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Forging urban solidarities Ottoman Aleppo, 1640-1700 / by Wilkins, Charles L.

Table of Contents: “…Extraordinary taxes ('avariz) and local administration -- The 'avariz tax regime and the conduct of tax surveys -- The mechanics of local tax administration : land use, personal liability, and apportionment -- The responsibilities and compensation of quarter tax officials -- A fiscal demography of Aleppo -- Urban responses to the Imposition of extraordinary taxes -- The frequency and level of extraordinary tax levies -- Popular strategies for tax relief : tax exemption -- Other individual strategies for tax relief -- Collective action and mutual assistance -- Residential quarters and the question of "positive loyalties" -- pt. 2. …”
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Pure Land Buddhism in modern Japanese culture by Porcu, Elisabetta

Table of Contents: “…Creating images of Japanese Buddhism and culture -- Japanese Buddhism and culture at the World's Parliament of Religions -- Okakura Kakuzo's English writings and cultural nationalism -- Representations of Japan and Japanese Buddhism during World War II -- Suzuki Daisetsu and his legacy -- Suzuki Daisetsu in the Shin Buddhist context -- Shin Buddhism from the viewpoint of the Kyoto school -- Jodo Shinshu and literature -- Everyday life in a Jodo Shinshu temple: Niwa Fumio's the Buddha tree -- Jodo Shinshu in the narrative writing of Natsume Soseki -- A young poetess and Jodo Shinshu: Kaneko Misuzu -- Itsuki Hiroyuki: a best-selling writer and Jodo Shinshu -- Literary reflections on personal experiences within Jodo Shinshu -- Harold H. …”
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Sixties radicalism and social movement activism retreat or resurgence? /

Table of Contents: “…/ Riaz Ahmed Shaikh -- Nineteen sixties radicalism in the United States : its rise, decline and legacy / Mike O'Donnell -- Students, artists and the ICA : the revolution within / Ben Cranfield -- The situationist legacy : revolution as celebration / Eloise Harding -- Habermas on sixties student protests : reflections on collective action and communicative potential / James Driver -- Sixties movements, educational expansion and cognitive mobilisation : postmaterialist values and unconventional political participation in West Germany / Andreas Hadjar and Florian Schlapbach -- Carrying the flame forward : activist legacies of 1968 in life story reflections / Barbara Körner and Rosemary McKechnie -- When the personal become political : a reappraisal of the women's liberation movement's radical idea / Maureen Freely -- Resurgence? …”
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An introduction to algorithmic trading basic to advanced strategies / by Leshik, Edward A.

Table of Contents: “…Our nomenclature ; Math toolkit ; Statistics toolbox ; Data : symbol, date, timestamp, volume, price ; Excel mini seminar ; Excel charts : how to read them and how to build them ; Our metrics : algometrics ; Stock personality clusters ; Selecting a cohort of trading stocks ; Stock profiling ; Stylistic properties of equity markets ; Volatility ; Returns : theory ; Benchmarks and performance measures ; Our trading algorithms described : the Alpha algo strategies ; Parameters and how to set them ; Technical analysis (TA) ; Heuristics, AI, artificial neural networks and other avenues to be explored ; How we design a trading alpha algo ; From the efficient market hypothesis to prospect theory ; The road to chaos (or nonlinear science) ; Complexity economics ; Brokerages ; Order management platforms and order execution systems ; Data feed vendors, real-time, historical -- Connectivity -- Hardware specification examples ; Brief philosophical digression -- Information sources.…”
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Historical foundations of Black reflective sociology by Stanfield, John H.

