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Limited Force and the Fight for the Just War Tradition / by Braun, Christian Nikolaus

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Limited Force and the Fight for the Just War Tradition / by Braun, Christian Nikolaus

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Nelson's refuge Gibraltar in the age of Napoleon / by Musteen, Jason R.

Table of Contents: “…Vincent, 1793-1797 -- From the pillars to the pyramids : the Nile and Egypt, 1798-1801 -- The battles of Algeciras and the Gut of Gibraltar : French victory and Saumarez's revenge, 1801 -- A royal mess : the Duke of Kent at Gibraltar, 1802-1803 -- Gibraltar fever : the perennial killer -- From Amiens to Trafalgar : war with Spain and a hero's final return, 1803-1805 -- Sir Hew Dalrymple at Gibraltar : the origins of the Peninsular War, 1806-1808 -- Defending the rock and projecting power : the early Peninsular War, 1808-1811 -- An appendage of this garrison : the defense of Tarifa, 1811-1812 -- The end of the war and peace on the rock, 1812-1815 -- From a proud fortress to a post of power -- Appendix A. …”
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Nelson's refuge Gibraltar in the age of Napoleon / by Musteen, Jason R.

Table of Contents: “…Vincent, 1793-1797 -- From the pillars to the pyramids : the Nile and Egypt, 1798-1801 -- The battles of Algeciras and the Gut of Gibraltar : French victory and Saumarez's revenge, 1801 -- A royal mess : the Duke of Kent at Gibraltar, 1802-1803 -- Gibraltar fever : the perennial killer -- From Amiens to Trafalgar : war with Spain and a hero's final return, 1803-1805 -- Sir Hew Dalrymple at Gibraltar : the origins of the Peninsular War, 1806-1808 -- Defending the rock and projecting power : the early Peninsular War, 1808-1811 -- An appendage of this garrison : the defense of Tarifa, 1811-1812 -- The end of the war and peace on the rock, 1812-1815 -- From a proud fortress to a post of power -- Appendix A. …”
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A road to nowhere? Jewish experiences in the unifying Europe /

Table of Contents: “…The Jewish world context -- Jews in Europe : demographic trends, contexts and outlooks / Sergio DellaPergola -- The European Jewish diaspora : the third pillar of world Jewry? / Gabriel Sheffer -- Cultural pluralism as an American Zionist option for solidarity its relevance for today's European Jewry / Ofer Schiff -- European Jewish experiences -- Between Eurasia and Europe : Jewish community and identities in contemporary Russia and Ukraine / Vladimir Zeev Khanin -- A dual, divided modernization : reflections on 200 years of the Jewish reform movement in Germany / Micha Brumlik -- Ghosts of the past, challenges of the present : new and old "others" in contemporary Spain / Raanan Rein and Martina Weisz -- The dialectics of the diaspora : on the art of being Jewish in the Swedish minority / Lars Dencik -- Does European Jewry need a new ethnic spiritual umbrella? …”
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A road to nowhere? Jewish experiences in the unifying Europe /

Table of Contents: “…The Jewish world context -- Jews in Europe : demographic trends, contexts and outlooks / Sergio DellaPergola -- The European Jewish diaspora : the third pillar of world Jewry? / Gabriel Sheffer -- Cultural pluralism as an American Zionist option for solidarity its relevance for today's European Jewry / Ofer Schiff -- European Jewish experiences -- Between Eurasia and Europe : Jewish community and identities in contemporary Russia and Ukraine / Vladimir Zeev Khanin -- A dual, divided modernization : reflections on 200 years of the Jewish reform movement in Germany / Micha Brumlik -- Ghosts of the past, challenges of the present : new and old "others" in contemporary Spain / Raanan Rein and Martina Weisz -- The dialectics of the diaspora : on the art of being Jewish in the Swedish minority / Lars Dencik -- Does European Jewry need a new ethnic spiritual umbrella? …”
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Shining in shadows movie stars of the 2000s /

