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Intersections : history, memory, discipline by Lal, Brij V.

Table of Contents: “…When it it over -- Heartbreak Islands -- Making history, becoming history -- While the gun is still smoking -- Where has all the music gone? …”
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The Nerve Of It : Poems New and Selected by Emanuel, Lynn, 1949-

Table of Contents: “….; My Life; Kiss; Grieving Was; Dying Was; "I tried to flatter myself into extinction, . . ."; "While my mother lies in a hospital bed . . ."; Ars Poetica; Halfway Through the Book I'm Writing.…”
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Justifying violence : Communicative ethics and the use of force in Kosovo. by Head, Naomi

Table of Contents: “…Locating Kosovo and legitimacy -- 2. Putting out the fire while the coals still burn: Kosovo prior to 1999 -- 3. …”
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Rebuilding the unity of health and the environment : a new vision of environmental health for the 21st Century by Hanna, Kathi E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Keynote address: Environment and health: a connection to the current debate -- Human health and the natural environment : The importance of contact with nature ; Biodiversity and human health ; Ensuring the food source while addressing environmental health -- Human health and the "built" environment : Designing a better future ; Smart growth ; Coherence in the built environment ; Embracing natural capitalism -- Human health and the social environment : Sustainable development, environment, and health ; Health and the urban environment: the forgotten ecosystem ; Socioeconomic status and health ; Nutrition, physical activity, and health ; A more communal approach to health ; Changing the educational environment -- Toward an integrative approach to environmental health.…”
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Faulkner and material culture : Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2004

Table of Contents: “…Aiken -- The philosophy of furniture, or, Light in August and the material unconscious / Jay Watson -- Dematerializing culture : Faulkner's trash aesthetic / Patricia Yaeger -- Flags in the dust and the material culture of class / Kevin Railey -- "Touch me while you look at her" : stars, fashion, and authorship in Today we live / D. …”
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Millions Like Us'? : British Culture in the Second World War. by Hayes, Nick

Table of Contents: “…Sport During and After the War; A Time for Hard Writers: The Impact of War on Women Writers; Safe and Sound: New Music in Wartime Britain; More Than 'Music-While-You-Eat'? Factory and Hostel Concerts, 'Good Culture' and the Workers.…”
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Crisis and hope : the educational hopscotch of Latin America / Crisis & hope

Table of Contents: “…-- chapter 1 Toward a Unified Agenda for Change in Latin American Higher Education -- chapter 2 Two Decades of Neoliberalism in Latin America -- chapter 3 Prioritizing the Education of Marginalized Youth in Brazil -- chapter 4 A Local Reform Goes Global -- chapter 5 Neoliberalism and Educational Decentralization Policies -- chapter 6 Searching for "Neoliberal" Education Policies -- chapter 7 Beyond Neoliberalism in Education -- chapter 8 Teachers' Work Revisited -- chapter 9 While Gender Sleeps -- chapter 10 The Northern Influence and Colombian Education Reform of the 1990s.…”
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Slave emancipation and transformations in Brazilian political citizenship by Castilho, Celso Thomas

Table of Contents: “…"Death to Slavery": Sparking the Abolition Debate; Chapter 2. "While the Cry for Emancipation Still Echoes": The Political Effects of the 1871 Law; Chapter 3. …”
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Citizen bachelors : manhood and the creation of the United States by McCurdy, John Gilbert, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : bachelors in early America -- "Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants" : singles in early colonial America -- "If a single man and able he shall make satisfaction" : the bachelor laws -- "Every one of them shall be chained about the middle to a post like a monkey" : literary representations of the bachelor -- "I resolve to live a bachelor while I remain in this wicked country" : living single in early America -- "The bachelor is the only free man" : the single man and the American Revolution -- Epilogue : bachelors since 1800 -- Appendix : singles' laws, 1500-1800.…”
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Python crash course : a hands-on, project-based introduction to programming by Matthes, Eric, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Getting started ; Variables and simple data types ; Introducing lists ; Working with lists ; If statements ; Dictionaries ; User input and while loops ; Functions ; Classes ; Files and exceptions ; Testing your code -- Projects. …”
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The BIM manager's handbook : guidance for professionals in architecture, engineering, and construction. / Excelling your BIM efforts by Holzer, Dominik

