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Income inequality economic disparities and the middle class in affluent countries /

Table of Contents: “…Grabka -- Income and wealth inequality in Japan / Colin McKenzie -- Income inequality in boom and bust : a tale from Iceland's bubble economy / Stefán Ólafsson and Arnaldur Sölvi Kristjánsson -- Horizontal and vertical inequalities in India / Reeve Vanneman and Amaresh Dubey -- Post-apartheid changes in South African inequality / Murray Leibbrandt, Ingrid Woolard and Arden Finn.…”
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Nature, environment and culture in East Asia the challenge of climate change /

Table of Contents: “…Sorensen -- PAST -- A Retrospection of Climate Changes and their Impacts in Chinese History / Ts'ui-jung Liu -- Manipulating the Yellow River and the State Formation of theNorthern Song Dynasty / Ling Zhang -- PRESENT -- Water Diversion Between Official Rhetoric and the Drive to Dominate Nature / Miriam Seeger -- Chinese Environmental Movements : Civil Society Discourses on Climate Change and Environmental Protection / Nora Sausmikat -- "From Worse to Better" : Anti-Desertification Policies on the Tibetan Plateau in the Past Decades / Carmen Meinert & Christian Gudehus -- From Ascetic to Activist : Jiyul Sunim's Korean Buddhist Eco movement / Eunsu Cho -- PROSPECTS -- Killing Three Birds with One Stone : Possibilities of Achieving Environmental Success in Conforming Societies : What Japanese Experiences May Suggest to China / Takashi Kanatsu -- Environmental Think Tanks in Japan and South Korea : Trailblazers or Vicarious Agents? …”
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Origins of political extremism mass violence in the twentieth century and beyond / by Midlarsky, Manus I.

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Knots : post-lacanian psychoanalysis, literature and film /

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Routledge international handbook of play, therapeutic play and play therapy /

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America's allies and the decline of US hegemony /

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Dark medicine rationalizing unethical medical research /

Table of Contents: “…Fox -- Strategies for survival versus accepting impermanence: rationalizing brain death and organ transplantation today / Tetsuo Yamaori -- The age of a "revolutionized human body" and the right to die / Yoshihiko Komatsu -- Why we must be prudent in research using human embryos: differing views of human dignity / Susumu Shimazono -- Eugenics, reproductive technologies, and the feminist dilemma in Japan / Miho Ogino -- Refusing utopia's bait: research, rationalizations, and Hans Jonas / William R. …”
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Sacred Men : Law, Torture, and Retribution in Guam / by Camacho, Keith L.

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Inpatient anticoagulation

Table of Contents: “…Farrell -- Peri-operative management of oral anticoagulants and antiplatelet agents / Ramiro Jervis, Andrew Dunn -- Prevention of cardioembolic stroke / Ali Mahajerin, Warren J. …”
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Korea and East Asia the stony road to collective security /

Table of Contents: “…Kang and Leif-Eric Easley -- The role of Japan in the international relations of East Asia / John Swenson-Wright -- Russia and Asian integration models : the SCO experience and ideas for northeast Asia / Georgy Toloraya -- Strategic choices and political paralysis in the Korean crisis : commentary on papers by David C. …”
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Engaging contradictions theory, politics, and methods of activist scholarship /

Table of Contents: “…Costa Vargas -- Making violence visible : an activist anthropological approach to women's rights investigation / Samuel Martínez -- Forged in dialogue : toward a critically engaged activist research / Shannon Speed -- Community-centered research as knowledge/capacity building in immigrant and refugee communities / Shirley Suet-ling Tang -- Theorizing and practicing democratic community economics : engaged scholarship, economic justice, and the academy / Jessica Gordon Nembhard -- Crouching activists, hidden scholars : reflections on research and development with students and communities in Asian American studies / Peter Nien-chu Kiang -- Theoretical research, applied research, and action research : the deinstitutionalization of activist research / Davydd J. …”
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Biodiversity Conservation and Phylogenetic Systematics Preserving our evolutionary heritage in an extinction crisis /

Table of Contents: “…The case of phylogenetic relict species -- Using phylogenetic dissimilarities among sites for biodiversity assessments and conservation -- Phylogenetic diversity measures and their decomposition: a framework based on hill numbers -- Split diversity: measuring and optimizing biodiversity using phylogenetic split networks -- The rarefaction of phylogenetic diversity: formulation, extension and application -- Support in area prioritization using phylogenetic information -- Assessing hotspots of evolutionary history with data from multiple phylogenies: an analysis of endemic clades from New Caledonia -- Representing hotspots of evolutionary history in systematic conservation planning for European mammals -- Priorities for conservation of the evolutionary history of amphibians in the cerrado -- Global spatial analyses of phylogenetic conservation priorities for aquatic mammals -- Metapopulation capacity meets evolutionary distinctness: spatial fragmentation complements phylogenetic rarity in prioritization. - Patterns of species, phylogenetic and mimicry diversity of clearwing butterflies in the Neotropics -- Conservation of phylogenetic diversity in Madagascar’s largest endemic plant family, Sarcolaenaceae -- The future of phylogenetic systematics in conservation biology: linking biodiversity and society.…”
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J.M. Coetzee and ethics philosophical perspectives on literature /

