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    • Treaty shopping in international investment law 

      Baumgartner, Jorun (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Treaty shopping, also known under the terms of nationality planning, corporate (re-)structuring or corporate maneuvering, implies a strategic change of nationality or strategic invocation of another nationality with the ...

    • Tribal Modern: Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf 

      Cooke, Miriam (University of California Press, 2014)
      In the 1970s, one of the most torrid and forbidding regions in the world burst on to the international stage. The discovery and subsequent exploitation of oil allowed tribal rulers of the U.A.E, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait ...

    • The Triumph of Emptiness: Consumption, Higher Education, and Work Organization 

      Alvesson, Mats (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      In this book, Mats Alvesson aims to demystify some popular and upbeat claims about a range of phenomena, including the knowledge society, consumption, branding, higher education, organizational change, professionalization, ...

    • True Blood: Eats, Drinks, and Bites from Bon Temps 

      Sobol, Gianna (Chronicle Books, 2012)
      True Blood, HBO's blockbuster paranormal drama, enthralls a diverse audience of 13 million viewers (and counting). Menus at the now-famous Fangtasia and Merlotte's Bar and Grill play a key role in the series, providing ...

    • The Turing Guide 

      Copeland, Jack (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Alan Turing has long proved a subject of fascination, but following the centenary of his birth in 2012, the code-breaker, computer pioneer, mathematician (and much more) has become even more celebrated with much media ...

    • Turing’s Vision: The Birth of Computer Science 

      Bernhardt, Chris (MIT Press, 2016)
      Turing's fascinating and remarkable theory, which now forms the basis of computer science, explained for the general reader. In 1936, when he was just twenty-four years old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which ...

    • Turkey (Eyewitness Travel Guides) 

      Swan, Suzanne (Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2010)
      This volume shows Turkey at its best, from the beautiful beaches and azure seas to the glittering mosques and churches, intriguing historic quarters and colourful bazaars. In-depth coverage is given to Istanbul with the ...

    • Turkey: More than 100 Recipes, with Tales from the Road 

      Kitchen, Leanne (Chronicle Books, 2012)
      Turkey's culinary customs are as rich and varied as its landscape, and award-winning food writer Leanne Kitchen does justice to them both with more than 170 glorious photographs of the country's foods and people that make ...

    • Turkish multinationals : market entry and post-acquisition strategy 

      Ayden, Yuksel; Demirbag, Mehmet; Tatoglu, Ekrem (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book explores the internationalization of Turkish multinationals by examining a set of firms from various industries and providing eleven detailed case studies. The authors aim to discover the reasons behind the drive ...

    • Turning around the Culture of Teaching and Learning: A Turnaround School Success Story 

      Lawrence, Rachael B.; Rallis, Sharon F.; Keller, Lisa A.; Francis, Dania V. (University of Massachusetts - Amherst, 2016)
      In 2009-2010, Riverton Elementary School in Portland, ME was awarded a School Improvement Grant (SIG), supported by the Federal Department of Education (Federal DOE) through the Maine Department of Education. With this ...

    • Twist It Up: More Than 60 Delicious Recipes from an Inspiring Young Chef 

      Witherspoon, Jack; Giblin, Sheri; Witherspoon, Lisa (Chronicle Books, 2011)
      Inspiration resides in the kitchen for eleven-year-old Jack Witherspoon. And for good reason. When Jack was going through incredibly tough times battling leukemia for the second time he sought solace in the Food Network ...

    • The Two Eyes of the Earth: Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome and Sasanian Iran (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) 

      Canepa, Matthew P. (University of California Press, 2010)
      This pioneering study examines a pivotal period in the history of Europe and the Near East. Spanning the ancient and medieval worlds, it investigates the shared ideal of sacred kingship that emerged in the late Roman and ...

    • Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics, Years 1 - 2012: Population, GDP at PPP, and GDP Per Capita. Vol. 1, by Rank 

      Avakov, Alexander V. (Algora Publishing, 2015)
      This book provides hard data for all who ponder the shifting sands of power, whether economic, military or demographic, and seek keys to decipher the media news. Who's winning and who's losing. Going far beyond the major ...

    • Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics, Years 1 - 2012: Population, GDP at PPP, and GDP Per Capita. Vol. 2, by Country 

      Avakov, Alexander V. (Algora Publishing, 2015)
      Who's winning and who's losing. This book provides hard data for all who ponder the shifting sands of power, whether economic, military or demographic, and seek keys to decipher the media news. Going far beyond the major ...

    • A Two-Tiered Theory of Control 

      Landau, Idan (MIT Press, 2015)
      This book revives and reinterprets a persistent intuition running through much of the classical work: that the unitary appearance of Obligatory Control into complements conceals an underlying duality of structure and ...

    • Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1992 

      Armstrong, Charles K. (Cornell University Press, 2013)
      To much of the world, North Korea is an impenetrable mystery, its inner workings unknown and its actions toward the outside unpredictable and frequently provocative. Tyranny of the Weak reveals for the first time the ...

    • Ubiquitous Listening: Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity 

      Kassabian, Anahid (University of California Press, 2013)
      How does the constant presence of music in modern life—on iPods, in shops and elevators, on television—affect the way we listen? With so much of this sound, whether imposed or chosen, only partially present to us, is the ...

    • The Ultimate French Review and Practice 

      Stillman, David; Gordon, Ronni (McGraw-Hill Education, 2015)
      Better than ever! The bestselling intermediate-level workbook has been expanded into a comprehensive, dynamic digital/print study tool thats sure to help you master French Based on the principle that strong grammar skills ...

    • The ultimate guide to the physician assistant profession 

      Ohanesian, Jessi Rodriguez (McGraw-Hill Education, 2014)
      The Ultimate Guide to the Physician Assistant Profession This indispensable guide is the next best thing to having a real-life PA mentor at your side. Based on the author's hard-won insights and extensive research as a ...

    • The Ultimate Teaching Manual: A Route to Success for Beginning Teachers 

      Dixie, Gererd (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011)
      This highly-visual book offers primary and secondary teachers practical guidance to help them through their training and first few years in teaching.