Table of Contents: “…Autobiographical studies -- The stranger in sociology : the power games of race relations -- Charlie -- Race philanthropy in the origins of 20th century Black sociological studies -- Race philanthropy : personalities, institutions, networks and communities -- Philanthropic regional consciousness and institution-building in the American South : the formative years, 1867-1920 -- Leonard Outhwaite's advocacy of scientific research on Blacks in the 1920 -- The cracked back door : foundations and Black social scientists between the world wars -- Dollars for the silent South : southern White liberalism and the Julius Rosenwald Fund, 1928-1948 -- Blacks in sociology : historical trends and contexualized biographical cases -- The "Negro problem" within and beyond the institutional nexus of pre-World War I sociology -- Race relations research and Black Americans between the two world wars -- Bitter Canaan : Charles S. …”
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The saints' impresarios dreamers, healers, and holy men in Israel's urban periphery / by Bilu, Yoram

Table of Contents: “…The folk-veneration of saints in Morocco and Israel -- Dream portal -- Roots in the west : the cult of saints in Morocco -- From west to east : Moroccan jewry in Israel -- Native saints and immigrant saints : the sacred geography of Moroccan Jews in Israel -- Avraham Ben-Ayyim and Rabbi David u-Moshe -- A dream journey to the saint -- A saint in the next room : Rabbi David u-Moshe and the Ben-Ayyim family -- The abode of Rabbi David u-Moshe at the dawn of the 21st century -- Ya'ish O'ana, Elijah the prophet and the gate of paradise -- The road to paradise -- Dreamers in paradise -- Paradise lost -- Alu Ezra and Rabbi Avraham Aouriwar -- Early and late revelations -- Life-story as folktale the cinderella of Beit Shean -- Years later -- The folk veneration of saints in Morocco and Israel -- Esther Suissa and Rabbi Shimon bar-Yorai -- From patient to healer -- Written in the egg yolk : the healing art of female -- Saints' impresarios -- Esther and Rabbi Shimon : a return visit -- The cult of saints from a comparative perspective : symbol, narrative, gender, and identity -- Crosscutting stories : the saints' impresarios from a comparative perspective -- Personal symbols and mythic narratives -- Gender and sanctity : the female way to the Tsaddiq -- Migrating traditions : the historic timing and the "shelf life" of the new shrines -- The cult of saints as an Israeli and local phenomenon.…”
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Approaching the theater of Antonio Buero Vallejo contemporary literary analyses from structuralism to postmodernism / by Pennington, Eric Wayne

Table of Contents: “…The times and their playwright -- Entering the silences of Historia de una escalera -- Las palabras en la arena and En la ardiente oscuridad : structures of the Christian unconscious -- Music and death in En la ardiente oscuridad -- The biblical archetypes of El concierto de San Ovidio -- Music as polyvalent signifier in El concierto de San Ovidio -- El concierto de San Ovidio : deconstructing Western metaphysics and binary logic -- Employing personal intertexts : the alcoholic impresario of El concierto de San Ovidio -- La doble historia del Dr. …”
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Postmodern impegno ethics and commitment in contemporary Italian culture /

Table of Contents: “…Postmodernism and the Holocaust in Italy / Robert S.C. Gordon -- The personal and the political: the cinema of Nanni Moretti / Rosa Barotsi and Pierpaolo Antonello -- Marco Tullio Giordana, or the persistence of impegno / Alan O'Leary -- New commitment in Italian 'theatrical story-telling': memory, testimony and the evidential paradigm / Pierpaolo Antonello -- La giustizia del dimenticato: sulla linea giudiziaria nella letteratura italiana del Novecento / Sergia Adamo -- Letteratura gialla e noir degli anni Novanta e impegno / Giuliana Pieri -- Prima e dopo Gomorra: non-fiction novel e impegno / Raffaello Palumbo Mosca.…”
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Health and happiness from meaningful work research in quality of working life /

Table of Contents: “…Working life / Søren Ventegodt and Joav Merrick -- Quality of life, happiness and meaning of life / Søren Ventegodt, Niels Jørgen Andersen, Isack Kandel and Joav Merrick -- Personal quality of life / Søren Ventegodt, Niels Jørgen Andersen, Isack Kandel and Joav Merrick -- Mastery in your work / Søren Ventegodt, Niels Jørgen Andersen, Isack Kandel and Joav Merrick -- Working with colleagues and management / Søren Ventegodt, Niels Jørgen Andersen, Isack Kandel and Joav Merrick -- Creating value / Søren Ventegodt, Niels Jørgen Andersen, Isack Kandel and Joav Merrick -- Up or down in your life? …”
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Kindergartens teaching methods, expectations and current challenges /

