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The African-Caribbean worldview and the making of Caribbean society /

Table of Contents: “…Peter Figueroa -- The third crisis: Jamaica in the Neoliberal era / Don Robotham -- An autobiographical note / Barry Chevannes.…”
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The unfinished war Korea / by Lee, Bong

Table of Contents: “…Thus it began: Korea, the hermit kingdom ; Korean nationalists -- The Lee family under Japanese occupation: out of the frying pan, into the fire, World War II --The Russians are coming: Kim Il Sung makes an entrance -- Americans in South Korea -- North Koreans discover communism -- Chaos in South Korea: MacArthur in Japan -- Prelude to a hot war -- On a rainy Sunday across the 38th parallel: reactions of Washington -- The ROK army on the brink of disintegration: MacArthur in Suwon ; Tactical errors all around -- An ugly war -- The first hundred days -- Mao's thought in Beijing -- The Inchon landing and its aftermath -- Chinese traps -- A brand new ball game --Refugee stories: the plight of refugees and massacres of innocent civilians -- An old soldier just fades away, a new one steps in -- The way we survived the war -- A talking war -- The tortuous path to armistice agreement -- South Korea after the ceasefire: two schoolgirls -- North Korea now -- Old war, new crisis: the nuclear weapons developement program ; the sunshine policy ; military provocations ; what next.…”
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Civil rights in New York City from World War II to the Giuliani era /

Table of Contents: “…To be a good American : the New York City Teachers Union and race during the Second World War / Clarence Taylor -- Cops, schools, and communism : local politics and global ideologies--New York City in the 1950's / Barbara Ransby -- "Taxation without sanitation is tyranny" : civil rights struggles over garbage collection in Brooklyn, New York, during the fall of 1962 / Brian Purnell -- Rochdale Village and the rise and fall of integrated housing in New York City / Peter Eisenstadt -- Conservative and liberal opposition to the New York City school-integration campaign / Clarence Taylor -- The dead end of despair : Bayard Rustin, the 1968 New York school crisis, and the struggle for racial justice / Daniel Perlstein -- The young lords and the social and structural roots Of late sixties urban radicalism / Johanna Fernandez -- "Brooklyn College belongs to us" : Black students and the transformation of public higher education in New York City / Martha Biondi -- Racial events, diplomacy, and Dinkins's image / Wilbur C. …”
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Where am I wearing? a global tour to the countries, factories, and people that make our clothes / by Timmerman, Kelsey, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: We have it made -- A consumer goes global -- Tattoo's tropical paradise -- Fake blood, sweat, and tears : anti-sweatshop protestors -- Jingle these -- Undercover in the underwear biz -- Bangladesh amusement park -- Inside my first sweatshop -- Child labor in action -- Arifa, the garment worker -- Hope -- No black and white, only green -- (Update for revised edition) Hungry for choices -- Labor day -- Year zero -- Those who wear Levi's -- Those who make Levi's -- Blue jean machine -- Progress -- Treasure and trash -- (Update for revised edition) The faces of crisis -- PO'ed VP -- Life at the bottom -- Growing pains -- The real China -- On a budget -- An all-American Chinese Walmart -- The Chinese fantasy -- (Update for revised edition) Migration -- For richer, for poorer -- (Update for revised edition) Restarting, again -- Return to fantasy island -- Amilcar's journey -- An American dream -- Touron goes glocal -- Appendix A: Discussion questions -- Appendix B: Note to freshman me -- Appendix C: Where are you teaching? …”
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Department of Homeland Security Intelligence Enterprise overview and issues /

Table of Contents: “…McNamara, Assistant Commanding Officer, Counter Terrorism and Criminal Intelligence Bureau, Los Angeles Police Department -- Testimony of Douglas C. …”
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Cabinets of experimental philosophy in eighteenth-century Europe

Table of Contents: “…Zuidervaart -- Entrepreneurs in Experiments : The Leiden Cabinet of Physics and the Motives of its Founders (1675-1742) / Hans Hooijmaijers and Ad Maas -- New Light on the Cabinet of Physics of Padua / Sofia Talas -- The Lost Cabinet of Experimental Philosophy of the University of Oxford / Jim Bennett -- Failure, Fraud and Instrument Cabinets : Academic Involvement in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Water Crisis / Tiemen Cocquyt -- The Cabinet of Physics at Riddarhuset in Stockholm in the Eighteenth Century / Inga Elmqvist Söderlund -- Designing the House of Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Naples : The Ephemeral Museum of Ferdinando Spinelli, Prince of Tarsia / Paola Bertucci -- Between Teaching and Collecting : The Lost Cabinet of Physics of Princes José and João of Portugal (1777-1808) / Marta C. …”
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The African-Caribbean worldview and the making of Caribbean society /

