Books: 'Alliages de fer'

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Blandin, André. "Fer noir" d'Afrique de l'ouest: Avec 40 pages de complément sur les "Bronzes et autres alliages". Marignane, France: A. Blandin, 1992.

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Murry, Guy. Me tallurgie: Me taux, alliages, proprie te s. 2nd ed. Paris: Dunod, 2010.

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Cirkel, Fritz. Report on the chrome iron ore deposits in the Eastern Townships, province of Quebec. Ottawa: Govt. Print. Bureau, 1997.

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Rohrig, K. Ni-Hard material data and applications. [Toronto]: Nickel Development Institute, 1996.

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Moeller, R. H. Corrosion performance of Ni-Cr-Fe alloys in geothermal hypersaline brines. Toronto, Ont: Nickel Institute, 1998.

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Tou shi qi ye lian meng neng li: Ji yu dong tai neng li de S-IPL fen xi kuang jia. Beijing: Zhongguo she hui ke xue chu ban she, 2007.

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Incorporated, Action Health, ed. Building alliances for sexuality education: The Community Advocacy Project. Lagos: Action Health Inc., 2002.

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Accountability, Florida Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government. Review of the status of Community Health Purchasing Alliances in Florida. [Tallahassee, Fla.]: The Office, 1996.

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Guan xi wang luo zhi du jie gou yu jing ji ji xiao: Yi xiang guan kai qi ye ji qun de jing ji she hui xue fen xi. Chengdou Shi: Sichuan da xue chu ban she, 2009.

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Friendship and faith: The wisdom of women creating alliances for peace. Canton, Mich: Read the Spirit Books, 2010.

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Partnerships and strategic alliances strategy for FARA and the Secretariat 2010-2016: September 2010. Accra, Ghana: Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, 2011.

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New York (State). Dept. of Social Services, ed. Community Alliances for Minority Adoption Project: Final report, January, 1985 through December, 1986. [Albany, N.Y.?]: New York State Dept. of Social Services, 1987.

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A, Blechman Elaine, ed. Caregiver alliances for at-risk and dangerous youth: Establishing school and agency coordination and accountability. Champaign, Ill: Research Press, 2004.

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1923-, Henmi Kenzō, Cool John C. 1926-, Initiative for Development of Environmental Alliances through Leadership (Project), Kokusai Kōryū Kikin. Nichi-Bei Sentā., and Rockefeller Brothers Fund, eds. Educating new environmental leadership for Asia: The report of the Initiative for Development of Environmental Alliances through Leadership. Morrilton, Ark: Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, 1995.

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Where there are Asians, there are rice cookers: How "National" went global via Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009.

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Nakano, Yoshiko. Where there are Asians, there are rice cookers: How "National" went global via Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009.

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Cohen, Elizabeth S., and Marlee J. Couling. Non-Elite Women’s Networks across the Early Modern World. Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam Nederland: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463725750.

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Non-elite or marginalized early modern women—among them the poor, migrants, members of religious or ethnic minorities, abused or abandoned wives, servants, and sex workers—have seldom left records of their experiences. Drawing on a variety of sources, including trial records, administrative paperwork, letters, pamphlets, hagiography, and picaresque literature, this volume explores how, as social agents, these doubly invisible women built and used networks and informal alliances to supplement the usual structures of family and community that often let them down. Ten essays, ranging widely in geography from the eastern Mediterranean to colonial Spanish America and in time from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, show how flexible, sometimes ad hoc relationships could provide crucial practical and emotional support for women who faced problems of livelihood, reputation, displacement, and violence.

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Bruxelles, Drukk G. Stapleaux, and Distr G. Stapleaux Bruxelles. De la Connaissance des Métaux: Le Fer, le Cuivre, le Plomb, l'étain, le Zinc et Leurs Principaux Alliages... Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2019.

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Bruxelles, Drukk G. Stapleaux, and Distr G. Stapleaux Bruxelles. De la Connaissance des Métaux: Le Fer, le Cuivre, le Plomb, l'étain, le Zinc et Leurs Principaux Alliages... Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2018.

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Totten, George E., and Rafael ás. Encyclopedia of Iron, Steel, and Their Alloys (Online Version). Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

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Totten, George E., and Rafael ás. Encyclopedia of Iron, Steel, and Their Alloys (Online Version). Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

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Totten, George E., and Rafael ás. Encyclopedia of Iron, Steel, and Their Alloys (Online Version). Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

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Encyclopedia of Iron, Steel, and Their Alloys (Online Version). Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

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Casti Metals Black Book: North American Ferrous Data. 5th ed. Casti Pub, 2003.

