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Charles S. Peirce : On Norms and Ideals / by Potter, Vincent G.

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Reinventing local and regional economies / by Gordon, Gerald L.

Table of Contents: “…The case study approach -- Lessons from the formula for economic growth on main street America -- Political foundations for economic reinvention -- Exposing the notion that a local economy can remain static -- Taking the long-term view and managing expectations : the horizon for elected officials -- Economic development seen as an investment -- (Case studies: Fairfax County, Milwaukee) -- Community development as a precursor to economic reinvention -- Building bridges between the public and private sectors -- (Case studies: Rochester, Allentown, Buffalo) -- Creating support systems and clusters -- (Case studies: Lexington, Kentucky; Pittsburgh; Dayton; Kansas City, Phoenix) -- Enhancing a community's assets for business attraction: tending to the product -- (Case studies: Baltimore, Las Vegas/Water) -- Basic strategic foundations for economic growth and economic development -- Distinguishing between economic growth and economic development -- Stabilizing economies through diversification -- (Case studies: Seattle, Detroit, Fairfax County, Birmingham, Tulsa, Charlotte) -- Coordinating land use and other local and regional planning -- (Case studies: Albuquerque, Dubuque, Youngstown) -- Target industries and community assets -- (Case studies: Indianapolis, Cleveland, the Bronx, multiple silicon "wannabe's" -- Encouraging technology transfer from colleges and universities to stimulate economic development -- (Case studies: MIT, johns hopkins, carnegie-mellon university and the university of pittsburgh, george Mason University) -- Marketing for business relocation and expansion -- Reality versus perceptions and truth in advertising -- The growth of entrepreneurial businesses as a complement to business attraction and retention -- (case studies: Allentown, Rochester, Kansas City) -- Best (and worst) practices in the use of incentives for business attraction -- (Case studies: Chicago/Boeing; State of North Carolina/Firestone Bridgestone tires; State of Maryland/Marriott Corporation).…”

The discipline of architecture

Table of Contents: “…A Dialectics of Determination: Social Truth-Claims in -- Architectural Writing, 1970-1995 -- David J. …”
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Digital media and democracy tactics in hard times /

Table of Contents: “…Travers Scott -- Al Jazeera English : an interview with Hassan Ibrahim / Nathalie Magnan, Megan Boler, and Andréa Schimdt -- Media interventions and art practices : an interview with Shaina Anand / Alessandra Renzi and Megan Boler -- The gambiarra : considerations on a recombinatory technology / Ricardo Rosas -- Where the activism is / Trebor Scholz -- Whacking Bush : tactical media as play / Graham Meikle -- The daily show and Crossfire : satire and sincerity as truth to power / Megan Boler with Stephen Turpin -- Cybersupremacy : the new face and form of White supremacist activism / R. …”
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In Defense of Free Speech in Universities : A Study of Three Jurisdictions / by Lai, Amy Tak-Yee, 1977-

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Confucianisms for a Changing World Cultural Order /

Table of Contents: “…/ Michael NYLAN -- Euro-Japanese universalism, Korean Confucianism, and aesthetic communities / Wonsuk CHANG -- State power and the Confucian classics : observations on the Mengzi jiewen and truth management under the first Ming emperor / Bernhard FUEHRER -- Striving For democracy : Confucian political philosophy in the Ming and Qing dynasties / WU Genyou.…”
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Charles S. Peirce : On Norms and Ideals / by Potter, Vincent G.

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Charles S. Peirce : On Norms and Ideals / by Potter, Vincent G.

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Worlds Apart : Bosnian Lessons for Global Security / by Hunt, Swanee

Table of Contents: “…Carrington" -- Outside : a convenient euphemism -- Inside : angels and animals -- Outside : Carter and conscience -- Inside : "If I left, everyone would flee" -- Outside : none of our business -- Inside : Silajdžić -- Outside : unintended consequences -- Inside : the bread factory -- Outside : elegant tables -- Inside : the unspeakable -- Outside : the politics of rape -- Inside : an unlikely soldier -- Outside : happy Fourth of July -- Inside : women on the side -- Outside : contact sport -- Inside : an artificial war -- Outside : clashes -- Inside : crossing the fault line -- Outside : "The truth about Goražde" -- Inside : loyal -- Outside : Pentagon sympathies -- Inside : family friends -- Outside : extremists -- Inside : family ties -- Outside : federation -- Inside : school days -- Outside : forces and counterforces -- Inside : blood -- Outside : trade-offs -- Inside : grim lullaby -- Outside : security and cooperation -- Inside : Sarajevo Cinderella -- Outside : failure at Srebrenica -- Inside : Magbula's parrot -- Outside : the accident -- Inside : boys pretending -- Outside : bombs and bluffs -- Inside : side by side -- Outside: decisions at Dayton -- Inside : morning has broken -- Outside : waiting for Christmas -- Inside : Serb exodus -- Outside : refugees in Austria -- Inside : refugees at the residence -- Outside : diplobabble -- Inside : displaced -- Outside : sowing and reaping -- Inside : Banja Luka bitterness -- Outside : war criminals -- Inside : uncatchable -- Outside : evenhanded -- Inside : no justice in Srebrenica -- Outside : the tribunal -- Inside : waiting for the truth -- Outside : intelligence and political will -- Inside : professor, perpetrator, president -- Outside : the fourth warring party -- Inside : city signs -- Outside : out of step -- Inside : by a thread -- Outside : missing -- Inside : surviving the peace -- Outside : press tour -- Inside : organized for action -- Outside : Lyons -- Inside : "What's an NGO"? …”
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Nurse Writers of the Great War / by Hallett, Christine E.

