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The generation of Edward Hyde the animal within, from Plato to Darwin to Robert Louis Stevenson / by Bland, Jay, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Platonic evolution, Spenser, More, Milton, Donne -- Quo vadis, maiah Yahoo? -- The wild man, the noble savage, and the child of nature -- Of apes and peacocks -- Charles Kingsley : the missing link -- Hyde the wild man -- The Darwinian Hyde -- Hyde, Milton, and the Bible -- The Platonic Hyde -- Olalla and Hyde : kinship with the dust.…”
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Global fundraising how the world is changing the rules of philanthropy / by Cagney, Penelope, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / By Andrew Watt, President & CEO, AFP International Acknowledgments -- Introduction to global giving / by Penelope Cagney and Bernard Ross -- An overview of giving by region -- China / by Lu Bo and Nan Fang -- Japan / by Masataka Uo -- Latin America / by Norma GalafassI -- About the editors -- About the contributors -- Index.…”
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Applications of Fire Engineering : Proceedings of the International Conference of Applications of Structural Fire Engineering (ASFE 2017), September 7-8, 2017, Manchester, United K... by Gillie, Martin

Table of Contents: “…chapter Sensitivity of elevated temperature load carrying capacity of thin-walled steel members to local imperfections /…”
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A family of no prominence : the descendants of Pak Tokhwa and the birth of modern Korea / by Park, Eugene Y.

Table of Contents: “…From the mists of time -- Living with status ambiguity : guardsmen, merchants, and illegitimate children -- As a middle people : military officers, jurists, and calligraphers -- Long live the Korean Empire : hopes, fulfillment, and frustrations -- Fortunes that rose and fell with Imperial Korea : the Tanyang U in-laws -- Vignettes : colonial subjects of imperial Japan.…”
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Politics of technology in Latin America /

Guardian of the sea Jizo in Hawaiʻi / by Clark, John R. K., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Casting for Ulua -- Stores, clubs, and tournaments -- Jizo the protector -- Jizo on Oʻahu -- Jizo on Kauaʻi -- Jizo on Maui -- Jizo on Molokaʻi -- Jizo on Lānaʻi -- Jizo on Hawaiʻi (the Big Island) -- Jizo and Ebisu -- Jizo in Japan as a guardian of the sea -- Jizo on the north shore -- Kawaihāpai Jizo -- Kawailoa Jizo -- Wahiawā Kawamori Jizo -- Wahiawā Ryusenji Soto Mission -- Haleʻiwa Jizo -- Warning signs -- Honolulu Japanese Casting Club -- Zensaku Uchibori -- Jizo on the south shore -- Statue ordered -- Statue erected -- Statue destroyed -- Statue replaced -- Sentaro Otsubo -- Pālolo Kwannon Temple -- Pilgrimages -- Eighty-eight temples of Shikoku, Japan -- Lāwaʻi International Center, Kauaʻi -- Waimea Shingon Mission, Kauaʻi -- Kona Koyasan Daishiji Mission, Big Island -- Shingon Shu Hawaiʻi, Oʻahu -- Hichi Kasho Meguri, Oʻahu -- Hawaiʻi Jizo Meguri, Oʻahu -- Drownings in Hawaii.…”
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Forging new conventional wisdom beyond international policing learning from complex, political realities / by Hughes, Bryn, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Setting the context -- The global context : the historical evolution of police in peace operations -- Monitoring and evaluation and performance reporting -- Recasting key ontological and epistemological aspects -- Reshaping the substance of international contributions-beyond rethinking the "state of the state" -- The rule of law in peace and capacity building operations : appreciating more than the state -- The case for peace operations to engage the "political" diversity -- Pushing back on conventional monitoring and evaluation -- An unconventional approach to monitoring and evaluation -- Applying systems thinking to M&E : learning in spite of "uncertainty" -- Becoming emotional about assessment -- Evidence from the field for an unconventional wisdom -- The Marshall Islands microcosm : showing the need for a "political" lens -- Hybridity and police capacity development in the Solomon Islands -- The UN in Liberia : articulating the unarticulated consensus for change conclusions -- Appendix 1: Change theory -- Compendium.…”
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Pacific Strife : The Great Powers and their Political and Economic Rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific, 1870-1914 / by Dijk, C. van (Cornelis), 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Steam and Istmus canals -- Planters, traders and labour in the South Pacific -- Fiji: the start of Anglo-German rivalry in the Pacific -- The Somoa conflict -- Germany enters the colonial race -- The New Guinea protectorates -- Great Britain, Russia and the Central Asian question -- Samoa remains a source of international tension -- The emerging economic world powers -- Great Britain, France and Southeast Asia -- The French-expansion westwards into Southeast Asia -- Russia, Japan and the Chinese empire -- Thailand and beyond -- The scramble for China: the Bay of Jiaozhou and Port Arthur -- The British reaction: Wei-Hai-Wei -- The scramble for China continues: Guangzhouwan and Tibet -- The failed annexation of Hawaii -- The United States becomes a colonial empire -- The partition of Samoa -- The Russo-Japanese war -- Great Britain's search for secure colonial frontiers -- The United States, Japan and the Pacific Ocean -- Epilogue.…”
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Dispositions and causal powers

