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A solitary war a diplomat's chronicle of the Iraq war and its lessons / by Muñoz, Heraldo

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / by Kofi Annan -- Introduction -- Early warnings -- A telling phone call from Condi -- A war with multilateral support -- One, two, three Iraqs : the costs of the unilateralist doctrine -- War games in the United Nations : a tale of missed opportunities -- Resolution to act -- A tug of war -- The Blair-Lagos last-ditch effort -- The final diplomatic bets -- High noon in Iraq : diplomacy fails -- Unilateralism in retreat : the hard task of winning the peace in Iraq -- Multilateralism under fire -- The war deepens : the UN is a target -- A turn toward tactical multilateralism -- Why multilateralism matters : the United Nations enables the transfer of sovereignty in Iraq and the 2005 elections -- A sense of loss of direction and moral defeat -- Negotiating the establishment of the Iraqi interim government -- The end of occupation? …”
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Veto Power : Institutional Design in the European Union / by Slapin, Jonathan B., 1979-

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Beyond the Reproductive Body : The Politics of Women's Health and Work in Early Victorian England / by Levine-Clark, Marjorie

Table of Contents: “…Pt 1: Contested body politics: women, health and social reform in the 1830s and 1840s -- The reproductive body, Part 1: Women's work and the biology of reproduction -- The reproductive body, Part 2: The tasks of social reproduction -- Gender, the Poor Law, and the ambiguity of the able-bodied worker -- pt. 2: Living in the body: women's experiences of health and illness -- The evidence of the body: poor women and medical cultures -- Testing the reproductive hypothesis: women's illnesses, the environment, and menstruation -- Health and the material conditions of home: sanitation, poverty, and domesticity -- "Rather a hard life": domestic relationships and health at home -- "She continued at her work": negotiating employment and health -- Conclusion: The politics of women's health and work.…”
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Beyond the Reproductive Body : The Politics of Women's Health and Work in Early Victorian England / by Levine-Clark, Marjorie

Table of Contents: “…Pt 1: Contested body politics: women, health and social reform in the 1830s and 1840s -- The reproductive body, Part 1: Women's work and the biology of reproduction -- The reproductive body, Part 2: The tasks of social reproduction -- Gender, the Poor Law, and the ambiguity of the able-bodied worker -- pt. 2: Living in the body: women's experiences of health and illness -- The evidence of the body: poor women and medical cultures -- Testing the reproductive hypothesis: women's illnesses, the environment, and menstruation -- Health and the material conditions of home: sanitation, poverty, and domesticity -- "Rather a hard life": domestic relationships and health at home -- "She continued at her work": negotiating employment and health -- Conclusion: The politics of women's health and work.…”
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Race, ethnicity, and the state in Malaysia and Singapore

Table of Contents: “…Pereira -- Names as sites of identity construction, negotiation, and resistance : signifying Orang Asli in postcolonial Malaysia / Alice M. …”
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The interview from formal to postmodern / by Fontana, Andrea

Table of Contents: “…New trends in interviewing ; The interview as a negotiated accomplishment ; Empathetic interviewing ; The problematics of new approaches -- 9. …”
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Deliberative democracy in practice

Table of Contents: “…Conceptions of the good: challenging the premises of deliberative democracy / Micheline Milot -- Religious belief, religious schooling, and the demands of reciprocity / Harry Brighouse -- Religious education and democratic character / Paul Weithman -- Open versus closed constitutional negotiation / Simone Chambers -- Is democracy a means to global justice? …”
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The rebel den of Nùng Trí Cao loyalty and identity along the Sino-Vietnamese frontier / by Anderson, James, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…The great King Nùng Trí Cao : a rebel's role in shaping regional identity along the modern Sino-Vietnamese border -- The legacy of the Chinese imperial tribute system in the south : balancing ritual harmony with frontier stability -- Examples of negotiated autonomy : Sino-Vietnamese relations before the eleventh century -- Gaining legitimacy at the empire's edge : indigenous Tai-speaking communities along the Sino-Vietnamese frontier through the early Song period -- The specter of southern power : Nùng Trí Cao's insurrection, court reaction, and the legacy of Nam Việt -- Tempting "treacherous factions" : the manipulation of frontier alliances on the eve of the 1075 Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands War -- Monumental pride : Sino-Vietnamese cross-border commemorations of Nùng Trí Cao.…”
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The interview from formal to postmodern / by Fontana, Andrea

