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Advancing Equity Planning Now /

Table of Contents: “…-- Equity planning in a fragmented suburban setting -- National equity planning -- On the way there but not there yet -- The opportunity challenge -- Equity policy and practice at the federal level -- Planning for aging -- Looking to the future -- The future of equity planning education in the United States -- Public participation geographic information systems -- Conclusion -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.…”
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Disaster operations and decision making by Huder, Roger C.

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Biological Procedures Online

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Journal of Modern Transportation

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The Arabian frontier of the British Raj merchants, rulers, and the British in the nineteenth-century Gulf / by Onley, James, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Conventions, terminology, and transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The subject -- The sources -- Overview -- Empire -- British India's informal empire and spheres of influence in Asia and Africa -- British India's residency system in Asia and Africa -- The origins of the residency system, 1613-1763 -- The politicization and expansion of the residency system, 1764-1947 -- The residency system and Britain's Indian empire -- Imperialism and the strategy of informal empire -- The Indian political service (IPS), 1764-1947 -- Early British involvement in the Gulf, 1616-1822 -- Britain's political residency in the Gulf, 1822-1971 -- Britain's native agency in Bahrain, c. 1816-1900 -- Agents of empire -- British India's native agency system in Asia -- British India's native agency system in Asia -- British India's native agency system in the Gulf -- British motives for employing native agents -- Robinson's theory of collaboration -- The Indian origins of the native agency system -- The politicization of the native agency system in India and the Gulf -- Early native agents in the Gulf -- The establishment of the native agency system in the Gulf -- Advantages for the British -- Disadvantages for the British -- Advantages and disadvantages for the native agents -- The operation of British India's native agency in Bahrain -- The agency building -- The agency's finances and organization -- The agent's intelligence-gathering duties, c.1816-1900 -- The agent's judicial duties, 1861-1900 -- The agents' political duties, 1872-1900 -- The agents' social duties -- British India's native agents in Bahrain -- The banias, c.1816-34 -- The Safar family agents -- Mirza Muhammad Cali Safar, 1834-42 -- Hajji Jasim (Hajji Abu'l Qasim), 1842-62 -- Hajji Ibrahim bin Muhsin bin Rajab, 1862-4 -- Years of abeyance, 1865-71 -- Hajji Cabd al-Nabi Khan Safar, 1872-84 -- Hajji Ahmad Khan Safar, 1884-91 -- Temporary agents, 1891-3 -- Agha Muhammad Rahim Safar, 1893-1900 -- Hajji Cabbas bin Muhammad bin Fadhil, 1900 -- The native agency staff after 1900 -- Challenges to the agents, 1834-97 -- The decline of British India's native agency system in Bahrain and the Gulf -- The rift in agent-ruler relations, 1895-1900 -- The agent's conflict between trade and politics, 1897-9 -- The argument for a political agency, 1897-9 -- The transition to a political agency, 1899-1900 -- The Arabian frontier of the Indian empire -- Appendix A a British India's residency system in Asia and Africa -- British India's residency system, 1880s -- Gulf residency organization -- Gulf residency staff -- Gulf residency budget -- Graded officers serving in political residencies, 1877 -- British military establishments in the Gulf -- Appendix B rulers and residents -- Rulers of Bahrain -- Residents in Bushire -- Agents for the lower Gulf (qishm island) -- Political residents in the Gulf (Bushire) -- Political residents in the Gulf (Ras al-Jufair, Bahrain) -- Governors of Bombay -- Viceroys of India -- Appendix C British India's native agents in Bahrain -- Native agents -- Native agency staff -- British-Indian steam navigation Co. agents (Gray Paul & Co.) -- Merchant grades -- Appendix D British control : Bahrain v. the Indian states -- Appendix E Anglo-Bahraini legal obligations and rights.…”
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Perspectives for European consumer law towards a directive on consumer rights and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Pre-contractual information duties : the forseeable failure of full harmonisation / Luc Grynbaum -- The right of withdrawal / Reiner Schulze -- The provisions on consumer sales / Jules Stuyck -- Core issues of consumer sales law / Thomas Pfeiffer -- Unfair terms in consumer contracts / Luboš Tichý -- Unilateral change of contractual terms / Tomáš Pelikán -- The new directive on consumer protection : objectives from the perspective of the EU and the member states / Lenka Froňková -- Some remarks on the proposal of a directive on consumer rights / Tomáš Břicháček -- The judiciary and consumer protection / Jiří Grygar -- Contracts concluded away from business premises and contracts concluded through distance communication in the light of the Proposal for a Directive on Consumer Rights / Martin Rezek -- The system of consumer law on its way to integration into the system of private law / Jan Hurdik.…”
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Alternative Economic Indicators /

