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Vol. 2 The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary / by Segal, Eliezer

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New Countries : Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750–1870 / by Tutino, John, 1947-

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Locating the field space, place and context in anthropology /

Table of Contents: “…: anthropological description of power, regeneration and scale on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea / James Leach -- Far from the trobriands? …”
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Empire's Violent End : Comparing Dutch, British, and French Wars of Decolonization, 1945–1962 /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Beyond the League Table of Barbarity : Comparing Extreme Violence during the Wars of Decolonization / Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis -- Not an Afterthought : Accountability for Colonial Violence in the Dutch and British Metropoles / Huw Bennett and Peter Romijn -- Windows onto the Micro-Dynamics of Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence : Evidence from Late Colonial Southeast Asia and Africa Compared / Roel Frakking and Martin Thomas -- Cracking Down on Revolutionary Zeal and Violence : Local Dynamics and Early Colonial Responses to the Independence Struggle in Indochina and the Indonesian Archipelago, 1945-1947 / Pierre Asselin and Henk Schulte Nordholt -- The Places, Traces, and Politics of Rape in the Indonesian and the Algerian Wars of Independence / Stef Scagliola and Natalya Vince, in collaboration with Khedidja Adel and Galuh Amba -- "The normal order of things" : Contextualizing "Technical Violence" in the Netherlands-Indonesia War / Azarja Harmanny and Brian McAllister Linn -- "Bloodshed on a rather large scale" : Tactical Conduct and Non-combatant Casualties in Dutch, French, and British Colonial Counterinsurgency / Christiaan Harinck -- Comparing the Afterlives, Political Uses, and Memories of Extreme Violence during the Wars of Decolonization in France, the Netherlands, and Britain / Raphaëlle Branche.…”
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The Routledge Handbook of Disability Arts, Culture, and Media /

Table of Contents: “…List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction: Disability Arts, Culture, and Media Studies: Mapping A Maturing Field (Bree Hadley and Donna McDonald); Part I: Disability, Identity, and Representation; Chapter 2: Great Reckonings in More Accessible Rooms: The Provocative Reimaginings of Disability Theatre (Kirsty Johnston); Chapter 3: Visual Narratives: Contemplating the Storied Images of Disability and Disablement (Donna McDonald); Chapter 4: Dis/ordered Assemblages of Disability in Museums (Janice Rieger and Megan Strickfaden); Chapter 5: The Down Syndrome Novel: A Microcosm for Inclusion or Parental Trauma Narrative (Sarah Kanake); Chapter 6: Paralympics, Para-sport Bodies, and Legacies of Media Representation (Laura Misener, Kerri Bodin, and Nancy Quinn); Part II: Inclusion, Well-being, and Whole-of-life Experience; Chapter 7: Beauty and the Beast: providing access to the theatre for children with autism (Andy Kempe); Chapter 8: Moving Beyond the Art-As-Service Paradigm: The Evolution of Arts and Disability in Singapore (Justin Lee, Shawn Goh, Sarah Meisch Lionetto, Joanne Tay, and Alice Fox); Chapter 9: Ten years of Touch Compass Dance Companys Integrated Education Programme Under the Spotlight:A Reflective Essay (Sue Cheesman); Chapter 10: Inclusive Capital, Human Value and Cultural Access: A Case Study of Disability Access at Yosemite National Park (Simon Hayhoe); Chapter 11: Gender Representation, Power, and Identity in Mental Health and Art Therapy (Susan Hogan); Chapter 12: Demarcating Dementia on the Contemporary Stage (Morgan Batch); Part III: Access, Artistry, and Audiences; Chapter 13: Ways of Watching: Five Aesthetics of Learning Disability Theatre (Matthew Reason); Chapter 14: History, Performativity, and Dialectics: Critical Spectatorship in Learning Disabled Performance (Dave Calvert); Chapter 15: Institution, Care, and Emancipation in Contemporary Theatre Involving Actors with Intellectual Disabilities (Tony McCaffrey); Chapter 16: Sweet Gongs Vibrating: The Politics of Sensorial Access (Amanda Cachia); Chapter 17: Crip Aesthetics in the Work of Persimmon Blackbridge (Ann Millett-Gallant); Chapter 18: Exquisite Model: Riva Lehrer, Portraiture, and Risk (Ann M. …”
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Oxidative stress in development and neonatal diseases

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Cellular effects of oxygen radicals -- Sources of ROS -- Hyperoxia -- ROS in various processes -- ROS: good or bad? -- Important antioxidants -- Antioxidant vitamins -- Less traditional antioxidants -- HO-1 gene -- Nitric oxide -- ROS and Down syndrome -- ROS contribution to neonatal diseases -- Clinical trial with antioxidants in neonates.…”
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Neuroblastoma research trends