Table of Contents: “…Disillusionment and despair: meeting the realities of warThe mystery of War Nurse; Conclusion: the truth about the war; Notes; 8 The British 'VAD'; Introduction: becoming a VAD; Realising war's realities; Vera Brittain's Testament; Enid Bagnold: military medicine as part of the 'war machine'; Needed by the country: Irene Rathbone's 'novel'; Conclusion: the VAD as witness; Notes; 9 Epic romance on Western and Eastern Fronts; Introduction: the romance of volunteer work; Ordeals on the Western Front; 'Wide open world': the adventures of Florence Farmborough.…”
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Global warming gridlock creating more effective strategies for protecting the planet / by Victor, David G.

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: List of figures; List of tables; Preface and acknowledgements; Hard truths on global warming: a roadmap to reading this book; Part I. …”
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Poems from Guantánamo the detainees speak /

Table of Contents: “…. / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost -- Cup poem 2 / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost -- Two fragments / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost -- First poem of my life / Mohammed El Gharani -- Humiliated in the shackles / Sami al Haj -- The truth / Emad Abdullah Hassan -- Is it true? / Osama Abu Kabir -- Hunger strike poem / Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif -- I am sorry, my brother / Othman Abdulraheem Mohammad -- Terrorist 2003 / Martin Mubanga -- I write my hidden longing / Abdulla Majid al Noaimi, the captive of dignity -- My heart was wounded by the strangeness / Abdulla Majid al Noaimi, the captive of dignity -- Ode to the sea / Ibrahim al Rubaish -- Even if the pain / Siddiq Turkestani.…”
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Representation matters (re)articulating collective identities in a postcolonal world /

Table of Contents: “…Alterity and identities: the paradoxes of authenticity / Sudeep Dasgupta ; Insularity and identity at odds in Martinique : 1973 to 2004 / Marc Brudzinski ; The West between culture(s) and collective identity : notes for a present problematic / Nimrod Ben-Cnaan ; Ubuntu, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and South African national identity / Hanneke Stuit ; Resistance or compliance? …”
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Digital library futures user perspectives and institutional strategies /

Table of Contents: “…Welcome by the University of Milan, the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and IFLA / Elio Franzini, Maurizio Fallace, Claudia Lux -- Introduction to the conference theme / Patrice Landry -- The virtual scholar : the hard and evidential truth / David Nicholas -- Who are the users of digital libraries, what do they expect and want? …”
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Framing the world explorations in ecocriticism and film /

Table of Contents: “…The rhetoric of ascent in An inconvenient truth and Everything's cool / Mark Minster -- Shifting paradigms: from environmentalist films to ecocinema / Paula Willoquet-Maricondi -- Ecocinema, ecojustice, and indigenous worldviews: native and first nations media as cultural recovery / Jennifer A. …”
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Afterimage of empire photography in nineteenth-century India / by Chaudhary, Zahid R.

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Canyon of dreams : stories from Grand Canyon history / by Lago, Don, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Tropic of Canyon: Henry Miller's Moment of Truth -- 13. Tall Cliffs and Tall Tales: The Origins of John Hance -- 14. …”
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Social and Political Dimensions of Mathematics Education Current Thinking / by Jurdak, Murad, Vithal, Renuka, de Freitas, Elizabeth, Gates, Peter, Kollosche, David

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J.M. Coetzee and ethics philosophical perspectives on literature /

Table of Contents: “…Literature, Literary Style, and Philosophy -- Truth and Love Together at Last: Style, Form, and Moral vision in Age of Iron / Samantha Vice -- The Lives of Animals and the Form-Content Connection / Jennifer Flynn -- Irony and Belief in Elizabeth Costello / Michael Funk Deckard and Ralph Palm -- Coetzee's Hidden Polemic with Nietzsche / Alena Dvorakova.…”
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Alfred Raquez and the French experience of the Far East, 1898-1906 / by Gibson, William, 1974-

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