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New Horizons in Spanish Colonial Law : Contributions to Transnational Early Modern Legal History /

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The UN Secretary-General and moral authority ethics and religion in international leadership /

Table of Contents: “…Kille -- Seeking balance : the secretary-general as normative negotiator / Dorothy V. Jones -- The house that Trygve Lie built : ethical challenges as the first UN secretary-general / James P. …”
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From optimal tax theory to tax policy retrospective and prospective views / by Boadway, Robin W., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- From tax theory to policy : an overview -- Landmarks of optimal tax theory -- The evolution of policy and advice -- Challenges for the theory of tax policy -- Commitment -- Heterogeneity of individual utility functions -- Behavioral issues -- Responsibility and compensation -- Political economy -- Optimal analysis versus reform analysis -- Summary of lessons for tax policy -- Policy lessons from optimal tax theory -- Uniformity of commodity taxes -- The Corlett-Hague theorem -- The Atkinson-Stiglitz theorem -- Production efficiency : implications and caveats -- Capital taxation and the personal tax base -- Linear taxation in a dynamic setting -- Nonlinear taxation in a dynamic setting -- The issue of progressivity -- Asymmetric information and market failure -- Policy lessons from normative analysis -- Relaxing the second-best constraints -- The use of supplementary policy instruments -- Making use of, and acquiring, more information -- Conclusions -- Challenges for second-best analysis -- Fundamentals of the standard approach -- The commitment issue -- Heterogeneous preferences and utility -- Behavioral issues -- Political economy -- Concluding comments.…”
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Visualizing law and authority essays on legal aesthetics /

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International human rights and their enforcement in Africa / by Mbondenyi, Morris Kiwinda

Table of Contents: “…A review of the concept and philosophy of human rights -- Human rights in Africa -- Historical dimensions of the African system on human and people's rights -- The Consultative Act of the African Union -- The African Charter on Human and People's Rights -- The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child -- The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peopl'es Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa -- The African Union and its organ -- The African Commission on Human and People's Rights -- The African Court on Human and People's Rights -- African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child -- Normative challenges and reforms to Africa's regional human rights system -- Institutional challenges and reforms under the African human rights system -- Mainstreaming and rationalising the African human rights system.…”
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From optimal tax theory to tax policy retrospective and prospective views / by Boadway, Robin W., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- From tax theory to policy : an overview -- Landmarks of optimal tax theory -- The evolution of policy and advice -- Challenges for the theory of tax policy -- Commitment -- Heterogeneity of individual utility functions -- Behavioral issues -- Responsibility and compensation -- Political economy -- Optimal analysis versus reform analysis -- Summary of lessons for tax policy -- Policy lessons from optimal tax theory -- Uniformity of commodity taxes -- The Corlett-Hague theorem -- The Atkinson-Stiglitz theorem -- Production efficiency : implications and caveats -- Capital taxation and the personal tax base -- Linear taxation in a dynamic setting -- Nonlinear taxation in a dynamic setting -- The issue of progressivity -- Asymmetric information and market failure -- Policy lessons from normative analysis -- Relaxing the second-best constraints -- The use of supplementary policy instruments -- Making use of, and acquiring, more information -- Conclusions -- Challenges for second-best analysis -- Fundamentals of the standard approach -- The commitment issue -- Heterogeneous preferences and utility -- Behavioral issues -- Political economy -- Concluding comments.…”
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Visualizing law and authority essays on legal aesthetics /

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International human rights and their enforcement in Africa / by Mbondenyi, Morris Kiwinda

Table of Contents: “…A review of the concept and philosophy of human rights -- Human rights in Africa -- Historical dimensions of the African system on human and people's rights -- The Consultative Act of the African Union -- The African Charter on Human and People's Rights -- The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child -- The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peopl'es Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa -- The African Union and its organ -- The African Commission on Human and People's Rights -- The African Court on Human and People's Rights -- African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child -- Normative challenges and reforms to Africa's regional human rights system -- Institutional challenges and reforms under the African human rights system -- Mainstreaming and rationalising the African human rights system.…”
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The UN Secretary-General and moral authority ethics and religion in international leadership /

Table of Contents: “…Kille -- Seeking balance : the secretary-general as normative negotiator / Dorothy V. Jones -- The house that Trygve Lie built : ethical challenges as the first UN secretary-general / James P. …”
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Moore's paradox new essays on belief, rationality, and the first person /

