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Empire and Catastrophe : Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954 / by Segalla, Spencer D.

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Repetitions / by Abbott, Scott H., Radaković, Žarko

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Visualizing the Street : New Practices of Documenting, Navigating and Imagining the City /

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Why the Center Can't Hold: A Diagnosis of Puritanized America / by O'Neill, Tom

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Tanna Times : Islanders in the World / by Lindstrom, Lamont, 1953-

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Las relaciones internacionales regionales de Chile hacia 1904 /

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The Tsar, The Empire, and The Nation : Dilemmas of Nationalization in Russia's Western Borderlands, 1905-1915 / by Aoshima, Yoko, Staliūnas, Darius

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The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön : A Woman of Power and Privilege / by Melnick Dyer, Alison

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Evangelical and frontier mission : perspectives on the global progress of the Gospel /

Table of Contents: “…Winter -- The ebb and flow of kingdom theology / C. Ren P̌adilla -- A war-torn creation / Gregory A. Boyd -- A new era of missions is upon us / Robert J. …”

Denial and repression of antisemitism post-communist remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović / by Byford, Jovan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Materials used in this study -- The life of Nikolaj Velimirović and his changing public image, 1945-2003 -- Denigration and marginalization : Velimirović's status in post-war Yugoslavia -- Apotheosis and widespread admiration : Velimirović's status today -- Collective remembering and collective forgetting : memory of Nikolaj Velimirović and the repression of controversy -- The discursive dynamic of social forgetting : repression as replacement -- Velimirović in Dachau : "martyrdom" as a replacement myth -- The martyrdom myth in context : the narrative of Velimirović's suffering and the rise Serbian nationalism -- Remembering in order to forget : the martyrdom myth and repression -- The dynamic of everyday forgetting : continuity and the "routinization" of repression -- From repression to denial : responses of the Serbian Orthodox Church to accusations of antisemitism -- Discourse, moral accountability, and the denial of prejudice -- "Serbs have never hated the Jews" : literal denial of antisemitism -- "Parrots," "idiots," and "the mummies of reason" : denial and offensive rhetoric -- Comparing Serbs and Croats and the rhetoric of "competitive martyrdom" : comparative denial of antisemitism -- National self-glorification in a historical context -- Denial of antisemitism and the distancing from "extremism" -- "We are not antisemites, but-- " : denial and the rhetoric of disclaimers -- "He was merely quoting the Bible!" …”
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Counterinsurgency in Iraq (2003-2006) by Pirnie, Bruce, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…COIN effort is slow to unfold -- Traditional U.S. military forces may need to be adjusted -- Fallujah -- Tal Afar -- Baghdad -- Air support -- Combatting improvised explosive devices -- Detainee operations -- U.S. development and support of Iraqi forces -- Iraqi police -- Iraqi armed forces -- Assessing progress in counterinsurgency -- Iraqi casualties and displacement -- Iraqi economy -- Iraqi opinion -- Accounting for success and failure -- Understanding Iraqi society -- Little planning for the occupation of Iraq -- The impact of a lack od international support for the war -- The disastrous effects of prematurely dismantling the Ba'athist regime -- The challenge of building a new Iraqi state from scratch -- Instituting a new system of justice -- Undertaking the reconstruction of Iraq -- The consequences of failing to maintain security early on military missions -- Lck of infiltration and tips hinder intelligence on the insurgency -- Building effective capabilities for counterinsurgency -- Use of force -- Public safety and security -- Partnering with and enabling indigenous forces -- Reporting on the enemy and infiltration -- Provision of essential services -- Informing and influencing operations -- Rigorous and coordinated detainee operations -- Recommendations -- Development of strategy -- Coalition-building -- Planning process -- Unity of effort -- Interagency process -- Host-nation governance -- Funding mechanisms -- Counterinsurgency as a mission -- Protection of the indigenous population -- Personnel policy -- U.S. …”
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Sitting in darkness New South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow colonialism, 1865-1920 / by Schmidt, Peter, 1951 Dec. 23-

Table of Contents: “…Changing views of post-Civil War Black education in the fiction of Lydia Maria Child, Ellwood Griest, and Constance Fenimore Woolson (1867-1878) -- A fool's education : Albion Tourgée's A fool's errand, The invisible empire, and Bricks without straw (1879-1880) -- Of the people, by the people, and for the people : Frances E.W. …”
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Junge Perspektiven der Türkeiforschung in Deutschland Band 1 /

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Transforming public leadership for the 21st century

Table of Contents: “…Nelson -- Government's new breed of change agents: leading the War on Terror / Daniel P. Forrester -- Leadership and ethics in decision making by public managers / Christine Gibbs Springer -- About the editors and contributors -- Index.…”
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Government versus markets the changing economic role of the state / by Tanzi, Vito

Table of Contents: “…The role of the state in the pre World War Two period; 3. Forces that changed the role of the state; 4. …”
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Engaging the spirit world popular beliefs and practices in modern southeast Asia /

Table of Contents: “…: rethinking the four palaces' spirit representations in the context of social and political changes in northern Vietnam / Claire Chauvet -- Gods, gifts, markets, and superstition : spirited consumption from Korea to Vietnam / Laurel Kendall -- Contests of commemoration : virgin war martyrs, state memorials, and the invocation of the spirit world in contemporary Vietnam / Kirsten W. …”
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Intercultural communication for managers / by Goodman, Michael B.

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Portrayals of children in popular culture : fleeting images /

Table of Contents: “…: girl power and commodification in teen magazines / Caryn Murphy -- Children and media in parenting magazines / Amy Franzini -- Making kids sexy : sexualized youth, adult anxieties and Abercrombie and Fitch / Stephen Gennaro -- Configuring childhood on the web / Katie Elson Anderson -- Television -- Pearly whites : the imagery of teeth in Peter Pan, elite figure skating, gymnastics, and toddler beauty pageants / Beth Nardella -- Conceptualizing childhood in the Korean education the korean education broadcasting system (EBS) : a critical analysis of Pororo / LENA LEE -- Accidental deaths : the violence of representing childhood in law & order : special victims unit / MORGAN GENEVIEVE BLUE -- Better multiculturalism through technology : Dora the explorer and the training of the preschool viewer(s) / Drew Chappell -- Film -- Making mischief of one kind or another : turning literary rebellion into film reminiscence in where the wild things are / Michelle Ann Abate -- They don't really care what happens to me : divorce, family life and children's emotional worlds in 1950s' British cinema / Janet Fink -- Representations of children in Pixar films : / 1995-2008 / Iris Shepard -- Little Burton Blue : Tim Burton and the product(ion) of color in the fairy tale films the nightmare before Christmas (1993) and the corpse bride (2005) / Debbie Olson -- Childhood in war and violence : turtles can fly and the kite runner / Lan Dong -- Spelling out racial difference : moving beyond the inspirational discourses in Akeelah and the bee / Kathryn E. …”
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The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön : A Woman of Power and Privilege / by Melnick Dyer, Alison

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After Testimony : The Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future /

Table of Contents: “…Storeide -- Moving testimonies : "unhomed geography" and the Holocaust documentary of return / Janet Walker -- From Auschwitz to the Temple Mount : binding and unbinding the Israeli narrative / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi -- The melancholy generation : Grossman's Book of interior grammar / Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan -- Fractured relations : the multidirectional Holocaust memory of Caryl Phillips / Michael Rothberg -- Hiroshima and the Holocaust : tales of war and defeat in Japan and Germany-a contrastive perspective / Anne Thelle.…”
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