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Managing water resources past and present

Table of Contents: “…Edmunds -- Water in Mediterranean history / Peregrine Horden -- The development of American water resources : planners, politicians, and constitutional interpretation / Martin Reuss -- Managing water for the future : the case of England and Wales / Ian Byatt -- Water for Europe : the creation of the European Water Framework Directive / Maria Kaika -- Water laws for water security in the twenty-first century / Stefano Burchi -- Water and conflicts, Hobbes v. …”
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Given world and time temporalities in context /

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Biodiversity Conservation and Phylogenetic Systematics Preserving our evolutionary heritage in an extinction crisis /

Table of Contents: “…The case of phylogenetic relict species -- Using phylogenetic dissimilarities among sites for biodiversity assessments and conservation -- Phylogenetic diversity measures and their decomposition: a framework based on hill numbers -- Split diversity: measuring and optimizing biodiversity using phylogenetic split networks -- The rarefaction of phylogenetic diversity: formulation, extension and application -- Support in area prioritization using phylogenetic information -- Assessing hotspots of evolutionary history with data from multiple phylogenies: an analysis of endemic clades from New Caledonia -- Representing hotspots of evolutionary history in systematic conservation planning for European mammals -- Priorities for conservation of the evolutionary history of amphibians in the cerrado -- Global spatial analyses of phylogenetic conservation priorities for aquatic mammals -- Metapopulation capacity meets evolutionary distinctness: spatial fragmentation complements phylogenetic rarity in prioritization. - Patterns of species, phylogenetic and mimicry diversity of clearwing butterflies in the Neotropics -- Conservation of phylogenetic diversity in Madagascar’s largest endemic plant family, Sarcolaenaceae -- The future of phylogenetic systematics in conservation biology: linking biodiversity and society.…”
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Cinema's alchemist the films of Péter Forgács /

Table of Contents: “…Roth -- Historical discourses of the unimaginable: The maelstrom / Michael Renov -- Waiting, hoping, among the Ruins of All the Rest / Kaja Silverman -- The trace: framing the presence of the past in Free fall / Malin Wahlberg -- Other films/other contexts. How to make history perceptible: The Bartos family and the private Hungary series / Roger Odin -- Found images as witness to Central European history: a Bibø reader and Miss Universe 1929 / Catherine Portuges -- Reenvisioning the documentary fact: on saying and showing in Wittgenstein Tractatus and bourgeois dictionaries / Tyrus Miller -- The world rewound: Wittgenstein Tractatus / Whitney Davis -- Taking the part for the whole: some thoughts inspired by the film music of Tibor Szemzø / Tamøs Korønyi -- Analytical spaces: the installations of Péter Forgács / Laszlo F. …”
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Contemporary Ukraine on the cultural map of Europe

Table of Contents: “…Rewakowicz -- Manifesting culture : language, media and the arts -- The European dimension within the current controversy over Ukrainian language standard / Serhii Vakulenko -- Galicia and Galician Ukrainian in the Ukrainian post-1991discourse / Michael Moser -- Criticism, and confidence : reshaping of the linguistic marketplace in Post-Soviet Ukraine / Laada Bilaniuk -- Linguistic strategies of imperial appropriation : why Ukrainian film is absent from world film history / Yuri Shevchuk -- Ukraine's changing communicative space : destination Europe or the Soviet past? …”
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Integration Processes and Policies in Europe Contexts, Levels and Actors /

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We, the people politics of national peculiarity in Southeastern Europe /

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Human rights and the unborn child by Joseph, Rita

Table of Contents: “…-- The right to life and to the necessities of life -- Decriminalization : a treaty interpretation manifestly unreasonable -- CRC legislative history and the child before birth -- Selective abortion on grounds of disability -- European Convention (1950) and the unborn child -- American Convention on Human Rights : " ... in general, from the moment of conception" -- Reclaiming rights of the African child at risk of abortion -- Selective abortion : an act of violence and discrimination on grounds of sex -- Children's rights : " ... without any exceptions whatsoever" -- Ideologies must conform to human rights, not human rights to ideologies.…”
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Inside the digital revolution policing and changing communication with the public / by Wessels, Bridgette

