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The United States and China a history from the eighteenth century to the present / av Wang, Dong, 1967-

Innehållsförteckning: “…-- The United States and China in the era of world wars and revolutions, 1912-1970 -- Revolutions, nationalism, and internationalization -- The Pacific War and Red China -- Facing east and west: agents of encounter -- Deterrence and negotiation: American-chinese relations during the Cold War -- Rapprochement, the default superpower, and China resurgent, 1970-present -- Renewing the bilateral relationship, 1970-1989 -- The China market and the allure of the United States -- Clashes and cooperation -- China's catch-up: a game-changer for America?.…”
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Broken Trust : Greed, Mismanagement & Political Manipulation at America’s Largest Charitable Trust / av King, Samuel P.

Innehållsförteckning: “…-- A tinderbox waiting for a match -- Time to say, "No more" -- Like investigating the CIA -- Mistrust and paranoia -- A world record for breaches of trust -- "That's just the way you do it" -- Public pressure forces a political shift -- Trustees surrounded End of the line -- "Healing" and "closure" -- Eternal vigilance.…”
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Oh joy! oh rapture! the enduring phenomenon of Gilbert and Sullivan / av Bradley, Ian C.

Innehållsförteckning: “…Something lingering : the enduring influence of Gilbert and Sullivan through the twentieth century -- A thing of shreds and patches : the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 1961-1982 -- Unfriended, unprotected, and alone : the new D'Oyly Carte, 1988-2003 -- Virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances : professional productions, 1961-2004 -- Masculine insects with the morals of a Methodist : Gilbert and Sullivan fans -- Amateur tenors sing choruses in public : the world of amateur performance -- In this college, useful knowledge : G & S in schools and universities -- Things are seldom what they seem : parodies, spoofs, and spin-offs -- Maintaining with no little heat their various opinions : G & S scholarship, partisanship and appreciation -- Peep with security into futurity : Buxton it is!…”
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Sidney Poitier man, actor, icon / av Goudsouzian, Aram

Innehållsförteckning: “…Poverty and progress ; Patches (1927-1943) ; Great migrations (1943-1945) ; Stages (1945-1949) -- pt. …”
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Does the elephant dance? contemporary Indian foreign policy / av Malone, David, 1954-

Innehållsförteckning: “…India's East and Southeast Asia policy: catching up -- 10. India's relationships with Europe and Russia: fading glory? …”
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Plant transposons and genome dynamics in evolution

Innehållsförteckning: “…Chandler -- Transposons in plant gene regulation / Damon R. Lisch -- Imprinted gene expression and the contribution of transposable elements / Mary A. …”
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Strong and superstrong pulsed magnetic fields generation / av Shneerson, G. A., Dolotenko, Mikhail I., Krivosheev, Sergey I., 1954-

Innehållsförteckning: “…Magnetic fields of axially symmetrical magnetic systems used for generation of the strong fields (methods of calculation, assessment of the edge effects) -- Calculating formulae and results of numerical estimations of parameters of the field for typical single-turn magnets -- Field diffusion into the conductors and their heating -- Matching of the parameters of solenoids and power supply sources -- Electromagnetic forces and mechanical stresses in multi-turns solenoids. …”
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Munro's statistical methods for health care research / av Plichta, Stacey Beth, 1965-

Innehållsförteckning: “…Using research and statistics in health care -- Organizing, displaying, and describing data -- Key principles underlying statistical inference -- Hypothesis testing with inferential statistics -- The independent t-test and the Mann-Whitney U-test -- The paired t tests and the Wilcoxon Matched Pairs Signed Rank test -- The one way ANOVAS and the Kruskal-Wallis H-test -- Differences among group means : N-way ANOVA and MANOVA -- Comparing the means of three or more related groups : repeated measures ANOVA and Friedman's ANOVA by rank -- Comparing means and controlling for covariates : ANCOVA -- Correlation coefficients -- Examining cross-tabulations -- Statistical model building and logistic regression -- Linear regression -- Exploratory factor analysis -- Path analysis -- Structural equation modeling -- Writing and presenting for publication.…”

