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Travel Writings on Asia Curiosity, Identities, and Knowledge Across the East, c. 1200 to the Present /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Section 1: Re-forging Frontiers in Asia - Local and Transcontinental Mobilities in the Global Middle Ages -- Travel, Order and Knowledge: Local officials in the Song Dynasty (960 - 1279) and Functions of Travelling in China -- Transcultural Perceptions of the 'East' in the 13th and 14th century - towards a study of curiosity in the Global Middle Ages -- Massacres and Mobilities: Human Movement in the Mongol World Empire -- Section 2: Mapping 'New' Frontiers - Curiosity and Knowledge -- Antonio Pigafetta's Asia -- Bowing to a new king - The Ming-Qing transition in European sources -- The Silk Road as a Spiritual Landscape: The Otani Expeditions and Tibet -- Section 3: The Imperial 'Gaze' - Hegemonic Perceptions of Knowledge and Power -- Britain's Brave Boys and the Haunted House of China. …”
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Foundations of Business Law and Legal Environment by Mayer, Don

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Introduction to Law and Legal Systems -- Chapter 2: Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics -- Chapter 3: Courts and the Legal Process -- Chapter 4: Constitutional Law and US Commerce -- Chapter 5: Administrative Law -- Chapter 6: Criminal Law -- Chapter 7: Introduction to Tort Law -- Chapter 8: Introduction to Contract Law -- Chapter 9: The Agreement -- Chapter 10: Real Assent -- Chapter 11: Consideration -- Chapter 12: Legality -- Chapter 13: Form and Meaning -- Chapter 14: Third-Party Rights -- Chapter 15: Discharge of Obligations -- Chapter 16: Remedies -- Chapter 17: Products Liability -- Chapter 18: Relationships between Principal and Agent -- Chapter 19: Liability of Principal and Agent; Termination of Agency -- Chapter 20: Partnerships: General Characteristics and Formation -- Chapter 21: Partnership Operation and Termination -- Chapter 22: Hybrid Business Forms -- Chapter 23: Corporation: General Characteristics and Formation -- Chapter 24: Legal Aspects of Corporate Finance -- Chapter 25: Corporate Powers and Management -- Chapter 26: Securities Regulation -- Chapter 27: Corporate Expansion, State and Federal Regulation of Foreign Corporations, and Corporate Dissolution -- Chapter 28: Antitrust Law -- Chapter 29: Unfair Trade Practices and the Federal Trade Commission -- Chapter 30: Employment Law -- Chapter 31: Labor-Management Relations -- Chapter 32: International Law…”
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International Economics Theory and Policy by Suranovic, Steve

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Chapter 1: Introductory Trade Issues: History, Institutions, and Legal Framework -- Chapter 2: The Ricardian Theory of Comparative Advantage -- Chapter 3: The Pure Exchange Model of Trade -- Chapter 4: Factor Mobility and Income Redistribution -- Chapter 5: The Heckscher-Ohlin (Factor Proportions) Model -- Chapter 6: Economies of Scale and International Trade -- Chapter 7: Trade Policy Effects with Perfectly Competitive Markets -- Chapter 8: Domestic Policies and International Trade -- Chapter 9: Trade Policies with Market Imperfections and Distortions -- Chapter 10: Political Economy and International Trade -- Chapter 11: Evaluating the Controversy between Free Trade and Protectionism -- Chapter 12: Introductory Finance Issues: Current Patterns, Past History, and International Institutions -- Chapter 13: National Income and the Balance of Payments Accounts -- Chapter 14: The Whole Truth about Trade Imbalances -- Chapter 15: Foreign Exchange Markets and Rates of Return -- Chapter 16: Interest Rate Parity -- Chapter 17: Purchasing Power Parity -- Chapter 18: Interest Rate Determination -- Chapter 19: National Output Determination -- Chapter 20: The AA-DD Model -- Chapter 21: Policy Effects with Floating Exchange Rates -- Chapter 22: Fixed Exchange Rates -- Chapter 23: Policy Effects with Fixed Exchange Rates -- Chapter 24: Fixed versus Floating Exchange Rates…”
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A Primer of Real Analysis by Sloughter, Dan

Table of Contents: “…1 Fundamentals -- 1.1 Sets and relations -- 1.2 Functions -- 1.3 Rational numbers -- 1.4 Real Numbers -- 2 Sequences and Series -- 2.1 Sequences -- 2.2 Infinite series -- 3 Cardinality -- 3.1 Binary representations -- 3.2 Countable and uncountable sets -- 3.3 Power sets -- 4 Topology of the Real Line -- 4.1 Intervals -- 4.2 Open sets -- 4.3 Closed sets -- 4.4 Compact Sets -- 5 Limits and Continuity -- 5.1 Limits -- 5.2 Monotonic functions -- 5.3 Limits to infinity and infinite limits -- 5.4 Continuous Functions -- 6 Derivatives -- 6.1 Best linear approximations -- 6.2 Derivatives -- 6.3 Mean Value Theorem -- 6.4 Discontinuities of derivatives -- 6.5 l'Hˆopital's rule -- 6.6 Taylor's Theorem -- 7 Integrals -- 7.1 Upper and lower integrals -- 7.2 Integrals -- 7.3 Integrability conditions -- 7.4 Properties of integrals -- 7.5 The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus -- 7.6 Taylor's theorem revisited -- 7.7 An improper integral -- 8 More Functions -- 8.1 The arctangent function -- 8.2 The tangent function -- 8.3 The sine and cosine Functions -- 8.4 The logarithm function -- 8.5 The exponential function -- Index…”
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Cycling Through the Pandemic Tactical Urbanism and the Implementation of Pop-Up Bike Lanes in the Time of COVID-19 /

