Economic action in theory and practice : anthropological investigations

Table of Contents: “…Wood -- Borrowed places: eviction wars and property rights formalization in Kazakhstan / Saulesh Yessenova -- Resolving the problem of inequality in the distribution of wealth in Brazil: approaches derived from the Infante Dom Pedro of Portugal, Adam Smith, Karl Marx and Louis Kelso / Sidney M. …”
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Conversations about History. Volume 1 by Burton, Howard

Table of Contents: “…Past and Future -- X. Righting Wrongs, Slowly -- Continuing the Conversation -- Science and Pseudoscience -- A conversation with Michael Gordin -- Introduction -- I. …”
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Disaster science and management by Bhattacharya, Tushar

Table of Contents: “…Impact of disasters -- Introduction -- Assessment of disaster impacts using modern technologies -- 9. Human rights in disaster management -- Sphere standard -- 10. …”
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Quantitative Corporate Finance by Guerard, John B.

Table of Contents: “…Firm Commitment or Underwriting Basis -- Private Placements -- Secondary Flotations -- Issuing Securities Through Rights -- Stock Tend.-Promotion and public share financing of corporate enterprises -- The problem of control -- The equity of the corporation: common and preferred stock -- Common stock as risk capital -- Rewards of common shareholders -- The value of common shares stock -- Splits and stock dividends -- The cost of common stock financing -- Features of preferred stock -- Cost of preferred stock -- Long-term debt -- Mortgage agreement -- Subordinate mortgages -- Dividend restrictions -- Sinking funds -- Restrictions on creating new debt -- Implicit cost of debt -- The explicit costs of debt -- The interest cost -- Setting the rate on a new issue -- Regression analysis -- Financial management -- Sales forecasting and pro forma statement analysis -- Selecting the capital cost base costing the components of the financial mix -- Summary -- Risk and return of equity and the capital asset pricing model -- Reasons for debt reduction -- Effects of debt reduction -- Managerial discretion and terms of repayment methods for retiring specific issues -- Summary -- Financing current operations -- The option pricing model and equity valuation -- External relationships of the corporation -- Corporation growth and economic growth and stability -- Monetary policy and investment decisions of the firm -- Self-stabilization programs -- Mergers, combinations, acquisitions, and holding companies -- Liquidation, failure, bankruptcy, and reorganization -- Management-stockholder relations -- Appendix -- Index.…”
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Green Transition and the Quality of Work Implications, Linkages and Perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Green Jobs and Social Rights: a Case Study on the Formalization of Waste-pickers in Latin America -- Chapter 9. …”
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In solidarity : academic librarian labour activism and union participation in Canada by Dekker, Jennifer, Kandiuk, Mary, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Jennifer Dekker and Mary Kandiuk -- Part One: The origins of Academic Librarian Labour Organizing in Canada -- Academic status for Canadian academic librarians : a brief history / Leona Jacobs -- Out of the "library ghetto" : an exploration of CAUT's contributions to the achievements of Canadian academic librarians / Jennifer Dekker -- Part Two: Case Histories -- A "honey" of a union deal : gender and status in the labour action of Carleton University librarians, 1973-1975 / Martha Attridge Bufton -- Academic librarianship : the quest for rights and recognition at the University of Toronto / Harriet M. …”


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Challenges and Policy Programmes of China's New Leadership by Cheng, Joseph

