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In the shadow of slavery Africa's botanical legacy in the Atlantic world / by Carney, Judith Ann

Table of Contents: “…Food and the African past -- African plants on the move -- African food crops and the Guinea trade -- African food and the Atlantic crossing -- Maroon subsistence strategies -- The Africanization of plantation food systems -- Botanical gardens of the dispossessed -- Guinea's plants and European empire -- African animals and grasses in the New World tropics -- Memory dishes of Africa's botanical legacy.…”
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Opacity and the closet queer tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol / by De Villiers, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Opacities: queer strategies -- Confessions of a masked philosopher: anonymity and identification in Foucault and Guibert -- Matte figures: Roland Barthes's ethics of meaning -- "What do you have to say for yourself?" …”
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Rise and shine a practical guide for the beginning science teacher / by Froschauer, Linda

Table of Contents: “…Off to a good start -- Before you open the classroom or lab door for students -- The first week of school -- Creating an environment for learning -- Safety in the laboratory -- Your attitude matters -- Teaching strategies -- Assessment literacy -- Creating professional development opportunities -- Parents as partners -- Finding support -- Preparing for your evaluation -- End-of-year activities and reflections.…”
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The rhetoric of moral protest : public campaigns, celebrity endorsement, and political mobilization / by Lahusen, Christian

Table of Contents: “…Understanding and explaining mobilization : campaign strategies and organized collective action -- part V. …”
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Psychology of terrorists : tools for profiling and counterterrorism / by Hamden, Raymond H.

Table of Contents: “…History of terrorists in brief -- Analysis with psychological defence styles -- Types of terrorists -- The psychopathic terrorists -- The ethno-geographic terrorists: religious & political -- The retributional terrorists -- Techniques of interviews and interrogations -- Techniques of intervention -- Understanding terrorist attacks: methods, mode, tactics, and strategies -- Profiling and counter-terrorism, track I -- Profiling and counter-terrorism, track II.…”
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Haemophilus

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Hemophilus influenzae -- Virulence determinants -- Immunization strategies -- Hib -- Other serotypes -- Basic structure of the H. influenzae LOS -- Sialic acids and virulence -- Phosphorylcholine (PCho) and virulence -- Phase variable genes -- Iron utilization systems -- Resistance to effectors of innate immunity -- Adhesins -- Other Haemophilus species associated with human health and disease -- Haemophilus ducreyi…”
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A systems approach to implementation of personalized cancer therapy

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Targeted therapy for cancer -- Adaptive resistance: PI3K pathway -- Tumor heterogeneity -- Challenges & need for functional genomics -- Identification of PIK3R1 driver mutations -- Human proteomics atlas: reverse phase protein array (RPPA) -- Checkpoint inhibition as potential targets -- Synergy, operating model & strategy for combination therapies.…”
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Nanomedicines for brain diseases

Table of Contents: “…Contents: The Blood-Brain Barrier in healthy and diseased state -- Planning a nano-4-neuro -- Strategies for Blood-Brain Barrier crossing with nanotechnology -- Technological issues -- What we learn and what to do in NPs for CNS -- Exploitation of endogenous/exogenous pathways -- Proofs of concept and pharmacological evidences -- The case of Alzheimer's Disease: analysis of nanomedicine applications.…”
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Immune responses to viruses

Table of Contents: “…Contents: The roles of adaptive immunity in responses to virus infection -- Methods used to investigate role of T cells in immunity to infection in murine and human systems -- LCMV as a model for antiviral responses and HCV parallels -- Key mechanisms regulating CD8+ T cell responses in chronic infection -- Induction of T cell responses as a possible vaccine strategy.…”
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Diagnosis and clinical management of autism implications for young children /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in young children -- How and when ASD symptoms emerge -- Understanding early communication, interaction and language development -- The foundational skills involved in promoting language and communication development -- Current screening practices -- Recommendations for early intervention -- Empirically-supported interventions -- Challenges families face and strategies to help.…”
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More studies in ethnomethodology by Liberman, Kenneth, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The local orderliness of crossing Kincaid -- Following sketched maps -- The reflexivity of rules in games -- Communicating meanings -- Some local strategies for surviving intercultural conversations -- "There is a gap" in the Tibetological literature -- Choreographing the orderliness of Tibetan philosophical debates -- The phenomenology of coffee tasting: lessons in practical objectivity -- Conclusion: respecifying Husserl's phenomenology as situated worldly inquiries.…”
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Prosperity's predicament : identity, reform, and resistance in rural wartime China / by Crook, Isabel

Table of Contents: “…Insiders -- The market way of life -- Living off the land: farm labor -- Not far afield: family survival strategies -- Lineages, landlords, and the local body politic -- The paoge and informal power -- Part II. …”
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Change management for sustainability / by Ha, Huong

Table of Contents: “…People behaviors and organizational culture for change and sustainability -- 6. Strategy and structural change for sustainability -- 7. …”
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Introduction to population ecology / by Rockwood, Larry L., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Single species populations -- Density independent growth -- Density dependent growth and intraspecific competition -- Population regulation -- Populations with age structures -- Metapopulation ecology -- Life history strategies -- Interspecific interactions among populations -- Interspecific competition -- Mutualism -- Host-parasite interactions -- Predator-prey interactions -- Plant-herbivore interactions -- Multi-trophic interactions.…”
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Foucault's Archaeology : Science and Transformation / by Webb, David (David A.)

