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Defying the IRA? : Intimidation, coercion, and communities during the Irish Revolution / by Hughes, Brian (Historian)

Table of Contents: “…Collecting the rates: Dáil Éireann local government and the IRA -- 3. Civilians and communities I: non-cooperation and defiance -- 4. …”
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Media economics : applying economics to new and traditional media / by Hoskins, Colin

Table of Contents: “…Introduction and overview -- Demand and supply -- Markets -- Consumer behaviour -- Production and cost -- Revenue, profit, risk, and managerial decisions -- Market structure, theory of the firm, and industrial organization -- Perfect competition and monopoly -- Monopolistic competition and oligopoly -- Pricing and market segmentation -- Advertising -- Labour markets -- Government intervention -- International trade.…”
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Guide for the care and use of laboratory animals /

Table of Contents: “…Additional selected references -- B.U.S. government priciples for the utilization and care of vertebrate animals used in testing, research, and training -- C. …”
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Unequal peers : the politics of discourse management in the social sciences / by Sithole, Pearl

Table of Contents: “…-- From Shepstone to Mufamadi : the community as an object of local government systems -- The secular dynamics of traditional leadership in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa -- Conclusion : pointless modesty : the politics of history.…”

Broken buildings, busted budgets how to fix America's trillion-dollar construction industry / by LePatner, Barry B.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Overbudget and overdue -- The economic context of construction -- False starts and frustrated beginnings: a history of the industry -- Asymmetric information: the big barrier to change -- Minor blemishes: unions, workers, and government -- Fixing the construction industry: consolidation, intermediaries, and innovation -- Practical advice to owners for getting started now -- Notes.…”
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The American title insurance industry how a cartel fleeces the American consumer / by Eaton, Joseph W., 1919-

Table of Contents: “…Title insurance as a for-profit business -- Alternate title guarantee models -- Title insurance as a government service -- Title insurance the legal dimension -- Title insurance the administrative dimension -- Title interest groups -- Title income and losses -- Title reform is a definite maybe -- The future of title insurance.…”
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In a sea of bitterness refugees during the Sino-Japanese War / by Schoppa, R. Keith, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…The thousand person pit -- A world where ghosts wailed -- Confronting the refugee crisis -- Veering into the ravine -- Days of suffering -- The kidnapping of Chinese civilians -- Government on the move -- Playing hide-and-seek with the enemy -- Guerrilla education -- Wartime business -- Scorched earth -- Trading and smuggling -- Bubonic bombs -- Remaking homes.…”
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Wiki at war conflict in a socially networked world / by Carafano, James Jay, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: Mad scientists and fighter pilots -- Mongols and mullahs -- Star Trek and superhighways -- Dragons, bears, cutthroats, and criminals -- Keystone Cops and the fog of war -- Cheerleaders, pornographers, and unemployed engineers -- Anciens régimes and the government after next -- Weird science and dark horizons -- Epilogue: The art of war and wiki war.…”
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American Catholic hospitals a century of changing markets and missions / by Wall, Barbra Mann

Table of Contents: “…From sisters in habits to men in suits -- A "precarious" economic scene -- Religion, gender, and the public representation of Catholic hospitals -- Regardless of color, race, creed, or financial status -- Catholic hospitals and the federal government -- Harassed by strikes or threats of strikes -- Practical solutions to complicated problems -- "S" stands for "Sister," not "stupid."…”
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Madmen, intellectuals, and academic scribblers the economic engine of political change / by Leighton, Wayne A., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Ideas and the rules of politics -- The never-ending quest for good government -- Economists join the battle of political ideas -- Public choice : how we get bad policies and get stuck with them, or not -- How ideas matter for political change -- Four stories of political change -- What is to be done? …”
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The European public sphere from critical thinking to responsible action /

Table of Contents: “…The European public sphere and multi-level governance structures and actors.…”
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We called it mag-nificent Dow Chemical and magnesium, 1916-1998 / by Brandt, E. N.

