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Souls with longing representations of honor and love in Shakespeare /

Table of Contents: “…Pagan Statesmanship and Christian Translation: Governing Love in A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Chapter 5. …”
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Regulating Internet gambling

Table of Contents: “…Internet gambling : an abridged overview of federal criminal law / Charles Doyle -- Can Internet gambling be effectively regulated to protect consumers and the payments system? / U.S. Government Printing Office -- Testimony of Wayne Abernathy on behalf of the American Bankers Association before the subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Committee on Financial Services, United States House of Representatives / American Bankers Association -- Statement of Leigh Williams on behalf of Bits and the Financial Services Roundtable before the United States Congress Subcommittee on Domestic and International and Monetary Policy / Leigh Williams -- Division of Reserve Bank Operations and Payment Systems, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System before the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology of the Committee on Financial Services / U.S. …”
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Indoor work and living environments health, safety and performance /

Table of Contents: “…Lovelace -- Improving the ergonomics of the workplace to enhance productivity and safety / Maria Pia Cavotorta, Massimo DiPardo -- A brief guide to mold, moisture and your home / United States Environmental Protection Agency -- Indoor mold better coordination of research on health effects and more consistent guidance would improve federal efforts / United States Government Accountability Office -- Protect yourself from mold / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- Chemical hazard control in the work environment: determination of metals in welding fumes / M. …”
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Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19 : Transformative resistance and social reproduction by VISHWAS SATGAR; RUTH NTLOKOTSE; HAWZHIN AZEEZ; ASA

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER 4: 'Our existence is resistance': Women challenging mining and the climate crisis in a time of Covid-19 -- CHAPTER 5: Women and food sovereignty: Tackling hunger during Covid-19 -- PART THREE: ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION, PUBLIC SERVICES AND TRANSFORMATIVE WOMEN'S POWER IN SOUTH AFRICA -- CHAPTER 6: Quiet rebels: Underground women miners and refusal as resistance -- CHAPTER 7: Class, Social Mobility and African Women in South Africa -- CHAPTER 8: Government's Covid-19 fiscal responses and the crisis of social reproduction…”
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Gambling Debt : Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy /

Table of Contents: “…Saemundsson -- A day in the life of an Icelandic banker / Már Wolfgang Mixa -- Something rotten in the state of Iceland: "The production of truth" about the Icelandic banks / Vilhjálmur Árnason -- Overthrowing the government: a case study in protest / Jón Gunnar Bernburg -- "Welcome to the revolution!" …”
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Transboundary water resources management : a multidisciplinary approach /

Table of Contents: “…/ Sotir Mali -- 7.6.1.Introduction -- 7.6.2.Survey Methods -- 7.6.3.Results and Discussion -- 7.6.4.Conclusions -- References -- Further Reading -- 7.7.Economic Governance and Common Pool Management of Transboundary Water Resources / Bo Appelgren -- 7.7.1.Introduction -- 7.7.2.Economic Governance of Transboundary Water Management Systems -- 7.7.3.Economic Governance Approaches to Transboundary Water Management -- 7.7.4.Conclusions -- References -- Further Reading -- 7.8.Water Resources Management in the Rio Grande/Bravo Basin Using Cooperative Game Theory / Daene C.…”
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Hope or hype the obsession with medical advances and the high cost of false promises / by Deyo, Richard A.

Table of Contents: “…-- For doctors: evidence-based medicine -- For insurers and researchers: pay now or pay more later -- For all decision makers: getting value for money -- For government: regulatory approaches to improve the dissemination of medical innovations -- For consumers: shared decision making.…”
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International financial instability global banking and national regulation /

Table of Contents: “…Parker -- Derivatives governance and financial stability / David Mengle -- Cross-border crisis prevention: public and private strategies -- Gerard Caprio, Jr. -- Where to from here: policy panel -- Cross-border banking: where to from here? …”
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Global perspectives on school libraries projects and practices /

Table of Contents: “…: developing school libraries in Finland / Liisa Niinikangas and Esa Poikela -- A long walk to significant school libraries for all : government policies in Portugal, 1986-2010 / Maria José Vitorino -- ENSIL : advocacy of school libraries in the educational context / Lourense H. …”
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From Preschool to Prosperity : The Economic Payoff to Early Childhood Education / by Bartik, Timothy J.

