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Principles of Microeconomics by Curtis, Doug, Irvine, Ian

Table of Contents: “…Part One: The Building Blocks -- 1 Introduction to key ideas -- 2 Theories, data and beliefs -- 3 The classical marketplace - demand and supply -- Part Two: Responsiveness and the Value of Markets -- 4 Measures of response: Elasticities -- 5 Welfare economics and externalities -- Part Three: Decision Making by Consumer and Producers -- 6 Individual choice -- 7 Firms, investors and capital markets -- 8 Production and cost -- Part Four: Market Structures -- 9 Perfect competition -- 10 Monopoly -- 11 Imperfect competition -- Part Five: The Factors of Production -- 12 Labour and capital -- 13 Human capital and the income distribution -- Part Six: Government and Trade -- 14 Government -- 15 International trade…”
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It’s About Them Public Speaking in the 21st Century by Kim, Sara, Marshall, Douglas, Pulliam, June

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 1: Why Public Speaking Matters Today -- Chapter 2: Building Confidence -- Chapter 3: Audience Analysis -- Chapter 4: The Importance of Listening -- Chapter 5: Ethics -- Chapter 6: Researching Your Speech -- Chapter 7: Supporting Ideas and Building Arguments -- Chapter 8: Organizing and Outlining -- Chapter 9: Delivery -- Chapter 10: Introductions and Conclusions -- Chapter 11: Language -- Chapter 12: Presentation Aids -- Chapter 13 Informative Speaking -- Chapter 14: Persuasive Speaking -- Chapter 15: Special Occasion Speaking -- Chapter 16: Online Public Speaking -- About the Contributors -- Adaptations -- Glossary -- Appendix A: Checklist for Accessibility…”
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The Indigenous Identity of the South Saami Historical and Political Perspectives on a Minority within a Minority /

Table of Contents: “…Håkon Hermanstrand -- The Meaning of Words and the Power of Silence; Erik Nordberg -- Part IV: Text and Representation -- Puncturing Parts of History's Blindness: South Saami and South Saami Culture in Early Picture Postcards; Cathrine Baglo -- The Indigenous Voice in Majority Media. …”
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Higher Education in Romania: Overcoming Challenges and Embracing Opportunities

Table of Contents: “…A Story of Asymmetry and Polarization -- Access to Higher Education: Losing Precious Human Resources Before the Start Line -- The Impact of Social Scholarships and of Reserved Places for Graduates From Rural High Schools in Improving Access to Higher Education and Academic Performance -- The Socio-Economic Challenges in Access to Romanian Higher Education. …”
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Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life

Table of Contents: “…Practices, provision and protest: Power outages in rural Norwegian households -- 7. …”
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Urban Living Lab for Local Regeneration Beyond Participation in Large-scale Social Housing Estates /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Framing living labs in large-scale social housing estates in Europe -- Part 1: A critical overview on urban living labs in large-scale social housing estates -- Beyond a buzzword: Situated participation through socially oriented urban living labs -- Governing with urban labs -- Urban living labs: Insights for institutionally promoted urban policies -- Part 2: Positioning research(ers) in large-scale social estates -- Beyond the presence: Dwelling with people and with their places -- 1,460 days of love and hate: An ethnographic account of a layered job -- The inside and outside of high-rise social housing: The broken institution -- From a community of practice to a community of planning: The case of the Sansheroes network in the San Siro neighbourhood in Milan -- Part 3: Approaching space in large-scale social housing estates -- Marginalization through mobility and porosity - How social housing dwellers see and live the city -- Peterbos: Living in the park, inhabiting the city -- Participation and the architect: Creative partnership or communication breakdown?…”
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Polarization, Shifting Borders and Liquid Governance Studies on Transformation and Development in the OSCE Region /

Table of Contents: “…The Dilemma of Good Governance vs. Power Grab in Georgia (Shalva Dzebisashvili) -- Chapter11. …”
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Diffusionics Diffusion Process Controlled by Diffusion Metamaterials / by Yang, Fu-Bao, Huang, Ji-Ping

Table of Contents: “…Spatial and temporal modulation of thermoelectric metamaterials -- Chapter 4. Heat transfer in porous materials -- Chapter 5. Non-Hermitian physics and topological phenomena in convective thermal metamaterials -- Chapter 6. …”
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Geostatistics Toronto 2021 Quantitative Geology and Geostatistics /