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ABC of health informatics by Sullivan, Frank (Frank M.)

Table of Contents: “…What is health information? -- Is a consultation needed? -- Why is this patient here today? …”
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Observational astronomy techniques and instrumentation / by Sutton, Edmund Charles

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1. Astrophysical information; 2. Photometry; 3. Positional astronomy; 4. …”
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Neuroscience for social work current research and practice /

Table of Contents: “…Merz -- The role of neurobiology in social work practice with youth transitioning from foster care / Wendy Smith -- How neuroscience can inform educational practices for youth involved in the child welfare system / Haley Woodside-Jiron, Jessica Strolin Goltzman, & Jesse Suter -- Using neuroscience to inform social work practices in schools for children with disabilities / Cristina Mogro-Wilson -- Management of violence and aggression in schools / Alexa Smith-Osborne -- Substance abuse / Holly C. …”
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Impedance spectroscopy applications to electrochemical and dielectric phenomena / by Lvovich, Vadim F., 1967-

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Cloud computing theory and practice / by Marinescu, Dan C.

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Manual of commercial methods in clinical microbiology /

Table of Contents: “…Inzana, Xiang-Jin Meng, Tanja Opriessing, and Lora Ballweber -- Microbiology laborry information systems / Raymond D. Aller and Vincent Salazar -- Emerging infectious diseases / Brett Laurence, Julie Collins, Carolyn Fernandes, Rafik Samuel, and Byungse Suh -- Automated and manual systems for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of bacteria / Alan T. …”
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Fuzzy multicriteria decision-making models, methods and applications / by Pedrycz, Witold, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Decision making in system project, planning, operation, and control : motivation, objective, and basic concepts -- Notions and concepts of fuzzy sets : an introduction -- Selected design and processing aspects of fuzzy sets -- Continuous models of multicriteria decision making and their analysis -- Introduction to preference modeling with binary fuzzy relations -- Construction of fuzzy preference relations -- Discrete models of multicriteria decision making and their analysis -- Generalization of a classic approach to dealing with uncertainty of information for multicriteria decision problems -- Group decision-making : fuzzy models -- Use of consensus schemes in group decision making.…”
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Case studies in public health ethics by Coughlin, Steven S. (Steven Scott), 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Case analysis and moral reasoning -- Privacy and confidentiality protection -- Informed consent in public health research -- Randomized controlled trials -- Committee review and the institutional review board system -- Scientific misconduct in public health research -- Conflicting interests and research sponsorship -- Intellectual property and data sharing -- Publication and interpretation of research -- Communication responsibilities of public health professionals -- Public health practice -- Studies of vulnerable populations -- Cross-cultural research -- International health research -- Genetic research and testing -- AIDS prevention and treatment -- Allocation of scarce resources and health care reform.…”
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Adsorption refrigeration technology : theory and application / by Wang, Ruzhu, Wang, Liwei (Professor), Wu, Jingyi, Ph.D

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The Future of Scholarly Publishing : Open Access and the Economics of Digitisation /

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The future of imprisonment

Table of Contents: “…Sentencing reform "reform" through sentencing information systems / Marc L. Miller -- 6. Democracy and the limits of punishment: a preface to prisoners' rights / Franklin E. …”
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A dictionary for the modern clarinetist / by Ellsworth, Jane

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Pastoralism Research, Policy and Practice /

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