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The context of changing communication with the public using digital technologies -- The problem of defining "project digital": making sense of digital technologies in police service environments -- The cultural dynamics of technological change -- Putting the researcher in the field: the performances and positions of the ethnographer in innovative networks of communication -- The cultural history of Programme digital and project ATTACH in the MPS -- Phase one of the relations of production: "kicking-off and the early days" -- Phase two of the relations of production: "moving on and developing e-services" -- The construction of a digital services narrative at European, national and regional levels -- Narratives of service provision in the metropolitan police service: embedding telematics within service narratives -- Participation between service providers and residents: local people's perceptions of services in the East End of London -- Police work and everyday life -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The research methods and objectives of Newham focus groups.…”
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Between democracy and law : the amorality of secession /

Table of Contents: “…-- Or how 'Majority' actually begs numerous questions / Beulac -- Independence referendums. History, legal status and voting behaviour / Qvortrup -- The framing of secessionism in the neo-liberal crisis: The Scottish and Catalan cases / Della Porta, O'Connor, Portos -- The Europeanization of the Catalan debate: A "War of Attrition"? …”
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Bones of contention the living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero / by Todorova, Marii͡a Nikolaeva

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The Hybrid Practitioner : Building, Teaching, Researching Architecture /

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Ahab agonistes the rise and fall of the Omri dynasty /

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High Mountain Conservation in a Changing World

Table of Contents: “…Present phylogeorgraphic patterns in European mountains resulting from past large climatic oscillations -- 3. …”
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Prison Area, Independence Valley : American Paradoxes in Political Life and Popular Culture / by Kroes, Rob

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Educating deaf students from research to practice / by Marschark, Marc

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1 Histories of Medical Geography -- CONEVERY BOLTON VALENCIUS -- European National Practices -- 2 The Geographical Imperative in Nineteenth-Century French Medicine -- MICHAEL A OSBORNE -- 3 Differences of Degree: Representations of India in British Medical -- Topography, 1820-c. 1870 -- MARK HARRISON -- 4 The Debate about Acclimatization in the Dutch East Indies, 1840-1860 -- ANNEMARIE DE KNECHT-VAN EEKELEN -- 5 Adolf Mihry (1810-1888): G6ttingen's Humboldtian Medical -- Geographer -- NICOLAAS A RUPKE -- 6 August Hirsch: As Critic of, and Contributor to, Geographical -- Medicine and Medical Geography -- FRANK A BARRETT -- Colonial Discourses -- 7 The Geography of Health and the Making of the American West: -- Arkansas and Missouri, 1800-1860 -- CONEVERY BOLTON VALENCIUS -- 8 Geography, Race and Nation: Remapping "Tropical" Australia, -- 1890-1930 -- WARWICK ANDERSON -- Cartographic Representations -- 9 Humboldtian Representations in Medical Cartography -- NICOLAAS A RUPKE and KAREN E WONDERS -- 10 The first Global Map of the Distribution of Human Diseases: -- Friedrich Schnurrer's 'Charte uber die geographische Ausbreitung der -- Krankheiten', 1827 -- RAINER BROMER -- 11 Heinrich Berghaus's Map of Human Diseases -- JANE R CAMERINI -- Epilogues -- 12 Airs, Waters, Places: Perennial Puzzles of Health and Environment -- ANNE BUTTIMER -- 13 Medical Science before Scientific Medicine: Reflections on the History -- of Medical Geography -- RONALD L NUMBERS -- Index.…”
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The textbook of pharmaceutical medicine

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New regionalism or no regionalism? emerging regionalism in the Black Sea area /

Table of Contents: “…Fluid histories: culture, community, and the longue durée of the Black Sea world / Alexander A. …”
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Molecular polymorphism of man structural and functional individual multiformity of biomacromolecules /

Table of Contents: “…[et al.] -- Ethnogenomics : the genetic history of humans written in chromosomal DNA markers / L.A. …”
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Leaving Spain : A Biographical Study of an Economic Crisis and New Beginnings / by Riemann, Mê-Linh

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