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"Portuguese" style and Luso-African identity precolonial Senegambia, sixteenth-nineteenth centuries / by Mark, Peter, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The evolution of "Portuguese" identity: Luso-Africans on the upper Guinea coast from the sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century -- Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century architecture in the Gambia-Geba region and the articulation of Luso-African ethnicity -- Reconstructing West African architectural history: images of seventeenth-century "Portuguese"-style houses in Brazil -- "The people there are beginning to take on English manners": mixed manners in seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century Gambia -- Senegambia from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century -- Casamance architecture from 1850 to the establishment of colonial administration.…”
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Working ethics how to be fair in a culturally complex world / by Rowson, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Treating people justly and fairly 2 : taking into account what people deserve and their entitlement, needs and capacities -- 7. Respecting autonomy -- 8. Acting with professional integrity -- 9. …”
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Pure beauty judging race in Japanese American beauty pageants / by King-O'Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Negotiating racial hybridity in community beauty pageants -- Race work and the effort of racial claims -- The Japanese American community in transition -- Japanese American beauty pageants in historical perspective -- Cultural impostors and eggs : race without culture and culture without race -- Patrolling bodies : the social control of race through gender -- The "ambassadress" queen : moving authentically between racial communities in the United States and Japan -- Percentages, parts, and power : racial eligibility rules and local versions of Japanese Americanness in context -- Conclusion: Japanese Americanness, beauty pageants, and race work.…”
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Systems leadership creating positive organizations / by Macdonald, Ian, 1950 Oct. 23-

Table of Contents: “…What is work -- Human capacity -- Meritocracy -- Associations and employment hierarchies -- The work of the board -- Leadership, power and authority -- Levels of work -- The work of leadership : creating a culture -- Leadership, policy and systems -- Task formulation and assignment -- Authorities and role relationships -- Key systems -- Teams and teamwork -- The process of successful change : how it is achieved -- SSA -- How to design systems -- Creating high performance teams -- Core social process skills for leaders -- What difference has this made -- Implementation : discipline or dogma -- Who is there to guard the guards? …”
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International justice in Rwanda and the Balkans virtual trials and the struggle for state cooperation / by Peskin, Victor, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…International war crimes tribunals and the politics of state cooperation -- Slobodan Milošević and the politics of state cooperation -- International justice and Serbia's troubled democratic transition -- Franjo Tuđman and the politics of international justice -- The politics of state cooperation in Croatia's democratic era -- Rwanda virtual trials, international justice, and the politics of shame -- The struggle to create the international criminal tribunal for Rwanda -- "Trials of cooperation" and the battles for Karamira and Barayagwiza -- Investigating Rwandan patriotic front atrocities and the politics of bearing witness -- Victor's justice revisited : the prosecutor vs. Kagame -- Thepresent and future of international criminal justice.…”
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Endothelial cell apoptosis

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Endothelial apoptosis -- Role in tumor response to radiation therapy -- Tissue damage results from depletion of stem cells and cells with clonogenic capacity -- Radiation targets the DNA leading to reproductive (mitosis-associated) or apoptotic cell death -- Modifications of DNA damage recognition and repair pathways determine the level of tissue sensitivity to radiation -- Sphingomyelin -- Ceramide -- GI tract and bone marrow: very radiation responsive -- Growth patterns of tumors -- The two-target model for single-dose radiotherapy of experimental tumors -- Engaging the vascular component of tumor response to radiation.…”
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Evading the Patronage Trap : Interest Representation in Mexico / by Palmer-Rubin, Brian

Table of Contents: “…Demand Formation in Organizations: 3. Organizational Capacity -- 4. Demand-making for the Lower Classes: Peasant Organizations -- 5. …”
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Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology ISOM--Tokyo '08 /

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The expanding sphere of travel behavior research selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Travel Behavior Research /

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Transport mechanism of urate in humans

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Cutaneous extracellular matrix

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Skin immune status live imaging of the skin in 3D /

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The unfolded protein response

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Exporting Africa technology, trade, and industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa /

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Quantum information and computing

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Word grammar new perspectives on a theory of language structure /

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Hydrocolloids.

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Physics and combinatorics 2000 proceedings of the Nagoya 2000 International Workshop : Graduate School of Mathematics, Nagoya University, 21-26 August, 2000 /

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Cultivars chemical properties, antioxidant activities and health benefits /

Table of Contents: “…Vegetable breeding for nutritional quality and health benefits / João Silva Dias -- Cultivar identification and traceability, a molecular approach / Antonella Pasqualone -- Antioxidant compounds and nutraceutical benefits of Mediterranean red fruit / Teresa Casacchia and Adriano Sofo -- Phytochemical profiles and antiradical capacity of grape seed extracts from different Italian cultivar: re-using of winery by-products / Francesca Cecchini ... et al. -- Common beans: antioxidant capacity and health connection / R. …”
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Global powers in the 21st century strategies and relations /

Table of Contents: “…Savage -- The death of enlargement / Gideon Rachman -- Europe inside out / Robin Niblett -- A weakened EU's prospects for global leadership / Franco Algieri -- Japan : using power narrowly / Edward J. Lincoln -- Japan's Goldilocks strategy / Richard J. …”
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