School desegregation : oral histories toward understanding the effects of white domination

Table of Contents: “…Implementation and administration of desegregated education -- Ambivalence, angst, and hope : black principals in Mississippi -- "It's time to make things right" : symbolic order and the limits of imagination -- Implementing the "law of the land" : white superintendents in Mississippi -- Conclusion : White backlash and educational reform -- then and now.…”
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Diversity and community : an interdisciplinary reader

Table of Contents: “…: dilemmas of the US movement for lesbian/gay rights / Arlene Stein -- Diversity, inequality, and community: African Americans and people of color in the United States / J. …”
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Integrated Management of Water Resources in India: A Computational Approach Optimizing for Sustainability and Planning

Table of Contents: “…Decision support systems for integrated management -- Chapter 12. Balancing Rights and Responsibilities for water law -- Chapter 13. …”
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The Making of the Tunisian Revolution : Contexts, Architects, Prospects. by Gana, Nouri

Table of Contents: “…Part 2 Architects: Genealogies of DissentChapter 5 From Socio-Economic Protest to National Revolt: The Labor Origins of the Tunisian Revolution; Chapter 6 The Powers of Social Media; Chapter 7 Rethinking the Role of the Media in the Tunisian Uprising; Chapter 8 Visions of Dissent, Voices of Discontent: Postcolonial Tunisian Film and Song; Part 3 Prospects: The Postrevolutionary Moment; Chapter 9 From Resistance to Governance: The Category of Civility in the Political Theory of Tunisian Islamists; Chapter 10 Women's Rights before and after the Revolution.…”
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Crusader for justice : federal judge Damon J. Keith by Hammer, Peter J.

Table of Contents: “…Keith -- College life: West Virginia State College -- "The finest man I've ever known" -- 1943: war in the streets/war overseas -- Howard University School of Law: the West Point of civil rights -- Leaping the bar -- Rachel -- Taking a chance: life as a young lawyer -- A room on the second floor: rebuilding Detroit's NAACP -- "Get out on your own": how Damon Keith became his own start-up -- A leader emerges: from Jack Kennedy to Willie Horton -- Detroit 1967: the fire this time -- Approaching the bench: the long and winding politics of becoming a judge -- Into the maelstrom: busing in Pontiac -- Housing in Hamtramck and discrimination at Detroit Edison -- Taking on the Nixon White House: the Keith case -- Affirmative action in the Detroit Police Department -- "Tell him Thurgood's on the line" -- "Here, boy, park this car" -- Strange bedfellows: Damon Keith and Clarence Thomas -- Swimming upstream: ideological and political shifts in the courts -- "Democracies die behind closed doors" -- The Keith law clerk family -- Friends along the way: from Rosa to Russia -- "I don't work on your plantation!"…”
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Major Aspects of Chinese Religion and Philosophy Dao of Inner Saint and Outer King by Shan, Chun

Table of Contents: “…Proprieties as Governmental Rules of Confucian Hermeneutics -- 18. Moral Rights and Justification of Revolution: Heart-Nature Theme of Mencius -- 19. …”
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Monsters of the market : zombies, vampires, and global capitalism by McNally, David, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Dissecting the labouring body : Frankenstein, political anatomy, and the rise of capitalism -- "Save my body from the surgeons" -- The culture of dissection : anatomy, colonisation, and social order -- Political anatomy, wage-labour, and destruction of the English commons -- Anatomy and the corpse-economy -- Monsters of rebellion -- Jacobins, Irishmen and Luddites : rebel-monsters in the age of Frankenstein -- The rights of monsters : horror and the split society -- Marx's monsters : vampire-capital and the nightmare-world of late capitalism -- Dialectics and the doubled life of the commodity -- The spectre of value and the fetishism of commodities -- "As if by love possessed" : vampire-capital and the labouring body -- Zombie-labour and the "monstrous outrages" of capital -- Money : capitalism's second nature -- "Self-birthing" capital and the alchemy of money -- Wild money : the occult economies of late-capitalist globalisation -- Enron : case-study in the occult economy of late capitalism -- "Capital comes into the world dripping in blood from every pore" -- African vampires in the age of globalisation -- Kinship and accumulation : from the old witchcraft to the new -- Zombies, vampires, and spectres of capital : the new occult economies of globalising capitalism -- African fetishes and the fetishism of commodities -- The living dead : zombie-labourers in the age of globalisation -- Vampire-capitalism in sub-Saharan Africa -- Bewitched accumulation, famished roads, and the endless toilers of the earth -- Conclusion ugly beauty : monstrous dreams of utopia.…”
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The idea of the public sphere : a reader

