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Climate dependence and food problems in Russia, 1900-1990 the interaction of climate and agricultural policy and their effect on food problems / by Dronin, N. M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: climate and agriculture in Russia -- The availability and reliability of statistical agricultural data for Russia -- The pre-revolutionary period (before 1916) -- The post-revolutionary decade (1917-1928) -- The Stalin era (1929-1953) -- The post-Stalin period (after 1953) -- Summary -- The pre-revolutionary period (1900-1916) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The post-revolutionary period (1917-1928) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The collectivization of Soviet agriculture (1929-1940) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The post-war recovery period (1945-1954) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The virgin lands campaign (1955-1964) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The period of agricultural intensification (1965-1975) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The period of agricultural stagnation (1976-1990) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary.…”
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Imitators of epilepsy

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Democracy and music education liberalism, ethics, and the politics of practice / by Woodford, Paul, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Intelligence in the world: John Dewey's moral project -- Intelligence in the musical world: defining liberalism differently -- Living in a postmusical age: reclaiming the concept of abstract reason -- Music education and the culture wars -- Toward reclaiming the public musical sphere -- Music education as an occasion for intelligence.…”
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A survival guide for working with humans dealing with whiners, back-stabbers, know-it-alls, and other difficult people / by Scott, Gini Graham

Table of Contents: “…--get me out of this -- Beating the recommendation game -- Knowing when to back off : don't push a negotiation too far -- What to do when everything seems to be going wrong -- When to keep your cards to yourself -- Watch out for warning signs -- Don't resign yourself--redesign yourself -- Be a problem solver--theirs not yours -- Dealing with the boss from hell -- Mastering your survival skills -- What's your survival quotient? …”
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Literature, satire and the early Stuart state by McRae, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Stigmatizing Prynne: puritanism and politics in the 1630s -- Epilogue: early Stuart satire and the Civil War.…”
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Making technology work applications in energy and the environment / by Deutch, John M., 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Gasohol -- Solar thermal, windpower, and photovoltaic technologies -- Electricity from coal -- Controlling acid rain from coal-fired power plants -- Greenhouse gases and global warming -- Nuclear power and its fuel cycle -- Managing nuclear waste -- Nuclear power and weapons proliferation -- Natural gas -- Safety and risk: examples from the liquefied natural gas and nuclear industries -- Synthetic fuels -- Fuel cells for automobiles -- Energy models and statistics -- The government's role in innovation -- Conclusions.…”
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Inventing global ecology tracking the biodiversity ideal in India, 1947-1997 / by Lewis, Michael L., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Scientists or spies? : ecology and Cold War suspicion -- Ch. 5. "Modern" ecology comes to India : Madhav Gadgil and the CES -- Ch. 6. …”
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Ohio's first peoples by O'Donnell, James H., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Peoples of "ingenuity, industry, and elegance" -- Ohio sanctuary -- The noise and miseries of war -- The war for Ohio -- "No resting place".…”
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Not my mother's sister generational conflict and third-wave feminism / by Henry, Astrid, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Daughterhood is powerful: the emergence of feminism's third wave -- Finding ourselves in the past: feminist generations and the development of second-wave feminism -- Taking feminism to bed: the third wave does the sex wars -- Neither my mother nor my lover: generational relations in queer feminism -- To be, or not to be, real: black feminists and the emerging third wave.…”
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Women shaping the south creating and confronting change /

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Robert H. Gardiner and the reunification of worldwide Christianity in the Progressive Era by Woolverton, John Frederick, 1926-

Table of Contents: “…The legacy of education : Fort Tejon, California, 1855-1916 -- The social gospel's "ham and pickle eaters" : Boston, 1893-1909 -- Parliaments and brotherhoods : Chicago, 1893 -- Faith and Order's troubled beginnings : Edinburgh, 1910 -- War and theology : Lake Constance, 1914 -- Improbable center of a worldwide movement : Gardiner, Maine, 1914-1924 -- Conclusion -- Appendix : chronology of Robert Gardiner's life.…”
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Reinventing the South versions of a literary region / by Winchell, Mark Royden, 1948-

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Presidential leadership : from Woodrow Wilson to Harry S. Truman / by Ferrell, Robert H.

