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Women in the Silent Cinema : Histories of Fame and Fate / by Förster, Annette

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Remembering childhood in the Middle East memoirs from a century of change /

Table of Contents: “…The end of the Ottoman Empire (1923) / Mohammed Fadhel Jamali (Iraq) ; Nazik Jawdat (Syria/Lebanon) ; Charles Issawi (Egypt) ; Mansur al-Hazimi (Saudi Arabia) ; Janset Shami (Jordan) ; Selma Khadra Jayyusi (Palestine) -- European colonial rule and the rise of Arab nationalism (1830-1967) -- Establishment of the state of Israel (1948) / Hoda Naamani (Syria/Lebanon) ; Yildiray Erdener (Turkey) ; Hassan Aziz Hassan (Egypt) ; Basima Bezirgan (Iraq) ; Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot (Egypt) ; Mohammed Ghanoonparvar (Iran) ; Avraham Zilkha (Israel) ; Halim Barakat (Syria/Lebanon) ; Güneli Gün (Turkey) ; Zbida Shetlan (Tunisia) ; Mahnaz Afkhami (Iran) -- New nations (1952-1963) -- Oil wealth and OPEC (1973) -- Israeli-Palestinian wars (1967, 1973) -- Camp David treaty (1979) -- Iranian revolution (1979) / Salah-Dine Hammoud (Morocco) ; Saif Abbas Dehrab (Kuwait) ; Hamza al-Din (Egypt) ; Akile Gursoy (Turkey) ; Rafiq Abdul Rahman (Palestine) ; Abdul Aziz Abbassi (Morocco) ; Fedwa Malti-Douglas (Lebanon) ; Awad Abdelrahim Abdelgader (Sudan) ; Ali Eftekari (Iran) -- The post-colonial Middle East (1971) / Shafeeq N. …”
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Beyond discrimination : racial inequality in a postracist era / by Harris, Fredrick C., Lieberman, Robert C., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Weaver -- The "stickiness" of race in an era of mass incarceration / Devah Pager -- The ghetto tax : auto insurance, pc profiling, and the hidden history of wealth transfer in post-civil rights America / Devin Fergus -- Racial segregation and the marketing of health inequality / Naa Oyo A. …”
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Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution : Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial Ireland / by Moore, Sean D.

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Women in the Silent Cinema : Histories of Fame and Fate / by Förster, Annette

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Animosity, the Bible, and us some European, North American, and South African perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…: an ethical analysis of the exhortation in 1 Peter 3:9 not to repay evil with evil / Fika J. van Rensburg -- Animosity in the Johannine Epistles : a difference in the interpretation of a shared tradition / Dirk G. van der Merwe -- Hostility against the wealth of Babylon : Revelation 17:1-19:10 / Paul B. …”
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Animosity, the Bible, and us some European, North American, and South African perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…: an ethical analysis of the exhortation in 1 Peter 3:9 not to repay evil with evil / Fika J. van Rensburg -- Animosity in the Johannine Epistles : a difference in the interpretation of a shared tradition / Dirk G. van der Merwe -- Hostility against the wealth of Babylon : Revelation 17:1-19:10 / Paul B. …”
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Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam / by Montias, John Michael, 1928-2005

Table of Contents: “…The Auctions -- Orphan Chamber Auctions in Amsterdam -- How Auction Sales of the Orphan Chamber Were Conducted -- Extant Records of Auction Sales in Chronological Perspective -- Aggregate Statistics of Sales and the Owners of Goods Sold -- The Buyers at Auction Sales -- The Wealth of Buyers -- Clusters of Private Buyers -- Remonstrants and Counter-Remonstrants -- What Did They Buy and at What Prices? …”
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Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam / by Montias, John Michael, 1928-2005

Table of Contents: “…The Auctions -- Orphan Chamber Auctions in Amsterdam -- How Auction Sales of the Orphan Chamber Were Conducted -- Extant Records of Auction Sales in Chronological Perspective -- Aggregate Statistics of Sales and the Owners of Goods Sold -- The Buyers at Auction Sales -- The Wealth of Buyers -- Clusters of Private Buyers -- Remonstrants and Counter-Remonstrants -- What Did They Buy and at What Prices? …”
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Collapse of an empire lessons for modern Russia / by Gaĭdar, E. T. (Egor Timurovich)

