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Against the gallows antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment / by Jones, Paul C., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Haunted by the gallows: Antebellum American literature and capital punishment -- The politics of poetry: The democratic review and anti-gallows verse in 1840s America -- The American Newgate novel: Antebellum crime fiction and anti- gallows sympathy -- Walt Whitman's anti-gallows writing: The appeal to Christian sympathy -- Women's anti-gallows writing: The sentimental strategy of E. D. E. N. Southworth -- Herman Melville's Billy Budd: The legacy of antebellum anti-gallows literature.…”
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Shifting terrain essays on politics, history and society / by Perusek, Glenn W. (Glenn Wesley), 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Hubris of empire -- "A horizon lit with blood" : the U.S. occupation and resistance in Iraq -- Strategy and changing moods in Thucydides -- The dispossessed -- Child labor in the world economy -- The most dispossessed : hunger and poverty on a world scale -- Barren ground : American political culture -- Shifting terrain : styles of liberalism, periodization, and levels of analysis -- The politics of organized labor in the United States, 1945-1998 -- Two methodological traditions in the social sciences.…”
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Troublemakers power, representation, and the fiction of the mass worker / by Scott, William, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…The powerless worker and the failure of political representation : "the lowest and most degraded of human beasts"; The empowered worker and the technological representation of capital : "out of this furnace, this metal." Part two: Strategy and structure at the point of production. …”
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HR at your service lessons from benchmark service organizations / by Latham, Gary P.

Table of Contents: “…Client-centric strategy: a blueprint for human resource managers -- Providing client-centric service: delivering quality clients value -- Planning to meet client expectations -- Creating & leading a client-centric HR culture -- Client-centric staffing & training -- Motivating & empowering client-centric service -- HR information systems: communicating client-centric service -- HR service delivery systems: ensuring client-centric service -- You've landed a seat at the table: now stay there! …”
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How to design and teach a hybrid course achieving student-centered learning through blended classroom, online, and experiential activities / by Caulfield, Jay, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…-- Theoretical applications -- Experiential learning -- Planning your hybrid course: critical questions to consider -- Designing and teaching your hybrid course -- Discussion as a way of learning in a hybrid course -- Providing and soliciting student feedback -- Using small groups as a learning strategy -- Meeting student expectations -- Enhancing teaching through the use of technology -- Interview data -- What students say about hybrid -- What the best hybrid teachers say -- What the best hybrid teachers do -- Concluding chapter -- Conclusion: coming full circle, future research & final reflections.…”
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Inside CEO succession the essential guide to leadership transition / by Saporito, Thomas J., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…-- RHR's essential point of view -- The 10 key dimensions of effective succession -- Establish board ownership, involvement, and oversight -- Set succession timeframes -- Prepare for emergencies -- Align on strategy and profile -- Build the talent pipeline -- Source external talent and manage search firms -- Select the CEO -- Proactively manage the transition -- Measure performance and improve process -- Manage the dynamics in CEO succession -- Epilogue : perspectives on the future.…”
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Romania and the European Union how the weak vanquished the strong / by Gallagher, Tom, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…The EU discovers Romania -- Crafty natives lead the Eurocrats astray -- The futility of EU funding -- Labour of Sisyphus: administrative reform in Romania -- Justice clings to its chains: 1989-2004 -- NATO, the EU and Romania's strategy of duplicity -- The EU at its most incoherent: April-December 2004 -- The EU regains and loses the initiative: 2005-07 -- Corruption and anti-corruption -- The expiry of reform after 2007.…”
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PHR/SPHR Professional in Human Resources certification study guide / by Reed, Sandra M.

Table of Contents: “…Certifying human resource professionals -- Core knowledge requirements for HR professionals -- Business management and strategy -- Workforce planning and employment -- Human resource development -- Compensation and benefits -- Employee and labor relations -- Risk management.…”
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Freedom is an endless meeting democracy in American social movements / by Polletta, Francesca

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1 STRATEGY AND DEMOCRACY -- 2 ARMY, TOWN MEETING, OR CHURCH IN THE CATACOMBS? …”
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Making effective business decisions using Microsoft Project by Runcie, Tim

