Revolting librarians by West, Celeste, Katz, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…The liberated librarian's newsletter / Linda Katz, Julie Babcock -- Sipapu / Noel Peattie -- Rights and persmissions / Elinor Martin -- Onward. …”


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The best men's stage monologues of 2007

Table of Contents: “…Asylum / Keith Aisner -- Back of the throat / Yussef El Guindi -- Bel canto / Reneé Flemings -- BFF / Anna Ziegler -- Blood orange / David Wiener -- Carol Mulroney (3) / Stephen Belber -- Dark play, or, Stories for boys (2) / Carlos Murillo -- The Darlings / Susan Eve Haar -- Dedication, or, The stuff of dreams (2) / Terrence McNally -- Direct from death row the Scottsboro Boys (2) / Mark Stein -- Disconnect (2) / Rob Ackerman -- Dracula rides again / Jeff Goode -- The First Annual Achadamee Awards / Alan Haehnel -- Home front / Greg Owens -- How his bride came to Abraham / Karen Sunde -- The imaginary invalid / Molière ; translated, adapted by James Magruder -- In a kingdom by the sea (3) / Karen Sunde -- Larry and the werewolf (2) / Jeff Goode -- La tempestad / Larry Loebell -- Looking (2) / Norm Foster -- Lovely day / Leslie Ayvazian -- McReele (4) / Stephen Belber -- My Deah / John Epperson -- 'Nami (2) / Chad Beckim -- Office sonata / Andy Chmelko -- Over the tavern / Tom Dudzick -- A Picasso / Jeffrey Hatcher -- Poker and the declaration of the rights of man / Jesse Kellerman -- Post-Oedipus / Steven Gridley -- The radiant abyss / Angus MacLachlan -- See Rock City / Arlene Hutton -- Smoke on the mountain homecoming / Connie Ray and Alan Bailey -- Spatter pattern / Neal Bell -- Straight on til morning (4) / Trish Harnetiaux -- Trout Stanley (2) / Claudia Dey -- Uncle Jack (4) / Jeff Cohen -- Victoria Martin : math team queen (2) / Kathryn Walat -- The winning streak / Lee Blessing.…”


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Hansen’s Disease A Complete Clinical Guide

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Introduction to Hansen’s disease -- Chapter 2: The journey to a scientific understanding of leprosy: a brief outline -- Chapter 3: The origin, evolution and history of leprosy through a paleopathological lens -- Chapter 4: Hansen’s disease and Human Rights -- Chapter 5: Leprosy agents and principal methods of detection, identification and characterization of the leprosy agents -- Chapter 6: Epidemiology of Hansen’s Disease -- Chapter 7: Hansen’s Disease and One Health -- Chapter 8: Metabolic, genetic and immunological mechanisms in susceptibility to leprosy -- Chapter 9: Clinical aspects and classification of Hansen’s disease -- Chapter 10: Reaction in Hansen’s disease -- Chapter 11: Hansen’s disease in children -- Chapter 12: Neuropathophysiology in Hansen’s disease: mechanisms of nerve injury -- Chapter 13: Neurological manifestations -- Chapter 14: Evaluation, monitoring, and prevention of disabilities in Hansen’s disease -- Chapter 15: Ophthalmological alterations in Hansen’s disease -- Chapter 16: Ear, nose, throat and mouth alterations in Hansen’s disease -- Chapter 17: Osteoarticular alterations in Hansen’s disease -- Chapter 18: Diagnostic Imaging in Hansen’s Disease: Conventional Radiography, Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry -- Chapter 19: Coinfection and immunosuppression in Hansen’s disease -- Chapter 20: Differential diagnosis of cutaneous lesions of Hansen’s disease -- Chapter 21: Differential diagnoses of the neurological manifestations of Hansen’s disease -- Chapter 22: Immune and Chemoprophylaxis in Hansen’s disease -- Chapter 23: Psychosocial aspects of Hansen’s diseases -- Chapter 24: Peripheral Nerve by Ultrasound in Hansen’s Disease -- Chapter 25: Electroneuromyography in Hansen’s Disease -- Chapter 26: Treatment of Hansen’s disease.…”
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The plum flower dance : poems 1985 to 2005 by Weaver, Afaa M. (Afaa Michael), 1951-

