Multiple moralities and religions in post-Soviet Russia

Table of Contents: “…Multiple moralities: discourse, pratices, and breakdowns in post-Soviet Russia / Jarrett Zigon -- Exploring Russian religiosity as a source of morality today / Alexander Agadjanian -- Post-Soviet orthodoxy in the making: strategies for continuity thinking among Russian middle-aged school teachers / Agata Ladykowska -- The politics of rightness: social justice among Russia's christian communities / Melissa L. …”
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Turkey and European integration : accession prospects and issues

Table of Contents: “…/ Mehmet Uğur -- Europeanisation of Turkish peak business organisations and Turkey-EU relations / Serap Atan -- Islamist redefinition(s) of European and Islamic identities in Turkey / Burhanettin Duran -- The Islamist movement and Turkey-EU relations / Effie Fokas -- Helsinki, Copenhagen and beyond : challenges to the new Europe and the Turkish state / Fuat Keyman and Ziya Öniş -- Turkish political parties and the EU discourse in the post-Helsinki period : a case of Europeanization / Gamze Avcı -- The Turkish contract of citizenship and the Union model : limits of convergence / Nergis Canefe -- Leverage in theory and practice : human rights and Turkey's EU candidacy / Jonathan Sugden -- Turkey and European integration / Mehmet Uğur andNergis Canefe.…”
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A companion to the anthropology of politics

Table of Contents: “…Affective states / Ann Laura Stoler -- After Socialism / Katherine Verdery -- AIDS / Brooke Grundfest Schoepf -- Citizenship / Aihwa Ong -- Cosmopolitanism / Ulf Hannerz -- Development / Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud -- Displacement / Elizabeth Colson -- Feminism / Malathi De Alwis -- Gender, race and class / Micaela Di Leonardo -- Genetic citizenship / Deborah Heath, Rayna Rapp, and Karen-Sue Taussig -- The global city / Saskia Sassen -- Globalization / Jonathan Friedman -- Governing states / David Nugent -- Hegemony / Gavin Smith -- Human rights / Richard Ashby Wilson -- Identity / Arturo Escobar -- Imagining nations / Akhil Gupta -- Infrapolitics / Steven Gregory -- "Mafias" / Jane C. and Peter T. …”


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Making global self-regulation effective in developing countries

Table of Contents: “…Using International Institutions to Enhance Self-Regulation: The Case of Labor Rights in Cambodia -- 8. Local Politics and the Regulation of Global Water Suppliers in South Africa -- 9. …”
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Change Philanthropy : Candid Stories of Foundations Maximizing Results through Social Justice. by Korten, Alicia Epstein

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 3: Using an Endowment to Build the Field of Socially Responsible InvestingChapter 4: Transforming Business Structures for Communities; Part III: Aiding an Identity-Based Movement; Chapter 5: Supporting the Development of an Immigrant Rights Field; Chapter 6: Maturing an Immigrant Movement; Part IV: Creating Infrastructure for Justice; Chapter 7: Building Community-Based Power in Los Angeles; Chapter 8: Strengthening National Community-Based Networks; Part V: Transform.…”
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Accountability patient safety and policy reform

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Accountability and justice in patient safety reform / Virginia A. Sharpe -- Writing/righting wrong / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Life but no limb: the aftermath of medical error / Carol Levine -- In memory of my brother, Mike / Roxanne Goeltz -- Error disclosure for quality improvement: authenticating a team of patients and providers to promote patient safety / Bryan A. …”
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Between terror and tolerance : religious leaders, conflict, and peacemaking

Table of Contents: “…Hibbard -- Religion, war, and peacekeeping in Sudan: Shari'a, identity politics, and human rights / Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban -- Nigeria's religious leaders in an age of radicalism and neoliberalism / Rosalind I.J. …”
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What is the impact of cyberlife?