Table of Contents: “…Magrane, Holly Mariah Menzies, Joseph Wehby -- Evaluation of a tactile training for handwriting acquisition in French kindergarten children: a pilot study / Caroline Jolly, Richard Palluel-Germain, Edouard Gentaz -- Assessing personality traits in the young child for individualized planning for social-emotional skills in the kindergarten classroom / Cathy L. …”
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Sharīʻa in Africa today : reactions and responses /

Table of Contents: “…"Sharia and reality": a domain of dontest among Sunni Muslims in the District of Shendi, Northern Sudan / Osman Mohamed Osman Ali -- Contradicting state ideology in Sudan: Christian-Muslim relations among the internally displaced persons in Khartoum-The Case of Mandela and Wad al-Bashir Camps / Salma Mohamed Abdalmunim Abdalla -- Debates over interest rate: Sudanese perspectives from 35 years' experience of Islamic banking / Ahmad Elhassab, Umar Elhassab -- The evolution of the independent sharia panel in Osun State, South-West Nigeria / Abdul-Fatah Kola -- Makinde "Education is Education": contemporary Muslim views on Muslim women's education in northern Nigeria / Chikas Danfulani -- 'We Introduced sharia'-the Izala Movement in Nigeria as initiator of sharia-reimplementation in the north of the country: Some Reflections / Ramzi Ben Amara -- Debates on kadhi's courts and Christian-Muslim relations in Isiolo Town: thematic issues and emergent trends / Halkano Abdi Wario -- "Necessity removes restrictions": Swahili Muslim women's perspectives on their participation in the public sphere / Esha Faki Mwinyihaji -- Women's views on the role of kadhi's courts: a case study of Kendu Bay, Kenya / Rebecca Osiro -- Demand for the re-Introduction of kadhi's courts on the Tanzanian mainland: a religious, social and political analysis / William Andrew Kopwe -- "Chaos will never have a chance": sharia debates and tolerance in a rrovincial Tanzanian town / Bernardin Mfumbusa.…”
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Gathering places : Aboriginal and fur trade histories /

Table of Contents: “…Gleach, and Roger Roulette -- 3 Dressing for the Homeward Journey: Western Anishnaabe Leadership Roles Viewed through Two Nineteenth-Century Burials / Cory Willmott and Kevin Brownlee -- Part 2: Using Documents -- 4 Anishinaabe Toodaims: Contexts for Politics, Kinship, and Identity in the Eastern Great Lakes / Heidi Bohaker -- 5 The Contours of Everyday Life: Food and Identity in the Plateau Fur Trade / Elizabeth Vibert -- 6 "Make it last forever as it is": John McDonald of Garth's Vision of a Native Kingdom in the Northwest / Germaine Warkentin -- Part 3: Ways of Knowing -- 7 Being and Becoming Métis: A Personal Reflection / Heather Devine -- 8 Historical Research and the Place of Oral History: Conversations from Berens River / Susan Elaine Gray -- Part 4: Ways of Representing -- 9 Border Identities: Métis, Halfbreed, and Mixed-Blood / Theresa Schenck -- 10 Edward Ahenakew's Tutelage by Paul Wallace: Reluctant Scholarship, Inadvertent Preservation / David R. …”
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English modality : core, periphery and evidentiality /

