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Human Rights Standards : Hegemony, Law, and Politics / by Mutua, Makau

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Evangelizing Korean Women and Gender in the Early Modern World : The Power of Body and Text by Broomhall, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Encounter -- The Joseon Kingdom: "The Treasure Kept for the Man who Most Merits It" -- Korean Women's Bodies and Kirishitan Masculine Performance -- "Fruit Well Taken from This War": Evangelizing Koreans in Japan -- Gender and Mission Strategy -- Conclusions -- Chapter 2. …”
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The chivalric ethos and the development of military professionalism

Table of Contents: “…Army, Society and Military Professionalism in the Netherlands during the Eighty Years' War -- D. J. B. Trim 269 -- 11. The Officer Corps and Army Command in the British Isles, 1620-1660 -- Martyn Bennett 291 --POSTSCRIPT: THE LAST GASP OF CHIVALRY? …”
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Human security and the new diplomacy protecting people, promoting peace /

Table of Contents: “…Human security in a globalized world / Rob McRae -- Case study : landmines and human security -- The evolution of peacekeeping / Patricia Fortier -- Case study : peacekeeping in Sierra Leone / Alan Bones -- Case study : the challenge of microdisarmament / Jennifer Loten -- Peacebuilding in postconflict societies / Michael Small -- Case study : Bosnia and Herzegovina / Sam Hanson -- Case study : Haiti / David Lee -- Case study : Guatemala / Daniel Livermore -- Humanitarian military intervention / Don Hubert and Michael Bonser -- Case study : the Kosovo air campaign / Paul Heinbecker and Rob McRae -- Protecting the most vulnerable : war-affected children / Carmen Sorger and Eric Hoskins -- Case study : the optional protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict / Ross Snyder -- The evolution of international humanitarian law / Darryl Robinson and Valerie Oosterveld -- Case study : the international criminal court / Darryl Robinson -- Resources, greed, and the persistence of violent conflict / Don Hubert -- Case study : Angola sanctions / Robert Fowler and David Angell -- Transnational crime in a borderless world / Terry Cormier -- Case study : terrorism / Victor Rakmil -- The new multilateralism / Roman Waschuk -- Case study : the Security Council and the protection of civilians / Elissa Golberg and Don Hubert -- Case study : the human security network / Michael Small -- Human security, connectivity, and the new global civil society / Rob McRae -- Conclusion : international relations and the new diplomacy / Rob McRae -- Postscript : reflections on the Ghana Conference and the Freetown visit / Lloyd Axworthy -- Timeline : human security in Canadian foreign policy.…”
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Pentecostalism and Witchcraft Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia /

Table of Contents: “…Turning the Tide: Visionary Children and Spiritual War on a Vanuatu Island.- 10. Learning to Believe in Papua New Guinea -- 11. …”
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Routes into abyss : coping with the crises in the 1930s /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Helmut Konrad and Wolfgang Maderthaner -- Crisis and workers' movements / Ferdinand Lacina -- The significance of February, 1934 in Austria in both national and international context / Helmut Konrad -- Avalanches of spring : the Great War, modernism, and the rise of Austro-fascism / Roger Griffin -- Der italienische Faschismus im Spannungsfeld zwischen Reaktion und Moderne / Karin Priester -- Hitler's dictatorship : his role as "leader" in the Nazi regime / Hans Mommsen -- The Second Spanish Republic : the challenges facing a democracy in troubled times / Vicent San Rozal�en -- The crisis in the 19301/2s and the rise to power of the Swedish social democrats / Bengt Sch�ullerqvist -- The United States in the Great Depression : was the fascist door open? …”
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Evangelizing Korean Women and Gender in the Early Modern World : The Power of Body and Text by Broomhall, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Encounter -- The Joseon Kingdom: "The Treasure Kept for the Man who Most Merits It" -- Korean Women's Bodies and Kirishitan Masculine Performance -- "Fruit Well Taken from This War": Evangelizing Koreans in Japan -- Gender and Mission Strategy -- Conclusions -- Chapter 2. …”
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Historicizing Fat in Anglo-american Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Huff -- "As Horace fat" in a thin land : Ben Jonson's experience and strategy / Anne Brumley -- American excess : cultural representations of Lillian Russell in turn-of-the-century America / Cookie Woolner -- Greedy bastards : fat kids, class war, and the ideology of classlessness / Alex Evans -- Resisting fatphobia in the critical tradition of Venus and Adonis / Elena Levy-Navarro -- "It's not over till the fat lady sings" : the weight of the opera diva / Serena Guarracino -- Fat's no four-letter word : fat feminism and identity politics in the 1970s and 1980s / Greta Rensenbrink.…”
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Human Rights Standards : Hegemony, Law, and Politics / by Mutua, Makau

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Forensics under fire are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice? / by Fisher, Jim, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…-- Expert versus expert : the handwriting wars in the Ramsey case -- John Mark Karr : DNA Trumps the graphologists in the Ramsey case -- Hair and fiber identification : the inexact science -- DNA analysis : backlogs, sloppy work, and unqualified people -- Bullet identification : FBI style overselling the science -- The celebrity expert : Dr. …”
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In the courts of the conqueror the 10 worst Indian law cases ever decided / by Echo-Hawk, Walter R.

