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Evil : an Investigation. by Morrow, Lance

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Antarctic Treaty System : an Assessment: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Beardmore South Field Camp, Antarctica, January 7-13, 1985.

Table of Contents: “…The Antarctic Treaty System from the Perspective of a Non-Consultative Party to the Antarctic Treaty -- INTRODUCTION -- MOTIVES FOR ACCESSION -- FUNCTIONING OF THE TREATY SYSTEM -- RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF NCPS UNDER THE TREATY -- THE OBSERVER ISSUE -- ANTARCTICA AND THE U.N. …”
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A history of women in the West

Table of Contents: “…Toward a cultural identity in the twentieth century / Franc̦ois Thébaud, editor -- Writing the history of women / Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot -- Explorations of gender / Françoise Thébaud -- The Great War and the triumph of sexual division / Françoise Thébaud ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer -- The modern woman of the 1920s, American style / Nancy Cott -- Between the wars in France and England / Anne-Marie Sohn ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer -- How Mussolini ruled Italian women / Victoria de Grazia -- Nazi gender policies and women's history / Gisela Bock -- The women of Spain from the Republic to Franco / Danièle Bussy Genevois ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer -- French women under Vichy / Hélène Eck ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer -- The Soviet model / Françoise Navailh ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer -- Philosophical differences / Françoise Collin ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer -- The creators of culture in France / Marcelle Marini ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer -- The ambivalent image of woman in mass culture / Louisa Passerini ; translated by Joan Bond Sax -- Women, images, and representation / Anne Higonnet -- Poverty and mothers' rights in the emerging welfare states / Gisela Bock -- Maternity, family, and the state / Nadine Lefaucheur ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer -- A supervised emancipation / Rose-Marie Lagrave ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer -- Law and democracy / Mariette Sineau ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer -- Feminisms of the 1970s / Yasmine Ergas -- From feminine to feminism in Quebec / Yolande Cohen ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer -- Reproduction and bioethics / Jacqueline Costa-Lascoux ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer -- Women's voices : Christa Wolf ; Nelly Kaplan / Françoise Thébaud.…”


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Public policy : a comprehensive introduction by Potůček, Martin

Table of Contents: “…-- THE EMERGENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC POLICY AS A SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE: A HISTORY -- RELATION OF PUBLIC POLICY TO OTHER DISCIPLINES -- DEFINING PUBLIC POLICY AS A SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE -- POLITY, POLICY, POLITICS -- PUBLIC POLICY AS SOCIAL PRACTICE -- FOUNDING FATHERS AND FOLLOWERS -- FUTURE PERSPECTIVES OF THE DISCIPLINE -- REVIEW QUESTIONS -- SOURCES -- /A2/ Values in Public Policy -- VALUES IN POLITY -- HUMAN RIGHTS -- POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES -- HOW INSTITUTIONS ARE SHAPED BY POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES -- VALUES IN POLICY -- THE CRITERION OF QUALITY AND SUSTAINABILITY OF LIFE -- VALUES IN POLITICS -- EXAMPLE THEORY: HISTORICAL INSTITUTIONALISM -- REVIEW QUESTIONS -- SOURCES -- /A3/ Governance -- THE CONCEPT OF GOVERNANCE -- DIMENSIONS OF GOVERNANCE -- MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE -- GOVERNMENT, MARKET, THE CIVIC SECTOR -- AND THE MEDIA -- GOVERNMENT -- MARKET -- CIVIC SECTOR -- EXAMPLE THEORY: CORPORATISM -- THE MARKET-GOVERNMENT RELATIONSHIP -- MEDIA -- REGULATORS UNDER CHANGE -- ACTORS' NETWORKS -- EXAMPLE THEORY: POLICY NETWORKS -- SOCIALLY PATHOLOGICAL FORMS OF REGULATION -- CAPACITIES OF GOVERNANCE IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD -- REVIEW QUESTIONS -- SOURCES -- /A4/ Actors and Institutions -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACTORS AND INSTITUTIONS -- POLITICAL PARTIES -- GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION -- THINK-TANKS -- INSTITUTIONS -- EXAMPLE THEORY: ACTOR-CENTERED INSTITUTIONALISM -- ARENAS -- AGENDAS -- EXAMPLE THEORY: ACTORS GENERATING AGENDAS IN ARENAS (A-A-A MODEL) -- REVIEW QUESTIONS -- SOURCES -- /A5/ Public Policy Instruments -- INQUIRY -- PROGRAMMING DOCUMENTS -- LAW AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION -- ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS.…”
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Advances in Decision Science and Management Proceedings of Third International Conference on Decision Science and Management (ICDSM 2021)

