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How strange the change language, temporality, and narrative form in peripheral modernisms / by Caplan, Marc

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : apples and oranges : on comparing Yiddish and African literatures -- Defining peripheral modernism -- One tale, two tellers -- Haskole and Negritude compared -- Education and initiation in the narratives of Haskole and Negritude -- Mendele's Mare, Soyinka's Interpreters -- Mendele's Benjamin The Third and Kourouma's Suns of independence -- Conclusion : at the limits of the periphery : the future of the "minor" in minority literatures.…”
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Tibet a history / by Van Schaik, Sam

Table of Contents: “…Tibet appears, 600-700 -- The holy Buddhist empire, 700-797 -- Keepers of the flame, 797-1054 -- Patrons and priests, 1054-1315 -- Golden age, 1315-1543 -- The rise and fall of the Dalai Lamas, 1543-1757 -- The balancing act, 1757-1904 -- Independence, 1904-1950 -- Under the Red Flag, 1950-1959 -- Two Tibets, 1959 to the present.…”
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Dignity the essential role it plays in resolving conflict / by Hicks, Donna

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a new model of dignity -- The ten essential elements of dignity -- Acceptance of identity -- Inclusion -- Safety -- Acknowledgment -- Recognition -- Fairness -- Benefit of the doubt -- Understanding -- Independence -- Accountability -- The ten temptations to violate dignity -- Taking the bait -- Saving face -- Shirking responsibility -- Seeking false dignity -- Seeking false security -- Avoiding conflict -- Being the victim -- Resisting feedback -- Blaming and shaming others to deflect your own guilt -- Engaging in false intimacy and demeaning gossip -- How to heal relationships with dignity -- Reconciling with dignity -- Dignity's promise.…”
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Mortgaging the ancestors ideologies of attachment in Africa / by Shipton, Parker MacDonald

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Sand and gold: some property history and theory -- Luo and others: migration, settlement, ethnicity -- An earthly anchorage: graves and the grounding of belonging -- Birthright and its borrowing: inheritance and land clientage under pressure -- The thin end: land and credit in the colonial period -- The ghost market: land titling and mortgaging after independence -- Nothing more serious: mortgaging and struggles over ancestral land -- Bigger than law: land and constitutionalism -- Conclusion: property, improperty, and the mortgage.…”
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Escaping the self-determination trap by Weller, M. (Marc)

Table of Contents: “…A concept with multiple meanings -- The classical right to self-determination -- Constitutional self-determination -- Remedial self-determination -- Effective entities -- Trading self-determination for autonomy or enhanced self-governance -- Regionalisation, federalisation, or union with confirmation of territorial unity -- Deferring a substantive settlement while agreeing to a settlement mechanism -- Balancing self-determination claims -- Conditional self-determination -- Agreeing on self-determination but deferring implementation -- Establishing a de facto state through an international process -- Supervised independence -- Conclusion : new approaches to self-determination settlements.…”
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The politically incorrect guide to the Constitution by Gutzman, Kevin Raeder, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…What made the Constitution : revolution and confederation -- Federalism vs. nationalism at the Philadelphia convention -- Selling the constitution -- Judges : power hungry from the beginning -- The imperial judiciary : it started with Marshall -- Undoing Marshall and undoing the union -- The war for southern independence as a constitutional crisis -- The pro-segregation Supreme Court -- The court vs. …”
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The future of China's exchange rate policy by Goldstein, Morris, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Evolution of China's exchange rate in the reform era -- Transition to an equilibrium exchange rate -- Developments since mid-2005 -- Challenges facing the Chinese authorities under the existing currency regime -- Independence of monetary policy -- Rebalancing economic growth -- Potential effects of Renminbi appreciation on China's banking system -- External adjustment, global imbalances, and the risk of protectionism -- Policy implications and options -- The stay-the-course strategy -- The three-stage approach.…”
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Fugitive justice runaways, rescuers, and slavery on trial / by Lubet, Steven

Table of Contents: “…Slavery and the Constitution -- The Missouri equilibrium -- The compromise of 1850 -- But we have no country -- A traitorous combination -- Prosecution at Independence Hall -- Sir-did you hear it? -- Athens of America -- Kidnapping again! …”
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Locke, Jefferson, and the justices foundations and failures of the US government / by Stephens, George M.

