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Introduction to Human Sexuality by Goerling, Erika, Wolfe, Emerson

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 20- Ability, Intersectionality, Body Image, and Reclaiming Our Bodies -- About the Authors -- Appendix…”
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Open Mapping towards Sustainable Development Goals Voices of YouthMappers on Community Engaged Scholarship /

Table of Contents: “…Youth Engagement and the Water-Energy-Land Nexus in Costa Rica -- Chapter11. Power Grid Mapping in West Africa -- Chapter12. Mapping Access to Electricity in Urban and Rural Nigeria -- PartII. …”
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Ecosystem Services for Well-Being in Deltas Integrated Assessment for Policy Analysis /

Table of Contents: “…Mechanisms and Drivers of Soil Salinity in Coastal Bangladesh; Mashfiqus Salehin et al. -- 19. Population Dynamics in the South-West of Bangladesh; Sylvia Szabo, Sate Ahmad and W Neil Adger -- 20. …”
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The Intelligent Troglodyte’s Guide to Plato’s Republic by Drabkin, Douglas

Table of Contents: “…Book I -- 1 A Religious Festival in the Piraeus -- 2 Being Old -- 3 Treasure for Heaven -- 4 Giving What is Owed -- 5 The Craft of Justice -- 6 Benefiting Friends and Harming Enemies -- 7 The Advantage of the Stronger -- 8 The Good Shepherd -- 9 The Blushing Argument -- 10 Function, Virtue, and the Soul -- Book II -- 11 The Division of Goods -- 12 The Social Contract Theory of Justice -- 13 The Magic Ring -- 14 The Challenge -- 15 The Teaching of Justice -- 16 Glaucon's Lover -- 17 From Souls to Cities -- 18 Making the Most of Differences -- 19 Luxuries in the Just City -- 20 The Good Soldier -- 21 Censoring Homer -- 22 Gods Causing Bad Things -- 23 Gods in Disguise or Speaking Falsely -- Book III -- 24 Fear and Grief -- 25 Laughter and Lying -- 26 Lust, Wrath, and Greed -- 27 Narrative Style and Personal Integrity -- 28 The Emotional Power of Tune and Rhythm -- 29 Love of the Fine and Beautiful -- 30 Physical Training -- 31 Doctors and Judges -- 32 Harmony in the Soul -- 33 Rulers -- 34 The Myth of the Metals -- 35 Private Property and Private Interests -- Book IV -- 36 The City as a Whole -- 37 Lawfulness Internalized, Legislation Minimized -- 38 Wisdom in the City -- 39 Courage in the City -- 40 Temperance in the City -- 41 Justice in the City -- 42 Parts of the Soul ¬¬ Appetitive and Rational -- 43 The Spirited Part of the Soul -- 44 The Virtues of the Soul -- 45 Injustice is Sick -- Book V -- 46 A Desire to Listen -- 47 The Natures of Men and Women -- 48 Good Breeding -- 49 Families and the Saying of “Mine” and “Not Mine” -- 50 The Waging of War -- 51 Philosophers and Knowledge of the Forms -- Book VI -- 52 The Virtues of the Philosopher -- 53 Philosophical Perspective and the Fear of Death -- 54 The Uselessness of Philosophers -- 55 Gifted Students and the Sophists -- 56 Putting Knowledge of the Forms to Use -- 57 The Form of the Good -- 58 Every Soul Pursues the Good -- 59 The Sun -- 60 Degrees of Clarity (The Line) -- Book VII -- 61 The Cave -- 62 Two Kinds of Confusion -- 63 The Craft of Education -- 64 Compulsory Service for Philosophers -- 65 Numbers as Summoners -- 66 Further Mathematical Studies -- 67 Dialectic -- 68 Selecting Students for Philosophy -- 69 Abuses of Refutation -- 70 Completing the Education of the Rulers -- 71 Establishing Justice -- Book VIII -- 72 The Fall of the Aristocratic City -- 73 The Timocratic City -- 74 The Timocratic Soul -- 75 The Oligarchic City -- 76 The Oligarchic Soul -- 77 The Democratic City -- 78 The Democratic Soul -- 79 The Tyrannical City -- Book IX -- 80 Lawless Desires -- 81 The Right Way to Fall Asleep -- 82 The Tyrannical Soul -- 83 The First Proof: Analogy of City and Soul -- 84 The Second Proof: Who's to Say? …”
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Organic Chemistry with a Biological Emphasis by Soderberg, Tim

