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Corporate governance and the global financial crisis international perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Rethinking corporate governance : lessons from the global financial crisis / William Sun, Jim Stewart and David Pollard -- The failure of corporate governance and the limits of law : British banks and the global financial crisis / Roman Tomasic -- Where was the 'market for corporate control' when we needed it? …”
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Cultura visual en Japón : once estudios Iberoamericanos /

Table of Contents: “…La leyenda ilustrada de Hasedera: budismo y sincretismo religioso en Japón / Chari Pradel -- La divina comedia infantil / Fernando Carlos Chamas -- Ut pictura poesis: de los nombres poeticos y la cerámica del te en la epoca Momoyama / María Román Navarro -- El shunga como discurso sociocultural: algunas reflexiones terminológicas / Amaury A. …”
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Property, piracy and punishment Hugo Grotius on war and booty in De iure praedae : concepts and contexts /

Table of Contents: “…De iure praedae Chapter II and the prolegomena of De iure belli ac pacis compared / Laurens Winkel -- Law, war, and method in the Commentary on the law of prize by Hugo Grotius / Merio Scattola -- Grotius and Stobaeus / Jon Miller -- The patristic context in early Grotius / Silke-Petra Bergjan -- Secularization in De iure praedae : from Bible criticism to international law / Mark Somos -- War, piracy and religion : Godfried Udemans' Spiritual helm (1638) / Joris van Eijnatten -- Using the work : remarks on the text of De iure praedae / Jan Waszink -- Preparing Mare liberum for the press : Hugo Grotius' rewriting of Chapter 12 of De iure praedae in November-December 1608 / Martine Julia van Ittersum -- 'Sequuntur dogmatica de iure praedae' law and theology in Grotius's use of sources in De iure praedae / Franco Todescan -- The VOC, corporate sovereignty and the republican sub-text of De iure praedae / Eric Wilson -- Natural rights and Roman law in Hugo Grotius's Theses LVI, De iure praedae and Defensio capitis quinti maris liberi / Benjamin Straumann -- Tuck's Grotius : De iure praedae in context / George Wright -- Beyond the law : the image of piracy in the legal writings of Hugo Grotius / Michael Kempe -- Grotius and the origin of the ruler's right to punish / Gustaaf van Nifterik.…”
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Jewish and Christian scripture as artifact and canon

Table of Contents: “…. -- 'A thousand books will be saved' : Manichaean writings and religious propaganda in the Roman empire / Eduard Iricinschi -- The Danish hymnbook : artifact and text / Kirsten Nielsen -- Toward a sociology of Bible promise box use / David J. …”
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Cohabitation and Marriage in the Americas: Geo-historical Legacies and New Trends

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: A Geography of Cohabitation in the Americas, 1970-2010: Albert Esteve, Antonio López-Gay, Julián López-Colás, Iñaki Permanyer, Sheela Kennedy, Benoît Laplante, Ron Lesthaeghe, Anna Turu, Teresa Antònia Cusidó -- Chapter 2: The Rise of Cohabitation in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1970-2011: Albert Esteve, Ron Lesthaeghe, Antonio López-Gay and Joan Garcia-Román -- Chapter 3: Cohabitation and Marriage in Canada. …”
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Mathematics applied to engineering in action : advanced theories, methods, and models /

Table of Contents: “…Quantum Information Perspective on Chemical Reactivity / Roman F. Nalewajski -- A Computational Modeling of the Structure, Frontier Molecular Orbital (FMO) Analysis, and Global and Local Reactive Descriptors of a Phytochemical 'Coumestrol' / P. …”
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Alternative Iron Ages : Social Theory from Archaeological Analysis.

Table of Contents: “…Change, Resistance and Resilience in the NW Iberian Peninsula in the Bronze Age-Iron Age Transition 9 Characterising 'communities' in the Early Iron Age of Southern Britain 10 Heterarchy to Anarchy and Back Again: Social Transformations fromthe Late Bronze Age to the RomanIron Age in Lowland Scotland 11 Confusing Iron Ages: Communities of the Middle Danube Region between 'Tribal Hierarchy' and Heterarchy 12 A Bit of Anarchy in the Iron Age: New Perspectives on Social Structure in the Dutch Coastal Area of North-Holland 13 Iron Age Religions beyond Warrior Ideologies 14 Monumentalising the domestic: House Societies in Atlantic Scotland Part 3. …”
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Virtues for the People : Aspects of Plutarchan Ethics /

Table of Contents: “…The critical reader in the Moralia; Greek Poleis and the Roman Empire: Nature and Features of Political Virtues in an Autocratic System.…”
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Nondestructive Techniques for the Assessment and Preservation of Historic Structures / by Gonçalves, Luisa Maria da Silva

