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Innovations and challenges in grammar / by McCarthy, Michael, 1947-

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Understanding Immigration : Issues and Challenges in an Era of Mass Population Movement / by Hoskin, Marilyn B., 1945-

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My Gay Middle Ages / by Strouse, A. W.

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How We Write: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blank Page /

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Handbook of exchange rates

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Open Society Unresolved : The Contemporary Relevance of a Contested Idea /

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Last Day Every Day: Figural Thinking from Auerbach and Kracauer to Agamben and Brenez / by Martin, Adrian, 1959-

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Infamous Bodies : Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights / by Pinto, Samantha

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General fractional derivatives : theory, methods, and applications / by Yang, Xiao-Jun (Mathematician)

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Conversations on global citizenship education : perspectives on research, teaching, and learning in higher education /

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A Force for Change : The Class of 1950 / by Norberg, John

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India China : Rethinking Borders and Security / by Ling, L. H. M.

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The geotourism industry in the 21st century : the origin, principles, and futuristic approach / by Nikūʼī Ṣadrī, Bahrām, 1973 or 1974-

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The Southwest in the American Imagination : The Writings of Sylvester Baxter, 1881-1889 / by Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927

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Designs and prototypes of mobile robots /

Table of Contents: “…Linkages for leg mechanisms / Marco Ceccarelli -- 1.1 Walking issues for robots -- 1.2 A historical survey of mechanisms for walking machines -- 1.3 Modern solutions -- 1.4 Challenges for future developments -- 1.5 Conclusions -- 1.6 References --…”
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Human remains in society : Curation and exhibition in the aftermath of genocide and mass-violence /

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The Universal Art of Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678) : Painter, Writer, and Courtier /

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Flavor Development for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Series Preface; Preface; Editors; Contributors; 1: History of Flavors Associated with Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 History of flavors; 1.2.1 Old world era; 1.2.2 World War era; 1.2.3 Modern world era; 1.3 Flavoring agents; 1.4 Flavoring functional beverages; 1.5 Functional confectionery flavors; 1.6 Chemistry of flavors; 1.7 Types of flavoring agents; 1.7.1 Natural flavoring agents; 1.7.2 Artificial flavoring agents; 1.7.3 Tastes and the flavors used for masking…”
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Aid paradoxes in Afghanistan : building and undermining the state / by Bizhan, Nematullah

Table of Contents: “…-- Tax states -- Aid-dependent states -- The effects of oil revenue -- Distinction between aid and oil-revenue rentier effects -- Conclusion -- Reliance on external revenue : Afghanistan from 1747 to 2000 -- The society : an inheritance of history -- Relying on tribute for state building : the importance of external revenue to the Durrani empire (1747-1824) -- The Durrani empire ineffective tax system -- Subsidies and state building : the loss of tribute and search for alternative revenue (1824-1879) -- Institution building -- Consolidation of a modern buffer state (1880-1919) : the significance of subsidies and external military support -- And military administration -- State-society relations -- Amanullah Khan's reforms : the loss of subsidies, budget surplus and fiscal decline (1919-1929) -- Foreign aid and state building : reshaping the state building process (1929-1978) -- The rise of a weak aid-based rentier state -- Decline in foreign aid -- The state and the Mujahidin Tanzims (organizations) and sources of revenue : conflict in state-society relations (1978-2000) -- The Mujahidin government financial crises and Pakistani aid to the Taliban -- Conclusion -- Rebuilding an aid-based rentier state -- Establishing a new political order -- Building the state institutions -- Responding to the flow of aid -- Chaotic aid coordination : a challenge for state building -- Access to foreign aid : a prime focus -- Improving fiscal management -- Aid modality : undermining institution building -- Government preoccupation with foreign donors -- Relations at the administration level -- Relations in regard to senior appointments -- Conclusion -- Reforms and setbacks : rebuilding the revenue system -- State revenue sources -- Aiding the revenue reforms -- Reforming revenue policy and laws -- Reforming revenue administration -- Improving revenue infrastructure -- Confrontation and consultation -- Failing to enforce tax compliance -- Failing to prevent illegal taxation and extortion -- Ambiguity to end aid-dependency -- Fragmenting the tax system -- Conclusion -- Budget spending : fiscal fragmentation and patronage -- Some improvements in government budget transparency -- The citizen's role -- Underreported on-budget items -- Poor off-budget transparency -- Secret cash payments -- Conclusion -- Interactions between the state and society -- Reinforcing the state-society inherited gap -- Commanders -- Traditional actors -- Urban intelligentsia -- Reshaping the state-society relations -- Building and undermining the state -- Conclusion -- Conclusion : findings and implications -- Path dependency : Afghan state reliance on external revenue -- Building and undermining the state : Afghanistan after 9/11 -- Upward accountability to donors -- Creating a parallel public sector -- Paradoxical tax outcomes -- Divergence in state-society fiscal relations -- The future -- Implications fo externally aided state building.…”
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Ethnomedicinal plants with therapeutic properties /

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