Table of Contents: “…Star shells -- Dowmetal pistons and the Indy 500 -- Willard and the gondolas -- Dow goes down to the sea -- How to make magnesium out of seawater -- Faced government -- The Hanawalt era -- The hazards of coastal Texas -- Hot stuff -- Mag mountain -- The nineteen seventies -- Havoc in the market place -- A non-event.…”
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Wealth of East Asian nations by Goh, Keng Swee, 1918-

Table of Contents: “…Public enterprises and the government -- pt. 4. Monetary and financial economics -- pt. 5. …”
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Imposing Standards : The North-South Dimension to Global Tax Politics / by Hearson, Martin

Table of Contents: “…The problem with tax treaties -- A history of developing countries in (and out of) global tax governance -- Turning the tables: the competition discourse and north-south relations -- OECD knows best: the expert view of tax treaties -- The United Kingdom -- Zambia -- Vietnam and Cambodia -- Historical legacies in a rapidly changing world.…”
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Organized uncertainty designing a world of risk management / by Power, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Organized uncertainty : an introduction -- Turning organizations inside out : the rise of internal control -- Standardizing risk management : making up processes and people -- Putting categories to work : the invention of operational risk -- Governing reputations : the outside comes in -- Making risk auditable : legalization and organization -- Designing a world of risk management.…”
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Oil injustice resisting and conceding a pipeline in Ecuador / by Widener, Patricia, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Oil disasters and conflicts -- Lago Agrio : community-driven oil justice -- Quito's NGOs : realizing an environmental fund -- Mindo : oil and tourism may mix -- Esmeraldas : finding dignity -- Transnational responses : evidence for a southern-led global democracy -- Post-OCP : governing and contesting Correa and China in the Amazon.…”
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The Oxford handbook of American political parties and interest groups

Table of Contents: “…Party organization -- pt. 6. Party in government -- pt. 7. Interest groups : bias and representation -- pt. 8. …”
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Developing countries in the GATT legal system by Hudec, Robert E.

Table of Contents: “…Impact on decisions in other governments: non-reciprocity; 11. Impact on decisions in other governments: preferences; 12. …”
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Business and climate policy the potentials and pitfalls of private voluntary programs /

Table of Contents: “…Tables and figures -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Marrying climate policy and private voluntary programs / Karsten Ronit -- Cross-sectoral and multi-sectoral programs -- Private voluntary programs in environmental governance : climate change and the financial sector / Jennifer Clapp and Jason Thistlethwaite -- Private voluntary programs on climate change : US federal government as the sponsoring actor / Lily Hsueh and Aseem Prakash -- Sectors -- The role of private voluntary climate programs affecting forests : assessing their direct and intersecting effects / Laura Bozzi, Benjamin Cashore, Kelly Levin, and Constance McDermott -- Emerging private voluntary programs and climate change : the blind spots of the agrifood sector / Doris Fuchs and Frederike Boll -- Climate change, private voluntary programs and the automobile industry / Tony Porter -- Conclusions -- Private voluntary programs in climate policy : potentials and pitfalls / Karsten Ronit -- Index.…”
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The Israeli Supreme Court and the Human Rights Revolution courts as agenda setters / by Meydani, Assaf

Table of Contents: “…The Intervention of the Israeli high court of justice in government decisions : an empirical, quantitative study with paradoxical results -- Law and politics : theoretical aspects -- The Supreme Court as a political entrepreneur in the process of institutional change - an analysis based on shared mental models and political entrepreneurship -- Israeli public law -- Israel in light of structural and cultural variables -- The Supreme Court and the political system in light of social and political processes in Israel during 1948-1999 -- The struggle for a new conservative constitutional court (2000) : redefining the guarantor of human rights in Israel - the role of the Israeli Supreme Court -- The rule of "who governs?" …”
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