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Communicating, Networking: Interacting The International Year of Global Understanding - IYGU /

Table of Contents: “…Our natural systems: The basis of all human enterprise -- Technology Trends: Working Life with ‘Smart Things’ -- Citizenship, Governance and Communication -- Changing cultures: changing lives – mobilising social media during a health crisis -- Bridging the digital divide: everyday use of mobile phones among market sellers in Papua New Guinea -- Business, Commerce and the Global Financial System -- Everyday-ing Health Literacy and the Imperative of Health Communication: A Critical Agenda -- Imaging an e-future: Education as a process towards understanding.…”
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Chinese legal culture and constitutional order / by Hua, Shiping, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : issues and questions -- Law and culture: theory and method -- Law in the Chinese cultural tradition -- The late Qing constitutional reform : modernization first, democracy second -- The Republic of China constitutional reform : the Anglo-American model modified -- The early PRC constitutional reform : the Soviet model at a different stage -- The Maoist constitutional reform : governance without laws -- The Dengist constitutional reform : the 1954 constitution modified -- The four amendments : liberalization with limits -- The epilogue : recent events and interpreting China's strive for a constitutional order.…”
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Dystopia and economics : a guide to surviving everything from the apocalypse to zombies /

Table of Contents: “…Brian O'Roark -- The divergent economics of factions and governing / By Samuel R. Staley -- Choice, liberty and repression in a Clockwork orange / by Wayne Geerling -- Last man rules! …”
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Pageantry and Power : A cultural history of the early modern Lord Mayor's Show 1585–1639 / by Hill, Tracey

Table of Contents: “…The Lord Mayors' shows, 1585-1639 : summary ; Governance of the City of London.…”
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Pyrrhic Progress : The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production / by Kirchhelle, Claas, 1987-

Table of Contents: “…The sound of coughing pigs -- Picking one's poisons : antibiotics and the public -- Chemical cornucopia : antibiotics on the farm -- Toxic priorities : antibiotics and the FDA -- A fusion of concerns : antibiotics and the British public -- Bigger, better, faster : antibiotics and British farming -- Typing resistance : antibiotic regulation in Britain -- The public : antibiotics, failed bans, and growing fears -- The agricultural community : hostility in sinking numbers -- The government : failing to regulate -- Yearning for purity -- British farming and the environmental turn -- Swann song : British antibiotic policy after 1969.…”
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Living Standards in Southeast Asia : Changes over the Long Twentieth Century, 1900-2015 / by Booth, Anne, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Assessing changes in living standards in Southeast Asia in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- The colonial period: population and output growth in agricultural and non-agricultural sectors -- The colonial period: measures of welfare and changing living standards -- Confronting the challenges of independence -- Estimating poverty and inequality: country estimates from the 1950s to the 1970s -- The 1980s and the 1990s: the fast and the slow in Southeast Asia -- Growth, poverty and distribution in the early twenty-first century -- Government policy interventions -- What have we learned? …”
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Emerging evidence on vouchers and faith-based providers

Table of Contents: “…Ortega -- Literacy and numeracy in faith-based and government schools in Sierra Leone / Quentin Wodon and Yvonne Ying -- Comparing faith-based and government schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Prospere Backiny-Yetna and Quentin Wodon -- Student achievement in religious and secular secondary schools in Bangladesh / Mohammad Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury and Amit Dar -- Does money matter?…”
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Megaregions planning for global competitiveness /

Table of Contents: “…Fainstein -- Novel spatial formats : megaregions and global intercity geographies / Saskia Sassen -- Governing American metropolitan areas : spatial policy and regional governance / Myron Orfield and Thomas F. …”
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Crime : emerging issues /

Table of Contents: “…Lieberman, J. K. How the government breaks the law.…”

Agricultural economics / by Drummond, H. Evan (Harold Evan), 1943-

Table of Contents: “…The food industry -- Introduction to agricultural economics -- Introduction to market price determination -- The firm as a production unit -- Costs and optimal output levels -- Supply, market adjustments, and input demand -- Imperfect competition and government regulation -- The theory of consumer behavior -- The concept of elasticity -- Money and financial intermediaries -- The circular flow of income -- Monetary policy -- Fiscal policy -- International trade -- Agricultural policy -- Food marketing : from stable to table -- Futures markets -- Financial markets -- Investment analysis -- Farm service sector -- The economics of market failure -- The Malthusian dilemma -- Economic development and food.…”

Doing fieldwork ethnographic methods for research in developing countries and beyond / by Fife, Wayne

Table of Contents: “…Contemporary scholarly sources and a theoretical orientation -- 4. Newspapers and government documents : popular and official sources of information -- Pt. …”
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Committed to the state asylum insanity and society in nineteenth-century Quebec and Ontario / by Moran, James E.

