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Skycrane Igor Sikorsky's last vision / by McKenna, John A.

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Changing structures of inequality a comparative perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Changing structures of inequality : a comparative perspective / Heinz-Herbert Noll, Yannick Lemel -- Social stratification : the distinctiveness of French research / Yannick Lemel -- Class, stratification and beyond : the German case / Heinz-Herbert Noll -- Empirical studies on social stratification in Quebec and Canada / Simon Langlois -- Social stratification and inequalities in Spain : the state of the art / Salustiano del Campo -- Research on class in the United States / Paul W. …”
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Cultivating the colonies colonial states and their environmental legacies /

Table of Contents: “…The prospective colonist and strange environments : advice on health and prosperity / Andrew Wear -- Carved out of nature : identity and environment in German colonial Africa / Daniel Rouven Steinbach -- The science of nature and the nature of science in the Spanish and American Philippines at the turn of the twentieth century / Greg Bankoff -- Aerial photography and colonial discourse on the agricultural crisis in late-colonial Indochina, 1930-1945 / David Biggs -- Wetland colonies : Louisiana, Guangzhou, Pondicherry, and Senegal / Christopher Morris -- Colonization of the Russian North : a frozen frontier / Julia Lajus -- Recasting disease and its environment : indigenous medical practitioners, the plague, and politics in colonial India, 1898-1910 / Kavita Sivaramakrishnan -- Changing times, changing palates : the dietary impacts of Basuto adaptation to new rulers, crops, and markets, 1830s-1966 / Phia Steyn -- State rationality, development, and the making of state territory : from colonial extraction to postcolonial conservation in southern Mozambique / Elizabeth Lunstrum -- Ecological communication at the Oxford Imperial Forestry Institute / Peder Anker -- Colonial experts, developmental and environmental doctrines, and the legacies of late British colonialism / Joseph M. …”
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Entanglements in Legal History: Conceptual Approaches /

Table of Contents: “…Buis -- A transnational empire built on law : the case of the commercial jurisprudence of the House of Trade of Seville (1583-1598) / Ana Belem Fernández Castro -- Entangled up in red, white, and blue : Spanish West Florida and the American territory of Orleans, 1803-1810 / Seán Patrick Donlan -- German colonial law and comparative law, 1884-1919 Jakob Zollmann -- Napoleon in America? …”
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Jewish literatures and cultures context and intertext /

Table of Contents: “…Bland -- "Reverse marranism," translatability, and practice of secular Jewish culture in Russian / Gabriella Safran -- Intertextuality, Rabbinic literature, and the making of Hebrew modernism / Shachar Pinsker -- Brooklyn am Rhein? : the German sources of Jewish-American literature / Julian Levinson -- Diaspora and translation : the migrations of Jewish meaning / Naomi Seidman.…”
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“Who Is A Jew?" : Reflections on History, Religion, and Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Karaites, Israelites, Kabbalists, Messianists, and the Politics of Identity; German-Jewish Identity: Problematic Then, Problematic Now; "I Sometimes Think That I Grew Up on a Different Planet": The Assimilated Jewish Community of the Warsaw Ghetto in the Letters of Wanda Lubelska and Hala Szwambaum.…”
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Constituting equality gender equality and comparative constitutional law /

Table of Contents: “…Williams -- More than rights / Helen Irving -- Perfectionism and fundamentalism in the application of the German abortion laws / Mary Anne Case -- Moral authority in English and American abortion law / Joanna N. …”
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Children in colonial America

Table of Contents: “…Wall -- Documents: "I had eight birds hatcht in one nest": Anne Bradstreet writes about parenthood -- Part IV. Becoming Americans. 10. From German Catholic girls to colonial American women: girlhood in the French Gulf south and the British mid-Atlantic colonies / Lauren Ann Kattner -- 11. …”
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Testing of construction materials by A., Bahurudeen

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Nurse Writers of the Great War / by Hallett, Christine E.

Table of Contents: “…Conclusion: professional nurses in military hospitalsNotes; 5 American nurses in Europe; Introduction: American nurses and the war in Europe; Julia Stimson's 'splendid women'; Pioneer nurse: the adventures of Helen Dore Boylston; Conclusion: far-off lands and strange adventures; Notes; 6 The war nurse as free agent; Introduction: the rewards of professional nursing; Heroine of Pervyse: the adventures of Elsie Knocker; Violetta Thurstan: intrepid, travelling nurse; Conclusion: intrepid nurses; Notes; Part III Volunteer girls; 7 American young women at war; Introduction: American women at war.…”
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The organs of J.S. Bach a handbook / by Wolff, Christoph

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The World War I reader [primary and secondary sources] /

Table of Contents: “…Keene -- The fourteen points / President Woodrow Wilson -- Views on a prospective armistice / Ferdinand Foch and John Pershing -- The military collapse of the German Empire / Wilhelm Deist -- Diggers and doughboys: Australian and American troop interaction on the Western Front, 1918 / Dale Blair -- Peacemaking, 1919 / Harold Nicolson -- British diplomacy: the Hussein-McMahon letters / Sir Henry McMahon, British High Commissioner in Cairo, to Hussein Ibn Ali, the Sherif of Mecca -- A peace to end all peace / David Fromkin -- The kings depart / Richard Watt.…”
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International HRM a cross-cultural approach / by Jackson, T. H. (Terence Hugh)

Table of Contents: “…The Competent Organization: The American Model 59 Andersen Consulting (Europe) - The American model - Why American theories might not apply abroad - Parochialism and universality - Management competences approach - European and international competences - The cultural regard for managers and their competences - Different degrees of internationalization of companies - Problems inherent within the competences model - Implications for managers: selection of managers and key staff - An agenda for research. 4. …”
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Five days in October the Lost Battalion of World War I / by Ferrell, Robert H.

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The ruins : a novel / by Smith, Scott, 1965 July 13-

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Screening Auschwitz : Wanda Jakubowska's The Last Stage and the Politics of Commemoration / by Haltof, Marek

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Repetitions / by Abbott, Scott H., Radaković, Žarko

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Vampires and a Reasonable Dictionary / by Radaković, Žarko, Abbott, Scott, 1962-

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Social security pension reform in Europe

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction: An American Perspective I -- Martin Feldstein -- Introduction: A European Perspective 9 -- Horst Siebert -- 1. …”
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Paisanos : A Folklore Miscellany

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