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New Zealand's Muslims and multiculturalism by Kolig, Erich

Table of Contents: “…Allah is everywhere, even in New Zealand -- Field research -- Community, identity, diversity -- The beginnings -- Muslim representation -- Organisational functions and aims -- Outreach programmes -- The myth of Muslim unity -- Living among infidels -- Orientalism and Islamophobia -- Converts -- Students -- The right to be different : Muslims in the public sphere -- The New Zealand state and multiculturalism -- Secularisation and the right to religion -- Legal instruments -- 'Racial' harmony through interfaith activity -- Education and policy framework -- Democratic participation and public visibility of Muslims -- The difficulty in standardisation of Islamic exceptionalism -- Rivals for custodianship of public morality -- Integration and conflict discourses -- 'When in Rome do as the Romans do' -- The necessity of minority integration -- Conflict discourses -- Blasphemous libel and Islam -- Danish cartoons rock the world -- The Pope's gaffe -- Gender issues : women are equal but different -- Of gender separation and inequality -- Concepts of decency and modesty -- The Burqa case -- Hijab versus Burqa -- Whose authority? …”
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Public engagement for public education joining forces to revitalize democracy and equalize schools /

Table of Contents: “…Turnbull -- The prospects for public engagement in a market-oriented public education system : a case study of Philadelphia, 2001-2007 / Elaine Simon, Eva Gold and Maia Cucchiara -- Public engagement for public education : reflections and prospects / Marion Orr and John Rogers.…”
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Performing American masculinities the 21st-century man in popular culture /

Table of Contents: “…Shaw and Elwood Watson ; The male Rapunzel in film : the intersections of disability, gender, race, and sexuality / Johnson Cheu and Carolyn Tyjewski ; Masculinities in dating relationships : reality and representation at the intersection of race, class, and sexual orientation / Jimmie Manning ; "Do you have what it takes to be a real man?" …”
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Media archaeology approaches, applications, and implications /

Table of Contents: “…Erased dots & rotten dashes-how to wire a head for a preservation / Paul deMarinis -- Media archaeography-method & machine versus history & narrative of media / Wolfgang Ernst -- Mapping noise : techniques and tactics of irregularities, interception and disturbance / Jussi Parikka -- Objects of our affection : how object-orientation made computers a medium / Casey Alt -- Digital media archaeology : interpreting computational processes / Noah Wardrip-Fruin -- Afterword : media archaeology and re-presencing the past / Vivian Sobchack.…”
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Contemporary Issues in Human Rights Law Europe and Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Part I Human Rights in Europe -- 1 Mechanisms to Protect Human Rights in the EU’s External Relations (Yumiko Nakanishi) -- 2 Fundamental Rights Regimes in European Union: Contouring their Spheres (Ferdinand Wollenschläger) -- 3 Human Rights Protection in the EU and Sovereign Rights of the Member States: On the Functioning of EU Citizenship (Noriko Ofuji) -- Part II Human Rights in Asia -- 4 Protection of Fundamental Rights and the Role of the Judicial Branch in Japan (Masahito Tadano) -- 5 Does Formal Rank Matter? A Framework-Oriented View on the Binding Force of International Human Rights Law on Constitutional Law (Shu-Perng Hwang) -- 6 The Asian Region and the International Criminal Court (Hitomi Takemura) -- Part III Special Topics of Human Rights in Europe and Asia -- 7 The Principle of Non-discrimination under the European Convention on Human Rights and the EU Charter on Fundamental Freedoms (Niels Petersen) -- 8 Women’s Rights and Gender Equality in Europe and Asia (Sara De Vido) -- 9 Guarantee of the Right to Freedom of Speech in Japan-Comparison with Doctrines in Germany (Takashi Jitsuhara) -- 10 China’s Development Banks in Asia: A Human Rights Perspective (Matthias Vanhullebusch) -- Index.…”
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A tour of data science : learn R and Python in parallel / by Zhang, Nailong

