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Beginning Japanese for Professionals Book 2 by Konomi, Emiko

Table of Contents: “…-- 6-2-3 Particle de “by means of” -- 6-2-4 The Starting Point ~kara, The Ending Point ~made -- Dialogue 3 -- 6-3-1 Nan-ji goro: Approximation of Naming Time -- 6-3-2 sugi/ mae: More about telling time -- 6-3-3 Learning Verbs with Particles -- Dialogue 4 -- 6-4-1Onomatopoeia -- Review -- Drill Tape Scripts -- Lesson 7: Calendar -- Dialogue 1 -- 7-1-1 Calendar time: Counting and Naming Dates -- 7-1-2 Counting Weeks -- Dialogue 2 -- 7-2-1 Naming and Counting Months and Years -- 7-2-2 Counting age: ~sai for people and animals, ~nen for others -- 7-2-3 Japanese Calendar -- 7-2-4 Informal Style: Noun Sentence and Adjective Sentence -- Dialogue 3 -- 7-3-1 Verb ~te Form -- 7-3-2 Verb ~te form + motion verbs -- 7-3-3 Particle To indicating accompaniment ‘with' -- Dialogue 4 -- 7-4-1 ~te itadakemasen ka: More on Requests -- 7-4-2 Relative Time Words -- 7-4-3 Raigetsu kara no sukejuuru: Noun + Particle as a Noun Phrase -- ReviewDrill Tape ScriptsLesson 8: Pastime -- Dialogue 1 -- 8-1-1 Verb Plain Form, Non-Past, Affirmative -- Dialogue 2 -- 8-2-1 Plain Form + n desu -- 8-2-2 [Purpose X] ni iku ‘go to do X' -- 8-2-3 Plain Form + deshou / darou -- Dialogue 3 -- 8-3-1 Comparing Two or More Items -- 8-3-2 Sentence + shi -- Dialogue 4 -- 8-4-1 Non-Past Plain Negative Forms of Verbs -- 8-4-2 ~te form of desu; X de ii ‘X will do' -- ReviewDrill Tape Scripts…”
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Writing Manuals for the Masses The Rise of the Literary Advice Industry from Quill to Keyboard /

Table of Contents: “…A Pulse Before Shelf Life: Literary Advice on Notebook-writing as Event, Arne Vanraes -- 11. 'Writing by Prescription': Creative Writing as Therapy and Personal Development, Leni Van Goidsenhoven and Anneleen Masschelein -- 12. …”
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Education, Equity and Inclusion Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable North /

Table of Contents: “…Adaptation isn't just for the tundra: Rethinking teaching and schooling in Alaska's Arctic -- Chapter 3. The role of evaluative thinking in generating, evaluating and scaling innovations in learning: A case study of the Greenland education system -- Chapter 4. …”
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Childlessness in Europe: Contexts, Causes, and Consequences

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Childlessness in Europe: An Overview: Analyzing Childlessness: Michaela Kreyenfeld & Dirk Konietzka -- Childlessness in Europe: Reconstructing Long-Term Trends among Women Born in 1900-1972: Tomáš Sobotka -- Part II: Country Studies: Childlessness in the UK: Ann Berrington -- Childlessness in France: Katja Köppen, Magali Mazuy & Laurent Toulemon -- Childlessness in East and West Germany: Michaela Kreyenfeld & Dirk Konietzka -- Childlessness in Switzerland and Austria: Marion Burkimsher & Kryštof Zeman -- Childlessness in Finland: Anna Rotkirch & Anneli Miettinen -- Childlessness in the United States: Tomáš Frejka -- Part III:Women's Education and Childlessness: Education and Childlessness: The Influence of Educational Field and Educational Level on Childlessness among Swedish and Austrian Women: Gerda Neyer, Jan Hoem & Gunnar Andersson -- Childlessness and Fertility Dynamics of Female Higher Education Graduates in Germany: Hildegard Schaeper, Michael Grotheer & Gesche Brandt -- Part IV: Fertility Ideals, Biographical Decisions and Assisted Reproduction: Fertility Ideals of Women and Men across the Life Course in Germany: Anne-Kristin Kuhnt, Michaela Kreyenfeld & Heike Trappe -- Childless at Age 30: A Qualitative Study of the Life Course Plans of Working Women in East and West Germany: Laura Bernardi & Sylvia Keim-Klärner -- Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Germany: A Review of the Current Situation: Heike Trappe -- Assisted Reproductive Technology in Europe: Usage and Regulation in the Context of Cross-Border Reproductive Care: Patrick Präg & Melinda C. …”
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Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Development

