African American urban history since World War II

Table of Contents: “…., since 1945 / Brett Williams -- "The house I live in": race, class, and African American suburban dreams in the postwar United States / Andrew Wiese -- Harvesting the crisis: the Newark uprising, the Kerner Commission, and writings on riots / Kevin Mumford -- Affirmative action from below: civil rights, the building trades, and the politics of racial equality in the urban north, 1945-1969 / Thomas J. …”


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American historical documents 1000-1904 : with introductions, notes and illustrations.

Table of Contents: “…The voyages to Vinland (c. 1000) -- The letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant Angel announcing his discovery (1493) -- Amerigo Vespucci's account of his first voyage (1497) -- John Cabot's discovery of North America (1497) -- First charter of Virginia (1606) -- The Mayflower Compact (1620) -- The fundamental orders of Connecticut (1639) -- The Massachusetts body of liberties (1641) -- Arbitrary government described and the government of the Massachusetts vindicated from that aspersion (1644) / John Winthrop -- The instrument of government (1653) -- A healing question (1656) / Sir Henry Vane -- John Eliot's brief narrative (1670) -- Declaration of Rights (1765) -- The Declaration of Independence (1776) -- The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence (1775) -- Articles of Confederation (1777) -- Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown (1781) -- Treaty with Great Britain (1783) -- Constitution of the United States (1787) -- The Federalist, nos. 1 and 2 (1787) -- Opinion of Chief Justice Marshall, in the case of McCulloch vs. the state of Maryland (1819) -- Washington's first inaugural address (1789) -- Treaty with the six nations (1794) -- Washington's farewell address (1796) -- Treaty with France (Louisiana Purchase) (1803) -- Treaty with Great Britain (end of War of 1812) (1814) -- Arrangement as to the naval force to be respectively maintained on the American lakes (1817) -- Treaty with Spain (acquisition of Florida) (1819) -- The Monroe Doctrine (1823) -- Webster-Ashburton Treaty with Great Britain (1842) -- Treaty with Mexico (1848) -- Fugitive Slave Act (1850) -- Lincoln's first inaugural address (1861) -- Emancipation Proclamation (1863) -- Haskell's account of the battle of Gettysburg -- Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1863) -- Proclamation of Amnesty (1863) -- Lincoln's letter to Mrs. …”


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The Ache Indians of Paraguay

Table of Contents: “…Indians (1:02) -- High-Level Protest Against Logging (1:34) -- Government Listens to Indians (1:01) -- International Exposure of Ache Plight (1:55) -- Protesters in Danger (1:00) -- Government Collusion in Rain Forest Destruction (1:13) -- Violent Confrontation Over Land Rights (1:32) -- Roving Tribes Want Ache Land (1:24) -- Ache Indians Get a Tractor (0:21) -- What Is the Future for the Ache? …”
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Corporate Finance and Capital Structure : A Theoretical Introduction. by Asai, Kentaro

Table of Contents: “…4.3 Risky debt can aggravate agency problem -- 4.4 Debt overhang and risk shifting -- 4.5 Discussion -- 5 Security design -- 5.1 Overview -- 5.2 Optimal risk-sharing with moral hazard -- 5.3 Financial contract under limited liability -- 5.4 Financial contract under costly state verification -- 5.5 Optimal allocation of control rights -- 5.6 Discussion -- 6 Asymmetric information -- 6.1 Overview -- 6.2 Underpricing in an initial public offering -- 6.3 Signaling through retained ownership -- 6.4 Signaling through debt -- 6.5 Pecking-order versus trade-off theory -- 6.6 Discussion…”
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Elusive Justice

Table of Contents: “…(3:07) -- What Did America Stand For? - Human Rights? (3:06) -- What Did America Stand For? - Holtzman Amendment (4:34) -- What Did America Stand For? …”
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The patient's guide to medical tests

Table of Contents: “…Ch. 1. Patients' Rights and Informed Consent / Angela R. Holder -- Ch. 2. …”
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Talking visions : multicultural feminism in transnational age

Table of Contents: “…Gunning -- Reclaiming a human rights culture : feminism of difference and alliance / Mallika Dutt -- (Re)visiónes : a dialogue through the eyes of AIDS, activism and empowerment / Marina Alvarez and Ginetta Candelario -- WACtales : a downtown adventure / Janet Henry -- When Florida isn't an option : testimonio on growing older in El barrio / Petra Allende as told to Rocio Aranda-Alvarado -- Imperial desire/sexual utopias : white gay capital and transnational tourism / M. …”


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Reflections on global law

Table of Contents: “…/ Rob van Gestel -- A regulatory approach to global constitutional analysis / Anne Meuwese -- Some preliminaries to global law and human rights / Daniel Augenstein -- The global legal environment and its future four scenarios / Stavros Zouridis, Sam Muller, Laura Kistemaker & Morty Frishman -- Global law will be responsive law, at least with regard to cyberspace / Paul de Hert & Eugenio Mantovani -- The impact of the financial crisis on EU economic governance : a struggle between hard and soft law and expansion of the EU competences? …”
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Programming Drupal 7 entities by Spets, Sammy

Table of Contents: “…Attaching a field collection to a content typeExporting field collection and fields; Copying the code to therecipe module; Tweaking recipe.module; Updating code is unnecessary; Summary; Chapter 7: Expose Local Entities; Motivation for exposing entities; Fast track your data exposure; Allow fields on your entity; Give it multiple bundles; Administration interface and exportability; Storing bundle information; Exposing bundle information and handling access rights; Adding the support code; Summary; Chapter 8: Expose Remote Entities; Introducing the Remote Entity API.…”
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Introduction to Global Health Promotion by Zimmerman, Rick S.

