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Common or divided security? : German and Norwegian perspectives on Euro-Atlantic security /

Table of Contents: “…The Arctic policies of Norway and Russia / Geir Flikke -- Challenges to the rule of law : EU-US counter-terrorism cooperation / Annegret Bendiek -- [III] The Euro-Atlantic security framework -- Becoming a responsible leader? Germany and EU's common foreign and security policy / Alister Miskimmon -- Active participation despite limited influence : explaining Norway's participation in EU's security policy / Pernille Rieker -- Germany's new role in NATO : status quo as strategy / Patrick Keller -- Norway and NATO : the art of balancing / Paal Sigurd Hilde and Helene Forsland Widerberg -- [IV] Armed forces facing new challenges -- The Bundeswehr in the post-Cold War international environment / Sven Bernhard Gareis -- Norwegian lead in Afghanistan : a small state approach to a large commitment / Lene Ekhaugen and Ida Maria Oma -- So similar, yet so different : explaining divergence in Nordic defence policies / Håkon Lunde Saxi -- [V] Concluding reflections on Euro-Atlantic security -- Just do it : bilateral and minilateral cooperation to invigorate European security / Robin Allers and Rolf Tamnes.…”
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Cohabitation and Marriage in the Americas: Geo-historical Legacies and New Trends

Table of Contents: “…: Albert Esteve, Ron Lesthaeghe, Julieta Quilodrán, Antonio López-Gay, Julián López-Colás -- Chapter 6: Consensual Unions in Central America: Historical Continuities and New Emerging Patterns: Teresa Castro-Martín and Antía Domínguez -- Chapter 7: The Boom of Cohabitation in Colombia and in the Andean Region: Social and Spatial Patterns: Albert Esteve, A. …”
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South-North Migration of EU Citizens in Times of Crisis

Table of Contents: “…Structural emigration: the revival of Portuguese outflows: José Carlos Marques and Pedro Góis -- Chapter 6. Is Spain Becoming a Country of Emigration Again? Data Evidence and Public Responses: Anastasia Bermudez and Elisa Brey -- Chapter 7. …”
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Giving It All Away The Story of William W. Cook and His Michigan Law Quadrangle / by Leary, Margaret A.

Table of Contents: “…The 1931 lawsuit -- 1858-82 : Hillsdale childhood, student days in Ann Arbor -- 1882-98 : the ambitious young New York lawyer, the brilliant writer on corporate law, the wooer and husband of Ida Olmstead, the indispensable employee of John Mackay -- 1898-1910 : divorcing Ida, thriving at the Mackay companies, losing a boss and mentor, becoming a man of property, establishing enduring friendships, making philanthropic plans for the University of Michigan -- 1910-19 : rapport with President Hutchins, less rapport with Dean Bates, meeting Myrtle White, making Michigan commitments, honoring a revered mother, moving into an elegant Manhattan town house, a possible case of heartbreak, continuing a distinguished legal career -- John T. …”
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Different kinds of minds contribute to society

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Different minds may process information differently -- When does normal variation become an abnormality? -- Genetics of personality traits are like a music mixing board -- Brain scans -- Auditory -- Axon projection field much less organized -- Abnormalities in left hemisphere -- Develop talents in the individual's specialist brain -- Evidence for two types of visualizers -- Two categories of mathematicians -- Pattern thinking -- spatial visualizer -- The most obvious is the least obvious -- the value of humanities in university curriculum -- Animals see details -- Animals also "watch" with their ears for potential danger -- In humans, language covers up sensory based thinking -- bottom up thinking -- Teach concepts with multiple examples -- associative thinking -- How to categorize problems when troubleshooting in both industry and schools -- Dogfooding stops too much top down thinking -- Tips for helping kids who are different to succeed -- Kids doing projects and playing games where the rules and duties are negotiated teaches valuable social skills -- Taking hands-on classes out of the schools is really bad -- Emphasize developing the area of strength -- On-line resources -- Show kids interesting things -- Learning reading in children -- People need to touch in order to perceive -- Mentors are essential -- We need to get back to doing real stuff -- Employer priorities for college graduates -- Keys to successful employment on the autism spectrum -- Sensory processing disorder occurs with many other disorders (co-morbid) -- Auditory processing problems -- Attention shifting slowness -- Structural MRI connections -- Accommodations in the work place -- It takes a village to raise a child.…”
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AUTOETHNOGRAPHIES IN ELT transnational identities, pedagogies, and practices.