Table of Contents: “…Part 1: Decision Support System -- Recommended Model of Pollution Information Based on Collaborative Filtering Algorithm -- Research on the Evaluation of TCM Service Level in Various Regions of China -- A Method for Evaluating Health Status of Rail Transit Signaling Equipment Based on Group Decision -- Intelligent Decision Support System for Precision Medicine (IDSS 4 PM) -- A Study of Result Oriented Performance Appraisal — Taking Huawei As an Example -- Under a Management Perspective: Analysis of the Relationship Between Trust and Behavior Decision-Making -- Research on the Regulation of Industrial Structure in the Mid-southern Liaoning Urban Agglomeration from the Perspective of Spatial Connection -- Research on the Influence Mechanism of Family-Supportive Supervisor Behaviors on Employees’ Intention to Stay From the Perspective of Dual Scenario Embeddedness -- Policy Burden, Industry Competition and Corporate Risk Taking -- Blended Teaching Mode of Tourism English Based on TPACK -- Part 2: Technology and Innovation Management -- Research on Privacy Protection of Internet of Things Search Data Based on Fine-grained Authorization -- Design of Emergency Rescue Deduction System for Bus Fire Accident Based on Virtual Reality -- Application of Game Theory in the Field of Technology Innovation -- Research on Innovation Mechanism of Corporate Volunteering in China -- Research on the Differential Incentive Effect of Patent Pool on Specific Technology Learning -- Research on Present Situation and the Countermeasure Analysis of Football Training in University -- The Relationship Between Employees' Body Dissatisfaction and Job Burnout in the Workplace: A Management Research Proposal -- Analysis for the Governance of Illegal Use of Civil Unmanned Aerial Vehicle -- Implementation Considerations for the Applied Business Intelligence in Healthcare -- Exploration of Effective Ways of Educational Management of College Students in the Big Data Era -- Research on Flow Uniformity of The Charge Air Cooler Based on CFD -- Acoustic Analysis of the Singing Voice of the Ewenki Traditional Folk Song—Song of the Mother Deer -- Simulation on Dynamics of the Recoil and Counter-Recoil Movement of the Gun Recoil System -- Types of Safety Risks of Sports Training for Children and Thoughts of Management ——A Case Study Analysis based on H Training Institution in Huaihua City -- Research on the Current Situation and Measures of Resource Management of Public Sport Facilities in a City -- Research on the Innovative Teaching Mode of Microeconomics Based on OBE Concept -- Model Construction and Empirical Analysis of the Efficiency Evaluation of Resource and Environment System -- Part 3: Operation & Management -- Ethical Review of Performance Appraisal -- Research on the Characteristics of Community Service and Management Countermeasures in the New Era: Take Heping District,Tianjin for Example -- The Education Value and System Construction of Campus Football -- A Wind Sustainable Energy Harvesting Device for Bicycle Riding on Product Design -- A Study of the Sustainable Energy Product for Bicycle Riding on Design Method -- The Relationship between Social Network Site Use and Employee Well-being: A Management Research Proposal -- An Empirical Study on the Enhancement of Internal and External Corporate Social Responsibility on Employees' Advocacy Behavior -- Research on the Mixed Learning Model of College Physical Education Teaching under the Background of "Internet+" -- Psychological Ownership of Ones' Organization Explains the Positive Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility Participation and Organizational Engagement -- Construction of Smart Health Management Mode——Exploration and Practice of Physical Education Researchers of Tsinghua University -- The Management of Tiktok operation -- The Socialized Operation and Resource Development of Opening University Stadiums and Gymnasiums ----Taking Huaihua University as an Example -- Study on Operations Management of University Stadiums in the Framework of Healthy China -- Research on the Entry Mode of Chinese Multinational Enterprises into American Market -- Part 4: Internet & E-commerce Based Applications -- Analyses of Medical Income of Public Hospitals Based on the Degree of Structural Variation in Jiangxi Province, China -- Adoption of Mobile Commerce by Indian Small Retailers -- Event-triggered Consensus of Directed Interdependent Networks -- An Empirical Study on the Allocation of Control Rights in Foreign Transnational Joint Ventures in China -- Detect Fraud Bank Checks with a Simplified Image Multi-Threshold Decision Processing Algorithm -- Income Analysis of Social Users Based on Multi Features -- "Research on Spatial Pattern and Influencing Factors of Consumption Vitality in the Middle Areas Based on POI Data——A Case Study of Hefei City" -- Research and Application of Street Lamp Construction Resource Scheduling Method in Internet of Things -- Analysis of Operation Strategies of the New Type Sharing Gymnasiums from the Perspective of Sharing Economy -- Research on "2+3+5" Teaching Innovation Model of Internet Finance Course under the Background of "Internet+".…”
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Technology, globalization, and sustainable development transforming the industrial state by Ashford, Nicholas Askounes

