Toward free trade in the Americas

Table of Contents: “…Stephenson -- Investment / Maryse Robert -- Intellectual property rights / César Parga -- Competition policy / José Tavaras de Araujo, Jr. -- Government procurement / Donald R. …”
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Foreign Affairs Litigation in United States Courts. by Moore, John Norton

Table of Contents: “…Foreword; Introduction; Foreign Sovereign Immunity and the FSIA; The Role of Courts in Foreign Affairs; Policy Options for the Obama Administration: Enforcement Provisions of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act as a Tool Against State Sponsors of Terrorism; Adjudicating Acts of State; Sovereign Immunity and the International Court of Justice: The State System Triumphant; Human Rights Litigation; Non-State Actors and the Alien Tort Claims Act; Equity, Damages and the Rule of Law; The Act of State Doctrine in Recent "looted" Art Litigation.…”
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Arctic politics : conflict and cooperation in the circumpolar North by Young, Oran R.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 5: Arctic Resource Conflicts: Sources and SolutionsChapter 6: The Politics of Animal Rights: Preservationists versus Consumptive Users in the Circumpolar North; Chapter 7: The Petrodollar Trap: Oil Revenues and the Political Economy of Alaska; Chapter 8: Arctic Shipping:A Tale of Two Passages; PART THREE International Studies; Prologue; Chapter 9: The Arctic in World Affairs; Chapter 10: The Militarization of the Arctic: Political Consequences and Prospects for Arms Control; Chapter 11: Sustainable Development in the Arctic: The International Dimensions.…”
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The Gettysburg address : perspectives on Lincoln's greatest speech

Table of Contents: “…Baker -- The Gettysburg Address and civil rights / Ray Arsenault -- Widely noted and long remembered: the Gettysburg Address around the world / Don H. …”
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Framing Canadian Federalism. by Anastakis, Dimitry

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 One Version of History: The Supreme Court of Canada's Use of History in the Quebec Secession Reference -- 2 'A New Federal Vision': Nova Scotia and the Rowell-Sirois Report, 1938-1948 -- 3 The Obligations of Federalism: Ontario and the Origins of Equalization -- 4 'As the Indians were wards of the Dominion Government': The Anishinabe of McIntyre Bay in the Hepburn-King Constitutional Battles -- 5 From 'On-to-Ottawa' to 'Bloody Sunday': Unemployment Relief and British Columbia Forests, 1935-1939 -- 6 Canada and the Implementation of International Instruments of Human Rights: A Federalist Conundrum, 1919-1982 -- 7 Cars, Conflict, and Cooperation: The Federalism of the Canadian Auto Industry -- 8 Ottawa, the Provinces, and the Evolution of Canadian Trade Policy since 1963 -- 9 Implementing the 'Innovation' Strategy: Post-secondary Education in the Chrétien Years -- 10 The Unrealized Benefits of Canada's Unfederal Judicial System -- Epilogue: Celebrating Jack -- Contributors -- 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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Tenure Security for Indonesia's Urban Poor : a socio-legal study on land, decentralisation and the rule of law in Bandung. by Reerink, Gustaaf

Table of Contents: “…Tenure security for Indonesia's urban poor; Contents; List of maps, tables, and appendices; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Acronyms; 1 Introduction; 2 Migrants flows, regulatory failure A short history of the kampongs of Bandung; 3 State rights and individual oblig ations A general overview of Indonesian land law; 4 An 'ideal' beyond reach Law and practice of land registration; 5 When money rules over voice Law and practice of spatial planning; 6 Not just compensation Law and practice of land clearance by the state.…”
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Violence against women : philosophical perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Brison -- Sexual assault and the problem of consent / Patricia Kazan -- Rape, genocide, and women's human rights / Catharine A. MacKinnon -- Domestic violence -- Standards of perfection and battered women's self-defense / Wanda Teays -- Violence in Bangladesh / Roksana Nazneen -- Female genital mutilation: violence in the nature of tradition, religion, and social imperative / Semra Asefa -- Sexual harassment in legal and medical contexts -- Identifying sexual harassment: the reasonable woman standard / Debra A. …”


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Between sovereignty and anarchy : the politics of violence in the American Revolutionary era

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Patrick Griffin -- "The constant snare of the fear of man": authority and violence in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic / Andrew Cayton -- Destroying and reforming Canaan: making America British / Patrick Griffin -- "Not by force or violence": religious violence, anti-Catholicism, and the rights of conscience in the early national United States / Chris Beneke -- Government without arms; arms without government: the case of Pennsylvania / Jessica Choppin Roney -- Stamps and popes: rethinking the role of violence in the coming of the American Revolution / Peter C. …”
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Frankenstein's Monster

Table of Contents: “…George Foster's Execution (1:18) -- Galvinism (2:54) -- Fears About Science (1:11) -- Early Nineteenth Century Britain (1:31) -- Humphrey Davey (1:16) -- Nitrogen Triidide Reaction (2:37) -- Davey on Knowledge as Power (2:57) -- Secret Military Project (2:28) -- Rutherford and the Atomic Bomb (1:14) -- Rutherford's Finding About Nucleus (2:21) -- Uranium 235 (1:21) -- Uranium Enrichment (1:20) -- Scientists (2:44) -- Biology and Controversy (0:40) -- Genetic Modification (1:30) -- Cambridge (1:28) -- Crick and Watson (2:41) -- Crick and Watson (0:45) -- Fears about Genetic Engineering (2:40) -- Anti-GM Foods Campaign (2:28) -- Scientists and Public Persuasion (1:17) -- John Hunter (2:18) -- Hunter's Public Persuasion (2:40) -- Animal Rights Activism (1:11) -- Medical Experiments on Primates (3:29) -- Public Ambivalence About Science (1:23) -- Aldini Vindicated (1:03) -- Additional Resources & Credits: Frankenstein's Monster: In Search of Science (1:08)…”
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Taking sides. Clashing views on controversial issues in sex and gender