Drying in the process industry av Land, C. M. van't, 1937-

Innehållsförteckning: “…Miscellaneous Continuous Convective Dryers and Convective Batch Dryers.10. Atmospheric contact dryers.11. Vacuum drying.12. …”
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Lean Six Sigma that works : a powerful action plan for dramatically improving quality, increasing speed, and reducing waste / av Carreira, Bill, Trudell, Bill

Innehållsförteckning: “…The Why -- The What -- Overview of Lean Six Sigma -- Customer Satisfaction -- Waste -- Value Added, Non Value Added, Required Value Added -- Flow and P vs. Push and Batch; Balance -- Velocity, Throughput and Lead Time -- Cost and Profit ? …”
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Among the swamp people : life in Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw River Delta / av Key, Watt

Innehållsförteckning: “…Discovery : spring 1996 -- First night -- Camp man -- Crazy Dan -- City people -- Cloverleaf -- Swamp writer -- Hurricane Georges -- Man tools -- Water hunter -- Swamp camp -- The white car -- Carson -- Homesick -- Risks and changes -- Butch -- The trailer park -- Man talk -- Catching alligators -- Kitchen music -- Football -- Late-night visitors -- Chuckfee Revival -- Neighbors -- Deltona 500 -- Boats on the loose -- The slough -- The boat slip -- Mayhall -- Delta heckler -- Camp names -- Red -- Horace -- Bottle Creek -- No-name -- Random proud -- Best friends -- Big generator -- The dark ages -- Airboat -- The phone call -- Back to the mud -- The deal -- More hurricanes -- Stepping out -- Big generator -- Famous -- Christmas gift -- End of an era.…”
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The lure of anti-Semitism hatred of Jews in present-day France / av Wieviorka, Michel

Innehållsförteckning: “…-- In schools -- Changes in the public sphere -- The Shoah: deficit, plethora and loss of meaning -- Global anti-Semitism -- The Jews in France: developments and concerns -- Anti-Semitism (almost) without Jews -- The power of the imagination -- A sociological intervention -- Muslim anti-Semitism: the view from prison -- The Jews, the ChaldoAssyrians and the others -- Anti-Semitism at local level -- An unusual variant of "global" anti-Semitism -- "Why there were no clashes in Sarcelles" -- The Marseilles counterpoint: the Pieds-Noirs and the Jews -- The fears of the Jews in Alsace -- Malaise in the Alsatian countryside -- Two extreme right political forces, two anti-Semitic rationales -- Mohammed Latrèche and the Parti des Musulmans de France -- Desecrations -- Boycotting Israel -- Two extreme cases of anti-Zionism -- Leftism in decline and extreme anti-Zionism -- The clamour of the media and the silence of the teachers -- Dealing with the Shoah in schools -- Ethnic diversity in schools -- Abuse and attacks -- Anti-Semitism in schools and globalisation.…”
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Edward Elgar and his world

Innehållsförteckning: “…Of Worcester and London : an introduction / Byron Adams -- Measure of a man : catechizing Elgar's Catholic avatas / Charles Edward McGuire -- Elgar the escapist? …”
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Enduring loss in early modern Germany cross disciplinary perspectives /

Innehållsförteckning: “…Wade -- Loss and emotion in funeral works on children in seventeenth-century Germany / Claudia Jarzebowski -- Enduring death in pietism : regulating mourning and the new intimacy / Ulrike Gleixner -- Between the old faith and the new : spiritual loss in Reformation Germany / Christopher Ocker -- Loss and gain in a Salzburg convent : Tridentine reform, princely absolutism, and on the nuns of Nonnberg (1620 to 1696) / Barbara Lawatsch Melton -- Themes of exile and (re-)enclosure in music for the Franciscan convents of Counter-Reformation Munich during the Thirty Years' War / Alexander J. …”
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The corporate university handbook : designing, managing, and growing a successful program /