Table of Contents: “…VI Strategic Policy Design for Sustainable Transformations -- 13.Pathways to Sustainability: Co-optimizing Economic Development, the Environment, and Employment -- 13.1.Introduction -- 13.2.Technological, Organizational, Institutional, and Social Innovation -- 13.2.1.Technological Innovation -- 13.2.2.Organizational Innovation -- 13.2.3.Institutional Innovation -- 13.2.4.Social Innovation -- 13.2.5.Commentary on Innovation -- 13.3.Governance Options to Achieve Sustainability -- 13.4.Alternative Postures of Government and Their Implications for Sustainable Transformations -- 13.5.Requirements of Transformations for Greater Sustainability -- 13.6.Technology-Based Strategies to Improve Productiveness; Health, Safety, and the Environment; and Employment -- 13.7.Policies and Approaches to Promote Sustainable Development -- 13.7.1.National Governance -- 13.7.1.1.Promoting More Sustainable Industrial Production and Consumption -- 13.7.1.2.Improving Health, Safety, and the Environment -- 13.7.1.3.Enhancing Meaningful, Rewarding, and Safer Employment and Adequate Earning Capacity -- 13.7.1.4.The Importance of Integration in the National Context -- 13.7.2.International Governance -- 13.7.2.1.Promoting More Sustainable Industrial Trade -- 13.7.2.2.Creating Incentives to Improve Health, Safety, and the Environment -- 13.7.2.3.Creating Incentives for Labor and Human Rights -- 13.8.The New Economics and Concluding Commentary -- 13.8.1.The New Economics -- 13.8.2.Monopoly Commerce, Specialization, and Vulnerability -- 13.8.3.Concluding Commentary -- 13.9.Notes -- 13.10.References.…”
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Wetlands : Characteristics and Boundaries.

Table of Contents: “…Legal Boundaries -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- 9 Regulation of Wetlands: Administrative Issues -- INTRODUCTION -- CONSISTENCY AND RELIABILITY OF WETLAND DELINEATIONS -- Multiple Agencies -- Standards for Expertise, Training, and Certification -- Verification of Delineations -- Uniformity and the Exercise of Professional Judgment -- Resource Regulation and Private Rights -- Use of Flow Diagrams and Charts -- CONCLUSIONS -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- 10 Functional Assessment of Wetlands -- INTRODUCTION -- FUNCTION AND VALUES OF WETLANDS -- GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT -- METHODS OF FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT -- FUTURE METHODS OF FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT.…”
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Encyclopedia of South Africa

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Editorial advisory board -- A -- Abdurahman, Abdullah (1872-1940) -- Achmat, Abdurazzack (Zackie) (1962-) -- Adams College -- Affirmative Action -- African National Congress -- African National Congress Women's League -- African National Congress Youth League -- African renaissance -- African Union -- Afrikaner(s) -- Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging -- AIDS -- All-African Convention -- Anglo-Boer War -- Anglo-Zulu War -- Apartheid -- Armed Struggle -- Azania -- B -- Baartman, Sara/Saartjie (1770s-1815) -- Bambatha Rebellion -- Bantu Education -- Bantustan(s) -- Battle of Blood River -- Biko, Steve Bantu (1946-1977) -- Bill of Rights -- Black Consciousness Movement -- Black Economic Empowerment -- Bloemfontein -- Boer Republics -- Boesak, Allan Aubrey (1945-) -- Breytenbach, Breyten (1939-) -- British Imperialism and Settler Colonialism (1795-1870) -- British Imperialism and Settler Colonialism (1870-1910) -- British South Africa Company -- Broederbond -- Brutus, Dennis Vincent (1924-2009) -- Buthelezi, Mangosuthu Gatsha (1928-) -- C -- Cape Colony -- Cape Dutch Architecture -- Cape Franchise -- Cape Malay -- Cape Town -- Carnegie Commission -- Cetshwayo (1826-1884) -- Champion, Allison Wessels George (A.W.G.) (1893-1975) -- Christianity -- Cinema -- Civic Associations -- Civil Society -- Clegg, Johnny (1953-) -- Coetzee, John Maxwell (1940-) -- Coloured People -- Congress of South African Trade Unions -- Congress of the People -- Constitution -- Convention for a Democratic South Africa -- Customary Law -- D -- Dadoo, Yusuf (1909-1983) -- Defiance Campaigns -- De Klerk, F. …”
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Encyclopedia of applied psychology