Table of Contents: “…. / Dominic Lennard -- Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman: million dollar seniors / Robert Eberwein -- Jennifer Aniston and Tina Fey: girls with glasses / Victoria E. Johnson -- Puerile pillars of the Frat Pack: Jack Black, Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, and Ben Stiller / Brenda R. …”
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Shining in shadows movie stars of the 2000s /

Table of Contents: “…. / Dominic Lennard -- Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman: million dollar seniors / Robert Eberwein -- Jennifer Aniston and Tina Fey: girls with glasses / Victoria E. Johnson -- Puerile pillars of the Frat Pack: Jack Black, Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, and Ben Stiller / Brenda R. …”
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Contested spaces of nobility in early modern Europe

Table of Contents: “…Turner -- The question of the imprescriptibility of nobility in early modern France / Elie Haddad -- All the king's men : educational reform and the restoration of the service nobility in early seventeenth-century Spain / Ryan Gaston -- "Of polish'd pillars, or a roofe of gold" : authority and affluence in the English country house poem / Sukanya Dasgupta -- Nobility as a social and political dialogue : the Parisian example, 1650-1750 / Mathieu Marraud -- Challenging the status quo : attempts to modernize the Polish nobility in the later eighteenth century / Jerzy Lukowski -- Resilient notables : looking at the transformation of the Ottoman Empire from the local level / M. …”
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The end of journalism news in the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: resistance is useless / Alec Charles -- Objectivity and the end of journalism / Andrew Calcutt and Philip Hammond -- Three cheers for subjectivity: or the crumbling of the seven pillars of traditional journalistic wisdom / Ivor Gaber -- YouTube if you want to: new media, investigative tele-journalism and social control / Jon Silverman -- Mobile journalism: a snapshot of current research and practice / David Cameron -- An alternative to "fortress journalism"? …”
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Contested spaces of nobility in early modern Europe