Table of Contents: “…The spirit of American rights -- John Locke : founder of the founders -- Locke on education and religious tolerance -- Jefferson : Locke's disciple -- Jefferson, Locke, and the Declaration of Independence -- Locke in the constitution -- Adoption and ratification -- Our Bill of Rights -- Jefferson and Hamilton -- Jefferson's minimalist government -- The era of substantive due process -- The progressives -- From Lochner to Mrs. …”
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How strange the change language, temporality, and narrative form in peripheral modernisms / by Caplan, Marc

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : apples and oranges : on comparing Yiddish and African literatures -- Defining peripheral modernism -- One tale, two tellers -- Haskole and Negritude compared -- Education and initiation in the narratives of Haskole and Negritude -- Mendele's Mare, Soyinka's Interpreters -- Mendele's Benjamin The Third and Kourouma's Suns of independence -- Conclusion : at the limits of the periphery : the future of the "minor" in minority literatures.…”
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Tibet a history / by Van Schaik, Sam

Table of Contents: “…Tibet appears, 600-700 -- The holy Buddhist empire, 700-797 -- Keepers of the flame, 797-1054 -- Patrons and priests, 1054-1315 -- Golden age, 1315-1543 -- The rise and fall of the Dalai Lamas, 1543-1757 -- The balancing act, 1757-1904 -- Independence, 1904-1950 -- Under the Red Flag, 1950-1959 -- Two Tibets, 1959 to the present.…”
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Dignity the essential role it plays in resolving conflict / by Hicks, Donna

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a new model of dignity -- The ten essential elements of dignity -- Acceptance of identity -- Inclusion -- Safety -- Acknowledgment -- Recognition -- Fairness -- Benefit of the doubt -- Understanding -- Independence -- Accountability -- The ten temptations to violate dignity -- Taking the bait -- Saving face -- Shirking responsibility -- Seeking false dignity -- Seeking false security -- Avoiding conflict -- Being the victim -- Resisting feedback -- Blaming and shaming others to deflect your own guilt -- Engaging in false intimacy and demeaning gossip -- How to heal relationships with dignity -- Reconciling with dignity -- Dignity's promise.…”
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Attention deficit disorder the unfocused mind in children and adults / by Brown, Thomas E., Ph. D.

Table of Contents: “…Misconceptions about focus and willpower -- Six aspects of a complex syndrome -- ADD syndrome and the working brain -- Childhood: struggling with self-management -- Adolescence: greater independence brings new challenges -- Adulthood: managing responsibilities, finding a niche -- How ADD syndrome differs from normal inattention -- Disorders that may accompany ADD syndrome -- Medications and other treatments -- Fears, prejudices, and realistic hope.…”
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Medieval Lucca and the evolution of the Renaissance state by Bratchel, M. E.

Table of Contents: “…Lucca's ancient heritage : the early structures of city and territory -- The early commune and the conquest of the Contado -- The administration of a medieval city-territory : twelfth to fourteenth centuries -- The fourteenth century : the Lucchese state from the loss of independence to the recovery of liberty -- The signoria of Paolo Guinigi and the evolution of the fifteenth-century Lucchese state -- Lucca and its territories in the fifteenth century : politics and administration -- Lucca and its territories in the fifteenth century : economy and society.…”
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War and genocide in Cuba, 1895-1898 by Tone, John Lawrence

Table of Contents: “…Eloy Gonzalo and the disaster of war -- The origins of Cuban independence -- José Martí : a dream of Cuba -- Emilio Calleja and the failure of reform -- Máximo Gómez and total war -- Antonio Maceo and the battle of Peralejo -- The Cuban Liberation Army -- The Spanish Army -- Arsenio Martínez Campos : defending the indefensible -- Mal tiempo and the romance of the machete -- The invasion of the west -- Valeriano Weyler : the butcher -- The death of Maceo -- Reconcentration -- The monster and the assassin -- The jingoes -- Frascuelo versus Edison -- The splendid disaster.…”
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Indigenization of language in the African francophone novel a new literary canon / by Vakunta, Peter W.