Table of Contents: “…Gifted students -- Goal setting and achievement motivation in sport -- Group counseling -- Group dynamics in sport -- Groups, productivity within -- Groupthink -- Health and culture -- Health promotion in schools -- Health psychology, cross cultural -- History of applied psychology, overview -- Hollandʼs theory (vocational personality types) -- Home school collaboration -- Homophobia -- Homosexuality -- Human rights -- Humor and well being -- Hypnosis -- Ideological orientation and values -- Indecision, vocational -- Indigenous psychologies -- Industrial/organizational psychology across cultures -- Industrial/organizational psychology, overview -- Injury in sport -- Intelligence and culture -- Intelligence assessment -- Intelligence, emotional -- Intelligence in humans -- Intentional behavior -- Intergroup relations and culture -- International classification of diseases (WHO) -- International conflict -- Internet counseling -- Interpersonal attraction -- Interpersonal behavior and culture -- Interpersonal conflict -- Interpersonal perception -- Interrogation and interviewing -- Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in sport -- Intrinsic motivation and self determination -- Job analysis, design and evaluation -- Job search -- Sob stress -- Job stress and burnout -- Jury decision making -- Labor turnover -- Leadership and culture -- Learning -- Learning disabilities -- Learning styles and approaches to studying -- Legal competency -- Leisure and work, relationship between -- Lifespan development and culture -- Literacy, improvement of -- Marital therapy -- Mathematics, teaching of -- Measurement and counseling -- Mental measurement and culture -- Mentoring -- Models for transportation -- Motivational taxonomies.…”
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In thought and action : the enigmatic life of S.I. Hayakawa by Haslam, Gerald W.

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Explore everything : place-hacking the city by Garrett, Bradley L.

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The Cloud at Your Service The when, how, and why of enterprise cloud computing by Rosenberg, Jothy, Mateos, Arthur

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Foundation Engineering : Geotechnical Principles and Practical Applications by Handy, Richard L.

Table of Contents: “…. -- 8.4 Soil Mechanics of the SPT -- What Might Be Achieved by Subtracting Blow Counts -- 8.5 The SPT Hammers? …”
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Algorithms and data structures : the science of computing by Baldwin, Douglas (Douglas L.), 1958-

Table of Contents: “…13.7.1 Null Empty Trees 13.7.2 n-ary Trees 13.8 Concluding Remarks 13.9 Further Reading Chapter 14: Case Studies in Design: Abstracting Indirection 14.1 Indirection Without Formal Pointers 14.1.1 Review of Indirection in Java 14.1.2 Abstracting the Concept of Indirection 14.2 Using Arrays to Hold Dynamic Data Structures 14.2.1 Arrays as Lists 14.2.2 Circle Queue 14.2.3 Stacks 14.2.4 Array-Based Trees 14.3 Hash Coding 14.3.1 Content-Based Pointers 14.3.2 Collisions 14.3.3 Uneven Distribution 14.3.4 Dealing with Collisions 14.3.5 Hashing and Empirical Results 14.4 Priority Queues 14.4.1 The Public Interface 14.4.2 What We Already Know Might Help Us 14.4.3 Some Nice Ideas and What's Wrong with Them 14.4.4 The Heap Approach 14.4.5 One Final Detail: Finding the Oldest 14.5 Concluding Remarks 14.6 Further Reading Part III: The Limits of Computer Science Chapter 15: Exponential Growth 15.1 Warm-up: The Towers of Hanoi 15.1.1 The Problem 15.1.2 The Algorithm 15.1.3 Execution Time 15.2 Drawing Trees 15.2.1 The Algorithm 15.2.2 The Execution Time of the Tree-Drawing Algorithm 15.2.3 A Variation on the Algorithm 15.3 The Empirical Significance of Exponential Time 15.4 Reducing Exponential Costs 15.4.1 The Fibonacci Numbers 15.4.2 An Obvious Fibonacci Number Algorithm 15.4.3 The Dynamic Programming Algorithm 15.5 Concluding Remarks 15.6 Further Reading Chapter 16: Limits to Performance 16.1 Preliminary Remarks 16.2 Finding Lower Bounds and Proving Optimality 16.2.1 The Towers of Hanoi 16.2.2 Other Problems 16.3 Open Questions 16.3.1 Tractable and Intractable Problems 16.3.2 Factoring and Cryptography 16.3.3 The Travelling Sales Representative and NP-Hard Problems 16.4 Concluding Remarks 16.5 Further Reading Chapter 17: The Halting Problem 17.1 Applying Computer Science to Computer Science 17.1.1.…”


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Foundation Engineering : Geotechnical Principles and Practical Applications by Handy, Richard L.

Table of Contents: “…. -- 8.4 Soil Mechanics of the SPT -- What Might Be Achieved by Subtracting Blow Counts -- 8.5 The SPT Hammers? …”
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