Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research by Whitbeck, Caroline

Table of Contents: “…Workplace rights and responsibilities -- Part 3. Responsible research conduct -- 8. …”
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A history of affirmative action, 1619-2000 by Rubio, Philip F.

Table of Contents: “…"No rights which the white man is bound to respect" : bonded labor, white preferences and quotas, and American citizenship debates, 1619-1861 -- "The special favorite of the laws" : Civil War, Reconstruction, and America's first "affirmative action programs," 1861-77 -- Black nadir, white labor : segregation, immigration, and how the Polish became "white" in America, 1877-1933 -- "We want something that is ... affirmative" : black labor confronts the New (white) Deal, 1933-1945 -- "The evil that FHA did ..." : white suburbs, "negro quotas," red scares, and black demands, 1945-55 -- "It was something that was hard to describe" : black movement, white reaction, and affirmative action from the civil rights movement to Reagan-Bush, 1955-93 -- "And the last shall be first" : black reparations, white ambivalence, and historical memory, 1993-2000.…”


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Habeas corpus after 9/11 : confronting America's new global detention system by Hafetz, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…Laying the foundation for the "war on terror" -- Guantánamo : microcosm of a prison beyond the law -- Guantánamo beyond Guantánamo : toward a global detention system -- Crossing a constitutional rubicon : the domestic "enemy combatant" cases -- Habeas corpus and the right to challenge unlawful imprisonment -- The seeds of a global constitution -- A modest judicial intervention : the first Supreme Court "enemy combatant" decisions -- The battle for habeas corpus continues -- Tackling prisons beyond the law : Guantánamo revisited -- Toward a better understanding of habeas corpus : individual rights and the role of the judiciary during wartime -- The elusive custodian : some potential limits of habeas corpus -- Terrorism as crime : toward a lawful and sustainable detention policy -- Continuity and change : the detention policy of a new administration.…”
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Labour Law in Russia : Recent Developments and New Challenges. by Radevich, Elena

Table of Contents: “…Transnational employment relationsfrom a legal scholar's viewpointemployee liability to disciplinaryaction in social and employmentrelations; the transfer of undertakingsin the russian federation; the labour of persons convictedwithout isolation from society; regulating convicts' labourin contemporary russia; the resolution of collective labourdisputes and the realizationof the right to strike in russia; contradictions in the antidiscriminationprotection of employeesin russia and the influence of theeuropean court of human rights; contributors; index.…”
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Sex & social justice by Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Religion and Women's Human Rights ; 4. Judging Other Cultures : The Case of Genital Mutilation ; 5. …”
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Creating Black Americans : African-American history and its meanings, 1619 to the present by Painter, Nell Irvin

Table of Contents: “…Africa and Black Americans -- Captives transported, 1619-ca. 1850 -- A diasporic people, 1630-ca. 1850 -- Those who were free, ca. 1770-1859 -- Those who were enslaved, ca. 1770-1859 -- Civil War and emancipation, 1859-1865 -- The larger Reconstruction, 1864-1896 -- Hard-working people in the depths of segregation, 1896-ca. 1919 -- The New Negro, 1915-1932 -- Radicals and Democrats, 1930-1940 -- The Second World War and the promise of internationalism, 1940-1948 -- Cold War civil rights, 1948-1960 -- Protest makes a civil rights revolution, 1960-1967 -- Black Power, 1966-1980 -- Authenticity and diversity in the era of hip-hop, 1980-2005 -- Epilogue : a snapshot of African Americans in the early twenty-first century -- Timelines.…”


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Can democracy succeed in the Middle East?

Table of Contents: “…-imposed democracy cannot succeed in the Middle East / Wesley Clark -- Democracy in Iraq can succeed / Adeed Dawisha -- Democracy in Iraq will fail / Robert Fisk -- Islamic culture provides a sound basis for democracy / Bernard Lewis -- Islamic culture is not compatible with democracy / Roger Scruton -- Many in the Middle East are eager for democracy / Fouad Ajami -- Many in the Middle East favor authoritarian, Islamist regimes / Fareed Zakaria -- Women's rights are essential to democracy in the Middle East / Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart -- Women's rights are not essential to democracy in the Middle East / Marina S. …”


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Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research by Whitbeck, Caroline

Table of Contents: “…Workplace rights and responsibilities; Part III. Responsible research conduct: 8. …”
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Cognitive kin, moral strangers? : linking animal cognition, animal ethics & animal welfare by Benz-Schwarzburg, Judith

Table of Contents: “…-- Final Evaluation of Personhood Rights for Animals -- Back Matter -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Keeping faith : memoirs of a president by Carter, Jimmy, 1924-

Table of Contents: “…Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Chronology of the Carter Presidency; A First Word; Freedom; Tuesday, January 20, 1981; A Graduate Course In America; A Walk to the White House; Lining Up My Team; An Outsider In Washington; My One-Week Honeymoon with Congress; The Moral Equivalent of War; The Bert Lance Affair; On The Same Earth; Speaking Out for Human Rights; Jimmy Carter Is Giving Away Our Canal!; China; Shadow Over the Earth: The Nuclear Threat; No More War; October 6, 1981; Israeli Security, Land, and Palestinian Rights; Thirteen Days; After Camp David.…”
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Technical, Business, and Legal Dimensions of Protecting Children from Pornography on the Internet : Proceedings of a Workshop.