Table of Contents: “…The grandeur and the fall of empires -- Modern economic growth and the era of empires -- Crisis and the dismantling of overseas empires -- Problems of dissolving territorially integrated empires -- The yugoslav tragedy -- Authoritarian regimes: the causes of instability -- Challenges in the early stages of modern economic growth and authoritarianism -- The instability of authoritarian regimes -- Mechanics of the collapse of authoritarianism -- The oil curse -- The Spanish prologue -- Resource wealth and economic development -- Specifics of the oil market -- Regulating the oil market in the twentieth century -- Challenges related to price fluctuations of commodities: Mexico and Venezuela -- In search of a way out: a response to the dangers of unstable commodity pricing -- Cracks in the foundation: the Soviet Union in the early 1980s -- Growing problems and bad decisions -- Food supply problems -- Food shortages-a strategic challenge -- The USSR as the largest importer of food -- Oil in Western Siberia: the illusion of salvation -- A drop in oil prices: the final blow -- The collapse of the USSR: the unexpected becomes the rule -- The political economy of external shocks -- Deteriorating conditions for foreign trade: political alternatives -- The ussr and the drop in oil prices: the essence of the choice -- A series of mistakes -- Mounting problems in the soviet economy -- The hard currency crisis -- Economic and political liberalization against the background of the hard currency and financial problems -- Development of the crisis of the socialist system -- Political credits -- The price of compromise -- The crisis of the empire and the nationality question -- Loss of control over the economic and political situation -- The currency crisis -- From crisis to catastrophe -- "Extraordinary efforts" instead of reforms -- On the brink of default -- On the path to state bankruptcy -- The grain problem -- Prices skyrocket -- Money and the fate of the empire -- The fall -- The political economy of the failed coup -- Political death throes -- Political disintegration: economic consequences -- A civilized divorce.…”
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The hidden form of capital spiritual influences in societal progress /

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Re-thinking Renaissance objects

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Opening doors gender equality and development in the Middle East and North Africa /

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Executive summary -- Gender equality in MENA : the facts and the puzzle -- Impressive achievements in human development -- Little discrimination between girls and boys within the household -- Of the lowest rates of excess female mortality in the world -- Rapid declines in maternal mortality -- More girls in school than in much of the world -- Virtually no gender gaps in enrolment, and reverse gender gaps in university, and math performance -- MENA's performance in human development is largely explained by economic development and wealth -- Some challenges remain -- The puzzle in MENA : why do women participate in such few numbers outside the home? …”
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Rethinking private authority : agents and entrepreneurs in global environmental governance / by Green, Jessica F.

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Intricate thicket : reading late modernist poetries / by Scroggins, Mark, 1964-

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Ensuring the success of Latino males in higher education : a national imperative /

Table of Contents: “…Castillo -- Over the Ivy Wall : Latino Male Achievers Nurturing Cultural Wealth at Highly Selective, Predominantly White Research University / David Pérez II -- Caballeros Making Capital Gains in College : The role of social capital in First-Year Persistence at a Predominantly White Four-Year Institution / Tracy L. …”
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The hidden form of capital spiritual influences in societal progress /

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Re-thinking Renaissance objects

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Opening doors gender equality and development in the Middle East and North Africa /

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Executive summary -- Gender equality in MENA : the facts and the puzzle -- Impressive achievements in human development -- Little discrimination between girls and boys within the household -- Of the lowest rates of excess female mortality in the world -- Rapid declines in maternal mortality -- More girls in school than in much of the world -- Virtually no gender gaps in enrolment, and reverse gender gaps in university, and math performance -- MENA's performance in human development is largely explained by economic development and wealth -- Some challenges remain -- The puzzle in MENA : why do women participate in such few numbers outside the home? …”
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Rethinking private authority : agents and entrepreneurs in global environmental governance / by Green, Jessica F.

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