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I love a cop what police families need to know / by Kirschman, Ellen

Table of Contents: “…." -- The way it is: givens and realities of police work -- The police officer's paradox -- Growing old in a young person's profession: how officers change with time -- Organizational stress: looking for love in all the wrong places -- Remarkable events -- Critical incidents, stress, and trauma -- From victim to survivor: working through trauma -- From battlefront to homefront: families and trauma -- Kids and trauma -- Emotional extremes -- Domestic abuse: the best-kept secret shame of policing -- Alcohol abuse and suicide -- Getting help -- Getting the help you need when you need it -- Special families, special issues -- Swimming upstream: special challenges facing women, minorities, lesbians, and gay men in law enforcement -- Cop couples -- Summing up -- Success stories.…”
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Generations and globalization youth, age, and family in the new world economy /

Table of Contents: “…Woronov -- Continuity and change in San Pedro Tlalcuapan, Mexico : childhood, social reproduction, and transnational migration / Roger Magazine and Martha Areli Ramírez Sánchez -- Fresh contact in Tamatave, Madagascar : sex, money, and intergenerational transformation / Jennifer Cole -- Empowering youth : making youth citizens in Botswana / Deborah Durham -- Aging across worlds : modern seniors in an Indian diaspora / Sarah Lamb -- Maintaining local dependencies : elderly women and global rehabilitation agendas in southeastern Botswana / Julie Livingston -- The old world and its new economy : notes on the "third age" in Western Europe today / Jessica Greenberg and Andrea Muehlebach.…”
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Symptoms in the pharmacy a guide to the management of common illness / by Blenkinsopp, Alison

Table of Contents: “…Respiratory problems -- Colds and flu -- Cough -- Sore throat -- Allergic rhinitis -- Respiratory symptoms for direct referral -- Gastrointestinal tract problems -- Mouth ulcers -- Heartburn -- Indigestion -- Nausea and vomiting -- Motion sickness and its prevention -- Constipation -- Diarrhoea -- Irritable bowel syndrome -- Haemorrhoids -- Skin conditions -- Eczema/dermatitis -- Acne -- Athlete's foot -- Cold sores -- Warts and verrucae -- Scabies -- Dandruff -- Hair loss -- Psoriasis -- Painful conditions -- Headache -- Musculoskeletal problems -- Women's health -- Cystitis -- Dysmenorrhoea -- Vaginal thrush -- Emergency hormonal contraception -- Common symptoms in pregnancy -- Eye and ear problems -- Eye problems: the painful red eye -- Common ear problems -- Childhood conditions -- Common childhood rashes -- Colic -- Teething -- Napkin rash -- Head lice -- Threadworms (pinworms) -- Oral thrush -- Insomnia -- Prevention of heart disease.…”
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ABC of conflict and disaster

Table of Contents: “…Mannion, Eddie Chaloner -- The special needs of children and women / John Seaman, Sarah Maguire -- Displaced populations and long term humanitarian assistance / Maria Kett -- Psychological aspects of providing medical humanitarian aid / Ian Palmer -- Conflict recovery and intervening in hospitals / James M. …”
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Asian American studies now a critical reader /

Table of Contents: “…Chinese exclusion and the origins of American gatekeeping / Erika Lee -- Public health and the mapping of Chinatown / Nayan Shah -- The secret Munson Report / Michi Nishiura Weglyn -- Asian American struggles for civil, political, economic, and social rights / Sucheng Chan -- Out of the shadows: camptown women, military brides, and Korean (American) communities / Ji-Yeon Yuh -- The Cold War origins of the model minority myth / Robert G. …”
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Aboriginal music in contemporary Canada echoes and exchanges /

Table of Contents: “…Continuity and innovation in the Dane-z̲aa dreamers' song and dance tradition : a forty-year perspective / Amber Ridington ; From tea dance to iTunes : recomposing Dane-z̲aa dreamers' songs / interview, Garry Oker with Amber Ridington ; Localizing intertribal traditions : the powwow as Mi'kmaw cultural expression / Janice Esther Tulk ; Contemporary Northern Plains powwow music : the twin influences of recording and competition / interview, Gabriel Desrosiers and Christopher Scales ; Aboriginal women and the powwow drum : restrictions, teachings, and challenges / Anna Hoefnagels -- Part two : teaching and transmission. …”
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Feminist methodology challenges and choices / by Ramazanoglu, Caroline, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…-- What is feminism in the twenty-first century? -- Are feminists women? -- What is methodology in social research? …”
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Battling the plantation mentality Memphis and the Black freedom struggle / by Green, Laurie Boush

