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Lennox, Kara. Hard to resist. Don Mills, Ontario: Harlequin, 2012.

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Tomás, Carmen. Opa a Endesa: El que resiste gana. Madrid: Esfera de los Libros, 2006.

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Ankara Devlet Resim ve Heykel Müzesi. Ankara Resim ve Heykel Müzesi =: Museum of Fine Arts. [Ankara]: Kültür Bakanlığı, 1993.

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Sack, Steven Mitchell. Getting fired: What to do if you're fired, downsized, laid off, restructured, discharged, terminated, or forced to resign. New York: Warner Books, 1999.

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(Firm), Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. Grand Teton: A national park building : the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center. San Rafael, CA: Oro Editions, 2009.

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Oren, Itsiḳ. Boʻer be-ʻatsmotai: Sipuram ha-ishi shel meyasde Shilav she-hovil le-haḳamatah shel ha-reshet ule-hatslaḥatah. [Tel Aviv?]: Globs, ha-sifriyah, 2011.

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Jokerst, Ronald W. Evaluation of flakeboard bonded with xylitol-modified alkaline phenolic resin. [Madison, Wis.?: Forest Products Laboratory, 1988.

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Jokerst, Ronald W. Evaluation of flakeboard bonded with xylitol-modified alkaline phenolic resin. [Madison, Wis.?: Forest Products Laboratory, 1988.

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Jokerst, Ronald W. Evaluation of flakeboard bonded with xylitol-modified alkaline phenolic resin. [Madison, Wis.?: Forest Products Laboratory, 1988.

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Kosky, Jules. The top of the Hill: A history of Hill Homes. London: Hill Homes, 1994.

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Beng, Tan Hock. Passages: Between here and there : recent works, Maps Design. Singapore: Page One Publishing Pte. Ltd., 2014.

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A, Banks B., and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration., eds. Atomic oxygen treatment technique for removal of smoke damage from paintings. [Washington, DC]: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1997.

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Galletti, Matteo, and Silvia Zullo, eds. La vita prima della fine. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-8453-748-5.

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In recent decades the clinical condition of the permanent vegetative state has raised debates regarding the treatment of those patients who, as a result of brain damage, have irreversibly lost consciousness while biologically continuing to live. The media have also provided ample coverage of celebrated cases, such as those of Karen Quinlan, Anthony Bland, Terry Schiavo and Eluana Englaro. Behind these names are the stories of individuals, moral dilemmas that incite reflection and throw down challenges to the law. This book contains essays by experts in various disciplinary areas – philosophy, religion and law – and is designed to offer a contribution to the debate, so as to clarify which instruments can best protect human rights and dignity even in borderline clinical situations.

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Dov, Eykhnold, and Lazovski Elian, eds. Ha- Bayit shel kulanu. Tel Aviv: Yediʻot Aḥaronot, 2005.

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Zorzi, Andrea, ed. La civiltà comunale italiana nella storiografia internazionale. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-113-7.

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This book contains the proceedings of the first international conference organised by the Centro di Studi sulla civiltà comunale of the University of Florence, and offers a fine overview of the contribution made by international historiography to the history of the Italian Comunes. One of the most significant periods in the country's past is addressed here by some of the leading international specialists through the reconstruction of the approaches, issues and outcomes of the principal foreign historiographies (German, French, American, Spanish and English). The result is a fairly articulated picture of how the civilisation of the Comune has been treated and appraised over time outside Italy. Consequently, the book is offered as an updated tool of historiographic reflection and as a useful yardstick for studies devoted to the European urban world.

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Lennox, Kara. Hard to Resist. Harlequin Enterprises ULC, 2012.

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Wilsey, Brian J. Factors Maintaining and Regulating Grassland Structure and Function. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198744511.003.0003.

