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One World, Many Knowledges : Regional experiences and cross-regional links in higher education /

Table of Contents: “…Steering from a distance : improving access to higher education in South Africa via the funding formula / Pieter le Roux and Mignonne Breier -- part IV. …”
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One World, Many Knowledges : Regional experiences and cross-regional links in higher education /

Table of Contents: “…Steering from a distance : improving access to higher education in South Africa via the funding formula / Pieter le Roux and Mignonne Breier -- part IV. …”
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New directions in development ethics essays in honor of Denis Goulet /

Table of Contents: “…Bindenagel -- Participation in local development : Goulet and deliberative democracy / David A. Crocker -- Participation, empowerment, and democracy : three fickle friends / Jay Drydyk -- Values, vision, proposals, and networks : the approach of Mahbub ul Haq / Des Gasper -- Gauntlets of equity : practical ethical challenges for development tomorrow / Katherine Marshall -- Ethics and contemporary macroeconomic policy / Kenneth P. …”
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Cellular domains

Table of Contents: “…James Nelson -- The tight junction and desmosomes / Keli Kolegraff, Porfirio Nava, Asma Nusrat -- Gap junctions / Jared M. …”
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China's encounters on the south and southwest : reforging the fiery frontier over two millennia / by Anderson, James, 1963-, Whitmore, John K.

Table of Contents: “…The Chinese southern frontier in the fifth and sixth centuries / Catherine Churchman -- Constructing local narratives: spirits, dreams, and prophecies in the medieval Red River Delta / Liam Kelley -- Man and Mongols: the Dali and Dai Viet kingdoms in the face of the northern invasions / James Anderson -- Yunnan's Muslim heritage / Michael Brose -- Gunsmoke: the Ming invasion of Dai Viet and the role of firearms in forging the southern frontier / Kenneth Swope -- A state agent at odds with the state: Lin Xiyuan and the Ming recovery of the Four Dong / Kathlene Baldanza -- Part II. …”
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Grabbing back : essays against the global land grab /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword : Toward socio-ecological self-management / Javier Sethness Castro -- Editor's introduction : The global land grab / Alexander Reid Ross -- Land wars and the great land grab / Vandana Shiva -- Factors shaping the global land rush / Ward Anseeuw and Mike Taylor -- Destructive development and land sales in Ethiopia / Graham Peebles -- Biofuels, land grabs, revolution / Alexander Reid Ross -- Environmental group events in today's China / Yangtze River Delta Earth First! -- Women, land-struggles, and globalization : an international perspective / Silvia Federici -- Land, territory, entropy / Guillermo Delgado-P -- A coup over land / Benjamin Dangl -- Black women on the edge / Keisha-Khan Perry and Ana Cristina da Silva Caminha -- Exit and territory : a world-systems analysis of non-state spaces / Andrej GrubacŒic -- Taking back the commons : an introduction / Alexander Reid Ross -- Reconstructing the poor peoples movement / Noam Chomsky -- A Detroit story : ideas whose time has come / Grace Lee Boggs ... …”
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Participación política : las mujeres en México al final del milenio /

Table of Contents: “…Fernández Poncela -- Participación política de la mujer en Mexico / Paulina Fernández Christlieb -- Aquí somos familia panista: las mujeres de las colonias populares en el panismo de Ciudad Juárez / Dalia Barrera Bassols -- Participación política de las mujeres en el PRI / Yolanda Rodríguez Ramírez -- Participación política y políticas públicas: cómo hacer el vínculo en el caso de las mujeres? …”
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Managing knock your socks off service by Bell, Chip R.