Table of Contents: “…8 Bridge Building Through a Duoethnography: Stories of Nepantleras in a Land of Liberation -- 9 Identities of European-based Transnational Researchers in TESOL: An Ecological Perspective -- Part 3 Traversing Liminal Spaces of Pedagogies -- 10 I'm From Foreign: Transnational Identity Construction in the Journey of Being and Becoming an ESOL Educator -- 11 Towards Glocally Situated TESOL Practices: Collaborative Autoethnography -- 12 Uncovering Transnational PractitionerƯResearchers' Identity and EquityƯOriented Practices: A Critical Lens…”
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Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory by Gottlieb, Evan, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Media, networks, machines; Toward our contemporary media moment; Jacques Rancière: aesthetics for everyone; Bruno Latour: from networks to modes of existence and beyond; N.Katherine Hayles: defining the posthuman; Engaging with classic literature: Bram Stoker's Dracula…”
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Different kinds of minds contribute to society

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Different minds may process information differently -- When does normal variation become an abnormality? -- Genetics of personality traits are like a music mixing board -- Brain scans -- Auditory -- Axon projection field much less organized -- Abnormalities in left hemisphere -- Develop talents in the individual's specialist brain -- Evidence for two types of visualizers -- Two categories of mathematicians -- Pattern thinking -- spatial visualizer -- The most obvious is the least obvious -- the value of humanities in university curriculum -- Animals see details -- Animals also "watch" with their ears for potential danger -- In humans, language covers up sensory based thinking -- bottom up thinking -- Teach concepts with multiple examples -- associative thinking -- How to categorize problems when troubleshooting in both industry and schools -- Dogfooding stops too much top down thinking -- Tips for helping kids who are different to succeed -- Kids doing projects and playing games where the rules and duties are negotiated teaches valuable social skills -- Taking hands-on classes out of the schools is really bad -- Emphasize developing the area of strength -- On-line resources -- Show kids interesting things -- Learning reading in children -- People need to touch in order to perceive -- Mentors are essential -- We need to get back to doing real stuff -- Employer priorities for college graduates -- Keys to successful employment on the autism spectrum -- Sensory processing disorder occurs with many other disorders (co-morbid) -- Auditory processing problems -- Attention shifting slowness -- Structural MRI connections -- Accommodations in the work place -- It takes a village to raise a child.…”
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Giving It All Away : The Story of William W. Cook and His Michigan Law Quadrangle / by Leary, Margaret A.

Table of Contents: “…The 1931 lawsuit -- 1858-82 : Hillsdale childhood, student days in Ann Arbor -- 1882-98 : the ambitious young New York lawyer, the brilliant writer on corporate law, the wooer and husband of Ida Olmstead, the indispensable employee of John Mackay -- 1898-1910 : divorcing Ida, thriving at the Mackay companies, losing a boss and mentor, becoming a man of property, establishing enduring friendships, making philanthropic plans for the University of Michigan -- 1910-19 : rapport with President Hutchins, less rapport with Dean Bates, meeting Myrtle White, making Michigan commitments, honoring a revered mother, moving into an elegant Manhattan town house, a possible case of heartbreak, continuing a distinguished legal career -- John T. …”
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Ethical issues in international biomedical research : a casebook /

Table of Contents: “…Access to treatment for trial participants who become infected with HIV during the course of phase 1 trials of a preventive HIV vaccine in South Africa -- Independent review. …”

Testosterone dreams rejuvenation, aphrodisia, doping / by Hoberman, John M. (John Milton), 1944-

Table of Contents: “…-- Testosterone as therapy and myth -- "Psychic steroids" : Prozac as a performance-enhancing drug -- Back to the future : the sex hormone market from organotherapy to "andro" -- The aphrodisiac that failed : why testosterone did not become a mass sex therapy -- What they did to women : the origins of sex therapy -- Sex before kinsey : what doctors and patients did not know -- Hormones and the state : sex and marital stability -- Patriarchal sex therapy : curing "frigidity" with hormones -- Reorienting male desire : curing homosexuals with sex hormones -- Aphrodisia for the masses? …”
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Versions of Blackness key texts on slavery from the seventeenth century /

Table of Contents: “…A short account of the destruction of the Indies / from Bartolomé de las Casas ; Democrates secundus / from Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda ; "Of the cannibals" and "Of coaches" / from Michel Eyquem de Montaigne ; On spreading the Gospel among the savages / from José de Acosta ; The English-American his travail by sea and land / from Thomas Gage ; A true and exact history of the island of Barbados / from Richard Ligon ; The history of Sir Francis Drake / from Sir William Davenant ; Voyage de la France eqinoxiale en l'Isle de Cayenne / from Antoine Biet ; An exact relation of the most execrable attempts of John Allin / from William Byam ; The history of the Caribby-Islands / from Charles de Rochefort ; Histoire generale des Antilles habitées par les François / from Jean-Baptiste du Tertre ; An impartial description of Surinam / from Goerge Warren ; From Great newes from the Barbadoes ; The Negro's and Indians advocate / from Morgan Godwyn ; Friendly advice to the gentlemen planters of the East and West Indies / from Thomas Tryon -- Discussions of colonialism. …”
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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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Different kinds of minds contribute to society

