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4581
Chronic diseases and medication adherence behaviors psychological research in Ibero-American countries /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “….] -- Paradox in health services : arterial reactivity to medical consultation in normotensive persons / Angélica Riveros Rosas and Patricia Ortega-Andeane -- Analytic framework for the study of treatment adherence : results of research in Cuban hypertensive patients / Libertad de los Ángeles Martín Alfonso, Héctor Demetrio Bayarre Vea, and Jorge Amado Grau Ábalo -- Psychosocial factors, adherence treatment, and metabolic control in type 2 diabetic Chilean patients / Manuel Ortiz Parada, Eugenia Ortiz Parada, and Pablo Vera-Villaroel -- Socioeconomic trajectories across the life course and HIV/AIDS adherence behaviors among affected women / Marcela Arrivillaga Quintero, Michael W. …”
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4582
Samothracian connections essays in honor of James R. McCredie /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Wescoat -- Choroi, Theoriai, and International ambitions : the Hall of Choral Dancers and its frieze / Clemente Marconi -- A new ceiling for the Hieron in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace / Amy Sowder -- The victory of Samothrace and the aftermath of the Battle of Pydna / Olga Palagia -- Three marble votive statuettes of women from the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace / Sheilla Dillon -- A marble krater from Samothrace / Jasper Gaunt -- L. …”
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4583
Households of faith family, gender, and community in Canada, 1760-1969 /
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…LANE -- Family Fortunes and Religious Identity: The French-Canadian Protestants of South Ely, Quebec, 185o-190o 138 -- CHRISTINE HUDON -- Contested Family: Navigating Kin and Culture in Protestant Missions to the Tsimshian, 1857-1896 167 -- SUSAN NEYLAN --CENDER, SOCIAL CHANCE, AND THE LANGUAGE OF DOMESTICITY -- Salvation in Indifference: Gendered Expressions of Italian-Canadian Immigrant Catholicity, 1900-1940 2o5 -- ENRICO CARLSON CUMBO -- Revisiting "Separate Spheres": Women, Religion, and the Family in Mid-Victorian Brantford, Ontario 234 -- MARGUERITE VAN DIE -- Redemptive Homes - Redeeming Choices: Saving the Social in Late-Victorian London, Ontario 264 -- KENNETH L. …”
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4584
Migration, culture conflict, crime, and terrorism
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Guerette -- Providing a helping hand to battered immigrant women : the professional's perspectives / Edna Erez, Linsey Britz -- Dealing with domestic violence in India : a problem solving model for police / Mangai Natarajan.…”
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4585
New directions in American reception study
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…a comparative study of two Six feet under fan forums / Rhiannon Bury -- Political talk and the flow of ambient television: women watching Oprah in an African American hair salon / Andrea Press and Camille Johnson-Yale -- What's the matter with reception study? …”
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4586
The futures of old age
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…/ Murna Downs and Errollyn Bruce -- The future of well-being : quality of life of older people in the twenty-first century / John Bond and Lynne Corner -- The ageing of family life transitions / Sarah Harper -- Flying solo in old age : widowed and divorced men and women in later life / Kate Davidson -- Housing and future living arrangements / Sheila Peace -- Anti-ageing science and the future of old age / John Vincent -- Ageing and globalization / Chris Phillipson -- The future life course, migration and old age / Tony Warnes.…”
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4587
Models of charitable care Catholic nuns and children in their care in Amsterdam, 1852-2002 /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- History of the problem -- A history of care -- Charity as a historical care practice -- History and ethics -- Care and faith -- Method and purpose -- Definitions of care -- Caring for roosje -- Reconstruction of a life story -- Tribute to a mother -- Construction of a complaint -- An appropriate and yet contestable judgement on care -- Men in association : class and charity -- Catholic care provision in Amsterdam -- Bishop van Vree -- Father Frentrop, Doctor Cramer and their association of municence -- Father Hesseveld, a secular priest -- Activities of the in terms of care -- An instrumental model of charity -- Ladies and housemaids : gender and charity Catholic caring women in historiography -- Education for girls -- The servants' issue -- Beyond the thesis of the 'civilisation offensive' -- Gender, class, and religion -- Powerful and empowering care : confession and charity -- Approach and definitions -- Benevolence as both care and power -- Humanising Protestantism -- Prison reform by Fry -- Butler's dedication to prostitutes -- Influence of Fry and Butler on the Netherlands -- The inner mission movement -- Conceptual comments -- From the viewpoint of care receivers -- Evelina's memoirs -- The very beginning -- The arrival of Mietje Stroot -- A controversial first communion -- Institutional expansion -- Nursemaids become real sisters -- A charitable care practice experienced from within -- Civilisation offensive, charitable solidarity, or caring power -- Tronto's fourth phase revised : two responses to care -- Care leavers and their opposite judgements -- The care vision in the normative texts -- Normative writings and daily life -- History of the church and history of religion -- Principles and a name -- The rule -- Instructions for the upbringing of the children -- The constitutions of 1882 -- The sisterly care vision : a referential and a replacement view -- The purpose of the congregation in terms of care solidarity with strangers because of metaphorical kinship -- Caring for the children of God.…”