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Intrinsic disturbances are processes that have occurred on an evolutionary time scale, and include fire, wind-damage, digging or burrowing by fossorial mammals, defoliation, and trampling by native large mammals. Grassland species evolved with intrinsic disturbances, and they can be important in maintaining grassland community structure and functioning. Adaptations to fire include short herbaceous stature, high allocation belowground, ability to resprout, and smoke-induced seed germination. Fire interacts with grazing because grazing reduces litter (fuel) load, and fires affect forage quality. Plants can tolerate some level of herbivory in most grasslands. Adaptations that enable grassland plants to resist grazing are similar to plant adaptations to fire. Drought can affect grasslands at a variety of time scales. Vegetative reproduction can allow rapid recolonization after droughts have ended. Plowing is the most common disturbance affecting grasslands, and it has been used to transform native grasslands into crop fields and simplified pasture.

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Be Watchful: Resist the Adversary, Firm in Your Faith. Saragossa Press, 2016.

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Goss, Steve. Win the Daily Battle: Resist and Stand Firm in God's Strength. Lion Hudson PLC, 2008.

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Goss, Goss. Win the Daily Battle, Second Edition: Resist and Stand Firm in God's Strength. SPCK Publishing, 2023.

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Lejoyeux, Michel, and Candice Germain. Pyromania: Phenomenology and Epidemiology. Edited by Jon E. Grant and Marc N. Potenza. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195389715.013.0049.

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Pyromania corresponds to fire setting not done for criminal reasons, for profit or sabotage, for monetary gain, as an expression of sociopolitical ideology (an act of terrorism or protest) or anger, or for revenge. Pyromania, in the sense of arson without a separate motive, is a rare phenomenon.In the DSM-IV-TR, pyromania is classified as an impulse control disorder (ICD) not elsewhere classified. It is characterized by a failure to resist impulsive, repetitive, deliberate fire-setting urges that are unrelated to external reward.The only study of the prevalence of fire setting derived from the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions found a lifetime prevalence of 1% for fire setting in the U.S. population. The prevalence of pyromania in adult psychiatric inpatients was 3.4% (n = 7), and the lifetime prevalence was 5.9%.Fire setting is significantly associated with a wide range of antisocial behaviors. Multivariate logistic regression analyses identified strong associations between lifetime alcohol and marijuana use disorders, conduct disorder, antisocial and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders, and a family history of antisocial behavior. Intentional illicit fire-setting behavior is associated with a broad array of antisocial behaviors and psychiatric comorbidities. The most prevalent psychiatric disorders among persons with a history of fire setting are any lifetime alcohol use disorder (71.7%), antisocial personality disorder (51.46%), marijuana use disorder (43.17%), and nicotine dependence (42.95%). A family history of antisocial behavior is also frequent (60%).

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S, Sujith G. Timeless Resorts: Stapati. ORO Editions, 2015.

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Santelli, Maureen Connors. The Greek Fire. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501715785.001.0001.

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This book examines the United States' early global influence as the fledgling nation that inserted itself in conflicts that were oceans away. It focuses on the American fascination with and involvement in the Greek Revolution in the 1820s and 1830s. That nationalist movement incited an American philhellenic movement that pushed the borders of US interests into the eastern Mediterranean and infused a global perspective into domestic conversations concerning freedom and reform. Perceiving strong cultural, intellectual, and racial ties with Greece, American men and women identified Greece as the seedbed of American democracy and a crucial source of American values. Grassroots organizations sent men, money, and supplies to aid the Greeks. Philhellenes, often led by women, joined efforts with benevolence and missionary groups and together they promoted humanitarianism, education reform, and evangelism. Public pressure on the US Congress, however, did not result in intervention on behalf of the Greeks. Commercial interests convinced US officials to remain out of the conflict. The book analyzes the role of Americans in the Greek Revolution and the aftermath of US involvement. In doing so, it revises understandings of US involvement in foreign affairs, and shows how diplomacy developed at the same time as Americans were learning what it meant to be a country, and what that country stood for.

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Moses, Althea. Irresistibly Fit: How to Become a Spiritually Strong, Sexy and Firm Woman Everyone Admires and No One Can Resist. Unknown Publisher, 2018.

