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Pure act : the uncommon life of Robert Lax / by McGregor, Michael N.

Table of Contents: “…Hell Hath No Fury -- 24. Finding a Common Language -- 25. Pure Act Becomes Pure Love -- 26. …”
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Remembering the AIDS Quilt /

Table of Contents: “…Morris III -- The AIDS memorial quilt and the contemporary culture of public commemoration / Carole Blair and Neil Michel -- The politics of loss and its remains in Common threads : stories from the quilt / Gust A. …”
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Recovering Disability in Early Modern England /

Table of Contents: “…Hile -- Performing blindness : representing disability in early modern popular performance and print / Simone Chess -- "There is no suff'ring due" : metatheatricality and disability drag in Volpone / Lauren Coker -- Richard recast : Renaissance disability in a postcommunist culture / Marcela Kostihová -- The Book of common prayer, theory of mind, and autism in early modern England / Mardy Philippian, Jr -- Freedom and (dis)ability in early modern political thought / Nancy Hirschmann -- Coda : Shakespearean disability pedagogy / Allison P. …”
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Taking sides.

Table of Contents: “…Do Americans need a common identity? -- Does immigration contribute to a better America? …”

ADR principles and practice / by Brown, Henry J.

Table of Contents: “…Analysing ADR -- The dispute resolution toolkit : a process overview -- ADR philosophies and motivation : common values and differences -- Negotiations -- ADR and the courts -- Arbitration -- Contractual adjudication and other adjudicatory processes -- Mediation : general principles -- Mediation : practice overview -- Civil and commercial mediation -- Divorce and other family mediation -- Neighbourhood and community mediation -- Restorative justice and practices -- Workplace and employment dispute resolution -- Environmental and public issue mediation -- Mediator attributes, skills and roles -- Lawyers' role representing parties in mediation -- Non-binding evaluation ADR processes -- Hybrid processes : med-arb, arb-med, neutral fact-finding expert and ombudsman -- Collaborative processes -- Introduction to dispute resolution psychology -- Working with high conflict parties -- Confidentiality and privilege -- Ethics and values, fairness and power -- Online dispute resolution -- Jurisprudence, forum and law -- ADR regulation, training, funding and insurance -- Enforcement of ADR outcomes -- Future directions -- Appendix I. …”

Taking sides : clashing views in race and ethnicity /

Table of Contents: “…Do Americans need a common identity? -- Does immigration contribute to a better America? …”

Democratic constitutional design and public policy analysis and evidence /

Table of Contents: “…Mark Crain -- Federalism : a constitutional perspective / Dennis C. Mueller -- Common tax pool problems in federal systems / Brian Knight -- Judicial independence and economic development / Lars P. …”
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Minds on trial great cases in law and psychology / by Ewing, Charles Patrick, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…George Metesky : profiling the "Mad Bomber" -- Lee Harvey Oswald : the formative years of an assassin -- Patricia Hearst : uncommon victim or common criminal? -- The Guilford Four : "you did it, so why not confess?" …”
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Remembering the AIDS Quilt /

Table of Contents: “…Morris III -- The AIDS memorial quilt and the contemporary culture of public commemoration / Carole Blair and Neil Michel -- The politics of loss and its remains in Common threads : stories from the quilt / Gust A. …”
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Recovering Disability in Early Modern England /

Table of Contents: “…Hile -- Performing blindness : representing disability in early modern popular performance and print / Simone Chess -- "There is no suff'ring due" : metatheatricality and disability drag in Volpone / Lauren Coker -- Richard recast : Renaissance disability in a postcommunist culture / Marcela Kostihová -- The Book of common prayer, theory of mind, and autism in early modern England / Mardy Philippian, Jr -- Freedom and (dis)ability in early modern political thought / Nancy Hirschmann -- Coda : Shakespearean disability pedagogy / Allison P. …”
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Principles of biomedical ethics / by Beauchamp, Tom L.

Table of Contents: “…Moral Norms </strong> -- Normative and Nonnormative Ethics -- The Common Morality as Universal Morality -- Particular Moralities as Nonuniversal -- Moral Dilemmas -- A Framework of Moral Norms -- Conflicting Moral Norms -- <strong>2. …”

Principles of biomedical ethics / by Beauchamp, Tom L.

Table of Contents: “…Moral Norms </strong> -- Normative and Nonnormative Ethics -- The Common Morality as Universal Morality -- Particular Moralities as Nonuniversal -- Moral Dilemmas -- A Framework of Moral Norms -- Conflicting Moral Norms -- <strong>2. …”

Insult to injury libel, slander, and invasions of privacy / by Jones, William K.

Table of Contents: “…The man who had to leave town -- "Heed their rising voices" -- An uncommon common law -- The First Amendment -- Anything that touches on fitness for office -- The tale of the furtive night watchman -- Into the vortex of public controversy -- The big football fix -- The frame-up of officer nuccio -- The golden fleece of the month award -- The reluctant Soviet agent -- Special cases : unlimited, irrelevant and involuntary public figures -- Strictly business -- Purely private libels -- Group libels -- Looking for love? …”
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The work of the university by Levin, Richard C.

