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Refugee rights ethics, advocacy, and Africa /

Table of Contents: “…There is more than one way of dying : an Ethiopian perspective on long term stays in refugee camps / Abebe Feyissa with Rebecca Horn -- What we owe to refugees and IDPs : an inquiry into the rights of the forcibly displaced / William O'Neill -- Burundian refugees in western Tanzania : responsibilities for advocacy / Joint Commission for Refugees of the Burundi and Tanzania Episcopal Conferences -- The right to freedom of movement for refugees in Uganda / Lucy Hovil and Moses Chrispus Okello -- The plight of urban refugees in Nairobi, Kenya / John Burton Wagacha and John Guiney -- Protection as capability expansion : practical ethics for assisting urban refugees / Loren Landau -- Sexual violence, gender roles, and displacement / Binaifer Nowrojee -- Justice, women's rights, and forced migration / Susan Martin -- Human rights, the use of force, and displacement in the Great Lakes region : Reflections on a troubling trend / Khoti Kamanga -- Internally displaced people, sovereignty, and the responsibility to protect / David Hollenbach -- Internally displaced persons in northern Uganda : a challenge for peace and reconciliation / Lam Oryem Cosmas -- Justice and peace : reintegration and reconciliation of returning displaced persons in post-conflict situations / Stephen J. …”
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Psychiatry by ten teachers /

Table of Contents: “…Defining mental health and mental illness / Nisha Dogra and Stephen Cooper -- chapter 2. Personality, predisposing and perpetuating factors in mental illness / Nisha Dogra and Stephen Cooper -- chapter 3. …”
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The Promise of Justice : Essays on Brown v. Board of Education /

Table of Contents: “…Monts -- Frasier vs. UNC : a personal account / Ralph K. Frasier -- Brown vs. Board and Columbus / Robert M. …”
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Spirituality in higher education autoethnographies /

Table of Contents: “…Jones) PART 2: Integrating Spirituality in Instruction Chapter 5 Using Scholarly Personal Narrative Writing to Explore Religion and Spirituality in the Lives of Quarterlife Students (Robert Nash) Chapter 6 Crossing Boundaries of Sacredness (Claude F. …”
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Business associations in a nutshell / by Shade, Joseph

Table of Contents: “…Introduction, concepts and overview -- How to select the best business association for a particular business -- How business associations are formed -- The limits of limited liability -- Who decides what as to how businesses operate (governance) -- The legal duties of the decision makers and how those duties are enforced (herein fiduciary duties) -- Protection the law gives to persons who buy or sell securities (herein Rule 10b-5) -- How businesses raise money -- How the owners of a business make money -- How business associations end (herein end games).…”

Todd & Watt's cases & materials on equity and trusts / by Watt, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Foundations of equity and trusts -- Trusts in context -- Trusts created expressly -- Constitution of trusts : effective disposition of benefit -- Resulting trusts : ineffective disposition of benefit -- Formality, perpetuity, and illegality : trust creation and public policy I -- Charity : trust creation and public policy II -- Constructive trusts and informal trusts of land -- Variation of trusts and the flexibility of benefit -- The fiduciary duty -- Fulfilling and filling the office of trustee -- Investment -- Breach of trust : the personal liability of trustees -- Tracing and recovering trust property -- The equitable liability of strangers to the trust -- Equity : maxims, doctrines, and remedies.…”

Beyond the molecular frontier challenges for chemistry and chemical engineering /

Table of Contents: “…Energy: providing for the future -- 11. National and personal security -- 12. How to achieve these goals.…”
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Building your multi-million-dollar practice 8 success strategies of top producing advisors / by Vessenes, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Become a multimillion-dollar financial advisor -- The star-based business that transitions into the team-based business -- Strategic planning: tactics that work -- Why sound fiscal and asset management is essential to growth in any practice -- Marketing is everything ... or putting derrieres in chairs -- Operations that provide a financial adviser with superior support -- Excellent employees -- Defined sales system that becomes the "no-sell sale(tm)" -- Ethics and compliance systems -- A peek inside a superstar's offices or my personal experience as a financial advisor -- Pulling it all together.…”
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Ageing and long-term care national policies in the Asia-Pacific /

Table of Contents: “…Mehta -- National policies on ageing and long-term care provision for older persons in Thailand / Sutthichai Jitapunkul, Napaporn Chayovan & Jiraporn Kespichayawattana.…”
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In the course of a lifetime tracing religious belief, practice, and change / by Dillon, Michele, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…The vibrancy of American religion -- Meet the parents : the family context shaping religious socialization in the 1930s and 1940s -- Adolescent religion in the 1930s and 1940s -- The imprint of individual autonomy on everyday religion in the 1950s -- The ebb and flow of religiousness across the life course -- Individual transformation in religious commitment and meaning -- Spiritual seeking -- The activities, personality, and social attitudes of religious and spiritual individuals in late adulthood -- Spiritual seeking, therapeutic culture, and concern for others -- The buffering role of religion in late adulthood -- American lived religion -- Methodological appendix : measuring religiousness and spiritual seeking in the IHD longitudinal study.…”
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What really matters service, leadership, people, and values / by Pepper, John, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…A passionate sense of ownership ; The benefits of diversity and the challenge of achieving it ; A personal model for living ; A family affair -- Conclusion: Enduring values in an age of innovation -- Appendix 1: Biographies of key leaders -- Appendix 2: Redesigning your organizational structure to achieve your purpose.…”
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After the baby boomers how twenty- and thirty-somethings are shaping the future of American religion / by Wuthnow, Robert