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 9: Phosphate transfer reactions -- Section 1: Overview of phosphate groups -- Section 2: Phosphate transfer reactions - an overview -- Section 3: ATP, the principal phosphate group donor -- Section 4: Phosphorylation of alcohols -- Section 5: Phosphorylation of carboxylates -- Section 6: Hydrolysis of organic phosphates -- Section 7: Phosphate diesters in DNA and RNA -- Section 8: The organic chemistry of genetic engineering -- Chapter 10: Nucleophilic carbonyl addition reactions -- Section 1: Nucleophilic additions to aldehydes and ketones: an overview -- Section 2: Hemiacetals, hemiketals, and hydrates -- Section 3: Acetals and ketals -- Section 4: N-glycosidic bonds -- Section 5: Imines -- Section 5: A look ahead: addition of carbon and hydride nucleophiles to carbonyls -- Chapter 11: Nucleophilic acyl substitution reactions -- Section 1: Carboxylic acid derivatives -- Section 2: The nucleophilic acyl substitution mechanism -- Section 3: The relative reactivity of carboxylic acid derivatives -- Section 4: Acyl phosphates -- Section 5: Formation of thioesters, esters, and amides -- Section 6: Hydrolysis of thioesters, esters, and amides -- Section 7: Protein synthesis on the ribosome -- Section 8: Nucleophilic substitution at activated amides and carbamides -- Section 9: Nucleophilic acyl substitution reactions in the laboratory -- Section 10: A look ahead: acyl substitution reactions with a carbanion or hydride ion nucleophile -- Chapter 12: Reactions at the α-carbon, part I -- Section 1: Review of acidity at the α-carbon -- Section 2: Isomerization at the α-carbon -- Section 3: Aldol addition -- Section 4: α-carbon reactions in the synthesis lab - kinetic vs. thermodynamic alkylation products -- Interchapter: Predicting multistep pathways - the retrosynthesis approachChapter 13: Reactions at the α-carbon, part II -- Section 1: Decarboxylation -- Section 2: An overview of fatty acid metabolism -- Section 3: Claisen condensation -- Section 4: Conjugate addition and elimination -- Section 5: Carboxylation -- Chapter 14: Electrophilic reactions -- Section 1: Electrophilic addition to alkenes -- Section 2: Elimination by the E1 mechanism -- Section 3: Electrophilic isomerization -- Section 4: Electrophilic substitution -- Section 5: Carbocation rearrangements -- Chapter 15: Oxidation and reduction reactions -- Section 1: Oxidation and reduction of organic compounds - an overview -- Section 2: Oxidation and reduction in the context of metabolism -- Section 3: Hydrogenation of carbonyl and imine groups -- Section 4: Hydrogenation of alkenes and dehydrogenation of alkanes -- Section 5: Monitoring hydrogenation and dehydrogenation reactions by UV spectroscopy -- Section 6: Redox reactions of thiols and disulfides -- Section 7: Flavin-dependent monooxygenase reactions: hydroxylation, epoxidation, and theBaeyer-Villiger oxidation -- Section 8: Hydrogen peroxide is a harmful 'Reactive Oxygen Species' -- Chapter 16: Radical reactions -- Section 1: Overview of single-electron reactions and free radicals -- Section 2: Radical chain reactions -- Section 3: Useful polymers formed by radical chain reactions -- Section 4: Destruction of the ozone layer by a radical chain reaction -- Section 5: Oxidative damage to cells, vitamin C, and scurvy -- Section 6: Flavin as a one-electron carrier -- Chapter 17: The organic chemistry of vitamins -- Section 1: Pyridoxal phosphate (Vitamin B6) -- Section 2: Thiamine diphosphate (Vitamin B1) -- Section 3: Thiamine diphosphate, lipoamide and the pyruvate dehydrogenase reaction -- Section 4: Folate…”
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Creating Resilient Futures Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change Adaptation Agendas /