Table of Contents: “…Find and retain quality people -- Recruit creatively and hire carefully -- Paying attention to employee retention -- Keeping your best and brightest -- Know your customers intimately -- "Emotionalizing" the yardstick : why customer satisfaction isn't enough -- Listening is a contact sport -- A complaining customer is your best friend -- The binding power of customer trust -- Little things mean a lot -- Build a service vision -- The power of purpose -- Getting your vision down on paper -- A service vision statement sampler -- Standards and norms : delivering on the service promise -- Make your service delivery system ETDBW (easy to do business with) -- Bad systems undermine good people -- Fix the system, not the people -- Measure and manage from the customer's point of view -- Add magic : creating the unpredictable and unique -- Make recovery a point of pride ... and a focal part of your system -- Reinventing your service system -- Train and coach -- Start on day one (when their hearts and minds are malleable) -- Training creates competence, confidence, and commitment to customers -- Making training stick -- Thinking and acting like a coach -- Involve and empower -- Fostering "responsible freedom" on the front lines -- Removing the barriers to empowerment -- Recognize, reward, and celebrate -- Recognition and reward : fueling the fires of service success -- Feedback : breakfast, lunch, and dinner of champions -- The art of interpersonal feedback -- Celebrate success -- Your most important management mission : set the tone and lead the way -- Manager-employee trust : ground zero for service quality -- Observation is more powerful than conversation -- Great service leadership in action.…”
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Participación política : las mujeres en México al final del milenio /

Table of Contents: “…Fernández Poncela -- Participación política de la mujer en Mexico / Paulina Fernández Christlieb -- Aquí somos familia panista: las mujeres de las colonias populares en el panismo de Ciudad Juárez / Dalia Barrera Bassols -- Participación política de las mujeres en el PRI / Yolanda Rodríguez Ramírez -- Participación política y políticas públicas: cómo hacer el vínculo en el caso de las mujeres? …”
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The social value of the financial sector : too big to fail or just too big? /

Table of Contents: “…White -- Financial innovation and shadow banking / Luc Laeven -- Effects of regulation, the safety net and other government guarantees : evolving intermediation / Nicola Cetorelliá -- The socially optimal level of capital requirements : a view from two papers / Javier Suarezá -- Effects of regulation, the safety net, and other government guarantees / Mathias Dewatripontá -- Finance and economic activity : variations across emerging and developed markets -- Legal and alternative institutions in finance and commerce / Franklin Allen and Jun Qian -- Finance in the tropics : understanding structural gaps and policy challenges / Thorsten Beck -- Foreign banks : access to finance and financial stability / Neeltje van Horená -- Institutions, finance, and economic activity : views and agenda / Elias Papaioannouá -- Break up the big banks? -- Breaking (banks) up is hard to do : new perspective on too big to fail / James R. …”
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Metalwork and material culture in the Islamic world : art, craft and text : essays presented to James W. Allan /

Table of Contents: “…: initial remarks on Qajar copper and copper-alloy objects in the National Museums of Scotland / Ulrike al-Khamis and Katherine Eremin -- Gilding, inlay and the mobility of metallurgy : a case of fraud in medieval Kashmir / Lorenz Korn -- Persians abroad : the case of the Jami' Masjid of Gulbarga / Robert Hillenbrand -- An extraordinary Mamluk casket in the Fitzwilliam Museum / Rachel Ward -- A Mamluk tray and its journey to the V&A / Tim Stanley -- Arabic titles, well-wishes and a female saint : a Mamluk basin in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam / Luitgard Mols -- A bronze tambourine player / Doris Behrens-Abouseif -- The Fatimid bronze hoard of Tiberias / Elias Khamis -- A group of round boxes from the metal hoard found in Caesarea / Ayala Lester -- Islamic Embroideries from Egypt : shifts in taste, change in status / Ruth Barnes -- Metalwork in Damascus at the end of the Ottoman period : an analysis of the Qāmūs al-Sinā'āt al-Shāmiyya / Marcus Milwright -- A bronze pillar lampstand from Petralia Sottana, Sicily / Jeremy Johns -- The metal mounts on Andalusi ivories : initial observations / Miriam Rosser-Owen -- The marble spolia from the Badi' Palace in Marrakesh / Nadia Erzini and Stephen Vernoit -- Glaze-decorated unglazed wares / Olivia Watson -- Pearl cups like the moon : the Abbasid Reception of Chinese ceramics and the Belitung shipwreck / Jessica Hallett -- Branding 'tradition' in contemporary tin-glaze pottery from Puebla / Farzaneh Pirouz-Moussavi -- The lion, the hare and lustreware / Fahmida Suleman -- Said el Sadr (1909-86) and Fatimid lustreware : a succession / Alan Caiger-Smith -- Potter's trail : an Abu Zayd Ewer in the Saint Louis Art Musuem / Oya Pancaroğlu -- From the workshops of New Julfa to the court of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich : an initial look at Armenian networks and the mobility of visual culture / Amy S. …”
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Handbook of gastroenterologic procedures /

Table of Contents: “…Levy -- Endosonography-guided celiac plexus neurolysis / Maurits J. Wiersema and Michael J. …”
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Selected letters of Vernon Lee 1856-1935.