Table of Contents: “…Securing Communal Tenure Complemented by Collaborative Platforms for Improved Participatory Landscape Management and Sustainable Development: Lessons from Northern Tanzania and the Maasai Mara in Kenya -- Chapter 13. Beyond the Traditional: Voluntary Market-Based Initiatives to Promote Land Tenure Security -- Chapter 14. …”
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The Nation Form in the Global Age Ethnographic Perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…The Rivalry Between Secular and Religious Nationalisms: On the Split in Iranian National Identity - Mahmoud Alinejad -- Part 5. Asia In/And Europe -- Chapter 12. Coming of Age in the Secular Republic of Fiction - Oskar Verkaaik -- Chapter 13. …”
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Advances in Discrete Differential Geometry

Table of Contents: “…Bobenko and Felix Günther -- Approximation of conformal mappings using conformally equivalent triangular lattices: Ulrike Bücking -- Numerical Methods for the Discrete Map Za: Folkmar Bornemann, Alexander Its, Sheehan Olver, and Georg Wechslberger -- A variational principle for cyclic polygons with prescribed edge lengths: Hana Kourimská, Lara Skuppin, Boris Springborn -- Complex Line Bundles over Simplicial Complexes and their Applications: Felix Knöppel and Ulrich Pinkall -- Holomorphic vector fields and quadratic differentials on planar triangular meshes: Wai Yeung Lam, Ulrich Pinkall -- Vertex normals and face curvatures of triangle meshes: Xiang Sun, Caigui Jiang, Johannes Wallner, and Helmut Pottmann -- S-conical cmc surfaces. …”
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Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities A Global Assessment /

Table of Contents: “…Regional assessment of Asia.- 5. Sub-regional assessment of China: Urbanization in biodiversity hotspots -- 6. …”
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Gendered Lives Global Issues by Fernandez, Nadine T., Nelson, Katie

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Key Concepts -- Chapter 2: Key Perspectives -- Part II: South Asia -- Chapter 3: Introducing the Region -- Chapter 4: Controlling National Borders by Controlling Reproduction -- Chapter 5: Understanding Caste and Kinship within Hijras, a “Third” Gender Community in India -- Chapter 6: The “City” and “The Easy Life”: Work and Gender among Sherpa in Nepal -- Part III: Latin America -- Chapter 7: Latin America: Introducing the Region -- Chapter 8: Being a Good Mexican Man by Embracing “Erectile Dysfunction” -- Chapter 9: Intersectionality and Normative Masculinity in Northeast Brazil -- Chapter 10: Mexico’s Antipoverty Program Oportunidades and the Shifting Dynamics of Citizenship for Ñuu Savi (Mixtec) Village Women -- Chapter 11: Q’eqchi’-Maya Women: Memory, Markets, and Multilevel Marketing in Guatemala -- Part IV: The Caribbean -- Chapter 12: The Caribbean: Introducing the Region -- Chapter 13: Quinceañeras: Girls’ Coming-of-Age Parties in Contemporary Havana, Cuba -- Chapter 14: Jamaican Realities of Masculinities and Sexualities: “How Far Have We Come since Michel Foucault?” …”
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American Encounters Art, History, and Cultural Identity by Miller, Angela L, Berlo, Janet Catherine, Wolf, Bryan J, Roberts, Jennifer L