Table of Contents: “…Peter Figueroa -- The third crisis: Jamaica in the Neoliberal era / Don Robotham -- An autobiographical note / Barry Chevannes.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The unfinished war Korea / by Lee, Bong

Table of Contents: “…Thus it began: Korea, the hermit kingdom ; Korean nationalists -- The Lee family under Japanese occupation: out of the frying pan, into the fire, World War II --The Russians are coming: Kim Il Sung makes an entrance -- Americans in South Korea -- North Koreans discover communism -- Chaos in South Korea: MacArthur in Japan -- Prelude to a hot war -- On a rainy Sunday across the 38th parallel: reactions of Washington -- The ROK army on the brink of disintegration: MacArthur in Suwon ; Tactical errors all around -- An ugly war -- The first hundred days -- Mao's thought in Beijing -- The Inchon landing and its aftermath -- Chinese traps -- A brand new ball game --Refugee stories: the plight of refugees and massacres of innocent civilians -- An old soldier just fades away, a new one steps in -- The way we survived the war -- A talking war -- The tortuous path to armistice agreement -- South Korea after the ceasefire: two schoolgirls -- North Korea now -- Old war, new crisis: the nuclear weapons developement program ; the sunshine policy ; military provocations ; what next.…”
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Civil rights in New York City from World War II to the Giuliani era /

Table of Contents: “…To be a good American : the New York City Teachers Union and race during the Second World War / Clarence Taylor -- Cops, schools, and communism : local politics and global ideologies--New York City in the 1950's / Barbara Ransby -- "Taxation without sanitation is tyranny" : civil rights struggles over garbage collection in Brooklyn, New York, during the fall of 1962 / Brian Purnell -- Rochdale Village and the rise and fall of integrated housing in New York City / Peter Eisenstadt -- Conservative and liberal opposition to the New York City school-integration campaign / Clarence Taylor -- The dead end of despair : Bayard Rustin, the 1968 New York school crisis, and the struggle for racial justice / Daniel Perlstein -- The young lords and the social and structural roots Of late sixties urban radicalism / Johanna Fernandez -- "Brooklyn College belongs to us" : Black students and the transformation of public higher education in New York City / Martha Biondi -- Racial events, diplomacy, and Dinkins's image / Wilbur C. …”
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Where am I wearing? a global tour to the countries, factories, and people that make our clothes / by Timmerman, Kelsey, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: We have it made -- A consumer goes global -- Tattoo's tropical paradise -- Fake blood, sweat, and tears : anti-sweatshop protestors -- Jingle these -- Undercover in the underwear biz -- Bangladesh amusement park -- Inside my first sweatshop -- Child labor in action -- Arifa, the garment worker -- Hope -- No black and white, only green -- (Update for revised edition) Hungry for choices -- Labor day -- Year zero -- Those who wear Levi's -- Those who make Levi's -- Blue jean machine -- Progress -- Treasure and trash -- (Update for revised edition) The faces of crisis -- PO'ed VP -- Life at the bottom -- Growing pains -- The real China -- On a budget -- An all-American Chinese Walmart -- The Chinese fantasy -- (Update for revised edition) Migration -- For richer, for poorer -- (Update for revised edition) Restarting, again -- Return to fantasy island -- Amilcar's journey -- An American dream -- Touron goes glocal -- Appendix A: Discussion questions -- Appendix B: Note to freshman me -- Appendix C: Where are you teaching? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Department of Homeland Security Intelligence Enterprise overview and issues /

Table of Contents: “…McNamara, Assistant Commanding Officer, Counter Terrorism and Criminal Intelligence Bureau, Los Angeles Police Department -- Testimony of Douglas C. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Cabinets of experimental philosophy in eighteenth-century Europe

Table of Contents: “…Zuidervaart -- Entrepreneurs in Experiments : The Leiden Cabinet of Physics and the Motives of its Founders (1675-1742) / Hans Hooijmaijers and Ad Maas -- New Light on the Cabinet of Physics of Padua / Sofia Talas -- The Lost Cabinet of Experimental Philosophy of the University of Oxford / Jim Bennett -- Failure, Fraud and Instrument Cabinets : Academic Involvement in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Water Crisis / Tiemen Cocquyt -- The Cabinet of Physics at Riddarhuset in Stockholm in the Eighteenth Century / Inga Elmqvist Söderlund -- Designing the House of Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Naples : The Ephemeral Museum of Ferdinando Spinelli, Prince of Tarsia / Paola Bertucci -- Between Teaching and Collecting : The Lost Cabinet of Physics of Princes José and João of Portugal (1777-1808) / Marta C. …”
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Complications and Quandaries in the ICT Sector Standard Essential Patents and Competition Issues /