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Akyüz, Yilmaz. Playing with Fire. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797173.001.0001.

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From the early 1990s many emerging and developing economies (EDEs) liberalized their capital accounts, allowing greater freedom for international lenders and investors to enter their markets, as well as for their residents to operate in international financial markets. Despite recurrent crises, liberalization has accelerated in the new millennium. Global financial integration of EDEs has been greatly facilitated by progressively looser US monetary policy, notably policies culminating in crises in the US and Europe and the ultra-easy monetary policies adopted in response. Not only have traditional cross-border financial linkages of EDEs deepened and their external balance sheets expanded rapidly, but also foreign presence in their domestic markets and the presence of their nationals in foreign markets have reached unprecedented proportions. As a result new channels have emerged for the transmission of financial shocks from global boom–bust cycles. Almost all EDEs are now vulnerable irrespective of their balance-of-payments, external debt, net foreign assets, and international reserves positions, although these play an important role in the way such shocks could impinge on them. This is a matter for concern since the multilateral system lacks mechanisms to prevent beggar-thy-neighbour policies in major advanced economies that exert strong impact on global economic and financial conditions or for orderly and equitable resolution of financial crises with international dimensions. This volume provides a comprehensive treatment of global financial linkages of EDEs and the vulnerabilities they entail, based on a rich set of data and information that have not been put together so far in the literature.

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Sack, Steven Mitchell. Getting Fired: What to Do if You're Fired, Downsized, Laid Off, Restructured, Discharged, Terminated, or Forced to Resign. Grand Central Publishing, 2000.

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Sack, Steven Mitchell. Getting Fired: What to Do If You're Fired, Downsized, Laid off, Restructured, Discharged, Terminated, or Forced to Resign. Grand Central Publishing, 2000.

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Scott, Andrew C. Burning Planet. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198734840.001.0001.

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Raging wildfires have devastated vast areas of California and Australia in recent years, and predictions are that we will see more of the same in coming years as a result of climate change. But this is nothing new. Since the dawn of life on land, large-scale fires have played their part in shaping life on Earth. Andrew C. Scott tells the whole story of fire's impact on our planet's atmosphere, climate, vegetation, ecology, and the evolution of plant and animal life. It has caused mass extinctions, and it has propelled the spread of flowering plants. The exciting evidence we can now draw on has been preserved in fossilized charcoal, found in rocks hundreds of millions of years old, from all over the world. These reveal incredibly fine details of prehistoric plants, and tell us about climates from deep in earth's history. They also give us insight into how early hominids and humans tamed fire and used it. Looking at the impact of wildfires in our own time, Scott also looks forward to how we might better manage them in future, as climate change has an increasing effect on our world.

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Gradecki, Joseph D., and Richard Hightower. Mastering Resin. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2003.

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Sack, Steven Mitchell. Fired!: Protect Your Rights & FIGHT BACK If You're Terminated, Laid off, Downsized, Restructured, Forced to Resign or Quit. Legal Strategies Publications, 2022.

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Sack, Steven Mitchell. Fired!: Protect Your Rights & FIGHT BACK If You're Terminated, Laid off, Downsized, Restructured, Forced to Resign or Quit. Legal Strategies Publications, 2022.

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Sack, Steven Mitchell. Fired!: Protect Your Rights & FIGHT BACK If You're Terminated, Laid off, Downsized, Restructured, Forced to Resign or Quit. Legal Strategies Publications, 2022.

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Gradecki, Joseph D., and Richard Hightower. Mastering Resin. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2008.

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Gradecki, Joseph D., and Richard Hightower. Mastering Resin. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2003.

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Hightower, Richard, and Joseph D. Gradecki. Mastering Resin. Wiley, 2003.

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Coppola, Silvia, and Franco Valenza. Inhalation injury in the ICU. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199600830.003.0107.