Table of Contents: “…-- Meeting Others Locally-BIM User Groups and More -- BIM Conferences -- Distinguishing your Service Offering via BIM -- Embracing Lifecycle BIM -- Working According to Local Guidelines and Standards -- Moving Forward (While Catching Up) -- Endnotes -- EULA.…”
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Debunking the Myth of Job Fit in Student Affairs by Reece, Brian J.

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Debunking the Myth of Job Fit in Higher Education and Student Affairs; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Figures and Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 From Fit to Belonging; 2 Innocent Until Proven Guilty; 3 Employer Definitions of and Reflections on Fit in Hiring Processes; 4 Holograms, Misfits, and Authentic Selves; 5 No, I Can't Meet You for an 8 Coffee; 6 Finding Fit as an "Outsider Within"; 7 Code Word FIT; 8 Negotiating Fit While "Misfit"; 9 "You'll Fit Right In"; 10 (Re)Viewing and (Re)Moving the Mystique Surrounding "Fit" in Student Affairs; EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; Index…”
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Forever Suspect : Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror. by Selod, Saher

Table of Contents: “…Moving from South Asian and Arab Identities to a Muslim Identity; Chapter 2. Flying while Muslim: State Surveillance of Muslim Americans in U.S. …”
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Mississippi in the Civil War : the home front by Smith, Timothy B., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…The state in military conflict -- "Then go down into Egypt while Herod reigns in Judea" -- "The struggle is now for her existence as a state" -- "The arms and military property of the state" -- "A swath of desolation" -- "Patriotism enough to bear such a tax as this" -- pt. 2. …”
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Negotiating with the Enemy. by Xia, Yafeng

Table of Contents: “…Establishing Contact: Huang-Stuart Talks, 1949; 3. Negotiating While Fighting: The Korean Armistice Talks,1951-53; 4. …”
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Autobiography in black & brown : ethnic identity in Richard Wright and Richard Rodriguez / Autobiography in black and brown by Garcia, Michael Nieto

Table of Contents: “…A tale of two Richards: on reference and ethnic Identity in autobiography -- Autobiographical double consciousness: the ethnic self as representative man in Richard Wright's hybrid autobiography -- The black existentialist and collective racial experience: manning up the ethnic Übermensch in Richard Wright's Black boy -- The we in me: the communally derived ethnic self in Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of memory -- En el nombre del padre: the immigrant father as the manikin of autobiography and its agon with the print culture self in Richard Rodriguez's Days of obligation: an argument with my Mexican father -- The inauthentic ethnic: Richard Rodriguez's brown and resisting essentialist narratives of ethnic identity -- The hermeneutic consequences of writing while ethnic.…”
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A decisive decade : an insider's view of the Chicago civil rights movement during the 1960s by McKersie, Robert B.

Table of Contents: “…The First Unitarian Church of Chicago : my gateway to the civil rights movement and to Alex Poinsett -- Campaigns on the employment front -- The Motorola Campaign and Tim Black -- Campaigns on the education front -- The movement marks time, while the university plays catch-up -- Spring and summer 1965 : marches, more marches, and Al Pitcher -- A peaceful march in Kenwood and a not-so-peaceful march led by Dick Gregory -- Looking back on the tumultuous events of 1965 -- The campaign for open housing, summer 1966 -- Jesse Jackson, Operation Breadbasket, and minority enterprise -- The movement and the decade wind down -- Initiatives continue within the university and the unitarian church -- Race relations and the personal equation.…”
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Working With and Evaluating Difficult School Employees. by Eller, John F.

