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After secular law

Table of Contents: “…Protestants have in the question of state recognition of same-sex marriages / Mary Anne Case -- Sacred property : searching for value in the rubble of 9/11 / Mateo Taussig-Rubbo -- When is religion, religion, and a knife, a knife, and who decides? …”
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China and the world balance, imbalance and rebalance /

Table of Contents: “…/ Huang Haizhou, Li Zhiyong, and Wang Hui -- Structural changes of global economy and new challenges of emerging economy / Zhu Min -- Chinese national security : its missions, sequences, and major characteristics / Wang Yizhou -- Japan's search for a national identity and its historical reflections / Li Wei -- Overcome the fear of RMB appreciation / Yu Yongding -- RMB's internationalization under the system of limited exchange rate and capital account control / Zhang Bing and Xu Qiyuan -- How can RMB become an international currency? …”
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The past in the present : the construction of Polish history / by Traba, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Poles and Germans : the empirical world -- On Germans "mine" and "not mine" : a personal case study -- In search of a "portable homeland" : Poles in multi-cultural Berlin -- Warmia/Ermland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : a sketch portrait of the village of Purda Wielka as a backdrop -- Collective memory and cultural landscape : reflections on a war cemetery restoration project in Drweck (Dröbnitz) -- "You glorify the foreign, but you do not know your own" : the magic of place and the mythologizing of landscape as factors in national education in the first half of the twentieth century : the case of East Prussia -- The "landscape after battle" : the political cult of the fallen in Poland after World War II -- "It was only a film!" …”
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Fundamentals of database systems / by Elmasri, Ramez, Navathe, Sham

Table of Contents: “…Databases and Database Users -- Database System Concepts and Architecture -- Data Modeling Using the Entity-Relationship (ER) Model -- The Enhanced Entity-Relationship (EER) Model -- The Relational Data Model and Relational Database Constraints -- Basic SQL -- More SQL: Complex Queries, Triggers, Views, and Schema Modification -- The Relational Algebra and Relational Calculus -- Relational Database Design by ER- and EER-to-Relational Mapping -- Introduction to SQL Programming Techniques -- Web Database Programming Using PHP -- Object and Object-Relational Databases -- XML: Extensible Markup Language -- Basics of Functional Dependencies and Normalization for Relational Databases -- Relational Database Design Algorithms and Further Dependencies -- Disk Storage, Basic File Structures, Hashing, and Modern Storage Architectures -- Indexing Structures for Files and Physical Database Design -- Strategies for Query Processing -- Query Optimization -- Introduction to Transaction Processing Concepts and Theory -- Concurrency Control Techniques -- Database Recovery Techniques -- Distributed Database Concepts -- NOSQL Databases and Big Data Storage Systems -- Big Data Technologies Based on MapReduce and Hadoop -- Enhanced Data Models: Introduction to Active, Temporal, Spatial, Multimedia, and Deductive Databases -- Introduction to Information Retrieval and Web Search -- Data Mining Concepts -- Overview of Data Warehousing and OLAP -- Database Security -- Appendix A, Alternative Diagrammatic Notations for ER Models -- Appendix B, Parameters of Discs -- Appendix C, Overview of the QBE Language -- Appendix D, Overview of the Hierarchical Data Models -- Appendix E, Overview of the Network Data Model.…”

Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction? Looking Over the Long Run /

Table of Contents: “…The Inequality Story in Latin America and the Caribbean: Searching for an Explanation -- Chapter 14. The Political Economy of Inequality at the Top in Contemporary Chile -- Chapter 15. …”
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Global crises and the crisis of global leadership

Table of Contents: “…Global leadership, ethics and global health - the search for new paradigms Solomon R. Benatar; 8. Global leadership and the Islamic world - crisis, contention and challenge Mustapha Kamal Pasha; 9. …”
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Civilizations beyond earth extraterrestrial life and society /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The search for extraterrestrial intelligence as an interdisciplinary effort / Albert A. …”
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Power converters for electric vehicles / by Kumar, L. Ashok, Albert Alexander, S.

