- Figuring history and horror in a provincial museum : the water dungeon, the rent collection courtyard, and the socialist undead / Haiyan Lee -- [4] History and the definition of spatial, cultural and temporal boundaries -- Revolution as restoration : meanings of "national essence" and "national learning" in Guocui Xuebao / Tze-Ki Hon -- Temporality of knowledge and history writing in early twentieth-century China : Liu Yizheng and The history of Chinese culture / Ya-Pei Kuo.…”
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Sharīʻa in Africa today : reactions and responses /

Table of Contents: “…"Sharia and reality": a domain of dontest among Sunni Muslims in the District of Shendi, Northern Sudan / Osman Mohamed Osman Ali -- Contradicting state ideology in Sudan: Christian-Muslim relations among the internally displaced persons in Khartoum-The Case of Mandela and Wad al-Bashir Camps / Salma Mohamed Abdalmunim Abdalla -- Debates over interest rate: Sudanese perspectives from 35 years' experience of Islamic banking / Ahmad Elhassab, Umar Elhassab -- The evolution of the independent sharia panel in Osun State, South-West Nigeria / Abdul-Fatah Kola -- Makinde "Education is Education": contemporary Muslim views on Muslim women's education in northern Nigeria / Chikas Danfulani -- 'We Introduced sharia'-the Izala Movement in Nigeria as initiator of sharia-reimplementation in the north of the country: Some Reflections / Ramzi Ben Amara -- Debates on kadhi's courts and Christian-Muslim relations in Isiolo Town: thematic issues and emergent trends / Halkano Abdi Wario -- "Necessity removes restrictions": Swahili Muslim women's perspectives on their participation in the public sphere / Esha Faki Mwinyihaji -- Women's views on the role of kadhi's courts: a case study of Kendu Bay, Kenya / Rebecca Osiro -- Demand for the re-Introduction of kadhi's courts on the Tanzanian mainland: a religious, social and political analysis / William Andrew Kopwe -- "Chaos will never have a chance": sharia debates and tolerance in a rrovincial Tanzanian town / Bernardin Mfumbusa.…”
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Small houses : contemporary Japanese dwellings / by Hildner, Claudia

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Studies on the collective and feminine in Indo-European from a diachronic and typological perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Fellner -- Das andere Wort fur 'Frau' im Urindogermanischen / Jon Axel Har♯arson -- The gender of abstract noun suffixes in the Brittonic languages / Britta Irslinger -- A tale of two suffixes: *-h2-, *-ih2-, and the evolution of feminine gender in Indo-European / Ronald I. …”
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Digital rebellion : the birth of the cyber left / by Wolfson, Todd, 1972-

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Works in stone : contemporary perspectives on lithic analysis /

Table of Contents: “…Lerner -- Artifactual and environment-related variations in Fuego-Patagonia (Argentina): assessing the role of different factors / Marcelo Cardillo, Judith Charlin, and Karen Borrazzo -- The evolution of old cordilleran core technology / Anna M. …”
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Coalition challenges in Afghanistan : the politics of alliance /

Table of Contents: “…Grenier -- Canada : the evolution of a new Canadian way of war / Howard G. …”
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Intergovernmental management for the twenty-first century

Table of Contents: “…Nathan -- Between a rock and a hard place : the evolution of American federalism / Timothy J. Conlan -- Intergovernmental finance in the new global economy : an integrated approach / Raymond C. …”
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Food-borne microbes shaping the host ecosystem /

Table of Contents: “…Weinstock and David M. Elliott -- The evolution of antibiotic-resistant microbes in foods and host ecosystems / Marilyn C. …”
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Urbanism in the preindustrial world cross-cultural approaches /

Table of Contents: “…Rice -- Mortality through time in an impoverished residence of the Precolumbian city of Teotihuacan : a paleodemographic view / Rebecca Storey -- The evolution of regional demography and settlement in the prehispanic Basin of Mexico / L.J. …”
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Sexual coercion in primates and humans an evolutionary perspective on male aggression against females /

Table of Contents: “…Kahlenberg, and Richard W. Wrangham -- Evolution of sexual coercion with respect to sexual selection and sexual conflict theory / Jana J. …”
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