Table of Contents: “…Williams -- The all-seeing eye : a blind spot in the history of ideas / Roy Sorensen -- Moore's paradox and knowledge -- Moorean absurdity : an epistemological analysis / Claudio de Almeida -- The normative character of belief / Thomas Baldwin -- Moore's paradox, Evans's principle, and iterated beliefs / John N. …”
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Moore's paradox new essays on belief, rationality, and the first person /

Table of Contents: “…Williams -- The all-seeing eye : a blind spot in the history of ideas / Roy Sorensen -- Moore's paradox and knowledge -- Moorean absurdity : an epistemological analysis / Claudio de Almeida -- The normative character of belief / Thomas Baldwin -- Moore's paradox, Evans's principle, and iterated beliefs / John N. …”
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The Fragility of Manhood : Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender / by Greven, David

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The Fragility of Manhood : Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender / by Greven, David

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The reconstruction of nations Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 / by Snyder, Timothy

Table of Contents: “…(1863-1914), 31 --3 The First World War and the Wilno Question (1914-1939), 52 --4 The Second World War and the Vilnius Question (1939-1945), 73 --5 Epilogue: Soviet Lithuanian Vilnius (1945-1991), 90 -- Part II The Embattled Ukrainian Borderland --6 Early Modern Ukraine (1569-1914), I05 --7 Galicia and Volhynia at the Margin (1914-1939), 133 --8 The Ethnic Cleansing of Western Ukraine (1939-1945), 154 --9 The Ethnic Cleansing of Southeastern Poland (1945-1947), I79 --10 Epilogue: Communism and Cleansed Memories (1947-1981), 202 Part III The Reconstructed Polish Homeland --11 Patriotic Oppositions and State Interests (1945-1989), 217 --12 The Normative Nation-State (1989-1991), 232 --13 European Standards and Polish Interests (1992-1993), 256 --14 Envoi: Returns to Europe, 277 --Abbreviations, 294 --Archives, 295 --Document Collections, 296 --Notes, 299 --Acknowledgments, 350 --Index, 355.…”
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Organizational behavior I. by Miner, John B.

Table of Contents: “…Stacy Adams -- Goal setting theory : Edwin Locke and Gary Latham -- Attribution theory-managerial perceptions of the poor performing subordinate : Terence Mitchell and Stephen Green -- Normative decision process theory : Victor Vroom, Philip Yetton, and Arthur Jago -- Contingency theory of leadership : Fred Fiedler -- Vertical dyad linkage and leader member exchange theory : George Graen -- Information processing theory of leadership : Robert Lord -- Substitutes for leadership : Steven Kerr -- Role motivation theory : John Miner -- Charismatic leadership theory : Robert House -- Transformational leadership theory : Bernard Bass.…”
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Naturalized bioethics toward responsible knowing and practice /

Table of Contents: “…DeVries, Lisa Kane Low, and Elizabeth (Libby) Bogdan-Lovis -- Holding on to Edmund: the relational work of identity / Hilde Lindemann -- Caring, minimal autonomy, and the limits of liberalism / Agnieszka Jaworska -- Narrative, complexity, and context: autonomy as an epistemic value / Naomi Scheman -- Toward a naturalized narrative bioethics / Tod Chambers -- Motivating health: empathy and the normative activity of coping / Jodi Halpern and Margaret Olivia Little -- Economies of hope in a period of transition: parents in the time leading up to their child's liver transplantation / Mare Knibbe and Marian Verkerk -- Consent as a grant of authority: a care ethics reading of informed consent / Joan C. …”
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Social capital in Europe similarity of countries and diversity of people? : multi-level analyses of the European social survey 2002 /

Table of Contents: “…/ Katja Neller; What determines citizens' normative conception of their civic duties / Bas Denters and Henk van der Kolk; Why television does erode social capital and why newspaper reading does not / Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck -- Part II. …”
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New regionalism or no regionalism? emerging regionalism in the Black Sea area /

Table of Contents: “…Doonan -- Two axes, three seas: a geopolitical assessment of the wider Black Sea area / Nicolas Bárdos-Féltoronyi -- The Black Sea area within the international system: the struggle for influence between the USA and Russia / Baptiste Chatré, Stéphane Delory -- Energy politics in the Black Sea region / Radu Dudau, Armando Marques Guedes -- Normative narratives of EU foreign policy in the Black Sea region / Cristian Nitoiu -- The Russian factor in the wider Black Sea region: inconclusive status quo or a neo-imperial strategy? …”
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