Table of Contents: “…Business intelligence : knowledge of key success ingredients for project server 2010 -- Value proposition by role of project server 2010 -- Meeting cfo needs with projectÿ/ÿserverÿ2010 -- The business shakes hands with the microsoft project 2010 platform -- The end users' critical success factors : using MS project 2010 -- Thinking local, going social : project teams can thrive using microsoft project server 2010 -- Better together : Microsoft Project 2010 worksites using sharepoint server 2010 -- Effective transition of strategy and execution : program management using microsoft project server 2010 -- Intelligent business planning and controlling using microsoft project 2010 -- Intelligent business planning and reporting using microsoft project 2010.…”
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Telomerase composition, functions and clinical implications /

Table of Contents: “…Telomerase beyond telomeres : new roles for an old enzyme / Gabriele Saretzki -- Telomerase and telomeric proteins : a life beyond telomeres / Ilaria Chiodi, Cristina Belgiovine, Chiara Mondello -- Histone deacetylase inhibition as an anticancer telomerase-targeting strategy / Ruman Rahman -- Telomerase role in pituitary adenomas / A. …”
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Best practices for graphic designers, grids and page layouts an essential guide for understanding and applying page design principles / by Graver, Amy

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Brand identity essentials 100 principles for designing logos and building brands / by Budelmann, Kevin

Table of Contents: “…Imagery -- Color -- Dimension -- Contrast -- Shape -- Symbols -- Typography -- Writing -- Story -- Order -- Variation -- Personalization -- Psychology -- Process -- Production -- Digital identity -- Trends -- Shortcuts -- Social media -- Multiples -- Intellectual property -- Documentation -- Evolution -- Competition -- Originality -- Wit-- Idealism -- Authenticity -- Commitment -- Strategy -- Research -- Touchpoints -- Inspiration -- Simplicity.…”
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The putting patients first field guide : global lessons in designing and implementing patient-centered care /

Table of Contents: “…Patient-centered care as fundamental strategy for achieving high-quality, high-value care -- part 2. …”
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Seven disciplines of a leader : how to help your people, team, and organization achieve maximum effectiveness / by Wolf, Jeff (Economist)

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The HGF receptor a targettable regulator of invasive growth /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Trigger of invasive growth by specific signals -- Invasive growth receptors -- The "receptosome" -- Dynamics of invasive growth signalling -- The MET transcriptome -- HGF regulated genes -- Hypoxia regulates MET transcription -- The effector machinery of invasive growth: the coagulation cascade -- HGF antagonists impair tumor growth and metastasis: a gene therapy strategy.…”
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Antibody engineering of Fc effector functions

Table of Contents: “…Contents: IgG structure and modes of action -- Human IgG Fc receptors -- Structural interactions -- Engineering strategy -- Selection of subclasses and effector functions -- Manipulation of functions -- Case study: FMAIT -- Design and engineering of inhibitory Fc mutants -- Functional properties -- Complement mediated lysis -- FcR binding -- Monocyte activation -- ADCC -- Clinical volunteer study -- Activatory mutations -- Enhanced binding to FcR -- Increased ADCC -- Possible applications.…”
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Functional pain disorders

Table of Contents: “…-- Reported alterations in brain responses in stress-sensitive pain syndromes -- Deconstructing the clinical syndrome into biological endophenotypes -- Identifying associations between genes and biological intermediate phenotypes -- Central neurobiological phenomics strategy -- Temporal dimensions of central pain amplification -- Central pain amplification: altered sensorimotor gating -- Preattentive sensory gating mechanisms -- Role of altered emotional arousal -- Central pain amplification.…”
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Endoplasmic reticulum stress in neurodegenerative diseases

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Neurodegenerative disease -- Misfolded aggregates deposited in the brain -- Research strategy -- Prion diseases -- Two conformations of the prion protein -- Experimental scrapie model in mice -- Upregulation of ER chaperones -- ER-stress and UPR in human CJD -- PrP interaction with ER chaperones in brain -- PrPSc induction of ER-stress and neuronal death -- Calcineurin properties -- A novel treatment for prion diseases.…”
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Improving respiratory diagnostics (viruses)

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Human respiratory viral infections -- Community-acquired pneumonia in children -- Viral pneumonia in adults (New Zealand) -- Diagnostic tools for respiratory viruses their accuracy --and developments -- Various assays for respiratory viruses -- Recently discovered respiratory viruses -- Growth of the viral sequence database -- Details of staged strategy for pathogen discovery including tests, analysis of findings & assigning causation.…”
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