Table of Contents: “…- 'School Streets' and the adaptation London's state-led tactical urbanism during COVID-19 -- Public action in times of crisis: Trajectories of cycling policies in four French cities -- Press discourse on cycling before, during, and after the first COVID-19 lockdown in France. …”
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Steps to Success Crossing the Bridge Between Literacy Research and Practice

Table of Contents: “…Teacher Discourses and Identities: Understanding Your Teaching Self…”
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Compendium for Early Career Researchers in Mathematics Education

Table of Contents: “…Björn Schwarz and Gabriele Kaiser 7500 -- Section III: Academic writing and academic publishing -- IIIa Academic writing -- 16 Pleasure, power, and pitfalls of writing up mathematics education research. …”
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Introduction to Community Psychology by Jason, Leonard A., Glantsman, Olya, O'Brien, Jack F.

Table of Contents: “…Tools for Action -- VI. Our Future -- VII. Chapter Quizzes -- VIII. Chapter Lecture Slides…”
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Marine Pollution - Monitoring, Management and Mitigation

Table of Contents: “…OUR OCEANS 1. Introduction to our oceans -- 2. Marine pollution -- TYPES OF POLLUTION, THEIR BEHAVIOUR AND IMPACTS 3. …”
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Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2022 Proceedings of the ENTER 2022 eTourism Conference, January 11-14, 2022 /

Table of Contents: “…-- Video Games as a Media for Tourism Experience -- Travel planning for families with a disabled child, and how AI can improve tourism accessibility -- Leveraging Blockchain in Medical Tourism Value Chain -- Navigation by Revealing Trade-offs for Content-Based Recommendations -- Personalization of Multi-Day Round Trip Itineraries According to Travelers' Preferences -- Identifying the main service elements for customer-oriented live guided virtual tours -- Platform Stress in Hospitality - Focusing on the technology dimension -- Visualizing and Comparing Online Travel Reviews of the Great Walls: A Data Mining Approach -- Monitoring Human-Wildlife Interactions in National Parks with Crowdsourced Data and Deep Learning -- Exploring the utilitarian and hedonic value derived from tourism pre-experiences with virtual reality: differences between destinations and accommodations.…”
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Narrating China's Governance Stories in Xi Jinping's Speeches / by People's Daily, Department of Commentary

Table of Contents: “…-Part 1 About the Interior -- On Incorrupt Government: "When the officials become corruptible and unfair, the regime is going into decline" -- On Characters and Morals: "To enter politics, a person should cultivate his moral character and enrich himself with virtues first" -- On Self-improvement: "If you want to enhance your ability, you must study; if you want to make the blade sharp, you must sharpen it"- On Governance: "Empty talk endangers the nation, practical work brings prosperity" -- Part 2 About Diplomacy -- On People-to-people Friendship: "The key to sound relations between states lies in amity between the people" -- On Intercourse Between Nations: "Of the things brought about by the rites, harmony is the most valuable" -- On Cultural Exchange: "It is the very nature of things to be unequal in quality" -- On Historical Affinity: "Distance cannot separate true friends who feel so close even when they are thousands of miles apart" -- On Xi Jinping's Personal Experience: Never forget why you started.…”
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Students' Collaborative Problem Solving in Mathematics Classrooms An Empirical Study /

Table of Contents: “…An investigation of student participation in a collaborative task in mathematics: Positioning and negotiation among four Chinese students -- Chapter 3. Research of individual authority and group authority relations in collaborative problem solving in middle school mathematics -- Chapter 4. …”
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Bending the Curve Climate Change Solutions

Table of Contents: “…Part I Concepts and Solutions -- 1 Climate Change -- 2 Humans, Nature, and the Quest for Climate Justice -- 3 Climate Change and Human Health -- 4 Overview of the Ten Solutions for Bending the Curve -- Part II Ten Solutions -- 5 Your Leadership: Social Movements and Social Solutions to Climate Change -- 6 Social Transformation: Changing Attitudes, Norms, and Behaviors -- 7 Religion, Ethics, and Climate Change -- 8 Communicating Climate Change Science -- 9 Lessons from California -- 10 The Paris Agreement and Its Implementation -- 11 Economics: Emissions, Impacts, and Policy -- 12 Cost-Effective Climate Policies -- 13 Two Evolving Energy Technology Pathways -- 14 Environmentally Sustainable Transportation -- 15 Technologies for Super Pollutants Mitigation -- 16 Enhancing Carbon Sinks in Natural and Working Lands -- Part III Current Topics -- 17 Sea Level Rise from Melting Ice -- 18 Atmospheric Carbon Extraction: Scope, Available Technologies, and Challenges -- 19 Local Solutions…”
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Holding down the Fort Policing Communities and Community-Oriented Policing in Rural Germany / by Bielejewski, Aaron