Table of Contents: “…Assumptions about the readers backgroundBook overviewIntroduction to R/Python ProgrammingCalculatorVariable and TypeFunctionsControl flowsSome built-in data structuresRevisit of variablesObject-oriented programming (OOP) in R/PythonMiscellaneousMore on R/Python ProgrammingWork with R/Python scriptsDebugging in R/PythonBenchmarkingVectorizationEmbarrassingly parallelism in R/PythonEvaluation strategySpeed up with C/C++ in R/PythonA first impression of functional programming Miscellaneousdata.table and pandasSQLGet started with data.table and pandasIndexing & selecting dataAdd/Remove/UpdateGroup byJoinRandom Variables, Distributions & Linear RegressionA refresher on distributionsInversion sampling & rejection samplingJoint distribution & copulaFit a distributionConfidence intervalHypothesis testingBasics of linear regressionRidge regressionOptimization in PracticeConvexityGradient descentRoot-findingGeneral purpose minimization tools in R/PythonLinear programmingMiscellaneousMachine Learning - A gentle introductionSupervised learningGradient boosting machineUnsupervised learningReinforcement learningDeep Q-NetworksComputational differentiationMiscellaneous…”
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Screen Space Reconfigured /

Table of Contents: “…Saether -- Screenic (re)orientations : desktop, tabletop, tablet, booklet, touchscreen , etc. / Miriam De Rosa and Wanda Strauven -- 'Nothing will have taken place -- except place ' : the unsettling nature of camera movement / Tom Gunning -- The phantasmagoric dispositif : an assembly of bodies and images in real time and space / Noam M. …”
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The story of civilization. by Durant, Will, 1885-1981

Table of Contents: “…1. Our oriental heritage; being a history of civilization in Egypt and the Near East to the death of Alexander, and in India, China and Japan from the beginning of our own day; with an introduction on the nature and foundations of civilization.--2. …”

Across the wall narratives of Israeli-Palestinian history /

Table of Contents: “…Palisad: Palestinian and Israeli academics in dialogue / Jamil Hilal and Ilan Pappé -- Politics and identity: a critical analysis of Israeli historiography and political thought / Ehud Adiv -- Oriental othering and national identity: a review of early Israeli anthropological studies of Palestinians / Dan Rabinowitz -- The Shoah on trial: aspects of the Holocaust in Israeli political culture / Moshe Zuckermann -- Jerusalem 1948: the phantom city / Salim Tamari --"Dis/Solving" the Palestinian refugee problem: Israeli "resettlement" plans in the first decade of the State (1948-1958) / Nur Mashala -- Fear, victimhood, self and other: on the road to reconciliation / lan Pappé -- Reflections on contemporary Palestinian history / Jamil Hilal -- Palestinian nationalism: the difficulties of narrating an ambivalent identity / Issam Nahar -- Gender, Nakba and Nation: Palestinian women's presence and absence in the narration of 1948 memories / Rema Hammami -- "Ethnocracy": the politics of Judaizing Israel/Palestine / Oren Yiftachel -- Democracy ... and the the experience of national liberation: the Palestinian case / Musa Budeiri -- The derailment of peace: Rabin's assassination, democracy and post-conflict agendas / Lev Grinberg -- Naming the colonizer in geographical Palestine: conceptual and political double binds and their possible solution / Uri Davis -- One-state Palestine: past, present and future / Ilan Pappé -- After Gaza / Jamil Hilal and Ilan Pappé.…”
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Notes on small animal dermatology by Joyce, Judith

Table of Contents: “…Investigation and diagnosis.SECTION 2 - PROBLEM ORIENTATED APPROACH TO THE SKIN CASE.4. The pruritic patient.5. …”
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Shakespeare's language in digital media : old words, new tools /

Table of Contents: “…Curating Scholarly Commentary in the Age of Google (Sarah Neville) Part Three: New Ways with New Tools: Performing Historicity 9. Database-oriented Annotation of Early Modern Plays (Jesaus Tronch) 10. …”
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Chinese economists on economic reform. by Zhou, Xiaochuan, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Reform of central planning : orientation, methods, and limits (1991) -- 2. An economic analysis of housing reform (1991) -- 3. …”
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Individualism the cultural logic of modernity /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: individualism revisited / Zubin Meer -- A silence in the family tree: the genealogical subject in Heldris of Cornwall's silence / Julie Orlemanski -- Shakespeare's polycentric marketplace: why the individual and the community need not be at odds / Frederick Turner -- "A world of my own creating": private worlds and social selves in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing world / Megan Heffernan -- Secrecy and spies: London, 1650-1800 / James Cruise -- Infectious fictions in A journal of the plague year: Defoe and the empirical self�a / Joanne Myers -- The other side of modern individualism: Locke and Defoe / Nancy Armstrong -- Locke's disciplined self: a postcolonial perspective / Nigel Joseph -- The tragedies of sentimentalism: privatizing happiness in the eighteenth century / Vivasvan Soni -- Unknowing: the work of modernist fiction / Philip Weinstein -- Bakhtin, and the apocalypse of self in the modern novel / Jonathon Penny -- Camouflage work: precisionist painting and the hidden subject of modernism / David Jenemann -- The precarious subject of late capitalism: rereading Adorno -- On the "liquidation" of individuality / Dale Shin -- The encrypted individual in dialectic of enlightenment / Tom McCall -- The rise and decline of the individual in Adorno: exit Hamlet, enter Hamm / Deborah Cook -- The individual as Cheshire cat in Reading Lolita in Tehran / Lisa Eck -- Re-orienting the human: the esoteric self / Lucy McNeece.…”
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India and South Asia economic developments in the age of globalization /

