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Reflections on constitutional law by Anastaplo, George, 1925-

Table of Contents: “…Filburn (1942) -- The presidency and the constitution -- A government of enumerated powers? -- Realism and the study of constitutional law -- The challenges of skepticism for the constitutionalist -- Constitutionalism and the common law : the Erie problem reconsidered -- The Confederate Constitution (1861-1865) -- The Japanese relocation cases (1943,1944) -- Calder v. …”
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Human action a treatise on economics / by Von Mises, Ludwig, 1881-1973

Table of Contents: “…The hampered market economy. The government and the market -- Interference by taxation -- Restriction of production -- Interference with the structure of prices -- Currency and credit manipulation -- Confiscation and redistribution -- Syndicalism and corporativism -- The economics of war -- The welfare principle versus the market principle -- The crisis of interventionism -- Pt. 7. …”
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Modern and global Ayurveda : pluralism and paradigms /

Table of Contents: “…Plural medicine and East-West dialogue / Mike Saks -- The evolution of Indian government policy on Ayurveda in the twentieth century / Dominik Wujastyk -- Divorcing Ayurveda: Siddha medicine and the quest for uniqueness / Richard S. …”
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Fragmentation processes topics in atomic and molecular physics /

Table of Contents: “…A coupled pseudostate approach to the calculation of ion-atom fragmentation processes M. McGovern, H. R. J. Walters and C. T. Whelan; 8. Electron Impact Ionization using (e,2e) coincidence techniques from threshold to intermediate energies A. …”
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Constitutional Law, Religion and Equal Liberty The Impact of Desecularization. by Tadjdini, Azin

Table of Contents: “…3.1.4 Constitutional rights and limitations to equal liberty3.2 The development towards constitutional secularity in theory and practice; 3.2.1 Constitutional secularity as a principle of governance; 3.2.2 Constitutional secularity as an idea; 3.2.3 Constitutional secularity in constitutional developments; 3.2.4 Constitutional secularity and international human rights law; Part III The past, the present, and the perhaps: constitutional desecularization in context; Chapter 4 Political change and constitutional change in Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq; 4.1 The constitutional past…”
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Society - Water - Technology A Critical Appraisal of Major Water Engineering Projects /

Table of Contents: “….- Major Water Engineering Projects: Definitions, Framework Conditions, Systemic Effects -- A Global View on Future Major Water Engineering Projects -- Neglected Values of Major Water Engineering Projects: Ecosystem Services, Social Impacts and Economic Valuation -- Water Governance: A Systemic Approach -- Research in two Case Studies: Irrigation and Land Use in the Fergana Valley and Water Management in the Lower Jordan Valley -- Part III: The Fergana Valley – Uzbekistan’s Hydro-Agricultural System between Inertia and Change -- Between Multiple Transformations and Systemic Path Dependencies -- From Upscaling to Rescaling – Transforming the Fergana from Tsarist Irrigation to Water Management for an Independent Uzbekistan -- Irrigation Infrastructure in Fergana Today: Ecological Implications –Economic Necessities -- Where Water Meets Agriculture: The Ambivalent Role of the Water Users Associations -- Theory, the Market and the State: Agricultural Reforms in Post Socialist Uzbekistan between Economic Incentives and Institutional Obstacles -- Part IV: The Lower Jordan Valley – The Red Sea-Dead Sea Conveyance Project and its Complex History -- Water Resources, Cooperation and Power Asymmetries in the Water Management of the Lower Jordan Valley – The Situation Today and the Path that has led there -- Reclaiming the Dead Sea: Alternatives for Action -- Jordan’s Shadow State and Water Management: Prospects for Water Security will depend on Politics and Regional Cooperation -- Technologies, Incentives and Cost Recovery: Is there an Israeli Role Model? …”
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Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities A Global Assessment /

Table of Contents: “…Feeding cities -- 27. Urban governance of biodiversity and ecosystem services -- 28. …”
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The everyday project manager : a primer for learning the principles of successful project management / by Nicholls, Jeremy

Table of Contents: “…: Budgeting and Cost Management</P><P><STRONG>Chapter 7: </STRONG>Control mechanisms: Setting up your Project Governance</P><P><STRONG>Phase 3: Build & Execute</STRONG></P><P><STRONG>Chapter 8: </STRONG>Hell is other people: Managing the team</P><P><STRONG>Phase 4: Project Closure & Lessons Learned</STRONG></P><P><STRONG>Chapter 9: </STRONG>Managing uncertainty: a brief introduction to risk management</P><P><STRONG>Chapter 10: </STRONG>In extremis: how to manage difficult projects</P><P><STRONG>Appendices</STRONG></P><P><STRONG>In summary: delivering a project in three pages</STRONG></P><P><STRONG>Key information for Every (Everyday) Project</STRONG></P>…”
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Confinement, punishment and prisons in Africa /

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Maritime Business and Economics : Asian Perspectives /

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Artificial intelligence safety and security /