Table of Contents: “…; Chapter 3 -- Strategies for Confronting Marginal and Deficient Behaviors; Chapter 4 -- Protecting Yourself While Dealing With Difficult Employees; Chapter 5 -- Strategies for Working With Difficult/Marginal Teachers; Chapter 6 -- Strategies for Working With Difficult/Marginal Administrative Assistants and Office Staff.…”
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Public enemy #1 : the true story of the Brady Gang / Public enemy number one by Scee, Trudy Irene

Table of Contents: “…1 Four "Misspent Youths" and the Beginnings of the Brady Gang, Later Identified as the "Most Vicious" Gang in America; 2 Other Options; 3 The Brady Gang Coalesces and Starts Its Notorious Crime Spree; 4 Death of a Sales Clerk; 5 A Crime Repeated, a New Murder Committed, and a Wider Opening Made for the FBI; 6 Breakout; 7 The Full Force of the Federal Government Seeks the Gang, While the Gang Seeks Yet More Lucre; 8 Officers Down; 9 And the Gang Shoots On; 10 On the Road Again; 11 The Beginning of the End; 12 Blood in the Streets; 13 And the Man Talks On; Afterword; Acknowledgments.…”
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Black Bostonians and the Politics of Culture, 1920-1940 by Roses, Lorraine Elena, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Black Faces on the White Stage: Space and Race, 1925-1930 -- 5. Writing While Black: The Saturday Evening Quill, 1925-1930 -- 6. …”
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Everything is now : new and collected stories by Cliff, Michelle

Table of Contents: “…. -- Then as now -- Muleskin, Honeyskin -- Belling the lamb -- Crocodilopolis -- Lost Nation Road -- While underneath -- Ecce homo -- Water signs -- It's all yours -- Carnegie's bones -- Dream Street -- Columba -- The ferry -- A hanged man -- A woman who plays trumpet is deported -- American time, American light -- Burning bush -- Screen memory -- Election day 1984 -- Bodies of water -- Keeper of all souls -- Transactions -- Monster -- Contagious melancholia -- Down the shore -- The store of a million items -- Stan's Speed Shop -- Wartime -- Art history -- Rubicon -- Apache tears -- A public woman.…”
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School discipline and self-discipline : a practical guide to promoting prosocial student behavior by Bear, George G.

Table of Contents: “…-- Strategic use of praise and rewards for developing self-discipline and a positive school climate -- When extrinsic rewards are needed: implementing the good behavior game (while developing self-discipline) -- Authoritative discipline in the correction of misbehavior -- Developing self-discipline when correcting misbehavior -- Implementing schoolwide change.…”
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Winning hearts and minds : transactional analysis simplified by Mitra, Indranil, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Cover page ; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 While Growing Up ... ; 3 Understanding Attitudes; 4 How I Think ... and How I CanThink Better; 5 Relating to Others ... …”
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Alligators May Be Present : a Novel.

Table of Contents: “…-- Here I Am -- Hello, I'm Irving Shuman -- While You Were Out -- Alligators May Be Present -- A Change in Altitude -- Meet the Wood Stork -- Someday You'll Talk about Me Like This -- Think of How Lucky We Are -- We've Come All This Way -- Are You Talking to Everybody, or Just to a Few People? …”
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Reflections on Values Education. by Meyer, John

Table of Contents: “…""Part three: the learning & helping facilitator""""how to be considerate while teaching critically""; ""values and humanistic psychology""; ""values and the social worker""; ""epilogue""; ""where are we and where might we go in values education?""…”
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José 'Pepe' Mujica : warrior, philosopher, president / José 'Pepe' Mujica, warrior, philosopher, president by Gregory, Stephen, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The Philosopher takes Power while the Politician ThinksWhat is Left?; Glossary; Chronology; Sources; Index.…”
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The Ideas Industry : How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas. by Drezner, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…The Disciplines: Why Economics Thrives While Political Science Survives; 5. This Is Not Your Father's Think Tank; 6. …”
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Ashes are bone and dust : poems by Battson, Jill, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Ashes are Bone and Dust; Ancient History; Really Dead This Time; Suspension While Moving; Discomfort; Sanguine; The Dress; At Austin's Funeral Home; Neck; Identifying Death's Perfume; Her Hands; Rose Detail in Green Daylight; Three Times in Our Lives; Floral Tribute; A Visitor Named Memory; Last Days; Hierarchy; Mixing Ashes; Ashes are Bone and Dust; Horningsham; The Dead in My Dreams; Voices from Beyond I; Voices from Beyond II; What happened after the photograph was taken; Evening in Paris; Carpenter; Four Years of Census; Full Moon Family History; Laid out at St. …”
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Mea culpa : lessons on law and regret from U.S. history by Bender, Steven