Table of Contents: “…-- 3 Coherence, alignment and integration: Understanding the legal relationship between sustainable development, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction -- 4 Bridging gaps: connecting climate change risk assessments with disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation agendas -- Section 2 Irish case studies -- 5 Enhancing Integration of Disaster Risk and Climate Change Adaptation into Irish Emergency Planning -- 6 Supporting national climate change action in Ireland through local governance networks -- 7 Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into planning and development: A case study example from Northern Ireland -- Section 3 International case studies -- 8 Sustainability, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: Building from the bottom up - ASouth African perspective from the small-scale fisheries sector -- 9 Adapting to climate change through disaster risk reduction in the Caribbean: lessons from the Global South in tackling the Sustainable Development Goals -- 10 Towards a resilient riverine community: A Case Study in Sadong Jaya, Sarawak, Malaysia -- 11 Reimagining our menu for sustainable development.…”
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Narrative Ethics in Public Health: The Value of Stories

Table of Contents: “…Boyle's "The Fugitive" -- Addressing Historical Trauma among US American Indian/Alaskan Natives: The Ethics of Making Space for Multiple Narratives in Public Health Research and Practice -- Using paired poems to crystallize and (re)consider public health breastfeeding promotion -- Database of Individual Patient Experiences (DIPEx): Potential for Public Health Considerations -- Poverty as Trauma: Considering Social Determinants of Health through the Lens of Narrative Ethics -- Ethical Imperatives and Challenges with Community-based Participatory Research in Public Health: Reflections of One Academic -- Disclosure of HIV Status during a Household HIV Survey in Namibia -- Vaccine Refusal: Stories from the Front Lines of Immunization Education -- What Is This All About: Tipping theBalance toward Treatment and Recovery -- The Boys Under My Deck: Fostering Resilience In Diverse Urban Neighborhoods -- Overweight and Obesity: A New Narrative -- Voices of Our Fathers: Narrative (Care) Ethics, Pragmatic Bioethics, Trust and Trustworthiness -- Stories, Stigma and Sequences: HIV Cluster Detection and Response Activities Through a Narrative Ethics Lens -- A Novel Approach to Public Health Crises Using Narrative Ethics -- Patient Rights versus Public Health.…”
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Values for a Post-Pandemic Future

Table of Contents: “…Lessons learned from crowd management at Dutch train stations -- Chapter 13: Rhetorics of Resilience and Extended Crises: Reasoning in the Moral Situation of Our Post-pandemic World.…”
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History and Speculative Fiction

Table of Contents: “…Ted Chiang's Counterphysical Stories and History of Science Pedagogy -- Chapter 9.The Dark Past of our Bright Future: Concurrent Histories of Star Trek: Voyager -- Chapter 10. …”
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Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XVIII 18th International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, IDA 2020, Konstanz, Germany, April 27-29, 2020, Proceedings /

Table of Contents: “…Multivariate Time Series as Images: Imputation Using Convolutional Denoising Autoencoder -- Dual Sequential Variational Autoencoders for Fraud Detection -- A Principled Approach to Analyze Expressiveness and Accuracy of Graph Neural Networks -- Efficient Batch-Incremental Classification Using UMAP for Evolving Data Streams -- GraphMDL: Graph Pattern Selection Based on Minimum Description Length -- Towards Content Sensitivity Analysis -- Gibbs Sampling Subjectively Interesting Tiles -- Even Faster Exact k-Means Clustering -- Ising-Based Consensus Clustering on Special Purpose Hardware -- Transfer Learning by Learning Projections from Target to Source -- Computing Vertex-Vertex Dissimilarities Using Random Trees: Application to Clustering in Graphs -- Towards Evaluation of CNN Performance in Semantically Meaningful Latent Spaces -- Vouw: Geometric Pattern Mining Using the MDL Principle -- A Consensus Approach to Improve NMF Document Clustering -- Discriminative Bias for Learning Probabilistic Sentential Decision Diagrams -- Widening for MDL-Based Retail Signature Discovery -- Addressing the Resolution Limit and the Field of View Limit in Community Mining -- Estimating Uncertainty in Deep Learning for Reporting Confidence: An Application on Cell Type Prediction in Testes Based on Proteomics -- Adversarial Attacks Hidden in Plain Sight -- Enriched Weisfeiler-Lehman Kernel for Improved Graph Clustering of Source Code -- Overlapping Hierarchical Clustering (OHC) -- Digital Footprints of International Migration on Twitter -- Percolation-Based Detection of Anomalous Subgraphs in Complex Networks -- A Late-Fusion Approach to Community Detection in Attributed Networks -- Reconciling Predictions in the Regression Setting: an Application to Bus Travel Time Prediction -- A Distribution Dependent and Independent Complexity Analysis of Manifold Regularization -- Actionable Subgroup Discovery and Urban Farm Optimization -- AVATAR - Machine Learning Pipeline Evaluation Using Surrogate Model -- Detection ofDerivative Discontinuities in Observational Data -- Improving Prediction with Causal Probabilistic Variables -- DO-U-Net for Segmentation and Counting -- Enhanced Word Embeddings for Anorexia Nervosa Detection on Social Media -- Event Recognition Based on Classification of Generated Image Captions -- Human-to-AI Coach: Improving Human Inputs to AI Systems -- Aleatoric and Epistemic Uncertainty with Random Forests -- Master your Metrics with Calibration -- Supervised Phrase-Boundary Embeddings -- Predicting Remaining Useful Life with Similarity-Based Priors -- Orometric Methods in Bounded Metric Data -- Interpretable Neuron Structuring with Graph Spectral Regularization -- Comparing the Preservation of Network Properties by Graph Embeddings -- Making Learners (More) Monotone -- Combining Machine Learning and Simulation to a Hybrid Modelling Approach -- LiBRe: Label-Wise Selection of Base Learners in Binary Relevance for Multi-Label Classification -- Angle-Based Crowding Degree Estimation for Many-Objective Optimization.…”
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Applied Pedagogies for Higher Education Real World Learning and Innovation across the Curriculum /

