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Dynamics and control of hybrid mechanical systems

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Comparative analysis of technological and intelligent terrorism impacts on complex technical systems

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Central Asia views from Washington, Moscow, and Beijing / by Rumer, Eugene B., 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Central Asia in the twenty-first century / Rajan Menon -- The United States and Central Asia : in search of a strategy / Eugene Rumer -- Russia and Central Asia : interests, policies, and prospects / Dmitri Trenin -- Central Asia in China's diplomacy / Huasheng Zhao.…”
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The Africana world from fragmentation to unity and renaissance /

Table of Contents: “…The new scramble for Africa : Brazil, Russia, India and China -- pt. 4. Indigenous knowledge systems -- pt. 5. …”
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Soviet heroic poetry in context folklore or fakelore / by Ziolkowski, Margaret, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Tampering with the folkloric evidence: famous and infamous European precedents -- Oral composition: early Russian observations and assumptions -- Engaging with the folk in pre-revolutionary Russia -- The making of the noviny -- The poetics and politics of the noviny -- Devaluing the noviny -- Late and post-Soviet folkloristic assessment of the noviny -- Conclusion.…”
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The boundaries of Europe : from the fall of the ancient world to the age of decolonisation /

Table of Contents: “…Premessa (Foreword) / Pietro Rossi -- Mediterraneo da "mare nostrum" a frontiera tra civilta (The Mediterranean from "mare nostrum" to frontier between civilisations) / Arnaldo Marcone -- L'Europa e l'Islam : incontri e scontri (Europe and Islam : encounters and confrontations) / Franco Cardini -- The conquest of the north / Bo Strath -- Die Ausdehnung nach Osten (The expansion towards the East) / Manfred Hildermeier -- Europa und das osmanische Reich (Europe and the Ottoman Empire) / Markus Koller -- La russia tra europa e asia (Russia between Europe and Asia) / Alberto Masoero -- Europe and the Atlantic / John H. …”
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The forgotten majority : German merchants in London, naturalization, and global trade, 1660-1815 / by Schulte Beerb�uhl, Margrit

Table of Contents: “…German merchants in the Levant and Russia Companies -- British trade with Russia and the Levant -- Naturalized merchants in the Levant Company -- Naturalized merchants in the Russia Company -- The Russia Company's struggle with naturalization practices -- Naturalized subjects and the British factory in St. …”
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Ignaz Friedman romantic master pianist / by Evans, Allan, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Musical traditions that hide in shellac -- From Poland -- "Music begins where technique leaves off" -- 2,800 concerts -- From Old Russia -- Encroaching modernism -- From Beethoven to Hitler -- In safety, down under -- Exile -- Chopin on the Nile -- The piano according to Tiegerman -- The piano according to Friedman.…”
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High-impact terrorism proceedings of a Russian-American workshop.

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Evolution by association a history of symbiosis / by Sapp, Jan

Table of Contents: “…Symbiosis: evolution in action -- The meanings of mutualism -- Socially constructing the individual -- Symbiogenesis in Russia -- Engendering Genesis stories -- Les Symbiotes and germ theory -- The pasteurization of Les Symbiotes -- Les Symbiotes revisited -- Verbal phantoms -- Organisms and the edge of disciplines -- Molecular reconstruction -- The dull edge of Ockham's Razor -- Is nature motherly?…”
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The origin of Ashkenazi Jewry the controversy unraveled / by Straten, Jits van

Table of Contents: “…The controversy : Germany or Khazaria -- The Khazars -- The development of Ashkenazi Jewry by region : France, Germany, Bohemia, Moravia Silesia, and Hungary -- The development of Ashkenazi Jewry by region : Poland, Lithuania, and Russia from 1500 to 1900 : the Numerical increase -- Yiddish -- Genetic research (and Anthropology) -- The revised origin and development of East European Jewry.…”
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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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Tom Clancy's Op-Center mirror image / by Clancy, Tom, 1947-2013

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Fighting windmills encounters with Don Quixote / by Durán, Manuel, 1925-

Table of Contents: “…Cervantes -- Experimenting with existing narrative tools -- Constructing Don Quixote -- A look into Cervantes' masterpiece -- Cervantine sallies into eighteenth-century France and England -- An abbreviated look at Cervantes in nineteenth-century France, Russia, and Spain -- Don Quixote and the New World : two American perspectives -- Sightings of Cervantes and his knight in the twentieth century.…”
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Tax politics in Eastern Europe globalization, regional integration, and the democratic compromise / by Appel, Hilary

Table of Contents: “…: corporate taxes and the competition for capital -- Politics and personal income taxes -- Politics and taxation in Russia : the case of an oil economy -- Globalization, electoral politics, and European taxation.…”
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Realizing tomorrow the path to private spaceflight / by Dubbs, Chris

Table of Contents: “…The entire population of the earth in orbit -- The birth of private rocket companies -- Private citizens get their chance in space -- Russia commercializes space -- Citizen explorers -- The quest for a reusable spaceship -- The ansari x prize launches an industry -- Private manned spaceflight makes history -- Space tourism goes mainstream -- It takes more than a spaceship to build an industry.…”
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Red stars personality and the Soviet popular song, 1955-1991 / by MacFadyen, David, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Philosophical contexts of the genre -- Edita Pekha: gentle voice of the thaw -- Iosif Kobzon and the civic response -- Irina Ponarovskaia and Sofiia Rotaru : in and out of Russia -- Lev Leshchenko and Valerii Leont'ev: two nightingales -- Alla Pugacheva: redefinine estrada -- Alla Pugacheva: redefining personality.…”
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The peninsula question a chronicle of the second Korean nuclear crisis / by Funabashi, Yōichi, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Prime Minister Koizumi's visit to North Korea -- Koizumi again visits Pyongyang -- HEU program -- The collapse of the agreed framework -- Russia as honest broker? -- Brotherhood -- South Korea as balancer? …”
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On the ideological front the Russian intelligentsia and the making of the Soviet public sphere / by Finkel, Stuart, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The Russian intelligentsia and the Bolsheviks at the end of the civil war -- Bolsheviks and professors : the struggle over university autonomy -- Exposing the caste spirit in professional and scientific organizations -- Cultural, literary, philosophical, and spiritual societies -- Publishing, censorship, and ideological struggles -- The deportations, part I : precedents and planning -- The deportations, part II : arrest, negotiation, and expulsion -- Epilogue : the deportees in emigration -- Conclusion : the intelligentsia in Soviet Russia.…”
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In the words of our enemies by Babbin, Jed L.

Table of Contents: “…Before September 11 -- The hate factories -- The hate networks -- The hate networks aim at Iraq -- Iran : the central terrorist nation, long before September 11 -- The Taliban, Pakistan, and Southwest Asia -- Radical Islam aims at Turkey -- China : the emerging enemy -- Putin's Russia -- Kim Jong-il's North Korea -- Fidel Castro's Cuba -- Hugo Chavez : Castro on steroids.…”
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