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Inhalation injury represents one of the most serious associated injuries complicating the care of thermally-injured patient. It can result in severe respiratory failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) by three mechanisms—thermal or chemical injury, and impairment of systemic oxygen supply. Thermal injury can cause erythema, ulceration, and progressive, life-threatening oedema, particularly of the upper airways. Chemical injury is due to irritants or cytotoxic compounds, and depends on the material burned, the temperature of the fire, and the amount of oxygen present in the fire environment. It is responsible for irritation, ulceration, and oedema of the mucosal surface, and the initiation of a lung inflammatory reaction when small particles reach the alveoli. Moreover, the increased vascular permeability, and the reduced surfactant production carry a significant risk in the development of pneumonia and ARDS. Bronchospasm and upper airway oedema can occur rapidly, while lower airway oedema can be asymptomatic for up to 24 hours. Lung imaging techniques may not reveal injured areas for the first 24–48 hours. Fibre optic bronchoscopy is considered to be the most direct diagnostic method for the definitive diagnosis of inhalation injury. The patient management includes airways assessment, adequate fluid resuscitation, and mechanical ventilation when required. All victims of smoke inhalation should be always evaluated for cyanide and carbon monoxide poisoning.

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Tsamudi, Yosef. Iyun hozer ba-Mikra: Iyunim be-Sefer Iyov, be-firke Be-reshit, bi-Megilat Rut uvi-ferakim rabim aherim. Ts'erikover, 1997.

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Reeves, Martha. Suppressed, Forced Out and Fired. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216186755.

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So entrenched and powerful is the patriarchy within organizations that women have serious difficulty acquiring positions of real importance, even when it is in the organization's best interest to use their talents fully (and reward them equitably). Reeves surveys the structural obstacles to women's advancement and argues that successful women executives threaten their male counterparts and their patriarchal culture, which responds by punishing them. Unlike other studies on the topic, Reeves explains the mechanisms by which gender discrimination operates—the dynamics of discrimination and the processes by which women in business are marginalized, subordinated, and excluded. Her book combines theory with first person case study accounts of 10 women who were suppressed, then fired. The result is a fresh, compelling argument that, despite claims to the contrary, the glass ceiling still exists. The patriarchy has simply devised subtle new ways to circumvent the legal remedies meant to crack through it. Reeves reviews statistics on the role of women in work, patterns of horizontal and vertical segregation, and differences in the experiences of men and women, then turns to an assessment of the theories of women's subordination. She profiles each of her 10 women subjects, explains their education, career trajectory, and accomplishments. Their experiences reveal various mechanisms through which the patriarchy operates to subordinate successful women, such as communication patterns among men that minimize women's contributions, withholding of information, denial of status to women, intimidation tactics, and the double bind that women find themselves in when they seek fair treatment. After analyzing the women's termination in detail, Reeves discusses how each woman's personality played a role in her termination. Reeves ends by drawing conclusions on what the present and future seem to hold for women's progress in organizations, and particularly in publicly held corporations.

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Speakman, Danielle. Emerging Adult Essay. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190260637.003.0031.

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I was only 21 when I went to Lima, Peru, for the first time. I never could have anticipated the transformation that occurred as a result of that decision at that time in my life. In King and Merola’s chapter, “Crucibles of Transformation,” they speak of how the particular challenges, gifts, and perspective of the emerging adult will create a fire that can make religious service especially powerful and transformative. This fire will create a crucible experience for the emerging adult. In such a crucible, one element is heated to the degree that it becomes something new. This sort of alchemy was at the heart of my own emerging adulthood experience in Lima....

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Capon, Samantha, Cassandra James, and Michael Reid, eds. Vegetation of Australian Riverine Landscapes. CSIRO Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643104525.