Table of Contents: “…Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est la Même Chose: Political Reform in Rural China -- 4. Managing Rights Talk in the "Harmonious Society" -- 5. The State and Labour Insurgency in Post-socialist China: Implication for Development -- 6. …”
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White money/Black power : the surprising history of African American studies and the crisis of race in higher education by Rooks, Noliwe, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…White money/Black power: the Ford Foundation and Black studies -- A story to pass on -- Remembering freedom -- Race, higher education, and the American university -- Rise of the Black student movement -- McGeorge Bundy, the Ford Foundation, and Black studies -- By any means necessary: student protest and the birth of Black studies -- Prelude to strike -- San Francisco State: an unlikely place for a revolution -- The White student protest movement: Port Huron statement -- The strike in black and white -- Cornell University -- Nation building in the belly of the beast -- Race, rebellion, and Black studies -- Structured equality: methodologies of blackness in the early years -- The Ford Foundation and Black studies: the Yale Conference -- McGeorge Bundy and Black power -- Cleveland: background of an election -- Ocean Hill-Brownsville -- Black studies in white and black: the Ford Foundation funds Black studies -- Black studies grant making and the Ford Foundation -- White philanthropy and Black education: an overview -- The first round of grants in Black studies -- Looking back and wondering: surveying the field five years later -- Maybe wrong, but never in doubt -- The legacy in the present -- Travels in time: Black studies, African Americans, and affirmative action -- Ford, Black students, and the post-civil rights era -- Stories from the front lines: African American studies in contemporary America -- Bakke, affirmative action, and higher education, 1970-2003 -- From Black studies to African diaspora studies: a shift in perspective -- Everything and nothing at all: race, Black studies, and higher education today -- Diversity in Black -- Getting there from here: the future of African American studies -- Profiles in diversity in higher education, or, What's race got to do with it?…”
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Selling sex in the city : a global history of prostitution, 1600s-2000s

Table of Contents: “…"We Use our Bodies to Work Hard, So We Need to Get Legitimate Workers' Rights": Labour Relations in Prostitution, 1600-2010 -- Working and Living Conditions -- Migration and Prostitution -- Prostitution and Colonial Relations -- Seeing Beyond Prostitution: Agency and the Organization of Sex Work -- Coercion and Voluntarism in Sex Work -- A Gender Analysis of Global Sex Work -- The Social Profiles of Prostitutes.…”
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Crafting HTML Email by Parmentier, Remi

Table of Contents: “…Crafting HTML Email: Beautiful Emails That Work Everywhere -- Notice of Rights -- Notice of Liability -- Trademark Notice -- About SitePoint -- About the Author -- Preface -- Who Should Read This Book? …”
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Boris Yeltsin legacy of change

Table of Contents: “…Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and the Soviet Coup of 1991 (6:47) -- Boris Yeltsin's Early Political Career (4:41) -- Yeltsin's Power Increases (3:54) -- Yeltsin Disrupts Communist Party Unity (2:48) -- Mikhail Gorbachev Takes Revenge on Boris Yeltsin (3:27) -- Yeltsin Pushes Political Reforms in Russia (2:23) -- Yeltsin Calls for Russian Renewal and Leaves the Communist Party (2:13) -- Gorbachev Tightens Control of Soviet Republics (1:51) -- Soviets Suppress Lithuanian Nationalism (2:15) -- Yeltsin Condemns Soviet Action in Lithuania (1:33) -- Party Hard-liner's Question Gorbachev's Leadership (2:22) -- Soviet Coup Conspirators Confront Gorbachev (1:54) -- Conflicting Accounts of the Soviet Coup of 1991 (3:00) -- Boris Yeltsin Leads Resistance to 1991 Soviet Coup (2:58) -- Coup Leaders Consider an Assault on Yeltsin's Russian Resistance (2:03) -- Yeltsin Dismantles the Soviet Union (1:40) -- Economic Trouble in the New Russia (2:50) -- Resistance to Reform in the New Russia (1:56) -- Russian Political Resistance to Boris Yeltsin (3:08) -- Bitterness Divides Newly Democratic Russia (4:00) -- The Threat of Civil War in Yeltsin's Democratic Russia (6:08) -- Russia's Human Rights Disaster in Chechnya (4:05) -- Communism Regains Popularity in Democratic Russia (4:00) -- Boris Yeltsin Rises Against Communist Opposition (2:17) -- Yeltsin's Health Fails as Russian Corruption Rises (3:09) -- Russia's Economic Crash Tarnishes Yeltsin's Legacy (5:41)…”
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The labyrinth of universality : Wilson Harris's visionary art of fiction by Maes-Jelinek, Hena

Table of Contents: “…"Tricksters of Heaven": Visions of Holocaust in Jonestown and Fred D'Aguiar's Bill of Rights; 23. The Dark Jester: "Unimaginable Imaginer"; 24. …”
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Contesting transformation : popular resistance in twenty-first-century South Africa