Table of Contents: “…Basu -- Human capital investment and development in South Asia / Anjum Siddiqui -- Poverty in South Asia : concept, measurement and analysis / Umer Khalid -- South Asia's trade and commercial relations with Canada / Ann Weston -- Regional economic cooperation under SAARC : possibilities and constraints / Dushni Weerakoon -- Repositioning SAFTA in the regionalism debate / Saman Kelegama and Ratnakar Adhikari -- Market-oriented policy reforms and export-led industrialization : the Sri Lankan experience / Premachandra Athukorala -- Globalization and economic development / Sajid Anwar and Bob Catley -- Decentralization of governance and development / Pranab Bardhan -- Governance issues in India / Desh Gupta and Bhagwan Dahiya -- Corruption in South Asia : causes and consequences / Johann Graf Lambsdorff -- Military expenditure in South Asia : a case study of economic irrationality / Geoff Harris.…”
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Representation matters (re)articulating collective identities in a postcolonal world /

Table of Contents: “…Alterity and identities: the paradoxes of authenticity / Sudeep Dasgupta ; Insularity and identity at odds in Martinique : 1973 to 2004 / Marc Brudzinski ; The West between culture(s) and collective identity : notes for a present problematic / Nimrod Ben-Cnaan ; Ubuntu, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and South African national identity / Hanneke Stuit ; Resistance or compliance? The problem of Orientalism in Osman Hamdi's paintings / Gülru Çakmak -- 2. …”
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Reading colonial Japan text, context, and critique /

Table of Contents: “…Kono -- The adventures of Dankichi / Shimada Keizo ; translation by Helen J.S. Lee -- Popular orientalism and Japanese views of Asia / Kawamura Minato ; translation by Kota Inoue and Helen J.S. …”
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Screening integration recasting Maghrebi immigration in contemporary France /

Table of Contents: “…Women in Maghrebi-French Filmmaking / Patricia Geesey -- Sexual/Social (Re)Orientations: Cross-Dressing, Queerness, and the Maghrebi/Beur Male in Liria Bégéja's Change-moi ma vie and Amal Bedjaoui's Un fils / Darren Waldron -- (Re)Casting Sami Bouajila: An Ambiguous Model of Integration, Belonging, and Citizenship / Murray Pratt and Denis M. …”
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Faith and well-being in later life linking theories with evidence in an interdisciplinary inquiry /

Table of Contents: “…Ai and Christopher Peterson -- Differential roles of religious orientation on subjective well-being and death attitudes in old age : mediation of spiritual activities and purpose in life / Monika Ardelt and Cynthia S. …”
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Weimar thought a contested legacy /

Table of Contents: “…Steinberg -- Eastern wisdom in an era of western despair : orientalism in 1920s Central Europe / Susanne Marchand -- Weimar femininity : within and beyond the law / Tracie Matysik -- The Weimar left : theory and practice / Martin Jay -- The aftermath : reflections on the culture and ideology of national socialism / Anson Rabinbach -- Weimar thought : a chronology.…”
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Dangerous dreams : essays on American film and television / by Whitt, Jan

Table of Contents: “…Hyde, and films of the 1980s -- Displaced people and the frailty of words: communication in Ordinary people, On golden pond, and Terms of endearment -- Portrayals of class, race, and sexual orientation. Working man blues: images of the cowboy in American film -- From the wilderness into the closet: Brokeback Mountain and the lost American dream -- What happened to Celie and Idgie?…”
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