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 Nondestructive Techniques for the Assessment and Preservation of Existent Constructions -- chapter 2 Characterisation of Building Stock and Its Pathologies: Case Study of the Historical City Centre of Leiria, Portugal -- chapter 3 The Use of Multispectral Images and 3D-GIS Analysis for Monitoring the State of Conservation of Buildings: Case Study of the Historical City Centre of Leiria, Portugal -- chapter 4 Mechanical Characterisation of Masonry Walls with Flat-Jack Tests -- chapter 5 3D Structural Analysis to Support the Design Facade Retention System -- chapter 6 3D Structural Analysis to Support the Rehabilitation of Old Masonry Buildings -- chapter 7 Characterisation and Rehabilitation of One of the Historical Buildings of the Polotsk Campus of the Polotsk State University -- chapter 8 Applications of GPR in the Study of Cultural Heritage: Examples of the Ability of the Method in Assessing Different Features -- chapter 9 Survey and Characterisation of Foundifer's Chapel Pathologies of the Santa Maria da Vitoria Monastery, Batalha -- chapter 10 Dynamic Measurements as Support to the Assessment of the Monastery of Santa Maria Da Vitoria, Batalha -- chapter 11 Rehabilitation of Historical Masonry Buildings in Belarus: Case Studies of Peter the Great's House in Polotsk and Lubcha Castle -- chapter 12 Optical and Electromagnetic Sensing for the Inspection and Characterisation of Ancient Masonry Arch Bridges -- chapter 13 Ground-Penetrating Radar for Archaeology and Cultural- Heritage Diagnostics: Activities Carried Out in COST Action TU1208 -- chapter 14 3D Reconstruction of the Roman Site Aquis Querquennis by Means of TLS and GPR Methods -- chapter 15 Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Harbours: A Geoarchaeological GPR-Based Approach for Depicting the Spatial Characteristics of Human Structures and Natural Hazards in Ancient Falasarna Harbour -- chapter 16 Ground-Penetrating Radar for Nondestructive Structural Imaging of Ancient Sculptures.…”
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Wisdom and folly in Euripides /

Table of Contents: “…-- Thalia Papadopoulou: Euripidean frenzy goes to Rome: the case of Roman comedy and novel -- Barbara Goff: The leopard-skin of Heracles: traditional wisdom and untraditional madness in a Ghanaian Alcestis -- Michalis Tiverios: New evidence for Euripides' (?) …”
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Criticism of theology on Marxism and theology III / by Boer, Roland, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…The Alchemy of Michael Löwy -- Elective affinities -- Emergence -- Untidy corners and sexy dialectics -- Liberation theology -- Roman-Catholic social teaching -- The ontological reserve -- One or many? …”
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Obsidian and ancient manufactured glasses

Table of Contents: “…Kusimba -- On the provenance of Roman glasses / Caroline M. Jackson -- Characterization and provenance of archaeological glass artifacts from mainland and Aegean Greece / Konstantinos G. …”
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Handbook for III-V high electron mobility transistor technologies /

Table of Contents: “…A Study of the Elemental and Surface Characterization of AlGaN/GaN HEMT by Magnetron Sputtering System [Roman Garcia-Perez, Karen Lozano, Jorge Castillo, and Hasina F. …”
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Chromatographic techniques in the forensic analysis of designer drugs /

Table of Contents: “…Sprague -- Alternative legislation with designer drugs / Dariusz Zuba -- Biological precursors of designer drugs / Lukasz Komsta, Katarzyna Wicha-Komsta -- Liquid chromatography : mass spectrometry in analysis of designer drugs / Beril Anilanmert -- Ambient plasma ionization techniques in forensic analysis / Przemyslaw Mielczarek, Marek Smoluch -- Application of LC-QTOFMS for the identification of the structure of new psychoactive substances / Karolina Sekula, Dariusz Zuba -- Rapid generation of metabolites by electrochemical method / Przemyslaw Mielczarek, Marek Smoluch -- Gas chromatography : mass spectrometry in analysis of designer drugs / Bogumila Byrska, Roman Stanaszek -- NMR spectroscopy in the analysis of illegal drugs / Vlatka Vajs, Iris Djordjevic, Ljubodrag Vujisic, Slobodan M. …”
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Cold war cultures perspectives on Eastern and Western European societies /

Table of Contents: “…The peace and the war camps : the dichotomous Cold War culture in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1960 / Roman Krakovsky -- Artistic style, canonization, and identity politics in Cold War Germany, 1947-1960 / Joes Segal -- What does democracy look like? …”
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Entanglements in Legal History: Conceptual Approaches /