Table of Contents: “…Migration, memory, and freedom in the urban heart of the Delta -- Memphis before World War II: migrants, mushroom strikes, and the reign of terror -- Where would the Negro women apply for work?: wartime clashes over labor, gender, and racial justice -- Moral outrage: postwar protest against police violence and sexual assault -- Night train, Freedom Train: black youth and racial politics in the early Cold War -- Our mental liberties: banned movies, black-appeal radio, and the struggle for a new public sphere -- Rejecting mammy: the urban-rural road in the era of Brown v. …”
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Health, nutrition, and population in Madagascar, 2000-09

Table of Contents: “…Country and sector context -- Objectives and organization of the country status report -- Available data and reports -- Demographic trends -- Child health -- Maternal health -- Nutritional status of children and women -- Other communicable diseases contributing to mortality and morbidity in Madagascar -- Non-communicable diseases -- Meeting the millennium development goals (MDGS) -- Behaviors and interventions affecting child health -- Community factors and behaviors affecting nutritional status of children -- Maternal health and reproductive health -- Communicable diseases -- Health care access and utilization by the poor -- Sector organization -- Quality of services -- Financing of the health sector -- Equity of health spending -- Efficiency issues of health spending -- Scope for creating fiscal space -- Potential impact of the crisis on the health sector -- The importance of accountability for health -- Governance and accountability in the Malagasy context.…”
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"Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse" negotiating texts and contexts in contemporary Irish studies / by O'Brien, Eugene, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction negotiating texts and contexts -- Ireland in theory: the influence of French theory on Irish cultural and societal development -- The ethics of translation: Seamus Heaney's Cure at Troy and Beowulf -- The body politic: the ethics of responsibility and the responsibility of ethics in Seamus Heaney's The burial at Thebes -- "You can never know women": framing female identity in Dubliners -- The return and redefinition of the repressed: postcolonial studies and "Eveline" in Dubliners -- "Inner émigr'(s)": Derrida, Heaney, Yeats and the hauntological redefinition of Irishness -- "Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse": Catholicism, deconstruction and postmodernity in contemporary Irish culture -- "Guests (geists) of the nation": a Heimlich (unheimlich) manoeuvre -- Global warnings: towards a deconstruction of the global and the local -- "T siad ag teacht": Guinness as a signifier of Irish cultural transformation.…”
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The bases of empire the global struggle against U.S. military posts /

Table of Contents: “…McCaffrey -- Okinawa: women's struggle for demilitarization / Kozue Akibayashi and Suzuyo Takazato -- Opposition to the U.S. military presence in Turkey in the context of the Iraq war / Ayse Gul Altinay and Amy Holmes -- Resisting militarization in Hawai'i / Kyle Kajihiro.…”
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India in Africa, Africa in India Indian Ocean cosmopolitanisms /

Table of Contents: “…Hawley -- Slave trades and the Indian Ocean world / by Gwyn Campbell -- India in Africa -- The indentured experience : Indian women in Colonial Natal / by Devarakshanam Govinden -- Shops and stations : rethinking power and privilege in British/Indian East Africa / by Savita Nair -- Bhangra remixes / by Anjali Gera Roy -- "Hindu" dance groups and Indophilie in Senegal : the imagination of the exotic other / by Gwenda Vander Steene -- The idea of "India" in West African vodun art and thought / by Dana Rush -- Politics and poetics of the namesake : Barlen Pyamootoo's Bénarès, Mauritius / by Thangam Ravindranathan -- Africa in India -- Siddi as mercenary or as African success story on the West Coast of India / by Rahul C. …”
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Private guns, public health by Hemenway, David