Table of Contents: “…A Geostatistical Heterogeneity Metric For Spatial Feature Engineering -- Iterative Gaussianisation For Multivariate Transformation -- Comparing And Detecting Stationarity And Dataset Shift -- Simulation Of Stationary Gaussian Random Fields With A Gneiting Spatio-Temporal Covariance -- Spectral Simulation Of Gaussian Vector Random Fields On The Sphere -- Geometric And Geostatistical Modeling Of Point Bars -- Application Of Reinforcement Learning For Well Location Optimization -- Compression-Based Modelling Honouring Facies Connectivity In Diverse Geological Systems -- Spatial Uncertainty In Pore Pressure Models At The Brazilian Continental Margin -- The Suitability Of Different Training Images For Producing Low Connectivity, High Net:Gross Pixel-Based Mps Models -- Probabilistic Integration Of Geomechanical And Geostatistical Inferences For Mapping Natural Fracture Networks.…”
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Beyond Dichotomy Synergizing Writing Center and Classroom Pedagogies by Corbett, Steven J.

Table of Contents: “…Front Matter -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Sharing Pedagogical Authority: Practice Complicates Theory When Synergizing Classroom, Small-Group, and One-to-One Writing Instruction -- Chapter One: Tutoring Style, Tutoring Strategy: Course-Based Tutoring and the History, Rhetoric, and Reality of the Directive/Nondirective Instructional Continuum -- Chapter Two: Methods and Methodology: Locating Places, People, and Analytical Frames -- Chapter Three: Macro- and Micro-Analyses of One-to-One Tutorials: Case Studies at the University of Washington -- Chapter Four: Conflict and Care while Tutoring in the Classroom: Case Studies at the University of Washington and Southern Connecticut State University -- Chapter Five: Conclusion: Toward Teacher/Student, Classroom/Center Hybrid Choices -- Works Cited -- Appendix -- Index…”
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Fostering Communities of Transformation in STEM Higher Education A Multi-institutional Collection of DEI Initiatives by Briganti, Jonathan S., Sible, Jill C., Brown, Anne M.

Table of Contents: “…Preparing STEM Teachers to Be Change Makers -- Resequencing the Chemistry Curriculum to Retain Chemistry Majors -- Delayed Enrollment in General Chemistry Recitation -- Assessing Changes in Student Engagement Using a Mixed-Methods Approach -- Development and Assessment of a Four-Week Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates -- Creating Impactful Moments -- Community, Curriculum, and CUREs -- We’re All in This Together -- VIGNETTE: Reflecting on the Impact of Engelpalooza -- Teaching to Make Math Resonate -- Strategies for Creating and Sustaining Inclusive Makerspaces -- Creating a Space in the Curriculum for Effective Mentoring to Foster Student Connections and Agency -- Gunpowder Code Club -- Using Departmental Book Clubs to Bridge the Faculty-Staff-Student Gap -- Institutionally Advancing Inclusive Excellence -- From the Soul…”
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Perspectives on Digital Humanism

Table of Contents: “…Digital Humanism and Global Issues in AI Ethics -- 13. Our Digital Mirror -- Part 4: Information Technology and the Arts -- 14. …”
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Slavery to Liberation The African American Experience by Farrington, Joshua, Powell, Norman W., Graham, Gwendolyn, Anyanwu, Ogechi E.

Table of Contents: “…Elia -- Ch. 6: Race, Identity, and Choice: Black Voices on Liberia and the American Colonization Society, Thomas Keefe -- Ch. 7: The Education of African Americans in the U.S., by Jayne Beilke -- Ch. 8: “It is Our Freedom that Makes Us Different”: Freedom and Identity in Post-Civil War Indian Territory and Oklahoma, by Leroy Myers -- Ch. 9: Eco-ability: The Complex Embodiment of Blind Lemon Jefferson, by Jonathan S. …”
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Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking by Van Cleave, Matthew

Table of Contents: “…-- 1.2 Identifying arguments -- 1.3 Arguments vs. explanations -- 1.4 More complex argument structures -- 1.5 Using your own paraphrases of premises and conclusions to reconstruct arguments in standard form -- 1.6 Validity -- 1.7 Soundness -- 1.8 Deductive vs. inductive arguments -- 1.9 Arguments with missing premises -- 1.10 Assuring, guarding, and discounting -- 1.11 Evaluative language -- 1.12 Evaluating a real-life argument -- Chapter 2: Formal methods of evaluating arguments -- 2.1 What is a formal method of evaluation and why do we need them? …”
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Electronic Voting 7th International Joint Conference, E-Vote-ID 2022, Bregenz, Austria, October 4-7, 2022, Proceedings /