Table of Contents: “…Entanglements in legal history : introductory remarks / Thomas Duve -- European legal history : concepts, methods, challenges / Thomas Duve -- Coding the nation : codification history from a (post- )global perspective / Inge Kroppenberg, Nikolaus Linder -- Towards new conceptual approaches in legal history : rethinking "Hindu law" through Weber's sociology of religion / Geetanjali Srikantan -- Legal transplants between time and space / George Rodrigo Bandeira Galindo -- Ancient entanglements : the influence of Greek treaties in Roman 'international law' under the framework of narrative transculturation / Emiliano J. …”
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HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY OF DISABILITY human validity and invalidity from antiquity to early modernity. by Hughes, Bill, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…<P>List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; Violating disability; Chapter outlines; Concluding remarks; <I>PART 1: Method and Theory; </I>CHAPTER 1: Thinking through disability history: An act of recovery; Introduction; Methodological self-consciousness: The author in the confessional; New Historicism; The place of <I>Proprium</I> and moral economy in a historical sociology of disability; History of disability or a history of impairment; Concluding remarks; CHAPTER 2: Modelling disability theory: A contemporary history of the disability idea; Introduction; First wave radicalism: The social model of disability; The second wave: Conceptual proliferation, Critical Disability Studies and the growth of the cultural model of disability; Concluding remarks; CHAPTER 3: Conceptualising property and propriety, validity and invalidation; Introduction; Recognition: Moral economy of propriety; Ableism: the cloak of validity; Invalidation; Concluding remarks; Part 1: Concluding remarks; <I>PART 2: Disability in History: Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Early Modernity; </I>Part 2: Introductory remarks; CHAPTER 4: Disability in ancient Greece and Rome; Introduction; <I>Arete</I>: The contours of classical propriety; 'And those of the worst': Disposable bodies; <I>Pharmakos</I>: The disabled scapegoat; An ocular-centric culture of light and appearance: being blind in Greco-Roman society; Concluding Remarks; CHAPTER 5: Disability in the Christian Middle Ages; Introduction; Eristic Christianity; God, Church and state: Normate power triangulated; Theological invalidations: The others of the unscathed; Ambiguous God, ambiguous scripture, ambiguous testaments of sin and disability; God's tease: Saints and sinners; No ears to hear, no eyes to see ... the wonders of God; The era of ridicule; From monsters to demons; Merciful conduct: A stairway to heaven; Concluding remarks; CHAPTER 6: Renaissance and Reformation: Disability invalidation in Early Modernity; Introduction; Interregnum; Aesthetics and classical revivalism; Demons and witches; Monsters; Dark subjects; Savages and heathens; Social dislocation: Vagabonds and beggars; Fools and folly; 'Each to his own': The closed Protestant body; Concluding remarks; CONCLUSION: A banquet of indignities; Index</P>…”
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Studies in archaeological conservation /

Table of Contents: “…Conservation of two World War I rifles and a military equipment belt -- 26. Conservation of a Roman skeleton -- 27. Treatment of a block-lifted chicken skeleton…”
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Radical poetics and secular Jewish culture

Table of Contents: “…Radical Jewish culture/secular Jewish practice / Charles Bernstein -- Who or what is a Jewish American poet, with specific reference to David Antin, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau Duplessis, and Jerome Rothenberg / Hank Lazer -- The house of Jews: experimental modernism and traditional Jewish practice / Jerome Rothenberg -- Zukofsky at 100: Zukofsky as a body of work / Bob Perelman -- Addendum: on "the Jewish question": three perspectives / Bob Perelman -- Light(silence)word / Norman Fischer -- On Yiddish poetry and translation of Yiddish poetry / Kathryn Hellerstein -- An "exotic" on East Broadway: Mikhl Likht and the paradoxes of Yiddish modernist poetry / Merle Bachman -- Revisiting Charles Reznikoff's urban poetics of diaspora and contingency / Ranen Omer-Sherman -- Looking at Louis Zukofsky's poetics through Spinozist glasses / Joshua Schuster -- "Can a Jew be wild": the radical Jewish grammar of Gertrude Stein's voices poems / Amy Feinstein -- Remains of the diaspora: a personal meditation / Michael Heller -- Secular and sacred: returning (to) the repressed / Alicia Ostriker -- Midrashic sensibilities: secular Judaism and radical poetics (a personal essay in several chapters) / Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- Secular Jewish culture and its radical poetic discontents / Norman Finkelstein -- Radical relation: Jewish identity and the power of contradictions in the poetics of Muriel Rukeyser and George Oppen / Meg Schoerke -- "Yes and no, not either/or": aesthetics, identity, and Marjorie Perloff's Vienna paradox / Daniel Morris -- "Sound scraps, vision scraps": Paul Celan's poetic practice / Marjorie Perloff -- Language in the dark: the legacy of Walter Benjamin in the opera Shadowtime / Charlie Bertsch -- Danger, skepticism, and democratic longing: five contemporary secular Jewish American poets / Thomas Fink -- Relentlessly going on and on: how Jews remade modern poetry without even trying / Stephen Paul Miller -- Azoy toot a Yid: secular poetics and "the Jewish way" / Eric Murphy Selinger -- A Jew in New York / Bob Holman -- Imp/penetrable archive: Adeena Karasick's wall of sound / Maria Damon -- In the shadow of desire: Charles Bernstein's Shadowtime and its kabbalistic trajectories / Adeena Karasick -- Hijacking language: kabbalistic trajectories / Adeena Karasick -- Letter to the Romans / Benjamin Friedlander -- White / Paul Auster.…”
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The archaeology of hybrid material culture /

Table of Contents: “…Lyons -- Small beginnings: experimental technologies and implications for hybridity / Katherine Hayes -- Set in stone: on hybrid images and social relationships in prehistoric and Roman Europe / Christopher M. Roberts -- Architectural spaces and hybrid practices in ancient northern Mesopotamia / Sevil Baltal Trpan -- What, where, and when is hybridity / Stephen W. …”
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