Table of Contents: “…Turner -- The question of the imprescriptibility of nobility in early modern France / Elie Haddad -- All the king's men : educational reform and the restoration of the service nobility in early seventeenth-century Spain / Ryan Gaston -- "Of polish'd pillars, or a roofe of gold" : authority and affluence in the English country house poem / Sukanya Dasgupta -- Nobility as a social and political dialogue : the Parisian example, 1650-1750 / Mathieu Marraud -- Challenging the status quo : attempts to modernize the Polish nobility in the later eighteenth century / Jerzy Lukowski -- Resilient notables : looking at the transformation of the Ottoman Empire from the local level / M. …”
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The end of journalism news in the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: resistance is useless / Alec Charles -- Objectivity and the end of journalism / Andrew Calcutt and Philip Hammond -- Three cheers for subjectivity: or the crumbling of the seven pillars of traditional journalistic wisdom / Ivor Gaber -- YouTube if you want to: new media, investigative tele-journalism and social control / Jon Silverman -- Mobile journalism: a snapshot of current research and practice / David Cameron -- An alternative to "fortress journalism"? …”
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Source code China the new global hub of IT outsourcing / by Eltschinger, Cyrill, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…-- Captive versus partner -- Build-operate-transfer -- Dual-shore delivery -- Going captive and avoiding the expat trap -- Ten lessons learned -- What works elsewhere does not necessarily work in China -- Develop a vision of the future beyond the next shareholder meeting -- Establish the right partnerships from the beginning -- Do your homework -- Commit for the long haul -- Prepare yourself for an unprecedented speed of change -- Choose an outsourcing city based on-- -- People, people, people -- Never give up -- It is all about face -- Winning the talent war -- English makes the world go round -- Recruiting staff -- Salaries on the rise -- Chinese work ethics -- Retaining staff: employee retention and loyalty programs -- China's outsourcing cities -- Beijing -- Shanghai -- Dalian -- Chengdu -- Xi'an -- Jinan -- Hangzhou -- Guangzhou -- Nanjing -- Shenzhen -- IT outsourcing, business process outsourcing, and knowledge process outsourcing in China -- Scope of outsourcing -- Global outsourcing options for customers -- Advantages of outsourcing to China -- Disadvantages to outsourcing to China -- Selection of vendor partners -- Due diligence of the capabilities of vendors -- Importance of business process standards -- Importance of standards in BPO -- Application of standards to different process types -- Process selection for outsourcing -- China's legal framework -- Market entry and establishing a business in China -- Intellectual property rights protection -- Employment issues -- Government policy -- Currency and taxation -- Dispute resolution and litigation -- China 2020 -- Pillar of the economy: focus on the high-tech sector -- Growth of the services sector -- Satisfying a fast-growing global IT and business processes services demand -- Overseas promotions leap forward -- Stable China market economic prospects -- Rise of globalization: in the front row -- China 2020: wild cards -- Appendix A: Exclusive survey of selected cities in cooperation with MOFCOM-- Appendix B: Case studies -- Appendix C: Contact information for major government offices, outsourcing centers, and online resources -- Index.…”
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Source code China the new global hub of IT outsourcing / by Eltschinger, Cyrill, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…-- Captive versus partner -- Build-operate-transfer -- Dual-shore delivery -- Going captive and avoiding the expat trap -- Ten lessons learned -- What works elsewhere does not necessarily work in China -- Develop a vision of the future beyond the next shareholder meeting -- Establish the right partnerships from the beginning -- Do your homework -- Commit for the long haul -- Prepare yourself for an unprecedented speed of change -- Choose an outsourcing city based on-- -- People, people, people -- Never give up -- It is all about face -- Winning the talent war -- English makes the world go round -- Recruiting staff -- Salaries on the rise -- Chinese work ethics -- Retaining staff: employee retention and loyalty programs -- China's outsourcing cities -- Beijing -- Shanghai -- Dalian -- Chengdu -- Xi'an -- Jinan -- Hangzhou -- Guangzhou -- Nanjing -- Shenzhen -- IT outsourcing, business process outsourcing, and knowledge process outsourcing in China -- Scope of outsourcing -- Global outsourcing options for customers -- Advantages of outsourcing to China -- Disadvantages to outsourcing to China -- Selection of vendor partners -- Due diligence of the capabilities of vendors -- Importance of business process standards -- Importance of standards in BPO -- Application of standards to different process types -- Process selection for outsourcing -- China's legal framework -- Market entry and establishing a business in China -- Intellectual property rights protection -- Employment issues -- Government policy -- Currency and taxation -- Dispute resolution and litigation -- China 2020 -- Pillar of the economy: focus on the high-tech sector -- Growth of the services sector -- Satisfying a fast-growing global IT and business processes services demand -- Overseas promotions leap forward -- Stable China market economic prospects -- Rise of globalization: in the front row -- China 2020: wild cards -- Appendix A: Exclusive survey of selected cities in cooperation with MOFCOM-- Appendix B: Case studies -- Appendix C: Contact information for major government offices, outsourcing centers, and online resources -- Index.…”
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Metalwork and material culture in the Islamic world : art, craft and text : essays presented to James W. Allan /