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments ix -- Interpreting Sophie's World i -- 1 Manipulating a Monopoly: The State and the -- "Farming-Out System" in Quebec 13 -- 2 Insanity, Community, and Commissioner: -- The State and the Government System in Ontario 48 -- 3 Medicine, Moral Therapy, and Madness in -- Nineteenth-Century Quebec and Ontario 77 -- 4 Wanderer, Pauper, and Prisoner: The Social, -- Economic, and Political Contexts of Committal 113 -- 5 Criminal Insanity: The Creation and Dissolution -- of a Psychiatric Disorder 141 -- Conclusion: Re-evaluating the Asylum, the State, -- and the Management of Insanity 167.…”
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What good is journalism? how reporters and editors are saving America's way of life /

Table of Contents: “…Americans and journalism: we value but criticize it / George Kennedy and Glen Cameron -- Journalism: the lifeblood of a democracy / Sandy Davidson and Betty Winfield -- NPR offers news and companionship / Geneva Overholser -- The hometown newspaper builds community / Judy Bolch -- Watchdogs of government serve citizens / Wesley G. Pippert -- Journalism builds new democracies / Byron Scott -- Investigative reporting saves lives / Brant Houston -- Computer-assisted journalism creates new knowledge / David Herzog and Brant Houston -- How to get the journalism you deserve / Stuart Loory.…”
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Flight to freedom : African runaways and maroons in the Americas / by Thompson, Alvin O.

Table of Contents: “…Physical organization of Maroon communities -- ch. 7. Maroon government -- ch. 8. Maroon economy -- Pt. 4. Accommodation or revolution? …”
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Napoleon the path to power / by Dwyer, Philip G.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : the bridge at Arcola -- The outsider, 1769-1792: The pleasure of recognition ; 'You will be my avenger' ; Corsica in revolution ; Ambition awakened -- The revolutionary, 1792-1796: Disillusion ; The Jacobin ; Shifting political sands ; The political appointee -- The conquering hero, 1796-1798: Innovation ; Conquest and pillage ; Artists and soldiers, politics and love ; The apprenticeship of power ; Bonaparte the 'Italique' -- The civilizing hero, 1798-1799: A grandiose exile ; Confronting Egypt ; Conciliation and terror : governing Egypt ; Prisoner of his conquest ; The limits of imagination ; The end of the dream -- Seizing power, 1799: The return of the saviour ; The coup as farce.…”
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One day that shook the Communist world the 1956 Hungarian uprising and its legacy / by Lendvai, Paul, 1929-

Table of Contents: “…A day that shook the Communist world -- The road to revolution -- A night of cataclysmic decisions -- The legend of the corvinists -- Wrestling for the soul of Imre Nagy -- Deadlocked -- A turnaround with a question mark -- The general, the colonel, and the adjutant -- The dams are breaking -- The condottiere, the "Uncle," and the romantics -- Decision in the Kremlin: the end of patience -- Double dive into darkness -- The puppeteers and the Kádár Enigma -- Operation whirlwind and Kádár phantom government -- The Yugoslav-Soviet conspiracy -- The second revolution -- The moral bankruptcy of the U.S. liberation theory -- Worldwide reactions -- The barbarous vendetta of the victors -- 1956-1989: victory in defeat?.…”
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Archival anxiety and the vocational calling by Cox, Richard J.

Table of Contents: “…The archival calling -- Public memory meets archival memory : the interpretation of Williamsburg's Secretary's office -- Public and private history in Colonial Williamsburg : a memoir of a half-century and a view to a calling -- Empty temples : challenges for modern government archives and records management -- Secrecy, archives, and the archivist -- The National Archives reclassification scandal -- Archival ethics : the truth of the matter -- The archives & archivists listserv controversy -- The Anthony Clark case, SAA, and professional ethics -- Revisiting the archival finding aid -- Teaching unpleasant things -- Arguing about appraisal in the age of forgetfulness.…”
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I did it to save my life love and survival in Sierra Leone / by Bolten, Catherine E. (Catherine Elizabeth), 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Sierra Leonean emotions, Sierra Leonean war -- Understanding Makeni and nested loyalties: marginality and collaboration in the northern capital -- "I must be grateful to them for freeing me": the soldier -- "They said nobody would hide from this war": the rebel -- "I held a gun but I did not fire it": the student -- The government brought death, the rebels allowed us to live": the trader -- "It was the Lord who wanted me to stay": the evangelist -- "They really damaged me": the father -- "The RUF thought I was on their side": the politician -- Epilogue and conclusions: Makeni, May 2010.…”
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Paris on the Potomac the French influence on the architecture and art of Washington, D.C. /

Table of Contents: “…Somma -- Private homes, public lives : francophilia among government officers and the Washington elite / Liana Paredes -- Interpreting the influence of Paris on the planning of Washington, D.C., 1870-1930 / Cynthia R. …”
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A history of Ireland, 1800-1922 : theatres of disorder? / by Larkin, Hilary

Table of Contents: “…Forging the union -- Dawn of a new century -- Catholic mobilisations -- The achievement of emancipation -- Ireland under whig government -- The campaign for repealing union -- The Age of Peel -- Explaining the famine -- Response to famine -- Post-famine Ireland -- Mid-Victorian Ireland -- Gladstoneøs first mission -- Parnell and the Land League -- The Irish liberals: a union of hearts? …”
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