Table of Contents: “…. -- Chapter 2: The Old World and the New: First Phases of Encounter, 1492-1750 -- Chapter 3: Early Colonial Arts, 1632-1734 -- Chapter 4: Late Colonial Encounters: The New World, Africa, Asia, and Europe, 1735-1797 -- Chapter 5: Art, Revolution, and The New Nation, 1776-1828 -- Chapter 6: The Body Politic, 1828-1865 -- Chapter 7: Native and European Arts at the Boundaries of Culture: The Frontier West and Pacific Norrthwest, 1820s-1850s -- Chapter 8: Nature's Nation, 1820-1865 -- Chapter 9: Post-War Challenges: Reconstruction, the Centennial Years, and Beyond, 1865-1900 -- Chapter 10: A New Internationalism: The Arts in an Expanding World, 1876-1900 -- Chapter 11: Exploration and Retrenchment: The Arts in Unsettling Times, 1890-1900 -- Chapter 12: The Arts Confront the New Century: Renewal and Continuity, 1900-1920 -- Chapter 13: Transnational Exchanges: Modernism and Modernity Beyond Borders, 1913-1940 -- Chapter 14: The Arts and the City, 1913-1940 -- Chapter 15: Searching for Roots, 1918-1940 -- Chapter 16: Social Visions: The Arts in the Depression years, 1929-1941 -- Chapter 17: Cold War and the Age of the Atom: Consensus and Anxiety, 1945-1960 -- Chapter 18: Art into Life, 1960-1980 -- Chapter 19: American Art in Flux, 1980-Present -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Picture Credits -- Index…”
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Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 1) Comparing Access to Welfare Entitlements /

Table of Contents: “…Migrants' Access to Social Protection in Finland: Laura Kalliomaa-Puha -- 11. Migrants' Access to Social Protection in France: Lola Isidro, Antoine Math -- 12. …”
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Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems 29th International Conference, TACAS 2023, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice o...

Table of Contents: “…-A Learner-Verifier Framework for Neural Network Controllers and Certificates of Stochastic Systems -- Model Checking -- Bounded Model Checking for Asynchronous Hyperproperties -- Model Checking Linear Dynamical Systems under Floating-point Rounding -- Efficient Loop Conditions for Bounded Model Checking Hyperproperties -- Reconciling Preemption Bounding with DPOR -- Optimal Stateless Model Checking for Causal Consistency -- Symbolic Model Checking for TLA+ Made Faster -- AutoHyper: Explicit-State Model Checking for HyperLTL -- Machine Learning/Neural Networks -- Feature Necessity & Relevancy in ML Classifier Explanations -- Towards Formal XAI: Formally Approximate Minimal Explanations of Neural Networks -- OccRob: Effcient SMT-Based Occlusion Robustness Verification of Deep Neural Networks -- Neural Network-Guided Synthesis of Recursive List Functions -- Automata -- Modular Mix-and-Match Complementation of Buechi automata -- Validating Streaming JSON Documents With Learned VPAs -- Antichains Algorithms for the Inclusion Problem Between ω -VPL -- Stack-Aware Hyperproperties -- Proofs -- Propositional Proof Skeletons -- Unsatisfiability Proofs for Distributed Clause-Sharing SAT Solvers -- Carcara: An effcient proof checker and elaborator for SMT proofs in the Alethe format -- Constraint Solving/Blockchain -- The Packing Chromatic Number of the Infinite Square Grid is 15 -- Active Learning for SAT Solver Benchmarking -- ParaQooba: A Fast and Flexible Framework for Parallel and Distributed QBF Solving -- Inferring Needless Write Memory Accesses on Ethereum Bytecode -- Markov Chains/Stochastic Control -- A Practitioner's Guide to MDP Model Checking Algorithms -- Correct Approximation of Stationary Distributions -- Robust Almost-Sure Reachability in Multi-Environment MDPs -- Mungojerrie: Linear-Time Objectives in Model-Free Reinforcement Learning -- Verification -- A Formal CHERI-C Semantics for Verification -- Automated Verification for Real-Time Systems via Implicit Clocks and an Extended Antimirov Algorithm -- Parameterized Verification under TSO with Data Types -- Verifying Learning-Based Robotic Navigation Systems: A Case Study -- Make flows small again: revisiting the flow framework -- ALASCA: Reasoning in Quantified Linear Arithmetic -- A Matrix-Based Approach to Parity Games -- A GPU Tree Database for Many-Core Explicit State Space Exploration.…”
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Knowledge and Networks