Table of Contents: “…: initial remarks on Qajar copper and copper-alloy objects in the National Museums of Scotland / Ulrike al-Khamis and Katherine Eremin -- Gilding, inlay and the mobility of metallurgy : a case of fraud in medieval Kashmir / Lorenz Korn -- Persians abroad : the case of the Jami' Masjid of Gulbarga / Robert Hillenbrand -- An extraordinary Mamluk casket in the Fitzwilliam Museum / Rachel Ward -- A Mamluk tray and its journey to the V&A / Tim Stanley -- Arabic titles, well-wishes and a female saint : a Mamluk basin in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam / Luitgard Mols -- A bronze tambourine player / Doris Behrens-Abouseif -- The Fatimid bronze hoard of Tiberias / Elias Khamis -- A group of round boxes from the metal hoard found in Caesarea / Ayala Lester -- Islamic Embroideries from Egypt : shifts in taste, change in status / Ruth Barnes -- Metalwork in Damascus at the end of the Ottoman period : an analysis of the Qāmūs al-Sinā'āt al-Shāmiyya / Marcus Milwright -- A bronze pillar lampstand from Petralia Sottana, Sicily / Jeremy Johns -- The metal mounts on Andalusi ivories : initial observations / Miriam Rosser-Owen -- The marble spolia from the Badi' Palace in Marrakesh / Nadia Erzini and Stephen Vernoit -- Glaze-decorated unglazed wares / Olivia Watson -- Pearl cups like the moon : the Abbasid Reception of Chinese ceramics and the Belitung shipwreck / Jessica Hallett -- Branding 'tradition' in contemporary tin-glaze pottery from Puebla / Farzaneh Pirouz-Moussavi -- The lion, the hare and lustreware / Fahmida Suleman -- Said el Sadr (1909-86) and Fatimid lustreware : a succession / Alan Caiger-Smith -- Potter's trail : an Abu Zayd Ewer in the Saint Louis Art Musuem / Oya Pancaroğlu -- From the workshops of New Julfa to the court of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich : an initial look at Armenian networks and the mobility of visual culture / Amy S. …”
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Metalwork and material culture in the Islamic world : art, craft and text : essays presented to James W. Allan /

Table of Contents: “…: initial remarks on Qajar copper and copper-alloy objects in the National Museums of Scotland / Ulrike al-Khamis and Katherine Eremin -- Gilding, inlay and the mobility of metallurgy : a case of fraud in medieval Kashmir / Lorenz Korn -- Persians abroad : the case of the Jami' Masjid of Gulbarga / Robert Hillenbrand -- An extraordinary Mamluk casket in the Fitzwilliam Museum / Rachel Ward -- A Mamluk tray and its journey to the V&A / Tim Stanley -- Arabic titles, well-wishes and a female saint : a Mamluk basin in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam / Luitgard Mols -- A bronze tambourine player / Doris Behrens-Abouseif -- The Fatimid bronze hoard of Tiberias / Elias Khamis -- A group of round boxes from the metal hoard found in Caesarea / Ayala Lester -- Islamic Embroideries from Egypt : shifts in taste, change in status / Ruth Barnes -- Metalwork in Damascus at the end of the Ottoman period : an analysis of the Qāmūs al-Sinā'āt al-Shāmiyya / Marcus Milwright -- A bronze pillar lampstand from Petralia Sottana, Sicily / Jeremy Johns -- The metal mounts on Andalusi ivories : initial observations / Miriam Rosser-Owen -- The marble spolia from the Badi' Palace in Marrakesh / Nadia Erzini and Stephen Vernoit -- Glaze-decorated unglazed wares / Olivia Watson -- Pearl cups like the moon : the Abbasid Reception of Chinese ceramics and the Belitung shipwreck / Jessica Hallett -- Branding 'tradition' in contemporary tin-glaze pottery from Puebla / Farzaneh Pirouz-Moussavi -- The lion, the hare and lustreware / Fahmida Suleman -- Said el Sadr (1909-86) and Fatimid lustreware : a succession / Alan Caiger-Smith -- Potter's trail : an Abu Zayd Ewer in the Saint Louis Art Musuem / Oya Pancaroğlu -- From the workshops of New Julfa to the court of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich : an initial look at Armenian networks and the mobility of visual culture / Amy S. …”
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Sustainability assessment of renewables-based products : methods and case studies /

Table of Contents: “…Claudius Kormann -- Early R&D stage sustainability assessment : the 5-pillar method / Akshay D. Patel, John A. Posada, Li Shen, Martin K. …”
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