Table of Contents: “…Translation in African literature -- Theorizing literary postcoloniality -- Literary postcolonialism -- Translation and postcolonial theory -- African literature and the question of orality -- The socio-cultural context of contemporary fictional writing in Africa -- Theoretical foundations of orality and literacy -- Interface between orality and literacy in African literature -- Indigenization as a literary canon in the novels of Nazi Boni, Ahmadou Kourouma and Patrice Nganang -- The technique of "bwamufication" in Boni's Crépuscle des temps anciens -- Reflexification of French words -- Proverbs, ideophones, and other rhetorical devices -- Oralization of written discourse -- The "malinkelization" of French discourse in Les soleils des indépendances -- Intralingual translation in Les soleils des indépendances -- Proverbs, idiomatic expressions, and other linguistic innovations -- Translating orality into the written word -- Code-switching as a narrative technique in Nganang's Temps de chien -- Camfranglais -- Pidgin English -- Indigenous languages.…”
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Indigenization of language in the African francophone novel a new literary canon / by Vakunta, Peter W.

Table of Contents: “…Translation in African literature -- Theorizing literary postcoloniality -- Literary postcolonialism -- Translation and postcolonial theory -- African literature and the question of orality -- The socio-cultural context of contemporary fictional writing in Africa -- Theoretical foundations of orality and literacy -- Interface between orality and literacy in African literature -- Indigenization as a literary canon in the novels of Nazi Boni, Ahmadou Kourouma and Patrice Nganang -- The technique of "bwamufication" in Boni's Crépuscle des temps anciens -- Reflexification of French words -- Proverbs, ideophones, and other rhetorical devices -- Oralization of written discourse -- The "malinkelization" of French discourse in Les soleils des indépendances -- Intralingual translation in Les soleils des indépendances -- Proverbs, idiomatic expressions, and other linguistic innovations -- Translating orality into the written word -- Code-switching as a narrative technique in Nganang's Temps de chien -- Camfranglais -- Pidgin English -- Indigenous languages.…”
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Making Minnesota liberal civil rights and the transformation of the Democratic Party / by Delton, Jennifer A. (Jennifer Alice), 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The rise and fall of the Farmer-Labor Party -- The new two-party liberalism -- Antiracism and the politics of unity -- The Black communities in Minnesota -- An independent Black interest group -- Civil rights in local politics -- Civil rights in party politics -- The 1948 election and the triumph of the Democratic political order -- Civil rights and the fate of postwar liberalism.…”
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Bittersweet Europe : Albanian and Georgian discourses on Europe, 1878-2008 / by Brisku, Adrian

Table of Contents: “…Nationhood and empire: a tale of historical and ethno-cultural similarities and differences -- From empire to independence: Europe as the future -- The nation-state in imperial/supranational shadow: the apparent decline of Europe -- Communist experiences in a divided Europe -- 'Return to Europe', 'closer to Europe': post-communist expectations -- Epilogue: is 'Europe' still the future?…”
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Making Minnesota liberal civil rights and the transformation of the Democratic Party / by Delton, Jennifer A. (Jennifer Alice), 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The rise and fall of the Farmer-Labor Party -- The new two-party liberalism -- Antiracism and the politics of unity -- The Black communities in Minnesota -- An independent Black interest group -- Civil rights in local politics -- Civil rights in party politics -- The 1948 election and the triumph of the Democratic political order -- Civil rights and the fate of postwar liberalism.…”
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