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A fundamental freedom why Republicans, conservatives, and Libertarians should support gay rights / by Lampo, David, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…-- The thorny issue of gay marriage -- The rise, fall, and resurrection of the modern conservative movement -- Is the Tea Party nation anti-gay? …”
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Exhibiting the past : historical memory and the politics of museums in postsocialist China / by Denton, Kirk A., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…National origins and local identity: museums of premodern history -- Exhibiting the revolution: the museum of the Chinese revolution -- Commodification and nostalgia: revolutionary history in the era of the market economy -- Martyrdom and memory: monuments, memorials, and museums for dead heroes -- Martial glory and the power of the state: military museums -- Heroic resistance and victims of atrocity: negotiating the memory of Japanese imperialism -- Heroic models and exemplary leaders: memorial halls -- Literary politics and cultural heritage: modern literature museums -- Ethnic minorities and the construction of national identity: ethnographic museums -- Revolutionary memory and national landscape: Red tourism -- Museums of the future: municipal urban planning exhibition halls.…”
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Junk art and the politics of trash / by Whiteley, Gillian

Table of Contents: “…Rehabilitating rubbish: histories, values, aesthetics -- The cultural life of detritus: from objet trouve to the Art of assemblage -- Dissenters, drifters and poets: 'placing' assemblage in the San Francisco Bay Area -- The 'comedy of waste': a load of British rubbish -- Accumulations, panoplies and Le quotidien: French practice and the transfiguration of everyday mess -- Cross-cultural encounters and collisions: the Annandale imitation realists and Australian modernism.…”
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Cultural chauvinism : intercultural communication and the politics of superiority / by Ibelema, Minabere, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Many Faces of Cultural Chauvinism -- Democracy is Western -- All Things Modern Are Western -- All Things Nefarious Are Non-Western -- The Hell of War Is Non-Western -- All Things Decadent Are Western -- Immodest Dressers and Desecraters -- Contention Not Confucian -- As Democracies Turn -- Dark History of Distinctions -- Who Civilized the Greeks That Civilized the West? …”
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Galbert of Bruges and the historiography of medieval Flanders

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Imperfect institutions possibilities and limits of reform / by Þráinn Eggertsson, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Imperfect institutions and growth theory in modern economics -- Barriers to growth : institutions and social technologies -- Competing social models -- Stable poverty and unstable growth -- The political logic of bad economics -- Inefficient social norms -- Why Iceland starved -- Applying social technologies : lessons from the old theory of economic policy -- Degrees of freedom in institutional reform -- Eluding poverty traps, escaping history -- Minimal property rights and legal transplants.…”
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Heidegger, art, and postmodernity by Thomson, Iain D. (Iain Donald), 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Understanding ontotheology, or "The history that we are" -- 2. Heidegger's critique of modern aesthetics -- 3. …”
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Fundamentals of enterprise risk management how top companies assess risk, manage exposures, and seize opportunities / by Hampton, John J., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Modern risk management -- Scope of ERM -- Contributions of ERM -- Challenge of the Black Swan -- Challenge of the 2008 financial crisis -- Implementing ERM -- Visual risk clusters -- Visual risk : a hypothetical case -- Tagging risk : an example -- Airbus A380 jumbo jet -- Product launch application -- Strategic risk -- Subculture risk -- Leadership risk -- Life cycle risk -- Horizon risk -- Aligning risk categories with the business model -- Avoiding business disruption -- ERM and Sarbanes-Oxley -- Coffee mug, candy, exotic jams, and Toyota -- ERM and swarm theory -- Cerberus and Chrysler -- Risk management and the history of ERM -- Evolving ERM since 2004 -- Risk management and the future of ERM -- Modern risk managers -- Chief risk and strategy officers -- Risk managers in person -- Central risk management committee.…”
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Maine an annotated bibliography / by Potholm, Christian P., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Finding the real Maines: physical, political, demographic and psychographic -- Dimensions -- The wild, wild East -- Ethnicity matters -- Maine media -- Polling: the art and the science -- The history of modern Maine politics. -- The marvel of Margaret: the persistence of a modern political archetype -- The Muskie revolution -- The high tide of democratic aspirations -- The Cohen counter-revolution -- Maine's independent governors in myth and reality -- Voting patterns: six paradigms, or how "vote the way you shot" became "1/3, 1/3, 1/3" -- Campaigns and candidates: "as Maine goes . . ." -- Ballot measures and participatory democracy: "the sovereign right of the people to legislate" -- Additional topics. -- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the politics of nineteenth-century Maine -- Women of Maine -- The Bowdoin connection -- Visual depictions of Maine -- Primary research opportunities -- Best Maine politics axioms.…”
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North Korea the struggle against American power / by Beal, Tim