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4588
Social change, resistance and social practices
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4589
Achieving excellence in fundraising
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4590
Jewish culture and society in North Africa
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Holden -- A moment in Sephardi history : the reestablishment of the Jewish community of Oran, 1792-1831 / Saddek Benkada -- Crosscurrents : trajectories of Algerian Jewish artists and men of culture since the end of the nineteenth century / Hadj Miliani -- Sol Hachuel in the collective memory and folktales of Moroccan Jews / Yaëlle Azagury -- Sol Hachuel, "heroine of the nineteenth century" : gender, the Jewish question, and colonial discourse / Sharon Vance -- Searching for Suleika : a writer's journey / Ruth Knafo Setton -- Corresponding women : female educators of the Alliance israélite universelle in Tunisia, 1882-1914 / Joy A. …”
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4591
Learning, teaching, and musical identity voices across cultures /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the globalization and localization of learning, teaching, and musical identity / Lucy Green -- The permeable classroom : learning, teaching, and musical identity in a remote Australian aboriginal homelands school / Kathryn Marsh -- Popular music listening as "non-resistance" : the cultural reproduction of musical identity in Japanese families / Kyoko Koizumi -- From homeland to Hong Kong : the dual musical experience and identity of diasporic Filipino women / Annie On Nei Mok -- Village, province, and nation : aspects of identity in children's learning of music and dance in Bali / Peter Dunbar-Hall -- Music for a postcolonial child : theorizing Malaysian memories / Roe-Min Kok -- Continuity and change : the guru-shishya relationship in karnatic classical music training / Sophie Grimmer -- "Music is in our blood" : Gujarati Muslim musicians in the UK / John Baily -- Greek popular music and the construction of musical identities by Greek-Cypriot school children / Avra Pieridou-Skoutella -- Music-learning and the formation of local identity through the philharmonic society wind bands of Corfu / Zoe Dionyssiou -- Playing with Barbie : exploring South African township children's musical games as resources for pedagogy / Susan Harrop-Allin -- Personal, local, and national identities in Ghanaian performance ensembles / Trevor Wiggins -- Music festivals in the Lapland region : constructing identities through musical events / Sidsel Karlsen -- Shaping a music teacher identity in Sweden / Eva Georgii-Hemming -- Icelandic men and their identity in songs and in singing / Robert Faulkner -- Discovering and affirming musical identity through extracurricular music-making in English secondary schools / Stephanie Pitts -- Scottish traditional music : identity and the "carrying stream" / Charles Byrne -- Performance, transmission, and identity among Ireland's new generation of traditional musicians / John O'Flynn -- Fostering a "musical say" : identity, expression, and decision making in a US school ensemble / Sharon G. …”
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4592
Witness to Reconstruction Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894 /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Pearson ; Woolson's two women : 1862 : a Civil War romance of irreconcilable difference / Caroline Gebhard -- Zephaniah Swift Spalding : Constance Woolson's Cipher / Cheryl B. …”
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4593
Children of the drug war perspectives on the impact of drug policies on young people /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Rafik Mohamed & Erik Fritsvold -- Young soldiers in Brazil's drug war / Michelle Gueraldi -- Home front : the impact on families -- Dancing with despair : a mother's perspective / Gretchen Burns Bergman -- Mothers and children of the drug war : a view from a women's prison in Quito, Ecuador / Jennifer Fleetwood & Andreina Torres -- Between Diego and Mario : children of the drug war in Indonesia / Asmin Fransiska, Ricky Gunawan & Ajeng Larasati -- "Ants facing an elephant" : mothers' grief, loss, and work for change following the placement of children in the care of child protection services / Kathleen Kenny & Amy Druker -- Justification : children, drug use, and dependence -- Youth drug use research and the missing pieces in the puzzle : how can researchers support the next generation of harm reduction approaches? …”
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4594