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Different minds may process information differently -- When does normal variation become an abnormality? -- Genetics of personality traits are like a music mixing board -- Brain scans -- Auditory -- Axon projection field much less organized -- Abnormalities in left hemisphere -- Develop talents in the individual's specialist brain -- Evidence for two types of visualizers -- Two categories of mathematicians -- Pattern thinking -- spatial visualizer -- The most obvious is the least obvious -- the value of humanities in university curriculum -- Animals see details -- Animals also "watch" with their ears for potential danger -- In humans, language covers up sensory based thinking -- bottom up thinking -- Teach concepts with multiple examples -- associative thinking -- How to categorize problems when troubleshooting in both industry and schools -- Dogfooding stops too much top down thinking -- Tips for helping kids who are different to succeed -- Kids doing projects and playing games where the rules and duties are negotiated teaches valuable social skills -- Taking hands-on classes out of the schools is really bad -- Emphasize developing the area of strength -- On-line resources -- Show kids interesting things -- Learning reading in children -- People need to touch in order to perceive -- Mentors are essential -- We need to get back to doing real stuff -- Employer priorities for college graduates -- Keys to successful employment on the autism spectrum -- Sensory processing disorder occurs with many other disorders (co-morbid) -- Auditory processing problems -- Attention shifting slowness -- Structural MRI connections -- Accommodations in the work place -- It takes a village to raise a child.…”
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Giving It All Away : The Story of William W. Cook and His Michigan Law Quadrangle / by Leary, Margaret A.

Table of Contents: “…The 1931 lawsuit -- 1858-82 : Hillsdale childhood, student days in Ann Arbor -- 1882-98 : the ambitious young New York lawyer, the brilliant writer on corporate law, the wooer and husband of Ida Olmstead, the indispensable employee of John Mackay -- 1898-1910 : divorcing Ida, thriving at the Mackay companies, losing a boss and mentor, becoming a man of property, establishing enduring friendships, making philanthropic plans for the University of Michigan -- 1910-19 : rapport with President Hutchins, less rapport with Dean Bates, meeting Myrtle White, making Michigan commitments, honoring a revered mother, moving into an elegant Manhattan town house, a possible case of heartbreak, continuing a distinguished legal career -- John T. …”
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Advances in Wheat Genetics: From Genome to Field Proceedings of the 12th International Wheat Genetics Symposium /

