American labor and the Cold War : grassroots politics and postwar political culture

Table of Contents: “…Labor and the Cold War: the legacy of McCarthyism / Ellen Schrecker -- Uncivil war: an oral history of labor, communism, and community in Schenectady, New York, 1944-1954 / Gerald Zahavi -- Mixed melody: anticommunism and the United Packinghouse Workers in California agriculture, 1954-1961 / Don Watson -- The United Packinghouse Workers of America, civil rights, and the Communist Party in Chicago / Randi Storch -- 'An anarchist with a program': east coast shipyard workers, the labor left, and the origins of Cold War unionism / David Palmer -- The battle for Standard Coil: the United Electrical Workers, the Community Service Organization, and the Catholic church in Latino East Los Angeles / Kenneth C. …”
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The Politics of Adoption International Perspectives on Law, Policy and Practice by O'Halloran, Kerry

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One Adoption, Society and the Law: the Common Law Context -- Chap 1 Adoption: Concept, Principles and Social Construct -- Chap 2 The Changing Face of Adoption -- Part Two Developing International Benchmarks for Modern Adoption Law -- Chap 3 The Legal Functions of Adoption -- Chap 4 Adoption and the European Court of Human Rights -- Chap 5 Inter country Adoption and The Hague Convention -- Part Three Contemporary Law, Policy and Practice in a Common Law Context -- Chap 6 England and Wales -- Chap 7 Ireland -- Chap 8 The US -- Chap 9 Canada -- Chap 10 Australia -- Chap 11 New Zealand -- Part Four Contemporary Law, Policy and Practice in a European Civil Law Context -- Chap 12 Sweden -- Chap 13 France -- Chap 14 Germany -- Part Five Contemporary Law, Policy and Practice in Asia -- Chap 15 The Adoption Process in an Islamic Context -- Chap 16 Japan -- Chap 17 China -- Part Six Contemporary Law, Policy and Practice in an Indigenous Peoples Context -- Chap 18 Intra culture Adoption -- Part Seven The Influence of Politics -- Chap 19 Politics and a Regulatory Regime for Adoption -- Chap 20 Politics and the Contemporary Social Role of Adoption -- Conclusion -- Index.…”
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Employment, race, and poverty

Table of Contents: “…Clark -- Culture, class, and family life among low-income urban Negroes / Hylan Lewis -- Civil rights strategies for Negro employment / August Meier -- Riots, ghettos, and the "Negro revolt" / William F. …”


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The screenwriter activist : writing social issue movies by Beker, Marilyn

Table of Contents: “…Character: -- Issue map/biography of main character -- Angela-a native american rights activist -- 5. On the shoulders of giants: -- Labor practices: Norma Rae -- Gay and discrimination issues: Philadelphia -- Censorship: Good Morning Vietnam -- Euthanasia: Million Dollar Baby -- Abortion: Vera Drake -- 6. …”


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Bering Guides : Business Travel in Taiwan.

Table of Contents: “…Business CardsInterpreters -- Mobile Phones and Calling Plans -- Hotel Reservations -- Getting Around -- Transportation -- Airport to Hotel -- Taxis -- Rental Cars -- Buses -- Metro -- Trains -- Planes -- Communication -- Security Issues -- Telephone -- E-mail/Fax -- Mail -- Keeping Safe and Well -- Summary of Risk -- Medical Treatment -- Food, Drink, and Cigarettes -- Natural Disasters -- Terrorism -- Violent Crime -- Theft -- Legal Rights and Obligations -- Making a Good Impression -- Saving Face -- Guanxi…”
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Sex scene : media and the sexual revolution

Table of Contents: “…: Hollywood cinema and the end of the production code / Christie Milliken -- Make love, not war : Jane Fonda comes home (1968-1978) / Linda Williams -- The new sexual culture of American television in the 1970s / Elana Levine -- Prurient (dis)interest : The American release and reception of I am curious (yellow) / Kevin Heffernan -- Wet dreams : erotic film festivals of the early 1970s and the utopian sexual public sphere / Elena Gorfinkel -- Let the sweet juices flow : WR and midnight movie culture / Joan Hawkins -- 33 1/3 sexual revolutions per minute / Jacob Smith -- "I'll take Sweden" : the shifting discourse of the "sexy nation" in sexploitation films / Eric Schaefer -- Altered sex : Satan, acid, and the erotic threshold / Jeffrey Sconce -- The "sexarama" : or sex education as an environmental multimedia experience / Eithne Johnson -- San Francisco and the politics of hardcore / Joseph Lam Duong -- Beefcake to hardcore : gay pornography and the sexual revolution / Jeffrey Escoffier -- Publicizing sex through consumer and privacy rights : how the American Civil Liberties Union liberated media in the 1960s / Leigh Ann Wheeler -- Critics and the sex scene / Raymond J. …”
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Metabolomics, Proteomics and Gene Editing Approaches in Biofertilizer Industry Volume II