Table of Contents: “…Exploring the Interaction of Space and Networks in the Creation of Knowledge: An Introduction: Johannes Glückler, Emmanuel Lazega, and Ingmar Hammer -- I: The Significance of Knowledge About Networks: The Relational Dimension as a Bridging Principle Between Economic, Social, and Geographic Issues: Reversing the Instrumentality of the Social for the Economic: A Critical Agenda for 21st-Century Knowledge Networks: Nancy Ettlinger -- Interpersonal Networks in Foreign Assignments and Intercultural Learning Processes: Erika Spieß -- Family Networks for Learning and Knowledge Creation in Developing Regions: Pengfei Li -- Studying Networks Geographically: World Political Regionalization in the United Nations General Assembly (1985-2010): Laurent Beauguitte -- (Post)graduate Education Markets and the Formation of Mobile Transnational Economic Elites: Sarah Hall -- II: Relational Opportunity: Network Evolution and Its Impact on Individuals and Regions: Organized Mobility and Relational Turnover as Context for Social Mechanisms: A Dynamic Invariant at the Heart of Stability from Movement: Emmanuel Lazega -- Trajectory Types Across Network Positions: Jazz Evolution from 1930 to 1969: Charles Kirschbaum -- Topology and Evolution of Collaboration Networks: The Case of a Policy-anchored District: Laura Prota, Maria Prosperina Vitale, and Maria Rosaria D'Esposito -- Platforming for Path-Breaking? …”
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Sustainable Living with Environmental Risks

Table of Contents: “…Managing Environmental Risks and Promoting Sustainability: Science Advancement and Leadership Development -- Biodiversity Agriculture Supports Human Populations -- Conservation and Sustainable Management of Soil Biodiversity for Agricultural Productivity -- Conservation Tillage Assessment For Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emission In Rainfed Agro-Ecosystem -- Improving Biodiversity in Rice Paddy Fields to Promote Land Sustainability -- Agroforestry Models for Promoting Effective Risk Management and Building Sustainable Communities -- Managing Environmental Risks and Promoting Sustainability: Conservation of Forest Resources in Madagascar -- Community-Based Mangrove Forest Management in Thailand: Key Lesson Learned for Environmental Risk Management -- Necessity of Adaptive Risk Management for Fisheries and Wildlife -- Valuation of Non-Marketed Agricultural Ecosystem Services and Food Security in Southeast Asia -- Emerging Socio-Economic and Environmental Issues Affecting Food Security: A Case Study of Silang-Santa Rosa Subwatershed -- Strengthening the Capacity of Flood-Affected Rural Communities in Padang Terap, State of Kedah, Malaysia -- Mitigating Coastal Erosion in Fort Dauphin, Madagascar -- Risk Management of Chemical Pollution: Principles from the Japanese Experience -- Research on the Sod Between Chlorophyll-a and Organic Matter BOD, COD, Phosphorus and Total Nitrogen in Stagnant Lake Basins -- Managing Construction Development Risks to the Environment -- Ecosystem Restoration Using the Near-Natural Method in Shanghai -- Sustainable Management of Urban Green Environments: Challenges and Opportunities -- Environment and Social Capacity Assessment for Sustainability Promotion and Risk Management -- Rural Landscape Conservation in Japan: Lessons from the Satoyama Conservation Program in Kanagawa Prefecture -- Enhancing Students' Ecological Thinking to Improve Understanding of Environmental Risk -- Interactive Multimedia Education System (IMES) as a International Education Platform.…”
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Enhancing Smallholder Farmers' Access to Seed of Improved Legume Varieties Through Multi-stakeholder Platforms Learning from the TLIII project Experiences in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia /

Table of Contents: “…A cross-case analysis of innovation platform experiences in seven countries in West and East Africa and South Asia -- Chapter 14. Innovation platform for catalyzing access to seed of improved legume varieties to smallholder farmers.-.…”
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Design Discourse Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing by Franke, David, Reid, Alex, Di Renzo, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…Dev Hathaway -- Reinventing Audience through Distance, Jude Edminster and Andrew Mara -- Introducing a Technical Writing Communication Course into a Canadian School of Engineering, Anne Parker -- English and Engineering, Pedagogy and Politics, Brian D. …”
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The European Experience A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 15002000