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Diagnostic microbiology of the immunocompromised host

Table of Contents: “…Overview of infections in the immunocompromised host / Lesia K. Dropulic and Howard M. Lederman -- Hiv / Yun F. …”
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Sexual coercion in primates and humans an evolutionary perspective on male aggression against females /

Table of Contents: “…Hatch -- Human rape : revising evolutionary perspectives / Melissa Emery Thompson -- "Friendship" with males : a female counterstrategy to infanticide in chacma baboons of the Okavango Delta / Ryne Palombit -- The absence of sexual coercion in bonobos / Tommaso Paoli -- Sexual coercion, patriarchal violence, and law / Diane L. …”
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Underwater and maritime archaeology in Latin America and the Caribbean

Table of Contents: “…Leshikar-Denton and Pilar Luna Erreguerena -- The submerged cultural heritage in Mexico / Pilar Luna Erreguerena -- Nuestra Señora del Juncal : her story and her shipwreck / Patricia Meehan H. and Flor Trejo Rivera -- Nautical charts and measurement systems of the 17th century / Carmen Rojas Sandoval -- Riddles in the dark : human behaviours in the interpretation of a 16th-century wreck / Vera Moya Sordo -- An 18th-century British shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico / Roberto Enrique Galindo Domínguez -- Evidence of early inhabitants in submerged caves in Yucatan, Mexico / Arturo H. …”
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A road to nowhere? Jewish experiences in the unifying Europe /

Table of Contents: “…The Jewish world context -- Jews in Europe : demographic trends, contexts and outlooks / Sergio DellaPergola -- The European Jewish diaspora : the third pillar of world Jewry? …”
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Globalizing resistance the state of struggle /

Table of Contents: “…/ Pierre Beaudet -- The new agrarian issue : three billion peasants under threat / Samir Amin -- The alternative movement and its media strategies / Victor Sampedro -- The European Union and the 'internal threat' of the alternative world movement / Ben Hayes, Tony Bunyan -- Police measures against the new global protest / Donatella della Porta, Herbert Reiter -- New powers, new counter-powers / Raoul-Marc Jennar -- International law, a decisive issue for the alternative world movement / Monique Chemillier-Gendreau.…”
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A creature of our own making reflections on contemporary academic life / by Olson, Gary A., 1954-

Table of Contents: “…-- Avoiding academe's ax murderers -- How to get what you want in academe -- That's your opinion -- Holding ourselves accountable -- If universities were democracies -- Creating a culture of mutual respect -- A culture of openness -- To party, or not to party -- Yes, big brother is watching -- How to join the dark side -- The importance of protocol -- The administrator as magician -- The burden of confidentiality -- Avoiding the hunker-down strategy -- Resist the rush to judgment in disputes -- Why rules matter -- We can't do that here -- The delicate art of rejection -- Let's just do our jobs -- The cost of doing business -- The unkindest cut of all -- If only I knew then -- Carnegie matters -- Growing pains -- Why universities specialize -- Why universities reorganize -- The importance of external boards -- Certifying online research -- Why universities are streamlining their curricula -- Should we ditch football? …”
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Introductory engineering mathematics / by Reeping, David, Reid, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…Inputs and outputs -- 5.1 Classifications -- 5.2 Common manipulations -- 5.3 Special inputs -- 5.3.1 Heaviside unit step, the step function -- 5.3.2 Dirac's Delta function: the impulse function -- 5.4 Inputs in terms of an infinite series -- 5.4.1 Power series -- 5.4.2 Fourier series --…”
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