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Institutional games and the U.S. Supreme Court

Table of Contents: “…Strategic games with Congress and the states -- Statutory battles and constitutional wars : Congress and the Supreme Court / Andrew D. …”
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Imperial desire dissident sexualities and colonial literature /

Table of Contents: “…: adventure, homoeroticism, and divine order in Prester John / Maria Davidis -- Many lips will I kiss : the queer foreplay of "the east" in Russian aestheticism / Dennis Denisoff -- Sex/race wars on the frontier : homosexuality and colonialism in The golden notebook / Joseph A. …”
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Catholics and politics the dynamic tension between faith and power /

Table of Contents: “…Streb and Brian Frederick -- Latino Catholics in U.S. politics / Adrian Pantoja, Matthew Barreto, and Richard Anderson -- Catholics and the federal government -- Catholics in congress : abortion and the emergence of the culture wars / William D'Antonio, Steven Tuch, and John Kenneth White -- Catholics and the Supreme Court : from the Catholic seat to the new majority / Barbara A. …”
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Southern political party activists patterns of conflict and change, 1991-2001 /

Table of Contents: “…Prysby -- Religion : culture wars in the new South / John A. Clark -- The continuing role of race in southern party organizations / Jay Barth -- Population movement and southern party activists / Laurence W. …”
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Themes in Latin American cinema a critical survey / by Richards, Keith John, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…A spectrum of criminality: gangsters, politicians and the military -- Ratas, ratones, rateros (Rodents) -- Perder es cuestión de método (The art of losing) -- Días de Santiago (Days of Santiago) -- Fratricide and neo-imperialism: twentieth-century conflicts. Fratricidal wars and imperialism -- Iluminados por el fuego (Blessed by fire) -- Mi mejor enemigo (My best enemy) -- Hamaca paraguaya (Paraguayan hammock) -- The poet in the city. …”
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Transition and justice : negotiating the terms of new beginnings in Africa /

Table of Contents: “…The Role of Refugee Aid in Shaping New Beginnings in Mauritania Marion Fresia 4 Conflicting Logics of Exceptionality: New Beginnings and the Problem of Police Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa Steffen Jensen 5 The 2011 Toilet Wars in South Africa: Justice and Transition between the Exceptional and the Everyday after Apartheid Steven Robins 6 New Law against an Old State: Land Restitution as a Transition to Justice in Post-Apartheid South Africa? …”
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Southern political party activists patterns of conflict and change, 1991-2001 /

Table of Contents: “…Prysby -- Religion : culture wars in the new South / John A. Clark -- The continuing role of race in southern party organizations / Jay Barth -- Population movement and southern party activists / Laurence W. …”
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Themes in Latin American cinema a critical survey / by Richards, Keith John, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…A spectrum of criminality: gangsters, politicians and the military -- Ratas, ratones, rateros (Rodents) -- Perder es cuestión de método (The art of losing) -- Días de Santiago (Days of Santiago) -- Fratricide and neo-imperialism: twentieth-century conflicts. Fratricidal wars and imperialism -- Iluminados por el fuego (Blessed by fire) -- Mi mejor enemigo (My best enemy) -- Hamaca paraguaya (Paraguayan hammock) -- The poet in the city. …”
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Transition and justice : negotiating the terms of new beginnings in Africa /

Table of Contents: “…The Role of Refugee Aid in Shaping New Beginnings in Mauritania Marion Fresia 4 Conflicting Logics of Exceptionality: New Beginnings and the Problem of Police Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa Steffen Jensen 5 The 2011 Toilet Wars in South Africa: Justice and Transition between the Exceptional and the Everyday after Apartheid Steven Robins 6 New Law against an Old State: Land Restitution as a Transition to Justice in Post-Apartheid South Africa? …”
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Economic Women : Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Dalley and Jill Rappoport -- Gentry, gender, and the moral economy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in provincial England / Kathryn Gleadle -- Women, free trade, and Harriet Martineau's Dawn Island at the 1845 Anti-Corn Law League bazaar / Leslee Thorne-Murphy -- Sacrificial value : beyond the cash nexus in George Eliot's Romola / Ilana M. …”
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Catholics and politics the dynamic tension between faith and power /

Table of Contents: “…Streb and Brian Frederick -- Latino Catholics in U.S. politics / Adrian Pantoja, Matthew Barreto, and Richard Anderson -- Catholics and the federal government -- Catholics in congress : abortion and the emergence of the culture wars / William D'Antonio, Steven Tuch, and John Kenneth White -- Catholics and the Supreme Court : from the Catholic seat to the new majority / Barbara A. …”
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Economic Women : Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Dalley and Jill Rappoport -- Gentry, gender, and the moral economy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in provincial England / Kathryn Gleadle -- Women, free trade, and Harriet Martineau's Dawn Island at the 1845 Anti-Corn Law League bazaar / Leslee Thorne-Murphy -- Sacrificial value : beyond the cash nexus in George Eliot's Romola / Ilana M. …”
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International law and international relations

