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Unjust sentencing and the California Three Strikes law by Kieso, Douglas W.

Table of Contents: “…The passage of AB971 -- The social construction of common criminals in the U.S. -- U.S. crime in the 1980s and 1990s -- California voters -- California initiatives and the three strikes law -- The three strikers and the counties that created them -- Discretion and the three strikes law -- Los Angeles County -- San Francisco and Alameda Counties -- Kern, Kings, and Del Norte Counties -- Orange County -- Policy research and constitutional analysis -- The element of randomness and lack of democracy -- The politics of three strikes after 1994 -- Justice and democracy -- Recommendations.…”
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Small change, big problems detecting and preventing financial misconduct in your library / by Snyder, Herbert

Table of Contents: “…Fraud : how it occurs in organizations and why libraries are susceptible -- Internal control : what it is and why libraries need it -- Common weaknesses in your library's internal control system : how to recognize and correct them -- Change management and fraud prevention : allowing the improvements you make to work -- Specific types of fraud : understanding, detecting, and preventing them -- Uncovering fraud : techniques for your library to use -- If fraud happens : dealing with the fallout -- A closing thought : getting what you pay for in fraud prevention.…”
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Fractured borders reading women's cancer literature / by DeShazer, Mary K.

Table of Contents: “…"The night-side of life" : analyzing cancer literature from feminist perspectives -- "Skinnied on the left side like a girl" : embodying cancer on the feminist stage -- Entering "The house of lightning" : resistance and transformation in U.S. women's breast cancer poetry -- Dying into the lite : popular fiction, cancer, and the romance of women's relationships -- "Floating out on a yacht called Eros" : memory, desire, and death in women's experimental cancer fiction -- "Entering cancerland" : self-representation, commonality, and culpability in women's autobiographical narratives.…”
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Faith and power in Japanese Buddhist art, 1600-2005 by Graham, Patricia Jane

Table of Contents: “…Buddhism in the arts of early modern Japan, 1600-1868 -- Institutional Buddhism under warrior rule -- Buddhist temples for the elites -- Temples for commoners -- Depictions of popular deities and spiritual concerns -- Professional icon-makers -- Expressions of faith -- Buddhist imagery and sacred sites in modern Japan, 1868-2005 -- Buddhist institutions after an era of persecution, 1868-1945 -- From icon to art, 1868-1945 -- Buddhist sites of worship, 1945-2005 -- Visualizing faith, 1945-2005.…”
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David Hume and the problem of other minds by Waldow, Anik

Table of Contents: “…Other minds and their place in the Hume-literature -- A modern approach -- Scepticism versus naturalism -- The vulgar and the philosopher -- Relative ideas -- Concepts of the real -- Intuition and common sense -- Epistemic responsibility -- Degeneration of reason -- Just philosophy -- Conceiving minds -- Abstraction -- Argument from analogy -- Sympathy -- Limitations -- Generality -- Hume's concept of mind -- The world and the other -- Habit and intersubjective responsiveness -- Belief and education -- Mental facts -- Signs of mind and world -- The belief-grounding function of sympathy -- Corrigibility of belief -- Cognitive architecture.…”
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They never come back : a story of undocumented workers from Mexico / by Schryer, Frans J.

Table of Contents: “…-- Struggling to get ahead -- No one lives there -- I feel sorry for them -- It used to be easy to cross the border -- In the U.S. all you do is work -- For me it is about the same -- Mexicans are good workers -- We can never hang out with our friends -- You are only sent back if you're bad -- We must carry on our ancestors' traditions -- I don't have much in common with my cousin -- The system is broken -- Final remarks.…”
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Next generation HALT and HASS : robust design of electronics and systems / by Gray, Kirk, Paschkewitz, John James

Table of Contents: “…Basis and limitations of typical current reliability methods & metrics -- The need for reliability assurance metrics to change -- Challenges to advancing electronics reliability engineering -- A new deterministic reliability development paradigm -- Common understanding of HALT approach is critical for success -- The fundamentals of HALT -- Highly accelerated stress screening (HALT) and audits (HASA) -- HALT benefits for software/firmware performance and reliability -- Quantitative accelerated life test -- Failure analysis and corrective action -- Additional applications of HALT methods.…”
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Fractured borders reading women's cancer literature / by DeShazer, Mary K.

Table of Contents: “…"The night-side of life" : analyzing cancer literature from feminist perspectives -- "Skinnied on the left side like a girl" : embodying cancer on the feminist stage -- Entering "The house of lightning" : resistance and transformation in U.S. women's breast cancer poetry -- Dying into the lite : popular fiction, cancer, and the romance of women's relationships -- "Floating out on a yacht called Eros" : memory, desire, and death in women's experimental cancer fiction -- "Entering cancerland" : self-representation, commonality, and culpability in women's autobiographical narratives.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Faith and power in Japanese Buddhist art, 1600-2005 by Graham, Patricia Jane

Table of Contents: “…Buddhism in the arts of early modern Japan, 1600-1868 -- Institutional Buddhism under warrior rule -- Buddhist temples for the elites -- Temples for commoners -- Depictions of popular deities and spiritual concerns -- Professional icon-makers -- Expressions of faith -- Buddhist imagery and sacred sites in modern Japan, 1868-2005 -- Buddhist institutions after an era of persecution, 1868-1945 -- From icon to art, 1868-1945 -- Buddhist sites of worship, 1945-2005 -- Visualizing faith, 1945-2005.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

David Hume and the problem of other minds by Waldow, Anik

Table of Contents: “…Other minds and their place in the Hume-literature -- A modern approach -- Scepticism versus naturalism -- The vulgar and the philosopher -- Relative ideas -- Concepts of the real -- Intuition and common sense -- Epistemic responsibility -- Degeneration of reason -- Just philosophy -- Conceiving minds -- Abstraction -- Argument from analogy -- Sympathy -- Limitations -- Generality -- Hume's concept of mind -- The world and the other -- Habit and intersubjective responsiveness -- Belief and education -- Mental facts -- Signs of mind and world -- The belief-grounding function of sympathy -- Corrigibility of belief -- Cognitive architecture.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

They never come back : a story of undocumented workers from Mexico / by Schryer, Frans J.

