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Over the Rim the Parley P. Pratt exploring expedition to Southern Utah, 1849-1850 /

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction -- The journals -- Great Salt Lake to San Pete -- San Pete to the Little Salt Lake -- Over the rim to Dixie -- Exploration of Little Salt Lake and Cedar Valleys and beyond -- Reunion and celebration -- The long, cold trip home -- The official report -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Related papers -- Biographies of expedition members -- Robert Campbell's Ute alphabet -- Robert Campbell's emigrant guides -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Over the Rim the Parley P. Pratt exploring expedition to Southern Utah, 1849-1850 /

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction -- The journals -- Great Salt Lake to San Pete -- San Pete to the Little Salt Lake -- Over the rim to Dixie -- Exploration of Little Salt Lake and Cedar Valleys and beyond -- Reunion and celebration -- The long, cold trip home -- The official report -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Related papers -- Biographies of expedition members -- Robert Campbell's Ute alphabet -- Robert Campbell's emigrant guides -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Over The Rim /

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction -- The journals -- Great Salt Lake to San Pete -- San Pete to the Little Salt Lake -- Over the rim to Dixie -- Exploration of Little Salt Lake and Cedar Valleys and beyond -- Reunion and celebration -- The long, cold trip home -- The official report -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Related papers -- Biographies of expedition members -- Robert Campbell's Ute alphabet -- Robert Campbell's emigrant guides -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Over The Rim /

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction -- The journals -- Great Salt Lake to San Pete -- San Pete to the Little Salt Lake -- Over the rim to Dixie -- Exploration of Little Salt Lake and Cedar Valleys and beyond -- Reunion and celebration -- The long, cold trip home -- The official report -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Related papers -- Biographies of expedition members -- Robert Campbell's Ute alphabet -- Robert Campbell's emigrant guides -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Writing blackness John Edgar Wideman's art and experimentation / by Coleman, James W. (James Wilmouth), 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Brothers and keepers, Fatheralong, Hoop roots, and The island: Martinique: the fictionalized auto/biographies -- A glance away, Hurry home, and the Lynchers: modernist experimentation and the early novels -- Hiding place, Damballah, and Sent for you yesterday: new dimensions of postmodern experimentation in the Homewood trilogy -- Reuben and Philadelphia fire: progressive experimentation after the Homewood trilogy -- The cattle killing, Two cities, and Fanon: extending experimental writing, making it clear, and extending it further.…”
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Writing blackness John Edgar Wideman's art and experimentation / by Coleman, James W. (James Wilmouth), 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Brothers and keepers, Fatheralong, Hoop roots, and The island: Martinique: the fictionalized auto/biographies -- A glance away, Hurry home, and the Lynchers: modernist experimentation and the early novels -- Hiding place, Damballah, and Sent for you yesterday: new dimensions of postmodern experimentation in the Homewood trilogy -- Reuben and Philadelphia fire: progressive experimentation after the Homewood trilogy -- The cattle killing, Two cities, and Fanon: extending experimental writing, making it clear, and extending it further.…”
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Policing marital violence in Singapore by Narayanan, Ganapathy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The problem of policing marital violence -- Policing marital violence : an historical and analytical review -- Reconceptualising the problem of policing marital violence : police culture revisited -- Biography and method -- Reforming the policing of marital violence : missing the mark? …”
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Policing marital violence in Singapore by Narayanan, Ganapathy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The problem of policing marital violence -- Policing marital violence : an historical and analytical review -- Reconceptualising the problem of policing marital violence : police culture revisited -- Biography and method -- Reforming the policing of marital violence : missing the mark? …”
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Samuel de Champlain before 1604 Des Sauvages and other documents related to the period /

Table of Contents: “…Champlain and his times to 1604 : an interpretive essay ; Textual introduction to Des sauvages -- Documents. Early biographies of Champlain : extracts = Anciennes biographies de Champlain : extraits ; Personnel and pay records from the garrisons in Brittany, 1595-1597 = Paiement dans l'armée royale de Bretagne, 1595-1597 ; Gift from Guillermo Elena to Samuel de Champlain = Donación de Guillermo Elena a Samuel de Champlain ; Factum of the merchants of Saint-Malo against Champlain, [January 1613] = Factum des marchands de Saint-Malo contre Champlain, [1613] ; Decrees and commissions preparatory to the Voyage of 1603 = Arrêts et commissions pour le traffique du Canada, le 13 mars 1603 ; Excerpts from Champlain's works related to events before 1604 = Extraits des Œuvres de Champlain avant 1604 ; Des sauvages, or, Voyage of Samuel Champlain, [1603], 1604 = Des sauvages, ou, Voyage de Samuel Champlain, [1603], 1604 -- Of the French who have become accustomed to being in Canada : summary of Des sauvages by Pierre-Victor Cayet, 1605 = Des François qui sont habituez en Canada : sommaire de Des sauvages par Pierre-Victor Cayet, 1605 ; The voyage of Samvel Champlaine of Brouage, made unto Canada in the yeere 1603 -- Appendices. …”
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Samuel de Champlain before 1604 Des Sauvages and other documents related to the period /