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An Austro-Libertarian Critique of Public Choice. by DiLorenzo, Thomas J.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 13 Total Repeal of Antitrust Legislation: A Critique of Bork, Brozen, and Posner -- Part 5: Rent Seeking -- Chapter 14 Property Rights, Information Costs, and the Economics of Rent Seeking -- Chapter 15 All Government is Excessive: A Rejoinder to Dwight Lee's "In Defense of Excessive Government" -- Chapter 16 Watch Your Language -- Part 6: Taxation -- Chapter 17 Utility Profits, Fiscal Illusion, and Local Public Expenditures -- Chapter 18 The Expenditure Effects of Restricting Competition in Local Public Service Industries: The Case of Special Districts…”
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Rwanda : from genocide to precarious peace by Thomson, Susan, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…A SEMBLANCE OF NORMALITY; The Transitional Government of National Unity; Human Rights Abuses; The Kibeho Massacre; Concentrating Power; 5. …”
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Resilient welfare states in the European Union by Hemerijck, A. (Anton), Huguenot-Noël, Robin

Table of Contents: “…Stocks, flows and buffers in "institutional complementarity" -- Life course multiplier -- Social investment critics -- The normative heart of the social investment paradigm -- Social rights as positive freedoms -- The good polity and distributive justice -- The good life and capacitation -- Secure capabilities and "fertile functionings" -- Stepping stone solidarity -- Logic of (welfare) state intervention -- Time horizon -- Governance -- 4 Towards a eurozone insurance union -- Introduction -- The political legacy of embedded liberalism -- EMU design and welfare recalibration…”
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Homosexuality

Table of Contents: “…Jon Wertheim ; The American Episcopal Church rightfully ordains homosexual clergy / Barry Jay Seltser ; A queer-inclusive curriculum should be taught in English classes / Mollie V. …”


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Year by year 1965

Table of Contents: “…Rider in 2-Horse Crash (1:11) -- Queen in Africa - Elizabeth Receives Ethiopian Ovation (1:35) -- News in Brief - San Francisco (1:17) -- News in Brief - Maryland (0:59) -- Sports - Houston (1:02) -- The Selma March - Troops Guard Rights Marchers (1:34) -- News in Brief - New York (0:42) -- Basketball Champs - U.C.L.A. …”
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China and the world trading system : entering the new millennium

Table of Contents: “…/ Qingjiang Kong ; China: trade, law and human rights / Alice Tay -- pt. IV. Trade in goods. China's interest in the World Trade Organization's deregulation of international textiles trade / Ian Dickson ; China and the agreement on technical barriers to trade / Ichiro Araki -- pt. …”
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Higher education and equality of opportunities : cross-national perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Cobbah -- Access to higher education in France: between equality of rights and meritocracy, a long walk to equality of opportunities? …”
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The world in world wars : experiences, perceptions and perspectives from Africa and Asia

Table of Contents: “…Ardour and anxiety : politics and literature in the Indian homefront / Santanu Das -- Radio and society in Tunisia during World War II / Morgan Corriou -- Peripheral experiences : everyday life in Kurd Dagh (northern Syria) during the Allied occupation in the Second World War / Katharina Lange -- Military collaboration, conscription and citizenship rights in the four communes of Senegal and in French West Africa (1912-1946) / Francesca Bruschi -- "Our victory was our defeat" : race, gender and liberalism in the Union Defence Force, 1939-1945 / Suryakanthie Chetty -- The impact of the East Africa campaign, 1914-1918 on South Africa and beyond / Anne Samson -- From the Great War to the Syrian armed resistance movement (1919-1921) : the military and the mujahidin in action / Nadine Meouchy -- Still behind enemy lines? …”
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Handbook of public sociology

Table of Contents: “…Oliver -- Public membership on medical licensing boards : an integrated public and professional project / Ruth Horowitz -- Counting the deaths in Darfur : pitfalls on the pathway to a public sociology / Bill McCarthy and John Hagan -- Engaged social movement scholarship / Robert Kleidman -- Public sociology and universal human rights / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann -- Altruism, apology, forgiveness, and reconciliation as public sociology / Samuel P. …”
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Conflict of interest in global, public and corporate governance

Table of Contents: “…Conflict of interest in universal human rights bodies Michal Davala; Part III. Public Governance: 8. …”
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