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Rocking your music business run your music business at home and on the road / by Cann, Simon

Table of Contents: “…Your music business -- Setting up your (virtual) office -- Working with other people -- Running your business online -- Accounts, records, and all those pieces of paper you need to keep -- Government and officialdom : you ain't gonna fight the law.…”
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Pogroms and riots German press responses to anti-Jewish violence in Germany and Russia (1881-1882) / by Weinberg, Sonja

Table of Contents: “…The conservative struggle against liberalism -- pt. 3 Catholic Ambivalences -- pt. 4 Nihilists, Poles and East European Jews -A hidden government agenda -- pt. 5. The Jewish view: assimilation and the pain of rejection.…”
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Theorizing borders through analyses of power relationship /

Table of Contents: “…part I. Politics, governance and power in border communities -- part II. …”
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The limits of U.S. military capability : lessons from Vietnam and Iraq / by Lebovic, James H.

Table of Contents: “…Leveraging the adversary's forces: the wars in Vietnam and Iraq -- Leveraging the adversary's support base: states, populations, and societies -- Leveraging the adversary's leaders: the balance of resolve and US exhaustion -- Leveraging host governments: the challenges of institution-building -- Conclusions: Vietnam and Iraq, Afghanistan, and the future.…”
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The nature of chemical neurotransmitters

Table of Contents: “…-- Neurotransmission: mechanism of action -- Mechanisms governing neurotransmitter release -- Different types of receptor -- Switching off neurotransmitters -- Synthesis and metabolism of acetylcholine -- Gases as neurotransmitters -- Presynaptic modulation of neurotransmission -- Is the brain "hard-wired" or "plastic"?.…”
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AFL-CIO's secret war against developing country workers solidarity or sabotage? / by Scipes, Kim

Table of Contents: “…Business unionism, Samuel Gompers and AFL foreign policy -- One hundred years of reaction : from Gompers to Sweeney -- War within labor : the struggle to build international labor solidarity -- The U.S. government and labor -- Conclusions, some ramifications, and effects on sociological theory.…”
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Prescription for the People : An Activist’s Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All / by Quigley, Fran, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…People everywhere are struggling to get the medicines they need -- The United States has a drug problem -- Millions of people are dying needlessly -- Cancer patients face particularly deadly barriers to medicines -- The current medicine system neglects many major diseases -- Corporate research and development investments are exaggerated -- The current system wastes billions on drug marketing -- The current system compromises physician integrity and leads to unethical corporate behavior -- Medicines are priced at whatever the market will bear -- Pharmaceutical corporations reap history-making profits -- The for-profit medicine arguments are patently false -- Medicine patents are extended too far and too wide -- Patent protectionism stunts the development of new medicines -- Governments, not private corporations, drive medicine innovation -- Taxpayers and patients pay twice for patented medicines -- Medicines are a public good -- Medicine patents are artificial, recent, and government-created -- The United States and big pharma play the bully in extending patents -- Pharma-pushed trade agreements steal the power of democratically elected governments -- Current law provides opportunities for affordable generic medicines -- There is a better way to develop medicines -- Human rights law demands access to essential medicines.…”
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Making Indian law the Hualapai land case and the birth of ethnohistory / by McMillen, Christian W., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The Hualapais -- The conflict -- The Hualapai awakening -- The government versus the Hualapais -- Taking Hualapai land -- Writing Indians out of their land -- The Hualapais and history -- Land and law -- Saving Hualapai land -- Building a case -- The case in court -- The Supreme Court and the power of history -- In the wake of Hualpai.…”
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Securities dispute resolution in China by Zhu, Sanzhu

Table of Contents: “…The legal, regulatory and judicial framework -- The share issuing and trading market -- Government and enterprise bond markets -- The securities repurchase market -- Commodity and financial futures markets -- Civil litigation arising from false statements on the securities market -- The development of securities dispute resolution in China.…”
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Políticas Latina public officials in Texas /

Table of Contents: “…Understanding Latina political leadership -- Areas of inquiry : why so few Latinas hold public office -- Irma Rangel : the first Latina in the Texas legislature -- Latinas in the Texas senate -- Latinas in statewide office -- Latinas on the bench -- Latinas as mayors -- Latinas in local government.…”
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Minority business success refocusing on the American dream / by Greenhalgh, Leonard

Table of Contents: “…Minority business success is a national priority -- To succeed is to survive, prosper, and grow to scale -- Government must refocus on inclusion -- Corporations should refocus on development, not procurement -- Support organizations should refocus on core mission -- Minority business success requires leadership and direction.…”
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Women in Iraq past meets present / by Efrati, Noga

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the historical setting -- Occupation, monarchy, and customary law: tribalizing women -- Family law as a site of struggle and subordination -- Politics, election law, and exclusion -- Gender discourse and discontent: activism unraveled -- Challenging the government's gender discourse -- Epilogue: past meets present.…”
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U.S.-China educational exchange state, society, and intercultural relations, 1905-1950 / by Li, Hongshan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: educational exchange and government -- Emerging as facilitator -- Tearing down the barriers -- Qinghua: the first joint experiment -- From central administration to party control -- Maintaining the educational front -- From expansion to termination -- In a historical perspective -- Epilogue: restoring educational relations with the visible hand.…”
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Envy of the world a history of the U.S. economy & big business / by Botti, Timothy J., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Laying the foundation for success : 1607-1860 -- pt. 2. Big business and government vie for supremacy : 1861-1945 -- pt. 3. Broadening out of economic possibilities : 1946-1989 -- pt. 4. …”
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Two Mediterranean worlds diverging paths of globalization and autonomy /

Table of Contents: “…Adapting and integrating : governing in globalization -- pt. 2. Globalization in the great texts -- pt. 3. …”
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Statemaking and territory in South Asia lessons from the Anglo-Gorkha War (1814-1816) / by Michael, Bernardo A.

Table of Contents: “…Statemaking, Cultures of Governance and the Anglo-Gorkha War of 1814-1816 -- The Agrarian Environment and the Production of Space on the Anglo-Gorkha Frontier -- The Champarani-Tarriani Frontier -- The Gorakhpur-Butwal Frontier -- The Disjointed Spaces of Precolonial Territorial Divisions -- Making States Visible : Maps, Surveys and Boundaries -- Glossary.…”
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Hunger efforts and food security

Table of Contents: “…Results in brief -- Background -- Food insecurity persists in sub-Saharan Africa due to several factors, including low agricultural productivity -- Efforts of host governments and donors, including the United States, toward halving hunger in sub-Saharan Africa by 2015 have been insufficient.…”
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Macroeconomic analysis / by Niepelt, Dirk, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Microeconomic foundations -- Consumption and saving -- Dynamic competitive equilibrium -- Risk -- Asset returns and asset prices -- Labor supply, growth, and business cycles -- The open economy -- Frictions -- Money -- Price setting and price rigidity -- The government -- Optimal policy -- Time consistent policy -- Bibliography -- Index.…”

Mapping the molecular chaperone interaction network in yeast

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Large scale proteomic screening in yeast -- The TAP-tag pulldown approach -- Understanding the principles governing protein homeostasis -- Mapping the network of the Hsp90 chaperone using physical and genetic interaction screens -- Unraveling the role of Hsp90 in pre-rRNA processing.…”
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Libertarianism defended by Machan, Tibor R.

Table of Contents: “…-- Democracy in public affairs and corporate governance -- Dependence of equality on liberty -- Why agreement isn't enough -- Against fairness.…”
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