Table of Contents: “…[et al.] -- The relationships are between the neuroblastome and caspases 3, 8, 9 / Jianghua Zhan, Liqin Zhang, Hong Lin -- Genome and proteome in neuroblastoma / Kalliopi Gana ... …”
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What intelligence tests miss the psychology of rational thought / by Stanovich, Keith E., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…-- A different pitfall of the cognitive miser : thinking a lot, but losing -- Mindware gaps -- Contaminated mindware -- How many ways can thinking go wrong? …”
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Beyond post-traumatic stress : homefront struggles with the wars on terror / by Hautzinger, Sarah J., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…"Clueless Civilians" and Others 14. The Day after Veterans Day: Listening to the Homefront Conclusion: Toward a Collective Reckoning with the Post-9/11 WarsReferencesIndex.…”
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Eating mud crabs in Kandahar stories of food during wartime by the world's leading correspondents /

Table of Contents: “…Same-day cow : Afghanistan / Tim Hetherington -- Eau de cadavre : Somalia and Rwanda / Sam Kiley -- Eating mud crabs in Kandahar : Afghanistan / Christina Lamb -- Munther cannot cook your turkey : Iraq / Rajiv Chandrasekaran -- Breaking bread. …”
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The philosophy of miracles by Corner, David

Table of Contents: “…-- Divine agency without supernatural causation -- Miracles and interaction -- Miracles and natural causes -- Miracle, mystery, and the God-of-the-gaps -- Miracle and divine agency -- The world as God's body -- Basic mental acts -- Psychokinesis as basic act -- Non-basic divine agency -- Divine agency and non-determined processes -- The causal joint -- Locating divine basic actions : how far down should we go? …”
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Perspectives on Science and Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Steven Pinker and the scientific sublime : how a new category of experience transformed popular science -- ch. 3. …”
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Faith and Law how religious traditions from Calvinism to Islam view American law /

Table of Contents: “…Hall -- Evangelicals, law, and abortion / Robert F. Cochran, Jr. -- "Go down, moses!"…”
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Sex & money feminism and political economy in the media /

Table of Contents: “…: communication as circulation / Michèle Martin -- The invisibility of the everyday : new technology and women's work / Ellen Balka -- The political economy of women's employment in the information sector / Stana Martin -- Sexual harassment as an economic concern : Swedish and American coverage of Astra / Nancy Hauserman -- Single moms, quota queens, and the model majority : putting "women" to work in the California Civil Rights Initiative / Roopali Mukherjee -- Selling women (down the river) : gendered relations and the political economy of broadcast news / Karen Ross -- Gender and the political economy of newsmaking : a case study of human rights coverage / Carolyn M. …”
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Neural basis of motivational and cognitive control

Table of Contents: “…[et al.] -- Neural circuits of reward and decision making : integrative networks across cortico-basal banglia loops / Haber -- Neurochemistry of performance monitoring / Ullsperger -- Contributions of ventromedial prefrontal and frontal polar cortex to reinforcement learning and value-based choice / Boorman and Noonan -- Decision-making in frontal cortex : from single-units to fMRI / Kennerley and Tobler -- A comparative perspective on executive and motivational control by the medial prefrontal cortex / Laubach -- Top-down control over the motor cortex / Mars, Neubert, and Rushworth -- A role for posterior cingulate cortex in policy switching and cognitive control / Pearson, Hayden, and Platt -- Subcortical contributions to the motivational and cognitive control of instrumental performance by Pavlovian and discriminative stimuli / Liljeholm and O'Doherty -- The influence of dopamine in generating action from motivation / Walton, Gan, and Phillips -- Fronto-basal-ganglia circuits for stopping action / Greenhouse, Swann, and Aron -- Learning, the P3, and the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system / Nieuwenhuis -- The neurocognitive development of social decision-making / Van den Bos and Crone -- Motivational modulation of action control : how inter-individual variability may shed light on the motivation-control interface and its neurocognitive mechanisms / Ridderinkhof, Cohen, and Forstmann -- Pathological changes in performance monitoring / De Bruijn and Ullsperger -- Neural correlates of hierarchical reinforcement learning / Ribas-Fernandes, Niv, and Botvinick -- Reinforcement learning, conflict monitoring, and cognitive control : an integrative model of cingulate-striatial interaction and the ERN / Cockburn and Frank -- An integrative theory of anterior cingulate cortex function : option selection in hierarchical reinforcement learning / Holroyd and Yeung -- Meta-learning, cognitive control, and physiological interactions between medial and lateral prefrontal cortex / Khamassi ... …”
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Introduction to geometric algebra computing : computing with circles and lines / by Hildenbrand, Dietmar, 1961-