Table of Contents: “…Exploring the Dynamics between Legal Organisations and Social Movements Engaged in Rights-Based Struggles in South Africa -- Kate Tissington; 12. …”
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Reinventing race, reinventing racism

Table of Contents: “…News Frames of Latina/o Immigration and Immigration Rights (1997-2007); 11. Muslims in the Global City: Racism, Islamophobia, and Multiracial Organizing in Chicago; 12. …”
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A globally integrated climate policy for Canada

Table of Contents: “…-- 9 Global Carbon Trading and Climate Change Mitigation in Canada: Options for the Use of the Kyoto Mechanisms -- PART FOUR: DOMESTIC POLICY TOOLS â€? THE RIGHT MIX -- 10 Renewable Energy under the Kyoto Protocol: The Case for Mixing Instruments…”
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Mobilizing the community : local politics in the era of the global city

Table of Contents: “…Marston and George Towers -- Building multiracial alliances: The case of people united for a better Oakland / Gary Delgado -- Keep on keeping on: Organizing for welfare rights in Massachusetts / Betty Reid Mandell and Ann Withorn -- The career of urban social movements in West Germany / Margit Mayer -- The silent valley (Kerala, India) dam abandonment: A case of successful community mobilization / Mathew Zachariah.…”


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Unforgotten : 25 Years After Willowbrook

Table of Contents: “…Willowbrook State School (4:21) -- Visiting Willowbrook (4:49) -- Life at Willowbrook (2:00) -- Neglect at Willowbrook (3:13) -- Willowbrook Interview (4:01) -- Institutionalized after Misdiagnosis (2:29) -- Childhood Fears about Willowbrook (3:23) -- Time Lost at Willowbrook (3:11) -- Embarrassment and Guilt (2:30) -- Family Involvement in Care (4:01) -- Jealousy, Guilt, and Perspective (5:36) -- After Willowbrook (3:05) -- Career After Willowbrook (1:25) -- Rights for All (2:17) -- Integration of Developmentally Disabled (3:16) -- Indignities of Institutionalization (2:39) -- Willowbrook Survivor Updates (2:10) -- Credits: Unforgotten: 25 Years After Willowbrook (3:16) -- Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace (3:50) -- Budget Cuts for Mental Hygiene (3:57) -- Letchworth Village Rehabilitation Center (3:00) -- Depositories for the Retarded (3:31) -- Children's Hospital in Los Angeles (4:28) -- New Horizon Workshop (2:26) -- Improving Quality of Life (2:52) -- Call for Change (2:00) -- Credits: Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace (1:09) -- Willowbrook: Ten Years Later (2:26) -- Cosmetic Cover Up at Willowbrook (3:18) -- Cosmetic Cover Up at Letchworth Village (2:26) -- Results of News Media Exposure (2:27) -- Critical Problems at State School (2:09) -- The Bronx Developmental Center (4:04) -- Community Life for Mentally Disabled (3:08) -- Nursing Home Conditions (2:06) -- Shortage of Good Community Homes (3:28)…”
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Handbook of Children with Special Health Care Needs by Hollar, David W., Jr

Table of Contents: “…Rethinking Deaf Learners Education – A Human Rights Issue -- 7. Childhood eye disorders and visual impairment -- 8. …”
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The burden of race : a documentary history of Negro-white relations in America by Osofsky, Gilbert, 1935-1974

Table of Contents: “…. -- 4. F.D.R. and Civil Rights. -- 5. The war years. -- Section 9. The postwar years: the spirit says do -- 1. …”


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The Quest for Japan's New Constitution : an Analysis of Visions and Constitutional Reform Proposals 1980-2009. by Winkler, Christian G.

Table of Contents: “…4.2 Maintaining the postwar Tennō system between genuine and invented traditions4.3 Article 9: towards a more proactive national security policy; 4.4 Rights and duties: towards a dignified nation?; 4.5 Macro-level analysis: the reflection of a conservative vision; 4.6 A link to the past: a comparison to the Constitutional reform debate prior to 1980; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index…”
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