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Vegetation communities in Australia's riverine landscapes are ecologically, economically and culturally significant. They are also among the most threatened ecosystems on the continent and have been dramatically altered as a result of human activities and climate change. Vegetation of Australian Riverine Landscapes brings together, for the first time, the results of the substantial amount of research that has been conducted over the last few decades into the biology, ecology and management of these important plant communities in Australia. The book is divided into four sections. The first section provides context with respect to the spatial and temporal dimensions of riverine landscapes in Australia. The second section examines key groups of riverine plants, while the third section provides an overview of riverine vegetation in five major regions of Australia, including patterns, significant threats and management. The final section explores critical issues associated with the conservation and management of riverine plants and vegetation, including water management, salinity, fire and restoration. Vegetation of Australian Riverine Landscapes highlights the incredible diversity and dynamic nature of riverine vegetation across Australia, and will be an excellent reference for researchers, academics and environmental consultants.

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Vanderschraaf, Peter. Dilemmas of Interaction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199832194.003.0001.

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Problems of interaction, which give rise to justice, are structurally problems of game theory, the mathematical theory of interactive decisions. Five problems of interaction are introduced that are all intrinsically important and that help motivate important parts of the discussions in subsequent chapters: the Farmer’s Dilemma, impure coordination, the Stag Hunt, the free-rider problem, and the choice for a powerless party to acquiesce or resist. Elements of noncooperative game theory essential to analyzing problems of justice are reviewed, including especially games in the strategic and extensive forms, the Nash equilibrium, the Prisoner’s Dilemma, and games of incomplete information. Each of the five motivating problems is reformulated game-theoretically. These game-theoretic reformulations reveal precisely why the agents involved would have difficulty arriving at mutually satisfactory resolutions, and why “solutions” for these problems call for principles of justice to guide the agents’ conduct.

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Thurman, Robert, Susan Rockefeller, Anneke van Waesberghe, and William Andrews McDonough. Haute Couture Architecture: The Art of Living Without Walls. Antique Collectors' Club, 2022.

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Singer, Abraham A. From Market to Firm to Market Again: A Recap. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190698348.003.0007.

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This chapter reviews the theories covered in Part I and then reflects on certain features of the Chicago school. In particular, we see that the Chicago school is characterized by its assumption that agents have exogenous preferences. This distinguishes the Chicago school from other traditions of social analysis that consider or focus upon the ways in which contexts and institutions alter agents’ preferences. While the rest of the book criticizes this approach, this chapter concludes by noting that we need to take seriously a key Chicago school idea: that the results of a particular market might actually be reflective of people’s preferences, even if they seem to run afoul of certain moral intuitions we have.

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Lombardo, Robert M. Street Crew Neighborhoods. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037306.003.0009.

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This chapter focuses on the organized crime neighborhoods of Chicago, with particular emphasis on five communities in the metropolitan area with a history of being associated with organized crime: Taylor Street, Grand Avenue, Twenty-sixth Street, the North Side, and the suburb of Chicago Heights. These communities are the locations of the five original “street crews,” or branches, of the Chicago Outfit. In addition to these areas, a number of other Chicago communities have a reputation of being associated with organized crime. These communities differ, however, in that they are all descendant from the five original street crew neighborhoods. The chapter reviews the history of organized crime in each of these street crew neighborhoods and offers a sociological explanation for their emergence in conformance with social organizational theories of crime. It argues that Mafia traditions had no bearing on the existence of racket subcultures in these neighborhoods; instead, organized crime was the direct result of machine politics and the differential organization of these communities.

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Tay, W. M. Resin-Bonded Bridges (Clinical Techniques in Dentistry). Taylor & Francis, 1992.

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Grewal, J. S. Master Tara Singh Emerges as the Foremost Sikh Leader. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199467099.003.0008.

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The Akalis joined the civil disobedience movement, and Master Tara Singh was arrested while leading an Akali jathā to Peshawar and sent to jail. The Communal Award of August 1932 recommended statutory Muslim majority in the Punjab Legislative Assembly. The leaders of Sikh parties formed the Khalsa Darbar to resist implementation of the Award. But the Akali leadership was soon divided. Master Tara Singh’s agitation against the Maharaja of Patiala in 1935 led to a compromise. Master Tara Singh took a firm stand against the Muslim leaders of the Shahidganj agitation. In 1936, he took serious interest in the Dalits of the south. Though unhappy with the neutrality of the Congress towards the Communal Award, he was willing to align with the Congress for the forthcoming elections of 1937.

