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A New Conception of War : John Boyd, the U.S. Marines, and Maneuver Warfare / by Brown, Ian T.

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Politics and Community-Based Research : Perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg by Abed, Abdul, Abed, Abdul, Vawda, Shahid, Suriano, Maria, Roux, Naomi, Pingo, Nicolette, Pienaar-Lewis, Clara, Phasha, Potsiso, Mkwanazi, Eulenda, Mkhabela, Solam, Mayson, Simon Sizwe, Matsipa, Mpho, Matjomane, Mamokete Devon, Klug, Neil, Klug, Heinz, Katsaura, Obvious, Hebandjoko, Willy-Claude, Guinard, Pauline, Gaule, sally, Dörmann, Kirsten, Dewar, William, Didier, Sophie, Charlton, Sarah, Benit-Gbaffou, Claire, Arrazouaki, Ophelie

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Cracking the code : how to get women and minorities into STEM disciplines and why we must / by MacLean, Lisa M.

Table of Contents: “…Proposed solutions -- 3.1 Socialization at a young age -- 3.2 Socialization in college -- 3.3 Socialization in general -- 3.4 Cultivate interest -- 3.5 Work environment for women -- 3.6 Familial support -- 3.7 Financial barriers -- 3.8 Classwork and teaching methods -- 3.9 College culture and policies -- 3.10 Faculty -- 3.11 Research -- 3.12 Internships and cooperative education -- 3.13 Mentoring -- 3.14 Tutoring -- 3.15 Social opportunities -- 3.16 Outreach to K-12 teachers -- 3.17 Outreach to community colleges -- 3.18 Outreach to nontraditional students -- 3.19 STEM high schools for URPs and REMs -- 3.20 Bias -- 3.21 Dual enrollment programs -- 3.22 Further recommendations -- 3.23 Conclusion --…”
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Cracking the code : how to get women and minorities into STEM disciplines and why we must / by MacLean, Lisa M.

Table of Contents: “…Proposed solutions -- 3.1 Socialization at a young age -- 3.2 Socialization in college -- 3.3 Socialization in general -- 3.4 Cultivate interest -- 3.5 Work environment for women -- 3.6 Familial support -- 3.7 Financial barriers -- 3.8 Classwork and teaching methods -- 3.9 College culture and policies -- 3.10 Faculty -- 3.11 Research -- 3.12 Internships and cooperative education -- 3.13 Mentoring -- 3.14 Tutoring -- 3.15 Social opportunities -- 3.16 Outreach to K-12 teachers -- 3.17 Outreach to community colleges -- 3.18 Outreach to nontraditional students -- 3.19 STEM high schools for URPs and REMs -- 3.20 Bias -- 3.21 Dual enrollment programs -- 3.22 Further recommendations -- 3.23 Conclusion --…”
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Race and Rurality in the Global Economy /

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Race and Rurality in the Global Economy /

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Given world and time temporalities in context /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Tyrus Miller -- Temporality in the long run -- Walking backwards into the future : the conception of time in the ancient Near East / Stefan Maul -- Epic remains : seeing and time in the odyssey / Karen Bassi -- Fourier and the Saint-Simonians on the shape of history / Jonathan Beecher -- World history according to Katrina / Wai Chee Dimocl -- Historical figures : mediations, citations, narrations -- The transfiguration of proper and improper sounds from Christian to Jewish environments / Ruth Ha Cohen -- Quoting from the past, or dealing with temporality / Britta Duelke -- Taking time : temporal representations and cultural politics / Richard Terdiman -- Image-times, image-histories, image-thinking / Richard Terdiman -- Documentary reenactments : a paradoxical temporality that is not one shapes of modernity / Bill Nichols -- Time and progress time as progress : an enlightened sermon by William Robertson / László Kontler -- Religious revivals : modernity and religion in Friedrich Nietzsche's anti-Christ and Richard Wright's the outsider / Andrew Wegley -- Hetero-temporalities of post-socialism / Lisa Rofel -- The politics of temporality Heidegger, Bourdieu, Benjamin, Derrida to the planetarium : from cosmos to history and back / David Hoy -- Eternity no more : Walter Benjamin on the eternal return / Tyrus Miller -- A microscope for time : what Benjamin and Klages, Einstein and the movies owe to distant stars / Karl Clausberg.…”
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Queer ecologies sex, nature, politics, desire /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: a genealogy of queer ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson -- Eluding capture: the science, culture, and pleasure of "queer" animals / Stacy Alaimo -- Enemy of the species / Ladelle McWhorter -- Penguin family values: the nature of planetary environmental reproductive justice / Noël Sturgeon -- Queernaturecultures / David Bell -- Non-white reproduction and same-sex eroticism: queer acts against nature / Andil Gosine -- From jook joints to sisterspace: the role of nature in lesbian alternative environments in the United States / Nancy C. …”
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Nature and history in modern Italy /

