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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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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Civic and Uncivic Values : Serbia in the Post-Milosevic Era. by Ramet, Sabrina P.

Table of Contents: “…Orthodox Values and Modern Necessities: Serbian Orthodox Clergy and Laypeople on Democracy, Human Rights, Transition, and Globalization…”
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Legal aspects of architecture, engineering and the construction process by Sweet, Justin

Table of Contents: “…-- Risk management : a variety of techniques -- Intellectual property : ideas, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets -- Planning the project : compensation and organization variations -- Competitive bidding : theory, realities and legal pitfalls -- Sources of construction contract rights and duties : contract documents and legal rules -- Contract interpretation : chronic confusion -- Changes : complex construction centerpiece -- Payment : money flow as lifeline -- Expectations and disappointments : some performance problems -- Defects : design, execution and blurred roles -- Subsurface problems : predictable uncertainty -- Time : a different but important dimension -- Claims : by-products of construction process -- The subcontracting process : an "Achilles Heel" -- The design professional as judge : a tradition under attack -- Construction disputes : arbitration and other methods to reduce costs and save time -- Indemnification and other forms of shifting and sharing risks : who ultimately pays? …”


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The political elite and special interests

Table of Contents: “…Overview: The average American vs. the political elites ; Efforts to foster change, however small, can make a difference / Jennifer Earl ; Protest can rejuvenate democracy / Jeremy David Bendik-Keymer ; Corporations have tremendous global influence / Ryan Cristián ; Conservative lawmakers strive to limit protesters' rights / Laura Graham -- Organizations to contact.…”


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Catastrophe and redemption : the political thought of Giorgio Agamben by Whyte, Jessica (Jessica Stephanie)

Table of Contents: “…Catastrophe and Redemption: The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On Catastrophe and Redemption -- Katechon, Antichrist, Messiah -- Flowers and Chains -- Chapter Outline -- Chapter 1: The Politics of Life -- Agamben and Foucault: On Biopolitics, Ancient and Modern -- Biopolitics and Sovereignty -- Biopolitical Being -- The Rights of Bare Life -- Hoping Merely Out of Stupidity -- Chapter 2: Politics at the Limits of the Law: On the State of Exception -- The State of Exception…”
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Desertion and the American soldier, 1776-2006 by Fantina, Robert

Table of Contents: “…The Mexican-American War -- Harsh conditions -- Poor leadership -- Corporal punishment -- Lack of belief in the cause -- Lack of basic rights as American citizens -- Poor wages -- Discrimination -- 4. …”
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Consumer marketing & advertising. 2023 by Miller, Richard K. (Richard Kendall), 1946-, Washington, Kelli D.

Table of Contents: “…Analyses: Artificial intelligence in marketing ; Branding ; Buy American initiatives ; Buy local initiatives ; Cause marketing ; Celebrity endorsements ; Content marketing ; Coupons ; Customer analytics ; Customer communications ; Customer relationship management ; Customer retention ; Customer service ; Data-driven marketing ; Direct marketing ; Direct selling ; Event & experiential marketing ; Generational marketing ; Gender-specific marketing ; Green marketing ; Hispanic marketing ; In-store tracking ; Inclusive marketing ; Influencer marketing ; Local marketing ; Location-based marketing ; Loyalty programs ; Naming rights ; Native advertising ; Online tracking ; Packaging ; Personalization ; Political advertising ; Pricing ; Privacy regulations ; Product placement ; Programmatic advertising ; Promotions ; Shopper (in-store) marketing ; Social responsibility ; Small- and medium-sized business advertising & marketing ; Sponsorships -- Appendix A. …”
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Corporate Criminal Liability Emergence, Convergence, and Risk by Pieth, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Corporate Criminal Liability in Hungary; Ferenc Santhaand Szilvia Dobrosci -- Why the Czech Republic Does not (yet) Recognize Corporate Criminal Liability: A Description of Unsuccessful Law Reforms; Jiří Jelínek and Karel Beran -- The Recognition of Legal Persons in International Human Rights Instruments: Protection Against and Through Criminal Justice?…”
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Destination Dixie tourism and southern history by Cox, Karen L., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Kytle and Blain Roberts -- 7. Selling the civil rights movement through black political empowerment in Selma, Alabama / Glenn T. …”
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