Table of Contents: “…: Skill spillovers ; Peer effects in education ; Spillovers from reducing crime ; Government/taxpayer benefits ; Pre-K: the next generation ; Concluding comments -- 7. …”
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Integrating Immigrants in Europe Research-Policy Dialogues /

Table of Contents: “…1: Research-policy dialogues on migrant integration in Europe: A conceptual framework and key questions: Peter Scholten, Han Entzinger and Rinus Penninx -- PART I – FORMS AND FUNCTIONS OF RESEARCH-POLICY DIALOGUES: 2: Cultures of knowledge use in policymaking: The functions of research in German and UK immigration policy: Christina Boswell -- 3: Migration statistics in Europe: A core component of governance and population research: Albert Kraler, David Reichel and Han Entzinger -- 4: The coproduction of national models of integration: A view from France and the Netherlands: Christophe Bertossi, Jan Willem Duyvendak and Peter Scholten -- 5: Consultative commissions and the rethinking of integration policies in the Netherlands and Germany: The Blok Commission and the Süssmuth Commission compared: Jan Schneider and Peter Scholten -- 6: European cities in search of knowledge for their integration policies. …”
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Inter-group Relations and Migrant Integration in European Cities Changing Neighbourhoods /

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Shaping entrepreneurship research : made, as well as found /

Table of Contents: “…Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems (Elinor Ostrom)22. …”
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Achieving success in nonprofit organizations /

Table of Contents: “…Walking the talk: serving stakeholders with ethics, values, and governance (Case study: Talbert House) / Ann Marie Tracey -- 5. …”
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Land, power and economics on the frontier of Upper Canada by Clarke, John, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1 The Land Revealed: The Physical Background / 3 -- 2 Peace, Order, and Good Government: -- The Organization of a Landscape / 35 -- 3 Acquiring Indian Land in the Era -- of the Land Boards / 94 -- 4 European Land Acquisition after the First -- Land Board / 155 -- 5 The Market for Land: Sales in Essex to -- Mid-century / 208 -- 6 Buying on Credit: The Upper Canadian -- Dilemma / 264 -- 7 Who Were the Speculators and How Extensive -- Was Speculation? …”
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Ficino, Pico and Savonarola the evolution of humanist theology 1461/2-1498 / by Edelheit, Amos, Ph. D.

Table of Contents: “…-- Some general introductory remarks -- De christiana religione : the "manifesto" of the new humanist theology -- Prisca religio and its divine inspiration : religion as the characteristic of man -- Praeparatio evangelica -- The incarnation as an intervention of the eternal in the temporal -- The teachings of Christ -- The apostles and the propagation of Christianity -- The decline of the Christian world and Ficino's proposals for renewal -- Giovanni Pico della mirandola and his theological method : between Opinio and fides -- The theological crisis -- Quia errare in opinione thomae, non est errare in fide-the dispute in Rome 1486 and the Apiologia -- Pico's attitude to philosophy : between academic skepticism and religious certainty -- The Savonarola affair-the government of God as republican practice -- The Savonarola a'air : a case-study in the history and in the historiography of the Renaissance -- Savonarola : an anti-humanist or a pro-humanist? …”
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Heian Japan, centers and peripheries

Table of Contents: “…Between and beyond centers and peripheries / Mikael Adolphson and Edward Kamens -- Part I: Locating political centers and peripheries -- From female sovereign to mother of the nation: women and government in the Heian period / Fukutō Sanae with Takeshi Watanabe -- Court and provinces under Regent Fujiwara no Tadahira / Joan R. …”
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Old Shanghai and the clash of revolution by Woo, X. L.

Table of Contents: “…Wu's afraid to bribe the policeman -- Capitalists get final financial blow in Cultural Revolution -- Rebels seize power of local governments & armed fights begin the nation over -- How Wu family fares in later period of Cultural Revolution -- Wu family seeks help for permits to Hong Kong & Lin Biao dies -- Genghua starts to translate classics & Cultural Revolution ends -- Genghua gets jobs & shows his talent in English teaching -- Genghua's friend Bai helps to get permits for his mother and brother to go to Hong Kong -- Genghua gets married -- How Genghua and his wife live and work -- Genghua publishes his first book & has a daughter -- Genghua and his family go to the United States.…”
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Income inequality economic disparities and the middle class in affluent countries /

Table of Contents: “…/ Lane Kenworthy -- Welfare regimes, cohorts and the middle classes / Louis Chauvel -- Political sources of government redistribution in high-income countries / Vincent A. …”
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The Wiley-Blackwell handbook of disordered gambling /

Table of Contents: “…Dowling -- Understanding gamblers anonymous : a practitioner's guide / Peter Ferentzy, Wayne Skinner and Paul Antze -- The care model : how to improve industry-government-health care provider linkages / Michael J. …”
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