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Regret: frameworks for prediction -- What dehumanization predicts: the landscapes of future regret -- Aliens, illegals, wetbacks, and anchor babies: the dehumanization of immigrant -- Workers and their families -- Beasts of burden: farmworkers in the U.S. field of dreams -- The wages of poverty: inequality, welfare queens, and the homeless -- Sexuality and dehumanization: homophobia in U.S. law and life -- Dehumanizing criminals: the monsters of death row -- Flying while Muslim: "ragheads" and human rights -- From slavery to the new Jim Crow of mass incarceration: the ongoing -- Dehumanization of African Americans -- You've come a long way, baby! …”
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Mastering Swift 3. by Hoffman, Jon

Table of Contents: “…Updating the value of a key; Adding a key-value pair; Removing a key-value pair; Set; Initializing a set; Inserting items into a set; The number of items in a set; Checking whether a set contains an item; Iterating over a set; Removing items in a set; Set operations; Tuples; Summary; Chapter 4: Control Flow and Functions; What we have learned so far; Curly brackets; Parentheses; Control flow; Conditional statements; The if statement; Conditional code execution with the if-else statement; The for loop; Using the for-in loop; The while loop; Using the while loop.…”
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C++ Fundamentals : Hit the Ground Running with C++, the Language That Supports Tech Giants Globally. by Mallia, Antonio

Table of Contents: “…Iteration Statement -- while loopIteration Statement -- do-while loop; Jump Statements -- break and continue; The try-catch block; Exercise 2: Counting the Number of Times a Specific Number Appears in a Given List; Activity 1: Finding the Factors of 7 between 1 and 100 Using a while Loop; Arrays; Array Declaration; Array Initialization; Accessing the Values of an Array; Multidimensional Arrays; Activity 2: Defining a Bi-Dimensional Array and Initializing Its Elements; Summary; Functions; Introduction; Function Declaration and Definition; Defining a Function…”
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The innovator's field guide : market tested methods and frameworks to help you meet your innovation challenges by Skarzynski, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Engaging the Organization Through Focused Innovation ChallengesInnovation Accelerators; Preparing for the Accelerator Session; Open Innovation: Moving Faster Than Your Internal Development; Moving Faster: Collaboration with Suppliers; Key Take-Aways; 6 Experimentation and De-Risking; Framing Risk to Manage It; Defining Your Learning Path; Learn from Previous, Similar Experience; Learn Through Analogs; Developing Your Experimentation Agenda; Experimentation in Action; Key Take-Aways; 7 Innovating While in Market; Innovating While Flying the Plane; Principles to Guide Postlaunch Innovation.…”
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Mastering Swift 3 - Linux. by Hoffman, Jon

Table of Contents: “…Updating the value of a key; Adding a key-value pair; Removing a key-value pair; Set; Initializing a set; Inserting items into a set; The number of items in a set; Checking whether a set contains an item; Iterating over a set; Removing items in a set; Set operations; Tuples; Summary; Chapter 4: Control Flow and Functions; What we have learned so far; Curly brackets; Parentheses; Control flow; Conditional statements; The if statement; Conditional code execution with the if ... else statement; The for loop; Using the for ... in loop; The while loop; Using the while loop.…”
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The NDT (Bobath) management of adult hemiplegia