Table of Contents: “…-- The spirit of adventure -- Yale time -- Beginnings -- Welcome to Yale -- The university's role in society -- Universities and our common wealth -- The American university as an engine of economic growth -- Universities as urban citizens -- The global university -- The graduate's role in society -- Education for self and for others -- On controversy -- Taking the next step -- The task of citizenship -- Beyond community service: the nation and the wider world -- Reflections on revolution -- China on my mind -- Thinking about September 11 -- Building a better Yale -- Yale's fourth century -- Yale at 300 -- Honoring schools, teachers, and traditions -- An embryonic democracy -- A salute to Princeton -- Remembering Oxford -- Chasing after society -- James Tobin, scholar-hero -- A devoted mentor -- Shimon Peres -- Blessed is the match -- Reflections on the American economy -- Can America compete in world markets?…”
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To save the land and people a history of opposition to surface coal mining in Appalachia / by Montrie, Chad

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments xi --Abbreviations xiii --Introduction. -- Common People and Private Property 1 --1 Making, Taking, and Stripping the Land 7 --2 Our Country Would BeBetter Fit for Farming: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Ohio 25 --3 Selfish Interests: -- Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Pennsylvania 43 --4 We Feel We Have Been Forsaken: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Kentucky, 1954-1967 61 --5 We Will Stop the Bulldozers: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Kentucky, 1967-1972 85 -- 6 The Dilemma Is a Classic One: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in West Virginia 107 --7 Liberty in a Wasteland Is Meaningless: Strip Mining Opposition at the Federal Level, 1968-1972 127 --8 Getting More and More Cynical: Decline of the Opposition, 1973-1977 155 --9 Against the Little Man Like Me: Legalized Destruction in the SMCRA Era 181 --Conclusion. -- Having to Fight the Whole System 201 --Notes 207 -- Selected Bibliography 235 -- Index 241.…”
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Protecting rights without a Bill of Rights institutional performance and reform in Australia /

Table of Contents: “…(Ted) Morton -- The performance of Australian legislatures in protecting rights / John Uhr -- Improving legislative scrutiny of proposed laws to enhance basic rights, parliamentary democracy, and the quality of law-making / Bryan Horrigan -- The performance of administrative law in protecting rights / Robin Creyke -- Australia's constitutional rights and the problem of interpretive disagreement / Adrienne Stone -- Rights and citizenship in law and public discourse / Helen Irving -- Chained to the past : the psychological terra nullius of Australia's public institutions / Megan Davis -- Constitutional property rights in Australia : reconciling individual rights and the common good / Simon Evans -- American judicial review in perspective / Robert Nagel -- The unfulfilled promise of dialogic constitutionalism : judicial-legislative relationships under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms / Christopher Manfredi -- A modest (but robust) defence of statutory bills of rights / Jeremy Webber -- Australia's first Bill of Rights : the Australian Capital Territory's Human Rights Act / Hilary Charlesworth -- An Australian rights council / George Winterton -- Human rights strategies : an Australian alternative / Tom Campbell.…”
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Asian America forming new communities, expanding boundaries /

Table of Contents: “…Intra-group diversity : Asian American population dynamics and challenges of the 21st century / Min Zhou -- Ethnic solidarity, networks rebound and transnational culture : post-1965 Chinese American family / Haiming Liu -- Beyond a common ethnicity and culture : conflict and compromises in Chicagoland's Chinese American communities since 1945 / Ling Z. …”
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English women, religion, and textual production, 1500-1625

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : women, religious communities, prose genres, and textual production / Micheline White -- Living stones : Lady Elizabeth Russell and the art of sacred conversation / Patricia Phillippy -- Theise dearest offrings of my heart : the sacrifice of praise in Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke's Psalmes / Mary Trull -- Anne Dacre Howard, Countess of Arundel, and Catholic patronage / Susannah Brietz Monta -- Ensigne-bearers of Saint Clare : Elizabeth Evelinge's early translations and the restoration of England franciscanism / Jaime Goodrich -- Lady Anne Clifford and the uses of Christian warfare / Julie Crawford -- Prospecting for common ground in devotion : Queen Katherine Parr's personal prayerbook / Janel Mueller -- "Halff a scrypture woman" : heteroglossia and female authorial agency in prayers by Lady Elizabeth Tyrwhit, Anne Lock, and Anne Wheathill / Susan M. …”
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A poet's revolution the life of Denise Levertov / by Hollenberg, Donna Krolik

Table of Contents: “…"The walls of the garden, the first light": beginnings (1923-1933); "When Anna screamed": Levertov's response to Nazi oppression (1933-1939); The double image: apprenticeship during World War Two (1939-1946); "Recoveries": abortion, adventure, and marriage (1947- 48) -- A common ground (1949-1966). "Dancing edgeways": coming of age as a poet in the new world (1949-1955); "The true artist": Levertov's engagement with tradition (1954-1960) -- "The poem ascends": taking a position (1960-1963) -- "To speak of sorrow": Levertov's emergence as a social poet (1963?…”
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Renaissance cultural crossroads translation, print and culture in Britain, 1473-1640 /

Table of Contents: “…: sixteenth-century english translations of the -- Classics / Fred Schurink -- Cato in England : translating Latin sayings for moral and linguistic instruction / Demmy Verbeke -- John Hester's translations of Leonardo Fioravanti : the literary career of a London distiller / Isabelle Pantin -- 'For the common good and for the national interest' : paratexts in English translations of navigational works / Susanna De Schepper -- Henry Hexham (c.1585-1650), English soldier, author, translator, lexicographer, and cultural mediator in the Low Countries / Paul Hoftijzer -- 'Newes lately come' : European news books in English translation / S.K. …”
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