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Brownlie's principles of public international law / by Crawford, James, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The sources of international law -- The relations of international and national law -- Subjects of international law -- Creation and incidence of statehood -- Recognition of states and governments -- International organizations -- Forms of governmental authority over territory -- Acquisition and transfer of territorial sovereignty -- Status of territory : further problems -- The territorial sea and other maritime zones -- Maritime delimitation and associated questions -- Maritime transit and the regime of the high seas -- Common spaces and cooperation in the use of natural resources -- Legal aspects of the protection of the environment -- The law of treaties -- Diplomatic and consular relations -- Unilateral acts, acquiescence, and estoppel -- Succession to rights and duties -- Sovereignty and equality of states -- Jurisdictional competence -- Privileges and immunities of foreign states -- The relations of nationality -- Nationality of corporations and assets -- The conditions for international responsibility -- Consequences of an internationally wrongful act -- Multilateral public order and issues of responsibility -- The international minimum standard : diplomatic protection and protection of investments -- International human rights -- international criminal justice --The claims process -- Third party settlement of international disputes -- Use or threat of force by states.…”

The Journal of Chinese Sociology

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Pragmatism as Post-Postmodernism : Lessons from John Dewey / by Hickman, Larry A., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Postmodernism -- Classical pragmatism : waiting at the end of the road -- Pragmatism, postmodernism, and global citizenship -- Classical pragmatism, postmodernism, and neopragmatism -- Technology -- Classical pragmatism and communicative action : Jürgen Habermas -- From critical theory to pragmatism : Andrew Feenberg -- A neo-Heideggerian critique of technology : Albert Borgmann -- Doing and making in a democracy : John Dewey -- The environment -- Nature as culture : John Dewey and Aldo Leopold -- Green pragmatism : reals without realism, ideals without idealism -- Classical pragmatism -- What was Dewey's magic number? …”
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Why Are Health Disparities Everyone's Problem? / by Cooper, Lisa A.

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Universal design : a practical guide to creating and recreating interiors of academic libraries for teaching, learning and research / by Staines, Gail M, 1961-

International economic law / by Lowenfeld, Andreas F, 1930-

Table of Contents: “…Economic law and the laws of economics -- Money, exchange rates, and the balance of payments -- The general agreement on tariffs and trade : origins and overview -- Evolution of the GATT and GATT law -- The GATT/WTO system after the Uruguay Round : a preliminary survey -- The international exchange of services and the creation of GATS -- Dispute resolution in the GATT, 1948-94 -- Dispute settlement in the WTO -- The question of subsidies -- Dumping and anti-dumping -- Agriculture -- Intellectual property law and the world trading system -- The environment and international economic law -- Competition law -- The responsibility of host states to foreign investors : customary international law -- Dispute settlement and international investment -- Evolving standards of international law on international investment -- The Bretton Woods System -- The international monetary fund as amended -- The international monetary system and regional crises -- Other institutions of the international monetary system -- The European Monetary System and the rise of the Euro -- International monetary law and private activity -- United Nations and other collective sanctions -- Economic sanctions without benefit of treaty.…”
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Data mining techniques for marketing, sales, and customer relationship management / by Berry, Michael J. A.

Table of Contents: “…-- The virtuous cycle of data mining -- Data mining methodology and best practices -- Data mining applications in marketing and customer relationship management -- The lure of statistics: data mining using familiar tools -- Decision trees -- Artificial neural networks -- Nearest neighbor approaches : memory-based reasoning and collaborative filtering -- Market basket analysis and association rules -- Link analysis -- Automatic Cluster detection -- Knowing when to worry: hazard functions and survival analysis in marketing -- Genetic algorithms -- Data mining throughout the customer life cycle -- Data warehousing, OLAP, and data mining -- Building the data mining environment -- Preparing data for mining -- Putting data mining to work.…”
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Alone in silence European women in the Canadian North before 1940 / by Kelcey, Barbara E. (Barbara Eileen), 1949-

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Democracy and public administration

Table of Contents: “…Hutchinson -- Democratic administration in a multicultural environment / Mohamad G. Alkadry -- Nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, and democracy in the United States / Angela M. …”
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Fighting fraud how to establish and manage an anti-fraud program / by Kovacich, Gerald L.