Table of Contents: “…: Different Approaches and Their Implications for Life in the Universe -- chapter 10 The MADCOM Future: How Artificial Intelligence Will Enhance Computational Propaganda, Reprogram Human Culture, and Threaten Democracy … and What can be Done About It -- chapter 11 Strategic Implications of Openness in AI Development -- part, PART II Responses of Scholars -- chapter 12 Using Human History, Psychology, and Biology to Make AI Safe for Humans -- chapter 13 AI Safety: A First-Person Perspective -- chapter 14 Strategies for an Unfriendly Oracle AI with Reset Button -- chapter 15 Goal Changes in Intelligent Agents -- chapter 16 Limits to Verification and Validation of Agentic Behavior -- chapter 17 Adversarial Machine Learning (AI Safety and Security Textbook) -- chapter 18 Value Alignment via Tractable Preference Distance -- chapter 19 A Rationally Addicted Artificial Superintelligence -- chapter 20 On the Security of Robotic Applications Using ROS -- chapter 21 Social Choice and the Value Alignment Problem* -- chapter 22 Disjunctive Scenarios of Catastrophic AI Risk -- chapter 23 Offensive Realism and the Insecure Structure of the International System: Artificial Intelligence and Global Hegemony -- chapter 24 Superintelligence and the Future of Governance: On Prioritizing the Control Problem at the End of History -- chapter 25 Military AI as a Convergent Goal of Self-Improving AI -- chapter 26 A Value-Sensitive Design Approach to Intelligent Agents -- chapter 27 Consequentialism, Deontology, and Artificial Intelligence Safety -- chapter 28 Smart Machines ARE a Threat to Humanity.…”
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Digital Objects, Digital Subjects : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data /

Table of Contents: “…Digital capitalism and big data capitalism / Digital governance in the Anthropocene : the rise of the correlational machine / David Chandler -- Beyond big data capitalism, towards dialectical digital modernity : reflections on David Chandler's chapter ; Karl Marx in the age of big data capitalism / Christian Fuchs -- What is at stake in the critique of big data? …”
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Arcticness : Power and Voice from the North /

Table of Contents: “…Energy infrastructure development in the ArcticJustice and Arcticness in energy infrastructure development; Expanding justice in Arcticness -- a new role for the non-human; Implications: energy justice and 'frames' of Arcticness; 9 Understanding Arcticness: Comparing resource frontier narratives in the Arctic and East Africa; Introduction; Background; Materiality; Global interest; Governance; Community; Conclusion; 10 Scopes and limits of 'Arcticness': Arctic livelihoods, marine mammals and the law; Introduction; Arctic peoples in international legal regimes -- the case of marine mammal hunting.…”
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Un homme qui crie = A screaming man

Table of Contents: “…Rebel forces are attacking the government and the authorities demand the people contribute to the "war effort" with money or volunteers old enough to fight. …”

The trust crisis in healthcare causes, consequences, and cures /

Table of Contents: “…Shore -- Why Americans don't trust the government and don't trust healthcare / Robert J. Blendon -- Skeptical patients: performance, social capital, and culture / Pippa Norris -- Building quality in the healthcare environment / Donald M. …”
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Science and the university

Table of Contents: “…Jakubson -- How does the government (want to) fund science?: politics, lobbying and academic earmarks / John M. de Figueiredo and Brian S. …”
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The elusive quest for growth economists' adventures and misadventures in the tropics / by Easterly, William, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…87 -- Intermezzo: Tomb Paintings 99 -- 6 The Loans That Were, the Growth That Wasn't 101 -- Intermezzo: Leila's Story 121 -- 7 Forgive Us Our Debts 123 -- Intermezzo: Cardboard House 138 -- III People Respond to Incentives 141 -- 8 Tales of Increasing Returns: Leaks, Matches, and Traps 145 -- Intermezzo: War and Memory 170 -- 9 Creative Destruction: The Power of Technology 171 -- Intermezzo: Accident in Jamaica 193 -- 10 Under an Evil Star 195 -- Intermezzo: Favela Life 215 -- 11 Governments Can Kill Growth 217 -- Intermezzo: Florence and Veronica 240 -- 12 Corruption and Growth 241 -- Intermezzo: Discrimination in Palanpur 253 -- 13 Polarized Peoples 255 -- Intermezzo: Violent for Centuries 282 -- 14 Conclusion: The View from Lahore 285 -- Notes 293 -- References and Further Reading 313 -- Index 335.…”
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Contested constitutionalism reflections on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms /

Table of Contents: “…Manfredi and Antonia Maioni -- National security and the Charter / Kent Roach -- Canadian language rights : liberties, claims, and the national conversation / Graham Fraser -- Explaining the impact of legal mobilization and judicial decisions : official minority language education rights outside Quebec / Troy Riddell -- Reference re same-sex marriage : making sense of the government's litigation strategy / Matthew Hennigar -- Bills of rights as instruments of nation building in multinational states : the Canadian Charter and Quebec nationalism / Sujit Choudhry -- The internal exile of Quebecers in the Canada of the Charter / Guy Laforest -- The road not taken : aboriginal rights after the re-imaging of the Canadian constitutional order / Kiera L. …”
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Demography and the economy

Table of Contents: “…Miller -- Women's education and family behavior: trends in marriage, divorce and fertility / Adam Isen and Betsey Stevenson -- Comment: Enrico Moretti -- Adjusting government policies for age inflation / John B. Shoven and Gopi Shah Goda -- Comment: Warren C. …”
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African smallholders food crops, markets and policy /

Table of Contents: “…Karugia and Willis Oluoch-Kosura -- The fertilizer support programme and the millennium development challenge in Zambia: is government a problem solution? / Hyde Haantuba, Mukata Wamulume and Richard Bwalya -- Has the Nigerian green revolution veered off track? …”
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