Innehållsförteckning: “…-- Mark Allen, Ph.D., Director of Executive Education, -- Pepperdine University -- Part 1: Designing a Corporate University -- Chapter 1: Creating a Corporate University: -- Diary of a Launch -- Mike Morrison, Ph.D., Dean, University of Toyota -- Chapter 2: Running a Corporate University Like a Business: -- A Financial Model -- Jim Moore, Consultant andformer Director, -- SunU, Sun Microsystems -- Chapter 3: Corporate University Structures -- That Reflect Organizational Cultures -- Karen Barley, Vice President, Corporate University -- Enterprise -- Chapter 4: The Corporate University as a Strategic Lever: -- Integrating the Strategic Objectives of the Firm with the -- Desired Outcomes of the Corporate University -- Tom McCarty, Director of Consulting, Motorola University -- Chapter 5: Strategic Partnerships for Corporate Universities -- Mark Allen, Ph.D. -- Part 2: Managing a Corporate University -- Chapter 6: Best Practices in Corporate Universities -- Robert M. …”
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Catalysts for change how the UN's independent experts promote human rights / av Piccone, Theodore J.

Innehållsförteckning: “…Note on methodology note -- J. Brookings/OSJI/UPR-Watch summary recommendations.…”
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Creating livable communities for people with disabilities

Innehållsförteckning: “…Introduction -- Strategy one : agreement on changes in the collection and management of and access to, multiple agency information about programs and benefits in order to be consumer responsive -- Strategy two : utilization of favorable tax treatment (e.g. tax credits) to stimulate change in individual and corporate behavior that encourages investment in livable community objectives -- Strategy three : agreement on common performance measures across multiple federally funded programs -- Strategy four : utilization of private sector match to competitively secure public funding and stimulate public-private sector partnerships -- Strategy five : agreement on changes in infrastructure to consolidate administration of multiple programs and improve ease of access -- Strategy six : utilization of waiver authority to promote state options to advance consumer choice and community participation -- Recommendations for action.…”
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Application administrators handbook : installing, updating and troubleshooting software / av Bourne, Kelly C.

Innehållsförteckning: “…responsibility for an application -- Change control -- Installing software -- Support software -- Updates and patches -- Supporting your application -- Disaster recover -- Handling problems with the application -- Repetitive activities -- Security -- The server -- Tuning -- The network -- Your organization -- The user's viewpoint -- The vendor -- The government gets involved -- System tools - common -- System tools - microsoft -- System tools - unix -- Tools you can or should develop -- Third party tools -- Troubleshooting tips -- Things to do in advance that pay off -- Things that will happen that you don't want to think about -- The end of days - decommissioning an application -- What every application administrator should know -- Education -- Parting advice, perhaps unsolicited.…”
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Jutland : World War I's greatest naval battle / av Epkenhans, Michael, Hillmann, Jörg, Nägler, Frank, 1953-

Innehållsförteckning: “…Rodger -- Operational and strategic plans in the Kaiser's navy prior to World War I / Frank Nägler -- The impact of war: matching expectation with reality in the Royal Navy in the first months of World War I at sea / James Goldrick -- The possibility of ultimate action in the Baltic: the Royal Navy at war, 1914-1916 / Andrew Lambert -- The Imperial Navy, 1914-1915 / Michael Epkenhans -- The Battle of Jutland from the German perspective / Werner Rahn -- Jutland: British viewpoints / John Brooks -- The memory of the Battle of Jutland in Britain / Eric Grove -- Remembering the Battle of Jutland in Germany / Jörg Hillmann -- The Battle of Jutland in German film / Jan Kindler -- Ninety years after Jutland: reflections / Michael Salewski.…”
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Saving sea turtles : extraordinary stories from the battle against extinction / av Spotila, James R., 1944-

Innehållsförteckning: “…-- To the horizon : the first day -- Lost and found : life as a juvenile -- The deadliest catch : the other side of fishing -- Out of the fire : the gauntlet continues -- Return to the beach : you can't go home anymore -- Nesting : taking back the night -- Las Baulas : the last hope for Pacific leatherbacks -- Ostional : the egg-stained sands of Costa Rica -- Global warming : rising seas, lost beaches, and genders -- The great turtle race : a new approach to conservation education -- Sea turtles and satellites : tales of technology -- 2100 : a world with, or without, sea turtles?…”
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