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Gillot, Auguste. Nouveau Manuel Complet du Fondeur de Fer et de Cuivre: Contenant les Principaux Appareils et les Méthodes les Plus Usitées et les Plus Nouvelles Pour Fondre le Fer, le Cuivre et Leurs Alliages, Traitant de la Fabrication de la Fonte Malléable, de L'... Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2018.

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Alliages Culturels La Societe Franaise En Transformation. Heinle & Heinle Publishers, 2013.

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Orban, Franck, and Elin Strand Larsen, eds. Living Alliances, Leaving Alliances. Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Waxmann Verlag GmbH, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31244/9783830994497.

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Throughout history, alliances have taken many different forms and they have been difficult to understand in their totality. As we now experience an unprecedented pandemic, which highlights the need for both external alliances between states and internal alliances between governments and populations, understanding alliances is more than ever critical to apprehend an open and interactive world that knows no borders and in which challenges imposed on humans are global. The book “Living Alliances, Leaving Alliances” is an interdisciplinary approach to investigating past, present and future alliances on an interpersonal, subnational, international and transnational level. It is the result of a two-year project by AreaS, a research group in area studies located at the Østfold University College in Norway.

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Armfield, Felix L. Building Alliances. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036583.003.0003.

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This chapter traces the history of the National Urban League with a specific focus on Eugene Kinckle Jones's leadership. It covers the decade of the 1920s and the many issues that Jones and his contemporaries confronted, as social workers faced the dual challenge of adjusting their tactics to meet the growing needs of a black migrant population and establishing themselves as professionals. Ultimately, the duties of black social workers and the aims of the NUL included evaluating and reviewing settlement houses, in addition to other specific concerns of migrating blacks. Here, Jones made headway for the social-work movement by establishing professional training for black social workers, tackling the problem of housing to cope with the influx of black migrants from the South—among many other efforts on behalf of black social workers, which eventually made him one of the prominent social workers in America..

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Poast, Paul. Arguing about Alliances. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501740244.001.0001.

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Why do some attempts to conclude alliance treaties end in failure? From the inability of European powers to form an alliance that would stop Hitler in the 1930s, to the present inability of Ukraine to join NATO, states frequently attempt but fail to form alliance treaties. This book sheds new light on the purpose of alliance treaties by recognizing that such treaties come from negotiations, and that negotiations can end in failure. It identifies two conditions that result in non-agreement: major incompatibilities in the internal war plans of the participants, and attractive alternatives to a negotiated agreement for various parties to the negotiations. As a result, the book focuses on a group of states largely ignored by scholars: states that have attempted to form alliance treaties but failed. It suggests that to explain the outcomes of negotiations, specifically how they can end without agreement, we must pay particular attention to the wartime planning and coordinating functions of alliance treaties. Through exploration of the outcomes of negotiations from European alliance negotiations between 1815 and 1945, the book offers a typology of alliance treaty negotiations and establishes what conditions are most likely to stymie the attempt to formalize recognition of common national interests.

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CARS, congregational alliances routing seniors: A how-to guide. Tallahasse, Fla: Florida, Dept. of Elder Affairs, 1993.

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Shaffer, Kirwin R. Anarchist Alliances, Government Repression. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037641.003.0004.

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This chapter explores how some anarchists aligned themselves with the emerging freethinkers' movement centered in the southern city of Ponce to address educational issues on the island. The Puerto Rican Left had been founding CESs since the end of the nineteenth century, which gave workers a source of radicalized education. While the freethinkers were mostly middle-class professionals, they shared with anarchists a fervent belief in free expression and freedom of speech. In addition, both anarchists and freethinkers condemned what they saw as the influence of religion on society, especially in education. As a result, both called for rationalist education modeled after the ideals and Modern Schools in Spain developed by Francisco Ferrer y Guardia.

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Hardy, Duncan. Beyond Alliances and Leagues. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827252.003.0009.

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Structures and dynamics characterized in this book as ‘associative’—that is, pertaining to contractual relationships and interactions between power-wielders who were not arranged in a clear hierarchy—were not confined to leagues and alliances. In the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, a range of challenges beyond the remit of individual authorities were addressed through multilateral treaties. This gave rise to a variety of associative configurations and solutions, such as coinage unions to preserve currency values, ‘castle-peaces’ (Burgfrieden) between co-lords with intermingled rights and properties, and treaty-based relationships between two or more co-rulers within a princely dynasty. Upon close examination, even those entities depicted in unitary terms in most historiography of the Empire—‘territories’ and their ‘estates’—were structured as loose and overlapping networks of contractually related actors. The constituents of principalities depicted themselves as collectivities engaged in associative negotiation, often at Tage (diets—also the favoured format for discussion within alliances).