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Unit 1 Identities -- Chapter 1.1 Ideas of Europe -- Chapter 1.2 Borders -- Chapter 1.3 Migration -- Chapter 1.4 Europe's Other(ed)s: The Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East -- Unit 2 Societies -- Chapter 2.1 Demographic Change -- Chatper 2.2 Interethnic Relations -- Chapter 2.3 Household and Family -- Chapter 2.4 Inequalities -- Unit 3 Power and Citizenshpi -- Chapter 3.1 State-Building and Nationalism -- Chaptetr 3.2 Empire and Colonialism -- Chapter 3.3 Revolutions and Civil Wars -- Chapter 3.4 Peace and Conflict -- Chapter 3.5 Protest and Social Movements -- Unit 4 Knowledge -- Chapter 4.1 Science and Technological Change -- Chapter 4.2 Social Engineering and Welfare -- Chapter 4.3 Education and Knowledge Transfer -- Chapter 4.4 Understanding and Controllinig the Environment -- Unit 5 Economy -- Chapter 5.1 Entrepeneurs, Companies, Markets -- Chapter 5.2 Distribution Wealth -- Chapter 5.3 Production and Consumption -- Chapter 5.4 Labour and Forced Labour -- Unit 6 Living with Differencce -- Chapter 6.1 Religions -- Chapter 6.2 Ideologies -- Chapter 6.3 Centres and Pripheries -- Chapter 6.4 Gnerations and Lifecycles -- Unit 7 Cultural Encounters -- Chapter 7.1 Experiments and Avant-Gardes -- Chapter 7.2 Mass Media and Popular Culture -- Chapter 7.3 Sports and Leisure -- Chapter 7.4 Heritage and Memory -- List of Authors -- Index…”
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Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides Volume 1 ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025 /

Table of Contents: “…Landslide Risk Reduction in Croatia: Scientific research in the framework of the WCoE 2014-2017, IPL-173, IPL-184, ICL ABN -- Shapes and Mechanisms of Large-scale Landslides in Japan: Forecasting Analysis from an Inventory (WCoE 2014-2017 -- Retrospective and Prospects for Cold Regions Landslide Research (2012-2016) (WCoE 2014-2017, IPL-132, IPL-167, IPL-203, CRLN -- Large-scale Rockslide Inventories: from the Kokomeren River Basin to the Entire Central Asia Region (WCoE 2014-2017, IPL-106-2) -- Interventions for Promoting Knowledge, Innovations and Landslide Risk Management Practices within South and Southeast Asia (WCoE 2014-2017) -- Promoting a Global Standard for Community-based Landslide Early Warning Systems (WCoE 2014-2017, IPL-158, IPL-165) -- Model Policy Frameworks, Standards and Guidelines on Landslide Disaster Reduction (WCoE 2014-2017) -- Landslide Hazard and Risk Management (WCoE 2014-2017) -- Mitigation of Landslide Hazards in Ukraine under the Guidance of ICL: 2009-2016 (IPL-153, IPL-191) -- Development of a Hazard Evaluation Technique for Earthquake-Induced Landslides Based on an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) (IPL-154) -- The Croatian-Japanese SATREPS Joint Research Project on Landslides (IPL-161).…”
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Transforming Education for Sustainability Discourses on Justice, Inclusion, and Authenticity /

Table of Contents: “…Teaching about climate change from an astronomical perspective (Laura Kay) -- Chapter 15. Barnard's fossil fuel divestment decision: Aligning endowments with institutional values (Robert Goldberg) -- Part V. …”
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Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origins A Methodological Overview /

Table of Contents: “…1: Introduction: Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origin: Claudio Bolzman, Laura Bernardi, Jean-Marie Le Goff -- Part I: Comparison as Key Methodological Tool ad Challenging Perspective in Study of the Children of Migrants: 2: Damned of you do, Damned if you don't: The Challenges of Including and Comparing the Children of Immigrants in European Survey Data: Laurence Lessard-Philips, Silvia Galandini, Helge de Valk, Rosita Fibbi -- 3: Risk Factors of Labor-Market Insertion for Children of Immigrants in Switzerland: Andrés Guarin and Emmanuel Rousseaux -- 4: The Presence of a Third Person in Face-to-Face Interviews with Immigrants Descendants: Patterns, Determinants and Effects: Nadja Milewski and Danny Otto -- Part II: Life Course Perspective and Mixed-Methods Approaches in the Study of Children of Migrants -- 5: Analyzing Second-Generation Trajectories from a Life Course Approach: What Mixed Methods can Offer: Ingrid Tucci -- 6: Intergenerational Relationships in Migrant Families. …”
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