Table of Contents: “…Taylor -- Sex is integral to virtual worlds / Mitch Wagner -- On-screen media are changing the human brain / Helen Phillips -- Online games can be addictive / Olga Khazan -- Seriously ill children get information and support from online games / Marissa Levy -- Children's isolation from the natural world is a threat to their health / Richard Louv -- Electronic interaction is making Americans less literate / Jeremy Rifkin -- Experts disagree whether online games have educational value / Sarah Glazer -- Online games will have an impact on the economy / Edward Castronova -- Crime in virtual worlds is impacting real life / Tim Guest -- Online games have no recourse for lost wealth or rights / Cory Doctorow.…”


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The enchanted screen : the unknown history of fairy-tale films by Zipes, Jack, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Filmic adaptation and appropriation of the fairy tale -- De-Disneyfying Disney : notes on the development of the fairy-tale film -- Georges Méliès : pioneer of the fairy-tale film and the art of the ridiculous -- Animated fairy-tale cartoons : celebrating the carnival art of the ridiculous -- Animated feature fairy-tale films -- Cracking the magic mirror : re-presentations of Snow White -- The trials and tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood revisited and reviewed -- Bluebeard's original sin and the rise of serial killing, mass murder, and fascism -- The triumph of the underdog : Cinderella's legacy -- Abusing and abandoning children : "Hansel and Gretel," "Tom Thumb," "The Pied Piper," "Donkey-skin," and "The juniper tree" -- Choosing the right mate : why beasts and frogs make for ideal husbands -- Andersen's cinematic legacy : trivialization and innovation -- Adapting fairy-tale novels -- Between slave language and utopian optimism : neglected fairy-tale films of Central and Eastern Europe -- Fairy-tale films in dark times : breaking molds, seeing the world anew.…”
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Teaching Western American literature

Table of Contents: “…National, Transnational, and Human Rights Frames for Teaching María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don -- 12. …”
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The essential Foucault : selections from essential works of Foucault, 1954-1984 by Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984

Table of Contents: “…-- Preface to The history of sexuality, volume two -- Confronting governments: human rights -- The risks of security -- Structuralism and post-structuralism -- On the genealogy of ethics: an overview of work in progress -- The subject and power -- Technologies of the self -- So it is important to think? …”


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Ethics in Reproductive Medicine. by Bromham, David R.

Table of Contents: “…; CHAPTER 3 Embryo Therapy: The Philosopher's Role in Ethical Debate; CHAPTER 4 The Rights of the Pre-embryo and Fetus to In-vitro and In-vivo Therapy; CHAPTER 5 Respect for Life: Embryonic Considerations; CHAPTER 6 Maternal-Fetal Conflict: Pregnant Drug Addicts; CHAPTER 7 Expanding Human Populations and Their Ecosystems; CHAPTER 8 Maternal Mortality in Developing Countries; CHAPTER 9 The Nature of Love.…”
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On life-writing

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- On Life-Writing -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- Introduction -- 1: Unravelling Shakespeare´s Life -- 2: A Boy from Stratford, 1769-1916: Shakespearean Biography and Romantic Nationalism -- Postscript -- 3: Romantic Biography: Conveying Personality, Intimacy, and Authenticity in an Age of Ink on Paper -- 4: Prosopography and Crowded Attention in Old and New Media -- 5: Writing Real People -- 6: Rosamund and Ravelstein:The Discandying of a Creator´s Confection -- 7: `From Memory´: Literary Encounters and Life-Writing -- 8: Medieval Life-Writing and the Strange Case of Margery Kempe of Lynn (c.1373-c.1440) -- 9: The Materiality of Early Modern Life-Writing: The Case of Richard Stonley -- 10: The Autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin -- 11: The Worst Thing I Ever Did: The Contemporary Confessional Memoir -- 12: The Rights to a Life -- 13: Human 2.0? Life-Writing in the Digital Age -- 14: Autobiography and Psychoanalysis -- 15: The Unstoried Life -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.…”
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Problems of Geocosmos–2018 Proceedings of the XII International Conference and School