Table of Contents: “…New trends in interviewing ; The interview as a negotiated accomplishment ; Empathetic interviewing ; The problematics of new approaches -- 9. …”
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Deliberative democracy in practice

Table of Contents: “…Conceptions of the good: challenging the premises of deliberative democracy / Micheline Milot -- Religious belief, religious schooling, and the demands of reciprocity / Harry Brighouse -- Religious education and democratic character / Paul Weithman -- Open versus closed constitutional negotiation / Simone Chambers -- Is democracy a means to global justice? …”
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The rebel den of Nùng Trí Cao loyalty and identity along the Sino-Vietnamese frontier / by Anderson, James, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…The great King Nùng Trí Cao : a rebel's role in shaping regional identity along the modern Sino-Vietnamese border -- The legacy of the Chinese imperial tribute system in the south : balancing ritual harmony with frontier stability -- Examples of negotiated autonomy : Sino-Vietnamese relations before the eleventh century -- Gaining legitimacy at the empire's edge : indigenous Tai-speaking communities along the Sino-Vietnamese frontier through the early Song period -- The specter of southern power : Nùng Trí Cao's insurrection, court reaction, and the legacy of Nam Việt -- Tempting "treacherous factions" : the manipulation of frontier alliances on the eve of the 1075 Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands War -- Monumental pride : Sino-Vietnamese cross-border commemorations of Nùng Trí Cao.…”
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Creolizing Europe : Legacies and Transformations /

Table of Contents: “…: 'Sable-Saffron' Venus, Rachel Christie and aesthetic creolization -- Re-imagining Manchester as a queer and haptic brown Atlantic space -- Queering diaspora space, creolizing counter-publics : on British South Asian gay and bisexual men's negotiations of sexuality, intimacy and marriage -- On being Portuguese : luso-tropicalism, migrations and the politics of citizenship -- Comics, dolls and the disavowal of racism : learning from Mexican Mestizaje -- Creolizing citizenship? …”
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Race, ethnicity, and the state in Malaysia and Singapore

Table of Contents: “…Pereira -- Names as sites of identity construction, negotiation, and resistance : signifying Orang Asli in postcolonial Malaysia / Alice M. …”
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Creolizing Europe : Legacies and Transformations /

Table of Contents: “…: 'Sable-Saffron' Venus, Rachel Christie and aesthetic creolization -- Re-imagining Manchester as a queer and haptic brown Atlantic space -- Queering diaspora space, creolizing counter-publics : on British South Asian gay and bisexual men's negotiations of sexuality, intimacy and marriage -- On being Portuguese : luso-tropicalism, migrations and the politics of citizenship -- Comics, dolls and the disavowal of racism : learning from Mexican Mestizaje -- Creolizing citizenship? …”
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Intermediaries, interpreters, and clerks : African employees in the making of colonial Africa /

Table of Contents: “…Levine -- Interpreting colonial power in French Guinea : The Boubou Penda-Ernest Noirot affair of 1905 / Emily Lynn Osborn -- Interpretation and interpolation : Shepstone as native interpreter / Thomas McClendon -- Petitioners, "bush lawyers," and letter writers : court access in British-occupied Lomé, 1914-1920 / Benjamin N. Lawrance -- Negotiating legal authority in French West Africa : the colonial administration and African assessors, 1903-1918 / Ruth Ginio -- "Collecting customary law" : educated Africans, ethnographic writings, and colonial justice in French West Africa / Jean-Hervé Jézéquel -- Interpreters self-interpreted : the autobiographies of two colonial clerks / Ralph A. …”
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Language socialization in bilingual and multilingual societies edited by Robert Bayley and Sandra R. Schecter.