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Southgate, Emily W. B. Russell. People and the Land through Time. Yale University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300225808.001.0001.

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This extensive revision of the first edition of People and the Land Through Time incorporates research over the last two decades to bring the field of historical ecology from an ecological perspective up to date. It emphasizes the use of new sources of data and interdisciplinary data analysis to interpret ecological processes in the past. It describes a diversity of past ecosystems, and how they affect current ecosystem structure and function as well as offering insight into current structure and process, and assisting in predicting the future. This historical perspective highlights the varied and complex roles of indigenous people in historic ecosystems and as well as the importance of past and present climatic fluctuations. The book begins with an introduction to the importance of history for ecological studies, and then has three chapters which explain methods and approaches to reconstructing the past, using both traditional and novel sources of data and analysis. The following five chapters discuss ways people have influenced natural systems, starting with the most primitive, manipulating fire, and proceeding through altering species ranges, hunting and gathering, agriculture and finally structuring landscapes through land surveys, trade and urbanization. Two chapters then deal with diversity, extinction and sustainability in a changing world. The final chapter integrates the rest of the book especially in terms of the importance of history in basic ecological studies, global change and understanding conservation. Throughout, the emphasis is on the potential for evidence-based research in historical ecology, and the new frontiers in this exciting field.

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Hanlon, Gerard. Rethinking Corporate Social Responsibility and the Role of the Firm—On the Denial of Politics. Edited by Andrew Crane, Dirk Matten, Abagail McWilliams, Jeremy Moon, and Donald S. Siegel. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199211593.003.0007.

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This article argues that corporate social responsibility (CSR) does not represent a challenge to business. On the contrary, it suggests that CSR represents a further embedding of capitalist social relations and a deeper opening up of social life to the dictates of the marketplace. Furthermore, it protests that CSR is not a driving force of change but rather an outcome of changes brought on by other forces. Most particularly, it is the result of a shift from a fordist to a post-fordist regime of accumulation at the heart of which is both an expansion and a deepening of wage relations. This article somewhat conveniently traces the (re)emergence of CSR as an issue beyond the academy from the 1990s whilst acknowledging the academic work on CSR carried out earlier (Carroll, 1979 or Owen, 2003 on the democratic push in CSR during the 1970s).

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Abraham, William J. Epilogue. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786511.003.0013.

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The author briefly examines why “special” divine action came under fire in the modern period, and suggests that the problems with the contemporary debate about divine action in analytic philosophy rest upon core mistakes made during the modern period resulting from a disconnection with the Christian tradition. He raises again the need to engage with the Christian tradition to see what dividends it might pay for the contemporary debate. After giving a retrospective of the contributions of each chapter in this volume, he calls for theologians to take up the project of the epistemology of theology while maintaining their theological boldness.

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Leslie, Thomas. “Built Mostly of Itself”: Chicago and Clay, 1874–1891. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037542.003.0002.

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This chapter describes major structures built from 1874–1891, which were dominated by taller masonry buildings that employed improved masonry, foundations, and fireproofing. Early fire-protected iron-framed buildings achieved modest increases in height over all-masonry structures. Wrapping iron columns and girders with terra-cotta jackets saved owners floor space that would otherwise have gone toward larger brick piers, though masonry was still the primary material for exterior walls. The result—jacketed iron structures inside surrounded by bearing masonry walls outside—was called “cage” construction in New York. The skyscrapers built in Chicago's building boom of 1884—1886 all deployed this hybrid strategy of metal frame and masonry wall. Skyscrapers supported, braced, and clad with masonry were also made stronger and more economical by the rise of a pressed-brick industry in Chicago.

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