Table of Contents: “…/ Immanuel Kant -- Excerpt from Philosophy of right / G.W.F. Hegel -- Excerpt from On liberty / John Stuart Mill -- Excerpt from The phantom public / Walter Lippmann -- Excerpt from The public and its problems / John Dewey -- Excerpt from Capitalism, socialism, and democracy / Joseph A. …”
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Capital gains : business and politics in twentieth-century America

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- Entangled : civil rights in corporate America since 1964 / Pamela Walker Laird.…”
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The European Union’s New Foreign Policy

Table of Contents: “…The Positive Narrative on Human Rights -- Chapter 4. Values and Interests in Post-Lisbon European Union Foreign Policy -- Chapter 5. …”
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Wives, husbands, and lovers : marriage and sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and urban China

Table of Contents: “…: parental matchmaking and middle-class women in contemporary urban China / Jun Zhang and Peidong Sun -- Continuities and changes : five decades of marital experiences in Hong Kong / Kwok-fai Ting -- An embarrassment of riches : good men behaving badly in Hong Kong / Petula Sik Ying Ho -- Marriage rights for transgender people in Hong Kong : reading the "W" case / John Nguyet Erni -- The alternative futures of marriage : a socio-legal analysis of family law reform in Taiwan / Grace Shu-chin Kuo -- Change and continuity in the experience of marriage in Taiwan / Ruoh-rong Yu and Yu-sheng Liu -- Staying in marriage across the Taiwan Strait : gender, migration, and transnational family / Hsiu-hua Shen -- Marital borders : gender, population, and sovereignty across the Taiwan Strait / Sara L. …”
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Access to Primary Care and Preventative Health Services of Migrants

Table of Contents: “…1. Foreword -- 2. Rights to primary care access and health prevention of non-nationals and migrants in the European Union Countries (Nadia Mignolli, Alessandra Fasano, Roberta Pace) -- 3. …”
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The Invisible Woman : Aspects of Women's Work in Eighteenth-Century Britain. by Baudino, Isabelle

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: WOMEN IN THE DOMESTIC SPHERE -- 1 The Birth of a New Profession: The Housekeeper and her Status in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 2 The Representation of Housework in the Eighteenth-Century Women's Press -- 3 Needlework and the Rights of Women in England at the End of the Eighteenth Century -- 4 Governesses of the Royal Family and the Nobility in Great Britain, 1750-1815 -- PART II: WOMEN IN MALE STRONGHOLDS -- 5 The Labour and Servitude of Women in the Highlands of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century -- 6 Women in the Army in Eighteenth-Century Britain -- 7 Hospital Nurses in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Service without Responsibility -- 8 Claiming their Place in the Corporate Community: Women's Identity in Eighteenth-Century Towns -- 9 Women Barred from Masonic 'Work': A British Phenomenon -- PART III: WOMEN AND THE CULTURAL SCENE -- 10 The Actress and Eighteenth-Century Ideals of Femininity -- 11 Women in Action: Elizabeth Inchbald, Heroines and Serving Maids in British Comedies of the 1780s and 1790s -- 12 Profession: Siren-The Ambiguous Status of Professional Women Musicians in Eighteenth-Century England -- 13 The Lee Sisters: Eighteenth-Century Commercial Heroines -- 14 Eighteenth-Century Images of Working Women -- Index.…”
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Public asset management companies : a toolkit by Cerruti, Caroline, Neyens, Ruth

