Search Results - "negotiating"

Knowing global environments new historical perspectives on the field sciences /

Table of Contents: “…Reidy -- Emigrants and pioneers : Moritz Wagner's "law of migration" in context / Lynn K. Nyhart -- Negotiating the agricultural frontier in nineteenth-century southern Ohio archaeology / J. …”
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Soured on the system disaffected men in 20th century American film / by Schultz, Robert T.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction: the roots and early cultural representations of discontented and disaffected men, 1853-1945 -- Negotiating corporate life: adapting to the organized system in the 1940s and 1950s -- Gunslingers and gangsters in the age of corporate combinations: the veiled struggle against the force that is evil in Joe McCarthy's America -- Similar criticisms, dissimilar solutions: the 1960s and 1970s -- Blowing up and dropping out: awakenings, agency and militancy at the end of the century -- Conclusion: disaffected men and resistance in American culture.…”
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A fury in the words love and embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice / by Berger, Harry

Table of Contents: “…Mercifixion in The merchant of Venice: the riches of embarrassment -- Introduction -- Negotiating the bond -- Antonio's blues -- Curiositas: the two Sallies -- Negative usury and the arts of embarrassment -- Negative usury: Portia's ring trick -- Portia the embarrasser -- The archery of embarrassment -- The first Jason -- A note on verse and prose in Act 1 -- Another Jason -- Portia cheating -- Portia's hair -- The siege of Belmont -- Covinous casketeers -- Moonlit maundering -- Coigns of vantage -- Standing for judgment -- Standing for sacrifice -- "Here is the money": Bassanio in the bond market -- Twilight in Belmont: Portia's ring cycle -- Death in Venice -- Three's company: contaminated intimacy in Othello. …”
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Fifties ethnicities : the ethnic novel and mass culture at midcentury / by Floreani, Tracy

Table of Contents: “…Lee's The Flower Drum Song and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita -- What's for sale: consumer fantasy, American women, and narratives of social mobility in Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha and The I Love Lucy Show -- The celluloid fantasy: negotiating the ethnic male star image in William Saroyan's Rock Wagram -- Leaving the dark room in a lighter mood: narrating invisibility in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.…”
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Exhibiting the past : historical memory and the politics of museums in postsocialist China / by Denton, Kirk A., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…National origins and local identity: museums of premodern history -- Exhibiting the revolution: the museum of the Chinese revolution -- Commodification and nostalgia: revolutionary history in the era of the market economy -- Martyrdom and memory: monuments, memorials, and museums for dead heroes -- Martial glory and the power of the state: military museums -- Heroic resistance and victims of atrocity: negotiating the memory of Japanese imperialism -- Heroic models and exemplary leaders: memorial halls -- Literary politics and cultural heritage: modern literature museums -- Ethnic minorities and the construction of national identity: ethnographic museums -- Revolutionary memory and national landscape: Red tourism -- Museums of the future: municipal urban planning exhibition halls.…”
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Reproductive justice : the politics of health care for Native American women / by Gurr, Barbara Anne

Table of Contents: “…Reproductive oppression, reproductive justice, and the reproductive body -- The ruling relations of reproductive healthcare -- Producing the double discourse : the history and politics of Native-U.S. relations and imperialist medicine -- To uphold the federal government's obligations . . . and to honor and protect : the double discourse of the Indian Health Service -- Resistance and accommodation : negotiating prenatal care and childbirth -- One in three : violence against Native women -- Genocidal consequences : contraception, sterilization, and abortion in the fourth world context -- Community knowledges, community capital, and cultural safety -- Conclusions : Native women in the center.…”
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Contextualizing openness : situating open science /

Contextualizing openness : situating open science /

The flawed architect Henry Kissinger and American foreign policy / by Hanhimäki, Jussi M., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…-- The aspiring statesman -- Kissinger, Nixon, and the challenges of '69 -- Bombs and back channels -- Progress and promise -- Negotiating in the shadow of war -- Crises and opportunities -- Breakthroughs -- The first test : Triangulation diplomacy and the Indo-Pakistani war -- "The week that changed the world" -- High stakes : triangulation, Moscow, and Vietnam -- Exiting Vietnam -- Highs and lows -- Secretary of State -- Unilateral advantage : the October war and shuttle diplomacy -- Nixon's farewell : Watergate, Kissinger and foreign policy -- Renewal? …”
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Politics of touch sense, movement, sovereignty / by Manning, Erin

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: atypical expressions and political inventions -- Bodies on the move-political recompositions -- Negotiating influence: touch and tango -- Gestural politics-touching the impenetrable-te toucher, toi-eventually tender-worlding touch -- Happy together: moving toward multiplicity -- Tango movements-tango friendships-multiple movements of desire-a last tango -- Erring toward experience: violence and touch -- Means without an end-violence-erring-divine violence-return to the garden -- Engenderings: gender, politics, individuation -- Touch-gender-symbiosis-interlude-individuation-politics -- Making sense of the incommensurable: experiencing democracy -- Expressions of the political-thick to think-shifting skinscapes-democracy- making sense of politics -- Sensing beyond security: what a body can do -- Do not touch-tactically untouchable-structurally insecure-of pacts and political becomings-posthuman prosthetics-a touch of insecurity.…”
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Globalization policies and issues

