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Children's Folklore A Source Book /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: What is children's folklore? -- Who are the folklorists of childhood? …”
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Children as Caregivers The Global Fight against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia / by Hunleth, Jean, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Growing up in George -- Residence and relationships -- Between silence and disclosure -- Following the medicine -- Care by women and children -- Children and global health -- Postscript: childhood tuberculosis.…”
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Democracy's Children Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics / by McGowan, John, 1953-

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Children's Folklore : A Source Book /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: What is children's folklore? -- Who are the folklorists of childhood? …”
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Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna / by Terpstra, Nicholas

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Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance : Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna / by Terpstra, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Down and out and off the streets: sheltering Renaissance children -- Opening a home -- Entering a home: prescriptions and procedures -- Making a home with girls -- Making a home with boys -- Running a home -- Leaving home -- The politics of Renaissance orphanages.…”
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Hope and Suffering Children, Cancer, and the Paradox of Experimental Medicine / by Krueger, Gretchen Marie

Table of Contents: “…"Glioma babies," families, and cancer in children in the 1930s -- "Cancer, the child killer": Jimmy and the redefinition of a dread disease -- Death be not proud: children, families, and cancer in postwar America -- "Against all odds": chemotherapy and the medical management of acute leukemia in the 1950s -- "Who's afraid of death on the leukemia ward?"…”
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Dreaming America Popular Front Ideals and Aethetics in Children's Plays of the Federal Theatre Project / by Frost, Leslie Elaine

Table of Contents: “…Raising up an educated audience : Federal Children's Theatre -- The Revolt of the beavers : "we should have called it Rumplestiltskin" -- "I looked him right square in the eye" : the story of Little Black Sambo in the Federal Theatre Project -- Shadows of war and homefront patriotism : anti-fascism and the innocent child in the Federal A letter to Santa Claus and Hollywood's The little princess -- Wishing on a star : Pinocchio's journey from the Federal stage to Disney's world.…”
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Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557–1789 / by Ferraro, Joanne Marie, 1951-

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Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora

Table of Contents: “…Communal pride and feminine virtue: suspecting "sivlonot" in the Jewish communities of the Ottoman empire in the early sixteenth century / Hannah Davidson -- Mothers and children as seen by sixteenth-century rabbis in the Ottoman empire / Ruth Lamdan -- Religious space, gender, and power in the Sephardi diaspora: the return to Judaism of new Christian men and women in Livorno and Pisa / Cristina Galasso -- Childhood and family among the western Sephardim in the seventeenth century / Julia R. …”
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Ambivalent Encounters Childhood, Tourism, and Social Change in Banaras, India / by Huberman, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Children, tourists, and locals -- A tourist town -- Conceptions of children -- Girls and boys on the ghats -- Innocent children or little adults? …”
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Moral Enterprise Literature and Education in Antebellum America / by Pacheco, Derek Andrew, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Education and the "Alexandrian library" -- Bibliographic nationalism : marketing America in Horace Mann's school library -- "Disorders of the circulating medium" : Hawthorne's early children's literature -- "Contact with the world" : Elizabeth Peabody's West Street bookshop -- "Conversation of a better order" : Margaret Fuller from the classroom to the dial -- Coda. …”
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Inheritance in Contemporary America The Social Dimensions of Giving across Generations / by Angel, Jacqueline Lowe

Table of Contents: “…-- Contemporary studies of money -- Gifts as assistance -- Contextualizing gift giving -- Simply love -- Fellowship for funds -- Giving, not receiving -- The family life cycle and inheritance -- Money memories: narratives of the meaning of giving and receiving -- History lessons -- The silent generation -- Baby boomers -- Expanding obligations equal shrinking inheritances -- Drawing down assets -- Deciding too late or not at all -- Family disagreements -- Background on the interviews -- Early beginnings of family dynamics and money -- Money as a gift -- Money with strings attached -- How money matters -- The costs of wealth -- A guarded secret -- The value of gifts -- Contemporary values and beliefs regarding intergenerational transfers -- It isn't just money -- Family values and ideologies -- Leaving a legacy -- Transferring assets -- Inter vivos exchanges -- Children helping parents -- Choosing inheritance -- Challenges to family ideologies -- To give or not to give, that is the question -- Leaving a legacy: personal security, family obligations, and the state -- The effects of public policy on family gift giving -- How estate taxes vary -- Estate taxes and exemptions -- Estate planning for the family -- Private long-term care insurance -- Estate recovery and related long-term care financing issues -- Inter vivos transfers and inheritance -- The impact of gift giving on the family: what helps? …”
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Nursing with a Message Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City / by D'Antonio, Patricia, 1955-

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