Table of Contents: “…Il bel paese : an introduction / Marco Armiero and Marcus Hall -- Foundations -- The distinctive character of Italian environmental history / Piero Bevilacqua -- Upside-down landscapes : seismicity and seismic disasters in Italy / Emanuela Guidoboni -- Moving ground : Vesuvius and the Nola mudslides of the nineteenth century / Walter Palmieri -- Environmental imperialism in Sardinia : pesticides and politics in the struggle against malaria / Marcus Hall -- Commons and forests -- The decline of the commons and the environmental balance in early modern Italy / Gabriella Corona -- Forest visions in early modern Italy / Bruno Vecchio -- Environmental heritage of a past cultural landscape : alder woods in the upper Aveto Valley of the northwestern Apennines / Roberta Cevasco -- Act locally, think nationally : a brief history of access rights and environmental conflicts in Fascist Italy / Wilko Graf von Hardenberg -- Pollution, industry, and urban environment -- Dealing with industrial pollution in Italy, 1880-1940 / Simone Neri Serneri -- Petrochemical modernity in Sicily / Salvatore Adorno -- The Seveso disaster legacy / Laura Centemeri -- Landscape, culture, and environmentalism -- A "natural" capitalism : water and the making of the Italian industrial landscape / Stefania Barca -- Nationalizing the mountains : natural and political landscapes in World War I / Marco Armiero -- Nature preservation and protection in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy, 1880-1950 / Luigi Piccioni.…”
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Queer ecologies sex, nature, politics, desire /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: a genealogy of queer ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson -- Eluding capture: the science, culture, and pleasure of "queer" animals / Stacy Alaimo -- Enemy of the species / Ladelle McWhorter -- Penguin family values: the nature of planetary environmental reproductive justice / Noël Sturgeon -- Queernaturecultures / David Bell -- Non-white reproduction and same-sex eroticism: queer acts against nature / Andil Gosine -- From jook joints to sisterspace: the role of nature in lesbian alternative environments in the United States / Nancy C. …”
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Nature and history in modern Italy /

Table of Contents: “…Il bel paese : an introduction / Marco Armiero and Marcus Hall -- Foundations -- The distinctive character of Italian environmental history / Piero Bevilacqua -- Upside-down landscapes : seismicity and seismic disasters in Italy / Emanuela Guidoboni -- Moving ground : Vesuvius and the Nola mudslides of the nineteenth century / Walter Palmieri -- Environmental imperialism in Sardinia : pesticides and politics in the struggle against malaria / Marcus Hall -- Commons and forests -- The decline of the commons and the environmental balance in early modern Italy / Gabriella Corona -- Forest visions in early modern Italy / Bruno Vecchio -- Environmental heritage of a past cultural landscape : alder woods in the upper Aveto Valley of the northwestern Apennines / Roberta Cevasco -- Act locally, think nationally : a brief history of access rights and environmental conflicts in Fascist Italy / Wilko Graf von Hardenberg -- Pollution, industry, and urban environment -- Dealing with industrial pollution in Italy, 1880-1940 / Simone Neri Serneri -- Petrochemical modernity in Sicily / Salvatore Adorno -- The Seveso disaster legacy / Laura Centemeri -- Landscape, culture, and environmentalism -- A "natural" capitalism : water and the making of the Italian industrial landscape / Stefania Barca -- Nationalizing the mountains : natural and political landscapes in World War I / Marco Armiero -- Nature preservation and protection in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy, 1880-1950 / Luigi Piccioni.…”
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Given world and time temporalities in context /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Tyrus Miller -- Temporality in the long run -- Walking backwards into the future : the conception of time in the ancient Near East / Stefan Maul -- Epic remains : seeing and time in the odyssey / Karen Bassi -- Fourier and the Saint-Simonians on the shape of history / Jonathan Beecher -- World history according to Katrina / Wai Chee Dimocl -- Historical figures : mediations, citations, narrations -- The transfiguration of proper and improper sounds from Christian to Jewish environments / Ruth Ha Cohen -- Quoting from the past, or dealing with temporality / Britta Duelke -- Taking time : temporal representations and cultural politics / Richard Terdiman -- Image-times, image-histories, image-thinking / Richard Terdiman -- Documentary reenactments : a paradoxical temporality that is not one shapes of modernity / Bill Nichols -- Time and progress time as progress : an enlightened sermon by William Robertson / László Kontler -- Religious revivals : modernity and religion in Friedrich Nietzsche's anti-Christ and Richard Wright's the outsider / Andrew Wegley -- Hetero-temporalities of post-socialism / Lisa Rofel -- The politics of temporality Heidegger, Bourdieu, Benjamin, Derrida to the planetarium : from cosmos to history and back / David Hoy -- Eternity no more : Walter Benjamin on the eternal return / Tyrus Miller -- A microscope for time : what Benjamin and Klages, Einstein and the movies owe to distant stars / Karl Clausberg.…”
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To serve the President continuity and innovation in the White House staff / by Patterson, Bradley H. (Bradley Hawkes), 1921-