Table of Contents: “…United States & Cheyenne Indians : were the Indian wars legal? -- Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock : breaking the treaties -- United States v. …”
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Minor omissions children in Latin American history and society /

Table of Contents: “…Guy -- The child-saving movement in Brazil : ideology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Irene Rizzini -- How Haitian artists disclose childhood of all ages / LeGrace Benson -- Victims, heroes, enemies : children in Central American wars / Anna L. Peterson and Kay Almere Read -- August / Bruna Verissimo -- Children and contemporary Latin America / Tobias Hecht -- The children's rebellion / Cristina Peri Rossi.…”
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Dirty South Outkast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern rappers who reinvented hip-hop / by Westhoff, Ben

Table of Contents: “…Luke Campbell : bass and booty -- Geto Boys : paranoia, insanity, and Rap-A-Lot Records -- Trae and DJ Screw : rap gets screwed -- UGK : from country to trill -- Eightball & MJG and Three 6 Mafia : Memphis goes Hollywood -- Outkast, Goodie Mob, and Organized Noize : the dirty South blooms -- Cash money, no limit, and juvenile : bling and murder in New Orleans -- Nelly : forty acres, a pool, and some pimp juice -- Timbaland and the Neptunes : architects of sound in nowhere, Virginia -- Lil Jon : mosh pit hip-hop -- DJ Drama and T.I. : mixtapes and turf wars in Atlanta -- Paul Wall and the new H-Town movement : shining diamonds -- T-Pain and his Florida hitmakers : rap robots -- Soulja Boy and DJ Smurf : dance, dance revolution -- Lil Wayne : gangster weirdo -- Gucci Mane : true crime rap.…”
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The afterlife of Adam Smith : the influence, interpretation and misinterpretation of his economic philosophy, 1760s-2010s / by Farina, William, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Businessmen become revolutionaries (1764/1777) -- A new republic grapples with old issues (1778/1790) -- The british empire makes war against its offspring (1791/1815) -- Almost free labor (1816/1837) -- Might makes right (1838/1850) -- Northern industry tames southern agriculture (1851/1865) -- More competition, more oppression (1866/1877) -- The great american relocation (1878/1890) -- A clumsy foray into colonialism (1891/1901) -- Trustbuster (1901/1913) -- Anglo-american power shift (1914/1921) -- Ascendant consumerism (1922/1928) -- The implosion of ?…”
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In the courts of the conqueror the 10 worst Indian law cases ever decided / by Echo-Hawk, Walter R.

Table of Contents: “…United States & Cheyenne Indians : were the Indian wars legal? -- Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock : breaking the treaties -- United States v. …”
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Minor omissions children in Latin American history and society /

Table of Contents: “…Guy -- The child-saving movement in Brazil : ideology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Irene Rizzini -- How Haitian artists disclose childhood of all ages / LeGrace Benson -- Victims, heroes, enemies : children in Central American wars / Anna L. Peterson and Kay Almere Read -- August / Bruna Verissimo -- Children and contemporary Latin America / Tobias Hecht -- The children's rebellion / Cristina Peri Rossi.…”
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Dirty South Outkast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern rappers who reinvented hip-hop / by Westhoff, Ben

Table of Contents: “…Luke Campbell : bass and booty -- Geto Boys : paranoia, insanity, and Rap-A-Lot Records -- Trae and DJ Screw : rap gets screwed -- UGK : from country to trill -- Eightball & MJG and Three 6 Mafia : Memphis goes Hollywood -- Outkast, Goodie Mob, and Organized Noize : the dirty South blooms -- Cash money, no limit, and juvenile : bling and murder in New Orleans -- Nelly : forty acres, a pool, and some pimp juice -- Timbaland and the Neptunes : architects of sound in nowhere, Virginia -- Lil Jon : mosh pit hip-hop -- DJ Drama and T.I. : mixtapes and turf wars in Atlanta -- Paul Wall and the new H-Town movement : shining diamonds -- T-Pain and his Florida hitmakers : rap robots -- Soulja Boy and DJ Smurf : dance, dance revolution -- Lil Wayne : gangster weirdo -- Gucci Mane : true crime rap.…”
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The afterlife of Adam Smith : the influence, interpretation and misinterpretation of his economic philosophy, 1760s-2010s / by Farina, William, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Businessmen become revolutionaries (1764/1777) -- A new republic grapples with old issues (1778/1790) -- The british empire makes war against its offspring (1791/1815) -- Almost free labor (1816/1837) -- Might makes right (1838/1850) -- Northern industry tames southern agriculture (1851/1865) -- More competition, more oppression (1866/1877) -- The great american relocation (1878/1890) -- A clumsy foray into colonialism (1891/1901) -- Trustbuster (1901/1913) -- Anglo-american power shift (1914/1921) -- Ascendant consumerism (1922/1928) -- The implosion of ?…”
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Bodies as Evidence : Security, Knowledge, and Power /

Table of Contents: “…: evidence and fantasy in the war on terror / Joseba Zulaika -- Conclusion: discontinuities and diversity / Mark Maguire and Ursula Rao.…”
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Farocki/Godard : Film as Theory / by Pantenburg, Volker, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Taking Pictures -- Photography and Film: Displacing: The Carabineers -- Rendering: Before Your Eyes Vietnam -- Surveying: Images of the World and The Inscription of War -- 6. Two or Three Ways of Speaking with the Hands: Asking Oneself: La Chinoise / Vent d'est -- Offering Oneself: Nouvelle vague -- Wxpressing Oneself: Georg K. …”
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