Table of Contents: “…Intellectual Property Rights in Biofertilizer Industry.…”
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Fish, law, and colonialism : the legal capture of salmon in British Columbia by Harris, Douglas C. (Douglas Colebrook)

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Legal Capture -- Native Fisheries -- The Common Law of Fisheries -- Treaty Rights -- The Fisheries Act, 1877 -- Salmon Fisheries Regulations, 1878 -- Master and Servant Law in the Fisheries, 1877 -- Increasing Surveillance, 1878-1887 -- Native Fisheries Law -- Fishery Regulations, 1888 -- Fishery Regulations, 1894 -- Conclusion -- 2 Fish Weirs and Legal Cultures on Babine Lake, 1904-1907 -- Babine Lake and Its People -- A Permanent White Presence -- Departments of the Dominion -- Barricade Conflict, 1904 -- Old Cannery Nets, 1905 -- Barricade Conflict, 1906 -- Surrender and Trial -- Ottawa Meetings -- Implementing the Agreement -- Conclusion -- 3 The Law Runs Through It: Weirs, Logs, Nets, and Fly Fishing on the Cowichan River, 1877-1937 -- The Cowichan River and Its People -- Land, Logs, Weirs, and a Settler Society -- Protests, Prosecutions, and the Sport Fishery -- Cannery Boats and Tourism -- Royal Commissions -- Reverse Onus, Prosecutions, Nets, and Weirs -- Conclusion -- 4 Law and Colonialism -- Law and Colonialism, and British Columbia -- Anglo-Canadian Law and the British Columbia Fishery -- Native Law -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.…”
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The law and child development

Table of Contents: “…Conceptualizing children's identity rights in transracial adoptions / Barbara Bennett Woodhouse -- Re O and N ; re B -- uncertain evidence and risk-taking in child protection cases / Mary Hayes -- Lessons from America? …”


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Global health care : issues and policies

Table of Contents: “…Human trafficking: the pandemic of modern slavery -- Social determinants of health -- Health and health care of Native Americans (American Indians/Alaskan Natives/Alaskan Indians) in the United States -- Global perspectives on mental health -- Global major neurological issues -- Global perspectives on selected chronic cardiovascular diseases -- Infectious diseases from a global perspective -- HIV/AIDS, stigma, and disclosure: a need for a human rights perspective -- Global use of complementary and integrative health approaches -- Global perspectives on diabetes, respiratory diseases, and orthopedic chronic diseases -- Global perspectives on violence, injury, and occupational health -- Global perspectives on nutrition -- Global perspectives on environmental health -- International social work practice in health care -- Section III. …”
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Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought : Transpositions of Empire. by Dorsett, Shaunnagh

Table of Contents: “…Part IV: The Crown in Colonial New Zealand11 Sovereignty as Governance in the Early New Zealand Crown Colony Period; 12 Imperial Policy, Colonial Government, and Indigenous Testimony in South Australia and New Zealand in the 1840s; 13 Law and Politics in the Constitutional Delineation of Indigenous Property Rights in 1840s New Zealand; Index.…”
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Engaging contradictions : theory, politics, and methods of activist scholarship

Table of Contents: “…Costa Vargas -- Making violence visible : an activist anthropological approach to women's rights investigation / Samuel Martínez -- Forged in dialogue : toward a critically engaged activist research / Shannon Speed -- Community-centered research as knowledge/capacity building in immigrant and refugee communities / Shirley Suet-ling Tang -- Theorizing and practicing democratic community economics : engaged scholarship, economic justice, and the academy / Jessica Gordon Nembhard -- Crouching activists, hidden scholars : reflections on research and development with students and communities in Asian American studies / Peter Nien-chu Kiang -- Theoretical research, applied research, and action research : the deinstitutionalization of activist research / Davydd J. …”
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Process Mining in Action Principles, Use Cases and Outlook

Table of Contents: “…Part I Principles and Value of Process Mining -- 1 Process Mining in a Nutshell -- 2 How to get Started -- 3 Purpose: Identifying the right Use Cases -- 4 People: The Human Factor -- 5 Processtraces: Technology -- 6 Challenges, Pitfalls and Failures -- 7 Process Mining, RPA, BPM and DTO -- 8 Key Learnings -- Part II Best Practice Use Cases -- 9 Siemens: Driving global change with the Digital Fit Rate in Order2Cash -- 10 Uber: Process Mining to optimize Customer experience and Business performance -- 11 BMW: Process Mining @ Production -- 12 Siemens: Process Mining for operational efficiency in Purchase2Pay -- 13 athenahealth: Process Mining for Service Integrity in Healthcare -- 14 EDP Comercial: Sales and Service Digitization -- 15 ABB: From Mining Processes towards Driving Processes -- 16 Bosch: Process Mining – a Corporate Consulting Perspective -- 17 Schukat: Process Mining enables Schukat electronic to reinvent itself -- 18 Siemens Healthineers: Process Mining as Innovation Driver in Product Management -- 19 Bayer: Process Mining supports Digital Transformation in Internal Audit -- 20 Telekom: Process Mining in Shared Services -- Part III Outlook: Future of Process Mining -- 21 Academic View: Development of the Process Mining Discipline -- 22 Business View: Towards a Digital Enabled Organization.…”
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Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia : the limits of political ambition?