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Vielledent, Marc C. Alliances, Military Basing, and Logistics. Edited by Derek S. Reveron, Nikolas K. Gvosdev, and John A. Cloud. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190680015.013.37.

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The United States has long enjoyed an essentially unopposed ability to project power and sustain its security forces dispersed throughout the world. However, the uncertainty facing the global security environment, including tenuous alliances, fiscal constraints, and a decline in overseas basing, has increased tensions in emerging areas of potential conflict. These factors are driving change regarding the United States’ defense posture and access agreements abroad. While the preponderance of overseas capability outweighs the preponderance of U.S. forces, deterrence continues to underpin the overarching national security strategy. However, deterrence options impacted by the lack of resilience and investment in distributed logistics and sustainment are generating an additional range of variables and conditions for operators on the ground to consider in shared and contested domains.

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Kostov, Chris. Terror and Fear: British and American Perceptions of the French-Indian Alliances during the Seven Years' War. PublishAmerica, 2005.

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Hardy, Duncan. The Functions of Alliances and Leagues. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827252.003.0007.

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The primary purpose of treaty-based associations, from leagues of mixed composition to knightly societies and urban coalitions, was to regulate relations between their members. In virtually all association treaties this regulatory framework touched on two spheres of activity of fundamental importance to political life: military assistance and judicial or quasi-judicial adjudication. Treaties regulated the first sphere by committing allies and associates to promises such as not harbouring each other’s feud-enemies and helping each other during conflicts. Surviving correspondence and records show that these commitments were taken seriously by Upper German powers, and sometimes led to much larger-scale mobilization of armed forces than would have been possible by any individual prince, nobleman, or city. In the ‘judicial’ sphere, members of associations agreed specific pathways and procedures for resolving disputes between them, and sometimes also between members and external parties, usually through arbitration at Tage within an association or through specified courts.

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Crescenzi, Mark J. C. Reputation, Learning, and the Onset of Alliances. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190609528.003.0005.

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This chapter empirically investigates the link between reputation and cooperation among nations, especially in cases of security alliance formation, which are especially fraught and high-stakes processes for nations. Specifically, the focus here is on testing the argument that when states develop reputations for competence in cooperative situations, they are more likely to experience cooperation in other future interstate affairs. These findings provide support for the conclusion that, when nations seek alliance partners, they pay close attention to the past alliance-related behavior of their potential partners with other states. Specific, historical instances of Anglo-German and Anglo-Japanese alliance formation clarify the arguments of this chapter.

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Leeds, Brett Ashley, and T. Clifton Morgan. The Quest for Security: Alliances and Arms. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.345.

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Security issues have long been linked to the study of international relations. The crucial issue which scholars and decision makers have sought to understand is how states can avoid being victimized by war while also being prepared for any eventuality of war. Particular attention has been devoted to alliances and armaments as the policy instruments that should have the greatest effect on state war experiences. Scholars have attempted to use balance of power theories to explain the interrelationships between arms, alliances, and international conflict, but the overwhelming lack of empirical support for such theories led the field to look for alternatives. This gave rise to new theorizing that recognized variance in national goals and an enhanced role for domestic politics, which in turn encouraged empirical tests at the nation state or dyadic level of analysis. Drawing from existing theoretical perspectives, more specific formal models and empirical tests were invoked to tackle particular questions about alliances and arms acquisitions. Despite significant advances in individual “islands of theory,” however, integrated explanations of the pursuit and effects of security policies have remained elusive. An important consideration for the future is to develop of theories of security policy that take into account the substitutability and complementarity of varying components. There have been two promising attempts at such integrated theorizing: the first explains the steps to war and the second is based on the assumption that states pursue two composite goods through foreign policy.

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Reset Middle East Old Friends And New Alliances Saudi Arabia Israel Turkey Iran. I. B. Tauris & Company, 2010.

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Whittier, Nancy. The Violence Against Women Act and Ambivalent Alliances. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190235994.003.0004.

