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Advertising Progress : American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing / by Laird, Pamela Walker, 1947-

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The role of parliament in curbing corruption

Table of Contents: “…Soares -- Political will / Sahr Kpundeh and Phyllis Dininio -- Parliament and anti-corruption legislation / Jeremy Pope -- Case study on the role of Parliament in the fight against corruption : the case of the Kenyan Parliament / Fred Matiangi -- Effective financial scrutiny / Joachim Wehner -- Case study on the performance of public accounts committees : a review of the Canadian PAC, 37th Parliament / Martin Ulrich -- Parliament and supreme audit institutions / Rick Stapenhurst and Jack Titsworth -- The role of the media in curbing corruption / Rod Macdonell and Melica Pesic -- Case study on the role of Parliament and the media in the fight against corruption / John Smith -- Anti-corruption commissions / John Heilbrunn -- Case sutdy : the European Parliaments's role in the resignation oft the Santer Commission / Katia Stasinopoulou -- Building coalitions : parliaments, civil society, and corruption control / Michael Johnston -- Political parties / Riccardo Pelizzo -- Party political funding / Michael Pinto-Duschinsky -- Legislative ethics and codes of conduct / Rick Stapenhurst and Riccardo Pelizzo -- Case study of the House Of Commons : how can Parliamentary codes and registers of member's interests help? …”
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Aboriginal rights and self-government the Canadian and Mexican experience in North American perspective /

Table of Contents: “….] -- The revolution of the new commons / Gustavo Esteva -- Indian policy : Canada and the United States compared / C.E.S. …”
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Entrepreneurial economics bright ideas from the dismal science /

Table of Contents: “…The Organ Shortage: A Tragedy of the Commons? 107 -- Alexander Tabarrok -- Part IV. Efficient Justice -- 8. …”
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The Romantic Sublime : Studies in the Structure and Psychology of Transcendence / by Weiskel, Thomas

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Sociobiology and the Preemption of Social Science / by Rosenberg, Alexander, 1946-

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Philosophy and the Turn to Religion / by Vries, Hent de

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Advertising Progress : American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing / by Laird, Pamela Walker, 1947-

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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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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.…”
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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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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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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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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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Art is not what you think it is by Preziosi, Donald, 1941-

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Destruction of hazardous chemicals in the laboratory by Lunn, George

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