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Bruno Gnassounou and Max Kistler -- Part I: The metaphysics of dispositions and causal powers -- Dispositions and counterfactuals : from Carnap to Goodman's children and grandchildren / François Schmitz -- Filled in space / Stephen Mumford -- Dispositions and essences / Claudine Tiercelin -- The causal efficacy of macroscopic dispositional properties / Max Kistler -- Opium's virtue dormitive / Cyrille Michon -- Conditional possibility / Bruno Gnassounou -- On ascribing dispositions / Ludger Jansen -- Part II: Dispositions and causal powers in science -- An extended semantic field of dispositions and the grounding role of causal powers / Rom Harré -- What makes a capacity a disposition? / Nancy Cartwright -- Causation, laws and dispositions / Andreas Hüttemann -- Can capacities rescue us from Ceteris Paribus laws? …”
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Pacific Strife : The Great Powers and their Political and Economic Rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific, 1870-1914 / by Dijk, C. van (Cornelis), 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Steam and Istmus canals -- Planters, traders and labour in the South Pacific -- Fiji: the start of Anglo-German rivalry in the Pacific -- The Somoa conflict -- Germany enters the colonial race -- The New Guinea protectorates -- Great Britain, Russia and the Central Asian question -- Samoa remains a source of international tension -- The emerging economic world powers -- Great Britain, France and Southeast Asia -- The French-expansion westwards into Southeast Asia -- Russia, Japan and the Chinese empire -- Thailand and beyond -- The scramble for China: the Bay of Jiaozhou and Port Arthur -- The British reaction: Wei-Hai-Wei -- The scramble for China continues: Guangzhouwan and Tibet -- The failed annexation of Hawaii -- The United States becomes a colonial empire -- The partition of Samoa -- The Russo-Japanese war -- Great Britain's search for secure colonial frontiers -- The United States, Japan and the Pacific Ocean -- Epilogue.…”
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Visualizing Fascism : The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right /

Table of Contents: “…Barclay -- Nazism, everydayness, and spectacle : the mass form in metropolitan modernity / Geoff Eley -- Five faces of fascism / Ruth Ben-Ghiat -- Facetime with Hitler / Lutz Koepnick -- Seeing through whiteness : late 1930s settler photography in Namibia under South African rule / Lorena Rizzo -- Revolution by redefinition : Japan's war without pictures / Julia Adeney Thomas -- Fascisms seen and unseen : the Netherlands, Japan, Indonesia, and the relationalities of imperial crisis / Ethan Mark -- Youth movements, nazism, and war : photography and the making of a Slovak future in World War II (1939-1944) // Bertrand Metton -- From antifascism to humanism : the legacies of Robert Capa's Spanish Civil War photography / Nadya Bair -- Heedless oblivion : curating architecture after World War II / Claire Zimmerman -- Conclusion.…”
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Historical Linguistics 2011 : selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, 25-30 July 2011 /

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A circle of friends Romanian revolutionaries and political exile, 1840-1859 / by Jianu, Angela

Table of Contents: “…Students and revolutionaries, 1844-1848 -- Jules Michelet, "Madame Rosetti," 1855 -- 1837-1841 : early diplomatic ventures -- 1844-1848 : the College de France : sociability and protest -- Jules Michelet and "les Franco-Roumains" : Dumitru Bratianu -- 1848 in Paris and Europe -- 1848-1849 : Bucharest between St. …”
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Scientific ocean drilling accomplishments and challenges /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to U.S. scientific ocean drilling -- Scientific accomplishments : solid earth cycles -- Scientific accomplishments : fluids, flow, and life in the subseafloor -- Scientific accomplishments : Earth's climate history -- Education, outreach, and capacity building -- Assessment of "Illuminating Earth's Past, Present, and Future: the International Ocean Discovery Program Science Plan for 2012-2023."…”
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Rewriting medieval Japanese women politics, personality, and literary production in the life of Nun Abutsu / by Laffin, Christina

Table of Contents: “…Nun Abutsu and women's writing in medieval Japan -- A woman's guide to career success : Nun Abutsu and court life in The nursemaid's letter -- Lover and nun : embodying the heroine in Fitful slumbers -- Women and the way : Nun Abutsu as poet and Genji scholar -- Politics and poetry : Diary of the sixteenth night moon as a literary appeal.…”
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Gulliver's travels by Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745

Table of Contents: “…Gulliver to his cousin Sympson -- The publisher to the reader -- A voyage to Lilliput -- A voyage to Brobdingnag -- A voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan -- A voyage to the country of the Houyhnhnms.…”
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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Goods by Applying the Contingent Valuation Method Some Japanese Case Studies / by Ahmed, Sarwar Uddin

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Vulnerable Cities: Realities, Innovations and Strategies by Kidokoro, Tetsuo

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Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for Climate Change by Sumi, Akimasa

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Agent-Based Modeling Meets Gaming Simulation by Arai, Kiyoshi

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