Table of Contents: “…Part 5 & 6: Principles of Movement -- Considerations in Management -- Problems in Patients -- Handling Skills -- Increasing Anterior Range in The Lumbar Spine -- Controlling Alignment While Increasing Lumbar Range.…”
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Etiquette Guide to China : Know the Rules that Make the Difference!. by De Mente, Boye Lafayette

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Part I The Middle Kingdom; 1 The Origins of Chinese Etiquette; 2 The New China; 3 Cultural Influences on Chinese Etiquette; Part II Minding Your Manners in China; 4 Personal Etiquette in China; 5 Chinese Meals and Celebrations; Part III Business in China; 6 Foreigners and the Chinese Way of Doing Business; 7 Cultural Influences Vital in Chinese Business; Part IV Negotiating in China; 8 The Chinese Way of Negotiating; 9 Preparing to Negotiate in China; 10 What to Expect While Negotiating; 11 Business Entertainment; 12 When You Are Host in Your Own Country; Appendix.…”
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Representing People With Dementia A Practical Guide for Criminal Defense Lawyers. by Kelley, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…-- 2 Competency -- 3 Restoration -- 4 Responsibility -- 5 Testing -- 6 Neuroimaging -- 7 Early Onset Dementia/Frontal Temporal Dementia -- 8 How Can Lawyers Understand Medicine and Science While Representing People with Dementia? -- 9 Working with Clients with Dementia -- 10 Working a Case of a Client with Dementia -- 11 Representing People on Death Row with Dementia -- 12 Working with the Expert -- 13 Jail and Prison Conditions…”
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William J. Forsyth : the life and work of an Indiana artist by Perry, Rachel Berenson

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Small in Stature, Large in Spirit 1854-1881 -- 2: Munich Drawing School December 1881-Fall 1883 -- 3: Munich Painting School and Private Studio Fall 1883-Fall 1888 -- 4: The Beginnings of a Teacher Fall 1888-Fall 1897 -- 5: Creating a Market for Landscapes Fall 1897-Summer 1904 -- 6: Independent Painting While Teaching 1905-1923 -- 7: The Last Fight 1923-1935 -- 8: Forsyth's Students -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Forsyth Paintings Exhibited Before 1937 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.…”
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What that pig said to Jesus : on the uneasy permanence of immigrant life by Garrison, Philip

Table of Contents: “…Identity Theft -- Life and Times -- Testimonio 1 -- Before Long, in a While -- Testimonio 2 -- Dear Tucker -- Testimonio 3 -- Aguas -- Testimonio 4 -- Somewhere Nobody Else Wanted to Live -- Testimonio 5 -- Part Two. …”
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Love him madly : an intimate memoir of Jim Morrison by Huddleston, Judy

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Pamela Des Barres; Trouble Child; Somebody to Love; Break On Through; Fire and Rain; When I Was Young; Backdoor Man; I Am a Rock; White Rabbit; Catch the Wind; Summer in the City; My Eyes Have Seen You; Season of the Witch; Strange Days; Sympathy for the Devil; My Back Pages; Love the One You're With; Piece of My Heart; Get It While You Can; All Along the Watchtower; Roadhouse Blues; Helpless; Blue Boy; Sunshine of My Love; Not to Touch the Earth; Shaman's Blues; Blonde in the Bleachers; L.A. …”
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The plum in the golden vase, or, Chin P'ing Mei. / Chin P'ing Mei by Xiaoxiaosheng

Table of Contents: “…Cover; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CAST OF CHARACTERS; CHAPTER 61: Han Tao-kuo Prepares an Entertainment for Hsi-men Ch'ing; Li P'ing-erh Painfully Observes the Double Yang Festival; CHAPTER 62: Taoist Master P'an Performs an Exorcism on the Lantern Altar; Hsi-men Ch'ing Laments Egregiously on Behalf of Li P'ing-erh; CHAPTER 63: Friends and Relatives Offer Funeral Oblations at a Memorial Feast; Hsi-men Ch'ing Is Reminded of Li P'ing-erh While Watching a Drama; CHAPTER 64: Yü-hsiao Kneels in Making an Appeal to P'an Chin-lien.…”
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