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Digital branding : a complete step-by-step guide to strategy, tactics and measurement / by Rowles, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Foreword -- Introduction Part One Digital branding in perspective 01 What digital branding really means -- How digital has changed branding -- Global soapbox -- Social medial fail -- Traditional brand metrics -- Sum of all experiences -- Clarifying touchpoints02 Focusing on value -- Bridging the gap -- Value proposition -- It all comes down to content03 Considering the user journey -- Multichannel marketing -- User journey examples -- Content marketing -- The stages of the user journey -- Mapping the user journey04 Objectives and authenticity -- Branding for differentiation -- Authenticity -- Authentic value propositionPart Two The digital toolkit 05 Social media -- Social is personal -- User journey and value proposition -- Content and engagement -- Mobile social media experience -- Informing your social media approach -- Real-world integration -- Policy and planning -- Outreach, engagement and ego -- Social measurement -- Sentiment analysis -- Social media advertising -- Social media summary06 Search -- Search engine optimization -- Link building -- SEO summary -- Paid search -- PPC considerations -- Working with PPC agencies -- SEO and PPC working together -- Search conclusions07 Mobile -- Technology for the sake of technology -- User journey and context -- Local intent -- Integrated devices -- The technology distraction -- Mobile compatible is not mobile optimized -- Technology challenges -- Audience segmentation -- Frictionless technology -- Mobile sites and responsive design -- Start with the fundamentals -- Mobile apps -- Mobile conclusion08 Online advertising -- Advertising objectives -- App advertising -- Ad networks versus media owners -- Targeting options -- Creative options -- Ad reporting and analytics -- Online advertising conclusions09 E-mail marketing -- E-mail isn't exciting -- Ease of iteration -- The state of e-mail marketing -- Focusing on relevance -- E-mail and the user journey -- Going beyond last click -- Selecting an e-mail service provider -- Gaining opt-ins and building a list -- E-mail sign-up versus social connection -- List segmentation -- Open rates and click-through rates -- E-mail templates and design -- Sending and testing -- Dynamic content generation and rules -- E-mail marketing conclusions10 CRM and marketing automation -- Definitions and practicalities -- Single customer view and bringing data together -- CRM and ESP integration -- Advanced personalization and triggering -- Marketing automation -- The lead nurturing process -- Automation scoring -- More advanced automation options -- Testing, learning and adjusting -- A warning on marketing automation -- CRM and automation conclusions11 From integration to transmedia campaigns -- Integration -- Multichannel marketing is dead -- Omni-channel marketing -- Transmedia storytelling -- Conclusions -- Part Three Digital brand strategy and measurement12 Measuring digital branding -- Defining brand value and valuation -- Understand the value of every marketing activity -- For perfection we need a mind-reading device -- Digital shot itself in the foot -- TV has culture, digital doesn't... yet -- Filling the gaps -- Measurement comes in many forms13 Primaries and indicators -- Beyond the last click -- Digital branding dashboards -- 14 The role of analytics -- The marvels of Google Analytics -- Setting up analytics -- Core reports -- Multi-channel funnels -- Tracking code -- Dashboards and analytics -- Analytics conclusions15 Bridging the gaps -- Gap correlation -- Keeping it simple - and the danger of selecting the wrong primaries -- Bring in offline channels and experiences -- Offline indicators -- A word on contribution -- Seeing it in action16 The importance of asking questions -- Confirming not predicting -- Sum of experiences -- Checking my dashboard -- No one said it was going to be easyConclusions -- References.…”

Politicking online the transformation of election campaign communications /

Table of Contents: “…Suárez -- Bloggers at the gates : Ned Lamont, blogs, and the rise of insurgent candidates / Kevin A. …”
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Africa's power infrastructure investment, integration, efficiency /

Table of Contents: “…-- Meeting the challenges of regional integration of infrastructure -- Building a political consensus -- Strengthening regional institutions -- Setting priorities for regional infrastructure -- Facilitating project preparation and cross-border finance -- Developing regional regulatory frameworks -- Investment requirements -- Modeling investment needs -- Estimating supply needs -- Overall cost requirements -- The sapp -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 35 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- The EAPP/Nile Basin -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 35 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- WAPP -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target rate : electricity access of 54 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- CAPP -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 44 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- Strengthening sector reform and planning -- Power sector reform in sub-Saharan Africa -- Private management contracts : winning the battle, losing the war -- Sector reform, sector performance -- The search for effective hybrid markets -- Regulatory institutions may need to be redesigned -- The challenges of independent regulation -- Regulation by contract -- Outsourcing regulatory functions -- Toward better regulatory systems -- A model to fit the context -- Widening connectivity and reducing inequality -- Low electricity connection rates -- Mixed progress, despite many agencies and funds -- Inequitable access to electricity -- Affordability of electricity : subsidizing the well off -- Policy challenges for accelerating service expansion -- Don't forget the demand side of the equation -- Take a hard-headed look at affordability -- Target subsidies to promote service expansion -- Systematic planning needed for periurban and rural electrification -- Recommitting to the reform of state-owned enterprises -- Hidden costs in underperforming state-owned enterprises -- Driving down operational inefficiencies and hidden costs -- Effect of better governance on performance of state-owned utilities -- Making state-owned enterprises more effective -- Defined roles and responsibilities -- Altering the political economy around the utility -- Practical tools for improving the performance of state-owned utilities -- Closing Africa's power funding gap -- Existing spending in the power sector -- How much more can be done within the existing resource envelope? …”
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