Table of Contents: “…Working and learning through the local community- four case studies from higher education that promote civic engagement; Dawn A. …”
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The Climate-Smart Agriculture Papers Investigating the Business of a Productive, Resilient and Low Emission Future /

Table of Contents: “…a systematic map -- Chapter 13-Understanding the multidimensionality of climate-smartness: examples from agroforestry in Tanzania -- Chapter 14-A participatory approach to assessing the climate-smartness of agricultural interventions: the Lushoto case -- Chapter 15-Household welfare effects of stress: tolerant varieties in Northern Uganda -- Chapter 16-Considering religion and tradition in climate smart agriculture: insights from Namibia -- Chapter 17-The role of farmers' entrepreneurial orientation on agricultural innovations in Ugandan multi-stakeholder platforms -- Chapter 18-Shea butter: a pro-poor, pro-female route to increased income -- Chapter 19-One size does not fit all: private-sector perspectives on climate change, agriculture and adaptation -- Chapter 20-Climate-smart agricultural value chains: risks and perspectives -- Chapter 21-Nutrition-sensitive value chain development in a changing climate -- Chapter 22-Realising ambitious targets and metrics for private-sector action on climate risks -- Chapter 23-The role of learning alliances for creating an enabling climate-change policy environment in East Africa -- Chapter 24-Farmer-to-farmer extension: a low-cost approach for promoting climate-smart agriculture -- Chapter 25-Innovative partnerships to scale up climate-smart agriculture for smallholder farmers in Southern Africa -- Chapter 26-Rural finance to support climate change adaptation: experiences, lessons and policy perspectives.…”
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Digital Kenya An Entrepreneurial Revolution in the Making /

Table of Contents: “…-- PART IV MANAGING THE FINE DETAILS OF DOING BUSINESS IN KENYA -- Chapter 11 Inside a Policy Maker's Mind: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Policy Development and Implementation (Bitange Ndemo) -- Conversation 11 with Ory Okolloh: Why Policy matters for Entrepreneurs -- Chapter 12 The Art of Managing World Views in Kenya's International Technology Sector (Tim Weiss & Klaus Weber) -- Conversation 12 with Ken Njoroge of Cellulant: How to Be a Rebel and Build a Business at the Same Time -- Chapter 13 Developing Strategies to Harness the Power of Parallel Entrepreneurship (Eskor John) -- Conversation 13 with Mikul Shah & Ritesh Doshi of Naked Pizza: The Hustling Entrepreneur on Trial -- Chapter 14 Venture Capital in East Africa: Is There a Right Model? …”
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Rethinking Sustainability Towards a Regenerative Economy

Table of Contents: “…How Rating Systems Support Regenerative Change In The Built Environment (Melinda Orova And András Reith) -- Part Ii: Innovative Approaches In Professional Design Practice -- Foreword: Bridging The Gap Between Design And Construction Following A Life Cycle Approach Consisting Of Practical Approaches For Procurement, Construction, Use & Operation And Future Life (Giulia Peretti And Carsten Druhmann) -- Chapter 8. …”
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Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides Volume 1 ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025 /