Table of Contents: “…Coetzee / Robert Pippin -- Disgrace, Desire, and the Dark Side of the New South Africa / Adriaan van Heerden -- Ethical Thought and the Problem of Communication: A Strategy for Reading Diary of a Bad Year / Jonathan Lear -- Torture and Collective Shame / Jeff McMahan -- Part II. Humans, Animals, and Morality -- Converging Convictions: Coetzee and His Characters on Animals / Karen Dawn and Peter Singer -- Coetzee and Alternative Animal Ethics / Eilisa Aaltola -- Writing the Lives of Animals / Ido Geiger -- Sympathy and Scapegoating in H.M. …”
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Biomedical applications of magnetic particles /

Table of Contents: “…Cartmell -- Magnetic nanoparticles : challenges and opportunities in drug delivery / Allan E. David, Mahaveer S. Bhojani, Adam J. Cole -- Magnetic particle biosensors / Yunzi Li, Paivo Kinnunen, Alexander Hrin, Mark A. …”
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International perspectives on disability exceptions in copyright law and the visual arts : feeling art /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Jani McCutcheon and Ana Ramalho, joint editors -- Sensory art projects In cultural institutions / Ann Blokland (Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam) and Caine Chennat (Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery) -- Open access and open GLAM / Andrea Wallace (Universityof Exeter) -- 3D printing in arts and heritage / Vivian Saaze (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University) -- Something to struggle for / Fernando Torrente -- Sensory art from a 3D printer's perspective / Noel Daemen -- Disability exceptions under international law and the international human rights framework / Joseph Lelliot and Paul Harpur (University of Queensland) -- The EU disability exceptions / Ana Ramalho (Maastricht University) -- EU Disability Law and Policy and access to art works through 3D printing / Lisa Waddington (Maastricht University) -- Australia / Jani McCutcheon (University of Western Australia) -- United States / Peter Karol (New England Law, Boston) -- Canada / Lucie Guibault (Dalhousie University) -- Brazil / Sérgio Branco (ITS Rio) -- The UK / Sabine Jacques (University of East Anglia) -- China / Tianxiang He (City University of Hong Kong) -- Costa Rica / Andres Guadamuz (University of Sussex) -- Japan / Simone Schroff (University of Plymouth) -- New Zealand / Lida Ayoubi (Auckland University of Technology) -- Conclusion and policy recommendations / Ana Ramalho and Jani McCutcheon.…”
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Charting an Asian trajectory for literacy education : connecting past, present and future literacies /

Table of Contents: “…A perspective based on post-secondary literature in English in Malaysia / Jia Wei Lim -- The role of comic books in literacy education in Taiwan / Yi-Shan Tsai -- Lived experiences of literacy learning in Singapore from the past to present and lessons for the future : the relationship between familial and institutional habitus in situated contexts / Chin Ee Loh -- The changes of English language and literature in English education since WWII : the case of Hong Kong / Faye Dorcus Yung -- An investigation of language use and literacy among primary school students in Brunei / Malai Zeiti Sheikh Abdul Hamid -- Broadening meaning-making : towards a Framework for Respect in Literacy Education (FRiLE) in Malaysia / Su Li Chong.…”
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The advanced materials and techniques for biosensors and bioanalytical applications /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to biosensors / Pooja Rani Kuri and Pranab Goswami -- Emerging materials and platforms for biosensor applications / Albert Saavedra, Federico Figueredo, María Jesús González-Pabón, Eduardo Cortón -- Designing sensor platforms using advanced techniques and smart materials / Lightson Ngashangva, Babina Chakma -- Aptamer : development and biosensing applications / Ankana Kakoti -- Metal nanoparticles for signal amplification / Priyamvada Jain -- Metal nanoclusters as transducing elements / Phurpa Dema Thungon, Torsha Kundu and Pranab Goswami -- Nanozymes as potential catalyst for sensing and analytical applications / Smita Das and Pranab Goswami -- Carbon based nanomaterial for sensing application / Naveen Kumar Singh, Sanjay M and Pranab Goswami -- Photoelectrochemical and photosynthetic material based biosensors and photoelectrodes / Mohd Golam Abdul Quadir, Mrinal K. …”
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NanoBioEngineering /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; About the Series; Preface; Editors; Contributors; Chapter 1: Nanotechnology and its Applications in Biomedical Engineering; Chapter 2: Biomedical Applications of Superparamagnetic Nanoparticles-An Insight; Chapter 3: Dendrimers as Promising Nanocarriers in Drug Delivery; Chapter 4: Designing Nanocargos for Multi-Drug Resistant Cancerous Cells: Strategies and Applications; Chapter 5: Aptamers for Nano-Delivery; Chapter 6: Multi-Dimensional Approaches for Targeted Drug Delivery Using Nanostructured Systems.…”
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After Testimony : The Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future /

Table of Contents: “…Storeide -- Moving testimonies : "unhomed geography" and the Holocaust documentary of return / Janet Walker -- From Auschwitz to the Temple Mount : binding and unbinding the Israeli narrative / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi -- The melancholy generation : Grossman's Book of interior grammar / Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan -- Fractured relations : the multidirectional Holocaust memory of Caryl Phillips / Michael Rothberg -- Hiroshima and the Holocaust : tales of war and defeat in Japan and Germany-a contrastive perspective / Anne Thelle.…”
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North-South Knowledge Networks Towards Equitable Collaboration Between : Academics, Donors and Universities /

Table of Contents: “…North-South research collaborations and their impact on capacity building : a southern perspective / Johnson Muchunguzi Ishengoma -- 8. …”
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