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Small wonders, endless frontiers a review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative /

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New frontiers in contraceptive research a blueprint for action /

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Jews in an Iberian frontier kingdom society, economy, and politics in Morvedre, 1248-1391 / by Meyerson, Mark D.

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Frontier Goiás, 1822-1889 by McCreery, David

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Frontiers of solid state chemistry proceedings of the International Symposium on Solid State Chemistry in China, Changchun, China, 9-12 August, 2002 /

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The Arabian frontier of the British Raj merchants, rulers, and the British in the nineteenth-century Gulf / by Onley, James, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Conventions, terminology, and transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The subject -- The sources -- Overview -- Empire -- British India's informal empire and spheres of influence in Asia and Africa -- British India's residency system in Asia and Africa -- The origins of the residency system, 1613-1763 -- The politicization and expansion of the residency system, 1764-1947 -- The residency system and Britain's Indian empire -- Imperialism and the strategy of informal empire -- The Indian political service (IPS), 1764-1947 -- Early British involvement in the Gulf, 1616-1822 -- Britain's political residency in the Gulf, 1822-1971 -- Britain's native agency in Bahrain, c. 1816-1900 -- Agents of empire -- British India's native agency system in Asia -- British India's native agency system in Asia -- British India's native agency system in the Gulf -- British motives for employing native agents -- Robinson's theory of collaboration -- The Indian origins of the native agency system -- The politicization of the native agency system in India and the Gulf -- Early native agents in the Gulf -- The establishment of the native agency system in the Gulf -- Advantages for the British -- Disadvantages for the British -- Advantages and disadvantages for the native agents -- The operation of British India's native agency in Bahrain -- The agency building -- The agency's finances and organization -- The agent's intelligence-gathering duties, c.1816-1900 -- The agent's judicial duties, 1861-1900 -- The agents' political duties, 1872-1900 -- The agents' social duties -- British India's native agents in Bahrain -- The banias, c.1816-34 -- The Safar family agents -- Mirza Muhammad Cali Safar, 1834-42 -- Hajji Jasim (Hajji Abu'l Qasim), 1842-62 -- Hajji Ibrahim bin Muhsin bin Rajab, 1862-4 -- Years of abeyance, 1865-71 -- Hajji Cabd al-Nabi Khan Safar, 1872-84 -- Hajji Ahmad Khan Safar, 1884-91 -- Temporary agents, 1891-3 -- Agha Muhammad Rahim Safar, 1893-1900 -- Hajji Cabbas bin Muhammad bin Fadhil, 1900 -- The native agency staff after 1900 -- Challenges to the agents, 1834-97 -- The decline of British India's native agency system in Bahrain and the Gulf -- The rift in agent-ruler relations, 1895-1900 -- The agent's conflict between trade and politics, 1897-9 -- The argument for a political agency, 1897-9 -- The transition to a political agency, 1899-1900 -- The Arabian frontier of the Indian empire -- Appendix A a British India's residency system in Asia and Africa -- British India's residency system, 1880s -- Gulf residency organization -- Gulf residency staff -- Gulf residency budget -- Graded officers serving in political residencies, 1877 -- British military establishments in the Gulf -- Appendix B rulers and residents -- Rulers of Bahrain -- Residents in Bushire -- Agents for the lower Gulf (qishm island) -- Political residents in the Gulf (Bushire) -- Political residents in the Gulf (Ras al-Jufair, Bahrain) -- Governors of Bombay -- Viceroys of India -- Appendix C British India's native agents in Bahrain -- Native agents -- Native agency staff -- British-Indian steam navigation Co. agents (Gray Paul & Co.) -- Merchant grades -- Appendix D British control : Bahrain v. the Indian states -- Appendix E Anglo-Bahraini legal obligations and rights.…”
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Tibet and nationalist China's frontier intrigues and ethnopolitics, 1928-49 / by Lin, Hsiao-ting, 1971-

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Opening new frontiers in space choices for the next new frontiers : announcement of opportunity /

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Frontiers in soil science research report of a workshop /

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Furs and frontiers in the far north the contest among native and foreign nations for the Bering Strait fur trade / by Bockstoce, John R.

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The Spanish frontier in North America by Weber, David J.

Table of Contents: “…List of maps -- Spanish names and words -- Introduction -- 1: Worlds apart -- 2: First encounters -- 3: Foundations of empire: Florida and New Mexico -- 4: Conquistadors of the spirit -- 5: Exploitation, contention, and rebellion -- 6: Imperial rivalry and strategic expansion: to Texas, the Gulf Coast, and the high plains -- 7: Commercial rivalry, stagnation, and the fortunes of war -- 8: Indian raiders and the reorganization of frontier defenses -- 9: Forging a transcontinental empire: new California to the Floridas -- 10: Improvisations and retreats: the empire lost -- 11: Frontiers and frontier peoples transformed -- 12: Spanish legacy and the historical imagination -- For further reading -- Index.…”
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Frontiers of applied and computational mathematics New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, 19-21 May 2008 /

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Pushing the frontiers of atomic physics proceedings of the XXI International Conference on Atomic Physics, Storrs, Connecticut, USA 27 July - 1 August 2008 /

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New frontiers in comparative sociology

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New frontiers in light metals proceedings of the 11th International Aluminium Conference INALCO 2010 /

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A lost frontier revealed regional separation in the East Midlands / by Fox, Alan W.

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Frontiers in drug design and discovery.

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Frontiers in natural product chemistry.

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Frontiers in drug design and discovery.

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