Table of Contents: “…-- Struggling to get ahead -- No one lives there -- I feel sorry for them -- It used to be easy to cross the border -- In the U.S. all you do is work -- For me it is about the same -- Mexicans are good workers -- We can never hang out with our friends -- You are only sent back if you're bad -- We must carry on our ancestors' traditions -- I don't have much in common with my cousin -- The system is broken -- Final remarks.…”
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The digital cathedral : networked ministry in a wireless world / by Anderson, Keith, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Constructing a digital cathedral -- Canterbury C.1167 -- Make your neighborhood your cathedral -- Shifting from Newton to networks -- Practicing relational ministry -- Exercising incarnational imagination -- Everyday sacred: locating God in daily life -- Naming it holy: common ground for nones and the affiliated -- God on tap: at the intersection of life and faith -- Theology without a net: conversion at the core -- Faith formation: visual, immersive, and experiential -- Evangelism: sharing the Gospel for the sake of the Gospel -- A digital rule of life.…”

Next generation HALT and HASS : robust design of electronics and systems / by Gray, Kirk, Paschkewitz, John James

Table of Contents: “…Basis and limitations of typical current reliability methods & metrics -- The need for reliability assurance metrics to change -- Challenges to advancing electronics reliability engineering -- A new deterministic reliability development paradigm -- Common understanding of HALT approach is critical for success -- The fundamentals of HALT -- Highly accelerated stress screening (HALT) and audits (HASA) -- HALT benefits for software/firmware performance and reliability -- Quantitative accelerated life test -- Failure analysis and corrective action -- Additional applications of HALT methods.…”
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Network security, firewalls, and VPNs / by Stewart, James Michael

Table of Contents: “…Technical overview of network security, firewalls, and VPNs: Network security implementation -- Network security management -- Firewall basic -- Firewall deployment considerations -- Firewall management and security -- Using common firewalls -- VPN management -- VPN technologies. …”

Network security, firewalls, and VPNs / by Stewart, James Michael

Table of Contents: “…Technical overview of network security, firewalls, and VPNs: Network security implementation -- Network security management -- Firewall basic -- Firewall deployment considerations -- Firewall management and security -- Using common firewalls -- VPN management -- VPN technologies. …”

The digital cathedral : networked ministry in a wireless world / by Anderson, Keith, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Constructing a digital cathedral -- Canterbury C.1167 -- Make your neighborhood your cathedral -- Shifting from Newton to networks -- Practicing relational ministry -- Exercising incarnational imagination -- Everyday sacred: locating God in daily life -- Naming it holy: common ground for nones and the affiliated -- God on tap: at the intersection of life and faith -- Theology without a net: conversion at the core -- Faith formation: visual, immersive, and experiential -- Evangelism: sharing the Gospel for the sake of the Gospel -- A digital rule of life.…”

Writing for the workplace : business communication for professionals / by Mizrahi, Janet

Table of Contents: “…Employment communication -- Appendix A. 20 common writing errors to avoid -- Appendix B. Document samples -- Notes -- References -- Index.…”
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Bastards and Foundlings : Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England / by Zunshine, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…Bastard daughters and foundling heroines : rewriting illegitimacy in The conscious lovers -- Moll Flanders and the English "shelter for bastards" -- Kicking out the cubs : the wrong heirs of Richardson's Clarissa -- Tom Jones : resisting the mythologization of bastardy -- Female philanthropy, the London Foundling Hospital, and Richardson's The history of Sir Charles Grandison -- The children "owned by none" : divided bastardy in Frances Burney's Evelina -- Harriet Smith in Brunswick Square : "common sense" bastardy in Austen's Emma -- Postscript : BBC rewrites Tom Jones's illegitimacy.…”
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Unjust sentencing and the California Three Strikes law by Kieso, Douglas W.

Table of Contents: “…The passage of AB971 -- The social construction of common criminals in the U.S. -- U.S. crime in the 1980s and 1990s -- California voters -- California initiatives and the three strikes law -- The three strikers and the counties that created them -- Discretion and the three strikes law -- Los Angeles County -- San Francisco and Alameda Counties -- Kern, Kings, and Del Norte Counties -- Orange County -- Policy research and constitutional analysis -- The element of randomness and lack of democracy -- The politics of three strikes after 1994 -- Justice and democracy -- Recommendations.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Small change, big problems detecting and preventing financial misconduct in your library / by Snyder, Herbert

Table of Contents: “…Fraud : how it occurs in organizations and why libraries are susceptible -- Internal control : what it is and why libraries need it -- Common weaknesses in your library's internal control system : how to recognize and correct them -- Change management and fraud prevention : allowing the improvements you make to work -- Specific types of fraud : understanding, detecting, and preventing them -- Uncovering fraud : techniques for your library to use -- If fraud happens : dealing with the fallout -- A closing thought : getting what you pay for in fraud prevention.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view