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Y tu mamá también : mythologies of youth / by Baugh, Scott L.

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Reconciliation by Stealth : How People Talk about War Crimes / by Kostovicova, Denisa

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Gender violence interdisciplinary perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Koss -- Sexual harassment in organizations : a critique of current research and policy / Christine L. Williams -- The confluence of race and gender in women's sexual harassment experiences / Tara E. …”
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Probabilistic inequalities by Anastassiou, George A., 1952-

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Cancer disparities causes and evidence-based solutions /

Table of Contents: “…Kathleen Adams and Li-Nien Chien -- Messengers for health : a community-based participatory research intervention in a native American community / Vanessa Watts Simonds -- Tools for improving colorectal cancer screening rates : multimedia vs. print in an underserved community / Gregory Makoul, David Baker and Denise Scholtens --…”
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Microfinance and public policy outreach, performance and efficiency /

Table of Contents: “…-- Positive mechanisms -- Negative mechanisms -- A capability perspective -- Achieving poverty outreach, impact and sustainability: managing trade-offs in microfinance / Anton Simanowitz -- Introduction: Combining social and financial objectives -- Trade-offs -- Managing trade-offs -- Conclusions -- Smart subsidies / Jonathan Morduch -- Introduction Subsidies and microfinance -- Valuing subsidies -- "Crowding in" and "crowding out" -- Conclusions -- Empirical analysis -- Efficiency in microfinance institutions: an application of data envelopment analysis to MFIs in Peru / Yves Flickiger, Anatoli Vassiliev -- Introduction -- Previous research on MFIs' performance evaluation -- Performance analysis methodology -- Data sources and variable construction -- Efficiency analysis with the DEA model -- Conclusions -- Efficiency in financial intermediation: theory and empirical measurement / Thorsten Beck -- Introduction -- Interest spreads and credit rationing: theory -- Interest spreads and credit rationing: cross-country evidence -- Decomposing spreads -- Explaining spreads -- Conclusions and policy lessons -- Efficiency drivers and constraints: Empirical findings / Yousra Hamed -- Introduction -- Methodology -- The data -- MFI clusters -- Performance drivers and constraints -- Conclusions -- Measuring the performance of MFIs: an application of factor analysis / Giovanni Ferro Luzzii and Sylvain Weber -- Introduction -- The data -- Factor analysis: theory and practice -- Cluster analysis -- Assessing what determines performance -- Conclusions -- Selected country studies -- Contextual factors determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Mali / Renata Serra, Fabrizio Botti, and Milasoa Cherel-Robson-- Introduction -- Domestic contextual factors: institutions, state and markets -- External factors: the implications of subsidy withdrawal -- Conclusion -- Contextual factors determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Morocco / Said Filali Meknassi -- Introduction -- Institutional context -- Support by banks -- Subsidies -- Conclusion -- Contextual factors determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Central and Eastern Europe / Jusyna Pytkovwsa -- Introduction -- Access to resources -- Financial performance -- Social performance -- Auctioning subsidies: Chile's "Access to Credit Program" / Vito Sciaraffia Merino -- Introduction -- Micro-enterprises in Chile -- Has the PAC achieved its goals? …”
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Heterogeneous electrode processes and localized corrosion by Tan, Yongjun, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Versatile Heterogeneous Electrode Processes 8.1 Scanning and modeling various heterogeneous electrode processes 8.2 Electrochemical noise generation from electrochemical heterogeneity 8.3 Harvesting electrical power from electrochemical using the WBE 8.4 Further research issues on electrochemical heterogeneity.…”
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Boosting executive skills in the classroom a practical guide for educators /

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Career development, employment, and disability in rehabilitation : from theory to practice /

Table of Contents: “…Saunders, and Carrie Wilde -- Empowerment through employment : job satisfaction theories and research / Barbara A. Fritzsche, Lindsay Y. Dhanani, and Jacqueline M. …”
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Whales & nations : environmental diplomacy on the high seas / by Dorsey, Kurkpatrick

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Marginality Addressing the Nexus of Poverty, Exclusion and Ecology /

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Life Cycle Management

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