Table of Contents: “…-- Should men and women have equal parental rights? -- Can fathers "mother"? -- Are welfare reforms ineffective because welfare mothers are irrepsonsible and lazy? …”


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Banking on change : the development and future of financial services : a collection of essays commissioned by the London Institute of Banking & Finance

Table of Contents: “…Allen -- Sustainable investment : the golden moment / Elizabeth Corley -- Living "off income" / Richard Tomlinson -- Power to the customer : disrupting banking / Anne Boden -- RIP Libor / Richard Northedge -- Boosting UK bank competition : still many cliffs to climb / Martin Stewart -- Changing the face of banking and finance / Shelley Doorey-Williams -- Getting the right stuff / Mike Thompson -- Financial education : how to make it count / Andy Davis -- Banking on identity / David G.W. …”
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Profane : sacrilegious expression in a multicultural age

Table of Contents: “…CIVILITY, THE SACRED, AND HUMAN RIGHTS; 6. Muslim Political Theology: Defamation, Apostasy, and Anathema; 7. …”
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Targeted Learning Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Data by van der Laan, Mark J.

Table of Contents: “…Matched Case-Control Studies -- Nested Case-Control Risk Score Prediction -- Super Learning for Right-Censored Data -- RCTs with Time-to-Event Outcomes -- RCTs with Time-to-Event Outcomes and Effect Modification Parameters -- C-TMLE of an Additive Point Treatment Effect -- C-TMLE for Time-to-Event Outcomes -- Propensity-Score-Based Estimators and C-TMLE -- Targeted Methods for Biomarker Discovery -- Finding Quantitative Trait Loci Genes -- Case Study: Longitudinal HIV Cohort Data -- Probability of Success of an In Vitro Fertilization Program -- Individualized Antiretroviral Initiation Rules -- Cross-Validated Targeted Minimum-Loss-Based Estimation -- Targeted Bayesian Learning -- TMLE in Adaptive Group Sequential Covariate Adjusted RCTs -- Foundations of TMLE -- Introduction to R Code Implementation.…”
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Religion and regimes : support, separation, and opposition

Table of Contents: “…Oldmixon and Rebekah Samaniego -- 5: International Context and State-Religion Regimes in France and Turkey / Ramazan Kilinc -- 6: Religion and State In India: Ambiguity, Chauvinism, and Tolerance / Scott Hibbard -- 7: The Roman Catholic Church and Political Regime in Portugal and Spain: Support, Opposition and Separation / Paul Christopher Manuel -- 8: Democratization, Human Rights, and Religion-State Relations in Taiwan and Hong Kong / J. …”
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Europeanization in Sweden : opportunities and challenges for civil society organizations

Table of Contents: “…Identity Europeanization in the prostitution policy field / Gabriella Scaramuzzino and Roberto Scaramuzzino -- Promoting consumer rights in Sweden by lobbying and awareness-raising abroad / Anna Meeuwisse and Andreas Vilhelmsson -- The crisis of the EU : opportunity or graveyard for a European civil society? …”
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Beyond Bogotá : diary of a drug war journalist in Colombia by Leech, Garry M.

Table of Contents: “…Entering La macarena; my detention -- My introduction to Latin America; a Salvadoran nightmare -- The Panama invasion; Colombia's two faces-- generosity and greed; Indigenous villages and oil in Ecuador -- Welcome to Farclandia; Commander Simon Trinidad and the rebel perspective; a meeting with Erika, a teenage FARC guerrilla; Geraldo Rivera visits the rebel safe haven -- Investigating plan Colombia; AUC commander Luis Enrique and the paramilitary perspective; a body in a hole -- The displayed in Barranca; Gregorio and the landmine; the cocaine lab; collusion and murder in Puerto Asis -- 9/11 and the war on terror; detained by Carlos Castaño's paramilitaries; the battle for Saravena, Colombia's "little Sarajevo" -- Displaced Afro-Colombian communities of The Chocó: the Bellavista tragedy; the plight of the Indigenous Embera -- The Plan Patriota offensive; the new coca plant; the predicament of Colombian journalists; Plan Colombia becomes Plan Petroleum -- Mining multinationals and human rights; the displacement of Tabaco; Indigenous massacres in La Guajira and Nariño -- My release; chemical warfare in La Macarena -- Jungle rendezvous with FARC commander Raúl Reyes; the prospects for peace.…”
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The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of law and legal theory

Table of Contents: “…Kramer -- Theories of rights / Alon Harel -- A contractarian approach to punishment / Claire Finkelstein -- Responsibility / Martin P. …”
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Materializing democracy : toward a revitalized cultural politics

Table of Contents: “…Nelson -- Rethinking space, rethinking rights: literature, law, and science / Wai Chee Dimock -- A long foreground: re-materializing the history of Native American relations to mass culture / Michael Moon -- From center to margin: internationalism and the origins of Black feminism / Kevin Gaines -- Democratic passions: reconstructing individual agency / Christopher Newfield -- Anti-ideology: education and politics as democratic practices / Jeffrey C. …”
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Cronkite by Brinkley, Douglas

Table of Contents: “…-- Paley's attempted smackdown -- Civil rights and Project Gemini -- What to do about Vietnam? …”


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Britain, France and the decolonization of Africa : future imperfect?

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- The dynamics of anti-apartheid : international solidarity, human rights and decolonization / Robert Skinner -- Section 3. …”
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