The Ache Indians of Paraguay

Table of Contents: “…Indians (1:02) -- High-Level Protest Against Logging (1:34) -- Government Listens to Indians (1:01) -- International Exposure of Ache Plight (1:55) -- Protesters in Danger (1:00) -- Government Collusion in Rain Forest Destruction (1:13) -- Violent Confrontation Over Land Rights (1:32) -- Roving Tribes Want Ache Land (1:24) -- Ache Indians Get a Tractor (0:21) -- What Is the Future for the Ache? …”
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The sociology of economic life

Table of Contents: “…Guillén -- Transitions from state socialism: a property rights perspective / Andrew Walder.…”


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Peacemaking and the Challenge of Violence in World Religions. by Omar, Irfan A.

Table of Contents: “…The Qur'an and nonviolence: The challenge ahead -- Nonviolent Activism: Key Muslim Figures -- Muslim Scholar-Activists and Their Contributions -- Three case studies -- Conclusion -- Questions for Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Muslim Peacemaking and Civil Rights Organizations/Resources -- Glossary -- 1.1 A Confucian Response -- 1.2 A Jewish Response -- Chapter 2 Christianity: From Peacemaking to Violence and Home Again -- Who was Jesus? …”
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Islam Is a Religion of Peace A Debate

Table of Contents: “…(7:17) -- QA: Education and Rights of Women (3:21) -- QA: Call for Violence in the Koran (4:38) -- Closing Statement Against the Motion: Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2:27) -- Closing Statement For the Motion: Zeba Khan (2:21) -- Closing Statement Against the Motion: Douglas Murray (2:09) -- Closing Statement For the Motion: Maajid Nawaz (2:21) -- Results of Audience Vote (3:37) -- Credits: Islam Is a Religion of Peace: A Debate (0:13)…”
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Processo e Cultura Giuridica. Procedure and Legal Culture - E-Book Scritti per gli 80 Anni Di Vincenzo Varano. by Barsotti, Vittoria

Table of Contents: “…Civil Procedure and Protection of Individual Rights…”
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The enduring legacy : structured inequality in America's public schools by Ryan, Mark, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…-- A plan for inclusion -- The Committee of Ten and The cardinal principles -- A particular solution for a specific problem -- Social Darwinism as justification -- White superiority via pseudo empiricism -- Assimilation via Americanism in the classroom -- Personification of duality : Cubberley's life and legacy -- Cubberley's hierarchy -- Structured inequality via perceived ability grouping -- Tracking and segregation endure -- The cycle of segregation, desegregation, and resegregation -- Structured inequality : from political strategy to pedagogical practice -- Courts and the persistence of structured inequality -- The court and "race neutral" diversity -- The Southern strategy -- LBJ : integrate and get funding or stay segregated and get nothing -- Political ambiguity on integration -- Nixon's rise bolstered by the Southern strategy -- Nixon's ambiguity on integration and the courts -- Ford continues Nixonian states' rights policies -- Jimmy Carter, a son of the South, disrupts the Southern strategy -- Reagan nullifies LBJ'S integration legacy via the Southern strategy -- Reagan reverses policies against race discrimination -- Reagan : busing to desegregate : waste of time and public money -- George Herbert Walker Bush and an evolving Southern strategy -- Southern ticket of Clinton and Gore wins as resegregation persists -- Bill Clinton's recognition of resegregation in the 1990s -- George W. …”
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English Romance in Time : Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare. by Cooper, Helen, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…WOMEN ON TRIAL""; ""The calumny romance in Tudor England""; ""'I am falsely and without cause accused'""; ""If women be a good thing, or no""; ""'Do after the good and leave the evil'""; ""The adultery question""; ""Adultery in English romance""; ""7. RESTORING THE RIGHTFUL HEIR: 'IF THAT WHICH IS LOST BE NOT FOUND'""; ""The foundling and the Fair Unknown""; ""The descent of the crown""; ""Romance after Bosworth""…”
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The Pacific. by Freeman, Donald B.