Table of Contents: “…Jones -- WTO Doha round : the agricultural negotiations / Charles E. Hanrahan and Randy Schnepf -- Trade preferences for developing countries and the WTO / Jeanne J. …”
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Globalization policies and issues

Table of Contents: “…Jones -- WTO Doha round : the agricultural negotiations / Charles E. Hanrahan and Randy Schnepf -- Trade preferences for developing countries and the WTO / Jeanne J. …”
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The limits of détente the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1969-1973 / by Daigle, Craig

Table of Contents: “…From confrontation to negotiation, January-September 1969 -- The Rogers plan, October-December 1969 -- The first Soviet threat, January-May 1970 -- Crisis on the Suez, June-September 1970 -- Fighting for Sadat, October 1970-August 1971 -- The race to the summit, September 1971-May 1972 -- Bombshells and back channels, June 1972-February 1973 -- The contradictions of Leonid Brezhnev, March-October 1973 -- The crisis of détente, October 1973.…”
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The polythink syndrome : U.S. foreign policy decisions on 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and ISIS / by Mintz, Alex, 1953-, Wayne, Carly

Table of Contents: “…The polythink syndrome -- Causes, symptoms, and consequences of polythink -- Polythink in national security : the 9/11 attacks -- Polythink and Afghanistan war decisions : war initiation and termination -- Decision making in the Iraq War: from groupthink to polythink -- Polythink in the Iranian nuclear dispute : decisions of the U.S. and Israel -- Recent challenges : the Syria debate, the renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, and the ISIS decision -- The global nature of polythink and its productive potential.…”
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The limits of détente the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1969-1973 / by Daigle, Craig

Table of Contents: “…From confrontation to negotiation, January-September 1969 -- The Rogers plan, October-December 1969 -- The first Soviet threat, January-May 1970 -- Crisis on the Suez, June-September 1970 -- Fighting for Sadat, October 1970-August 1971 -- The race to the summit, September 1971-May 1972 -- Bombshells and back channels, June 1972-February 1973 -- The contradictions of Leonid Brezhnev, March-October 1973 -- The crisis of détente, October 1973.…”
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The polythink syndrome : U.S. foreign policy decisions on 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and ISIS / by Mintz, Alex, 1953-, Wayne, Carly

Table of Contents: “…The polythink syndrome -- Causes, symptoms, and consequences of polythink -- Polythink in national security : the 9/11 attacks -- Polythink and Afghanistan war decisions : war initiation and termination -- Decision making in the Iraq War: from groupthink to polythink -- Polythink in the Iranian nuclear dispute : decisions of the U.S. and Israel -- Recent challenges : the Syria debate, the renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, and the ISIS decision -- The global nature of polythink and its productive potential.…”
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Qing governors and their provinces the evolution of territorial administration in China, 1644-1796 / by Guy, R. Kent, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The legacy of military occupation: the north and the northwest -- Negotiated orders: the Lower Yangzi Valley and the southeastern coast -- Regions into provinces: the Middle Yangzi and Lingnan -- Communications and provincial government in southwest China -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Chinese glossary.…”
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Qing governors and their provinces the evolution of territorial administration in China, 1644-1796 / by Guy, R. Kent, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The legacy of military occupation: the north and the northwest -- Negotiated orders: the Lower Yangzi Valley and the southeastern coast -- Regions into provinces: the Middle Yangzi and Lingnan -- Communications and provincial government in southwest China -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Chinese glossary.…”
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Debating Women : Gender, Education, and Spaces for Argument, 1835-1945 / by Woods, Carly S.

Table of Contents: “…Making space for debating women -- "The first girls' debating club": creating a legacy at Oberlin College, 1835-1935 -- "Women of infinite variety": the Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society as an intergenerational argument culture, 1865-1935 -- "Britain's brainy beauties": intercultural encounter on the 1928 British women's debate tour of the United States -- "Your gown is lovely, but -- " : negotiating citizenship at Pennsylvania state colleges, 1928-1945 -- Moving forward with debating women.…”
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Debating Women : Gender, Education, and Spaces for Argument, 1835-1945 / by Woods, Carly S.

Table of Contents: “…Making space for debating women -- "The first girls' debating club": creating a legacy at Oberlin College, 1835-1935 -- "Women of infinite variety": the Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society as an intergenerational argument culture, 1865-1935 -- "Britain's brainy beauties": intercultural encounter on the 1928 British women's debate tour of the United States -- "Your gown is lovely, but -- " : negotiating citizenship at Pennsylvania state colleges, 1928-1945 -- Moving forward with debating women.…”
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