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Chapter 4 examines the Violence Against Women Act and the ambivalent alliance that led to it. The chapter shows the influence of feminist organizations on the legislation and traces how support from conservative elected officials formed alongside opposition from conservative activists outside the state. Conservatives and many liberals in Congress sought to be tough on crime and protect women from domestic violence and rape, while feminists sought to reduce the systematic victimization of women and improve the response from law enforcement and others. Congressional testimony promulgated a frame about violence against women as a gendered crime that could be understood in different ways by different sides. The chapter shows how this frame promoted VAWA’s success but feminist advocates’ intersectional goals for immigrants, women of color, and LGBT people were marginalized. The chapter shows how, by 2011, conservative activists’ influence on Congress through the Tea Party movement and feminists’ ongoing push to strengthen VAWA’s intersectional dimensions destabilized agreement on VAWA. The chapter addresses feminist criticism of VAWA as a case of carceral feminism, showing how VAWA’s discourse and legislation promoted both carceral, non-carceral, and intersectional frames and outcomes. VAWA reflects both unprecedented feminist legislative influence countervailing conservative influence.

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Fishman, Daniel B., Claire A. Fishman, and Julie E. Lewis. Caregiver Alliances for At-Risk and Dangerous Youth: Establishing School and Agency Coordination and Accountability. Research Press, 2004.

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Lanoszka, Alexander. Atomic Assurance. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501729188.001.0001.

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How do alliances curb potential or actual cases of nuclear proliferation, if at all? Many scholars assert that alliances are effective tools for bridling the nuclear ambitions of states and that the United States can especially take credit for suppressing nuclear proliferation among its allies around the world. This book challenges this widely-held view by arguing that alliances can be most useful for preventing potential nuclear proliferation but much less useful for curbing actual nuclear proliferation. Drawing on deep archival research it shows how allied decision-makers often evaluate American security guarantees with reference to in-theater conventional military deployments. It also demonstrates the significant difficulties in mounting alliance coercion in order to extract non-proliferation commitments. The book mainly explores the three cases of supposed alliance non-proliferation success--West Germany, Japan, and South Korea—while examining in lesser detail the case of Great Britain, France, Norway, Australia, and Taiwan.

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Initiative for Development of Environmental Alliances Through leadersh (Corporate Author), Kokusai Koryu Kikin Nichi-Bei Senta (Corporate Author), Rockefeller Brothers Fund (Corporate Author), Kenzo Henmi (Editor), and John C. Cool (Editor), eds. Educating New Environmental Leadership for Asia: The Report of the Initiative for Development of Environmental Alliances Through Leadership. Winrock Pubns Sales, 1995.

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Cranford, Cynthia J. Home Care Fault Lines. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749254.001.0001.

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This revealing look at home care illustrates how elderly and disabled people and the immigrant women workers who assist them in daily activities develop meaningful relationships even when their different ages, abilities, races, nationalities, and socioeconomic backgrounds generate tension. As the book shows, workers can experience devaluation within racialized and gendered class hierarchies, which shapes their pursuit of security. The book analyzes the tensions, alliances, and compromises between security for workers and flexibility for elderly and disabled people, and argues that workers and recipients negotiate flexibility and security within intersecting inequalities in varying ways depending on multiple interacting dynamics. What comes through from the book's analysis is the need for deeply democratic alliances across multiple axes of inequality. To support both flexible care and secure work, the book argues for an intimate community unionism that advocates for universal state funding, designs culturally sensitive labor market intermediaries run by workers and recipients to help people find jobs or workers, and addresses everyday tensions in home workplaces.

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Walt, Stephen M. Rising Powers and the Risks of War. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190675387.003.0002.

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For realist theory, major shifts in the balance of power are a potent source of conflict and war. The main exception, which does not disprove the rule, is the United States. Realists believe China’s continued rise will lead to greater security competition between the United States and China and a heightened danger of war. China will try to reduce the US security presence in Asia, leading to competition for allies and influence. In the near term, most Asian states will balance Chinese power by aligning with Washington, but this process will not take place smoothly. Instead, America’s Asian alliances will face dilemmas of collective action, and uncertainty about alliances will tempt China to play “divide-and-rule” and lead to recurring crises. Realist theory cannot tell us the date when serious trouble will arise or the circumstances under which it will occur. But it warns that the potential for trouble is growing.

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Harada, Violet H., and Sharon Coatney, eds. Radical Collaborations for Learning. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216004370.

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Librarians can be effective catalysts and vital connectors who facilitate successful partnerships that enrich students' lives–"radical collaborations" that have deep and far-reaching impact. Envisioning schools as learning organizations requires collaborating with the greater communities as an integral part of the school's dynamic. How can librarians be key players in realizing this concept of schools? This book addresses this essential question, as well as how librarians can serve as catalysts in reaching beyond the traditional school to form alliances and partnerships with a range of community organizations and agencies, and how these collaborations result in transformative learning experiences not only for the students but for the adults who work together as well. The authors provide examples of schools where librarians, library directors, and educators are joining together in these types of unique partnerships. Chapters are authored by library professionals, who describe what stimulates and motivates these partnerships and how they are collaboratively developed and sustained. This publication will be a catalyst that will inspire readers to grow similar alliances in their own schools and districts among public libraries, colleges, arts foundations, nonprofit cultural organizations, and STEM-related agencies.