Table of Contents: “…Preconditions for Public AMCs ; Commitment to Comprehensive Reforms ; Systemic Crisis and Public Funds at Risk ; Solid Diagnostic and Critical Mass of Impaired Assets ; Tradition of Institutional Independence and Public Accountability ; Robust Legal Framework for Bank Resolution, Debt Recovery, and Creditors' Rights ; Note ; The Design: Legal and Institutional Framework ; Mandate and Powers ; Scope ; Governance and Funding ; Safeguards Mechanisms and Supervision ; Notes ; Building Effective Operations in an AMC ; Organization and Staffing ; Strategic Planning and Asset Management ; Internal Controls and Transparency ; Closing the AMC ; Notes -- PART II. …”
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Medicine, charity and mutual aid the consumption of health and welfare in Britain, c.1550-1950

Table of Contents: “…: cathedral almsmen in England 1538-1914 / Ian Atherton, Eileen McGrath and Alannah Tomkins -- From common rights to cold charity : enclosure and poor allotments in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Sylvia Pinches -- Kinship and welfare in early modern England : sometimes charity begins at home / Sheila Cooper -- Deaf children and charitable education in Britain 1790-1944 / Anne Borsay -- Joseph Townend and the Manchester Infirmary : a plebeian patient in the industrial revolution / Stuart Hogarth -- Investigating the "deserving" poor : charity and the voluntary hospitals in nineteenth-century Birmingham / Jonathan Reinarz -- Choice and the children's hospital : Great Ormond Street Hospital patients and their families 1855-1900 / Andrea Tanner -- Mental health charity for the middling sort : Holloway Sanatorium 1885-1900 / Anne C. …”
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50 years of the European treaties : looking back and thinking forward

Table of Contents: “…The EU's economic and not so economic Constitution / Catherine Barnard -- Federalisation versus centralisation : tensions in fundamental rights discourse in the EU / Eleanor Spaventa -- The transformation of union citizenship / Samantha Currie -- Gender, the acquis and beyond / Fiona Beveridge -- Does the Constitutional Treaty have a future? …”
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Synbio and human health : a challenge to the current IP framework?

Table of Contents: “…From biotech patents to open source models: managing human genetics resources -- 6 Patents and living matter: the construction of a patent system attractive to Biotechnology -- 7 Patents Originating in Human Tissue and Data: questions on benefit creating and benefit sharing, on morality and property -- 8 Patenting Synbio in Anglo-America and Europe: Chaos or Opportunity -- 9 Synthetic Biology: Challenges and Legal Questions -- 10 Exclusions and Exceptions to Patent Eligibility Revisited: Examining the Political Functions of the "Discovery" and "Ordre Public" Clauses in the European Patent Convention with Special Respect to Synthetic Biology -- 11 Patentability, Synthetic Biology and human genome -- 12 Patentability of synthetic biology under the European Patent Convention (EPC) -- 13 Synthetic Biology and IP Rights: In Defence of the Patent System -- 14 Stepping Stones: Extending the Open Source Idea to Synthetic Biology -- Index.…”
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New Left Revisited. by Mcmillian, John

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Introduction "You Didn't Have to Be There": Revisiting the New Left Consensus; Part I Local Studies, Local Stories; Chapter 1: "It Seemed a Very Local Affair": The Student Movement at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale; Chapter 2: Between Despair and Hope: Revisiting Studies on the Left; Chapter 3: Building the New South: The Southern Student Organizing Committee; Chapter 4: The Black Freedom Struggle and White Resistance: A Case Study of the Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland.…”
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Philosophy of film and motion pictures an anthology

Table of Contents: “…Kupfer -- Beauty and evil / Mary Devereaux -- A first look at the pornography/civil rights ordinance / Melinda Vadas -- The philosophical limits of film / Bruce Russell -- Minerva in the movies / Karen Hanson -- Film as a philosophical resource / Lester H. …”
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Deadliest Outlaws : the Ketchum Gang and the Wild Bunch. by Burton, Jeffrey

Table of Contents: “…Photo GalleryChapter 14: The Sixteenth of August; Chapter 15: Dead to Rights; Chapter 16: Points of Law; Map 5; Map 6; Chapter 17: Atkins Saddles The Ocean; Chapter 18: An Anniversary for George Scarborough; Chapter 19: Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid ... and Will Carver; Chapter 20: "Before He Could Cock His Pistol"; Chapter 21: Off With His Head; Chapter 22: Empty Saddles and Lonely Graves; Chapter 23: Myth, Mistake, and Muddle; Notes; Bib.…”
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