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Fulcrum of geography, anvil of history: DPRK in historical perspective -- The roots of modern Korea: from Tangun to liberation -- Years of struggle, years of hope: Korean War to first nuclear crisis -- Creation of the Agreed Framework and the flowering of dätente -- Crisis reignited: economic reform, regional accord, Washington discord -- Part II: The pillars of confrontation -- The human rights record: complexities, causes, solutions -- Drugs and generals -- The nuclear confrontation -- On the precipice: options, positions and dangers at the start of the second Bush administration.…”
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Franco-American identity, community, and La Guiannée / by Servaes, Anna

Table of Contents: “…Cultural continuity: collective memory and cultural identity -- Heritage, history, and continuity -- Modern adaptations and heritage -- Linguistic, material, and religious symbols.…”
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'Good Women do not Inherit Land' : Politics of Land and Gender in India / by Rao, Nitya

Table of Contents: “…chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 A Personal Journey -- chapter 3 Faces of Poverty: The Villages Profiled -- chapter 4 Reinventing Tradition: Agrarian Movements in History -- chapter 5 Land as a Productive Resource -- chapter 6 Locating Identities -- chapter 7 Women’s Claims to Land -- chapter 8 Custom and the Courts: Bargaining with Modernity -- chapter 9 Development Interventions: Does One Size Fit All? …”
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Dalit Studies /

Table of Contents: “…Sanal Mohan -- Dilemmas of Dalit agendas: political subjugation and self-emancipation in Telugu Country, 1910-50 / Chinnaiah Jangam -- Making sense of Dalit sikh history / Raj Kumar Hans -- Probing the present -- The Dalit reconfiguration of modernity: citizens and castes in the Telugu public sphere / K. …”
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The peopling of the Americas new insights from genetic studies /

Table of Contents: “…-- Two different founding populations colonized the Americas -- Linguistic evidence -- Genetic background -- mtDNA lineages in native Americans -- mtDNA haplogroup frequencies in Siberia and the Americas -- Population history of Amerindian haplogroups -- Haplogroup X in North and Central America -- Prehistoric European migration to North America -- History and diversification of circumarctic peoples -- Ancient vs. modern population diversity -- Colonization of the Caribbean -- Y chromosome haplogroup frequencies in the Americas -- Y chromosome haplogroup frequencies in native Siberians -- Y chromosome SNP haplotype network -- Migration models based on Y chromosome data.…”
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Pachangas borderlands music, U.S. politics, and transnational marketing / by Dorsey, Margaret E. (Margaret Ellen), 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Vega" meets modernity.…”
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Wayward Christian soldiers freeing the Gospel from political captivity / by Marsh, Charles, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…-- Theology matters : including a brief history of modern Christianity in which the reader learns why the Christian right are theological liberals -- Keepers of the mystery : the Christian tradition speaks (carefully) -- Learning to be quiet in a noisy nation (and in a nation of noisy believers) -- Passing the international test : the call of global Christianity -- Faith as making space for God's truth in the world.…”
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The academic, social, and psychological impacts of service learning / by Duncan, Joyce, 1946-, Taylor, Teresa Brooks

Table of Contents: “…Improving social welfare through service learning -- A brief history of social welfare -- The modern era -- Homelessness -- How many are there? …”
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Christianity and the transformation of physical education and sport in China / by Zhang, Huijie, Hong, Fan, Huang, Fuhua

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Archival anxiety and the vocational calling by Cox, Richard J.

Table of Contents: “…The archival calling -- Public memory meets archival memory : the interpretation of Williamsburg's Secretary's office -- Public and private history in Colonial Williamsburg : a memoir of a half-century and a view to a calling -- Empty temples : challenges for modern government archives and records management -- Secrecy, archives, and the archivist -- The National Archives reclassification scandal -- Archival ethics : the truth of the matter -- The archives & archivists listserv controversy -- The Anthony Clark case, SAA, and professional ethics -- Revisiting the archival finding aid -- Teaching unpleasant things -- Arguing about appraisal in the age of forgetfulness.…”
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The historic urban landscape managing heritage in an urban century / by Bandarin, Francesco

Table of Contents: “…Preface: A New Approach to Urban Conservation -- Glossary -- Urban Conservation : Short History of a Modern Idea -- Urban Conservation as an International Public Policy -- Changing Context of Urban Heritage Management -- New Actors and Approaches to Urban Heritage Management -- New Actors and Approaches to Urban Heritage Management -- The Historic Urban Landscape : Heritage as a Resource for the Urban Century -- Annex 1: Note on the development of the Historic Urban Landscape approach -- Annex 2: The 2005 Vienna Memorandum -- Annex 3: The Draft Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape.…”
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