Table of Contents: “…The unities of discourse -- Discursive formations -- The formation of objects -- The formation of enunciative modalities -- The formation of concepts -- The formation of strategies -- Remarks and consequences -- Defining the statement -- The enunciative funcion -- The description of statements -- Rarity, exteriority, accumulation -- The historical a priori and the archive -- Archaeology and the history of ideas -- The original and the regular -- Contradictions -- The comparative facts -- Change and transformations -- Science and knowledge.…”
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Options, futures and other derivatives / by Hull, John, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Mechanics of futures markets -- Hedging strategies using futures -- Interest rates -- Determination of forward and futures prices -- Interest rate futures -- Swaps -- Mechanics of options markets -- Properties of stock options -- Trading strategies involving options -- Binomial trees -- Wiener processes and Ito's Lemma -- The Black-Scholes-Merton model -- Employee stock options -- Options on stock indices and currencies -- Options on futures -- Greek letters -- Volatility smiles -- Basic numerical procedures -- Value at risk -- Estimating volatilities and correlations for risk management -- Credit risk -- Credit derivatives -- Exotic options -- Insurance, weather, and energy derivatives -- More on models and numerical procedures -- Martingales and measures -- Interest rate derivatives : the standard market models -- Convexity, timing and quanto adjustments -- Interest rate derivatives : models of the short rate -- Interest rate derivatives : HJM and LMM -- Swaps revisited -- Real options -- Derivatives mishaps and what we can learn from them.…”

Rethinking Indian political institutions

Table of Contents: “…The politics of economic reforms in India : a review of the literature / Jos Mooji -- The temptations of presidentialism : an explanation of the evolving political strategy of the BJP / Sanjay Ruparelia -- Ideological integration in post-colonial (South) India : aspects of a political language / Pamela Price -- The fight for turf and the crisis of ideology : broadcasting reform and media distribution networks in India / Veena Naregal -- Land use in Bombay : institutional effects and political outcomes / Bhavana Padiyath -- Understanding local politics, democracy, and civil society : environmental governance in urban India / Bharat Dahiya -- Political institutions, strategies of governance, and forms of resistance in rural market towns of contemporary Bengal : a study of Bolpur Municipality / Subho Basu -- Autonomy, political literacy, and the 'social woman' : towards a politics of inclusion / Sumi Madhok -- The development of panchayati raj / Crispin Bates -- Political representation and women's empowerment : women in the institutions of local self-government in Orissa / Evelin Hust.…”
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Revolutionaries to race leaders Black power and the making of African American politics / by Johnson, Cedric, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…-- Black power and African American politics -- The "Negro revolution" and Cold War America : revolutionary politics and racial conservatism in the work of Harold Cruse -- Return of the native : Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), the new nationalism, and Black power politics -- The convention strategy and conventional politics : the 1972 Gary convention and the limits of racial unity -- From popular anti-imperialism to sectarianism : the African Liberation Day mobilizations and radical intellectuals -- Radical departures : the National Black Political Assembly, the National Black Independent Political Party, and the struggle for alternatives -- Conclusion : the ends of Black politics.…”
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From hot war to cold the U.S. Navy and national security affairs, 1945-1955 / by Barlow, Jeffrey G., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Wartime organizational changes in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations -- Initial challenges : postwar and demobilization planning -- The Navy and unification -- The National Security Act achieved -- Preparing for a new enemy -- War ends in the Pacific -- Troubles emerge in postwar China, 1945-1946 -- Assessing and responding to the Soviet naval threat -- Adjusting to the National Military Establishment -- Living in "interesting times" -- Slugging it out on Capitol Hill -- Events in the western Pacific -- Troubles on the Korean Peninsula -- Deciding to fight -- Defending NATO Europe : planning during the initial stages -- The Eisenhower national security structure -- Rethinking national strategy -- Coping with the new look -- A crisis abroad and a CNO's departure.…”
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The hyperlinked society questioning connections in the digital age /

Table of Contents: “…Napoli -- The hyperlink in newspapers and blogs / Lokman Tsui -- The role of expertise in navigating links of influence / Eszter Hargittai -- Google, links, and popularity versus authority / Seth Finkelstein -- The hyperlinked news organization / Martin Nisenholtz -- How hyperlinks ought to change the advertising business / Tom Hespos -- Hyperlinks and marketing insight / Stacey Lynn Schulman -- Hyperlinking and advertising strategy / Eric Picard -- From hyperlinks to hyperties / Marc A. …”
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