Table of Contents: “…: an essay on the declining frequency of core modal auxiliaries in recent standard English / Geoffrey Leech -- Had better, 'd better and better : diachronic and transatlantic variation / Johan van der Auwera, Dirk Noël and An van Linden -- Grammatical colloquialism and the English quasi-modals : a comparative study / Peter Collins -- Modal necessity and impersonality in English and Galician / Lucía Loureiro-Porto -- Modal uses of the English present progressive / Frank Brisard and Astrid De Wit -- On the generic argument for the modality of will / Debra Ziegeler -- Reality and related concepts : towards a semantic-pragmatic map of English adverbs / Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen -- A cross-linguistic look at the multifunctionality of the English verb seem / Aurelija Usoniené and Jolanta Šinkūnienė -- Annotating English adverbials for the categories of epistemic modality and evidentiality / Marta Carretero and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla -- Modal verbs in news-related blogs : when the blogger counts / Roberta Facchinetti -- Modality and personal pronouns as indexical markers of stance : intersubjective positioning and construction of public identity in media interviews / Laura Hidalgo Downing and Begoñia Núñez Perucha -- Stancetaking and inter/subjectivity in the Iraq inquiry : Blair vs. …”
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Troublesome disguises : managing challenging disorders in psychiatry /

Table of Contents: “…Shared pathologies / German E Berrios and Ivana S Marková -- Paraphrenia / Richard Atkinson and Alistair Burns -- Brief reactive psychoses / Wolfgang Gaebel and Juergen Zielasek -- Cycloid psychoses / Andrea Schmitt, Berend Malchow, Peter Falkai and Alkomiet Hasan -- Borderline personality disorder / John M. Oldham -- Recurrent self-harm / Rohan Borschmann and Paul Moran -- Finding the truth in the lies : a practical guide to the assessment of malingering / Holly Tabernik and Michael J. …”
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Nineteenth-century Italian women writers and the woman questions : the case of Neera / by Ramsey-Portolano, Catherine

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Separate Spheres in Fin-de-Siècle Italy -- Women Writers and Male Critics -- 1 Growing up Female in Fin-de-Siècle Italy -- Writing Personal Experiences and Vocation -- Women Writers and Pseudonyms: Between Private and Public Spheres -- Fin-de-Siècle Italian Women Writers and Their Literary Mothers, Daughters and Sisters -- Neera's "Two Faces" -- 2 From Daughter to Mother in Neera's Work…”
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Sleep, stroke, and cardiovascular disease

Table of Contents: “…Physician as patient: a personal story of stroke Harold R. Smith; Index.…”
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Becoming East Germans : socialist structures and sensibilities after Hitler /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction. the banalities of East German historiography / Andrew Port -- East Germans in a post-Nazi state : communities of experience, connection, and identification / Mary Fulbrook -- Divisive unity : the politics of cultural nationalism during the first German Writers' Congress of October 1947 / Andreas Agocs -- Communicating history : the archived letters and memories of "the Red Orchestra" / Joanne Sayner -- Remembered change and changes of remembrance : East German narratives of antifascist conversion / Christiane Wienand -- Perceptions of health after World War II : heart disease and risk factors in East and West Germany, 1945-75 / Jeannette Madarasz -- Socialism fights the proletarian disease : East German efforts to overcome tuberculosis in a Cold War context / Donna Harsch -- The slim imperative : discourses and cultures of dieting in the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990 / Neula Kerr-Boyle -- Luxury dining in the later years of the German Democratic Republic / Paul Freedman -- Expectations, predispositions, and the paradox of working-class behavior in Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic / Andrew Port -- Israel as friend and foe : shaping East German society through Freund- and Feindbilder / David Tompkins -- Humiliation as a weapon within the party : fictional and personal accounts / Phil Leask -- Playing the game : football and everyday life in the Honecker era / Alan McDougall -- Afterword : structures and subjectivities in GDR history / Mary Fulbrook.…”
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Designing healthy communities by Jackson, Richard, 1945-

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Hedge fund analysis an in-depth guide to evaluating return potential and assessing risks / by Travers, Frank J.