Table of Contents: “…: childcare policies and gender equality visions in Scandinavia / Anette Borchorst -- The claim of economic citizenship : the concept of equality in a historical context / Christina Carlsson Wetterberg and Kari Melby -- Married women's right to pay taxes : debates on gender, economic citizenship, and tax law reform in Denmark, 1945-83 / Anna-Birte Ravn -- Family policy between science and politics / Åsa Lundqvist -- Academic discourse, social policy, and the construction of new families / Christine Roman -- The 'new father' : gender equality as discursive resource for family policies / Trine Annfelt -- From powerful to powerless fathers : gender equality in Danish family policies on parenthood / Charlotte Andersen and Anna-Birte Ravn -- Dilemmas on citizenship : tensions between gender equality and cultural diversity in the Danish welfare state / Birte Siim -- Women friendly? …”
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The Black presence in the era of the American Revolution, 1770-1800. by Kaplan, Sidney, 1913-1993

Table of Contents: “…Eleven against the Odds : Lucy Terry Prince: Vermont Advocate and Poet ; Alice: Pioneer of Philadelphia ; Belinda of Boston: "marked with the Furrows of Time" ; Elizabeth Freeman and the Bill of Rights ; Yarrow Mamout: Maryland Muslim ; Venture Smith: Colonial John Henry ; Moses Sash: "A Captain & one of Shaisies Councill" ; Amos and Violate Fortune: First Citizens of New Hampshire ; John Jack and Casey the Runaway: Two Concord slaves -- VI. …”


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China Does Capitalism Better Than America : A Debate

Table of Contents: “…Red Capitalism Debate (3:18) -- Debate "Housekeeping" (6:52) -- For the Motion: Peter Schiff (8:10) -- Against the Motion: Ian Bremmer (7:28) -- For the Motion: Orville Schell (7:49) -- Against the Motion: Minxin Pei (7:30) -- China's Projected Growth (6:17) -- China's Social Security Debate (5:26) -- Capitalism and National Debt (5:34) -- China's International Image (2:10) -- QA: Chinese Labor and Growth (4:20) -- QA: Government and Economy (1:35) -- QA: Capitalism and Human Rights (4:32) -- QA: Modern American Capitalism (3:12) -- QA: One Child Policy and Capitalism (1:56) -- QA: Defining Capitalism (3:19) -- QA: Innovation in China (2:11) -- QA: China's Economic Prognosis (3:08) -- QA: U.S. …”
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C Day-Lewis : a Life. by Stanford, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Prologue; PART ONE: YOUTH; Chapter 1 Never of a Land Rightfully Ours; 2 A Hostile Land to Spy; 3 A Land of Milk and Honey; 4 Black Frost of my Youth; 5 Rip Van Winkle Forest; 6 The Sunless Stream; 7 Eldorados Close to Hand; PART TWO: THE THIRTIES; Chapter 8 The Tow-Haired Poet; 9 Lust to Love; 10 Farewell Adolescent Moon; 11 Radiance from Ashes Arises; 12 Make Your Choice; 13 Terra Incognita; 14 On a Tilting Deck; 15 Dreams Dared Imagine; 16 No Man's Land; 17 Earth Shakes Beneath Us; PART THREE: AT WAR.…”
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Beneath the American Renaissance : the Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville. by Reynolds, David S.

Table of Contents: “…Whitman's Transfigured Sensationalism; PART THREE: OTHER AMAZONS: Women's Rights, Women's Wrongs, and the Literary Imagination; 12. …”
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Transcultural bodies female genital cutting in global context

Table of Contents: “…Transcultural positions : negotiating rights and culture / Ylva Hernlund and Bettina Shell-Duncan -- Gender crusades : the female circumcision controversy in cultural perspective / Janice Boddy -- A refuge from tradition and the refuge of tradition : on anti-circumcision paradigms / L. …”
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Radical dreams : surrealism, counterculture, resistance

Table of Contents: “…Passionate attraction : Fourier, feminism, free love, and L'Écart absolu / Claire Howard -- "To be a painter means to oppose" : exhibiting and politicizing Robert Rauschenberg, 1959-1965 / Gavin Parkinson -- A consciousness of being : Burn, baby burn and the political art of Roberto Matta / Alyce Mahon -- Part 3: The right to insubordination. The fantasy of a powerful myth : the situationist international after surrealism / Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen -- Afrosurrealism as a counterculture of modernity / Jonathan P. …”
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