Table of Contents: “…The Office of Communications -- The cyber White House: Bush innovations in electronic communications -- Caught in the crossfire: the Press Secretary -- The Speechwriting Office -- Special counselors to the President -- First special counselor: the Vice President -- Second special counselor: the President's spouse -- Loyal shadow: the Presidential Aide -- The operations bloc -- Management and Administration -- The Executive Clerk -- Records Management -- The Correspondence Office -- Paving the way: the Advance Office -- Achievements versus activities: the Office of Appointments and Scheduling -- The White House Military Office -- The United States Secret Service -- The President's Commission on White House Fellowships -- The physical White House and its environment -- The Executive Residence -- The President's park and the White House Visitor Center -- The White House Historical Association: a private, independent organization -- Looking to the future -- Major long-term innovations by the Bush Administration -- The essence of White House service -- Appendix: Component offices of the contemporary White House staff.…”
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The biology of vibrios

Table of Contents: “…Bartlett -- Aquatic environment / Hidetoshi Urakawa and Irma Nelly G. Rivera -- Dynamics of vibrio populations and their role in environmental nutrient cycling / Janelle R. …”
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A companion to Los Angeles

Table of Contents: “…Landscapes and place -- Situating stories : what has been said about landscape and the built environment / Greg Hise -- America's playground : recreation and race / Lawrence Culver -- Landscapes of health and rejuvenation / David Sloane -- Excerpts from the San Gabriel River series / Robbert Flick -- Contemporary voice : Thickets of density, swaths of emptyness / Christopher Hawthorne.…”
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Advanced wireless communications & Internet future evolving technologies / by Glisic, Savo G.

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Cultural styles of knowledge transmission essays in honour of Ad Borsboom /

Table of Contents: “…Claessen -- From knowledge to consciousness: teachers, teachings, and the transmission of healing / Ien Courtens -- When 'natives' use what anthropologists wrote: the case of Dutch Rif Berbers / Henk Driessen -- The experience of the elders: learning ethnographic fieldwork in the Netherlands / Michael Fine -- On hermeneutics, Ad's antennas and the wholly other / René van der Haar -- Bontius in Batavia: early steps in intercultural communication / Frans Hüsken -- Ceremonies of learning and status in Jordan / Willy Jansen -- Al Amien: a modern variant of an age-old educational intuition / Huub de Jonge -- Yolngu and anthropological learning styles in ritual contexts / Ian Keen -- Learning to be white in Guadeloupe / Janine Klungel -- Learning from 'the other', writing about 'the other' / Jean Kommers -- Maori styles of teaching and learning / Toon van Meijl -- Tutorials as integration into a study environment / Ariana Need -- The transmission of kinship knowledge / Catrien Notermans -- Fieldwork in Manus, Papua New Guinea: on change, exchange and anthropological knowledge / Ton Otto -- Bodily learning: the case of pilgrimage by foot to Santiago de Compostela / Janneke Peelen -- Just humming: the consequences of the decline of learning contexts among the Warlpiri / Nicholas Peterson -- A note on observation / Anton Ploeg -- Fragments of transmission of Kamoro culture (South-West coast, West Papua), culled from fieldnotes, 1952-1954 / Jan Pouwer -- Getting answers may take some time ... …”
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Communicating science and engineering data in the information age

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Guide to mitigating spacecraft charging effects by Garrett, Henry B.

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Foreclosing the future : the World Bank and the politics of environmental destruction / by Rich, Bruce

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