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Finding Room in Beirut: Places of the Everyday / by Levesque, Carole

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Family firms and family constitution /

Table of Contents: “…Family governance in practice: Lessons learned from a 100-year-old entrepreneurial family firm / Ilse Matser, Rachel Heeringa, and Jan Willem van der Vloot van Vliet -- Chapter 6. Managing dispersed ownership within the owner family: The role of family governance / Lena Jungell -- Chapter 7. …”
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Family firms and family constitution /

Table of Contents: “…Family governance in practice: Lessons learned from a 100-year-old entrepreneurial family firm / Ilse Matser, Rachel Heeringa, and Jan Willem van der Vloot van Vliet -- Chapter 6. Managing dispersed ownership within the owner family: The role of family governance / Lena Jungell -- Chapter 7. …”
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Caciques and Cemí idols the web spun by Taíno rulers between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico / by Oliver, José R.

Table of Contents: “…-- Webs of interaction : human beings, other beings, and many things -- Personhood and the animistic Amerindian perspective -- Contrasting animistic and naturalistic worldviews -- The Cemí reveals its personhood and its body form -- Cemí idols and Taínoan idolatry -- Cemís and personal identities -- The power and potency of the Cemís -- The display of Cemís : personal vs. communal ownership, private vs. public function -- Face-to-face interactions : Cemís, idols, and the native political elite -- Hanging on to and losing the power of the Cemí idols -- The inheritance and reciprocal exchange of Cemí icons -- Cemís : alienable or inalienable; to give and to keep -- Stone collars, elbow stones, and caciques -- Ancestor Cemís and the Cemíification of the caciques -- The guaíza face masks : gifts of the living for the living -- The circulation of chief's names, women, and Cemís : between the greater and lesser Antilles -- Up in arms : Taíno freedom fighters in Higüey and Boriquén -- The virgin Mary icons and native Cemís : two cases of religious syncretism in Cuba -- Religious syncretism and transculturation : the crossroads toward new identities -- Final remarks.…”
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Caciques and Cemí idols the web spun by Taíno rulers between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico / by Oliver, José R.

Table of Contents: “…-- Webs of interaction : human beings, other beings, and many things -- Personhood and the animistic Amerindian perspective -- Contrasting animistic and naturalistic worldviews -- The Cemí reveals its personhood and its body form -- Cemí idols and Taínoan idolatry -- Cemís and personal identities -- The power and potency of the Cemís -- The display of Cemís : personal vs. communal ownership, private vs. public function -- Face-to-face interactions : Cemís, idols, and the native political elite -- Hanging on to and losing the power of the Cemí idols -- The inheritance and reciprocal exchange of Cemí icons -- Cemís : alienable or inalienable; to give and to keep -- Stone collars, elbow stones, and caciques -- Ancestor Cemís and the Cemíification of the caciques -- The guaíza face masks : gifts of the living for the living -- The circulation of chief's names, women, and Cemís : between the greater and lesser Antilles -- Up in arms : Taíno freedom fighters in Higüey and Boriquén -- The virgin Mary icons and native Cemís : two cases of religious syncretism in Cuba -- Religious syncretism and transculturation : the crossroads toward new identities -- Final remarks.…”
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The analysis of firms and employees quantitative and qualitative approaches /

Table of Contents: “…: an analysis of firm-entry cohort effects and job losers using matched employer-employee data / Till von Wachter and Stefan Bender -- Changes in workplace segregation in the United States between 1990 and 2000 : evidence from matched employer-employee data / Judith Hellerstein, David Neumark, and Melissa McInerney -- The effect of tuition reimbursement on turnover : a case study analysis / Colleen Flaherty Manchester -- Ownership and wages : estimating public-private and foreign-domestic differentials with LEED from Hungary, 1986 to 2003 / John S. …”
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Property rights and sustainability the evolution of property rights to meet ecological challenges /

Table of Contents: “…Ronald Engel -- Property rights viewed from emerging relational perspectives / Peter Horsley -- Property beyond growth : toward a politics of voluntary simplicity / Samuel Alexander -- The mythology of environmental markets / Nicole Graham -- Sustainable webs of interests : property in an interconnected environment / Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold -- Elusive forms : materiality and cultural diversity in the ownership of water / Veronica Strang -- Maori concepts of rangatiratanga, kaitiakitanga, the environment, and property rights / Nin Tomas -- Communal governance of land and resources as a sustainable property institution / Lee Godden -- Evolution, adaptation, and invention: property rights in natural resources in a changing world / David P. …”
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Blue future : protecting water for people and the planet forever / by Barlow, Maude