Table of Contents: “…The new-old global business environment -- Corporate assets, frauds and other terms--what are they? …”
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The first-time manager's guide to team building by Topchik, Gary S.

Table of Contents: “…The best team experience -- Defining a team -- The four team models -- A summary of the four models -- Mismanaging your teams -- Creating a team-based work environment -- A new set of skills -- Roadblocks on your way -- Getting to the new road -- The 10 steps of team building -- Leading your meetings -- Team-spirit key #1 : clear roles and responsibilities -- Team-spirit key #2 : open and honest communication -- Team-spirit key #3 : a supportive and knowledgeable manager/leader -- Team-spirit key #4 : decision-making authority -- Team-spirit key #5 : rewards and recognition -- Make them accountable! …”
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Risk in social science

Table of Contents: “…Zinn and Peter Taylor-Gooby -- Crime and risk / Hazel Kemshall -- Risk, environment, and technology / Nick Pidgeon, Peter Simmons, and Karen Henwood -- Everyday life, and leisure time / John Tulloch -- Risk and intimate relationships / Jane Lewis and Sophie Sarre -- Health and risk / Andy Alaszewski -- Life course, youth, and old age / Sarah Vickerstaff -- Risk, regulation, and management / Bridget Hutter -- Social inequality and risk / anwen Jones, David Abbott, and Deborah Quilgars -- The media and risk / Emma Hughes, Jenny Kitzinger, and Graham Murdock -- Social and public policy : reflexive individualization and regulatory governance / Peter Taylor-Gooby.…”
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The Blackwell guide to aesthetics

Table of Contents: “…Thomasson -- Evaluating art / Alan Goldman -- Interpretation in aesthetics / Laurent Stern -- Art and the moral realm / Noël Carroll -- Beauty and the critic's judgment : remapping aesthetics / Mary Mothersill -- The philosophy of taste : thoughts on the idea / Ted Cohen -- The emotions in art / Jenefer Robinson -- The philosophy of literature : pleasure restored / Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen -- The philosophy of the visual arts : perceiving paintings / Joseph Margolis -- The philosophy of the movies : cinematic narration / Berys Gaut -- The philosophy of music : formalism and beyond / Philip Alperson -- The philosophy of dance : bodies in motion, bodies at rest / Francis Sparshott -- Tragedy / Susan Feagin -- The aesthetics of nature and the environment / Donald W. Crawford -- Art and the aesthetic : the religious dimension / Nicholas Wolterstorff.…”
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Education and its discontents teaching, the humanities, and the importance of a liberal education in the age of mass information / by Moss, Mark Howard, 1962-

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Pragmatism as Post-Postmodernism : Lessons from John Dewey / by Hickman, Larry A., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Postmodernism -- Classical pragmatism : waiting at the end of the road -- Pragmatism, postmodernism, and global citizenship -- Classical pragmatism, postmodernism, and neopragmatism -- Technology -- Classical pragmatism and communicative action : Jürgen Habermas -- From critical theory to pragmatism : Andrew Feenberg -- A neo-Heideggerian critique of technology : Albert Borgmann -- Doing and making in a democracy : John Dewey -- The environment -- Nature as culture : John Dewey and Aldo Leopold -- Green pragmatism : reals without realism, ideals without idealism -- Classical pragmatism -- What was Dewey's magic number? …”
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Why Are Health Disparities Everyone's Problem? / by Cooper, Lisa A.

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Doing business in China getting ready for the Asian century / by Menzies, Jane

Table of Contents: “…Exploring the trade and investment environment in China -- 3. Understanding the cultural gap between Australia and China -- 4. …”
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