Table of Contents: “…NotesChapter 2: Hedge Fund Asset ClassDefinitionHedge Fund StructureHedge Fund StrategiesAdvantages of Allocating to Hedge FundsHedge Fund Size Impacts PerformancePart Two: Hedge Fund Due DiligenceChapter 3: Due Diligence ProcessKey Areas of Focus within each Component of Due DiligenceThe Due Diligence Process Highlighted in this BookPutting it all TogetherSome Initial ThoughtsChapter 4: Initial Data CollectionData CollectionDue Diligence Questionnaire (DDQ)Fictional Capital ManagementOther MaterialsFurther Analysis13F AnalysisHedge Fund JournalChapter 5: Initial InterviewInitial Call or MeetingPhone InterviewsMeeting NotesChapter 6: Quantitative AnalysisPerformance MeasuresAbsolute Return MeasuresAbsolute Risk MeasuresRegression Based StatisticsPeer Group AnalysisChapter 7: Portfolio AnalysisAttribution AnalysisFundamental AnalysisEvaluating Portfolio DataChapter 8: Onsite InterviewsOnsite Meeting StrategiesOne-on-One MeetingsMeeting with More than One PersonDifferent PerspectivesMeeting NotesOnsite Interviews at Fictional Capital Management (FCM)Chapter 9: Operational Due DiligenceCase Study: Bayou FundDefinitionImportance of Operational Due DiligenceCategorization of Operational Due DiligenceInterview with FCM Operational StaffNotesChapter 10: Risk Due DiligenceGraphical Depiction of Hedge Fund RisksRisk Due DiligenceFactor Decomposition AnalysisInterview with FCM Risk managerNotesChapter 11: Reference and Background ChecksOnlist and Offlist ReferencesInternet and Social MediaContacting ReferencesProblematic ReferencesWhose References should you Check?…”
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Bonica's management of pain /

Table of Contents: “…Cancer-related bone pain -- Cancer-related visceral pain -- Radiotherapy and chemotherapy in cancer pain management -- Cancer pain in children -- Acute pain management in children -- Acute pain in adults -- Regional anesthesia techniques for acute pain management -- Burn pain -- Persistent pain in children -- Pain in the older person -- Obsteric pain -- Pain and sickle cell disease -- Pain in human immunodeficiency virus disease -- The treatment of chronic pain in patients with history of substance abuse -- Compliance monitoring in chronic pain management -- Headache -- Noncardiac chest pain -- Abdominal, peritoneal, and retroperitoneal pain -- Pelvic pain in females -- Pelvic pain in males -- Cranial neuralgias -- Facial pain -- Neck and arm pain -- Chest wall pain -- Lower extremity pain -- Acute low back pain -- Chronic low back pain -- Surgery for low back pain -- Failed back surgery syndrome -- Psychological screening of spine surgery candidates -- Rational pharmacotherapy for pain -- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and acetaminophen -- Opioid analgesics -- Skeletal muscle relaxants and analgesic balms -- Neuropathic pain pharmacotherapy -- Anger and pain -- Cognitive-behavioral therapy for chronic pain -- Pain and anxiety and depression -- Hypnosis -- Relaxation and imagery techniques -- Group therapy for chronic pain -- Motivating pain patients for behavioral change -- Basic concepts in biomechanics and musculoskeletal rehabilitation -- Pain rehabilitation -- Assessment and treatment of chemical dependency -- Physical therapy agents -- Exercise therapy for low back pain -- Complementary and alternative medicine -- Peripheral nerve stimulation -- Spinal cord stimulation -- Motor cortex and deep brain stimulation -- Diagnostic and therapeutic nerve blocks -- Epidural steroid injections -- Intrathecal drug delivery in the management of pain -- Intradiscal therapies for low back pain -- Neurolytic blockade for noncancer pain -- Surgery of the peripheral nervous system as a treatment for pain -- The surgical management of trigeminal neuralgia -- Ablative neurosurgical procedures for chronic pain -- Interdisciplinary chronic pain management: perspectives on history, current status, and future viability -- Spine clinics -- Pain management in primary care -- Pain management at the end of life -- Training pain specialists -- Emergencies in the pain clinic -- Pain management in the emergency department -- Pain management in the intensive care unit -- The future of pain medicine: an epilogue.…”
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