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The anthropology of writing understanding textually-mediated worlds /

Table of Contents: “…/ David Barton and Uta Papen -- Acts of writing: when writing is doing / Béatrice Fraenkel -- Updating a Biomedical Database: writing, reading and invisible contribution / David Pontille -- Eruptions of interruptions: managing tensions between writing and other tasks in a textualized childcare workplace / Karin Tusting -- Tracing cows: practical and administrative logics in tension / Nathalie Joly -- Vernacular spaces on the web / David Barton -- Keeping a note-book in rural Mali: a practice in the making / Aissatou Mbodj-Pouye -- Writing in healthcare contexts: patients, power and medical knowledge / Uta Papen -- Edwardian postcards: illuminating ordinary writing / Julia Gillen and Nigel Hall -- Lawful and unlawful writings in Lyon in the 17th century / Anne Béroujon -- Sexuality in black and white: Instructions to write and Scientia sexualis in the 19th and 20th century / Philippe Artières.…”
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Government versus markets the changing economic role of the state / by Tanzi, Vito

Table of Contents: “…Growth of public spending in the 20th century; 5. The role of the state in social protection: historical landmarks; 6. …”
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Legendary Ladies of Texas /

Table of Contents: “…EARLY DAYS Maria de Agreda: The lady in blue -- Angelina -- Emily Morgan: Yellow Rose of Texas -- The weeping woman: La Llorona -- SETTLERS Belle Starr: the bandit queen of Dallas -- The ghost of Chipita: the crying woman of San Patricio -- The capitol's lady -- Two sixshooters and a sunbonnet: The story of Sally Skull -- Sophia Porter: Texas' own Scarlett O'Hara -- Elise Waerenskjold: A modern on the prairie -- TEXAS GETS CULTURE Adah Isaacs Menken: From Texas to Paris -- Elisabet Ney: Texas' First lady of sculpture -- Mollie Bailey: Circus entrepreneur -- Martha White McWhirter and the Belton sanctificationists -- Aunt Dicy: Legendary black lady -- El Paso madams -- EARLY 20TH CENTURY Pardon me, Governor Ferguson -- "Tell them I don't smoke cigars": The story of Bonnie Parker -- Glamor girl called Electra -- The babe -- MODERN TIMES Janis and the Austin scene -- Legends in their own time: The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders -- Honky tonk angels -- Woman as victim in modern folklore -- Mrs. …”
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Government versus markets the changing economic role of the state / by Tanzi, Vito

Table of Contents: “…Growth of public spending in the 20th century; 5. The role of the state in social protection: historical landmarks; 6. …”
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Legendary Ladies of Texas /

Table of Contents: “…EARLY DAYS Maria de Agreda: The lady in blue -- Angelina -- Emily Morgan: Yellow Rose of Texas -- The weeping woman: La Llorona -- SETTLERS Belle Starr: the bandit queen of Dallas -- The ghost of Chipita: the crying woman of San Patricio -- The capitol's lady -- Two sixshooters and a sunbonnet: The story of Sally Skull -- Sophia Porter: Texas' own Scarlett O'Hara -- Elise Waerenskjold: A modern on the prairie -- TEXAS GETS CULTURE Adah Isaacs Menken: From Texas to Paris -- Elisabet Ney: Texas' First lady of sculpture -- Mollie Bailey: Circus entrepreneur -- Martha White McWhirter and the Belton sanctificationists -- Aunt Dicy: Legendary black lady -- El Paso madams -- EARLY 20TH CENTURY Pardon me, Governor Ferguson -- "Tell them I don't smoke cigars": The story of Bonnie Parker -- Glamor girl called Electra -- The babe -- MODERN TIMES Janis and the Austin scene -- Legends in their own time: The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders -- Honky tonk angels -- Woman as victim in modern folklore -- Mrs. …”
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Medical imaging essentials for physicians / by Wolbarst, Anthony B.

Table of Contents: “…-- The creation of two-dimensional x-ray projection maps (shadowgrams) of the body : differential attenuation of x-rays by tissues -- 20th century (analog) radiography and fluoroscopy : capturing the x-ray shadow with a film cassette or with an image intensifier tube plus electronic optical camera combination -- Radiation dose and radiogenic risk : ionization-induced damage to DNA can cause stochastic, deterministic, and teratogenic health effects and how to prevent them -- 21st century (digital) imaging : computer-based representation, acquisition, processing, storage, transmission, and analysis of images -- Digital planar imaging : replacing film and image intensifiers with solid state, electronic image receptors -- Computed tomography : superior contrast in three-dimensional x-ray attenuation maps -- Nuclear medicine : contrast from differential uptake of a radiopharmaceutical by tissues -- Diagnostic ultrasound : contrast from differences in elasticity or density across tissue interfaces -- MRI in one dimension and without relaxation : a gentle approach to a challenging subject -- MRI with T1 and T2 relaxation and in three dimensions -- Evolving and experimental modalities.…”
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Medical imaging essentials for physicians / by Wolbarst, Anthony B.