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Our town: the sociology of policing communities -- Setting the stage: setting, method, and perspective -- Framing police encounters: the dramaturgy of authority -- Violence and the police -- Community tales: storytelling, experience, and local knowledge -- The police and community maintenance -- Postscript: retrospective auto-ethnography.…”
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Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality

Table of Contents: “…On the Social Uses of Space and Power -- 2. On the Commons: A Geocritical Reading of Amager Fælled -- 3. …”
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From Colonialism to International Aid External Actors and Social Protection in the Global South /

Table of Contents: “…Part I Introduction -- 1 External Actors and Social Protection in the Global South: An Overview, Carina Schmitt -- 2 Advancing Transnational Approaches to Social Protection in the Global South, Amanda Shriwise -- Part II The Influence of the Colonial Legacy and Cold War on Social Protection -- 3 Cold War and Social Protection in Burma and Malaysia, Michele Mioni and Klaus Petersen -- 4 The Influence of Colonialism and Donors on Social Policies in Kenya and Tanzania,Daniel Künzler -- 5 The Effects of Colonialism on Social Protection in South Africa and Botswana, Jeremy Seekings -- 6 The Colonial Legacy and the Rise of Social Assistance in the Global South, Carina Schmitt -- 7 Colonial Legacies in International Aid: Policy Priorities and Actor Constellations, Bastian Becker -- Part III The Influence of Donors on Social Protection -- 8 International Donors and Social Policy Diffusion in the Global South, Marina Dodlova -- 9 The World Bank and the Contentious Politics of Global Social Spending, Rahmi Çemen and Erdem Yörük -- 10 The Limits of the Influence of International Donors: Social Protection in Botswana, Isaac Chinyoka and Marianne S. …”
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Visual Methodology in Migration Studies New Possibilities, Theoretical Implications, and Ethical Questions /

Table of Contents: “…Conclusions Participating as power? The possibilities and politics of participation Céline Cantat -- Chapter 14. …”
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Knowledge and Civil Society

Table of Contents: “…Global Authenticity, Local Authority: Epistemic Power, Discursive Geographies, and the Creation of Civil Society Knowledge Networks -- Part IV: Doing Civil Society -- Chapter 11. …”
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Swiss Energy Governance Political, Economic and Legal Challenges and Opportunities in the Energy Transition /

Table of Contents: “…Schmidt and Sebastian Sewerin, The Design of the Swiss Feed-In Tariff -- Part II: Actors Driving the Energy Transition: Martin Föhse, Decentralisation of Energy Generation, Centralisation of Energy Lawmaking -- Raphael Klein and Matthias Finger, The Long-Term Impact of the Electorate on the Swiss Electricity Market Transition -- Peter Hettich, Governing Decentral Energy Systems -- Markus Schreiber, Governance of Energy Innovations -- Mary Jean Bürer, Matthieu de Lapparent, Massimiliano Capezzali and Mauro Carpita, Governance Drivers and Barriers for Business Model Transformation in the Energy Sector -- Andreas Abegg and Phil Baumann, Electricity Utility Companies Entering Private Sector Markets -- Part III: Understanding the Pressure Points of Policy and Acceptance Risks: Adrian Rinscheid and Linards Udris, Referendum Campaigns in Swiss Energy Policy -- Lena Schaffer and Alessio Levis, Public Discourses on (Sectoral) Energy Policy in Switzerland -- Anna Ebers Broughel and Rolf Wüstenhagen, The Influence of Policy Risk on Swiss Wind Power Investment -- Mert Duygan, Aya Kachi, Fintan Oeri, Thiago D. …”
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Questioning the Entrepreneurial State Status-quo, Pitfalls, and the Need for Credible Innovation Policy /

Table of Contents: “…-- Less from More: China Built Wind Power, but Gained Little Electricity -- The Failures of the Entrepreneurial State: Subsidies to Renewable Energies in Europe -- Directionality in Innovation Policy and the Ongoing Failure of Green Deals: Evidence from Biogas, Bio-ethanol, and Fossil-Free Steel -- Part V: From the Entrepreneurial State Towards Evidence-Based Innovation Policy -- Policy Instruments for High-Growth Enterprises -- Public-Steering and Private-Performing Sectors: Success and Failures in the Swedish Finance, Telecoms, and City Planning Sectors -- The Digital Platform Economy and the Entrepreneurial State: A European Dilemma -- Collaborative Innovation Blocs and Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy: An Ecosystem Perspective.…”
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