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Property rights and sustainability the evolution of property rights to meet ecological challenges /

Table of Contents: “…Ronald Engel -- Property rights viewed from emerging relational perspectives / Peter Horsley -- Property beyond growth : toward a politics of voluntary simplicity / Samuel Alexander -- The mythology of environmental markets / Nicole Graham -- Sustainable webs of interests : property in an interconnected environment / Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold -- Elusive forms : materiality and cultural diversity in the ownership of water / Veronica Strang -- Maori concepts of rangatiratanga, kaitiakitanga, the environment, and property rights / Nin Tomas -- Communal governance of land and resources as a sustainable property institution / Lee Godden -- Evolution, adaptation, and invention: property rights in natural resources in a changing world / David P. …”
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Blue future : protecting water for people and the planet forever / by Barlow, Maude

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Global supply chain management by Drake, Matt

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The analysis of firms and employees quantitative and qualitative approaches /

Table of Contents: “…: an analysis of firm-entry cohort effects and job losers using matched employer-employee data / Till von Wachter and Stefan Bender -- Changes in workplace segregation in the United States between 1990 and 2000 : evidence from matched employer-employee data / Judith Hellerstein, David Neumark, and Melissa McInerney -- The effect of tuition reimbursement on turnover : a case study analysis / Colleen Flaherty Manchester -- Ownership and wages : estimating public-private and foreign-domestic differentials with LEED from Hungary, 1986 to 2003 / John S. …”
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Global supply chain management by Drake, Matt

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From socialism to capitalism eight essays / by Kornai, János

Table of Contents: “…-- The speed of transformation -- Introduction -- Ownership reform and development of the private sector -- Macroeconomic stability -- Conclusion -- The great transformation of Central Eastern Europe: success and disappointment -- Introduction -- In the context of world history -- From the perspective of everyday life -- The tasks of the economists' profession -- What does "change of system" mean? …”
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The first decade of EU migration and asylum law by Guild, Elspeth

Table of Contents: “…(the adoption of Directive 2008/115 : the returns directive) / Diego Acosta Arcarazo -- Detention of foreigners / Galina Cornelisse -- The impact of the Treaty of Lisbon over EU policies on migration, asylum and borders : the struggles over the ownership of the Stockholm programme / Sergio Carrera -- Common EU standards on asylum : optional harmonisation and exclusive procedures? …”
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Orca Soundings resource guide : teen fiction for reluctant readers / by Geye, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Value of using Orca Soundings in the classroom -- Orca Soundings and reading levels -- How to use this curriculum guide -- Classroom teaching ideas, reading workshop, individual silent reading -- Literature circles -- Assigning students to book discussion groups -- Student ownership of book discussion groups -- Modeling responses to literature -- Written preparation for literature circles discussion -- Dialectical journals -- Group sharing -- Assessment, informal -- Assessment, formal -- Culminating activities -- Preview reading activity -- Biographies -- Book summaries with reading levels -- Books grouped by subject -- Book titles with themes. …”
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The first decade of EU migration and asylum law by Guild, Elspeth

Table of Contents: “…(the adoption of Directive 2008/115 : the returns directive) / Diego Acosta Arcarazo -- Detention of foreigners / Galina Cornelisse -- The impact of the Treaty of Lisbon over EU policies on migration, asylum and borders : the struggles over the ownership of the Stockholm programme / Sergio Carrera -- Common EU standards on asylum : optional harmonisation and exclusive procedures? …”
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Orca Soundings resource guide : teen fiction for reluctant readers / by Geye, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Value of using Orca Soundings in the classroom -- Orca Soundings and reading levels -- How to use this curriculum guide -- Classroom teaching ideas, reading workshop, individual silent reading -- Literature circles -- Assigning students to book discussion groups -- Student ownership of book discussion groups -- Modeling responses to literature -- Written preparation for literature circles discussion -- Dialectical journals -- Group sharing -- Assessment, informal -- Assessment, formal -- Culminating activities -- Preview reading activity -- Biographies -- Book summaries with reading levels -- Books grouped by subject -- Book titles with themes. …”
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Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media : A Synthesis from the GoodPlay Project /

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Museums in a Digital Culture : How Art and Heritage Become Meaningful /

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