Table of Contents: “…-- Guns in the home -- Guns in schools -- Guns in public -- Young children -- Adolescents and young adults -- Women -- African Americans -- Manufacturers -- Licensed dealers -- The unregulated market -- The second amendment -- Public opinion -- Evaluating regulation -- The wrong arguments -- Lessons from other products -- Lessons from other countries -- International effects of our permissive policies -- A brief history of firearms law -- Reasonable policies -- Public health surveillance.…”
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Livelihoods at the margins surviving the city /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : livelihoods at the margins / James Staples -- No money, no life : surviving on the streets of Kampala / Stan Frankland -- Embodying oppression : revolta amongst young people living on the streets of Rio De Janeiro / Udi Butler -- Children on the streets of Dhaka and their coping strategies / Alessandro Conticini -- Hindu nationalism and failing development goals : micro-finance, women and illegal livelihoods in the Bombay slums / Atreyee Sen -- Keeping it clean : discipline, control and everyday politics in a Bangkok shopping mall / Alyson Brody -- Fast money in the margins : migrants in the sex industry / Laura María Agustín -- -- Begging questions : leprosy and alms collection in Mumbai / James Staples -- Vulnerable in the city : Adivasi seasonal labour migrants in western India / David Mosse, with Sanjeev Gupta and Vidya Shah -- "Moving up and down looking for money" : making a living in a Ugandan refugee camp / Tania Kaiser -- "In-betweenness" on the margins : collective organisation, ethnicity and political agency among Bolivian street traders / Sian Lazar.…”
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Youth prolonged old age postponed / by Weale, R. A. (Robert Alexander)

Table of Contents: “…-- Ageing factors: More about appearance: tell-tale signs - sun, smiles and smoking -- Guessing by experts -- More about the skin, posture and bones -- Biomarkers; or, The countdown to the end - men and women, life-expectancy -- The eyes have it -- Thought for food -- Why do we age? …”
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An introduction to international human rights law

Table of Contents: “…The historical development of international human rights / Michelo Hausungule -- Civil and political rights / Joshua Castellino -- An introduction to economic, social and cultural rights : overcoming the constraints of categorization through implementation / Vinodh Jaichand -- Women's rights in international law / Mmatsie Mooki, Rita Ozoemana, Michelo Hansungule -- Globalization and human rights / Heli Askola -- Role of the UN in the promotion and protection of human rights / Elvira Domínguez-Redondo -- Attributes of successful human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs) : sixty years after the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights / George E. …”
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How to get a Phd a handbook for students and their supervisors / by Phillips, Estelle M.

Table of Contents: “…Equal opportunities for non-traditional research students (i.e. women-- with some comments for men-- international, mature and part-time students) -- 11. …”
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Crimes of punishment America's culture of violence / by Dorpat, Theodore L.

Table of Contents: “…-- Notes on relationships between religion, nonviolence, and punishment -- Why incarcerate women? -- Emotional abuse -- Social systems of domination and punishment -- The sociopathology of the prison system --…”
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The boldness of a halakhist an analysis of the writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein The Arukh Hashulhan : a collection of social-anthropological essays / by Fishbane, Simcha

Table of Contents: “…Epstein's adjudicative process as expressed in the Arukh Hashulhan -- In any case there are no sinful thoughts : the role and status of women in Jewish law as expressed in the Arukh Hashulhan -- The audacity of a religious adjudicator : Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Epstein and modernity -- Mercy is vouchsafed from heaven : halakhah's response to violence as expressed in the Arukh Hashulhan Oreh Hayyim, sections 560 and 576:8 -- Secular studies are the supplement of Torah studies : Kol Ben Levi : the homilies of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein : the first sermon -- Recurrent themes in the homilies of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein -- Social reality or the written word : minhag as expressed in the Arukh Hashulhan.…”
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What dreams were made of movie stars of the 1940s /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : stardom in the 1940s / Sean Griffin -- Abbott and Costello: Wwo's on first / David Sedman -- Gene Autry and Roy Rogers: the light of western stars / Ed Buscombe -- Ingrid Bergman: the face of authenticity in the land of illusion / Robin Blaetz -- Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall: tough guy and cool dame / Rick Worland -- Claudette Colbert, Ginger Rogers, and Barbara Stanwyck: American homefront women / David M. Lugowski -- Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney: babes and beyond / Sean Griffin -- Greer Garson: gallant ladies and British wartime femininity / Hannah Hamad -- Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth: pinned up / Adrienne L. …”
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