Table of Contents: “…-- The creation of two-dimensional x-ray projection maps (shadowgrams) of the body : differential attenuation of x-rays by tissues -- 20th century (analog) radiography and fluoroscopy : capturing the x-ray shadow with a film cassette or with an image intensifier tube plus electronic optical camera combination -- Radiation dose and radiogenic risk : ionization-induced damage to DNA can cause stochastic, deterministic, and teratogenic health effects and how to prevent them -- 21st century (digital) imaging : computer-based representation, acquisition, processing, storage, transmission, and analysis of images -- Digital planar imaging : replacing film and image intensifiers with solid state, electronic image receptors -- Computed tomography : superior contrast in three-dimensional x-ray attenuation maps -- Nuclear medicine : contrast from differential uptake of a radiopharmaceutical by tissues -- Diagnostic ultrasound : contrast from differences in elasticity or density across tissue interfaces -- MRI in one dimension and without relaxation : a gentle approach to a challenging subject -- MRI with T1 and T2 relaxation and in three dimensions -- Evolving and experimental modalities.…”
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Jewish theatre a global view /

Table of Contents: “…Steinlauf -- The Polish Shulamis : Jewish drama on the Polish stage in the late 19th-early 20th centuries / Anna Kuligowska-Korzeniewska -- Jewish languages and Jewish characters in Giovan Battista Andreini's Lo schiavetto / Paula Bertolone -- "The Christian will turn Hebrew" : converting Shylock on stage / Shaul Bassi -- Philosemitism on the London stage : Sydney Grundy's An old Jew / Edna Nahshon -- Jewish self-presentation and the "Jewish question" on the German stage from 1900 to 1930 / Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer -- Popular Jewish drama in Vienna in the 1920s / Brigitte Dalinger -- On arriving front and center : American Jewish identity on the American stage / Ellen Schiff -- Generational shifts in American Jewish theatre / Linda Ben-Zvi -- Staying ungooselike : the Holocaust and the theatre of choice / Robert Skloot -- Job's soul and Otto Weininger's torments : Jewish themes in the theatre of Hanoch Levin and Yehoshua Sobol / Freddie Rokem -- Abraham's scene (introductory essay) / Paolo Puppa -- Abraham (dramatic monologue) / Paolo Puppa.…”
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Historical foundations of Black reflective sociology by Stanfield, John H.

Table of Contents: “…Autobiographical studies -- The stranger in sociology : the power games of race relations -- Charlie -- Race philanthropy in the origins of 20th century Black sociological studies -- Race philanthropy : personalities, institutions, networks and communities -- Philanthropic regional consciousness and institution-building in the American South : the formative years, 1867-1920 -- Leonard Outhwaite's advocacy of scientific research on Blacks in the 1920 -- The cracked back door : foundations and Black social scientists between the world wars -- Dollars for the silent South : southern White liberalism and the Julius Rosenwald Fund, 1928-1948 -- Blacks in sociology : historical trends and contexualized biographical cases -- The "Negro problem" within and beyond the institutional nexus of pre-World War I sociology -- Race relations research and Black Americans between the two world wars -- Bitter Canaan : Charles S. …”
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Jewish theatre a global view /

Table of Contents: “…Steinlauf -- The Polish Shulamis : Jewish drama on the Polish stage in the late 19th-early 20th centuries / Anna Kuligowska-Korzeniewska -- Jewish languages and Jewish characters in Giovan Battista Andreini's Lo schiavetto / Paula Bertolone -- "The Christian will turn Hebrew" : converting Shylock on stage / Shaul Bassi -- Philosemitism on the London stage : Sydney Grundy's An old Jew / Edna Nahshon -- Jewish self-presentation and the "Jewish question" on the German stage from 1900 to 1930 / Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer -- Popular Jewish drama in Vienna in the 1920s / Brigitte Dalinger -- On arriving front and center : American Jewish identity on the American stage / Ellen Schiff -- Generational shifts in American Jewish theatre / Linda Ben-Zvi -- Staying ungooselike : the Holocaust and the theatre of choice / Robert Skloot -- Job's soul and Otto Weininger's torments : Jewish themes in the theatre of Hanoch Levin and Yehoshua Sobol / Freddie Rokem -- Abraham's scene (introductory essay) / Paolo Puppa -- Abraham (dramatic monologue) / Paolo Puppa.…”
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Historical foundations of Black reflective sociology by Stanfield, John H.

Table of Contents: “…Autobiographical studies -- The stranger in sociology : the power games of race relations -- Charlie -- Race philanthropy in the origins of 20th century Black sociological studies -- Race philanthropy : personalities, institutions, networks and communities -- Philanthropic regional consciousness and institution-building in the American South : the formative years, 1867-1920 -- Leonard Outhwaite's advocacy of scientific research on Blacks in the 1920 -- The cracked back door : foundations and Black social scientists between the world wars -- Dollars for the silent South : southern White liberalism and the Julius Rosenwald Fund, 1928-1948 -- Blacks in sociology : historical trends and contexualized biographical cases -- The "Negro problem" within and beyond the institutional nexus of pre-World War I sociology -- Race relations research and Black Americans between the two world wars -- Bitter Canaan : Charles S. …”
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Baghdad : the city in verse /

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Baghdad : the city in verse /

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Sacred works by Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864

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Sacred works by Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864

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Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States 1850–2000 Mycoses and Modernity / by Homei, Aya, Worboys, Michael

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Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States 1850–2000 Mycoses and Modernity / by Homei, Aya, Worboys, Michael

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Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive : Dealing with the Berlin Sound Archive's Acoustic Legacies / by Hilden, Irene

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Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive : Dealing with the Berlin Sound Archive's Acoustic Legacies / by Hilden, Irene

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Gender and power relations in Nigeria

Table of Contents: “…Oladoyin -- African women and the changing notion of security / Funso Adesola -- "Unknown soldier" : women's radicalism and activism and state violence in 20th century Nigeria / Moj�ub�aol�u Ol�uf�unk�e Okome -- Women, grass roots movements and democratization in Nigeria / Iwebunor Okwechime and Akin Iwilade -- Gender and the Niger Delta crises : the challenge of local feminisms / Mashood Omotosho -- Gender, environment and human rights violations in Nigeria's Niger Delta region / Iwebunor Okwechime and Akin Iwilade.…”
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