Table of Contents: “…s First Baseball Game -- The Final Trains of August -- The Picnic, an Homage to Civil Rights -- Thelonious -- The Last Jazz Club…”
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Canadian Social Policy : Issues and Perspectives, Fourth Edition. by Westhues, Anne

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to the Fourth Edition -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Part 1: Introduction -- Introduction to Part 1 -- 1: Becoming Aquainted with Social Policy -- Part 2: Policy-Making Processes -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 2: Pursuing Social Policy Ideals at the International Level: An NGO Perspective -- 3: The Federal Government and Social Policy at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century: Reflections on Change and Continuity -- 4: Human Rights Legislation, Court Rulings, and Social Policy…”
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Biodiversity for Sustainable Development

Table of Contents: “…Ethnopharmacology, Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights -- 7. Can Benefits Be shared?:Three tangles for access and benefit sharing -- 8. …”
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Economic action in theory and practice : anthropological investigations

Table of Contents: “…Wood -- Borrowed places: eviction wars and property rights formalization in Kazakhstan / Saulesh Yessenova -- Resolving the problem of inequality in the distribution of wealth in Brazil: approaches derived from the Infante Dom Pedro of Portugal, Adam Smith, Karl Marx and Louis Kelso / Sidney M. …”
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Conversations about History. Volume 1 by Burton, Howard

Table of Contents: “…Past and Future -- X. Righting Wrongs, Slowly -- Continuing the Conversation -- Science and Pseudoscience -- A conversation with Michael Gordin -- Introduction -- I. …”
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Disaster science and management by Bhattacharya, Tushar

Table of Contents: “…Impact of disasters -- Introduction -- Assessment of disaster impacts using modern technologies -- 9. Human rights in disaster management -- Sphere standard -- 10. …”
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Quantitative Corporate Finance by Guerard, John B.

Table of Contents: “…Firm Commitment or Underwriting Basis -- Private Placements -- Secondary Flotations -- Issuing Securities Through Rights -- Stock Tend.-Promotion and public share financing of corporate enterprises -- The problem of control -- The equity of the corporation: common and preferred stock -- Common stock as risk capital -- Rewards of common shareholders -- The value of common shares stock -- Splits and stock dividends -- The cost of common stock financing -- Features of preferred stock -- Cost of preferred stock -- Long-term debt -- Mortgage agreement -- Subordinate mortgages -- Dividend restrictions -- Sinking funds -- Restrictions on creating new debt -- Implicit cost of debt -- The explicit costs of debt -- The interest cost -- Setting the rate on a new issue -- Regression analysis -- Financial management -- Sales forecasting and pro forma statement analysis -- Selecting the capital cost base costing the components of the financial mix -- Summary -- Risk and return of equity and the capital asset pricing model -- Reasons for debt reduction -- Effects of debt reduction -- Managerial discretion and terms of repayment methods for retiring specific issues -- Summary -- Financing current operations -- The option pricing model and equity valuation -- External relationships of the corporation -- Corporation growth and economic growth and stability -- Monetary policy and investment decisions of the firm -- Self-stabilization programs -- Mergers, combinations, acquisitions, and holding companies -- Liquidation, failure, bankruptcy, and reorganization -- Management-stockholder relations -- Appendix -- Index.…”
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Green Transition and the Quality of Work Implications, Linkages and Perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Green Jobs and Social Rights: a Case Study on the Formalization of Waste-pickers in Latin America -- Chapter 9. …”
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In solidarity : academic librarian labour activism and union participation in Canada by Dekker, Jennifer, Kandiuk, Mary, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Jennifer Dekker and Mary Kandiuk -- Part One: The origins of Academic Librarian Labour Organizing in Canada -- Academic status for Canadian academic librarians : a brief history / Leona Jacobs -- Out of the "library ghetto" : an exploration of CAUT's contributions to the achievements of Canadian academic librarians / Jennifer Dekker -- Part Two: Case Histories -- A "honey" of a union deal : gender and status in the labour action of Carleton University librarians, 1973-1975 / Martha Attridge Bufton -- Academic librarianship : the quest for rights and recognition at the University of Toronto / Harriet M. …”


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Challenges and Policy Programmes of China's New Leadership by Cheng, Joseph

Table of Contents: “…Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est la Même Chose: Political Reform in Rural China -- 4. Managing Rights Talk in the "Harmonious Society" -- 5. The State and Labour Insurgency in Post-socialist China: Implication for Development -- 6. …”
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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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