Table of Contents: “…Distortion of Local Magnetovariational Anomalies by Effect of Regional Structures -- The Features of Dead Band Amt Signal in Chukotka Region -- Role of Hall Effect in Magnetotelluric Sounding -- About Measurement of Vertical Component of Electric Field during Magnetotelluric Sounding -- Statistical Properties of the Geomagnetic Field Variations and Geomagnetically Induced Currents -- Magnetostratigraphy and Biostratigraphy of the Valanginian in the Crimean Mountains -- Magnetostratigraphy of the Maastrichtian from Volga Right Bank Area near Saratov (Lower Volga Region) -- The First Paleomagnetic Data on Lower Carboniferous Volcanics of the Central Magnitogorsk Zone in the South Urals -- Paleomagnetism and Petromagnetism of Sedimentary Rocks of the Zhuravlevka-Amur Terrane (Junction Zone between the Sikhote-Alin and Mongol-Okhotsk Orogenic Belts) -- Analysis of Strong-Field Hysteresis in High Coercivity Magnetic Minerals -- Preliminary Data on the Magnetic Properties of Fallow Soils (Zelenodolsky District, Republic of Tatarstan) -- Influence of the Choice of A Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale on Results of the Geochronological and Geohistorical Analysis of the Marine Magnetic Anomalies.…”
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The Western tradition : a series of talks given in the B.B.C. European programme.

Table of Contents: “…Demant -- Science and present day problems / Morris Ginsberg -- Nature and origin of scientific method / Bertrand Russell -- The nature and origins of the Western political tradition / Sir Ernest Baker -- Western civilization and the rights of the individual / G.D.H. Cole -- Roman Catholic view of church and state / Richard O'Sullivan -- The Protestant view of church and state / H. …”


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Herbal Insecticides, Repellents and Biomedicines: Effectiveness and Commercialization

Table of Contents: “…Intellectual property rights Issues for herbal products -- 13. Regulatory approval of botanical products including herbal drugs, food and insecticides for commercialization.…”
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The New chapter in United States-Russian relations : opportunities and challenges

Table of Contents: “…Chelishchev -- New directions in U.S. environmental relations with Russia / Barbara Jancar-Webster -- New Russia and the United States : prospects for cooperation in human rights / Igor A. Zevelev -- Balkan triangle : Washington, Moscow, and Belgrade / Robin Alison Remington -- Prospects for U.S.…”


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Handbook on Building Cultures of Peace by Rivera, Joseph

Table of Contents: “…Historical approaches to peace building -- Learning from extant cultures of peace -- Evolutionary theory: the constraints and possibilities of human nature -- The culture of war/culture of peace dialectic and its history at the United Nations -- Assessing cultures of peace and emotional climates in current nation states -- Violence in peace and war: cultural psychology of the unity of construction and destruction -- Challenges posed by political economies -- Transnationality, globalization, and cultures of peace -- Peace education -- Gender equality -- Social cohesion and tolerance -- Democracy -- Open communications -- Human rights -- International security -- Sustainable development -- Nonviolent struggle and peace building -- Sustainable community development and societies of peace -- Negotiation -- Dialogic techniques -- Community reconciliation and post-conflict reconstruction for peace -- Personal transformations and spiritual practices -- Using the arts to promote cultural understanding and peace building -- Controlling street crime -- Using cities to build cultures of peace -- Achieving peace within the family -- Building peace in a consumer society -- Dealing with deviance: Restorative justice and prison reform -- Establishing departments of peace.…”
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The liberal-republican quandary in Israel, Europe, and the United States : early modern thought meets current affairs

Table of Contents: “…Toleration, Liberty, and Rights: or, What Hobbes Knew, Others Feared, and Hohfeld Figured OutOld and New Justifications for War: Just Wars and Humanitarian Interventions -- Justice Over Charity: Some Dangers in Faith-Based Poverty Initiatives -- Has the Wheel Come Full Circle? …”
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The American school, 1642-2004 by Spring, Joel H.

Table of Contents: “…Education and National Policy -- 14. The Great Civil Rights Movement and the New Culture Wars -- 15. Education in the Twenty-First Century.…”


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