Table of Contents: “…Front Matter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Basic Concepts in Information Retrieval -- 2 Text Categorization and Analysis -- 3 Categorization of Images -- 4 The Technology of Search Engines -- 5 Cyber Patrol: A Major Filtering Product -- 6 Advanced Techniques for Automatic Web Filtering -- 7 A Critique of Filtering -- 8 Authentication Technologies -- 9 Infrastructure for Age Verification -- 10 Automated Policy Preference Negotiation -- 11 Digital Rights Management Technology -- 12 A Trusted Third Party in Digital Rights Management -- 13 Problems with a Dot-xxx Domain.…”
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East European Faces of Law and Society. by Simons, William B.

Table of Contents: “…Judicial Review in the Russian Supreme Court and Constitutional Court: Struggling for Jurisdictional Powers Instead of Protecting Human RightsHistorical Faces; Property Rights under Socialist Civil Law: Looking Back to the Twentieth Century; The Genesis of Czechoslovakism: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry into the Influence of Rousseau's Réligion Civile; List of Contributors; Index.…”
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Using Deliberative Techniques to Teach American History. by Claxton, Nancy

Table of Contents: “…Truman and the Atom Bomb -- Chapter 5 Contemporary United States -- 17. Rights Revolution -- 18. Vietnam -- 19. Rights in Wartime -- 20. …”
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Reframe the marketplace : the total market approach to reaching the new majority by Bowman, Jeffrey L., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 4 Tales from the Front: Companies Trying to Get It Right -- Chapter 5 Experimenting with the Total Market Approach -- Chapter 6 Step One: New Majority Readiness: The Organization Assessment -- Chapter 7 Step Two: Structuring Your Organization -- Chapter 8 Step Three: Rethinking Your Customers -- Chapter 9 Step Four: Designing the Right Customer Experience -- Chapter 10 Step Five: Using Big Data to Measure Total Market Enterprise Results -- Chapter 11 What Happens in 2040 When Minorities Are the Majority? …”
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Consensus, Confusion, and Controversy : Selected Land Reform Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. by Van den Brink, Rogier

Table of Contents: “…; Definition; Security; Confusing Private, Common, and No Property; Full Tradability's Tradeoffs; The Evolution of Property Rights; Scarcity; Flexibility; Policy Recommendations; Formalizing Property Rights Regimes; Titling is Not Always Necessary; If Not Titling, Then What?…”
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Communication Technology and Gender Violence

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Societal Implications of Cyber Feminism -- Technology Aided Communication to Teach University Students -- Challenging Gender stereotypes through Cyber Education -- Web Based Learning: A methodology to teach Women Literature -- Analysis of Cyber security and Human Rights -- Smart means of Education Technology -- E learning and Social Media -- E- Learning application in Enhancement of Management Education -- Governance of Cyber law through International Laws -- Using web technology to teach Gender Sensitization -- Cyber Bullying -- E learning as a methodology of Distance learning -- Web Based learning application to teaching women in a multicultural classroom -- Teaching LGBT Rights using Cyberlaws -- Digital Violence and Depression -- Understanding Digital Violence: an analysis of Women in South Korea -- Conclusion.…”
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Better feedback for better teaching : a practical guide to improving classroom observations by Archer, Jeff, 1967-, Cantrell, Steven, Holtzman, Steven L., 1986-, Joe, Jilliam N., 1976-, Tocci, Cynthia M., 1953-, Wood, Jess, 1985-

Table of Contents: “…Collecting and using data from training -- Assessing observers to ensure and improve quality -- Monitoring your observation system -- Concluding thoughts: Getting it right.…”
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Reclaiming democracy : the social justice and political economy of Gregory Baum and Kari Polanyi Levitt

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acronyms and Abbreviations List -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- SOCIAL ETHICS AND DEMOCRACY -- 1 Planning and the Religious Mind; Der Mensch denkt, Gott lenkt -- 2 On Culture, Religion, and Development -- 3 On Human Dignity and Human Rights: Western or Universal -- 4 To Build a Just Society: The Catholic Left in Quebec -- 5 Religion, Emancipation, and Human Rights -- POLITICAL ECONOMY AND DEMOCRACY -- 6 West Indian from East Europe. …”
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The Business of Bioscience What goes into making a Biotechnology Product by Shimasaki, Craig D.

Table of Contents: “…- Start with the Idea: Licensing and Protecting Core Assets -- Significance of the Right Business Model and Managing Risk -- Legally Establishing the Company -- The Product Development Pathway: Charting the Right Course -- Developing a Marketing Strategy -- Financing your Company: Part 1. …”
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Where do we go from here? : a dialogue on race

Table of Contents: “…Guided Tour of Civil Rights Landmarks (1:53) -- Savannah Hospital Strike of 1969 (2:03) -- School Desegregation in Summerton (3:47) -- Orangeburg Massacre (3:54) -- Massacre's Aftermath (1:52) -- What Shapes Your Racial Perceptions? …”
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