Table of Contents: “…-- The major faith communities : thinking beyond winners and losers -- The Bible tells me so (I think) : recent trends in religious beliefs -- Spirituality and spiritual practices : the role of faith in personal life -- Faith and family : facing the difficult choices -- The divided generation : religion and public life -- Emerging trends : immigration and ethnic diversity -- The virtual church : religious uses of the Internet -- Vital congregations : youthful and diverse.…”
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Grand theater regional governance in Stalin's Russia, 1931-1941 / by Holmes, Larry E. (Larry Eugene), 1942-

Table of Contents: “…A script of perfection, failure, blame -- Ascent into darkness : escalating negativity, 1931-1941 -- A symbiosis of errors : the personal, professional, and political, 1931-1938 -- The art of complaint, 1931-1938 -- Power to the people and to the state : great performances by V.P. …”
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Preserving ethnicity through religion in America Korean Protestants and Indian Hindus across generations / by Min, Pyong Gap, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Theoretical frameworks -- Religions in India and South Korea -- Immigrants' religious affiliations and participation in religious institutions : frequent intergroup comparison -- Ethnographic research on the Shin Kwang Church : congregational case study -- Ethnographic research on the Ganesh Temple : congregational case study -- Personal interviews : immigrants' participation in religious institutions, domestic religious practices, and religious identity -- Younger-generations : participation in religious institutions and ethnicity -- Younger-generations : preservation of ethnicity through domestic religious practices -- The importance of religion for younger-generations : identity, child socialization, and social boundary -- Conclusion.…”
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Street-smart advertising how to win the battle of the buzz / by Berman, Margo, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Rev up your thinking with creative stimulation -- Play with typography's multiple personalities -- Ebrace type as a design element -- Master the design elements -- Connect with your audience through powerful writing -- Spark the creative process for focused campaign strategies -- Take charge of the design principles -- Explore the power of color psychology -- Discover exciting, strategy-based ads and campaigns -- Learn the latest through inventive case studies with impressive results -- See which self-promotions really work -- Be inspired by creative tips from conceptual thinkers.…”
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Fallen elites the military other in post-unification Germany / by Bickford, Andrew, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…The military imaginary : soldiers, myths, and states -- Emotions, generations, and death cults : militarization and the creation of socialist military personalities -- Coming of age in the NVA : the master narratives of militarization -- The writing on the wall : the NVA surrenders -- A war of signs, images, and memories : German militaries in the Cold War and unification -- "Unification has ruined my life" : the political economy of the military other -- As Germans among Germans : life in the Kameradschaft -- "We're the Jews of the new Germany" : heroic victimhood, fallen elites, and the slipperiness of history and memory -- Death and allegiance : toward an anthropology of soldiering.…”
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Tyler's guide the healthcare executive's job search / by Tyler, J. Larry

Table of Contents: “…Resumes -- Cover letters -- References -- Networking -- Outplacement/transition firms -- Dealing with recruiters -- The interview and follow-up -- Evaluating job offers and employment contracts -- Starting off on the right foot/making a smooth transition -- Making the transition from the military -- Physician executives -- Breaking through the glass ceiling: interviews with female healthcare -- Executives -- The student as job seeker -- Beyond racial barriers: interviews with minority healthcare executives -- Overcoming discrimination: personal strategies -- Relocation and maintaining loved ones' support -- Getting motivated -- Managing your career in an era of uncertainty.…”
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Alone in America the stories that matter / by Ferguson, Robert A., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…-- Nathaniel Hawthorne dissects betrayal -- Louisa May Alcott meets Mark Twain over the young face of change -- Henry James and Zora Neale Hurston answer to defeat -- Edith Wharton's anatomy of personal breakdown -- Midpoint: the lords of life revisited -- The immigrant novel: fear and identity in America -- William Faulkner and Toni Morrison plot racial difference -- Saul Bellow observes old age -- Don DeLillo and Marilynne Robinson mourn loss -- Walt Whitman finds the courage to be.…”
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Reflective practice in nursing

Table of Contents: “…/ John Driscoll and Paul Cassedy -- A personal exploration of reflection and clinical expertise / Sue Duke -- Assessing and evaluating reflection / Sue Schutz -- Getting started on a journey with reflection / Chris Bulman.…”
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My friendship with Martin Buber / by Friedman, Maurice S.

Table of Contents: “…My friendship with Martin Buber begins -- The cost of my commitment -- On the suspension of the ethical -- Martin Buber's first visit to America -- Sartre, Heidegger, Jung, and Scholem -- The life of dialogue: letters following Buber's first visit -- Personal direction: letters, 1954-1957 -- The Washington School of Psychiatry and the Buber-Rogers dialogue -- Postscript to I and thou: letters following Buber's second visit -- Buber's last visit to America -- Interrogations and responses: letters following Buber's last visit -- Our stay in Jerusalem and Buber's last years -- Epilogue: memorial address.…”
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