Table of Contents: “…Champlain and his times to 1604 : an interpretive essay ; Textual introduction to Des sauvages -- Documents. Early biographies of Champlain : extracts = Anciennes biographies de Champlain : extraits ; Personnel and pay records from the garrisons in Brittany, 1595-1597 = Paiement dans l'armée royale de Bretagne, 1595-1597 ; Gift from Guillermo Elena to Samuel de Champlain = Donación de Guillermo Elena a Samuel de Champlain ; Factum of the merchants of Saint-Malo against Champlain, [January 1613] = Factum des marchands de Saint-Malo contre Champlain, [1613] ; Decrees and commissions preparatory to the Voyage of 1603 = Arrêts et commissions pour le traffique du Canada, le 13 mars 1603 ; Excerpts from Champlain's works related to events before 1604 = Extraits des Œuvres de Champlain avant 1604 ; Des sauvages, or, Voyage of Samuel Champlain, [1603], 1604 = Des sauvages, ou, Voyage de Samuel Champlain, [1603], 1604 -- Of the French who have become accustomed to being in Canada : summary of Des sauvages by Pierre-Victor Cayet, 1605 = Des François qui sont habituez en Canada : sommaire de Des sauvages par Pierre-Victor Cayet, 1605 ; The voyage of Samvel Champlaine of Brouage, made unto Canada in the yeere 1603 -- Appendices. …”
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Creative mathematics by Wall, H. S. (Hubert Stanley), 1902-1971

Table of Contents: “…Short biography of H.S. Wall -- Numbers -- Ordered number pairs -- Slope -- Combinations of simple graphs -- Theorems about simple graphs -- The simple graphs of trigonometry -- The integral -- Computation formulas obtained by means of the integral -- Simple graphs made to order -- More about integrals -- Simple surfaces -- Successive approximations -- Linear spaces of simple graphs -- More about linear spaces -- Mechanical systems -- Integral tables -- Index of simple graphs -- Glossary of definitions.…”
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Creative mathematics by Wall, H. S. (Hubert Stanley), 1902-1971

Table of Contents: “…Short biography of H.S. Wall -- Numbers -- Ordered number pairs -- Slope -- Combinations of simple graphs -- Theorems about simple graphs -- The simple graphs of trigonometry -- The integral -- Computation formulas obtained by means of the integral -- Simple graphs made to order -- More about integrals -- Simple surfaces -- Successive approximations -- Linear spaces of simple graphs -- More about linear spaces -- Mechanical systems -- Integral tables -- Index of simple graphs -- Glossary of definitions.…”
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X-- the problem of the Negro as a problem for thought / by Chandler, Nahum Dimitri

Table of Contents: “…E. B. Du Bois and the Biography of John Brown -- Chapter Four: Originary Displacement: Or, Passages of the Double and the Limit of World -- Parenthesis -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliographical Note -- References -- Index.…”
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X-- the problem of the Negro as a problem for thought / by Chandler, Nahum Dimitri

Table of Contents: “…E. B. Du Bois and the Biography of John Brown -- Chapter Four: Originary Displacement: Or, Passages of the Double and the Limit of World -- Parenthesis -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliographical Note -- References -- Index.…”
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A historical guide to Ralph Ellison

Table of Contents: “…Tracy -- Ralph Ellison : a brief biography / Maryemma Graham and Jeffery Dwayne Mack -- Creative and cultural lag : the radical education of Ralph Ellison / William Maxwell -- A delicate ear, a retentive memory, and the power to weld the fragments / Steven C. …”
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Fatal thirst diabetes in Britain until insulin / by Furdell, Elizabeth Lane

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the "biography" of a disease and its sufferers -- The early history of diabetes from classical times to the Renaissance : diagnoses and descriptions -- Renaissance diabetics and their doctors : changing treatments for revolutionary times -- Early modern medicine in print and diabetes : published advice and imagery -- Diabetes and seventeenth-century medical controversy -- Reconstructing diabetic life in early modern England -- Diabetic specialists and their patients in the long nineteenth century : competition for a cure -- After insulin : the lingering effects of an incurable disease.…”
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This light of ours activist photographers of the civil rights movement /

Table of Contents: “…Meredith march against fear and Black power -- How I first saw King and found the movement / Clayborne Carson -- The photographers : interviews and biographies -- Tamio Wakayama -- Herbert Randall -- Maria Varela -- George Ballis -- Bob Fitch -- Matt Herron -- Bob Fletcher -- David Prince -- Bob Adelman.…”
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Balkan smoke tobacco and the making of modern Bulgaria / by Neuburger, Mary, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Coffee house babble : smoking and sociability in the long nineteenth century -- No smoke without fire : tobacco and transformation, 1878-1914 -- From the Orient Express to the Sofia café : smoke and propriety in the interwar years -- Asenovgrad fortress : the biography of a tobacco cooperative between the world wars -- From leaf to ash : Bulgarians, Jews, Germans and the Second World War -- Smoke-filled rooms : places to light up in communist Bulgaria -- Smokes for big brother : Bulgartabak and tobacco under communism.…”
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Fatal thirst diabetes in Britain until insulin / by Furdell, Elizabeth Lane

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the "biography" of a disease and its sufferers -- The early history of diabetes from classical times to the Renaissance : diagnoses and descriptions -- Renaissance diabetics and their doctors : changing treatments for revolutionary times -- Early modern medicine in print and diabetes : published advice and imagery -- Diabetes and seventeenth-century medical controversy -- Reconstructing diabetic life in early modern England -- Diabetic specialists and their patients in the long nineteenth century : competition for a cure -- After insulin : the lingering effects of an incurable disease.…”
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This light of ours activist photographers of the civil rights movement /

Table of Contents: “…Meredith march against fear and Black power -- How I first saw King and found the movement / Clayborne Carson -- The photographers : interviews and biographies -- Tamio Wakayama -- Herbert Randall -- Maria Varela -- George Ballis -- Bob Fitch -- Matt Herron -- Bob Fletcher -- David Prince -- Bob Adelman.…”
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