Table of Contents: “…ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025 -- The ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025: Background and Content -- Forum lectures -- Rupestrian world heritage sites: Instability investigation and sustainable mitigation -- Subaerial landslide-generated waves: Numerical and laboratory simulations -- Rockfall occurrence and fragmentation -- Contribution from signatory organizations of the Sendai Partnerships -- International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) -- International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) - The proposing organization of the ISDR-ICL Sendai partnerships 2015-2025 -- United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) -- UNISDR's Contribution to Science and Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Role of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) -- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) -- UNESCO's Contribution to the Implementation of UNISDR's Global Initiative and ICL -- United Nations University (UNU) -- The United Nations University: Research and Policy Support for Environmental Risk Reduction -- World Meteorological Organization (WMO) -- Concerted International Efforts for Advancing Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems -- International Council for Science (ICSU) -- On Future Challenges for the Integration of Science into International Policy Development for Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction -- World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) -- World Federation of Engineering Organizations Activities in Disaster Risk Reduction -- Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University -- National Civil Protection Department, Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Government of Italy -- Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk: Challenges and Opportunities for Italian Civil Protection -- Landslide Dynamics: ISDR-ICL Landslide Interactive Teaching Tools (LITT) -- Progress of the World Report on Landslides -- International Programme on Landslides (IPL): Objectives, History and List of World Centres of Excellence and IPL Projects -- UNESCO-KU-ICL UNITWIN Cooperation Programme for Landslides and Water-Related Disaster Risk Management. …”
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Cultural Convergence The Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928-1960 /

Table of Contents: “…The Brothers Čapek at the Gate: R.U.R. and The Insect Play; Ondřej Pilný (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) -- 7. …”
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The Blue Compendium From Knowledge to Action for a Sustainable Ocean Economy /

Table of Contents: “…The Human Relationship with Our Ocean Planet -- Chapter 12. The Ocean Transition: What to Learn from System Transitions -- Chapter 13. …”
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Companion to European Heritage Revivals

Table of Contents: “…Europe and the Frankish Heritage in One of its Heartlands: Alsace; Linde Egberts -- Chapter 3: Battlefield of Histories: Competition over Authenticity and Heritage in an Urban Region in Eastern Netherlands; Linde Egberts -- PART II: REVIVAL TOOLS -- Chapter 4: Strategies for a Heritage Revival in the Digital Age; Jasper Visser -- Chapter 5: Using Games to Mediate History; Connie Veugen -- Chapter 6: "This is Clearly Bullshit": Some Views about History on Television; Mijke Pol -- Chapter 7: Lost Cities, Exotic Travel and Digging up the World: Historical Feature Films as a Means of Enhancing Appreciation of our Archaeological Heritage; Nina Schucker and Jan van Helt -- Chapter 8: When the Past Comes to Life: Historical Reenactment; Peter van der Plaetsen -- Chapter 9: Visualisation of Place and Landscape; Joske Houtkamp, Arnoud de Boer and Henk Kramer -- Chapter 10: From Preservation to Managing Change: Using Spatial Development as a Heritage Revival Tool; Felix van Veldhoven -- Chapter 11: Europe is a Journey: The European Cultural Route as an Instrument for Heritage Revival; Minke Walda -- PART III: CONCEPTS -- Chapter 12: Conceptual Fuel for Reviving the Past: Creating a Heritage Revival in Today's Europe; Linde Egberts.…”
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Knowing Home Braiding Indigenous Science with Western Science

Table of Contents: “…Indigenous Science Curriculum -- Chapter 10 - Seasonal Wheel -- Chapter 11 - Money from the Sea: A Cross-cultural Indigenous Science Problem-solving Activity -- Chapter 12 - Dzaxwan (Oolichan Fish): Stories my Elders Told Me -- Chapter 13 - Gwaya'elas, How We Do Things: The Development and Evaluation of Dzaxwan Curriculum -- Chapter 14 - Storytelling is our Textbook and Curriculum Guide -- Chapter 15 - Gitga'at Plant Project: Bridging the Gap between Generations…”
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Designing Democratic Schools and Learning Environments A Global Perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Motivation, Segregation and Responsibility: the Challenges in Our Way to Grow Equal Citizens in a Democracy -- Chapter 11. …”
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