Table of Contents: “…Schecter -- Novices and their speech roles in Chinese heritage language classes / Agnes Weiyun He -- Language socialization and dys-socialization in a south Indian college / Dwight Atkinson -- Language socialization and second language acquisition in a multilingual arctic Quebec community / Donna Patrick -- Growing a bányavirág rock crystal on barren soil: forming a Hungarian identity in eastern Slovakia through joint (inter)action / Juliet Langman -- Multiliteracies in Springvale: negotiating language, culture, and identity in suburban Melbourne / Heather Lotherington -- Terms of desire: are there lesbians in Egypt? …”
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Globalization, communication and the workplace talking across the world /

Table of Contents: “…It was unbelievable-' a comparison of written and spoken customer service complaints / Jon S.Y. Hui ; Naming and negotiating relationships in call centre talk / Susan Hood ; Call centre discourse : graduation in relation to voice quality and attitudinal profile / Jenny Yau Ni Wan ; Researching and understanding accent shifts in Indian call centre agents / Claire Cowie and Lalita Murty -- pt. 3. …”
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Women and gender in the American West

Table of Contents: “…Castañeda-- A memory sweet to soldiers : the significance of gender in the history of the American West / Susan Lee Johnson -- Gender, race, raza / Amy Kaminsky -- Texas newspapers and chicana workers' activism, 1919-1974 / Irene Ledesma -- This evil extends especially ... to the feminine sex : negotiating captivity in the New Mexico borderlands / James F. …”
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The forced removal of American Indians from the northeast a history of territorial cessions and relocations, 1620-1854 / by Miller, David W., 1926-

Table of Contents: “…Kingdom of Saguenay (1497-1543) -- Iroquois conquests (1580-1653) -- Jamestown, Plymouth, and Massachusetts Bay -- Destruction of the Pequot -- Next were the Narragansetts -- King Philip's War -- The fur trade and struggles between the French, English, and Indians (1641-1753) -- Pennsylvania (1681-1754) -- Iroquois route to the south -- Who owns land in the Ohio River watershed -- French and Indian War (1755-1763) -- War's aftermath in the north (Pontiac's War 1763-1764) -- Proclamation of 1763, lawlessness, and the British 1764 offensives -- Frontiersmen out of control and the 1768 Treaty at Fort Stanwix -- Land schemes -- Dunmore's War -- Early Kentucky settlements -- A new force emerges -- The northern frontier during the war years -- Indians betrayed -- Kentucke (1782-1792) -- Defining Indian boundaries in the Six Nations and north of the Ohio -- Chaos in the northwest -- The Ohio Company -- Negotiating for an Indian boundary for the northern tribes -- Washington's first offensive in the west flounders -- Another failure -- Mad Anthony prepares (1792-1793) -- Mad Anthony prevails : Treaty of Greenville (1794-1795) -- Taking over the Northwest Territory (1801-1819) -- More Indiana land ceded and the War of 1812 -- Mopping up in the lower Northwest Territory (1817-1847) -- Lead mines and the Black Hawk War -- Michigan and Wisconsin through the years 1807-1854.…”
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A Jewish feminine mystique? Jewish women in postwar America /

Table of Contents: “…Laughlin -- It's good Americanism to join Hadassah : selling Hadassah in the postwar era / Rebecca Boim Wolf -- A lady sometimes blows the shofar : women's religious equality in the postwar reconstructionist movement / Deborah Waxman -- Beyond the myths of mobility and altruism : Jewish immigrant professionals and Jewish social welfare agencies in New York City, 1948-1954 / Rebecca Kobrin -- Negotiating new terrain : Egyptian women at home in America / Audrey Nasar -- The bad girls of Jewish comedy : gender, class, assimilation, and whiteness in postwar America / Giovanna P. …”
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