Table of Contents: “…5 EXPLOITING PACIFIC RESOURCES Use and abuse of common property resources; The Pacific as a lawless, exploitable frontier; The assault on Pacific resources; Modern overfishing; Hastening environmental destruction; Lawlessness and Pacific labour exploitation; Resources and conflict in the Pacific rim; Current environmental issues; 6 CONTESTING THE PACIFIC: MILITARY ACTIVITY, COLONIAL STRUGGLE AND IMPERIAL COMPETITION; Contesting Indigenous rights in the Pacific; Conflict on the Asian Pacific rim; European rivalry in the Pacific; The scramble for colonial possessions; Open warfare in the Pacific.…”
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African roots/American cultures : Africa in the creation of the Americas

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Are you hip to the jive? (Re)writing/righting the Pan-American discourse / Sheila S. Walker -- Everyday Africa in New Jersey : wonderings and wanderings in the African diaspora / Sheila S. …”


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Poverty, inequality, and the future of social policy : western states in the new world order

Table of Contents: “…: labor market policies and social assistance in the 1980s / Katherine McFate -- The social question / Hugh Heclo -- Poverty, social rights, and the quality of citizenship / Roger Lawson and William Julius Wilson.…”


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Information Sources in Patents. by Adams, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Alternative forms of intellectual property (IP) rightsPatent amendments and corrections; Patent-related protection mechanisms; References; 2 The European Patent system; EP Patent Documents -- Centralised and Nationalised Procedures; Formal examination and search report; Unexamined publication; Grant publication; Post-grant publications; Post-grant translations and the London Agreement; Other post-grant events; European Classification; Databases and Database-Specific Aspects; Relationships with the European Union; The effect of European Regulations and Directives; The Community Patent.…”
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Legal knowledge and information systems : JURIX 2005 : the eighteenth annual conference

Table of Contents: “…Loui -- Practical reasoning and proposing : tools for e-democracy / Douglas Walton -- The legal concepts and the layman's terms / Ronny van Laarschot [and others] -- Validating an automated evaluation procedure for ontology triples in the privacy domain / Peter Spyns, Giles Hogben -- An ontological approach for the management of rights data dictionaries / Roberto Garcia, Jaime Delgado -- Using legal definitions to increase the accessibility of legal documents / Laurens Mommers, Wim Voermans.…”
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In the Shadow of Policy : Everyday Practices in South Africa's Land and Agrarian Reform. by De Klerk, Henning

Table of Contents: “…Land reform and newly emerging social relations on Gallawater A farm; 7. Property rights and land reform in the Western Cape; 8. 'Rent a crowd' land reform at Survive and Dikgoho land reform projects; 9. …”
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Players' work time : a history of the British Musicians' Union, 1893-2013 by Williamson, John, 1949-, Cloonan, Martin

Table of Contents: “…The AMU in the courtsGetting the message across; Political lobbying and campaigning; War; Conclusion; 3 Boom and bust: 1919-1933; From the AMU to the MU; Williams resigns; The profession; The arrival of broadcasting; Recordings; Crisis in the cinemas; Competition; More challenges; The Dance Band Section and MPPA; The trade union movement; Conclusion; 4 The politics of dancing: 1934-1945; Working life; Politics and internal machinations; Introducing a 'ban'; Shaping the Corporation; Performers' rights and PPL; War again; Conclusion; 5 Worlds of possibilities: 1946-1955; A survey.…”
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Community media international perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Higgins ; Call me impure : myths and paradigms of participatory communication / Alfonso Gumucio Dagron ; The people's communication charter : global communications and people's rights / Cees J. Hamelink ; Multitheoretical approaches to community media : capturing specificity and diversity / Nico Carpentier, Rico Lie, and Jan Servaes ; Conceptualizing community : implications for policymaking in a cyberage / Concetta M. …”
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Biological anthropology and ethics : from repatriation to genetic identity