Theorizing Twilight critical essays on what's at stake in a post-vampire world /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Maybe Edward is the most dangerous thing out there: the role of patriarchy / Melissa Miller -- Denial and salvation: the Twilight series and heteronormative patriarchy / Ashley Donnelly -- It's a wolf thing: the Quileute Wwrewolf/shape-shifter hybrid as noble savage / Natalie Wilson -- Violence, agency, and the women of Twilight / Anne Torkelson -- Un-biting the apple and killing the womb: genesis, gender, and gynocide / Lindsey Issow Averill.…”
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4595
Out of many, one people the historical archaeology of colonial Jamaica /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Hauser -- Household market activities among early nineteenth-century Jamaican slaves : an archaeological case study from two slave settlements / Matthew Reeves -- Assessing the impacts of time, agricultural cycles, and demography on the consumer activities of enslaved men and women in eighteenth-century Jamaica and Virginia / Jillian E. …”
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4596
A companion to Sophocles
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Finglass -- Sophocles' biography / Ruth Scodel -- Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides / John Davidson -- Antigone / André Lardinois -- Polyphonic Ajax / Peter Burian -- Oedipus Tyrannus / Vayos Liapis -- Electra / Francis Dunn -- The divided worlds of Sophocles' Women of Trachis / Margaret Rachel Kitzinger -- The Philoctetes of Sophocles / Paul Woodruff -- Last things : Oedipus at Colonus and the end of tragedy / Thomas Van Nortwick -- Sophocles' Ichneutai or how to write a satyr play / Willeon Slenders -- Sophoclean fragments / Carolin Hahnemann -- Sophocles Didaskalos / C.W. …”
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4597
Queering paradigms II interrogating agendas /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…-- Queer subjectivities / Liz Morrish and Helen Sauntson -- Gender, desire, and identity in a corpus of lesbian erotica / Andrew McLean -- "I don't hate "real" women :" gay men and "trans-misogyny" / Eleonora Garosi -- Gender, sex, and (hetero)sexuality : a critical lesson from the trans experience in Italy -- Queer spaces / Hongwei Bao -- People's park : the politics of naming and the right to the city / Kathleen O'Mara -- Tacit understandings : claiming non-normative sexual citizenship in Ghana / Sue [Sujay] Kentlyn -- Fight or flight : (gender) queering (sexuality) queer spaces -- Queer impacts / Sonja Vivienne -- Shouting from the rooftops : queer digital storytelling for social impact / She Hawke and Baden Offord -- Queer(y)ing pedagogy and cultural studies : critical reflections on teaching sexuality / Maria Katharina Wiedlack -- "Lol : lick it out loud" : punk rock as a form of queer activism -- Politics and social institutions / Francesco Ricatti -- Obscene fantasies of hypertrophic heterosexuality : reframing berlusconi from a queer theory perspective / Damien W. …”
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Leaders and legacies in Assyriology and Bible the collected essays of David B. Weisberg /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Loyalty and death : some ancient near eastern metaphors -- Zabaya, an early king of the Larsa dynasty -- Rib-Hadda's urgent tone : a note on EA 74:50 -- The length of the reign of Hallusu-Insusinak -- Esarhaddon and Egypt : a preliminary investigation -- A sale of property from the time of Esarhaddon, "king of lands" -- The neo-Babylonian empire -- The "antiquarian" interests of the neo-Babylonian kings -- Royal women of the neo-Babylonian period -- A "dinner at the palace" during Nebuchadnezzar's reign -- Notes on Nebuchadnezzar's 37th year -- Polytheism and politics : some comments on Nabonidus' foreign policy -- The impact of Assyriology on Biblical studies -- An old Babylonian forerunner to Summa Alu -- The R. …”
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Ovarian cancer new research /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Perceived risk of ovarian cancer, worry about ovarian cancer risk, and use of ovarian cancer screening by women at risk for ovarian cancer / M. Robyn Andersen ... …”
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European transformations the long twelfth century /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Miller -- Sutri 1046; Canossa 1077; Rome 1111 : Problems of Communication and the Perceptions of Neighbors / Hanna Vollrath -- The Europeanization of Europe : The Case of Scandinavia / Sverre Bagge -- Ambiguous Beginnings : East Central Europe in the Making, 950-1200 / Piotr G�orecki -- Lords, Markets, and Communities : The Urban Revolution of the Twelfth Century / David Nicholas -- Peasants, the Seigneurial Regime, and Serfdom in the Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries / Paul Freedman -- Clothing, Iron, and Timber : The Growth of Christian Anxiety about Islam in the Long Twelfth Century / Olivia Remie Constable -- Continuity and Change in Twelfth-Century Christian-Jewish Relations / Anna Sapir Abulafia -- The Legal Revolution of the Twelfth Century / Anders Winroth -- Liminalities : Literate Women in the Long Twelfth Century / Barbara Newman -- Philosophy and Theology / John Marenbon -- Semiotic Anthropology : The Twelfth-Century Approach / Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak -- Three-in-One : Making God in Twelfth-Century Liturgy, Theology, and Devotion / Rachel Fulton Brown -- John of Salisbury, a Philosopher of the Long Eleventh Century / C. …”
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