Table of Contents: “….: morphology, hybrid sterility and gametocidal genes -- Part III Cytogenetics and Allopolyploid Evolution -- 7 Wheat chromosome analysis -- 8 New aneuploids of common wheat -- 9 Chromosomal changes over the course of polyploid wheat evolution and domestication -- Part IV Toward Whole Genome Sequencing -- 10 Comprehensive functional analyses of expressed sequence tags in common wheat -- 11 Development of the BAC physical maps of wheat chromosome 6B for its genomic sequencing -- Part V Structural and Functional Genomics -- 12 Sequencing of wheat chromosome 6B: toward functional genomics -- 13 Genetic mechanisms of vernalization requirement duration in winter wheat cultivars -- 14 Building ultra-dense genetic maps in the presence of genotyping errors and missing data -- Part VI Functional Gene Analysis and Molecular Tools -- 15 Exploiting comparative biology and genomics to understand a trait in wheat, Ph1 -- 16 The specific features of anthocyanin biosynthesis regulation in wheat -- 17 Association of wheat miRNAs with hybrid incompatibility in interspecific crosses of Triticum and Aegilops -- 18 High efficiency wheat transformation mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens -- 19 extra early-flowering (exe) mutants in einkorn wheat generated by heavy-ion beam irradiation -- Part VII Biotic Stress Response -- 20 Stem rust resistance - two approaches -- 21 Germplasm enhancement for resistance to Pyrenophora tritici-repentis in wheat -- 22 Next Generation Sequencing enabled genetics in hexaploid wheat -- Part VIII Abiotic Stress Response -- 23 Genomics approaches to dissect the genetic basis of drought resistance in durum wheat -- 24 Hybrid breeding in wheat -- 25 Broadening the genetic diversity of common and durum wheat for abiotic stress tolerance breeding -- 26 Early maturity in wheat for adaptation to high temperature stress -- 27 Gene expression profiles involved in development of freezing tolerance in common wheat -- Part IX Improvement of Grain Quality -- 28 Coping with wheat quality in a changing environment - Proteomics evidence for stress caused by environmental changes -- 29 Starch modification: a model for wheat MAS breeding -- 30 Quality characteristics of soft kernel durum - a new cereal crop -- 31 Proposal of international gluten research group -- 32 Enlargement of the genetic diversity for grain quality in bread wheat through alien introgression -- 33 Complex G x E interactions and QTL clusters govern end-use quality traits in hexaploid wheat -- 34 A consistent QTL for flour yield on chromosome 3B in the soft winter wheat variety, Kitahonami -- Part X Marker-Assisted Breeding -- 35 Recent improvements in Japanese wheat varieties -- 36 Determining the order of resistance genes Qsng-3BS, Fhb1 and Sr2 and combining them in coupling on wheat chromosome 3BS -- 37 Meta-analysis of resistance to Fusarium head blight in tetraploid wheat – implications for durum wheat breeding -- 38 Interest of a multiparental and outcrossing wheat population for fine mapping -- 39 The effect of Earliness per se (Eps) genes on flowering time in bread wheat -- Part XI Toward Sustainable Wheat Production -- 40 Recapitulating the OECD-CRP session (sponsored by the OECD’s Co-operative Research Program on Biological Resource Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems -- 41 Exploring genetic resources to increase adaptation of wheat to climate change -- 42 Genomic approaches towards durable fungal disease resistance in wheat -- 43 Review and new progress in wheat wide hybridization for improving the resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses -- 44 Global crop improvement networks to bridge technology gaps -- 45 Genomic selection in plants: empirical results and implications for wheat breeding -- 46 Dietary fibre: wheat genes for enhanced human health -- BM Appendix I: Program -- Appendix II: Poster Presentation List -- Appendix III: Committees.…”
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Mathematical theory of subdivision : finite element and wavelet methods / by Kumar, Sandeep (Professor of mechanical engineering), Pathak, Ashish, Khan, Debasish

Table of Contents: “…Overview of finite element method</P><OL><P></P><OL></B><P><LI>Some common governing differential equations </LI><P></P><P><LI>Basic steps of finite element method </LI><P></P><P><LI>Element stiffness matrix for a bar </LI><P></P><P><LI>Element stiffness matrix for single variable 2d element </LI><P></P><P><LI>Element stiffness matrix for a beam element</LI><P></P><P><LI>References for further reading</LI><P></P></OL></OL><OL><B><P></P></OL><P>2. …”
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Women in anthropology autobiographical narratives and social history /

Table of Contents: “…Castille -- The web of lives : family involvements, career interactions. On becoming an anthropologist / Louanna M. Lackey ; Family involvements : earning a PhD while raising children / Molly G. …”
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Secret wars and secret policies in the Americas, 1842-1929 by Schuler, Friedrich Engelbert, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Before European and Japanese governments manipulated immigrants in the Americas -- Becoming useful : the first Japanese and German experiments with ethnic manipulations in the West -- Mexico discovers Japan as a potential strategic wedge against the United States -- [pt.] …”
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The story of coal and iron in Alabama by Armes, Ethel, 1876-1945

Table of Contents: “…The planting of the seed -- Records of early growth -- First furnace and first railroad -- Early records of Jefferson and Walker counties -- Iron making and coal mining in Tuskaloosa county, 1830-1861 -- Bibb and Shelby counties, 1820-1861 -- Pioneer iron making in northeastern Alabama, 1830-1861, and first state geological survey -- Early railroad enterprises -- Internal conditions of state and outbreak of war -- Confederate arsenal and naval foundry -- Coal mining in Civil War period -- Iron making in war period -- Iron making in war period (continued) : the fall of Selma -- Resurrection of the iron works 1866-1870 -- The founding of a great workshop town, 1869-1872 -- Reconstruction of Oxmoor and advent of Louisville and Nashville railroad into Alabama 1872-1873 -- Life saving measures 1873-1878 -- Birmingham militant 1876-1880 -- A chapter of progress 1880-1886 -- The northeastern counties 1870-1890 -- The great boom of Birmingham 1886-1887 -- More big business 1886 : records of Sloss Iron and Steel Company and pioneer mining and manufacturing company -- Advent of Tennessee Company into Alabama (1886) and its early trials and tribulations -- A series of lively incidents in the Birmingham and Sheffield districts 1887 -- The march of the T. …”
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