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Burial assemblages and social complexity in Dawenkou culture

This work will focus on the burial assemblages of the Dawenkou site in Shandong Northern China and will revolve around the main idea that these burial sites present convincing evidence of an emerging social complexity.

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Nestlé's infant formula marketing controversy and corporate accountability

The story of the Nestle Baby Formula Controversy begins almost three decades ago with the publication of a pamphlet called 'The Baby Killer' in 1974 by Mike Muller and War on Want, a London-based activist group concerned with problems of the Third World (Akhter 1994).

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The evolution of bathroom design and hygiene in modern urban homes

In our present lives, in hi-technology living spaces or homes, most of us spend our days indoors.

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Cultural, geographic, and demographic differences between Japan and the United States

Japan and the United States of America are two countries which have chosen to be allies in spite of tremendous differences and a fairly recent history of war between the two countries.

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David Rusk's inside game and outside game urban revitalization strategies

David Rusk's book, Inside Game / Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America is an insightful and well-researched addition to the current understanding of urban management and public administration.

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Informal leadership in a software development team

group I am referring to was involved in several software product development projects and was formed from a team leader, several programmers and a tester, who was also in charge with subsequent quality assurance and quality control phases.

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Cranial morphology and size variation in fossil hominins

Baab, Karen L., and Kieran P. McNulty. "Size, shape, and asymmetry in fossil hominins: the status of the LB1 cranium based on 3D morphometric analyses." Journal of Human Evolution 57, no. 5 (2009): 608 -- 622. Accessed November 29, 2013. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.08.011.

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Civil liberties erosion under the U.S.A. PATRIOT Act

U.S.A. PATRIOT Act Remain in Effect in Its Present Form? For more than 200 years, the level of civil liberties afforded American citizens has waxed and waned according to the perceived level of threats arrayed against the nation's interests, with the most recent example of curtailment being the…

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The Black Death in medieval Europe: history and impact

The Black Death is remembered through time because of the harm it inflicted on the world and because of the horrible pains that were associated with the malady.

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Greenbelt policies and environmental benefits for Texas cities

The overriding theme of the greenbelt policy around the cities as applies to entire world is discussed.

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