Table of Contents: “…An analysis of the security and privacy issues of the Neovote online voting system -- Time, Privacy, Robustness, Accuracy: Trade-Offs for the Open Vote Network Protocol -- Review Your Choices: When Confirmation Pages Break Ballot Secrecy in Online Elections -- Running the Race: a Swiss Voting Story -- The Effect of Exogenous Shocks on the Administration of Online Voting: Evidence from Ontario, Canada -- The Council of Europe's CM/Rec(2017)5 on e-voting and secret suffrage: time for yet another update? …”
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Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism Ethnographies from South America /

Table of Contents: “…Water as Value and Being: Extractivist MegaProjects and Ownership in Peru -- 7. Indigenous Land Ownership in an Extractivist Context: Conflicting Compositions of the Environment in Cañaris (Peruvian Andes) -- 8. …”
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Sustainable Development Disciplines for Society Breaking Down the 5Ps-People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, and Partnerships /

Table of Contents: “…Knowledge Integration and Open Social Innovation for Sustainable Development -- Reconstruction under Nuclear Disaster and Making Resilient Society in Fukushima -- Rural Development in Japan -- Sustainable Development Goals from the Perspective of Photographic Archives: A Case Study on Photographs from Occupied Japan -- Ecology and Sustainable Development in Japan -- Globalization and Sustainability: De Jure and De Facto Approach -- Production and Quality Management for SDGs -- Sustainable Development: Controversies and Theoretical Results in Economics -- Economic Growth: Why are There Rich and Poor Countries? -- Structure of Development in a Smart Society: An Application of Input-Output Analysis -- Trade-Investment Nexus and Economic Growth in East Asia -- BOP Businesses of Multinational Corporations and Sustainability -- Global Food Security, and Economic and Agricultural Development -- Designing Allocation Rules in Economic Problems.…”
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History in the Making A History of the People of the United States of America to 1877 by Locks, Catherine, Mergel, Sarah K., Roseman, Pamela Thomas, Spike, Tamara

Table of Contents: “…Chapter One: United States History Before Columbus -- Chapter Two: The Global Context: Asia, Europe, and Africa in the Early Modern Era -- Chapter Three: Initial Contact and Conquest -- Chapter Four: The Establishment of English Colonies Before 1642 and Their Development Through the Late Seventeenth Century -- Chapter Five: English Colonization After 1660 -- Chapter Six: Growing Pains in the Colonies -- Chapter Seven: The Road to Revolution, 1754-1775 -- Chapter Eight: the American Revolution -- Chapter Nine: Articles of Confederation and the Constitution -- Chapter Ten: The Federalist Era -- Chapter Eleven: The Early Republic -- Chapter Twelve: Jacksonian America (1815-1840) -- Chapter Thirteen: Antebellum Revival and Reform -- Chapter Fourteen: Westward Expansion -- Chapter Fifteen: The Impending Crisis -- Chapter Sixteen: The Civil War -- Chapter Seventeen: Reconstruction…”
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Principles of Macroeconomics by Curtis, Doug, Irvine, Ian

Table of Contents: “…Part One: The Building Blocks -- 1 Introduction to key ideas -- 2 Theories, data and beliefs -- 3 The classical marketplace - demand and supply -- Part Two: Introduction to Macroeconomics -- 4 Economic activity & performance -- 5 Output, business cycles, growth & employment -- 6 Aggregate expenditure & aggregate demand -- 7 The government sector -- Part Three: Financial Markets & Economic Activity -- 8 Money, banking & money supply -- 9 Financial markets, interest rates, foreign exchange rates & AD -- 10 Central banking and monetary policy -- Part Four: Real GDP, Business Cycles, Policy and Growth -- 11 Inflation, real GDP, monetary policy & fiscal policy -- 12 Exchange rates, monetary policy, and fiscal policy -- 13 Economic growth…”
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Documentary Making for Digital Humanists by Reid, Darren R., Sanders, Brett

Table of Contents: “…Precedent -- 7. Choosing Your Filmmaking Equipment -- 8. Core Methods -- 9. …”
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