Table of Contents: “…Turner -- Field primatologists : duties, rights, and obligations / Linda D. Wolfe -- Studies of primates in the field and in captivity : similarities and differences in ethical concerns / Leanne T. …”
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Modeling and simulation in manufacturing and defense systems acquisition : pathways to success

Table of Contents: “…Barriers to More Widespread UseInadequate Allocation of Resources -- Lack of Information for Program Managers -- Need for an Integrated Systems Engineering Process -- Obstacles to Collaboration -- Intellectual Property Rights -- Information Dissemination -- Education and Training -- Validation and Verification -- REVIEW OF ACQUISITION-RELATED STUDIES ON MODELING AND SIMULATION -- Multiple Recommendations on Leadership -- Multiple Recommendations on Processes -- Multiple Recommendations on Technology -- Multiple Recommendations on Motivation…”
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Media in the enlarged Europe : politics, policy and industry

Table of Contents: “…PART TWO: STATES OF THE UNION -- Vernacular Geopolitics and Media Economics in an Enlarged Europe / Mark Hayward -- New Labour and the Reinvention of British and European History / Oliver Daddow -- Influences on the Editorial Opinions of the British Press Towards the European Unions / Julie Firmstone -- News from Brussels, in Brussels: EU Reporting as Part of a 'Glocalized' and Market-driven Journalism: A Case Study of the Belgian Newspaper de Morgen / Kristel Vandenbrande, Davy Geens -- Challenges of Media Concentration: The Case of Regional Press Ownership in the Czech Republic / Monkia Metyková, Lenka Waschková CÍsařová -- Public Interest Speech and Investigative Journalism: Latvia, the Diena Case and the European Court of Human Rights / Richard Caddell -- Challenges for Romanian Investigative Journalism / Valentina Marinescu -- Media Development in Moldova and European Integration / Liliana Vitu -- Maintaining Old Traditions of Media Diversity in Europe: The Non-Muslim Minority Media in Turkey / Eylem Yanardagoglu -- New Media, New Europe: Estonia's E-mediated State / Alec Charles.…”


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Participatory research methodologies : development and post-disaster/conflict reconstruction

Table of Contents: “…Participatory Research Methods in Post-Conflict Reconstruction -- Introduction to Part II: Participatory Research Methods in Development and Post-Disaster Reconstruction / Richard Bowd and Alpaslan Özerdem -- Understanding social capital and reconciliation in Rwanda through participatory methods / Richard Bowd -- Door knocking in Sierra Leone: a necessity in post-conflict research / Victor Asiedu -- Mapping child soldiers' reintegration outcomes in Liberia: a participatory approach / Sukanya Podder -- A participatory approach to ethnographic research with victims of gross human rights violations: studying families of the disappeared in post-conflict Nepal / Simon Robins -- Unexamined lives: a methodology of women, violence and war in Lebanon / Maria Holt -- Participatory research in programme evaluation: the mid-term evaluation of the National Solidarity Programme in Afghanistan / David Connolly -- Participatory research methods in post-conflict reconstruction study visits / Alpaslan Özerdem and Richard Bowd -- Conclusion to part II / Alpaslan Özerdem and Richard Bowd -- Conclusion: a comparative analysis of the use of participatory research methods in development, post-disaster and post-conflict contexts / Alpaslan Özerdem and Richard Bowd.…”
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Counsel in the Caucasus : Professionalization and Law in Georgia. by Waters, Christopher P. M. (Christopher Peter Michael), 1968-

Table of Contents: “…The Legal Environment""; ""Regionalism""; ""Formal Law and Its Implementation""; ""Constitutional and Judicial Reforms""; ""Lawmaking""; ""Human Rights and Corruption""; ""Non-State Law""; ""Chapter 4. …”
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