Table of Contents: “…Steinberg -- The legalization of international monetary affairs (2000) / Beth Simmons -- Constructing an atrocities regime : the politics of war crimes tribunals (2001) / Christopher Rudolph -- The origins of human rights regimes : democratic delegation in postwar Europe (2000) / Andrew Moravcsik -- Regime design matters : international oil pollution and treaty compliance (1994) / Ronald B. …”
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Psychology of terrorism

Table of Contents: “…Beutler ... [et al.] -- War versus justice in response to terrorist attacks: competing frames and their implications / Clark McCauley -- The staircase to terrorism: a psychological exploration / Fathali M. …”
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Source code China the new global hub of IT outsourcing / by Eltschinger, Cyrill, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…-- Captive versus partner -- Build-operate-transfer -- Dual-shore delivery -- Going captive and avoiding the expat trap -- Ten lessons learned -- What works elsewhere does not necessarily work in China -- Develop a vision of the future beyond the next shareholder meeting -- Establish the right partnerships from the beginning -- Do your homework -- Commit for the long haul -- Prepare yourself for an unprecedented speed of change -- Choose an outsourcing city based on-- -- People, people, people -- Never give up -- It is all about face -- Winning the talent war -- English makes the world go round -- Recruiting staff -- Salaries on the rise -- Chinese work ethics -- Retaining staff: employee retention and loyalty programs -- China's outsourcing cities -- Beijing -- Shanghai -- Dalian -- Chengdu -- Xi'an -- Jinan -- Hangzhou -- Guangzhou -- Nanjing -- Shenzhen -- IT outsourcing, business process outsourcing, and knowledge process outsourcing in China -- Scope of outsourcing -- Global outsourcing options for customers -- Advantages of outsourcing to China -- Disadvantages to outsourcing to China -- Selection of vendor partners -- Due diligence of the capabilities of vendors -- Importance of business process standards -- Importance of standards in BPO -- Application of standards to different process types -- Process selection for outsourcing -- China's legal framework -- Market entry and establishing a business in China -- Intellectual property rights protection -- Employment issues -- Government policy -- Currency and taxation -- Dispute resolution and litigation -- China 2020 -- Pillar of the economy: focus on the high-tech sector -- Growth of the services sector -- Satisfying a fast-growing global IT and business processes services demand -- Overseas promotions leap forward -- Stable China market economic prospects -- Rise of globalization: in the front row -- China 2020: wild cards -- Appendix A: Exclusive survey of selected cities in cooperation with MOFCOM-- Appendix B: Case studies -- Appendix C: Contact information for major government offices, outsourcing centers, and online resources -- Index.…”
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Culture and social transformations in reform era China

Table of Contents: “…/ Han Shaogong -- A unique transcendence : Deng Xiaoping's China and Mao Zedong's China / Gong Yuzhi -- The impact of the Cultural Revolution on reform era political culture / Roderick MacFarquhar -- The influence of China's cultural tradition of revolution on reform-period conceptions of modernity / Cao Tian Yu -- The Chinese Revolution and the self identity of the Chinese nation / Lin Chun -- Comments on Gong Yuzhi's "A unique transcendence" and Roderick MacFarquhar's "The impact of the Cultural Revolution on reform-era political culture" / Lin Chun -- China's social transformation and two types of modernity / Gao Like -- Confusian Marxism and its implications in the current age of globalization / Chen Weigang -- The Cold War, imperial aesthetics, and area studies / Wang Ban -- Themes for China : modern arts, modern conflict / Marshall Berman.…”
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Enduring legacies ethnic histories and cultures of the Colorado borderlands /

Table of Contents: “…Arntson -- So they say : Lieutenant Earl W. Mann's World War II Colorado Statesman columns / William M. King -- Latina education and life in rural Southern Colorado, 1920-1945 / Bernadette Garcia Galvez -- Recruitment, rejection, and reaction : Colorado Chicanos in the twentieth century / David A. …”
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Asian American studies now a critical reader /

Table of Contents: “…Chinese exclusion and the origins of American gatekeeping / Erika Lee -- Public health and the mapping of Chinatown / Nayan Shah -- The secret Munson Report / Michi Nishiura Weglyn -- Asian American struggles for civil, political, economic, and social rights / Sucheng Chan -- Out of the shadows: camptown women, military brides, and Korean (American) communities / Ji-Yeon Yuh -- The Cold War origins of the model minority myth / Robert G. …”
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Global media ethics problems and perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Democratization by Boilerplate: National Media, International Norms, and Sovereign National Building in a Post-War Liberia Jo Ellen Fair, University of Wisconsin-Madison Section Three: Global issues 9. …”
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Applied ethics in mental health care : an interdisciplinary reader /

Table of Contents: “…Gunn Jr -- "Personality disorder" and capacity to make treatment decisions / George Szmukler -- Sanctity of human life in war : ethics and post traumatic stress disorder / James A. …”
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