Table of Contents: “…-- Woodrow Wilson : a misfit in office -- Warren G. Harding's reputation -- Calvin Coolidge, the man and the president -- The United States in world affairs, 1919-1945 -- Harry S. …”
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From marriage to the market the transformation of women's lives and work / by Thistle, Susan

Table of Contents: “…A world turned inside out -- Support for women's domestic economy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- The breakdown of women's domestic economy after World War II -- Economic difficulties and a contradictory alliance -- The formation of a female underclass -- The "new economy" and the transformation of women's work -- How and why mothers have been shortchanged -- New possibilities and old inequalities.…”
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International change and the stability of multiethnic states Yugoslavia, Lebanon, and crises of governance / by Arfi, Badredine

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Debating state governance -- A theory of debating state governance -- Yugoslavia and the emerging Cold War, 1947-53 -- Yugoslavia and the waning Cold War, 1987-91 -- Lebanon, the Cold War penetration, and the rise of Nasserism, 1957-58 -- Lebanon and the metamorphosis of Arab-Israeli relations, 1973-75 -- Summary, alternative explanations, and implications.…”
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Dystopian fiction east and west universe of terror and trial / by Gottlieb, Erika

Table of Contents: “…The answers of utopia, tragedy, and dystopia -- Nineteenth-century precursors of the dystopian vision -- The dictator behind the mask : Zamiatin's We, Huxley's Brave new world, and Orwell's Ninteenth eighty-four -- Dictatorship without a mask : Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Vonnegut's Player piano, and Atwood's The handmaid's tale -- The writer on trial: socialist realism and the exile of speculative fiction -- The dystopia of revolutionary justice : Serge's Conquered city, Zazubrin's "The chip," and Rodionov's Chocolate -- The legalization of terror: Platonov's The foundation pit, Ribakov's Children of the Arbat, and Koestler's Darkness at noon -- Terror in war, terror in peace: Grossman's Life and fate, Tertz Sinyavski's The trial begins, and Daniel's This is Moscow speaking -- Collective paranoia: the persecutor and the persecuted: Andzrejewski, Déry, Fuks, Hlasko, Örkény, Vaculik, and Mrozek -- Kafka's ghost: The trial as theatre: Klima's The castle, Karvas's The big wig, and Havel''s Memorandum -- From terror to entropy : the downward spiral: Konwicki's A minor apocalypse, Déry's Mr G.A. in X and Zinoviev's The radiant future -- Speculative fiction returns from exile : Dystopian vision with a sneer: Voinovich's Moscow 2042, Aksyonov's The island of Crimea, Dalos's 1985, and Moldova's Hitler in Hungary -- Dystopia East and West: conclusion.…”
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Households of faith family, gender, and community in Canada, 1760-1969 /

Table of Contents: “…DRAPER -- Reinventing Christian Masculinity and Fatherhood: The Canadian Protestant Experience, 1900-1920 290 -- PATRICIA DIRKS --MODERNITY, SEXUALITY, AND THE INDIVIDUALIST TEMPER -- The Emergence of Personalist Feminism: Catholicism and the Marriage-Preparation Movement in Quebec, -- 1940-1966 319 -- MICHAEL GAUVREAU -- Sacred Sex: The United Church and the Privatization of the Family in Post-War Canada 348 -- NANCY CHRISTIE -- Conclusion: "Patriarchal Piety" and Canada's Liberal Tradition 377.…”
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The Cyprus conspiracy America, espionage and the Turkish invasion / by O'Malley, Brendan

Table of Contents: “…Fallen Allies: Grivas Risks War -- 16. The 'Red Priest': Assassination Target -- 17. …”
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The road to Jerusalem Glubb Pasha, Palestine and the Jews / by Morris, Benny, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1 Glubb on Arabs and Jews -- 2 The Arab Revolt 1936-39 -- 3 World War II and its Aftermath -- 4 The Road to Jerusalem -- 5 The Invasion -- 6 Border Wars, 1949 - 1956 -- Conclusion (After 1956).…”
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United States policy toward the Armenian question and the Armenian genocide by Payaslian, Simon

Table of Contents: “…The Wilson administration and the Ittihadist regime -- 4. War and Wilsonian neutrality -- 5. Power and its promises -- 6. …”
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