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Collombier, Virginie, and Olivier Roy, eds. Tribes and Global Jihadism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190864545.001.0001.

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Across the Muslim world, from Iraq and Yemen, to Egypt and the Sahel, new alliances have been forged between the latest wave of violent Islamist groups –– including Islamic State and Boko Haram –– and local tribes. But can one now speak of a direct link between tribalism and jihadism, and how analytically useful might it be? Tribes are traditionally thought to resist all encroachments upon their sovereignty, whether by the state or other local actors, from below yet by joining global organizations such as Islamic State, are they not rejecting the idea of the state from above? This triangular relationship is key to understanding instances of mass ‘radicalization’, when entire communities forge alliances with jihadi groups, for reasons of self-interest, self-preservation or religious fervor. If Algeria’s FIS or Turkey’s AKP once represented the ‘Islamisation of nationalism’, have we now entered a new era, that of the ‘tribalization of globalization’?

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Haq, Khadija, ed. The Future of North–South Relations. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199474684.003.0024.

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The chapter talks about the dangers and opportunities in Haq’s mind about the new world order brings, especially in the context of the future of the North-South dialogue. For Haq, embracing global human security would entail phasing out the Cold War in the Third World, investing in people, creating new alliances for peace, strengthening the economic and social role of the UN in assisting conflict ridden countries, and increasing transparency of military expenditures.

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Krogstad, Erlend Grøner. The Colonial Subtext of British-Led Police Reform in Sierra Leone. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190676636.003.0004.

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This chapter examines the role of memories of Sierra Leone’s British colonial past in shaping policing practices in the wake of a long civil war. Sierra Leonean powerholders mobilise this history nostalgically to build international alliances, ensure continued funding and as an insurance against coups. This is a particularly complex exemplar of the global and historical interconnectedness of police, for the connections here are as much to the past as to the present, and as much to Sierra Leone itself as to Europe.

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Kuo, Raymond C. Following the Leader. Stanford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503628434.001.0001.

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Nations have powerful reasons to get their military alliances right. When security pacts go well, they underpin regional and global order; when they fail, they spread wars across continents as states are dragged into conflict. We would, therefore, expect states to carefully tailor their military partnerships to specific conditions. This expectation, Raymond C. Kuo argues, is wrong. Following the Leader argues that most countries ignore their individual security interests in military pacts, instead converging on a single, dominant alliance strategy. The book introduces a new social theory of strategic diffusion and emulation, using case studies and advanced statistical analysis of alliances from 1815 to 2003. In the wake of each major war that shatters the international system, a new hegemon creates a core military partnership to target its greatest enemy. Secondary and peripheral countries rush to emulate this alliance, illustrating their credibility and prestige by mimicking the dominant form. Be it the NATO model that seems so commonsense today, or the realpolitik that reigned in Europe of the late nineteenth century, a lone alliance strategy has defined broad swaths of diplomatic history. It is not states' own security interests driving this phenomenon, Kuo shows, but their jockeying for status in a world periodically remade by great powers.

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Asal, Victor, Brian J. Phillips, and R. Karl Rethemeyer. Insurgent Terrorism. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197607015.001.0001.

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Why do insurgent organizations sometimes kill civilians? Some do all the time, some do so occasionally, and some seem to never do so. Why? Recent research seeks to explain civilian victimization by insurgent groups, also called terrorism, focusing on factors such as insurgent weakness or country regime type. This book presents a different explanation, building on what is referred to as insurgent embeddedness—the extent to which an insurgent group is enmeshed in relationships with the state, other insurgents, and the public. With this framework, the book presents a set of propositions for why such a group might attack civilians. The book introduces new data on insurgent groups and their attributes (the Big, Allied, and Dangerous II Insurgency data) and empirically tests the arguments presented. Some factors robustly related to insurgent terrorism include government coercion, interorganizational alliances, interorganizational rivalry, and involvement in crime. In addition to discussing civilian targeting in general, we also examine how insurgent embeddedness might affect three important types of civilian victimization: terrorist attacks on schools, violence against the news media, and a proclivity for attacking the general public (not government officials or other symbolic types of targets). Finally, because the focus of this book is on relationships, an in-depth explanation of insurgent alliances and rivalries is presented, examining their changes and determinants over time. In total, the book provides a comprehensive look at how insurgent groups interact with other actors—and the implications for several types of bloodshed against civilians.

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