Table of Contents: “…Technology Standards and Competition in the Mobile Industry by Kirti Gupta -- Chapter 3. Standard Setting Organizations and Competition Laws: Lessons and Suggestions from the United States by Donald E. …”
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Comparative welfare state politics : development, opportunities, and reform / by Kersbergen, Kees van, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…The welfare state: dynamic development, crisis, resilience, and change; 2. The logics of the welfare state: why did we need a welfare state in the first place and how did we get it?…”

Investigate everything federal efforts to compel Black loyalty during World War I / by Kornweibel, Theodore

Table of Contents: “…"Every word is loaded with sedition": The Crisis and the NAACP -- under Suspicion 132 -- 6. …”
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Boys and their toys understanding men by understanding their relationship with gadgets / by Adler, Bill, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- How to pick (or adapt to) your man based on what kind of toy he wants -- Toys lure in women, just like good worms lure in fish -- Toys prevent boredom and thus prevent insanity (on the part of everyone that bored guys come into contact with) -- Men need to be spontaneous, and toys offer a safe way to maintain their youthful spontaneity -- Gadgets prevent infidelity -- Men hate ambiguity -- Protector toys: how guys expose their nurturing side through technology, even if they don't know it -- Toys help relieve stress in men - they really do -- The whole midlife crisis thing and gadgets -- Girls and their curls: women like stuff, too, and what this means for men -- The dark side: men use gadgets to fend off meaningful conversations and emotional entanglements -- For some men, gadgets are a substitute for watching sports 24/7: there really is no such thing as a non-gadget guy (and you should be so lucky to be married to this kind of man) -- The meaning of BlackBerry -- The Wile E. …”
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A declaration of energy independence how freedom from foreign oil can improve national security, our economy, and the environment / by Hakes, Jay E.

Table of Contents: “…America's plunge into reliance on foreign oil -- A forgotten victory gives hope : how America solved its last energy crisis and cut oil imports in half -- Lapsing back into oil addiction : retreating from battle under presidents Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush -- Blood and treasure : the heavy cost of dependence on Middle East oil -- Fossil fuels and global warming : a dangerous experiment with the planet -- The magic and limits of market-based solutions -- Seeing through the ideological blinders (of the right and the left) -- Pt. 2. …”
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Discourse in ritual studies

Table of Contents: “…Houwer -- Liturgical action from a language perspective : about performance and performatives in liturgy / Aad de Jong -- Ritual, performance, and the sequestering of sacred space / Ronald L. Grimes -- Matrimony : values and ritual : an empirical study of the relation between matrimonial values and notions about the form of ecclesiastic marriage rites / Remco Robinson and Hans Schilderman -- Roman Catholic funeral liturgy and human finitude: empirical explorations of life, death and afterlife in connection with liturgical memory / Thomas Quartier & Chris A.M. …”
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Complications and Quandaries in the ICT Sector Standard Essential Patents and Competition Issues /

Table of Contents: “…Technology Standards and Competition in the Mobile Industry by Kirti Gupta -- Chapter 3. Standard Setting Organizations and Competition Laws: Lessons and Suggestions from the United States by Donald E. …”
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A history of East European Jews by Haumann, Heiko, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…ATTEMPTED ANNIHILATION AND NEW HOPE -- The Jews in the Russian Revolution and in the Soviet Union -- East European Jewish Nationality and New Waves of Anti- -- Semitism: The Jews in Poland between the Two World Wars -- A Precarious Situation in Individual East European -- Countries -- The Attempted Extermination of the Jews -- The Jews in Postwar Poland: New Suffering and New Hope -- AFTERWORD: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MEMORY -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Bibliographies, Lexicons, and other Aids, Periodicals -- General Overviews and Comprehensive Works -- Bibliography to Part I: Poland as a Place of Refuge for Jews -- Bibliography to Part II: The East European Jewry as a 'New -- Cultural Pattern of Life' in Eastern Europe -- Bibliography to Part III: The Crisis of the Jews in Eastern -- Europe a New Identity -- Bibliography to Part IV: Attempted Annihilation and New Hope.…”
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